2009-05-30 Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child

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Segment 1
TMBG - It's Spare the Rock
-Ella ID
TMBG - Birds Fly (Then)
Tom Freund - Seashells (w/ Victoria Williams)
Victoria Williams - Moon River
Jayhawks - This Little Light of Mine (Down By the Riverside)
ID
Asylum Street Spankers - Don't Turn Out the Light (Mommy Says No!)

Segment 2
Lamar Holley - Parts of a Plant (Classroom Pop Vol 1)
Johnny Bregar - Dragonfly (Dragonfly)
Liz Mitchell - You Are My Sunshine (You Are My Sunshine)
ID/prep to rock
Uncle Rock - Rock Out! (Plays Well With Others)
Paper Moon - Your Attitude Towards Cuttlefish (For the Kids Too)
ID (backsell River Rack)

Segment 3
Baby Grands - Why Is It W?
Go Team - Doing it Right
Yosi - Let's Get Cookin' (What's Eatin' Yosi?)
ID
Mike Doughty - More Bacon than the Pan Can Handle (Golden Delicious)
Bzots - Workin' the Assembly Line (Powered Up!)
Moby - Anchovie (Mary Had a Little Amp)

Segment 4
ScribbleMonster - Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
ID
AudraRox - I Like to Pretend (I Can Do It By Myself)
U2 - Discotheque
Strange Kidz - Rocket Croc' (Kidz Album)
Secret Agent 23 Skidoo - Luck (Easy)
ID/book time with Ella

Segment 5
Tom Waits - New Coat of Paint
Pianosaurus - Sun Will Follow (Groovy Neighborhood)
Deedle Deedle Dees - Aaron Burr (Freedom in a Box)
ID
Sharp Cookies - Let It Rain
Mary Lou Lord & Semisonic - Sugar Sugar
ID

Segment 6
Mudcakes - Cave Baby (Cup & Top, Tuesday July 7, 4;00)

Recess Monkey - Centipede Pirate (Sunday, July 12)
Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings - This Land is Your Land (Green River Festival July 17-18)
Lunch Money - Ate Too Much of My Favorite Food (Dizzy) (Iron Horse July 26)
ID
TMBG - Fake Believe (Type B)
TMBG - Spare the Rock

2009-05-23 Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child

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Segment 1
TMBG - It's Spare the Rock
-Ella ID
TMBG - Ballad of Davy Crockett (In Outer Space) (Block Party)
Frances England - Digging in the Dirt (Fascinating Creatures)
M. Ward - Radio Campaign
Gustafer Yellowgold - Beard for All Seasons (Have You Never Been Yellow?)
ID
Mary Kaye - Bug (Music Box)
Sweet Honey in the Rock - Shoo Fly (I Got Shoes)
ID

Segment 2
Harmonica Pocket - Ladybug 123 (dub) (Ladybug One)
Mudcakes - Bugs (Cave Baby)
ID (Mudcakes at Cup & Top on Tuesday July 7, 4:00)/prep to rock
Duplex - Noble Gases (Worser)
Arcwelder - Bob Sez (Jacket Made in Canada)
Violent Femmes - Eep Opp Ork Ah-Ah (Means I Love You)
ID

Segment 3
Sippy Cups - My Angry Voice (Time Machine)
Weezer - My Best Friend
Justin Roberts - Best Friend (Way Out)
ID (August 23, Iron Horse)
White Stripes - We Are Going to Be Friends
Egg - La La La (I Love You)
ID

Segment 4
ScribbleMonster - Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
ID
Rolling Stones - Route 66
Dog on Fleas - Green Grass of Summer (When I Get Little)
Lucas Miller - Go Wild - Read! (I Was a Supa Dupa Pupa)
ID/book time with Ella
Human_Tim + Robot_Tim - Froggies (Pop of the Tots!)

Segment 5
Deedle Deedle Dees - Nellie Bly (Freedom in a Box)
Kimya Dawson - Happy Home (Keep on Writing)
Billy Kelly - Don't Worry About the Government (Thank You For Joining the Happy Club)
ID
Gourds - Shake the Chandelier (Heavy Ornamentals)

Segment 6
ID
Ziggy Marley - ABC (Family Time)
Wee Hairy Beasties - Road Safety Song (Animal Crackers)
ID
Aric Bieganek - Central Park Kitty (Bright Lights, Big Kitty)
John Carlin - A Dinosaur Named Fred (Kids' Music Underground)
ID
TMBG - Wake Up Call (No!)
TMBG - Spare the Rock

2009-05-16 Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child

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Here's what we played:

Segment 1
TMBG - It's Spare the Rock
-Ella ID
TMBG - Toddler Hiway
Billy Kelly - Springtime: It's My Favorite (Thank You for Joining the Happy Club)
Brian Eno - Over Fire Island (Another Green World)
Nields - Summer is a Cumen In (Rock All Day Rock All Night)
Me 3 - Apple (The Thin King)
ID
Caspar Babypants - Heard a Bird (Here I Am)
Erin McKeown - Blackbirds (Distillation)
ID

Segment 2
Sunflow - Daisies & Orchids
That Baby CD - Sunday Sun (That Baby CD)
ID/prep to rock
Secret Agent 23 Skidoo & Egg - I Like Fruit
Kenny Young & the Eggplants - Curtis Mayfield's on the Moon (Arrr!)
ID

