Although I've continuously updated the list of This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio's Featured Artists, it's been quite a while since I've done it as a fresh post here. This week's tribute to the late Hal Blaine prompts me to change the billing a little bit, recognizing that we sometimes want to spotlight the work of a musician whose name isn't listed above the title. Henceforth, we're going to try to refer to these as Featured Performers rather than Featured Artists or Featured Acts. Rest assured that we will screw that up, but we'll remain lovable all the while. ("Performers" would seem to exclude producers, songwriters, or any other non-performing entity we might feature in the future--hey, that's catchy!--so I remind you once again that we're not under oath.)
It bothers me a little bit that we so frequently wind up celebrating a Featured Performer because the performer in question has recently passed. We can't stop this numbing parade of mortality, and we're going to continue to honor our heroes in these occasions; we may also want to consider more living tributes to the performers we love. The complication? A mere three hours a week goes by faster than you would ever think possible. As TIRnRR barrels blithely along the path to our 1000th show later this year, Dana and I will keep trying to get it right, keep paying tribute when we can and/or when we must, and keep playing the collection of rockin' pop music that defines The Best Three Hours Of Radio On The Whole Friggin' Planet.
And now, your officially updated listing:
This is a (presumably) complete list of all groups, singers, musicians, and/or pop wunderkind that have ever been a Featured Performer on THIS IS ROCK 'N' ROLL RADIO with Dana & Carl. When we have a Featured Performer, that performer is played at least once per set in that week's show, which generally means a minimum of eight or nine tracks in a three-hour show (and often more than that). Our first Featured Performer was The Kinks, who remain the only act to ever take over an entire episode of TIRnRR; in fact, we have now done TWO all-Kinks shows. This list will continue to expand as we program more Featured Performers on future shows.
TIRnRR FEATURED PERFORMERS
1.4.5.
Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass
The Animals
The Archies
Paul Armstrong
The Bandwagon/Johnny Johnson & the Bandwagon
The Bangles
Syd Barrett/Pink Floyd
Jim Basnight
The Bay City Rollers [2 times]
The Beach Boys
The Beatles [3 times]
Chuck Berry
The Bevis Frond
Big Star
Hal Blaine
Joe Bompczyk
David Bowie
The Buzzcocks
Glen Campbell
The Catholic Girls
Alex Chilton
The Dave Clark Five [3 times]
The Clash
Gene Clark/The Byrds
Cocktail Slippers
Paul Collins
Cotton Mather
The Cowsills
The Creation
Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich
Devo
The Dickies
Dog Party
Fats Domino
The Dukes of Stratosphear
The Easybeats
The English Beat
The Equals
The Everly Brothers
The Flamin' Groovies
The Flashcubes [8 times]
The Fleshtones
Gary Frenay
The Bobby Fuller Four
Game Theory
Go Home Productions
The Go-Go's
Lesley Gore
Rachael Gordon
The Grip Weeds [2 times]
George Harrison [3 times]
Herman's Hermits
John Hiatt
The Hollies
Buddy Holly
The Hoodoo Gurus
Parthenon Huxley/P. Hux
In Deed
The Isley Brothers
Joe Jackson [2 times]
The Jam
Jefferson Airplane [2 times]
The Jellybricks
Joan Jett
Davy Jones
Tommy Keene
The Kinks [3 times]
KISS [3 times]
The Knack [2 times]
The Knickerbockers
Arthur Lee/Love [2 times]
John Lennon [5 times]
Circe Link
Roy Loney & the Phantom Movers
Nick Lowe
Lyres
Mad Monster Party
The Marlowes
Adam Marsland/Cockeyed Ghost
Norm Mattice [1.4.5./The Richards/Dress Code]
Paul McCartney [4 times]
The Monkees [8 times]
Michael Nesmith
The Pandoras
The Partridge Family
The Pengwins
Pezband
Wilson Pickett
Gene Pitney
Pop Co-Op
The Poptarts
The Pretenders
Prince
Suzi Quatro
The Ramones
The Raspberries
Lou Reed/The Velvet Underground
Paul Revere & the Raiders
The Rolling Stones
The Romantics
The Rubinoos
The Runaways
Kelley Ryan/astroPuppees
Screen Test
The Searchers
Bob Seger
The Sex Pistols
Kim Shattuck
The Shocking Blue
Shoes
The Small Faces
The Smithereens [2 times]
Squeeze [2 times]
The Spinners
The Spongetones
Ringo Starr
Sweet
Johnny Thunders
Peter Tork
The Tragically Hip
The Trend
The Turtles
The Dwight Twilley Band
Vegas With Randolph
Chris von Sneidern
Mary Weiss/The Shangri-Las
Lou Whitney/The Skeletons/The Morells
The Who
John Wicks/The Records [2 times]
X-Ray Spex [2 times]
XTC
The Zombies [2 times]
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