10 SONGS: 2/29/2024

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 # 1222. This show is available as a podcast.

THE FLASHCUBES: Baby It's Cold Outside

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 blechh  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.

So we turn to a little music to keep the home fires burning. The Flashcubes' Pop Masters was my favorite album of 2023, and this remake of Pezband'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 Mimi Betinis enlists as an honorary Flashcube for this great version, and the resulting shivers get a little bit more welcome as we acclimate. 

Even so, I've gotta ask: Can we have the sun back, please? Syracuse winters. The longest nine months of the year.

FANNY: Let's Spend The Night Together

A proposal to roll with the Stones. Fanny's cover of the Rolling Stones' "Let's Spend The Night Together" comes from their 1974 album Rock And Roll Survivors, the group's fifth and final album, and their only album for Casablanca Records. It was also their only album without guitarist June Millington, who had co-founded Fanny with her sister, bassist Jean Millington; Jean remained with the group for Rock And Roll Survivor, and Patti Quatro joined on six-string.

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 Circus?--but my first conscious exposure to their music was when I saw them on American Bandstand, chatting with Dick Clark and lip-syncing two tunes from Rock And Roll Survivors: "Let's Spend The Night Together" and their ace cover of the Bell Notes' "I've Had It."

(It suddenly occurs to me that I saw and heard Patti Quatro even before I saw and heard her sister Suzi Quatro lip-sync "I May Be Too Young" on the British TV show Supersonic.)

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. 

It deserves better. It was my gateway to Fanny's music, and it's pretty damned good in its own right.

Spend some time with it.

MERLE HAGGARD: Mama Tried

The Greatest Record Ever Made!

DOLPH CHANEY: Californiagain

TIRnRR Fave Rave Dolph Chaney has accrued some airplay on this little mutant radio show (as one would expect, given his "TIRnRR Fave Rave" status. Duh!). We've certainly played a few tracks from his splendid 2023 album Mug, and the recent release of the Mug track "Californiagain" as a single gives us an excuse to enjoy yet another quaff from that mug. Ah! Refreshing!

And it just so happens we'll be playing "Californiagain"...well, again on Sunday night. We'll also be playing a track from Steve Stoeckel, a track from Chris Church, and a track from Spygenius. Why is that worth noting here? Well! The fab four of Dolph, Steve, Chris, and Spygenius' Peter Watts have just joined rockin' pop forces to form a new power pop supergroup called the Electromagnates. The Electromagnates open our next show. Fave Raves, all.

THE O'JAYS: Love Train

Get on board. We could do worse. We have done worse. Please. Just get on board.

WONDERBOY: Girl Songs

Awright! Here's the third consecutive 10 Songs appearance of Wonderboy's definitive statement of intent "Girl Songs." From the group's originally unreleased 1990s album Hero Isle, "Girl Songs" is a contemporary TIRnRR Pick Hit 'cuz, y'know...GIRLS! And pop music. We've programmed the track for three straight weeks. We'll go for four weeks in a row on Sunday night. 

THE BEATLES: Why Don't We Do It In The Road?

When we told Wonderboy's Robbie Rist that we were going to follow this week's spin of "Girl Songs" with a track from the Beatles' White Album, he said it oughta be "Julia." Y'know...an actual girl 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.

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 never know what we're doing.

PAUL COLLINS: I'm The Only One For You

PAUL COLLINS: Stand Back And Take A Good Look

THE BREAKAWAYS: Walking Out On Love

(Please forgive the labored basketball references to follow. It's that time of year for me. Go, Orange! Somehow....)

Hey, a three-pointer! And it's GOOD!

We opened and closed this week's extravaganza with music from power pop legend Paul Collins. At the top of the show, we scored first with "Will You Come Through?" from Paul's superswell new album Stand Back And Take A Good Look. 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 Stand Back And Take A Good Look. SCORE!

With just 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 the Nerves and subsequently recorded with the Breakaways and the Beat.

Then the buzzer sounded at midnight. Game over! 

