Upstate Radio Theatre 2025

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Casey, Crime Photographer "Miscarriage of Justice" 10-2-47
Fort Laramie "Small Beginnings" 9-30-56

Sounds From the Global Village 2016

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Segment One

The Cameronian Set by Cherish the Ladies
CD: Out and About (Green Linnet)

You Can't Escape Death by Fra Fra
CD: Funeral Songs (Glitterbeat)

Duck's Quarrel by Hok-Man Yim
CD: Poems of Thunder (Naxos)

Segment Two

Uskudar by Alan Shavarsh Bardezbanian and His Middle Eastern Ensemble
CD: Oud Classics From Armenia, the Balkans and Middle East (ARC)

Hakuna Matata by So' Forest
CD: Bikutsi Pop (Naxos)

Veinte Anos by Maria Teresa Vera
CD: Holding Up Half the Sky: Voices of Latin Women (Shanachie)

Kiss by Tootard
CD: Migrant Birds (Glitterbeat)

Segment Three

M'tsitso by Venancio Mbande
CD: Timbila Ta Venancio (Naxos)

Message Stick by David Hudson
CD: Rainbow Serpent (Celestial Harmonies)

Bratinecki Muzikasi by Folklorni Ansambl Zagreb-Markovac
CD: Croatian Folklore Gold (self-released)

Jazz Progressions 2020

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Segment One

Heartbeat by Herbie Hancock
CD: Man-Child (Columbia)

Princess Aura by Turning Point
Double CD: Creatures of the Night/Silent Promise (Vocalion)

This Exists by Azymuth
CD: Light as a Feather (Black Sun)

Segment Two

These Are Odd Times by Larry Coryell
CD: Cause and Effect (Tone Center)

The Island by Ray Russell
CD: Now, More Than Ever (Abstract Logix)

Restless Mountains by Mark Wingfield
CD: Proof of Light (MoonJune)

Segment Three

Song for the Bearded Lady by Nucleus
CD: The Pretty Redhead (Hux)

It Came From Knowhere by Miroslav Vitous
LP: Purple (CBS)

Lake Air 2022

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Segment One

Gratitude by Steve Cole
CD: Gratitude (Artistry)

Remembering by Images
CD: Relative Work (MCA)

Time Goes By by Sergio Mendes
Double CD: In the Key of Joy (Concord)

Three Quarters by Steve Bach
CD: More Than a Dream (Soundwing)

Segment Two

The Road Never Ends by Brian Simpson and Steve Oliver
CD: Unified (Shanachie)

Velvet Memories by Luna
CD: Moving Moments (Nightingale)

All or Nothing at All by Al Jarreau
CD: Heart's Horizon (Reprise)

Nice Talking to You by The End
CD: Matter of Fact (Stunt)

Segment Three

Hidden Treasure by Kim Waters
CD: Shakedown (Shanachie)

So Many Stars by Earl Klugh
CD: Solo Guitar (Warner Brothers)

Peg by Steely Dan
CD: Aja (MCA)

Cafe Ole by Bob Mahaney
CD: Vox Poppin' (Optimism)

Classics and Beyond 2020

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Segment One

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Serenade No. 10 in B-Flat Major for Thirteen Wind Instruments
Edwin Fischer Chamber Orchestra
78 RPM Album: Mozart: Serenade No. 10 (RCA Victor)

Segment Two

Walter Piston: The Incredible Flutist Suite
The Boston Pops
Arthur Fiedler: Conductor
78 RPM Album: Piston: The Incredible Flutist Suite (RCA Victor)

Segment Three

Arcangelo Corelli: Concerto Grosso No. 7 Op. 6
Chamber Orchestra of the Castle Church, Copenhagen
Mogens Woldike: Conductor
78 RPM Album: Corelli: Concerto Grosso No. 7 Op. 6 (Gramophone Company)

Lake Air Deep Tracks 2017

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Segment One

Playground Memories by Laura McMillan
CD: Storybook Love (self-released)

