Send us a text Episode 2 keeps the music bicycle moving — forty songs, one for each year, 1950 to 1989. This time it’s everything from Baltimore doo-wop to Ethiopian accordion soul, Cajun-surf hybrids to Scottish nutter pop.

Welcome to the first episode of 40 Years of Schoolin’, a journey through four decades of recorded sound — one song for every year from 1950 to 1989. This isn’t a history lesson; it’s a wandering path through the strange, brilliant corners of 20th-century music — the hits, the misses, and the forgotten experiments that shaped what came next. Each track tells a small story: from Boston jazz clubs and Navajo chants to Jamaican riddims, Parisian poets, and Sheffield dream-pop. Hosted and narrated...