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Mostly Singles: Old ’60s, New Zealand: Sep 22, 2026
A combo show with super-rare cuts and seldom-playe...
Mostly Singles: 1930s, 1960s: Aug 25, 2026
Toggling decades, with tail ends included! Ovie Al...
Mostly Singles: Hot Rhythms, Slow Radio: Jul 28, 2026
A Wave Farm Summer Drive inviting you to slow down...
Mostly Singles: My 10th Year Show: Jun 23, 2026
A celebration of ten years on air at WGXC bringing...
Mostly Singles: ’60s Pop and Esoteric Soul, Part 2: May 26, 2026
More of the greats: plenty of French and U.K. sing...
Mostly Singles: ’60s Pop and Esoteric Soul: Apr 28, 2026
This time around, it’s ’60s pop and esoteric soul,...
Mostly Singles: Touched with Spirit: Folk, Blues, Country, and Shellac, Part 2: Mar 24, 2026
Another deep dive into archival field recordings,...
Mostly Singles: Musing on a Winter’s Night: Folk, Blues, Country, and Shellac: Feb 24, 2026
Featuring Alan Lomax field recordings, old origina...
Mostly Singles: My 100th Show (re-broadcast, from April 2025): Jan 27, 2026
Celebrating 100 years of music I love: 1925–2025....
Mostly Singles: Glittering ’30s, Sultry ’40s, with Some Roaring ’20s —Again!: Dec 23, 2025
A Wave on Main pledge drive celebration and Part 2...
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Mostly Singles: The Glam Show, with guest Andrew Krivine: Oct 22, 2024
Photograph courtesy of the Samek Art Museum (Glitter & Trash) Glam graphics exhibition (September-December 2024): Oct 22, 2024
Femmes de Paris vol. 1: Jul 23, 2024
Mostly Singles: Crooners and Rhythm--Boswell Sisters: Jun 25, 2024
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20261027: Oct 27, 2026: 8pm - 10pm
Claverack resident Michael Wilde presents "Mostly...
Old ’60s, New Zealand: Sep 22, 2026: 8pm - 10pm
1930s, 1960s: Aug 25, 2026: 8pm - 10pm
Hot Rhythms, Slow Radio: Jul 28, 2026: 8pm - 10pm
My 10th Year Show: Jun 23, 2026: 8pm - 10pm
’60s Pop and Esoteric Soul, Part 2: May 26, 2026: 8pm - 10pm
’60s Pop and Esoteric Soul: Apr 28, 2026: 8pm - 10pm
Touched with Spirit: Folk, Blues, Country, and Shellac, Part 2: Mar 24, 2026: 8pm - 10pm
Musing on a Winter’s Night: Folk, Blues, Country, and Shellac: Feb 24, 2026: 8pm - 10pm
My 100th Show (re-broadcast, from April 2025): Jan 27, 2026: 8pm - 10pm
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A Better Place: Oct 24, 2023: 8pm - 10pm
Sail on a cloud of magic vinyl to a place where the spirit is lifted and light. This month the show wrote itself – and what a list! Jubalaires, Charlie Burse and the Memphis Jug Band, Ponce Sisters, G...
20230928: Sep 28, 2023: 12pm - 2pm
Claverack resident Michael Wilde presents "Mostly Singles," selections from an extensive collection of 45 rpm vinyl — music from the 1950s, '60s, '70s and early '80s, mixed with some 78 rpm selections...
Northern Soul, 78s, New Zealand: Sep 26, 2023: 8pm - 10pm
More of what was great last time, with the added magic of the Kiwi Isles. Stanley Mitchell, Detroit Emeralds, David Kilgour and the Heavy Eights; Able Tasmans, early Fats, Jubalaires, vibraphones, com...
Northern Soul and 78s: Aug 24, 2023: 12pm - 2pm
Lots of 45s and 10-inch shellacs, joyful, high-spirited danceable soul and super-rarities, some of these one of a kind. Tobi Legend, Bobby Hebb, Joe Tex, Doni Burdick, along with Joe Venuti’s Blue Fou...
Northern Soul and 78s: Aug 22, 2023: 8pm - 10pm
Genies on the Other Side of the Vinyl: Jul 25, 2023: 8pm - 10pm
More scintillating spirits, flipsides (mostly) of the Genies show: 1930s Leadbelly, Cajun hot stuff, Joe Venuti and Eddie Lang, rare Jubalaires, Mississippi John, exotic New Zealand, more crisp bright...
Genies in the Vinyl, Part 2: Jun 27, 2023: 8pm - 10pm
Scintillating zeitgeist, trapped in the grooves: Leadbelly, Bing, super rare New Zealand, crisp and brilliant British shellac, Hackberry Ramblers, Jubalaires, Blondie, Joe Venuti’s Blue Four — to name...
20230622: Jun 22, 2023: 12pm - 2pm
20230525: May 25, 2023: 12pm - 2pm
The Soundtracks Show: May 23, 2023: 8pm - 10pm
.Themes, preludes, iconic earworms and songs, original motion picture scores and more: singles, LPs, CDs and shellac, going all the way back. John Barry, Bernard Herrmann, Dubin and Warren, Burt Bacha...
