Dig, Baby, Dig! The 60s Rock & Roll Excavation with John E. Midnight

Week of 11/26/06 - The World's Smallest Piano Wire

Fri, 08 May 2026 23:10:14 -0400

1) The Others “I Can't Stand This Love, Goodbye”
2) The Smoke (New Zealand) “No More Now”
3) The Bruthers “Bad Way to Go”
4) The Modes “Baby Please Don’t Go”

Compare & Contrast:
5) The Changin’ Times “How Is the Air Up There”
6) The La De Das “How Is the Air Up There?”

7) The Tol-Puddle Martyrs “Social Cell”
8) Tony Worsley & the Blue Jays “Ready Steady Let’s Go”

Embryonic Heroes (The Raspberries):
9) The Choir “Don’t Change Your Mind”

10) The Pictorian Skiffuls “In a While”
11) The Cascades “Cheryl's Goin Home”
12) The Primrose Circus “P.S. Call Me Lulu”
13) The Clique (USA) “Sparkle and Shine”

Rock Block:
14) Tommy James & the Shondells “Good Lovin’”
15) Tommy James & the Shondells “(Baby, Baby) I Can’t Take It No More”
16) Tommy James & the Shondells “Love’s Closin’ In On Me”
17) Tommy James & the Shondells “I Am a Tangerine”

18) The McCoys “(You Make Me Feel) So Good”
19) The Gentrys “Hand Jive”
20) The Syndicate of Sound “Get Outta My Life”
21) Jay & the Americans “Mean Woman Blues”

Shoulda Been a Hit:
22) The Toreros “Come”

23) The Tykes “Green Suzy”
24) The Shamrocks “Shame, Shame, Shame”
25) The Lee Kings “Always and Ever”

New Release of the Week:
26) The Alarm Clocks “You’re Everything to Me” The Time Has Come

27) The Whirlwinds “Baby Not Like You”
28) Five Steps Beyond “Come On Back”
29) The Roadhogs “My Generation”
30) The Soup Greens “Like a Rolling Stone”
31) The Live Five “Who Knows"
32) Kaleidoscope (USA) “Nobody”
33) The Fe-Fi-Four Plus 2 “I Wanna Come Back (From the World of LSD)”

Lousy Song of the Week:
34) Sandee Moore “Goody Gumdrop”

35) Keith Kessler “Don’t Crowd Me”

A note from the archivist: I tried telling him that less is indeed more, but John E. insisted I mention a back-announcing break is missing from this broadcast, precisely following the Lee Kings' banger. Forever lost in the mists of time, it will remain so until an MP3 download of this show possibly resurfaces from a private collection. Yes, I wrote that with a straight face.

Week of 11/19/06 - Pre-Thanksgiving Special

Fri, 01 May 2026 21:25:53 -0400

1) The Blizzards “Stranger In Town”
2) Finch “Let It Be”
3) The Moon-Dawgs “Baby, As Time Goes By” (unreleased alternate take)
4) The Electric Prunes “Long Day’s Flight (Til Tomorrow)” (live: 12/14/67)

Shoulda Been a Hit / Thanksgiving Block:
5) John Kongos “Confusions About a Goldfish”
6) The Novas “The Crusher”
7) Ian & the Zodiacs “Let’s Turkey Trot”
8) The Living End “Turkey Stomp”

Embryonic Heroes (The Animals ~ 12/63) / Four of a Kind / Rock Block:
9) The Alan Price Rhythm & Blues Combo “I Just Wanna Make Love to You”
10) The Animals “Around and Around”
11) The Animals “Inside-Looking Out”
12) Eric Burdon & the Animals “Anything”

Compare & Contrast:
13) Larry Williams “Slow Down”
14) The Swingin’ Apolloes “Slow Down”

15) The Vanilla Fudge “You Keep Me Hanging On” (live on the Ed Sullivan Show: 1/14/68)
16) The Ohio Express “Turn to Straw” Golden Classics CD
17) The Loose Ends “Hey, Sweet Baby”
18) The Werps “Love’s a Fire” (unreleased version without horns)
19) The Tidal Waves “You Name It”
20) The Mod VI “What Can I Do”

Lousy Song of the Week:
21) Die Kettels “Judy In Disguise”

22) The Attack “Colour of My Mind”
23) The Pussycats “Death Is Coming”
24) Grupo 606 “Break On Through (Rompe, cruza o ayudame)”

New Release of the Week:
25) Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin “Pangea” Broom

26) The Lovin’ Spoonful “Almost Grown”
27) The Royal Guardsmen “Any Wednesday”
28) The Spontaneous Generation “Up In My Mind”

Week of 11/12/06 - Guitar Mania

Tue, 28 Apr 2026 13:57:07 -0400

1) The Missing Links “You’re Driving Me Insane”
2) The Secrets “You’re Wrong"
3) The Cave Men “It’s Trash”
4) Bobby Roberts & the Ravons “How Can I Make Her Mine”

Rock Block (Four of a Kind):
5) The Pretty Things “Honey I Need”
6) The Pretty Things “Don’t Bring Me Down” (Live on the BBC)
7) The Pretty Things “Big City”
8) The Pretty Things “Turn My Head” (Live on the BBC)

9) The Druids of Stonehenge “Pretty Thing”
10) King’s Ransom “Shame”
11) The Chevelle V “Come Back Bird”
12) Blue Condition “Coming Home”

Lousy Song of the Week:
13) Tomorrow’s Keepsake “Eat Your Hotdog Boy”

14) Los Sprinters “El Tablao”
15) Los Saicos “Come On”
16) The Pets “Hello I Love You”

Shoulda Been a Hit:
17) The Onyx “You Gotta Be With Me”

18) Tony Ritchie “Comin’ On Strong”
19) The Alan Bown Set “Headline News”
20) Group 1850 “Look Around”

Embryonic Hero of the Week (Debbie Harry):
21) Wind In the Willows “She’s Fantastic and She’s Yours”

22) The Nervous Breakdowns “I Dig Your Mind”
23) The Grass “I’m Getting Tired”
24) The Magic Plants “I’m a Nothin’”

Compare & Contrast:
25) The Allusions “I Gotta Move”
26) The Talismen “I Gotta Move”

27) The Carnaby “Jump and Dance”
28) The End “Second Glance”

New Release of the Week:
29) The Heart Attacks “Travelin’ Band” Hellbound & Heartless

30) The Turtles “A Walk In the Sun”

B-Side / Flip Over the Record:
31) Barry McGuire “What Exactly's the Matter With Me”

Week of 11/5/06 - Green Waves

Mon, 27 Apr 2026 20:27:50 -0400

1) The Soulbenders “7 and 7 Is”
2) The Fever Tree “Man Who Paints the Pictures”
3) Miki Dallon “Do You Call That Love”
4) Normie Rowe & the Playboys “Lindy Lou”

Compare & Contrast:
5) Buddy Holly & the Crickets “Brown Eyed Handsome Man”
6) The Rattles “Brown Eyed Handsome Man”

7) Hubb Kapp & the Wheels “I’m Happy Too”
8) The Spiders “Hey Boy”

Embryonic Heroes (Leslie West; pre-Mountain):
9) The Vagrants “Young Blues”

10) The Grodes “Cry a Little Longer”
11) The Grapes of Wrath “If Anyone Should Ask”
12) The Fifth Order “Walkin’ Away”

Rock Block / Four of a Kind:
13) Herman’s Hermits “I’m Henry VIII, I Am” (live on the Ed Sullivan Show: 6/6/65)
14) Herman’s Hermits “Hold On!” (LP version)
15) Herman’s Hermits “Gotta Get Away”
16) Herman’s Hermits “Wings of Love”

Shoulda Been a Hit:
17) John Carter “Thank You For Loving Me”

18) The Ivy League “Running Round In Circles”
19) Neo Maya “I Won’t Hurt You”
20) The U (Don’t) No Who “Now and Again Rebecca” (demo)

Lousy Song of the Week:
21) Malepartus II (The King-Beats) “Ich glaab’, die hole mich ab, ha-haaa!”

22) The Gypsys “Je Ne Te Pardonnerai Pas”
23) La Tropa Loca “El Fanatico”
24) James Mean “Seeing Her”

New Release of the Week:
25) Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3 “Adventure Rocket Ship” Ole! Tarantula

26) The Soul Agents “Don’t Break It Up”
27) The Koobas “A Place I Know”
28) The Ian Campbell Group “Doctor Junk"
29) The Dovers “Your Love”
30) The Starfires “The Hardest Way”

Week of 10/29/06 - Anti-Halloween Special

Fri, 24 Apr 2026 11:11:55 -0400

1) Thor’s Hammer “Big Beat Country Dance”
2) The Dee-Jays “You Must Be Joking”
3) Paul Bearer & the Hearsemen “I’ve Been Thinking”
4) 006 “Like What, Me Worry?”
5) The Robbs “Jolly Miller”
6) The Sons of Adam “Feathered Fish”
7) The Association “Pandora's Golden Heebie Geebies”
8) The Joint Effort “The Third Eye”

Shoulda Been a Hit:
9) The Rockin’ Berries “Water Is Over My Head”

10) Faron’s Flamingos “Let’s Stomp”
11) The Sheffields “Plenty of Love”
12) The Tony Jackson Group “Come On and Stop”
13) The Principals “I Can’t Stop”
14) Bobby James & the Esquires “Don’t You Do That"
15) The Girls “My Baby”
16) Jenny Rock “J’aime tous les garcons (Evil Ways)”

Compare & Contrast / Four of a Kind:
17) Don & the Goodtimes “Little Sally Tease”
18) The Standells “Little Sally Tease”
19) The Standells “Try It” (alternate vocal)
20) The Standells “Why Pick On Me”
21) The Standells “Barracuda”

Embryonic Heroes:
22) Johnny Winter “Birds Can’t Row Boats”

23) The Headstones “Wish She Were Mine”
24) Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs “A Long Long Way”
25) The Outsiders “Was It Really Real”

Lousy Song of the Week:
26) Commodore Condello’s S.R.N. Band “Sonic Boom”

