Midtown Swing presents:

20 years of WRIR!

It’s really hard to believe it, but WRIR’s been on Richmond’s FM airwaves since Jan. 1, 2005. I decided to play some songs from a few music shows that existed the year of our little radio station’s debut, as well as songs from some long-gone shows and a few that carry on today. I couldn’t fit everything in, of course, but here are shows represented tonight (in no particular order) on the playlist:

British Breakfast — including the first song ever broadcast on WRIR 97.3 FM, the Kinks’ “Around the Dial!”

Global A Go-Go

The Other Black Music

Motherland Influence

The New Breakfast Snob

What the Fontaine

Activate!

The Lotus Land Show (a BrownCo request, Thurston Moore’s “Fri/End”)

Frequency

Edge of Americana

InterTribal

Hip Hop For the Rest of Us

Sunrise Ocean Bender

Mercury Falls

12 Fl. Oz.

Party of One

If Music Could Talk

Songs from the Big Hair

Cause & Effect

Mellow Madness

Can’t Stop the Music

The Lee Show

Commonwealth of Notions

Stunted Development

Bebop and Beyond with Mr. Jazz

Friday Breakfast Blend with Phil D.

Midnight Soulstice

dog germs

Mother’s Milk Radio

Salad Days

Wide Ear Folk

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Playlist:

Time: January 1 - 3:01:01 pm

• The Kinks, “Around the Dial”

  from Give the People What They Want

Time: January 1 - 3:05:46 pm

• Hot Rize, “Radio Boogie”

  from Radio Boogie

Time: January 1 - 3:08:30 pm

• Joe Strummer, The Mescaleros, “Global A Go-Go”

  from Global A Go-Go

Time: January 1 - 3:14:20 pm

• The Lyman Woodard Organization, “Creative Musicians”

  from Saturday Night Special

Time: January 1 - 3:16:59 pm

• Mose Se Sengo "Fan Fan", Somo Somo, “Hello Hello”

  from Hello Hello

Time: January 1 - 3:22:59 pm

• Horace Silver, “We've Got Silver At Six”

  from The Hardbop Grandpop

Time: January 1 - 3:30:04 pm

• Hugh Masekela, “The Boy's Doin' It”

  from The Boy's Doin' It

Time: January 1 - 3:34:09 pm

• Charles Wright & The Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band, “What Can You Bring Me”

  from You're So Beautiful

Time: January 1 - 3:36:58 pm

• Quincy Jones, Paulette McWilliams, “Mellow Madness”

  from Mellow Madness

Time: January 1 - 3:40:26 pm

• Meat Beat Manifesto, “United Nations (E.T.C.)”

  from Subliminal Sandwich (Extended Version)

Time: January 1 - 3:44:31 pm

• DEVO, “Freedom of Choice”

  from Freedom of Choice

Time: January 1 - 3:48:00 pm

• Jimi Hendrix, “Star Spangled Banner - Live at The Woodstock Music & Art Fair, August 18, 1969”

  from Experience Hendrix: The Best Of Jimi Hendrix

Time: January 1 - 3:51:47 pm

• Killing Joke, “Eighties”

  from Laugh? I Nearly Bought One!

Time: January 1 - 3:55:38 pm

• Skinny Puppy, “Dig It”

  from Ain't It Dead Yet?

Time: January 1 - 4:02:08 pm

• The Brady Bunch, “Time To Change”

  from Meet The Brady Bunch

Time: January 1 - 4:04:19 pm

• Cracker, “Teen Angst (What The World Needs Now)”

  from Cracker

Time: January 1 - 4:08:33 pm

• The Slickee Boys, “When I Go to the Beach”

  from Cybernetic Dreams Of Pi

Time: January 1 - 4:11:16 pm

• Melissa Ferrick, “Freedom”

  from Freedom

Time: January 1 - 4:15:44 pm

• Brule, “Lakota Forever”

  from We the People

Time: January 1 - 4:18:38 pm

• Buffalo Daughter, “Earth Punk Rockers - 2022 Remastered”

  from I (2022 Remastered)

Time: January 1 - 4:22:59 pm

• Balkan Beat Box, Vlada Tomova, “Meboli (feat. Vlada Tomova)”

  from Balkan Beat Box

Time: January 1 - 4:26:53 pm

• Grizzly Bear, “Shift - Alternate Version”

  from Friend EP

Time: January 1 - 4:30:26 pm

• BlackLiq, Mopes, “Careful - Radio Edit”

  from Choice Is A Chance (Radio Edit)

Time: January 1 - 4:33:10 pm

• Thurston Moore, Steve Shelley, “Fri/End”

  from Trees Outside the Academy

Time: January 1 - 4:36:43 pm

• Hayes Carll, “She Left Me For Jesus”

  from Trouble In Mind

Time: January 1 - 4:40:47 pm

• Lefty Frizzell, “California Blues (Blue Yodel, No. 4)”

  from Sings the Songs of Jimmie Rodgers

Time: January 1 - 4:43:49 pm

• Big Joe Turner, “The Chicken and the Hawk (Up, Up, and Away)”

  from Shake Rattle & Rock

Time: January 1 - 4:46:28 pm

• Liza Kate, “No Good”

  from Don't Let the Dogs

Time: January 1 - 4:49:09 pm

• DJ's Friction & Spice, “Groove Me (Radio Edit)”

  from Groove Me (Twenty Fifth Anniversary Remix Edition)

Time: January 1 - 4:53:32 pm

• Gong, “Tried so Hard”

  from Camembert Electrique

Time: January 1 - 4:58:09 pm

• Barrows, “Telekin”

  from Obsidion

dj ginger    Midtown Swing    January 1st, 2025

Posted In: Music Shows