“Cat got your tongue, Shirl?” enquired mr.K.

For once, I was struck speechless! The audacity! The complete disregard for my own private Idaho. I mean to say, couldn’t the manservant see from the way I was sitting on the cushion, legs so crossedly crossed, pearl necklace so artfully arranged with my eyelids all a flutter inhaling the heady aroma of patchouli and aloofness that I, she with the curse of the gab was soaking in? Couldn’t he hear the sounds of silence? Sounds of silence? Sounds. Of. Silence. wtf? What were those two folkies smoking? That hardly computes!

Zen moment gone and here we are doing a first for radioShirl. A show with no happy talk. That’s correct. Not a lyric to be heard in this episode.

So Shirleyphiles, its time to get your mental instrumental on and join us on the big cushion as we oscillate wildly to a veritable smorgasbord of speechless tuneage from the fabulous pizzazz of Nelson Riddle to the artful Penguin Café

Orchestra to the bucolic Virginia Astley to the pulsing minimal wonder that is the Young Marble Giants to the bubbling up funk of The Commodores to the downright hot and dirty sex of Barry Adamson punctuated by a whole bunch of aural incidentals, we’ve got it all going on … but without a word to be heard.

Until next time, take care and play fair!

*be smooched*

laShirl and mr.Kenneth

American Radio Warblers, Barry Adamson, Daryl Hall, Dean & Britta, Flintstones, Hal Mooney & His Orchestra, Hanna-Barbera, Jetsons, John Hartford, Kingsley, Nelson Riddle, Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Perrey, Robert Fripp, The Pixies, The Ventures, Virgina Astley, Young Marble Giants