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 This Sunday, July 18, marks the 102nd anniversary of Barry Gray's birth. That sounds to me like a great excuse for a new Barry Gray tribute radio special!

On this Sunday's "Beyondophonic Action Hour" show, hear themes from 24 different Gerry Anderson TV and film productions, including unreleased gems courtesy the Barry Gray estate. We'll also dig into some of the rare, post-Gray music from more recent Anderson productions.

If you can't tune into the live stream at 7pm Pacific / 10pm Eastern, a podcast should be in the Luxuria show archives sometime on Monday. (But note: these are only kept available for download for a couple of months, so act soon.)

 
On The Beyondophonic Action Hour, Sunday March 7 and 14, it's Tothar's annual response to "Christmas in July." Tune in for an onslaught of boffo and baffling German-language pop, mostly from the 1960s. 

First up, an all-new installment on March 7. Among other Deutschland delights, this show will explore Germany's bizarre, widespread musical fixation with American Wild West cowboys. Then, on March 14, an encore presentation of Oktoberfest in March 2009. Along with gobs of go-go goodness, it included a block of hot German mambos/cha-chas/sambas, plus some swingin' Deutsche Tom Jones covers that caused a minor uproar in the Lux Chatroom last March. 

The Beyondophonic Action Hour with Tothar: Sundays 7pm Pacific, 10pm Eastern, here on LuxuriaMusic.

In between B-52s tours and Superions recording sessions, the mighty Fred Schneider squeezed in a sequel to his 2009 Beyondophonic phone-in co-host extravaganza. In addition to vintage favorites from the Tothar's and Fred's record collections, you'll hear a saucy (and saucer-y) track from Fred's new Superions EP, hitting stores Feb. 23 on CD and vinyl. Tune in this Sunday, 10pm Eastern / 7pm Pacific.

 
This Sunday night, Tothar will first serve up a heapin' helpin' of high-calorie dessert songs. THEN, burn off those unwanted pounds with a cross-section of one of the often-under-exploited genres of wondrous vinyl kitsch: the 1950s-1980s pop-hit exercise LP. You'll hear captivatingly cardiovascular versions of classics ranging from "Quiet Village" and "Holiday For Strings" to "To Sir With Love" and "She Blinded Me With Science." To join in on the sweets and the sweat, tune into The Beyondophonic Action Hour, Sunday night, 7:00 Pacific / 10:00 Eastern.

  
We have ourselves a winner! Congratulations to Aqua Marina with her passionate Les Baxter-referencing, water-resistant bouffant-wishing treatise. Click below right to Read more details in the blog.

FAB! Guess who turned 80 on today, April 14, 2009? Gerry Anderson, the puppet master of Supermarionation and the man behind live-action cult TV like The Protectors, Space: 1999, and the mighty UFO! Want to celebrate? Pour yourself a fine glass of Thunderbird wine and get down with Barry Gray's immortal soundtracks on the podcast archive of this past Sunday's special Andersonic Beyondophonic Action Hour.

    Missed Tothar's tribute to HAIR's return to Broadway? Fret not, LuxuriaMusic's got Podcast Archives! Click here to hear Part 1!

   Tonight's Beyondophonic Action Hour is a showcase of all underwater-themed tunes. PLUS: Tothar speaks with Ferrante & Teicher's manager Scott W. Smith, who provides the lowdown on F&T's first and last of nine "prepared piano" masterpiece albums, DENIZENS OF THE DEEP --- begun and lost in 1950, then found and completed and released in 2001.