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  • Favoriting September 27, 2025: A freeform show including "About An Hour With...Simon & Garfunkel Meet Tom & Jerry" | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting September 20, 2025: A freeform show including "About An Hour With...The Kinks With Rasa Didzpetris Davies On Backing Vocals" | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting September 13, 2025: A freeform show including "About An Hour With...The Turtles [Mark Volman R.I.P.] " | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting September 6, 2025:
    My 48th Anniversary Freeform Show includes "About An Hour With...Girls & Boys Singing Together [U.K. & Aus. Groups]
    With A Fairport Convention Mini Family Tree"
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  • Favoriting November 30, 2024: A freeform show including "One Hour With...Peter Sinfield, lyricist of King Crimson, etc. R.I.P." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting November 23, 2024: "A freeform show including One Hour With...Motown Starts Here! Part Six: 1963" | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting November 16, 2024: Sorry folks, no show today. See you next Saturday with more freeform and more early Motown! | See the playlist
  • Favoriting November 9, 2024: "A freeform show including One Hour With...Motown Starts Here! Part Five: 1962" | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting November 2, 2024: A freeform show including "One Hour With...NRBQ: Songs Co-written by Terry Adams & Joey Spampinato 1972-2004" | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting February 24, 2024: Hmmm, maybe dogs are better than cats... / A Free-Form Show including One Hour With Laura Nyro | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting February 17, 2024: Some days the bus stop makes me laugh. /
    A Free-Form Show including One Hour With Gerry Rafferty: The Early Years '66-'71     | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting February 10, 2024: “People may surprise you with unexpected kindness. Dogs have a depth of loyalty that often we seem unworthy of. But the love of a cat is a blessing, a privilege in this world.” - Kinky Friedman /
    One Hour With...Gene Clark's Byrds Songs     | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting February 3, 2024: This show is dedicated to the memory of Zoe Brainen. /
    A Free-Form show featuring a new segment called: "One Hour With..." Our first victims: The British band Family.     | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting January 27, 2024: I can solve all the world's problems but it'll have to wait.
    I'm a little busy bingeing a show right now.     | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting January 20, 2024: "There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats." -Albert Schweitzer | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting January 13, 2024: Part Two Of Our Celebration Of Master Mixtape Maker & Musician Tom Ardolino [NRBQ] Who Would Have Turned 69 Yesterday | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting January 6, 2024: Remembering Tommy Ardolino [NRBQ] On The 12th Anniversary Of His Passing (& 6 Days Before He Would Have Turned 69.) | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting September 30, 2023: "Our pets can never live nearly as long as we'd wish but if there is any consolation, unless they are sick, all of our time spent with them is absolute and total quality time. Every precious moment." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting September 23, 2023: Bob Brainen & Pete Tomlinson Celebrate The Beau Brummels & Sopwith Camel | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting September 16, 2023: "It Is Only In The Mysterious Equations Of Love That Any Logical Reason Can Be Found." John Nash, Mathematician. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting September 9, 2023: 46th Anniversary Show. / All I Ask Of My Favorite Actors Is That They Don't Join The Marvel Universe. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!
  • Favoriting September 2, 2023: "At The Zoo Monkeys Stare At Monkeys Through The Bars" | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!

December 26, 2001 | Listen
December 25, 2001 | Listen | Fill-in for Tom Scharpling's Best Show on WFMU
December 19, 2001 | Listen
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December 5, 2001 | Listen | Guest DJ Pete Tomlinson Returns
November 28, 2001 | Listen
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November 7, 2001 | Listen | In Memorium: Frank Balesteri
October 31, 2001 | Listen | A "Things found at past FMU Record Fairs, and it happens to be Halloween" show.
October 24, 2001 | Listen
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September 26, 2001 | Listen | Spaced out In Studio A
September 19, 2001 | Listen
September 12, 2001 | Listen | The day after...
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August 15, 2001
August 8, 2001 | Listen | The Weird-Ass Show
August 1, 2001 | Listen
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July 11, 2001 | Listen | Still shuffling!
July 4, 2001 | Listen | Too many good people shuffling off this mortal coil lately!
June 27, 2001 | Listen
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May 30, 2001 | Listen | With Special Guest DJ: Pete Tomlinson
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March 28, 2001 | Listen | Marathon show #2 with Glen Jones
March 21, 2001 | Listen | Marathon show #1 with Brian Turner
March 14, 2001 | Listen
March 7, 2001 | Listen
February 28, 2001 | Listen
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December 27, 2000 | Listen
December 20, 2000 | Listen | In Memory of Kirsty MacColl, Milt Hinton and Pop Staples
December 13, 2000 | Listen
December 6, 2000 | Listen
November 29, 2000 | Listen
November 22, 2000 | (No show. Fill-in by Todd Abramson.)