27) Matchbox “Run Much Faster”
28) Kandy Kolored Konspiracy “1,000,000 People”
29) The Unforscene “These Are the Words”

New Release of the Week:
30) The Horrors “Death at the Chapel” S/T

31) The Paradox “There’s a Flower Shop”
32) Jack & the Beanstalks “So Many Times”
33) The Maltees Four “You”
34) The Cobras “I Wanna Be Your Love”
35) The Early Americans “Night After Night”

Week of 10/22/06 - Guilt Can Move Mountains

Sat, 05 Jul 2025 12:17:51 -0400

1) The Masters Apprentices “Johnny B. Goode”
2) Cliff Cenneth & the Lights “Come On, Shake”
3) The Roadrunners (Liverpool, UK) “Little Ruby”
4) The Dynamites “Tunnel Tengoku”
5) Sid Herring & the Gants “Another Chance”
6) The Fountain of Youth “Don’t Blame Me (For Trying)”
7) The Surprize “I Will Make History”
8) The Rock Shop “State of Your Mind”

Embryonic Heroes (Grace Slick):
9) The Great Society “Born to Be Burned”

10) Jefferson Airplane “Run Around”
11) The Peanut Butter Conspiracy “Lonely Leaf”
12) The Bow Street Runners “Another Face”

Compare & Contrast:
13) Peter Reese & the Pages “Hippy Hippy Shake”
14) Melvin & his Gentlemen “Hippy Hippy Shake”

15) Los Bonny Boys Hoy’s “Tu Regreso”
16) The Crazy Boys “You Know He Did (Si, Credile)”
17) The Road “You Rub Me the Wrong Way”
18) The Teen Beats “I Shouldn’t Love Her"
19) The Cirkyt “That’s the Way Life Is”
20) The Soul Survivors “Can’t Stand to Be In Love With You”

Shoulda Been a Hit:
21) The Gremlins “Blast Off 1970”

22) The Baskerville Hounds “I Can Take It”
23) The Us Too Group “I’ll Leave You Crying”
24) The Pied Pipers “Stay In My Life”

New Release of the Week:
25) The Clean Prophets “Man Transparent”

26) October Country “October Country”
27) The David “Sweet December”
28) The Buckinghams “Just Because I’ve Fallen Down”

Lousy Song of the Week:
29) The Wiking Strings “Midnight Special”

30) The Sooner Or Later “Night Time”
31) The Tornados (aka: The 5 Dops) “She’s Out of My Mind”

Week of 10/15/06 - Madonna Carpool

Tue, 17 Jun 2025 19:38:31 -0400

1) The Creation “Biff Bang Pow”
2) The Temptations (Ohio) “Hey Bo Diddley”
3) The Crescents “My Love For You”
4) The Rhythm Checkers “Long Tall Sally”

Rock Block (Four of a Kind):
5) The Yardbirds “Too Much Monkey Business” (live: unreleased until 2003)
6) The Yardbirds “Here ‘Tis” (recorded for Ready, Steady, Go!)
7) The Yardbirds “Heart Full of Soul” (sitar version)
8) The Yardbirds “I’m a Man” (BBC: 8/65)

Embryonic Heroes (Badfinger; 1968):
9) The Iveys “Black & White Rainbows”

10) Keith Shields “Deep Inside Your Mind”
11) Acid Gallery “Dance Round the Maypole”
12) Poother, Unltd. “Tastee Freeze”

Lousy Song of the Week:
13) The Elastik Band “Spazz”

14) The Flying Burrito Bros. “If You Gotta Go"
15) The Marmalade “Rainbow”
16) Illinois Speed Press “Sadly Out of Place”
17) The Motions (Holland) “The Girl From New York City”
18) HET “She’ll Stay”
19) The Hullaballoos “If You Don’t Know By Now”
20) Los Flecos “Vales Poco Para Mi”

Shoulda Been a Hit:
21) The Squires “Going All the Way”

22) The Wee Four “Weird”
23) The Off-Set “A Change Is Gonna Come”
24) The Rear Exit “Excitation”

New Release of the Week:
25) The Tickets “Heartland” S/T

26) The Remains “Say You’re Sorry” (2nd version)
27) The Music Machine “Trouble”
28) The Litter “Kaleidoscope”

Compare & Contrast:
29) The V.I.P.’s “I Wanna Be Free”
30) The Movement “I Wanna Be Free”

31) The Monotones (UK) “Anymore”
32) Jimmy Powell & the Five Dimensions “I’m Looking For a Woman”
33) The Firing Squad “Bull Moose”

A note about audio quality: this particular episode only exists as a low bitrate MP3. While little can be done to improve the announcing breaks (ain't THAT the truth!), the music has been meticulously restored to its original glory for your listening pleasure.

Week of 10/8/06 - Cheaper Than Gold

Mon, 09 Jun 2025 19:34:03 -0400

1) The Shadows of Knight “I’m Gonna Make You Mine”
2) The Terrifics “Lover’s Plea”
3) Jason Merrick & the Finders “I’m Not What You Are”
4) Blonde On Blonde “Ride With Captain Max”

Compare & Contrast:
5) The Leaves “Words”
6) The Boston Tea Party “Words”

7) The Vacels “I’m Just a Poor Boy”
8) The Barons “Now You’re Mine”
9) J.B. & the Playboys “Leave My Woman Alone”
10) The Free Thinkers “You Were Born For Me"
11) The Sound Magics “Don’t You Remember"
12) Percy & the Gaolbirds “I Will Do”
13) Los Monkeys “Stepping Stone (Triste Estoy)”
14) Los X-5 “Cuando"
15) Los Beat 4 “Abandonados Igual Que Tu"
16) Skaldowie “My Witch (Moja Czaeownica)”

Embryonic Heroes (Alice Cooper):
17) The Spiders “No Price Tag”

18) We the People “You Burn Me Up and Down”
19) William Penn & his Pals “Blow My Mind”
20) The Jagged Edge “How Many Times”

Shoulda Been a Hit:
21) The Heard “Laugh With the Wind”

22) The Henchmen “Get Off My Back”
23) The Undesyded “Baby, I Need You”
24) The Paul Butterfield Blues Band “Good Morning Little Schoolgirl”

New Release of the Week:
25) The Blue Van “The Secret Seasons”

26) The Roulettes “Mebody”
27) The Merseys “Penny In My Pocket”
28) The Redcaps “Funny Things”

Lousy Song of the Week:
29) Mechanical Switch “Mr. Spongeman”

30) Sentrifical Fours “You Put Me Through Changes”
31) The Kollektion “Savage Lost”
32) HP Lovecraft “That’s the Bag I’m In”
33) Orange Bicycle “Amy Peate”
34) Grapefruit “Lullaby”

Week of 10/1/06 - Thumbin' a Ride to Reno

Sat, 07 Jun 2025 16:21:51 -0400

1) Beat Merchants “Messin’ With the Man"
2) The King-Pins “Diamond Girl”
3) Sean Buckley & the Breadcrumbs “Everybody Knows”
4) The Chocolate Watchband “Let’s Talk About Girls”
5) The Fairies “I’ll Dance”
6) The Badd Boys “I Told You So”
7) The Clique (London, UK) “She Ain’t No Good” (1st version)
8) The Worrying Kynde “Got the Blame”

Compare & Contrast:
9) The A-Cads “Got My Mojo Working”
10) The Tages “I Got My Mojo Working”
Rock Block:
11) The Tages “Don’t Turn Your Back"
12) The Tages “Jealous Girl”
13) The Tages “Every Raindrop Means a Lot”

14) Derek’s Accent “Ain’t Got No Feeling”
15) The Five “There’s Time”
16) The Deep Set “Living It Down"
17) The Marksmen “Moonshine”

Embryonic Hero of the Week: (Electric Light Orchestra: Jeff Lynne & Roy Wood)
18) The Move “Message From the Country”

19) The Beathovens “Summer Sun”
20) The Kings “Trouve Un Altro"
21) La Setta “Our Little Rendezvous”

Shoulda Been a Hit:
22) The Mojo Men “She’s My Baby"

23) The Tasmanians “I Can’t Explain This Feeling”
24) The Honey Jug “Warm City Baby"
25) The Outcasts “I Didn't Have to Love Her Anymore” (Philadelphia, PA)

Lousy Song of the Week:
26) Kid Blast “Switchblade Love”

27) The Pandas “Walk”
28) The Knight Riders “I”
29) The Avengers “Be a Cave Man”

New Release of the Week:
30) The Skies of America “Get Up, Get On”

31) Eight Point Five “Casey's Mail Order Bride”

Week of 9/10/06 - An 11' Donut

Thu, 05 Jun 2025 14:57:51 -0400

1) Legend “Portrait of Youth”
2) Paul & Johnny with the Blue Jets “I’m Free"
3) The Buzz “You’re Holding Me Down”
4) The Wimple Winch “Rumble On Mersey Square South”

Rock Block / Four of a Kind:
5) The High Numbers “Zoot Suit”
6) The Who “Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere” (Ready, Steady, Go! 7/1/65)
7) The Who “So Sad About Us”
8) The Who “Disguises” (BBC: 9/13/66)

Compare & Contrast:
9) Leadbelly “Sweet Mary Blues”
10) The Artwoods “Sweet Mary”

11) Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich “Shame”
12) The Trekkas “ Please Go”
13) The Chums “I Like It"
14) Les Sunlights “Tanti Amici”
15) Los Hitters “Delincuente”
16) Os Brasas “Nao Va Me Deixar”

Embryonic Heroes (The American Breed):
17) Gary & the Nite Lites “I Don’t Think You Know Me”

18) Things to Come “’Til the End”
19) The Furniture “I Love It Baby”
20) The Nite Owls “Hassle”

New Release of the Week:
21) The Velvematics “She’s the One”

22) Rod & the Satalites “She Cares”
23) The “In” “Just Give Me Time”
24) The Oxford Circle “Since You’ve Been Away”

Shoulda Been a Hit:
25) The Majority “One Third”

26) Fresh Air “Stop Look Listen”
27) Paul & Ritchie & the Cryin' Shames “Come On Back”
28) Billy Nicholls “Would You Believe”

Lousy Song of the Week:
29) Mike Melvoin “Born to Be Wild”

30) Miller “Baby I Got News For You”
31) The Southern Sound “I Don’t Wanna Go"

Week of 9/24/06 - Calling All Quitters

Tue, 03 Jun 2025 13:33:54 -0400

1) Flash & the Memphis Casuals “Uptight Tonight”
2) The Razor’s Edge “Get Yourself Together”
3) Dave & the Stone Hearts “I’ll Feel a Whole Lot Better"
4) Rain “E.S.P.”

