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Better Music Tunedex for Dec. 13-26

Thank you to the Edwin R. Crawford Estate Trust for their support this week of the New Sound of the Mon Valley, WMCK.FM! And thank you all for listening.

Top songs played on WMCK.FM during the weeks of Dec. 13 and Dec. 20, 2015:

(Does not include Christmas music)

1. Let it Pretend - Dirty Ghosts
2. Too Tough - Bully
3. Alone Again - The King Khan & BBQ Show
4. S.W.I.M. - Lowly
5. When I Was Done Dying - Dan Deacon
6. Come On - Holly Miranda
7. Planting Flowers - Shadow in the Cracks
8. Seventeen - Chad Valley
9. Cavalry Captain - The Decemberists
10. The Woods - Drenge
11. Memo 34 - Sunwolf
12. New Bohemia - Transviolet
13. Ch-Ching - Chairlift
14. Lost at Sea - Great American Canyon Band
15. Hey Everybody! - 5 Seconds of Summer
16. Albatross - Foals
17. Sea Calls Me Home - Julia Holter
18. I Feel It - Avid Dancer
19. The Chill - Coke Weed
20. Quiet Day - Fort Lean

"Not Your Average" holiday cheer from WMCK.FM

McKeesport-based Internet radio station WMCK.FM has scheduled several special Christmas-themed programs for the week of Dec. 20, including a courthouse concert by musicians from McKeesport Area High School, a religious service from St. Stephen's Episcopal Church and McKeesport's Voice of Vision Ministries, and "Not Your Average Christmas Show" featuring unusual holiday rock, blues and folk songs.

Tune into WMCK.FM on Wednesday, Dec. 16 from 9 to 11 p.m. for "Not Your Average Christmas Show," hosted by Chris Stillwell.

"Not Your Average Christmas Show" features a variety of unusual holiday songs, including carols and religious music, from artists not usually associated with the Christmas season, including Yo La Tengo, John Prine, Tom Waits, Sufjan Stevens and Bela Fleck and the Fleck-Tones.

Pittsburgh's Joe Negri is also represented on "Not Your Average Christmas Show," as are '50s R&B artists such as Oscar McLollie And His Honey Jumpers and Motown stars like Stevie Wonder.

The show will repeat from 5 to 7 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 20 and from 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 24.

"A Courthouse Concert" --- featuring musicians from McKeesport Area High School --- will air at 12 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 20, 7 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 22, and 4 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 24.

Recorded Dec. 4 at Allegheny County Courthouse, the concert features selections performed by the McKeesport Area High School Orchestra and the MAHS Brass Ensemble.

WMCK.FM Better Music Tunedex for Nov. 29-Dec. 5

Top songs played on WMCK.FM during the week of Nov. 29, 2015:

1. Golden Child - Promised Land Sound
2. Unveil - Lowly
3. Too Tough (Radio Edit) - Bully
4. When I Was Done Dying - Dan Deacon
5. Sea Calls Me Home - Julia Holter
6. Made for Pleasure - The New Mastersounds
7. Ch-Ching - Chairlift
8. Some Kids - Dirty Ghosts
9. I Don't Wanna - Homeshake
10. Run This Town - Corb Lund
11. Calvary Captain - The Decemberists
12. At the Circle's Edge - Tommy Guerrero
13. Redline - The Brainstems
14. Waltz of the 101st Lightborne - Joanna Newsom
15. Tearing Me Up - Bob Moses
16. Ain't No Chimneys in the Projects - Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings
17. Sinner - Arca
18. One Foot - The Mynabirds
19. Savior of Love - Brian Carpenter and the Confessions
20. Holding On - Disclosure feat. Gregory Porter

WMCK.FM Better Music Tunedex for Nov. 22-28

1. Push & Pull (All the Time) - Promised Land Sound
2. Unveil - Lowly
3. Sikka Takin' the Hard Way - New Beat Fund
4. Slide Into My Arms - Rene Lopez
5. Some Kids - Dirty Ghosts
6. Memo 34 - Sunwolf
7. Too Tough - Bully
8. Oh Seven - Ms. John Soda
9. The Chill - Coke Weed
10. Alice Eyes - Corb Lund
11. Birthday Boy - Drive-By Truckers
12. 867 - Iration
13. I Don't Wanna - Homeshake
14. Planting Flowers - Shadows in the Cracks
15. Love Me - The 1975
16. Ch-Ching - Chairlift
17. The Stranger - Danny Pynes
18. Why'd You - Ellie Herring
19. Lost at Sea - Great American Canyon Band
20. Counterfeit Sky - Failure

Special Thanksgiving programming!

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On Thanksgiving, we'll have special old-time radio programming, beginning at 8 a.m., and including two great stories from Jean Shepherd, whose writings inspired the holiday classic movie, "A Christmas Story."

From 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., it's classic comedy, with Thanksgiving themed episodes of "The Jack Benny Program," "The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show," "The Mel Blanc Show," "The Abbott and Costello Show," "Lum and Abner" and "The Life of Riley."

From 1 to 3 p.m., travel down folk music highways with Bob Janis on "Juneberry Road," and at 3 p.m., it's "The Rick Smith Show."

At 4 p.m., we're back into old-time radio, with a 1958 episode of "Gunsmoke" and a 1951 episode of "The Cavalcade of America."

At 5 p.m., it's "Neighborhood Voices," with an interview of former Penn State Greater Allegheny Chancellor Dr. Curtiss Porter, then stay tuned for Thanksgiving themed episodes of "Jeff Regan, Investigator," "The Life of Riley," "Mutual Family Theater" and "The Adventures of Sam Spade."

From 7 to 9 p.m., catch up with Doug Goffus on "Goffus Golden Oldies," and at 9 p.m., we have two broadcasts of Jean Shepherd's radio show from WOR in New York City, in which he recounts some Thanksgiving mis-adventures.

Then, it's "Cavalcade of America," with an episode entitled "Tisquantum, Strange Friend of the Pilgrims," followed by CBS's classic "You Are There: The Sailing of the Mayflower" and a 1947 episode of "Casey: Crime Photographer."

Happy Thanksgiving from the new sound of the Mon Valley, WMCK.FM!