It's a Christmas week episode - what a concept! I owe my friend Al Quagliari a huge thank for providing me with lots of wondrous and oft silly Christmas and New Year's songs and soundbites, and for turning me on to Bob Rivers, the Weird Al of Christmas music. It may have been a bit self-indulgent to play my own Christmas song at the end, but I'm working on a larger Bite the Wax Godhead project at the moment, so I'm hoping to give my and Cynthia's old band just a bit of additional visibilty in the next few months before we return to obscurity. And the song isn't half-bad. This was a fun show to prepare and pull off. Happy Holidays!
Merry Christmas Baby – Otis Redding
O Little Town of Bethlehem – Bob Rivers
Bounce of the Sugar Plum Fairy – John Kirby and His Orchestra
Joy To the World – The Butties
I Don't Intend to Spend Christmas Without You – Margo Guryan
Tchotchkes– Tchotchke & The Lemon Twigs
Decorations – Bob Rivers
(Yes It's) Christmas – War
Christmas In Suburbia – The Cleaners from Venus
Bellringers Are Hungover – Lorraine Bowen
The Christmas Song – Big Dee Irwin & Little Eva
Old Toy Trains – Roger Miller
Christmas At the Airport – Nick Lowe
How Do You Spell Channukkahh? – The Leevees
I Saw Hanukkah Harry Beat Up Santa Claus – Hal Singer
Sled Zeppelin – Bob Rivers
Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town – John Davidson
What Christmas Means to Me – Stevie Wonder
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen/Carol of the Bells – Robert Glasper & Cynthia Erivo
Christmas Time Is Here (Vocal Version – studio chatter + Takes 6 & 7) – Vince Guaraldi & St. Paul's Episcopal Church Youth Choir
Santa Don't Go – Farrah
You Trashed My Christmas – The Primitives
Xmasploitation (Santa's Badass Revenge) – monochronic
All I Want for Christmas (Is My Two Front Teeth) – Nat King Cole (MJ Cole Remix)
Father Christmas – The Kinks
Silver and Gold – Rosine (featuring Nancy Howell and Mark Lerner)
(I'll Be Glad When) Christmastime is Done – Bite the Wax Godhead
In which we hear from The Elbow Patches (aka John Dunbar), Downtown Mystic, Guerilla Toss, Drugdealer (fronted by Weyes Blood!),The Belair Lip Bombs, a ridiculously hot early take of Vince Guaraldi's "Skating" from 1965, and many more fine performers and combos.
Add Some Music To Your Day – The Beach Boys
Eyes of the World (Shorefire Remix) – Downtown Mystic
You Can't Kid Yourself Anymore – The Elbow Patches
Play On – The Lemon Twigs
Let's Pretend – The Raspberries
Cuddly Toy – The Monkees
Red Flag to Angry Bull – Guerilla Toss
Heartthrob – Indigo De Souza
Chocolates – The Aluminum Group
Twiggy Twiggy/Twiggy vs James Bond – Pizzicato 5
Real Thing – Drugdealer, Weyes Blood
Love Me or Let Me Be Lonely – The Friends of Distinction
Say My Name – The Belair Lip Bombs
Try To Make It – Sloan
Teenage FBI – Guided By Voices
Quite the Opposite – Dominic Fike
Tomorrow Tomorrow – Brad Mehldau & Daniel Rossen
classic love – Luke Roberts & Kurt Vile
Grocery Store – Kate Micucci
The Crumble Song (brown sugar remix) – Lorraine Bowen
Baby Doll – Juniper
Annie Almond – The Junipers
Looking For Santa – The Hungry Dutchmen
Southhold Santa – The Hunkerdowns
Skating (#7, Take 2/September 22, 1965) – Vince Guaraldi Trio
My apologies for struggling to try to do the "morning drive traffic". I shouldn't even bother until I get a solid way of doing it that doesn't mess up the flow of the show. Then again, here I am complaining again about how I do the show, and everybody's telling me NOT to do that. I'm trying. I'M TRYING!!
Anyways, I hope you find the Black Lodge Singers' rendition of "Mighty Mouse" as silly and life-affirming as I do. I was also happy to hear that Zoos of Berlin track, which I discovered somehow when I started at the station in 2016. I know nothing about them, but "Electrical Way" is slammin'. And Finn Wolfhard - who knew?
