Dr Elemento invites you to "get chemical" and enjoy these 77 minutes of atom-themed, elemental and ionic music (atomic number 77 = Iridium, in case you were wondering). This month on the Parus radious show (we do periodically tackle such subjects).

Rock And Roll Atom - Red McCoy With The Sons Of The Soil

The Hydrogen Bomb - Al Rogers with His Rocky Mountain Boys

Pretty Red Balloons – Apollas

Copper Girl – The Maytals

Band of Gold - Freda Payne

Too Much Air Not Enough Oxygen - John Otway

Leadfoot - Don Sargent

Nickel Plated Baby - Amos Milburn

Platinum Blues - Frank Sinatra

Cast Iron Arm - Peanuts Wilson

Tin Can Alley Blues  - Lonnie Johnson

Carbon Copy - Larry Trider

Fluoride – Simon Joyner

Iodine In My Coffee - Muddy Waters

Titanium – Kraftwerk

Nitro - Dick Dale

30 Pieces Of Silver  - Prince Buster

The Sulphur Queen - Johnny Nelms

Goodbye Neon Lies - Bob Lind

Mercury Blues - K.C. Douglas

Only Arsenic - The Rich Kids

Uranium - Commodores

Atomic  - Blondie

Elements  - Tom Lehrer

Hey hey! Welcome back to the Parus radious show after a little summer hiatus. In addition to a summer packed full of great things, there was also a little sadness due to the loss of the greatest dog of all time - the Meta-Dog. In honor of the space-age rock-n-roll mechanical animal, this month's show features all songs about... dogs! (Don't worry, I promise there aren't any sad songs... well maybe one, but I'll warn you beforehand).

Dog Cat – The Capitols

I had a Little Dog - Big Jack Reynolds

The Boston Puppy - Earl Lett

Ain't Gonna Walk Your Dog No More - Otis Williams

Big Dog Little Dog - Harvey Hurt

Two-Headed Dog - Roky Erickson

Chihuahua – Bow Wow Wow

Mon Chein - Les Malpolis

I’ll take the Dog – Jean Shepard and Ray Pillow

I’m like a Dog Without a Bone – Joey Gills

I Won't Hang Around Like A Hound Dog -  Diane Lawrence

Greyhound - Amos Milburn

Moondog – The Treniers

Hellhound on my Trail -  Robert Johnson

Dog War – The Maytals with Prince Buster

Oh Susanna! – The Singing Dogs

DOG (Aint A Mans Best Friend) - Lewis Clark

Same Dog Bit Me - Tommy Elliot

Puppy Love – Ike and Tina Turner

Bow Bow (Life Aint Nothing But Dog Eat Dog)  - Titus Tee Turner

I Didnt Steal Your Dog - Virgie Till

I Wanna Be Your Dog – The Stooges

Howlin' For My Darling   The Greek Fountains

The Wolf Pack - Kid Thomas

Old Shep - Red Foley

Welcome back listeners. This month I'm off to the land of the ice and snow, with the midnight sun and the hot springs flow. That's right. It's an all Iceland-themed show this month. Get your passports and hiking boots ready and I'll meet you in the blue lagoon!

 

Immigrant Song - Led Zeppelin

Volcano - Billy Preston

By The Sea - The In-Vaders

Little Volcano - Lloyd Price

Ice Water - Glen Barber

Hot Water - Denny Reed

Iceland - The Fall

Lóa Lóa - Megas

Harbour shark - Pipe & The Pipers

Mister Iceberg - Serge Gainsbourg

The Midnight Sun Will Never Set - Sarah Vaughan

All Night Rock - Glenn Honeycutt

Window Shopping - The Reasons

Erik the Viking - The Bee Kays

Fountain Bliss - The Dynamites

Ice Cold Baby - Marlon "Madman" Mitchell

1000 Miles - Inner Thoughts

The Voice Of Energy – Kraftwerk

Night People - The Leaders

It Pays To Advertise - The Electric Elves

The Volcanic Action Of My Soul – Trenchmouth

Mother Nature - Sins Of Satan

How Do You Like Iceland? - Baggalútur

Hey there listeners. Got a headache? stomache ache? anxiety? depression? Well, I've concocted a special potion just for you, here in my rock'n'roll apothecary. Welcome to the Parus radious drug store. Now, take three bop pills and call me in the morning.