Rainy Night Lullaby by Reed Maidenberg
CD: Poppies (RhythMythology)

Nilapadma by Georgia Kelly
CD: Seaspace (Global Pacific)

Waiting for the Sun by Kristin Amarie
Digital Album: Silhouettes of Love (Audio and Video Labs)

Mokimbo by Davol
CD: Mystic Waters (Silver Wave)

Segment Two

Ritual Dance by Michael Hedges
CD: Taproot (Windham Hill)

Endless Skies by Kerani
Digital Album: Sands of Time (self-released)

Esotera by Tri Atma
CD: Yearning and Harmony (Fortuna)

Lunar Phase by The Heavenly Music Corporation
CD: Lunar Phase (Silent)

Satori by Tony Scott
CD: Music for Zen Meditation (Verve)

Something Beautiful 2019

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Segment One

My Love by Percy Faith
You Don't Being Me Flowers by Norm Geller
You Will Never Know by John Sbarra
Body and Soul by Gordon Langford
It's Impossible by The Romantic Strings
East of the Sun by Paul Weston
She's Out of My Life by The London Symphony Orchestra
Non Dimenticar by Percy Faith
A Cottage for Sale by Alan Charles

Segment Two

Dr. Jivago by Franck Pourcel
Friendly Persuasion by Stanley Black
Moonglow and Theme From Picnic by Geoff Love
To Each His Own by Roger Williams
My Impossible Love by Henri Rene
Yesterday by The Romantic Strings
Soft Lights and Sweet Music by Percy Faith
Desafinado by Andre Kostelanetz
Our Love is Here to Stay by Geoff Love

Upstate Radio Theatre 2024

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Brownstone Theater "The Lion and the Mouse" 2-21-45
Famous Jury Trials "The People Vs. Radin" 5-3-47

Jazz Progressions 2019

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Segment One

Treatise Part 6 by The Quax Ensemble
Double CD: Treatise (Mode)

Segment Two

Steve Reich in Babylone by Radiation 10
CD: Radiation 10 (Coax)

Riff(t)s by The Gregg Bendian Project
CD: Counterparts (CIMP)

Segment Three

Siete Ocho by Andrew Hill
Dawn by Ornette Coleman
CD Box Set: 60 Blue Note Years (Blue Note)

Jazz and More 10-18 and 10-25-20

Because of a technical issue on 10/18, this program was re-aired on 10/25.

Listen Hour 1
Listen Hour 2
Listen Hour 3

Hour One Segment One

Cast Your Fate to the Wind by The Vince Guaraldi Trio
Crazy Rhythm by Bill Harris
Blues in the Night by Kenny Burrell
A Minor Goof by Cal Tjader
CD: The Fantasy Original Jazz Classics Sampler (OJC)

Hour One Segment Two

Blackwood by Eddie Daniels
Jamaica, Jamaica by Special EFX
St. Elsewhere by Dave Grusin
Daahoud by Arturo Sandoval
Triple CD: GRP Records 10th Anniversary Collection (GRP)

Hour One Segment Three

Unseen Rain by W.A. Mathieu
Indian Woman by Rubaja and Hernandez
Woman at the Well by Tim Story
CD: Windham Hill Sampler 88 (Windham Hill)

Hour One Segment Four

Kitty in the Lane/Captain Kelly/The Green Mountain by Matt Malloy, Sean Keane and Arty McGlynn
Lucy Cassidy/The Bletherskate/The Smith of Chiliechassie by The Tannahill Weavers
Breton Gavottes by Kevin Burke and Michael O Domhnaill
CD: Flight of the Green Linnet (Green Linnet)

Hour Two Segment One

The Way You Look Tonight by Erroll Garner
In the Purple Grotto by Mary Lou Williams
Sweet Sixteen Bars by Ray Charles
Delaunay's Dilemma by John Lewis
CD: Atlantic Jazz: Piano (Rhino)

