10 SONGS: 10/21/2023

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

This week's edition of 10 Songs draws exclusively from the playlist for This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio # 1203. This show is available as a podcast.

THE FLASHCUBES: Nothing To Do

On This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio this year, we've been poundin' the livin' chiclets out of Pop Masters, the current album by Syracuse's own power pop powerhouse the Flashcubes. I'm a heart-on-sleeve kind of guy, and I co-host a radio show with the specific intent of poundin' the livin' chiclets outta stuff I think is cool. Why else even have a radio show in the first place?

Given my (and Dana's) long-standing enthusiasm for the 'Cubes, no one is surprised to hear that Pop Masters is my favorite album of 2023, and we play one or another of its tracks almost every week. Masters of pop! The album took a break from our playlist last week, so we could instead program an older Flashcubes track featuring the late Ducky Carlisle. Proper Pop Masters representation returns this week with the Cubic cover of Sparks' Nothing To Do," and two other Pop Masters tracks are already scribbled in place for our next couple of playlists. These chiclets won't just pound out by themselves, man.

THE RAMONES: Blitzkrieg Bop

I've mentioned a time or two thousand that my daughter Meghan and I agreed a very long time ago that when she got married, our father-daughter dance would be "Bad Reputation" by Joan Jett. Obviously. That happy event took place two weeks ago today, and we made good on our promise. Best night ever. Mazel tov, Meghan and Austin.

As the wedding reception sparkled on, the DJ also played my request for something by the Ramones. You can't have a real party without the Ramones. I gave him a choice between "Blitzkrieg Bop" and "I Wanna Be Sedated," and he opted for the former. Seeing how the dance floor filled to the music of Forest Hills' Finest--prompted in some part by the father of the bride yelling DANCE! Everybody DANCE!!!--the DJ circled back a bit later to play "Sedated" as well. Hey ho, let's GO!

P. HUX: Til The World Looks Right

The brand-new P. Hux album is called As Good As Advertised, and that album will inevitably accrue scores of on-line reviews saying that its title provides its own review. We rockin' pop pundits are so clever.

Well, consider this just one among that score. I tell ya, I'm glad to be part of the crowd in this case. As Good As Advertised makes its TIRnRR debut with this spin of the delectable track "Til The World Looks Right." It will spin again next week. As advertised! Pretty good, my friends. Pretty damned good.

CARLA OLSON: Street Fighting Man

Awright! The fabulous Carla Olson's ace cover of the Rolling Stones' classic "Street Fighting Man" is an advance single from her new album Have Harmony Will Travel 3. One of my first Stones LPs (perhaps my very first) was a beat-up used copy of Through The Past, Darkly, snagged at either Record Revolution or The Record Exchange in Cleveland Heights when teen me was visiting my sister circa Christmas break 1976.

That second-hand Stones best-of record was my introduction to "Street Fighting Man," about eight years after its original 1968 release. It was an instant favorite, and Olson does the tune justice and then some. Tall Poppy Syndrome's Jonathan Lea is one of the guitarists on her version, and it all rocks like it oughta. What can a poor boy do? We'll hear Carla Olson's "Street Fighting Man" again Sunday night. Hell, we'll even throw in the latest from Tall Poppy Syndrome. A sleepy Syracuse town is just the place for "Street Fighting Man."

THE KENNEDYS: Life Is Large

A big ol' Happy Birthday to the phenomenal Maura Kennedy! A bright light then and now, Maura will always be younger than me, and yet she'll also probably remain wiser than me. We love her nonetheless.

The Kennedys have a NEW album, Headwinds, out now. You can buy yourself a copy, and you can fill in the nagging gaps in your Kennedys library, all courtesy of the Kennedys themselves. I'm also still hoping for a Maura and the Bright Lights album maybe someday (perhaps with a guest appearance by Carla Olson, just like Roger McGuinn guests on "Life Is Large"). Vote for the Kennedys of your choice. But VOTE! And sing. And enjoy! Birthday cake goes great with the Kennedys.

DAVE KUCHLER: In It With You

From former Soul Engines guitarist Dave Kuchler's new album Love + Glory, "In It With You" is just insanely, instantly catchy, thoroughly radio-ready, and the irresistible epitome of whatever the hell it is Dana and I do here on The Best Three Hours Of Radio On The Whole Friggin' Planet. It's kinda like when we first heard the Finkers' TIRnRR Fave Rave "Last Thing On My Mind" all those years ago, and I gushed something to the effect that "Last Thing On My Mind" is exactly the sort of record that always made me wish I had a radio show, just so I could play records like "Last Thing On My Mind" on my radio show. Kuchler sounds nothing at all like the Finkers, but my level of immersive thrill is comparable. We HAVE a radio show! We're in it with Dave Kuchler.