 

Drugstore Rock'n Roll - Janis Martin

Medicine Man  - Mandingo

Love Potion Number 9  - The Clovers

Make Me A Potion - Hugh Masekela

Mr. Pharmacist - The Fall

Bop Pills - Macy "Skip" Skipper

An Aspirin Would Go Crazy - The Rock

Strychnine - The Sonics

Antacid Cocamotive - Nurse With Wound

Pills - New York Dolls

Mother's Little Helper- The Rolling Stones

Wonder Drug - Jack Reno

Good Old Chlorophyll - The Rhythm Harmoneers

Caffeine Blues – Gray Matter

Let Me Dream If I Want To (Amphetamine Blues) - Mink Deville

Penicillin - Johnny MacRae

Purple Pill Eater - Wild Ones

Little Yellow Pill - Jackie Lomax

Amphetamine Blue - The Fallen Angels

The Vibrations – I Took an Overdose

Too Many Pills - Arkey Blue

Drug Train - Monsters

Drug - Talking Heads

Muhammed Ali says in his autobiography: “I'm a fighter. I believe in the eye-for-an-eye business. I'm no cheek turner. I got no respect for a man who won't hit back. You kill my dog, you better hide your cat.”  Well, all you dog-killers and even for all you cheek-turners, this month we're delving into songs that sing the merits or pitfalls of revenge and vengeance (and a little bit of Schadenfreude). Bust out the cold cuts music fans and sharpen those straight razors:

You’ll Pay – Little David and his Harps

Revenge – The Others

I Warned You Baby – Frankie Lee Sims

You’ve Got Another Thing Coming – Esquires

Fist City – Loretta Lynn

The Box it Came in – Wanda Jackson

Cuttin’ My ABCs – Charlie Jordan aka Uncle Skipper

Frankie and Johnny – Sam Cooke

Rocky Raccoon – Richie Havens

Run Uncle John! Run! – Jerry McCain and his Upstarts

Pirate Jenny – Nina Simone

Stone Cold Dead in the Market – Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Jordan

Johnnie Take My Wife – Wilmouth Houdini

Apesar de Você – Chico Buarque

A Boy Named Sue – Johnny Cash

These Boots are Made for Walking – Nancy Sinatra

One Way or Another – Blondie

I’ll Get You Too – Billy Emerson

Revenge – Black Flag

Mental Revenge – Johnny Darrell

Revenge – Herbie Hancock

Vengeance (Title Theme) – Carlo Savina

The Payback, Pt. 1 – James Brown

Take a walk in the woods with Parus radious. This month the show features songs about forests, trees,  logs, timber and other woody wonders. So put on your hiking boots, grab your walking stick and get ready to head out on the road less traveled by...

In the Woods – The Chords

Woodpecker Rock – Nat Couty and the Braves

Tall Tall Trees – George Jones

Out of Our Trees – The Mummies

I’m a Carpenter – David Robinson

(I Wanna Go) Where the Soul Trees Grow – Beau Dollar

(I’m Gonna) Chop Down that Oak Tree – Billy Proctor and Love System

Jerry (This Timber Got to Roll) – Harry Belafonte

Under the Old Oak Tree – Cornel Campbell

The Woods – The Nickel Bag

Buzz Saw – The Gee Cees

Super Jungle – Francis Bebey

In Dark Trees – Brian Eno

Willow Tree - Alton Ellis

The Rock and Roll Carpenter – Emery Blades

Cypress Grove Blues – Skip James

The Breeze from the Trees – The Strands

Sawmill – The Admirals

Settin’ the Woods on Fire – Hank Williams

Sawmill Boogie Blues – Howard Western

Sleeping Trees – Nina Soul

The Road Not Taken - Robert Frost

Don’t Chop Down My Tree – The Raves

Lumberjack Song – Monty Python

and, finally, a little tune that didn't make it into the show this month - although maybe that is for the best, because it is better with the video:

Canada Vignettes: Log Driver's Waltz by John Weldon, National Film Board of Canada

Greetings podcast listener. Here I am, all wrapped up in a comfy blanket on the couch this cold snowy afternoon with a good book. But - oh no! I'm already on the last chapter of this book and I need to take a trip down the street to my local library and pick out the next book to keep me company during these dark winter nights. Want to come along? On the way we can listen to some songs about libraries and books.

Dedicated to Katey, Rita, Tiana, Ann, Mary Beth, Anna, John and all my other librarian friends that my unorganized brain may have misshelved.

p.s. you can click the links to see the books we found on our trip to the library:

Library Book  - The Faders (It Makes You Want to Spit!)