Shoulda Been a Hit:
5) The Bit a Sweet “Out of Sight, Out of Mind”

6) The Mourning Reign “Our Fate”
7) The Trespassers “Living Memories”
8) The Doughboys “Rhoda Mendelbaum”

Rock Block:
9) Buffalo Springfield “Neighbor Don’t You Worry”
10) Buffalo Springfield “My Kind of Love”
11) Buffalo Springfield “Everybody’s Wrong”
12) Buffalo Springfield “Broken Arrow”

Embryonic Heroes (Crazy Horse):
13) The Rockets “Pill’s Blues”

14) The Dukes “From the Penitentiary” (Germany)
15) The Vampires “Something You Got”
16) The Pebbles “You’re Better Believe It”

Compare & Contrast:
17) The Grains of Sand “That’s When Happiness Began”
18) Mike Furber & the Bowery Boys “That’s When Happiness Began”

19) The Mascots “I Close Your Eyes”
20) Les Senders “Le cheveux longs”

Lousy Song of the Week:
21) The Mere Existence “The World Still Turns”

22) The Trodden Path “In This World I Need Love”
23) The Grifs “Catch a Ride”
24) The Swingin’ Machine “Do You Have to Ask?”

Geographic Rock Block (Bolivia):
25) The Loving Dark “Complicated"
26) Renan Michel “Fue una tarde de Domingo”
27) Los Donkeys “El Pobre”
28) Los Ecos “Callare Simplemente”

New Release of the Week:
29) The Kooks “Eddie’s Gun”

30) Mott’s Men “She Is So Mean”
31) The King-Beezz “Found and Lost”
32) The Odds & Ends “Be Happy Baby”

Week of 9/17/06 - Keep Your Oats, Leprechaun

Sun, 01 Jun 2025 13:55:30 -0400

1) The Haigs “Where to Run
2) I Sanniti “Che Shake Al Mac”
3) The Syndicats “Crawdaddy Simone”
4) Mickey Dolenz “Don’t Do It”

Shoulda Been a Hit:
5) The Shangri-Las “Right Now and Not Later”

6) Tammy St. John “Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey”
7) Jeannie & the Big Guys “I Want You”
8) Jan Panter “Scratch My Back”

Four of a Kind (Rock Block)
9) The Hollies “What Kind of Girl Are You”
10) The Hollies “Baby That’s All”
11) The Hollies “I Am a Rock”
12) The Hollies “I Can’t Let Go”

Lousy Song of the Week:
13) The Wonder Who? “Don't Think Twice”

14) The Outcasts “I’ll Set You Free”
15) Neil Ford & the Fanatics “Bitter Bells”
16) The Barons “Live and Die”
17) The Trolls “Every Day and Every Night”
18) Chris Allen & the Good-Timers “Sorry ‘Bout That”
19) The Victors “Little Girl”
20) Limey & the Yanks “Guaranteed Love”

Compare & Contrast:
21) Tom Thumb “Got Love”
22) Peter Belli & Les Rivals “Got Love If You Want It”

23) The Thyrds “Hide & Seek” (first version)
24) Running Jumping Standing Still “Diddy Wah Diddy”

Embryonic Heroes (Marc Bolan/T. Rex)
25) John's Children “Jagged Time Lapse”

26) The Magic Lanterns “I Stumbled”
27) The Renegades “Thirteen Women”
28) Our Plastic Dream “A Little Bit of Shangri-La”

New Release of the Week:
29) Radio Birdman “Connected”

30) The Guess Who “Clock On the Wall”
31) Les Miserables “Vivre Avec Toi”

Week of 9/3/06 - Fourth Annual All Beatles / No Beatles Special

Sat, 01 May 2021 00:50:25 -0400

1) The Naturals “I Should Have Known Better”
2) Los Yaki “Day Tripper (Era Mentira)”
3) The Neighb’rhood Childr’n “Can’t Buy Me Love"
4) Les Soundtrack “Birthday (Ce soir c’est ma fete)”
5) The Merseybeats “Soldier of Love”
6) Gerry & the Pacemakers “Hello Little Girl”
7) Peter & Gordon “I Don’t Want to See You Again” (live: 11/15/64)
8) The Hi-Fi’s “Baby’s In Black”
9) Petula Clark “Please Please Me (Tu Perds Ton Temps)”
10) The Mamas & the Papas “I Call Your Name”
11) Marianne Faithfull “Yesterday”
12) Cilla Black “For No One”
13) The Supremes “A Hard Day’s Night”
14) The Four Tops “Got to Get You Into My Life”
15) Aretha Franklin “Eleanor Rigby”
16) The Pair Extraordinaire “Run For Your Life”
17) Ramsey Lewis “Dear Prudence”

Compare & Contrast:
18) The Novas “Help!”
19) Jose Feliciano “Help!”

20) The Four Rogues “The Ralphie”

Lousy Song of the Week:
21) The Ventures “Strawberry Fields Forever”

Embryonic Heroes (ZZ Top):
22) The Moving Sidewalks “I Want to Hold Your Hand”

23) The Gestures “Things We Said Today”
24) The Vikings “You Can’t Do That”
25) The Kingsmen “If I Needed Someone"
26) Charles Christy & the Crystals “I’m Down”
27) The Grass Roots “You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away”
28) Bobby Goldsboro “Michelle”
29) The Tremeloes “Good Day Sunshine” (live: BBC)
30) Los Tijuana Five “Drive My Car (Mi Auto Puedes Manejar)”
31) El Amor “I’ll Be Back (Si Me Dejas)”
32) The Master’s Apprentices “I Feel Fine”
33) The Bee Gees “Ticket to Ride”

Week of 8/20/06

Wed, 28 Apr 2021 21:27:36 -0400

1) The Bluestars “Social End Product”
2) The Pedestrians “It’s Too Late”
3) The Beatniks “Alligator Hat”
4) The MC5 “Ramblin’ Rose”

Shoulda Been a Hit:
5) The Rationals “Feelin’ Lost”

6) The Bad Seeds “King of the Soap Box”
7) The Uniques “My Babe”
8) Factory “High Blood Pressure”

Compare & Contrast:
9) The Scorpions “Not Fade Away”
10) The Corporate Image “Not Fade Away”

11) The Pickwicks “Little By Little”
12) Gary Farr & the T-Bones “I’m Louisiana Red”

Flip Over the Record (flip of “I Fought the Law”):
13) Bobby Fuller Four “Little Annie Lou”

14) The Lykes of Us “Tell Me Why Your Light Shines”
15) The 4th Amendment “Always Blue”
16) Rockin’ Ramrods “Bright Lit Blue Skies”
17) The Insects “She’s a Pest”
18) The Swingin’ Lamp Liters “Get Away”
19) Young Aristocracy “Don’t Lie”
20) Rocky & the Riddlers “You Weren't Using Your Head”

New Release of the Week:
21) The Atomic Mosquitos “Kid of Speed” Release the Mosquitos!

22) ? & the Mysterians “Got To”
23) The Beacon Street Union “Blue Avenue”
24) The United States of America “Coming Down”

Embryonic Heroes (Peter Gabriel):
25) Genesis “Silent Sun”

26) The Throb “Black”
27) St. Davids Road “Strange Loves of Gwyneth”
28) Turquoise “Tales of Flossie Fillett”

Lousy Song of the Week:
29) L.S.D. Orkestrasi “Donmeyen Sevgili”

30) The T-Boones “At the Club”
31) Double Dutch “You’re Out of Sight”
32) The Zipps “Kicks and Chicks”
33) The Defenders “Wooly Bully”

Week of 8/13/06 - Darwin's Vegas

Sun, 18 Apr 2021 21:14:27 -0400

1) The Unrelated Segments “Where You Gonna Go?”
2) The Purple Hearts “Long Legged Baby” (demo version)
3) Freddie & the Dreamers “Feel So Blue”
4) The Boots “Jump Back Baby”

Compare & Contrast:
5) The Gisha Brothers “Maybelline”
6) Los Apson “El Ultimo Tren (Maybelline)”

7) Los Sirex “El Tren De La Costa (The Train Kept a-Rollin’)”
8) Los Ovnis “Infinito”

Rock Block / Four of a Kind:
9) The Beau Brummels “I Want More Loving” (unreleased alt. mix 2/5/65)
10) The Beau Brummels “Don’t Talk to Strangers”
11) The Beau Brummels “One Too Many Mornings”
12) The Beau Brummels “Turn Around"

13) The Allies “I’ll Sell My Soul”
14) The Mod 4 “Open Up Your Mind”
15) The Lavender Hour “I’ve Gotta Way With Girls”
16) The Abandoned “Come On Mary”

Shoulda Been a Hit:
17) Chad & Jeremy “Teenage Failure”

18) Billy Adams “Alone”
19) The String Tones “Don’t Run and Hide”
20) The Shanes “Blue Feeling”
21) The Rags “Take Your Time”
22) The Lords (Berlin, Germany) “What They Gonna Do”
23) Nicky & the Shouts “Tears Inside”
24) The Shoes (Zoeterwoude, Holland) “Standing and Staring"

Embryonic Heroes (Suzi Quatro):
25) The Pleasure Seekers “Light of Love”

26) The Angels “Get Away From Me”
27) The Termites “Tell Me”
28) Jacqueline Taieb “7 Heures Du Matin”

Lousy Song of the Week:
29) The Beggars “Night of Pleasure”

30) The Balloon Farm “A Question of Temperature”
31) The Human Beings (Detroit) “An Inside Look”
32) The Youngbloods “The Other Side of This Life”

