Snap, Crackle, POP! with Alec Cumming

It started out innocently enough, as an evening prime-time radio salute to the maestro Burt bacharach, who had just turned 90...  

Promises Promises – Dionne Warwick

Toledo – Burt Bacharach & Elvis Costello

Walk On By – Dionne Warwick

Make It Easy On Yourself (Live at The Garden State Arts Center, 1970) – Dionne Warwick

A House Is Not a Home – Burt Bacharach

Twenty-Four Hours from Tulsa – Dusty Springfield

Baby It's You – The Beatles

Always Something There to Remind Me – Naked Eyes
South American Getaway (From "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid") – Burt Bacharach

After the Fox – The Hollies 

Are You There (With Another Girl) – Dionne Warwick

Promise Her Anything – Tom Jones

Mexican Divorce – The Drifters 

Don't Make Me Over – Dionne Warwick

I Smiled Yesterday – Dionne Warwick

This Empty Place – Mexican Divorce

My Little Red Book – Manfred Mann

Walk On By – The Beach Boys 

New York Lady – Burt Bacharach & The Houston Symphony

Such Unlikely Lovers – Burt Bacharach & Elvis Costello

In Between the Heartaches – Ronald Isley

The Last One to Be Loved – Lou Johnson

Wives and Lovers – Burt Bacharach

I'll Never Fall in Love Again – Jill O'Hara & Jerry Orbach

The World is a Circle – Diana Lee, Bobby Van & Chorus

Balance of Nature – Rumer

So Long Johnny – Jackie Deshannon

With Open Arms – Jane Morgan

Hasbrook Heights – Burt Bacharach

You'll Never Get to Heaven (if You Break My Heart) – The Stylistics 

Nikki – Burt Bacharach

Dancing With Your Shadow – Sheryl Crow

Close to You – Burt Bacharach

Everybody's Out of Town – B.J. Thomas

The Blob – The Five Blobs 

Saturday Night in Tiajuana – The Five Blobs

Ich Warte Jeden Tag – Dionne Warwick

I Say a Little Prayer for you (alternate) – Dionne Warwick

And Then He Walked Right Through the Door – Dionne Warwick

Go Ask Shakespeare – Burt Bacharach

Alfie – Burt Bacharach

The Windows of the World – Bobbie Gentry

What the World Needs Now – Jackie Deshannon

BUT THEN: after the initial 3 hours o' Burt, Mark Mushin - who had the 11-2am slot that night - at the last minute couldn't make it in, so I ended up doing 6 HOURS OF BACHARACH music. MINDBLOWING.

Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed? – Linda Scott

Tower of Strength – Gene McDaniels 

Me, Japanese Boy – Harpers Bizarre

Dionne Warwick – Dionne Warwick

Send Me No Flowers – Doris Day

Where There's a Heart – The Sandpipers

Love in a Goldfish Bowl – Tommy Sands

I'm a Better Man – Englebert Humperdinck

Another Tear Falls – Puddles Pity Party

Don't You Believe It – Andy Williams

Let the Music Play – The Drifters

Trains and Boats and Planes – Burt Bacharach

What's New, Pussycat? – Tom Jones

This Guy's in Love with You – Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass

The Look of Love – Dusty Springfield

Make It Easy On Yourself – Burt Bacharach

Paper Mache – Dionne Warwick

Kentucky Bluebird (Send A Message To Martha) – Lou Johnson

In the Land of Make Believe – Dusty Springfield 

Living Together, Growing Together – The 5th Dimension

One Less Bell to Answer – The 5th Dimension

Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do) – Christopher Cross

Anyone Who Had a Heart – Wynonna

The Wine Is Young – Dionne Warwick

Walk the Way You Talk – Dionne Warwick

God Give Me Strength – Burt Bacharach & Elvis Costello

Magic Moments – Perry Como

The Story of My Life – Marty Robbins 

True Love Never Runs Smooth – Gene Pitney

Live Again – Irma Thomas

No One Remembers My Name – Burt Bacharach

Who Are These People? – Burt Bacharach feat. Elvis Costello

Lost Horizon – Yeongene

Turkey Lurkey Time – Megan Sikora, Mayumi Miguel, Cameron Adams & the "Promises, Promises" Ensemble (2010) 

Knowing When to Leave – Jill O'Hara

Another Night – Dionne Warwick

Don't Go Breaking My Heart – Burt Bacharach

I Still Remember – John Pagano

In the Darkest Place – Burt Bacharach & Elvis Costello

Long Ago Tomorrow – BJ Thomas

I Don't Need You Anymore (From the Motion Picture "Together?") – Jackie Deshannon