Hour Two Segment Two

Charles Christopher by Phil Woods
Congo Blues by Red Rodney
What Am I Gonna Do With You? by Kenny Rankin
Rhythms by Badi Assad
CD: Chesky Records 10th Anniversary Sampler (Chesky)

Hour Two Segment Three

One Heart Wild by Danny Heines
West by Peter Kater and R. Carlos Nakai
Our Mountains Are the People by Wind Machine
CD: The Best of Silver Wave Vol. 1: The Sun (Silver Wave)

Hour Two Segment Four

Sunday Sonata by Doug Smith
Tempo de Menuetto by Arne Roth and Kim Schmidt
Silver Screen Romance by Michael Hoppe
CD: Day Parts: Sunday Morning Coffee (American Gramaphone)

Hour Three Segment One

Tempus Fugit by Miles Davis
Cheesecake by Dexter Gordon
The Time is Now by Eliane Elias
CD Box Set: 60 Blue Note Years (Blue Note)

Hour Three Segment Three

Oracle by Spacetime Continuum
Regina From the Future by The Starseeds
CD: Three A.D. (Waveform)

Hour Three Segment Four

Rainfall by Michael Jones and David Darling
Renaissance by William Ellwood
CD: Narada Sampler 3 (Narada)

The Jazz Scene 2021

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Segment One

Four by Sonny Rollins
LP: Now's the Time (RCA)

Palace of the Seven Jewels by The Avery Sharpe Trio
CD: Autumn Moonlight (JKNM)

Maternity by Eddie Davis and His Beboppers
CD: Timeless Fats Navarro (Savoy)

Segment Two

Ubiquitous Up Tune in 3 by George Crowley
CD: Can of Worms (Whirlwind)

The Thought Just Hit Me by Kathy Tugman
CD: Robin on the Frost (Rocky River)

Going to the Sun by Jim Rotondi
CD: Dark Blue (Smoke Session)

Segment Three

Father by Joshua Redman
CD: RoundAgain (Nonesuch)

As Never Before by Vardan Ovsepian
CD: Sketch Book (Fresh Sound)

Lover Man by Joe DiOrio
CD: We Will Meet Again (RAM)

Lake Air 2021

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Segment One

Infinite Love by Darren Rahn
Single: Infinite Love (Woodward Avenue)

Waiting Room by Exchange
CD: Into the Night (Mesa)

2 Good 2 be 4gotten by Full Swing
CD: In Full Swing (Cypress)

Nirvana by David Debree
LP: Evening Tide (CAS)

Segment Two

GrooveLatino by Hiroshima
Single: GrooveLatino (self-released)

Floating by Horizont
CD: Silent Moon (Delta)

One Step Forward by Lindsey Webster
CD: A Woman Like Me (Shanachie)

Changes by Keith Thomas
LP: Instrumental Appetite (Myrrh)

Segment Three

(Cross the) Heartland by The Pat Metheny Group
CD: American Garage (ECM)

Continuum by Ira Stein
CD: Carousel (Narada)

For Old Times by Michael Tomlinson
CD: Living Things (Rhino)

Dawn Song by Grover Washington Jr.
CD: Inside Moves (Elektra)

Something Beautiful 2018

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Segment One

To Kill a Mockingbird Suite by The Prague Philharmonic
I Could Have Danced All Night by Frank Chacksfield
A Man and a Woman by Richard Hayman
Yesterday When I Was Young by Harald Winkler
A Quiet Thing by Percy Faith
Dancing on the Ceiling by Andre Kostelanetz
Elizabethan Serenade by Ron Goodwin
You'd Be So Nice to Come Home to by Percy Faith

Segment Two

La Mer by Paul Mauriat
Sacrifice by Nick Ingman
C'est Si Bon by Hill Bowen
I'm Getting Sentimental Over You by Nelson Riddle
Misirlou by The Clebanoff Strings
Symphony by Nelson Riddle
It's Going to Take Some Time by 101 Strings
Stardust by The Avenue Strings
Boulevard of Broken Dreams by Michel LeGrand

