"Gays in the Military: A Musical History" is this month's theme, and the show is a journey from the 1930's through to the end of Don't Ask Don't Tell, with varying slants on the issue, some comical, some heartfelt, and most political.
Producer: JD Doyle
Track Listing: Motherlode - Don't Ask Don't Tell (1999) Jack Hylton & Orchestra - There's Something About a Soldier (1933) Leonard Matlovich quote (1975) Kay Kyser & Orchestra - He Wears a Pair of Silver Wings (1942) Ray Bourbon - Sailor Boy (1950's) Nan Blakstone - He Should Have Been a WAC (1949) Minette - LBJ Don't Take My Man Away (1968) The Sergeant (movie ad, 1968) Village People - In the Navy (1979) Eton Crop - Gay Boys on the Battlefield (1984) Fred Small - Marine's Lament (1993) Capitol Steps - Don't Ask Don't Tell (1993) Martin Swinger - Military Ditty (1994) John Forster - In the Closet (1997) Boy George - GI Josephine (1999) New York City Gay Men's Chorus - I Joined the Army (2000) Heartland Men's Chorus - Don't Ask Don't Tell (2004) Connecticut Gay Men's Chorus - Don't Ask Don't Tell (1998) The Prince Myshkins - Let Me Into the Military (2000) Kinsey Sicks - Jingle Bells, Don't Ask Don't Tell (2005) San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus - from "U.S.S. Metaphor" (2007) Yank the Musical - Just True (2008) Mark Finley - I've Written a Letter to D.A.D.T (2010) Twin Cities Gay Men's Chorus - Dishonorable Discharge (2010) San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus - From the Silence (1981) Chad D - Ask & Tell (2010) Tom Goss Comments (2010) Matt Alber & Tom Goss - Who We Are (2010)
Notes: entire script available on website, at http://www.queermusicheritage.com/mar2011.html
For every QMH show I have uploaded several pages to my website, http://www.queermusicheritage.com. The information includes the playlist, script, and photos of the artists and recordings, as I have always considered our music history as a visual as well as an audio experience. In addition the website also includes in depth information on such areas as gay musicals, Songs about Gay Marriage, Songs about AIDS, a Drag Music Discography, an Olivia Records Discography, Womenâs Music Magazines, a number of features on Transgendered artist and countless interviews over the years with the pioneers, then and now, of our music culture. Itâs a huge site, with over 1200 pages, and growing. Since January 2000 QMH has been dedicated to sharing and preserving music of the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered community
The show airs monthly on KPFT-FM in Houston as a part of the program Queer Voices, but almost every month has additional hours featured on the website. If you air this edition I would appreciate a quick email, at qmheritage@aol.com, so that I can get a feel on where my many hours of hard, labor of love work are reaching.