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All images copyright the respective owners TIP JAR at https://www.paypal.me/CarlCafarelliCarl Cafarellihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11773218537376251052noreply@blogger.comBlogger3107125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3309889436583537455.post-60215331746730942942024-03-18T00:00:00.021-04:002024-03-18T00:00:00.140-04:00This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio # 1225<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDqes80g5spk0S5SmnPbQhS5DdgeINCUtyE0iMEZuwoAwxF9xBulcMpEK0CU4yKKG2IzugjROCCq2n5-ehHOfz2QeBtFVDbSKijDKOoGAldENTHx3z3yyXo1p5BHXlpR9NgSbgPBVG8GtOkzhppB_kOK5E-_P9q_a_BWmQ7p5aNGAlMiJz0lChsUfFXg9i/s599/R-16352982-1607235263-9198.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="595" data-original-width="599" height="636" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDqes80g5spk0S5SmnPbQhS5DdgeINCUtyE0iMEZuwoAwxF9xBulcMpEK0CU4yKKG2IzugjROCCq2n5-ehHOfz2QeBtFVDbSKijDKOoGAldENTHx3z3yyXo1p5BHXlpR9NgSbgPBVG8GtOkzhppB_kOK5E-_P9q_a_BWmQ7p5aNGAlMiJz0lChsUfFXg9i/w640-h636/R-16352982-1607235263-9198.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">In late 1972, I was twelve years old, scheduled to turn thirteen shortly after the calendar year expired and 1973 took its place in January. I was in eighth grade, and I had a best friend:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">My radio.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Was the radio my only friend? Sometimes I thought so. It was a cherished friend for sure, a warm companion that introduced me to cherished mutual friends, from Smokey Robinson and the Miracles to Badfinger. A DJ on Syracuse's WOLF-AM got my undivided attention when he cued up a Badfinger track and said: <i>These guys sound like the Beatles!</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">In November of '72, he used the exact same description to hook me, teenage heart and bruised but immortal soul, on another group: <b>The Raspberries</b>. The record was "I Wanna Be With You."</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The percussive intro rolled with DEFCON 1 precision. The guitars rang and churned, layered and booming in a way some benevolent God must have genetically engineered specifically for AM radio. Bass and drum propelled, and vocals kicked in, innocent and lustful in not-quite 50-50 measure, longing for love everlasting and a jump in the sack right the fuck now. <i>If we were older, we wouldn't have to be worried tonight</i>. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Love. Desire. Harmony. Oomph. Power pop. <i>Tonight. </i>I would be a fan for all of my life.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">"I Wanna Be With You" was the group's second smash single; the equally direct, equally irresistible, equally horny "Go All The Way" had hit the airwaves the preceding summer. I missed it at the time, but WOLF started playing it again in the wake of "I Wanna Be With You." A bit later, as the summer of '73 crashed into the September disaster known as high school, WOLF delivered one more urgent Raspberries plea for passion, "Tonight." </span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">"Tonight" was the last Raspberries record I remember hearing on the radio. They had a national hit with "Overnight Sensation (Hit Record)" in 1974, and if it got airplay in Syracuse (as it must have) it escaped my notice. The group disbanded. Eric Carmen began a solo career. As his hits "All By Myself" and "Never Gonna Fall In Love Again" played on WOLF, I listened, knowing it was the guy from the Raspberries.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I received <i style="font-weight: bold;">Raspberries' Best</i> as a Christmas gift. I purchased "I'm A Rocker" as an overstock closeout 45. I obsessed over these records.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">1977. Punk came. My embrace of punk still left me plenty of room to continue my Raspberries devotion. In 1978, I saw a new band of Raspberries fans, a band that called themselves the Flashcubes. Hell, the 'Cubes even covered "Tonight" and "I Wanna Be With You" in their live sets. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">And that "power pop" thing I mentioned above? I learned its truth at 18. The Flashcubes. <i style="font-weight: bold;">Bomp!</i> magazine. RASPBERRIES!! Pop with power. Sign me up, man.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The impact of radio--this twelve-year-old's best friend ever--cannot be overstated. The same can be said for the Raspberries, this group whom a DJ told me--like Badfinger before them--sounded like the Beatles; a group that embodied a sound that would dominate my life, a sound I couldn't have defined in eighth grade, but which--as I got older--proved I didn't have to be worried tonight.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>Someday’s</i> a long time. As we bid farewell to Eric Carmen, we comfort ourselves in the inspiration of that sound, the evergreen exuberance of those songs, that ongoing certainty that <i>tonight</i> can herald tomorrow.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Tonight's <i>the </i>night. It goes all the way, and it's where I wanna be. Tonight. Thank you, Eric.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">This is what rock 'n' roll radio sounded like on another Sunday night in Syracuse this week.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">This show is available as <a href="https://westcottradio.org/archive/rock_n_roll_radio_2024-03-17.mp3">a podcast</a></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">.</span></p><p><i style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio with Dana & Carl</b></i><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i> </i>airs Sunday nights from 9 to Midnight Eastrn, on the air in Syracuse at </span><b style="font-family: helvetica;">SPARK! WSPJ 103.3 and 93.7 FM</b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">, streaming at <b><a href="https://ec3.yesstreaming.net:4280/api/links/?t=web&l=ne&c=1&fbclid=IwAR2sdklgIfqVCG1_E3I-bkPwbCFqbnFPJbQ95V4bveYs1g5o4jHEQjZNVx0">SPARK stream</a></b>, and on the <b>Radio Garden</b> app as <b>WESTCOTT RADIO</b>. Recent shows are archived at <b><a href="http://westcottradio.org/">Westcott Radio</a></b></span></p><div><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span>You can read all about this show's long and weird history here: </span><b><i><a href="https://carlcafarelli.blogspot.com/2019/11/boppin-whole-friggin-planet-history-of_10.html">Boppin' The Whole Friggin' Planet (The History Of THIS IS ROCK 'N' ROLL RADIO)</a></i></b><span>. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: "helvetica";">TAX DEDUCTIBLE DONATIONS are </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://sparksyracuse.org/2017/10/24/support-our-sponsors/">always welcome</a></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica";">.</span></p><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span>The many fine <i style="font-weight: bold;">This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio </i>compilation albums are still available, each full of that rockin' pop sound you crave. 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You Pretty Things: Glam Queens And Street Urchins 1970-76</a>)</span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">RINGO STARR AND HIS ALL-STAR BAND: Hungry Eyes (Koch, The Anthology...So Far)</span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">THE BEAT: There She Goes (Wagon Wheel, The Beat)</span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">PAUL COLLINS: I'm The Only One For You (<a href="https://jemrecordings.com/services//paul-collins-150417705">Jem, Stand Back And Take A Good Look</a>)</span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;"><b>ROBIN LANE AND THE CHARTBUSTERS: I Found Out [1979 demo] (Blixa Sounds, Many Years Ago: The Complete Robin Lane & The Chartbusters)</b></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">--</span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;"><b>BRENT SEAVERS: The Universe And I (<a href="https://shop.koolkatmusik.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=KKM&Product_Code=Brent_Seavers_1&Category_Code=">Kool Kat Musik, Exhibit B</a>)</b></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">STONEY AND MEATLOAF: The Way You Do The Things You Do [mono single version] (</span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">THE ELECTROMAGNATES: Airwave Hello (<a href="https://bigstirrecords.bandcamp.com/album/airwave-hello">Big Stir, single</a>)</span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">THE ASSOCIATION: Windy (Rhino, Just The Right Sound)</span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;"><b>ERIC CARMEN: I Could Really Love You [2018] (<a href="https://www.ericcarmen.com/music-topdownsummer.html">n/a, single</a>)</b></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">SIMON AND GARFUNKEL: Cecilia (Columbia, Old Friends)</span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">--</span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;"><b>LIEDER: Answer My Call (<a href="https://lieder1.bandcamp.com/track/answer-my-call">single</a>)</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>THYME: I Found You (<a href="https://www.acerecords.co.uk/a-square-of-course">Big Beat, VA: A-Square [Of Course]</a>)</b></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">RASPBERRRIES: I'm A Rocker (Capitol, single)</span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">BEN VAUGHN: Sundown Sundown (Bar/None, Mono USA)</span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">THE CYNZ: Crow Haired Boys (<a href="https://jemrecordings.com/">Jem, Little Miss Lost</a>)</span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;"><b>BILLY BURNETTE: Tear It Up (Columbia, Billy Burnette)</b></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">--</span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;"><b>SHUFFLEPUCK: Where The Hell Is She (<a href="https://bigstirrecords.bandcamp.com/album/where-the-hell-is-she">Big Stir, single</a>)</b></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">GAME THEORY: Here It Is Tomorrow (<a href="https://omnivorerecordings.com/shop/the-big-shot-chronicles/">Omnivore, The Big Shot Chronicles</a>)</span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">THE KINKS: I Took My Baby Home (Sanctuary, The Anthology 1964-1971)</span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">THE DAMNED: Smash It Up (Part 2) (Sanctuary, Smash It Up: The Anthology 1976-1987)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>ERIC CARMEN: That's Rock N' Roll (Arista, The Essential Eric Carmen)</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE PRETENDERS: Talk Of The Town (Sire, The Singles)</span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">--</span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;"><b><i>The Greatest Record Ever Made!</i></b></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">RASPBERRIES: Overnight Sensation (Hit Record) (RPM, Power Pop Volume Two)</span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">THE RUTLES: Doubleback Alley (Rhino, The Rutles)</span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;"><b>KEN SHARP: Count On Me (<a href="https://kensharp.bandcamp.com/album/miniatures">n/a, Miniatures</a>)</b></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">KLARK KENT: Don't Care (BMG, Klark Kent)</span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">THE FLASHCUBES: Don't Want To Say Goodbye (Northside, Flashcubes Forever)</span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">PHIL SEYMOUR: Precious To Me (The Right Stuff, Precious To Me)</span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">--</span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;"><b>CYRUS ERIE: Get The Message (Arista, ERIC CARMEN: The Essential Eric Carmen)</b></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;"><b>THE MUFFS: Honeymoon (<a href="https://omnivorerecordings.com/shop/happy-birthday-to-me/">Omnivore, Happy Birthday To Me</a>)</b></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">SHAUN CASSIDY: Hey Deanie (Curb, Greatest Hits)</span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">THE PRIMITIVES: Out Of Reach (RCA, Bombshell)</span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">BILL LLOYD: Goin' Nowhere Tonight (n/a, All In One Place)</span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">WEDNESDAY WEEK: I Hate Lying To Mom (Enigma, What We Had)</span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">--</span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">ERIC CARMEN: Top Down Summer [2018] (<a href="https://www.ericcarmen.com/music-topdownsummer.html">n/a, single</a>)</span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">ROBERT GORDON AND CHRIS SPEDDING Motor Biking (<a href="https://robertgordonchrisspedding.bandcamp.com/album/tear-up-the-house">Sunset Blvd, Tear Up The House</a>)</span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">THE RUBINOOS: Cruisin' Music (Ginger, VA: Raspberries Preserved)</span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">SPARKLE*JETS UK: He's Coming Out (<a href="https://bigstirrecords.com/sparkle-jets-u-k">Big Stir, Best Of Friends</a>)</span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">OFF BROADWAY: Tonight (Ginger, VA: Raspberries Preserved)</span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">KICKSTAND USA: Haircut Girl (Crab Apple, VA: I </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 14.85px;">🖤</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 14.85px;">sparkle*jets u.k.)</span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">RASPBERRIES: Go All The Way (RPM, Power Pop Volume One)</span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">PAUL McCARTNEY AND WINGS: No Words (Capitol, Band On The Run)</span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">--</span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">ERIC CARMEN [WITH TOMMY ALLEN]: Never Say Die (single)</span></div>Carl Cafarellihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11773218537376251052noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3309889436583537455.post-4251034894583043602024-03-17T00:30:00.003-04:002024-03-17T00:30:00.128-04:00Tonight On THIS IS ROCK 'N' ROLL RADIO<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTez-FWvY0GKvjGRW5RBpope1eIW17QZAoxfmDErhyphenhyphenzmqYxQLQbrXqJ8Gxj8erqB9WxqFw5V_q88Y3bQDfk-wLevwBMq67CqtAdi_B8BiRXmIk30MbpU0ZuP_sOJVU6WNqOmZcUpa8bxOWFOCWw_RgpGOmAkvWrrTES_w1P8EUbOFirJnR8AU9A5V8DYIs/s600/12xp-carmen-articleLarge.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="600" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTez-FWvY0GKvjGRW5RBpope1eIW17QZAoxfmDErhyphenhyphenzmqYxQLQbrXqJ8Gxj8erqB9WxqFw5V_q88Y3bQDfk-wLevwBMq67CqtAdi_B8BiRXmIk30MbpU0ZuP_sOJVU6WNqOmZcUpa8bxOWFOCWw_RgpGOmAkvWrrTES_w1P8EUbOFirJnR8AU9A5V8DYIs/w640-h426/12xp-carmen-articleLarge.webp" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">We remember <b>ERIC CARMEN</b>. We'll also hear new treats from <b>THE SHANG HI LOS, THE HALF CUBES, BRENT SEAVERS, LIEDER, </b>and <b>SHUFFLEPUCK, </b>goin' all the way alongside <b>BRINSLEY SCHWARZ, </b><b>THE FLASHCUBES, WONDERBOY, CARLENE CARTER, ELENA ROGERS, THIN LIZZY, PAUL COLLINS, THE ELECTROMAGNATES, BEN VAUGHN, THE CYNZ, GAME THEORY, THE KINKS, THE PRETENDERS, THE RUTLES, THE MUFFS, KEN SHARP</b>, and more. And we'll hear Eric Carmen, both solo and fronting the legendary <b>RASPBERRIES</b>. We wanna be with you: </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Sunday night, 9 to Midnight Eastern, </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">on the air in Syracuse at <b>SPARK! WSPJ 103.3 and 93.7 FM</b>, on the web at <a href="https://sparksyracuse.org">https://sparksyracuse.org</a>/, </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">streaming on the <b>Radio Garden</b> app as <b>WESTCOTT RADIO. </b></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The weekend stops HERE!</span></p>Carl Cafarellihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11773218537376251052noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3309889436583537455.post-82893012190265438122024-03-16T00:30:00.001-04:002024-03-16T00:30:00.138-04:0010 SONGS: 3/16/2024<p> <i><span><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">10 Songs </span></b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">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 </span><b style="font-family: helvetica;">This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio with Dana & Carl</b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">. The idea was inspired by </span><b style="font-family: helvetica;">Don Valentine</b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> of the essential blog </span><a href="https://hearasingle.blogspot.com/" style="font-family: helvetica; font-weight: bold;">I Don't Hear A Single</a><span style="font-family: helvetica;">.</span></span></i></p><p><i><span></span></i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhE-Tf1Dk2evoXSjJxnLGVksCS1XnsKFzh78s39GopHoG6LQX-Xsmr9k_ec_VUJ7MV8i-ggFxfyr1uBhKODQ6kA1XDXAK1ePl5ZdncBPDJtEkiRtnss6d0ltOeORocIRlo5pUtAETlk_Dc1HIdjic67DGMD-RFwFlU4lTVgPvUn6BiSifq6wBUtUo8HH3lo/s640/788ea5_27fa0660611e461f961ea510ee772b93~mv2%20(1).webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="266" data-original-width="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhE-Tf1Dk2evoXSjJxnLGVksCS1XnsKFzh78s39GopHoG6LQX-Xsmr9k_ec_VUJ7MV8i-ggFxfyr1uBhKODQ6kA1XDXAK1ePl5ZdncBPDJtEkiRtnss6d0ltOeORocIRlo5pUtAETlk_Dc1HIdjic67DGMD-RFwFlU4lTVgPvUn6BiSifq6wBUtUo8HH3lo/s16000/788ea5_27fa0660611e461f961ea510ee772b93~mv2%20(1).webp" /></a></span></i></div><p></p><p><i><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">This week's edition of <b>10 Songs</b> draws exclusively from the playlist for <a href="https://carlcafarelli.blogspot.com/2024/03/this-is-rock-n-roll-radio-1224.html"><b>This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio</b> # 1224</a>. This show is available as <a href="https://westcottradio.org/archive/rock_n_roll_radio_2024-03-10.mp3">a podcast</a></span></span></i></p><p><b style="font-family: helvetica;">CARLA OLSON: I Can See For Miles</b></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCFSKQj2I-4iuSBfvfoJxyICdFcWekf0p3b6IwgSSrHfRaiCYcudDHdPEpxLZwiLo2L9MHF4KjZ5Ju5RvGnZnTKOGRKn1pYXCdJ2xhWI0voJrECWpy7AaEdXf6gOPBaK2cLfRfv0NscIniHkHsQFSHpnLGZa2ESrns-if_xx81OIfnCe2LlCImO2XYzlcD/s640/a1939558696_10.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="640" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCFSKQj2I-4iuSBfvfoJxyICdFcWekf0p3b6IwgSSrHfRaiCYcudDHdPEpxLZwiLo2L9MHF4KjZ5Ju5RvGnZnTKOGRKn1pYXCdJ2xhWI0voJrECWpy7AaEdXf6gOPBaK2cLfRfv0NscIniHkHsQFSHpnLGZa2ESrns-if_xx81OIfnCe2LlCImO2XYzlcD/w640-h640/a1939558696_10.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I was very much a latecomer to appreciating <b>the Who</b>. I remember hearing "Pinball Wizard" and "See Me Feel Me" on AM Top 40 radio, but I didn't really develop any serious interest in the Who until my senior year in high school. A spring '77 presentation of '60s rock 'n' roll videos at <b>Syracuse University</b> hooked me on "I Can't Explain," prompting me to scurry back to my sister's copy of <i style="font-weight: bold;">Meaty Beaty Big And Bouncy</i>. Appreciation achieved! A year later, <a href="https://carlcafarelli.blogspot.com/2018/03/he-buys-every-rock-n-roll-book-on.html"><i style="font-weight: bold;">Bomp!</i> magazine</a> taught me that the Who invented power pop. Appreciation intensified.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">(And yeah, I still say <a href="https://carlcafarelli.blogspot.com/2016/02/the-secret-history-of-power-pop-by-carl.html"><b>the Beatles</b> invented power pop</a>. Ain't no losers in this debate.)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>Carla Olson</b> is, of course, a deservedly well-regarded performer, generally in the broad field we call Americana, but really choosing her own vistas as an artist oughta. Carla's current album <i style="font-weight: bold;">Have Harmony, Will Travel 3</i> has already enriched <i style="font-weight: bold;">TIRnRR</i> playlists with her cover of <b>the Rolling Stones</b>' "Street Fighting Man," and her ace take on the Who's power pop classic "I Can See For Miles" opens this week's show.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">And I appreciate it. And how!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>THE WHO: The Kids Are Alright</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRVuJuz6TQmtqt0g1XnZtyozx1i7QWvmU93yfSKP4p5NEx3ZMGuHhFajnFpke3PPKZXJE0svu6B1kMKC7dt-BRMatI_MOO3mzxN5udH42s8KGH_JlbRtXW3qTyNEaaWO9oUoxkbrjAH3mJ6yQRZ87dmLmvq1z2un92euMX5_y8QwgXcO0xrhW-zM_N4HK7/s600/R-6174215-1412927692-3681.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="599" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRVuJuz6TQmtqt0g1XnZtyozx1i7QWvmU93yfSKP4p5NEx3ZMGuHhFajnFpke3PPKZXJE0svu6B1kMKC7dt-BRMatI_MOO3mzxN5udH42s8KGH_JlbRtXW3qTyNEaaWO9oUoxkbrjAH3mJ6yQRZ87dmLmvq1z2un92euMX5_y8QwgXcO0xrhW-zM_N4HK7/w638-h640/R-6174215-1412927692-3681.jpg" width="638" /></a></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">My sister's copy of <i style="font-weight: bold;">Meaty Beaty Big And Bouncy</i> introduced me to "The Kids Are Alright," one of power pop's early defining tracks. In the '90s, when I wrote <a href="https://carlcafarelli.blogspot.com/2016/02/the-kids-are-alright-history-of-power.html">a history of power pop</a> for <i style="font-weight: bold;">Goldmine</i>, I called the article "The Kids Are Alright." I regarded the song as a sort of power pop litmus test: If you can't imagine a group pulling off a credible cover of "The Kids Are Alright," it ain't a power pop band.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">In college, I briefly preferred a cover version by the UK band <b>the Pleasers</b> to the Who's nonpareil original. Part of this was to rib my roommate's girlfriend (who was a BIG Who fan), but I really did have that preference at the time. <i style="font-weight: bold;">TIRnRR</i> was originally supposed to be called <i style="font-weight: bold;">The Kids Are Alright</i>--<i>It's Sunday night, and THE KIDS ARE ALRIGHT!</i>--with the Pleasers singin' the titular tune. We switched to the <b>Ramones</b>-approved <i style="font-weight: bold;">This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio</i> while on the way to the studio for our debut show in 1998.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">We're not kids, not now and not then. But it's alright.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>THE FOUR TOPS: Keeper Of The Castle</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgX-zVWOE5OwUDTAti8eXFgzmiNIUG643RGwkwK8FUCbpMUe73s5aRf6eUFYVoK0n24eCRUlrnzM9xnFzqYj-ou1HVe9yOU6oTOOqBQerqLIWGQ7SYco7L2BRUxUx67txJ4KxlWDF6_epur1IgBIjbSiJ_KZr6U9lfCFCJjZHks_uRyhNFhB_F-QaDXv7fK/s600/R-5641816-1398727730-4424.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="600" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgX-zVWOE5OwUDTAti8eXFgzmiNIUG643RGwkwK8FUCbpMUe73s5aRf6eUFYVoK0n24eCRUlrnzM9xnFzqYj-ou1HVe9yOU6oTOOqBQerqLIWGQ7SYco7L2BRUxUx67txJ4KxlWDF6_epur1IgBIjbSiJ_KZr6U9lfCFCJjZHks_uRyhNFhB_F-QaDXv7fK/w640-h640/R-5641816-1398727730-4424.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I can't believe we've never played this one before. Impossible...but true. <b>The Four Tops</b> are frequent fixtures on this little mutant radio show, though we're more apt to reach back to their '60s <b>Motown</b> motherlode. Still, the 1973 hit "Are You Man Enough" was my first conscious introduction to the top of the Tops--thank you again, AM Top 40 radio--and I reached out to the Motown classics some time thereafter.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Starting with "Are You Man Enough" in '73 means I didn't really notice "Keeper Of The Castle" in '72. I must have heard it, but it didn't stick in between the ol' ears. Honestly, I think I knew it more from <b>Dickie Goodman</b> using its line <i>Red, yellow, black, white, and brown</i> in one of his break-in records.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I recently picked up a single-disc compilation of the Four Tops' '70s sides, and now "Keeper Of The Castle" at long last makes its <i style="font-weight: bold;">TIRnRR</i> debut. Come on home, Four Tops.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>THE AMPLIFIER HEADS FEATURING BARRENCE WHITFIELD: They Came To Rock</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitQMQRZUOnY4xY_63q2R86q6TNplJn3ISxx8wyy-6dT24ZX67qcoJu9DOITdKVxjBWd03D_CKSMAOq_SyQyYpIxwBc580swAE63UKzlhMhJ-GF8LRz7Rx7y3jgo94l1CETFkfDmAlWpB3BBT1LKtWfMb9-Hv9Tmo4F1KF8FI7Z0yYTdJd5Lb3ZWTuEAsAO/s1200/a2364265448_10.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitQMQRZUOnY4xY_63q2R86q6TNplJn3ISxx8wyy-6dT24ZX67qcoJu9DOITdKVxjBWd03D_CKSMAOq_SyQyYpIxwBc580swAE63UKzlhMhJ-GF8LRz7Rx7y3jgo94l1CETFkfDmAlWpB3BBT1LKtWfMb9-Hv9Tmo4F1KF8FI7Z0yYTdJd5Lb3ZWTuEAsAO/w640-h640/a2364265448_10.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">That. They. <i>DID!</i> As a statement of intent, "<a href="https://theamplifierheads.bandcamp.com/track/they-came-to-rock">They Came To Rock</a>" is a friggin' juggernaut, combining the irresistible forces of <b>the Amplifier Heads</b> and garage soul shouter <b>Barrence Whitfield</b> to obliterate namby-pamby naysayers. They came to rock? Mission accomplished, men. Mission accomplished.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>THE ELECTROMAGNATES: Airwave Hello</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSOq2bWp6PlBaQcXrbDLqn3Q1d7RuB7NJBcogeYBs5NbwFNy1p3qRjSka2KBJFw9Xv4MdWhHO5eYA509QJ4o3RLwsywevR9MCIT3LGsZUY4h1UscDRy8dB8kjwwIC6nRhOnT64DhUPSPZrnXRdqnL2GbuD1ZPl1-iZwnzePRa2LxF7sJfcn53DHUCekRjm/s640/a3866145320_10.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="640" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSOq2bWp6PlBaQcXrbDLqn3Q1d7RuB7NJBcogeYBs5NbwFNy1p3qRjSka2KBJFw9Xv4MdWhHO5eYA509QJ4o3RLwsywevR9MCIT3LGsZUY4h1UscDRy8dB8kjwwIC6nRhOnT64DhUPSPZrnXRdqnL2GbuD1ZPl1-iZwnzePRa2LxF7sJfcn53DHUCekRjm/w640-h640/a3866145320_10.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">A power pop supergroup, comprised of friends of the show, singin' a rock 'n' roll love letter to radio. Yeah, no one's shocked we're playing this one. <b>Steve Stoeckel</b>, <b>Dolph Chaney</b>, <b>Chris Church</b>, and <b>Peter Watts</b> unite under the rockin ' pop dba <b><a href="https://bigstirrecords.bandcamp.com/album/airwave-hello">the Electromagnates</a></b>, and their debut single "Airwave Hello" makes its second consecutive <i style="font-weight: bold;">TIRnRR</i> appearance this week. We'll hear it again this coming Sunday night.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">And now the question: Will we be hearing more from the Electromagnates in the future? Hello! These airwaves await further greetings.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>EDDIE COCHRAN: Somethin' Else</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJv3M11Ax0-IOpSJbPDgOggVv1s0Cia9dU7Mwf0k1VzqwFuZZ6XfMXNmHCBeQbdLfrhd10Q6AibgYfem1hvnARHtxhX9C65uo7xQMwUjUmI5-F2HaU-t8kLEXbsni7ZDZYrIhwsBJHbsyCYAhK7mY9gZQs9_N07e-IBQO8SQvLd3aVyoKvi2o3r9QcicTo/s640/Eddie-Cochran.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="560" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJv3M11Ax0-IOpSJbPDgOggVv1s0Cia9dU7Mwf0k1VzqwFuZZ6XfMXNmHCBeQbdLfrhd10Q6AibgYfem1hvnARHtxhX9C65uo7xQMwUjUmI5-F2HaU-t8kLEXbsni7ZDZYrIhwsBJHbsyCYAhK7mY9gZQs9_N07e-IBQO8SQvLd3aVyoKvi2o3r9QcicTo/w560-h640/Eddie-Cochran.jpg" width="560" /></a></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b><i><a href="https://carlcafarelli.blogspot.com/2022/06/the-greatest-record-ever-made-somethin.html">The Greatest Record Ever Made!</a></i></b></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>MARY LOU LORD: Western Union Desperate</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>THE FIVE AMERICANS: Western Union</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3TPXYVkcetR7ThGxZH6tSW2sgwHscALdtGVdj6zD2jupahXBvV8xY6RulcLGyl6hZOtL9xLVvgrFvIg8-gvmGc54b5c8v_fBhHdgcM6Fz6wiKsTsfnfz7SV_0-bLkCKuejJ8bdbf45Qd6VWsLDMrdY39sr3olBX1IRbx2TbS06_rz7UJHPQf0ZryNsbBc/s1200/817X9hSdeoL._SL1200_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3TPXYVkcetR7ThGxZH6tSW2sgwHscALdtGVdj6zD2jupahXBvV8xY6RulcLGyl6hZOtL9xLVvgrFvIg8-gvmGc54b5c8v_fBhHdgcM6Fz6wiKsTsfnfz7SV_0-bLkCKuejJ8bdbf45Qd6VWsLDMrdY39sr3olBX1IRbx2TbS06_rz7UJHPQf0ZryNsbBc/w640-h640/817X9hSdeoL._SL1200_.jpg" width="640" /></a></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhk-f25J7uxKTeUSFqoe8wDmCzKPbaAzCOeZGn5SQVNRVWpDNifEwBPqOJJ-hWjU5t8BYeqRntoVZIy0pzVOaZDvrH1xfHxv_4Pmmf6uwLx4ZiTE5no7T10QYBean3sV50pWpshrupnPJ4YoQBabxb-Ac15cDW5Y7eMZWttwy_5B7VJk73zByIIJgotZsvV/s599/R-9556903-1483302163-6559.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="599" data-original-width="588" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhk-f25J7uxKTeUSFqoe8wDmCzKPbaAzCOeZGn5SQVNRVWpDNifEwBPqOJJ-hWjU5t8BYeqRntoVZIy0pzVOaZDvrH1xfHxv_4Pmmf6uwLx4ZiTE5no7T10QYBean3sV50pWpshrupnPJ4YoQBabxb-Ac15cDW5Y7eMZWttwy_5B7VJk73zByIIJgotZsvV/w628-h640/R-9556903-1483302163-6559.jpg" width="628" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">An obvious pairing? Yep. Never let the mere fact that something's obvious dissuade you from doing it anyway, if you feel it. <i>Feel</i> bests namby-pamby overthinking every razzafrazzin' day of the week.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>Mary Lou Lord</b> has been a <i style="font-weight: bold;">TIRnRR</i> Fave Rave for as long as there has been a <i style="font-weight: bold;">TIRnRR</i>. Our very first show, December 27th of 1998, included a spin of "Lights Are Changing," from Mary Lou's 1998 album <i style="font-weight: bold;">Got No Shadow</i>. Many more spins of many more MLL gems followed, and "Western Union Desperate" was one such gem.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>The Five Americans</b>' only big hit was their 1967 Top 5 smash "Western Union." I loved it when I was seven years old, and I love it still. Hell, <b>the Searchers</b> covered it, and even they couldn't improve upon the jangly <i>Dit-da-dit-da-dit-dit-da-dit-da-dit</i> of the original. Message delivered. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>THE CYNZ: Crow Haired Boys</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjArT9HMUcXxlkhd9R5YTaXFKHZGlNBFOhtauRFRA0CWtGvDgxExjysbZR0Jg86Gwy-tTdg6nXKpGre9JhpDgJQMYj4Bgbnr9Kdv-xt7YfhFg1y8VdgFhBZ-ZP3grnR602lWxtfikDIhKhVqPXFpUbF35n5NQ5pnElr_hXsJrx5EN8nGOh8zfNQBZT3NhId/s500/artworks-ylXmBlifAihULgOI-zyA85w-t500x500.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="500" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjArT9HMUcXxlkhd9R5YTaXFKHZGlNBFOhtauRFRA0CWtGvDgxExjysbZR0Jg86Gwy-tTdg6nXKpGre9JhpDgJQMYj4Bgbnr9Kdv-xt7YfhFg1y8VdgFhBZ-ZP3grnR602lWxtfikDIhKhVqPXFpUbF35n5NQ5pnElr_hXsJrx5EN8nGOh8zfNQBZT3NhId/w640-h640/artworks-ylXmBlifAihULgOI-zyA85w-t500x500.jpg" width="640" /></a></div></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Said it often before, it's a safe bet I'll say it again 'n' again 'n' again: We play the hits. Like the Electromagnates' "Airwave Hello," "Crow Haired Boys" by <b>the Cynz</b> now makes it on <i style="font-weight: bold;">TIRnRR</i> two weeks in a row, with a third spin coming this Sunday night. Can't have a hit record if you only play it once.</span></div><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>THE SMITHEREENS: Face The World With Pride</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYjvtqpLz6cRpHmhLHVfRj0S3NJ0RRliLLnJSyTIsaO1gyzpZTaFQGGOAIC8nXXRuQqfEFPeyjd87sBP-weNhZohc55ElPK1SJsTLct9qfcgkW7WctM9pHs0MLU1BcMO3yNNyH9-HtSBN-loHlmR8GixPKWJ1zq18hFZ0o0sqtgKmg4EC20Tc4R0UizjGq/s1200/a0304207629_10.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYjvtqpLz6cRpHmhLHVfRj0S3NJ0RRliLLnJSyTIsaO1gyzpZTaFQGGOAIC8nXXRuQqfEFPeyjd87sBP-weNhZohc55ElPK1SJsTLct9qfcgkW7WctM9pHs0MLU1BcMO3yNNyH9-HtSBN-loHlmR8GixPKWJ1zq18hFZ0o0sqtgKmg4EC20Tc4R0UizjGq/w640-h640/a0304207629_10.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Still good advice. Heed the example of <b><a href="https://thesmithereens.bandcamp.com/album/the-lost-album">the Smithereens</a></b>.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Yesterday marked four years since the last-ever live <i style="font-weight: bold;">This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio</i> webcast. Cooties took over the world. We took one week off, returned for a live-on-Zoom <i style="font-weight: bold;">TIRnRR</i> with <b>Pop Co-Op</b>, and then figured out how to record the show at home, beginning on April 5th of 2020. I recounted our early pandemic experience <a href="https://carlcafarelli.blogspot.com/2024/03/four-years-on-end-of-world-as-we-knew.html">here</a>.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">And that's where we still are: Here. Every week. We haven't missed a show since then. If pride's a sin, we confess it. Hell, we proclaim it.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Face the world with pride. Sing, you Smithereens. Sing.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKK-eSurOrjFcpQqeZzM9HzT3h3gCXjmoxj_6wK4bYvvFFnhQkC0UwCBc8lXKEYekAWpjmZV57qutQG_ooLgA9JaT1tz_9ri4LWuPGthw4GU6uXdnHMGOzAiU-6Z7KNBt6EgEB4mF3p61pvh_rLaUtlPeBexYq7UY42aiwA9dQ9eZW11JNejHOq0FNo9OF/s1200/the-smithereens_d.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="957" data-original-width="1200" height="510" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKK-eSurOrjFcpQqeZzM9HzT3h3gCXjmoxj_6wK4bYvvFFnhQkC0UwCBc8lXKEYekAWpjmZV57qutQG_ooLgA9JaT1tz_9ri4LWuPGthw4GU6uXdnHMGOzAiU-6Z7KNBt6EgEB4mF3p61pvh_rLaUtlPeBexYq7UY42aiwA9dQ9eZW11JNejHOq0FNo9OF/w640-h510/the-smithereens_d.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p><i><i><i><span style="color: #241e12; font-family: helvetica;"><i><i><span style="color: #241e12; font-family: helvetica;">If you like what you see here on <i><b>Boppin' (Like The Hip Folks Do)</b></i>, please consider a visit to</span></i></i></span></i></i><i style="font-family: helvetica;"><i><span style="color: #241e12; font-family: helvetica;"><i><i><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;"> <a href="https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/CarlCafarelli">CC's Tip Jar</a>. </span></i></i></span></i></i></i></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i><span>Carl's new book</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> <span>Gabba Gabba Hey! A Conversation With The Ramones</span> </span><span>is now available, courtesy of the good folks at <b><a href="https://rarebirdlit.com/">Rare Bird Books</a></b>. Gabba Gabba YAY!! </span></i></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i><a href="https://rarebirdlit.com/gabba-gabba-hey-a-conversation-with-the-ramones-by-carl-cafarelli/">https://rarebirdlit.com/gabba-gabba-hey-a-conversation-with-the-ramones-by-carl-cafarelli/</a></i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>If it's true that one book leads to another, my next book will be <b><a href="https://carlcafarelli.blogspot.com/2023/08/finishing-greatest-record-ever-made.html">The Greatest Record Ever Made! (Volume 1)</a></b>. Stay tuned. Your turn is coming.</i></span></p><div><p><i style="font-family: helvetica;"><i style="font-weight: bold;">This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio with Dana & Carl</i> airs Sunday nights from 9 to Midnight Eastern, on the air in Syracuse at <b>SPARK! WSPJ 103.3 and 93.7 FM</b>, streaming at <b><a href="https://ec3.yesstreaming.net:4280/api/links/?t=web&l=ne&c=1&fbclid=IwAR1UAKK9rWPYVh-iGgeNGRbM5PfTuHeCzYe2cIzA6o5yo-kooh7vVBYisdQ">SPARK stream</a> </b>and on the <b>Radio Garden</b> app as <b>WESTCOTT RADIO</b>. Recent shows are archived at <b><a href="http://westcottradio.org/">Westcott Radio</a></b>. You can read about our history <a href="https://carlcafarelli.blogspot.com/2019/11/boppin-whole-friggin-planet-history-of_10.html">here</a>.</i></p></div><p><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></span></p><p><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></span></p><p><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></span></p><p><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></span></p><p><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></p><p><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></span></p><p><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></span></p><p><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></span></p><p><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></span></p><p><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></span></p><p><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></span></p><p><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></span></p><p><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></span></p><p><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></span></p><p><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></p><div><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i><b></b></i></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></b></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></b></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></b></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></b></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></b></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></b></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></b></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></b></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></b></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></b></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></b></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></b></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></b></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; 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color: #333333;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZXXOZvGTk0yplEU6yKvuQtM5oyDlPX1bj-3E6Xy-8xJJ7OJ3zA0Vjn7xVxGnFFR2SHwJARNoxhxDc_w6ty2wdxuyelE5ALWoLYe51daF1kywvBxWHgBBSbS3aG15K76NuSHcPaN6yMQxW6hQX9ylZJa5I-puh-dxS-O2ao7Hr_ps8_vsnyHB6ov5XdEHF/s686/hq720.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="386" data-original-width="686" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZXXOZvGTk0yplEU6yKvuQtM5oyDlPX1bj-3E6Xy-8xJJ7OJ3zA0Vjn7xVxGnFFR2SHwJARNoxhxDc_w6ty2wdxuyelE5ALWoLYe51daF1kywvBxWHgBBSbS3aG15K76NuSHcPaN6yMQxW6hQX9ylZJa5I-puh-dxS-O2ao7Hr_ps8_vsnyHB6ov5XdEHF/w640-h360/hq720.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>In America, it's been four years since it started to seem likely that the world was going to go on hiatus. Here's a chronology of this silly little blog's record of my own slow realization and reaction to the fact that we were entering a pandemic.</i></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>MARCH 15, 2020: Tonight on <i>This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio</i></b></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">This is where you belong. You need something that's infectious in a good way, and that would be pop music....</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>MARCH 16, 2020: </b><i style="font-weight: bold;">This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio</i> <b># 1017</b></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>[This was the last-ever <span style="font-weight: bold;">TIRnRR</span> live show, though we didn't know it at the time.]</i></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">We live in interesting times. And "interesting" is waaaaaay overrated. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">It's been pointed out elsewhere, but it's worthy of repeat play here: no one in the media is paid to say "We don't know." Nor would such an admission inspire confidence, but it's something that should be said more often than it is. We don't know. We don't know.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">And as we acknowledge our uncertainty, we can try to be vigilant, responsible...<i>good</i>. We can heed the advice of experts. We can try to do the right thing, even if we're still struggling to figure out precisely what that right thing is. We can for damned sure refrain from hoarding stuff. We can practice social distancing. Respect. Consideration. Remaining calm, keeping our heads, and washing our freakin' hands. These are things we can do. There is a light ahead. We'll get to it in due time, together. Maybe we shouldn't hold hands right now. But we'll still get there together. Stronger. Healthier. Together.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">New music from </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Jim Basnight</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">, </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">The Gold Needles</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">, and </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">The Walker Brigade</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">, a new archival release from </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">The Decibels</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">, a Happy Birthday to our pal </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Gail Peterson</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> of </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">The Catholic Girls</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">, and a bunch of other fine tunes to help keep us together on a night when we can't all be together. We don't know. Except when we do. This is what rock 'n' roll radio sounded like on a Sunday night in Syracuse this week.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Stay safe, my friends....</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><i>[The final tracks played on this last live <span style="font-weight: bold;">TIRnRR</span> were "Love To Love" by <b>the Monkees</b> and "On My Own" by <b>the Muffs</b>, with <b>the New York Dolls</b>' instrumental "Courageous Cat Theme" playing us out.</i></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><i>The above notes represented my first acknowledgement that we might be getting into a precarious period in our lives. I had no idea how serious it was all about to become, and continued blithely and cluelessly along my way.]</i></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><i>Until...]</i></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><b>MARCH 19, 2020: The Right Thing, And How To Do It * [*as if I had a clue]</b></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLcLkHpACaUlkmz4bhQKOyFvDfBoxLkgC3seeHYRT2x4c9no2p7bVpdvKmVj0F69-C3F0-xXn0MZgmx9mhSDjeolncWmVoqAyyTthjBlhu46rNfTUM9ob9gQnLpNfpFClm6dxEgp25efvnRbVCOcutHz67qQXg6RGNFoO1jKzwgbhirn09o4szgE28FGoY/s640/5537216845_0fb5b64fcc_z.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="495" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLcLkHpACaUlkmz4bhQKOyFvDfBoxLkgC3seeHYRT2x4c9no2p7bVpdvKmVj0F69-C3F0-xXn0MZgmx9mhSDjeolncWmVoqAyyTthjBlhu46rNfTUM9ob9gQnLpNfpFClm6dxEgp25efvnRbVCOcutHz67qQXg6RGNFoO1jKzwgbhirn09o4szgE28FGoY/w496-h640/5537216845_0fb5b64fcc_z.jpg" width="496" /></a></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">I can't speak for you, but I don't have any previous practice in what to do during a pandemic.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">I am not in a position to complain. Unlike so many others, I'm still working, my regular daily schedule so far unaffected by the repercussions of COVID-19. The only effects I've encountered are the minor inconveniences, the shortages of supplies at the grocery store, the cutback (and now elimination) of social gatherings, the shuttering of venues, dining rooms, and theaters. These are little annoyances in my life, minuscule in scale compared to those whose livelihoods have been disrupted, who aren't sure if they'll have a way to pay their bills and feed their families. And that's not even considering those directly impacted by the virus itself. No, I am not in a position to complain.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Both my wife and my daughter work jobs where their near-future paychecks may not be guaranteed. And if the needs of public health demand that more businesses must temporarily close in order to flatten the curve, to contain the spread of these damned infectious cooties, then my retail job is at risk, too. The shopping malls in the Syracuse area have already closed until further notice, and the time may be coming very soon for mom-and-pop stores to follow suit. But I am not in a position to complain.