BOPPIN' Takes Five (My Monthly Day Off)

One all-too-brief day each month, Boppin' (Like The Hip Folks Do) pauses its guano-crazy commitment to daily public posting, and preps a private post for just its cherished paid supporters. This month's private post is a Greatest Record Ever Made! celebration of "Take Five" by the Dave Brubeck Quartet. Over the course of decades as a freelancer, blogger, and pundit, this is the only thing I've ever written about jazz.

Wanna see it? You can join the lean ranks of my paid patrons for a mere $2 a month: Fund me, baby! This private post goes out to patrons on Saturday, October 1st. Regular public posting resumes here tomorrow.

10 SONGS: 9/29/2022

10 Songs is a weekly list of ten songs that happen to be on my mind at the moment. The lists are usually dominated by songs played on the previous Sunday night's edition of This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio with Dana & Carl. The idea was inspired by Don Valentine of the essential blog I Don't Hear A Single.

This week's edition of 10 Songs draws exclusively from the playlist for This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio # 1148.

LAURIE BIAGINI: Hey Mr. DJ

KID GULLIVER: Forget About Him

BALLZY TOMORROW: Out There

TALL POPPY SYNDROME: Come Some Christmas Eve (Or Halloween)

In just one week: IT'S OUT!! Our long-awaited new compilation CD This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio, Volume 5 is set for release on October 6th, courtesy of our friends at Kool Kat Musik. We've heard the master, we've seen the artwork and booklet design, and lemme tell ya, this is one hell of a great package. Is it our best yet? Y'know, earlier this year, I would have thought that unlikely. Man, I didn't think we would ever be able to match the sheer WHOMP!! of 2017's This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio, Volume 4, and I woulda been pleased if TIRnRR # 5 was at least worthy of being in Volume 4's sovereign airspace. But now? Now, I'm starting to believe that This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio, Volume 5 really is our finest hour and twenty minutes ever. You can order it RIGHT HERE BABY!, and I believe you will be happy to do so.

We included the federally-mandated maximum of four tracks from TIRnRR # 5 in this week's show, kicking off with my daughter Meghan introducing Laurie Biagini's thematically-appropriate "Hey Mr. DJ," and swooping back for equally-stellar Volume 5 treats from Kid Gulliver ("Forget About Him"), Ballzy Tomorrow ("Out There"), and Tall Poppy Syndrome ("Come Some Christmas Eve [Or Halloween]"). We'll have another four tracks from This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio, Volume 5 on next week's show.

IT'S OUT! And we are pretty damned proud of it.

THE SMITHEREENS: Face The World With Pride

"Face The World With Pride" comes to us from The Lost Album, a brand new archival release from the Smithereens. The legendary rockin' pop group recorded the tracks found on The Lost Album way back in 1993, and I don't think any of them has ever been heard much (if at all) by the public at large.

But our pal (and Radio Deer Camp host) Rich Firestone heard 'em years ago. Lucky guy! And our Reechie has long, long thought that the then-unreleased "Face The World With Pride" was a hit record waiting to happen. Now that the song has finally been released on The Lost Album, Rich is still determined that "Face The World With Pride" oughtta be a hit, the hit.

I have no idea what the focus track on The Lost Album is supposed to be. Rich's word is fine for us. "Face The World With Pride" is TIRnRR's Pick Hit from The Lost Album. It made its SPARK! debut on Radio Deer Camp this past Sunday, and returned to the SPARK! airwaves Sunday night on our little mutant radio show. We'll be playing it again on next week's TIRnRR. You can't have a hit record if you only play it once.

And "Face The World With Pride" sure does sound like a hit, a beguiling cross between "Last Train To Clarksville" and Elvis Costello and the Attractions' "You Belong To Me," with maybe a hint of the Records' "I Don't Remember Your Name" and a bunch of others playing indistinctly at the edge of our mental radio's infinite signal. Every power pop or rock 'n' roll radio show should be playing this one, again and again. With pride. Rich is right. This is a freakin' hit.

THE FLASHCUBES FEATURING THE PALEY BROTHERS: Come Out And Play

ALSO a hit record. Every radio show should have this in saturation airplay, too.

