3D RadioActivity

Uncle Marty and The Seanimal host The Award Winning 3D RadioActivity. We have over 100 feet of vinyl in the collection, and well over 100,000 song files on the hard drive. Each week, a different topic is chosen, sometimes seasonal, and songs are played that cover the idea. We present you with interesting bits of information about each song or the artist, adding the extra dimension for your list…ening enjoyment. All forms of music, from Acoustic to Zydeco. Just about anything between 20 Hz and 20 kHz.

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The 2011 SFSU BECA Award in Recognition for The Best Original Radio Program.
2012 BEA/NAB Award in the Specialty Program category.

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3D Radio Goes to The Movies

This time on The 3D RadioActivity we are playing songs from motion pictures.  Not necessarily academy award winners, you can bet the ranch that there are some grammys and other tunes of distinction, however that does not diminish the contributions of these pieces of music to the cinematic effort put forth on the silver screen.   Turn it up, we’re going to raise our voices again, as 3D Radio goes to the movies with scores from the 1950′s through the 90′s.

3D Radio Goes to The Movies

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Tell your friends and tune in next week for our Memorial Day tribute to those who are playing onstage in the great beyond.

If you have any ideas for our next shows please be sure to let me know. It’s easy to send an email by clicking on my name below or message me on Facebook, where you will find links to all the previous podcasts along with the graphics in the Photo section.

Uncle Marty

“It’s not true I had nothing on, I had the radio on.”

— Marilyn Monroe

One 3D RadioMother of a Program

I’m Uncle Marty, this is The Award Winning 3D RadioActivity, and on this episode we are being award winning little helpers by playing melodies for Mom.   Mother’s Day in the United States is an annual holiday celebrated on the second Sunday in May. It recognizes mothers, motherhood and maternal bonds in general, as well the positive contributions that they make to society. The holiday has been heavily commercialized by advertisers and retailers.  Traditions on this day include churchgoing, the distribution of carnations, family dinners and music!   Although many celebrations world-wide have quite different origins, most have now been influenced by the more recent American idea established by Anna Jarvis, who celebrated it for the first time in 1908, then campaigned to make it an official holiday. Previous attempts at establishing it in the United States sought to promote peace by means of honoring mothers who had lost or were at risk of losing their sons to war.

When Jarvis trademarked the phrases “second Sunday in May” and “Mother’s Day”, In 1912, and created the Mother’s Day International Association, she specifically noted that “Mother’s” should “be a singular possessive, for each family to honor their mother, not a plural possessive commemorating all mothers in the world.”  This is also the spelling used by U.S. President Woodrow Wilson in the law making official the holiday in the United States, and by various U.S. presidents in their proclamations concerning the occasion.  We are celebrating Mother’s Day here with some melodies about and by daughters and every son of Mothers.

One 3D RadioMother of a Program

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If you have any ideas for our next shows please be sure to let me know. We are going to the movies next time and will spend Memorial Day listening to musicians who are no longer playing live gigs for us.   Got a few songs to link together for a show theme?  It’s easy to send an email by clicking on my name below or message me on Facebook, where you will find links to all the previous podcasts along with the graphics in the “Photo” section.

Uncle Marty

“It’s not true I had nothing on, I had the radio on.”

— Marilyn Monroe

Cinco De Mayo on The 3D RadioActivity

I’m Uncle Marty, this is The Award Winning 3D RadioActivity, and in honor of Cinco De Mayo, on this episode we are visiting south of the border, so get some chips, salsa, guacamole and maybe even a sombrero as we play some favorite fiesta cantatas and free verses to keep the good time rolling with more music for dancing, with a little bit of Afro-Cuban, Blues, Folk, Jazz, Latin, Mambo, Pop, Rock, Salsa, and Soul, with a dose of Southern Rock for good measure.

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If you have any ideas for our next shows please be sure to let me know. It’s easy to send an email by clicking on my name below or message me on Facebook, where you will find links to all the previous podcasts along with the graphics in the
“Photo” section.

Uncle Marty

“It’s not true I had nothing on, I had the radio on.”

— Marilyn Monroe

Billboard #1 Hits on The Award Winning 3D RadioActivity

I’m Uncle Marty, this is The 3D RadioActivity, and on this episode we are playing songs that peaked in the #1 position on top of the rankings.  Billboard is an international news magazine devoted to music and the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade publications in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized charts that track the most popular recordings in various categories on a weekly basis. The two most notable are the Hot 100, which ranks the top 100 tunes regardless of genre and their 200, the corresponding one for album sales.  Their Year-End’er denotes the top song of the past 12 months as determined by the publication. Since 1946, these have existed for the top cuts in pop, R&B and country, with additional album listings for each genre debuting in 1956, 1965 and 1966, respectively.  So, if the music sounds familiar, it’s because it is, based on digital sales, radio airplay, and internet streaming data; so you asked for it, so sit back, relax and enjoy, take your shoes off if you wish.

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Check us out on Groovy Radio, TuneIn.com and InternetFM too.  I’d like to ask you to tell your friends about our program too.  There was a NEW record number of hits this week on the Facebook page, if that was you, thanks for stopping by and please take a few moments to add some likes to the programs listed in the photos area.

If you have any ideas for our next shows please be sure to let me know. It’s easy to send an email by clicking on my name below or message me on Facebook, where you will find links to all the previous podcasts to “Like” along with the graphics in the “Photo” section.

Uncle Marty

“It’s not true I had nothing on, I had the radio on.”

— Marilyn Monroe

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s Songs That Shaped The Genre On The Award Winning 3D RadioActivity

What’s our topic this time on The Award Winning 3D RadioActivity?  Select choices from an unordered list of 660 songs (initially 500) that are believed to have been most influential in shaping the course of rock and roll.

It’s The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s “The Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll“!   Organized by Hall of Fame museum curator James Henke who, according to the hall, “compiled the list with input from the museum’s curatorial staff and numerous rock critics and music experts.” The list is part of a permanent exhibit at the museum, and was envisioned as part of the museum from its opening in 1995. It contains songs recorded from the 1920s through the 1990s. The Beatles and The Rolling Stones are the most represented, with eight songs each. Elvis Presley has seven songs, while The Beach Boys, Bob Dylan, Led Zeppelin, Bruce Springsteen, Stevie Wonder and Chuck Berry each have five. Let’s see how many we can get to for you!

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 Check us out on Groovy Radio, TuneIn.com and InternetFM too. There was another record number of hits this week on the Facebook page, if that was you, thanks for stopping by and please take a few moments to add some likes to the programs listed in the photos area. I’d like to ask you to tell your friends about our program too.

If you have any ideas for our next shows please be sure to let me know. It’s easy to send an email by clicking on my name below or message me on Facebook, where you will find links to all the previous podcasts to “Like” along with the graphics in the “Photo” section.

Uncle Marty

“It’s not true I had nothing on, I had the radio on.”

— Marilyn Monroe