WAR: Low Rider

At Meghan and Austin's wedding reception, the DJ also played music to accompany the entrances of various parts of the wedding party. Richard Hernandez and I--the respective fathers of the groom and the bride--bopped in to the percolatin' sound of War's classic "Low Rider." We'll hear the entrance music for the newlyweds' mothers on our next show.

THE VELVELETTES: He Was Really Sayin' Somethin'

The Greatest Record Ever Made!

NEW MATH: Die Trying

A week ago tonight, the great Rochester, NY group New Math presented their last-ever live show, and I'm happy to say that TIRnRR was there. Whatta show! Both 1.4.5. and the Presstones put on incredible, invigmoratin' sets, and New Math provided a commanding capper to their career. My first New Math show was back in 1978, when they played with the Flashcubes at The Firebarn in Syracuse. I only saw them a total of three times--maybe (but probably not) four--when I was in my teens and early twenties. I wish I'd had more opportunities to bask in the glory of New Math live. But I'm so glad I was able to see them one last time this month.

THE GRIP WEEDS: Lady Friend

Your intrepid TIRnRR Good Guys will also be in attendance at the Grip Weeds's first-ever Syracuse appearance. That happens Friday October 27th at Syracuse's home of rock 'n' roll The Lost Horizon, on a bill with 1.4.5., Perilous, Preacher, and Kenne Highland's Airforce. HuzZAH!! We'll open next week's radio program with music from the Grip Weeds (plus 1.4.5. and Perilous), and we get set to anticipate with this spin of a track from the Grip Weeds' most recent album DiG. The group's able cover of the Byrds' "Lady Friend" is a likely lock for a berth on our year-end countdown show of TIRnRR's most-played tracks in 2023. Here it comes again, it's going to happen to me....

And at the Lost Horizon next Friday, it can happen to you. BE THERE!

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BOBBY'S ANGEL: An imaginary 1965 sitcom (and its imaginary theme song)

Bobby's Angel

All right. Time to sing along with the catchy theme song from Bobby's Angel!

I've been poking at ideas for a novel called Meet The Frantiks! I've posted early drafts of Chapter 1 and Chapter 2, setting up the general storyline of a widow in her sixties remembering the Frantiks, a made-for-TV rock 'n' roll group she saw on two episodes of an obscure TV sitcom back in 1965. The overall story is yet to be written, but it's an idea I've had for a very long time. With my first book Gabba Gabba Hey! A Conversation With The Ramones published this past May and my second book The Greatest Record Ever Made! (Volume 1) still looking for a path to print but completely written, it seems like I need to think about my next book. Maybe that book will be fiction. And maybe it will be Meet The Frantiks!

Meanwhile, the novel's imaginary sitcom needed a title. This make-believe show is about a teenager named Bobby, head-over-heels in love with his neighbor Angel. Angel herself is literally an angel from Heaven, sent to our world to use her celestial powers to help us cute li'l mortals find our way. Bobby's the only one who knows Angel's secret. Like Chapter 1 says: It was 1965. Anything could happen in 1965.

Presuming Bobby's Angel would have debuted as a short-lived mid-season replacement series in January of 1965, that would place its premiere a year and four months after the first episode of My Favorite Martian (September 1963), the series considered the first of the 1960s fantasy sitcoms. And Bobby's Angel would take flight a few months after the September '64 introduction of Bewitched, the real-world sitcom about pretty witch Samantha Stevens trying to hide her magic powers and live a normal life as a suburban housewife. Bewitched began around the same time as other weird-meets-normal family sitcoms The Munsters and The Addams Family. Bobby's Angel's single short, imaginary season would have come and gone prior to the September '65 debuts of I Dream Of Jeannie and The Smothers Brothers Show, the latter also centering on the comic escapades of an angel trying to pass as homo odinarius. I watched all of these shows when I was a kid--I may have been the only one watching The Smothers Brothers Show--and they all influenced my concoction of Bobby's Angel.

Unretouched Angel image from my 1980s sketchbook

Unlike those shows, Bobby's Angel is teen-oriented, a supernatural counterpart of The Patty Duke Show and The Many Loves Of Dobie Gillis. I guess Sabrina The Teenage Witch is the closest actual parallel, but Bobby's Angel is specifically imagined as a sitcom that could only have happened in the early/mid 1960s. Hence the appearance of those four moptopped youngsters from England who call themselves the Frantiks. 