LIBRARIANS WITH HICKEYS: I Better Get Home

Aw man, this is good. When you're listening to new music from Librarians With Hickeys, a hearty exclamation of "Good!" is pretty much gonna be automatic. We played "Ghost Singer," the lead single from the group's new album Handclaps & Tambourines, on last week's show, and it is indeed good. But I'm really taken with this album track "I Better Get Home," and it gets TIRnRR airplay this week, and again on next week's show. It's the HEY! Ya can't go wrong with the HEY! 

(And, looking ahead to next week's playlist, I am reasonably certain this will be the first time "[redacted]!" by [redacted] has ever been segued into "I Better Get Home" by Librarians With Hickeys. It may seem unusual. But trust us: it's good.)

THE MONKEES: I'll Be Back Up On My Feet

In my mind--and only in my mind--"I'll Be Back Up On My Feet," a track from the Monkees' 1968 album The Birds, The Bees & The Monkees, has something in common with "When Love Comes Knockin' At Your Door," a track from the lads' 1966 LP More Of The Monkees. The similarity is purely a matter of circumstance: my first conscious exposure to each song came from less-than-pristine vinyl copies. My flea-market The Birds, The Bees & The Monkees skipped during "I'll Be Back Up On My Feet," and my older brother's hand-me-down More Of The Monkees skipped during "When Love Comes Knockin' At Your Door." Decades later, I still sometimes expect to hear those familiar little vinyl leaps when these songs play. It's a conditioned expectation, in spite of the fact that the condition changed so long ago.

T. REX: 20th Century Boy

The Greatest Record Ever Made!

THE RAMONES: I Love You

I first heard about the Ramones' intention to record a cover of the Heartbreakers' "I Love You" in 1994, when Joey Ramone himself told me about it. That may make me seem a little cooler than I really am--most people and things are, in fact, at least a little cooler than I really am--but it is nonetheless true. I had interviewed each of the Ramones within the previous week or so, and Joey called me because he'd thought of a few additional things he felt I should know. The Ramones' cover of this Johnny Thunders song was one of those additional things.

The Ramones cut "I Love You" for a Johnny Thunders tribute album called I Only Wrote This Song For You. The track also wound up on the Ramones' own farewell album ¡Adios Amigos! in '95, and it remains a kick to hear my favorite American band--the Ramones, the American Beatles, the greatest American rock 'n' roll band of all time--play my favorite Heartbreakers song. And it's still cool to recall that I heard about it first from Joey Ramone.

(Hello...Carl? It's Joey Ramone. Yeah, top THAT for an unexpected phone call.)

If you like what you see here on Boppin' (Like The Hip Folks Do), please consider supporting this blog by becoming a patron on Patreon, or by visiting CC's Tip Jar. Additional products and projects are listed here.

This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio with Dana & Carl airs Sunday nights from 9 to Midnight Eastern, on the air in Syracuse at SPARK! WSPJ 103.3 and 93.7 FM, and on the web at http://sparksyracuse.org/ You can read about our history here.

I'm on Twitter @CafarelliCarl

POP-A-LOOZA: THE GREATEST RECORD EVER MADE! T. Rex, "20th Century Boy"

 

Each week, the pop culture website Pop-A-Looza shares some posts from my vast 'n' captivating Boppin' (Like The Hip Folks Do) archives, Recognizing the truth that an infinite number of tracks can each be THE greatest record ever made (as long as they take turn), this latest shared post turns the GREM! spotlight on "20th Century Boy" by T. Rex.

This T. Rex piece was prepared for inclusion in my long-threatened book The Greatest Record Ever Made! (Volume 1), but is not a part of that book's current plan. The chapter mentions an oddball 2-LP various-artists collection called Heavy Metal, which I picked up in the '70s and wrote about here. 

My Heavy Metal album retrospective (which is also quoted in the T. Rex chapter) was originally posted as part of my Rescued From The Budget Bin! series. The only other Rescued From The Budget Bin! piece published so far waxed blubberific over The Very Best Of The Hollies. 

