Music From This Week's Show
Billboard:
Jimmy McGriff, “Signed Sealed Delivered” from Signed Sealed Delivered I'm Yours (Capitol)
Nitin Sawhney, “Shoes to America” from Namesake original motion picture soundtrack (Rounder)
News Hole:
Nitin Sawhney, “The Namesake” from Namesake original motion picture soundtrack (Rounder)
Segment A:
Mira Nair:
Geeta Dutt, “Jhiri Jhri Choyetali” from Namesake original motion picture soundtrack (Rounder)
State of Bengal, “Flight IC408” from Namesake original motion picture soundtrack (Rounder)
Break 1:
Nitin Sawhney, “First Day In New York” from Namesake original motion picture soundtrack (Rounder) (also used under Jumpa Lahiri reading in segment B)
Segment B:
Mira Nair continued:
Susheela Raman, “Ye Mera Divanapan Hai” from Namesake original motion picture soundtrack (Rounder)
The Beatles, “Within You Without You” from Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Capitol)
Jumpa Lahiri:
R.E.M., “Letter Never Sent” from Reckoning (IRS)
Forward Promote:
The Box Tops, “The Letter” from Best of the Box Tops (Arista)
Mogul:
Glenn Miller, “Moon Love” from The Best of Glenn Miller (Classics/Windham)
Break 2:
Earl Bostic, “Love Letters in the Sand” from 16 Sweet Tunes Of The Fantastic '50s (King)
Segment C:
Mail Art:
Simon and Garfunkel, “Why Don't You Write Me” from Bridge Over Troubled Water (Columbia/Legacy)
The Ravens, “Write me a Letter” from The Ravens: The Greatest Group of Them All ( Savoy ) (two excerpts used)
Blood for Art:
Bibio, “Wet Flakey Bark” from Fi (Mush)
Harmonic 33, “Space Interval 1” from Music for Film Television and Radio Vol.1 (Warp)
Colleen, “I Was Deep in a Dream and I Didn't Know It” from Everyone Alive Wants Answers (Leaf)
Pole, “Umbrella” from Pole (Mute) (used twice)