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">A friend of mine, a co-worker, is of an age and physical condition that makes him extremely vulnerable to what this virus can do; he is self-quarantined. Another friend of mine is sick, and awaiting test results, while we all pray for the best. Nursing homes are closed to visitors, so my Mom is separated from family for the foreseeable future. And me? I'm 60 years old, I've had a nagging cough for nearly a month, but no other symptoms. I'm not in a position to complain.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Like all of us (or at least I hope so), I'm doing the best I can to be responsible. I've always been diligent about washing my hands, so that's nothing new. I Dracula-cough into my sleeve, wash my hands, avoid direct contact, wash my hands, hydrate, wash my hands, wash my hands, wash my hands. By the way, if you like to sing as you soap up, AC/DC's "Highway To Hell" works as a perfectly acceptable alternative to "Happy Birthday." No reason to complain.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">My cupboards at home are adequately stocked. I have toilet paper, Zinc tablets, orange juice, food, drink. Beer. I patronize the stores that are open, order take-out meals when I can. I do not hoard. I allow space for people around me. I may have mentioned that I wash my hands, constantly. I don't have time to complain.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">I've seen online posts from pals with opposing viewpoints, one stressing the need for everyone to just stay home for the greater good, the other warning that our freedoms are being taken from us. I'm sympathetic to the former, dismissive of the latter, but choosing a middle ground for now. I have a commitment and expectation to go to work each day, for as long as I'm healthy and for as long as I have a job to go to. While I'm out, I try to inject my tiny bit of spending money into the local economy, buying my comic books, grabbing drive-thru, whatever. I'm trying to do the right thing. Whatever that is. I can't complain.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">I have a naive confidence that this will pass, none too soon, but eventually. I acknowledge that it will almost certainly get worse before it gets better. But it will get better. We just have to get through it, responsibly, as members of a community, as good people that care for one another. Good people outnumber bad people. And we have God on our side. Doing the right thing is its own reward. No complaints there.</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">MARCH 22, 2020: <i>This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio</i> Goes On Hiatus</span></b></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><b></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhS0bqQioT08KdQMqfhU-URNk0sZXBBmstjiofOD1rzdpN5jyDaQAMk9ycRJwZgRIH11iHdaCI09_gfTcGX37j2ZGQiytYNiefOqDDRMcuF5too5EjIFB6YigyF1dAO24moKxLCWj31QvSXeK3j72peRnrWHlCyxLusaHcSIKzr1FUtudhEoX42fwKu_Glg/s640/1_EWl_Flr1FKtD42270Iosog.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="308" data-original-width="640" height="308" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhS0bqQioT08KdQMqfhU-URNk0sZXBBmstjiofOD1rzdpN5jyDaQAMk9ycRJwZgRIH11iHdaCI09_gfTcGX37j2ZGQiytYNiefOqDDRMcuF5too5EjIFB6YigyF1dAO24moKxLCWj31QvSXeK3j72peRnrWHlCyxLusaHcSIKzr1FUtudhEoX42fwKu_Glg/w640-h308/1_EWl_Flr1FKtD42270Iosog.png" width="640" /></a></b></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">The building that houses the palatial <b>SPARK!</b> studios will be closed until further notice, placing <i style="font-weight: bold;">This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio</i> on hiatus for the time being....</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333;" /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">MARCH 23, 2020: Fake <i>This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio</i> Playlist: Isolation Edition</span></b></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>[Writing and music are my twin coping mechanisms. I compiled an imaginary playlist to express my feeling as the world shut down. Complete playlist can be seen <a href="https://carlcafarelli.blogspot.com/2020/03/fake-this-is-rock-n-roll-radio-playlist_23.html">here</a>. We'll circle back to this subject a little south of here.]</i></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">MARCH 30, 2020: <i>10 Songs</i></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">THE BEATLES: I Want To Hold Your Hand</b><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv_uGpJ4oQ12rKYOhifSGW5eHq9Y2bAoHbg-FlmMH_VOpGxoZvyuNPtrtt5ogwRyu2F92pgDa5oj9cGpRgZLUq8S0rzwxCpRt1zugoCTgDkhPbqIkteE5bJHKilS6XXCfIdPsOHoEAq25S/s1600/ETW6s7aX0AElEh5.png" style="color: #336699; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv_uGpJ4oQ12rKYOhifSGW5eHq9Y2bAoHbg-FlmMH_VOpGxoZvyuNPtrtt5ogwRyu2F92pgDa5oj9cGpRgZLUq8S0rzwxCpRt1zugoCTgDkhPbqIkteE5bJHKilS6XXCfIdPsOHoEAq25S/s400/ETW6s7aX0AElEh5.png" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="398" /></a></b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">It seemed such an innocent request in '63 and '64. Now? If a person's closer than six friggin' feet away, it's cause for alarm, even panic. There will be no hand-holding in the Coronaverse, no love in the time of pandemic. There <i>will</i> be music, and there actually will be love, as always. Just no physical contact. Now go wash your hands.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><b>BIG HELLO: Action Now</b></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHwtCyEW8tkpZM8Tmx0EH40GllvOPnXVecZAYv2_Ce9G82lwg6l-iHgNA7oUufVSfeauWL5uglgB-SnNn-esj8Ye9dIu-OkJKSro7LjmRv9Uhjhoe9ltxuytwOXdH8E19iS2TtVB4QSYrl/s1600/Big+Hello+Orange.jpg" style="color: #336699; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHwtCyEW8tkpZM8Tmx0EH40GllvOPnXVecZAYv2_Ce9G82lwg6l-iHgNA7oUufVSfeauWL5uglgB-SnNn-esj8Ye9dIu-OkJKSro7LjmRv9Uhjhoe9ltxuytwOXdH8E19iS2TtVB4QSYrl/s320/Big+Hello+Orange.jpg" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="320" /></a></b></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">I was going to tie this great track from <b>Big Hello</b>'s 2000 effort <i style="font-weight: bold;">The Orange Album </i>with a demand for <i>ACTION NOW!! </i>in place of the usual clueless douchebaggery of our nation's Buffoon-In-Chief, but I guess I'll stick with the music. Trump's an asshole, by the way.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">"Action Now" popped up a couple of times on my iPod recently, and it sounds great each and every time. Is it a call to action--<i>Now's the time for supersonic action</i>--or is it only rock 'n' roll? I know it's both, and I like it.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Since saying goodbye to Big Hello, the wife 'n' husband team of <b>Chloe Orwell </b>and <b>Brad Elvis</b> have fronted <b>The Handcuffs</b>, another fab group worthy of large-sized salutation and celebration. The Handcuffs' <i style="font-weight: bold;">Electroluv</i> album has been in my CD carrying case for weeks, awaiting its overdue return to the <i style="font-weight: bold;">This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio </i>playlist. All the more reason for action now, to end this crisis and return The Handcuffs to their rightful place on the radio.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin41DkeIWrbbY3HDo7VIE74Od4fKQA2viQzCbx1iOAjh8mBDSTk0hwM3xa_6pyDwt3MvTMkSrEdDvnl0rC-nE7wfyyjw0ReYVRqVxRjtZjGgxyCyDYDaZlTZ25O9MFAI98jJH1WoOGCTwS/s1600/R-6512466-1420955300-3614.jpeg.jpg" style="color: #336699; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin41DkeIWrbbY3HDo7VIE74Od4fKQA2viQzCbx1iOAjh8mBDSTk0hwM3xa_6pyDwt3MvTMkSrEdDvnl0rC-nE7wfyyjw0ReYVRqVxRjtZjGgxyCyDYDaZlTZ25O9MFAI98jJH1WoOGCTwS/s400/R-6512466-1420955300-3614.jpeg.jpg" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="398" /></a></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"></span><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">THE DOORS: Touch Me</b><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi84iw8XDZFIOsxBkB4Au0-9LpQP71qBxgwJd7zklXso0J2xU6KlvU6NsZLNY2uqyD4eCeChvwaNIrMGX3Zaz34wE47aTH6qIXx8Fb0oRMS2puhDW2irk6nne2wmFsLGOxkrXlSj51MLjiy/s1600/R-2799431-1407578143-3595.jpeg.jpg" style="color: #336699; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi84iw8XDZFIOsxBkB4Au0-9LpQP71qBxgwJd7zklXso0J2xU6KlvU6NsZLNY2uqyD4eCeChvwaNIrMGX3Zaz34wE47aTH6qIXx8Fb0oRMS2puhDW2irk6nne2wmFsLGOxkrXlSj51MLjiy/s400/R-2799431-1407578143-3595.jpeg.jpg" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="391" /></a></b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Ew. Not because of the song--I've become more receptive to <b>The Doors</b>' music over the past few years--but because, y'know...<i>touching</i>. Ew.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><b>THE FOUR TOPS: Reach Out I'll Be There</b></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfRqZWGzFt9xAogo5ynJ-b64W-mp1I_hRpz1bQL0RlU1mlLIYw7CFCIz7qQkUa17Rq6twppIjsyIbmSuDkRJ9FZPIglj6APenoTVZ10ESApRpnmIhTdOWwrN-QDKm1XPRfiItwMJa9ghyphenhypheny/s1600/Reach-Out-Ill-Be-There-Four-Tops.jpg" style="color: #336699; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfRqZWGzFt9xAogo5ynJ-b64W-mp1I_hRpz1bQL0RlU1mlLIYw7CFCIz7qQkUa17Rq6twppIjsyIbmSuDkRJ9FZPIglj6APenoTVZ10ESApRpnmIhTdOWwrN-QDKm1XPRfiItwMJa9ghyphenhypheny/s400/Reach-Out-Ill-Be-There-Four-Tops.jpg" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="400" /></a></b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">No. You. <i>Won't</i>. Jeez, keep your razzafrazzin' distance already!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><b>THE GEORGIA SATELLITES: Keep Your Hands To Yourself</b></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioXOIgsdl4ybHv8GeRVstx_4texX8Uxg6ftrPXPa4iN77Tgzkz7-ux5sWmJXHBMTFAdP9axOTEDo6yqaM1JeKiRsB1HGdTDqY7HjYtxG6Z0MHZNQQO6YDEcC5OTEEbThYUyydAblAu1E6w/s1600/georgia-satellites-keep-1.jpg" style="color: #336699; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" height="395" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioXOIgsdl4ybHv8GeRVstx_4texX8Uxg6ftrPXPa4iN77Tgzkz7-ux5sWmJXHBMTFAdP9axOTEDo6yqaM1JeKiRsB1HGdTDqY7HjYtxG6Z0MHZNQQO6YDEcC5OTEEbThYUyydAblAu1E6w/s400/georgia-satellites-keep-1.jpg" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="400" /></a></b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Yeah, that's more like it. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><b>The Georgia Satellites</b> may have put on the loudest show I've ever survived, which is saying something when you consider that my first concert was <b>KISS</b>, that I saw <b>The Ramones</b> nine times, and that I just about put my head into the PA at one of <b>The Flashcubes</b>' gigs. My most vivid memories of the Satellites' circa '87 set at <b>The Lost Horizon</b> are the sheer volume and resultant lingering buzz in the ol' ears, and <b>Dan Baird</b> asking the audience, <i>Y'all all right? You're awfully quiet. Are you gettin' enough to drink? It's a proven fact: the more you drink, the more we sound like the goddamned Beatles. It's true!</i></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><b>THE PANDORAS: It's About Time</b></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg90LFmlqP-mQdfi52gL1b1zMV0CdhYHncxM7XSDYy-m-lW4k_RmIzAEOwa-2kLH0Va1OcbxDLbTLgEEbCOlronUwPqXiZ-Etlky2hgRizdAipEvtKfzcK5MDBjQFcm8cljN0Sdj9eFJSBX/s1600/R-6284959-1415566464-2316.jpeg.jpg" style="color: #336699; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg90LFmlqP-mQdfi52gL1b1zMV0CdhYHncxM7XSDYy-m-lW4k_RmIzAEOwa-2kLH0Va1OcbxDLbTLgEEbCOlronUwPqXiZ-Etlky2hgRizdAipEvtKfzcK5MDBjQFcm8cljN0Sdj9eFJSBX/s400/R-6284959-1415566464-2316.jpeg.jpg" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="400" /></a></b></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><b>The Pandoras</b>' irresistible '80s garage-pop classic "It's About Time" was one of the tracks I included in last week's fake playlist <i style="font-weight: bold;">This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio: Isolation Edition</i>. I chose the song for its recurring line <i>Ain't it about time we got together now</i>, and placed it near the end of the playlist (segued into <b>Ben E. King</b>'s "Stand By Me") as a totem of hope that this period of willful separation will pass. It won't pass anywhere near as quickly as we'd wish, but it will pass.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><b>THE POLICE: Don't Stand So Close To Me</b></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWjZeQP1bz9XBruV29a4a6_PrCJIBoPTDT5PelgHDBA98Poas8NUrOpn74sLD7ByGjhGTS9eR0lWU97xVQikoZoZ0sKskgSKsgt9ETuXyYd410gkhKlJOMd75iFDUQRNGwqJX0n0hhjA8U/s1600/MV5BNjFkMjE1NjUtMGM4Zi00Mjk4LThkM2MtZDdlZTBmNzc1YzFjXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMjUyNDk2ODc%2540._V1_.jpg" style="color: #336699; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" height="392" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWjZeQP1bz9XBruV29a4a6_PrCJIBoPTDT5PelgHDBA98Poas8NUrOpn74sLD7ByGjhGTS9eR0lWU97xVQikoZoZ0sKskgSKsgt9ETuXyYd410gkhKlJOMd75iFDUQRNGwqJX0n0hhjA8U/s400/MV5BNjFkMjE1NjUtMGM4Zi00Mjk4LThkM2MtZDdlZTBmNzc1YzFjXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMjUyNDk2ODc%2540._V1_.jpg" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="400" /></a></b></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Okay, everyone else sick of this joke, of this hit by <b>The Police</b> serving as the unofficial <i>Love Theme F</i></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><i>rom Social Distancing</i>? Me too, though that won't prevent me from using it just this once. These are not proud times.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">I absolutely adored "Roxanne," and regarded it as the coolest song on the radio in 1979. I quite liked "Message In A Bottle" and probably a few other scattered tracks </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">from the first two Police albums, but I found myself losing interest in the group after that. Mind you, I never relinquished my affection for "Roxanne" and "Message In A Bottle," but that affection did not extend to subsequent efforts. When I managed a record store in the '80s, one of my clerks was horrified--<i>horrified</i>--to learn of my indifference to The Police. I waived my right to his counsel on that matter (and I waived it kinda rudely)...</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><b>...UTOPIA: I Just Want To Touch You</b></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333;" /><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><br /></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"></span><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBvw7IoTY9wio5yPlVl4RKyJtYxPHy1XTpPLTNZYozULrVFHgmoyU4atX4qBa8Cbm0MlS3-7SyZ5kmLtHYt-YQcPzGOQA3m0TSHZNtaaeG309_g0Hx3oIdDbqiI-OPLPgNEfcnoI5lFV6D/s1600/R-4624886-1370793889-2344.jpeg.jpg" style="color: #336699; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBvw7IoTY9wio5yPlVl4RKyJtYxPHy1XTpPLTNZYozULrVFHgmoyU4atX4qBa8Cbm0MlS3-7SyZ5kmLtHYt-YQcPzGOQA3m0TSHZNtaaeG309_g0Hx3oIdDbqiI-OPLPgNEfcnoI5lFV6D/s400/R-4624886-1370793889-2344.jpeg.jpg" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="392" /></a></b><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333;" /><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><br /></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Right. I'm calling' a cop.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333;" /></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 4px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoXocq6CQHShVqxWah2qZAC1jU5rlrsaGvnclsii97tpVzwRdgUtRSb9HYLafhc7Q7JHqbeDDUjh47JsArr-nM5Mbjs4pU1b4Whkf1Sbx4hRHhW8MnKWtpdgUBi3vxoaaZBywEr7IaL08e/s1600/A-451876-1216316388.jpeg.jpg" style="color: #336699; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoXocq6CQHShVqxWah2qZAC1jU5rlrsaGvnclsii97tpVzwRdgUtRSb9HYLafhc7Q7JHqbeDDUjh47JsArr-nM5Mbjs4pU1b4Whkf1Sbx4hRHhW8MnKWtpdgUBi3vxoaaZBywEr7IaL08e/s640/A-451876-1216316388.jpeg.jpg" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="458" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>C'mon, you're gonna </i>have<i> to stay farther apart from each other than that!</i></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>APRIL 2, 2020: <i>That Thing You Do!</i></b></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;"><span style="background-color: white;"><i>[Our rockin' pop community was devastated by the news that COVID-19 had taken musician <b>Adam Scheslinger</b>. I wrote a celebration of his life and work <a href="https://carlcafarelli.blogspot.com/2020/04/the-greatest-record-ever-made-that.html">here</a>.]</i></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>APRIL 3, 2020: Quarantine Scene</b></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_JJvg-eSFWQcfbGQlqJs63szsx0AimyWuJKPX3dUbhzfmkEpXa_dHXwm7192cN6-bE7_BUKW1-PeTOx8bIV0TXMBrsJ8ozhnF_SCDI1LiN_AXKN4UByxOkNDMu4WS2isklG6-PrGP4_AN/s1600/talking-heads-life-during-wartime-live-sire.jpg" style="background-color: white; color: #336699; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" height="632" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_JJvg-eSFWQcfbGQlqJs63szsx0AimyWuJKPX3dUbhzfmkEpXa_dHXwm7192cN6-bE7_BUKW1-PeTOx8bIV0TXMBrsJ8ozhnF_SCDI1LiN_AXKN4UByxOkNDMu4WS2isklG6-PrGP4_AN/s640/talking-heads-life-during-wartime-live-sire.jpg" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="640" /></a><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Things remain both weird and oddly normal at the same time. It's weird that I don't have to get up in the morning and go to work. It's weird that I can't go out to eat, can't go to the record store, can't go to the movies or a nightclub. I can't pick up my weekly comics supply at the comic book store; curb service was available for comics pick-ups last week, but now the distributor has shut down, meaning that no new comic books are being shipped to stores for the time being. It's weird, all of it, but it's not horrible. My day to day routine has been altered, but this ain't exactly life during wartime. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">I mean, not for me.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">And that's why things also seem oddly normal. In the middle of a crisis, a pandemic, I feel disconnected from the actual crisis. The suffering is out there, and it's real, but it's...distant, at least as it's perceived. Even though there have been many confirmed cases of COVID-19 in my county (with at least two deaths), and even though the global pop community has lost both <b>Adam Scheslinger</b> and "I Love Rock 'n' Roll" co-author <b>Alan Merrill</b> to this virus, it somehow still seems farther away from me than it is. It's an illusion of normalcy.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">The first direct impact this had on me was several weeks back, when I received word from my mother's nursing home that all visitors were prohibited until further notice. I was still working then. Up to that point, I visited Mom every day, checking in, seeing if she needed anything, chatting for a bit before going home for supper. That was taken away. Her limited hearing and eyesight make telephone calls difficult for her, but I still call her every few days just to touch base. She's okay. I'm okay. The illusion of normalcy continues.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">I worked one day at my job last week, filling in on Saturday, but now I am officially furloughed, awaiting my first payment for unemployment. My bills are covered for now, so no immediate worries there. I don't have a mortgage anymore, my next car payment isn't due until mid September, and I have sufficient resources to meet current expenses. My wife Brenda is able to continue working from home. We can't engage in extravagance (even if there were extravagant opportunities available), but the illusion has been adequately funded for the time being.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">We did have to replace our computer. Timing stinks, but what can ya do? Our ten-year-old iMac had grown more and more crash-prone, and Brenda's work from home requires something with greater reliability. So: order placed via the store's website, curbside pick-up, and I've spent a lot of my time the past week setting up the new and preparing the old for eventual recycling. It's an expense we didn't need right now, but, well, that's kinda normal, too.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Brenda and I go about our business in this new (and presumably temporary) normal. We share time on the computer, between her work and my writing. We limit our trips to the store. We have supplies. We don't see anyone, not even our daughter, but we retain contact through texts and social media. When weather permits, we try to go for daily walks in our suburban neighborhood, maintaining distance from others, but trying to smile and express a cheery greeting from at least six feet away. We try to do our part to flatten the damned curve. I read and watch TV. Haven't listened to much music, because music reminds me that I can't do my radio show. Distance from music is not normal. I'll fix that. I have to rebuild my digital music library on the new computer anyway.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">I've been cleaning out some clutter. As a life-long collector or hoarder--both descriptions fit me--I've accumulated a lot of cool stuff, and it's time to let some of it go. That will probably be the subject of a future blog post. I haven't had time yet to feel any sense of cabin fever. There are things to do, even if the normal things aren't always an option.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">The illusion of normalcy is fed by the fact that I'm not undergoing any real hardships. Both Brenda and I are relatively healthy, fighting nothing worse than our normal cold, sinus, and allergy issues. Our friends and loved ones all seem to be doing all right, as far as we're aware. In this time of crisis, real crisis, we can't claim to be enduring anything more than inconvenience, if even that. Our hearts go out to all who are suffering or uncertain, who are subject to sickness, fear, anxiety, frailty, worry. We wish them better things.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">And we look forward to things getting back to normal.</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">APRIL 5, 2020: Tonight On <i>This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio</i></span></b></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjh7jnyTb4vaYBatyzAK6oMm16j4Wsc19bGKLHLAxXbI8DUXE2g4EieauifGd-XCTLu-Jjdn6qm5kIOz1U7eSZmA0rkMO6_No0p0N6obLeHM5wkCa1b0XdsGOvJMq-dW1zKS1yhpB_WucvkLGQiPVvlFR9bjsCU1GfP-G-CAHROlsrT3Eshn994PhDzLFPS/s640/IMG_0245.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="516" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjh7jnyTb4vaYBatyzAK6oMm16j4Wsc19bGKLHLAxXbI8DUXE2g4EieauifGd-XCTLu-Jjdn6qm5kIOz1U7eSZmA0rkMO6_No0p0N6obLeHM5wkCa1b0XdsGOvJMq-dW1zKS1yhpB_WucvkLGQiPVvlFR9bjsCU1GfP-G-CAHROlsrT3Eshn994PhDzLFPS/w516-h640/IMG_0245.jpeg" width="516" /></a></span></b></div><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>[We had done a live Zoom <span style="font-weight: bold;">TIRnRR</span> with the members of <b>Pop Co-Op</b> on March 29th. After that, we tried to figure out a way to get back on the air.]</i></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Maybe...? We'll see. If we can work out thi</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">s cockamamie pre-recording from home gimmick, we'll have a new show for you. If not, well, enjoy another rerun...er, CLASSIC edition of <i style="font-weight: bold;">This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio with Dana & Carl</i>....</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>APRIL 6, 2020: </b><i style="font-weight: bold;">This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio </i><span style="font-weight: bold;"># 1019</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoThZ-dCM3-dZ2UW5tjILaXU-eecZoKGKhtg3Gqm7lPCVbOGSOxUGvM8TaLPEQqYVbmqujG-e6X8O6if2tPjGxCBfn9MMrXfIgwQo9Xi9R7sw63D1VMxQzar8RS7fPzfhAai3hVrfSoIrR/s1600/R-5729422-1484860601-9703.jpeg.jpg" style="background-color: white; color: #336699; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" height="626" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoThZ-dCM3-dZ2UW5tjILaXU-eecZoKGKhtg3Gqm7lPCVbOGSOxUGvM8TaLPEQqYVbmqujG-e6X8O6if2tPjGxCBfn9MMrXfIgwQo9Xi9R7sw63D1VMxQzar8RS7fPzfhAai3hVrfSoIrR/s640/R-5729422-1484860601-9703.jpeg.jpg" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="640" /></a><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">We wanted to do a radio show.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Like most folks, both Dana and I have been observing self-quarantine, which means that we haven't been able to get together to do a new regular episode of <i style="font-weight: bold;">This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio</i>, nor even to get into the building that houses our studio. We missed it. We did that <a href="https://carlcafarelli.blogspot.com/2020/04/this-is-rock-n-roll-radio-1018.html" style="color: #336699; text-decoration-line: none;">live-stream <b>Pop Co-Op</b> album-release party</a> last week in our familiar time slot, but that was a one-off. We weren't sure when <i style="font-weight: bold;">TIRnRR</i> could return.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">But last week, we were among the many guests interviewed by the fab <b>Michael McCartney</b>, co-host (with <b>Summer Blue</b> and <b>Tanya Teal</b>) of <i style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="https://manaoradio.com/shows/the-time-machine/" style="color: #336699; text-decoration-line: none;">The Time Machine</a></i> on <b><a href="https://manaoradio.com/" style="color: #336699; text-decoration-line: none;">Mana'o Radio</a></b> in Maui. This was for "<a href="https://soundcloud.com/thetimemachine/the-social-distancing-sessions-on-the-time-machine?fbclid=IwAR0E4GqXdOw6RU2LnyV_tr7koEmwkICzxIWthWg5-WmRg6_4kETyP3VpzUU" style="color: #336699; text-decoration-line: none;">The Social Distancing Sessions</a>," a music and conversation extravaganza that examines how various performers and DJs are dealing with our current infectious cootie crisis. It was an honor and a privilege to participate, and it got Dana and I thinking about how to record a new <i style="font-weight: bold;">TIRnRR</i> from home. Saturday night, we decided to give it a try.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">With a goal of having a show ready for our usual Sunday night spot, Dana suggested we stick with the song selections from <i style="font-weight: bold;">TIRnRR</i>'s Isolation Edition, a fake playlist I posted on my blog two weeks ago. That would save time, and we didn't have a lot of time. Dana has remote access to the station's playback. I recorded all of the spoken bits on my phone (a trick which worked surprisingly well), and I sent those recordings along with the bulk of the musical selections to Dana via Dropbox. He spent all day Sunday stitching it all together, finally getting it finished at 7 pm. Next week's show will take even longer. When 9 pm rolled around, so did this new episode of <i style="font-weight: bold;">This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio with Dana & Carl</i>.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">What once was fake is now real. This is the introduction I wrote when I first posted this then-imaginary playlist on March 23rd:</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><i>We couldn't do a radio show this week. But I wanted to compile a playlist for isolation.</i></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333;" /><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><br />I didn't want it to be literal, to string together a bunch of songs with titles like "Don't Stand So Close To Me" or "U Can't Touch This." I wanted a song cycle to convey the feelings some of us may have in this weird time, to capture the undefined vibe of this emotional mix, the aches of loneliness, anxiety, depression, alienation, doubt, confusion, the heavy weight of dread and uncertainty. I also wanted to look toward the hope of deliverance. I wanted a sense of catharsis for all that we may be going through, a musical security blanket to comfort us as we confront our worry and fear. I wanted some music to make me feel better.</i><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><i><br /></i></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><i>I used love songs. I used break-up songs. I used songs of loss and regret, and I used songs that behold the horizon and swear by all that's holy that there are better days ahead. We'll get there. Let the music play. We'll get there when we can</i>.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">We got there. We're back, to the best of our ability in the current situation. We can't cure anything, but we can play some music for you. And as for <b>NEXT WEEK ON <i>THIS IS ROCK 'N' ROLL RADIO</i>: </b>Yeah. Why not? This is what rock 'n' roll radio sounded like on a sequestered Sunday night in Syracuse this week.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Pandemics be damned. </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-weight: bold;">This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio with Dana & Carl</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> airs Sunday nights from 9 to Midnight Eastern....</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">APRIL 10, 2020: Radio From Remote Locations</span></b></span></p><div class="post-header" style="background-color: white; color: #999999; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><div class="post-header-line-1"></div></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-7158591777884564582" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 578px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7HM78TuH-lklVOv9kd6JcwzIqCJFS5XqYGCkR1WK6fr9PXFDs6xcQ2SQyxRdVMNXW4S3Sn1aSg54Q6OAE_oXN_3CNdhUCRQdWIU9Bh_RRAP_MIKUnL0kXa1KwGi1JK0PAlatB1eGQxemU/s1600/unnamed.jpeg" style="color: #336699; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" height="503" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7HM78TuH-lklVOv9kd6JcwzIqCJFS5XqYGCkR1WK6fr9PXFDs6xcQ2SQyxRdVMNXW4S3Sn1aSg54Q6OAE_oXN_3CNdhUCRQdWIU9Bh_RRAP_MIKUnL0kXa1KwGi1JK0PAlatB1eGQxemU/s640/unnamed.jpeg" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="640" /></a><br /><br />As we continue sequestration for the public good, Dana and I are trying to get the hang of putting together new episodes of <i style="font-weight: bold;">This Is Rock ‘n’ Roll Radio </i>from our separate secure locations (aka “home”). When we made the late decision to do a show <a href="https://carlcafarelli.blogspot.com/2020/04/this-is-rock-n-roll-radio-1019.html" style="color: #336699; text-decoration-line: none;">last week</a>--late as in Saturday night, for a Sunday night show--we used a preexisting playlist to assemble the tracks, and Dana had just enough time to pull it all together by 7 pm Sunday for our 9 pm broadcast. He has remote access from home to the <b>WSPJ</b> server, so once the show itself was completed he was able to pop it into the schedule for playback in our usual time slot. But it was cutting it close, so we knew any future shows would require more planning and prep time.<br /><br />"Planning." "Prep time." See, that does <i>not </i>sound like <i style="font-weight: bold;">This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio with Dana & Carl</i>. A large part of the charm of <i style="font-weight: bold;">TIRnRR</i> has been our spontaneity, our on-the-fly approach to slappin' together a working playlist in real time, as our audience finds out the next song we're gonna play immediately after <i>we </i>find out the next song we're gonna play. Alchemy. Survival of the fittest. Rock 'n' roll radio.<br /><br />But: desperate times, desperate measures. We take to the airwaves with the show we can do, not the show we wish we could do. Our job is to adapt to these odd circumstances of self-quarantine, and to still do a show that sounds like <i style="font-weight: bold;">TIRnRR</i>, no matter how much the process of its creation differs from how we did the first 1017 episodes. Planning. Prep time. Awrighty. That's what we'll do.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXsHX_A64ALgzeLoqhYzEuyV6pJuOekz_K5Pl975h0C9kL6ZPKxdnAxpk_TW3YysZadFuwKxZDTKlGaHJP4YNLi2nzm7u25RUOkYLbkShSmTx7PkIlVGGXGgV5uCtxg9u2iLc-QwmZADkg/s1600/unnamed+%25281%2529.jpg" style="color: #336699; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXsHX_A64ALgzeLoqhYzEuyV6pJuOekz_K5Pl975h0C9kL6ZPKxdnAxpk_TW3YysZadFuwKxZDTKlGaHJP4YNLi2nzm7u25RUOkYLbkShSmTx7PkIlVGGXGgV5uCtxg9u2iLc-QwmZADkg/s640/unnamed+%25281%2529.jpg" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="640" /></a><br /><br />On Wednesday afternoon, Dana and I talked on the phone to select the tracks and sequence for this Sunday, April 12th. It was weird, but I think we managed to retain the essence of whatever the hell it is that we do. I had a spotlight feature I wanted to thread into the playlist, so I suggested an artist to open the show, and Dana suggested a specific track by that artist. Good. Dana wanted to follow that with a single I played on the show several weeks back, and we went back and forth, song by song, until we had a tentative playlist. Phase One completed.<br /><br />Dana sent me the supplemental files that he would normally mix into the show on Sunday nights in the studio, things like our opening theme, legal IDs, and bumpers, and he sent me the songs I needed but didn't have. Armed with all of this, on Wednesday night I programmed our playlist in iTunes, and discovered it was too long. We dropped one track apiece, did a final tweak of the playlist, and we were on target. Phase Two completed.<br /><br />On Thursday, I recorded all of the show's back-announcements as voice memos on my phone, a process which (as we discovered last week) works a lot better than we would have expected. That was Phase Three. I then imported those voice memos into iTunes, completed sequencing, verified that we were within our allotted time, and sent it all back to Dana. Phase Four? Check!<br /><br />Dana's now in the long process of Phase Five, turning this big ol' mess into a radio-ready form. It's pretty good, and it is indeed <i style="font-weight: bold;">This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio with Dana & Carl</i>. I think you'll like it, even if it wasn't constructed the way we've always done it in the past. It's how we have to do things now; that curve isn't gonna flatten itself, y'know. <br /><br />So fall in! Nose to the grindstone, shoulder to the wheel, phasers on stun, volume pointing somewhere way, way UP. Come on--we want YOU. The audience we have <i>is </i>the audience we wish to have. Sunday nights, 9 to Midnight Eastern. We have a radio show to do.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUBLZHcYX4Hr2YPgc13bbr105s3ohCvsf5KN2XZYjUD6Nohd6vMlZktvJfth07_h1RNFZ8wQkoQYhQJdN90GJbrVUx5yP8K-H_yZQ7IaZvF6ZTFfW2fX-LzhXnJDt_FSCKQzdpZo9DkX4t/s1600/unnamed+2.jpeg" style="color: #336699; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" height="502" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUBLZHcYX4Hr2YPgc13bbr105s3ohCvsf5KN2XZYjUD6Nohd6vMlZktvJfth07_h1RNFZ8wQkoQYhQJdN90GJbrVUx5yP8K-H_yZQ7IaZvF6ZTFfW2fX-LzhXnJDt_FSCKQzdpZo9DkX4t/s640/unnamed+2.jpeg" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="640" /></a><br /></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-7158591777884564582" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 578px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-7158591777884564582" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 578px;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">APRIL 13, 2020: <i>This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio</i> # 1020</span></b></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-7158591777884564582" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 578px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSDNdAQfaAPjZdsiJ3iqQNdkiBJd_joDCIvZzLlrxrtTbAzoWgJBbbpNg2dETcdZBTai2YY5XWayA_oxivx-yOaTkUc71YvZRP8GqOf6RVXNN6edz7LJ9Ict8uW-TVSEu7xRXKFcjQsSCT/s1600/Webp.net-resizeimage-43.jpg" style="color: #336699; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSDNdAQfaAPjZdsiJ3iqQNdkiBJd_joDCIvZzLlrxrtTbAzoWgJBbbpNg2dETcdZBTai2YY5XWayA_oxivx-yOaTkUc71YvZRP8GqOf6RVXNN6edz7LJ9Ict8uW-TVSEu7xRXKFcjQsSCT/s640/Webp.net-resizeimage-43.jpg" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="640" /></a><br /><br />Sometimes yesterday feels a lot closer than tomorrow. Tomorrow can seem like a vague promise, a mere possibility. Tomorrow isn't even a destination; it's just the next leg of our journey, a marker we hope will be followed by another tomorrow, then another, and so on. In our desperate moments, we may suspect that tomorrow won't arrive at all.<br /><br />Yesterday is always right there with us. We don't want to live in the past, but memories can help to sustain us in our uncertainty. It's true that memories (good and bad) can also hold us back, but whatever we are, whatever we will become, is a product of places we remember all our lives, lovers and friends we still can recall. We don't get to tomorrow without keeping the lessons that yesterday tried to teach us. Like the saying goes: those who forget the pasta are condemned to reheat it.<br /><br />Or something like that.<br /><br />Right now, many of us may think that tomorrow is even further away than normal--hey, remember <i>normal?</i>--that these days of self-quarantine, disruption, and fear will stretch beyond any horizon we can see. This is natural, and it's difficult to shake. In the present day, yesterday is still with us, for well or ill, as we continue our march toward that elusive tomorrow.<br /><br />The Coronavirus has compromised our feelings of safety and security, distanced us from friends and family. On the positive side, it's made it okay for me to appear in public wearing a mask, bringing me one step closer to my dream of being Batman. If you laughed at that, or even if you just rolled your eyes, I hope it was a momentary distraction from heavier thoughts. These are heavy times. We hope you're coping. We hope you're well. We hope you will endure through tomorrow....</span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-7158591777884564582" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 578px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-7158591777884564582" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 578px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">*****</span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-7158591777884564582" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 578px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">2020. Yeah, those were the days. But those of us lucky enough to get through it...well, we got through it. Not unscathed, and the risk will never go away completely. I contracted COVID twice, both times occurring in 2022, but neither time as serious as it coulda been. I update my vaccine every year. Like so many of us, I keep trying to pursue my own goal from 2020: </span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-7158591777884564582" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 578px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-7158591777884564582" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 578px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The right thing, and how to do it.</span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-7158591777884564582" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 578px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-7158591777884564582" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 578px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">As if I had a clue.</span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-7158591777884564582" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 578px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-7158591777884564582" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 578px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Like always: Stay safe, my friends.</span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-7158591777884564582" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 578px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizoR6Wsujo2lbSfrjbQXq3YFeA-6mFDtMz-YTKrtFyGB4HgPbNdOtMdZOTGYXlHVe4c_Q0OMsrimYBsgbll62fKqxKOjq8p1ntxE3eYr9PnnYyPHi72AXCz8YGLdBEf06pTRu8P_bs4mDUj8tHwJIHyk0R0lj-Ry1eCwx7lygim8WgcO4dqPr8fEebM1XN/s640/wish-you-were-here-10-album-cover-sticker__94768.1539500836.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="640" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizoR6Wsujo2lbSfrjbQXq3YFeA-6mFDtMz-YTKrtFyGB4HgPbNdOtMdZOTGYXlHVe4c_Q0OMsrimYBsgbll62fKqxKOjq8p1ntxE3eYr9PnnYyPHi72AXCz8YGLdBEf06pTRu8P_bs4mDUj8tHwJIHyk0R0lj-Ry1eCwx7lygim8WgcO4dqPr8fEebM1XN/w640-h640/wish-you-were-here-10-album-cover-sticker__94768.1539500836.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /></div>Carl Cafarellihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11773218537376251052noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3309889436583537455.post-53912817578064457782024-03-14T00:30:00.001-04:002024-03-14T00:30:00.126-04:00Fake THIS IS ROCK 'N' ROLL RADIO Playlist: 1970s Power Pop<p><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio with Dana & Carl </span>is simply too large a concept to be neatly contained within a mere three-hour weekly time slot. Hence these occasional fake <span style="font-weight: bold;">TIRnRR </span>playlists, detailing shows we're never really going to do...but could.</span></i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQnsdhTw72UVfWIobWfvmcZay6L2M4PJ_03kOu07C_U6fWWj2mBmO86-csycegM3UsXEy-2okloDQoJr3sFRUHwDpNSpZFLGHN9QjN05CixRbGjtBjhL0Cpm6cj5K7mOQdk2ErL4R5_gCwWCim5PC3WeaCyxo0vV1xwQ1JnAz22BnXxFU9aEG_kRspcxbl/s600/R-3499933-1461404138-2491.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="597" data-original-width="600" height="636" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQnsdhTw72UVfWIobWfvmcZay6L2M4PJ_03kOu07C_U6fWWj2mBmO86-csycegM3UsXEy-2okloDQoJr3sFRUHwDpNSpZFLGHN9QjN05CixRbGjtBjhL0Cpm6cj5K7mOQdk2ErL4R5_gCwWCim5PC3WeaCyxo0vV1xwQ1JnAz22BnXxFU9aEG_kRspcxbl/w640-h636/R-3499933-1461404138-2491.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">As I write this on Wednesday, I've finished recording my parts for this coming Sunday night's real-world edition of <i style="font-weight: bold;">This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio</i>, and sent the files to Dana so he can perform the arcane alchemy that turns it all into a radio show. We're going to be featuring the late, great <b>Eric Carmen</b>, with Carmen appearing at least once in each set throughout the course of the show. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">That will, of course, include our Federally-mandated maximum of four tracks by <b>the Raspberries</b>. The sheer importance of the Raspberries upon my development as a rockin' pop fan is immense and ongoing, and that's reflected in Sunday's show.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">But I also want to use this fake playlist to pay tribute to the larger world of power pop in the '70s. The Raspberries were, I think (and <i style="font-weight: bold;">Bomp!</i> magazine's <b>Greg Shaw </b>and <b>Gary Sperrazza!</b> agreed), the definitive '70s power group. So here's an imaginary playlist of the Raspberries and friends in the '70s.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Pop with power. It's ecstasy. Go all the way</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i style="font-weight: bold;">This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio with Dana & Carl</i><span style="font-family: helvetica;">--y'know, the real one--</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">airs Sunday nights from 9</span> to Midnight Eastern, on the air in Syracuse at </span><b style="font-family: helvetica;">SPARK! WSPJ 103.3 and 93.7 FM</b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">, and on the web at </span><a href="http://sparksyracuse.org/" style="font-family: helvetica;">http://sparksyracuse.org/</a><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> You can read all about this show's long and weird history here: </span><b style="font-family: helvetica;"><i><a href="https://carlcafarelli.blogspot.com/2019/11/boppin-whole-friggin-planet-history-of_10.html">Boppin' The Whole Friggin' Planet (The History Of THIS IS ROCK 'N' ROLL RADIO)</a></i></b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">. TAX DEDUCTIBLE DONATIONS are </span><a href="http://sparksyracuse.org/support/" style="font-family: helvetica;">always welcome</a><span style="font-family: helvetica;">.