Just someone who likes music sharing music he'd like you to like too.

@ronanfromcork picks 42-ish mins of songs, and talks in between them.

A GROUND BREAKING FORMAT!

This episode features

Black Grape /

Bonnie Prince Billy & Matt Sweeney /

Cornelius /

Echobelly /

Jape /

Malcolm Middleton & Alan Bissett /

Nina Nastasia /

Sinead O'Connor /

Super Furry Animals /

Suzanne Vega /

The Hard Ground /

The Unthanks

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Episode 4 of The Dead Cool Show where Ronan Leonard brings you a bunch of recordings 

of songs by people whose 'deathday' is sometime this week at some point in History... 

and weaves a tapestry of ideas, facts and connections.

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A long show this week, subjects covered include: a Hazelnut Chocolate Fact, a R.E.M. reference, many swoops at the Beat Generation, and an incredibly queasy description of Louis XVIII

This week with 19 Songs, 55 People & 13 Nationalities

1 Hour 16 mins of Music : 1 Hour 15 mins of Talk

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People Mentioned: 

Perez Prado

Jim Croce

Gram Parsons

Mary Travers

Norman Whitfield

Charles-Amédée Kohler

Thomas Wolfe

Clive Sinclair

Mayer Amschel Rothschild

Dom Pérignon

Fiorello La Guardia

Condé Nast

John McCormack

Bill Evans

Patrick Swayze

Patsy Swayze

Grace Kelly

Harry Dean Stanton

Gertrude Berg

Beah Richards

La Wanda Page

Maria Callas

Marc Bolan

Richard Wright

Hippolyte Fizeau

Bertha Lutz

Susan La Flesche Picotte

Olga Erteszek

William Seward Burroughs I

Jimmy Yancey

Earl Palmer

Jimi Hendrix

Thomas Davis

Robert Emmet

Seán O'Casey

Ruth Baider Ginsberg

Louis XVIII

Jean Sibelius

Skeeter Davis

Prince Far I

Jimmy Greaves

Brian Clough

Leonard Skinner 

Furry Lewis

Ethel Johnson

Alessandro Rolla

Johnny Ramone

Jackie Collins

Bunny Carr

Norm McDonald

Laura Ashley

Oodgeroo Noonuccal

Slim Dusty

Peter Gutteridge

Red Foley

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Episode 3 of The Dead Cool Show where Ronan Leonard brings you a bunch of recordings of songs by people whose 'deathday' is sometime this week at some point in History... and weaves a tapestry of ideas, facts and connections.

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A jampacked show this week with 14 songs,

including two of the biggest selling artists of all time;

some of the absolutely most pivotal people in the development of popular music;

plenty of trivia to remember;

and one very laboured Catfish joke.

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People Mentioned: 

Anthony Perkins

Bill Monroe

Bobby Byrd

Catfish Hunter

Christy Brown

Clarence Gatemouth Brown

David Foster Wallace

Derek Taylor

Dorothy Dandridge

Edith Windsor

Ernie Ball

Helen O'Connell

Jane Wyman

Jean-Luc Godard

Jim Carroll

Jock Stein

Johnny Cash

Keith Moon

Maria Montez

Mary Brewster Hazelton

Moondog

Noel Cantwell

Peter Tosh

Prince Buster

Raymond Burr

Roger Hargeaves

Toots Hibbert

Tupac Shakur

Warren Zevon

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Episode 2 of The Dead Cool Show where Ronan Leonard brings you a bunch of recordings of songs by people whose 'deathday' is sometime this week at some point in History... and weaves a tapestry of ideas, facts and connections.

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A choc-a-bloc show this week, subjects covered include:

Ireland’s first theatre; 

the first talkie oscar winner; 

the term ‘gaslighting’; 

TWO mentions of Christmas; 

the first live album to be recorded in Ireland &

Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother

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People Mentioned: 

Alan Wilson

Anita Page

The Clancy Brothers

Edmund Gwenn

Ernest Tubb

Gene Wilder

Gilda Radner

Ingrid Bergman

Joan Rivers

John Lumsden

John Ogilby

Lee Scratch Perry

Mary Ward

Max Bygraves

Michael K. Williams

Nico

Oliver C***well

Randy Weston

Ric Segreto

Sarah Harding

Seamus Heaney

Sterling Morrison

Steve Irwin

Tom Wilson

Tom Fogerty

Tommy Makem

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The first episode of The Dead Cool Show where Ronan Leonard brings you a bunch of recordings of songs by people whose 'deathday' is sometime this week at some point in History... and weaves a tapestry of ideas, facts and connections.

this episode featured artists are

Aaliyah

David Rose

Jerry Nelson

Laura Branigan

Mable John

Maynard Ferguson

Raul Seixas

Sinead O'Connor

Stan Kenton

The Rolling Stones

The Weavers

Produced by TBRL Media.

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