Show 112: Read It In Books – Playlist and Archived Stream

Every Labor Day, Listen Up! salutes one group of workers in song. This year the honor goes to the…writers and authors. It is two hours of songs about writers, books, newspapers and all other things literary.

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Playlist (Artist -Title- Album – Year of song)

Opening Theme

Man or Astroman? – Maximum Radiation Level – Experiment Zero – 1996

Background Music

Phil Kraus And Bob Rosengarden – Percussion: Playful And Pretty -1964

The Beatles – Paperback Writer –  Past Masters, Volume Two – 1966
Rockpile – When I Write The Book – Seconds of Pleasure – 1980
Sloan – Autobiography – One Chord to Another – 1996
Lynn Ahrens – A Noun Is A Person, Place or Thing – Schoolhouse Rock! – 1973

Pylon – Read A Book – Gyrate – 1980
Echo & The Bunnymen – Read In Books – Crocodiles – 1980
Husker Du – Books About UFO’s – New Day Rising – 1985
X – Adult Books – Wild GIft – 1981

Elvis Costello & The Attractions – Everyday I Write The Book – Punch the Clock – 1983
Paul Westerberg – Bookmark – Suicaine Gratifaction – 1990
Talking Heads – The Book I Read – Talking Heads 77 – 1977
Zachary Sanders – Verb, That’s What’s Happening –  Schoolhouse Rock! – 1974

Stan Ridgway – Newspapers – Mosquitos – 1989
Joe Jackson – Sunday Papers – Look Sharp! – 1979
The Rolling Stones – Yesterday’s Papers – Between The Buttons – 1967

Moxy Fruvous – My Baby Loves A Bunch of Authors – Bargainville – 1993
John Cale – Graham Greene – Paris 1919 – 1973
Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians – Raymond Chandler Evening – Element Of Light – 1986
Peter Laughner – Baudelaire – Take the Guitar Player for a Ride – 197?
The Johnsons – Sylvia Plath – Break Tomorrow’s Day – 1986

The Wonder Stuff – A Great Drinker – Construction for the Modern Idiot – 1993
The Go-Betweens – The House That Jack Kerouac Built – Tallulah – 1987
Rosanne Cash – The Summer I Read Colette – 10 Song Demo – 1996

Nick Cave – There She Goes, My Beautiful World – Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus – 2004
Sonic Youth – The Empty Page – Murray Street – 2002

Belle and Sebastian – Wrapped Up In Books – Dear Catastrophe Waitress – 2003
XTC – Your Dictionary – Apple Venus Vol.1 – 1999

Daniel Johnston – Unpack Your Adjectives – Schoolhouse Rock! Rocks – 1996

Closing Theme

Silly Pillows – Groovy Tune – New Affections  – 1997

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