*Playlist (20) THE FOLK REVIVAL - WICN Worcester Public Radio 8.6.2026 (946)*

Playlist: The Folk Revival on WICN -Worcester, MA  Host: Nick Noble



*LONG SONGS - What is the fewest number of songs that can be played on a
three-hour broadcast (keeping to the standard of fifty minutes of music
each hour and, and with the traditional opening/closing songs and all
underwriting spots played)? Well, that would require long songs: "Alice's
Restaurant", "California Joe", "American Pie", and more. So this Thursday
we discovered the answer to the question: How few? The answer is 20
(although there could have been fewer if I'd chosen to play Jethro Tull's "Thick as a Brick" (which I did not).*



*Artist / Song / Composer / Release*

Limeliters / There's a Meeting Here Tonight / traditional-Lou Gottlieb arr. / The Limeliters: 36 All-Time Greatest Hits

Arlo Guthrie / Alice's Restaurant (Massacree) / Arlo Guthrie / Alice's Restaurant

Mary McCaslin / California Joe / Jack Crawford-Traditional-Mary McCaslin arr. / Better Late Than Never

Mark Brine / Skinny Dippin' Blues / Mark Brine / I Deliver

Joe Kidd & Sheila Burke / Soldiers in the Army of Mercy and Peace / Joe
Kidd & Sheila Burke / Everybody Has a Purpose

Joe Jencks / Hands / Phil Ochs / Poets, Philosophers, Workers & Wanderers

Arlo Guthrie / Alice's Restaurant (The Massacree Revisted) / Arlo Guthrie / Alice's Restaurant (The Massacree Revisited)

Don McLean / American Pie / Don McLean / American Pie

Judy Collins / Like a Rolling Stone / Bob Dylan / Judy Sings Dylan - Just Like a Woman

Highwaymen / The Band Played Waltzing Matilda / Traditional-Eric Bogle-Dave
Fisher arr. / When the Village Was Green
Joe Jencks / Christmas in Mansfield / Joe Jencks / Rise As

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*Nick Noble*
THE FOLK REVIVAL
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*                                                                     -- Louis Armstrong*

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