This Wednesday afternoon The AIR, presents a special new episodes of Beatles Blast and Curtain Call.  You can listen at the website, or on this embedded radio player…

At 2 PM Beatles Blast brings you another hour of The Lost Beatles Project, which combines rare cuts, studio outtakes and musical rarities into a nearly-60 minute mixtape of little-heard Beatles gems.

Beatles Blast can be heard every Wednesday at 2 PM, with replays Thursday at 9 PM, Friday at 11 AM, Sunday at 5 PM and Tuesdays at 9 AM, exclusively on The AIR.

At 3 PM Mel Larch presents a new hour of great musical theater on Curtain Call. This time it’s another looke at Jukebox Musicals, those musical stage shows and revues that use existing hit songs to tell their stories. The show opens with David Byrne and the cast of American Utopia performing a classic Talking Heads number, and continues with songs made famous by The Beatles, Green Day, Elton John, Gloria Gaynor, Meatloaf and more. Check out the playlist…

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“Once In A Lifetime” from American Utopia
“Wake Me Up When September Ends” From American Idiot
“Come Together” from Boom (Live at Birdland) with Liz Callaway and Ann Hampton Callaway
“True Love Ways” from Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story (London Cast)
“I’ll Never Fall In Love Again” from Promises Promises
“Your Song” from Moulin Rouge
“Since I Lost My Baby” from Ain’t Too Proud –The Life And Times Of The Temptations
“I Will Survive” from The Donkey Show
“Heaven Is A Place On Earth” from Head Over Heels
“I Would Do Anything For Love (But I Won’t Do That)” from Jim Stienman’s Bat Out of Hell
“War” from Motown The Musical
“Summertime” from A Night With Janis

After the new hour of Curtain Call, stick around for two additional episodes from the Curtain Call archives. Curtain Call can be heard Wednesday at 3 PM, with replays Thursday at 8 AM and 8 PM, Friday at 10 AM and Saturday at 5 PM. An all-night marathon of Curtain Call episodes can be heard Wednesday nights, beginning at Midnight, and an additional marathon can be heard Sunday evenings from 6 PM to midnight..