This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio # 837

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TIRnRR # 837: 8/21/16

THE RAMONES: Do You Remember Rock 'n' Roll Radio? (Rhino, End Of The Century)
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PUBLIC IMAGE, LTD.: Public Image (Virgin, The Greatest Hits, So Far)
THE 101'ERS: Keys To Your Heart (Ace, VA: The Chiswick Story)
MARK BACINO: Not That Guy (DreamCrush, single)
CROWDED HOUSE: Don't Dream It's Over (Capitol, Crowded House)
SLADE: Mama Weer All Crazee Now (Polydor, Greatest Hits)
IGGY POP: The Passenger (Virgin, A Million In Prizes)
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THE ZOMBIES: Now I Know I'll Never Get Over You (The End, Still Got That Hunger)
TEENAGE FANCLUB: He'd Be A Diamond (Creation, single)
THE SPINNERS: I'll Be Around (Rhino, The Very Best Of The Spinners)
THE CLASH: Train In Vain (Columbia, Clash On Broadway)
THE OOHS: Victim Of The Night Time World (Oohszone Layer, Ear Candy)
THE MO-DETTES: White Mice Disco (Cherry Red, The Story So Far)
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BRAIN CIRCUS: If You Only Knew (braincircus.bandcamp.com, Brain Circus)
KINGS OF LEON: The Bucket (RCA, The Collection)
JOE JACKSON: Steppin' Out (A & M, Steppin' Out)
DRESS CODE: Sorry (unreleased)
THE SMITHEREENS: It's Alright (Capitol, Blow Up)
PEARL JAM: Leaving Here (Epic, Lost Dogs)
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THE WELL WISHERS: Somebody Lied (Thatwasmyskull, Comes And Goes)
THE MODERN LOVERS: Roadrunner (Castle, The Modern Lovers)
THE BEACH BOYS: Wouldn't It Be Nice (Capitol, Pet Sounds)
RAIN PARADE: This Can't Be Today (Rykodisc, Emergency Third Rail Power Trip)
TAMMY & THE LORDS OF MISRULE: Wig-Wam Bam (Not Lame, VA: Right To Chews)
TEENAGE FANCLUB: Here Comes Your Man (Columbia, single)
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NELSON BRAGG: Forever Days (Side B Music, Day Into Night)
JOAN ARMATRADING: Me Myself I (A & M, Track Record)
THE MONKEES: Birth Of An Accidental Hipster (Rhino, Good Times!)
DHANI HARRISON: Savoy Truffle (BMG, VA:  George Fest)
THE BEATLES: Helter Skelter (Apple, The Beatles)
SYD STRAW: Suffragette City [live] (unreleased)
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THE MONKEES: Listen To The Band (Rhino, Music Box)
CORNHORSE: Porpoise Song (Theme From "Head") (futuremanrecords.bandcamp.com)
THE MONKEES: Star Collector [mono TV mix] (Rhino Handmade, single)
THE BANGLES: How Is The Air Up There? (Omnivore, Ladies And Gentlemen...The Bangles!)
TEEN MACHINE: Does Your Mother Know? (Pop Squad, After School Special)
TROLLEY: Caught In The Darkness (Easter, Caught In The Darkness)
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KISS: Detroit Rock City (Mercury, Alive II)
COURTNEY BARNETT: Elevator Operator (Mom + Pop, Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit)
THE DEL FUEGOS: When The News Is On (Slash, The Best Of The Del Fuegos)
STIFF LITTLE FINGERS: Strummerville (EMI, Guitar And Drum)
THE KINKS: The Hard Way (Velvel, Schoolboys In Disgrace)
MARC CARROLL: London Calling (Uncut, VA: White Riot Vol. One)
SCREEN TEST: Not Today (unreleased)
JOE STRUMMER & THE MESCALEROS: Long Shadow (Hellcat, Streetcore)
THE ISLEY BROTHERS: Got To Have You Back (Motown, Greatest Hits And Rare Classics)
SPLIT ENZ: History Never Repeats (A & M, History Never Repeats)
JANIS JOPLIN: Down On Me (Columbia, 18 Essential Songs)
THE ENGLISH BEAT: Mirror In The Bathroom (Shout Factory, I just Can't Stop It)
JOHNNY & THE HURRICANES: Crossfire (Ace, VA: The Birth Of Surf)