The Sweetest Punch – Bill Frisell

Don't Say I Didn't Tell You So – Dionne Warwick

Are You Ready for Love – Elton John 

More, More, More – Andrea True Connection 

Steal My Sunshine – Len 

Numb (Single Edit) – Pet Shop Boys

Save Me a Place – Fleetwood Mac

Through the Long Night – Billy Joel 

Poor People – Alan Price

Me and My Arrow – Harry Nilsson

Mosquito – Geraint Watkins

Wives and Lovers – Burt Bacharach

Domingo no Parque – Gilberto Gil 

Mistry Roses – Colin Blunstone 

Sea Song – Robert Wyatt 

Ghosts of American Astronauts – The Mekons

Leroy – Family 

Steady State – Penguin Cafe Orchestra

Kala – Ali Farka Touré & Toumani Diabaté 

Crinian Wood – Alexi Murdoch

The Ways of the Wind – P.M. Dawn

Gratitude for the Shipper – Fan Modine

Automatic – Pernice Brothers

Meadows – Joe Walsh

Fortune Teller – Robert Plant & Alison Krauss

Moon Shake – Can

On The Roof - The Feelies

Goin' back – The Byrds 

Same Old Man – Karen Dalton 

4am  - Stueve 

So Begins the Task – Manassas

Every Kind of Wrong – John Moreland 

River – Terry Reid 

Long Ago Tomorrow – B.J. Thomas

The Bells – Laura Nyro & LaBelle

Oh, Why – Balam Acab

The Donor – Judee Sill

Met Her on a Plane – Jimmy Webb

Lift Him Up That's All – Washington Phillips

Like a Ship – Pastor T.L. Barrett & The Youth For Christ Choir

Mona – Bo Diddley

Another Way Out – Brave Belt

Long Way Around – Gerry Rafferty

She Might Have Been a Nice Girl – The Guess Who

Fineline – Ned Doheny 

Mother Earth – Emitt Rhodes

I Wonder If I Care As Much – The Everly Brothers

One Night of Sin – Elvis Presley

Night Shift – Lucy Dacus

Everything Put Together Falls Apart – Paul Simon

Country of Illusion – William Tyler 

If you start at the very beginning (which is a very good place to start) with these Snap Crackle POP! shows/podcasts, you'll notice I am mainly doing fill-ins, many of them in the wee hours. At the time, I was working a low-self esteem job where the hours were very... well, lets call them variable. So I was frequently doing overnight shifts there, and my sleep hours were all fakakta, and plus... the "romantic" ideal I had of the lonely overnight DJ really appealed to me (cf. the cover of Donald Fagen's The Nightfly).

A lot of this music is what I'd call - for myself - "comfort-food music". For better or worse, many of these songs are regulars on my shows to this day... 

(What Does It Take) To Win Your Love - Jr. Walker & the All-Stars 

Let's Go - The Cars 
Street Life - Roxy Music 

The Captain of Her Heart - Double 

Old Town - Phil Lynott 
Another Tricky Day - The Who 

Teenerama - The Records 

Warm Self Sacrifice - Emitt Rhodes

Deadbeat Club - The B52s 

London Bridge - Bread 

Baby Blue - The Beach Boys 

You Might As Well Smile - Glen Campbell 

Amateur - Aimee Mann

The World Is a Circle - Burt Bacharach 

Brandy - Looking Glass 

Jackie Blue - The Ozark Mountain Daredevils 

Sweet Music - Lon & Derek Van Eaton 

Skinny Man - The 5th Dimension 

Save Me - kd lang 

I Must Be in a Good Place Now - Bobby Charles

Drowning In a Sea of Love - Joe Simon

New Sensations - Lou Reed 

Jesus Was a Cross-Maker - Judee Sill 
Don't Make Promises - Helen Reddy 

Don't Go To Strangers - JJ Cale 

Every Night (live) - Paul McCartney & Wings

The World Is Turning On - The Pooh Sticks 

Hey Julie - Fountains of Wayne 

I've Got a Secret - Richard Barone & James Mastro 

That's the Story of My Life - The Velvet Underground 

You Ain't Going Nowhere - Bob Dylan 

Speak Your Mind - Marc Benno

No Wonder Love's a Wonder - Smokey Robinson & the Miracles 

Secret Smile - Semisonic 

Emma Blowgun's Last Stand - Beulah 

I've Been Loving You Too Long (live) - Otis Redding 

Power of God - Jaimeo Brown Transcendence

Station Approach - Elbow 

We All Remember Wes (live) - George Benson

Here's part 2. Hoo boy. I wanted to do radio... I got my chance this day. (See episode 1). Here you can hear me subbing for whomever had the 2 - 5 pm slot that Sunday afternoon... it was most likely a fill-in for La Esquina Latina. So here's the latter 3/7th of my unexpected Snap Crackle Pop marathon. It was super-fun and definitely exhausting but also SO MUCH FUN. Thanks to everybody out there who was listening and cheering me on.  