A few years back, when I took my decades-old rough concept of Meet The Frantiks! and started to redirect it from the biography of a fictional '60s rock group toward whatever it's now on its way to being, I decided a make-believe 1965 sitcom about a literal teen angel would be an essential part of its tale. I was originally going to call the show Angel Next Door (or The Angel Next Door), but rejected it in favor of something else. Didn't know what yet, but, y'know, something else.

Then I was chatting with singer-songwriter Gary Frenay, bassist for Syracuse's own power pop powerhouse the Flashcubes. This would have been in 2021, I think. Gary said he'd been asked to write a song for a short film called Show And Tell, which needed a reasonable facsimile of an early '60s girl-group ditty of teen yearning. Gary answered that challenge with his original song "Perfect Girl," which Gary recorded as a single (credited to Maura and the Bright Lights) with Pete Kennedy, Tommy Allen, and Mike Kallett, all backing Maura Kennedy on lead vocals. The track also appeared on the 2022 compilation album This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio, Volume 5, because my radio co-host Dana Bonn and I know a good song when we appropriate it.

Describing "Perfect Girl" to me, Gary said it was supposed to be a cross between Marcie Blaine's "Bobby's Girl" and Shelly Fabares' "Johnny Angel," both from 1962.  My dim widdle lightbulb sparked immediately. Bobby's...Angel! My Frantiks story's 1965 sitcom had its title. Thanks, Gary! Hell, Fabares was herself a '60s sitcom star for her role on The Donna Reed Show. Serendipity! Or was it...Angel's magic?

Oh, ya wanna see some MAGIC, do ya...?

And, of course, an imaginary 1965 sitcom needs an imaginary TV theme song to go with it. I'm neither a musician nor a songwriter, but I tried to conjure something in my head, something that could sorta pass for a theme song from that era. Biggest single influence was the theme from The Patty Duke Show--But they're cousins, identical cousins!--a pleasant 'n' bouncy earworm that summarized the show's setup. I don't have a melody, and I likely won't need one for my prose purposes here. But I do have the lyrics to this bubbly theme song from Bobby's Angel:

Bobby's Angel

Bobby's Angel

Bobby's Angel

Bobby's Angel

Bobby's a boy

Angel's his joy

He's in love with his Angel next door

Angel's a girl

She's just out of this world!

And Bobby knows there's something more

Bobby's Angel is a real live Angel

Sent from Heaven with magic galore

Bobby's Angel is an extra-special Angel

And Bobby's crazy 'bout his Angel next door

Oh, Angel's got powers

And good luck is ours

Since Angel came here to stay

Angel's got magic

So nothing is tragic

Because Bobby's Angel

Bobby's Angel

Bobby's Angel

Will cast all our troubles away

I can just about hear it. Sometimes I hear it as a girl-group song, but it should be a Hollywood-approved TV sound instead, something to prompt Patty Duke or Dobie Gillis or the girls from Petticoat Junction to cavort at will. I can almost see the black-and-white cathode-ray images that would accompany the song during the opening credits, scenes of Angel and Bobby getting into good-natured mischief, Angel using her magic to disappear or fly or transmogrify, Bobby looking on lovestruck. Bobby's Angel never existed. But I can imagine it.

What's next for Meet The Frantiks! and Bobby's Angel? I dunno. The two completed draft chapters have already altered the storyline from what I had in mind previously. We'll see where (if anywhere) it goes from here. Play, Frantiks...play! Angel will cast all our troubles away.

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10 SONGS: 11/10/2022

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

This week's edition of 10 Songs draws exclusively from the playlist for This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio # 1154. The show is available as a podcast.

THE FLASHCUBES FEATURING RANDY KLAWON: Get The Message

This week's playlist commentary already found me waxing rhapsoderific about the fab new single by the Flashcubes. For "Get The Message," the 'Cubes unite with 1960s Cleveland guitar stalwart Randy Klawon to cover this 1968 number, written by Eric Carmen and originally released by Carmen's then-combo Cyrus Erie. The Flashcubes are one of my all-time favorite groups--seriously, Beatles, Ramones, Flashcubes--and I've loved every one of their recent singles for Big Stir Records. "Get The Message" may be the best one yet. Extra credit to Flashcubes drummer Tommy Allen, whose poundin' production delivers the message with authority.

