Theme Time Radio Hour: The Annotated “Days of the Week” Episode

A Compleat Transcript with Commentary on Episode #53 of Theme Time Radio Hour, “Days of the Week”

Original air date: October 3, 2007

In Episode 53 — “Days of the Week” — of Theme Time Radio Hour, we’ll meet Monday’s and Saturday’s children, learn that Jack White knows his Sundays, look at the leaders in the TTRH playlist race, hear amazing predictions from the even more Amazing Criswell, listen to a surprise recorder rendition, and receive Our Host’s final word on commercial affiliation.

[Background music — “What a Difference a Day Makes”]

The Woman in Red: It’s nighttime in the Big City. A storm is coming. A woman wonders. It’s Theme Time Radio Hour with your host, Bob Dylan.

Bob Dylan:

Monday’s child is fair of face.
Tuesday’s child is full of grace.
Wednesday’s child is full of woe.
Thursday’s child has far to go.
Friday’s child is loving and giving.
Saturday’s child works hard for a living,
And the child who is born on the Sabbath Day
Is bonny…