Jazz and More 10-11-20

Listen Hour 1
Listen Hour 2
Listen Hour 3

Hour One Segment One

Batuki by Onaje Allan Gumbs
CD: That Special Part of Me (Zebra)

Stingray by David Benoit
CD: This Side Up (Spindletop)

Southwest Passage by Dave Grusin
CD: Migration (GRP)

Hour One Segment Two

Adnil by Justin Robinson
CD: The Challenge (Arabesque)

Giant Steps by Bob Mintzer and Michael Brecker
CD: Twin Tenors (Novus)

Hour One Segment Three

I Once Loved a Lass by Radhika Miller
CD: Here and Far Away (Real Music)

The Hills of New Zealand by Cherish the Ladies
CD: Woman of the House (Rounder)

Dark Island by Mike Oldfield
CD: Voyager (Reprise)

Hour One Segment Four

Dragon Boat by Lin Shicheng
CD: Hunting Eagles Catching Swans (ARC)

Hour Two Segment One

Heartbeat by Herbie Hancock
CD: Man-Child (Columbia)

Mr. Gone by Weather Report
CD: Mr. Gone (Columbia)

Outubro by Azymuth
CD: Outubro (Black Sun)

Segment Two

Carefree by Charles Sullivan
CD: Kamau (Arabesque)

Split Second Timing by Craig Handy
CD: Split Second Timing (Arabesque)

Hour Two Segment Three

Heartfire by Deborah Henson-Conant)
CD: On the Rise (GRP)

Trade Winds by Richard Souther
CD: Twelve Tribes (Narada)

Lightwater by John Higham
CD: Sierra Crossing (Scarlet)

Hour Two Segment Four

The Silent Hours by Roger Eno
CD: Between Tides (Opal)

Slow Water by Brian Eno
CD: Music for Films (EG)

Hour Three Segment One

I May  be Wrong by Charlie Parker
CD Box Set: Charlie Parker Records: The Complete Collection (Membran)

Donna Lee by James Zollar
CD: Soaring With Bird (Naxos)

Hour Three Segment Two

U.M.M.G. by Howard Alden
CD: Take Your Pick (Concord)

Real Life by Bruce Forman
CD: Forman on the Job (Kamei)

Hour Three Segment Three

The Oh of Pleasure by Ray Lynch
CD: Deep Breakfast (Windham Hill)

Tomoshibi by Shiho
CD: Purple Sails (Hearts of Space)

Hour Three Segment Four

She's Like the Circle by Douglas Trowbridge
CD: Memories of Twilight (NortherSouth)

She Walks in Beauty by Bill Douglas
CD: Stepping Stones (Hearts of Space)

Classics and Beyond 2019

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Segment One

Giovanni Battista Viotti: Sinfonia Concertante No. 1 for Violin, Piano and Orchestra
Guido Rimonda: Violin/Conductor
Cristina Canziani: Piano
Camerata Ducale
CD: Viotti: Sinfonia Concertante No. 1/Concerto No. 3 for Violin, Piano and Orchestra (Decca)

Segment Two

Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Guitar Concerto in D Major, Op. 89
Eduardo Fernandez: Guitar
English Chamber Orchestra
Miguel Gomez Martinez: Conductor
CD: Rodrigo: Concerto de Aranjuez/Fantasia Para Un Gentilhombre, Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Guitar Concerto (Decca)

Segment Three

Baroque Jazz Trio: Cesar Go Back Home
LP: Baroque Jazz Trio (L'Arome)

The Jazz Scene 2020

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Segment One

King Size by Gene Ammons
CD: Funky (Original Jazz Classics)

Lullaby of the Leaves by James Williams
CD: Magical Trio 2 (Emarcy)

Segment Two

Nutville by Jim Cooper
CD: Nutville (Delmark)