Ya wanna know who else digs this version of "Get The Message?" The song's author. Eric Carmen hisself says, "The Flashcubes have done a terrific new take on 'Get The Message,' giving it a sonic upgrade while staying true to the original vibe. The first time I heard it, I actually thought it was Cyrus Erie for the first fifteen seconds! Excellent job, boys! Rock on!"

Get the message? 

MAURA AND THE BRIGHT LIGHTS: Perfect Girl

Each of the three members of the Flashcubes' front line--guitarists Paul Armstrong and Arty Lenin, bassist Gary Frenay--is a talented rockin' pop songwriter, and I wish more performers would cover stuff from the greater Cubic songbook. Since we opened this week's program with the Flashcubes covering Cyrus Erie, we followed that with a Frenay original played by Maura and the Bright Lights. Perfect! You can own your own copy of this perfect pop gem when you buy our new compilation This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio, Volume 5. GO!! This ongoing radio alchemy doesn't just pay for itself, people.

THE MORNING LINE: Junebugs In April

"Junebugs In April" is the advance single from the Morning Line's new Red On Red Records album Scene. It's an appropriately radio-ready invitation to sway with abandon, so of course we were ready to put it on the radio. It's what we do! I've since heard the album, it's fabulous, and I might believe another of its tracks is likewise ready for MORE!! We'll put that to the test on next week's show.

THE PATTI SMITH GROUP: Ask The Angels

THE ANGELS: My Boyfriend's Back

A great radio show needs to forge its own path, but it's important to read the room and pay attention to what's going on. Here, the Patti Smith Group directed us to ask the Angels. So we did. Hey, Angels!, we said. Wanna sing a song? And so they did. That's how ya build a playlists. It's WILD! WILD! WILD! WILD!, and the perfect soundtrack to a permanent vacation. Hey-la-day-la.

THE VILLAS: Someone To Hold On To

Another incredible selection from This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio, Volume 5. I don't think even the Villas themselves appreciate how special, how transcendent, this track is. We remain honored to have given it its CD debut.

CISSY HOUSTON: Down In The Boondocks

In a previous 10 Songs, I wrote that as much as I love Cissy Houston's soulful cover of Billy Joe Royal's 1965 hit "Down In The Boondocks," I wasn't quite prepared to surrender my lifetime allegiance to Royal's version (which was one of my many favorite records when I was [theoretically] growing up). 

I'm prepared now. No offense to the still-great Billy Joe Royal rendition, but Cissy Houston rules on this one.

THE FOUR TOPS: Reach Out I'll Be There

From the Four Tops' entry in my long-threatened book The Greatest Record Ever Made! (Volume 1), regarding "Reach Out I'll Be There":

"Motown's absolute zenith, with one of the greatest vocal groups of all time giving their all-time best performance on their best-ever song.  And, considering the dauntingly high standards set by the rest of the Four Tops' cavalcade of hits, the designation "Best-Ever Four Tops Song" is akin to a coronation."

Reach out.

RITA MORENO, GEORGE CHAKIRIS, SHARKS AND GIRLS: America

The Greatest Record Ever Made!

CHARLIE RICH: Philadelphia Baby

It wasn't to be this year. I'm more of a New York Yankees fan (to the extent I follow baseball), but I was rooting for the Phillies in the World Series. Congratulation to Houston. We'll see you next year.

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10 SONGS: 10/19/2021

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

This week's edition of 10 Songs draws exclusively from the playlist for This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio # 1099.

THE BROTHERS STEVE: Better Get Ready

Yeah, you better get ready! The Brothers Steve have become consistent TIRnRR Fave Raves, so of course we're goin' full-throttle with their latest Big Stir Records release Dose. (To review: second album Dose follows the Brothers Steve's debut album # 1, and we repeat our earlier urgent note that the next one's gotta be called Dry.) We've been playing the new single "Next Aquarius," and figured it was time to dig into an album track. Our big 1100th show is coming up next week, so what could be a more appropriate track to play this week than "Better Get Ready?" NONE! None more appropriate! And I think we're gonna hear the Brothers Steve again next week on TIRnRR # 1100.

