Show #440--6/1/14

A World of Hurt—Drive-By Truckers

Mushaboom—Feist

Learn How to Fall—Paul Simon

Catch Me I’m Falling—Real Life

After Hours—Ablebody

This is Then—We Cut Corners 

Any Moment Now—Koufax

Shelter Song—Temples

Let’s Call it Off—Peter Bjorn and John 

Carnival—Natalie Merchant

Wouldn’t it Be Beautiful—The Hand

Confessions—BADBADNOTGOOD (feat. Leland Whitty)

Airwaves—Ray LaMontagne 

Calliope—Caroline Smith & the Good Night Sleeps

Everyman—Laura Tsaggaris

HOUR 2

Down on Me—Big Brother & the Holding Company

Sitting on Top of the World—The Grateful Dead

Pride of Man—Quicksilver Messenger Service

Feature Album: After Bathing at Baxter’s by Jefferson Airplane (1967)

Monday Music Club 5-26-14

So, here's this week's musical timeline playlist, progressing approximately from mid-60s thru early 80s:

Harlem Shuffle—Bob & Earl

Shakin’ All Over—The Guess Who

Cheating—The Animals

Whatcha’ Gonna Do—Tom Jones

Sophisticated Boom Boom—The Shangri-Las

A Little Bit of Soap—Garnet Mimms

I’m Where It’s At—The Jades   

Java—Al Hirt

New Orleans—Neil Diamond

It’s Gonna Take a Miracle—The Royalettes

I Go to Sleep—Cher

What’s it Gonna Be—Dusty Springfield

Say I Am (What I Am)—Tommy James & the Shondells

Count Me In—Gary Lewis & the Playboys

Ramrod—Al Casey

Time Waits for No One—The Knack

Homburg—Procol Harum

Good Captain Clack—Procol Harum  

The 59^th Street Bridge Song (Feelin’ Groovy)—Harpers Bizarre

Younger Generation Blues—Janis Ian

HOUR 2

Lady Madonna—The Beatles

Lay a Little Lovin’ on Me—Robin McNamara

Soul Drippin—The Mauds

Why Don’t You Love Me—The Buckinghams

Little Bit o’ Soul—The Music Explosion

Three Ways from Tomorrow—Spanky & Our Gang

Walk Away Renee—The Left Banke

With This Ring—The Platters

Panic—Reparata & the Delrons

Our Love (is in the Pocket)—Darrell Banks

Shake Your Hips—Love Sculpture

In the Land of the Few—Love Sculpture

Summertime Blues—Blue Cheer

Combination of the Two—Big Brother & the Holding Company

San Francisco Girls—Fever Tree

HOUR 3

The Boxer—Simon & Garfunkel

Mozart – Symphony No. 40 in G Minor—Waldo de los Rios

Never Ending Song of Love—Delaney & Bonnie & Friends

Well, Well—Delaney & Bonnie & Friends

Big Wheels (from “Wheel of Fortune”)—Alan Thicke

Two Divided by Love—The Grass Roots

Living in the Past—Jethro Tull

Too Bad—Faces

Powder Blue Mercedes Queen—Raiders

I’m Just a Kid (Don’t Make Me Feel Like a Man)—Daryl Hall & John Oates

Cure My Blues—Ellen McIlwaine

Hit the Road Jack—Stampeders

Uptown and Country—Tom Scott

Delta Dawn—Tanya Tucker

What I Did For Love (from “A Chorus Line”)—Priscilla Lopez, Company

Right Time of the Night—Jennifer Warnes

HOUR 4

Tin Man—America

San Ferry Anne—Wings

More Than a Woman—Tavares

Hold On—Badfinger

Black Fever Sleep—Jules & the Polar Bears

Savannah Nights—Tom Johnston

Breakdown Dead Ahead—Boz Scaggs

Bad Boy—Russ Ballard

Lies (Through the 80s)—Manfred Mann’s Earth Band

Spirits in the Material World—The Police

Too Much Pressure—The Selecter

Ranking Full Stop—The English Beat

The Logical Song—Supertramp

The Boy with the Perpetual Nervousness—The Feelies

Too Much Time on My Hands—Styx 

Show #439--5/25/14

My Time—Minus the Bear   

Hell Yes—Beck   

Coming Up—Ani DiFranco   

FootDown—Michael Penn    

Saint Scrapyard—Herzog  

Crawling from the Wreckage—Dave Edmunds

Bad is Bad—Huey Lewis & the News 

I Wanna Dance (But I Don’t Know How)—Skaters

Two Left Feet—Eric Peterson

Hebba Ho—Ditch Croaker  

Slap and Tickle—Squeeze

Dance All Night—OXO

Beep Beep Love—Gruppo Sportivo

Whammy Kiss—The B-52’s

It Ain’t Over ‘Til It’s Over—Lenny Kravitz   

HOUR 2

You’ll Never Get Me Up (in One of Those)—Dave Edmunds

Information—Dave Edmunds

Poor Jenny/When Will I Be Loved—Nick Lowe & Dave Edmunds

Feature album: Party of One by Nick Lowe (1990)

Monday Music Club 5-19-14

Tonight, started out in 1954, ended up in the late 70s...