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THE EVERLASTING FIRST: Quick Takes For C

Continuing a look back at my first exposure to a number of rock 'n' roll acts and superheroes (or other denizens of print or periodical publication), some of which were passing fancies, and some of which I went on to kinda like. They say you never forget your first time; that may be true, but it's the subsequent visits--the second time, the fourth time, the twentieth time, the hundredth time--that define our relationships with the things we cherish. Ultimately, the first meeting is less important than what comes after that. But every love story still needs to begin with that first kiss.

CAPTAIN MARVEL (MAR-VELL)



Yeah, the the original Captain Marvel was long gone by 1967, but continued pop culture references kept that fabled name in the public eye nonetheless. The good folks at Marvel Comics recognized the potential value of that name; realizing the name was not protected by any prevailing copyright, Marvel created its own Captain Marvel, an interstellar warrior named Mar-Vell. Mar-Vell's alien race the Kree planned to invade Earth, and Captain Mar-Vell was sent to our big blue marble to prepare the planet for Kree conquest. Mar-Vell ultimately rebelled against his own kind, and helped Earth to resist domination by the Kree. This Captain Marvel debuted in two issues of a comic book called Marvel Super-Heroes in '67 and '68; I first saw him in Captain Marvel # 1 (May 1968).

THE CHALLENGERS OF THE UNKNOWN



I confess that my main attachment to the Challs is that I think they make a really cool name for a trivia team. I also think they would have been a natural for a radio drama series: Four adventurers who cheated death! Four men living on borrowed time! These are THE CHALLENGERS OF THE UNKNOWN!! In the early '70s, I picked up a coverless DC giant that reprinted some early Challs stories drawn by the King, Jack Kirby, and those were cool. But I first saw the Challs face arch-enemy Villo in "Two Are Dead--Two To Go!" in Challengers Of The Unknown # 52 (October-November 1966). (Pop music bonus reference: the Challs are name-checked in the song "Challengers" by The New Pornographers.)

THE DAVE CLARK FIVE



One of my siblings owned a copy of the "Bits And Pieces" 45, so my Tottenham Sound adventure starts there. We also had some kind of DC5/VO5 tie-in, a cardboard Dave Clark Five record promoting VO5 shampoo, but I can't remember anything about it. (Well, other than the fact that li'l me, at four or five years old, would look at this record and point at the first three members of the DC5, reading left to right, and insist, "That's Dave, that's Clark, that's Five;" I think I was joking.)

I remembered the product as VO5 rather than Pond's, but this looks about right.

THE CLASH




A 1978 (?) issue of New York Rocker was probably my first exposure to The Clash. At a Flashcubes show that summer, I was chatting with Penny Poser (alias Diane Lesniewski), and she told me her favorite bands were The Who and The Clash. I bought The Clash's "Remote Control"/"London's Burning" import single...and, um, wasn't really all that impressed. The B-side grew on me, though, and I later picked up the "Tommy Gun"/"1-2 Crush On You" 45, and eventually got the domestic versions of The Clash's first three albums. I came to like The Clash quite a bit, but never quite felt the level of worship for them that I reserved for the likes of The Ramones and The Jam.

THE CREATION



This mid-'60s British Mod group was mentioned in Bomp! magazine's 1978 power pop issue, with The Creation's "Making Time,""Painter Man," and "Biff Bang Pow" cited as prime examples of power pop. So, y'know, I wanted to hear this stuff! But good luck with that effort. I started with a DJ at Tip-A-Few, an oldies bar in Syracuse's Eastwood section, but he'd never heard of Creation, and even if he had, he wasn't gonna play anything that was never a hit record in America. I finally found an import 7" reissue 45, combining "Making Time" and "Painter Man." It was at Desert Shore Records up on the Syracuse University hill; Arty Lenin, guitarist from The Flashcubes, was workin' the Desert Shore counter that day, so I bought my first Creation record from him.

