I was 50 years old once--for a whole year! It just so happened that my 50th birthday fell on a Sunday night--January 17th, 2010--and Sunday night is when we do This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio with Dana & Carl. Couldn't let that pass uncelebrated, so I asked Dana to let me program a show in, um...my honor. This is the way it was:
Hello again from This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio with Dana & Carl, your self-appointed provider of The Best Three Hours Of Radio On The Whole Friggin' Planet. For this week's extra-special edition of TIRnRR, Dana indulged my birthday wish and allowed me to program 50 YEARS OF CARL, a collection of a few of the many, many tracks that have been pop obsessions for me at some time or another during the first five decades of my mission here on your charming little world. Now, like most true pop geeks, three hours ain't even close to enough time to cover all of my obsessions--heck, three hours probably wouldn't even cover my obsessions by THE BEATLES, THE RAMONES, THE FLASHCUBES, THE MONKEES, THE KINKS and THE DAVE CLARK FIVE, let alone leave enough time for, say, "Blame It On The Bossa Nova" by EYDIE GORME or "I Hate Rock 'n' Roll" by COCKEYED GHOST. But I came up with a representative sampling, and even gave a hint of a few tracks I couldn't include by slappin' together a five-minute 50 YEARS OF CARL medley to kick off the week's final set. And anyway, each week on TIRnRR presents another opportunity for Dana and me to wallow in our respective pop obsessions, to play again and again all the tracks that went into the making of this week's show and all the ones that didn't.
Okay. Maybe not KANSAS or FRANKIE YANKOVIC. Or maybe...!
A million thanks once again to everyone for the birthday greetings and best wishes. Hitting 50 may mean I'm, like, a third of the way through my life by now, but I assure you that I am never, ever gonna grow up.
TAX-DEDUCTIBLE DONATIONS go to Syracuse Community Radio, 826 Euclid Avenue, Syracuse, NY 13210. Please let us know if you need to be deleted from our weekly greetings. NEXT WEEK: Dana gets to play some stuff, too! And our featured act will be KELLEY RYAN, including tracks from her new album TWIST and a lot of her older work, which she released under the nom du bop ASTROPUPPEES. And this is what rock 'n' roll radio sounded like on a Sunday night in Syracuse this week.
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TIRnRR # 515: 50 YEARS OF CARL! 1/17/10
CARRIE
UNDERWOOD: "Some Hearts"
(Arista, Some Hearts)
--
LEONARD
SLATKIN & THE LONDON PHILHARMONIC:
"Sabre Dance" (iTunes)
--
THE
RAMONES: "Sheena Is A Punk
Rocker" (Rhino, Rocket To Russia)
SMOKEY
ROBINSON & THE MIRACLES:
"Tears Of A Clown" (Motown, VA: Hitsville USA)
THE
DAVE CLARK FIVE: "Catch Us If
You Can" (Hollywood, History Of The Dave Clark Five)
GENE
PITNEY: "Twenty-Four Hours
From Tulsa" (One Way, Ultimate Anthology)
THE
MUFFS: "Saying Goodbye"
(Warner Brothers, The Muffs)
THE
RARE BREED: "Beg, Borrow
& Steal" (Rhino, VA:
Nuggets)
--
THE
BAT BOYS: "The Batman
Theme" (Design, Batman Theme)
--
THE
FLAMIN' GROOVIES: "First
Plane Home" (Rhino, At Full Speed)
THE
RASPBERRIES: "I Wanna Be With
You" (RPM, Power Pop Volume One)
THE
RUBINOOS: "Wouldn't It Be
Nice" (Castle, Anthology)
THE
FLASHCUBES: "No Promise"
(Northside, Bright Lights)
KISS: "Calling Dr. Love" (Mercury,
Rock And Roll Over)
THE
MONKEES: "Love Is Only
Sleeping" (Rhino, Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones. Ltd.)
--
THE
VENTURES: "Walk--Don't
Run" (Capitol, Walk--Don't Run)
--
THE
KINKS: "Lola" (Reprise,
The Kink Kronikles)
THE
REAL KIDS: "Now You
Know" (Bomp!, VA: Experiments
In Destiny)
HOLE: "Heaven Tonight" (DGC,
Celebrity Skin)
LESLEY
GORE: "California
Nights" (Mercury, It's My Party)
MANNIX: "Highway Lines"
(www.mannixrock.com, Come To California)
THE
FLIRTATIONS: "Nothing But A
Heartache" (Rhino, VA: Beg,
Scream & Shout!)
--
PERCY
FAITH: "Little Bells And Big
Bells" (Columbia, Passport To Romance)
--
THE
BAY CITY ROLLERS: "Wouldn't
You Like It" (Bell, Wouldn't You Like It)
THE
KNICKERBOCKERS: "Lies"
(Big Beat, A Rave Up With…The Knickerbockers)
THE
HOLLIES: "Stop, Stop,
Stop" (EMI, 30th Anniversary Collection)
STIV
BATORS: "It's Cold
Outside" (Bomp!, L.A. Confidential)
THE
BEAU BRUMMELS: "Laugh,
Laugh" (Sundazed, Introducing The Beau Brummels)
THE
HOODOO GURUS:
"Bittersweet" (Bigtime, Mars Needs Guitars!)
--
AL
HIRT: "The Green Hornet"
(RCA, The Horn Meets "The Hornet")
--
BADFINGER: "Baby Blue" (Apple, Straight
Up)
THE
ROYAL GUARDSMEN: "Snoopy Vs.