</span></p><div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span>The many fine <i style="font-weight: bold;">This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio </i>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:</span><br /></span><div><span style="font-family: "helvetica";"><br /><b><i>Volume 1: </i><a href="https://futuremanrecords.bandcamp.com/album/this-is-rock-n-roll-radio-vol-1-2">download</a></b><br /><b><i>Volume 2: </i><a href="https://www.ebay.com/itm/Various-THIS-IS-ROCK-N-ROLL-RADIO-VOLUME-2-w-THE-COWSILLS-and-more-sealed/154423208799">CD</a></b> or <b><a href="https://futuremanrecords.bandcamp.com/album/this-is-rock-n-roll-radio-vol-2">download</a></b><br /><i style="font-weight: bold;">Volume 3: </i><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="https://futuremanrecords.bandcamp.com/album/this-is-rock-n-roll-radio-vol-3">download</a></span><br /><b><i>Volume 4: </i><a href="http://shop.koolkatmusik.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=KKM&Product_Code=Various_Artists_241&Category_Code=PO">CD</a></b> or <b><a href="https://futuremanrecords.bandcamp.com/album/this-is-rock-n-roll-radio-vol-4">download</a></b><br /><b><i>Waterloo Sunset--Benefit For This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio:</i> <a href="http://shop.koolkatmusik.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=KKM&Product_Code=Various_Artists_400&Category_Code&fbclid=IwAR1hLvZW4ICTC2tfpZ-_jCnjqq8lmhxig-F-kyga69P17fkOPn3OLckVcWA">CD</a></b> or <b><a href="https://futuremanrecords.bandcamp.com/album/waterloo-sunset-benefit-for-this-is-rock-n-roll-radio">download</a></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "helvetica";"><b><i>Volume 5:</i></b></span><b style="font-family: helvetica;"> <a href="http://shop.koolkatmusik.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=KKM&Product_Code=Various_Artists_484&Category_Code=">CD</a></b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> or </span><b style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://koolkatmusik1.bandcamp.com/album/dana-carl-present-this-is-rock-n-roll-radio-vol-5">download</a></b></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><b>PS: SEND MONEY!!!! </b>We need tech upgrades like Elvis needs boats. </span><b>Spark Syracuse </b><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">is supported by listeners like you. Tax-deductible donations are welcome at </span><br /><a href="http://sparksyracuse.org/support/" target="_blank">http://sparksyracuse.org/support/</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span>Carl's new book</span><i style="font-weight: bold;"> <i><a href="https://rarebirdlit.com/gabba-gabba-hey-a-conversation-with-the-ramones-signed-by-carl-cafarelli/">Gabba Gabba Hey! A Conversation With The Ramones</a></i> </i><span>is now available, courtesy of the good folks at <b><a href="https://rarebirdlit.com/">Rare Bird Books</a></b>. Gabba Gabba YAY!!</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><i>You can follow Carl's daily blog <b>Boppin' (Like The Hip Folks Do) </b>at </i></span></span><br /><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><i><a href="https://carlcafarelli.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">https://carlcafarelli.blogspot.com/</a></i></span></span></div></div></div><p><i style="font-family: helvetica;"></i></p><p><i style="font-family: helvetica;"></i></p><p><i style="font-family: helvetica;"></i></p><p><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></i></p><p><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></i></p><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><b style="font-family: helvetica;">FAKE <i>TIRnRR </i>PLAYLIST: 1970s Power Pop</b></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><b style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE RASPBERRIES: Ecstasy</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE BAY CITY ROLLERS: Wouldn't You Like It</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">BADFINGER: Baby Blue</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE NERVES: Hanging On The Telephone</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">BLUE ASH: Abracadabra (Have You Seen Her)</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE SCRUFFS: Revenge</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">--</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE FLASHCUBES: Wait Till Next Week</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE RASPBERRIES: Tonight</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE KNACK: Your Number Or Your Name</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">PEZBAND: Stop! Wait A Minute</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">FOTOMAKER: Come Back</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE RECORDS: Starry Eyes</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">--</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">EDDIE AND THE HOT RODS: Do Anything You Wanna Do</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE PALEY BROTHERS: Come Out And Play</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE RASPBERRIES: Let's Pretend</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">GENERATION X: Ready Steady Go</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">PAUL COLLINS: Walking Out On Love</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE ROMANTICS: When I Look In Your Eyes</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">--</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE RAMONES: Babysitter</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE SEARCHERS: Hearts In Her Eyes</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">CRABBY APPLETON: Go Back</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">SHOES: Tomorrow Night</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">TODD RUNDGREN: Couldn't I Just Tell You</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE RASPBERRIES: Play On</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">--</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE DWIGHT TWILLEY BAND: I'm On Fire</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE FLAMIN' GROOVIES: Shake Some Action</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">PALEY BROTHERS AND RAMONES: Come On Let's Go</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">NEW MATH: Die Trying</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">BIG STAR: September Gurls</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE RASPBERRIES: On The Beach</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">--</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">20/20: Yellow Pills</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">KISS: Shout It Out Loud [<b>NOTE: </b>Yes, I know KISS isn't power pop. Get your own blog.]</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">CHEAP TRICK: Surrender</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE RASPBERRIES: I'm A Rocker</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE BEAT: Rock And Roll Girl</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE UNDERTONES: Teenage Kicks</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">--</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE RASPBERRIES: I Wanna Be With You</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE PLEASERS: You Don't Know</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE REAL KIDS: All Kindsa Girls</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE POP: Down On The Boulevard</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE QUICK: Pretty Please Me</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE BUZZCOCKS: Ever Fallen In Love</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">--</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">MARCUS HOOK ROLL BAND: Natural Man</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">BRAM TCHAIKOVSKY: Girl Of My Dreams</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE MOTORS: Dancing The Night Away</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE RUBINOOS: I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE RASPBERRIES: Cruisin' Music</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE LAUGHING DOGS: Get 'Im Outa Town</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE NATIVES: Tell Me A Story</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">ARTFUL DODGER: Follow Me</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">--</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE BAY CITY ROLLERS: Rock And Roll Love Letter</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">RICH KIDS: Rich Kids</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE POPPEES: Jealousy</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE ZONES: New Life</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">STIV BATORS: It's Cold Outside</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE FLAMIN' GROOVIES: I Can't Hide</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">BADFINGER: No Matter What</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE RASPBERRIES: Go All The Way</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">--</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">SHAUN CASSIDY: That's Rock N' Roll</span></div>Carl Cafarellihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11773218537376251052noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3309889436583537455.post-51327439797624517292024-03-13T00:30:00.001-04:002024-03-13T00:30:00.130-04:00Fake THIS IS ROCK 'N' ROLL RADIO Playlist: Originally Unreleased<p><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio with Dana & Carl </span>is simply too large a concept to be neatly contained within a mere three-hour weekly time slot. Hence these occasional fake <span style="font-weight: bold;">TIRnRR </span>playlists, detailing shows we're never really going to do...but could.</span></i></p><p><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"></i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3C6yV04-ywBK_bI-Piljhxli6iWIqmHrjIc9zQDj7CVLjh5mFSFFKR7vFu6ywmKM7REisPBta8FdXyydueXojXlMudW21eox1Lq638GWiAat7QEW6ZnckGyFTXRWXxdEIzoCNuBSgIc4duio2bYZ9rP9OKbseqa4TGnlPm4TlKm9JZ8Pk7h4LxWV1WCJx/s600/R-19527913-1626544140-1544.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="600" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3C6yV04-ywBK_bI-Piljhxli6iWIqmHrjIc9zQDj7CVLjh5mFSFFKR7vFu6ywmKM7REisPBta8FdXyydueXojXlMudW21eox1Lq638GWiAat7QEW6ZnckGyFTXRWXxdEIzoCNuBSgIc4duio2bYZ9rP9OKbseqa4TGnlPm4TlKm9JZ8Pk7h4LxWV1WCJx/w640-h640/R-19527913-1626544140-1544.jpg" width="640" /></a></i></div><p></p><p><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;"><span style="background-color: white;">The vaults. What would we do without the vaults?</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">Today's exercise in imaginary playlisting selects tracks that went unreleased at the time of their original recording. Most of them were eventually exhumed and dusted off for public consumption in later years (or decades), though a few still remain officially unreleased.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">Coming off a series of all-covers fake <i style="font-weight: bold;">TIRnRR</i> playlists that spotlighted <b><a href="https://carlcafarelli.blogspot.com/2024/02/fake-this-is-rock-n-roll-radio-playlist_0389121645.html">the Ramones</a></b>,<a href="https://carlcafarelli.blogspot.com/2024/03/fake-this-is-rock-n-roll-radio-playlist.html"> <b>the Flashcubes</b></a>, and <b><a href="https://carlcafarelli.blogspot.com/2024/03/fake-this-is-rock-n-roll-radio-playlist_01485465948.html">the Beatles</a> </b>as Featured Artists, I figured I'd do the same thing here with <b>the Monkees</b>. As much as Peter, Davy, Micky, and Michael seemed to be so underappreciated for so very long, the Monkees' legacy has been lovingly preserved and expanded in deluxe reissues. I tell ya, some of the stuff that was pried outta the Monkees' vault after the fact is peer to the familiar Monkees motherlode, and two of these missing-links treats are among <a href="https://carlcafarelli.blogspot.com/2017/09/once-upon-once-in-while-my-25-favorite.html">my 25 favorite Monkees tracks</a>.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">So: INTO THE VAULT! Any record you ain't heard is a new record. An artist's canon may be larger than we knew at first. Let's have a listen.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i style="font-weight: bold;">This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio with Dana & Carl</i><span style="font-family: helvetica;">--y'know, the real one--</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">airs Sunday nights from 9</span> to Midnight Eastern, on the air in Syracuse at </span><b style="font-family: helvetica;">SPARK! WSPJ 103.3 and 93.7 FM</b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">, and on the web at </span><a href="http://sparksyracuse.org/" style="font-family: helvetica;">http://sparksyracuse.org/</a><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> You can read all about this show's long and weird history here: </span><b style="font-family: helvetica;"><i><a href="https://carlcafarelli.blogspot.com/2019/11/boppin-whole-friggin-planet-history-of_10.html">Boppin' The Whole Friggin' Planet (The History Of THIS IS ROCK 'N' ROLL RADIO)</a></i></b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">. TAX DEDUCTIBLE DONATIONS are </span><a href="http://sparksyracuse.org/support/" style="font-family: helvetica;">always welcome</a><span style="font-family: helvetica;">.</span></p><div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span>The many fine <i style="font-weight: bold;">This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio </i>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:</span><br /></span><div><span style="font-family: "helvetica";"><br /><b><i>Volume 1: </i><a href="https://futuremanrecords.bandcamp.com/album/this-is-rock-n-roll-radio-vol-1-2">download</a></b><br /><b><i>Volume 2: </i><a href="https://www.ebay.com/itm/Various-THIS-IS-ROCK-N-ROLL-RADIO-VOLUME-2-w-THE-COWSILLS-and-more-sealed/154423208799">CD</a></b> or <b><a href="https://futuremanrecords.bandcamp.com/album/this-is-rock-n-roll-radio-vol-2">download</a></b><br /><i style="font-weight: bold;">Volume 3: </i><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="https://futuremanrecords.bandcamp.com/album/this-is-rock-n-roll-radio-vol-3">download</a></span><br /><b><i>Volume 4: </i><a href="http://shop.koolkatmusik.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=KKM&Product_Code=Various_Artists_241&Category_Code=PO">CD</a></b> or <b><a href="https://futuremanrecords.bandcamp.com/album/this-is-rock-n-roll-radio-vol-4">download</a></b><br /><b><i>Waterloo Sunset--Benefit For This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio:</i> <a href="http://shop.koolkatmusik.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=KKM&Product_Code=Various_Artists_400&Category_Code&fbclid=IwAR1hLvZW4ICTC2tfpZ-_jCnjqq8lmhxig-F-kyga69P17fkOPn3OLckVcWA">CD</a></b> or <b><a href="https://futuremanrecords.bandcamp.com/album/waterloo-sunset-benefit-for-this-is-rock-n-roll-radio">download</a></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "helvetica";"><b><i>Volume 5:</i></b></span><b style="font-family: helvetica;"> <a href="http://shop.koolkatmusik.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=KKM&Product_Code=Various_Artists_484&Category_Code=">CD</a></b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> or </span><b style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://koolkatmusik1.bandcamp.com/album/dana-carl-present-this-is-rock-n-roll-radio-vol-5">download</a></b></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><b>PS: SEND MONEY!!!! </b>We need tech upgrades like Elvis needs boats. </span><b>Spark Syracuse </b><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">is supported by listeners like you. Tax-deductible donations are welcome at </span><br /><a href="http://sparksyracuse.org/support/" target="_blank">http://sparksyracuse.org/support/</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span>Carl's new book</span><i style="font-weight: bold;"> <i><a href="https://rarebirdlit.com/gabba-gabba-hey-a-conversation-with-the-ramones-signed-by-carl-cafarelli/">Gabba Gabba Hey! A Conversation With The Ramones</a></i> </i><span>is now available, courtesy of the good folks at <b><a href="https://rarebirdlit.com/">Rare Bird Books</a></b>. Gabba Gabba YAY!!</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><i>You can follow Carl's daily blog <b>Boppin' (Like The Hip Folks Do) </b>at </i></span></span><br /><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><i><a href="https://carlcafarelli.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">https://carlcafarelli.blogspot.com/</a></i></span></span></div></div></div><p><i style="font-family: helvetica;"></i></p><p><i style="font-family: helvetica;"></i></p><p><i style="font-family: helvetica;"></i></p><p><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></i></p><p><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></i></p><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><b style="font-family: helvetica;">FAKE <i>TIRnRR </i>PLAYLIST: Originally Unreleased</b></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">[asterisks denote tracks that, as far as I know, still remain officially unreleased]</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><b style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></b></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE BEATLES: Leave My Kitten Alone</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">BADFINGER: I'll Be The One</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE MONKEES: She'll Be There</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">OTIS REDDING: Pounds And Hundreds</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">KISS: It's My Life</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE BANGLES: Everything I Wanted</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">--</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE FLASHCUBES: No Promise</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">WONDERBOY: Girl Songs</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE KNACK: Don't Look Back</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE MYNAH BIRDS: It's My Time</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">*THE PANDORAS: I'll Walk Away</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE MONKEES: I Don't Think You Know Me</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">--</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">DAVID RUFFIN: I Want You Back</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE KINKS: I Don't Need You Anymore</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE MONKEES: Love To Love</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE NEW YORK DOLLS: Give Her A Great Big Kiss</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE RUNAWAYS: C'mon</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">JOAN JETT AND THE BLACKHEARTS: Summertime Blues</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">--</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">MAD MONSTER PARTY: No Matter What I Do</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE MONKEES: Nine Times Blue</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE BYRDS: I Know My Rider</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE VILLAS: Someone To Hold On To</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE HOLLIES: Schoolgirl</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">*THE ROMANTICS: Keep On Running</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">--</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE MONKEES: All Of Your Toys</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">JOHN LENNON: Nobody Told Me</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">GREAT BUILDINGS: Up The Walls Of The World</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE RAMONES: Touring [1981 version]</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE PRETTY THINGS: Sea About Me</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE COWSILLS: You've Got A Way</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">--</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">RONNIE SPECTOR: Something's Gonna Happen</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE DAVE CLARK FIVE: Last Train To Clarksville</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE MONKEES: Steam Engine</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">BIG STAR: Till The End Of The Day</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE DRIFTERS: Only In America</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">SCREEN TEST: Sound Of The Radio</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">--</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE MYNAH BIRDS: I Got You (In My Soul)</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE MONKEES: Time And Time Again</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">JOSIE COTTON: Everything Is Oh Yeah</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE CARS: Funtime</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">*THE NEW MONKEES: One Of The Boys</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">MICKY DOLENZ: Chance Of A Lifetime</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">--</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">*THE OHMS: License To Kill</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE WHO: Man With Money</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE MONKEES: All The King's Horses</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE RICHARDS: All Through The Nite</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">*SCREEN TEST: My Baby's Stacked</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE MONKEES: If I Ever Get To Saginaw Again</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE FLASHCUBES: Face In The Crowd</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">MAD MONSTER PARTY: Just Lucky</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">--</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE MONKEES: Of You</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE RAMONES: Indian Giver</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE MONKEES: Some Of Shelly's Blues</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">RONNIE SPECTOR: You're My Favorite Waste Of Time</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE MONKEES: Come On In</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE MYNAH BIRDS: I'll Wait Forever</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE BEATLES: Dig It [complete version]</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE MONKEES: Circle Sky [live]</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">--</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE MONKEES: Masking Tape</span></div>Carl Cafarellihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11773218537376251052noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3309889436583537455.post-54642543471006816332024-03-12T00:30:00.018-04:002024-03-12T00:30:00.133-04:00The Copperhead's Kids: tentative blueprint for a novel<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMjJwv6nFUtUauqbV4j9eRipVnJqrM3k7KF39BMGERjLKsNKMS5ud4bShRn5_92clxuO_3BxnkCtZcalzYqm54H32BUgWb9pDSt80tqzN3J6QywSIZx2OPFwAg8X-4H0QxAGSM8Zros88exlmVj57uLJJAVMZqdbtGy4JLaRnV1Tf2-fg1CLy8eG5HhDvi/s279/IMG_0154%202%20(1).jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="264" data-original-width="279" height="606" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMjJwv6nFUtUauqbV4j9eRipVnJqrM3k7KF39BMGERjLKsNKMS5ud4bShRn5_92clxuO_3BxnkCtZcalzYqm54H32BUgWb9pDSt80tqzN3J6QywSIZx2OPFwAg8X-4H0QxAGSM8Zros88exlmVj57uLJJAVMZqdbtGy4JLaRnV1Tf2-fg1CLy8eG5HhDvi/w640-h606/IMG_0154%202%20(1).jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><i>Illustration by <b>Ed Catto</b></i></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i style="font-weight: bold;">The Copperhead Kid</i> is a loosely-connected series of short stories I began writing (and SELLING!!) in 2019. The initial entry "The Last Ride Of The Copperhead Kid" was my third-ever fiction sale, and the first one to be published. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The short story was originally intended as a one-off, satisfying a sudden urge I had to try my hand at writing a Western. After it was published, I had a notion of writing a pulp adventure starring a masked vigilante in the 1930s. I figured I would make my vigilante hero the daughter of the Copperhead Kid, and my own little Copperhead universe had begun.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I wrote and sold a total of five stories in the series--tales of a gunslinger in the Old West, a vigilante in the '30s, a secret agent in the '60s, a bass-playin'/ass-kickin' punk chick in the '80s, and a reluctant super-hero in the present day--all of them published by the good folks at <b><a href="https://comicsahoy.com/">AHOY Comics</a></b>. I started writing two more: "The Copperhead Kid's New York Adventure" (set in 1920) and "Bullets From The Copperhead Detective" (taking place as 1924 becomes 1925). I made notes for a bunch of other potential entries, all with an eye toward pulling them all together as a <i>de facto</i> novel about the Copperhead dynasty.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">My Mom passed at the end of 2021. She seemed to think that the chronicles of the Copperhead kin would be my fast-track ticket to fame and acclaim. That was more a measure of her belief in me than it was any sort of real-world assessment of the pop culture market, but I owe it to her to at least give it a shot.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Below is a current rough blueprint for a still-untitled Copperhead novel:</span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://carlcafarelli.blogspot.com/2020/05/the-last-ride-of-copperhead-kid.html">The Last Ride Of The Copperhead Kid</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Freedom's Whip</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The Copperhead Kid Takes A Bride</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The Copperhead Kid's New York Adventure</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The Deputy's Story</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Copperhead Ace And The Bloody Skies Over Germany</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Bullets From The Copperhead Detective</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://carlcafarelli.blogspot.com/2020/01/the-copperhead-strikes.html">The Copperhead Strikes!</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The Mighty Mushroom Roar</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I Am Not Now, Nor Have I Ever Been</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://carlcafarelli.blogspot.com/2019/11/the-copperhead-affair.html">The Copperhead Affair</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">A Serpent's Pride</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Rocket To Russia</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://carlcafarelli.blogspot.com/2022/04/chaos-at-copperhead-club-rock-n-roll.html">Chaos At The Copperhead Club</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Night Of The Living Copperheads</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The Casebook Of Dr. Copperhead</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">And Starring As The Copperhead Kid...</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Copper Crusaders</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://carlcafarelli.blogspot.com/2023/02/flight-of-copperhead.html">Flight Of The Copperhead</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Ghost Of The Copperhead Ace</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Copperhead, LLC</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Gather The Copperheads</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">A Planet Of Vipers</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Beware The Copperheads!</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Return To Copperhead Ridge</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">This suggests the very general flow of a narrative that, so far, only exists in my mind, and in sketch form at that. I have a number of other projects at various levels of immediacy and maybe-someday, but the Copperhead Kid and his adventurous progeny are never far from my wild-roaming imagination.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The Copperheads' time will come. Ride, Kids. Ride.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiR-bnEutrnlc-e4nNnq2esm7UAMIIDTrqniuctb1ErokNcCB0ASRS6dJBQWMn9eAwfLCaETtJUXWYBPBtWxI0BB8sungeL7hTe4aMbVsNVAjOlVpNkyL2M2wUiCgNyMN0r21CHQLuua8CTVHeyQJUlFt7_J1XAmI0D3xzbnb2NhnuSH7ZJC3umcraRrmsN/s639/IMG_1662.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="618" data-original-width="639" height="618" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiR-bnEutrnlc-e4nNnq2esm7UAMIIDTrqniuctb1ErokNcCB0ASRS6dJBQWMn9eAwfLCaETtJUXWYBPBtWxI0BB8sungeL7hTe4aMbVsNVAjOlVpNkyL2M2wUiCgNyMN0r21CHQLuua8CTVHeyQJUlFt7_J1XAmI0D3xzbnb2NhnuSH7ZJC3umcraRrmsN/w640-h618/IMG_1662.jpg" width="640" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><i><i><i><span style="color: #241e12; font-family: helvetica;"><i><i><span style="color: #241e12; font-family: helvetica;">If you like what you see here on <i><b>Boppin' (Like The Hip Folks Do)</b></i>, please consider a visit to</span></i></i></span></i></i><i style="font-family: helvetica;"><i><span style="color: #241e12; font-family: helvetica;"><i><i><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;"> <a href="https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/CarlCafarelli">CC's Tip Jar</a>. </span></i></i></span></i></i></i></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i><span>Carl's new book</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> <span>Gabba Gabba Hey! A Conversation With The Ramones</span> </span><span>is now available, courtesy of the good folks at <b><a href="https://rarebirdlit.com/">Rare Bird Books</a></b>. Gabba Gabba YAY!! </span></i></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i><a href="https://rarebirdlit.com/gabba-gabba-hey-a-conversation-with-the-ramones-by-carl-cafarelli/">https://rarebirdlit.com/gabba-gabba-hey-a-conversation-with-the-ramones-by-carl-cafarelli/</a></i></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>If it's true that one book leads to another, my next book will be <b><a href="https://carlcafarelli.blogspot.com/2023/08/finishing-greatest-record-ever-made.html">The Greatest Record Ever Made! (Volume 1)</a></b>. Stay tuned. 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKAiLZBplDjHw7A7TNmuzca5x2RvGrmyd0OWplnKi1hfBBcrNkPnKigHH3pZ9OG-djDGYU5LYCK-8ZZannnDLb2OKV8G0bqbitZsmM0iros9DN9YOSmNplZlIX-wqcRS6J-Af0533BfZ5Ki42v6CVVbSly-CVKh1nWpQxXRsbzLPK3s6dueUw2YEzIN0nv/s1200/a1939558696_10.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKAiLZBplDjHw7A7TNmuzca5x2RvGrmyd0OWplnKi1hfBBcrNkPnKigHH3pZ9OG-djDGYU5LYCK-8ZZannnDLb2OKV8G0bqbitZsmM0iros9DN9YOSmNplZlIX-wqcRS6J-Af0533BfZ5Ki42v6CVVbSly-CVKh1nWpQxXRsbzLPK3s6dueUw2YEzIN0nv/w640-h640/a1939558696_10.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;">We can see for miles. We can also <i>hear</i> for miles.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">After more than twenty-five years of doing whatever it is that <i style="font-weight: bold;">This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio</i> does, it's cool to be able to look at a new week's playlist and see that twenty-one tracks--more than a third of the show--are things never before played on <i style="font-weight: bold;">TIRnRR</i>. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">New releases account for a lot of our fresh spins, of course. We always, always like to mix in a little bit of the latest and greatest alongside our familiar classics, fave raves, and golden oldies. But there are also vintage tunes we just somehow never got around to programming in our preceding 1220+ shows. Before this week, we'd never played <b>the Four Tops</b>' '70s hit "Keeper Of The Castle," nor <b>Linda Ronstadt</b>'s cover of <b>Elvis Costello</b>'s "Talking In The Dark," nor <b>Millie Small</b>'s cover of <b>Sam Cooke</b>'s "Bring It On Home To Me," nor <b>the Ramones</b>' <i style="font-weight: bold;">End Of The Century</i> album track "All The Way," nor <b>the Easybeats</b>' "Heaven And Hell," and so on. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Man, I <i>love</i> what we do here. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Maybe it's bad form to declare that you're a fan of your own work. But I love this show. I love the seemingly random combinations that combust from the selections Dana and I make, and I'm always delighted that the resulting blend winds up sounding like some deliberate master stroke of meticulous, premeditated programming.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">But it ain't. I play a record. Dana plays a record. The mix takes care of itself. The Best Three Hours Of Radio On The Whole Friggin' Planet. Stuff ya know, stuff ya don't know...</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">...yet.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Listen, my children, and you will hear. This is what rock 'n' roll radio sounded like on another Sunday night in Syracuse this week.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">This show is available as <a href="https://westcottradio.org/archive/rock_n_roll_radio_2024-03-10.mp3">a podcast</a>.</span></p><div><p><i style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio with Dana & Carl</b></i><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i> </i>airs Sunday nights from 9 to Midnight Eastern, on the air in Syracuse at </span><b style="font-family: helvetica;">SPARK! WSPJ 103.3 and 93.7 FM</b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">, streaming at <b><a href="https://ec3.yesstreaming.net:4280/api/links/?t=web&l=ne&c=1&fbclid=IwAR2sdklgIfqVCG1_E3I-bkPwbCFqbnFPJbQ95V4bveYs1g5o4jHEQjZNVx0">SPARK stream</a></b>, and on the <b>Radio Garden</b> app as <b>WESTCOTT RADIO</b>. Recent shows are archived at <b><a href="http://westcottradio.org/">Westcott Radio</a></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span>You can read all about this show's long and weird history here: </span><b><i><a href="https://carlcafarelli.blogspot.com/2019/11/boppin-whole-friggin-planet-history-of_10.html">Boppin' The Whole Friggin' Planet (The History Of THIS IS ROCK 'N' ROLL RADIO)</a></i></b><span>. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: "helvetica";">TAX DEDUCTIBLE DONATIONS are </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://sparksyracuse.org/2017/10/24/support-our-sponsors/">always welcome</a></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica";">.</span></p><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span>The many fine <i style="font-weight: bold;">This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio </i>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:</span><br /></span><div><span style="font-family: "helvetica";"><br /><b><i>Volume 1: </i><a href="https://futuremanrecords.bandcamp.com/album/this-is-rock-n-roll-radio-vol-1-2">download</a></b><br /><b><i>Volume 2: </i><a href="https://www.ebay.com/itm/Various-THIS-IS-ROCK-N-ROLL-RADIO-VOLUME-2-w-THE-COWSILLS-and-more-sealed/154423208799">CD</a></b> or <b><a href="https://futuremanrecords.bandcamp.com/album/this-is-rock-n-roll-radio-vol-2">download</a></b><br /><i style="font-weight: bold;">Volume 3: </i><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="https://futuremanrecords.bandcamp.com/album/this-is-rock-n-roll-radio-vol-3">download</a></span><br /><b><i>Volume 4: </i><a href="http://shop.koolkatmusik.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=KKM&Product_Code=Various_Artists_241&Category_Code=PO">CD</a></b> or <b><a href="https://futuremanrecords.bandcamp.com/album/this-is-rock-n-roll-radio-vol-4">download</a></b><br /><b><i>Waterloo Sunset--Benefit For This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio:</i> <a href="http://shop.koolkatmusik.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=KKM&Product_Code=Various_Artists_400&Category_Code&fbclid=IwAR1hLvZW4ICTC2tfpZ-_jCnjqq8lmhxig-F-kyga69P17fkOPn3OLckVcWA">CD</a></b> or <b><a href="https://futuremanrecords.bandcamp.com/album/waterloo-sunset-benefit-for-this-is-rock-n-roll-radio">download</a></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "helvetica";"><b><i>Volume 5: </i></b></span><b style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="http://shop.koolkatmusik.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=KKM&Product_Code=Various_Artists_484&Category_Code=">CD</a></b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> or </span><b style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://koolkatmusik1.bandcamp.com/album/dana-carl-present-this-is-rock-n-roll-radio-vol-5">download</a></b></div></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">HEY! Looking for something to read? Check out Carl's book <b><i><a href="https://rarebirdlit.com/gabba-gabba-hey-a-conversation-with-the-ramones-by-carl-cafarelli/">Gabba Gabba Hey! A Conversation With The Ramones</a></i></b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> You can also follow Carl's daily blog</span><i style="color: #333333;"> </i><b style="color: #333333; font-style: italic;">Boppin' (Like The Hip Folks Do) </b><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">at </span><span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><a href="https://carlcafarelli.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">https://carlcafarelli.blogspot.com/</a> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">If you would like to receive links to each day's blog, please reply to this email.</span></span></div></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "helvetica";"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><i style="font-weight: bold;">TIRnRR </i># 1224: 3/10/2024</span></span></div></div><div><b style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;"><i>TIRnRR</i> FRESH SPINS!</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;"> Tracks we think we ain't played before are listed in </span><b style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">bold</b></div><div><br /></div><div><div><b style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">CARLA OLSON: I Can See For Miles (BFD, single)</b></div></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">THE WHO: The Kids Are Alright (MCA, My Generation)</span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;"><b>THE FOUR TOPS: Keeper Of The Castle (MCA, Keeper Of The Castle: Their Best 1974-1978)</b></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;"><span>WRECKLESS ERIC AND AMY RIGBY: Do You Remember That? (<a href="https://wrecklessericamyrigby.bandcamp.com/album/a-working-museum">Southern Domestic, A Working Museum</a>)</span></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;"><span><b>TALKING HEADS: Wild Wild Life (Rhino, The Best Of Talking Heads)</b></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;"><span>THE YARDBIRDS: Little Games (Rhino, Ultimate!)</span></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">--</span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;"><b>THE AMPLIFIER HEADS FEATURING BARRENCE WHITFIELD: They Came To Rock (<a href="https://theamplifierheads.bandcamp.com/track/they-came-to-rock">Rum Bar, single</a>)</b></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;"><b>YOUNG FRESH FELLOWS: You're Not Supposed To Laugh (Frontier, Totally Lost)</b></span></div><div><b style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">THE SPONGETONES: Inevitable You (Loaded Goat, Scrambled Eggs)</b></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">YO LA TENGO: I Should Have Known Better (Matador, I Am Not Afraid Of You And I Will Beat Your Ass)</span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;"><b>MILLIE SMALL: Bring It On Home To Me (Caroline, The Best Of Millie Small)</b></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;"><b>THE WELL WISHERS: Life Is Right (<a href="https://variousunpluggedvol1.bandcamp.com/album/power-pop-unplugged">Zero Hour, VA: Power Pop Unplugged, Volume On</a></b><a href="https://variousunpluggedvol1.bandcamp.com/album/power-pop-unplugged">e</a>)</span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">--</span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black; font-weight: 700;">THE BUSBOYS: In My Heart (n/a, single)</span></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;">THE WEEKLINGS: Falling Down The Stairs (<a href="https://jemrecordings.com/services//the-weeklings-150199493">Jem, Raspberry Park</a>)</span></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;"><b style="color: #333333;">LINDA RONSTADT: Talking In The Dark (Asylum, Mad Love)</b></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">WARREN ZEVON: Poor Poor Pitiful Me (Rhino, Genius)</span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">THE FLASHCUBES: Get The Message [featuring Randy Klawon] (<a href="https://orcd.co/theflashcubes-popmasters?fbclid=IwAR3pjz2bea39lJ_SxXrRgFSzDHVRoOTGtzArAP8D7dU47tVOgv-ub6iXXg0">Big Stir, Pop Masters</a>)</span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">VIC GODARD AND THE SUBWAY SECT: Parallel Lines (Motion, Twenty Odd Years)</span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">--</span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;"><div style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">MONTEREY HONEY: Down To Me (<a href="https://montereyhoney.bandcamp.com/album/monterey-honey">El Reno, Monterey Honey</a>)</b></div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">THE VAPORS: America (<a href="https://www.cherryred.co.uk/product/the-vapors-waiting-for-the-weekend-the-united-artists-liberty-recordings-4cd/">Cherry Red, VA: Waiting For The Weekend--The United Artists & Liberty Recordings</a>)</b></div><div><b style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">THE ELECTROMAGNATES: Airwave Hello (<a href="https://bigstirrecords.bandcamp.com/album/airwave-hello">Big Stir, single</a>)</span></b></div><div><b style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">THE VELVET UNDERGROUND: Beginning To See The Light (Polydor, Peel Slowly And See)</span></b></div><div>P. 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ARNOLD: Soul Survivor (Metrophonic, single)</div></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;"><b>TROLLEY: Quiet Her (<a href="https://futuremanrecords.bandcamp.com/album/altered-sweet">Futureman, VA: Altered Sweet: A Tribute To Matthew Sweet</a>)</b></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">--</span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;"><b>THE VINTAGE YELL: Time Of Death (On This Love) (Mesquite St, single)</b></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">TRIP WIRE: Katie Says (<a href="https://bigstirrecords.com/album/1842654/trip-wire">Big Stir, Trip Wire</a>)</span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">ELENA ROGERS: I Feel Alive (<a href="https://elenarogers.bandcamp.com/track/i-feel-alive">Eats Dynamite, single</a>)</span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">TOMMY STINSON'S COWBOYS IN THE CAMPFIRE: That's It (<a href="https://www.tommystinson.com/product-category/music/">Done To Death, Wronger</a>)</span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">ABBA: S.O.S. (Polydor, ABBA Gold: Greatest Hits)</span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">SWEET: Fox On The Run (Capitol, The Best Of Sweet)</span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">--</span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;"><b>SPEEDFOSSIL: Sweetheart (<a href="https://speedfossil.bandcamp.com/album/room-with-a-vu-vol-1">Sonic Escort, Room With A VU, Vol. 1</a>)</b></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">MATTHEW SWEET AND SUSANNA HOFFS: Care Of Cell # 44 (Shout Factory, Under The Covers, Vol. 1)</span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;"><b>WONDERBOY: Words Escape Me (<a href="https://robbierist.bandcamp.com/album/hero-isle">n/a, Hero Isle</a>)</b></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;"><span>MATTHEW SWEET: Sick Of Myself (Zoo, 100% Fun)</span></span></div><div><b style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">THE RAMONES: All The Way (Rhino, End Of The Century)</b></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">SUSANNA HOFFS: Stuck In The Middle With You (London, Susanna Hoffs)</span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">--</span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;"><b><i>The Greatest Record Ever Made!