1/28/2011

Cocktail Queen - Taxxi
Life's What You Make It - Talk Talk
The Only Living Boy in NY - Simon and Garfunkel
Autumn: Heroine's Theme/ Deep Summer Sleep/ The Winter Long - Strawbs
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Tell Me What You Want/ Who's Behind the Door? Zebra
Nature's Way - Spirit
Angel Come Home - Mick Fleetwood's Zoo
Tin Soldier - Small Faces
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Wall St. Shuffle - 10cc
Hung Up On A Dream - Zombies
Can't Wait - Piper
Reactionary Girl - Rob Laufer
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Hit the Floor - Earthquake
Shake - Shadows of Knight
Freudiana - Eric Woolfson
On the Loose - Saga
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X-Offender - Blondie
Catch Me I'm Falling - Real Life
Left of Center - Suzanne Vega & Joe Jackson
Prologue - Renaissance
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Hard Act to Follow - Split Enz
Absolutely Sweet Marie - Jason and the Scorchers
Interstellar Overdrive - Pink Floyd
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To Jone - Willipuss Wallipuss
25 O'Clock - Dukes of Stratosphear
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All Right Now (original version) - Free

1/21/2011

Honor Among Thieves - Artful Dodger
99th Floor - Moving Sidewalks
Girl Most Likely - Greg Kihn
What's A Matter Baby? - Ellen Foley

Little Does She Know - Kursaal Flyers
Come On Let's Go - Paul Weller
They All Run After the Carving Knife - New Musik
Shooting Star - Harry Chapin

The Untouchable One - Tom Cochrane
I'd Love to Change the World - Ten Years After
Starving in the Tropics - String Driven Thing
Only A Lonely Heart Sees - Felix Cavaliere

The Unguarded Moment - The Church
A Boy Who Can't Talk - Planet P Project
Giving It All Away - Leo Sayer
Telegram Sam - T. Rex

Your Horoscope for Today - Weird Al Yankovic
Twist of Fate/Right Place to Fade - Lindsey Buckingham
Crystal Ball - Styx
Psi Power - Hawklords

When I Turn Off the Living Room Light - Kinks
Nice Legs/ Shame About the Face - The Monks
Perfect - John Cale
Temporary Beauty - Graham Parker

Suspicious Minds - Mark James
Take It Easy - Jackson Browne
Superman - Clique
Hush - Joe South

What's He Got? - Producers

1/14/2011

Proud to Fall - Ian McCullough
Hazy Shade of Winter - Simon and Garfunkel
Cool For Cats - Squeeze
For Your Love - Graham Gouldman
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Make Me Smile (Come up and See Me) - Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel
Whenever You're On My Mind - Marshall Crenshaw
Feels Like Heaven - Fiction Factory
Next Big Thing - Dictators
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If I Don't Have You - NRBQ
World - Bee Gees
Nothing In Return - T-Bone Burnett
11:59 - Blondie
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Society's Child - Janis Ian
White Stations/ Black Stations - Martha and the Muffins
Original Sin - INXS
Get Together - Youngbloods
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Brother Louie - Hot Chocolate
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised - Gil Scott-Heron
All Together Now - Beatles
Martin Luther King's Dream - Strawbs
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There Goes the Neighborhood - Bus Boys
Everyday People - Sly and the Family Stone
I Had a Dream - John Sebastian
Abraham Martin and John - Dion
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The Modern World - Jam
Reggae Reggae - Real Kids
Starry Eyes - Records
Do Anything You Want to Do - Eddie & the Hot Rods
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She Broke Your Heart - Ian Lloyd
Watch That Man - David Bowie
All I Want Is You - Roxy Music
All that Glitters - Gary Glitter

1/7/2011

You Want It You Got It - Cheap Trick
Slipped Tripped Fell In Love - Foghat
Suddenly Blue - Roger McGuinn
Surf Trek - Rubinoos

Generation Rumble - Dave Edmunds
Made Your Mind Up - Joe Walsh
The Man Who Built America - Horslips
Shine On Brightly - Procol Harum

Uncertain Smile - The The
Disappearing - Sincereos
Turning Japanese - Vapors
All For The Love Of Rock and Roll - Tuff Darts

Don't Eat Yellow Snow - Frank Zappa
Wooly Bully - Sam the Sham & the Pharoahs
Come Back - J. Geils Band
Ragazzo Solo, Ragazza Solo (Space Oddity in Italian) - David Bowie

Star - Stealers Wheel
Everything Will Turn Out Fine - Stealers Wheel
The Way It Always Starts (Gerry Rafferty vocals) - Mark Knopfler
Home and Dry - Gerry Rafferty

Heroes and Villans (SMILE) - Brian Wilson
Kites - Simon Dupree & The Big Sound
Modern Music - Be Bop Deluxe
Flick of the Wrist - Queen

Sympathy for the Devil - Jonathan Round
One of These Days - Pink Floyd

American Nights - Runaways
All the Kids on The Street - Hollywood Stars
Ride a White Swan - T. Rex

12/31/2010 (Turn it up to '11)

Happy 2011 to all!