Baby, Let’s Play House—Arthur Gunter

Crawlin’—The Clovers

Ain’t I’m a Dog—Ronnie Self

R-O-C-K—Bill Haley & His Comets

A Sunday Kind of Love—The Del-Vikings

Dedicated to the One I Love—The “5” Royales

Dream Girl—Norman Fox & the Rob Roys

A Mighty Lovable Man—Sonny James

It’s Been Nice—Marty Wilde  

Long Stringy Baby—Jimmy Crawford

Good Timin’—Jimmy Jones

Seven Sins—Barrett Strong

Cathy’s Clown—The Everly Brothers

Never on Sunday—The Chordettes

Yeh, Yeh!—Mongo Santamaria

Bongo Stomp—Little Joey & the Flips

Marlena—The Four Seasons

I’m Gonna Be a Wheel Someday—Fats Domino

Stablemates—Milt Jackson & Wes Montgomery

HOUR 2

Have More Time—Marvin Smith

What’s Gonna Happen When Summer’s Done?—Freddy Cannon

See You in September—The Tempos

I Got Rhythm—The Happenings

Ride the Wild Surf—Jan & Dean

Catch a Wave—The Beach Boys

New York’s a Lonely Town—The Trade Winds

No Surfin’ Today—The Four Seasons

Leader of the Laundromat—The Detergents

Lawdy Miss Clawdy—The Buckinghams  

Got to Get You Into My Life—The Beatles

Just a Little—The Young Rascals

Thumb a Ride—Earl Wright & His Orchestra

Dancing in the Street—Martha & the Vandellas

Drive My Car—Bob Kuban & the In-Men

I’m Gonna Cry Till My Tears Run Dry—Irma Thomas

Summer Wind—Frank Sinatra

The Most Beautiful Girl in the World—Frank Sinatra

Like Always—The Association

You Don’t Know What You Mean to Me—Sam & Dave

I Heard it Through the Grapevine—Gladys Knight & the Pips

Glad to Be Unhappy—The Mamas & the Papas

HOUR 3

Everlasting Love—Robert Knight

(The Lights Went Out in) Massachusetts—The Bee Gees

Refugee from Yuhupitz—Blood, Sweat & Tears

Boogaloo Down Broadway—The Fantastic Johnny C

A Whole Lot of Rainbows—The Salt

Invocation/Your Wonderful Parade—Carpenters

Street Fighting Man—The Rolling Stones

Sebastian—Paul Stookey

Trip to Loveland—The Coronados

Competition Ain’t Nothin’—Carl Carlton

Big Yellow Taxi—Joni Mitchell

Woodstock—Joni Mitchell

Spirit in the Dark—Aretha Franklin

Patches—Clarence Carter

Marijuana Hell—Ron Nagle

I Need Someone (to Love Me)—Z.Z. Hill

Perfection—Badfinger

HOUR 4

Baby, Let’s Swing/The Last Thing You Said/Don’t Tie My Hands—Runt

Perfection—Badfinger

Let Me Be There—Olivia Newton-John

