Psychedelic Psunday
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Psychedelic Psunday is a program airing on Toronto's
Toronto
Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from...

 CILQ-FM
CILQ-FM
CILQ-FM is a radio station, broadcasting at 107.1 FM in Toronto, Ontario. The station broadcasts a classic rock format branded as Q107 and is also available through streaming audio....

 (Q107), a classic rock
Classic rock
Classic rock is a radio format which developed from the album-oriented rock format in the early 1980s. In the United States, the classic rock format features music ranging generally from the late 1960s to the late 1980s, primarily focusing on the hard rock genre that peaked in popularity in the...

 station. It airs every Sunday from 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. The program consists entirely of music from the psychedelic era
Psychedelic era
The Psychedelic era refers to the time of social, musical and artistic change influenced by psychedelic drugs, generally described as occurring during early 1960s to the mid 1970s. Some consider the psychedelic era to be more tightly limited to the years of 1965-1969...

, spanning from 1965 to 1975. The program always begins with Alice Cooper
Alice Cooper
Alice Cooper is an American rock singer, songwriter and musician whose career spans more than four decades...

's rendition of "Hello Hooray". Al Joynes hosts the show from its commencement until noon, Andy Frost
Andy Frost
Andy Frost is a Toronto radio personality with stations Q-107 and AM 640, as well as the public address announcer at the Air Canada Centre for the Toronto Maple Leafs. He replaced long-time PA announcer, Paul Morris who retired at the end of the 1998/99 hockey season...

, the voice of the Toronto Maple Leafs
Toronto Maple Leafs
The Toronto Maple Leafs are a professional ice hockey team based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. They are members of the Northeast Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League...

 on AM 640, hosts until 6:00 p.m. This is the most eventful part of the show; At approximately 1:20 and 3:20, the game "Riffer Madness" is played. A riff
RIFF
The Resource Interchange File Format is a generic file container format for storing data in tagged chunks. It is primarily used to store multimedia such as sound and video, though it may also be used to store any arbitrary data....

 from a song from the psychedelic era is played, and listeners can phone in and identify the song to win prizes. At 2:00, one side of a classic rock album from the psychedelic era is played in its entirety. This album side usually correlates with the topic of the current Classic Rock Weekend. Lastly, Andy takes calls, emails, and plays listeners' requests from 4 to 6 p.m. The Doors
The Doors
The Doors were an American rock band formed in 1965 in Los Angeles, California, with vocalist Jim Morrison, keyboardist Ray Manzarek, drummer John Densmore, and guitarist Robby Krieger...

, Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin were an English rock band, active in the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s. Formed in 1968, they consisted of guitarist Jimmy Page, singer Robert Plant, bassist/keyboardist John Paul Jones, and drummer John Bonham...

, Neil Young
Neil Young
Neil Percival Young, OC, OM is a Canadian singer-songwriter who is widely regarded as one of the most influential musicians of his generation...

, The Beatles
The Beatles
The Beatles were an English rock band, active throughout the 1960s and one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music. Formed in Liverpool, by 1962 the group consisted of John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr...

 and Pink Floyd
Pink Floyd
Pink Floyd were an English rock band that achieved worldwide success with their progressive and psychedelic rock music. Their work is marked by the use of philosophical lyrics, sonic experimentation, innovative album art, and elaborate live shows. Pink Floyd are one of the most commercially...

 are most commonly heard throughout the program.

A shortened version is also aired on Calgary's
Calgary
Calgary is a city in the Province of Alberta, Canada. It is located in the south of the province, in an area of foothills and prairie, approximately east of the front ranges of the Canadian Rockies...

 CFGQ-FM
CFGQ-FM
CFGQ-FM is a Canadian radio station broadcasting at 107.3 MHz FM stereo in Calgary, Alberta.-History:The station was launched on April 15, 1982 as CKIK-FM, and first broadcast an adult album rock format. Throughout the 1980s and much of the 1990s, CKIK-FM played a variety of rock formats...

(also Q107), Sunday Mornings until noon. The show is hosted by Zenon West.
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