</i></b></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">EDDIE COCHRAN: Somethin' Else (Razor & Tie, Somethin' Else: The Fine Lookin' Hits Of Eddie Cochran)</span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">T. REX: Ride A White Swan (Hip-O, MARC BOLAN & T. REX: 20th Century Boy: The Ultimate Collection) </span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;"><b><span style="font-weight: 400;">PERILOUS: Energy (<a href="https://perilousny.bandcamp.com/album/yeah">n/a, YEAH!!!</a>)</span></b></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;"><b><span style="font-weight: 400;">MARY LOU LORD: Western Union Desperate (Work, Got No Shadow)</span></b></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;"><b><span style="font-weight: 400;">THE FIVE AMERICANS: Western Union (Sundazed, Western Union: Best Of The Five Americans)</span></b></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;"><b><span style="font-weight: 400;">THE MIGHTY LEMON DROPS: Inside Out (Sire, World Without End)</span></b></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">--</span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;"><b>THE JACK RUBIES: I'll Give You More (<a href="https://www.bigstirrecords.com/the-jack-rubies">Big Stir, Clocks Are Out Of Time</a>)</b></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;"><b>THE EASYBEATS: Heaven And Hell [7" single version] (<a href="https://www.cherryred.co.uk/product/too-much-sun-will-burn-the-british-psychedelic-sounds-of-1967-volume-2-3cd-box-set/">Cherry Red, VA: Too Much Sun Will Burn: The British Psychedelic Sounds Of 1967 Volume 2</a>)</b><br />THE MONKEES: Sunny Girlfriend (Rhino, The Mike & Micky Show)</span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;"><b>THE MUFFS: How I Pass The Time (<a href="https://omnivorerecordings.com/shop/really-really-happy/">Omnivore, Really Really Happy</a>)</b></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">WESLEY FULLER: Jacaranda (<a href="https://shop.koolkatmusik.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=KKM&Product_Code=Wesley_Fuller&Category_Code=">Kool Kat Musik, All Fuller, No Filler</a>)</span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">JUNIPER: James (<a href="https://juniperssongs.bandcamp.com/album/she-steals-candy">Confidential Recordings, She Steals Candy</a>)</span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">--</span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">THE CYNZ: Crow Haired Boys (<a href="https://jemrecordings.com/">Jem, Little Miss Lost</a>)</span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">THE MOVE: I Can Hear The Grass Grow (Westside, Movements)</span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">LITTLE RICHARD: Ready Teddy (Specialty, The Georgia Peach)</span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">MICHAEL CARPENTER: That's Alright By Me (Not Lame, VA: Full Circle: A Tribute To Gene Clark)</span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;"><b>PAUL COLLINS: Don't Take It So Hard (<a href="https://jemrecordings.com/services//paul-collins-150417705">Jem, Stand Back And Take A Good Look</a>)</b></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">THE MOTORS: Forget About You (Virgin, Approved By The Motors)</span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;"><div><div><b><div style="color: black; font-family: Times;"><div><div><div style="font-weight: 400;"><div><div><span style="color: #333333;"><div style="color: black;"><div><div><div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;"><div style="color: black; font-family: Times;"><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">CAROLYNE MAS: Quote Goodbye Quote (Renaissance, Carolyne Mas)</span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">THE BEATLES: Cry Baby Cry (Apple, The Beatles)</span></div></div></span></div></div></div></div></div></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></b></div></div></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">--</span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">THE SMITHEREENS: Face The World With Pride (<a href="https://thesmithereens.bandcamp.com/album/the-lost-album">Sunset Blvd, The Lost Album</a>)</span></div>Carl Cafarellihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11773218537376251052noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3309889436583537455.post-59541687729493643862024-03-10T00:30:00.001-05:002024-03-10T00:30:00.130-05:00Tonight on THIS IS ROCK 'N' ROLL RADIO<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdueEqyrC-uox9DEDdZ1VvAD6Bo5xZHWTFIlE3yBWCPR91q2IcfK17T9-3AsPSNM-scj_dfC-fLdS5LpHw6shIoiNMKnzeiv45DUVkC98RZ5hwP6UR_3E9p1SHqWY3eVPgd4lafbm7r-mqTySPU1JDFu6ynLc-NJjHuatGaL_nMuvZcg1o6LIPAm3jayhW/s711/21c186d661d95ab4437fb51033c9cf23.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="711" data-original-width="474" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdueEqyrC-uox9DEDdZ1VvAD6Bo5xZHWTFIlE3yBWCPR91q2IcfK17T9-3AsPSNM-scj_dfC-fLdS5LpHw6shIoiNMKnzeiv45DUVkC98RZ5hwP6UR_3E9p1SHqWY3eVPgd4lafbm7r-mqTySPU1JDFu6ynLc-NJjHuatGaL_nMuvZcg1o6LIPAm3jayhW/w426-h640/21c186d661d95ab4437fb51033c9cf23.jpg" width="426" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Sure, we gotta spring forward, but why bother JUST springing forward when ya can ROCK OUT? <i style="font-weight: bold;">THIS IS ROCK 'N' ROLL RADIO</i> has your soundtrack for whatever daylight you save AND whatever nighttime you indulge, with the rockin' boppin' latest from <b>CARLA OLSON, THE AMPLIFIER HEADS FEATURING BARRENCE WHITFIELD, THE BUSBOYS, THE CYNZ, THE ELECTROMAGNATES, MONTEREY HONEY, THE VINTAGE YELL, ELENA ROGERS, SPEEDFOSSIL, THE JACK RUBIES, PAUL COLLINS, WESLEY FULLER, </b>and <b>THE WEEKLINGS</b>, plus more time-embracers by <b>THE FOUR TOPS, YO LA TENGO, THE RAMONES, LINDA RONSTADT, THE WELL WISHERS, MILLIE SMALL, THE VELVET UNDERGROUND, P. P. ARNOLD, MATTHEW SWEET, SUSANNA HOFFS, MATTHEW SWEET **AND** SUSANNA HOFFS, THE MONKEES, THE MUFFS, WONDERBOY, LITTLE RICHARD, JUNIPER</b>, and more charm 'n' alarm than you can fall back on, especially when you're, y'know, springing forward. No matter what a lyin' clockface tries to tell you: It's always time for some music. </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Sunday night, 9 to Midnight Eastern, </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">on the air in Syracuse at <b>SPARK! WSPJ 103.3 and 93.7 FM</b>, on the web at <a href="https://sparksyracuse.org">https://sparksyracuse.org</a>/, </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">streaming on the <b>Radio Garden</b> app as <b>WESTCOTT RADIO. </b></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The weekend stops HERE!</span></p>Carl Cafarellihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11773218537376251052noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3309889436583537455.post-38209540387426688152024-03-09T00:32:00.000-05:002024-03-09T00:32:45.360-05:00Syracuse Area Music Awards: THE FLASHCUBES<p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCbAP7bxe73PhBLLSwpTdjtbMb6l-rRigmiWqygKUNiAdqbB-m46yTwUcjPs44p1j8jZMPwb3BZ9lfcjC5OPuKRwPgF3QNxzeuuKZqlm8RH8QUVtMhAXUoUFLxgYhmfoUhuvmR6y4ZvJ-XNkaBBvWYEmoidWG08SeUQTJInpFVVSv_D39czwhmYRBlAqZA/s1350/429962447_18260473873231427_8101720591256519128_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1350" data-original-width="1080" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCbAP7bxe73PhBLLSwpTdjtbMb6l-rRigmiWqygKUNiAdqbB-m46yTwUcjPs44p1j8jZMPwb3BZ9lfcjC5OPuKRwPgF3QNxzeuuKZqlm8RH8QUVtMhAXUoUFLxgYhmfoUhuvmR6y4ZvJ-XNkaBBvWYEmoidWG08SeUQTJInpFVVSv_D39czwhmYRBlAqZA/w512-h640/429962447_18260473873231427_8101720591256519128_n.jpg" width="512" /></a><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Congratulations to Syracuse's own power pop powerhouse <b>THE FLASHCUBES</b>. On Friday night, the Flashcubes' 2023 <b><a href="https://bigstirrecords.com/">Big Stir Records</a></b> release <i style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="https://bigstirrecords.com/the-flashcubes">Pop Masters</a></i> was named Best Rock Album at <b>the SAMMYs</b>, the Syracuse Area Music Awards. It was <i>my</i> favorite album of 2023, and I'm glad the SAMMYs voters agreed. </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6GDa5wZ8nhEYthx5BYOGC-r3XkPwgjYXT19P8V-mVukrTWwdUa-gU-XqxLxcodSqAaOs7y5dTxMaCfe1URiH14v_E6eKsEPL909yjJzLDvhNtSTJW7WxLyCHl_M6oX3SIxgN0VaRYOxI2FQEYo3ZGNnBA8NkZAjRA5OGdiSrRz5xUicm7-VQTQ-Bl7SUS/s1197/430096269_18260472613231427_738604019779967627_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1197" data-original-width="960" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6GDa5wZ8nhEYthx5BYOGC-r3XkPwgjYXT19P8V-mVukrTWwdUa-gU-XqxLxcodSqAaOs7y5dTxMaCfe1URiH14v_E6eKsEPL909yjJzLDvhNtSTJW7WxLyCHl_M6oX3SIxgN0VaRYOxI2FQEYo3ZGNnBA8NkZAjRA5OGdiSrRz5xUicm7-VQTQ-Bl7SUS/w514-h640/430096269_18260472613231427_738604019779967627_n.jpg" width="514" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">(I'm further gratified that our friends <b>Perilous</b> were also nominated in this category for their fantastic album <i style="font-weight: bold;">YEAH!!! </i>These world-class current releases from two stellar Central New York groups provides further evidence of what local radio legend <b>Dave Frisina</b> always says: Some of the best rock around can be found right in your own back yard.)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">'Cubes guitarist <b>Paul Armstrong</b> and bassist <b>Gary Frenay</b> accepted the award on behalf of their fellow Flashcubes, guitarist <b>Arty Lenin</b> and drummer/producer <b>Tommy Allen</b>. Paul credited Tommy's work and studio wizardry for making <i style="font-weight: bold;">Pop Masters</i> such an amazing record, and joked that maybe the album should have been called <i style="font-weight: bold;">Tommy</i>. Paul also saluted the late <b>Ducky Carlisle</b>, a producer, drummer, and great friend who had occasionally served as a duly deputized fifth 'Cube.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Gary recalled that the Flashcubes started in 1977, played Syracuse gigs with such luminaries as <b>the Ramones</b>, <b>the Runaways, the Romantics</b>, and <b>the Police</b>, and after more than four decades, the Flashcubes are still the same four guys: Paul, Gary, Arty, and Tommy.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The same four guys.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">That's a story we don't hear very often in rock 'n' roll. And it's the story of the Flashcubes, four specific guys who became more than the sum of their parts, a quartet who built a bright light right here in Syracuse and let its glow find its way to fans around the world. It's a story that needs to be told.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">And it will be.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">As far as I'm aware, there are no more Flashcubes recordings or live shows planned in the near future. But there are two Flashcubes-related projects in very early stages of development. The plans are sketchy, not even blueprints just yet. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">But there's a bright light burning overhead. It's time to make something happen. Stay tuned.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">And one more time: CONGRATULATIONS, FLASHCUBES!</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2a3X7q7TNNDOTEYXOz1VxFGFjP5yKtdsYzRyRSbeNpQ5OohTZ2Mx1QuyGZRhtxKUCy7TDmAQd3jj8YrFLhgB6hzVY2K4K0QQkyhUOu-LBpn9OD_iDaCmu1QiL4RI5qKz4pbwPMPldobfwvqDO82lE9W9hPSF32ySSbefe2R2Kp_sHuAP4VXMCBT_gAVZJ/s2000/meta_eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1529" data-original-width="2000" height="490" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2a3X7q7TNNDOTEYXOz1VxFGFjP5yKtdsYzRyRSbeNpQ5OohTZ2Mx1QuyGZRhtxKUCy7TDmAQd3jj8YrFLhgB6hzVY2K4K0QQkyhUOu-LBpn9OD_iDaCmu1QiL4RI5qKz4pbwPMPldobfwvqDO82lE9W9hPSF32ySSbefe2R2Kp_sHuAP4VXMCBT_gAVZJ/w640-h490/meta_eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==.webp" width="640" /></a></div><p></p>Carl Cafarellihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11773218537376251052noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3309889436583537455.post-65891825181987256982024-03-08T00:30:00.001-05:002024-03-08T00:30:00.133-05:0010 SONGS: 3/8/2024<i><span><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">10 Songs </span></b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">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 </span><b style="font-family: helvetica;">This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio with Dana & Carl</b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">. The idea was inspired by </span><b style="font-family: helvetica;">Don Valentine</b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> of the essential blog </span><a href="https://hearasingle.blogspot.com/" style="font-family: helvetica; font-weight: bold;">I Don't Hear A Single</a><span style="font-family: helvetica;">.</span></span></i><div><i><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></span></i></div><div><i><span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPwuAiMW9uMUYmaeZq7temXkesGf5J-pj8L2rV2_zKxqZ2VErS7mxEI2cxnm8wfBsfBKshnuPw1jl7OKNBv4AXqcZ-X2kX11njhGJtcJI5K3JGJBHwMOpmNKPJygl8T1vqX__hmjH24HzdAbgundvBXY_6XePQqwtrBLz_cU_Rte-P83_GzeBFNuPrYMJ8/s686/Shania_Twain_(cropped)_410.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="410" data-original-width="686" height="382" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPwuAiMW9uMUYmaeZq7temXkesGf5J-pj8L2rV2_zKxqZ2VErS7mxEI2cxnm8wfBsfBKshnuPw1jl7OKNBv4AXqcZ-X2kX11njhGJtcJI5K3JGJBHwMOpmNKPJygl8T1vqX__hmjH24HzdAbgundvBXY_6XePQqwtrBLz_cU_Rte-P83_GzeBFNuPrYMJ8/w640-h382/Shania_Twain_(cropped)_410.jpg" width="640" /></a></div></span></i></div><div><i><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></span></i></div><div><i><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">This week's edition of <b>10 Songs</b> draws exclusively from the playlist for <a href="https://carlcafarelli.blogspot.com/2024/03/this-is-rock-n-roll-radio-1223.html"><b>This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio</b> # 1223</a>. This show is available as <a href="https://westcottradio.org/archive/rock_n_roll_radio_2024-03-03.mp3">a podcast</a></span></span></i></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>THE ELECTROMAGNATES: Airwave Hello</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLgMtF0hOyi1bq4PtWLXiLhFAI7XZHZEzDHWQnwrwRpv3lpJDVucZyxj58aD1pt4O4Y9PWTU-5itKH6B9PbOYuoZ56eqq6k95cXEeQbRoSfVXxZr9tfzIdsb5ERnsSDmERRNd-tPkUeb2iRN-TQY9Bnw7hgZLSqPibUUgbktq3nOuYSK0VnMD7aTxeyrLB/s1200/a3866145320_10.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLgMtF0hOyi1bq4PtWLXiLhFAI7XZHZEzDHWQnwrwRpv3lpJDVucZyxj58aD1pt4O4Y9PWTU-5itKH6B9PbOYuoZ56eqq6k95cXEeQbRoSfVXxZr9tfzIdsb5ERnsSDmERRNd-tPkUeb2iRN-TQY9Bnw7hgZLSqPibUUgbktq3nOuYSK0VnMD7aTxeyrLB/w640-h640/a3866145320_10.jpg" width="640" /></a></div></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">A power pop supergroup! <b><a href="https://bigstirrecords.bandcamp.com/album/airwave-hello">The Electromagnates</a></b> unite the talents of <b><a href="https://bigstirrecords.com/steve-stoeckel">Steve Stoeckel</a></b> (of <b>the Spongetones</b>, <b>Pop Co-Op</b>, and his own album <i style="font-weight: bold;">The Power Of And</i>), <b>Peter Watts</b> (of <b><a href="https://bigstirrecords.com/spygenius">Spygenius</a></b>), solo stalwart <b><a href="https://bigstirrecords.com/chris-church">Chris Church</a></b> (whose "I Think I Think I Like You" [from his album <i style="font-weight: bold;">Radio Transient</i><span>]</span> came <i>THISCLOSE</i> to making our 2023 year-end countdown), and former <i style="font-weight: bold;">Jeopardy!</i> contestant <b><a href="https://bigstirrecords.com/dolph-chaney">Dolph Chaney</a></b> (a singer and musician whose "My Good Twin" is an all-time <i style="font-weight: bold;">TIRnRR</i> Fave Rave). Together, the Electromagnates are the jangling Wilburys of a new generation, and their debut single "Airwave Hello" serves as irresistible introduction, greeting, and manifesto. It opens this week's show by divine right, and we'll hear it again this coming Sunday night.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">(We figured this chance for America to meet the Electromagnates also warranted spins of some previous works by each of the individual 'Magnates. So! We programmed Steve's "Laura Lynn," Chris' "I Think I Think I Like You," Dolph's current single "Californiagain," and Spygenius' "The Marvelous, Mendacious Time Machine." CONNECTION! It's electric.)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>THE RAMONES: Don't Come Close</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>AL GREEN: I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>THE STEVE DEATON THREE: Tall Dark Stranger</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpaZhYGudTLkopHoFNAFqSv7RvnvIv9_3Owza_mQHV6yGejRMrT1GgyvhiaXSKcClAAIIjYq_56cc08V1zzj5cdsHxUOkWrP4mRzw03wlaI-jLe5bvGoaUXJT8e4Y5hAli5_Euqcw3pevGSCgD9orrU3rcOpAA_b9pEbQefWTS2hvB-OfuScdQ-YGqR-0F/s600/R-1484131-1404231655-7739.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="598" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpaZhYGudTLkopHoFNAFqSv7RvnvIv9_3Owza_mQHV6yGejRMrT1GgyvhiaXSKcClAAIIjYq_56cc08V1zzj5cdsHxUOkWrP4mRzw03wlaI-jLe5bvGoaUXJT8e4Y5hAli5_Euqcw3pevGSCgD9orrU3rcOpAA_b9pEbQefWTS2hvB-OfuScdQ-YGqR-0F/w638-h640/R-1484131-1404231655-7739.jpg" width="638" /></a></div></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">There aren't a lot of instances where <b>Beyoncé</b> has a direct effect on a <i style="font-weight: bold;">TIRnRR</i> playlist. But her recent, unexpected country single "Texas Hold 'Em" made news when some country stations refused to play it, claiming it didn't fit the format. I tell ya, it sounds like modern country to these ears, and while that's not necessarily a compliment coming from me, I'll add that I think it's a decent single. It doesn't really fit our format either, but I won't rule out dropping a radio edit into a future show if whim dictates. Ya never know with us. <i>We</i> never know with us.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisacZ01fJPLf8sjBWmS1vzFUabfKKqfZT_jHTLjo4Di5dA5dgZVf56WFkiIWI0tqKn3gkgPxpiJIFP086pB6cUk6Ovz1HRPO8ZMZiue-5IcBVhbt51t-ILNzAgId9gS0KhG9AI-O0_QTL5z71GOSMtjXMI8erQAw4y6s7jGkhcHCKi-QGZaa-GEL8EWN2m/s681/Screen-Shot-2024-02-20-at-6.52.26-PM.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="383" data-original-width="681" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisacZ01fJPLf8sjBWmS1vzFUabfKKqfZT_jHTLjo4Di5dA5dgZVf56WFkiIWI0tqKn3gkgPxpiJIFP086pB6cUk6Ovz1HRPO8ZMZiue-5IcBVhbt51t-ILNzAgId9gS0KhG9AI-O0_QTL5z71GOSMtjXMI8erQAw4y6s7jGkhcHCKi-QGZaa-GEL8EWN2m/w640-h360/Screen-Shot-2024-02-20-at-6.52.26-PM.webp" width="640" /></a></div></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The "Texas Hold 'Em" situation got me thinking about the time when <b>the Ramones</b> released their own country single: "Don't Come Close," from their 1978 masterpiece album <i style="font-weight: bold;">Road To Ruin</i>. Now, "Don't Come Close" is really about as country as ballet, chess, <i style="font-weight: bold;">Downton Abbey</i>, <b>Harvey Comics</b> cosplay, or anything else that's, y'know, NOT AT ALL country. But somehow that country description got chicken-wired to it anyway. When I interviewed <b>Johnny Ramone</b> in 1994, he made it clear that his rating of <i style="font-weight: bold;">Road To Ruin</i> was brought down by the presence of the two "country" songs, "Don't Come Close" and "Questioningly," tracks which he did not like at all. (The interview recently appeared again in <a href="https://rarebirdlit.com/gabba-gabba-hey-a-conversation-with-the-ramones-by-carl-cafarelli/">my Ramones book</a>.) </span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">A good DJ isn't dissuaded by inaccurate labels. Dig what you dig, but don't be afraid to riff off of perception. The notion of country croonin' Beyoncé led me to wanna lean into the (preposterous) notion of Ramones country, kickin' off a mini-set y'all haul of the Ramones into <b>Al Green</b>'s triumphantly soulful reading of <b>Hank Williams</b>' "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry" and <b>the Steve Deaton Three</b>'s ace rock 'n' roll rave-up of <b>Buck Owens</b>' "Tall Dark Stranger."</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqwjSJBRme9gW9oqjX41vbDbhqMz-6SXeFLsnsXV_EcLZtH4B9cJl3iDfYRdXHQZcjclVlmTIbW_lI5aBtRrNB8oE8gF0MXoQ95aSZxCFU4rR2LlzumIC4adJggnhjlKjQ9nSfOCMg2u_afTHreN6hWAz7Qm99alntrdJBJLCq3LTwYvhfjwpG_JysT0AS/s1000/719EIlq1+hL._UF1000,1000_QL80_.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqwjSJBRme9gW9oqjX41vbDbhqMz-6SXeFLsnsXV_EcLZtH4B9cJl3iDfYRdXHQZcjclVlmTIbW_lI5aBtRrNB8oE8gF0MXoQ95aSZxCFU4rR2LlzumIC4adJggnhjlKjQ9nSfOCMg2u_afTHreN6hWAz7Qm99alntrdJBJLCq3LTwYvhfjwpG_JysT0AS/w640-h640/719EIlq1+hL._UF1000,1000_QL80_.jpg" width="640" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEih37rUztJr2dZitLOMlAx5Ix1mjAm1onGwQzUglOCxykxDgRrVjwXKTVDEs7akMFrPDVB9R8cSOwaH2a1Kh7yuiIrsULvjmQqrcx43lqXmt4OYmEvUAGBQYNuHr80jo70xbwTHBkllaJWPAltsi9_zX_9PZpbE11X05MxcWn-_LwD5GZBY-i21wqmRSzhP/s1200/a3269823496_10.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEih37rUztJr2dZitLOMlAx5Ix1mjAm1onGwQzUglOCxykxDgRrVjwXKTVDEs7akMFrPDVB9R8cSOwaH2a1Kh7yuiIrsULvjmQqrcx43lqXmt4OYmEvUAGBQYNuHr80jo70xbwTHBkllaJWPAltsi9_zX_9PZpbE11X05MxcWn-_LwD5GZBY-i21wqmRSzhP/w640-h640/a3269823496_10.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">And, oddly enough, "Don't Come Close" actually <i>was</i> an itty bit more country than either of those outta-the-box covers of country classics. Country superstars the Ramones. Hee-haw, let's GO!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>AUTOGRAMM: Hey Allie</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFzMtd6q4zRNeCCcqSxlsjQrf4QlguLyPvMB-HQhGKh-xWx2lPKIcDu0Tj1LXA40NMPNBTCUNmW-H6vr5A2JGgrNPIr1p1gMGUcV2jt02KV5gePP1MA1GOZF5VFq3ahOfnp_QmLvP7ee3eJD1E_k4NxpJe4KxwiFKzlhQxIqX0YvN-Ta3mOUSmOysNZpQN/s1200/a1125515545_10.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFzMtd6q4zRNeCCcqSxlsjQrf4QlguLyPvMB-HQhGKh-xWx2lPKIcDu0Tj1LXA40NMPNBTCUNmW-H6vr5A2JGgrNPIr1p1gMGUcV2jt02KV5gePP1MA1GOZF5VFq3ahOfnp_QmLvP7ee3eJD1E_k4NxpJe4KxwiFKzlhQxIqX0YvN-Ta3mOUSmOysNZpQN/w640-h640/a1125515545_10.jpg" width="640" /></a></div></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Credit <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/only-three-lads-classic-alternative-music-podcast/id1499018289">the <i style="font-weight: bold;">Only Three Lads</i> podcast</a> for the <i>target-acquired!</i> status on this one. <i style="font-weight: bold;">O3L</i> recently welcomed the members of current Canadian combo <b>Autogramm</b> as guests on the podcast; the Autogrammers discussed their own work and joined in for a celebration of all-time favorite albums by Canadian artists. You can hear that episode<a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e202-top-5-canadian-albums-with-autogramm/id1499018289?i=1000645968041"> here</a>.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Prior to their <i style="font-weight: bold;">O3L</i> appearance, I don't believe I'd ever even heard of Autogramm. But like radio, podcasts' job is to sell records. Mission accomplished! From Autogramm's 2023 album <i style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="https://autogramm.bandcamp.com/album/music-that-humans-can-play">Music That Humans Can Play</a></i>, "Hey Allie" is squarely within that elusive 'n' engaging <i style="font-weight: bold;">TIRnRR</i> demographic. From podcast to airwaves, on the radio it went. Automatic. AUTOGRAMM!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>WONDERBOY: Girl Songs</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVEF1pPDo6kKKc8HOWJLLHBSh5eEa-I3KYhpKW-PIqdpJjsIc14BINm6Bbh0JvApxf6j0CIfBTER-eMLOIUQCKWXEYBGiGD7CZseTXC4TxGZz_1tmASFRqUj8zwwOSYUW4MYMrkirDsxmaxDgIY7U6hXYUwj23nU-tZD60tevX1mQi93zx6FUmuTpudj2u/s572/ohmycchord.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="307" data-original-width="572" height="344" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVEF1pPDo6kKKc8HOWJLLHBSh5eEa-I3KYhpKW-PIqdpJjsIc14BINm6Bbh0JvApxf6j0CIfBTER-eMLOIUQCKWXEYBGiGD7CZseTXC4TxGZz_1tmASFRqUj8zwwOSYUW4MYMrkirDsxmaxDgIY7U6hXYUwj23nU-tZD60tevX1mQi93zx6FUmuTpudj2u/w640-h344/ohmycchord.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>This...is NOT Wonderboy's <b>Robbie Rist</b></i></span></td></tr></tbody></table></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I can't even tell you how much I love "Girl Songs" by <b>Wonderboy</b>. Recorded in the '90s, finally released just a few years back, this exuberant embrace of the transcendent act of swooning over chicks is like the <i style="font-weight: bold;">TIRnRR</i> mindset in microcosm. With its fourth appearance in four weeks, "Girl Songs" will now take next week off, as another track from its host album <i style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="https://robbierist.bandcamp.com/album/hero-isle">Hero Isle</a></i> takes its place. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">"Girl Songs" will be back after its break. To paraphrase country singer Beyoncé: Who run the world? GIRL SONGS!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>THE CYNZ: Crow Haired Boys</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJO-XkEo0Icg7P38FvumZttSo_MiRiO-je7-91haSF3GWIXFnHz_u3FkC7_dyPuuqH13YdGqa7gewVP-5fwppcNEK2cKl4_Izo79heVhQYIz6rqRgq9wc5cPavCXhTf5dIZiONy59KAYCTCdLmBYdC4vmhK1_lQOrbksKeL0NnqjphRx0AvR97Y_CLQRIy/s960/381170744_10159681084133316_3638078136852605044_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJO-XkEo0Icg7P38FvumZttSo_MiRiO-je7-91haSF3GWIXFnHz_u3FkC7_dyPuuqH13YdGqa7gewVP-5fwppcNEK2cKl4_Izo79heVhQYIz6rqRgq9wc5cPavCXhTf5dIZiONy59KAYCTCdLmBYdC4vmhK1_lQOrbksKeL0NnqjphRx0AvR97Y_CLQRIy/w640-h480/381170744_10159681084133316_3638078136852605044_n.jpg" width="640" /></a></div></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>So</i> looking forward to <i style="font-weight: bold;">Little Miss Lost</i>, the forthcoming new album from <b>the Cynz</b>. We've been playing the title track, which was the album's first teaser single, and we had "Little Miss Lost" already in place for this week's rock 'em-sock 'em playlist. The last-minute arrival of second teaser single "Crow Haired Boys" made me wanna do the prerequisite a-swappin' and a-shufflin' to accommodate this awesome addition to our personal Play-Tone galaxy o' stars. We'll hear "Crow Haired Boys" again on Sunday night, and I expect we'll be hearing the Cynz throughout 2024. </span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Again and again. <i>That's</i> worth crowing about.</span></div><div><i><span><br /></span></i></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>TRANSLATOR: Everywhere That I'm Not</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEFlN5OZYVldnUG-ixAqGjRknXHIwXnHVrHOmPhxeJfQVaz7F16jeXZRUShBldADQXKnjwQIyIHql5by8xejCZuNMD3lc-ZjdLTYxoqtF4cx5gRRrYtvuk1mp0S9SfLomXp2ENlcVY3K8M9reW7Ggt2hdbZcGO1iOb2lrNbP9GgkI9R1QRXmss8HaLOM7p/s425/trans.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="425" data-original-width="425" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEFlN5OZYVldnUG-ixAqGjRknXHIwXnHVrHOmPhxeJfQVaz7F16jeXZRUShBldADQXKnjwQIyIHql5by8xejCZuNMD3lc-ZjdLTYxoqtF4cx5gRRrYtvuk1mp0S9SfLomXp2ENlcVY3K8M9reW7Ggt2hdbZcGO1iOb2lrNbP9GgkI9R1QRXmss8HaLOM7p/w640-h640/trans.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i style="font-weight: bold;">The Greatest Record Ever Made! </i>I did a video on behalf of this track, discussing its chapter in my long-threatened book <i style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="https://carlcafarelli.blogspot.com/2023/06/the-greatest-record-ever-made-volume-1.html">The Greatest Record Ever Made! (Volume 1</a>)</i>. You can read about the video <a href="https://carlcafarelli.blogspot.com/2021/05/my-weekly-video-blog-greatest-record_01967446116.html">here</a>, or just go straight to the video itself <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiwaxaIlUBU">here</a>.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>THE FLASHCUBES: Make Something Happen</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiE-TIv92AihlVPTJiaR5bIr_nfSAmlIYfLujmfk7Q7EH-UGam8oE1MBHMNec2D_zAyvcAX2UJIuaKs0qMLvnGyq2K9jyh-jMOw2Os7sKxJFvkRa85w3zPi9wwprJqM0Mpiq-TBKXzsrCV_iWvSm4J2vzolB22UvHmnYpJpgGbFohKlyM8IqDBegDsxIDM8/s401/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="358" data-original-width="401" height="572" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiE-TIv92AihlVPTJiaR5bIr_nfSAmlIYfLujmfk7Q7EH-UGam8oE1MBHMNec2D_zAyvcAX2UJIuaKs0qMLvnGyq2K9jyh-jMOw2Os7sKxJFvkRa85w3zPi9wwprJqM0Mpiq-TBKXzsrCV_iWvSm4J2vzolB22UvHmnYpJpgGbFohKlyM8IqDBegDsxIDM8/w640-h572/image.png" width="640" /></a></div></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Prophetic words? Something may be happening. We shall see.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>THE RAMONES: Questioningly</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaHEJlGO2SfczRVWNkt7JX-v4IgHPLr77VaYIxafKj-Xylt02dFAP3Dk3QcOAPyzUv5O0Fngwy6zTODqLXkgqy8jo56KQOaqAJCad8PmBlvyOH_vV79hQgYAMyHlb2CuPFO2enie2nGuDvA9pUVfZJDJ9_30w7xZeTCUDL06sNA4SsaMSTiVHvGbCOg0jx/s640/ab67616d0000b27311b0bfb72dc829e1d38d1cff.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="640" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaHEJlGO2SfczRVWNkt7JX-v4IgHPLr77VaYIxafKj-Xylt02dFAP3Dk3QcOAPyzUv5O0Fngwy6zTODqLXkgqy8jo56KQOaqAJCad8PmBlvyOH_vV79hQgYAMyHlb2CuPFO2enie2nGuDvA9pUVfZJDJ9_30w7xZeTCUDL06sNA4SsaMSTiVHvGbCOg0jx/w640-h640/ab67616d0000b27311b0bfb72dc829e1d38d1cff.jpg" width="640" /></a></div></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">One more from noted country superstars the Ramones. Take it, boys. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnNsey8TDQFp4gJMg5FFWds9fnb7-Fa4OKuQ1Gzb10YVO3DIVDaJvzEYZ6mjIgY8iFT29DGlWJ5SQWjZVewESVUT5CMYoXSNm-2u3YZBJNZ1CBsei6IG2efAcOnm5ZTUfVDIPX96Q7PMk6isb3wIE6Isknnj3WIwxGFhNwZgVipOsZLE7S21yHlFTxZ_9H/s3661/rs-241049-GettyImages-85355193.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2356" data-original-width="3661" height="412" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnNsey8TDQFp4gJMg5FFWds9fnb7-Fa4OKuQ1Gzb10YVO3DIVDaJvzEYZ6mjIgY8iFT29DGlWJ5SQWjZVewESVUT5CMYoXSNm-2u3YZBJNZ1CBsei6IG2efAcOnm5ZTUfVDIPX96Q7PMk6isb3wIE6Isknnj3WIwxGFhNwZgVipOsZLE7S21yHlFTxZ_9H/w640-h412/rs-241049-GettyImages-85355193.webp" width="640" /></a></div><div><p><i><i><i><span style="color: #241e12; font-family: helvetica;"><i><i><span style="color: #241e12; font-family: helvetica;">If you like what you see here on <i><b>Boppin' (Like The Hip Folks Do)</b></i>, please consider a visit to</span></i></i></span></i></i><i style="font-family: helvetica;"><i><span style="color: #241e12; font-family: helvetica;"><i><i><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;"> <a href="https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/CarlCafarelli">CC's Tip Jar</a>. </span></i></i></span></i></i></i></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i><span>Carl's new book</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> <span>Gabba Gabba Hey! A Conversation With The Ramones</span> </span><span>is now available, courtesy of the good folks at <b><a href="https://rarebirdlit.com/">Rare Bird Books</a></b>. Gabba Gabba YAY!! </span></i></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i><a href="https://rarebirdlit.com/gabba-gabba-hey-a-conversation-with-the-ramones-by-carl-cafarelli/">https://rarebirdlit.com/gabba-gabba-hey-a-conversation-with-the-ramones-by-carl-cafarelli/</a></i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>If it's true that one book leads to another, my next book will be <b><a href="https://carlcafarelli.blogspot.com/2023/08/finishing-greatest-record-ever-made.html">The Greatest Record Ever Made! (Volume 1)</a></b>. Stay tuned. Your turn is coming.</i></span></p><div><p><i style="font-family: helvetica;"><i style="font-weight: bold;">This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio with Dana & Carl</i> airs Sunday nights from 9 to Midnight Eastern, on the air in Syracuse at <b>SPARK! WSPJ 103.3 and 93.7 FM</b>, streaming at <b><a href="https://ec3.yesstreaming.net:4280/api/links/?t=web&l=ne&c=1&fbclid=IwAR1UAKK9rWPYVh-iGgeNGRbM5PfTuHeCzYe2cIzA6o5yo-kooh7vVBYisdQ">SPARK stream</a> </b>and on the <b>Radio Garden</b> app as <b>WESTCOTT RADIO</b>. Recent shows are archived at <b><a href="http://westcottradio.org/">Westcott Radio</a></b>. You can read about our history <a href="https://carlcafarelli.blogspot.com/2019/11/boppin-whole-friggin-planet-history-of_10.html">here</a>.</i></p></div><p><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></span></p><p><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></span></p><p><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></span></p><p><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></span></p><p><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></p><p><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></span></p><p><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></span></p><p><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></span></p><p><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></span></p><p><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></span></p><p><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></span></p><p><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></span></p><p><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></span></p><p><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></span></p><p><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></p><div><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i><b></b></i></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></b></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></b></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></b></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></b></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></b></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></b></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></b></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></b></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></b></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></b></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></b></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></b></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></b></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: Times;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></b></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></b></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></b></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></p><p><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></b></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>I'm on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/cafarellicarl">@CafarelliCarl</a></i></span></p></div></span></span></div></span></span></div></div>Carl Cafarellihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11773218537376251052noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3309889436583537455.post-44242329099976281512024-03-07T00:30:00.001-05:002024-03-07T00:30:00.127-05:00Fake THIS IS ROCK 'N' ROLL RADIO Playlist: Covers in the 1960s<i style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio with Dana & Carl </span>is simply too large a concept to be neatly contained within a mere three-hour weekly time slot. Hence these occasional fake <span style="font-weight: bold;">TIRnRR </span>playlists, detailing shows we're never really going to do...but could.</span></i><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNW3LntpNAueCy4ga_TCpoRScdQGwViSUyzhaN3iwNFG7XkmKJL0G2udDo3F48ywWjqBinucIkPl8sPOloKEHYYXjGLsLDSycReDNRMR9A34eqRu2o0sATYdcnZ1_WJyOpeeLtbrqMEN-8JzbsiA0Y6v7j51GWjvLbILAs-9lGPUKumDImIuUUv7a8ktMi/s373/Rock%20and%20roll%20music%20sheet%20music.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="373" data-original-width="288" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNW3LntpNAueCy4ga_TCpoRScdQGwViSUyzhaN3iwNFG7XkmKJL0G2udDo3F48ywWjqBinucIkPl8sPOloKEHYYXjGLsLDSycReDNRMR9A34eqRu2o0sATYdcnZ1_WJyOpeeLtbrqMEN-8JzbsiA0Y6v7j51GWjvLbILAs-9lGPUKumDImIuUUv7a8ktMi/w494-h640/Rock%20and%20roll%20music%20sheet%20music.jpg" width="494" /></a></div></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">We did a fake playlist of <a href="https://carlcafarelli.blogspot.com/2024/02/fake-this-is-rock-n-roll-radio-playlist_0389121645.html">covers from the '70s, '80s, and '90s</a> last week, and we moved up to <a href="https://carlcafarelli.blogspot.com/2024/03/fake-this-is-rock-n-roll-radio-playlist.html">21st century covers</a> yesterday. Now, we complete our celebration of people doing other people's stuff with some covers from the 1960s.</span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">And, just as our '70s/'80s/'90s playlists featured <b>the Ramones</b> in each set and our 2000 through </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">2024 songfest featured </span><b style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">the Flashcubes</b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">, today's exercise in imaginary playlisting features </span><b style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">the Beatles</b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">.</span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">And you know that can't be bad. (For more on covers recorded by the act you've known for all these years, check out my fancy of an all-covers album by the Beatles: <i style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="https://carlcafarelli.blogspot.com/2018/07/the-beatles-leave-my-kitten-alone.html">Leave My Kitten Alone</a></i>.) </span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">We'll hear the Beatles, the Ramones, and the Flashcubes on our real-world <i style="font-weight: bold;">TIRnRR</i> this Sunday night, though only the 'Cubes track is a cover. BUT! We will have covers from across the timeline, courtesy of <b>Carla Olson</b>, <b>Susanna Hoffs</b> (solo and with <b>Matthew Sweet</b>), <b>Millie Small</b>, <b>the Well Wishers</b>, <b>Linda Ronstadt</b>, <b>Trolley</b>, <b>Juniper</b>, and <b>Michael Carpenter</b>, mixed with a number of artists performing their own material, too.</span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">Best three hours of radio on the whole friggin' planet. Doesn't matter who wrote the song or who recorded it first. If it's a great record, well, that's ALL that matters. Set your radio to its DAZZLE setting. And join us on Sunday night.</span></div><div><p><i style="font-family: helvetica; font-weight: bold;">This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio with Dana & Carl</i><span style="font-family: helvetica;">--y'know, the real one--</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">airs Sunday nights from 9 to Midnight Eastern, on the air in Syracuse at </span><b style="font-family: helvetica;">SPARK! WSPJ 103.3 and 93.7 FM</b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">, and on the web at </span><a href="http://sparksyracuse.org/" style="font-family: helvetica;">http://sparksyracuse.org/</a><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> You can read all about this show's long and weird history here: </span><b style="font-family: helvetica;"><i><a href="https://carlcafarelli.blogspot.com/2019/11/boppin-whole-friggin-planet-history-of_10.html">Boppin' The Whole Friggin' Planet (The History Of THIS IS ROCK 'N' ROLL RADIO)</a></i></b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">. 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A portion of all sales benefit our perpetually cash-strapped community radio project:</span><br /></span><div><span style="font-family: "helvetica";"><br /><b><i>Volume 1: </i><a href="https://futuremanrecords.bandcamp.com/album/this-is-rock-n-roll-radio-vol-1-2">download</a></b><br /><b><i>Volume 2: </i><a href="https://www.ebay.com/itm/Various-THIS-IS-ROCK-N-ROLL-RADIO-VOLUME-2-w-THE-COWSILLS-and-more-sealed/154423208799">CD</a></b> or <b><a href="https://futuremanrecords.bandcamp.com/album/this-is-rock-n-roll-radio-vol-2">download</a></b><br /><i style="font-weight: bold;">Volume 3: </i><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="https://futuremanrecords.bandcamp.com/album/this-is-rock-n-roll-radio-vol-3">download</a></span><br /><b><i>Volume 4: </i><a href="http://shop.koolkatmusik.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=KKM&Product_Code=Various_Artists_241&Category_Code=PO">CD</a></b> or <b><a href="https://futuremanrecords.bandcamp.com/album/this-is-rock-n-roll-radio-vol-4">download</a></b><br /><b><i>Waterloo Sunset--Benefit For This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio:</i> <a href="http://shop.koolkatmusik.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=KKM&Product_Code=Various_Artists_400&Category_Code&fbclid=IwAR1hLvZW4ICTC2tfpZ-_jCnjqq8lmhxig-F-kyga69P17fkOPn3OLckVcWA">CD</a></b> or <b><a href="https://futuremanrecords.bandcamp.com/album/waterloo-sunset-benefit-for-this-is-rock-n-roll-radio">download</a></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "helvetica";"><b><i>Volume 5: </i></b></span><b style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="http://shop.koolkatmusik.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=KKM&Product_Code=Various_Artists_484&Category_Code=">CD</a></b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> or </span><b style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://koolkatmusik1.bandcamp.com/album/dana-carl-present-this-is-rock-n-roll-radio-vol-5">download</a></b></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><b>PS: SEND MONEY!!!! </b>We need tech upgrades like Elvis needs boats. </span><b>Spark Syracuse </b><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">is supported by listeners like you. Tax-deductible donations are welcome at </span><br /><a href="http://sparksyracuse.org/support/" target="_blank">http://sparksyracuse.org/support/</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span>Carl's new book</span><i style="font-weight: bold;"> <i><a href="https://rarebirdlit.com/gabba-gabba-hey-a-conversation-with-the-ramones-signed-by-carl-cafarelli/">Gabba Gabba Hey! A Conversation With The Ramones</a></i> </i><span>is now available, courtesy of the good folks at <b><a href="https://rarebirdlit.com/">Rare Bird Books</a></b>. Gabba Gabba YAY!! </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><i>You can follow Carl's daily blog <b>Boppin' (Like The Hip Folks Do) </b>at </i></span></span><br /><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><i><a href="https://carlcafarelli.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">https://carlcafarelli.blogspot.com/</a></i></span></span></div></div></div><p><i style="font-family: helvetica;"></i></p><p><i style="font-family: helvetica;"></i></p><p><i style="font-family: helvetica;"></i></p><p><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></i></p><p><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></i></p><p><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></i></p><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>FAKE </b><i style="font-weight: bold;">TIRnRR </i><b>PLAYLIST: Covers in the 1960s</b></span></div><div><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></i></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE BEATLES: Rock And Roll Music [Chuck Berry]</span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE SUPREMES: A World Without Love [Peter and Gordon]</span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">ARETHA FRANKLIN: I Say A Little Prayer [Dionne Warwick]</span></span></div></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE SEARCHERS: Have You Ever Loved Somebody [The Hollies]</span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">OTIS REDDING: Satisfaction [The Rolling Stones]</span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE DAVE CLARK FIVE: On Broadway [The Drifters]</span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">--</span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">WILSON PICKETT: Sugar Sugar [The Archies]</span></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;"><span style="background-color: white;">THE MC5: Back In The USA [Chuck Berry]</span></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;"><span style="background-color: white;">THE TONY JACKSON GROUP: Fortune Teller [Benny Spellman]</span></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;"><span style="background-color: white;">THE BEATLES: Dizzy Miss Lizzy [Larry Williams]</span></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;"><span style="background-color: white;">THE ROLLING STONES: Everybody Needs Somebody To Love [Solomon Burke]</span></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;"><span style="background-color: white;">CATERINA CASELLI: Sono Bugiarda [I'm A Believer] [The Monkees]</span></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;"><span style="background-color: white;">--</span></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;"><span style="background-color: white;">THE SONICS: Louie Louie [Richard Berry, The Kingsmen]</span></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;"><span style="background-color: white;">THE KINKS: Cadillac [Bo Diddley]</span></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;"><span style="background-color: white;">THE BEATLES: You Really Got A Hold On Me [The Miracles]</span></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;"><span style="background-color: white;">JOHNNY JOHNSON AND THE BANDWAGON: People Got To Be Free [The Rascals]</span></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;"><span style="background-color: white;">P. 