Downtown Soulville with Mr. Fine Wine | WFMU

Mr. Fine Wine and WFMU

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One hour; 23 or 24 soul 45s.

5d ago

Let Your Soul Breathe Freely (Mike Sin fills in!) from May 29, 2026

Detroit Emeralds - "Show Time" - (single) [0:00:00] Shirley Ellis - "Soul Time" - (single) [0:03:13] Bob & Earl - "Dancin' Everywhere" - (single) [0:05:52] George Torrence & the Naturals - "(Mama Come Quick, and Bring Your) Lickin' Stick" - (single) [0:09:04] Bobby Marchan - "Shake Your Tambourine" - (single) [0:11:53] Shorty Long - "Function at the Junction" - (single) [0:18:11] Larry Williams & Johnny Watson - "A Quitter Never Wins" - (single) [0:20:54] Junior Wells - "Up In Heah" - (single) [0:23:20] The Olympics - "Lookin' For a Love" - (single) [0:25:36] Wilson Pickett - "Born to Be Wild" - (single) [0:28:27] The Trends - "The Soul Clap" - (single) [0:34:00] The Bandwagon - "Breakin' Down the Walls of Heartache" - (single) [0:36:08] Little Milton - "Grits Ain't Groceries (All Around The World)" - (single) [0:38:35] Jackie Lee - "African Boo-Ga-Loo" - (single) [0:41:05] The Checkmates - "Mastered the Art of Love" - (single) [0:43:20] Jackie Paine - "Go Go Train" - (single) [0:48:07] Etta James - "I Got You Babe" - (single) [0:50:32] Harvey Scales & the 7 Sounds - "Love-itis" - (single) [0:52:59] Maurice & Mac - "Oh What a Time" - (single) [0:55:43] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/164696
May 23

Drive me from May 22, 2026

Chuck Edwards - "Downtown Soulville" - 45 Music behind DJ: Frank & the Tel Stars - "Concerto in the Stars" - 45 Billy the Kid Emerson - "Every Woman I Know" - 45 Jeanette Nellis - "Let's Get Together" - 45 Lil Gray - "Are You Fooling" - 45 Bobby Moore's Rhythm Aces - "Go Ahead and Burn" - 45 Music behind DJ: Dondi - "S&L" - 45 Carol Anderson - "I'm Not Worried" - 45 Lester Young - "Let Your Love Shine" - 45 Victoria Williams & J.B. Ledbetter - "Show Some Sign" - 45 The Satisfactions - "Take It or Leave It" - 45 The Contours - "Jealousy" - 45 Music behind DJ: Roscoe & Friends - "Do Whatcha Know" - 45 Clarence Carter - "Tell Daddy" - 45 Clarence Carter - "Thread the Needle" - 45 Clarence Carter - "Looking for a Fox" - 45 Music behind DJ: Willie Hobbs & the Dirte Four - "On the Move" - 45 Leroy Redding - "I'm So Afraid" - 45 Demon Brothers - "Uh Huh" - 45 Lowell Fulson - "Lady in the Rain" - 45 Little Milton - "More and More" - 45 Buddy Ace - "Hold On (To This Old Fool)" - 45 Little Richard - "Baby Don't You Tear My Clothes" - 45 Syl Johnson - "I Feel an Urge" - 45 Stu Gardner - "Drive Me" - 45 Music behind DJ: The Hi-Breds - "Rockanova Jam" - 45 https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/164543
May 16

Don't worry about dancing for me from May 15, 2026

Chuck Edwards - "Downtown Soulville" - 45 Music behind DJ: Zu Zu Blues Band - "Side Show" - 45 Garlon Davis - "Don't Worry About Dancing for Me" - 45 Carl Underwood - "Ain't You Lying" - 45 Senator Jones - "Do You Love Me" - 45 Chuck Cornish - "A Tribute to Muhammad Ali" - 45 Buddy Lamp - "Save Your Love" - 45 Lee Rogers - "Sock Some Love Power to Me" - 45 Ike & Tina Turner - "Somebody Needs You" - 45 Larry Atkins - "Lighten Up" - 45 Bobby Jones - "Talkin' 'Bout Jone's" - 45 Chris Campbell - "You Gotta Pay Dues" - 45 O.V. Wright - "Baby Be Mine" - 45 Bobby Conerly - "Little Girls Go Home" - 45 King Curtis & the Kingpins - "Instant Groove" - 45 Ray Sharpe with the King Curtis Orchestra - "Help Me (Get This Feeling) (Pt. 1)" - 45 Andre Williams - "You Got It and I Want It" - 45 The Fabulous Apollos - "Determination" - 45 Bernie Hayes - "Soul Pearl" - 45 Edith Brown - "You Think Love Is Something to Play With" - 45 Allen Toussaint - "Poor Boy, Got to Move" - 45 Benny Spellman - "Must Be Love" - 45 The Sweet Delights - "Baby Be Mine" - 45 Tim Jacob - "Mercy Baby" - 45 Music behind DJ: Shorty Long - "Night Fo' Last" - 45 https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/164299
May 9