You Can’t Judge a Book by the Cover – Dale Hawkins (The Mill on the Floss)

ABC Rocksteady – The Gaylads (Original Mother Goose)

Looking for my Pig – Joe Tex (The Three Pigs or maybe: The True Story of the Three Little Pigs)

Robinson Crusoe Bop – Sonny Cole (Robinson Crusoe)

Something Wicked This Way Comes – Barry Adamson ( Something Wicked This Way Comes)

Brother is Watching You – Sheldon Allman (1984)

Just like Romeo and Juliet – Reflections (Romeo and Juliet)

Along came Pride – Donnie Elbert

Long Dark Night for Prejudice – Soul Brothers Inc. ( Pride and Prejudice or maybe this one: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies)

Tale of Two Cities – Carlton Livingston (A Tale of Two Cities)

Venus in Furs – Velvet Underground (Venus in Furs  and The Velvet Underground)

It's a whole new world! A fresh world made entirely from the smouldering ashes left over after "the end of the world" that never happened. The fizzled out anti-apocalypse. This month on the show we listen to some tunes all about the END of it all.... and the world after the end of the world.

It’s After the End of the World - Sun Ra

Stop The World – Gary Shelton

On that Day - Burning Junior

Atom Bomb - Glenn Barber

The Cave – Johnny Paycheck

Five Years – David Bowie

No Blade of Grass – Roger Whittaker

The Day the World Turned Day-Glo – X-Ray Spex

Watch World War Three (On Pay TV) -The Crown City Four

The End of the World - Skeeter Davis

The End of the World - Aphrodite'a Child

Armagideon Time – Willie Williams

End of the World - Kentrick Patrick

Atomic Bomb – William Onyeabor

War of the Worlds – The Atlantics

Pressure – Celebration

Situation is Facing Total Annihiliation – Nice Face

God’s Gonna Turn Us to Dust – Johnny Tyler

Death Bells at Dawn – The Lords

The World of Gorillas and Monkeys – Brian Ingland

I Hear a New World – Joe Meek and the Blue Men

I just came from another party filled with people I sort-of know, whose names are just at the tip of my tongue. Sorry Listener... remind me of your name once more? I'm Parus, Parus radious. Nice to meet you.

This week we'll listen to songs about names and aliases.

Call Me Shorty – Mickey Gilley

Lucky is my Name – Bruce Cloud

Speedoo – The Cadillacs

Game is my middle name – Betty Davis

They Call me Big Mama – Big Mama Thornton

Four Women – Nina Simone

They Call Me Mr Tibbs – Quincy Jones

Dollars and Bonds – Lloyd Charmers

They Call Me a Dreamer – The Starlites

The Joker – Billy Myles

Mr Pitiful – Otis Redding

My Name is Morgan (but it ain’t J.P) - Bob Roberts

Snaggletooth – Motorhead

My Name is Jimmy – Gene Crabbe

(They call me) Cupid – Mickey Woods

(They Call Me a) Wrong Man-  Tony Clarke

Fat Boy -  Billy Stewart

They Call Me the Clown – The Care Package

Arkansas Jane – Elwood James

They Call Me Country – Sanford Clark

They Call me the Champ – Jimmy Preston

Rapper’s Delight (Single Version) – The Sugarhill Gang

You Know My Name, Look Up the Number – The Beatles

Part 2 of the great Tree of Life show. This time we delve into the Animal Kingdom and some of its many Phyla, Classes, Orders, Families, Genera and Species. Get ready for some wild romping, hopping, hooting and howling in this special extended mix.

The Animal Parade (excerpt) - Jim Copp & Ed Brown

Singing in the Bathtub - King Benny Nawahi

Do the Jellyfish - Neil Sedaka

The Worm has Turned - Eddie Noack

Do the Clam - Elvis

Boris the Spider - The Who

Scorpion - The Eternals

The Ladybug and the Centipede - Leon Bibb

La Madrague - Brigitte Bardot

Insect Ball - Big Jay McNeely

I'm a Bug - Urinals

The Fly Swatter - D.D.T. and the Repellants

Sao Bien (Starfish) - Le Thu

Stingray - Gary Miller

Saturday Night Fish Fry - The Blue Dots

The Frog - Sir Guy

Rattlesnake - Jimmy Castor Bunch

Little Turtle - Joe Bennett and the Sparkletones

Alligator Come Across - Arlie Duff

Kiwi Song - ?

The Chicken - Ronnie Dawson

Peanut Duck - Marsha Gee

Mockingbird - Charlie & Inez Foxx

Love the Way You Funk - Platypus

Kangaroo Hop - Dee Clark

Armadillo - Swell Maps

Hyena Stomp - Jelly Roll Morton

Tiger Man - Rufus Thomas Jr.

Calling All Cows - Blues Rockers

Crazy Horses - The Osmonds

Whale of a Tale - Wynonie Harris

The Squirrel - Dick Dale

I'm a Man - Spencer Davis Group

Pink Elephants - Sun Ra