New Release of the Week:
33) The Lostprophets “The New Transmission” Liberation Transmission

Week of 8/6/06 - Monolingualism

Sat, 17 Apr 2021 23:21:28 -0400

1) The Sonics “Psycho”
2) The Namelosers “But I’m So Blue”
3) The Eyes “I’m Rowed Out”
4) The Misunderstood “Find a Hidden Door”
5) Love “Alone Again Or”
6) The Smubbs “White Paper Sail”
7) Mars Bonfire “Lady Moon Walker”
8) Rupert’s People “Hold On”
9) The Smoke “Girl In the Park”
10) Sound Barrier “Groovin’ Slow”
11) Virgin Sleep “Secret”
12) Felius Andromeda “Meditations”

Lousy Song of the Week:
13) The Leaves of Grass “Crabs”

14) The Viscount V “She Doesn’t Know”
15) The E-Types “Back to Me”
16) The Jackson Investment Co. “Not This Time”

Compare & Contrast:
17) The Blues Magoos “(We Ain't Got) Nothin' Yet”
18) The Flippers “(We Ain't Got) Nothin' Yet”

19) The Lemon Fog “Summer”
20) The Gurus “Mystic”
21) The Jynx “How”
22) The Boys “It Ain’t Fair”
23) Kingsize Taylor “Somebody's Always Trying”
24) The Knack (Ilford, UK) “Time, Time, Time”

Embryonic Heroes: (David Bowie):
25) Davey Jones & the King Bees “Liza Jane”

26) The Primitives “Oh Mary”
27) Les Fleurs De Lys “So Come On”
28) The Strangers with Mike Shannon “Do You Or Don’t You"

Shoulda Been a Hit:
29) The Tempters “Himitsu No Aikotoba”

30) The Matadors “My Situation”
31) The Clique “Love Me Girl”
32) The Equals “Baby, Come Back”

New Release of the Week:
33) The Marked Men “A Little Time” Fix My Brain

34) Solid Ground “Sad Now”

Week of 7/30/06 - Beethoven's Secret

Thu, 08 Apr 2021 00:50:22 -0400

1) The Merry-Go-Round “Listen, Listen”
2) The Colors of Night “C-O-L-O-R-S”
3) The Sherlocks “Skin of My Teeth”
4) The Vejtables “Good Things Are Happening”

Shoulda Been a Hit:
5) The Spencer Davis Group “I’m Lost”

6) The Montanas “Take My Hand”
7) Les Baroques “Such a Cad”
8) The Grains of Sand “Passing Through the Night”

Rock Block / Four of a Kind:
9) The Small Faces “Sorry She’s Mine”
10) The Small Faces “Understanding” (BBC Saturday Club ~ 8/30/66)
11) The Small Faces “Plum Nellie”
12) The Small Faces “If I Were a Carpenter” (BBC Top Gear ~ 4/14/68)

Compare & Contrast:
13) The Beach Boys “Summertime Blues”
14) Sounders Avec Pat Winther “L’Argent De Poche (Summertime Blues)”

15) The Coopers “Didn’t I”
16) The Beat Buddies “Pins In My Heart”

New Release of the Week:
17) The Cherry Tempo “All Our Lives Are Running Down” S/T

18) The Beethovens “Long Live Beethoven”
19) The Daytonas “Ready Set Go”
20) The Beatnicks “A One Way Love”

Embryonic Heroes (Frank Zappa ~ recorded 8/66)
21) The Mothers of Invention “Trouble Every Day”

22) 13th Floor Elevators “Fire Engine”(live TV ~ 3/25/66)
23) Fairport Convention “Time Will Show the Wiser”
24) The Open Mind “Cast a Spell”

Lousy Song of the Week:
25) The Ambushers “I Need Love”

26) Bud & Kathy “Hang It Out to Dry”
27) The Show Stoppers “If You Want To, Why Don’t You”
28) The Amberjacks “Hey Eriq!”
29) The Ingrediants “Please Don’t Leave Me”
30) The Country Gentlemen “Saturday Night”
31) The Skeptics “Ride Child”
32) The Inferno “Your Heart Is Too Big For Your Head”
33) The Laurie Jay Combo “Teenage Idol”
34) The Juveniles “I Wish I Could”

Week of 7/23/06 - Middle East Madness

Mon, 05 Apr 2021 01:25:24 -0400

1) The Outsiders (Hague, Netherlands) “That’s Your Problem”
2) The Jay-Jays “All Around the World”
3) Johnny Kendall & the Heralds “Girl”
4) Q65 “Cry In the Night”
5) Casey Jones & his Engineers “Don’t Ha Ha”
6) The Rainy Daze “Make Me Laugh”
7) The Jay Bees “Good Times”
8) Nobody’s Children “Good Times”

Shoulda Been a Hit:
9) The Twilights “9.50”

10) The Fifth Estate “That’s Love”
11) The Rose Garden “Long Time”
12) We Five “Let’s Get Together”

Lousy Song of the Week:
13) Mae West (with Somebody’s Chyldren) “Shakin’ All Over”

14) The Quests “I’m Tempted”
15) Lincoln St. Exit “The Bummer”
16) Third Evolution “Gone Gone Gone”

Embryonic Heroes (Van Morrison ~ 1964 debut):
17) Them “Don’t Start Crying Now”

18) Chants R&B “Mystic Eyes"

Compare & Contrast:
19) The Breakaways “Baby Please Don’t Go”
20) The Moonrakers “Baby Please Don’t Go”

21) The Tremolos “Kackle”
22) Bobby Allison & the Dawns “Bark Like a Dog”
23) The Cavaliers “Sea Weed”
24) Billy Bo & his Arrows “Shuffle"
25) The Vandals “I Saw Her In a Mustang”

26) The Vogues “Humpty Dumpty”
27) The Lost Souls “Simple to Say”
28) The Soothsayers “Black Nor Blue”

New Release of the Week:
29) Slender Means “Painless Life” Neon & Ruin

Week of 6/25/06 - Sing a Song of Summer

Mon, 22 Mar 2021 02:33:12 -0400

1) Ronnie King & the Passions “Girl, Break Away”
2) The Last Image “Leaving You”
3) The Mondels “I Got a Feeling”
4) The Jolly Green Giants “Busy Body”

B-Side / Flip Over the Record (3/68: flip of “Cry Like a Baby”):
5) The Box Tops “The Door You Closed to Me”

6) The Deep Six “Last Time Around”
7) Plant Life “Flower Girl”
8) The Darelycks “Bad Trip”

Four of a Kind / Rock Block:
9) The Downliners Sect “One Ugly Child”
10) The Downliners Sect “Find Out What’s Happening”
11) The Downliners Sect “All Night Worker”
12) Don Craine’s New Downliners Sect “Roses”

13) The Beatniks “Wouldn’t You Like Now”
14) Les Bowlers “Il Est Trop Tard”
15) The Playboys “Pourquoi”
16) The Zoot “Little Roland Lost”

Shoulda Been a Hit:
17) The Exotics “Queen of Shadows”

18) Mouse & the Traps “A Public Execution”
19) Electric Love “This Seat Is Saved”
20) The Weathervane “4-4, 5-4”

Compare & Contrast:
21) The Athenians “Louie Louie”
22) The Neighb’rhood Childr’n “Louie Louie”

23) The Outsiders (Tampa, FL) “She’s Coming On Stronger”
24) The Ugly Ducklings “She Ain’t No Use to Me”

New Release of the Week:
25) The Clarks “You Know Everything” Still Live

26) The Unwritten Law “This Whole World Is Blind”
27) Something Else “I Can’t Believe”
28) The Ovaitt Brothers “How Can I”

Lousy Song of the Week:
29) 1910 Fruitgum Co. “Bingo, Bingo”

30) Wildflowers “More Than Me”
31) Graf Zeppelin “You’re In My Mind”

Embryonic Heroes:
32) The Bob Seger System “Lucifer”

Week of 6/18/06

Wed, 17 Mar 2021 19:19:14 -0400

1) The Del-Vetts “Last Time Around”
2) The Grifs “Keep Dreaming”
3) Sounds Unlimited “Why Doesn’t She Believe Me”
4) The Outcasts Four “She Gives Me Love”

Embryonic Heroes (Procol Harum: Gary Brooker & Robin Trower):
5) The Paramounts “Poison Ivy”

6) Paddy, Klaus & Gibson “Quick Before They Catch Us”
7) The Black Diamonds “I Want, Need, Love You”
8) Simon Raven “I Wonder If She Remembers Me”

Compare & Contrast:
9) The Homesick Blues “Mona (I Need You Baby)”
10) The Teddy Boys “Mona”

11) Invasion “Do You Like What You See?”
12) The Rock Garden “Super Stuff”
13) Spyder Turner “You’re Good Enough For Me”
14) Big Mac “That’s the Way You Treat Your Woman”
15) Jackie Wilson “You Brought a Change In Me”
16) Eddy “G” Giles “Music”

Lousy Song of the Week:
17) The Chordettes “No Wheels"

18) The Quads “409”
19) Los Stevios “G.T.O.”
20) Ronny & the Daytonas “Hot Rod Baby”

Shoulda Been a Hit:
21) The Electras “’Bout My Love”

22) The Knaves “Away”
23) The Shades of Blue “The Time of My Life”
24) The New Yorkers “Mr. Kirby”

New Release of the Week:
25) The Rainy Day Saints “Don’t Look Away” Diamond Star Highway

26) The Haunted “Searching For My Baby”
27) The Jury “Who Dat?”
28) The Flippers “I Could Hear Her Cry”
29) The Male “You’re Playing With Fire”
30) The Yo-Yo’s “Gotta Find a New Love”
31) The Rumbles “Fourteen Years”
32) The Black & Blues “Bye Bye Baby”

Week of 6/11/06 - Conspiracies and Sticktoitiveness

Sat, 13 Mar 2021 12:36:59 -0500

1) The High-Tensions “Poor Man”
2) The Jail-Birds “Baby’s Gone”
3) Ray Columbus & the Invaders “Made You”
4) Les Sauterelles “Liverpool”