The Red Baron" (One Way, Anthology)
TELEVISION: "Elevation" (Elektra, Marquee
Moon)
EYDIE
GORME: "Blame It On The Bossa
Nova" (GI Music, Blame It On The Bossa Nova)
JOHNNY
THUNDERS & THE HEARTBREAKERS:
"Chinese Rocks" (Jungle, L.A.M.F.)
PAUL
REVERE & THE RAIDERS:
"Kicks" (Sundazed, Midnight Ride)
--
THE
NUTLEY BRASS: "I Wanna Be
Sedated" (Sanctuary, The Ramones Songbook)
--
THE
SEX PISTOLS: "God Save The
Queen" (Virgin, Kiss This)
THE
TEARJERKERS: "Syracuse
Summer" (Sunray 45)
TODD
RUNDGREN: "Couldn't I Just
Tell You" (Rhino, Something/Anything?)
THE
DRIFTERS: "Sweets For My
Sweet" (Atlantic, All-Time Greatest Hits And More)
TRANSLATOR: "Everywhere That I'm Not"
(415/Legacy, Everywhere That We Were)
NEIL
DIAMOND: "Solitary Man"
(Columbia, Classics: The Early
Years)
--
HOT
BUTTER: "Popcorn" (Delta
Music Group, VA: Jeans On)
--
THE
BEATLES: "Thank You,
Girl" (Capitol, The Beatles' Second Album)
BIG
STAR: "September Gurls"
(Ardent, # 1 Record/Radio City)
ANNY
CELSI: "Empty Hangers"
(Ragazza, Little Black Dress And Other Stories)
THE
FLESHTONES: "American Beat
'84" (IRS, 12" single)
COCKEYED
GHOST: "I Hate Rock 'n'
Roll" (Big Deal, The Scapegoat Factory)
DANA
& CARL: "East Side
Story?!" (unreleased)
JAY
& THE AMERICANS: "Only In
America" (Rhino, Greatest Hits)
--
THE
GLENN MILLER ORCHESTRA:
"Moonlight Serenade" (Sounds Of Yesteryear, All-Time Greatest
Hits)
--
THE
KINKS: "Waterloo Sunset"
(Essential, Something Else By The Kinks)
MARY
LOU LORD: "Aim Low"
(Kill Rock Stars, Mary Lou Lord/Sean Na Na)
THE
ROLLING STONES:
"Shattered" (Rolling Stone, Some Girls)
THE
VOGUES: "Five O'Clock
World" (Rhino, Greatest Hits)
ALICE
COOPER: "School's Out"
(Rhino, Mascara & Monsters)
THE
BARRACUDAS: "His Last
Summer" (Voxx, Drop Out With The Barracudas)
--
JOHN
WILLIAMS: "Main Theme (From
Superman)" (Silva America, The Music Of John Williams)
--
VARIOUS: 50 Years Of Carl Medley:
THE BEATLES: "A Day In The Life"
LL COOL J: "Mama Said Knock You Out"
KANSAS: "Carry On Wayward Son"
THE ROMANTICS: "What I Like About You"
FRANKIE
YANKOVIC: "Who Stole The
Keeshka?"
R. DEAN TAYLOR: "Indiana Wants Me"
STYX: "Kiss Your Ass Goodbye"
THE FLASHCUBES: "She's Leaving"
THE CATHOLIC
GIRLS: "Should Have Been
Mine"
HERMAN'S
HERMITS: "A Must To
Avoid"
BILLY J. KRAMER WITH
THE DAKOTAS: "I'll Be On My
Way"
THE KINKS: "You Really Got Me"
THE KINKS: "All Day And All Of The
Night"
THE MONKEES: "Pleasant Valley Sunday"
THE CASTAWAYS: "Liar, Liar"
CHUCK BERRY: "Johnny B. Goode"
THE GO-GO'S: "We Got The Beat"
THE FOUR TOPS: "It's The Same Old Song"
THE RAMONES: "Blitzkrieg Bop"
THE BAY CITY
ROLLERS: "Rock And Roll Love Letter"
THE MONKEES: "The Porpoise Song"
THE BEATLES: "The End"
THE MONKEES: "Gravy"
THE
FLASHCUBES: "Carl (You Da
Man)" (JAM, VA: This Is Rock
'n' Roll Radio, Volume 1)
THE
ANIMALS: "It's My Life"
(BR Music, The Story Of The Animals)
SCREEN
TEST: "Nothing Really Matters
When You're Young" (Air Mail, Inspired Humans Making Noise)
WILSON
PICKETT: "In The Midnight
Hour" (Rhino, A Man And A Half)
JOHNNY
NASH: "I Can See Clearly
Now" (Rhino, VA: Can You Dig
It?)
BEAUTY
SCENE OUTLAWS: "Carl Cafarelli" (JAM, VA: This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio, Volume 2)
DANA
& CARL [with DAVE MURRAY]:
"The Ballad Of Jah Clampett" (JAM, VA: This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio, Volume 1)
THE
RAMONES: "I Don't Want To
Grow Up" (Radioactive, Adios Amigos!)
--
THE
T-BONES: "No Matter What
Shape (Your Stomach's In)" (BGO, No Matter What Shape [Your Stomach's
In]/Sippin' 'N Chippin')
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