But the Beat goes on. We'll resume play this Sunday night. Our march to madness awaits.

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10 SONGS: 7/13/2021

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 # 1085.

SPINAL TAP: Gimme Some Money

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Much of This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio's sphere of influence falls outside the ol' 315, but our listeners step up just as if they were local, minus the access to salt potatoes and Hofmann hot dogs (their loss). We need people, but we also need, y'know, money to keep the lights on and the records playing. We're grateful to all of the folks who've tithed us with their hard-earned greenbacks in the past, and we remain in need of further TAX-DEDUCTIBLE DONATIONS on an ongoing basis. You like whatever it is we do here? Yeah, you're our kind of potential patron o' the arts, then! Please give what you can, if you can, and we thanks ya.

Mindful that we haven't done an active fundraiser in quite some time, we figured we oughtta open this week's proceedings with a simple reminder that this is radio worth paying for. And there was no more appropriate way to say that, except to open with this simple call to action from the lads of Spinal Tap. Gimme some MONEY!

THE BEATLES: Money (That's What  Want)

For as many times artists have attempted Motown covers over the decades, only a relative handful have been within the same zip code as matching the original. Very few attempts have been even better than the Motown original. 

The Beatles did it twice.

In 1963, the Fab Four's second album With The Beatles (revamped, reorganized, and renovated for American ears in '64 into The Beatles' Second Album) included three tunes from the Motown songbook: the Miracles' "You've Really Got A Hold On Me," the Marvelettes' "Please Mr. Postman," and Barrett Strong's "Money (That's What I Want)." I don't think the Beatles match the Miracles here, but I do believe they absolutely own "Please Mr. Postman" and "Money (That's What I Want)." Consider those the sound of young Beatlemania.

THE O'JAYS: For The Love Of Money

Philly soul legends the O'Jays provide "For The Love Of Money," the final piece in our three-part opening ode to filthy lucre. I really wanted to play this, but I only have the album version, and at a running time of more than seven minutes, that's, like, two songs in the TIRnRRverse. EDIT, people! Dana had access to the 3:42 single version, and our money-grubbing trilogy was complete. For that mean, mean, mean, mean, mean green.

THE CHELSEA CURVE: A Better Way

The fab Red On Red Records imprint is a trusted resource for the rock and the roll, and the vast majority of TIRnRR playlists come factory-equipped with at least one track from the Red On Red empire. Kid Gulliver! Justine and the Unclean! Andrea Gillis! Cold Expectations! Linnea's Garden! MORE! And that "more" includes the Chelsea Curve, back again with a new single called "A Better Way," which just might be their best one yet. Trust us.

THE DAVE CLARK FIVE: It Don't Feel Good

It is not at all unfair to think of the Dave Clark Five as a singles band. They never became an album act, not like the Beatles, not like the Kinks or the Rolling Stones, definitely not like the Who, and there's no Tottenham Sound equivalent of the Zombies' Odessey And Oracle. God knows there's no Pet Sounds here, and God's not the only one who knows it. The DC5 lived and breathed on 45s--"Glad All Over," "Bits And Pieces," "Any Way You Want It," "Catch Us If You Can," "Try To Hard," etc.--and that's where the group's thumpin' footprint was established. 

That said, I mean, the Dave Clark Five did release albums, too. And they weren't just filled with padding around the single tracks. Granted, a DC5 LP could include a lot of filler, but there were also some lesser-known gems here and there. If I were to assemble a list of my all-time DC5 favorites, LP tracks like "When," "Don't You Realize," "Don't Be Taken In," "Doctor Rhythm," and "It Don't Feel Good" would edge out familiar smashes "Because," "Over And Over," and "Can't You See That She's Mine." HEY!

"It Don't Feel Good" is from the 1966 Try Too Hard album. It's an album track but it sounds great on the radio. Singles band. Album artist. We reject your petty labels. Let's play. Don't it feel good?

