The Carly Simon - Steely Dan connection + some new rereleases

The Radio Dupree homepage has just been updated with:

* The listener's Top 20.
* Who won the April giveaway?
* The connection between Carly Simon's brand new CD and Steely Dan.
* An upcoming bunch of Steely Dan rereleases for the completist collector.
* Album of the Month: King Crimson's The Great Deceiver.

Drop on by and have a look.

Radio Dupree sounding even better!

Radio Dupree makes the "big switch" tomorrow (Saturday April 5) at 6 p.m. Central European Time. While we've been happy enough with the music on the playlist, we've been less than happy with the sound quality of the station. We started out using a higher bitrate, but downgraded after a couple of months to give people connecting using a modem a chance to listen in. The number of listeners increased and we've stuck to the 32 kbps stream. That is, until tomorrow evening.

In one hopefully quick and trouble-free switch we're going to 64 kbps mp3PRO.
Listen in, tell us what you think and just to help you keep track of the switch; here's a countdown timer:

(If you can't see the timer your javascript is most probably disabled)

Radio Dupree celebrating five years in April

Radio Dupree is celebrating five years on the web this month. So until our website is updated, here is some information on what's going on:

We are going to sound better. Not as in changing the music we play, but rather as in changing our bitrate.
That will take place this coming weekend. Listen in and let us know what you think.

The 5 year anniversary makes us extra generous: We are giving away a brand new copy of our Album of the Month. So what album is that? Look in here tomorrow (Tuesday April 1) to find out more about the album and how you can win it.

During April we'll also have a couple of extra shows. It's been quite some time since we last did an hour or so focusing on a single artist, music style or whatever. This month is the perfect month to celebrate some of "our artists", i.e. artists we've been playing since we first started our little station here on the Internet. More on these shows this weekend.

As always you're welcome to write us at radiodupree@yahoo.se

NASA sends The Beatles across the universe

Yep. 7 pm Eastern Standard Time Monday February 4 NASA will beam The Beatles song Across The Universe out in to space.

Here's what NASA writes:
The transmission over NASA's Deep Space Network will commemorate the 40th anniversary of the day The Beatles recorded the song, as well as the 50th anniversary of NASA's founding and the group's beginnings. Two other anniversaries also are being honored: The launch 50 years ago this week of Explorer 1, the first U.S. satellite, and the founding 45 years ago of the Deep Space Network, an international network of antennas that supports missions to explore the universe.

The transmission is being aimed at the North Star, Polaris, which is located 431 light years away from Earth. The song will travel across the universe at a speed of 186,000 miles per second.

Read more here.

We can't help but share the comment left by Uncle Sams nephew on the NASA site:

"Is this a serious attempt at communication or just some half-baked feelgood thing solely for a few people here to feel warm & fuzzy?

Stop wasting U.S. taxpayer money. Could've at least sent it in a format for easy decoding (like AM)... not like the transmission will orbit around Polaris while some distant civilization figures out what an MP3 digital stream is and how to decode it.The MP3 specs should be transmitted as well. And if you can only send a digital transmission, how about an uncompressed raw format for decoding.

Also hope you got the RIAA's permission for this- music sharing is a no-no.

This isn't rocket science."


In the meantime Radio Dupree has already launched the monthly update of our homepage. It happened this evening. Our Album of the Month won't need no shoes and apparently fans of sometimes-Steely Dan drummer Keith Carlock can catch him playing in Denmark this month! Read more on the Radio Dupree homepage.

Radio Dupree: Added this week

We keep the playlist in ever-changing mode. Some old songs return, while some new ones premieres. And in an average week it means quite a few changes. Here's what we've added the past week:

