It's official! The final day to have your say in the Mushroom FM Holiday Countdown is here! You have till 11:59 PM North aMerican Eastern time tonight to head over to our voting page, pick your top ten holiday favourites either from our database or by writing them in, and press that Submit button! Please be kind to the elves and don't wait till the last minute to vote, so they can record your vote properly before the deadline.
After you've enjoyed The Variety Vault with Paul Merrell, Wednesday afternoon from 2 to 4 PM, don't touch that dial, device, PC, Mac, smart speaker or tablet and join me for The Early Years, where and when you'll hear the best music from the first quarter century of Rock with occasional nods to other decades and genres.
A single year is still the focus this week as I conclude the top 100 of 1965, 60 years ago, that I began 3 weeks ago. I've gotten from #100 to #14 and I'll pick up the countdown at #13 and get to #1. What do you think it will be? You may be surprised.
Today is Jane Austen's 250th birthday. So why not show your pride and your prejudice, not to mention your sense and your sensibility and yield to the power of persuasion by heading over to our Countdown voting page right now and picking your top ten holiday-related tunes? Voting closes at 11:59 PM Eastern time in North America on Wednesday, December 17th. That's tomorrow! But why put off tomorrow what you can do today?
We've got a good thing going with lots of votes coming in, but if you haven't voted yet, do it now, or at least soon!
It's hard to believe, but the Mushroom FM Holiday Countdown is now just days away, and that means that there are even fewer days to get your vote in before the elves go into Countdown preparation mode! Again, we want to take time to say thank you to those who have already voted! Do check your spam for our invitation, but if for some reason you don't have an invitation, don't worry! You'll be able to find your virtual table when we publish our virtual seating plan closer to the date of the Countdown.
This week on Deep Dive we hear, through an encore programme, the talents of singer and american musician Buddy Holly. We learn that it's raining in my heart, hear about all my love and heartbeat.
Tune in at 4 PM Eastern Monday, which is Tuesday morning in Eastern Australia. Or at 6 AM Eastern Wednesday which is in the evening in Eastern Australia. Tuning in is easy. Just tell that SmartSpeaker of yours to play Mushroom FM, and you will be there faster than Rudolph and his mates can pull Santa's sleigh. Yes, it's beginning to sound a lot like Christmas.
Where I live, in the northern hemisphere, the days are actually getting shorter, but the good news is that voting in our Mushroom FM Holiday Countdown is open 24/7 till 11:59 PM North American Eastern time on Wednesday, December 17th. You could cast your vote while enjoying your morning coffee, make your voice heard with your lunch, or have your say after supper! But do it soon! The days are quickly ticking down!
Submitted by MelissaRiccobono on Sat, 12/13/2025 - 21:23
Tomorrow, December 14, from 4-6 pm Eastern, The Song Remembers When will once again come to you live! My wonderful husband, Mark, ran a cable for me, so I now have a hard wired connection to the internet. I hope this will mean no drops in the music from now on!
I really loved hearing from you during my last live show, so I hope you'll be in touch again. The theme for this episode is novelty Christmas music. I have started a playlist with some of my favorites, but please let me know what you'd like to hear.
Melissa@mushroomfm.com
Can you believe it? We've entered the final weekend of voting in our Mushroom FM Holiday Countdown! A week from now, we'll be in the thick of counting down our top 100 songs as chosen by you! There are still a few days after this weekend to vote, but after Wednesday, December 17th, voting will be closed for another year.
All the details are available at: https://www.mushroomfm.com/countdown2025! So have your say! vote today!
Submitted by AnthonyHorvath on Fri, 12/12/2025 - 15:31
Only on Mushroom Escape:
http://www.mushroomfm.com/escape
From this Saturday at 12 AM Eastern—that’s 4 PM Saturday in NZ, 2 PM in Sydney, and 5 AM in the UK—and repeated every four hours throughout the day—we’re
featuring the described movies This Christmas (2007) and This is Christmas (2022).
Got questions, comments, or ideas for future described movies?
Email me at anthony at mushroomfm dot com (written this way to reduce spam).
Enjoy the movies and check out the details below!
The days are flying by more rapid than eagles! We're now officially in the final week of voting for the Mushroom FM Holiday Countdown! Just go to our voting page and pick ten of your top holiday tunes, whether you write them in or choose from our amazing database! When your vote has been officially entered by our elves, you'll get one of our lovely invitations to our big virtual event and you'll get a seat at one of our four virtual tables! We'll let you know closer to the event where you're virtually sitting. So have your say soon!
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