Written by Wayne Cresser on June 22, 2026 and posted in Picture This: Film Music on the Radio Picture This: Film Music on the Radio 06/21/2026 Wayne Cresser WRIU-FM, 90.3 Kingston, RI Sundays 6-8 pm On the web at: www.wriu.org A …
Tonight we listen to a compilation of the the first 19 entries in the It’s A Movie! Song of the Week segment, plus a bonus track. I probably hit on the idea for this opening segment of Picture This sometime last fall, and it took just about six months to compile enough tunes to create an entire show, mostly because some of themes for programs between then and now precluded doing the segment at all [ . . . ]
It occurred to me that Picture This has been heavy with movie music for several weeks to the detriment, I thought, of music written for the small screen. I decided to do two hours of TV-related songs and scores encompassing music from the 1950s through the present day. Many of these musical themes should be familiar to anybody who likes television history and has followed the development of the medium from the post-WWII years until now. Or, if you just like being reminded of tunes related to your favorite shows. Enjoy.
Picture This: Film Music on the Radio 05/24/2026 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: I wanted to take another pass at the great American melodist Harry Warren. …
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A Word about Tonight’s Show—Well, it’s been three years since my first flop-sweat inducing program on the best commercial free radio station in Southern New England. Maybe it was a Monday, no, of course it was. I had an hour after Tom Duksta’s wonderful Traditions show, so, all I had to do was keep his audience tuned in and maybe bring some folks who might be interested in film and television music…
The focus of the 5/10 program was to continue the exploration of the film music of the 1970s, along with the TV side of things. and the added topic of the emergence of ROCK music across multiple genres of filmmaking— the era of the bigtime rock concert film with Woodstock, The Last Waltz and Wattstax, the rockumentary with Mad Dogs and Englishmen and The Kids Are Alright, and the rock opera, with a whole bunch of things.
The 70s produced films which not only impacted audiences at the time, but also continue to resonate with people who love films, including critics. The Godfather, parts I & II, the first Stars Wars Movie,…
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 …
Choirs, singing groups, vocal ensembles, chorales, all of the above provided the music for Picture This 125, in which we offered compositions from Ennio Morricone, Burt Bacharach, Jonsi Birgisson and Alex Somers, Mel Brooks, James Newberry, Roomful of Teeth, Luniz and Michael Marshall, and the Hanna-Barbera Singers, to name a few…
We had a gas doing Radiothon 2026 which featured the music of Johnny Mercer Sunday night from 6-8 PM. Host of the Kingston Coffeehouse , Mike Stevenson answered the phones and joined me for some good old Johnny Mercer fan-fest banter.
