Last week, I mentioned that America broke my heart a year ago, in November of 2024. It's purely a coincidence that this week's show opens with a song called "Hard To Get Over A Heartbreak," a Raspberries cover executed with absolute aplomb by the mighty P. Hux, and found on the superb various-artists set Play On: A Raspberries Tribute. The serendipity of kicking this program off with a song that seems to be a direct reference to what I wrote in last week's playlist commentary would be clever...if it had occurred to me when we did it. Honestly, I didn't even notice it until just now, days after the fact.
The sentiment does apply, though: It IS hard to get over a heartbreak. But I tell ya, it may feel a little bit easier now than it did just one week ago. Thanks, America.
So let's mend those busted hearts with a little rockin' pop music. 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.
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TIRnRR # 1310: 11/9/2025
TIRnRR FRESH SPINS! Tracks we think we ain't played before are listed in bold
THE MEANTIME: Two For One (Sound Asleep, VA: Home Runs: Songs That'll Take You All The Way, Vol. II)
THE RAMONES: Surf City (Radioactive, Acid Eaters)
THE ATLANTICS: Teenage Flu (Something Hot Communications, Power Pop)
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JIM BASNIGHT: Get It Out (single)
THE SELECTER: Three Minute Hero (EMI, Greatest Hits)
MAGAZINE: Shot By Both Sides [single version] (Demon, VA: 100 Hits: Punk & New Wave)
TOM PETTY AND THE HEARTBREAKERS: Surrender (MCA, An American Treasure)
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THE HALF/CUBES FEATURING PETER NOONE: I'll Be Taking Her Out Tonight (Jem, Found Pearls) COLOR ME GONE: Lose Control (A & M, Color Me Gone)
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THE EVERLY BROTHERS: Gone, Gone, Gone (Warner Brothers, Walk Right Back: The Everly Brothers On Warner Bros.1960-1969)
MARVIN GAYE: Hitch Hike (Motown, That Stubborn Kinda' Fellow)
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THE ISLEY BROTHERS: Summer Breeze (Epic, The Essential Isley Brothers)
BLONDIE: Pretty Baby (Chrysalis, Parallel Lines)
BLUE ANGEL: Can't Blame Me (Music On CD, Blue Angel)
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BUSH TETRAS: Too Many Creeps (What Cat, Rhythm And Paranoia: The Best Of Bush Tetras)
THE BUZZCOCKS: I Don't Mind (IRS, Singles Going Steady)
THE SILKIE: You've Got To Hide Your Love Away (Rhino, VA: The British Invasion: The History Of British Rock Vol. 6)
BLACK HEAT: Drive My Car (Atlantic, Keep On Runnin')
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The Greatest Record Ever Made!
THE GO-GO'S: Surfing And Spying (IRS, Return To The Valley Of The Go-Go's)
HOLLY GOLIGHTLY: Time Will Tell (Damaged Goods, Truly She Is None Other)
P. P. ARNOLD: The First Cut Is The Deepest (Sequel, The First Cut)
CARLENE CARTER: Love Is A 4-Letter Verb (Demon, Musical Shapes/Blue Nun)
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THE UNDERTONES: (She's A) Runaround (Rykodisc, The Undertones)
BUDDY HOLLY: Rave On (MCA, The Buddy Holly Collection)
THE KINKS: Juke Box Music (Arista, Come Dancing With The Kinks)
THE GANTS: I Want Your Lovin' (Sundazed, Road Runner!)
THE BIG THREE: Some Other Guy (Rhino, VA: The British Invasion: The History Of British Rock, Vol. 5)
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THE LEN PRICE 3: Gypsy Magick (Wicked Cool, Misty Medway Magick)
MARY LOU LORD: Right On 'Till Dawn (Kill Rock Stars, Speeding Motorcycle)
THE HIGH FREQUENCIES: Nothing Really Stays The Same (Jem, Get High) PEARL HARBOR AND THE EXPLOSIONS: You Got It (Release It) (Blixa Sounds, Pearl Harbor & The Explosions)
JOHNNY JOHNSON AND THE BANDWAGON: Let's Hang On (Kent Soul, Breakin' Down The Walls Of Heartache)
THE PRETENDERS: Kid (Sire, The Singles)
ELVIS PRESLEY: Heartbreak Hotel (RCA, The Top Ten Hits)
PAUL McCARTNEY AND WINGS: No Words (Capitol, Band On The Run)
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FATS DOMINO: I'm Ready (Rhino, VA: Loud, Fast & Out Of Control: The Wild Sounds Of 50's Rock)
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