Sunday Sampler off tonight...

 ...because of snow and general weather unpleasantness! See you next week. 

Show #1024--1/18/26

Robert Palmer--Looking for Clues          

Modha (feat. Okcandice)--Find Me (Underneath the Sun)       

Laura Branigan--Imagination         

Wilson Pickett--Fire and Water      

Pat Benatar--Fire and Ice             

Sarah Kinsley--Lonely Touch           

Eberhard Weber--An Evening With Vincent Van Ritz        

Seatrain--London Song              

David Gray--Sell, Sell, Sell           

The Smithereens--Blood and Roses          

John Lennon--Beef Jerky              

Optic Sink--Lucky Number         

k.d. lang--Constant Craving            

Catie Curtis--Stretch Limousine on Fire                

HOUR 2

The Ides of March--I'll Keep Searching         

Earth and Fire--(She is) Wild and Exciting             

Olivia Dean--So Easy (to Fall in Love)        

The Art of Noise--Close (to the Edit) (Single Version)         

Dijon--Another Baby!        

Slade--Mama Weer All Crazee Now            

Shuggie Otis--Ice Cold Daydream           

Flabbergast--Tiou de Checheu            

The Beach Boys--With Me Tonight           

Daryl Hall & John Oates--Crazy Eyes               

Dave Stryker--Summer Night                         

Squeeze--I Can't Hold On                

Lorraine Chandler--I Can't Hold On            

Cannonball Adderley--Walk Tall (Baby, That's What I Need)         

The Tourists--So Good to Be Back Home Again           

Force West--Gotta Find Another Baby       

HOUR 3  11 TO 11: BLANK AROUND AND BLANK OUT   

Ray Charles--Mess Around 

The Beach Boys--I Get Around 

Vicki Sue Robinson--Turn the Beat Around

Jalen Ngonda--Come Around and Love Me           

George Benson--I Just Wanna Hang Around You    

Smokey Robinson & the Miracles--Point it Out  

Bob Seger--Get Out of Denver  

The Nerves--When You Find Out

George Jackson--Hold On Hold Out   

The Band--Look Out Cleveland 

Delaney & Bonnie--Move 'Em Out  

Show #1023--1/11/26

George Harrison--Beware of Darkness           

Second Helping--We're Dancing ('Til it Blows Over)              

Beverly Glenn-Copeland--Montreal Main (The Buddha in the Palm)       

Levitation Room--Ooh Child                  

Fleetwood Mac--Child of Mine      

Parlor Greens--Eat Your Greens           

The Fireballs--Long Green               

Pretenders--Jealous Dogs              

Alexis Baro--The B Side of A               

ABBA--Does Your Mother Know          

Brigitte Bardot--Contact               

Meric Long--Maybe I Forgot            

The Young Rascals--I Don't Love You Anymore               

Vigrass & Osborne--Forever Autumn                

HOUR 2

Luther Vandross--Never Too Much              

Dave Edmunds--You'll Never Get Me Up (in One of Those)     

Sloan--A Side Wins          

Heart--This Man is Mine           

Milli Vanilli--Blame it on the Rain              

Work Wife--Pretty Cool or Kinda Lame              

Little Comets--Jennifer        

Manu Chao--Je ne t'aime plus              

Melvin Davis--Save It (Never Too Late)           

Bjork--Big Time Sensuality            

Joan as Police Woman--Eternal Flame            

Mighty Baby--Egyptian Tomb                  

Pink Floyd--Sheep       

HOUR 3  11 TO 11: ONES (FOR 1/11)

Three Dog Night--One

The Vogues--You're the One 

The Knickerbockers--One Track Mind   

The Impressions--Just One Kiss From You 

Wilmer Alexander, Jr. & the Dukes--Give Me One More Chance   

The Beau Brummels--One Too Many Mornings  

Joe Tex--One Monkey Don't Stop No Show   

Lighthouse--One Fine Morning 

Blood, Sweat & Tears--Just One Smile  

Marvin Gaye--You're a Wonderful One

The Grateful Dead--That's It for the Other One  

Show #1022--1/4/26

The Guess Who--Rain Dance        

Badfinger-- Photograph (Friends Are Hard to Find)     

Stretch--Why Did You Do It            

The Amazing Royal Crowns--Do the Devil        

Weezer--No Other One       

Jordan GCZ--I Said What I Said          

INXS--Devil Inside (Australian Single Edit)           

Anna von Hausswolff--Stardust           

Joe Jackson--Loisaida                

EBN-OZN--AEIOU Sometimes Y           

Djrum--L'Ancienne            

Sydney Sprague--Your Favorite         

HOUR 2

TV on the Radio--Golden Age             

Horsegirl--Switch Over            

Spoon--Written in Reverse            

Ray Charles--Unchain My Heart             

Harold Vick--Don't Look Back               

David Ruffin--Walk Away From Love (Single Version)        