Rescued From The Budget Bin! is one of several blog series I put under the (slightly) wider category of My LP Appreciations. The My LP Appreciations umbrella encompasses used albums in Second-Hand Sound (the Monkees' Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones, Ltd. and Headquarters and The Birds, The Bees & The Monkees), greatest-hits sets in The Best Of Everything (Monkeemania--plainly, I like writing about the Monkees--and The Best Of The Bobby Fuller Four), perfect albums in Love At First Spin (Drop Out With The Barracudas, Mr. Tambourine Man, and Rocket To Russia), albums received as gifts in Groove Gratitude (Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, and The White Album), a missed opportunity in The One That Got Away! (the Dave Clark Five's Glad All Over Again), and a separate admission that Beatles VI and Beatles '65 are my all-time favorite albums.

Yeah, I like a lot of stuff, including T. Rex. A Greatest Record Ever Made! celebration of T. Rex's "20th Century Boy" is the latest Boppin' Pop-A-Looza.

If you like what you see here on Boppin' (Like The Hip Folks Do), please consider supporting this blog by becoming a patron on Patreon, or by visiting CC's Tip Jar. Additional products and projects are listed here.

This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio with Dana & Carl airs Sunday nights from 9 to Midnight Eastern, on the air in Syracuse at SPARK! WSPJ 103.3 and 93.7 FM, and on the web at http://sparksyracuse.org/ You can read about our history here.

I'm on Twitter @CafarelliCarl

BOPPIN' Hits Three-Quarters Of A Million Views

By the time we got to Tuesday, we were three-quarters of a million strong. Boppin' (Like The Hip Folks Do) is bigger than Woodstock.

Monday night, 8:03 Eastern time

I'm aware that passing the 750,000 click mark isn't all that much of a real-world accomplishment. Nor is it really a big cyber-world milestone, as so many bloggers and vloggers routinely hit that figure again and again. An influencer I ain't.  

But I'm still here. Every day. 2565 posts over the course of six years and ten months. My soapbox is modest, even if I'm not. But I'll keep jumping on this thing, and I'll keep hoping that people read what I write. 

My first book is coming out in the Spring. I look forward to telling you all about that (and I have two posts about it all ready to go as soon the publisher says it's okay for me to go public with details). There's a new This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio compilation CD due out by the end of next week, and I'll have a few things to say about that, too. 

I'll have a few things to say about a lot of things. Nearly seven years ago, the unexpected depth of emotion I felt when David Bowie died compelled me to start writing a daily blog on January 18th, 2016. That blog hasn't missed a day yet, and I aim to keep doing it for as long as I'm able. I thank you for being at least one in 750,000. And I hope you'll join me as the slog toward my first million views continues. If it's not much in the real world, that's still okay. Boppin' is its own reward.

If you like what you see here on Boppin' (Like The Hip Folks Do), please consider supporting this blog by becoming a patron on Patreon, or by visiting CC's Tip Jar. Additional products and projects are listed here.

This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio with Dana & Carl airs Sunday nights from 9 to Midnight Eastern, on the air in Syracuse at SPARK! WSPJ 103.3 and 93.7 FM, and on the web at http://sparksyracuse.org/ You can read about our history here.

I'm on Twitter @CafarelliCarl

This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio # 1148

Our new compilation CD This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio, Volume  5 is out October 6th from the good folks at Kool Kat Musik, and it's available to order right now. If you're a DJ, writer, blogger, vlogger, pundit, critic, active cheerleader, or anyone with a soapbox at your feet and a song in your heart, Dana and I are available to chat with you about our CD, our radio show, rockin' pop music in general, and any prerequisite what-have-yous. Contact us!

And if you're a rockin' pop fan, have we got a CD for you! Tracks by LAURIE BIAGINI, THE MAYFLOWERS, PERILOUS, POP CO-OP, MAURA AND THE BRIGHT LIGHTS, HOOVER AND MARTINEZ, CAROLYNE MAS, DEADLIGHTS, IRENE PEÑA, CHRIS VON SNEIDERN, ARIELLE EDEN, STEVENSON AND COMPANY, JUSTINE AND THE UNCLEAN, THE JANGLE BAND, KID GULLIVER, GARY FRENAY, KELLEY RYAN, TALL POPPY SYNDROME, IN DEED, BALLZY TOMORROW, THE VILLAS, AMY RIGBY, and EYTAN MIRSKY. We're biased, sure...but this is pretty good. It's VERY possible you're gonna like it.