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ARNOLD: God Only Knows [The Beach Boys]</span></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;"><span style="background-color: white;">PAUL REVERE AND THE RAIDERS: Catch The Wind [Donovan]</span></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;"><span style="background-color: white;">--</span></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;"><span style="background-color: white;">THE BEATLES: Words Of Love [Buddy Holly]</span></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;"><span style="background-color: white;">THE MONKEES: I'll Be True To You [The Hollies (as "Yes I Will")]</span></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;"><span style="background-color: white;">THE EYES: Man With Money [The Everly Brothers]</span></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;"><span style="background-color: white;">THE CLINGERS: Gonna Have A Good Time [The Easybeats]</span></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;"><span style="background-color: white;">THE FOUR TOPS: If I Were A Carpenter [Tim Hardin, Bobby Darin]</span></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;"><span style="background-color: white;">THE ACTION: I'll Keep Holding On [The Marvelettes]</span></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;"><span style="background-color: white;">--</span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">THE 5TH DIMENSION: Go Where You Wanna Go [The Mamas and the Papas]</span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;"><span style="background-color: white;">NANCY SINATRA: Lies [The Knickerbockers]</span></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;"><span style="background-color: white;">THE BEATLES: Anna [Arthur Alexander]</span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">GARY LEWIS AND THE PLAYBOYS: Keep Searchin' [Del Shannon]</span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;"><span style="background-color: white;">THE RATIONALS: I Need You [The Kinks]</span></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;"><span style="background-color: white;">MILLIE SMALL: Killer Joe [The Rocky Fellers]</span></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;"><span style="background-color: white;">--</span></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;"><span style="background-color: white;">THE TURTLES: It Was A Very Good Year [The Kingston Trio]</span></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;"><span style="background-color: white;">OSCAR TONEY JR.: Moon River [Andy Williams]</span></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;"><span style="background-color: white;">THE ANIMALS: Bring It On Home To Me [Sam Cooke]</span></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;"><span style="background-color: white;">THE VENTURES: House Of The Rising Sun [traditional, The Animals]</span></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;"><span style="background-color: white;">THE BYRDS: The Times They Are-Changin' [Bob Dylan]</span></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;"><span style="background-color: white;">THE BEATLES: Boys [The Shirelles]</span></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;"><span style="background-color: white;">--</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE BEATLES: Long Tall Sally [Little Richard]</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE SHANGRI-LAS: Shout [The Isley Brothers]</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE YARDBIRDS: I'm Not Talkin' [Mose Allison]</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THELMA HOUSTON: Jumpin' Jack Flash [The Rolling Stones]</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE SMALL FACES: Shake [Sam Cooke]</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">IKE AND TINA TURNER: Shake A Tail Feather [The Five Du-Tones, James and Bobby Purify]</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">--</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">NICO: I'm Not Sayin' [Gordon Lightfoot]</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE ZOMBIES: Goin' Out Of My Head [Little Anthony and the Imperials]</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">LITTLE RICHARD: A Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On [Jerry Lee Lewis]</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE BEATLES: Act Naturally [Buck Owens]</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE SWINGING BLUE JEANS: You're No Good [Dee Dee Warwick]</span></div><div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">WILSON PICKETT: Born To Be Wild [Steppenwolf]</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">JOHNNY JOHNSON AND THE BANDWAGON: Let's Hang On [The Four Seasons]</span></div></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE FLAMIN GROOVIES: The Girl Can't Help It [Little Richard]</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">--</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE BEATLES: Bad Boy [Larry Williams]</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">FATS DOMINO: Lady Madonna [The Beatles]</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">OTIS REDDING: Day Tripper [The Beatles]</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">HARRY NILSSON: You Can't Do That [The Beatles]</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">STEVIE WONDER: We Can Work It Out [The Beatles]</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE CRYAN' SHAMES: If I Needed Someone [The Beatles]</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE BEATLES: Roll Over Beethoven [Chuck Berry]</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE BEATLES: Slow Down [Larry Williams]</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">--</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE BEATLES: Twist And Shout [The Top Notes, The Isley Brothers]</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE BEATLES: Money (That's What I Want) [Barrett Strong]</span></div>Carl Cafarellihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11773218537376251052noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3309889436583537455.post-81743304494130538412024-03-06T00:30:00.001-05:002024-03-06T00:30:00.128-05:00Fake THIS IS ROCK 'N' ROLL RADIO Playlist: Covers in the 21st Century<i style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio with Dana & Carl </span>is simply too large a concept to be neatly contained within a mere three-hour weekly time slot. Hence these occasional fake <span style="font-weight: bold;">TIRnRR </span>playlists, detailing shows we're never really going to do...but could.</span></i><div><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></i></div><div><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEif_hz3FSH9i1sP_i29gL9sHFcKi0uUzNr6qCqEWIFI9KsANLi5jEfArjjzJHRcKiIlz7Qvy5-ZszlhT_M1kbnSMNWI6R7b0ZvlJgjohgPAhQ2byK_KZD5qX7A9Y2iUKb1DRK_YHwaI_UeYB20suB2sT2PA6Wbj2WY3KmnAgyhmpEAn7JvQ3vbtsUiRRdeB/s640/IMG_1154.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEif_hz3FSH9i1sP_i29gL9sHFcKi0uUzNr6qCqEWIFI9KsANLi5jEfArjjzJHRcKiIlz7Qvy5-ZszlhT_M1kbnSMNWI6R7b0ZvlJgjohgPAhQ2byK_KZD5qX7A9Y2iUKb1DRK_YHwaI_UeYB20suB2sT2PA6Wbj2WY3KmnAgyhmpEAn7JvQ3vbtsUiRRdeB/w640-h480/IMG_1154.jpg" width="640" /></a></div></i></div><div><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></i></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Following last week's fake <i style="font-weight: bold;">TIRnRR</i> playlist of <a href="https://carlcafarelli.blogspot.com/2024/02/fake-this-is-rock-n-roll-radio-playlist_0389121645.html">covers from the '70s, '80s, and '90s</a>--the classic alternative era, as defined by <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/only-three-lads-classic-alternative-music-podcast/id1499018289">the <i style="font-weight: bold;">Only Three Lads</i> podcast</a>--we bop ahead to our current rockin' pop 21st century. Here's a program of covers recorded/released in the period from the year 2000 to date.</span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">As with our previous imaginary playlist, today's fanciful celebration of borrowed songs consists solely of tracks that occurred to me without resorting to outside references. The fact that I didn't do any research (other than confirming whether or not a few individual entries fall within the timeline) means I forgot about a lot of worthy material. To paraphrase someone from earlier in this still-young century: You go on the radio with the playlist you have, not the playlist you wish you had.</span></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;"><span style="background-color: white;">(And, just as last week's effort featured <b>the Ramones</b> in each set, this week's extravaganza features <b>the Flashcubes </b>in each set. I like the Flashcubes.)</span></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;"><span style="background-color: white;">So! Time once again to exult in the splendor of people doin' other people's stuff. And we'll be back tomorrow with another phonus-balonus playlist of covers from the 1960s.</span></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;"><span style="background-color: white;">Hmmm. The alt-era covers playlist featured the Ramones. This 21st century covers playlist features the Flashcubes. Gee, I wonder what act will be featured in the '60s covers playlist?</span></span></div><div><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></i></div><div><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaG9KPc2vg6AzlrJkp-OS9RQNw5FXr2Gxkz8ULhA40iUm_EDPgCAixejekcvckOuwRQMwuwjf4MoZhes0cD1rp5_z8QHpNUEEnNN5cK9h2ggRh28SO7aIEMse_tOsHdLoHThu7CHWc-H3yzoLw-N0uvvB-5nG1d7dEsYMzZ3MDweJ-xZK67-rW_9Ap3mfD/s1488/harry-benson_beatles-on-ed-sullivan-no-cameras-showing-nyc-1-1.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1488" height="430" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaG9KPc2vg6AzlrJkp-OS9RQNw5FXr2Gxkz8ULhA40iUm_EDPgCAixejekcvckOuwRQMwuwjf4MoZhes0cD1rp5_z8QHpNUEEnNN5cK9h2ggRh28SO7aIEMse_tOsHdLoHThu7CHWc-H3yzoLw-N0uvvB-5nG1d7dEsYMzZ3MDweJ-xZK67-rW_9Ap3mfD/w640-h430/harry-benson_beatles-on-ed-sullivan-no-cameras-showing-nyc-1-1.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div></i></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><p style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Oh. 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[The Ramones]</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE REVELATIONS: Why When Love Is Gone [The Isley Brothers]</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-style: normal;">THE TEST PRESSINGS: Love Grows Where My Rosemary Goes [Edison Lighthouse]</div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-style: normal;">IRENE PEÑA: The Summer Place [Fountains Of Wayne]</div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-style: normal;">THE GLIMMER STARS: Rollers Show [Nick Lowe]</div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE FLASHCUBES: Wouldn't You Like It [The Bay City Rollers]</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">--</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">ROCKAWAY BITCH: Judy Is A Punk [The Ramones]</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">TEGAN AND SARA: Girls Talk [Elvis Costello, Dave Edmunds]</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">BRAD MARINO: Another Sad And Lonely Night [The Bobby Fuller Four]</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE FLASHCUBES: She [The Monkees]</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">COLIN HAY: I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself [Dusty Springfield]</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">MICKY DOLENZ: Radio Free Europe [R.E.M.]</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">--</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE FLASHCUBES: Boogie City [Chris Spedding]</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE COCKTAIL SLIPPERS: Hush [Billy Joe Royal, Deep Purple]</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE SMITHEREENS: Little Child [The Beatles]</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">BARRY HOLDSHIP: It's Only Make Believe [Conway Twitty]</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE STEVE DEATON THREE: Tall Dark Stranger [Buck Owens and his Buckaroos]</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">JUNIPER: See You Tonight [Gene Simmons]</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">--</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE LEGAL MATTERS: Don't Look Back [Teenage Fanclub]</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">PALMYRA DELRAN AND THE DOPPEL GANG: Who's Been Sleeping Here [Tuff Darts]</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">MR. ENCRYPTO: 1-2-3 [Len Barry]</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE FLASHCUBES: Gudbye T' Jane [Slade]</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-style: normal;">THE SPONGETONES: On The Wings Of A Nightingale [The Everly Brothers]</div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-style: normal;">THE MONKEES: Wasn't Born To Follow [The Byrds]</div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-style: normal;">--</div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-style: normal;">LISA MARIE PRESLEY: Here Today Gone Tomorrow [The Ramones]</div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-style: normal;">RONNIE SPECTOR: I'll Follow The Sun [The Beatles]</div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-style: normal;">THE FLASHCUBES: Blackberry Way [The Move]</div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-style: normal;">FOUNTAINS OF WAYNE: Better Days [The Kinks]</div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-style: normal;">MARY WEISS: A Certain Guy [Ernie K. Doe, The Yardbirds]</div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-style: normal;">NEKO CASE: The Train From Kansas City [The Shangri-Las]</div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-style: normal;">--</div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-style: normal;">THE DONNAS: Living After Midnight [Judas Priest]</div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-style: normal;">THE FLASHCUBES: Alone In My Room [Dwight Twilley]</div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-style: normal;">RACHAEL GORDON: Hearts Will Be Broken [The Records]</div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-style: normal;">CARLA OLSON: Street Fighting Man [The Rolling Stones]</div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-style: normal;">THE MASTICATORS: Uncontrollable Urge [Devo]</div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-style: normal;"><i style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black; font-style: normal;">JOEY RAMONE: What A Wonderful World [Louie Armstrong]</span></span></i></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-style: normal;">--</div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-style: normal;">THE FLASHCUBES: I Just Want To Have Something To Do [The Ramones]</div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-style: normal;">RAY PAUL: Pretty Flamingo [Manfred Mann]</div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-style: normal;">THE EVERYDAY THINGS: Just Out Of Reach [The Zombies]</div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-style: normal;">JUSTINE'S BLACK THREADS: Needles And Pins [Jackie DeShannon, The Searchers]</div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-style: normal;">THE GRIP WEEDS: Lady Friend [The Byrds]</div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-style: normal;">GEOFF PALMER AND LUCY ELLIS: I'll Never Fall In Love Again [Dionne Warwick]</div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-style: normal;">--</div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-style: normal;">JENNY DEE AND THE DEELINQUENTS: Shake Some Action [The Flamin' Groovies]</div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-style: normal;">THE SHANG HI-LOS: Saturday In The Park [Chicago]</div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-style: normal;">THE DOWNBEAT 5: Dum Dum Ditty [The Shangri-Las]</div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-style: normal;">THE FLASHCUBES: Green Glass Windows [Roy Wood's Helicopters]</div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-style: normal;">BALLZY TOMORROW: Double Our Numbers [Parthenon Huxley]</div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-style: normal;">THE BANGLES: Open My Eyes [The Nazz]</div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-style: normal;">EYTAN MIRSKY: Don't Bother Me [The Beatles]</div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-style: normal;">KENNY HOWES AND THE YEAH!: Do Ya [The Move, The Electric Light Orchestra]</div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-style: normal;">--</div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-style: normal;">THE FLASHCUBES: Forget About You [The Motors]</div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-style: normal;">KID GULLIVER: I Started A Joke [The Bee Gees]</div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">FIRST AID KIT: America [Simon and Garfunkel]</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-style: normal;">JOAN JETT AND THE BLACKHEARTS: Science Fiction Double Feature [Cast of </span><b style="font-style: italic;">The Rocky Horror Picture Show</b>]</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE CYNZ: Tell That Girl To Sh</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">ut Up [Holly and the Italians]</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">MATTHEW SWEET AND SUSANNA HOFFS: Different Drum [The Greenbriar Boys, The Stone Poneys, Michael Nesmith]</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">POPDUDES: Ridin' In My Car [NRBQ]</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal;"><i style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black; font-style: normal;">THE FLASHCUBES: Forever [Roy Wood]</span></span></i></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">--</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE FLASHCUBES: Do Anything You Wanna Do</span></div></span></span></div>Carl Cafarellihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11773218537376251052noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3309889436583537455.post-75875654636293835242024-03-05T00:30:00.001-05:002024-03-05T00:30:00.147-05:00Art <p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0K64nIbC5wy69EfNGT9Eye7iRva_8PSqhNglM7VgMnh0yEUVj18BY0Na05gHDeQKBjNmCxXvCb1BZ3_pZM_5xYhMEE7KM43xi3FcW0GnwdjKlMeiqf8xjtMr191hqZhDzxN1BKNneIwk11B3eZxNuEKyAXpNVuhnZ3a7U3L_fzWLLa8hC_R6KME7Fv4G5/s4032/IMG_1907.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0K64nIbC5wy69EfNGT9Eye7iRva_8PSqhNglM7VgMnh0yEUVj18BY0Na05gHDeQKBjNmCxXvCb1BZ3_pZM_5xYhMEE7KM43xi3FcW0GnwdjKlMeiqf8xjtMr191hqZhDzxN1BKNneIwk11B3eZxNuEKyAXpNVuhnZ3a7U3L_fzWLLa8hC_R6KME7Fv4G5/w480-h640/IMG_1907.jpeg" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>ART CAFARELLI </b>October 31, 1945-February 15, 2024</span></td></tr></tbody></table></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">It's all good.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I heard Art say that a lot. Man of few words. Art would say "It's all good," and repeat it to emphasize it. Don't worry about me. Don't worry about </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">anything. It's all good. That said it all.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Maybe that's just what a big brother does. It's all good.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I was a pesky and annoying little brother. Looking back, man, I'M annoyed by me. I'm grateful that Art let me live long enough to grow out of that phase. I was blessed with three wonderful siblings. Living up to their example was a daunting task, as Mom and Dad occasionally reminded me. "You know, when your brother Art was your age....," "When your brother Rob was your age...," "When your sister Denise was your age...." I'd reply, "Yeah, I know. And someday I'll get even with them!"</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I never got even. But I think I got better than I was, and certainly better than I would have been without their example. It's all good.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I have so many memories of Art, and it's odd the random things that stand out in my mind. One big thing was one of Art's old cars. Some of you know the one I mean. The RED one. The luckless Alfa Romeo that Art had in the '60s, the one that wound up laying in state beyond the shed way behind our house, until a tow truck finally whisked it off to that great big scrapyard in the sky.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">But when the Alfa Romeo was still alive and kicking, I remember Art taking me to A & W for a burger, onion rings, and a root beer. Mostly, I remember that radio. That radio! 1966, the dial locked on WNDR-AM in Syracuse, Top 40, playing the hits. The Dave Clark Five. And the Bobby Fuller Four, singing "I fought the law, and the law won." Indelible memory. And it seemed as if the only place I ever heard "I Fought The Law," that great song, was when I was with Art in his star-crossed Alfa Romeo. At the age of six, I concluded that the radio in Art's car had to be magic.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">And I was right. You have no idea how important that was to me, how much of an influence it was on my eventual decision to write about pop music. A magic radio in my big brother's car . It's all good.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Not quite four decades later, in 2004, the radio was on in Art's car--a somewhat newer model--as he drove Rob and I from Columbus to Aurora, Missouri for our grandmother's funeral. The driver controls the radio. Art was the driver, and that meant the radio was playing country music.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I hate country music. But that's beside the point. We were together, the three brothers, representing family, supporting those still with us, bidding farewell to those who'd passed. Art and Rob bought chicken gizzards at the Starlite Drive-In, and shared them with family gathered at our grandmother's house. We hit Sonic on the way back and ate in the car as we rode back to Ohio. Country music on the radio. It was a great trip in spite of everything else. It's all good.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">In the '60s, when Art was babysitting pesky 'n' annoying kid brother me, he sometimes took me to Sears, where his friend Terry worked, and let me watch <i>Batman</i> on the TVs there. In COLOR!! It just occurred to that I think Art was the reason I ever watched <i>Batman</i> in the first place, a seismic event in my life, leading to a deep interest in comic books and eventually in becoming a writer. All good? You better believe that's all good.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Both music and sports were big in my family. Dad took me to baseball games, coached Little League, and had me work--or TRY to work--with him at the ballpark for the Triple-A Syracuse Chiefs. Art and Rob had done that work before my time came. Mom took me to musicals. Denise took me to a football game. Rob tried to teach me how to throw a football. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Art took me to my first (and only) hockey game, to see the Syracuse Blazers in the '70s. He took me to lift weights and exercise. He encouraged me to try out for the high school football team. That...wasn't gonna happen. Not in this real world. He also took me to Fulton, a more rural area north of our home in the Syracuse suburbs, to practice my driving skills. He and Patty sometimes had me over to their apartment on Bear Road.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Patty.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">When Art first started dating Patty, Mom asked him, "Art--isn't she a little too young?" It is the only time I can look back and conclude that Mom was ever wrong about anything. And Mom would agree. She knew Patty, she accepted Patty, and not just as a daughter-in-law; as a daughter. It was the model for what would happen with all of the subsequent outlaws who married into this family after Patty led the way, with Barb, Tony, and Brenda. Family. It's all good.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Art and Patty raised three wonderful, absolutely magnificent sons, Michael, Robbie, and Matt. When Matt called me two weeks ago to tell me that my brother, his Dad, had passed, I told people at work about how my nephews are just rock-solid, salt of the earth. A coworker immediately said, "Well, that's a credit to their parents."</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Yes. That's a legacy. Art and Patty created a legacy. Even now, with Art and Patty gone, that legacy continues.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">That's the nature of legacy. That's the nature, the beauty, of family.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">We're always going to miss you, Art, you great,. proud Italian-American hillbilly. Please say hi to Mom and Dad for us. Say hi to Patty. Say hi to everyone. You know what to do. You always knew what to do.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">It's all good.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">It's all good.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">It has to be.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I love you, Art. </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhc59fvmVN-JXTSiPTzOBBEs88BiLrWIaq-9W3rFSrIG2a1syGH963zYKzaYQc7gchNSsT9i0HyID1DzaZdp4ohPOrWcOOkD1K0016RxOdyz6PpnOpQEhAjSyMy3V6x4WRla2oY4pKCEHovcN0hLxFSVkDeZQONdSvisNFKp45ttE7yElnK8rgUaLJKIKWB/s3702/IMG_1808.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2713" data-original-width="3702" height="470" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhc59fvmVN-JXTSiPTzOBBEs88BiLrWIaq-9W3rFSrIG2a1syGH963zYKzaYQc7gchNSsT9i0HyID1DzaZdp4ohPOrWcOOkD1K0016RxOdyz6PpnOpQEhAjSyMy3V6x4WRla2oY4pKCEHovcN0hLxFSVkDeZQONdSvisNFKp45ttE7yElnK8rgUaLJKIKWB/w640-h470/IMG_1808.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><p></p>Carl Cafarellihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11773218537376251052noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3309889436583537455.post-20467698133736198272024-03-04T00:00:00.012-05:002024-03-04T00:00:00.446-05:00This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio # 1223<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTX6e4tjhE5AaL7KAwNGfTklLhtMjITVY4Blic7_lpD9KL_dnSoHauuVids0fRLVJrZ4hiSChOH9sJZotFOEaC2fZZmfDQLOt7tAYnIc94RF8Mj3CnHkrZuv3l1bXUXpnRNMHFaA6Oy-5dv3qeln0hLh7yz0os6lQ2N3BULC_m14_TXh1uCtDV5fLEZuB6/s2048/the-strangest-batmobile-quest-and-the-corruption-controversy-it-started-are-at-an-end-195438_1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTX6e4tjhE5AaL7KAwNGfTklLhtMjITVY4Blic7_lpD9KL_dnSoHauuVids0fRLVJrZ4hiSChOH9sJZotFOEaC2fZZmfDQLOt7tAYnIc94RF8Mj3CnHkrZuv3l1bXUXpnRNMHFaA6Oy-5dv3qeln0hLh7yz0os6lQ2N3BULC_m14_TXh1uCtDV5fLEZuB6/w640-h480/the-strangest-batmobile-quest-and-the-corruption-controversy-it-started-are-at-an-end-195438_1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">As I write this on Thursday, our atypically mild Syracuse winter has decided to celebrate Leap Year with plunging temperatures and lake effect snowfall. Nine inches of snow in my driveway, and much snowing blowing in the air. This complicates my plan to drive today from Syracuse to Columbus, Ohio for a trip I can't postpone and have to make if it's humanly possible. In the words of a guy whose voice you hear singing near the end of this week’s show: Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">But it looks like there’s a break in the snow now, so I’m going to see if the trip is doable. If all goes well, I’ll have returned to Syracuse in time to hear this show blast its waves in all directions on Sunday night.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Safe travels to all. Hugs and music. Memories, gratitude, and an eye on the path ahead. This is what rock ‘n’ roll radio sounded like on another Sunday night in Syracuse this week.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">This show is available as <a href="https://westcottradio.org/archive/rock_n_roll_radio_2024-03-03.mp3">a podcast</a>.</span></p><div><p><i style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio with Dana & Carl</b></i><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i> </i>airs Sunday nights from 9 to Midnight Eastern, on the air in Syracuse at </span><b style="font-family: helvetica;">SPARK! WSPJ 103.3 and 93.7 FM</b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">, streaming at <b><a href="https://ec3.yesstreaming.net:4280/api/links/?t=web&l=ne&c=1&fbclid=IwAR2sdklgIfqVCG1_E3I-bkPwbCFqbnFPJbQ95V4bveYs1g5o4jHEQjZNVx0">SPARK stream</a></b>, and on the <b>Radio Garden</b> app as <b>WESTCOTT RADIO</b>. 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Looking for something to read? Check out Carl's book <b><i><a href="https://rarebirdlit.com/gabba-gabba-hey-a-conversation-with-the-ramones-by-carl-cafarelli/">Gabba Gabba Hey! 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(<a href="https://antonbarbeau.bandcamp.com/album/king-of-missouri-anton-barbeau-with-the-bevis-frond">Woronzow, King Of Missouri</a>)</span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">DOLPH CHANEY: Californiagain (<a href="https://bigstirrecords.com/dolph-chaney">Big Stir, Mug</a>)</span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">THE ANGELS: My Boyfriend's Back (Mercury, VA: Growin' Up Too Fast: The Girl Group Anthology)</span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">THELMA HOUSTON: Jumpin' Jack Flash (Spectrum, The Best Of Thelma Houston)</span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;"><b>THE SHANGRI-LAS: It's Easier To Cry (RPM, Myrmidons Of Melodrama)</b></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">--</span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;"><b>WESLEY FULLER: Jacaranda (<a href="https://shop.koolkatmusik.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=KKM&Product_Code=Wesley_Fuller&Category_Code=">Kool Kat Musik, All Fuller No Filler</a>)</b></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">ASTROPUPPEES: On My Way (Manatee, Sugar Beat)</span></div><div><b style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">THE POINTED STICKS: Perfect Youth (<a href="https://pointedsticks.bandcamp.com/album/perfect-youth">Sudden Death, Perfect Youth</a>)</span></b></div><div><b style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">BADFINGER: Love Is Gonna Come At Last (Permanent Press, Airwaves)</span></b></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;"><div><b style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">LEATHER CATSUIT: Can't Get You Off My Mind (<a href="https://rumbarrecords.bandcamp.com/album/leather-catsuit">Rum Bar, Leather Catsuit</a>)</span></b></div></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">THE BANGLES: Tell Me (Columbia, All Over The Place)</span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;"><div style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-weight: 400;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">--</span></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-weight: 400;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;"><b>AUTOGRAMM: Hey Allie (<a href="https://autogramm.bandcamp.com/album/music-that-humans-can-play">Stomp, Music That Humans Can Play</a>)</b></span></div><div><b>THE BARBARELLAS: Giant Godzilla (Sympathy For The Record Industry, Queen Of The Galaxy)</b></div></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">THE ZOMBIES: She Does Everything For Me (Big Beat, Zombie Heaven)</span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">THE BEACH BOYS: Darlin' (Capitol, Smiley Smile/Wild Honey)</span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">WONDERBOY: Girl Songs (<a href="https://robbierist.bandcamp.com/album/hero-isle">n/a, Hero Isle</a>)</span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">THE BEAT: Working Too Hard (Wagon Wheel, The Beat)</span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">--</span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">PAUL COLLINS: Stand Back And Take A Good Look (<a href="https://jemrecordings.com/services//paul-collins-150417705">Jem, Stand Back And Take A Good Look</a>)</span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">THE BENT BACKED TULIPS: Bennies Go Home (eggBERT, Looking Through...)</span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;"><b>THE CYNZ: Crow Haired Boys (Jem, Little Miss Lost)</b></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">THE BEVIS FROND: Now You Know (<a href="https://bevisfrond.bandcamp.com/album/miasma">Woronzow, Miasma</a>)</span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">CHRIS CHURCH: I Think I Think I Like You (<a href="https://bigstirrecords.com/chris-church">Big Stir, Radio Transient</a>)</span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">BIG STAR: In The Street [alternate mix] (Rhino, Keep An Eye On The Sky)</span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">--</span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;"><b><i>The Greatest Record Ever Made!</i></b></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">TRANSLATOR: Everywhere That I'm Not (Columbia/415, Everywhere That We Were: The Best Of Translator)</span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">BLONDIE: One Way Or Another (Chrysalis, The Platinum Collection)</span></div><div><b style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">THE FOUR TOPS: Seven Lonely Nights (MCA, Keepers Of The Castle/Their Best 1972-1978)</b></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">THE BOOBYTRAPS: Sha Lala (Off The Hip, The Boobytraps)</span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">BIG MAMA THORNTON: Hound Dog (Ace, The Original Hound Dog)</span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">BRAM TCHAIKOVSKY: Sara Smiles (<a href="https://www.cherryred.co.uk/product/bram-tchaikovsky-strange-men-changed-men-complete-recordings-1978-1981-3cd-boxset-edition/">Cherry Red, Strange Men, Changed Men: The Complete Recordings 1978-1981</a>) </span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">--</span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">THE FLASHCUBES: Make Something Happen (Northside, Flashcubes Forever)</span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;"><b>SHADOWY MEN ON A SHADOWY PLANET: Hunter S. Thompson's Younger Brother (<a href="https://shadowymen.bandcamp.com/album/dim-the-lights-chill-the-ham">Yep Roc, Dim The Lights, Chill The Ham</a>)</b></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">ELENA ROGERS: I Feel Alive (<a href="https://elenarogers.bandcamp.com/track/i-feel-alive">Eats Dynamite, single</a>)</span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">THE MUFFS: No Action (Sympathy For The Record Industry, Hamburger)</span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;"><b>GREAT BUILDINGS: Up The Walls Of The World (Wounded Bird, Extra Epic Everything)</b></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">THE LEFTOVERS: Get To Know You (Oglio, Eager To Please)</span></div><div><b style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">BEN E. KING: It Ain't Fair (Ace, VA: The Soul Of The Memphis Boys)</b></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">THE JAM: But I'm Different Now (Polydor, Extras)</span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">--</span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;"><b>SPYGENIUS: The Marvellous, Mendacious Time Machine (<a href="https://bigstirrecords.com/spygenius">Big Stir, Jobbernowl</a>)</b></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">THE CHARMS: Top Down (Red Car, Charmed, I'm Sure)</span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">TEENAGE HEAD WITH MARKY RAMONE: Top Down (Sonic Unyon, Teenage Head With Marky Ramone)</span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">THE CHORDS: Maybe Tomorrow (Polydor, So Far Away)</span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">THE ISLEY BROTHERS: Got To Have You Back (Motown, Greatest Hits And Rare Classics)</span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">CHRIS VON SNEIDERN: Lonely Tonight (<a href="https://futuremanrecords.bandcamp.com/album/this-is-rock-n-roll-radio-vol-1-2">Futureman, VA: This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio, Volume 1</a>)</span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">KISS: Rock And Roll All Nite [single version] (Mercury, Alive! 1976-2000)</span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">THE BEATLES: I Should Have Known Better (Apple, A Hard Day's Night)</span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">--</span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">THE RAMONES: Questioningly (Rhino, Road To Ruin)</span></div>Carl Cafarellihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11773218537376251052noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3309889436583537455.post-55196882289804083872024-03-03T00:30:00.001-05:002024-03-03T00:30:00.125-05:00Tonight on THIS IS ROCK 'N' ROLL RADIO<p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaxp39okPWOYZy7YpmdvmflM8acDslGRDXEmg7_vtAKdEsqlZy-pSbplKbvu1CzSXBWSKyH2SPcTz88H3SP30oNB_UjuPInq1qEbJVRdCs1tYtOplHOv0_LBAgUI0IA_xvni6hdD8aBtTQgqmsHX_27f4ug543DEZgBIBLq0WPAYRP7oSZeGorc2IwlJpD/s1200/a3866145320_10.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaxp39okPWOYZy7YpmdvmflM8acDslGRDXEmg7_vtAKdEsqlZy-pSbplKbvu1CzSXBWSKyH2SPcTz88H3SP30oNB_UjuPInq1qEbJVRdCs1tYtOplHOv0_LBAgUI0IA_xvni6hdD8aBtTQgqmsHX_27f4ug543DEZgBIBLq0WPAYRP7oSZeGorc2IwlJpD/w640-h640/a3866145320_10.jpg" width="640" /></a></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">There's a new supergroup in town, and we're opening the show with their debut single "Airwave Hello." Individually, <b>THE ELECTROMAGNATES</b> are all <i style="font-weight: bold;">TIRnRR</i> Fave Raves--<b>STEVE STOECKEL, DOLPH CHANEY, CHRIS CHURCH</b>, and <b>SPYGENIUS' PETER WATTS</b>--so their group project gets automatically added to the playlist. Eminent domain, man. We'll also hear from Steve, Dolph, Chris, and Peter in their own separate projects, plus new music from <b>THE CYNZ, WESLEY FULLER, </b>and <b>JOHN HOWARD</b>, the <i style="font-weight: bold;">TIRnRR</i> debut of <b>AUTOGRAMM</b>, and a whold bunch o' swell from <b>AIMEE MANN, THE SUPREMES, THE RAMONES, AL GREEN, THE AMPLIFIER HEADS, AMY RIGBY, THE SHANGRI-LAS, ASTROPUPPEES, THE POINTED STICKS, BADFINGER, LEATHER CATSUIT, THE ZOMBIES, THE BEACH BOYS, WONDERBOY, PAUL COLLINS </b>(with AND without <b>THE BEAT</b>), <b>TRANSLATOR, BLONDIE, THE FOUR TOPS, THE FLASHCUBES, KISS, THE BEATLES, BRAM TCHAIKOVSKY, </b></span><b style="font-family: helvetica;">SHADOWY MEN ON A SHADOWY PLANET, ELENA ROGERS, THE MUFFS, GREAT BUILDINGS, THE JAM, THE CHORDS, THE ISLEY BROTHERS, CHRIS VON SNEIDERN, </b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">and more. MUCH more! The debut of a supergroup always demands MORE!!! Airwave Hello: </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Sunday night, 9 to Midnight Eastern, </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">on the air in Syracuse at <b>SPARK! WSPJ 103.3 and 93.7 FM</b>, on the web at <a href="https://sparksyracuse.org">https://sparksyracuse.org</a>/, </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">streaming on the <b>Radio Garden</b> app as <b>WESTCOTT RADIO. </b></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The weekend stops HERE!</span></p>Carl Cafarellihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11773218537376251052noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3309889436583537455.post-44608506121803466532024-03-02T00:30:00.001-05:002024-03-02T00:30:00.127-05:00Tease For Two: What I Write In Secret (until it's ready for hypin')<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwV-v3DgpORyQaDS-PereGDVSIZMvxnzLfTyC3UGHPDJhXzG8hWyvnY2X9FiNtjawDeoywpFvdtcABKQDfv1ZN3Wsjvki8j3MLV8lxZ9Ncc1jWK8mSa1XR48z_XyFOick6-_cDRt-3EMDv6CuIEuJ9YpF8Lx3HIuX0wmqKt_BWwEOTIl334JxrGHLSo_vl/s1020/shadow_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="452" data-original-width="1020" height="284" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwV-v3DgpORyQaDS-PereGDVSIZMvxnzLfTyC3UGHPDJhXzG8hWyvnY2X9FiNtjawDeoywpFvdtcABKQDfv1ZN3Wsjvki8j3MLV8lxZ9Ncc1jWK8mSa1XR48z_XyFOick6-_cDRt-3EMDv6CuIEuJ9YpF8Lx3HIuX0wmqKt_BWwEOTIl334JxrGHLSo_vl/w640-h284/shadow_1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I have two secret nonfiction projects going on, neither of them ready for a public reveal just yet. The first one's finished, the second one is in very early planning stages. Time for a tease or two.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The completed project is a 1500-word magazine article due out in the spring. I think the deadline for submissions was this week, and contributing writers have been asked not to share any specifics until the time's right. I turned in my piece last week--I'm such a suck-up--and the editor responded, "</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">You've done it again, you magnificent SOB!" Which, I'm guessing, means the article was accepted. More news when there is news, but it should be a spring publication.</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">On Wednesday, I had a Zoom meeting with [<i>redacted</i>] and [<i>redacted</i>] about writing another book. No, not <a href="https://carlcafarelli.blogspot.com/2023/08/finishing-greatest-record-ever-made.html"><i>that</i> book</a> (which is already written anyway). This book will be a major project for me, with a lot of work involved, but the end result is going to be worth it. It's going to take me a while to get this done--even suck-ups have their limits--but it's very exciting, and you may be hearing about it sooner rather than later. I'm going to work up an outline within the next two weeks, and start looking into the logistics of what needs doing. </span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Since I was a teenage wannabe-writer, I've always started my projects, notions, and half-baked fancies with a working title. For the book, I've come up with my initial working title:</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b><i>M*** S******** H*****! *** ***** ** * *** ***** *** **** ****** *** **********</i></b></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I'd tell you more. But then it wouldn't be a secret. Stay tuned.