Embryonic Heroes (pre-Abba):
5) The Hep Stars “So Mystifying” (studio / 45 version)

6) The Cherokees “Woman With Soul”
7) The Knacks (Chile) “Si, Quiero Vivir (Tema De Cronopios)”
8) The Lords “Please Don’t Bring Me Down”
9) The Omens “Searching”
10) Sir Laurence & the Crescents “Flip Me Over”
11) The Myddle Class “Lovin’ Season”
12) The Intruders “I’ll Go On”
13) The Flying Circus “I’m Going”
14) The Five Americans “The Train”
15) The Transatlantic Train “The Train”
16) The Aerovons “Train”

New Release of the Week:
17) The Frauds “Amy" S/T

18) The Nashville Teens “Whatcha Gonna Do?”
19) The Sidekicks “Holiday Maker”
20) Donovan “Bert’s Blues”

Compare & Contrast:
21) Michael & the Messengers “Midnight Hour”
22) The Wanted “Midnight Hour”

23) The Young Rascals “Mustang Sally”
24) The Last Word “Don’t Fight It”

Lousy Song of the Week:
25) Sir Michael & the Sounds “Can You”

26) Seeds of Reason “I’m Your True Love”
27) Bittervetch “I Will Follow You”
28) The Mergers “I’ll Be On My Way”

Shoulda Been a Hit:
29) The Everpresent Fullness “Lonesome Tears”

30) Dalek: The Blackstones “Never Feel the Pain”
31) M.G. & the Escorts “A Someday Fool”
32) The Wailers “Bama Lama Bama Loo”

Week of 6/4/06 - Schlock Jock!

Wed, 10 Mar 2021 19:47:49 -0500

1) The Lyrics “So What!”
2) All of Us “It’s All Right With Me”
3) The Voxmen “You Tell Me”
4) The Craig “I Must Be Mad”

Four of a Kind / Rock Block:
5) The Kinks “Cadillac” (BBC version)
6) The Kinks “Party Line”
7) The Kinks “Dedicated Follower of Fashion” (2/66 unreleased stereo alternate take)
Shoulda Been a Hit:
8) The Kinks “Get Back In Line”

9) Randy & the Radiants “My Way of Thinking”
10) The Five Canadians “Writing On the Wall”
11) Scott Bedford Four “You Turned Your Back On Me”
12) Zakary Thaks “Face to Face”
13) Peter & the Blizzards “Bye Bye Baby”
14) Sincron “Pe Linga Plopii Fara Sot”
15) Alex Fontaine “Tu N’es Pas Sincere”
16) Os Jovens “Se Voce Contar (If You’ll Tell)”

Compare & Contrast:
17) The Everly Brothers “Man With Money”
18) Saturday’s Children “Man With Money”

19) The Scavengers “She Don’t Care About Time”
20) Denis & the Times “Flight Patterns”

Embryonic Heroes (Iggy Pop ~ 1966):
21) The Iguanas “Again and Again”

22) The Boys “You Deceived Me”
23) The King Bees “On Your Way Down the Drain”
24) The Painted Ship “I Told Those Little White Lies”

New Release of the Week:
25) The Goldstars “It’s All About You” Purple Girlfriend

26) The Wheels “Road Block”
27) New York Public Library “Got to Get Away”
28) The Living Daylights “Always With Him”

Lousy Song of the Week:
29) Mysterious Clown “Mysterious Clown”

30) The Centurys “83”
31) Countdowns “You Know I Do”
32) Unbelievable Uglies “Get Straight”

Week of 5/28/06 - Memorial Day

Thu, 04 Mar 2021 01:50:17 -0500

1) Jose Feliciano “If I Really Bug You (Then You Don’t Love Me)”
2) The Soul Survivors “Shakin’ With Linda”
3) The Cavedwellers “Run Around”
4) Woody Carr & the Entertainers “I Think I Love You”

Compare & Contrast:
5) The Chartbusters “She’s the One”
6) The Delegates “She’s the One”

7) The Mop Tops “I Tried”
8) The Striders “Am I On Your Mind”
9) Terry Dean & the Nitebeats “If I Can”
10) The Slam Creepers “Nobody”
11) Les Hou-Lops “Oh Non”
12) Kawalerowie (The Bachelors) “Nigdy Juz Nie Wolaj Mnie (Don’t You Ever Call Me Again)”

Shoulda Been a Hit:
13) Clear Light “They Who Have Nothing”

14) John Fred & his Playboy Band “No Good to Cry”
15) Sir Douglas Quintet “In Time”
16) Dino, Desi & Billy “Tie Me Down”
17) The Symbols “Again”
18) The Washington D.C.’s “I’ve Done It All Wrong”
19) Los Walkers “Where’s Miss Lee On Saturdays”
20) Abel Fletcher “Esmeralda”
21) The Cyclones “Oh No, She Didn’t Say”
22) The Strangers “I’d Never Be Blue”
23) The Rhythms “Go With Him”
24) Los Shain’s “Un Profundo Sentimiento”

Lousy Song of the Week:
25) The Cosmic Camel “The King’s Winetaster”

26) Phil & the Frantics “Till You Get What You Want” (stereo version)
27) Last Knight “Shadow of Fear”
28) The Foggy Notions “Take Me Back and Hold Me”

Embryonic Heroes (Rolling Stones’ 1st Single ~ 6/63)
29) The Rolling Stones “Come On”

30) The Big Three “You’ve Gotta Keep Her Underhand”
31) Mickey Finn “I Still Want You”
32) Cops'n Robbers “There’s Got to Be a Reason”

New Release of the Week:
33) The Royal Purple “I Tried to Make You Happy” Transcendental Medication

34) The Age of Reason “Dirty Shame”
35) Thursday’s Children “Help, Murder, Police”
36) Ty Wagner with the Scotchmen “I’m a No-Count”
37) The Monuments “African Diamonds”
38) The Wyngates “See What’s Right”

Week of 5/14/06 - Mother's Day Special

Sat, 27 Feb 2021 21:52:33 -0500

1) The Electric Prunes “Are You Lovin’ Me More”
2) The Lemon Drops “Sometime Ago”
3) The Zephyrs “There’s Something About You”
4) The Evil “I’m Movin’ On”

Embryonic Heroes (Steve Miller):
5) The Goldberg-Miller Blues Band “The Mother Song”

6) The McCoys “Don’t Worry Mother, Your Son’s Heart Is Pure”
7) The Penthouse 5 “The Years Have Passed”
8) The Syndicate of Sound “Mary (Marrie)” (alt version)

Four of a Kind / Rock Block:
9) The Easybeats “Made My Bed, Gonna Lie In It”
10) The Easybeats “Who’ll Be the One”
11) The Easybeats “Women (Make You Feel Alright)”
12) The Easybeats “Mother In Law”

Lousy Song of the Week:
13) Thee Midniters “I Found a Peanut”

14) The Bondsmen “I See the Light”
15) The Black Watch “Left Behind”
16) Quicksilver Messenger Service "Dino's Song"

Shoulda Been a Hit:
17) The Nightcrawlers “If You Want My Love”

18) Wheel of Fortune “Before You Leave”
19) The Pagens “Mystic Cloud”
20) The Looking Glasses “Visions”
21) The Tikis “If I’ve Been Dreaming”
22) The Distant Cousins “Let It Ring”
23) The Del Counts “Let the Good Times Roll”
24) The Outsiders (Michigan City, IN) “Go Go Ferrari”

Compare & Contrast:
25) The Coasters “Little Egypt (Ying-Yang)”
26) Bern Elliott & the Fenmen “Little Egypt”

27) The Applejacks “Baby Jane”
28) The Shamrocks “Dusty Road”
29) The Downbeats “You Gotta Tell Me”
30) The Youngers “Hanashitakunai”
31) The Entertainers “Down Home Girl”

New Release of the Week:
32) The Everyothers “Something Wrong” Pink Sticky Lies

Week of 5/7/06 - Third Anniversary Special

Wed, 24 Feb 2021 19:33:23 -0500

1) The Shondells “Something’s Got a Hold On Me”
2) The Sound Track “I See the Light”
3) Manfred Mann “Tired of Trying, Bored With Lying, Scared of Dying”
4) The Attack “We Don’t Know”

Compare & Contrast:
5) The Zombies “Sticks and Stones”
6) The Vince Maloney Sect “Sticks and Stones”

7) The Atlantics “Pretty Thing”
8) Russ Kruger “Little Bit of Soul”

Rock Block / Four of a Kind:
9) The Sorrows “Baby”
10) The Sorrows “Teenage Letter”
11) The Sorrows “No, No, No, No”
12) The Sorrows “She’s Got the Action”

Embryonic Heroes (The Turtles):
13) The Crossfires “That’ll Be the Day”

14) The Wilde Knights “Tossin’ & Turnin’”
15) Byron & the Mortals “Do You Believe Me”
16) The Gestures “I’m Not Mad”

Lousy Song of the Week:
17) The Watchband “No Dice!”