Immortal Hands – Stereolab
TPA – Bad Bad Hats
Electrical Way – Zoos of Berlin
Choose The Latter – Finn Wolfhard
Apples (Radio effect intro) – Pugwash
Free Fallin' – Imaginary Future (feat. Kina Grannis)
Turning Point (Original Drums Version) – Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
All My Black Tomorrows – Pulling Weeds/Pete Cenedella
Jokerman (live on David Letterman 3/22/84) – Bob Dylan & The Plugz
Shook Loose – Dan Jones and The Squids
Say My Name – The Belair Lip Bombs
Night Birds – Mike Viola
Can't Wait Too Long – The Beach Boys
Mind Games (Ultimate Mix) – John Lennon
If I Fell (Take 11) – The Beatles
I've Got a Broken Heart – The Lemon Twigs
Have You Seen Her Face – The Byrds
Hyacinth House – Supergrass
Sunday Love – Bruce Springsteen
Reach Out for Me – Dionne Warwick
This Guy’s in Love with You – Herb Alpert
Mighty Mouse – The Black Lodge Singers
Harvest – Rufus Wainwright (feat. Andrew Bird & Chris Thile)
September Song – Rufus Wainwright & The Pacific Jazz Orchestra
Stray Cats in Spain – Jeff Tweedy
Heavy Music – Bob Seger & The Last Heard
No Bills in Heaven – Sunflower Bean
Straight Line Was a Lie – The Beths
Bloom Baby Bloom – Wolf Alice
Here We Go Crazy – Bob Mould
Always Reaching – The Mommyheads
Jaded – The Mommyheads
Unsatisfied – The Replacements
2468 – Horsegirl
Where Evil Grows – The Poppy Family
Little Green Bag – The George Baker Selection
Let's Pretend – The Lemon Twigs
Friday (I'm Gonna Love You) – The Lemon Twigs
I Wonder What She's Doing Tonight – Tommy Boyce & Bobby Hart
The Door into Summer – The Monkees
Be Like Him – Darian Sahanaja & Probyn Gregory
Witchi Tai To – Harpers Bizarre
Prelude/To Claudia on Thursday – The Millennium
Looking for the Magic – The Dwight Twilley Band
Glad – Saint Etienne
Can I Talk My Sh*t – Vagabon
Northern Star – Aggie Miller
Believe – Kashus Culpepper
T-Shirt – David Byrne
Transportation (1990 version) – Bite the Wax Godhead
Getting Away with It – Electronic
Radio history in the making! (LOL) Starting with this show, I am now the regular Monday "morning drive" 7-9 am deejay at WPKN. I've long wanted to be a cheerful get-your-morning-started announcer, and watch out for what you wish for... but I love it anyways. I finally get my shot, right here, right then.
Apologies in advance for all the apologies. And Rest In Peace, Jimmy Cliff. And thank you.
I Wanna Be With You – Vicki and Debbie Peterson
First Day – Far Caspian
Just Like a Flower – Winter
Little Bird – Famous Groupies
The Fool on the Hill (Take 5 – Instrumental) – The Beatles
Tell Me Why (Takes 12 And 13) – The Beatles
While My Guitar Gently Weeps (Third Version/Take 27) – The Beatles
Let's Pretend – The Lemon Twigs
Cruisin' Music – Ronnie D’Addario
Not Today – The Lemon Twigs (Ronnie D’Addario cover)
This Whole World – The Beach Boys
I Like Girls (Bearsville Version) – Sparks
Dick Around – Sparks
Deuce – Kiss
Black Diamond – The Replacements
I Will Dare – The Replacements
Many Rivers to Cross – Jimmy Cliff
Wonderful World, Beautiful People – Jimmy Cliff
Hard Road to Travel – Jimmy Cliff
Rivers of Babylon – The Melodians
Reconsider Me – Warren Zevon
Crying Inside – Nick Lowe & Los Straitjackets
Tomorrow Tomorrow – Brad Mehldau (feat. Daniel Rossen & Chris Thile)
God Knows – Tunde Adebimpe
Ankles – Lucy Dacus
This was the last of my series of late-summer 2025 fill-ins for Steve DiCostanzo's Radio Base Camp shows; he would shortly return the favor in November 2025 by filling in for several of the new 7-9 AM morning shows that I was assigned to that I couldn't pull off quite yet because my right foot was healing from (successful) surgery. Thanks, Steve!
