NOTE: Tech issues with our server prevented this week's show from streaming in its usual time slot. It will air this Friday, May 10, from 9 to Midnight Eastern at SPARK, and it's available right now as a podcast.
As we've said a time or two million, we play the hits, at least the hits as we imagine them to be. That means no TIRnRR playlist is ever made up solely of tracks that are new to the show. We play favorites. Why even have a radio show if ya can't play favorites? We introduce fresh tracks to build future favorites, hits-in-progress. But we're always going to repeat some things from previous shows. That's intentional.
This week's show has an unusually high percentage of selections--HALF!--that have never graced any previous episode of our little mutant Best Three Hours yadda yadda Friggin' Planet. I love the way the relative newbies (both the recently-released hopefuls and the archival treats we just never got around to programming before) blend with classics, recent TIRnRR hits, and everything in between.
When I was a teen in the '70s, my beloved AM Top 40 radio wasn't afraid to introduce me to "Johnny B. Goode," an all-time YEAH!! that Chuck Berry brought into the world before my parents brought me into the world. WOLF-AM wasn't afraid to play the Beatles. We say again: Great records don't care what year it is.
That works in reverse as well. I don't want to do an oldies show. I want new AND I want old, all of it, all the gold that glitters for me in the here and now, regardless of its chronology.
Here are some hits. Some you know, some you don't know, some you might remember, and a whole bunch we think you'll dig. Pop music is eternal.
It never gets old.
This is what rock 'n' roll radio sounded like on another 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, streaming at SPARK stream, and on the Radio Garden app as WESTCOTT RADIO. Recent shows are archived at 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).
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