THE CREEPER



Beware! THE CREEPER! Oooo--scary! The Creeper's debut appearance in Showcase # 73 was among a small stack of comics my parents bought for me to take along on my summer travels in 1968. I didn't know comics creators when I was eight years old, but I'm sure I'd seen DC's ads promoting this new work by Steve Ditko (along with Ditko's The Hawk And The Dove); I'm equally sure I didn't connect this Ditko guy to work I'd seen on Marvel's Dr. Strange in the pages of Strange Tales, nor Spider-Man reprints in Marvel Collectors' Item Classics, nor Charlton's Blue Beetle (the latter of which I didn't see until after The Creeper's debut anyway). Still found it all very, very cool.




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After technical woes sidelined Westcott Radio's webcast for about a month, the mighty, mighty Papa Andy Chertow has managed to cast the demons out, and we resumed webcasting a couple of days ago.  The link is the same, www.westcottradio.org, but only the high-band option remains; low-band has gone the way of the dodo, the eight-track, parachute pants, and (one hopes) reality TV stars. This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio returns live on Sunday, August 21st, from 9 to Midnight Eastern.



Looking ahead to Friday, September 2nd, Syracuse's phenomenal pop trio Screen Test will serve up another unforgettable evening of transcendent rockin' pop from 8 to 11:30 pm at Vendetti's Soft Rock And Goodtime Grill, 2026 Teall Avenue in Syracuse. Gary Frenay! Arty Lenin! Tommy Allen!  POP MUSIC!!



The Everlasting First, my (gulp!) 26-part A-Z series of looks back at my introductions to various rock 'n' roll groups and comic-book characters, should resume tomorrow with the letter C: Charlton Comics and Cheap Trick, plus Quick Takes on Captain Marvel (Mar-Vell), The Challengers of the Unknown, The Dave Clark Five, The Clash, The Creation, and The Creeper. The series will continue with irregular frequency (as irregular as the guy who writes it).


I recently posted my failed Marvel Comics try-out, and I may do a post about my vast volume of failed submissions to DC Comics as well. At no point will I try to convince you that any of this stuff was any damned good at all, but I hope to entertain you with the tale nonetheless.



I still plan to write more about The Monkees, one of my favorite groups, and far and away the most-viewed subject in Boppin' (Like The Hip Folks Do)'s long and storied history. The Monkees will not be part of The Everlasting First--I have another group selected for the M entry, and I've already written plenty about my first impressions of Micky, Davy, Peter, and Mike--but I'm planning a four-part series re-assessing The Monkees' recorded legacy. This re-assessment is specifically in the wake of the group's splendid 2016 album Good Times!, with the goal of determining how much of Good Times! belongs in the discussion of the best of The Monkees.

(After that, I still have one more big Monkees post I want to do, a rhetorical piece intended as my closing arguments on The Monkees. Though I'm sure I'll continue to write about The Monkees after that, I want to set myself the challenge of concocting one definitive Monkees post. More on this as I decide to go through with it. And, on Sunday, September 11th--the eve of The Monkees' 50th anniversary--This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio will devote its entire three-hour tour to 50 YEARS OF THE MONKEES, an audio celebration embracing the music of The Monkees themselves, The Monkees as solo artists, Dolenz, Jones, Boyce & Hart, Monkees covers, original versions of songs The Monkees covered, and anything else we think appropriate.  But mostly, THE MONKEES! Here we come....)

As always, I thank you for checking in on my hardly-humble little blog. I'm here every single day, and I appreciate the company. I also appreciate candy, but company's good, too.

THE EVERLASTING FIRST: Quick Takes For B

Continuing a look back at my first exposure to a number of rock 'n' roll acts and superheroes (or other denizens of print or periodical publication), some of which were passing fancies, and some of which I went on to kinda like. They say you never forget your first time; that may be true, but it's the subsequent visits--the second time, the fourth time, the twentieth time, the hundredth time--that define our relationships with the things we cherish. Ultimately, the first meeting is less important than what comes after that. But every love story still needs to begin with that first kiss.

