Snap, Crackle, POP! with Alec Cumming

SEDAKA IS BACK! (again!)

This is a repackaging of two live Snap Crackle POPs from March 2nd and 3rd of this year. The lovely and brilliant Eden Dawn Goldstein joins me for the first half. [All songs performed by Neil Sedaka unless otherwise noted.] That's When the Music Takes Me Stupid Cupid – Connie Francis  The Diary I Go Ape    One Way Ticket (To the Blues) Oh! Carol Oh! Neil – Carole King    Calendar Girl Breaking Up Is Hard to Do I Can't Stay Mad at You – Skeeter Davis  Magic Colors – Lesley Gore   When Love Comes Knockin' (At Your Door) – The Monkees Workin’ on a Groovy Thing Beautiful You   Laughter In the Rain Bad Blood  Anywhere You're Gonna Be (Leba's Song) (Is This the Way To) Amarillo – Tony Christie I'm a Song, Sing Me   Superbird – Neil Sedaka  Solitaire – Neil Sedaka It Hurts to Be in Love – Gene Pitney  Donna – 10cc   Love Will Keep Us Together – The Captain & Tenille Puppet Man – The 5th Dimension     The Hungry Years  Beginning to Breathe Again

WAAAAAH! it's the TWEEEEEEE! episode!

My guest co-host Dawn Eden Goldstein proposed we do a show based on early '90s UK "twee" music, with an emphasis on the 1991 "The Waaaah! CD", and I quickly agreed... Because Dawn always brings the obscure yet utterly fantastic pop songs to the world of Snap Crackle POP! So get into your pajamas and bring out your kittens and let's (politely) TWEE out!  Who Loves the Sun – The Velvet Underground Walking My Cat Named Dog – Norma Tanega I'd Like to Walk Around in Your Mind - Vashti Bunyan Fill Your Heart – David Bowie Think Of Rain – Margo Guryan Dream Lover – The Paris Sisters Going Downtown – Pianosaurus I Don’t Want to Back – Riff Doctors Flowers Through the Air – Tiny Lights The Sunday Way of Life – Smalltown Parade September's Not So Far Away – The Field Mice Ashlands Road – Strawberry Story Sunny Tuesday Afternoon – The Dufflecoats James – Fat Tulips Perfect Day – Ric Menck Air – The Owls Seems So – The Apples in Stereo Voice In My Head – The Sneetches I'll Be Gone – Papas Fritas Disconnect the Dots – Of Montreal Stop Buying Things – Swan Dive Walk The Way You Talk – Dionne Warwick

The Emotional Labor of Doing It All Again

Julia Cumming finally released her long-awaited solo album last Friday, April 24th 2026, and I played a couple of songs from it, as well as other songs that were a part of the inspiration for it, plus other good songs.   Save It for Later – Eddie Vedder Best Friend – The English Beat   All This Disaster – Sarah McLachlan One Stop – Aldous Harding The Sofa – Wolf Alice   No More Tearstained Makeup – Martha & the Vandellas All I Do Is Think About You – Tammi Terrel You'll Never Get to Heaven (If You Break My Heart) – Dionne Warwick  I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself – Dusty Springfield    Here You Come Again – Dolly Parton  Free Man in Paris – Joni Mitchell  Kites Are Fun – The Free Design Do It All Again – Julia Cumming Days We Left Behind – Paul McCartmey    Baby Don't Go – Ringo Starr Wantcha Baby – Cryptic Soup Idiots Delighted – Damfino  Let Her Dance – The Bobby Fuller Four    Searching For Heaven –  Swamp Dogg   Man Of His Word –  Kashus Culpepper  Emotional Labor –  Julia Cumming  Amoureuse –  Véronique Sanson  Abducted By Love –  The Tall Pines  Freeing Wheels – Souled American   (Snap Crackle EXTRA!)  I'd Like To Talk to You – Mark Eric How She Boogalooed It – The Beach Boys Teenage News – Syl Sylvain Feelin' So Good (S.K.O.O.B.Y.–D.O.O.) – The Archies I Don't Like Hockey No More – The Zamboni After the Fox – The Hollies feat. Peter Sellers

The show in which Dawn Eden Goldstein and I talk about and listen to the legendary UK songwriter John Carter

Dawn Eden Goldstein is a badass. There, I've said it. Both a deeply respected Catholic theologian and pop music historian! I really like when she comes on my morning Snap Crackle POP! shows and I hope we do it again and again. She suggested a tribute/exploration of sorts into the career of British songwriter John Carter, and I was game, and this is what it sounded like.  Chelsea Morning – Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66   I Wish You Hadn't – Benjamin Morren She Is Today – Bergen White   Sweet And Tender Romance – The McKinleys  Lonely Room – The Ivy League  I Can't Explain – The Who  Tossing and Turning – The Ivy League    Can't You Hear My Heartbeat – Herman's Hermits My World Fell Down – Sagittarius Beyond the Railroad – The Pen Friend Club  Annie Almond – The Junipers   Let's Go To San Francisco – The Flower Pot Men Jangleheart – Novelty Island  This Whole World – The Beach Boys   Beach Baby – The First Class  Winchester Cathedral – The New Vaudeville Band Westchester Hadassah –  Allan Sherman Paper Trail – Caper Clowns    In The Beginning – The Autumn Defense  Little Bird – Famous Groupies Sadie – Aggie Miller

God, PLEASE, Let Us Go On this Way...

Yes, that's me and Al Jardine. (And he's a pleasure to talk to.) I talk about meeting him on this radio show, and hearing him and Darian Sahanaja and his brillint Pet Sounds band perform ALL of the tracks from THE BEACH BOYS LOVE YOU live, the night before, which also just happened to be the 49th Anniversary of the album's release (!). Thank you, Al, thank you Darian, and thank you Brian - I am thrilled, honored, and deeply moved. I love this music SO much.  Let Us Go on This Way – The Beach Boys   Solar System –– The Beach Boys I Wanna Pick You Up – The Beach Boys Be Like Him – Darian Sahanaja, Probyn Gregory & The Lemon Twigs (Ronnie D'Addario cover)   2 or 3 – The Lemon Twigs  Baby, Let's Stick Together – The Paley Brothers Come On Let's Go – The Ramones & The Paley Brothers  Black and White – The dBs   Red Lights – The Marbles  We Deliver – The Miamis See No Evil – Television  The Book I Read (CBS/Columbia demo) – Talking Heads    Lotus Bridge – The Monochrome Set Why Don't You – Squeeze    The Crystal Ship – Robyn Hitchcock Venus in the Zinnia – Aldous Harding (w/ H. Hawkline) One Thing at a Time – Courtney Barnett    Idiots Delighted – Damfino American Obituary – U2 City of Heroes – Billy Bragg   Rust & Wire – Anjimile  In The Middle of It – Hiss Golden Messenger   The Logical Song – The Philistines Jr. Diggin’ In the Coal – Leah Blevivs  Hanging Out to Dry – Florence Road Come To God – Indigo de Souza