Category Archives: KXCI

Si Se Puede!: Celebrating Cesar Chavez Day on KXCI (03/31/14)

Today is Cesar Chavez Day in Tucson. I used to do a radio show on KXCI every year in Chavez’s honor, and I was lucky that I found the following one from 2014 so that I could share it with you today. I dedicate this to my brother Richard Elias, who was a fierce union supporter. He showed up to every single Cesar Chavez day march and rally in Tucson, from the first to the last.

The following three hour program, a special edition of “The Home Stretch”, is divided into three sections below. I didn’t add the playlists this time around, but the songs are all announced during the show.

Part One

Part Two

Part Three

In Memory of Richard Elias, 1958-2020.

Martin Luther King Jr: A celebration of his Birthday on the Chicano Connection/(01-15-2020)

I have to admit it feels weird not doing radio these days, but I am glad I have my old shows. I thought I’d share this year’s Martin Luther King Jr. birthday show, in case anyone is in need of hearing songs about freedom and justice. Included are many uplifting tunes and some classics from the Sixties about the struggle for freedom and justice.

Part one

Songs included in part one:

Happy Birthday/Stevie Wonder–Woke Up This Morning/Sweet Honey in the Rock–(If You Miss Me At the Back of the Bus)(Ain’t Scared of Your Jail)(Oh Freedom)/Pete Seeger–It Isn’t Nice/Judy Collins–Dog, Dog/The Freedom Singers–A Change Is Gonna Come/Aretha Franklin–Go Limp/Nina Simone–Masters of War/Bob Dylan–The Beatitudes/Sweet Honey in The Rock–Blowin’ In The Wind/Peter, Paul and Mary–Pride (In The Name Of Love)/The Persuasions-(It’s A Hard Life)(Abraham, Martin and John)/Emmylou Harris

Part Two

Songs included in part two:

(It’s A Hard Life)(Abraham, Martin and John)/EmmyLou Harris–I’m On My Way to Freedomland/Sweet Honey in the Rock–People Get Ready/The Impressions–Pack Up Your Sorrows/Judy Collins–Go Tell It On The Mountain/Fanny Lou Hamer–Keep Your Eyes on the Prize/Pete Seeger–If I Had A Hammer/Barbara Dane–Mississippi Goddamn/Nina Simone–The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll/Bob Dylan–This Little Light of Mine/Sweet Honey in the Rock–We Shall Overcome/Joan Baez–Get On Board, Children Children/Willie Peacock–Carry It On/Judy Collins–Peace/Sweet Honey in the Rock

Those Oldies But Goodies: My very last radio show on KXCI (02/26/20)

I just figured out how to post my old Chicano Connection radio shows on to this site.

Here’s the last one I did on February 26, 2020. It’s an oldies but goodies show.

NEWS FLASH: That’s it. I’m done, y’all. After all these years, I have decided to hang up my headphones for good. It’s been fun! Thanks for listening!

Click here to hear the first hour of the February 26, 2020 edition of the Chicano Connection (8 to 9pm)

Here’s the playlist:

Fats Domino/Hello Josephine–Connie Francis/My Happiness–The Flamingos/A Kiss From Your Lips–Danny and the Juniors/At The Hop–LaVern Baker/Bop-Ting-A-Ling–Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers/Paper Castles–Shirley Gunter and the Queens/Oop Shoop–The Champs/Tequila–Little RIchard/Long Tall Sally–The Heartbeats/A Thousand Miles Away–Dee Dee Sharp/Your Precious Love–The Miracles/Bad Girl–Bill Haley and the Comets/Rock Around the Clock–The Bobbettes/Mr. Lee–Jackie Wilson/Reet Petite–The Duprees/You Belong To Me–The Teddy Bears/To Know Him Is To Love Him–The Everly Brothers/All I Have To Do is Dream–Gene Chandler/The Duke of Earl–The Blossoms/He’s A Rebel–The Drifters/Under the Boardwalk–Little Eva/The Locomotion(partial)

Click here to hear the second hour of the February 26 edition of the Chicano Connection (9 to 10pm)

Here’s the playlist:

Little Eva/The Locomotion (partial)–Chubby Checker/The Twist–Dee Dee Sharp/The Mashed Potato–Little Willie John/Let Them Talk–Santo and Johnny/Sleepwalk–The Chantels/The Plea–Bobby Lewis/Tossin’ and Turnin’–Big Maybelle/A Little Bird(Told Me That You Loved Me)–Gary U.S. Bonds/Quarter to Three–Jewel Akens/The Birds and the Bees–Betty Everett/The Shoop Shoop Song (It’s In HIs Kiss)–Major Lance/Land of 1,000 Dances–Fats Domino/Let The Four Winds Blow–The Shirelles/Mama Said–Joe Jones/You Talk Too Much–The Rays/Silhouettes–The Chantels/Look In My Eyes–The Five Satins/In The Still of the Night–Chuck Berry/Roll Over Beethoven–Carl Perkins/Blue Suede Shoes–Jerry Lee Lewis/Great Balls of Fire–The Casinos/Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye–The Little Darlings/A Little Bit of Soul.