Episode 50: DJDrZen's Music Box & Travelogue: Rock Meets the Orchestra

Episode 50: DJDrZen's Music Box & Travelogue: Rock Meets the Orchestra

Here is the playlist for the episode, Rock Meets the Orchestra that aired on 24 July 2026 on KMRE-FM at 88.3 on the radio dial and on the web at KMRE.org Title | Artist  | Album | Date Nether Lands | Dan Fogelberg | Nether Lands | 1977 Background Track: Rhayader | Camel | The Snow Goose | 1975 Conquistador | Procol Harum | Live in Concert w/the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra | 1972 Burn Down the Mission | Elton John | Tumbleweed Connection | 1970 The Ballad of Billy the Kid | Billy Joel | Piano Man | 1973 Eldorado Overture | Electric Light Orchestra | Eldorado | 1974 Can’t Get It Out of My Head | Electric Light Orchestra | Eldorado | 1974 May Be a Price to Pay | The Alan Parsons Project | The Turn of a Friendly Card | 1980 Kashmir | Led Zeppelin | Physical Graffiti | 1975 Love Reign O’er Me | The Who | Quadrophenia | 1973

Episode 49: DJDrZen's Music Box & Travelogue: Orchestral Explorations

Here is the playlist for the episode Orchestral Explorations, which aired on 17 July 2026: Title | Artist  | Album | Date Classical Gas | Mason Williams |   | 1968 Background Track: And I Love Her (Instrumental) | The Beatles/ | A Hard Days Night | 1964 Eleanor Rigby | The Beatles | Revolver | 1966 Walk Away Renee | The Left Banke | Walk Away Renee/Pretty Ballerina | 1967 God Only Knows | The Beach Boys | Pet Sounds | 1966 My World Fell Down | Sagittarius | Present Tense | 1968 Wear Your Love Like Heaven | Donovan | A Gift From a Flower Garden | 1967 Alone Again Or | Love | Forever Changes | 1967 She’s Leaving Home | The Beatles | Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band | 1967 Everything That Touches you | The Association | Birthday | 1968 Hung Up on a Dream | The Zombies | Odyssey and Oracle | 1968 King Midas in Reverse | The Hollies | Dear Eloise/King Midas in Reverse | 1967 Holiday | The Bee Gees | Bee Gees 1st | 1967 Ruby Tuesday | The Rolling Stones | Between the Buttons (US Release) | 1967 The Rain, The Park and Other Thinks | The Cowsills | The Cowsills | 1967 Touch Me | The Doors | The Soft Parade | 1969 Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise) | The Beatles | Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band | 1967 A Day in the Life | The Beatles | Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band | 1967

Episode 48: DJDrZen's Music Box & Travelogue: 6 Degrees of Todd Rundgren

Here is the playlist for the episode, 6 Degrees of Todd Rundgren, which aired on 10 July 2026: Title | Artist  | Album | Date International Feel | Todd Rundgren | A Wizard A True Star | 1973 Tic Tic Tic It Wears Off | Todd Rundgren | A Wizard A True Star | 1973 Never Never Land | Todd Rundgren | A Wizard A True Star | 1973 Background Track: V.H.F. | Todd Rundgren & Utopia | Disco Jets | 1976 Open My Eyes | Nazz | Nazz | 1968 Intro (Sounds of the Studio) | Todd Rundgren | Something/Anything | 1972 The Shape I’m In | The Band | Stage Fright | 1970 Baby Blue | Badfinger | Straight Up | 1972 Fletcher Honorama | Sparks  | Sparks | 1972 Personality Crisis  | New York Dolls | New York Dolls | 1973 Paradise By The Dashboard Lights | Meatloaf | Bat Out of Hell | 1974 Frederick | Patti Smith Group | Wave | 1979 Feel It | The Tubes | Love Bomb | 1985 Earn Enough For Us | XTC | Skylarking | 1986 The Man Who Sailed Around His Soul | XTC | Skylarking | 1986 I Don’t Mind At All | Bourgeois Tagg | Yoyo | 1987 She’s So Young | The Pursuit of Happiness | Love Junk | 1988

Episode 47: DJDrZen's Music Box & Travelogue: July 4, 2026

Here is the playlist for the episode that aired on 3 July 2026:  Title | Artist  | Album | Date The Star Spangled Banner (Live) | Jimi Hendrix | Live at Woodstock | 1969 Philadelphia Freedom | Elton John | Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy | 1975 Mother Freedom | Bread | Baby I’m a Want You | 1972 Background Track: American Dreams | Charlie Haden | American Dreams | 2002 State of the Union | Chicago | Chicago V | 1972 The Immigrant | Neil Sedaka | Sedaka’s Back | 1974 American Tune | Paul Simon | There Goes Rhymin’ Simon | 1973 Liberte’ | Les Nubians | Nu Revolution | 2011 Lady Liberty | Irma Thomas & Galactic | Audience With the Queen | 2025 Make America Great Again | Pussy Riot | xxx | 2016 I Am A Patriot | Jackson Browne | World in Motion | 1989 None of Us Are Free | Solomon Burke | Don’t Give Up On Me | 2002 People Have the Power | Patti Smith | Dream Of Life | 1988 America The Beautiful/The People United Will Never Be Defeated | Pat Metheny | Single Release | 2026

Episode 46: DJDrZen's Music Box & Travelogue: Summer Solstice 2026

Here is the playlist for the episode, Summer Solstice 2026, which aired on 19 June 2026:  Title | Artist  | Album | Date Summer’s Cauldron | XTC | Skylarking | 1986 Grass | XTC | Skylarking | 1986 Staying Out For The Summer | Dodgy | Homegrown | 1994 I Got A Line On You | Spirit | The Family That Plays Together | 1968 Summer of Synesthesia | Jim Tenor & Cold Diamond & Mink | July Blue Sky | 2025 Background Track: Summer Solstice | Sean Harkness | Windham Hill Summer Solstice I | 1990 Mango | Bruce Cockburn | Breakfast In New Orleans/Dinner In Timbuktu | 1999 Summer On The Westhill | Kings of Convenience | Quiet Is The New Loud | 2001 One Of Those Summer Days | Rhye | Woman | 2013 Hot Summer Day | It’s A Beautiful Day | It’s A Beautiful Day | 1969 Summertime | Sam Cooke | Sam Cooke | 1958 Summer  | War | Single Release | 1976 Summer Madness | Kool & The Gang | Light Of The Worlds | 1974 Lovely Day | Bill Withers | Menagerie | 1977