As a shortwave radio fan and historian, I was absolutely horrified by the current administration's takedown of our hisroric and essential international broadcasting stations, including the Voice of America, Radio Free Asia and Radio Free Europe. So I was glad to see that mu eternal heroes R.E.M. OK'd the use of their debut song to the world, 1981's "Radio Free Europe", in a new EP that included an excellent new remix of the mysterious, propulsive and soaring original track - the Hibtone one, which came out before the first EP, which I also played. Profits from their new "Radio Free Europe" EP are going towards keeping the actual Radio Free Europe broadcast operations alive, although (as I write this) they are still barely managing to survive.
Radio Free Europe (Jacknife Lee Remix) – R.E.M.
Radio Free Europe (Original Hibtone 45) – R.E.M.
Lament – Blake Babies
So Long – Fischer-Z
This Time – INXS
Block of Wood – The Bats
Pink Frost – The Chills
Map Ref 41 Degrees N 93 Degrees – Wire
First Day – Far Caspian
Metal – The Beths
You Didn't See – Andy Shauf
F.O.O.F. – Frankie Cosmos
Save Your Soul – Kathleen Edwards
Cryin' Inside – Nick Lowe
American Squirm – Nick Lowe
Everyday I Write the Book – Elvis Costello & The Attractions
Mayor of Simpleton – XTC
Here, There and Everywhere (Take 6) – The Beatles
Stray Cats in Spain – Jeff Tweedy
As We Go Along – The Monkees
Glad – Saint Etienne
Can I Talk My Sh*t? – Vagabon
Shooting Star – Sunflower Bean
Tomorrow Tomorrow – Brad Mehldau feat. Daniel Rossen
Porcupine – Sparks
The Summer's Over (solo acoustic) – Alec Cumming
If you're an avid listener of the show*, you'd know that a big fave "genre" of mine to play on Snap Crackle POP! is (are?) backing tracks... that is, the sound of a finished track minus the vocals, so one can hear the instruments and the musicians and the musician's/producer's/arranger's artistry much more clearly. You can see the sausage/donuts/magic being made, in other words. So I decided to dedicate a whole show to these kind of tracks, because... well, I probably listen to Beatles and Beach Boys session tracks much more now than I do to their actual finished tracks. (This is why that, for the life of me, I don't care at all about the whole "mono mixes versus today's remastered crap" thing. As long as I can hear an elctrifying/life-affirming piece of music played in a ass-kicking, classic and/or deconstrucrted way, as long as the "magic" of the art-being-made is still thrillingly evident, I'm there.)
Yes, many of these tracks are actually outtakes, alternate versions, rarities or covers in addition to actual backing tracks, but... well, you can deal.
Jackson 5
Never Can Say Goodbye (DJ Moch's Extended Reconstruction)
I Want You Back (backing track)
The Rolling Stones
Dead Flowers (alternate version)
Brown Sugar (alternate version w/ Eric Clapton)
Rice Krispies jingle
When the Whip Comes Down (live 1978, Sucking In The Seventies version)
The Who
I Can See For Miles (mono mix w/ session noises)
Little Billy
Kids! Do You Want Kids (Pete Townsend demo)
Christmas (Pete Townsend Tommy demo)
The Kinks
Waterloo Sunset (session excerpt + backing track take 2)
Starstruck (alternate mix with session chat)
Phenomenal Cat (alternate mix with session chat)
Do You Remember Walter (backing track)
People Take Pictures of Each Other (cover by Steady Water & Bedouine)
Misty Water (Village Green Preservation Society outtake)
The Beach Boys
Let Him Run Wild (Stack-o-Tracks instrumental version)
Can't Wait Too Long (1993 mix)
With a Little Help from My Friends
Walk On By
Lonely Days
SMiLE backing vocals montage
Good Vibrations (45 backing track)
The Association
Windy (backing track)
Never My Love (w/ extended Larry Knechtel end solo)
Are You There with Another Girl (backing track) – Dionne Warwick/Burt Bacharach
Blackbird – Brad Mehldau
The Beatles
You Only Give Me Your Money (take 36)
Yes It Is (takes 2 & 14)
It's Only Love (takes 3 & 2)
Getting Better (take 1/instrumental)
Getting Better (take 12/instrumental)
I'll Be Back (take 2)
I'll Be Back (take 3)
No Reply (demo)
No Reply (take 2)
This Boy (takes 12 & 13)
Eleanor Rigby (session chat + take 2/instrume)
She's Leaving Home (take 6/instrumental)
Here Comes The Sun (take 9)
* you are? for reals? THANK YOU!