Original Vinyl: Apr 27, 2023: 12pm - 2pm
Enjoy the pop and crackle of delectable vinyl, the sound of records as originally heard: not remastered, not remixed, not digitized, taped, or streaming from a cloud but from the turntable, straight o...
Original Vinyl: Apr 25, 2023: 8pm - 10pm
The Latest New Zealand Show: Mar 28, 2023: 8pm - 10pm
Another deep spelunking into the Flying Nun cave, with not just Bats but plenty of Chills, Tall Dwarfs, Straitjacket Fits, 3Ds, Verlaines, Direen and the Builders … a ton of fantastic, original vinyl,...
20230323: Mar 23, 2023: 12pm - 2pm
Please Assist Us in Transmission: Feb 28, 2023: 8pm - 10pm
The “Please Assist Us in Transmission” Show: Help us keep transmitting our shows, and for your kind sustaining support tonight we’ll be hearing rareties, bands with only one or two singles, as well as...
78s! Part 3: Jan 24, 2023: 8pm - 10pm
More of the greats, from the Golden Age — Blind Blake, Tram and Bix, Annette Hanshaw, Whispering Jack, Savoy Orpheans, Rhythm Maniacs, Delmore Brothers, King Oliver on cornet, and possibly Hoagy Carmi...
78s! Part 2: Dec 27, 2022: 8pm - 10pm
More of the greats, 1920s and vintage 1930s 10-inch shellac, in rich deep grooves: Barbecue Bob, Whispering Jack, Joe Venuti and Eddie Lang, Jabbo Smith and his Rhythm Aces, Canon’s Jug Stompers, Peg...
78s!: Nov 25, 2022: 12pm - 2pm
A celebration of 10-inch shellac, highlighting the greats: old-time country blues, guys in tuxedos, the 1920s and 1930s, crooners, lullabies, Whisperin’ Jack Smith. A cornucopia of legends and stellar...
78s!: Nov 22, 2022: 8pm - 10pm
20221028: Oct 28, 2022: 10am - 11:59 am
20221025: Oct 25, 2022: 8pm - 10pm
Andrew Krivine: Sep 27, 2022: 8pm - 10pm
"Mostly Singles" welcomes back author-collector Andrew Krivine, author of "Wild Youth: Punk and New Wave from the 1970s and 1980s." This broadcast is an exuberant audio dive into Krivine's current exh...
Genies in the Vinyl: Jul 26, 2022: 8pm - 10pm
In this broadcast, shellac and one-off 45s, continuing to spin, jumping out of the grooves, like spirits — but prescient, speaking to right now. More of the greats and little-known, including Cab Call...
Old and New (Zealand): Jun 28, 2022: 8pm - 10pm
In this broadcast, vintage 78s and classic New Zealand, a beautiful mishmash with roots that go deep. Blind Blake and Charlie Spand, David Kilgour, Carter Family, Joe Venuti’s Rhythm Boys, Sleepy John...
The Box of Records Show: May 24, 2022: 8pm - 10pm
Another time capsule, hand-delivered by a friend, a personal collection of vinyl LPs — boxed, like new, from the mid-1980s, including The Smiths, Roxy Music, The English Beat, The The, Motown, Francis...
Andrew Krivine: Apr 26, 2022: 8pm - 10pm
For this New Wave broadcast, host Michael Wilde welcomes back Andrew Krivine, a collector and expert on punk rock, and author of Reversing Into the Future: New Wave Graphics, 1977-1990. Prepare for a...
Hollies, Byrds, Blues, and New Zealand: Mar 22, 2022: 8pm - 10pm
Hollies, Byrds, blues and New Zealand, like a hand in glove. Celebrate springtime with 1920s folk pioneers, three-part harmonies, Rickenbacker 360s, and the South Island’s genii. Chills, Skip James, K...
The 2-22-22 Show: Feb 22, 2022: 8pm - 10pm
An alignment of numbers and the stars: Hanshaw, Delmores, Skip James, Henry Thomas, Burnside, McDowell, Cotten, and other greats — in live performance and on rare sides — to bring you someplace deep,...
1960s, Soul, and 78s: Jan 25, 2022: 8pm - 10pm
A deep dive into the rare soul archive, mostly ’60s and one-off 45s, garnished with stellar shellac. Roy Harvey and Leonard Copeland, Marvin L. Sims, Irma Thomas, Three Keys, Orchids, Grim Reepers, Ru...
The Leftovers Show: Dec 30, 2021: 12pm - 2pm
A holiday tradition — every hit that didn’t fit this year on Mostly Singles: sweet old timey, balm for the soul, 45s roots, duets and New Zealand, golden B sides, Part 2 of Part 2, things that should’...
