CHART #309
listenCheck out this week's edition of the chart as a handy dandy playlist or podcast (stream with the play button, download from the right-hand column).
The year is twenty aught six...a young whippersnapper named Stephen Joseph Harper becomes the first Conservative Prime Minister in thirteen years, Google buys YouTube, and Myspace is still a thing that people really care about.
Culturally, April Wine releases Roughly Speaking, Red Green is appointed to the Order of Canada, and The R3-30 - CBC Radio 3's chart show - is born!
To mark the occasion of our sixth anniversary, this week's "Countdown Within a Countdown" will be the top songs from our very first chart! To ensure that we remain focused on the here and now, you'll hear debuts from Jets Overhead, The Wilderness of Manitoba, Slim Twig, and Cuff The Duke!
What's your favourite memory of The R3-30? If you don't have one, feel free to make one up. That's what I do.
If you're too busy to fabricate memories, here are some that require no work by you at all. Except pushing the play button...
>>Jijou acts as a tour guide inside The R3-30's original studio. This studio has since been re-purposed as an Employee Weeping Lounge. Pedro hogs it.
>>A very special live edition of The R3-30 from The Natrel Skating Rink on Toronto's Harbourfront. I thought this would be a great opportunity to revive my rocky figure skating career. It was not.
>>The Vancouver 2010 mascots were a travesty. Who better to bring some cultural and historical significance to the games than Jijou? I hit the streets to find out what Vancouverites think.
>>For six weeks, Lily Mills is acting producer of The R3-30. I don't really remember any of this.
>>To boost ratings, many "stunts" were proposed. Pedro and I adopt a child, Pedro gets rabies, I eat an entire swan on the air...but we finally decided on a good, old-fashioned cliffhanger.