This is a good one. It's December 27th 2025 as I write this, and I'm remembering now how I used to have to get to the WPKN studios at the University of Bridgeport an hour early so I could go through the stacks and pull lots and lots of the station's own vinyl, with most of the records sent originally at the time of that album's release as a radio promotional for-airplay copies. (An arduous task, as the stations albums are listed chronologically instead of alphabetically.) A lot of the records are scratchy as f*ck, hence the name Snap CRACKLE Pop. Regrettably - perhaps - I've gotten much lazier, and I rely much less on the station's crackle-filled record stacks and the more on my collection of "clean" individual song WAVs as channeled through my laptop's DJ Pro software.
This night I was filling in for two two-hour shows, one right after the other: "Railroad Dave" Schartz and KC Vaz (Paralelo Zero-Radio Brazil). This show is pretty adventurous and plays lots of good obscure music, and it's making me think I should try to add a bit more of this dreamy/mysterious/old-school free-form FM vibe into my curent morning show, and even more so for the occasional fill-ins I still do, especially those at weirder hours. The more crackles each record has, the more plays it must've gotten on the WPKN airwaves, and the more soulfully deep cosmic vibrations get re-released into the ether.
(What Does It Take) To Win Your Love – Jr. Walker & the All-Stars
Comes The Sun – The Archies
Head Held High – The Velvet Underground
Kings Lead Hat – Brian Eno
The Girls Want to Be With the Girls – Talking Heads
Electrical Way – Zoos of Berlin
I Feel Fine (Really) – The Monochrome Set
Smiling Faces Sometimes – The Undisputed Truth (producer: Norman Whitfield)
Year of Decision – The Three Degrees
Light My Fire – Four Tops
Baby That's Backatcha – Smokey Robinson
Don't Ever Be Lonely – Cornelius Brothers and Rose
Summer Breeze – Isley Brothers
On the Beach – Neil Young
River Man – Nick Drake
By the Time It Gets Dark – Sandy Denny
I Don't Believe in Miracles – Colin Blunstone
Two Winters Long – Irma Thomas
Aubrey – Bread
With You With Me – Milkwood
First Girl I Loved – John Hammond
If Not for You – Bob Dylan
Blues Run the Game – Jackson C. Frank
Not Because It's Easy But Because It's Hard – Jens Lekman
The Kiss – Judee Sill
Calvary Cross – Richard Thompson
Days – Television
Child's Christmas in Wales – John Cale
Sands of Time – Fleetwood Mac
Sunshine – Sparklehorse
Fuga No. 2 – Os Mutantes
Seabird – Alessi Brothers
How Can I Make You Love Me – NRBQ
Lovin' You Ain't Easy – Pagliaro
Speak Your Mind – Marc Benno
Birth of an Accidental Hipster – The Monkees
Along Comes Mary – The Association
I Wanna Know Girls – Portastatic
Is It Like Today? – World Party
Conquistador – Procol Harum
Flash – Wreckless Eric
Playing Pittsburgh – Amy Rigby
Blink of an Eye – Laish
Optimist – St. Vincent & David Byrne
I Love Every Little Thing About You – Syreeta & Stevie Wonder
Godspell – The Cardigans
Complicated Girl – The Bangles
Country Fair – Joe Walsh
Waste – Smash Mouth
Wild Bird – John Surman & Karin Krog
Hush – Calexico
Have You Seen the Stars Tonight? – Paul Kantner & Jefferson Starship
Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed? – Linda Scott
Tower of Strength – Gene McDaniels
Me, Japanese Boy – Harpers Bizarre
Dionne Warwick – Dionne Warwick
Send Me No Flowers – Doris Day
Where There's a Heart – The Sandpipers
Love in a Goldfish Bowl – Tommy Sands
I'm a Better Man – Englebert Humperdinck
Another Tear Falls – Puddles Pity Party
Don't You Believe It – Andy Williams
Let the Music Play – The Drifters