THE BEAU BRUMMELS



The Beau Brummels: It's weird to realize that I don't remember The Beau Brummels at all from the '60s, even though my sister Denise went to see them at the State Fair on a double bill with the legendary Gene Pitney. You'd think I would at least remember their animated turn as The Beau Brummelstones on an episode of The Flintstones, but no! Instead, I heard "Laugh, Laugh" on an oldies radio show in 1976 or '77. A rock station in Utica, WOUR-FM, had a flat-out terrific Friday night oldies show called (I think) The Time Machine, and that gave me an opportunity to deepen my affection for The Kinks and The Yardbirds, among others. I heard "Laugh, Laugh" one Friday night on WOUR, and the song has not left my All-Time Hot 100 since then.

CHUCK BERRY



I don't know if it was WOLF-AM or WNDR-AM that started playing "Johnny B. Goode" in regular rotation in the early '70s, right alongside your Badfinger and your Temptations. Maybe both stations did it. I didn't know it was an old song; I just knew that I liked it a lot. Somewhere in there, I learned a lesson that's an integral part of our format on This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio: it doesn't matter if a song's old, or new, or borrowed, or blue, as long as it's a great song. And great songs should be played with other great songs, without regard for their date of origin. That's what radio oughtta be.

THE BLACK CANARY

Though a (non-powered) super-heroine from the '40s, DC Comics revived The Black Canary for sporadic use here and there in the '60s, and eventually made her one of the line's core characters. I first saw the name and image in a house ad for The Brave And The Bold # 61 (August-September 1965), which appeared in (I think) an issue of The Adventures Of Jerry Lewis. The ad promised the super-heroic team of Starman and Black Canary, which caught my interest, but the issue was long gone from the stands by the time I saw that ad in '66. My first true Black Canary adventure came in the summer of '68, when she appeared with her fellow members of The Justice Society of America in a two-parter running in Justice League of America # 64-65. (But my favorite Black Canary appearance came in The Brave And The Bold # 91 [August-September 1970], when she teamed with Batman and--more importantly!--had the chance to be rendered in pulchritudinous splendor by the incredible Nick Cardy!)




BLACKHAWK



Another character from the '40s, and a character DC had purchased in the '50s from a publisher called Quality Comics. DC kept this aviator's title going until 1968. But I never read it; it wasn't really a super-hero book, so I wasn't interested. I picked up the very last issue, Blackhawk  # 243 (October-November 1968), a coverless copy I found at Van Patten's Grocery in North Syracuse. I (much) later learned that the final two issues of Blackhawk were a back-to-basics attempt, trying to return the character to his former glory; DC's stewardship of Blackhawk up to that time was and is widely regarded as a waste, at least until those last two issues. I discovered the real Blackhawk via Golden Age reprints in the '70s, and my favorite run is a revival in the '80s, written by Mark Evanier and usually drawn by Dan Spiegle; I would buy a trade collection of that run without hesitation.  Hawk-a-a-a!



BLONDIE



Reading about punk rock in Phonograph Record Magazine in 1977, I was taken by Mark Shipper's description of Blondie as "like Marilyn Monroe backed by The Dave Clark Five." Okay, I'm in. I was still reluctant to buy the LP without hearing something first; when I got to college that fall, I pestered WBSU DJs in Brockport to play "X-Offender" for me, and I was hooked at first listen. Plus that Blondie girl, that Debbie Harry? Man, she was cute!