FANNY: Let's Spend The Night Together

Even into the mid '70s, it was still a little bit uncommon for a Top 40 pop song sung by a woman to directly suggest spending the night together. Hell, a decade before that, the lyrics of the Rolling Stones' "Let's Spend The Night Together" were deemed sufficiently scandalous that ol' Stoneface Ed Sullivan insisted that noted male singer Mick Jagger oughtta warble Let's spend some time together! while rolling his eyes as the Stones performed on Sullivan's really big shoe. Um, show. I recall seeing the all-female combo Fanny lip-sync this (as well as their ace cover of the Bell Notes' "I've Had It") on American Bandstand while I was vacationing in Missouri in 1974. I don't think I'd heard Fanny prior to that. I recall members of the band telling Dick Clark that they'd put a female POV on "Let's Spend The Night Together," though it really seemed then (as now) as just a matter of fact. If you wanna spend the time.

THE  FLIRTATIONS: Nothing But A Heartache

Unrequited love. It hurts like nobody's business. But it sure does sound terrific on the radio. The Flirtations tell the story like no other can.

THE GRIP WEEDS: Shape Of Things To Come

A teaser single covering Max Frost and the Troopers' "Shape Of Things To Come" heralds the not-soon-enough release of DiG, a covers collection from the rockin' pop force of nature that is the Grip Weeds. The shape of things to come? Sign us up!

THE JAM: Start!

My silly notion to start TIRnRR # 1099 with "Taxman" by the Beatles inspired Dana to follow with the Jam's "Start!," a 1980 track very obviously influenced by George Harrison's Revolver opener from '66. I was at first going to follow "Start!" with Prince's "Hot Summer," but realized while recording the show that we had to put the Bangles' "Start!"-influenced "I'm In Line" in that spot instead. Just had to. There was time to move Prince down a couple places in the same set--our apologies to the Pleasers, who wound up getting unceremoniously bumped--and still revel in the pop-fueled oomph of a radio show opening with the groovy triumvirate of "Taxman"-"Start!"-"I'm In Line." I only regret I couldn't squeeze "The Batman Theme" in before "Taxman." 

But it was, y'know...a start.

MAURA AND THE BRIGHT LIGHTS: Perfect Girl

The Maura of Maura and the Bright Lights is Maura Kennedy, one-half (with husband Pete Kennedy) of the world-renowned coffeehouse pop duo the Kennedys. Maura and the Bright Lights initially willed themselves into being in 2014 for the first-ever Bright Lights! Syracuse new wave rock 'n' roll reunion show. We have a handy-dandy history of Maura and the Bright Lights available for your reference right here. 

Gary Frenay of the Flashcubes is also a charter member of Maura and the Bright Lights. Recently, Gary was tasked with the challenge of creating an original song in the style of late '50s/early '60s girl-singer pop like Marcie Blaine's "Bobby's Girl" and Shelley Fabares' "Johnny Angel." The result was the dreamy "Perfect Girl," a swoon-worthy little number for Maura to sing. It's intended for a forthcoming film project, but we're thrilled to offer you this perfect little preview of coming attractions. (Today's Bright Lights are Maura on vocals, Pete on guitar, Gary on bass and guitar, Mike Kallet on piano, and the track's producer Tommy Allen on drums, percussion, and synth strings.) Let swooning commence.

SUZI QUATRO: There She Goes

This tune by my # 1 teen rock 'n' roll crush Suzi Quatro was recorded in 1982 for an album, but the album was shelved. The project eventually saw the light of day as a limited issue called Unreleased Emotion, which was much later exhumed for more general availability by the public servants at the Cherry Red label. There ya go!

KEN SHARP: Hellcat

Hey, speakin' of the Supersonic Suzi Quatro, here's another track infused with glam and glitter, this one courtesy of pop music's best friend, Ken Sharp.  We debuted Ken Sharp's new single "Hellcat" on last week's program. An immediate positive response to that (with a listener in Pennsylvania expressing specific delight) prompted a repeat spin this week. Plus, y'know, I like it. That usually helps.

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

Hey, it's a supergroup! Paul Kopf and Jonathan Lea (both of Stranger In A Strange Land, the former also of the Seeds, the latter also of the Jigsaw Scene)! Vince Melouney, from the original '60s lineup of the Bee Gees! Clem Burke of Blondie! Cream Puff War scribe Alec Palao of...we don't have space to list all of Alex's credits! I gotta start paying myself by the word. With all that firepower in its arsenal, it's no surprise Tall Poppy Syndrome's debut single "Come Some Christmas Eve (Or Halloween)" hits what needs hittin', and merits airplay by divine right. 

THE KINKS: You Really Got Me

Did we mention that next week's show is This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio # 1100? Well, we just mentioned it again. You should oughtta join us for that. In the mean time, here's our house band the Kinks with the greatest record ever made.

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