</span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjzThXdQNH6WivkvcMDmst96kPHP5F2iZgFHThjkAl6PpcEWz2GwGN-nl7WsXfSDK2NneCTeh8KF4K7Ih8q_v4fmGwyHaJ5jWjWTDpEB4hwaftaK7sIP-d_Y0YN7gck2Lvv9RwdnKdKPLlSJZMIgn0S16XRZZDWCJjDyI_MsE6ghjLqxh6cBgL2TMp5CXft" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="785" data-original-width="570" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjzThXdQNH6WivkvcMDmst96kPHP5F2iZgFHThjkAl6PpcEWz2GwGN-nl7WsXfSDK2NneCTeh8KF4K7Ih8q_v4fmGwyHaJ5jWjWTDpEB4hwaftaK7sIP-d_Y0YN7gck2Lvv9RwdnKdKPLlSJZMIgn0S16XRZZDWCJjDyI_MsE6ghjLqxh6cBgL2TMp5CXft=w464-h640" width="464" /></a></div><p><i><i><i><span style="color: #241e12; font-family: helvetica;"><i><i><span style="color: #241e12; font-family: helvetica;">If you like what you see here on <i><b>Boppin' (Like The Hip Folks Do)</b></i>, please consider a visit to</span></i></i></span></i></i><i style="font-family: helvetica;"><i><span style="color: #241e12; font-family: helvetica;"><i><i><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;"> <a href="https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/CarlCafarelli">CC's Tip Jar</a>. </span></i></i></span></i></i></i></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i><span>Carl's new book</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> <span>Gabba Gabba Hey! A Conversation With The Ramones</span> </span><span>is now available, courtesy of the good folks at <b><a href="https://rarebirdlit.com/">Rare Bird Books</a></b>. Gabba Gabba YAY!! </span></i></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i><a href="https://rarebirdlit.com/gabba-gabba-hey-a-conversation-with-the-ramones-by-carl-cafarelli/">https://rarebirdlit.com/gabba-gabba-hey-a-conversation-with-the-ramones-by-carl-cafarelli/</a></i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>If it's true that one book leads to another, my next book will be <b><a href="https://carlcafarelli.blogspot.com/2023/08/finishing-greatest-record-ever-made.html">The Greatest Record Ever Made! (Volume 1)</a></b>. Stay tuned. Your turn is coming.</i></span></p><div><p><i style="font-family: helvetica;"><i style="font-weight: bold;">This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio with Dana & Carl</i> airs Sunday nights from 9 to Midnight Eastern, on the air in Syracuse at <b>SPARK! 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You can read about our history <a href="https://carlcafarelli.blogspot.com/2019/11/boppin-whole-friggin-planet-history-of_10.html">here</a>.</i></p></div><p><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></span></p><p><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></span></p><p><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></span></p><p><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></span></p><p><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></p><p><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></span></p><p><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></span></p><p><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></span></p><p><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></span></p><p><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></span></p><p><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></span></p><p><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></span></p><p><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></span></p><p><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></span></p><p><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></p><div><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i><b></b></i></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></b></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></b></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></b></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></b></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></b></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></b></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></b></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></b></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></b></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></b></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></b></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></b></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></b></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: Times;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></b></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></b></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></b></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></p><p><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></b></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>I'm on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/cafarellicarl">@CafarelliCarl</a></i></span></p></div></span></span></div></span></span></div>Carl Cafarellihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11773218537376251052noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3309889436583537455.post-77968086168718394262024-03-01T00:30:00.001-05:002024-03-01T00:30:00.139-05:00THE GREATEST RECORD EVER MADE: The Bobby Fuller Four and Merle Haggard<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_doV7upEglSP4qd8iBPZle41G2LyzMMNFpQuveKJaA4DhwLLWcC-qbKd79SGgJ-gyBIg_dG4BxgPYFxN13HYhwQzmH4mqsrXcv6kUhzZeLTg_pDSjKJEmnervUS8KRhfaDLda13_UX3AF4-EllRHn7ELmjkCyRvL1Ep-s3Uxt8gzywtXrxcgFefMvqkOq/s1200/9957_p47_l.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1200" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_doV7upEglSP4qd8iBPZle41G2LyzMMNFpQuveKJaA4DhwLLWcC-qbKd79SGgJ-gyBIg_dG4BxgPYFxN13HYhwQzmH4mqsrXcv6kUhzZeLTg_pDSjKJEmnervUS8KRhfaDLda13_UX3AF4-EllRHn7ELmjkCyRvL1Ep-s3Uxt8gzywtXrxcgFefMvqkOq/w640-h426/9957_p47_l.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Both of these chapters from my proposed book </span><i style="font-family: helvetica; font-weight: bold;">The Greatest Record Ever Made! (Volume 1)</i><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> have already appeared separately on this blog. They're combined here today as they will appear in sequence in the book.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">In memory of my oldest brother. Safe travels, Art.</span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>THE BOBBY FULLER FOUR: I Fought the Law</b><br /></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Written by Sonny Curtis<br /></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Produced by Bob Keane<br /></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Single, Mustang Records, 1965</span></div><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">In 1966, my brother Art had a red Alfa Romeo. I'm told it was a shitty car, and I remember its ignominious final days in his possession: a scarlet husk parked, prone, lying in state beyond the shed at the end of our back yard. Collecting dust, collecting rust. A tow truck came to whisk this luckless scarlet husk to its final reward.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">But my prevailing memory of this doomed vehicle is a happy one. The memory involves the consumption of Royal Crown Cola, or possibly a root beer and Teen Burger at the nearby A & W Drive-In. The memory absolutely involves the car's one true immortal virtue: Its radio. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">That radio? When I was six years old, I thought that radio was magic.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I mean, it must have been magic. There were songs I heard on that car's radio that I never heard anywhere else. But it was a different magic than I imagined; it was Syracuse's 1260 WNDR-AM. Set to 1260, the Alfa Romeo played "I Like It Like That" by the Dave Clark Five, a record that--to me--only existed in Art’s star-crossed Alfa Romeo. Even better, it played--often!--another irresistible exclusive: "I Fought the Law" by the Bobby Fuller Four. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">My visceral memory of that terrific song remains inextricably linked to those moments in my brother's Alfa Romeo, of drums, guitars, and a singer bemoaning his fate of breakin' rocks in the hot sun, all pouring forth from the little car's speakers as my big brother cruised suburban streets with his pesky kid brother on board. It's indelible, and I embrace and cherish its vivid image.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">A decade and change passed. In 1978, I was finishing my freshman year in college, and immersing myself in the rockin' pop of the sixties and the then-contemporary sounds of punk, new wave, and power pop. In this joyous crucible of discovery and rediscovery, "I Fought The Law" was ripe to reclaim. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I don't know if it occurred to me that the Bobby Fuller Four might have had more than just one great song. Nor did I know that Bobby Fuller himself was dead, and I didn't know anything at all about the suspicious circumstances surrounding his demise. The opportunity to learn about all of this would not present itself until after I graduated from college in 1980.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">In 1981, my girlfriend and I were living in an apartment in Brockport. She would graduate that spring, and I'd already leveraged my Bachelor of Arts degree into full-time employment at McDonald's. Success! And rent money, as well as cash for beer and food and beer, and to keep buying music at Main Street Records. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I snapped up Rhino Records' <i>Best of the Bobby Fuller Four</i> compilation. By then, I knew two of its songs, “I Fought The Law” and “Let Her Dance.” It was high time to know more: "Only When I Dream," "Don't Let Me Know," Buddy Holly's "Love's Made a Fool Of You," the Eddie Cochran ripof..er, tribute "Saturday Night," and a trifecta of absolute gems--"Another Sad and Lonely Night," "Fool of Love," and "Never to Be Forgotten"--that could rival "Let Her Dance" and "I Fought the Law" as surefire radio-ready triumphs. How in the name of all that's percolatin' could the Bobby Fuller Four have wound up as mere one-hit wonders...?!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I was twenty-one years old in 1981. I lived inside my pop music. I was also living in the (overrated) real world for the first time, trying to reconcile the frequently conflicting promise of art and the demands of responsibility, adulthood. It can be a difficult line to tread, an ongoing balancing act between the dreams we dream and the clocks we punch. Doing what we have to keeps things going; doing what we want to keeps us going.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Bobby Fuller wasn't much older than that when he died in the summer of '66: a pop star three months shy of his twenty-fourth birthday, a West Texas kid who hit the big time, a rising star with a Billboard smash on his résumé and the world at his feet. The liner notes to Best of the Bobby Fuller Four offered my first hint of his tragic story. Bobby had talent. Bobby had good looks. Bobby had a string of pretty young things on his arm. And on July 18th, 1966, Bobby's body was found slumped in his car outside his apartment in Hollywood. He had been beaten. He had been doused with gasoline. The authorities ruled his death a suicide (later amended to "accidental").</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Right.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The record business is big and brutal. And where there's money, there is often organized crime. Ask Tommy James. Or ask Miriam Linna, co-author (with Bobby's brother Randell Fuller) of the book <i>I Fought the Law: The Life and Strange Death of Bobby Fuller</i>. The book suggests that Bobby Fuller was killed by the mob. Sound crazy? Really, crazier than suicide by beating oneself and bathing in gasoline? I'm not one for conspiracy theories. Elvis is dead. Paul is alive. Neil Armstrong walked on the moon. 9/11 was a terrorist attack. Oswald may well have acted alone. I find tinfoil hats unbecoming. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">And I also believe the mob killed Bobby Fuller, whether over business (likely) or for revenge on Bobby for dallying with an attractive woman whose dallying allegiance was presumed to already belong exclusively to an underworld boss. Whatever actually happened to Fuller, it's a safe bet it wasn't self-inflicted.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The sordid tale of Fuller's end, as sad and frustrating as it remains, can't dilute the prevailing appeal of his music. Listening to Best of the Bobby Fuller Four was my first real evidence that there could be more--much more--to an act that show biz writes off as a one-hit wonder. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I no longer own my copy of that LP; it was replaced many years ago by a CD that contained even more great Bobby Fuller tracks, and that CD was replaced by the five discs of Bobby Fuller material that now sit proudly on my shelf at home. Fool of love. Another sad and lonely night. Let her dance all night long. Never to be forgotten.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">My road to appreciating the bounty of the Bobby Fuller Four began in earnest with Best of the Bobby Fuller Four in 1981. But the road truly began on the road, literally, back in '66: when the magic radio in my brother's unreliable but valiant red Alfa Romeo played a song I could never hear anywhere else. The law didn't win this one, I fear. I needed money 'cause I had none. No time off for good behavior, no chance for parole. I guess my race is run. Only a record on the radio could set us free.</span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>MERLE HAGGARD: Mama Tried (The Ballad From <i>Killers Three</i>)</b><br /></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Written by Merle Haggard<br /></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Produced by Ken Nelson<br /></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Single, Capitol Records, 1968</span></div><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">One of the rules of the road is that the driver controls the radio. My brother Art was driving. That meant the radio would be playing country music.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">It was 2004. My brother Rob had driven from his home in Albany to meet up with me in Syracuse. I took the wheel of my car (and my radio) to drive us from Syracuse to Columbus, where Art lived. From there, the three of us traveled in Art's car. Contemporary country music provided the soundtrack for our final trip to Missouri.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">It wasn't our first trip. We'd been there individually and collectively many, many times over the years. Our mom was born in Southwestern Missouri, and our grandparents had remained there. Art and Rob are older than me, so most of their family visits to the Show Me State occurred before I came along. By the mid-sixties, summer trips to Missouri involved just me, my sister Denise, and Mom, with Dad remaining in Syracuse. Within a few years, it was just Mom and I making that trek, as Dad and all of the older siblings had responsibilities elsewhere. The whole family went to Missouri for Christmas in 1970. It's the only time I remember all of us being there.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">In 2004, Mom and Dad were already in Missouri as Art, Rob, and I made our way West. Denise had moved to England, too far away to accompany us. Grampa had passed away years before. And now Grandma was gone as well. My brothers and I would be pall bearers. Country music played on the radio. The driver controls the radio.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I hate country music. Sometimes I'm lying (or at least kidding myself) when I say that, and sometimes it's the truth. Three chords and the truth. You'd think a love of country and western would be an innate characteristic of a boy whose mother hailed from the buckle of the Bible belt. 'Tain't so. Art and Rob love country music. Denise and I do not.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">It wasn't always like that. As a kid, one of my very favorite records was Ben Colder's "Ring Of Smoke," a broad parody of the Johnny Cash hit "Ring Of Fire." Denise says my incessant playing and re-playing of that MGM Records 45 knocked the country right out of her. I loved it. As a kid in the sixties, I wasn't yet aware of genres, of musical boundaries, of virtual barbed wire fences that suggested if you worked that land and played that music you weren't allowed to trespass on this land and play this music. It was all pop music. You heard it on the radio. The driver controls the radio, but the radio drives us all.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">When did it change for me? I used to watch <i>Hee Haw</i> on TV, engaged by the cute country girls, the corny banter, and Archie Campbell's weekly rendition of "PFFT! You Were Gone." Country remained a part of Top 40 radio, so my essential seventies AM atmosphere included Lynn Anderson, Charlie Rich, Donna Fargo, Conway Twitty. My memory may be clouded, but I think I was okay with country music.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Until I wasn't.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">What happened? I guess it was some weird combination of introspection, self-image, peer pressure, alienation, and teen reinvention. Being called "farmer" was a popular insult at school, and while I only recall hearing it directed at me when I wore Grampa's hand-me-down overalls, I was aware of its toxic condescension. Country wasn't cool. Neither was I, but while I learned to dig in my heels and stand ground on behalf of comic books and pop music and other things I loved that others mocked, I had also come to think of country as uncool. I wanted to be urbane, witty, sophisticated, fast-paced, and elite, city-slicker rather than shitkicker. New York City, not Nashville or Bakersfield. And, in the post-Watergate world, I had no use for country's jingoism. By the time I fell for punk rock, twang was in my rear-view mirror. Country music? I met another and PFFT! it was gone.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">It took a long time for me to appreciate country music again. I knew of rock 'n' roll's roots in country, so I was always okay with the Everly Brothers, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, Buddy Holly, King Elvis I. I knew the Beatles' "All My Loving" was a straight-up country song, and I loved it anyway. In the early eighties, I thought Juice Newton's cover of the Dave Edmunds track "Queen Of Hearts" was the best thing on AM radio. By the end of the eighties, a local Syracuse group called the Delta Rays (led by Craig Marshall and Maura Boudreau, the latter now Maura Kennedy of the fabulous Kennedys, with her husband Pete Kennedy) pried my closed mind wide open to Patsy Cline and George Jones, and to Mary-Chapin Carpenter. In the early nineties, I became a regular viewer of a Saturday night video program on CMT that showcased rockin' country. Nanci Griffith. Rosie Flores. The Sky Kings. The Mavericks. Joe Diffie. Jo Dee Messina. This was country music I could support.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">For all that, I still can’t listen to country radio. Nails on a chalkboard. When I'm driving, my control of the radio spins the dial elsewhere.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">My work as a pop journalist (and my quest for deliverance as a music fan) reminded me of the appeal of classic country, and my respect for that grew by leaps and bounds. Welcome back to my world, Johnny Cash. Hee-Haw and howdy, Buck Owens! And hello, Merle Haggard.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Haggard had always been outside of my realm. I associated him with "Okie From Muskogee," a track I considered a put-down of hippies and peaceniks, a song that seemed the very epitome of the redneck POV I so detested. Years later, I read that Haggard himself claimed an evolving, shifting view of the song, at times cashing it in at face value, at other times thinking of it as a joke or parody, a wink rather than a sneer. Some have suggested the song was meant to provide the counterbalance of a conservative viewpoint in the face of liberal protest. I dunno. I mean, even though he wasn't really an Okie--his parents moved from Checotah, OK to California before Merle was born in 1937--it's likely Haggard mighta smoked some marijuana in or around Muskogee at some point or another, his lyrical claim to the contrary notwithstanding.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">In fact, at the time of his early success in country music from 1966 through '68, Haggard hid a skeleton in his closet: he had fought the law, and the law had won. Teen stints in juvenile detention centers gave way to a robbery conviction in 1957, landing him in Bakersfield Jail. A failed attempt to escape there moved him to San Quentin in 1958. He turned twenty-one in prison. It may have appeared likely he'd die there, too.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">But Haggard rewrote his script. Seeing Johnny Cash perform at San Quentin prompted Haggard to play in a country band at the prison. He saw the dead-end roads stretched in nearly all directions around him. One road held the possibility of getting through: the straight and narrow. Haggard was paroled in 1960. He would never be a convict again.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Even the straightest and narrowest of roads may suffer detours, eventual twists and turns. Tolls. As Haggard played, recorded, and began to have hits, he worried that his past would kill his future, that public revelation of his time behind bars could terminate his time in the spotlight. Johnny Cash convinced Haggard to confront the issue. The driver controls the radio, and the narrative. During a 1969 appearance on Cash's TV show, Haggard spoke publicly about seeing Cash in concert at San Quentin, when Merle was an inmate. Haggard's career did not suffer. He was on his way to becoming a legend of country music.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Suddenly, Haggard's 1968 hit "Mama Tried" gained an additional patina of authenticity. It wasn't quite autobiographical--he'd committed robbery, not murder, and wasn't serving life without parole--but the feel was there, the gravitas, the sense of truth. Three chords and the truth. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Turning twenty-one in prison, leaving only himself to blame, because Mama tried, Mama tried. It's the equal of Dylan, insightful and honest, heartbreaking, real. Country music. The music I disavowed as a teenager, the music I claimed to hate. I guess that leaves only me to blame.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">My brothers and I arrived at my grandparents' house in Aurora in 2004. Our parents were there, along with aunts and uncles--including Mom's siblings, about to bid farewell to their own mother--and a representative sample of our cousins from California and Florida. Art and Rob brought fast food from the Starlite Drive-In, including orders of chicken gizzards and chicken livers. We all ate together, talked, laughed, and celebrated a life well-lived. The next morning, with our duties discharged and the funeral concluded, my brothers and I left the cemetery, the car now pointed East. The road awaited us. We were leaving Missouri behind, probably for the last time.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Our thoughts were our own, the memories established and permanent. Country music played on the radio. On a freight train leavin' town, never knowing where I'm bound. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The radio didn't play any Merle Haggard on that trip. It's okay. The driver controls the radio. That's the rule. I learned rules as a kid in New York, and in Missouri. I learned to swim in Missouri. I learned to drive in New York. I learned about music everywhere. I still have so much more to learn.</span></p>Carl Cafarellihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11773218537376251052noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3309889436583537455.post-55997597714953466662024-02-29T00:30:00.001-05:002024-02-29T00:30:00.132-05:0010 SONGS: 2/29/2024<p><i><span><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">10 Songs </span></b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">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 </span><b style="font-family: helvetica;">This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio with Dana & Carl</b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">. The idea was inspired by </span><b style="font-family: helvetica;">Don Valentine</b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> of the essential blog </span><a href="https://hearasingle.blogspot.com/" style="font-family: helvetica; font-weight: bold;">I Don't Hear A Single</a><span style="font-family: helvetica;">.</span></span></i></p><p><i><span></span></i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7mUDEGkb0aBT0CuZBwi0BXkuUV4m_M16MuVZVrfb946gZy61VoOnDfCYgUv6XtDh-AkBhhwKuf9jUCRpA0ODbjZ3ZQO7uSpmtPo_IdoocaGV2RZDj5rgQS5AIUhxyLjXeTzb4lg8C9HNcoT27QGK7aMoRLJRHSy9ynA0JWiYhoDqZ6-XiqNr3wqGFvHj5/s1280/maxresdefault.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7mUDEGkb0aBT0CuZBwi0BXkuUV4m_M16MuVZVrfb946gZy61VoOnDfCYgUv6XtDh-AkBhhwKuf9jUCRpA0ODbjZ3ZQO7uSpmtPo_IdoocaGV2RZDj5rgQS5AIUhxyLjXeTzb4lg8C9HNcoT27QGK7aMoRLJRHSy9ynA0JWiYhoDqZ6-XiqNr3wqGFvHj5/w640-h360/maxresdefault.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></i></div><p></p><p><i><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">This week's edition of <b>10 Songs</b> draws exclusively from the playlist for <a href="https://carlcafarelli.blogspot.com/2024/02/this-is-rock-n-roll-radio-1222.html"><b>This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio</b> # 1222</a>. This show is available as <a href="https://westcottradio.org/archive/rock_n_roll_radio_2024-02-25.mp3">a podcast</a>.</span></span></i></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>THE FLASHCUBES: Baby It's Cold Outside</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgd6wORFVpRM4wgfim4XyViDoI-5dtqO89B_Io_bUzMdwbhydBb8BKggjUZgYrzLgfUxovW2Iri6M2P0C00udQseOEnF2MF2JpOCoRKcDwEURq_9VoanN0HqA1wDq9NQLh1UaIGxCQITELoihe_RePTEZ088VXQJt85ULw3XIl4vA2yzsRvIWRQakVq_njV/s1200/a0400417633_10.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgd6wORFVpRM4wgfim4XyViDoI-5dtqO89B_Io_bUzMdwbhydBb8BKggjUZgYrzLgfUxovW2Iri6M2P0C00udQseOEnF2MF2JpOCoRKcDwEURq_9VoanN0HqA1wDq9NQLh1UaIGxCQITELoihe_RePTEZ088VXQJt85ULw3XIl4vA2yzsRvIWRQakVq_njV/w640-h640/a0400417633_10.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Baby, you can say that again. As I complete this blog entry, the temperature in Syracuse has plummeted from record high temps for February just hours ago to a frigid 'n' windy <i>blechh </i> more typical for the month, with lake effect snow promised in the morning. The weather outside? Frightful. Yeah this blows, yeah this blows, yeah this blows.</span></p><p><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">So we turn to a little music to keep the home fires burning. <b><a href="https://www.bigstirrecords.com/the-flashcubes">The Flashcubes</a></b>' <i style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="https://orcd.co/theflashcubes-popmasters?fbclid=IwAR3pjz2bea39lJ_SxXrRgFSzDHVRoOTGtzArAP8D7dU47tVOgv-ub6iXXg0">Pop Masters</a></i> was my favorite album of 2023, and this remake of <b>Pezband</b>'s power pop touchstone "Baby It's Cold Outside" was its first advance single back in the summer of 2021. Y'know, when it was, like, warm. The song's author <b>Mimi Betinis</b> enlists as an honorary Flashcube for this great version, and the resulting shivers get a little bit more welcome as we acclimate. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Even so, I've gotta ask: Can we have the sun back, please? Syracuse winters. The longest nine months of the year.</span></p><p><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>FANNY: Let's Spend The Night Together</b></span></span></p><p><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2trXJjzvZ0snwZd85Slcwz-b6toACT85Iku8skI5hQLRB1fpMrVPO-34XOTRhVj9OyonZnARYHuHEcDib6QwNIscPva5XKIUF_US96vgxK1iBA_j1mnou6CZSPSY15Lpc3WmtAkkX5u-qTI1D-whrTRWKo3LvAp4-vPPsttnsR13lizZSBnVu6agh8iBE/s640/ab67616d0000b273824635f19e7337137bcb6d2c.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="640" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2trXJjzvZ0snwZd85Slcwz-b6toACT85Iku8skI5hQLRB1fpMrVPO-34XOTRhVj9OyonZnARYHuHEcDib6QwNIscPva5XKIUF_US96vgxK1iBA_j1mnou6CZSPSY15Lpc3WmtAkkX5u-qTI1D-whrTRWKo3LvAp4-vPPsttnsR13lizZSBnVu6agh8iBE/w640-h640/ab67616d0000b273824635f19e7337137bcb6d2c.jpeg" width="640" /></a></span></span></div><p></p><p><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">A proposal to roll with the Stones. <b>Fanny</b>'s cover of <b>the Rolling Stones</b>' "Let's Spend The Night Together" comes from their 1974 album <i style="font-weight: bold;">Rock And Roll Survivors</i>, the group's fifth and final album, and their only album for <b>Casablanca Records</b>. It was also their only album without guitarist <b>June Millington</b>, who had co-founded Fanny with her sister, bassist <b>Jean Millington</b>; Jean remained with the group for <i style="font-weight: bold;">Rock And Roll Survivor</i>, and <b>Patti Quatro</b> joined on six-string.</span></span></p><p><span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjq9PztzulPLIaVeiGcSxNlhGOUfBuEtkLk6dbcykianhB1bTqlun41IKuZ7otNFE4aUMPlKDnEF11mV7dH2UkoBkMv4twY5hi9vrr3H24sRm5oUIw-G8e5RjPO2PGiBG4538ARAHR_6KGTgGUOKFWaQCONULjQbbvn4eMHW7He-QA52F6g5BoLX-AAgRpA/s1200/fanny-lives-57c6f6cd-8b6b-4f8f-a486-c3ae7819b994.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1069" data-original-width="1200" height="570" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjq9PztzulPLIaVeiGcSxNlhGOUfBuEtkLk6dbcykianhB1bTqlun41IKuZ7otNFE4aUMPlKDnEF11mV7dH2UkoBkMv4twY5hi9vrr3H24sRm5oUIw-G8e5RjPO2PGiBG4538ARAHR_6KGTgGUOKFWaQCONULjQbbvn4eMHW7He-QA52F6g5BoLX-AAgRpA/w640-h570/fanny-lives-57c6f6cd-8b6b-4f8f-a486-c3ae7819b994.webp" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I don't remember if I'd heard of Fanny before this. I think I may have read about them in some rock mag or another--possibly <i style="font-weight: bold;">Circus</i>?--but my first conscious exposure to their music was when I saw them on <i style="font-weight: bold;">American Bandstand</i>, chatting with <b>Dick Clark</b> and lip-syncing two tunes from <i style="font-weight: bold;">Rock And Roll Survivors</i>: "Let's Spend The Night Together" and their ace cover of <b>the Bell Notes</b>' "I've Had It."</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">(It suddenly occurs to me that I saw and heard Patti Quatro even before I saw and heard her sister <b>Suzi Quatro</b> lip-sync "<a href="https://carlcafarelli.blogspot.com/2023/06/the-greatest-record-ever-made-i-may-be.html">I May Be Too Young</a>" on the British TV show <i style="font-weight: bold;">Supersonic</i>.)</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWsYxeX0AUdF55BGTdLSfEhXlublfO1voGNqFaF3PpDiasdBNldIr7AV6FvvAQtN0y8yCsneWRlnoS0d-iNEdgTJntu9A66ipB9pxBXzmvH8iSFUC5jFDFCg32VThpANE-jPhzlicbZ_nZrn3Y0BbLqqnOMs5fgsfKM6UeMhKaLKjbmByBybHKWzWoc1iB/s493/Suzi_Quatro_1975-493x400.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="493" height="520" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWsYxeX0AUdF55BGTdLSfEhXlublfO1voGNqFaF3PpDiasdBNldIr7AV6FvvAQtN0y8yCsneWRlnoS0d-iNEdgTJntu9A66ipB9pxBXzmvH8iSFUC5jFDFCg32VThpANE-jPhzlicbZ_nZrn3Y0BbLqqnOMs5fgsfKM6UeMhKaLKjbmByBybHKWzWoc1iB/w640-h520/Suzi_Quatro_1975-493x400.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Appreciation of Fanny's career and legacy has grown over the decades after the fact. And it's about damned time. But the Casablanca LP isn't always considered alongside the group's first four records. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">It deserves better. It was my gateway to Fanny's music, and it's pretty damned good in its own right.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Spend some time with it.</span></p><p><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>MERLE HAGGARD: Mama Tried</b></span></span></p><p><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh66gqBFiRmoIiBQQ2HJVZnYQtkXI1znKkwtUsVxli7A_WR2baLiF7Iq-9saQZ2RaSAFq0iLDdOSRfzeO-wCvAeNyK7LzYoxhD98ATgwtQ_xFCvOOigWr8mKK1aiWdG1FDr9VI26NK1TOr7K2pqX9z-IKZbX1TEG8azgi5R5Tm-20HIXzSPh4ech_tWunPV/s640/Merle-Haggard-Mama-Tried-album-cover-web-optimised-820.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="640" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh66gqBFiRmoIiBQQ2HJVZnYQtkXI1znKkwtUsVxli7A_WR2baLiF7Iq-9saQZ2RaSAFq0iLDdOSRfzeO-wCvAeNyK7LzYoxhD98ATgwtQ_xFCvOOigWr8mKK1aiWdG1FDr9VI26NK1TOr7K2pqX9z-IKZbX1TEG8azgi5R5Tm-20HIXzSPh4ech_tWunPV/w640-h640/Merle-Haggard-Mama-Tried-album-cover-web-optimised-820.jpeg" width="640" /></a></span></span></div><p></p><p><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b><i><a href="https://carlcafarelli.blogspot.com/2024/02/the-greatest-record-ever-made-mama-tried.html">The Greatest Record Ever Made!</a></i></b></span></span></p><p><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>DOLPH CHANEY: Californiagain</b></span></span></p><p><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxeZr7oN2cZXaHiOY14HWMMSCYOMN-DyGW0bvUV0ohTdjqYrPCd5WoEn0qYkGhAmA3qRbaQTKYs8pqAtXEpaXLNBZdwEdnq1u1My73j58ghhKdDvElGQewKBux-IBfmPKWukrmYMFV6mH_L_y1LQ0jcHoQThmsjNEv8u4YIYNm5J0FjJytKkTG-M0dwQlj/s1200/a4142347262_10.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxeZr7oN2cZXaHiOY14HWMMSCYOMN-DyGW0bvUV0ohTdjqYrPCd5WoEn0qYkGhAmA3qRbaQTKYs8pqAtXEpaXLNBZdwEdnq1u1My73j58ghhKdDvElGQewKBux-IBfmPKWukrmYMFV6mH_L_y1LQ0jcHoQThmsjNEv8u4YIYNm5J0FjJytKkTG-M0dwQlj/w640-h640/a4142347262_10.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></span></div><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /><i style="font-weight: bold;">TIRnRR</i> Fave Rave <b>Dolph Chaney</b> has accrued some airplay on this little mutant radio show (as one would expect, given his "<b><i>TIRnRR </i></b>Fave Rave" status. Duh!). We've certainly played a few tracks from his splendid 2023 album <i style="font-weight: bold;">Mug</i>, and the recent release of the <i style="font-weight: bold;">Mug</i> track "Californiagain" as a single gives us an excuse to enjoy yet another quaff from that mug. Ah! Refreshing!</span></span><p></p><p><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">And it just so happens we'll be playing "Californiagain"...well, <i>again</i> on Sunday night. We'll also be playing a track from <b>Steve Stoeckel</b>, a track from <b>Chris Church</b>, and a track from <b>Spygenius</b>. Why is that worth noting here? Well! The fab four of Dolph, Steve, Chris, and Spygenius' <b>Peter Watts</b> have just joined rockin' pop forces to form a new power pop supergroup called <b>the Electromagnates</b>. The Electromagnates open our next show. Fave Raves, all.</span></span></p><p><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>THE O'JAYS: Love Train</b></span></span></p><p><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBrxyMZ4YPrarPBzYE4lC-IkdjKF9KIribs7SUtUO0hpzbhvx14nMycsZkCnK3QqAoNw51gK9H8dVTUvKTmCiwK93f5IS5jHg0Vo5NuuEh4vZ3ne89OB6tKsNYkgw2gCpNCnMLOh67z0y0vFzKvKRTd9lZ_B1Kr9hhXGZfhM3KzKGL0DujcAMh01qLnrWy/s520/The-OJays-Love-Train-1553281619-520x516.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="516" data-original-width="520" height="636" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBrxyMZ4YPrarPBzYE4lC-IkdjKF9KIribs7SUtUO0hpzbhvx14nMycsZkCnK3QqAoNw51gK9H8dVTUvKTmCiwK93f5IS5jHg0Vo5NuuEh4vZ3ne89OB6tKsNYkgw2gCpNCnMLOh67z0y0vFzKvKRTd9lZ_B1Kr9hhXGZfhM3KzKGL0DujcAMh01qLnrWy/w640-h636/The-OJays-Love-Train-1553281619-520x516.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></span></div><p></p><p><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Get on board. We could do worse. We <i>have</i> done worse. Please. Just get on board.</span></span></p><p><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>WONDERBOY: Girl Songs</b></span></span></p><p><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1xrWMOHgpspS9aD0j4f4N5CFsz40De3jgGQqsShUvNzzkvQO9SRL7Hoa3pLIOzHOj4lHsi4-kPb7skrLkAgqfgS5QGHsCrDnqnvCS5x8mPxuX91PIMDuNQ7mvSKvG8nVGOfFQTJThQ5Vx7RPBKj39sseXIJSEZ2rA8YsH83TkULPtvuDfj6rtiiZhUaBV/s700/a1717144185_65.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="700" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1xrWMOHgpspS9aD0j4f4N5CFsz40De3jgGQqsShUvNzzkvQO9SRL7Hoa3pLIOzHOj4lHsi4-kPb7skrLkAgqfgS5QGHsCrDnqnvCS5x8mPxuX91PIMDuNQ7mvSKvG8nVGOfFQTJThQ5Vx7RPBKj39sseXIJSEZ2rA8YsH83TkULPtvuDfj6rtiiZhUaBV/w640-h640/a1717144185_65.jpeg" width="640" /></a></span></span></div><p></p><p><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Awright! Here's the third consecutive <i style="font-weight: bold;">10 Songs</i> appearance of <b>Wonderboy</b>'s definitive statement of intent "Girl Songs." From the group's originally unreleased 1990s album <i style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="https://robbierist.bandcamp.com/album/hero-isle">Hero Isle</a></i>, "Girl Songs" is a contemporary <i style="font-weight: bold;">TIRnRR</i> Pick Hit 'cuz, y'know...<i>GIRLS! </i>And pop music. We've programmed the track for three straight weeks. We'll go for four weeks in a row on Sunday night. </span></span></p><p><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>THE BEATLES: Why Don't We Do It In The Road?</b></span></span></p><p><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmZTCPYdVb9K3JCenDFptUgxnIorymijmZy3pDLj3jhuYs7xJwLkq1ii_48YvZloA28zcFBIM3r_hwk6oFUcRJ5TvBNX_vdrxm-jbfkX_hCPwA5upoAFrXKrqdL1dPzNMV6wZmVZGYNsMoOmcEzjNLxntsRRDByZj20q00ejhwlnIorStCUDxh60423RpO/s853/B3-CF049_BEATLE_M_20181029155002.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="853" data-original-width="587" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmZTCPYdVb9K3JCenDFptUgxnIorymijmZy3pDLj3jhuYs7xJwLkq1ii_48YvZloA28zcFBIM3r_hwk6oFUcRJ5TvBNX_vdrxm-jbfkX_hCPwA5upoAFrXKrqdL1dPzNMV6wZmVZGYNsMoOmcEzjNLxntsRRDByZj20q00ejhwlnIorStCUDxh60423RpO/w440-h640/B3-CF049_BEATLE_M_20181029155002.jpg" width="440" /></a></span></span></div><p></p><p><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">When we told Wonderboy's <b>Robbie Rist</b> that we were going to follow this week's spin of "Girl Songs" with a track from <b>the Beatles</b>' White Album, he said it oughta be "Julia." Y'know...an actual <i>girl</i> song, dig? Our failure to do so isn't a reflection of our stubbornness, but evidence of our cluelessness. The show was already recorded by that time, and the thought of segueing "Girl Songs" into "Julia" didn't even occur to us. It's a good thing we have tenure.</span></span></p><p><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">On the other hand: Girl songs. Why don't we do it in the road. Upon further review, our decision stands. Sometimes we know what we're doing, even though we <i>never</i> know what we're doing.</span></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>PAUL COLLINS: I'm The Only One For You</b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>PAUL COLLINS: Stand Back And Take A Good Look</b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>THE BREAKAWAYS: Walking Out On Love</b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhojxek6Ml0tRXv1yCkr0uoGs1EwTBr8naXjUhXFeQ8P48Jxtbun2mPCSAGqVpwaDjtyMG_RP-DqozUgbMxm9TMni8nH_nDZOSNPZWlp_FHOjHtJeSlr2ewbgfCPgw-kaWZOwrW7uIWukDILDaYygxJ28mn1h4sAKk8pXr1gT61ZLy9t9aErVyqMEofDLiR/s640/61ukDHFxUtL._UF1000,1000_QL80_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="640" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhojxek6Ml0tRXv1yCkr0uoGs1EwTBr8naXjUhXFeQ8P48Jxtbun2mPCSAGqVpwaDjtyMG_RP-DqozUgbMxm9TMni8nH_nDZOSNPZWlp_FHOjHtJeSlr2ewbgfCPgw-kaWZOwrW7uIWukDILDaYygxJ28mn1h4sAKk8pXr1gT61ZLy9t9aErVyqMEofDLiR/w640-h640/61ukDHFxUtL._UF1000,1000_QL80_.jpg" width="640" /></a></div></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">(Please forgive the labored basketball references to follow. It's that time of year for me. Go, Orange! Somehow....)</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbOnjS6irJTlIXM_pkkr4d5xujk44cUvH3v3qfV_V8Fy2V4x4lBvuVE86Ia1pTumWCPk2d-ZCmC7zwpuMJBSc1GyLtMz6U-cAZF4ZNwt9SiUwOleGOCG7_MQ_bck1oxTfViN3Dnk91H0QOwqb-21StAGIlE4MDpA1V7Q9sB4Mpxe7oP9-gn7YHBDvCgHeA/s640/syracuse-orange-cheerleaders-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="427" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbOnjS6irJTlIXM_pkkr4d5xujk44cUvH3v3qfV_V8Fy2V4x4lBvuVE86Ia1pTumWCPk2d-ZCmC7zwpuMJBSc1GyLtMz6U-cAZF4ZNwt9SiUwOleGOCG7_MQ_bck1oxTfViN3Dnk91H0QOwqb-21StAGIlE4MDpA1V7Q9sB4Mpxe7oP9-gn7YHBDvCgHeA/w428-h640/syracuse-orange-cheerleaders-1.jpg" width="428" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Hey, a three-pointer! And it's GOOD!</span></div><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">We opened and closed this week's extravaganza with music from power pop legend <b>Paul Collins</b>. At the top of the show, we scored first with "Will You Come Through?" from Paul's superswell new album <i style="font-weight: bold;">Stand Back And Take A Good Look</i>. In overtime at show's end, we came out of the time out with a rapid-fire set play commencing with "I'm The Only One For You," the irresistible lead single from <i style="font-weight: bold;">Stand Back And Take A Good Look</i>. SCORE!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">With <i>just </i>enough time left on the shot clock, we threw in the new album's title track, and stole the ball back for a last-second put-back with "Walking Out On Love," the late '70s power pop classic Paul Collins wrote when he was with <b>the Nerves</b> and subsequently recorded with <b>the Breakaways</b> and <b>the Beat</b>.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Then the buzzer sounded at midnight. Game over! </span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">But the Beat goes on. We'll resume play this Sunday night. Our march to madness awaits.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVhaeyIUoTx0bwDhg3Tq21h4s5ZLwObcehPAFfEJcoDeT58RDLtRYcYQ4yvoblJb9NFisOuKvMGFCn46uzAf6DxFOt2ImxTXJZXWrajTW7gdeNwLBPrcaoqOGGbkHXNVvnXfahTpSb9YjhNEmyfs7DTAsKN747iNlyBxyCFbdr_DH6H5j6ze9HrttQtS3O/s500/51HGCaPKcnL.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="495" data-original-width="500" height="634" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVhaeyIUoTx0bwDhg3Tq21h4s5ZLwObcehPAFfEJcoDeT58RDLtRYcYQ4yvoblJb9NFisOuKvMGFCn46uzAf6DxFOt2ImxTXJZXWrajTW7gdeNwLBPrcaoqOGGbkHXNVvnXfahTpSb9YjhNEmyfs7DTAsKN747iNlyBxyCFbdr_DH6H5j6ze9HrttQtS3O/w640-h634/51HGCaPKcnL.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p><i><i><i><span style="color: #241e12; font-family: helvetica;"><i><i><span style="color: #241e12; font-family: helvetica;">If you like what you see here on <i><b>Boppin' (Like The Hip Folks Do)</b></i>, please consider a visit to</span></i></i></span></i></i><i style="font-family: helvetica;"><i><span style="color: #241e12; font-family: helvetica;"><i><i><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;"> <a href="https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/CarlCafarelli">CC's Tip Jar</a>. </span></i></i></span></i></i></i></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i><span>Carl's new book</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> <span>Gabba Gabba Hey! A Conversation With The Ramones</span> </span><span>is now available, courtesy of the good folks at <b><a href="https://rarebirdlit.com/">Rare Bird Books</a></b>. Gabba Gabba YAY!! </span></i></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i><a href="https://rarebirdlit.com/gabba-gabba-hey-a-conversation-with-the-ramones-by-carl-cafarelli/">https://rarebirdlit.com/gabba-gabba-hey-a-conversation-with-the-ramones-by-carl-cafarelli/</a></i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>If it's true that one book leads to another, my next book will be <b><a href="https://carlcafarelli.blogspot.com/2023/08/finishing-greatest-record-ever-made.html">The Greatest Record Ever Made! (Volume 1)</a></b>. Stay tuned. Your turn is coming.</i></span></p><div><p><i style="font-family: helvetica;"><i style="font-weight: bold;">This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio with Dana & Carl</i> airs Sunday nights from 9 to Midnight Eastern, on the air in Syracuse at <b>SPARK! WSPJ 103.3 and 93.7 FM</b>, streaming at <b><a href="https://ec3.yesstreaming.net:4280/api/links/?t=web&l=ne&c=1&fbclid=IwAR1UAKK9rWPYVh-iGgeNGRbM5PfTuHeCzYe2cIzA6o5yo-kooh7vVBYisdQ">SPARK stream</a> </b>and on the <b>Radio Garden</b> app as <b>WESTCOTT RADIO</b>. Recent shows are archived at <b><a href="http://westcottradio.org/">Westcott Radio</a></b>. 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By that time, I had already made a few freelance sales to <i style="font-weight: bold;">Amazing Heroes</i> magazine, which was published by <b>Fantagraphics</b>. This sale to <i style="font-weight: bold;">Comics Collector</i> was my first work for <b>Krause Publications</b>; I would go on to freelance for Krause for twenty-one years, most notably the twenty years I spent writing for Krause's record collectors' tabloid <i style="font-weight: bold;">Goldmine</i> (a story told in great detail <a href="https://carlcafarelli.blogspot.com/2016/12/the-road-to-goldmine-complete-series.html">here</a>).