Circumnavigating the voluminous KFJC music library, and spinning the round things for your pleasure! Tune in Sundays from noon to 3 p.m.

Sir Cumference focuses on three areas on Sunday afternoons:

Mad Dogs and Englishmen

Noel Coward wryly observed that only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the noon-day sun. So it seems on KFJC, as the Englishmen come out for some comedy at noon on Sundays. It could be radio classics like the Goon Show, Round the Horne, The Navy Lark, The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. Or even more recent shows like Old Harry’s Game, 40 Nights in the Wildebeest, The Maltby Collection, or even Good Omens.

Block of Cheese

Following the Concert Outlook and Entertainment Calendar, we dive into musical cheese, but what is cheese? Cheese is life. It nourishes us. It makes us happy. It’s not just food, but it describes my interest in music as well. Cheese may be cheesy, but it can also be classy, smooth, and–from time to time–blue. The artists that you are likely to hear in the block of cheese fall in a wide range from jazz and big bands, crooners, musical singers, lounge, space-age, exotica, swinging sixties, and even more contemporary performers that continue the sounds of those eras. I also have a tendency to bring out the music library tracks that fit in with these styles.

The KFJC Hit List

From 1 to 2 p.m. you will hear a selection from the 40 most played albums, culminating in tracks from the top ten. The KFJC Top 40 is an interesting beast. KFJC does not dictate to its DJs what albums they must play. The closest we get is a rotating library of our most recent additions, of which most shows need to play a certain amount of their show from. This makes compiling a seven day top played album chart difficult, with large groupings of titles receiving the same amount of plays. The rotating library, on the other hand, contains any given subset for eight weeks. Doing a top list covering an eight week period gives a better set of chart placement groups, with fewer duplicated play counts.

The ’80s Tsunami

At 2 p.m. get ready to ride the big wave of ’80s music. The sort of stuff you most likely heard first on the wave of the west, brought back from the dusty bowels of the KFJC library. Put up your ‘hawk, get out those day-glow threads, and apply that eye-liner…