THE BRAVE AND THE BOLD



Someday I'm going to devote an entire Boppin' (Like The Hip Folks Do) to my love-hate relationship with The Brave And The Bold, a long-running DC title that went through many phases and philosophies over the course of 200 issues. It had once been a tryout showcase for proposed new comic book series; the most successful B&B tryouts were a pair of concepts called The Justice League of America and The Teen Titans. But B&B was a super-hero team-up book from # 50 through its farewell at # 200, with just one Sgt. Rock World War II tale in # 52 standing as the sole exception. From 1967 through the book's termination in 1983, it was specifically a Batman team-up book. My first B&B was # 70 (February-March 1967), teaming Batman and Hawkman. I never learned where my copy came from; it turned up one day, alongside an issue of World's Finest Comics and an issue of Mighty Comics, in a pile of magazines in our bathroom at home.  Did my Dad buy it for me? Did my Mom? Maybe one of my siblings? I still don't know, but I sure loved this. I'd previously seen the alternate Earth-2 incarnation of Hawkman in the preceding summer's Justice League-Justice Society team-up, but this issue of The Brave And The Bold was my introduction to the familiar, regularly-published "real" Earth-1 Hawkman.

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THE EVERLASTING FIRST: Quick Takes For A

Everything's gotta start somewhere. Before it becomes your favorite food, your favorite movie, or the love of your life, it's just something you've never tasted, something you've never seen, or someone you haven't yet met. And it's also true of favorite musical performers, and of favorite fictional characters.  For The Everlasting First, we'll take a series of looks back at my first exposures to a number of rock 'n' roll acts and superheroes (or other denizens of print or periodical publication), some of which were passing fancies, and some of which I went on to kinda like. Each entry in this 26-part series will be devoted to a single letter of the alphabet, and will include my reminiscence of both a rock group or singer and a comic book or comic book character (or other print-related topic) whose name starts with the letter of the day. Yes, it's Boppin' (Like The Hip Folks Do)'s answer to Sesame Street! 

They say you never forget your first time; that may be true, but it's the subsequent visits--the second time, the fourth time, the twentieth time, the hundredth time--that define our relationships with the things we cherish. Ultimately, the first meeting is less important than what comes after that. But every love story still needs to begin with that first kiss.

 


ABBA: First ABBA song I ever heard was "Waterloo," on WOLF-AM.

ACTION COMICS:  First issue I owned was Action Comics # 356 (November 1967), starring Superman in "The Son Of The Annihilator!," plus Supergirl in "The Girl Of Straw!"

ACTION SWINGERS: I don't think I'd even heard of them before coming across a used copy of the group's Decimation Blvd. CD at a shop in Lake George, NY. Bought it on a whim--the album title's sly reference to Sweet's Desolation Boulevard was a positive factor--and subsequently enjoyed it at a rather loud volume. "No Heart & Soul" became an early favorite on This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio.

ADVENTURE COMICS:  Adventure Comics # 358 (May 1968), starring The Legion of Super-Heroes in "The Mutiny Of The Super-Heroines!"

THE ADVERTS:  "Gary Gilmore's Eyes" on Brockport's college station WBSU.

ASTONISHING TALES: A Marvel split-book, published after the era of split-books--Tales To Astonish, Tales Of Suspense, Strange Tales--had passed with the end of the '60s. Nonetheless, Marvel tried it again 1970, and I came in with Astonishing Tales # 2 (October 1970), starring the jungle hero Ka-Zar in "Frenzy On The Fortieth Floor!" and the evil Dr. Doom in "Revolution!" The Ka-Zar story was pencilled by Jack Kirby, and Dr. Doom was drawn by Wally Wood--two legendary comics artists under one cover, for a mere 15 cents! Picked this up off the spinner rack while on vacation in Pensacola.



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This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio # 836: The Meghan & Carl Show

In just one week, my daughter Meghan will leave Syracuse to begin her senior year at Ithaca College. I don't understand how this time stuff works. It really doesn't seem so long ago that she was this little, little girl, barely a toddler, riding in a friend's van and calling it a school bus (or, really, "'cool bus!"). I've enjoyed every stage along the way, even the most difficult parts, because nothing I've ever done has filled me with more pride and joy than just looking at Meghan, and knowing I'm her Dad.

She generally kind of tolerates me, too.

For the fourth year in a row, Meghan has spent the final Sunday night of her summer break at Westcott Radio, co-hosting a special edition of This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio dubbed The Meghan & Carl Show. Meghan co-hosts with Dana a few times during the year, but we save this one Sunday each August for father and daughter to create a radio show. Dana's still there to facilitate (and referee if necessary), but the music is picked by Meghan and me. Even though our tastes differ, it has always been a pleasure to share music with Meghan, and I hope that never changes.

