Singing about the birds

KNKX Public Radio | By John Kessler,

Published January 6, 2011 at 3:50 AM PST

This is just one of the bird 'stars' featured on this week's Record Bin Roulette. John Maynard and John Kessler comb through racks of old vinly to bring us a flock of memories: a review of songs about birds.

With birds falling out of the sky lately, Record Bin Roulette turns attention to songs about our feathered friends.

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From Woody Woodpecker to Tom Lehrer, with appearances from Judy Garland, and Sterling Holloway.

Bird's the Word with Steve Miller, Anne Murray, and we bring a new twist to Freebird.

Record Bin Roulette even manages to slip in a robin and pigeon into this week's homage to birds in song.

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John Kessler

John has worked as a professional bassist for 20 years, including a 15 year stint as Musical Director of the Mountain Stage radio program. John has been at KNKX since 1999 where he hosts “All Blues”, is producer of the BirdNote radio program, and co-hosts “Record Bin Roulette”. John is also the recording engineer for KNKX “In-Studio Performances”. Not surprisingly, John's main musical interests are jazz and blues, and he is still performing around Seattle.

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John Maynard

John Maynard started working in radio in the seventies as a DJ at Seattle’s KJR AM which at the time was the dominant AM station in the Seattle market. After a brief stint as a restaurateur and night club owner, Maynard returned to radio with Robin Erickson, creating the hugely popular “Robin and Maynard Show.” In the more than 20 years under that marquee, Maynard flew with the Blue Angels, piloted the Goodyear Blimp, sang with Donny Osmond and hung out in a Universal Studios bar with Kojak (Telly Savalas).

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