We opened this week's show with three tracks (and two spoken bits) from This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio, Volume 5, and we played a fourth track at the start of our closing set. We're excited about this, and we hope you'll join us. And this is what rock 'n' roll radio sounded like on a Sunday night in Syracuse this week.

This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio with Dana & Carl airs Sunday nights from 9 to Midnight Eastern, on the air in Syracuse at SPARK! WSPJ 103.3 and 93.7 FM, on the web at http://sparksyracuse.org/, and via the TuneIn Radio and Radio Garden apps as Westcott Radio.

You can read all about this show's long and weird history here: Boppin' The Whole Friggin' Planet (The History Of THIS IS ROCK 'N' ROLL RADIO). 

TAX DEDUCTIBLE DONATIONS are always welcome.

The many fine This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio compilation albums are still available, each full of that rockin' pop sound you crave. A portion of all sales benefit our perpetually cash-strapped community radio project:

Volume 1: download
Volume 2: CD or download
Volume 3: download
Volume 4: CD or download
Waterloo Sunset--Benefit For This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio:  CD or download

And COMING SOON, in EARLY OCTOBER: This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio, Volume 5!

PS: SEND MONEY!!!! We need tech upgrades like Elvis needs boats. Spark Syracuse is supported by listeners like you. Tax-deductible donations are welcome at
http://sparksyracuse.org/support/

You can follow Carl's daily blog Boppin' (Like The Hip Folks Do) at 
https://carlcafarelli.blogspot.com/

TIRnRR # 1148: 9/25/2022

TIRnRR FRESH SPINS! Tracks we think we ain't played before are listed in bold

THE RAMONES: Do You Remember Rock 'n' Roll Radio? (Rhino, End Of The Century)

--

LAURIE BIAGINI: Hey Mr. DJ (Kool Kat Musik, VA: This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio, Volume 5)

KID GULLIVER: Forget About Him (Kool Kat Musik, VA: This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio, Volume 5)

BALLZY TOMORROW: Out There (Kool Kat Musik, VA: This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio, Volume 5)

GAME THEORY: Girl W/ A Guitar (Omnivore, Real Nighttime)

THE BLONDES: Suzi Quatro (JAM, VA: This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio, Volume 2)

THE BANGLES: Open My Eyes (Down Kiddie, Sweetheart Of The Sun)

--

THE SMITHEREENS: Face The World With Pride (Sunset Blvd, The Lost Album)

THE ROOKS: Girl Cried Nico (Not Lame, A Wishing Well)

THE VELVET UNDERGROUND: I'll Be Your Mirror (Polydor, Peel Slowly & See)

THE BLASTERS: Marie, Marie (Hightone, American Music)

THE FLASHCUBES FEATURING THE PALEY BROTHERS: Come Out And Play (Big Stir, single)

WILLIAM PEARS: Sound Advice (Permanent Press, William Pears)

--

CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL: Up Around The Bend (Fantasy, Cosmo's Fsctory)

THEE HEADCOATEES: First Plane Home (Damaged Goods, The Kids Are All Square--This Is Hip! + Girlsville)

JOHN FOGERTY: Rock And Roll Girls (DreamWorks, Centerfield)

OLD 97's: Turn Off The TV (ATO, Twelfth)

MR. ENCRYPTO: The Last Time (Death Barney, Hero And Villain)

TOM PETTY & THE HEARTBREAKERS: California (MCA, She's The One)

--

THE CLICK BEETLES: Natalie Would (Vandalay, Emerald Green)

BELLE & SEBASTIAN: Allie (Matador, Girls In Peacetime Want To Dance)

THE COASTERS: Yakety Yak (Warner Platinum, Yakety Yak)

WAS (NOT WAS): I Feel Better Than James Brown (Fontana, Hello Dad...I'm In Jail)

