Hello, all. Just returning to Chi from Bob Franke's memorial. Whew. Deep and warm and powerful. The playlist numbering is off due to my clerical error. Sorry. Hope you will all find a way to play/listen to your favorite Bob Franke song. Feeling the loss and feeling your love. Thanks to volunteer Karen Rigotti for compiling this report. Cheers. MRB

Playlist: WFMT's The Midnight Special with Marilyn Rea Beyer
4.4.2026
Theme: Dr. Martin Luther King's 1968 assassination. Also, Clive Davis's 94th Birthday, and a salute to the late poet/activist Maya Angelou born on this day in 1928.
Hour 1

 
1.  Lead Belly: The Midnight Special THEME (excerpt 1) | Midnight Special | RCA Victor LPV-505
 
2.  John Roberts: Sea Fever (J. Masefield/A. Taylor) | Sea Fever: Songs of Ships and the Sea | Golden Hind Music GHM-108 CD
 
3.  Jim's Big Ego: The Jumblies (Lear) | Don't Get Smart | Eastern Front EFRCD-116
 
4.  Heidi Swedberg & the Sukey Jump Band: The Owl and the Pussycat (Edward Lear poem) | My Cup of Tea | danielward.net [2013]
 
5.  Ruthie Foster: Phenomenal Woman | The Phenomenal Ruthie Foster | Blue Corn BCM 0602
 
6.  Capathia Jenkins & Louis Rosen: For the Caged Bird Sings (Angelou/Rosen) |  Phenomenal Woman: The Maya Angelou Songs and Songs Without Words | Di-Tone DT-240 8 88295 80769 2
 
7.  Few of A Kind: Alone (Angelou/Ridenour) | Few of a Kind | Adhyâropa Records
1.23.2026 release
 
8.  Maya Angelou: Still I Rise (spoken w/accompaniment) | The Civil War - The Complete Work | Atlantic Theatre 83091-2
 
9.  Zoe Lewis: Solitude (Milne/Lewis) | Small is Tremendous | Dog Called Dog 21681 03862
 
10. Einstein's Little Homunculus: Disobedience (Milne/ELH) | Don't Ask | Accordion School Music AS-0100
 
11. Linda McRae: Four & Twenty Blackbirds | Rough Edges & Ragged Hearts | 42 RPM 42 RPM-CD-4201
 
12. Jeremy Facknitz: Watch This Bird Fly | From Those Sweet Ashes | jeremyfacknitz.com
 
13. Mary Chapin Carpenter: Why Walk When You Can Fly | Stones in the Road | Columbia CK 64327
 
14. Rhiannon Giddens: We Could Fly | Freedom Highway | Nonesuch 558805-2
 
15. The Last Word Quintet: The Book and the Rose | Falling to Earth | Origin 82889
 
16. Owen Walsh: The Midnight Special (Trad.) | The Midnight Special exclusive | single
1.31.2024
Hour 2

     
17. Six13: The Red Sea Shanty (Trad., Six13, Sherwood Schwartz, George Wyle)              Six13 | seasonal single | Six13.com [2021]
18.Tim O'Brien: Moses (trad., arr. O'Brien) | Cornbread Nation | Sugar Hill SUG-CD-4005
19John Sebastian: I Had a Dream | Woodstock (soundtrack) | Cotillion SD 3-500
 
1.  Milo Binder: I Had an American Dream| single | Heyday Again single
 
2.  Peter Mayer: Heroes | Heroes | (single) | petermayer2.bandcamp.com
2.2.2026
 
3.  Phil Ochs: Crucifixion | Farewells and Fantasies, Disc 3 | Elektra Traditions Rhino R2 73518
 
4.  Bob Franke w/Buffie Groves, Julie Dougherty: Walkin' in the Wilderness | Desert Questions | Telephone Pole 786851117929 |
 
5.  Pops Staples & Orig. Blind Boys of Alabama:  This May Be the Last Time (trad.)  | Jesus Rocked the Juke Box | Craft Records CR00003 Disc 1
 
6.  Yvonne Elliman, Michael Jason, Chorus: "Could We Start Again, Please? | Jesus Christ Superstar Orig. Broadway Cast | Decca DL7-1503
 
7.  The Harlem Spiritual Ensemble: The Angel Rolled the Stone Away | Free at Last | Arcadia ARC 1995-2
 
8.  Sara Thomsen ft. Paula Pedersen: Where Did Jesus Go? | Song Like a Seed | Sara Thomsen 7 89577 78162
 
9.  Amelia White: Something New Comes | Love I Swore | Tigers Records [2024]
 
10. Carrie Newcomer: Like Molly Brown | | Until Now | Available Light Records ALR06
 
11. Steve Goodman w/David Amram and Vin Scelsa: Rudolph The Red-Nosed (Easter) Reindeer | The Easter Tapes | Red Pajamas RPJ-009CD
Hour 3


 
1.  Janis Joplin: Me and Bobby McGee (Kristofferson) | Pearl - Legacy Edition, Disc 1 | Columbia C2K 90282 1 of 2
 
2.  Bob Dylan: Like a Rolling Stone | The Best of Bob Dylan | Columbia 82876 75013 2
 
3.  Laura Nyro: Stoned Soul Picnic | Eli and the Thirteenth Confession | Columbia/Legacy CK 85763
 
4.  Donovan: Sunshine Superman (extended version) | Try for the Sun: The Journey of Donovan | Epic / Legacy none
 
5.  Eric Andersen w/Joni Mitchell: Blue River | Blue River | Columbia Legacy/CK 65696
 
6.  Simon & Garfunkel: Bridge Over Troubled Water (Paul Simon) | Bridge Over Troubled Water | Columbia / Legacy 88697 82724 2
 
7.  *** Sky Smeed: Bumper Sticker | Live from Rock House | skysmeed.com 2026
 
8.  Bill Morrissey: Car and Driver | Standing Eight | Philo CD PH 1123
 
9.  The Grateful Dead: Friend of the Devil (Garcia/Dawson/Hunter) | Best of the Grateful Dead, Disc 1 | Rhino 08122 7955984
 
10. James Lee Stanley: We're Not Alone | Without Susie | Beachwood 2019
 
11. Emma's Revolution: We Are One | One | emmasrevolution.com [2001]
 
12. Anne Harris: Lift Every Voice & Sing (Johnson/Johnson) | Roots | Rugged Road Records 8 88295 82053 0
 
13. Laura Love: I Still Believe (Unplugged) | She Loved Red | Laura Love 88295 68276
 
14. Andrew Beyer: The Midnight Special - cigar box slide | Midnight Special Collection | Midnight Special Collection AABeyer/MS 004

Marilyn Rea Beyer
Host, The Midnight Special and Folkstage
WFMT
98.7FM
5400 N. St. Louis Ave. Chicago, IL 60625 (617) 513-5569
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