Ding Dong - George Harrison
Lookin' Back, Thinkin' Ahead - Billy Bremmer
Another One Bites the Dust - Queen
Why Me? - Planet P Project
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Gina in the Kings Road - Al Stewart
Happy New Year - Todd Snider
Happy New Year - Smart Brown Handbag
New Year - Ben Shive
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Get Started, Start a Fire - Graham Parker
Start! - Jam
Starting Out - Wizzard
Just Like Starting Over - John Lennon
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Maybe Next Year - Cory Smith
This Is the Year - David Roth
This Will Be Our Year - Zombies
Here's To the New Year - Slade
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Countdown - Lindsey Buckingham
Final Countdown - Europe
10-9-8 - Face to Face
I Just Want to Celebrate - Rare Earth
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January - Pilot
January Morning - Barclay James Harvest
Ian & Sylvia - January Morning
Small Beginnings - Flash
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Absolute Beginners - David Bowie
Begin the Begin - REM
Beginnings - Chicago
From the Beginning - Emerson Lake & Palmer
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AuldLangSyne-You'll Never Walk Alone - Slade

New Year Show coming Fri 12/31 at 3pm

Sure, there are plenty of Christmas songs you never hear on the radio, and every year I'm happy to explore the world of orphaned songs of the season and play them on the show. It takes a long time to compile and assemble the show but it's a labor of love.

The harder part though, is to find two hours of New Year songs. Preferably songs without the words "Auld," "Lang," and "Syne." Yes, a two-hour rock and roll New Years theme show without U2's overplayed (but excellent) "New Years Day" or Eagles' (not excellent) "Funky New Year."

Tune in and hear the show. Individual songs that are not necessarily about new year's day, but that collectively fit the theme of the show. Songs about saying good bye to the past, songs about counting down, celebrating, January, new beginnings, and general merriment.

In the New York's Hudson Valley, tune in at 3pm Friday to 91.3 FM WVKR. Out of the reach of the station's signal? Tune in at www.wvkr.org by clicking the "Click HERE to HEAR" link near the top right side of this playlist blog, and turn it up to 11. More specifically, 2011.

12/24/2010 Christmas at The Orphanage of Rock and Roll

Another Rock and Roll Christmas - Gary Glitter
Christmas Is Coming - Payola$
Suddenly It's Christmas - Loudon Wainwright III
The Christmas Song - Boxmasters
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A Spaceman Came A Travelling - Chris DeBurgh
Santa Lost a Ho - Christmas Jug Band
It's Christmas Time Ebenezer - Len Price 3
Sleighride - Los Straightjackets
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A Merry Jingle Greedies
Runaway Christmas - Pencil Test
The Marvelous Toy - Peter Paul & Mary
Little Drummer Boy - Hoodoo Gurus
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Everyday Is Christmas - Swag
Christmas Time - Andy Davis
Christmastime All Over the World - Smithereens
Deck the Halls - Geolyn
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How to Make Gravy - Paul Kelly
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen - Jigsaw Seen
Hey Mr. Christmas - Showaddywaddy
Croakin Bells - Frog Marley
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Big Balls - Santa Claws & the Naughty But Nice Orchestra
Commercial Christmas - Tom Lehrer
I Wish It Would Be Christmas Everyday - Roy Wood
You're a Mean One Mr. Grinch - Gary Hoey
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Monster Holiday - Bobby Boris Pickett
Merry Christmas From the Family - Robert Earl Keen
TacoBel Canon - Christine Lavin
Christmas Wish - Steve Martin
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Come All Ye Faithful Surfer Girls - Chevelles
Merry Christmas Will Do - Material Issue
Ding Dong Merrily On High - Jon Anderson
Fairytale of NY - Kirsty MacColl & Shane McGowan
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There's No Lights On the Christmas Tree Mama They're Burning Big Louie Tonight - Sensational Alex Harvey Band