I smell trouble from May 8, 2026

Chuck Edwards - "Downtown Soulville" - 45 Music behind DJ: Jimmy Fox - "Turnip Greens" - 45 Willie Dixon and the Big Wheels - "Our Kind of Love" - 45 King Coleman - "Black Bottom Blues" - 45 Joe Johnson - "Gold-Digging Man" - 45 Mighty Joe Young - "Ladies Man" - 45 Music behind DJ: Albert Collins - "Cookin' Catfish" - 45 Ike & Tina Turner - "Strange" - 45 Johnny De'Vigne - "I Smell Trouble" - 45 Cookie Jackson - "Suffer" - 45 Ruby Johnson - "Through Dealing" - 45 Larry Reynolds - "Take Away the Big Hurt" - 45 Music behind DJ: Soul Jammers - "Tripping to Egypt" - 45 The Sensations Featuring Yvonne Baker - "Baby" - 45 Eddie & Ernie - "I'm Gonna Always Love You" - 45 The Casanova Two - "I Was a Fool" - 45 Taj Mahal - "A Lot of Love" - 45 Dee Dee Barnes - "Do What You Wanna Do" - 45 Music behind DJ: Little Daddie and the Bachelors - "Junior's Jerk" - 45 The Blues Busters - "Love Is the Answer" - 45 The Jackey Beavers Show - "We're Not Too Young to Fall in Love" - 45 Frankie Newsom & the Soul Invaders - "My Lucky Day" - 45 Tony Alvon & the Belairs - "Boom-Boom-Boom" - 45 Robert Jay - "Alcohol (Pt. 1)" - 45 Music behind DJ: King Errison - "Jing Jing" - 45 https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/164063
May 2

Your love is all over me from May 1, 2026

Chuck Edwards - "Downtown Soulville" - 45 Music behind DJ: Ernie Fields & Orch. - "Workin' Out" - 45 Yvonne Fair & the James Brown Band - "Tell Me Why" - 45 Prince Conley - "I'm Going Home" - 45 Prince Charles - "Sick" - 45 Sherl Matthews & Sonny Daye - "Come Back to Me" - 45 Music behind DJ: Bernard "Pretty" Purdie - "Genuine John" - 45 Carl Underwood - "Ain't You Lying" - 45 Bobby Womack - "Find Me Somebody" - 45 Lee Tillman & the Secrets - "She's the One I Love" - 45 Martha Star - "No Part Time Love for Me" - 45 Leontine Dupree - "Waiting for My Baby" - 45 Music behind DJ: Ramsey Lewis - "Back to the Roots" - 45 Guitar Ray - "Ball & Chain" - 45 The Americans of '70 - "Toe Hold" - 45 Moses & Joshua - "Get Out of My Heart" - 45 The Secrets - "Here I Am" - 45 Tobi Lark - "Challenge My Love" - 45 Music behind DJ: L.J. Reynolds - "Cookin' With Nixon" - 45 Junior Parker - "Your Love Is All Over Me" - 45 Five Stairsteps & Cubie - "Don't Change Your Love" - 45 Darrow Fletcher - "The Way of a Man" - 45 Shay Holiday - "Fight Fire With Fire" - 45 Garland Green - "I Can't Believe You Quit Me" - 45 Music behind DJ: Richard "Groove" Holmes - "I Just Can't Stop Dancing" - 45 https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/163825
Apr 25

Lend me your hand from Apr 24, 2026

Chuck Edwards - "Downtown Soulville" - 45 Music behind DJ: Lee Tillman - "Trash" - 45 The Dontels - "Soul Nitty Gritty" - 45 Little Bill - "She Told Me So" - 45 Debra Dion - "Don't Bug Me Baby" - 45 Donald Edwin - "You Don't Need Me" - 45 Duff Thurmond - "Now That You Left Me" - 45 (Iris) Lorraine Washington - "Sweetie Pie" - 45 The Kalendars - "It Takes Two, Babe" - 45 Elane & Donna - "Please Me, Don't Tease Me" - 45 Lee Rogers - "Love and War" - 45 Eddie Hill - "You Got the Best of Me" - 45 Martha Star - "It's Too Bad Baby" - 45 Jock Mitchell - "Not a Chance in a Million" - 45 The Soul City - "Cold Hearted Blues" - 45 John Wesley - "Stop the Music" - 45 The Professionals - "That's Why I Love You" - 45 Little Milton - "Spring" - 45 Music behind DJ: Choker Campbell - Super Sounds - "The Camel Hump" - 45 Mel Hueston - "Time and Patience" - 45 Chuck Johnson & Hazell Branch - "Weak (Pt. 1)" - 45 The Sensational Gospel Six - "Strengthen Me Lord" - 45 The Kindly Shepherds - "Lend Me Your Hand" - 45 Music behind DJ: Dave Hamilton - "Cracklin Bread" - 45 https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/163591
Apr 18