Trains and Boats and Planes – Burt Bacharach
What's New, Pussycat? – Tom Jones
This Guy's in Love with You – Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
The Look of Love – Dusty Springfield
Make It Easy On Yourself – Burt Bacharach
Paper Mache – Dionne Warwick
Kentucky Bluebird (Send A Message To Martha) – Lou Johnson
In the Land of Make Believe – Dusty Springfield
Living Together, Growing Together – The 5th Dimension
One Less Bell to Answer – The 5th Dimension
Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do) – Christopher Cross
Anyone Who Had a Heart – Wynonna
The Wine Is Young – Dionne Warwick
Walk the Way You Talk – Dionne Warwick
God Give Me Strength – Burt Bacharach & Elvis Costello
Magic Moments – Perry Como
The Story of My Life – Marty Robbins
True Love Never Runs Smooth – Gene Pitney
Live Again – Irma Thomas
No One Remembers My Name – Burt Bacharach
Who Are These People? – Burt Bacharach feat. Elvis Costello
Lost Horizon – Yeongene
Turkey Lurkey Time – Megan Sikora, Mayumi Miguel, Cameron Adams & the "Promises, Promises" Ensemble (2010)
Knowing When to Leave – Jill O'Hara
Another Night – Dionne Warwick
Don't Go Breaking My Heart – Burt Bacharach
I Still Remember – John Pagano
In the Darkest Place – Burt Bacharach & Elvis Costello
Long Ago Tomorrow – BJ Thomas
I Don't Need You Anymore (From the Motion Picture "Together?") – Jackie Deshannon
The Sweetest Punch – Bill Frisell
Don't Say I Didn't Tell You So – Dionne Warwick
Promises Promises – Dionne Warwick
Toledo – Burt Bacharach & Elvis Costello
Walk On By – Dionne Warwick
Make It Easy On Yourself (Live at The Garden State Arts Center, 1970) – Dionne Warwick
A House Is Not a Home – Burt Bacharach
Twenty-Four Hours from Tulsa – Dusty Springfield
Baby It's You – The Beatles
Always Something There to Remind Me – Naked Eyes
South American Getaway (From "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid") – Burt Bacharach
After the Fox – The Hollies
Are You There (With Another Girl) – Dionne Warwick
Promise Her Anything – Tom Jones
Mexican Divorce – The Drifters
Don't Make Me Over – Dionne Warwick
I Smiled Yesterday – Dionne Warwick
This Empty Place – Mexican Divorce
My Little Red Book – Manfred Mann
Walk On By – The Beach Boys
New York Lady – Burt Bacharach & The Houston Symphony
Such Unlikely Lovers – Burt Bacharach & Elvis Costello
In Between the Heartaches – Ronald Isley
The Last One to Be Loved – Lou Johnson
Wives and Lovers – Burt Bacharach
I'll Never Fall in Love Again – Jill O'Hara & Jerry Orbach
The World is a Circle – Diana Lee, Bobby Van & Chorus
Balance of Nature – Rumer
So Long Johnny – Jackie Deshannon
With Open Arms – Jane Morgan
Hasbrook Heights – Burt Bacharach
You'll Never Get to Heaven (if You Break My Heart) – The Stylistics
Nikki – Burt Bacharach
Dancing With Your Shadow – Sheryl Crow
Close to You – Burt Bacharach
Everybody's Out of Town – B.J. Thomas
The Blob – The Five Blobs
Saturday Night in Tiajuana – The Five Blobs
Ich Warte Jeden Tag – Dionne Warwick
I Say a Little Prayer for you (alternate) – Dionne Warwick
And Then He Walked Right Through the Door – Dionne Warwick
Go Ask Shakespeare – Burt Bacharach
Alfie – Burt Bacharach
The Windows of the World – Bobbie Gentry
What the World Needs Now – Jackie Deshannon
Are You Ready for Love – Elton John
More, More, More – Andrea True Connection
Steal My Sunshine – Len
Numb (Single Edit) – Pet Shop Boys
Save Me a Place – Fleetwood Mac
Through the Long Night – Billy Joel
Poor People – Alan Price
Me and My Arrow – Harry Nilsson
Mosquito – Geraint Watkins
Wives and Lovers – Burt Bacharach
Domingo no Parque – Gilberto Gil
Mistry Roses – Colin Blunstone