The Leftovers Show: Dec 28, 2021: 8pm - 10pm
Mississippi Fred, Joe Venuti, Ponce Sisters: Nov 26, 2021: 12pm - 2pm
Mississippi Fred, Joe Venuti, Ponce Sisters: Nov 23, 2021: 8pm - 10pm
10 Years of Radio for Open Ears Pledge Drive: Oct 26, 2021: 8pm - 10pm
Ring in, sign up, all hands on deck for WGXC-FM's delectable sustaining supporting membership drive on a jewel-toned edition of Mostly Singles, enticing you with more rare 60s psych and soul, obscure...
Things That Should’ve Lasted Longer: Sep 29, 2021: 12pm - 2pm
In this rebroadcast from Sept. 28, 2021, a sliver of the universe of untold wonders, some one-hit, some undone, a list forever unfinished. Groups before and ahead of their time: Pere Ubu, Playthings,...
Things That Should’ve Lasted Longer: Sep 28, 2021: 8pm - 10pm
In this broadcast, a sliver of the universe of untold wonders, some one-hit, some undone, a list forever unfinished. Groups before and ahead of their time: Pere Ubu, Playthings, Elliott Smith, Outside...
The Second Part 2 Show: Aug 24, 2021: 8pm - 10pm
The Part 2 Show, Part 2: More of the beauty, romp and circus, psychedelic soul, garage, rare 78s, otherworld B-sides, demos, imports, and a New Zealand premiere. Martha Reeves, Lemon Fog, Jay Clarkson...
The Part 2 Show: Jul 27, 2021: 8pm - 10pm
In this broadcast, more duets, old 78s and New Zealand, more blips of happy in a roiling psych garage, more roots of 45s, obscure B-sides, and yes, more balm for the soul. Mississippi John, Lang and K...
Celebrate Five Years: Jun 22, 2021: 8pm - 10pm
It's been five years. friends! Celebrate a half-decade of Mostly Singles, at WGXC-FM. Mostly, anyway – some of those broadcasts were guest DJs, but who’s counting? Wondrous music: Wendy Carlos, Delmor...
Old and Golden B Sides: May 25, 2021: 8pm - 10pm
In this broadcast, rare, obscure and seldom-heard gems — wonderful flips from hard-to-find 45s, along with crisp shellac from the 20s and 30s: Frank Stokes, Billy Cotton, Three Stripped Gears, Prophet...
Duets, Old 78s, New Zealand: Apr 29, 2021: 12pm - 2pm
A culmination and bringing together of host Michael Wilde's three great loves. Annette Hanshaw, Chris Knox, Carl Kress and George Barnes, Joe Venuti and Eddie Lang, David Kilgour — masters all. A corn...
Duets, Old 78s, New Zealand: Apr 27, 2021: 8pm - 10pm
Mississippi John Hurt, Eddie Lang, Lonnie Johnson: Mar 23, 2021: 8pm - 10pm
Balmier and Balmier: Roots of 45s. The guitar is the star, with early crooners on mostly 78s: More old-timey balm for the soul on this roots show, featuring rarefied pickers, balladeers, strummers, an...
More Balm for the Soul: Feb 23, 2021: 8pm - 10pm
More Balm for the Soul: the WGXC 10th Anniversary Pledge Drive edition – asking you to become a monthly sustaining supporter. More sweet old-timey music for these old times, with special attention on...
Sweet Old Timey, Sweet Sweet Soul: Jan 26, 2021: 8pm - 10pm
In this broadcast, usher in the new with the sweet, sweet old. It is just how it sounds — surprises, all around. Morris’s Hot Babies, A D & G, Robin Rice, Moondog, e.g.; Dusk, Salt, the ethereal Lena...
Say Goodbye to 2020: Dec 22, 2020: 8pm - 10pm
Bid farewell to 2020 in this broadcast, “Say Goodbye to 2020: Baubles and Bright Shiny Objects," host Michael Wilde's mixtape to listeners, the way it used to be done, where everything connects in its...
The Stuff I Love: Nov 24, 2020: 8pm - 10pm
Leftovers 2020 — from the stack that never made the other shows. Old-old, old and new, newish, and brand spanking new — all of it great, and plenty exotic. No hints … come be surprised, for two sweet...
The 1964 and 1968 Show: Nov 06, 2020: 10pm - 11:59 pm
Rebroadcast from Oct. 27, 2020. How could four years make such a difference? Listen to the world spinning into change — wild, subtle, magnificent. Sweet. A revelation. Claverack resident Michael Wi...
The 1964 and 1968 Show: Oct 27, 2020: 8pm - 10pm
How could four years make such a difference? Listen to the world spinning into change — wild, subtle, magnificent. Sweet. A revelation. Claverack resident Michael Wilde presents Mostly Singles, sel...
OK Boomer: Sep 22, 2020: 8pm - 10pm
All vintage 45s In this broadcast. More than a blip of happy, from the Golden Age. The Diamonds, The Brothers Johnson, Buddy Holly, LaVern Baker, Billy Strange, Lonnie Mack, Tony Joe White, The Bougal...