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 

Show #435--4/27/14

SUNDAY MUSIC CLUB: 1980-1984

Sometimes a Fantasy—Billy Joel

The Walk—The Inmates

If Sugar Was as Sweet as You—Rockpile

Stranger in My Home Town—Foghat

How Do I Make You—Linda Ronstadt   

An American Dream—The Dirt Band

Ozark—Pat Metheny & Lyle Mays     

Freedom of Choice—Devo  

Bucket Rider—Polyrock   

Late in the Evening—Paul Simon  

Metal Test—Material   

Man on the Corner—Genesis   

Pull Up to the Bumper—Grace Jones  

Boy Wonder--Friction 

Time Again—Asia  

HOUR 2

I Need Your Lovin’—Teena Marie

Song for You—Chicago  

He Can’t Love You—Michael Stanley Band   

Mercury Blues—David Lindley    

Make a Move on Me—Olivia Newton-John   

The New World—X    

Sailin’ On—Bad Brains   

Back of Love—Echo & the Bunnymen   

The Very First Dance--Squeeze  

Torture—The Jacksons    

Wanna Be Your Love—OXO  

Help You Ann—The Lyres    

Crumblin’ Down—John Cougar Mellencamp   

Will You Spin For Me?—Shoes  

You Can’t Get What You Want (Till You Know What You Want)—Joe Jackson 

Show #434--4/20/14

(An encore presentation. Happy Easter!)

Pulled Up—Talking Heads

Hang Loose—Alabama Shakes

Waiting—The Dismemberment Plan

Don’t Shed a Tear—Paul Carrack

Get Happy—Whispertown

Fine Line—Little Big Town

The Beautiful Barricades—Office of Future Plans

Come Back—White Denim

The Crunge—Led Zeppelin

Beercan—Beck 

One—Sunny Day Real Estate

The Space Between—Dave Matthews Band

Coming Home—The Hush Arbors

Tribute to Wes—Moses Dillard & the Tex Town Display

Elevate—St. Lucia

Live in Sunshine—The Rapture

Hour 2

Calm Down—The Love Language

Here it Comes Again—Please

Rock Me on the Water—Linda Ronstadt

Oh Very Young—Cat Stevens

K is for Kelson—Bibio

Kids Are Getting Younger—Benoit Pioulard

Come as You Are—Nirvana

Big Kids—Daryl Hall & John Oates

Detroit Rock City—Kiss

Swinging Bells—Plants and Animals

Water Music I/Here Comes the Flood/Water Music II—Robert Fripp/Peter Gabriel

New York City Serenade—Bruce Springsteen 

Show #433--4/13/14

Girls' School—Wings

Patti Smith Math Scratch—Thurston Moore

Dress Up—School of Language

Automatic—The Pointer Sisters

I Owe You Nothing—Bros

Airwaves—Ray LaMontagne

Wait—Steve Forbert    

Baby Got Going—Liz Phair

Little Black Train—Carlene Carter

My Heart Hurts—Nick Lowe 

Step—Vampire Weekend   

Respect—Rotary Connection  

Creep—TLC    

Animal Rhapsody—The Raincoats   

It is Accomplished—Peter Gabriel 

HOUR 2

Little Bribes—Death Cab for Cutie

Soon as I Get Paid—Keb’ Mo’

Money—Pink Floyd   

For the Love of Money—Utopia 

Doute/S—Thiefs

A Girl in Trouble (is a Temporary Thing)—Romeo Void 

Little Numbers—BOY   

The Lottery Song—Bill Lloyd

Rockets—Joe Walsh

Artifice—SOHN  

Autopilot—Julie Feeney

Stop—Twin Sister

Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)—Pharmakon 

Show #432--4/6/14

Destination—Nickel Creek

Connection—Arlo Guthrie

Husbandry—Leo Kottke

Everywhere—Fleetwood Mac

Everything’s Gonna Be Alright—Mike Mains & the Branches

Everybody is a Star—Sly & the Family Stone

Young—Steffaloo   

Made to Love You—Gary Wright

All That I Know Is (I’m Your Baby)—Caroline Smith

Slow—Meklit  

Sun in the Morning—Future Islands   

Saint Cobain--Vernon Reid 

Dark Light—Weeknight  

Cities in Dust—Siouxsie & the Banshees  

HOUR 2

World Lullabye—Jane Child

City Life -- I. (Check it Out)—Steve Reich/Ensemble Modern

I am a City—The Payola$

So Many Times, So Many Ways—Mount Kimbie

I’m Aware—Clinic

I Alone—Live

Two People—Tina Turner   

World Keeps Spinning—The Brand New Heavies 

No God’s a Man—Gentle Giant   

The Four of Us—John Sebastian