Segment 3
ID
ScribbleMonster - All Ready to Go (Songs with No Character)
Skankin' Pickle - I Missed the Bus
Ozomatli - Can't Stop (Don't Mess with the Dragon)
ID
Key Wilde & Mr Clarke - Favorite Names
Ralph's World - Gotta Be Good (Rhyming Circus)

Segment 4
ScribbleMonster - Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
ID
B-52s - Rock Lobster
Jimmies - Do the Elephant (Make Your Own Someday)
ID
Dan Hicks & the Hot Licks - Hummin' to Myself (Beatin' the Heat)
Lunch Money - Tricycle (Silly Reflection)
ID

Segment 5
Justin Roberts - Way Out (Way Out)
Monty Harpter - Reading Makes Me Want to Dance Out Loud (Let's Get Created)
ID
Ziggy Marley - Cry, Cry, Cry (with Jack Johnson)
ID/book time with Ella
Graham Nash - Teach Your Children (Mary Had a Little Amp)

Segment 6
Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour
Mr. Felipe - Vamos Afuera
Robert Bobbert - Hey Little Puppy (and the Bubble Machine)
Beach Boys - Surfin' Safari
Bunny Clogs - Velveeta Girl & Sqatsy (More! More! More!)
Booker T - Hey Ya (Potato Hole)
ID
TMBG - Go for G (Here Come the ABCs)
TMBG - Spare the Rock

2009-05-09 Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child

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Segment 1
TMBG - It's Spare the Rock
-Ella ID
TMBG - Lazyhead and Sleepybones (No!)
Dreyer Family Band - The I Love You Song (Family Photograph)
Neko Case - This Little Light (The Tigers Have Spoken)
ID
Renee & Jeremy - Wishing Well (Wonder)

Segment 2
Islands - Jogging Gorgeous Summer
Alejandro Escovedo - Sad & Dreamy (the Big 1-0)
ID/prep to rock
Sippy Cups - Seven is the New Fourteen
Beck - Where It's At

Segment 3
MGMT - Kids
Recess Monkey - Marshmallow Farm
ID
Key Wilde & Mr Clarke - Big Pet Pig
Justin Roberts - Big Field Trip
ID/book time with Ella

Segment 4
ScribbleMonster - Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
ID
Pianosaurs - Thriftshoppin' (Groovy Neighborhood)
Dan Zanes & Friends - Thrift Shop (Family Dance)
ID
Lunch Money - Dizzy (Dizzy)
Sister Sledge - We Are Family

Segment 5
Dennis Caraher live in-studio (with Emma)
- I Love My Mom
- It's Bedtime
Dinosaur Pop - Vernon Alexander McPhee (Dinosaur Pop)

Segment 6
The Boy Least Likely To - When Life Gives Me Lemons I Make Lemonade (The Law of the Playground)
ID
Bob Marley - Three Little Birds (B Is Version)
Tom Jones - What's New Pussycat?
Human_Tim + Robot_Tim - Little Robot
ID
TMBG - Robot Parade (Rawking Version)
TMBG - Spare the Rock

2009-05-02 Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child

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Segment 1
TMBG - It's Spare the Rock
-Ella ID
TMBG - Rolling O (Here Come the ABCs)
Innocence Mission - Wonder of Birds (Innocence Mission)
Justin Roberts - Fruit Jar (Pop Fly)
ID
Nick Drake - Pink Moon (Pink Moon)
Cathy Heller - Say Hello to the Sun (Say Hello to the Sun)
ID

Segment 2
Enzo Garcia - Monkey Motions (Field Trip with Enzo)
Billy Jonas - Happy Accident
ID/prep to rock
John Wesley Harding - If You Have Ghosts (Where the Pyramid Meets the Eye)
Kenny Young & the Eggplants - Rage Against the Washing Machine (Arrr!)
ID

Segment 3
Toxic Muffin - Save Game
Deedle Deedle Dees - Baldy (Freedom in a Box)
ID
Cloud Cult - Everybody Here is a Cloud (Feel Good Ghosts)
ScribbleMonster - All Ready to Go! (Songs With No Character)
Mommie - Dumptruck (Mommie's Dearest)
RTTs - Snack Time (Turn It Up Mommy!)
ID

Segment 4
ScribbleMonster - Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
ID
Billy Kelly - People Really Like Milk (Thank You for Joining the Happy Club)
XTC - Making Plans for Nigel (Drums and Wires)
Uncle Rock - Play Outside Today (Uncle Rock U)
Grupo Fantasma - Gimme Some
ID/book time with Ella

Segment 5
AudraRox - Moms & Dads (Park Slope Parents Vol. 1)
Lisa Loeb - Best Friend (Camp Lisa)
Ziggy Marley - Walk Tall (Family Time)
ID
Charity & the JAMband - Whatcha Gonna Bring (Rock Your Socks Off)
Jay Mankita - Eat Like a Rainbow (Eat Like a Rainbow)
ID

Segment 6
Earth Wind & Fire - Shining Star
Medeski Martin & Wood - All Around the Kitchen (Let's Go Everywhere)
Allen Toussaint - Yes We Can Can
Astrograss - Airplane (Let Me Stay Up All Night)
ID
TMBG - Four of Two (No!)