Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the debut of the show, which embedded so many songs into our subconscious.

Featuring:

1	Sesame Street theme Joshua Radin Scrubs Orig. Sesame Street	2	Rubber Duckie Kelly Hogan The Bottle Let Me Down Orig. Sesame Street	3	(It’s Not Easy) Bein’ Green Sophie Milman Make Someone Happy Orig. Muppets/Andy Williams
4	Would You Like To Buy An O? Street Army Gospel Sings The Alphabet Orig. Sesame Street	5	Mahna Mahna Cake For the Kids Orig. Sesame Street	6	Pinball Number Count The Postmarks By the Numbers Orig. Pointer Sisters/Sesame Street
7	Born To Add Summer Cats vs Motifs Play Some Pool – Skip Some School – Act Real Cool: A Global Pop Tribute To Bruce Springsteen Orig. Sesame Street	8	Jelly Man Kelly Andrew & Polly Short & Sweet Orig. James Taylor/Sesame Street	9	Simon Smith and the Amazing Dancing Bear Okkervil River Golden Opportunities mixtape Orig. Randy Newman/Sesame Street

40 minutes |

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To celebrate what would have been Johnny Mercer’s birthday, The Johnny Mercer Foundation has assembled 100 YouTube videos featuring a diverse collection of artists singing the late, great songwriters music.

Click here to see the videos

Second, Clint Eastwood produced a tribute CD earlier this month, featuring 18 performances of his songs, by artists ranging from Queen Latifah to Jamie Cullum.

Buy the CD here

Netflix has “Midnight In The Garden of Good & Evil” in their “Watch Instantly” section this month, meaning you can watch it right in your browser if you have a Netflix account. The film has more than a fleeting connection to Mr. Mercer.

And of course, there will be a Johnny Mercer Cover Story this week to present some of the best covers of his work. Got a suggestion? Pop it into the comments!

The fine folks at Acousticlaw Records have put together a cover competition where everybody wins: even though there’ll end up a “favorite”, the covers are available for listeners to download for free!

Download, listen and vote for your favorite cover of Frank Sinatra’s “Witchcraft”.

This was pretty cool (and it’s a great album)!

Featuring:

1	Wild Horses The Flying Burrito Brothers Q’s Ultimate Songwriters Orig. Flying Burrito Brothers/Rolling Stones	2	Hot Burrito #1 (I’m Your Toy) DeVotchKa Sweetheart Orig. Flying Burrito Brothers	3	Sleepless Nights Elvis Costello Kojak Variety Orig. Gram Parsons
4	Ooh Las Vegas (With Johnny Irlon) Sarah Lee Guthrie & Chris Wilson The Rockwiz Duets, Vol. 2 Orig. Gram Parsons	5	One Hundred Years From Now Wilco Return Of The Grievous Angel: A Tribute to Gram Parsons Orig. Gram Parsons	6	Still Feeling Blue Kasey Chambers Barricades And Brickwalls Orig. Gram Parsons
7	I Just Can’t Take It Anymore The Lemonheads Varshons Orig. Gram Parsons	8	Brass Buttons Denison Witmer Recovered Orig. Gram Parsons	9	To Love Somebody Flying Burrito Brothers Farther Along- The Best Of The Flying Burrito Brothers Orig. Bee Gees

46 minutes |

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Listener Nick from Texas put this together.

The rules:
Each of the pictures in the collage is directly related to a song title. The collage represents five songs all found on the same album. The winner must identify all the songs, the album name and the artist.

Post your answers in the comments!

Featuring:

1	Jessie’s Girl Matt The Electrician Made For Working Orig. Rick Springfield	2	You Shook Me All Night Long Mike Errico Bite Size Orig. AC/DC	3	Summer In The City Black Casino And The Ghost Free download Orig. Lovin Spoonful
4	Tomorrow Wendy Rexway County 10 Orig. Concrete Blonde	5	When The Going Gets Tough The Tough Get Going Jessica Biel Easy Virtue – Music From The Film Orig. Billy Ocean	6	Come On Up To The House Sarah Jarosz Song Up In Her Head Orig. Tom Waits

45 minutes |

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I’ve featured a couple of Ray’s other tracks on the show and blog before, and his songs always come with a terrific video. So, at some point, the song will be on the show, but I think it’s even better when you watch the Osmonds (almost) sing along:

Featuring:

1	Do Wah Diddy Diddy The Exciters Tell Him – The Best of the Exciters Popularized by Manfred Mann	2	Then He Kissed Me Asobi Seksu Stay Awake (7″ single) Orig. The Crystals	3	Da Doo Ron Ron Dave Edmunds Subtle As A Flying Mallet Orig. The Crystals
4	Be My Baby Travis Driftwood (CD Single) Orig. The Ronettes	5	Chapel Of Love Laverne & Shirley Laverne & Shirley Sing Orig. The Crystals	6	If I Was A Boy Joe Echo Website Orig. Beyonce
7	Crazy In Love The Magic Numbers Triple J: Like A Version 3 Orig. Beyonce	8	Halo Florence and the Machine Live Lounge Orig. Beyonce	9	Survivor Knockout Punk Goes Pop Orig. Destiny’s Child
10	Say My Name/Stop in the Name of Love The Lounge-O-Leers Wow It’s…The Lounge-O-Leers Two [Explicit] Orig. Destiny’s Child

48 minutes | This episode is part of the Coverville: Bonus Tracks feed. To subscribe to the Coverville Bonus Tracks feed, visit The Coverville Citizen Page

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