Picture This Playlist 126: Canada! Oh Canada!
Picture This: Film Music on the Radio 04/26/2026 Wayne Cresser WRIU-FM, 90.3 Kingston, RI Sundays 6-8 pm On the web at: www.wriu.org
A Word about Tonight’s Show—Canada’s vast land area is often hard to comprehend for those who haven’t experienced it firsthand. Here are some fun facts about Canada to put its breathtaking scale into perspective. It’s bigger than the entire European Union (33 times bigger than Italy and 15 times bigger than France), more than 30 percent larger than Australia, five times as big as Mexico, three times as big as India and about the same size as 81,975 Walt Disney Worlds put together. Insofar as music is concerned, Canadian popular music draws on Irish, Scottish, English and French and indigenous traditions as well as styles and sounds from all over the world as a result of the country’s generous and welcoming society. It’s film and television reflects these many influences in the film scoring of Howard Shore, Mychael and Jeff Danna and Robbie Robertson and in the sketch comedy of SCTV and Kids in the Hall, not to mention the musical comedy of Eugene Levy, Catherine O’Hara, Andrea Martin and Martin Short, just to name a few. This show, Picture This Number 126, only scratches the surface of this rich musical trove, and I guess that’s a way of saying, we’ll journey there again some time.
Playlist: (Excerpt) Ramblin’ Man from Lost Horizons, composed by Fred Deaken and Nick Frangen, performed by Juicy Lemon
Coming Attractions from Matinee, composed by Jerry Goldsmith.
Adieu to Old England from Stick in the Wheel Presents…From Here: English Folk Field Recordings, traditional, performed by John Michael Kirkpatrick
Having an Average Weekend from Kids in the Hall, composed and performed by Shadowy Men from a Shadowy Planet
These Are the Daves I Know from Shame-based Man, composed and performed by Bruce McCulloch
Happiness Pie from Brain Candy, composed by Bruce McCulloch, Craig Northey. Reid Diamond and Steven Drake, performed by Death Lurks
School Announcements from The Great White North, composed and performed by Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas
Music composed by Howard Shore for David Cronenberg Films
Title music from The Fly
Brother and Sister from Map to the Stars
Benno from Cosmopolis
One Fine Morning from Lighthouse, composed by Skip Prokop, performed by Lighthouse
Canadian Caravan from The Golden Age of Light Music, composed by Robert Farnon, performed by The Queen’s Hall Orchestra
I Ain’t Going Nowhere from The Agoraphobic Cowboy, composed and performed by Ric Moranis
Title Music from Honey I Shrunk the Kids, composed by James Horner
He was a Kid and A Life Well Lived from I Like Me, composed and performed by Tyler Strickland
All songs composed and performed by Robbie Robertson
The Sacred Pipe from Killers of the Flower Moon
Peyote Healing from Contact from the Underworld of Redboy
Osage Oil Boom from Killers of the August Moon
The North from Rock, Paper Scissors, composed and performed by Ramachandra Borcar
Should I Stay or Should I Go? from Far Cry 4, composed by Mick Jones and Joe Strummer, performed by Ramachandra Borcar, Rup and Qurram
Questions and The World Upside Down from The Odyssey of Alice Tremblay, composed by Francois Dompierre
First Push and The Winner Is…from Little Miss Sunshine, composed by Mychael Danna, performed by DeVotchKa
Wish I Could Spend the Day with You from Onward, composed by Mychael and Jeff Danna
Tsimtsum from The Life of Pi, composed by Mychael Danna
The Blood of Cú Chulainn from Celtic Twilight 5, composed and performed by Mychael and Jeff Danna
Main Theme from The Grey Fox, composed by Michael Conway Baker with Paddy Maloney, performed by The Chieftains
Dudley Do-Right from The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends, composed by Fred Steiner performed by 1) The Cartoon Theme Ensemble and 2) The Charlie Bertini Combo
Midnight at the Oasis from Waiting for Guffman, composed by David Nichtern, performed by Catherine O’Hara and Fred Willard
Personal Moment with David Steinberg from Goodbye to the 70s, written and performed by David Steinberg
Bus Ride to Paradise from One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, composed by Jack Nitzsche
Loved the cuts by Michael Dana as well stuff from The Grey Fox (performed by The Chieftains.) Gotta see that film, Wayne!