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An infinite number of tracks can each be THE greatest record ever made, as long as they take turns.
Earlier this year, with an eye toward mining the vast resource of material prepared for my ongoing concept The Greatest Record Ever Made!, we started doing a weekly GREM! feature on This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio with Dana & Carl.
Part of the motivation here was, frankly, an effort to cut a tiny little corner in writing my weekly 10 Songs column. See, laziness is the mother of invention. Deciding that one 10 Songs entry each week could be a link to a previously-written Greatest Record Ever Made! piece meant that I only hadda write about nine songs. FREEDOM!
But a weekly feature also enhances the show itself. Prior to this, it had been a very long time since we had any specific weekly feature on TIRnRR. There used to be a weekly Forgotten Original!, there was a weekly Mystery 45! (where Dana grabbed a single from his collection and played it without previewing it), there was a very brief flirtation with Unsafe At Any Speed! (playing a record back at something other than its intended rpm), and I think we even may have had a weekly GREM! feature at some point. Maybe not. Maybe.
But these were all many years ago. The tentative beginning of our current weekly GREM! feature was in February, when we played Dusty Springfield's "I Only Want To Be With You" on our February 6th show, and then followed with "Thank You, Girl" by the Beatles the next week. Then, in typical fashion, I completely forgot about the idea for a few weeks.
Pretty quick work, right?
GREM! resumed as a weekly thingie at the end of March, and continued thereafter. I think its only week off since then was for this year's edition of Dana's Funky Soul, and it will presumably skip our year-end countdown show. It may be a part of our Christmas show; we'll decide that later.
Anyway, here's a list of all of 'em so far. I think the only one we repeated was "That Thing You Do!" by teen sensations the Wonders. Please be aware that I am not under oath. Some of the pieces will eventually appear in my long-threatened book The Greatest Record Ever Made! (Volume 1), and some will not.
But we played them all on the radio. It's our own ongoing contribution to the infinite.
This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio with Dana & Carl airs Sunday nights from 9 to Midnight Eastern, on the air in Syracuse at SPARK! WSPJ 103.3 and 93.7 FM, on the web at http://sparksyracuse.org/, and via the TuneIn Radio and Radio Garden apps as Westcott Radio
THE GREATEST RECORD EVER MADE! The Weekly TIRnRR Featured Songs
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