18) The Young Alley Cats “Since She’s Been Gone”
19) One of Hours “Feel the Pain”
20) The Knights of the Road “The Color of Dream”

Shoulda Been a Hit:
21) Wayne Fontana & the Mindbenders “Like I Did”

22) The Marauders “That’s What I Want”
23) The Swinging Blue Jeans “You’re No Good”
24) The Truth “Baby You’ve Got It”
25) The Pussycats “Gone Gone Gone”
26) Met & Zonder “Meneertje Pils”
27) Names and Faces “You’re an Old Leaf”
28) The Californians “The Cooks of Cake & Kindness”

New Release of the Week:
29) The Stems “Just Ain’t Enough” Terminal Cool – Anthology ’83-’86

30) The Blizzards “Hab’ Keine Lust Heut Aufzustehn”
31) Los Brujos “Solo Quiero Amor”
32) Los Belmonts “Brinquen”
33) The Shaynes “From My Window”
34) The Inmates “More Than I Have”

Week of 4/30/06 - John E. the Ripper

Sun, 17 Jan 2021 12:42:41 -0500

1) The “In” Crowd “Old McDonald”
2) The First Gear “Leave My Kitten Alone”
3) The Huns “Destination Lonely”
4) Larry & the Blue Notes “In and Out”

Compare & Contrast:
5) The Johnny Burnette Trio “Train Kept A-Rollin’”
6) The Rogues “Train Kept A-Rollin’”

7) The Human Beinz “Evil Hearted You”
8) The Palmes “The Nazz Are Blue”

Shoulda Been a Hit:
9) The Lee Kings “It’s Not Right”

10) The Jormas “The Locomotion”
11) The Lincolns “You Can’t Come ‘Round Anymore”
12) The Tremendoes “Vem Quente Que Eu Fervendo”
13) The Juveniles “Bo Diddley”
14) The Chancellors “I’m a Man"
15) The Clefs “Bring It to Jerome”
16) Captain Beefheart & his Magic Band “Diddy Wah Diddy”

Embryonic Heroes (pre- Jefferson Airplane):
17) Marty Balin “I Specialize In Love”

18) The Rooks “Believe In You”
19) The Mods “Days Mind the Time”
20) Teddy and the Pandas “(Bye Bye) Out the Window"

New Release of the Week:
21) The Rewinds “Sentimental Flaw”

22) Focal Point “Girl On the Corner”
23) The Accent “Red Sky at Night”
24) The Barrier “Uh!”

Lousy Song of the Week:
25) Vince Edwards “Squeelin Parrot (Twist)”

26) The Stumps “Think of the Good Times”
27) The Clefs of Lavender Hill “One More Time”
28) The U.S. Stamps “Pull the Wool”
29) Gene Vincent “Bird Doggin’”
30) Jim Harpo Valley “I’m Real”
31) Bo Allen (Bo & the Weevils) “I Hope You’re Proud”
32) The Bojax “Go Ahead and Go”
33) The Avantes “Baby Go”
34) The Fugitives “Said Goodbye”

Week of 4/23/06 - Earth Day Rant

Sun, 10 Jan 2021 22:45:55 -0500

1) The Lovin’ Spoonful “On the Road Again”
2) Russ Kennedy & the Little Wheels “I’ve Got My Eyes On You (& I Like What I See)”
3) Jack & the Beanstalks “Don’t Bug Me”
4) The Sons of Adam “Saturday’s Son”
5) The Ju-Ju’s “You Treat Me Bad”
6) The Creations “Don’t Be Mean”
7) The Starfires “I Never Loved Her”
8) Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs “I Couldn’t Spell !!*@!”

Compare & Contrast:
9) Carl Perkins “Boppin’ the Blues”
10) Lee Curtis & the All-Stars “Boppin’ the Blues”

11) Los Speakers “Roll Over Beethoven”
12) Los Vidrios Quebrados “Time Is Out of Question”
13) The Fifth Order “Goin’ Too Far”
14) Brian Arthur “What Can You Do With a Broken Heart?”
15) The Nooney Rickett Four “This Is the Time”
16) The Cascades “She’ll Love Again”
17) The Just Four Men “Things Will Never Be the Same”
18) The Rockin’ Berries “Flashback”
19) The Pete Best Combo “Castin’ My Spell”
20) The Shags “Hide Away”

Shoulda Been a Hit:
21) Soul, Inc. “I Belong to Nobody”

22) The Penny Arkade “Lights of Dawn”
23) The Living Children “Crystalize Your Mind”
24) T.C. Atlantic “Faces”

New Release of the Week:
25) Jetpack UK “Mathematics”

26) The Freshmen “Carpet Man”
27) Floribunda Rose “One Way Street”
28) The Fresh Windows “Summer Sun Shines”

Embryonic Heroes (pre- Blue Oyster Cult – 7/70):
29) The Stalk-Forrest Group “What Is Quicksand?”

30) The Livin’ End “Empty Heart”
31) Just Too Much “She Gives Me Time”
32) The Live Wires “Love”

Lousy Song of the Week:
33) Ray Stevens “Spinning Wheel”

34) The Wheels “Dancing In the Street”

Week of 4/9/06 - Telethon 2006: Man vs. Machine

Tue, 05 Jan 2021 16:52:03 -0500

1) The Motions “It’s Gone”
2) The V.I.P.’s “Sad Story”
3) The Troggs “I Want You”
4) The Swinging Blue Jeans “Make Me Know You’re Mine”

Compare & Contrast:
5) The Animals “I Ain’t Got You”
6) The Yardbirds “I Ain’t Got You”

7) The Bad Boys “Runnin’ & Hidin’”
8) The Thoughts “All Night Stand”

Shoulda Been a Hit:
9) The Dovers “The Third Eye”

10) The Chambers Brothers “A New Time – A New Day”
11) The Matadors “Get Down From the Tree”
12) Los Shakers “On a Tuesday I Watch Channel 36”

Mod R&B / 45rpm:
13) Gene Chandler “There Was a Time"
14) The Contours “Determination”
15) Mike Williams “If This Isn’t Love”
16) Joe Tex “Fresh Out of Tears”

Lousy Song of the Week:
17) The Ivy Three “Yogi”

18) The Satans “Makin’ Deals”
19) The Count Five “Double-Decker Bus”
20) The Brogues “Don’t Shoot Me Down”

United Nations of Rock & Roll:
21) The Pleazers “Don’t Gimme No Lip Child”
22) The Dynamites “Jenny, Jenny”
23) The Panthers “I’ll Be Pleased”
24) The Quests “I’ll Be Your Man”

Embryonic Hero of the Week (The Buckinghams):
25) The Centuries “I Love You No More”

26) Young Enterprise “Think I’m Gonna Make It”
27) Kenny & the Kasuals “Nothing Better to Do”
28) Denny Noie & the 4th of Never “Don’t Follow Me”

Week of 4/2/06 - The Joe Show

Sun, 03 Jan 2021 18:31:53 -0500

1) The Leaves “Hey Joe”
2) The Byrds “Hey Joe”
3) Love “Hey Joe”
4) The Warlocks “Hey Joe”
5) The Hazzards “Hey Joe”
6) The Pied Pipers “Hey Joe”
7) The Tangents “Hey Joe”
8) The Roks “Hey Joe”
9) Gonn “Hey Joe”
10) The Swamp Rats “Hey Joe”
11) The Outcasts “Hey Joe” (live)
12) The Kreeg “Hey Joe” (live)
13) Sammy Lee & the Summits “Hey Joe”
14) The Cryan’ Shames “Hey Joe”
15) The Shadows of Knight “Hey Joe"
16) The Shadows of Knight “Hey Joe” (live)
17) The Standells “Hey Joe”
18) The Music Machine “Hey Joe”
19) The Fever Tree “Hey Joe” (single version)
20) The Stillroven “Hey Joe”
21) Euphorias Id “Hey Joe”
22) The Litter “Hey Joe"
23) The Fragile Zookeeper “Hey Joe”
24) The Outer Mongolian Herd “Hey Joe”
25) Los Locos Del Ritmo “Hey Joe”
26) The Creation “Hey Joe”
27) Baronen “Hey Joe”
28) The Golden Cups “Hey Joe”
29) The Marmalade “Hey Joe”
30) Cher “Hey Joe”
31) Jimi Hendrix Experience “Hey Joe” (BBC version)
32) Deep Purple “Hey Joe”
33) The Arbors “Hey Joe”

Week of 3/26/06 - Will Success Spoil John E. Midnight?

Thu, 31 Dec 2020 10:52:15 -0500

1) The Night Sounds “Torment”
2) Madd, Inc. “I’ll Be the One”
3) The No-Nam-Ees “Gotta Hold On”
4) Moby Grape “Fall On You”
5) Dean Ford & the Gaylords “The Name Game”
6) The Hullaballoos “Beware”
7) Peter & Gordon “Whatcha Gonna Do ‘Bout It”
8) The Force Five “I Want You Babe”

Rock Block / Four of a Kind:
9) The Pretty Things “Oh Baby Doll”
10) The Pretty Things “Judgement Day”
11) The Pretty Things “Get the Picture?”
12) The Pretty Things “Grey Skies”

Compare & Contrast:
13) The Odd Persons “I’m Crying”
14) The Sevens “I’m Crying”

15) Los Jockers “Nueva Sociedad (Party Line)”
16) Los Mac’s “Degrees”

Embryonic Heroes:
17) The Sweet “It’s Lonely Out There”

18) July “I See”
19) The Honeybus “How Long”
20) The 23rd Turnoff “Michael Angelo”
21) Unit 4+2 “3.30 A.M.”

