Music

Bob Dylan walked out of a dress rehearsal of the Ed Sullivan Show on May 12, 1963 when CBS lawyers prohibited him from singing the song of the day, "Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues."

Bob Kealing's new book “Good Day Sunshine: How the Beatles Rocked Florida” explores the Beatles time in Florida in 1964, including two performances on The Ed Sullivan Show from a hotel in Miami just weeks after their New York debut.

Southwest Florida musicians Claire Liparulo and Caleb Neff talk about their efforts to elevate the craft of songwriting and feature local great musicians’ original work through Claire’s “High Lonesome Sound” performance series and Caleb’s “In the Pool” recording sessions.

We listen back to one of the very first episodes of the WGCU podcast “Three Song Stories,” featuring Florida Gulf Coast University professor and founder of the school’s Journalism program, Lyn Miller.

A conversation with Southwest Florida Symphony Maestro Radu Paponiu and Community Outreach Ambassador Robert Van Winkle about the orchestra’s upcoming concert featuring Cuban-American cellist Thomas Mesa performing Antonín Dvořák’s Cello “Concerto in B Minor, Op. 104. The Masterworks series concert, Saturday, March 11, also includes a piece by contemporary American composer Jessie Montgomery and Edward Elgar’s “Enigma Variations.” We’ll take a deeper dive into these compositions.

Filmmaker, director, producer, photographer, and “Godfather of the music video” Chuck Statler joins the show ahead of a film screen and Q&A at the Bob Rauschenberg Gallery to talk about his pre-MTV era music video work, particularly with the seminal new wave band Devo.

With a challenging score, lyrics second only to Shakespeare, and a grisly tale of vengeful murder, mayhem, and cannibalism, "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street" requires a very special cast and crew. In this week's Spotlight on the Arts, find out what makes this show so difficult but rewarding to produce, perform, and see.

The tragic loss, last summer, of the incomparable trumpet player Dan Miller has left a huge void in the jazz world. We preview this coming weekend’s “Celebration of Love and Life” tribute concert and learn about how his legacy will continue through the Dan Miller Jazz Foundation in a conversation with his long-time significant other Judi Woods. We also hear selections from a previous episode of this program featuring Dan Miller performing live in studio.

A little history, a little trivia, and a little music, the Song of the Day by Sheldon Zoldan presents today's song in honor of Meatloaf who died January 20, 2022.

Jim Miller was a junior high school student who loved watching American Bandstand after school. When he spotted Justine Carrelli he was immediately smitten. More than a half- century later they were married. “He still treats me like I’m the queen of the hop,” Justine said.