Sea Song – Robert Wyatt
Ghosts of American Astronauts – The Mekons
Leroy – Family
Steady State – Penguin Cafe Orchestra
Kala – Ali Farka Touré & Toumani Diabaté
Crinian Wood – Alexi Murdoch
The Ways of the Wind – P.M. Dawn
Gratitude for the Shipper – Fan Modine
Automatic – Pernice Brothers
Meadows – Joe Walsh
Fortune Teller – Robert Plant & Alison Krauss
Moon Shake – Can
On The Roof - The Feelies
Goin' back – The Byrds
Same Old Man – Karen Dalton
4am - Stueve
So Begins the Task – Manassas
Every Kind of Wrong – John Moreland
River – Terry Reid
Long Ago Tomorrow – B.J. Thomas
The Bells – Laura Nyro & LaBelle
Oh, Why – Balam Acab
The Donor – Judee Sill
Met Her on a Plane – Jimmy Webb
Lift Him Up That's All – Washington Phillips
Like a Ship – Pastor T.L. Barrett & The Youth For Christ Choir
Mona – Bo Diddley
Another Way Out – Brave Belt
Long Way Around – Gerry Rafferty
She Might Have Been a Nice Girl – The Guess Who
Fineline – Ned Doheny
Mother Earth – Emitt Rhodes
I Wonder If I Care As Much – The Everly Brothers
One Night of Sin – Elvis Presley
Night Shift – Lucy Dacus
Everything Put Together Falls Apart – Paul Simon
Country of Illusion – William Tyler
If you start at the very beginning (which is a very good place to start) with these Snap Crackle POP! shows/podcasts, you'll notice I am mainly doing fill-ins, many of them in the wee hours. At the time, I was working a low-self esteem job where the hours were very... well, lets call them variable. So I was frequently doing overnight shifts there, and my sleep hours were all fakakta, and plus... the "romantic" ideal I had of the lonely overnight DJ really appealed to me (cf. the cover of Donald Fagen's The Nightfly).
A lot of this music is what I'd call - for myself - "comfort-food music". For better or worse, many of these songs are regulars on my shows to this day...
(What Does It Take) To Win Your Love - Jr. Walker & the All-Stars
Let's Go - The Cars
Street Life - Roxy Music
The Captain of Her Heart - Double
Old Town - Phil Lynott
Another Tricky Day - The Who
Teenerama - The Records
Warm Self Sacrifice - Emitt Rhodes
Deadbeat Club - The B52s
London Bridge - Bread
Baby Blue - The Beach Boys
You Might As Well Smile - Glen Campbell
Amateur - Aimee Mann
The World Is a Circle - Burt Bacharach
Brandy - Looking Glass
Jackie Blue - The Ozark Mountain Daredevils
Sweet Music - Lon & Derek Van Eaton
Skinny Man - The 5th Dimension
Save Me - kd lang
I Must Be in a Good Place Now - Bobby Charles
Drowning In a Sea of Love - Joe Simon
New Sensations - Lou Reed
Jesus Was a Cross-Maker - Judee Sill
Don't Make Promises - Helen Reddy
Don't Go To Strangers - JJ Cale
Every Night (live) - Paul McCartney & Wings
The World Is Turning On - The Pooh Sticks
Hey Julie - Fountains of Wayne
I've Got a Secret - Richard Barone & James Mastro
That's the Story of My Life - The Velvet Underground
You Ain't Going Nowhere - Bob Dylan
Speak Your Mind - Marc Benno
No Wonder Love's a Wonder - Smokey Robinson & the Miracles
Secret Smile - Semisonic
Emma Blowgun's Last Stand - Beulah
I've Been Loving You Too Long (live) - Otis Redding
Power of God - Jaimeo Brown Transcendence
Station Approach - Elbow
We All Remember Wes (live) - George Benson
Here's part 2. Hoo boy. I wanted to do radio... I got my chance this day. (See episode 1). Here you can hear me subbing for whomever had the 2 - 5 pm slot that Sunday afternoon... it was most likely a fill-in for La Esquina Latina. So here's the latter 3/7th of my unexpected Snap Crackle Pop marathon. It was super-fun and definitely exhausting but also SO MUCH FUN. Thanks to everybody out there who was listening and cheering me on.