EAGLES: The Greeks Don't Want No Freaks

Here's an understatement for ya: Eagles do not receive a lot of airplay on TIRnRR. Without actually checking stats, I'd say this week's spin of "The Greeks Don't Want No Freaks" is unlikely to be more than the group's fifth appearance here all-time, and maybe only their fourth. I can only think of three Eagles songs we've ever played ("Already Gone" and "Take It Easy" are the other two), and it's possible that "The Greeks Don't Want No Freaks" is the only Eagles track we've played more than once.

I'm not here to belabor my long-standing antipathy for the Eagles, nor to denigrate their fans; dig what you dig, always dig what you dig. As a burgeoning teen punk in 1977, I selected the Eagles as my designated band to hate, just because it felt like the thing for me to do. And I did hate (and still do hate) "Lyin' Eyes" and "Hotel California." It may be silly in retrospect, but I think it was the right thing for me at the time.

The three Eagles songs cited above were my exceptions. I was a pop fan, so I couldn't figure out a way to deny the pure pop appeal of "Take It Easy" and "Already Gone," early evidence gathered in my long-standing conviction that even the act you hate the most might be capable of at least one song you absolutely love. 

The Long Run, the 1979 album that would turn out to be the group's farewell, didn't change much of anything, I think. Wait, lemme check...yep, still hated the Eagles in '79. But man, I loved the willfully stupid frat-rock of "The Greeks Don't Want No Freaks," and I wished the Eagles could get stupid more often. 

DEAN LANDEW: Cathi D'Silva

Wait, a song about a DJ? Sure, we'll play that! Fave Rave Dean Landew returns to the TIRnRR playlist with this tale of a rockin' woman servin' up the platters that matter. Just like us! Except, y'know, a chick, like....

Yeah, like Riff Randall, rock 'n' roller! Well done, Dean!

BILLY OCEAN: L.O.D. (Love On Delivery)

Long before that Caribbean queen and her painted-on jeans, Billy Ocean offered this very cool 1976 bubblesoul single that shoulda been a hit. I was working in record retail during Ocean's mid-'80s hitmakin' heyday, and I didn't object to any of it, to "Carribean Queen," "Suddenly," "When The Going Gets Tough, The Tough Get Going," or "Get Outta My Dreams, Get Into My Car," and I have a vague memory of a female customer blushing girlishly when I responded to her plea for help in IDing a song by singing "Suddenly" to her. Yeah, those were the days. No more love on the run!

But "L.O.D. (Love On Delivery)" is far and away my favorite among Ocean's...man, I wish an Ocean's 11 reference fit here. I learned the song from a 1998 various-artists set called Soulful Pop, part of Varese Sarabande's yummy-yummy Bubblegum Classics series. I need to investigate Ocean's eponymous album from '76, to see if there may still be more love available to schedule for delivery. 

I'll pay C.O.D. Love, CC

IRENE PEÑA: One More Night 

One of the many greater goods understood on this little mutant radio show is that when Irene Peña puts out a song, we play it. Duh. "One More Night" is the fifth and latest release in Big Stir Records' current campaign to celebrate the tenth anniversary of Irene's debut album Nothing To Do With You by releasing each of its tracks, one by one, as digital singles. A greater good indeed.

THE RAMONES (WITH EDDIE VEDDER): Any Way You Want It

I'm working on something. I'll tell you about it eventually. It doesn't really have anything at all to do with this track, but what the hell. Here's the very last song from the very last live performance by the Ramones, joined on stage by Eddie Vedder for a run-through of the Dave Clark Five's "Any Way You Want It." August 6, 1996. And we're outta here!

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10 SONGS: 10/27/2020

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 # 1048.

THE FLESHTONES: American Beat '84

A national treasure! I think I first heard The Fleshtones in the very early '80s, either via the live version of "Shadowline" on the 2-LP soundtrack of the film Urgh! A Music War, or via an MTV airing of "R-I-G-H-T-S." I had the Urgh! record, and the 1981 Roman Gods record became my first dedicated Fleshtones purchase. The Roman Gods track "Let's See The Sun" was my go-to 'Tones tune in short order. Super-Rock!