The Sinceros--Girl I Realise         

The Books--I Am Who I Am                

Hiss Golden Messenger--I Am the Song               

Chicago Underground Duo--Click Song            

Red Rider--White Hot               

Daniel Lopatin--The Call (from "Marty Supreme")              

Chic--Dance, Dance, Dance (Yowsah, Yowsah, Yowsah)          

Peter Allen--Everything Old is New Again (Live)               

HOUR 3   11 TO 11: ALPHABETICALLY FIRST ON THE LAST WEEK OF THE YEAR (BILLBOARD HOT 100)

Simple Minds--Alive and Kicking (1985)

Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam with Full Force--All Cried Out (1986)

Def Leppard--Animal (1987) 

Erasure--A Little Respect (1988)

The Smithereens--A Girl Like You (1989)

Nelson--After the Rain (1990)

Lisette Melendez--A Day in My Life (Without You) (1991)

Tevin Campbell--Alone With You (1992) 

Janet Jackson--Again (1993) 

Sheryl Crow--All I Wanna Do (1994) 

Edwyn Collins--A Girl Like You (1995) 

Show #1021--12/28/25

The Esquires--Get on Up         

Kelly Lee Owens--Ascend          

Blondie--Rapture        

Talking Heads--Swamp               

Foxygen--Make it Known        

Al Green--I Can't Get Next to You            

Aaron Neville--She's on My Mind   

Jake Aaron--Give Me Your Horse         

Say She She--Make it Known           

Deniece Williams--It's Gonna Take a Miracle           

Flash and the Pan--Hey St. Peter          

Funk Factory--Watusi Dance      

Urszula Dudziak--Papaya          

HOUR 2

Barry Manilow--It's a Miracle               

Takumi Moriya Black Nation--Shakey Jake           

Fleetwood Mac--Rattlesnake Shake          

Jamie N Commons--Rumble and Sway          

Daphne and the Fuzz--Little Lies         

John Waite--Change      

The Dismemberment Plan--The Face of the Earth        

Split Enz--What's the Matter With You?          

Cristina--Things Fall Apart              

CCCP-TV--Rasputin             

Sarah Kinsley--Matter            

Mother Mother--Make Believe          

Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers--You Got Lucky         

USA-European Connection--Come Into My Heart (Single Version)      

HOUR 3   11 TO 11:  ONE 70s PERSON 

Ronnie Dyson--One Man Band (Plays All Alone)

Coven--One Tin Soldier 

Sunchariot--The Only Girl I Knew           

Diana Trask--The Last Person to See Me Alive   

Ringo Starr--Only You (and You Alone)

Don Ellis--Alone Again (Naturally)  

Eric Carmen--All By Myself    

Paul Anka (ft. Odia Coates)--One Man Woman/One Woman Man 

Dolly Parton--You're the Only One   

Ambrosia--You're the Only Woman (You & I)

Ronnie Milsap--Only One Love in My Life

Show #1020--12/21/25

Sweeping Promises--Connoisseur of Salt      

Steve Miller Band--My Dark Hour            

Tessa Rose Jackson--The Bricks That Make the Building       

Brick--Ain't Gonna Hurt Nobody            

Djo--Basic Being Basic           

Hearts and Minds--Rivet and Roll           

Jamila Woods (feat. Saba)--Practice            

Magdalena Bay--Secrets (Your Fire)               

The B-52's--Whammy Kiss              

Rod Stewart--Tonight I'm Yours (Don't Hurt Me)        

Steady Holiday--My Own Time        

public library commute--Arizona           

Lyle Lovett--Pants is Overrated             

Dr. Hook--You Make My Pants Want to Get Up and Dance       

HOUR 2

Billy Joel--She's Right on Time         

Soda Blonde--Bad Machine          

America--Lonely People          

The Circling Sun--Mizu            

Milly Upton--Orange & Blue            

Dance Lessons--SMABTO         

Daryl Hall & John Oates--Some Things Are Better Left Unsaid             

Djangophonique--Three Little Words            

Passed Out--A D D               

Diagram Brothers--Those Men in White Coats         

Dr. Feelgood--Milk & Alcohol             

Hot Chip--Arrest Yourself        

Michael Jackson--P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)               