Geographic Rock Block:
22) The Hi-Fives “Goin’ Away”
23) The Artesians “Trick Bag”
24) The Bumps “Hey Girl”
25) The Kingsmen “Trouble”

26) Dickie Loader & the Blue Jeans “Chills & Fever”
27) Bobby & Laurie “You Are Gone”
28) The Sonic Invasion “Go Out and Get Her”

New Release of the Week:
29) The New Amsterdams “Calendar Days”

30) The Jets “Worker In the Night”
31) The Softs “Paarsebroek”
32) Brightness “But Why I Can’t”

Shoulda Been a Hit:
33) The Yo Yo’s “The Raven”

Week of 3/19/06 - My Back Is Hairy

Tue, 29 Dec 2020 19:18:43 -0500

1) The Brand “I’m a Lover Not a Fighter”
2) Cuby & the Blizzards “Your Body Not Your Soul”
3) The Sparkles “No Friend of Mine”
4) The Remains “You Got a Hard Time Comin’”

Embryonic Heroes:
5) Sparrow “Baby Please Don’t Go”

6) The Quid “Wrong Line”
7) J.B. & the Playboys “I’m the Lonely One”
8) Los Beat 4 “Pobre Gato”
9) The Apollos “That’s the Breaks”
10) The Galaxies IV “Piccadilly Circus”
11) The Peers “Once Upon a Time”
12) The Rockin’ Roadrunners “Down”

Compare & Contrast / Rock Block:
13) We the People “In the Past”
14) The Chocolate Watchband “In the Past”
15) The Chocolate Watchband “Don't Need Your Lovin'”
16) The Chocolate Watchband “Baby Blue” (45 version)
17) The Chocolate Watchband “Gone and Passes By”

Shoulda Been a Hit:
18) Tintern Abbey “Beeside”

19) The State of Mickey & Tommy “Nobody Knows Where You’ve Been”
20) Human Instinct “Pink Dawn”
21) The Cedars / Sea-Ders “Hide If You Want to Hide”

Lousy Song of the Week:
22) The Guards “Hullabaloo”

23) The Phantom Brothers “Chicago”
24) Eric & his Misfits “Walking the Dog”
25) The Meteors with Curt Bilsbo “Anytime”

New Release of the Week:
26) The Boss Martians “Looking For You”

27) The Brymers “Sacrifice”
28) Lindy Blaskey & the Lavells “You Ain’t Tuff”
29) Jimmy Solley “I Just Gotta Get a Little More Sleep"
30) The Fairies “Anytime at All”
31) Ian & the Zodiacs “This Won’t Happen to Me”
32) Tony Summers & the Echoes “I’m On the Right Side”
33) The Art Collection “Millicent”
34) The Interpreters “The Only Man For You”

Week of 3/5/06 - Jacko Gets a Smacko

Tue, 22 Dec 2020 17:58:15 -0500

1) The Night Birds “Nightbirds"
2) Percy & the Gaolbirds “Who Can Help Me”
3) The Dynamites “Koiwa Mo Takusan”
4) The Other Side “Streetcar”

Embryonic Heroes (Allman Brothers)
5) The Allman Joys “Gotta Get Away”

6) The Bethlehem Exit “Blues Concerning My Girl”
7) The Young Monkeymen “I’m Waitin’ For the Letter”
8) The Munks “Long Time Waiting”

Compare & Contrast / Rock Block:
9) The Mauds “Searchin'"
10) The Hollies “Searchin’”
11) The Hollies “Lawdy Miss Clawdy”
12) The Hollies “What's Wrong With the Way I Live”
13) The Hollies “Long Dark Road”

Shoulda Been a Hit:
14) Wimple Winch “Save My Soul”

15) The Librettos “She’s a Go Go”
16) The D-Coys “Bad Times”
17) The Masters’ Apprentices “Undecided”

Lousy Song of the Week:
18) Matthew Reid “The Tarzan Twist (Bwama Ungawa)"

19) The Cavaliers “Seven Days of Cryin’”
20) Mumbles Scott & the Esquires “Baby What You Want Me to Do?”
21) Denise & Co. “Boy, What'll You Do Then”
22) The Classics “Mean Woman”
23) The Shades “I Need You”
24) The Escapades “I Tell No Lies”
25) First Crow to the Moon “Spend Your Life”

New Release of the Week:
26) The Brokedown / The Broken West “Down In the Valley”

27) Thursday’s Children “You’ll Never Be My Girl”
28) The Outcasts “The Birds”
29) The Changing Times “Cry”
30) Thor’s Hammer “Better Days”
31) The Four Rockets “The Place Where She Lives”
32) Chapter II “East of My Place”
33) The Shakers “Who Will Buy (These Wonderful Evils)”
34) The Fourmost “Something’s Got a Hold On Me”

Week of 2/19/06 - Cartoons Kill

Sat, 19 Dec 2020 18:51:55 -0500

1) Don & the Goodtimes “The Witch”
2) The Tamrons “Wild Man”
3) The Scorpions “Hey Honey”
4) The Passing Fancy “I’m Losing Tonight” (single version)

Embryonic Heroes (Steve Howe - unreleased, 1969):
5) Bodast “Do You Remember”

6) Grapefruit “Dear Delilah”
7) The Orange Bicycle “Hyacinth Threads”
8) The Lords (Holland) “Day After Day”
9) Simon Scott “Move It Baby”
10) The Bo Street Runners “Bo Street Runner”
11) Brett Young & the Ghost Squad “You Can’t Fool Me”
12) The Couriers “Done Me Wrong”

Rock Block:
13) The High Numbers “Leaving Here” (1964 unr acetate)
14) The Who “The Ox” (stereo version)
15) The Who “Pictures of Lily” (10/10/67 BBC)
16) The Who “I Can See For Miles” (10/10/67 BBC)

Compare & Contrast:
17) The Leaves “Dr. Stone”
18) The Beaten Path “Dr. Stone”

19) The Lykes of Us “7:30 Said”
20) The Stoics “Enough of What I Need”

Lousy Song of the Week:
21) Les Rockers “C’est D’Accord (That’s Alright Mama)”

22) Les Miserables “Chemises a pois cravates a fleurs”
23) The Purple Hearts “Of Hopes & Dreams & Tombstones”
24) The Rondells “Carol Ann”

New Release of the Week:
25) Soledad Brothers “Downtown Paranoia Blues”

26) The Harbinger Complex “I Think I’m Down”
27) The Barracudas “Baby Get Lost”
28) Danny Burk & the Invaders “Ain’t Going Nowhere”

Shoulda Been a Hit:
29) The Gants “Greener Days”

30) Poe “Up Up Through the Spiral”
31) The Fun and Games “The Way She Smiles"
32) Plant and See “Love & Affection”

Week of 2/12/06 - Slyly Subversive

Wed, 16 Dec 2020 16:59:22 -0500

1) The Merseybeats “Good Good Lovin’”
2) Mickie Most with The Gear “That’s Alright”
3) The Untamed “It’s Not True” (BBC)
4) The Music Machine “Double Yellow Line”

5) World of Milan “One Track Mind”
6) The Concepts “Faces Come, Feelings Go”
7) The Romancers “She Took My Oldsmobile”
8) Jerry & the Playmates “Want-a-Love You”

Lousy Song of the Week:
9) Barnaby Rudge “Joe Organ & Co.”

Shoulda Been a Hit:
10) The Dave Miller Set “Mr. Guy Fawkes”

11) The Tremeloes “(Call Me) Number One” (BBC)
12) Turquoise “Saynia”

Embryonic Heroes (Davy Jones; pre- Monkees):
13) David Jones “Any Old Iron"

Rock Block:
14) The Monkees “I Don’t Think You Know Me” (1st version, unreleased until 1987)
15) The Monkees “The Girl I Knew Somewhere”
16) The Monkees “As We Go Along”
17) The Monkees “The Porpoise Song (Theme From ‘Head’)”

New Release of the Week:
18) The High Violets “Love Is Blinding”

19) Bobby Fuller Four “I Fought the Law” (early TX alt version)
20) ? & the Mysterians “96 Tears” (unreleased version)
21) The American Breed “Ready, Willing and Able”
22) The Ides of March “Give Your Mind Wings”
23) The Maze “Right Time”
24) The Sunrisers “I Saw Her Yesterday”
25) The Bacardis “This Time”

Compare & Contrast:
26) Bo Diddley “You Can’t Judge a Book By Its Cover”
27) The Bintangs “You Can’t Judge a Book By Looking At the Cover”

28) The Merseys “Nothing Can Change This Love”
29) The Roulettes “You Don’t Love Me”
30) Los Mockers “Can’t Be a Lie”
31) Los Ovni’s “Ya Se”
32) Cool Stove “Big Sensation”
33) The Napoleon “Koi O Kesunda”
34) The Tears “Rat Race”
35) The Underground Balloon Corps “(Heart) Made of Soul”

Week of 1/29/06 - Bird Flu Freakout

Sun, 13 Dec 2020 02:41:41 -0500

1) The Knack “Who’ll Be the Next In Line”
2) Billy J. Kramer & the Dakotas “Great Balls of Fire”
3) The Knickerbockers “I Can Do It Better”
4) The Sonics “Like No Other Man”

Shoulda Been a Hit:
5) P.F. Sloan “This Precious Time”

6) Barry McGuire “I’d Have to Be Out of My Mind”

Embryonic Heroes:
7) Jim & Ingrid Croce “What the Hell”

8) Solid Ground “She Played With Love”

Lousy Song of the Week:
9) George Washington & the Cherrybombs “Crisco Party”

10) The Blues Magoos “So I’m Wrong and You Are Right”
11) The Original Sinners “You’ll Never Know”
12) Peter Wheat & the Breadmen “Baby What’s New”
13) The Girls “My Love”
14) The Daughters of Eve “Don’t Waste My Time”
15) Kim and Grim “You Don’t Love Me”
16) Sandy Edmonds “Come See Me”

Rock Block:
17) Cream “Sweet Wine” (BBC: 11/8/66)
18) Cream “I Feel Free”
19) Cream “World of Pain” (stereo version)
20) Cream “Swlabr” (BBC: 1/9/68)

Compare & Contrast:
21) The New Order “You’ve Got Me High”
22) Science Poption “You Got Me High”

23) The Seasons “No Volvere”
24) Os Mutantes “A Minha Menina”
25) The Velvet Underground “Sunday Morning”
26) Lothar & the Hand People “This May Be Goodbye”
27) The United States of America “No Love to Give”
28) The Red Crayola “Dairymaid’s Lament”

New Release of the Week:
29) The Minus Five “My Life as a Creep”

30) The Escorts “C’mon Home Baby”
31) The Moquettes “Right String Baby, But the Wrong Yo-Yo”
32) Freddie & the Dreamers “A Little You”
33) Rick & Sandy “Lost My Girl”

Week of 1/22/06 - Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Rant

Sat, 12 Dec 2020 14:15:48 -0500

1) The Outsiders “If You Don’t Treat Me Right”
2) Q65 “I Got Nightmares”
3) The Primitives “You Said”
4) The Descendants “Lela”
5) The Denims “I’m Your Man”
6) The Skeptics “Bit O’Honey”
7) The Torres “Ride On”
8) The New Breed “Want Ad Reader”

Compare & Contrast:
9) Chuck Willis “C.C. Rider”
10) Johnny Kendall & the Heralds “See See Rider"

