#SourceOfTheDance

Jonathan Dresnerjondresner@spore.social
2026-02-16

#SourceOfTheDance

Going out on Michael Adcock, "Impeachment Polka"

#StaySafe and #BlessedBe!

Jonathan Dresnerjondresner@spore.social
2026-02-16

#SourceOfTheDance

Rich Little, "The Big Game"
David Frye, "Dick Nixon's Solid Gold"

Tom Paxton, "The Ballad of Spiro Agnew"
"It is creeping time now..."

Arlo Guthrie, "Presidential Rag" [Shockingly almost nothing in this song is dated]
"It sorta got past the point of being funny..."
"If you didn't know about that one, tell me what else don't you know?"

Bob Newhart, "Abe Lincoln Versus Madison Avenue"

Jonathan Dresnerjondresner@spore.social
2026-02-16

#SourceOfTheDance

By request, from last week...
Neil Sedaka, "Breaking Up Is Hard to Do"

The Short Sisters, "Blizzard of Lies"
Pete Seeger, "The Ross Perot Guide to Answering Embarassing Questions"

Joe Jencks two-play: "I Lie" and "It's Not For Sale"

Greenland Defense Front, "The Hungry Giant" [one of the cutest threatening videos I've seen in a while, too]

Bruce Springsteen, "Streets of Minneapolis [Irish Folk Version]"

From You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, "My Blanket and Me"

Jonathan Dresnerjondresner@spore.social
2026-02-16

#SourceOfTheDance

"I'll sing of Ronald Reagan, and all the good he's done...[song ends]" - Tom Paxton

social.phoenixradio1208.com/@w

Jonathan Dresnerjondresner@spore.social
2026-02-15

#ChildsPlayRadio

Sue Trainor, "Turn, Flip, and Slide"

Going out on the Mannheim Steamroller version of "The Olympics"

Tomorrow's #SourceOfTheDance will be political and topical songs on some well-deserved targets...

[apologies if any of the artists or titles are misspelled: technicals killed the track listing feature on the website, so I'm going phonetically]

Jonathan Dresnerjondresner@spore.social
2026-02-09

#SourceOfTheDance

From Guys and Dolls, the amazing Vivian Blaine, "Adelaide's Lament" [One of the only Broadway songs to reference a footnote]

Dolly Parton, "Traveling Man"

Classic...
Linda Ronstadt, "You're No Good"

My request...
Joan Baez and friends, "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right"
"...you just kinda wasted my precious time..."

Going out on Jonathan And Darlene Edwards, "April In Paris"

#StaySafe and #BlessedBe!

Jonathan Dresnerjondresner@spore.social
2026-02-09

#SourceOfTheDance

By request, the perfect follow-up...
The Chicks, "Goodbye, Earl"
"...a missing person who nobody missed at all..."

Dave Stewart and Barbara Gaskin, "It's My Party" [Electronica Remix]

By request...
Steely Dan, "Haitian Divorce"

The Jordanaires, "Break My Mind"

Billy Ray Cyrus, "Achy Breaky Heart"

Spike Jones and his City Slickers, "He Broke My Heart in Three Places"

Jonathan Dresnerjondresner@spore.social
2026-02-09

#SourceOfTheDance

Rude Girls, "I Can See Your Aura (And It's Ugly)"

From I Do, I Do, Robert Preston and Mary Martin, "Nobody's Perfect"

John Denver, if you can believe it, "You Done Stomped On My Heart"

Ella Fitzgerald, "Goody Goody"

By request...
Spike Jones and his City Slickers, "None But the Lonely Heart (A Soaperetta)"

John McCutcheon, "The Red Corvette"
"I read in suspicious amusement what seemed like a wild stroke of luck..."

Jonathan Dresnerjondresner@spore.social
2026-02-09

#SourceOfTheDance

Jim Croce, "One Less Set of Footsteps"
Cliff Richard, "Please Don't Fall In Love"

J. Geils Band, "Love Stinks"
Brute Force, "Tapeworm of Love"

By request...
Crash Test Dummies, "I Think I'll Disappear Now"
Gordon Lightfoot, "(That's What You Get) For Lovin' Me"

Christine Lavin, "Regretting What I Said (A Musical Apology)"

Carrie Underwood, "Before He Cheats"

An oldie satirizing the older-ies...
Tom Lehrer, "She's My Girl"
"The girl I gave up Lent for..."

Jonathan Dresnerjondresner@spore.social
2026-02-09

#SourceOfTheDance

The Chenille Sisters, "The Break-Up"
"Was it ever love dear? Was it even close?"

Some of my suggestions...
Travelling Wilburys, "Seven Deadly Sins" and "Where Were You Last Night?"

By request...
Ten Cc, "I'm Not In Love"

True classic...
Richard Shindell, "Are You Happy Now?"
"I was amazed to think that you would take the candy with you too"

Weird Al Yankovic, "You Don't Love Me Anymore"

Jonathan Dresnerjondresner@spore.social
2026-02-08

#ChildsPlayRadio

The Kingston Trio, "Run, Molly, Run"
Bob and Louise de Cormier "Race You Down the Mountain"
Laurie Berkner, "I'm Gonna Catch You"

Rick Goldin, "The Stand Up Sit Down Song"

1910 Fruitgum Company, "Simon Says"

One of my favorite songs ever:
William Pint and Felicia Dale, "Harbo and Samuelson"

"They were not only brave, but by God they could row!"

Going out on Crook and Maphis, "Dueling Banjos"

Tomorrow's #SourceOfTheDance will be the anti-Valentine's Day 2-hour Special!

Jonathan Dresnerjondresner@spore.social
2026-02-02

#SourceOfTheDance

Rod MacDonald, "The Well"

Songs from Minnesota! Part 2:
Abolish ICE, "Resistance Bells"

Jaiya, "Firedance"

Peter, Paul, and Mary, "If I Had a Hammer"

Songs from Minnesota! Part 3:
Billy Bragg, "City of Heroes"

The Kingdom Choir, "Something Inside So Strong"

Emerald Rose, "Freya, Shakti"

Going out on Emerald Rose, "Four Doors to Elfland"

#StaySafe and #BlessedBe !

Jonathan Dresnerjondresner@spore.social
2026-02-02

#SourceOfTheDance

Songs from Minnesota! Part 1:
Bruce Springsteen, "The Streets of Minneapolis"

Sharon Knight and T. Thorn Coyle, "Hail Brigid"
Anne Hills, Cindy Mangsen, Priscilla Herdman, "Candlemas Eve"
Woody reading Hecate Demeter's "Prayer For Imbolc"

Alive, "Willing"

From the Groundhog Day musical cast album, "There Will Be Sun"

Woody reading T. Thorn Coyle's "Prayer to Brigid"

Lisa Thiel, "Imbolc"

Jonathan Dresnerjondresner@spore.social
2026-02-01

#ChildsPlayRadio

Story time!
Megan Hicks, "Groundhoglocks and the Three Bears"

Marcy Marxer and Cathy Fink (and friend), "The Jazzy Three Bears"

Gordon Bok, Ed Trickett, Ann Mayo Muir, "Waltzing With Bears"

Tom Glazer, "How Clouds are Formed" and "Warm Fronts, Cold Fronts"

Going out on Louis Zong, "clouds and their shadows"

Tomorrow's #SourceofTheDance will be about Bridgid! #PaganStreaming!

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