Pat Byrne fills in! from Apr 17, 2026

Chuck Edwards - "Downtown Soulville" [0:00:00] Willie Mitchell - "Soul Serenade" [0:02:03] Candi Staton - "I'd Rather Be An Old Man's Sweetheart (Than A Young Man's Fool)" [0:05:08] Etta James - "Pay Back" [0:06:24] Irma Thomas - "Two Winters Long" [0:08:45] The Mighty Hannibal - "Fishin' Pole" [0:11:04] Lee Dorsey - "Get Out Of My Life Woman" [0:13:06] Little Milton - "If Walls Could Talk" [0:15:23] Wilbert Harrison - "Kansas City Twist" [0:18:12] Bobby Long - "Jersey City" [0:20:01] Music behind DJ: Kool and the Gang - "North, East, South, West" [0:22:24] Ike Noble - "That's What I Got" [0:25:33] Chairman Of The Board - "Since The Days of Pigtails (And Fairy Tales)" [0:27:50] Sugar Pie De Santo - "Don't Wanna Fuss" [0:30:26] The Brothers Two - "You Got It" [0:33:13] Bobby Hebb - "Bread" [0:35:41] Music behind DJ: Dave Baby Cortez - "Tweetie Pie" [0:38:09] Arthur Conley - "Run On" [0:41:17] (Big) Al Downing - "Gimme Good Loving" [0:43:16] Sam & Dave - "You Ain't No Big Thing Baby" [0:45:12] King Floyd - "I Feel Like Dynamite" [0:47:35] William Bell and Carla Thomas - "I Need You Woman" [0:50:42] 100 Proof (Aged in Soul) - "Everything Good IS Bad" [0:53:14] Eddie Floyd - "California Girl" [0:55:50] Solomon Burke - "Keep A Light In The Window Till I Come Home" [0:58:16] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/163344
Apr 11

Ain't gonna give you up from Apr 10, 2026

Chuck Edwards - "Downtown Soulville" - 45 Music behind DJ: Paul Thornton - "Walk in Outer Space" - 45 The Strands - "Never" - 45 Bobby Adams - "What a Mess" - 45 Big Buddy Lucas - "La-Ja-Ma-Doodle (This Is My Lucky Day)" - 45 Piney Brown and His Blues Toppers - "Sugar in My Tea (Cream in My Coffee)" - 45 J.J. Barnes - "So Far Away" - 45 Music behind DJ: Lionel Hampton and His Inner Circle of Jazz - "Greasy Greens" - 45 Sonny Daye & Sherl Mathews - "Ooo Wee Baby" - 45 Tobi Lark - "Sweep It Out in the Shed" - 45 Jimmy Armstrong - "I Won't Believe It Til I See It" - 45 Jeen & Him - "You Ain't Gonna Get a Chance" - 45 The Zircons - "Go On and Cry" - 45 Music behind DJ: The International Bongo Band - "Congo" - 45 The Sequins - "I Get What I Want" - 45 The Malibus - "Gee Baby (I Love You)" - 45 T.C. Lee & the Bricklayers - "Up and Down the Hill" - 45 Robert Moore - "Lookin' for a Woman" - 45 Music behind DJ: Ronnie, Norman & Earl - "Soul at Sunrise" - 45 The Volumes - "Ain't Gonna Give You Up" - 45 Leon Haywood - "You and Your Moody Ways" - 45 Marvin L. Sims - "It's Your Love" - 45 Tim Connelly - "Groove Me" - 45 Pat & Pam - "I'm the One Who Loves You" - 45 Music behind DJ: Sounds of Synanon - "Long Hoop La" - 45 https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/163104

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4.9

out of 5

120 Ratings

Thank you Mr. Fine Wine

11/21/2025

Chuckiesparkles

Without this, my family would have to argue about what to listen to in the car. This show is ALWAYS excellent.
UK Expat from NJ

08/11/2024

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Brought Mr Fine Wine with me to England , couldn’t live without this show…Thanks, WFMU
Mr. Fine Wine is a national treasure

02/10/2020

Chazz M

A throwback to the halcyon days of radio, Truly a blessing. Thank you Mr. Fine Wine.
1 hour of pure joy

11/20/2018

Coneyfreak

In these times of relentless bad news and strife in the world, Downtown Soulville delivers 1 hour a week of absolute non-stop joy. You need this in your life. Thank you Mr. Fine Wine.