Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Hope you enjoyed our holiday on Broadway on the latest RadioLand! It will air again this Saturday at 9a on www.wvru.org 89.9fm Join us!

Holiday on Broadway is our feature this week. Many of the tunes come from the 2011 Carols for a cure CD. Sales of this CD as well as other products help fund "Broadway Cares/Equity Fights Aids".


You can find out more at


http://www.broadwaycares.org/


Hohoho!

Wednesday, November 9, 2011

In the next RadioLand we've got music about New York that has been featured in the films of Woody Allen - Wed 6pm, Sat 9am 89.9fm www.wvru.org

Woody Allen and New York.  Until recently, Allen would shoot almost exclusively in the city and his images of the Big Apple paired with some of the greatest jazz, classical and pop music of all time make for some of the most striking moments in cinema history.  We'll begin with Rhapsody in Blue from the film "Manhattan".  I would suggest that there has rarely been a more fitting and stirring combination of image and sound on screen than the opening and closing moments from "Manhattan".

Featured soundtracks from other films:
Radio Days
Manhattan Murder Mystery
Bullets over Broadway
The Purple Rose of Cairo
Celebrity
The Curse of the Jade Scorpion


Wednesday, November 2, 2011

RadioLand update: We're heading to the city that never sleeps for a Big Apple Bonanza on the next RadioLand. NYC - here we come! Wednesday at 6pm, Saturday at 9am - 89.9fm in Virginia and www.wvru.org worldwide!

We've got a lot of great tunes for this week's RadioLand.

First up, one of my all time favorites, Mel Torme - The Velvet Fog - brings "Songs of New York" including his renditions of "Autumn in New York" and "Let me off uptown". 

Harry Connick Jr. is featured with tunes from the 1989 classic soundtrack from "When Harry Met Sally".

We round things out with Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennett's duet rendition of "New York, New York".

Albums and Artists featured:

http://www.amazon.com/Ultra-Lounge-Big-Apple-Martini/dp/B002DDBG7S

http://www.ultralounge.com/

http://www.meltorme.com/

http://www.sinatra.com/

http://www.harryconnickjr.com/us/home