The Beatles
That’s a little from the title song for a new CD of Beatles classics from “Music for Little People.” October is full of Beatles anniversaries, like the release of “Abbey Road,” in 1969.
Teen Read Week
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Teen-Read-Week-1.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 10/16/2000 Teen Read Week Transcript It’s Teen Read Week, and one book that I’d urge you to somehow get into the hands of the teenagers in your life is The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Teens by Sean Covey. He’s the son of Stephen […]
Hunter’s Moon
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Hunters-Moon.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 10/10/2000 Hunter’s Moon Transcript The full moon is on its way this week, and if you’re looking for some music that catches the moon mood, you might try “moonfinder” by the Dreamsisters, Molly Conole and Nancy Waldman, two Orlando, Florida, based, award-winning singers and […]
James Whitcomb Riley
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/James-Whitcomb-Riley.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 10/9/2000 James Whitcomb Riley Transcript Just recently, Indiana celebrated the birthday of James Whitcomb Riley, the famed Jossier writer, who was born in a log cabin in Geenfield, Indiana, on October 7th, 1849, and who became, by the time of his death in 1916, […]
Mickey Mouse Club Premiers
The Mickey Mouse Club marched into the consciousness of American children on October 3rd, 1955, when it first appeared on national television, and millions of middle schoolers, myself included, tuned in.
Louise Fitzhugh
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Louise-Fitzhugh.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 10/2/2000 Louise Fitzhugh Transcript It’s the birthday this week of Louise Fitzhugh, the author of one of the breakthrough books for children of the 1960s, Harriet the Spy. Harriet Welsch is an eleven-year-old budding writer, who makes her rounds every day after school, eavesdropping on […]
“No!” Music Review
That’s my one-and-a-half-year-old grandson with his daily chorus of “no’s” — one of his favorite words these days. It’s the title song for the new family music CD from the alternative rock group, They Might Be Giants.
The Magic Flute
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/The-Magic-Flute.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 9/29/2000 The Magic Flute Transcript I remember on Saturday afternoons, in my old neighborhood on the west side of Chicago, the windows would be open, weather permitting, and from them poured the Metropolitan Opera. It was one way this mixed, ethnic neighborhood regularly showed […]
Sloppy Peter and His Shocking Manners
You’re hearing the English group The Tiger Lillies with part of Fidgety Phil, from their Junk Opera that they based on Heinrich Hoffmann’s hilariously awful Struwwelpeter or Shock-headed Peter.
Leilani Clarke
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Leilani-Clarke.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 9/20/2000 Leilani Clarke Transcript Earlier this year, Garrison Keillor’s Prairie Home Companion radio program held a national contest for Talent from Towns Under Two Thousand. The winner of the competition was 12-year old Leilani Clarke from Welbourne, Florida, an easy morning’s drive through the […]