Get Your Biscuits in the Oven and Your Buns in Bed—Kinky Friedman

No Deal—Townes Van Zandt

If I Only Knew—Ozark Mountain Daredevils

Got to Get Me a Job—Ann Alford

Use Me—Bill Withers   

Touch Your Woman—Margie Joseph

Vitamin L—Mary Kay Place as Loretta Haggers 

Fallin’ in Love—Souther/Hillman/Furay Band

(It’s All Down to) Goodnight Vienna—Ringo Starr

You Belong to Me—Carly Simon

There We Are—James Taylor

Somebody to Love—Queen 

Show #438--5/18/14

Home and Dry—Gerry Rafferty

Everything You’ve Done Wrong—Sloan    

Your Work is Magic—King of Prussia   

Find a New Way—Tune-Yards  

(I Keep Thinking About) A New Thing—Field Music

Love Will Find a Way—Yes

New City—Richie Havens   

People Make the World Go Round—The Stylistics 

Tishbite—Cocteau Twins

Sidewalk Talk—Jellybean

Strange Colores—Avey Tare’s Slasher Flicks

Sister—Icehouse   

You’re the One—Charli XCX

Find Your Way Back—Jefferson Starship 

HOUR 2

A few of Randy Newman's labelmates in the early 70s, before we get to his feature tonight:

Strangers—The Kinks

Cool, Cool Water—The Beach Boys

Spirit in the Sky—The Stovall Sisters

Tamp ‘em Up Solid—Ry Cooder

Feature Album: Sail Away—Randy Newman (1972)

Monday Music Club 5-12-14

HOUR 1

Do-Re-Mi—Lee Dorsey

Road Hog—John D. Loudermilk

You Can’t Judge a Book by the Cover—Bo Diddley 

Cool Jerk—The Capitols

I Can’t Go—“Big” Buddy Lucas

I Can’t Let Go—Evie Sands

Have I the Right?—The Honeycombs

Farmer John—The Premiers

That’s How Heartaches Are Made—Baby Washington

Walk on By—Dionne Warwick

Machinations—Lalo Schifrin

It’s Now Winter’s Day—Tommy Roe

Can’t Buy Me Love—The Beatles

Can’t You See That She’s Mine—The Dave Clark Five

I Dig Girls—J.J. Jackson

I Can’t Wait—The Mamas & the Papas

Why Can’t You Give Me What I Want—The Cyrkle

Cast Your Fate to the Wind—Shelby Flint

I’m Your Puppet—James & Bobby Purify 

HOUR 2

Ooh Baby Baby—The Miracles

I Don’t Know—The Dixie Nightingales

Misty—Richard “Groove” Holmes

You Can’t Hurry Love—The Supremes

Some of Your Lovin’—Dusty Springfield

One Dyin’ and a Buryin’—Roger Miller

Born a Woman—Sandy Posey

Nowadays Clancy Can’t Even Sing—Buffalo Springfield

Together—Nilsson

I Can’t Give Back the Love I Feel For You—Rosetta Hightower (1968)