</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Whatever reputation I managed to build as a writer was cobbled together on the foundation of my work for <i style="font-weight: bold;">Goldmine</i> from 1986-2006, including my <b><i>Goldmine </i></b>interviews with <b>the Ramones</b> (expanded into <a href="https://rarebirdlit.com/gabba-gabba-hey-a-conversation-with-the-ramones-by-carl-cafarelli/">book form</a> in 2023), and including the little extra <i>oomph</i> of notoriety I was able to bring to the earliest years of <i style="font-weight: bold;">This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio with Dana & Carl</i>. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">And that all started with my first freelance sale to Krause Publications in 1985. Holy Entry Point! </span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">And here it is, its text reprised intact from its 1985 publication. Were there errors and over-simplifications? Yep. Not fixing 'em now, this many decades after the fact, and I think I got most of it right anyway. Thanks to my <i style="font-weight: bold;">Comics Collector</i> editors <b>Don and Maggie Thompson</b> and their enforcer <b>Kim Metzger</b> for helping me get started in the wonderful world of Krause Publications.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">To the Batpoles!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>SAME BAT-TIME, SAME BAT CHANNEL</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Batman: To comics fans and collectors, he is the dark avenger of evil, a weird figure of the night properly referred to as <i>The </i>Batman. However, to the larger world outside of fandom, the image of the Caped Crusader was formed, not by Neal Adams or Marshall Rogers, but by a highly successful 1966 television comedy-adventure program.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">To hard-core Batman fans, the TV show was anathema, silly where it should have been spectacular, campy where it should have been captivating, and spotlighting a hero whom <i style="font-weight: bold;">Newsweek</i> described as "bungling, awkward, even stupid. Corseted in baggy tights with blue satin jockey shorts, he bears only mocking resemblance to the comic-book prototype."</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Nevertheless, TV's Batman remains the only Batman that many people know, and no mere mention of Silver St. Cloud or The Joker's homicidal tendencies is likely to change that in the near future.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Like it or not, the Caped Crusader's cathode-ray caricature looms large in the legend of The Batman. If we're going to attempt a summation of Batman's career, we're going to have to consider how the TV show interpreted (or <i>re</i>interpreted) our hero and how the comic books were later affected by that interpretation.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">For our purposes, the story begins in 1964, 25 years after The Batman's first appearance. Julie Schwartz assumed editorship of both <i style="font-weight: bold;">Batman</i> and <i style="font-weight: bold;">Detective Comics</i> and began what was referred to as the "New Look" Batman. This New Look was designed to streamline and modernize Batman, scuttling the weak science-fantasy settings and lackluster art that had plagued the character for the last few years. The intent of the New Look was to make Batman a tad more realistic and down-to-earth, and the result was about two years of solid, entertaining Batman stories--one of the finest, most fondly-remembered periods in the character's illustrious history.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">As legend has it, one of these New Look issues of <i style="font-weight: bold;">Batman</i> somehow caught the attention of a TV producer named William Dozier. The issue in question was <i>Batman</i> # 171, cover-featuring the return of that plundering Prince of Puzzlers, The Riddler. Dozier reportedly thought the book quite a howl, and something in the enterprising producer's mind clicked.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">At the time, America was in the midst of a pop art revolution/fad (take your pick), and much had been written on the subject of camp humor, which deals with something that's so bad it's good. In Dozier's view, that description summed up Batman and Robin perfectly. Dozier shelved his plans for a Green Hornet series (which eventually made it to the screen in Batman's wake) and set to work on his plans for the Dynamic Duo. ABC, the network that aired <i>Batman</i>, might have initially preferred a straight, action-adventure treatment of the character, but Dozier insisted that the whole project's chances of success hinged upon a camp approach. Dozier's viewpoint prevailed, and camp was in.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>Batman </i>the television program made its debut at 7:30 p.m. on January 13, 1966. Dozier and head writer Lorenzo Semple Jr. designed the show as a colorful pop-art explosion, an elaborate parody of its comic-book roots. Taking advantage of its twice-a-week time slot, the show ended each Wednesday night with a cliffhanger (effectively parodying old movie serials as well as comic books), with Thursday night's installment resolving the good guys' predicament and showing how justice again triumphed over evil. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Batman and Robin, as portrayed by Adam West and Burt Ward respectively, came across as four-cornered, overgrown Boy Scouts, gaudy goody-two-shoes with a penchant for funny clothes and corny sayings. The camp silliness of the whole affair soon caught on, and <i>Batman</i> was a ratings winner.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Fans of the comic book Batman were furious; their heroes were being ridiculed on national TV twice a week. Fight scenes on the show were punctuated with large BIFFs, POWs and ZONKs superimposed on the screen to simulate comic-book sound effects. When Batman and Robin were needed, Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson would slide down the Batpoles in stately Wayne Manor and emerge in the Batcave below, miraculously changed into their costumes. This was, perhaps, the TV show's most annoying affectation; even today, when I discuss Batman with trivia buffs who aren't familiar with the comics, the question is inevitably asked: "How <i>did</i> they change their clothes while sliding down those Batpoles, anyway?"</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">It seemed that the TV show provided no end of irritation for fans of the "real" Batman. Looking at the program objectively, however, one discovers that it was a well-produced, sometimes genuinely funny satire. Like all jokes that are so bad they're good, camp humor wore thin upon repeated exposure, but it was amusing for a while.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Although the Batman mythos was used as the vehicle for blunt parody, many of the details were almost painstakingly exact. Commissioner Gordon came across as much more constipated and flat than his cartoon counterpart, but the casting of certain villains was just delicious; in particular, Burgess Meredith and Frank Gorshin were letter-perfect in their respective roles as The Penguin and The Riddler, and Cesar Romero's Joker was likewise a fair recreation of how the Clown Prince of Crime was then being portrayed in the comics. The show burdened the Dynamic Duo with an overabundance of unnecessary Batgadgets and related paraphernalia (a Batcomputer, a Batgas spray can, the infamous Batthermal underweat, etc.), but comic book accessories like the Batmobile, Batarang, and Batsignal were reproduced faithfully. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Someone involved with the production of the TV show obviously researched the character, as elements of both the New Look comics and the mid-'50s Batman popped up frequently in the program. Many new super-villains were created for the show (King Tut, The Bookworm, Egghead, and others), but quite a few old villains were revived from the comics: The Joker, The Penguin, The Riddler, The Catwoman (who had not appeared in a new adventure since the '50s), False Face, Eivol Ekdal, and Mr. Freeze (originally called Mr. Zero in the comics). In spite of (or because of?) its camp approach, the Batman TV series may have been the most faithful adaptation of a comic book super-hero ever to hit the home screen. Certainly, it was more faithful than <i>The Adventures Of Superman</i>, <i>The Incredible Hulk</i>, <i>The Amazing Spider-Man</i>, or <i>Wonder Woman</i>, but it was all so <i>demeaning</i>....</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">With the phenomenal success of the TV show, it was inevitable that some camp influence would appear in the comics as well. Fan cartoonist Fred Hembeck once noted that the excellence of the New Look Batman ended the night the TV show premiered, and his statement was pretty accurate. By 1966, the New Look had already gained an increasing sense of flippancy, as Robin's wisecracking banter became more prevalent (A scene in <i>Batman</i> # 178 had Robin, seconds away from drowning, thinking to himself, "Haven't...even...breath...left...for...a...wise...crack..."</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Fight scenes were also becoming more flamboyant, as Batman and Robin were able to battle armies of hoods and emerge unscahed (as in <i>Batman</i> # 180, the otherwise-excellent "Death Knocks Three Times"). Whereas the earliest stages of the New Look concentrated more on the villainy of down-to-earth gangsters and crime cartels like Hydra (<i>Batman</i> # 167), costumed super-criminals like the Grasshopper Gang, The Bouncer, and Death-Man, plus the ubiquitous Joker, Penguin, and Riddler, made their presence felt before the TV show took hold. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Although all of these events foreshadowed the effect of the TV show, it is within the realm of possibility that DC Comics had another influence in mind: Marvel Comics, whose popularity was skyrocketing with its own formula of wisecracking super-heroes, spectacular fight scenes, and colorful criminals.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Though the TV show did eventually exert its influence, the result was more subdued than one might have feared. Still under Julie Schwartz's guidance, the Batman comic book never quite succumbed to the unrestrained silliness of their video counterpart, preferring to leave high camp heroics to <i>The Mighty Crusaders</i> and Gold Key's <i>The Owl</i>. At first, the TV influence was minimal; the stories were pretty much the same as before, with the addition of a few extra BONKs and ZAPs and a slight change in the Boy Wonder's speech pattern. This was a minor but annoying item: drawing on the comic-book convention of exclamations like "Great Krypton!" "Suffering Sappho!" and The Legion of Super-Heroes' immortal "Popping Planets!" the TV show came up with a new series of epithets for Robin to cry out at appropriate moments. The idea was that, if the Dynamic Duo found themselves in a smoke-filled room, Robin would say "Holy smoke!" If Batman and The Catwoman became overly familiar with one another, Robin would exclaim, "Holy mush!" Got it?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The introduction of these expletives into the comics was particularly irritating. Otherwise fine stories like "Batman's Baffling Turnabout!" (<i>Batman</i> # 183) and "Hate Of The Haunted Hangman!" (<i>Detective Comics</i> # 355) were marred by the occasional "Holy TNT!" or "Holy hydrogen peroxide!" The appearance of these unnecessary exclamations on the covers of various issues frequently destroyed any possibility of dramatic tension.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The TV show had a few positive effects on the comics. Batman's faithful butler Alfred had been killed off in the early stages of the New Look in a well-intentioned and admirably executed bid to generate some excitement in the strip. However, Alfred was featured in the TV series, forcing the comics to revive this key figure in the Batman legend. As noted before, the TV show rescued The Catwoman from comic-book limbo and revived Mr. Zero under his new name (Robin commented on the Frozen Felon's name-change: "Mr. Freeze? That sounds like a campy name dreamed up for a villain in a television program!" --<i>Detective Comics</i> # 373).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">In addition to all of this, the popularity of the TV show generated a remarkable jump in comic book sales, as <i>Batman</i>'s sales figures topped the one million mark for the only time in its history.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">But at what a cost! Even if the comics never quite reached the TV show's depths of absurdity, Batman and Robin were still buried under a growing pile of excess Batbaggage (Bat-freeze pills, the Batbook of crime), and the overall effect was far short of what the World's Greatest Detective deserved. Costumed villains overran the books, and the occasional non-costumed criminal was usually a boob of the first order, the sort of ineffectual adversary that George Reeves tangled with on <i>The Adventures Of Superman</i>.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">There were a few good stories published in this period ("The Million Dollar Debut Of Batgirl!" was a fine debut in <i>Detective</i> # 359), but the series as a whole became bland at best and just plain bad at worst.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The depths were finally hit in<i> Batman</i> # 188 with "The Eraser Who Tried To Rub Out Batman!" a ludicrous tale of a figure from Bruce Wayne's past who helped criminals commit perfect crimes by erasing all clues at the scene of the crime--with his pencil-eraser headgear! Holy bottom-of-the-barrel!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">By this time, the bat-backlash was setting in. There were complaints about the camp tone of the Caped Crusaders' exploits and about Batman's domination of The Justice League of America. Although the TV show was still fairly popular at the time, the editorial decision was made to excise camp elements from <i>Batman</i> and <i>Detective Comics</i>. The break from the TV show was accomplished with "The Round-Robin Death Threats!" in <i>Detective</i> # 366-367, a nifty two-parter accurately trumpeted as "a Batman thriller in the 'grand old' tradition!"</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Subsequent stories varied from serious to (only slightly) silly, but the death of the batfad and the cancellation of the TV show also spelled an end to high sales figures. DC Comics went through a change in management, and Batman struggled through the end of the '60s. The TV show had damaged his credibility badly, and only the return of a "creature of the night" motif in the early '70s salvaged the character's dignity. Even today, however, the Caped Crusader's sales fall far short of what one might expect for such a famous character.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The success of the TV show was such that the video image of Batman is difficult, perhaps impossible, to separate from the comic-book hero that spawned it. Batman deserves the respect of the general public; maybe the upcoming Batman feature film will help in that regard.<br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Meanwhile, we Batman fans can still enjoy our favorite super-hero's adventures and maybe learn to make the most of the TV show's legacy. I still find the "Holy jet-stream!" lines obnoxious, but Police Chief O'Hara, a creation of the TV show, put in an appearance in Steve Englehart's celebrated Batman serial a few years back. Doug Moench's writing on <i>Batman</i> and <i>Detective Comics</i> bears a superficial resemblance to the TV-show format, as he presents a series of two-part adventures with different Special Guest Villains.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The Batman legend grows.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">And, personally, I rather hope the new movie makes use of "The Batman Theme," for old time's sake.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiX5vUPSQRufzaVsjSaizK6y6YJs4-GcwQtOPZFUhmQ601mP0wqHJolJJGvJfg8mwRf8dUG0uTKPC97U0bxuT5BUHV4OBa2eemhuB7dADLkBYdDtByIMDhD_fsDpwekO1WYSfoTp1RjIGN4qvCH27YWmHxJUb5x5IRYexfUfLQktPSp10s5eAYiOB7VfyNK/s2644/IMG_1932.heic" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1139" data-original-width="2644" height="276" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiX5vUPSQRufzaVsjSaizK6y6YJs4-GcwQtOPZFUhmQ601mP0wqHJolJJGvJfg8mwRf8dUG0uTKPC97U0bxuT5BUHV4OBa2eemhuB7dADLkBYdDtByIMDhD_fsDpwekO1WYSfoTp1RjIGN4qvCH27YWmHxJUb5x5IRYexfUfLQktPSp10s5eAYiOB7VfyNK/w640-h276/IMG_1932.heic" width="640" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjffMnrUtMu8fxZshdmSlXh0PfZl_fTjh_6L8q3ZfQEwhfQf1fJ3lkwh9iLtWWnYlUWbN1o6zPPa-wf43PyVm7M4AWhvunypayx6zBkSUqK9eqlUcWZR5jc06COR8Pcz9FDTKwk-EBtDs5u_O-nJj-pjSjFYp3BGRPhq8mnSh-xcm9u2g0WF5-Wf-9I8Za0/s4028/IMG_1928.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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A Conversation With The Ramones</span> </span><span>is now available, courtesy of the good folks at <b><a href="https://rarebirdlit.com/">Rare Bird Books</a></b>. Gabba Gabba YAY!! </span></i></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i><a href="https://rarebirdlit.com/gabba-gabba-hey-a-conversation-with-the-ramones-by-carl-cafarelli/">https://rarebirdlit.com/gabba-gabba-hey-a-conversation-with-the-ramones-by-carl-cafarelli/</a></i></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>If it's true that one book leads to another, my next book will be <b><a href="https://carlcafarelli.blogspot.com/2023/08/finishing-greatest-record-ever-made.html">The Greatest Record Ever Made! (Volume 1)</a></b>. Stay tuned. Your turn is coming.</i></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><p><i style="font-family: helvetica;"><i style="font-weight: bold;">This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio with Dana & Carl</i> airs Sunday nights from 9 to Midnight Eastern, on the air in Syracuse at <b>SPARK! WSPJ 103.3 and 93.7 FM</b>, streaming at <b><a href="https://ec3.yesstreaming.net:4280/api/links/?t=web&l=ne&c=1&fbclid=IwAR1UAKK9rWPYVh-iGgeNGRbM5PfTuHeCzYe2cIzA6o5yo-kooh7vVBYisdQ">SPARK stream</a> </b>and on the <b>Radio Garden</b> app as <b>WESTCOTT RADIO</b>. Recent shows are archived at <b><a href="http://westcottradio.org/">Westcott Radio</a></b>. You can read about our history <a href="https://carlcafarelli.blogspot.com/2019/11/boppin-whole-friggin-planet-history-of_10.html">here</a>.</i></p></div><p style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i><b></b></i></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></b></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></b></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></b></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></b></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></b></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></b></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></b></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></b></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></b></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></b></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></b></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></b></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></b></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: Times;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></b></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></b></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></b></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></p><p><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></b></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>I'm on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/cafarellicarl">@CafarelliCarl</a></i></span></p></div></span></span></div></span></span></div></div>Carl Cafarellihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11773218537376251052noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3309889436583537455.post-5060256776890896722024-02-27T00:30:00.005-05:002024-02-27T12:31:53.115-05:00Fake THIS IS ROCK 'N' ROLL RADIO Playlist: Covers from the ONLY THREE LADS alt-music era (1970s, 1980s, and 1990s)<p><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio with Dana & Carl </span>is simply too large a concept to be neatly contained within a mere three-hour weekly time slot. Hence these occasional fake <span style="font-weight: bold;">TIRnRR </span>playlists, detailing shows we're never really going to do...but could.</span></i> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqGQqJrtE1Mz0YkpXr0Pp1y0aS5gyv_YlAV05tsZy4X-tpmpcPyIUuY8qtVUPwP6OTLg8DkVMjdyL9ONNvWafhEdOmjmTXOFgDcigfYK5nP9iNzPykibch01fFS91vBkWKjbGv65nSyC7bb0RQvQbBk-u6ItViteGmIosWDxYYLoOlhyphenhyphenxLiVrP20_hOtbJ/s1024/ENMQE1993_1024x1024.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1024" height="626" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqGQqJrtE1Mz0YkpXr0Pp1y0aS5gyv_YlAV05tsZy4X-tpmpcPyIUuY8qtVUPwP6OTLg8DkVMjdyL9ONNvWafhEdOmjmTXOFgDcigfYK5nP9iNzPykibch01fFS91vBkWKjbGv65nSyC7bb0RQvQbBk-u6ItViteGmIosWDxYYLoOlhyphenhyphenxLiVrP20_hOtbJ/w640-h626/ENMQE1993_1024x1024.webp" width="640" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I'm a fan of <i style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/only-three-lads-classic-alternative-music-podcast/id1499018289">Only Three Lads</a></i>, the weekly classic alternative podcast curated by hosts <b>Uncle Gregg</b> and <b>Brett Vargo</b>. Today's imaginary exercise in playlisting is directly inspired by <i style="font-weight: bold;">O3L</i>, even though it doesn't really have anything to do with <i style="font-weight: bold;">O3L</i>.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i style="font-weight: bold;">Only Three Lads</i> celebrates the classic era of alternative music, an era which Gregg 'n' Bart define as the 1970s, '80s, and '90s. Each week's show selects a topic (like last weeks' Top 5 Canadian albums), and then counts down the individual quintets of picks chosen by each of the lads, usually with a special guest serving as <i>de facto</i> third lad or lass. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Because I'm a relative newcomer to <i style="font-weight: bold;">O3L</i>, I rely on speculation when I say they've probably already addressed the question of Top 5 cover versions in the <i style="font-weight: bold;">O3L</i> era. Whether they have or haven't, the subject seems a good launching pad for a fake <i style="font-weight: bold;">This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio</i> playlist.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">In slapping this together, I wanted to come up with a playlist comprised solely of tracks that occurred to me without resorting to outside references. I tried to avoid songs where the cover was (at least arguably) better-known than the original; this ruled out goodies like "Girls Talk" by <b>Dave Edmunds</b>, "Rock And Roll Love Letter" by <b>the Bay City Rollers</b>, "(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love & Understanding?" by <b>Elvis Costello and the Attractions</b>, and about a zillion others. That's okay; that still left us with plenty of superb material.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">(Oh. And I wanted to feature <b>the Ramones</b> in each set. <a href="https://rarebirdlit.com/gabba-gabba-hey-a-conversation-with-the-ramones-by-carl-cafarelli/">I like the Ramones</a>.)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I didn't check the decade-to-decade ratios in play, but my own chronology and POV tends to favor '70s over '80s and '80s over '90s, and I'm sure this playlist reflects that bias. And yeah, I know even as broad a concept as "alternative" can't possibly be stretched to include, say, <b>Styx</b>, whom I generally despise (with exceptions). But everything here is in-era; it doesn't have to be <i>alternative</i>.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">It just has to be good.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Speaking of good: Thanks, <i style="font-weight: bold;">Only Three Lads</i>! Appreciate your show, appreciate your inspiration. To show my gratitude, here's a playlist of some songs borrowed from previous practitioners by other performers during the <i style="font-weight: bold;">O3L</i> timeline. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dig the sincerity in play here.</span></p><p><i style="font-family: helvetica; font-weight: bold;">This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio with Dana & Carl</i><span style="font-family: helvetica;">--y'know, the real one--</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">airs Sunday nights from 9 to Midnight Eastern, on the air in Syracuse at </span><b style="font-family: helvetica;">SPARK! WSPJ 103.3 and 93.7 FM</b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">, and on the web at </span><a href="http://sparksyracuse.org/" style="font-family: helvetica;">http://sparksyracuse.org/</a><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> You can read all about this show's long and weird history here: </span><b style="font-family: helvetica;"><i><a href="https://carlcafarelli.blogspot.com/2019/11/boppin-whole-friggin-planet-history-of_10.html">Boppin' The Whole Friggin' Planet (The History Of THIS IS ROCK 'N' ROLL RADIO)</a></i></b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">. TAX DEDUCTIBLE DONATIONS are </span><a href="http://sparksyracuse.org/support/" style="font-family: helvetica;">always welcome</a><span style="font-family: helvetica;">.</span></p><div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span>The many fine <i style="font-weight: bold;">This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio </i>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:</span><br /></span><div><span style="font-family: "helvetica";"><br /><b><i>Volume 1: </i><a href="https://futuremanrecords.bandcamp.com/album/this-is-rock-n-roll-radio-vol-1-2">download</a></b><br /><b><i>Volume 2: </i><a href="https://www.ebay.com/itm/Various-THIS-IS-ROCK-N-ROLL-RADIO-VOLUME-2-w-THE-COWSILLS-and-more-sealed/154423208799">CD</a></b> or <b><a href="https://futuremanrecords.bandcamp.com/album/this-is-rock-n-roll-radio-vol-2">download</a></b><br /><i style="font-weight: bold;">Volume 3: </i><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="https://futuremanrecords.bandcamp.com/album/this-is-rock-n-roll-radio-vol-3">download</a></span><br /><b><i>Volume 4: </i><a href="http://shop.koolkatmusik.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=KKM&Product_Code=Various_Artists_241&Category_Code=PO">CD</a></b> or <b><a href="https://futuremanrecords.bandcamp.com/album/this-is-rock-n-roll-radio-vol-4">download</a></b><br /><b><i>Waterloo Sunset--Benefit For This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio:</i> <a href="http://shop.koolkatmusik.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=KKM&Product_Code=Various_Artists_400&Category_Code&fbclid=IwAR1hLvZW4ICTC2tfpZ-_jCnjqq8lmhxig-F-kyga69P17fkOPn3OLckVcWA">CD</a></b> or <b><a href="https://futuremanrecords.bandcamp.com/album/waterloo-sunset-benefit-for-this-is-rock-n-roll-radio">download</a></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "helvetica";"><b><i>Volume 5: </i></b></span><b style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="http://shop.koolkatmusik.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=KKM&Product_Code=Various_Artists_484&Category_Code=">CD</a></b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> or </span><b style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://koolkatmusik1.bandcamp.com/album/dana-carl-present-this-is-rock-n-roll-radio-vol-5">download</a></b></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><b>PS: SEND MONEY!!!! </b>We need tech upgrades like Elvis needs boats. </span><b>Spark Syracuse </b><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">is supported by listeners like you. Tax-deductible donations are welcome at </span><br /><a href="http://sparksyracuse.org/support/" target="_blank">http://sparksyracuse.org/support/</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span>Carl's new book</span><i style="font-weight: bold;"> <i><a href="https://rarebirdlit.com/gabba-gabba-hey-a-conversation-with-the-ramones-signed-by-carl-cafarelli/">Gabba Gabba Hey! A Conversation With The Ramones</a></i> </i><span>is now available, courtesy of the good folks at <b><a href="https://rarebirdlit.com/">Rare Bird Books</a></b>. Gabba Gabba YAY!! </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><i>You can follow Carl's daily blog <b>Boppin' (Like The Hip Folks Do) </b>at </i></span></span><br /><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><i><a href="https://carlcafarelli.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">https://carlcafarelli.blogspot.com/</a></i></span></span></div></div></div><p><i style="font-family: helvetica;"></i></p><p><i style="font-family: helvetica;"></i></p><p><i style="font-family: helvetica;"></i></p><p><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></i></p><p><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></i></p><p><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></i></p><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>FAKE </b><i style="font-weight: bold;">TIRnRR </i><b>PLAYLIST: </b></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>Covers from the <i>ONLY THREE LADS</i> alt-music era (1970s, 1980s, and 1990s)</b></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">BANANARAMA AND FUN BOY THREE: Really Sayin' Somethin' [The Velvelettes]</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE RAMONES: I Don't Want To Grow Up [Tom Waits]</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">HÜSKER DÜ: Eight Miles High [The Byrds]</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE RUNAWAYS: Rock And Roll [The Velvet Underground]</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">TOOTS AND THE MAYTALS: Take Me Home, Country Roads [John Denver]</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">HINDU LOVE GODS: Raspberry Beret [Prince and the Revolution]</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">--</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">KISS: Any Way You Want It [The Dave Clark Five]</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">SUZI QUATRO: Wake Up, Little Susie [The Everly Brothers]</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">HEADGIRL: Please Don't Touch [Johnny Kidd and the Pirates]</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE RAMONES: 7 And 7 Is [Love]</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">SIBLING RIVALRY: See My Way [Blodwyn Pig]</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE BAY CITY ROLLERS: Rebel Rebel [David Bowie]</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">--</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">COWBOY JUNKIES: Sweet Jane [The Velvet Underground]</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE RAMONES: Needles And Pins [Jackie DeShannon, The Searchers]</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">RONNIE SPECTOR AND THE E STREET BAND: Say Goodbye To Hollywood</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #333333;">BLUE ÖYSTER CULT:</span> Be My Baby [The Ronettes]</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE BANGLES: Where Were You When I Needed You [The Grass Roots]</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">RADIO BIRDMAN: You're Gonna Miss Me [The 13th Floor Elevators]</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">--</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE SEX PISTOLS: (I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone [Paul Revere and the Raiders, the Monkees]</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">STIV BATORS: It's Cold Outside [The Choir]</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">X: Wild Thing [The Troggs]</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">TAVARES: Free Ride [The Edgar Winter Group]</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">PHIL SEYMOUR: Let Her Dance [The Bobby Fuller Four]</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE RAMONES: Time Has Come Today [The Chambers Brothers]</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">--</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">JOAN JETT AND THE BLACKHEARTS: Doin' Alright With The Boys [Gary Glitter]</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE GREG KIHN BAND: Roadrunner [The Modern Lovers]</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE RAMONES: Take It As It Comes [The Doors]</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">STYX: Lies [The Knickerbockers]</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE PLEASERS: The Kids Are Alright [The Who]</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">1.4.5.: Hippy Hippy Shake [Chan Romero, the Swinging Blue Jeans]</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">--</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">KISSING BANDITS: Shake Some Action [The Flamin' Groovies]</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE BARRACUDAS: Down In The Boondocks [Billy Joe Royal]</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">BLUE ANGEL: I'm Gonna Be Strong [Gene Pitney]</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE RAMONES: California Sun [The Rivieras]</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE BEACH BOYS: California Dreaming [The Mamas and the Papas]</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE FLAMIN' GROOVIES: Sealed With A Kiss [Bryan Hyland]</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">--</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE ISLEY BROTHERS: Summer Breeze [Seals and Crofts]</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE SEX PISTOLS: Somethin' Else [Eddie Cochran]</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE RAMONES: Somebody To Love [Jefferson Airplane]</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">YVONNE ELLIMAN: I Can't Explain [The Who]</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE TREMBLERS: Green Shirt [Elvis Costello and the Attractions]</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE MUFFS: Rock And Roll Girl [The Beat]</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">--</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">WHITE FLAG: Wuthering Heights [Kate Bush]</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">DAVID BOWIE: Sorrow [The McCoys, the Merseys]</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">MATERIAL ISSUE: Little Willy [Sweet]</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE RAMONES: Surfin' Bird [The Trashmen]</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">BLONDIE: Denis [Randy and the Rainbows]</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">RACHEL SWEET: B-A-B-Y [Carla Thomas]</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">JOHNNY JOHNSON AND HIS BANDWAGON: Gasoline Alley Bred [The Hollies]</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">R.E.M.: Toys In The Attic [Aerosmith]</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">--</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE RAMONES: Do You Wanna Dance [Bobby Freeman]</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE FLASHCUBES: All Over The World [Paul Collins' Beat]</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE ROMANTICS: She's Got Everything [The Kinks]</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">EDDIE AND THE HOT RODS: Get Out Of Denver [The Bob Seger System]</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">JOHNNY THUNDERS [with PATTI PALLADIN]: Great Big Kiss [The Shangri-Las]</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">RONNIE SPECTOR: Here Today Gone Tomorrow [The Ramones]</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">WILLIE ALEXANDER AND THE BOOM BOOM BAND: You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling [The Righteous Brothers]</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE DICTATORS: Slow Death [The Flamin' Grovies]</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">--</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE PALEY BROTHERS AND RAMONES: Come On Let's Go [Ritchie Valens]</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE DICKIES: Banana Splits [The Banana Splits]</span></div>Carl Cafarellihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11773218537376251052noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3309889436583537455.post-888406677284759672024-02-26T00:00:00.006-05:002024-02-26T00:00:00.136-05:00This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio # 1222<p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTb5JtK8CeKnDLJwxvQ0ZpqHp4JcBsEPK1MfnqXHMPMeZ0QRzz09LYASYAzVghFAtw2ok9JTcUrkAtK5KHdyEh1FZ1uFGZ3PQOXmKNdegBPh5ullGF6cQvwb7Pl93XUZwtdasF9ESUSMzsWFD8B5c58f4nwWAPMZ1LDB8BbfrnamI7jggYZZdhV1hjA9I7/s715/ETIE0667-720x720_800x.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="715" height="458" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTb5JtK8CeKnDLJwxvQ0ZpqHp4JcBsEPK1MfnqXHMPMeZ0QRzz09LYASYAzVghFAtw2ok9JTcUrkAtK5KHdyEh1FZ1uFGZ3PQOXmKNdegBPh5ullGF6cQvwb7Pl93XUZwtdasF9ESUSMzsWFD8B5c58f4nwWAPMZ1LDB8BbfrnamI7jggYZZdhV1hjA9I7/w640-h458/ETIE0667-720x720_800x.webp" width="640" /></a><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I guess I risk accusations of hipsterism when I say I've been a fan of <b>Paul Collins</b> since the late '70s. That was when teen college student ME picked up the superb four-song eponymous EP by our Paul's former group <b>the Nerves</b>. My fandom intensified with "Walking Out On Love," an absolutely irresistible track recorded by <b>the Breakaways</b> (an act piloted by Collins and fellow Nerve <b>Peter Case</b>) and credited to Collins solo on a 1979 compilation album called <i style="font-weight: bold;">Waves Vol. 1</i>. When Collins then formed <b>the Beat</b> (aka <b>Paul Collins' Beat</b>), I was all in. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">But listen: It does not matter one itty li'l bit when you catch on to an act you like. You were there at the group's secret origin, their rockin' pop Ground Zero? Awright! You discovered 'em later on, whether on your own or as part of a ritual jump on a crowded bandwagon? <i>Also</i> awright! Man, music is timeless. There are no purity tests for becoming a fan. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">And right now, Paul Collins fans old and new can rejoice in the release of the power pop legend's minty-fresh album <i style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="https://jemrecordings.com/services//paul-collins-150417705">Stand Back And Take A Good Look</a></i>. We've been playing its advance single "I'm The Only One For You" over the past few weeks, and it already seems a likely lock for 2024's year-end Countdown Show. This week, it's joined on the playlist by two more tracks from <i style="font-weight: bold;">Stand Back And Take A Good Look</i>, as well as by another spin of "Walking Out On Love." It all sounds so, so fantastic in the here and now.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">So: Hear. NOW. And turn it up. This is what rock 'n' roll radio sounded like on another Sunday night in Syracuse this week.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">This show is available as <a href="https://westcottradio.org/archive/rock_n_roll_radio_2024-02-25.mp3">a podcast</a>.</span></p><div><p><i style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio with Dana & Carl</b></i><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i> </i>airs Sunday nights from 9 to Midnight Eastern, on the air in Syracuse at </span><b style="font-family: helvetica;">SPARK! WSPJ 103.3 and 93.7 FM</b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">, streaming at <b><a href="https://ec3.yesstreaming.net:4280/api/links/?t=web&l=ne&c=1&fbclid=IwAR2sdklgIfqVCG1_E3I-bkPwbCFqbnFPJbQ95V4bveYs1g5o4jHEQjZNVx0">SPARK stream</a></b>, and on the <b>Radio Garden</b> app as <b>WESTCOTT RADIO</b>. Recent shows are archived at <b><a href="http://westcottradio.org/">Westcott Radio</a></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span>You can read all about this show's long and weird history here: </span><b><i><a href="https://carlcafarelli.blogspot.com/2019/11/boppin-whole-friggin-planet-history-of_10.html">Boppin' The Whole Friggin' Planet (The History Of THIS IS ROCK 'N' ROLL RADIO)</a></i></b><span>. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: "helvetica";">TAX DEDUCTIBLE DONATIONS are </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://sparksyracuse.org/2017/10/24/support-our-sponsors/">always welcome</a></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica";">.</span></p><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span>The many fine <i style="font-weight: bold;">This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio </i>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:</span><br /></span><div><span style="font-family: "helvetica";"><br /><b><i>Volume 1: </i><a href="https://futuremanrecords.bandcamp.com/album/this-is-rock-n-roll-radio-vol-1-2">download</a></b><br /><b><i>Volume 2: </i><a href="https://www.ebay.com/itm/Various-THIS-IS-ROCK-N-ROLL-RADIO-VOLUME-2-w-THE-COWSILLS-and-more-sealed/154423208799">CD</a></b> or <b><a href="https://futuremanrecords.bandcamp.com/album/this-is-rock-n-roll-radio-vol-2">download</a></b><br /><i style="font-weight: bold;">Volume 3: </i><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="https://futuremanrecords.bandcamp.com/album/this-is-rock-n-roll-radio-vol-3">download</a></span><br /><b><i>Volume 4: </i><a href="http://shop.koolkatmusik.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=KKM&Product_Code=Various_Artists_241&Category_Code=PO">CD</a></b> or <b><a href="https://futuremanrecords.bandcamp.com/album/this-is-rock-n-roll-radio-vol-4">download</a></b><br /><b><i>Waterloo Sunset--Benefit For This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio:</i> <a href="http://shop.koolkatmusik.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=KKM&Product_Code=Various_Artists_400&Category_Code&fbclid=IwAR1hLvZW4ICTC2tfpZ-_jCnjqq8lmhxig-F-kyga69P17fkOPn3OLckVcWA">CD</a></b> or <b><a href="https://futuremanrecords.bandcamp.com/album/waterloo-sunset-benefit-for-this-is-rock-n-roll-radio">download</a></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "helvetica";"><b><i>Volume 5: </i></b></span><b style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="http://shop.koolkatmusik.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=KKM&Product_Code=Various_Artists_484&Category_Code=">CD</a></b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> or </span><b style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://koolkatmusik1.bandcamp.com/album/dana-carl-present-this-is-rock-n-roll-radio-vol-5">download</a></b></div></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">HEY! Looking for something to read? Check out Carl's book <b><i><a href="https://rarebirdlit.com/gabba-gabba-hey-a-conversation-with-the-ramones-by-carl-cafarelli/">Gabba Gabba Hey! 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(<a href="https://jemrecordings.com/services//paul-collins-150417705">Jem, Stand Back And Take A Good Look</a>)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>BASH AND POP: One More Time (Sire, Friday Night Is Killing Me)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">JOE JACKSON: One More Time (A & M, Steppin' Out: The Very Best Of Joe Jackson)</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">SHADOWY MEN ON A SHADOWY PLANET: Having An Average Weekend (<a href="https://shadowymen.bandcamp.com/album/savvy-show-stoppers-2">Glass, Savvy Show Stoppers</a>)</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b style="color: #333333;"><b><span style="font-weight: 400;">THE ANIMALS: Bring It On Home To Me (Abkco, Retrospective)</span></b></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b style="color: #333333;"><b><span style="font-weight: 400;">SQUEEZE: Another Nail In My Heart (A & M, The Squeeze Story)</span></b></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">--<br /></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #333333;">BOB MARLEY AND THE WAILERS: Simmer Down (Soul Jazz, VA: Studio One Classics)</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #333333;">THE ENGLISH BEAT: Mirror In The Bathroom (Shout Factory, Keep The Beat: The Very Best Of The English Beat)</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b style="color: #333333;"><b><span style="font-weight: 400;">BMX BANDITS: I Wanna Fall In Love (Big Deal, Theme Park)</span></b></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b style="color: #333333;"><b><span style="font-weight: 400;">ELVIS COSTELLO AND THE ATTRACTIONS: You Belong To Me (Rykodisc, This Year's Model)</span></b></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b style="color: #333333;">THE SUGAR TWINS: The Right Stuff (Swang, Patio A-Go-Go!)