Blame it On My Youth by Sandra King and Richard Rodney Bennett
CD: Making Beautiful Music Together (Audiophile)

Touch and Go by Sean Jones
CD: No Need for Words (Mack Avenue)

Segment Three

When Lights are Low by Jay Leonhart
CD: Fly Me to the Moon (Venus)

Chega de Saudade by Gary Burton
CD: Alone at Last (Atlantic)

In the Spur of the Moment by Justin Robinson
CD: In the Spur of the Moment (WJ3)

Lake Air 2020

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Segment One

Flying Colors by Grant Geissman
CD: Flying Colors (Bluemoon)

Chromewave by Maxxess
CD: Landscapes (Klangdesign)

I'd Rather Be Happy Than Right by Michael Franks
CD: Time Together (Shanachie)

Morning Glow by Onaje Allan Gumbs
CD: That Special Part of Me (Zebra)

Segment Two

Swept Away by Mark Egan
CD: Beyond Words (Bluemoon)

A Time for Peace by Ivory Sessions
CD: A Time for Peace (Colours)

Cajun Moon by Maria Muldaur
CD: Louisiana Love Call (Black Top)

Wednesday by Rob Mullins
CD: Dance for the New World (Zebra)

Segment Three

Harp Beat by Roberto Perera
CD: Harp and Soul (Heads Up)

Don't Know Why by Pat Metheny
CD: Acoustic Heart, Vol. 2 (Shanachie)

Touch Will Tell by Kenny Vance
CD: Short Vacation (Gold Castle)

Plumbline by Justo Almario
CD: Plumbline (Sparrow)

Something Beautiful 2017

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Segment One

Around the World by The Cascading Strings
Getting to Know You by Hill Bowen
Mona Lisa by Roger Williams
Living Together Growing Together by 101 Strings
Dances With Wolves by Musica Paradiso
Valse Romantique by Monia Liter
The Way You Look Tonight by Robert Farnon
Falling in Love With Love by Hill Bowen
Musik Der Liebe by Richard Clayderman

Segment Two

Sur Le Pave by Frank Chacksfield
If I Could Be With You by Reg Owen
Sophisticated Lady by Morton Gould
Eleanor Rigby by The Fantastic Strings
A Time for Us by Manuel
Time Remembered by Bill Pursell
I'll Never Love This Way Again by John Fox
Driftwood and Dreams by Henry Mancini
Yester-Me, Yester-You, Yesterday by Syd Dale

Sounds From the Global Village 2015

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Segment One

Melokane by Modou Toure
CD: Touki (ARC)

Sjugurd og Trollbrura by Eli Storbekken and Sigurd Hole
Digital Album: Fabel (Heilo)

Hunting Eagles Catching Swans by Lin Shicheng
CD: Hunting Eagles Catching Swans (ARC)

Segment Two

Sindayo by Music Yared
CD: Music Yared (Music in Exile)

Dance of the Wounded Lovers by Shafqat Ali Khan
CD: Sublime Sufi (ARC)

Maria Moita by Rosalia de Souza
CD: Brazilian Groove (Putumayo)

Semgne Three

Solea Por Buleria by Jaleo
CD: Flamenco Live (ARC)

Dhun in Raga Patdeep by Kuljit Bhamra
CD: Essence of Raga Tala (ARC)

Jazz Progressions 2018

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Segment One

Strawberries by String Trio of New York
CD: Area Code 212 (Black Saint)

Cho-Cho by Akira Sakata
CD: Pochi (Columbia)

Segment Two

The Way of... by Edward Vesala
CD: Nan Madol (ECM)

San Justo by Enrico Rava
CD: Quotation Marks (ECM)

Segment Three

Snap High by Miguel Angel Gil
CD: Grooveland (Romero)

Got a Match? by The Chick Corea Elektric Band
CD: The Chick Corea Elektric Band (GRP)

Jazz and More 10-04-20

Listen Hour 1
Listen Hour 2
Listen Hour 3

Hour One Segment One

Jordu by Tal Farlow
CD: Fuerst Set (Xanadu)