I Got a Line on You—Spirit

What Good is Up—The Inexpensive Handmade Look

Stephanie Knows Who—Love

Little Miss Strange—Jimi Hendrix Experience

Phenomenal Cat—The Kinks

Pretty Ballerina—The Left Banke

Can’t Take My Eyes Off You/Goin’ Out of My Head—The Lettermen

Happiness—The Ovations

Bring a Little Lovin’—Los Bravos

HOUR 3

Gonna Leave You Alone—The Merry-Go-Round

Wonderful—Blackwell

I’m a Changed Man—Otis Redding

I Can Hear Music—The Beach Boys

I’ve Been Hurt—Bill Deal & the Rhondells

Corporal Clegg—Pink Floyd

Pictures of Matchstick Men—Status Quo

One Way Out—The Allman Brothers Band

Jim Dandy—Black Oak Arkansas

Hey Hey What Can I Do—Led Zeppelin

Rag Mama Rag—The Band

Ballad of Sir Frankie Crisp (Let it Roll)—George Harrison

Home to You—Seatrain

Hallelujah—Sweathog

Hot ‘n’ Nasty—Humble Pie

Slaughter—Billy Preston

Silver Machine—Hawkwind

HOUR 4

Live and Let Die—Wings

I’m a Man—Jobriath

Star Baby—The Guess Who

Walkin’ with a Mountain—Mott the Hoople

Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker)—The Rolling Stones

Nuclear Apathy—Crack the Sky

10538 Overture—Electric Light Orchestra   

Give it Back—Gentle Giant  

Angel in Your Arms—Hot

Bad Time—Grand Funk  

(She’s) One of the Boys—Nick Gilder  

Stuff Like That—Quincy Jones 

Knowing Me, Knowing You—ABBA  

Milk and Alcohol—Dr. Feelgood   

Show #437--5/11/14

Tonight in Hour 1 I'm teasing the return of my summer show Monday Music Club with an hour from one of last summer's shows. If you like a "deep track" type of oldies show with stuff you don't get to hear over the airwaves that frequently, you'll want to listen in Monday nights from 6-10pm starting tomorrow (at wiupfm.org). 

Hey, this was a pretty good hour, I think:

For Your Love—The Yardbirds

Promise Her Anything—Tom Jones

Find Somebody—The Young Rascals

Grim Reaper of Love—The Turtles

Voodoo Woman—Bobby Goldsboro

Why Don’tcha Do Me Right?—The Mothers of Invention

Shake Your Moneymaker—Paul Butterfield Blues Band

Break it All—Los Shakers

Mo Jo Hannah—Little Esther Phillips

Funky Street—Arthur Conley

Interplay—Derek & Ray

Shake Your Hips—Slim Harpo

Tombstone Blues—Bob Dylan

Don’t Answer the Door—B.B. King

East West—Herman’s Hermits

Bang! Bang!—Joe Cuba Sextet

Nothing But a Heartache—The Flirtations

Beverly Hills—Uncle Sound

It’s a Shame—The Spinners

HOUR 2: FEATURE ALBUM -- GENESIS: ABACAB (1981)

I even have nerdy commentary, if you're into that. And it's not too long, if you're not. The whole album played in this hour, testing the attention spans of all listeners. 

Show #436--5/4/14

People Gotta Move—Gino Vanelli

Envy—Breton

Sorted for E’s and Wizz—Pulp

You Got Yr. Cherry Bomb—Spoon   

Maneater—Nelly Furtado    

Sorry I Stole Your Man (Live)—Jessica Hernandez & the Deltas  

Feeling Good—Vienna Ditto 

Fake Friends—Joan Jett & the Blackhearts    

Torture—The Replacements   

Only You Know and I Know—Dave Mason    

Love Bomb—N.E.R.D.

Virtual Insanity—Jamiroquai  

4 Minute Mile—Bell X1

HOUR 2

It Wants You to Run—Wild Decade

Borrowed Time—Parquet Courts

Stutter—Deleted Scenes

Big Teeth—Skeleton Key  

Plateau—Nirvana  

There’s Money in New Wave—A.C. Newman   

The Letterbomb—Milagres   

Passing Out Pieces—Mac DeMarco

New Shoes—Travis  

Yes, Yes, Yes—NRBQ    

Lay Down Sally—Eric Clapton  

Leave it Alone—Peter Rowan’s Twang ‘n Groove     

Lost Count—Ebba Forsberg

Breaking the Girl—Red Hot Chili Peppers  

Everyday Robots—Damon Albarn