APRIL FOOL'S WITH HARRY SHEARER
Tomfoolery and trickery for April Fool’s! Host Nick Spitzer’s chair is grabbed by pretenders seeking to impose their own music mix. Spitzer reclaims power in time to revisit several hoaxes in the history of American music and radio.
HOUR ONE
Open Bed: Hokey Wolf
Hanna-Barbera Classics Vol. 1, Rhino
Chain of Fools Aretha Franklin
Lady Soul, Rhino
Fool at the Wheel Little Richard
The Formative Years, Bear Family
Class Clown George Carlin
Classic Gold, Warner Bros
She Doesn't Laugh at My Jokes Jonathan Richman
Having a Party with Jonathan Richman, Rounder
Instrumental: I'm a Mindless Idiot Meat Puppets
Meat Puppets II, Ryko
Trickster Junior Delgado
20 Classic Hits, Sonic Sounds
Dirty Tricks The Sweet Inspirations
The Complete Stax/Volt Soul Singles Vol.3, Fantasy
Trick Pat Martino
East!, Fantasy
Joker k.d. lang
Drag, Warner Bros
Instrumental: The Simpsons End Credits (Philip Glass Homage)
Go Simpsonic with the Simpsons, Rhino
SEGMENT: Harry Shearer
See My Vest The Simpsons
Songs in the Key of Springfield, Rhino
Powerhouse Raymond Scott
Reckless Nights & Turkish Twilights, Sony
War Dance for Wooden Indians Don Byron
Bug Music, Nonesuch
Minnie the Moocher Cab Calloway
Are You Hep To the Jive, Sony
March Winds, April Showers Ruth Etting
More Than You Know, Box Office
Appalachian Spring New York Philharmonic
Bernstein Century: Appalachian Spring, Sony
Spring is Here Nina Simone
Nina Simone Anthology The Colpix Years, Rhino
End Bed: Fools Rush In Zoot Sims
The Riverside Records Story, Riverside
HOUR TWO
Open Bed: The Rattler Omar Shariff
Essential Blues Piano, House of Blues
SEGMENT: Harold Benjin, owner of Jack's Joke Shop in Boston, the oldest store of its kind in the U.S.
Fools' Hall Of Fame Rudi Richardson
Sun: The Singles Collection Vol.4, Bear Family
I Been a Fool Mercy Dee Walton
Macy's Troubles, Arhoolie
Fools Rush In (Where Angels Fear to Tread) Frank Sinatra with Tommy Dorsey
Battle of the Bands, BMG
Everybody's Somebody's Fool Betty Carter
Round Midnight, Atco
I Pity the Fool Ann Peebles
St. Louis Woman/Memphis Soul, Hi
Who Will the Next Fool Be Charlie Rich
Feel Like Going Home, Epic/Legacy
Instrumental: Out to Lunch Eric Dolphy
Out to Lunch, Blue Note
April Fool Eric Dolphy
Here and There, Fantasy
Fool's Gold Johnny Otis
Rhythm & Blues Caravan-The Complete Savoy Recordings, Atlantic
INTERVIEW: Redd Foxx
The Joke Reggie Hall
Chess New Orleans, MCA
INTERVIEW: Otis "Elevator" Gilmore
Joker Lee Morgan
Search For The New Land, Blue Note
Instrumental: Clink, Clink, Another Drink Spike Jones
Musical Depreciation Revue, Rhino
April Showers Spike Jones
Musical Depreciation Revue, Rhino