Also Sprach Zarathustra – Deodato

Her Eyes Are a Blue Million Miles – Nona Hendryx & Gary Lucas (w/ Jesse Krakow)

Jesus Just Left Chicago – ZZ Top 

Hallelujah – Sweathog

Tigers – Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks 

Electrical Way – Zoos of Berlin 

Found a Job – Talking Heads 

I'm On Fire – Dwight Twilley Group 

Shadow of a Doubt (A Complex Kid) – Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

Hanging On The Telephone – The Nerves 

Going Down to Liverpool – Katrina & The Waves

Red Lights – The Marbles

The Dean & I – 10cc

Girls Talk – Dave Edmunds & Rockpile

New York Is My Home – Dion & Paul Simon 

The Only Living Boy in New York – Simon & Garfunkel 

Leaving On a Jet Plane – Peter, Paul & Mary 

Lucky One – Alison Krauss & Union Station 

Never Dreamed You'd Leave In Summer – Stevie Wonder 

After Taxes – Lane Steinberg

Dancing Barefoot – Patti Smith Group 

Disappearing – The Sinceros

Elephant Ride – Squeeze 

Hypnotize – Scritti Politti 

I Belong to Me – Richard Barone

Hurry Up Now – Harumi 

Sleep a Million Years – Kathy Heidemann

International – Jackie DeShannon 

Keep On Movin' – Soul II Soul 

Unfinished Sympathy – Massive Attack

Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth with Money in My Hand – Primitive Radio Gods

How Blue Can You Get – B.B. King

Rockferry – Duffy

The Windmills of Your Mind – Dusty Springfield

Strange (live) – Patsy Cline 

I’m Into Something Good – Earl–Jean 

Uptown Town Ranking – Althea & Donna

Pleasant Valley Sunday (demo) – Carole King

Kisses Sweeter Than Wine – Peter, Paul & Mary

(Note to podcast listeners: though I started doing WPKN airshifts as of April 14 2016, this is the oldest episode I have that exists as a music file. So that's where we'll begin. Enjoy... I hope!)

Hoo boy. I wanted to do radio... I got my chance this day. 7 hours of it. I was subbing for Dave Golden's Morning Maniac Music between 10am and 2pm - already a generous 4-hour shift - and then I found out the 2-5 host couldn't make his show due to an emergency of some kind. So I ended up doing a marathon Snap Crackle Pop. It was super-fun and somewhat exhausting. Thanks to everybody out there who was listening and cheering me on. Here's part 1. 

(What Does It Take) To Win Your Love – Jr. Walker and the All–Stars 

Family Affair – Sly and the Family Stone 

You Just May Be the One – The Monkees

Sunday Morning – The Velvet Underground 

Easy – The Commodores 

Sunday Kind of Love – Etta James

Nothing Takes the Place of You – Toussaint McCall

Wiser Time – The Black Crowes 

Sunday Papers – Joe Jackson 

Sunday Girl (French version) – Blondie 

Sunday Mornin' – Spanky & Our Gang 

Will You Be Staying After Sunday? – Peppermint Rainbow 

Sunday Morning Coming Down – Johnny Cash

Get Down Moses – Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros 

Went To See the Gypsy – Bob Dylan

Water Baby – Tom Mirsch 

The Gentle Rain – Astrud Gilberto 

Tanto Tempo – Bebel Gilberto

Walk the Way You Talk – Dionne Warwick

Fina Estampa – Caetano Veloso 

Mansinneedof – Sarah Jarosz 

What Makes You Think You're the One?– Fleetwood Mac

Raindrops – Dee Clark 

Laughter in the Rain – Neil Sedaka 

Only a Moment – Sunflower Bean 

Have You Seen the Stars Tonight? – Paul Kantner & Jefferson Starship 

Let It Be Me – George Harrison

Glad and Sorry – The Faces 

Dead Flowers (alternate) – The Rolling Stones

My Baby Gives It Away – Pete Townshend & Ronnie Lane

The Race Is On – George Jones

My Elusive Dreams – George Jones & Tammy Wynette

Trinity Lane – Lilly Hiatt 

12 Bellevue – Kathleen Edwards 

Dear Boy – Paul & Linda McCartney 

Dear Boy – Percy "Thrills" Thrillington

South American Getaway – Burt Bacharach 

I'll Never Find Another You – The Seekers 

Oh Gilbert (I Need Help) – The Junipers

Clair – Gilbert O’Sullivan

Chelsea Morning – Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66

All I Want – Karin Krog

This Flight Tonight – Joni Mitchell 

Free Man in Paris – Joni Mitchell 

Subspace Biographies – Robert Pollard

Crazy – REM 

Car – Porches 

Lament – Blake Babies 

Dreams – Brandi Carlile

Taking Chances – Sharon Van Etten 

Lost a Number – Nils Lonfgren & Grin 

I Say Yeah – The Pets 

Shore Leave – Yung Wu

Captain Lou – NRBQ (w/ Capt. Lou Albano)

Nothing But a Heartache – The Flirtations

I Never Dreamed – The Cookies

Funky Pretty – The Beach Boys 

Lazy Sunday – Small Faces

Shut Up Kiss Me – Angel Olsen

Over the Ocean – Here We Go Magic 

Wan Light – Orange Juice