Also Sprach Zarathustra – Deodato
Her Eyes Are a Blue Million Miles – Nona Hendryx & Gary Lucas (w/ Jesse Krakow)
Jesus Just Left Chicago – ZZ Top
Hallelujah – Sweathog
Tigers – Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks
Electrical Way – Zoos of Berlin
Found a Job – Talking Heads
I'm On Fire – Dwight Twilley Group
Shadow of a Doubt (A Complex Kid) – Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
Hanging On The Telephone – The Nerves
Going Down to Liverpool – Katrina & The Waves
Red Lights – The Marbles
The Dean & I – 10cc
Girls Talk – Dave Edmunds & Rockpile
New York Is My Home – Dion & Paul Simon
The Only Living Boy in New York – Simon & Garfunkel
Leaving On a Jet Plane – Peter, Paul & Mary
Lucky One – Alison Krauss & Union Station
Never Dreamed You'd Leave In Summer – Stevie Wonder
After Taxes – Lane Steinberg
Dancing Barefoot – Patti Smith Group
Disappearing – The Sinceros
Elephant Ride – Squeeze
Hypnotize – Scritti Politti
I Belong to Me – Richard Barone
Hurry Up Now – Harumi
Sleep a Million Years – Kathy Heidemann
International – Jackie DeShannon
Keep On Movin' – Soul II Soul
Unfinished Sympathy – Massive Attack
Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth with Money in My Hand – Primitive Radio Gods
How Blue Can You Get – B.B. King
Rockferry – Duffy
The Windmills of Your Mind – Dusty Springfield
Strange (live) – Patsy Cline
I’m Into Something Good – Earl–Jean
Uptown Town Ranking – Althea & Donna
Pleasant Valley Sunday (demo) – Carole King
Kisses Sweeter Than Wine – Peter, Paul & Mary
(Note to podcast listeners: though I started doing WPKN airshifts as of April 14 2016, this is the oldest episode I have that exists as a music file. So that's where we'll begin. Enjoy... I hope!)
Hoo boy. I wanted to do radio... I got my chance this day. 7 hours of it. I was subbing for Dave Golden's Morning Maniac Music between 10am and 2pm - already a generous 4-hour shift - and then I found out the 2-5 host couldn't make his show due to an emergency of some kind. So I ended up doing a marathon Snap Crackle Pop. It was super-fun and somewhat exhausting. Thanks to everybody out there who was listening and cheering me on. Here's part 1.
(What Does It Take) To Win Your Love – Jr. Walker and the All–Stars
Family Affair – Sly and the Family Stone
You Just May Be the One – The Monkees
Sunday Morning – The Velvet Underground
Easy – The Commodores
Sunday Kind of Love – Etta James
Nothing Takes the Place of You – Toussaint McCall
Wiser Time – The Black Crowes
Sunday Papers – Joe Jackson
Sunday Girl (French version) – Blondie
Sunday Mornin' – Spanky & Our Gang
Will You Be Staying After Sunday? – Peppermint Rainbow
Sunday Morning Coming Down – Johnny Cash
Get Down Moses – Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros
Went To See the Gypsy – Bob Dylan
Water Baby – Tom Mirsch
The Gentle Rain – Astrud Gilberto
Tanto Tempo – Bebel Gilberto
Walk the Way You Talk – Dionne Warwick
Fina Estampa – Caetano Veloso
Mansinneedof – Sarah Jarosz
What Makes You Think You're the One?– Fleetwood Mac
Raindrops – Dee Clark
Laughter in the Rain – Neil Sedaka
Only a Moment – Sunflower Bean
Have You Seen the Stars Tonight? – Paul Kantner & Jefferson Starship
Let It Be Me – George Harrison
Glad and Sorry – The Faces
Dead Flowers (alternate) – The Rolling Stones
My Baby Gives It Away – Pete Townshend & Ronnie Lane
The Race Is On – George Jones
My Elusive Dreams – George Jones & Tammy Wynette
Trinity Lane – Lilly Hiatt
12 Bellevue – Kathleen Edwards
Dear Boy – Paul & Linda McCartney
Dear Boy – Percy "Thrills" Thrillington
South American Getaway – Burt Bacharach
I'll Never Find Another You – The Seekers
Oh Gilbert (I Need Help) – The Junipers
Clair – Gilbert O’Sullivan
Chelsea Morning – Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66
All I Want – Karin Krog
This Flight Tonight – Joni Mitchell
Free Man in Paris – Joni Mitchell
Subspace Biographies – Robert Pollard
Crazy – REM
Car – Porches
Lament – Blake Babies
Dreams – Brandi Carlile
Taking Chances – Sharon Van Etten
Lost a Number – Nils Lonfgren & Grin
I Say Yeah – The Pets
Shore Leave – Yung Wu
Captain Lou – NRBQ (w/ Capt. Lou Albano)
Nothing But a Heartache – The Flirtations
I Never Dreamed – The Cookies
Funky Pretty – The Beach Boys
Lazy Sunday – Small Faces
Shut Up Kiss Me – Angel Olsen
Over the Ocean – Here We Go Magic
Wan Light – Orange Juice