Hilary--Drop Your Pants            

HOUR 3   11 TO 11: PARLOR GAME: STARTS WITH C, ENDS WITH S    

Run-D.M.C--Christmas in Hollis       

10,000 Maniacs--Candy Everybody Wants       

Rozi Plain--Conditions       

Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross--Challengers         

Charles Bradley--Changes          

Spoon--Chateau Blues           

Animal Collective--Car Keys        

Daryl Hall & John Oates--Crazy Eyes        

Booker T. and the MG's--Chinese Checkers       

Omni--Common Mistakes        

ZZ Top--Cheap Sunglasses         

Show #1019--12/14/25 (SS 20th Anniversary - Part 2)

The Mynabirds--Body of Work   

Rubblebucket--Came Out of a Lady  

The Dead Weather--No Horse   

Sweet Spirit--Rebel Rebel      

Vampire Weekend--Step

Emily King--Distance   

Mary Halvorson Octet--Spirit Splitter No. 54

Kimbra--Cameo Lover

Tune-Yards--Bizness  

Bibio--K is for Kelson 

Callers--Glow

Becca Stevens--Thinkin Bout You  

Joan as Police Woman--Whatever You Like

Laura Cortese & the Dance Cards--Pace Myself   

Sylvan Esso--Die Young  

HOUR 2

Dragonette--Live in this City  

Dutch Uncles--Decided Knowledge 

Caroline Smith & the Good Night Sleeps--Calliope 

Deidre & the Dark--One Night

Paul White (feat. Shunguzdo)--Spare Gold   

Sarah Williams White--Rainmaker   

The Belle Game--Follow   

Diane Birch--All the Love You Got

Kelly Lee Owens--Love You Got  

Chip Wickham--Barrio 71

BRONCHO--Sandman   

Say She She--Think About It  

Katie Herzig--Drug

Oddisee--That's Love 

Jungle--Talk About It 

March--Simply

HOUR 3

Kit Sebastian--Agitate

Hearts and Minds--Rivet and Roll   

Jamila Woods (feat. Saba)--Practice 

Milly Upton--Clean & Good 

Dance Lessons--SMABTO

Sweeping Promises--Connoisseur of Salt

Magdalena Bay--Secrets (Your Fire)

11 TO 11: PARLOR GAME: STARTS WITH G, ENDS WITH S    

Sam Cooke--Good News           

The Shangri-Las--Give Him a Great Big Kiss         

Gary Lewis & the Playboys--Green Grass             

Carpenters--Goofus         

Chic--Good Times         

Merry Clayton--Good Girls          

The Friends of Distincton--Going in Circles          

Little Milton--Grits Ain't Groceries     

Jaco Pastorius--Giant Steps          

Jonatha Brooke--God Only Knows        

Van Morrison--Glad Tidings         

Show #1018--12/7/25 (Sunday Sampler's 20th Anniversary)

I call this set "New Favorites from the Last 20 Years," meaning each week I look for new music to feature on the Sunday Sampler, and these are artists who either had one track that really stuck with me and have played numerous times on the show, or more commonly, I have been consistently following since I made their acquaintance (and have played them faithfully on the show over the years). 

There's too many to profile for one show (20 years is a long time), so I'll finish out this theme next week. 

The Futureheads--Decent Days and Nights   

Bloc Party--Banquet   

Field Music--Clear Water    

Camille--Ta Douleur 

Stereolab--Miss Modular  

Gomez--All Too Much 

Beth Orton--Conceived 

Emperor Penguin--Stay for the Freak 

The Sidleys--Burning   

Feist--My Moon My Man 

Scott Matthews--Elusive  

Grizzly Bear--Southern Point 

Candace--Midnight Blue   

Paul Jones--The Generator

Dirty Projectors--About to Die   

HOUR 2

David Mead--Chatterbox 

A.C. Newman--Secretarial 

The New Pornographers--Your Hands (Together)  

Califone--Pink & Sour  

Abra Moore--You

Spoon--Do You   

Deerhoof--Secret Mobilization 

The Bridges--Pieces  

Shelly Bhushan--Beautiful Me  

Koufax--Any Moment Now  

The Phenomenal Handclap Band--15 to 20   

Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin--Banned (by the Man)

Friendly Fires--On Board  

Nite Jewel--To Feel It  

The Soft Pack--Pull Out   

St. Vincent--Now, Now  

HOUR 3

Roger Klug--Dump Me Hard   

Ava Luna--Daydream 

The Weepies--All Good Things  

The Bird and the Bee--La La La  

Women--Black Rice   

Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti--Round and Round

Twin Sister--Stop

Django Django--Default   

The Rapture--Live in Sunshine 

Tune-Yards--Bizness  

Kimbra--Cameo Lover

Gotye (feat. Kimbra)--Somebody That I Used to Know

Bibio--K is for Kelson 

Julian Lage--Roger the Dodger  

Margaret Glaspy--Emotions and Math  

Callers--Glow