Allan Holdsworth - Mac Man - Sand
Iggy Pop - Neighborhood Threat - Lust For Life
Bruford - Travels With Myself - And Someone Else - The Bruford Tapes
Dag Vag - Glappkontakt - Dag Vag
Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention - King Kong - 'Tis The Season To Be Jelly (Beat The Boots 1)
Allan Holdsworth - Pud Wud - Sand
Frank Zappa - Willie The Pimp - You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore - Vol. 4
Bruford - Fainting In Coils - The Bruford Tapes
Samla Mammas Manna - Overture To A Kind Horse - Samla Mammas Manna
Giles Giles & Fripp - Digging My Lawn - The Cheerful Insanity of Giles Giles and Fripp
David Bowie - Drive-in Saturday - Aladdin Sane
von Zamla - Clandestine - Zamlaranamma
GG/06 - Barry's Shoes - www.gg06.co.uk
The Big Believers - Your Soul Drags Easy - The Big Believers
The Big Believers - The Modernist's Couch - The Big Believers
The Big Believers - Renata - The Big Believers
The Big Believers - Fixing A Hole - The Big Believers
King Crimson - The Sheltering Sky - Discipline
von Zamla - Harujänta - Zamlaranamma
Rick Wakeman - Animal Showdown - Rhapsodies
Genesis - Say It's Alright Joe - And Then There Were Three
David Bowie - Watch That Man - Aladdin Sane
Elvis Costello - Sneaky Feelings - My Aim Is True - 30 Anniversary
Elvis Costello - Waiting For The End Of The World - My Aim Is True - 30 Anniversary
Elvis Costello - Alison (UK Mix) - My Aim Is True - 30 Anniversary
Elvis Costello - Blame It On Cain - My Aim Is True - 30 Anniversary
Elvis Costello - Miracle Man - My Aim Is True - 30 Anniversary
David Bowie - Running Gun Blues - The Man Who Sold The World
David Bowie - Starman - The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars
David Bowie - The Width Of A Circle - Bowie At The Beeb
David Bowie - Diamond Dogs - David Live
Trettioåriga Kriget - Röster Från Minus Till Plus - Trettioåriga Kriget
Frank Zappa - Chunga's Revenge - FZ:OZ
Jethro Tull - Look Into The Sun - Stand Up
Frank Zappa - Pound For A Brown (Radio Dupree edit) - In New York/You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore - Vol. 4
David Bowie - Oh! You Pretty Things - Hunky Dory
Frank Zappa & The Mothers - Penguin In Bondage - Roxy & Elsewhere
David Bowie - The Gospel According To Tony Day - Another Face
Frank Zappa - Spider Of Destiny - Läther
Frank Zappa - Carolina Hard-core Ecstasy - You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore - Vol. 4
Stacey Kent - Hard Hearted Hannah - Breakfast on the Morning Tram
Stacey Kent - Landslide - Breakfast on the Morning Tram
Stacey Kent - The Ice Hotel - Breakfast on the Morning Tram
Stacey Kent - What a Wonderful World - Breakfast on the Morning Tram
Stacey Kent - Breakfast on the Morning Tram - Breakfast on the Morning Tram
Genesis - Tonight, Tonight, Tonight - Dusseldorf, DE 27.06.07
Genesis - Throwing It All Away - Dusseldorf, DE 27.06.07
Genesis - Ripples - Dusseldorf, DE 27.06.07
Genesis - Mama - Dusseldorf, DE 27.06.07
Genesis - Invisible Touch - Dusseldorf, DE 27.06.07
Genesis - I Can't Dance - Dusseldorf, DE 27.06.07
Genesis - Drum Duet - Dusseldorf, DE 27.06.07
Genesis - Domino - Dusseldorf, DE 27.06.07
Genesis - Carpet Crawlers - Dusseldorf, DE 27.06.07
Jethro Tull - Back To The Family - Stand Up
Genesis - The Carpet Crawlers - The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
Wishbone Ash - Silver Shoes - There's the Rub
Wishbone Ash - Hometown - There's the Rub
Wishbone Ash - Don't Come Back - There's the Rub
King Crimson - Nuages (That Which Passes, Passes Like Clouds) - Three Of A Perfect Pair
Frank Zappa - My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mama - You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore - Vol. 4
Trettioåriga Kriget - Ur Djupen - Trettioåriga Kriget
Trettioåriga Kriget - Mina Löjen - Trettioåriga Kriget
Steely Dan - Third World Man - Alive In America
Steely Dan - Reelin' In The Years - Alive In America
Steely Dan - Bodhisattva - Alive In America
Steely Dan - Sign In Stranger - Alive In America
Salem Al Fakir - Waltz For Paula - CD Single
Sahara Hotnights - No For An Answer - What If Leaving Is A loving Thing
The Rutles - We've Arrived (And To Prove It We're Here) - Archaeology
The Rutles - Now She's Left You - Archaeology
The Rutles - Major Happy's Up And Coming Once Upon A Good Time Band/Rendezvous - Archaeology
The Rutles - Don't Know Why - Archaeology
The Rutles - Back In '64 - Archaeology
Ambrosia - Magical Mystery Tour - All This And World War II
Sara Isaksson & Rebecka Törnqvist - Your Gold Teeth II - Fire In The Hole - Sara Isaksson & Rebecka Törnqvist Sing Steely Dan
Sara Isaksson & Rebecka Törnqvist - Don't Take Me Alive - Fire In The Hole - Sara Isaksson & Rebecka Törnqvist Sing Steely Dan
Sara Isaksson & Rebecka Törnqvist - Do It Again - Fire In The Hole - Sara Isaksson & Rebecka Törnqvist Sing Steely Dan
Donald Fagen - Tomorrow's Girls - Kamakiriad
Steely Dan - Everything You Did - The Royal Scam
Steely Dan - Kid Charlemagne - The Royal Scam
Steely Dan - Sign In Stranger - The Royal Scam
Steely Dan - Here At The Western World - Citizen Steely Dan
Steely Dan - Don't Take Me Alive - The Royal Scam
Donald Fagen - Snowbound - Kamakiriad

Finally updated

It took a bit longer than expected and planned, but we finally got the first update of the year for the Radio Dupree homepage. This being our fifth anniversary year, we'll get some extra stuff going there eventually, but this time around it's just a lite update to get the year going.

And here's some Weekend Music:

Carolyn Leonhart & Wayne Escoffery perform Earth Calling from their new CD If Dreams Come True.

2008 ... it's official!

Still a couple of days to go, but the official Steely Dan site is already on 2008. Apparently.
And nothing wrong with that! 2008 is a year to look forward to. At least if we're supposed to believe Fagen in that newly published interview. Walter Becker will release his second solo album, Steely Dan and/or Donald Fagen solo will tour...

And - most importantly - Radio Dupree will celebrate five years on the air!
Expect us to make good use of this special year in Radio Dupree's short but pleasant existence. We'll have fun on the station, web page and blog. Consider yourself informed, warned and updated.