November 15, 2000 | Listen
November 8, 2000 | Listen
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September 27, 2000
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August 30, 2000 | Listen | The 2 song show. Sorry, I have to find my cat Luna. (Balance of show by Brian Turner.)
August 23, 2000 | Listen
August 16, 2000 | Listen
August 9, 2000 | Listen
August 2, 2000 | (No show. Fill-in by Marc Grobman.)
July 26, 2000
July 19, 2000
July 12, 2000 | (No show. Fill-in by Marc Grobman.)
July 5, 2000
June 28, 2000
June 21, 2000
June 14, 2000
June 7, 2000
May 31, 2000
May 24, 2000
May 17, 2000
May 10, 2000
May 3, 2000
April 27, 2000 | Fill-In for Charlie Lewis
April 26, 2000
April 19, 2000
April 12, 2000 | In Memorium: Alan Betrock | Listen
April 5, 2000
March 29, 2000
March 22, 2000
;;March 15, 2000 | Marathon Show #2 with Frank O'Toole
March 8, 2000 | Marathon Show #1 with Belinda Miller
March 1, 2000
February 23, 2000 | With Guest John Kruth, Author of Bright Moments: the Life and Legacy of Rahsaan Roland Kirk | Listen
February 16, 2000
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February 2, 2000
January 26, 2000
January 19, 2000
January 12, 2000
January 5, 2000
December 29, 1999
December 22, 1999
December 15, 1999
December 8, 1999
December 1, 1999
November 24, 1999 | (No show. Fill-in by Steve Liesch.)
November 17, 1999
November 10, 1999 | With Guests Harvey Gold and Chris Butler
November 8, 1999 | Fill-In for Irene Trudel
November 3, 1999
October 27, 1999
October 20, 1999
October 13, 1999
October 6, 1999<;/A>
September 29, 1999
September 22, 1999
September 15, 1999
September 8, 1999
September 1, 1999
August 25, 1999
August 18, 1999
August 11, 1999
August 4, 1999
July 28, 1999
July 21, 1999
July 14, 1999 | (No show. Fill-in by Dennis Diken.)
July 7, 1999
June 30, 1999
June 23, 1999
June 16, 1999
June 9, 1999
June 2, 1999
May 26, 1999
May 19, 1999
May 12, 1999
May 5, 1999
April 28, 1999
April 21, 1999 | In Memorium Skip Spence
April 14, 1999
April 7, 1999
March 31, 1999
March 24, 1999
March 17, 1999 | Marathon Show #2 with Frank O'Toole
March 10, 1999 | Marathon Show #1 with Charlie Lewis
March 3, 1999 | In Memorium Dusty Springfield
February 24, 1999
February 17, 1999
February 10, 1999
February 3, 1999 | 40th anniversary of "The Day the Music Died"
January 27, 1999
January 20, 1999
January 13, 1999
January 6, 1999
December 30, 1998 | In Memorium Bryan MacLean
December 28, 1998 | Fill-In for Irene Trudel
December 23, 1998
December 16, 1998
December 9, 1998
December 2, 1998
November 25, 1998 | (No show. Fill-in by Steve Liesch)
November 18, 1998
November 11, 1998
November 4, 1998
October 28, 1998
October 21, 1998
October 14, 1998
October 7, 1998
September 30, 1998
September 23, 1998
September 16, 1998
September 9, 1998
September 2, 1998 | The first show from Jersey City!
August 26, 1998 | Last Show from East Orange!
August 19, 1998
August 12, 1998
August 5, 1998
July 29, 1998
July 23, 1998 | 4th of 4 Fill-ins for Andy Zack
July 16, 1998 | 3rd of 4 Fill-ins for Andy Zack
July 9, 1998 | 2nd of 4 fill-ins for Andy Zack
July 2, 1998 | 1st of 4 fill-ins for Andy Zack
June 17, 1998 | The Last show? Not quite...
June 10, 1998
June 3, 1998
May 27, 1998
May 20, 1998
May 13, 1998
May 6, 1998
April 29, 1998
April 22, 1998
April 15, 1998
April 8, 1998
April 1, 1998
March 25, 1998 | 2nd Marathon show-with Frank O'Toole
March 18, 1998 | 1st Marathon show. With Charlie Lewis.
March 11, 1998
March 4, 1998
February 25, 1998
February 18, 1998
February 11, 1998 | In Memorium Carl Wilson
February 4, 1998 | The Day the music died-39 years (and one day) later
January 28, 1998
January 21, 1998
January 14, 1998
January 7, 1998

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