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Friendly Society

Camden, United States

My name is Frank Boscoe and the name of the show is Friendly Society, after a 90s compilation album of that name that was itself taken from the British name for mutual aid societies a hundred or so years ago. The first 25 episodes (plus episode 0) aired on WRFR-LP (Rockland, ME) between June and November, 2021 and feature a deep dive into the music of a single artist or record label. Thereafter the shows are on Mixcloud only, seven songs a week, one for each today - songs that are memorable, relevant, or recently acquired.

A few bookkeeping notes

A few bookkeeping notes

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A few bookkeeping notes. Careful listeners will note that the version of these shows that airs live on WRFR and that I post here are not identical. Inevitably, I end up fading a song or two early on the radio to meet the two hour (actually more like 1:56) time limit. Not so on Mixcloud. WRFR features about 2 minutes of sponsored messages at the top of every hour; I do not include them here. And the Mixcloud version is free of the occasional egregious errors I make on the radio (dead air, starting a track at the wrong speed, etc.). One could reasonably ask why bother with the on-air version at all, and the only good response to that I have is 'tradition'.

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Though for the Dear Nora episode (just posted), I *did* post the live version, sponsored messages and all, because it seemed good enough!

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