JAMES BROWN: Your Cheatin' Heart (Verve, Soul On Top)

KATE BUSH: Babooshka (EMI, Never For Ever)

--

LIBRARIANS WITH HICKEYS: I Better Get Home (Big Stir, Handclaps & Tambourines)

BEN VAUGHN: Hey Romeo (Enigma, Dressed In Black)

THE PRETTY THINGS: Midnight To Six Man (Fontana, Get A Buzz)

THE PRIMITIVES: I Wanna Be Your Dog (Castle, Buzz Buzz Buzz)

ROBIN LANE: Hard Life (Red On Red, Dirt Road To Heaven)

THE BLACK KEYS: Go (Easy Eye Sound, "Let's Rock")

--

LINNEA'S GARDEN: School (Red On Red, Fashion Show)

MARSHALL CRENSHAW: Something's Gonna Happen (Rhino, This Is Easy)

THE MONKEES: I'll Be Back Up On My Feet (Rhino, The Birds, The Bees & The Monkees)

THE BEE GEES: Idea (Polydor, Idea)

TAVARES: It Only Takes A Minute (Rhino, VA: Can You Dig It?)

LOS LOBOS: I Wanna Be Like You (The Monkey's Song) (Rhino, Just Another Band From East L.A.)

--

T. REX: 20th Century Boy (Hip-O, MARC BOLAN & T. REX: 20th Century Boy)

UTOPIA: Love In Action (Rhino, TODD RUNDGREN: The Very Best Of Todd Rundgren)

THE RAMONES: I Love You (Radioactive, ¡Adios Amigos!)

LAURA NYRO AND LABELLE: Monkey Time/Dancing In The Street (Columbia, Gonna Take A Miracle)

THE GUESS WHO: Rain Dance (RCA, Greatest Hits)

JOE COCKER: Something's Coming On (A & M, With A Little Help From My Friends)

--

DARIAN: Arizona (SpyderPop/Big Stir, VA: We All Shine On: Celebrating The Music Of 1970)

THE FLAMIN' GROOVIES: So Much In Love (Grown Up Wrong!, Between The Lines)

THE PRIZE: Don't Know You (Anti Fade, Wrong Side Of Town)

DAVID BOWIE: Fame (Virgin, Best Of Bowie)

ALLAN KAPLON: Every Single Day (n/a, Notes On A Napkin)

THE WHO: In The City (MCA, A Quick One)

ROB CLARKE & THE WOOLTONES: Brown Paper Bag (Wooltone, Rubber Chicken B-Sides)

THE MUFFS: Really Really Happy (Omnivore, Really Really Happy)

--

TALL POPPY SYNDROME: Come Some Christmas Eve (Or Halloween) (Kool Kat Musik, VA: This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio, Volume 5)

CAT STEVENS: If You Want To Sing Out, Sing Out (Island, Harold And Maude OST)

ARETHA FRANKLIN: Save Me (Atlantic, I Never Loved A Man The Way I Love You)

RICHARD THOMPSON: It Won't Be Long (Beeswing, 1000 Years Of Popular Music)

JOHN LARSON & THE SILVER FIELDS: Because Of A Girl (Shiny Fly, Mile A Minute)

THE BLASTERS: American Music (Hightone, American Music)

POP CO-OP: I Just Love To Watch Her Dance (Futureman, Suspension)

THE BEATLES: I'm Looking Through You [stereo mix] (Capitol, The Capitol Albums Vol. 2)

--

MAD MONSTER PARTY: Death Valley Days (n/a, Mad Monster Party)

QUINT: Ballad Of Sharknado Rhapsody (BMG, VA: Sharknado 5 OST)

THE MUFFS: That's For Me (Omnivore, No Holiday)

