Alphabet Soup
My name is James Sullivan. I’ve loved listening to music on the radio since the 1950s. If I heard something I liked I went out and bought 45s and albums to play on a record player. Since then, I’ve gone from vinyl to cassettes to CDs to downloading. Over that time I’ve been building a library of my favorite songs.
I worked as a radio DJ in the 1990s and I liked it a lot. Recently, with lots of retirement time on my hands, I thought I’d like to be a DJ again. Using modern “home studio” recording technology I have created a music show that I want to offer to low power FM radio stations – for free.
My show, featuring my library of favorite songs, is –
Alphabet Soup – cooking up an A to Z mixed bag of songs from artists like Joan Armatrading to ZZ Top, and from genres like Americana to Zydeco. Mostly songs from the 1960s – 1990s with some earlier and later ones mixed in. Some old memories and some new memories in the making.
Alphabet Soup is a 57-59 minute radio show ( leaving room for localization inserts – station ID, PSAs, underwriters, etc. ) that features 10-15 songs in 3 or 4 song sets with song title/artist info announced between sets. The shows are non-date/time specific and non-location specific. The shows contain no ads.
Alphabet Soup is available to any non-commercial low power FM station to download for free. Check out the show playlists below, have a listen, and if you feel it will fit into your programming format and appeal to your listeners, download it.
Follow the link posted after each playlist to download that show.
Please let me know if you have downloaded a show. Send me the number of the show and the station where it will be played and I will add you as an affiliated station .
Thank you.
Contact info – asoup413@gmail.com
Come back again. New shows will be added regularly.
Show #1 ( created June 1, 2024 )
If women ruled the World – Joan Armatrading
Please send me someone to love – Better Days
I’m so glad – Cream
Sweetheart like you – Bob Dylan
Talk it over – Grayson Hugh
Try – Janis Joplin
Good morning Aztlan – Los Lobos
A little bit of bad – NRBQ
Satisfaction – Otis Redding
You’ve got it – Simply Red
I feel so good – Richard Thompson
Beautiful day – U2
Little red rooster – Howlin’ Wolf
Rough boy – ZZ Top
Show #2 (created June 10, 2024 )
Wake up – Arcade Fire
What’s so funny about Peace, Love and Understanding – Elvis Costello
Heavy fuel – Dire Straits
Leopard skin pill-box hat – Bob Dylan
Comfortably numb – David Gilmour
Red house – Jimi Hendrix
Let it roll – Little Feat
I want it all – Queen
Sweet jane – Lou Reed
Jingo – Santana
Because the night – Patti Smith
Everyday people – Sly & The Family Stone
Show #3 ( created June 25, 2024 )
Gimme some of that – Edie Brickell w/ Barry White
Someone to love – Charles Brown and Bonnie Raitt
Falling Slowly – Glenn Hansard and Marketa Irglova
Stay high – Brittany Howard
I’d rather go blind – Etta James
Call me a fool – Valerie June w/ Carla Thomas
Stand by me – Ben E. King
Is this love? – Bob Marley
No other way – Paolo Nutini
Her mystery – Johnathan Richman
Your love is king – Sade
Found love – Boz Scaggs
Across my heart – John Trudell
Get off work – Tom Waits
Lovely day – Bill Withers
