Picture This: Film Music on the Radio 07/12/2026 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: Again, tonight we dispensed with theme, a concession to my rebellion against formality, …
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Picture This: Film Music on the Radio 06/28/2026 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: Tonight we dispense with theme, but not purpose, Tonight we feature more Graham …
By Wayne Cresser
Tonight we listen to two distinguished scores from two of the greatest films ever made. The last time the American Film Institute updated their of the 100 greatest American films of all time, Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane still ranked number 1, and Charlie Chaplin’s Modern Times number 78. [Continue Reading]
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.
