First Job in Radio

The No Show | Mar 30, 2010
PLAYLIST
THEME: “How Long Blues” – Jimmy Yancey, piano
”Way Back in the 1960s” – Incredible String Band
“Good Times” – Cat Mother & the All-Night Newsboys
“With a Little Help from My Friends” – The Beatles
“Get It While You Can” – Janis Joplin
“Sunshine of Your Love” – Cream
“It Ain’t Me Babe” – Bob Dylan & Joan Baez
“Still Crazy” – Paul Simon
“Rock & Roll Shoes” – The Band
“Freedom Medley” – SNCC Freedom Singers
“We Shall Not Be Moved” – SNCC Freedom Singers
“Woke Up this Morning with My Mind on Freedom” – SNCC Freedom Singers w/Bernice Johnson

Steve Post, the host with the most, recounts his first job in radio as bookkeeper for a public radio station whose name cannot be mentioned so it is identified only by its initials: WBAI. Be listening as Steve trashes Quakers, the former president of Pacifica, and much of the 1960’s. The music will make you feel young again, momentarily.

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