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #333333;">THE EQUALS: Baby Come Back (Ice, First Among Equals)<br /></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">--<br /></span><b style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">JORDAN JONES: Can I Stay (<a href="https://shop.koolkatmusik.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=KKM&Product_Code=Jordan_Jones_2&Category_Code=">Kool Kat Musik, And I, You</a>)</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">THE JELLY BEANS: I Wanna Love Him So Bad (Charly, The Red Bird Story)</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE FLASHCUBES: Baby It's Cold Outside [featuring Mimi Betinis] (<a href="https://orcd.co/theflashcubes-popmasters?fbclid=IwAR3pjz2bea39lJ_SxXrRgFSzDHVRoOTGtzArAP8D7dU47tVOgv-ub6iXXg0">Big Stir, Pop Masters</a>)</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>THE SHANGRI-LAS: Twist And Shout (Charly, Remember [Hits And Rarities From The Bad Girls Of 60s Pop])</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;"><b><span style="font-weight: 400;">L</span></b></b><b style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;"><b><span style="font-weight: 400;">EATHER CATSUIT: Can't Get You Off My Mind (<a href="https://rumbarrecords.bandcamp.com/album/leather-catsuit">Rum Bar, Leather Catsuit</a>)</span></b></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;"><b><span style="font-weight: 400;">FANNY: Let's Spend The Night Together (Cherry Red, Rock And Roll Survivors)</span></b></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;"><b><span style="font-weight: 400;">--</span></b></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>THE HALF CUBES: The Things That We Say [featuring Magnus Börjeson] (unreleased)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">FISCHER-Z: So Long (United Artists, single)</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b style="color: #333333;"><b><span style="font-weight: 400;">ELENA ROGERS: I Feel Alive (<a href="https://elenarogers.bandcamp.com/track/i-feel-alive">Eats Dynamite, single</a>)</span></b></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE FUN BOY THREE: Our Lips Are Sealed (Chysalis, The Best Of Fun Boy Three)</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE GO-GO'S: La La Land (Beyond, God Bless The Go-Go's)</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">GENERAL PUBLIC: Tenderness (Shout Factory, ...All The Rage)</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">--</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>ATHENSVILLE: Desiderata (Free Tyree Wallace) (<a href="https://www.athensville.com/">n/a, Crossed With Lightning</a>)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">GENERATION X: Dancing With Myself (Chrysalis, Perfect Hits [1975-1981])</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">SLY AND THE FAMILY STONE: Dance To The Music (Epic, Greatest Hits)</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE GOLD NEEDLES: Hit The Main Drag (Jem, single)</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;"><b><span style="font-weight: 400;">RICH ARITHMETIC: When You Want Somebody (To Make Love To) (<a href="https://shop.koolkatmusik.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=KKM&Product_Code=Rich_Arithmetic_2&Category_Code=">Kool Kat Musik, Pushbutton Romance</a>)</span></b></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;"><b><span style="font-weight: 400;">THE GROOVIE GHOULIES: Carly Simon (Lookout, VA: Lookout! Freakout!)</span></b></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">--</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">GIRL WITH A HAWK: Feel Me (<a href="https://girlwithahawk.bandcamp.com/album/keep-er-lit">Rum Bar, Keep 'Er Lit</a>)</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>GUIDED BY VOICES: Hot Freaks (Matador, The Best Of Guided By Voices: Human Amusements At Hourly Rates)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;"><b><span style="font-weight: 400;">THE CYNZ: Little Miss Lost (Jem, Little Miss Lost)</span></b></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;"><b><span style="font-weight: 400;">HELIUM ANGEL: Georgie (Pilot Error, Early Clue To The New Direction)</span></b></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">BO DIDDLEY: Mona (I Need You Baby) (MCA, The Chess Box)<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black;">HOLLY AND JOEY: I Got You Babe (Virgin, single)</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">--</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b><i>The Greatest Record Ever Made!</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">MERLE HAGGARD: Mama Tried (Capitol, HAG: The Best Of Merle Haggard)</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE HOLLIES: Look Through Any Window [French lyric version] (EMI, Clarke, Hicks & Nash Years)</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b style="color: #333333;"><b><span style="font-weight: 400;">MIKE BROWNING: Just One Day (<a href="https://mikebrowning.bandcamp.com/track/just-one-day">single</a>)</span></b></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b style="color: #333333;"><b><span style="font-weight: 400;">THEE HEADCOATEES: Teenage Kicks (Damaged Goods, Punk Girls)</span></b></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b style="color: #333333;"><b><span style="font-weight: 400;">THE SUPREMES: Up The Ladder To The Roof (Motown, The '70s Anthology)</span></b></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b style="color: #333333;"><b><span style="font-weight: 400;">THEM: I Can Only Give You Everything (Deram, The Story Of Them Featuring Van Morrison)</span></b></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">--</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>TONY MARSICO: Turn On Your Lovelight (<a href="https://tonymarsico.bandcamp.com/album/sleepwalker">Rum Bar, Sleepwalker</a>)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE POPTARTS: Jealousy [alternate version] (PlumTone, Fresh...Out Of The Toaster)</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b style="color: #333333;">THE MC5: Tonight (Rhino, The Big Bang! Best Of The MC5)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE REZILLOS: I Like It (Sire, Can't Stand The Rezillos: The [Almost] Complete Rezillos)</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #333333;">SORROWS: Rita (<a href="https://bigstirrecords.com/sorrows">Big Stir, Love Too Late...The Real Album</a>)</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE PLEASERS: Lies (Lost Moment, Thamesbeat)</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">HUNGRYTOWN: Another Year (<a href="https://bigstirrecords.com/hungrytown">Big Stir, single</a>)</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE SMITHEREENS: Little Child (Koch, Meet The Smithereens)</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">--</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">DOLPH CHANEY: Californiagain (<a href="https://bigstirrecords.com/dolph-chaney">Big Stir, Mug</a>)</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">SIMON AND GARFUNKEL: Cecilia (Columbia, Old Friends)</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">THE RAMONES: Teenage Lobotomy (Rhino, Rocket To Russia)</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">SKEETER DAVIS: I Can't Stay Mad At You (Real Gone Music, VA: Honeybeat: Groovy 60s Girl-Pop)</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">THE O'JAYS: Love Train (Epic, Love Train: The Best Of The O'Jays)</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">THE SHIRTS: They Say The Sun Shines (Cema, The Shirts)</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;">WONDERBOY: Girl Songs (<a href="https://robbierist.bandcamp.com/album/hero-isle">n/a, Hero Isle</a>)</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE BEATLES: Why Don't We Do It In The Road? (Apple, The Beatles)</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">--</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">PAUL COLLINS: I'm The Only One For You (<a href="https://jemrecordings.com/services//paul-collins-150417705">Jem, Stand Back And Take A Good Look</a>)</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>PAUL COLLINS: Stand Back And Take A Good Look (<a href="https://jemrecordings.com/services//paul-collins-150417705">Jem, Stand Back And Take A Good Look</a>)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">THE BREAKAWAYS: Walking Out On Love (Alive, THE NERVES: One Way Ticket)</span></div>Carl Cafarellihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11773218537376251052noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3309889436583537455.post-21099955858200394602024-02-25T00:30:00.001-05:002024-02-25T00:30:00.127-05:00Tonight on THIS IS ROCK 'N' ROLL RADIO<p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaecQKAv33ZSTHx0x_bC3U70Erq-JUSjwhKJ7p4v-W721ICDSFaXmmhQLF3L_l2-Xgdrt82pbHTdtMwRQPE7BMRQxFFYODjTVpsi8Aqz9sBd8MMb4qkg_9g4ynvWSYmBlWKSS13j7kUQqEoYgltDQrk9w87daj9ULjHPAfreFz-PBuX83P8i-KlPxLClMj/s1000/61ukDHFxUtL._UF1000,1000_QL80_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaecQKAv33ZSTHx0x_bC3U70Erq-JUSjwhKJ7p4v-W721ICDSFaXmmhQLF3L_l2-Xgdrt82pbHTdtMwRQPE7BMRQxFFYODjTVpsi8Aqz9sBd8MMb4qkg_9g4ynvWSYmBlWKSS13j7kUQqEoYgltDQrk9w87daj9ULjHPAfreFz-PBuX83P8i-KlPxLClMj/w640-h640/61ukDHFxUtL._UF1000,1000_QL80_.jpg" width="640" /></a><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">We're opening and closing this week's extravaganza with power pop legend <b>PAUL COLLINS</b>, including one 1970s classic and no less than THREE tracks from his ace new album <i style="font-weight: bold;">STAND BACK AND TAKE A GOOD LOOK</i>. HuzZAH! We'll also have the latest from <b>JORDAN JONES</b>, <b>ATHENSVILLE</b>, and <b>THE HALF CUBES</b>, a new single from <b>DOLPH CHANEY</b>, recent faves from <b>THE CYNZ</b>, <b>ELENA ROGERS</b>, <b>MIKE BROWNING</b>, <b>LEATHER CATSUIT</b>, <b>HUNGRYTOWN</b>, <b>RICH ARITHMETIC</b>, and <b>GIRL WITH A HAWK</b>, plus a passel o' pleasers from (of course) <b>THE PLEASERS</b>, <b>BOB MARLEY AND THE WAILERS</b>, <b>THE ANIMALS</b>, <b>THE SHANGRI-LAS</b>, <b>THE FUN BOY THREE</b>, <b>THE RAMONES</b>, <b>FANNY</b>, <b>THE JELLY BEANS</b>, <b>THE FLASHCUBES</b>, <b>THE HOLLIES</b>, <b>THE SUPREMES</b>, <b>GUIDED BY VOICES</b>, <b>SORROWS</b>, <b>WONDERBOY</b>, <b>THE O'JAYS</b>, <b>GENERATION X</b>, <b>SLY AND THE FAMILY STONE</b>, <b>THE EQUALS</b>, <b>BO DIDDLEY</b>, <b>THE SMITHEREENS</b>, <b>THE BEATLES</b>, <b>THE GO-GO'S</b>, and whatever else we need to present The Best Three Hours Of Radio On The Whole Friggin' Planet. It starts and ends with Mr. Paul Collins. Stand back. No! Dive in, man. </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Sunday night, 9 to Midnight Eastern, </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">on the air in Syracuse at <b>SPARK! WSPJ 103.3 and 93.7 FM</b>, on the web at <a href="https://sparksyracuse.org">https://sparksyracuse.org</a>/, </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">streaming on the <b>Radio Garden</b> app as <b>WESTCOTT RADIO. </b></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The weekend stops HERE!</span></p>Carl Cafarellihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11773218537376251052noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3309889436583537455.post-68981495147600887782024-02-24T00:30:00.001-05:002024-02-24T00:30:00.233-05:0010 SONGS: 2/24/2024<p><i><span><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">10 Songs </span></b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">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 </span><b style="font-family: helvetica;">This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio with Dana & Carl</b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">. The idea was inspired by </span><b style="font-family: helvetica;">Don Valentine</b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> of the essential blog </span><a href="https://hearasingle.blogspot.com/" style="font-family: helvetica; font-weight: bold;">I Don't Hear A Single</a><span style="font-family: helvetica;">.</span></span></i></p><p><i><span></span></i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDMAJwmJGHCvh2_mLQh954sJJiylouAcg-EmG_0_fqOvrQPVhKC0ryLsCFPEGeGjWy5J2J0q76d3X7ASCz9uzQTYOQaLqNaW4PwfTIS5cP1xDeQPDuuTGpQkcb5ehKJSTW3GAUR0mo6yJNX8v8KXdszfLbZv2hcz8WyaPVI0NwZQFYt2A7J9s3RU6Ot7jz/s600/R-473635-1222984824.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="594" data-original-width="600" height="634" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDMAJwmJGHCvh2_mLQh954sJJiylouAcg-EmG_0_fqOvrQPVhKC0ryLsCFPEGeGjWy5J2J0q76d3X7ASCz9uzQTYOQaLqNaW4PwfTIS5cP1xDeQPDuuTGpQkcb5ehKJSTW3GAUR0mo6yJNX8v8KXdszfLbZv2hcz8WyaPVI0NwZQFYt2A7J9s3RU6Ot7jz/w640-h634/R-473635-1222984824.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></i></div><p></p><p><i><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">This week's edition of <b>10 Songs</b> draws exclusively from the playlist for <a href="https://carlcafarelli.blogspot.com/2024/02/this-is-rock-n-roll-radio-1221.html"><b>This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio</b> # 1221</a>. This show is available as <a href="https://westcottradio.org/archive/rock_n_roll_radio_2024-02-18.mp3">a podcast.</a></span></span></i></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>RICH ARITHMETIC: When You Want Somebody (To Make Love To)</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyCEYOZ7-VsfI8Z7lxdilhK0QSgX9z8gbakMpKrALJtJw3Pwgx2iYpu9bMamjvMTMn7Lmo3qh9EDTcpId5Axh8Gl0193bOaCopUuAHwtOoP6jovxCZO8jIWA8P6200WETwVDhrHjEY3aH8QCPACLRixL0f-vtItDOVaw62eUjL4Z17VCIYjIuj6R0OX8n7/s1534/Rich%20Arithmetic%20-%20Pushbutton%20Romance%20Cover.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1483" data-original-width="1534" height="618" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyCEYOZ7-VsfI8Z7lxdilhK0QSgX9z8gbakMpKrALJtJw3Pwgx2iYpu9bMamjvMTMn7Lmo3qh9EDTcpId5Axh8Gl0193bOaCopUuAHwtOoP6jovxCZO8jIWA8P6200WETwVDhrHjEY3aH8QCPACLRixL0f-vtItDOVaw62eUjL4Z17VCIYjIuj6R0OX8n7/w640-h618/Rich%20Arithmetic%20-%20Pushbutton%20Romance%20Cover.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>Rich Arithmetic</b> is the <i>nom de bop</i> of <b>Rich Horton</b>, and somehow our stats indicate that this week's spin of "When You Want Somebody (To Make Love To)" is only the fifth time a Rich Arithmetic track has ever graced a <i style="font-weight: bold;">TIRnRR</i> playlist. Man, where the hell have we been? This fine tune comes to us from the brand-new Rich Arithmetic album <i style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="https://shop.koolkatmusik.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=KKM&Product_Code=Rich_Arithmetic_2&Category_Code=">Pushbutton Romance</a></i>, it's flippin' fantastic, and it's back on the radio again in our next show. We may be slow. But we ain't stupid.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>THE CYNZ: Little Miss Lost</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPkWrDOohdxpgrK2LDuxreveJD8TKgO8fdj5tIDSgNiIsUhuBg0Imrso5z2bVrXq0UsoI0AR4acfzFP6qZM4MojJwE9mNuwyTxiVdyqkWZElO_IZRTWDrxh_n490dDqDTu0etdYH4F5HpSGQ6vM4ZloTg6thX3SAcIq46och6N9tlBK6TlBld5Op7_4NuI/s400/36985128.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="400" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPkWrDOohdxpgrK2LDuxreveJD8TKgO8fdj5tIDSgNiIsUhuBg0Imrso5z2bVrXq0UsoI0AR4acfzFP6qZM4MojJwE9mNuwyTxiVdyqkWZElO_IZRTWDrxh_n490dDqDTu0etdYH4F5HpSGQ6vM4ZloTg6thX3SAcIq46och6N9tlBK6TlBld5Op7_4NuI/w640-h640/36985128.JPG" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Singles. Tribute album offerings. Since <b>the Cynz</b> aligned with the mighty <b><a href="https://jemrecordings.com/">Jem Records</a></b>, we've been getting little teases of new Cynz recordings, whettin' the ol' appetite for more. Now, at long last, that promised <i>MORE!</i> is nearly at hand.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">March 29th is the official street date for <i style="font-weight: bold;">Little Miss Lost</i>, the brand new album from the Cynz. We can't wait. Meanwhile, the album's title tune has been released as an advance single. We played it on the radio this week, and we're playin' it again this Sunday night. Tease leads to promise. Promise leads to reward. Don't let this be a lost opportunity: Get with the music of the Cynz.</span></p><div><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>ELENA ROGERS: I Feel Alive</b></span></span></div><div><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin01vayNKu9WaHtnT8o1AMUH7b0TCUIwf4xgjJAi8aZDkqMU0MSeoEe316sMrPKpHB5JqArZJHhGSi1Ue1osWqqUcIgDyNPc91DQaiOYSD0svXkkv21ZH3vXke8wMoqw46Mc_aRQ6hMDxW33vuOSNICfkcx3wXIfy8WJoGZeKc-yI-DWyIMRjNMZbkyIh0/s1200/a2336500493_10.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin01vayNKu9WaHtnT8o1AMUH7b0TCUIwf4xgjJAi8aZDkqMU0MSeoEe316sMrPKpHB5JqArZJHhGSi1Ue1osWqqUcIgDyNPc91DQaiOYSD0svXkkv21ZH3vXke8wMoqw46Mc_aRQ6hMDxW33vuOSNICfkcx3wXIfy8WJoGZeKc-yI-DWyIMRjNMZbkyIh0/w640-h640/a2336500493_10.jpg" width="640" /></a></div></span></span></div><div><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">This is <i>so </i>good. <b>Elena Rogers</b> first entered <i style="font-weight: bold;">TIRnRR</i>'s sovereign air space on a recommendation from pop giant <b>Jamie Hoover</b>. Jamie's been working with the young singer for a few years, he's clearly (and understandably) knocked out by her talent and musical prowess, and he would kindly like the world at large to wake the hell up and get hip to Elena Rogers awready. </span></span></div><div><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Elena's new single "<a href="https://elenarogers.bandcamp.com/track/i-feel-alive">I Feel Alive</a>" is her best track yet, ambitious and audacious in its approach while remaining absolutely, unerringly pop. During Jamie's 2023 appearance on the way-swell <i style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="https://linktr.ee/onlythreelads?fbclid=IwAR3DwBfSMk-qWqQ1WWfFoTASwt41yzlo6vX_lA3o0wE0lNAey8Clpj4NAHc">Only Three Lads</a></i> podcast, our esteemed Mr. Hoover promised a new Elena Rogers album in '24. That album will be called <i style="font-weight: bold;">Prelude To Whatever</i>, and "I Feel Alive" ratchets up the anticipation.</span></span></div><div><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Can you feel it? </span></span></div><div><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>LEATHER CATSUIT: Can't Get You Off My Mind</b></span></span></div><div><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2QCLpY0R1oVtScA59ECvQ6o7yAOIVXNxLlZcihFC_MxHrCiEAEyJfu5kajObJ4Gs5md5_AvngeaxFGZSJV00nDI-0uxJ4MAESVv3-De-Jn-mr8I8SMUlYC7jCxKi3o3PVbYTvFJswKHqnF70qnuyhxSHSajHJ9gbBgLCYXXdIADMr40fa65YVTQhhEacF/s640/a0409238056_10.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="640" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2QCLpY0R1oVtScA59ECvQ6o7yAOIVXNxLlZcihFC_MxHrCiEAEyJfu5kajObJ4Gs5md5_AvngeaxFGZSJV00nDI-0uxJ4MAESVv3-De-Jn-mr8I8SMUlYC7jCxKi3o3PVbYTvFJswKHqnF70qnuyhxSHSajHJ9gbBgLCYXXdIADMr40fa65YVTQhhEacF/w640-h640/a0409238056_10.jpg" width="640" /></a></div></span></span></div><div><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">A couple of week's back, in <a href="https://carlcafarelli.blogspot.com/2024/02/10-songs-292024.html">the exciting 2/9/2024 edition of <i style="font-weight: bold;">10 Songs</i></a>, I referred to both <b>Paul Collins</b>' "I'm The Only One For You" and <b>Leather Catsuit</b>'s "<a href="https://rumbarrecords.bandcamp.com/album/leather-catsuit">Can't Get You Off My Mind</a>" as welcome earworms. Well, the fact that we're still delighting in that act of programming 'em indicates their <i>Welcome, Earworm!</i> status remains unchallenged. Hell, the Leather Catsuit track is in my head pretty much all day, every day. Yep: I can't get it off my mind.</span></span></div><div><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Don't <i>wanna</i> get it off my mind. And I am perfectly fine with that.</span></span></div><div><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>THE CYRKLE: We Can Find It</b></span></span></div><div><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhChHqjyMX3IWXo7sM7grAR_GuSb_OJ1bcLB-ppJXqn52VJhdfGgKNYeykQMlIEVOmaPmad0NUD0EWX9sZrgZ7n647i78kMK3bZiJUoKyx7vy0AlVYnmgsb8A1U8IHCaDlbjbP_vLRZ2dcuRnIJ1FfeVs5INWQ8oMmx5M3-pcm_DalgqMyR53TWIclqNssG/s700/a4280688516_65.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="700" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhChHqjyMX3IWXo7sM7grAR_GuSb_OJ1bcLB-ppJXqn52VJhdfGgKNYeykQMlIEVOmaPmad0NUD0EWX9sZrgZ7n647i78kMK3bZiJUoKyx7vy0AlVYnmgsb8A1U8IHCaDlbjbP_vLRZ2dcuRnIJ1FfeVs5INWQ8oMmx5M3-pcm_DalgqMyR53TWIclqNssG/w640-h640/a4280688516_65.jpg" width="640" /></a></div></span></span></div><div><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">We've been playing most of the advance single sides from '60s sunshine pop combo <b>the Cyrkle</b>'s new album <i style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="https://bigstirrecords.com/the-cyrkle">Revival</a></i>, and the arrival of the entire album gives us a chance to air what seems to be its best track. "We Can Find It" is less overtly nostalgic than the album's (still pretty nifty) first single "We Thought We Could Fly" and the attendant (solid) remakes of the Cyrkle's hits "Red Rubber Ball" and "Turn Down Day," but equally a product of the group's legacy. Endearing in its own right. </span></span></div><div><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>THE RAMONES: Swallow My Pride</b></span></span></div><div><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgojJpmK0d2Ju-azc6yj1uz2FdS5pKqSSggnZoWlPpWTm0OnnOOFZou6goJu5yfFy-KhJGqxzHNEScg0LtguMfqy_Q1wn1a3VTQJlKlVuJXbgWwNr7ZlenYxO5LTS4f_aD9FS2Q8ezsp1M28lRLwgu4p6RcKG0KTQqYoqCfrlKophRFiSLk7Rxl2l41hqZ7/s600/R-3810632-1404214800-7564.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="590" data-original-width="600" height="630" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgojJpmK0d2Ju-azc6yj1uz2FdS5pKqSSggnZoWlPpWTm0OnnOOFZou6goJu5yfFy-KhJGqxzHNEScg0LtguMfqy_Q1wn1a3VTQJlKlVuJXbgWwNr7ZlenYxO5LTS4f_aD9FS2Q8ezsp1M28lRLwgu4p6RcKG0KTQqYoqCfrlKophRFiSLk7Rxl2l41hqZ7/w640-h630/R-3810632-1404214800-7564.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div></span></span></div><div><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">"Swallow My Pride" is one of my favorite tracks by one of my all-time favorite groups, <b>the Ramones</b>. The American Beatles! The greatest American rock 'n' roll group of all time! I like 'em so much <a href="https://rarebirdlit.com/gabba-gabba-hey-a-conversation-with-the-ramones-by-carl-cafarelli/">I wrote a book about them</a>. And I also wrote an appreciation of <a href="https://carlcafarelli.blogspot.com/2023/06/chewin-out-rhythm-on-my-bubblegum-my-25.html">my 25 favorite Ramones tracks</a>, which included this celebration of "Swallow My Pride:"</span></div><div><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">We should have seen this as a sign: If "Swallow My Pride" couldn't become a smash hit single, any top-of-the-pops aspirations the Ramones harbored were doomed from the start. Looking just at the Ramones' American singles, we can say maybe U.S. radio wasn't quite ready for<i><b> </b></i>"Blitzkrieg Bop" in '76, that "I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend" was pretty but not smooth enough for American airwaves, and maybe "I Remember You" didn't have the prerequisite <i>oomph</i> to be radio-ready.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">But "Swallow My Pride" was perfect. <i>Perfect</i>. It's pure pop, drawing inspiration from the best '60s influences, and it doesn't even have any specific punk or glue-sniffing aspect to put an asterisk on its commercial sheen. It's a revved-up counterpart to <b>the Bay City Rollers</b>' "Rock And Roll Love Letter" or <b>KISS</b>' "Shout It Out Loud."</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Perhaps "Swallow My Pride" was too good for Top 40 in 1977, and I guess progressive FM might have thought it too pop (or whatever other excuse they could concoct to dismiss something so obviously beneath their smug carcasses). The Ramones' next three singles--"Sheena Is A Punk Rocker," "Rockaway Beach," and "Do You Wanna Dance"--maintained a similarly irresistible spark, and even managed to breach the <b><i>Billboard </i></b>Hot 100. No subsequent Ramones single even came close.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The Ramones deserved a string of hit records. "Swallow My Pride" should have been one of 'em.</span></p></div><div><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>THE MONKEES: For Pete's Sake</b></span></span></div><div><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmwxP7k-UsakmVA75OtsLC-DFf9pFmCzMaZqxRv92ibQqjWl9djRJnanCrxnGO6j9T9Pj1XTg8_DwDgohA-ghj0PMNJKDFdzkB4-phZieC6LYMPwYeYPww4PR1_ek-yaLWGRA3s3hCp87iy0gyo6iW1yVfvE4CND5v9ucO5edRKj5m2S_T2-wzdC2-obXG/s800/Peter%20Tork.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="572" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmwxP7k-UsakmVA75OtsLC-DFf9pFmCzMaZqxRv92ibQqjWl9djRJnanCrxnGO6j9T9Pj1XTg8_DwDgohA-ghj0PMNJKDFdzkB4-phZieC6LYMPwYeYPww4PR1_ek-yaLWGRA3s3hCp87iy0gyo6iW1yVfvE4CND5v9ucO5edRKj5m2S_T2-wzdC2-obXG/w458-h640/Peter%20Tork.jpg" width="458" /></a></div></span></span></div><div><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">When we programmed this spin of <b>the Monkees</b>' <a href="https://carlcafarelli.blogspot.com/2019/03/45s-are-go-singles-that-should-have.html">shoulda-been-a-single</a> track "For Pete's Sake," we weren't thinking about the fact that this week also marked five years since the world lost <b><a href="https://carlcafarelli.blogspot.com/2019/02/the-night-i-met-peter-tork.html">Peter Tork</a></b>. We played it simply because we wanted to play it. In this generation, in this lovin' time. </span></span></div><div><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>THE SPINNERS: I'll Be Around</b></span></span></div><div><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJlZMALUC71KCPC6B6XGd4foWy3v6ut4CM9lRnAaYfGwySZJ1lbU7raQjAXmO6pNgHJ283qRPxi4Nj-Svb0Z2hr1mxWZq1_duGCbGLvBcrVkFvytydzDE_PKjnNGUDwZk9x3yfrQXCMiRZ0vraQotd2H1hp9s7FFjE5ppNFr2_ttlLZ8AY_JunuX6Ezg7H/s500/artworks-000083508351-3evasl-t500x500.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="500" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJlZMALUC71KCPC6B6XGd4foWy3v6ut4CM9lRnAaYfGwySZJ1lbU7raQjAXmO6pNgHJ283qRPxi4Nj-Svb0Z2hr1mxWZq1_duGCbGLvBcrVkFvytydzDE_PKjnNGUDwZk9x3yfrQXCMiRZ0vraQotd2H1hp9s7FFjE5ppNFr2_ttlLZ8AY_JunuX6Ezg7H/w640-h640/artworks-000083508351-3evasl-t500x500.jpg" width="640" /></a></div></span></span></div><div><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">In the perhaps unlikely event my long-threatened (and long-ago-completed) book <i style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="https://carlcafarelli.blogspot.com/2019/05/the-greatest-record-ever-made-st.html">The Greatest Record Ever Made! (Volume 1)</a></i> ever finds its path to publication, it will include a chapter about <b>the Spinners</b>' 1972 soul classic "I'll Be Around."</span></span></div><div><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">"I'll Be Around" was one of the many integral components of my own golden age of AM Top 40, the days and nights when my adolescent and teen ears were surgically tethered to Syracuse's <b>WOLF-AM</b> and <b>WNDR-AM</b>. My experience of just being in utter thrall to pop radio in the early '70s is the biggest reason why I grew up [sic] wanting to participate in the process. Make no mistake: My part of making <i style="font-weight: bold;">TIRnRR</i> is a direct result of my prevailing wish to be able to create something that can match and expand upon the sound and sense AM radio sparked within my hook-starved noggin.</span></span></div><div><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">From an early draft of the long-threatened thing:</span></span></div><div><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">The Spinners' string of Atlantic hits commenced in 1972, with the # 3 smash "I'll Be Around." Its resigned sigh offers little clue to the exuberance yet to come; thematically, its tale of love lost has more in common with "It's A Shame" and "My Whole World Ended (The Moment You Left Me)" than it shares with the presumed happiness within the love stories sung in "Could It Be I'm Falling In Love," "One Of A Kind Love Affair," and "Then Came You." <i>You've made a choice, and now it's up to me to bow out gracefully</i>. It's pop music performed with a lump in the throat, yet it eschews melodrama with...well, not quite a shrug, but with the wisdom to realize causing a scene won't do any damned bit of good. I'm sorry, my friend; this affair is over, man.</span><br /><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><br /></span><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><i>But whenever you call me</i></span><br /><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><i>I'll be there</i></span><br /><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><i><br /></i></span><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">That devotion won't change, even as the singer bids farewell to a house he'd prefer to still call his home, to a heart he aches with a desire to still call his, to a present and a future he's desperate to believe could still be, though he knows with dull certainty that it can't. His love is too strong to allow him to wish his lover anything but the best, even though he's shattered by the fact that "the best" emphatically does not include him. She's made a choice. As he leaves, she's going to close the door behind him. </span><br /><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><br /></span><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">He doesn't give up hope. Whenever she calls him....</span></span></span></div><div><i><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></span></i></div><div><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>HOLLY GOLIGHTLY: Time Will Tell</b></span></span></div><div><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjtCyr88Q4fr0l7nQ_89Pq_B0U3zawtn8sMYRTAPRNXG3pFsntpaEWRwlnankxkc8DNwmmLhEIlqKBOlo3Yk1KYgeLpFrME1QtrhdpTQpCDABnpwlYTa2VGYK-jDXKNYsKPlmdsvv8yHnBCNBoAd80BW_FIawQSjOedn3HAJqmH6PLDdF9tQOFRR-0Ljrw/s600/R-2618067-1293528183.jpeg.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="596" data-original-width="600" height="636" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjtCyr88Q4fr0l7nQ_89Pq_B0U3zawtn8sMYRTAPRNXG3pFsntpaEWRwlnankxkc8DNwmmLhEIlqKBOlo3Yk1KYgeLpFrME1QtrhdpTQpCDABnpwlYTa2VGYK-jDXKNYsKPlmdsvv8yHnBCNBoAd80BW_FIawQSjOedn3HAJqmH6PLDdF9tQOFRR-0Ljrw/w640-h636/R-2618067-1293528183.jpeg.jpg" width="640" /></a></div></span></span></div><div><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b><i><a href="https://carlcafarelli.blogspot.com/2020/09/the-greatest-record-ever-made-time-will.html">The Greatest Record Ever Made!</a></i></b></span></span></div><div><i><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></span></i></div><div><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>WONDERBOY: Girl Songs</b></span></span></div><div><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihmjb0KnzX2-GuTFHReaF377UpgoiaML4sblqBum4yWkD9YpCYvIALJuLi5wKGf0LG9LqbmtSwgxwGMRcvYHRchebAXNDrxAccwIj5olgebyvsz-1cUX8TQGQf4M4WC5RNZoBxEZDtZ4bO2HV6XZ4jLk6DQWhF3hailDOwVPAgLV_5CZpUifnUEWlpX0Lt/s600/R-4856037-1377615068-1642.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="599" data-original-width="600" height="638" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihmjb0KnzX2-GuTFHReaF377UpgoiaML4sblqBum4yWkD9YpCYvIALJuLi5wKGf0LG9LqbmtSwgxwGMRcvYHRchebAXNDrxAccwIj5olgebyvsz-1cUX8TQGQf4M4WC5RNZoBxEZDtZ4bO2HV6XZ4jLk6DQWhF3hailDOwVPAgLV_5CZpUifnUEWlpX0Lt/w640-h638/R-4856037-1377615068-1642.jpg" width="640" /></a></div></span></span></div><div><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">It's an important subject, and we thank our friends <a href="https://robbierist.bandcamp.com/album/hero-isle"><b>Wonderboy</b> </a>for starting the conversation. We introduced <b><i>TIRnRR</i></b> to the concept last week. We re-visited it this week. We'll return to it yet again on our next show. Let's hear it for the girls.</span></span></div><div><i><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></span></i></div><div><i><span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJWyFjnq49xPwnFvRs7XMrqX56mOYt6fxFqxuUKYpv0EJF9aPjgDGXh-XjWY2J5BVn75vwOFlVWoPPp_HsmvUsPlpxsPzkIB4xbRlMPhQBdO4WEqc6HEBkSfP6YrzlPnC7RqAy7sJ7zD7ncqtcimph78Veie1pEVbVTD1vVTC4lxszYHMQwZgIUSVVHMPL/s764/The%20Knack_My%20Sharon.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="764" data-original-width="326" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJWyFjnq49xPwnFvRs7XMrqX56mOYt6fxFqxuUKYpv0EJF9aPjgDGXh-XjWY2J5BVn75vwOFlVWoPPp_HsmvUsPlpxsPzkIB4xbRlMPhQBdO4WEqc6HEBkSfP6YrzlPnC7RqAy7sJ7zD7ncqtcimph78Veie1pEVbVTD1vVTC4lxszYHMQwZgIUSVVHMPL/s16000/The%20Knack_My%20Sharon.jpg" /></a></div></span></i></div><div><p><i><i><i><span style="color: #241e12; font-family: helvetica;"><i><i><span style="color: #241e12; font-family: helvetica;">If you like what you see here on <i><b>Boppin' (Like The Hip Folks Do)</b></i>, please consider a visit to</span></i></i></span></i></i><i style="font-family: helvetica;"><i><span style="color: #241e12; font-family: helvetica;"><i><i><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;"> <a href="https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/CarlCafarelli">CC's Tip Jar</a>. </span></i></i></span></i></i></i></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i><span>Carl's new book</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> <span>Gabba Gabba Hey! A Conversation With The Ramones</span> </span><span>is now available, courtesy of the good folks at <b><a href="https://rarebirdlit.com/">Rare Bird Books</a></b>. Gabba Gabba YAY!! </span></i></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i><a href="https://rarebirdlit.com/gabba-gabba-hey-a-conversation-with-the-ramones-by-carl-cafarelli/">https://rarebirdlit.com/gabba-gabba-hey-a-conversation-with-the-ramones-by-carl-cafarelli/</a></i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>If it's true that one book leads to another, my next book will be <b><a href="https://carlcafarelli.blogspot.com/2023/08/finishing-greatest-record-ever-made.html">The Greatest Record Ever Made! (Volume 1)</a></b>. Stay tuned. Your turn is coming.</i></span></p><div><p><i style="font-family: helvetica;"><i style="font-weight: bold;">This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio with Dana & Carl</i> airs Sunday nights from 9 to Midnight Eastern, on the air in Syracuse at <b>SPARK! WSPJ 103.3 and 93.7 FM</b>, streaming at <b><a href="https://ec3.yesstreaming.net:4280/api/links/?t=web&l=ne&c=1&fbclid=IwAR1UAKK9rWPYVh-iGgeNGRbM5PfTuHeCzYe2cIzA6o5yo-kooh7vVBYisdQ">SPARK stream</a> </b>and on the <b>Radio Garden</b> app as <b>WESTCOTT RADIO</b>. Recent shows are archived at <b><a href="http://westcottradio.org/">Westcott Radio</a></b>. You can read about our history <a href="https://carlcafarelli.blogspot.com/2019/11/boppin-whole-friggin-planet-history-of_10.html">here</a>.</i></p></div><p><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></span></p><p><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></span></p><p><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></span></p><p><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></span></p><p><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></p><p><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></span></p><p><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></span></p><p><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></span></p><p><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></span></p><p><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></span></p><p><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></span></p><p><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></span></p><p><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></span></p><p><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></span></p><p><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></p><div><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i><b></b></i></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></b></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></b></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></b></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></b></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></b></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></b></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></b></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></b></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></b></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></b></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></b></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></b></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></b></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjk-_1Qj5Ga0OzGCpIuvs19HOhQwrj2uAGQJnHvKCAuVnmAzsIrCGQaez4X6TpZHMTlsB2aZ6jDz8-sLuTH259UUX4_9IsjWgqefezv8jC8iE2VlYe0pDP-79a3uhURH9ac0bj4CdFZ_4aMoBeSeYOhyphenhyphenrmGb9tFYAQmotYQ-tFJgexMAx7EG4OgbHGEOlVS/s960/428640819_10161112597035270_8129975565024923146_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="703" data-original-width="960" height="468" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjk-_1Qj5Ga0OzGCpIuvs19HOhQwrj2uAGQJnHvKCAuVnmAzsIrCGQaez4X6TpZHMTlsB2aZ6jDz8-sLuTH259UUX4_9IsjWgqefezv8jC8iE2VlYe0pDP-79a3uhURH9ac0bj4CdFZ_4aMoBeSeYOhyphenhyphenrmGb9tFYAQmotYQ-tFJgexMAx7EG4OgbHGEOlVS/w640-h468/428640819_10161112597035270_8129975565024923146_n.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Today's post was written in 2017 as part of a larger piece called "<a href="https://carlcafarelli.blogspot.com/2017/10/how-to-be-blogman-or-blogwoman-that.html">How To Be The Blogman! (Or The Blogwoman. That Works, Too.)</a>" The piece itself was about how blogging can give a would-be writer an opportunity and outlet to write, and it included a pitch for intrepid would-bes to consider crafting an entry for a (now-dormant) blog called <i style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="https://carlcafarelli.blogspot.com/2017/10/how-to-be-blogman-or-blogwoman-that.html">Love Letters 2 Rock n Roll</a></i>.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">To illustrate the sort of entry that might suit the needs of <i style="font-weight: bold;">Love Letters 2 Rock n Roll</i>, I concocted my own wholly fabricated letter to an imaginary rock act I named <b>Pants-On Flyers</b>, a letter written from the point of view of a middle-aged guy missing his younger brother, and comforting himself with the music of his little brother's favorite band.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">It was a flight of fancy, written very quickly as a model of how one could express the connection between the emotions of our lives and the soundtracks of our lives. Once the bit was finished, I congratulated myself on its cleverness. It had no tether to my reality; I'm the youngest of four--Art, Rob, Denise, then li'l baby me--so I can't claim first-hand understanding of what it's like to have a younger sibling.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">And yet....</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">On Thursday--exactly one week after I lost my oldest brother Art--the Blogman piece came up at random, in a review of what older blog posts are getting an itty bit of current traffic. I found myself rereading it, and this silly fake letter to a band that never existed outside of my silly imagination had me blubbering on my couch. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I guess there was something real in there after all.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I'm told I need to let this out. It's good advice, and I'm trying. Meanwhile, here's a letter I wrote, assuming the POV of a fictional character missing family. Time is the enemy. In the end, time will win the battle. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I'm not giving up without a fight.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Godspeed, Art. And God bless you Rob and Denise; your little brother loves you.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>Dear Pants-On Flyers</i><br /><i><br /></i><i>I confess I never liked you much. I don't say that to be rude; it's just the fact, at least the fact as it used to be. My kid brother was into Pants-On Flyers, and he thought you were the greatest rock 'n' roll band that ever was. Me? I was into a whole bunch of groups, from KISS to the Stylistics to the Sex Pistols to Motorhead to Gladys Knight and the Pips to Talking Heads. Mostly the Isley Brothers. And KISS. You weren't on my radar. I mean, who wants to like the same band your stupid younger sibling raves about? I didn't hate you. I just didn't like you.</i><br /><i><br /></i><i>My little brother's name is Rich. I haven't seen him in nearly five years. He's okay, I think. His career took him to Europe, and he's been living mostly in Belgium, with little opportunity to return to the States. He's not a letter-writer, I'm not a Skype user. We retain superficial contact via social media. I kind of know what he's doing, he kind of knows what I'm doing. There is an illusion of companionship. I miss him a lot lately.</i><br /><i><br /></i><i>Today is Rich's birthday. Science has no explanation for how my pesky kid brother Rich could possibly be fifty freakin' years old. We won't bother saying how old I am. </i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>Knowing this milestone was coming, I went on a Pants-On Flyers buying spree. I bought Rich your new rarities boxed set <b>Pants OFF For Once!</b>, and his email thanked me for it. On a whim, I also purchased a number of your albums for myself: your 2-CD best-of set <b>Pathological Flyers</b>, a beat-up LP copy of your classic <b>Remembering On Cue</b>, an illicit digital download of your otherwise-outta-print live set <b>Barroom Budokan USA</b>, your much-maligned covers collection <b>We Stole These Songs</b>, and your most recent studio effort, the 2011 reunion album <b>Gone/Back/Gone Again</b>. </i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>I've been listening to all of them, especially <b>Remembering On Cue</b>'s "So Far Away From Home." It may be putting it too strongly to say I like you now; hearing these songs inspires a melancholy ache that is not entirely welcome. But it's a necessary ache. It's a connection with my brother, a connection I so sorely miss otherwise. I do finally appreciate your music. I get the craft and the passion that I couldn't see at the end of the '70s, when I was a college kid too good for whatever drek my little brother was soaking up. </i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>But I get it now. I confess I never liked you much. I like you now. And I love my little brother, so far away from home.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeP-lafJzsCU1J0s4jwoJ3yt6CYQk35A2FObtoRRa4kRGsNKUlo67sa3jQo5rXzBBQ8IOQUWejjQVo91FXTQSI4d_8TIsZZNrGnrx5Q6vRbRxHA9g6yJtbVJuAs2xftezw8UG-uXELoxyihikbD0unNi0rarq1xJpx9Z-H-zd_6rfZkCi3EzEHXaaOIgpy/s2048/428399477_2881215165358878_6527571695754995567_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="2048" height="468" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeP-lafJzsCU1J0s4jwoJ3yt6CYQk35A2FObtoRRa4kRGsNKUlo67sa3jQo5rXzBBQ8IOQUWejjQVo91FXTQSI4d_8TIsZZNrGnrx5Q6vRbRxHA9g6yJtbVJuAs2xftezw8UG-uXELoxyihikbD0unNi0rarq1xJpx9Z-H-zd_6rfZkCi3EzEHXaaOIgpy/w640-h468/428399477_2881215165358878_6527571695754995567_n.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">Rob, Art, Denise, and Carl, April 2022--our final picture together</span></i></td></tr></tbody></table></span></p>Carl Cafarellihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11773218537376251052noreply@blogger.com2