Circus & Mardi Gras
Step right up for our Greatest Show on Earth as we go to the circus in songs and sounds. Carousels, sideshows and the Big Top with music from Chet Baker, Smokey Robinson and Patsy Cline. We'll also talk with retired circus workers in the wintering grounds of Sarasota, Florida. And do the Mardi Gras mambo to a parade of sounds celebrating Fat Tuesday.
HOUR ONE
Open Bed: Lil Egypt (Ying-Yang) Coasters
50 Coastin' Classics, Atlantic/Rhino
Life Sly & the Family Stone
Anthology, Epic
Sideshow by the Seashore Luna
Penthouse, Elektra
Martha's Vineyard carousel
Honky Tonk Merry Go Round Patsy Cline
First Recordings, Rhino
Circus in Rhythm Lester Young
Master Takes With Count Basie/Lester Young, Savoy Jazz
Laszlo the Great
Circus Spectacular, London
Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite! (early takes) The Beatles
The Beatles Anthology 2, Capitol
Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite! The Beatles
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, EMI
Spinning Wheel Chet Baker
Talkin' Verve: Groovy!, Verve
Carnival Natalie Merchant
Tigerlily, Elektra
Instrumental: Carnival Mose Allison
Down Home Piano, Prestige
INTERVIEW: Alva Johnson and Jackie Leclaire of the Ringling Brothers Circus
Tears of a Clown Smokey Robinson
Smokey Robinson & the Miracles Anthology, Motown
Tears of a Clown The Beat
This Are Two Tone, Chrysalis
Circus March Aaron Copland
Orchestral Works/Ormandy/Previn, Sony Classical
Before the Parade Passes By Carol Channing
Star Spangled Rhythm, Smithsonian Collection
HOUR TWO
Joe Avery's Piece The Young Tuxedo Brass Band
Sounds of New Orleans Streets: Funeral & Parade Music, Atlantic
New Suit Wild Magnolias
Mardi Gras in New Orleans, Mardi Gras
Olodum, a Banda do Pelo Olodum
Sounds of Bahai Vol. 2, Sound Wave
Mardi Gras in New Orleans Professor Longhair
New Orleans Piano, Atlantic
Manteca Chano Pozo and Dizzy Gillespie's Big Band
A Carnival of Cuban Music, Rounder
Instrumental: Mardi Gras Zydeco Nathan and Cha Chas
Your Momma Don't Know, Rounder
La Guignolee Charlie Pashia & Joe Politte
I'm Old But I'm Awfully Tough: TraditionalnMusic of the Ozark Region, Missouri Friends of the Folk Arts
Mardi Gras Song Coteau
Highly Seasoned Cajun Music, Rounder
Notre Dame de 7 Doleurs
Caribbean Revels - Haitian Rara & Dominican Gaga, Smithsonian Folkways
Do Whatcha Wanna Pt. 3 Rebirth Brass Band
New Orleans Party Classics, Rhino
Instrumental: Second Line, Pt. 1
INTERVIEW: The Dixie Cups
Iko-Iko The Dixie Cups
The Red Bird Story, Charly
Two Way Pocky Way Indians of the Nation
United We Stand, Divided We Fall, Indians of the Nation
Indian Red Young Guardians of the Flames
New Way Pockey Way, First Tribe
Mama Roux Dr. John
Mos Scocious, Rhino
Mardi Gras '99 All That
The Whop Boom Bam, Upstart
Take Me to the Mardi Gras Paul Simon
There Goes Rhymin' Simon, Warner Brothers
End Bed: The Day After Mardi Gras Lakefront Loungers
Mardi Gras Parade, GBH