Within just a few years, though, the supremacy of "Let's See The Sun" was abruptly usurped by "American Beat '84." WBNY-FM in Buffalo hooked me on the track, and its appearance in an early scene in the Tom Hanks slob comedy Bachelor Party sealed the deal. I bought the 12" single at a used record store on Buffalo's Hertel Avenue, and it remains one of my all-time favorites.

ROBERT GORDON: Someday, Someway

I think Robert Gordon's rock-solid rendition of "Someday, Someway" was released prior to the song's author Marshall Crenshaw's version, but I definitely heard MC's version first. Both are great.

JOEY MOLLAND: Rainy Day Man

In last week's edition of my Greatest Record Ever Made! video series, I talked about how much Badfinger's "Baby Blue" meant to me. You can see the video here, you can read about it here, and you can read my GREM! book chapter about the song here. 

That's prologue. Now, Badfinger's beloved guitarist Joey Molland has a brand-new album out, Be True To Yourself. Working with producer Mark Hudson and such stalwarts as Micky Dolenz and Julian Lennon, Molland retains the essential These guys sound like The Beatles! promise that made me a Badfinger fan when I was in middle school. "Rainy Day Man" is an awesome single, ready-made for radio, a beguiling tease for a must-have album.

IRENE PEÑA: It Must Be Summer

Hey, congratulations to America's Sweetheart Irene Peña, as she assumes benevolent stewardship of Big Stir Records' essential digital singles series. The story of TIRnRR's blissful history as Peñamaniacs was told here, and we're delighted that the Big Stir singles will continue in such capable hands. To celebrate, we figured we'd serve up a repeat spin of Ms. Peña's own recent Big Stir single, her irresistible cover of Fountains Of Wayne's "It Must Be Summer." It must be Big Stir. Huzzah, Irene!

THE O'JAYS: Love Train

A message from The O'Jays. The message never goes out of style (which is good), and the need to repeat it never fades away (which is unfortunate). Get on board.

THE ROLLERS: Who'll Be My Keeper

Both this week's playlist and the CD reissue of the 1979 album Elevator credit this track to The Bay City Rollers, but the original LP and its little-heard follow-ups shortened the group's name to just The Rollers. I wrote about Elevator here, and elsewhere I also wrote this:

I adored The Bay City Rollers--"Rock 'n' Roll Love Letter,""Yesterday's Hero," and a superb album track called "Wouldn't You Like It" are sublime power pop nuggets that transcend the perceived limitations of teeny-bop pop--but this post-mania LP is the only full Rollers album that ever grabbed me. By this time, lead singer Les McKeown had split (replaced by Duncan Faure, late of the group Rabbitt), and the group had shortened its name and released this album as a desperate bid for a new audience. Desperate or not, it sounds fine, especially the fab "Who'll Be My Keeper."

There is some fabulous stuff to be found in this brief chapter of The Bay City Rollers' career, '79 to about '82 or so. I've still never heard the rare cassette-only release Burning Rubber, but both Voxx and Ricochet include a few stellar tracks, particularly "85," "God Save Rock And Roll," "Roxy Lady," and "Doors, Bars, Metal."

EVIE SANDS: Don't Look Back Don't Look Down

Singer. Songwriter. Producer. Musician. Evie Sands has been making records for more than five decades, but her music first came to my ears because of her association with SoCal musician (and expatriate Central New Yorker) Adam Marsland. In the first decade of our current sparkly century. Sands played guitar and sang as a member of Adam Marsland's Chaos Band, and I saw her when the AMCB did a club show in Syracuse circa...2005, maybe? They were on a bill with local combo Beauty Scene Outlaws, and it was the first night I ever heard BSO's song "Carl Cafarelli," about some crazy guy who later tried to maintain a daily blog. Weirdo. It was also the night I annoyed AMCB bassist Teresa Cowles by asking her if she played regularly in any bands back in L.A.; Yeah, I was just on stage here with my Danelectro bass, she replied, the you moron! unstated but clearly implied. Oops.