Tonight On THIS IS ROCK 'N' ROLL RADIO

Have we mentioned that we have a new CD compilation? Of COURSE we've mentioned it! These things don't just hype themselves, people. We'll open this week's radio bop-a-thon with three tracks from THIS IS ROCK 'N' ROLL RADIO, VOLUME 5, and we'll circle back for a fourth TIRnRR # 5 track by show's end. In between, we'll have new music from THE CLICK BEETLES, LIBRARIANS WITH HICKEYS, LINNEA'S GARDEN, ROB CLARKE AND THE WOOLTONES, and THE PRIZE, a fantastic new archival track from THE SMITHEREENS, another treat from the fabulous compilation WE ALL SHINE ON: CELEBRATING THE MUSIC OF 1970, and a bunch of cool stuff by THE COASTERS, THE BANGLES, LOS LOBOS, THE RAMONES, ROBIN LANE, OLD 97'S, GAME THEORY,TAVARES, THE MONKEES, JAMES BROWN, THE FLASHCUBES FEATURING THE PALEY BROTHERS, THE MUFFS, THE WHO, and more than even our own hype can convey. It starts with music from THIS IS ROCK 'N' ROLL RADIO, VOLUME 5. You should maybe oughtta tune in. Face front, True Believer. Our hype will never steer you wrong. Sunday night, 9 to Midnight Eastern, on the air in Syracuse at SPARK! WSPJ 103.3 and 93.7 FM, on the web at http://sparksyracuse.org/, and via the Radio Garden and TuneIn Radio apps as Westcott Radio. The weekend stops HERE!

POP-A-LOOZA: THE EVERLASTING FIRST! Hellcat, The Hollies, Holly & the Italians, and Hot Wheels

Each week, the pop culture website Pop-A-Looza shares some posts from my vast 'n' captivating Boppin' (Like The Hip Folks Do) archives. The latest shared post continues my never-ending story of The Everlasting First, recalling my first exposures to a comic book character, two rockin' pop groups, and a popular toy line: Hellcat, the Hollies, Holly and the Italians, and Hot Wheels.

Of the four, the Hollies have had the most enduring impact in my world. The Hollies' song "I Can't Let Go" earns a chapter in my long-threatened book The Greatest Record Ever Made! (Volume 1); I haven't shared that chapter on the blog, but I did make a video talking about it (as discussed here and seen here). Very early drafts of GREM! also included a piece about my first Hollies LP, The Very Best Of The Hollies, but that was removed from the book's blueprint quite some time ago.

I still love Holly and the Italians, of course. We just played Holly Beth Vincent's new single "Hey Boy" a couple of weeks back on This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio. And I also wrote this little bit about her 1982 collaboration with Joey Ramone, covering a Sonny and Cher classic: 

"Starting around 1980 or so, I began telling everyone within earshot that the Ramones should cover the Sonny and Cher staple 'I Got You Babe,' and rope in Blondie babe Debbie Harry to serve as Joey Ramone's duet partner. It seemed a natural prospect to me, especially given that guitarist Johnny Ramone had already played a similar folk-rock riff on the Ramones' cover of the Searchers' 'Needles And Pins.' I was a visionary! Sort of. This 1982 single credited to the one-off Holly & Joey was the closest manifestation of that vision, with Holly Beth Vincent playing the Cher to Joey's Sonny, backed by Holly's own group Holly and the Italians. A friend of mine was amazed and enthused that I'd predicted it as closely as I had, even though it really wasn't all that close at all. When I interviewed Joey for Goldmine in 1994, he told me he really wanted to work with Holly again. When I was briefly in touch with Holly Beth Vincent a few years back, I shared with her what Joey had said, and she immediately broke off all contact with me. Oops? Maybe I'm not quite the visionary I fancied myself to be."

As much as I adored my Hot Wheels cars when I was kid, nowadays I find I don't play with them anywhere near as much as I used to. Pfft. This maturity thing is way overrated. Even in my dotage, though, I would jump at a chance to buy a trade collection of the Hot Wheels comics produced by DC in the late '60s and early '70s. These were solid comics, with some stunning artwork by Alex Toth (and a little by Neal Adams), and they would be well worth preserving.

