This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio # 1143: The 11th Annual DANA'S FUNKY SOUL PIT

This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio has three annual events. Two of them started at the end of our first year as TIRnRR, when December of 1999 brought our first annual Christmas show and our first annual countdown show. Our listeners look forward to both of those events. Likewise, they surely do look forward to our blowout once-every-summer event: Dana's Funky Soul Pit. 

This year brings The 11th Annual Dana's Funky Soul Pit, and it continues to get on the good foot with sweat, swagger, and style. Scanning the playlist below, you'll find evidence of a specific Fab focus for 2022's event. And you know that can't be bad.

Dana's been putting these annual extravaganzas together since 2012. And each and every year, Dana's Funky Soul Pit remains one of our most eagerly-anticipated features. Dana never disappoints. Get set to sweat. This is what rock 'n' roll radio sounded like in Dana's Funky Soul Pit on a Sunday night in Syracuse this week.

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TIRnRR # 1143: The 11th Annual DANA'S FUNKY SOUL PIT 8/21/2022

STEVE STOECKEL, JOEL TINNEL, ALEX TINNEL & BRUCE GORDON: Dana's Funky Soul Pit (unreleased)

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AL GREEN: I Want To Hold Your Hand (The Right Stuff, Green Is Blues)

ARETHA FRANKLIN: Eleanor Rigby (Atlantic, The Atlantic Singles Collection 1967-1970)

BILLY PRESTON: Blackbird (A & M, Music Is My Life)

CHUBBY CHECKER: Back In The USSR (Ace, VA: Come Together--Black America Sings Lennon & McCartney)

DAVID PORTER: Help! (Stax, Victim Of The Joke?)

FATS DOMINO: Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey (Ace, VA: Come Together--Black America Sings Lennon & McCartney)

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BILLY PRESTON: Eight Days A Week (Hallmark, Soul Meetin')

BLACK HEAT: Drive My Car (Atlantic, Keep On Runnin')

THE SUPREMES: You Can't Do That (Motown, A Bit Of Liverpool)

GARY U.S. BONDS: It's Only Love (Razor & Tie, Dedication)

GLADYS KNIGHT & THE PIPS: Let It Be (Motown, If I Were Your Woman)

IKE & TINA TURNER: She Came In Through The Bathroom Window (United Artists, Feel Good)

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LITTLE RICHARD: I Saw Her Standing There (Warner Brothers, VA: Glass Onion)

LOWELL FULSON: Why Don't We Do It In The Road? (Def Jam, VA: American Gangster OST)

MARILYN McCOO & BILLY DAVIS JR.: Ticket To Ride (BMG, Blackbird: Lennon-McCartney Icons)

MARTHA REEVES & THE VANDELLAS: Something (Gordy, Natural Resources)

THE MOMENTS: Rocky Racoon (Stang, A Moment With The Moments)

NINA SIMONE: Revolution, Pt. 1 (MOJO, VA: Beatlemania, Vol. 2)

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MARY WELLS: Please Please Me (Oldays, Love Songs To The Beatles)

OTIS REDDING: Day Tripper [alternate take] (Stax, VA: Stax Does The Beatles)

R. B. GREAVES: Paperback Writer (Atco, single)

RICHIE HAVENS: Here Comes The Sun (Stormy Forest, Alarm Clock)

ROY REDMOND: Good Day Sunshine (Warner Brothers, VA: Glass Onion)

SCREAMIN' JAY HAWKINS: A Hard Day's Night (Ace, VA: Let It Be: Black America Sings Lennon, McCartney and Harrison)

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STEVIE WONDER: We Can Work It Out (Motown, Greatest Hits, Vol. 2)

THE SUPREMES: A World Without Love (Motown, A Bit Of Liverpool)

THE UNDISPUTED TRUTH: With A Little Help From My Friends (Gordy, Law Of The Land)

THE VIBRATIONS: And I Love Her (Phantom Sound & Vision, New Vibrations)

WILSON PICKETT: Hey Jude (Rhino, A Man And A Half)

WEE WILLIE WALKER: Ticket To Ride (Zoom, VA: The Goldwax Story Volume 3)

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ARTHUR CONLEY: Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da (Risky Business, VA: Rubber Souled)

BILL WITHERS: Let It Be (Ace, VA: Let It Be: Black America Sings Lennon, McCartney and Harrison)

THE BAR-KAYS: Hey Jude (MOJO, VA: Beatlemania, Vol. 1)

BOOKER T & THE MG'S: You Can't Do That (MOJO, VA: Beatlemania, Vol. 1)

THE CHAIRMEN OF THE BOARD: Come Together (Demon, Chairmen Of The Board)

DONALD HEIGHT: Don't Let Me Down (Sequel, VA: Got A Good Thing Going)

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EARTH, WIND & FIRE: Got To Get You Into My Life (Epic, The Eternal Dance)

EDWIN STARR: My Sweet Lord (Motown, VA: Motown Meets The Beatles)

GENE CHANDLER: Eleanor Rigby (Westside, The Brunswick Years 1966-1969)

LINDA JONES: Yesterday (Ace, VA: Let It Be: Black America Sings Lennon, McCartney and Harrison)

THE MAIN INGREDIENT: Get Back (Real Gone Music, L.T.D./Black Seeds)

NINA SIMONE: Here Comes The Sun (RCA, Here Comes The Sun)

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ELLA FITZGERALD: Savoy Truffle (Ace, VA: Let It Be: Black America Sings Lennon, McCartney and Harrison)

DIONNE WARWICK: We Can Work It Out (Rhino, VA: Day Trippers)

LITTLE JUNIOR PARKER: Lady Madonna (Ace, VA: Come Together--Black America Sings Lennon & McCartney)

NEW BIRTH: The Long And Winding Road (Ace, VA: Come Together--Black America Sings Lennon & McCartney)

SYREETA: She's Leaving Home (Motown, VA: Motown Meets The Beatles)

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LITTLE RICHARD: Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey (Goin' Back To Birmingham) (Specialty, The Georgia Peach)

LARRY WILLIAMS: Bad Boy (MOJO, VA: Songs The Beatles Taught Us)

CHUCK BERRY: Rock And Roll Music (MCA, The Anthology)

THE SHIRELLES: Boys (Varese Sarabande, 25 All-Time Greatest Hits)

THE MARVELETTES: Please Mr.Postman (Motown, The Definitive Collection)

RICHIE BARRETT: Some Other Guy (MOJO, VA: Songs The Beatles Taught Us)

ARTHUR ALEXANDER: A Shot Of Rhythm And Blues (Razor & Tie, Ultimate)

THE COASTERS: Searchin' (Rhino, Yakety Yak)

THE COOKIES: Chains (Sequel, The Complete Cookies)

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THE ISLEY BROTHERS: Shout (Part One) (MOJO, VA: Songs The Beatles Taught Us)