(In my defense, I did know who she was, but mistakenly believed she was just filling in on tour for Severo, whom I thought was the band's regular bassist; I didn't realize Severo had joined The Smithereens, and Cowles was now the AMCB's permanent four-string wizard. With my faux pas corrected, Teresa Cowles allowed me to live. I'm grateful for that.)

I didn't really speak with Evie Sands, but I bought some CDs of her old recordings, including her original '60s versions of songs like "I Can't Let Go" and "Angel Of The Morning." Evie Sands was the first artist to record and release those tunes, before they became hits for The Hollies and Merrilee Rush, respectively. Now, Evie has a brand-new album called Get Of Your Own Way, which was just released in Europe and is officially due out in the States in January. I joined the Kickstarter for that project, and the magnificent end result has been well worth the long wait. We'll be hearing another track from Get Out Of Your Own Way on next week's show.

THE TROGGS: I Can't Control Myself

Well, it's certainly been a minute or two since I've written an entry in The Everlasting First, my A-Z series of reminiscences about how I first encountered various musical acts and fictional characters. The most recent full entries were S Is For THE SEX PISTOLS in November of 2018 and S Is For THE SHADOW in August of 2019. T Is For TARZAN is waaaaay overdue, and that further delays its eventual successor, T Is For THE TROGGS. Wild Thing, you make my heart sing. But in the mean time, this week's show programmed a spin of my favorite Troggs track, "I Can't Control Myself." I had the 1966 Atco Records 45, albeit a little over a decade after the fact, intrigued by its then-scandalous description of a girl whose slacks were low and her hips were showin', ba-ba-bop-a-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba. Oh, no? Oh,YES!

WAR: Low Rider

As much as I loved War's big hit "Why Can't We Be Friends?" when I was 15 in 1975, it was the only War song that mattered to me at the time. War's earlier AM radio smash "The Cisco Kid" hadn't connected with me in '73, nor did I have much use for "Low Rider," the follow-up to "Why Can't We Be Friends?" I didn't really succumb to "Low Rider" until the early '90s, when a fantastic Syracuse group called L'il Georgie and the Shufflin' Hungarians used to include it in their raucous 'n' funky live sets. Then I got it, and suddenly found myself the willing slave to its Latin-derived rhythm and cobra-like groove. The Hungarians did a great cover, but nothing can match the original.

The whims and alchemy that combine to create each weekly TIRnRR playlist somehow led me to wanna program "Low Rider" this week. I don't think we ever played it on any previous show, and I didn't actually own a copy of the song. But ya can't argue with a DJ's whims--it's unhealthy and rude--so I purchased a two-CD War anthology just so I could play "Low Rider." The rest of the set sounds pretty damned good, too, so War will likely continue on future shows. My teenage self was such a clueless little pisser.

KIM WILDE: Kids In America

On This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio, we tend to play The Muffs' willfully snarky and messy cover of "Kids In America" more often than we play the original 1981 version by British singer Kim Wilde. We love both versions. I recall that Kim Wilde's eponymous debut LP was once a fave on my turntable--mostly for "Kids In America," of course, but I remember playing and digging the album as a whole, or at least some of its tracks. I'm curious to re-investigate that sound, to see if it still holds up for me almost forty years later. But my copy of that album is long, long gone, a victim of one of the many periodic purges my vinyl collection has endured over the years. I'm not a kid anymore.

Kids in America. When the record came out in the summer of '81, I was 21 years old, already a year out of college, living with my girlfriend in a one-bedroom apartment. I was still a kid, emotionally and chronologically, though I was trying hard to pretend otherwise. 

I voted for the first time the preceding November. I wish I could say that I voted to re-elect Jimmy Carter, a fine man whom I did not appreciate until it was far too late. I can at least say that I did not vote for Reagan--God, no--but I wish that I hadn't wasted my vote on third-party candidate John Anderson. I was a kid. I didn't know any better...but I should have.

Forty years later, I can't necessarily claim that I've learned all that much. But I keep trying. I married the girlfriend. We voted on Sunday. We hope all the other kids in America will do the same. 

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