It would be beyond the scope of this blog to reproduce those Hot Wheels comics here, but I did include representative pages from all six issues in my 100-Page FAKES! blog series, which imagined a bunch of 1970s DC Comics 100-Page Super Spectaculars that never were. The Hot Wheels material was spread out to appear in my 100-Page FAKES! editions of Detective Comics # 449, Detective Comics # 451, Adventure Comics # 444, Detective Comics # 452, Adventure Comics # 445, Detective Comics # 453, Adventure Comics # 446, Detective Comics # 454, Adventure Comics # 447, Detective Comics # 455, and Detective Comics # 456. This places the heroes of Hot Wheels alongside Batman, Aquaman, and other DC characters. Rightly so!

Finally, I don't really have anything at all to say about Hellcat, but I'll repeat that I liked her as written by Steve Englehart in The Avengers. Nonetheless, Hellcat, the Hollies, Holly and the Italians, and Hot Wheels are all on equal footing in The Everlasting First. Those introductions serve as the latest Boppin' Pop-A-Looza.

If you like what you see here on Boppin' (Like The Hip Folks Do), please consider supporting this blog by becoming a patron on Patreon, or by visiting CC's Tip Jar. Additional products and projects are listed here.

This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio with Dana & Carl airs Sunday nights from 9 to Midnight Eastern, on the air in Syracuse at SPARK! WSPJ 103.3 and 93.7 FM, and on the web at http://sparksyracuse.org/ You can read about our history here.

I'm on Twitter @CafarelliCarl

Now Available For Preorder: THIS IS ROCK 'N' ROLL RADIO, VOL. 5

 

Our new compilation CD This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio, Volume 5 is now available for preorder from the good folks at Kool Kat Musik. It's due for release on October 6th, and we humbly suggest that you GET IT!!!!

Liner notes here.

Individual track credits here.

And the track listing is HERE! Right below:

THIS IS ROCK 'N' ROLL RADIO, VOLUME 5

1. MEGHAN JEAN CAFARELLI: Still At It

2. LAURIE BIAGINI: Hey Mr. DJ

3. THE MAYFLOWERS: Sunflower Girl

4. PERILOUS: Rock & Roll Kiss

5. POP CO-OP: Extra Beat In My Heart

6. MAURA AND THE BRIGHT LIGHTS: Perfect Girl

7. HOOVER AND MARTINEZ: What The Heart Wants

8. CAROLYNE MAS: In The Rain

9. JEFF SHELTON: See On The Radio! [TIRnRR ID]

10. DEADLIGHTS: Pretend To Pretend

11. IRENE PEÑA: In This Room

12. CHRIS VON SNEIDERN: Goodnight Sailor

13. ARIELLE EDEN: Sagittarius

14. STEVENSON AND COMPANY: Talking Down To Me

15. JUSTINE AND THE UNCLEAN: Vengeance

16. THE JANGLE BAND: So Long

17. KID GULLIVER: Forget About Him

18. GARY FRENAY: Just Like Me

19. KELLEY RYAN: The Church Of Laundry

20. VINCE MELOUNEY: A Bee Gee's Benediction [TIRnRR ID]

21. TALL POPPY SYNDROME: Come Some Christmas Eve (Or Halloween)

22. IN DEED: Peace & Quiet

23. BALLZY TOMORROW: Out There

24. THE VILLAS: Someone To Hold On To

25. RICH FIRESTONE: Seltaeb's Revenge [TIRnRR ID]

26. AMY RIGBY: Tom Petty Karaoke

27. EYTAN MIRSKY: This Year's Gonna Be Our Year

This compilation © 2022 Dana Bonn and Carl Cafarelli

Individual tracks © the respective owners

Produced by Dana Bonn and Carl Cafarelli

Mastered by Kurt Reil at House Of Vibes, Highland Park, New Jersey houseofvibes.com

A KOOL KAT MUSIK RELEASE, and proud of it!

This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio with Dana & Carl airs Sunday nights from 9 to Midnight Eastern, on the air in Syracuse at SPARK! WSPJ 103.3 and 93.7 FM, on the web at http://sparksyracuse.org/, and on the TuneIn Radio and Radio Garden apps as Westcott Radio.

And once again, we humbly advise you to (you guessed it!)...

...GET IT!

If you like what you see here on Boppin' (Like The Hip Folks Do), please consider supporting this blog by becoming a patron on Patreon, or by visiting CC's Tip Jar. Additional products and projects are listed here.