I read portions from both the MillionMomMarch
and moms4guns@yahoo and covered
violence and children.
Mother's Day was also covered from the angles of: memories, "mothering"
as parents of parents, as parents of special-needs children, losing parents
and losing children. North Star Records offered two copies of Mother
Songs Celebrating Mothers & Motherhood cd's to anyone who would
call the show to recommend a great mom to receive them.
1. The Two Horizons - Jay Ansill
Origami - Flying Fish
Thought I'd mention I usually use this theme
to begin. Instrumental
2. Million - Cali Rose
Gets Goofy - soup-to-nuts@earthlink.net
home.earthlink.net/~soup-to-nuts/indexA.html
"There are a million Hallmark cards"
3. Mama's Prayers - Susan Aglukark
Artic Rose - www.chatsubo.com/aglukark/tml
"my daughter's at the age when she just won't
agree"
4. Mama I Miss You Tonight - Claudia Schmidt, Sally
Rogers
Closing the Distance - salrog@neca.com
www.sallyrogers.com/sallyandfriends.htm
Wishing to be able to talk with your mom
5. Grandma's Song - Cathy Ryan (along with Robin Spielberg,
Susan McKeown)
Mother - North info@northstarmusic.com
Cathy's mother lead her to singing. She died
of Alzheimers.
6. Em's Song - Sirens
Smilin' -
www.borealisrecords.com
Another song about losing a grandparent to
Alxheimers.
7. Holland - David Roth
Holland - RothDM@Aol.Com
www.folkera.com/windriver
About planning a trip to Italy and ending up Holland,
a metaphor for birthing a special needs child.
8. Lullabies - Cosy Sheridan
Quetly Led - cozoid@aol.com
"My mother's hands put four young heads to
sleep night after night"
9. The Strong in Spirit - Hugh Blumenfeld
The Strong in Spirit - 1 800
PRIMECD
h2jukebox@earthlink.net
www.hughblumenfeld.com/
The resulting song when Hugh's mother
asked that he write her a song when they both knew she was dying.
10. Hero Unsung - Helen Lewis Moore
Whenever the Music Plays -iasmusic@home.com
"From her march to follow the
call"
11. Sound effects of pistol. Sound effects of police radio.
Against the above effects, I read the major goals of the million mom march from their website posting. I read responces from moms4guns. The latter saying that when it comes to abortion some march to kill, and now they march against killing. Some saying that only criminals will have guns if they are outlawed.
12. Johnny Got A Gun - Tom Paxton
Wearing the Time - Sugar Hill
www.flemtam.com/tp.html
Statistics given on NPR today say that
someone dies every 18 minutes from a gunshot. During my show then,
six people were lost.
13. Little Boy's Pockets - Pat Godwin
Excess in Moderation -
Blood Records
First gum and yo yos, then a semi-automatic.
14. Kids with Guns - Deborah Holland
The Book of Survival -
www.gadflyrecords.com
www.deborahholland.net
"how do you know which side you
should be on"
15. Don't Get Killed - Andy Breckman
Don't Get Killed
- www.gadflyrecords.com/products/902.htm
Sending his wife for milk in a
dangerous neighborhood a husband gives some advice
16. Sam - Bridget Ball
Bricks and Windows - www.wizvax.net/twiningt/
"some neighborhood kid just got
caught in the crossfire"
17. Every Mothers Son - Peter Mulvey
Deep Blue - Eastern Front
Records
info@easternfront.com
http://www.petermulvey.com/
18. Blame the Gun - Stu Kabak - self
19. Dont' Forget the Guns - Cheryl Wheeler
Driving Home - www.cherylwheeler.com/
20. Mozote - Jolie Christine Rickman
Sing It Down - jcrickman@mailbox.syr.edu
Remembering mothers who have tragically
watched their children die.
21. Calling on Love - Paul Kamm, Eleanore MacDonald
Calling on Love - songs.com/kammac
kammmac@netshel.net
"children sleeping tight...not playing
under skies where bombs will fall"
22. Buiochas - Mother
"Thanks" (buiochas") to North
Star Records
Winners of the "Mom" award cd's
from North Star are Peg Westfall, the sister of a listener who is mother
to two girls in Virginia, one a special needs child. The second winner
was the 85 year old mother of a listener who lost her husband last year
and moved up from Delaware to the area to be near her daughter and her
husband.
23. Biological Time Bomb - (C.Lavin) Judith Zweiman
Big League Babe - PRIME
CD
www.sonicunderground.com/judith/jw.htm
24. No Baby - Ilene Weiss
Outside and Curious - Gadfly Records
888 9Ga Dfly
clamheart@aol.com
www.ileneweiss.com/
25. Miracle of Birth - Debbie Diedrich
Going the Distance -
diedrich@efn.org
www.efn.org/%7Egordon_k/DebbieDiedrich.html
26. Daughter's of Feminists - Nancy White
Momnipotent -
multinan@interlog.com
rlhess.home.mindspring.com/music/nw__000.htm
27. Poem - The Nields
If You Lived Here You'd Be
Home Now - www.nields.com/
28. Orange Cocoa Cake - (Berryman) C. Fink & M.
Marxer
Parent's Home Companion
- www.cathymarcy.com/
29. I'll Love You Forever - P. Herdman
Forever and Always - rlhess.home.mindspring.com/music/ph__000.htm
30. For a Long Time To Come - Carla Sciaky
Awakening - Green Linnet
glr@greenlinnet.com
www.greenlinnet.com/catalog/albums/2115.htm
31. If It Were Up to Me - Cheryl Wheeler
Sylvia Hotel - Philo www.cherylwheeler.com/
32. Only Four - Laurie McClain
Child Behind My Eyes
-
Kindred Voices Music
www.libfind.unl.edu/DailyNeb.arch/Fall98/Nov/112498/stories/112498/mcclain.html
33. Flower of Northumberland - Kat Eggleston
Outside Eden - Waterbug
kat@eterna.net
www.waterbug.com/eggleston.html
Selfishly played to end the show,
in honor of my mom
who gave birth to me in
Newcastle Upon Thyme, Northumberland, England.