11) The Jay-Jays “I Keep Tryin’”
12) The Nicols “Lord I've Been Thinking”
13) The Breakaways “Sea Cruise”
14) Ray Brown & the Whispers “Ain’t It Strange”
15) The Bluestars “Don’t Wanna Be Lonely Anymore”
16) The Birds (AUS) “Dust In My Pants”

Shoulda Been a Hit:
17) The Flower Pot Men “Heaven Knows When”

18) The Smoke “High In a Room”
19) Fire “Treacle Toffee World”
20) The Shy Limbs “Trick Or Two”

Lousy Song of the Week:
21) The Keggs “To Find Out”

22) Murphy & the Mob “Born Loser”
23) The Illusions “City of People”
24) The Split Ends “Rich With Nothin’”

Embryonic Heroes (Ted Nugent):
25) The Amboy Dukes “J.B. Special” (alternate version)

26) The Plague “Go Away”
27) The Playboys of Edinburg “Wish You Had a Heart”
28) The Tree “No Good Woman”

United Nations of Rock & Roll:
29) Les Loups Garous “Twist a La Baule”
30) Los Huracanes “Ocho Dias Cayendo Lluvia”
31) Billy & I Cani Fedeli “Lei Ama Me”
32) The Ones “Lady Greengrass”

New Release of the Week:
33) Steve Wynn & the Miracle 3 “Wild Mercury”

Week of 11/27/05 - The Orphans of Rock & Roll

Wed, 09 Dec 2020 23:41:43 -0500

1) The Bachs “You’re Mine”
2) The Shady Daze “I’ll Make You Pay”
3) The Reddlemen “ I’m Gonna Get In That Girl’s Mind”
4) The Four Tops “I’m a Believer”

Rock Block:
5) Paul Revere & the Raiders “I’m Not Your Stepping Stone”
6) Paul Revere & the Raiders “Over You”
7) Paul Revere & the Raiders “The Great Airplane Strike” (LP version)
8) Paul Revere & the Raiders “I’m a Loser Too"

Compare & Contrast (Howlin’ Wolf):
9) (unknown) “Spoonful”
10) The Impalas “Spoonful”

11) David John & the Mood “Pretty Thing”
12) Group Five “What’s That”

Embryonic Heroes (Steven Tyler pre-Aerosmith ~ 1968):
13) Chain Reaction “Ever Lovin’ Man”

B-Side / Flip Over the Record (“Summertime Blues” 3/68):
14) Blue Cheer “Out of Focus”

15) Big Brother & the Holding Company “The Last Time”
16) Fairport Convention “It’s Alright Ma, It’s Only Witchcraft"

Lousy Song of the Week:
17) The One Way Streets “We All Love Peanut Butter”

18) The Lost Agency “One Girl Man”
19) The Wanted “Big City Girl”
20) The Fugitives “Baby Come Back”

Shoulda Been a Hit:
21) Zakary Thaks “Mirror of Yesterday”

22) The Haunted “1-2-5”

New Release of the Week:
23) The Dials “Sick Times”

Week of 1/15/06 - Suburban Angst

Wed, 09 Dec 2020 18:40:28 -0500

1) Peter Belli & Les Rivals “Little By Little”
2) Tyme’s Children “Take Me Back”
3) The Preachers “Stay Out of My World”
4) The Vejtables “Hide Yourself”
5) Gerry & the Pacemakers “When Oh When”
6) The Strangers “What a Way”
7) The Shondels “Don’t Put Me Down”
8) The Tages “The One For You”

Rock Block:
9) Herman’s Hermits “Little Boy Sad”
10) Herman’s Hermits “Wild Love”
11) Herman’s Hermits “Where Were You When I Needed You”
12) Herman’s Hermits “Ace, King, Queen, Jack”

Compare & Contrast:
13) Them “I Can Only Give You Everything”
14) Tommy Scott “I Can Only Give You Everything”

15) The Marquees “Call My Name”
16) The Oxford Circle “Baby Please Don’t Go”

Lousy Song of the Week:
17) The District Six “Cherish”

18) The Moon Rakers “You’ll Come Back”
19) The Blox “Hangin’ Out”
20) Our Gang “Careless Love”

Shoulda Been a Hit:
21) Cherry Smash “Green Plant”

22) Gates of Eden “Too Much On My Mind”
23) The Breakthru “Julius Caesar”
24) Rupert’s People “I Can Show You”

New Release of the Week:
25) The Dukes of Stratosphear “Vanishing Girl”

26) I Ribelli “Eh!…Voi!”
27) The Trailers “Don’t Laugh (You’ll Cry)”
28) The Other Side “Out My Light”

Embryonic Heroes (Keith Emerson; pre- ELP; 11/67):
29) The Nice “The Thoughts of Emerlist Davjack”

30) The Cyrkle “Red Chair Fade Away”
31) The Yellow Balloon “Junk Maker Shoppe”
32) Fever Tree “I Can Beat Your Drum”

Week of 1/1/06 - Hangover Enhancer

Sun, 06 Dec 2020 11:51:54 -0500

1) The Human Beings “You’re Bad News”
2) The Underdogs “Get Down On Your Knees”
3) The River Styx Blues Emporium “Holding For Me”
4) Flat Earth Society “Shadows”

Compare & Contrast:
5) Fats Domino “Don’t Lie to Me”
6) Four + One “Don’t Lie to Me”

7) The Redcoats “Baby Don’t Go”
8) The Novas “William Junior”

Lousy Song of the Week 2-fer (Two Time Loser):
9) The Brook Brothers “Warpaint”
10) The Scouts “The Mr. Custer Stomp”

11) The Standells “Medication”
12) Love “My Little Red Book”

United Nations of Rock & Roll:
13) MPD Limited “If You Were Mine”
14) Steve & the Board “Giggle Eyed Goo”
15) De Maskers with Chubby Checker “My Little Girl”
16) The Matadors “Little Lover”

17) The Birds “How Can It Be?”
18) John Carter “She Won’t Show Up Tonight”
19) Chad & Jeremy “Paxton Quigley’s Had the Course”
20) Status Quo “Technicolor Dreams”

Embryonic Heroes (Todd Rundgren):
21) Nazz “Wildwood Blues"

22) The Third Evolution “Don’t Play With Me”
23) The Aardvarks “I’m Higher Than I’m Down”
24) The Shag “Stop and Listen”

Rock Block:
25) Simon & Garfunkel “Leaves That Are Green”
26) Simon & Garfunkel “Fakin’ It”
27) Simon & Garfunkel “Richard Cory”
28) Simon & Garfunkel “Keep the Customer Satisfied"

Shoulda Been a Hit:
29) The Grass Roots “Lollipop Train (You Never Had It So Good)”
30) The Cowsills “How Can I Make You See”
31) West Minist’r “Bright Lights, Windy City”

New Release of the Week:
32) The Lords of Altamont “Project Blue”

Week of 12/4/05

Fri, 04 Dec 2020 10:38:44 -0500

1) The Banshees “Project Blue”
2) Park Avenue Playground “The Trip”
3) The Countdown 5 “Candy”
4) The Fallen Angels “Bad Woman”

Shoulda Been a Hit:
5) The Dantes “Can’t Get Enough of Your Love”

6) The Savages “Roses Are Red My Love”
7)Mouse & the Traps “Cryin’ Inside”
8) The Fantastic Dee-Jays “Get Away Girl”

Compare & Contrast:
9) Chuck Berry “Our Little Rendezvous”
10) Downliners Sect “Our Little Rendezvous”

11) Thane Russal “I Need You”
12) Nashville Teens “That’s My Woman”

Lousy Song of the Week:
13) Leonard Nimoy “Proud Mary”

14) The Merry-Go-Round “On Your Way Out”
15) The Outer Limits “Just One More Chance”
16) The Pink Floyd “Jugband Blues”

Embryonic Heroes: (The Outsiders):
17) Tom King & the Starfires: “Stronger Than Dirt”

18) The Marauders “I Can Tell”
19) The Friedles “I Lost Her”
20) The Jaguars “It’s Gonna Be Alright”

New Release of the Week:
21) The Blueskins “Stupid Ones”

22) Los Monstruos “Junto A Mi (Just Like Me)”
23) The Shangaans “Yeh Girl”
24) Little Chris & the Boumerangs “Girl of Radium”
25) The Rainbows “Tubon”
26) D’4 Ever “Mungkir Janji”

Week of 12/18/05 - Winter Solstice Spectacular

Fri, 04 Dec 2020 00:13:34 -0500

1) Lulu & the Luvvers “Surprise Surprise”
2) Pat Harris & the Blackjacks “Hippy Hippy Shake”
3) The King Bees “Little Girl”
4) The Prodigal “You Got Me”

Compare & Contrast:
5) The Electras “Action Woman”
6) The Litter “Action Woman”

7) Jimmy & the Offbeats “I Ain’t No Miracle Worker”
8) The Unrelated Segments “Story of My Life”

Embryonic Heroes (The Small Faces):
9) The Moments “Money Money”

Rock Block:
10) The Small Faces “Whatcha Gonna Do About It”
11) The Small Faces “It’s Too Late”
12) The Small Faces “You’d Better Believe It” (BBC)
13) The Small Faces “Runaway”

New Release of the Week:
14) The Numbers “The Fast”

15) The Allusions “Looks Like Trouble”
16) Tony Worsley & the Blue Jays “Talkin’ ‘Bout You”
17) The Missing Links “All I Want”

United Nations of Rock & Roll:
18) Los Reno “El Arabe”
19) Bill Kimber & the Couriers “Come On, Come On, Come On”
20) The Bluebirds “Sweet Polly”
21) The Poets “In Your Tower”

Lousy Song of the Week:
22) The Unknowns “Night Walkin’”

23) The Chentelles “Be My Queen”
24) The Unlimited “Feelings”
25) The Twiliters “Move It”

Shoulda Been a Hit:
26) The Fly-Bi-Nites “Found Love”

27) Every Mother’s Son “Put Your Mind at Ease”
28) The Hard Times “Goodbye”
29) The Third Rail “Invisible Man”
30) The Dirty Shames “Makin’ Love”
31) Swinging Machine “Comin’ On Back Home”
32) The Magpies “Never See Her Again”