Hour One Segment Two

Twilight Glow by Stewy Von Wattenwyl
CD: In the Giants Garden (Brambus)

Over the Rainbow by The George Otsuka Trio
CD: Last Summer (Nippon)

Hour One Segment Three

New October by John Nilsen
CD: Sometimes Paris (Magic Wing)

What Goes Around by Shadowfax
CD: Too Far to Whisper (Windham Hill)

The Waiting Room by Exchange
CD: Into the Night (Mesa)

Hour One Segment Four

Tryweryn by Gwenno Saunders
House Carpenter by Mick McAuley
CD: Celtic Crossroads (Putumayo)

Hour Two Segment One

Mr. P.C. by John Coltrane
CD: Giant Steps (Atlantic)

Bass Region by Paul Chambers
CD: 1st Bassman (Collectables)

Hour Two Segment Two

Stories to Tell by Stanley Clarke
CD: If This Bass Could Only Talk (CBS)

Metal Fatigue by Allan Holdsworth
CD: Metal Fatigue (Cream)

The Fall of Babylon by Chris Poland
CD: Return to Metalopolis (Irond)

Hour Two Segment Three

Bach: Violin Sonata No. 1 in G Minor by Tomomi Kohno
CD: Oracion (Art_Infini)

Hour Two Segment Four

O'Keeffe by James Newton
CD: Echo Canyon (Celestial Harmonies)

Prologue/Inside by Paul Horn
CD: Inside the Taj Mahal (Kuckuck)

Hour Three Segment One

Part 2A by Keith Jarrett
CD: The Koln Concert (ECM)

Hour Three Segment Two

Moe Honk by Joshua Redman
CD: Round Again (Nonesuch)

Whirling Dervish by Christian McBride
CD: Number Two Express (Verve)

Hour Three Segment Three

You Know My Heart by 3rd Force
CD: 3rd Force (Higher Octave)

Midnight by Chris Spheeris
CD: Desires of the Heart (CBS)

Ritual by Davol
CD: Paradox (Silver Wave)

Hour Three Segment Four

Aurora by Oregon
CD: Distant Hills (Vanguard)

Classics and Beyond 2018

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Segment One

Dusan Bogdanovic: Jazz Sonata
Tomomi Kohno: Guitar
CD: Luxe (Art_Infini)

Segment Two

Bela Bartok: Piano Concerto No. 1, Sz. 83
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Seiji Ozawa: Conductor
CD Box Set: Seiji Ozawa, Chicago Symphony Orchestra: The Complete RCA Recordings (RCA)

Segment Three

Francesco Mancini: Recorder Sonata No. 11 in G Minor
Armonia Delle Sfere
Double CD: Mancini: Works for Recorder and Harpsichord (Tactus)

Lake Air Deep Tracks 2016

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Segment One

Clouds by Seth Austen
CD: Desert Winds (Turquoise)

First Contact by Fanger and Schonwald
CD: Analog Overdose (Manikin)

To the One Who Knows by Yanni
Double CD: Conversations With God (Windham Hill)

In the Court of the Mermaid by Friedemann
CD: Aquamarine (Narada)

Segment Two

First Snowfall by Jon Mark
CD: Sunday in Autumn (White Cloud)

Improvisation by Alla
CD: Foundou de Bechar (NordSud)

Ancient Evenings by Garry Hughes
CD: Path: An Ambient Journey (Windham Hill)

Bouree by Nightnoise
CD: The Bach Variations (Windham Hill)

Forests Lament by Bernward Koch
CD: Laguna de la Vera (Erdenklang)

Upstate Radio Theatre 2023

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New Theater "The Time of Man" 7-15-51

Upstate Radio Theatre 2022

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Eddie Condon's Jazz Concerts "First Song: Rosetta" 9-16-44
The Life of Riley "Riley is Held Up" 4-8-49