For this year's Meghan & Carl Show, Meghan was set to play a bunch of her recent favorites, while I planned to rummage through my Virtual Ticket Stub Gallery to play a few tracks from bands I've seen live over the years. But Westcott Radio's ever-fragile webcast has been outta commission since mid-July, and the technical issues remain unresolved. I had been looking forward to this show for months, and I was so, so disappointed by its cancellation.

So we figured we'd just go ahead and do the show anyway.

Even though we couldn't do a live webcast, nothing really prevented us from going into the studio and recording a show for podcast. It's not our preferred method--it's really so much more enjoyable to do a show live, with real-time audience response--but it was infinitely superior to a mere nuthin'. We kept our Facebook chat group https://www.facebook.com/groups/135175896551553/ open, and posted videos of the songs we were playing; a few of our regular TIRnRR Faithful helped us simulate the live radio experience. It was a night of sharing music with my daughter. Ya can't beat that.

Wanna hear how it went? Download, my friends: http://westcottradio.org/archive/rock_n_roll_radio_2016-08-14.mp3  And this is what rock 'n' roll radio sounded like on a seemingly silent Sunday night in Syracuse this week.

TIRnRR # 836:  The Meghan & Carl Show 8/14/16

THE RAMONES:  Do You Remember Rock 'n' Roll Radio? (Rhino, End Of The Century)
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DISTURBED: Ten Thousand Fists (Reprise, Ten Thousand Fists)
JOAN JETT: Bad Reputation (Blackheart, Bad Reputation)
HALESTORM: Mayhem (Atlantic, Into The Wild Life)
RAY CHARLES: What'd I Say (Atlantic, single)
ALLISON IRAHETA & HALO CIRCUS: Gone (Badlands, Gone)
CAROLE KING: It's Too Late (Columbia, Tapestry)
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MELANIE MARTINEZ: Dollhouse (Atlantic, Cry Baby)
JOHNNY THUNDERS: M.I.A. (Jungle, Que Sera Sera)
RISE AGAINST: Help Is On The Way (DCG, Endgame)
LYRES: Help You Ann (Matador, On Fyre)
PANIC! AT THE DISCO: Emperor's New Clothes (Fueled By Ramen, Death Of A Bachelor)
PRINCE: When Doves Cry (Warner Brothers, The Hits/The B-sides)
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HALSEY: New Americana (Astralwerks, Badlands)
IAN HUNTER: Cleveland Rocks (Chrsalis, Shades Of Ian Hunter)
SEETHER: Words As Weapons (The Bicycle Music Company, Isolate And Medicate)
DAVID BOWIE: Life On Mars? (Virgin, Best Of Bowie)
BREAKING BENJAMIN: The Diary Of Jane (Hollywood, Phobia)
THE KINKS: Waterloo Sunset (Essential, Something Else)
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DEVICE [featuring LZZY HALE]: Close My Eyes Forever (Warner Brothers, Device)
THE dB's: Amplifier (Rhino, Like This)
MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE: Welcome To The Black Parade (Reprise, The Black Parade)
THE ANIMALS: We Gotta Get Out Of This Place (Abkco, Retrospective)
DISTURBED: The Sound Of Silence (Reprise, Immortalized)
FREAKY AGE: Every Morning Breaks Out (n/a, Every Morning Breaks Out)
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BABYMETAL: Doki Doki Morning (Sony, BabyMetal)
A*TEENS: Halfway Around The World (MCA, Teen Spirit)
BRITNEY SPEARS: Lucky (Jive, Oops! ...I Did It Again)
NRBQ: It's A Wild Weekend (Virgin, Wild Weekend)
BOWLING FOR SOUP: Shut-Up And Smile (Silvertone, A Hangover You Don't Deserve)
TALKING HEADS: Once In A Lifetime (Rhino, The Very Best Of Talking Heads)
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STARSET: My Demons (Razor & Tie, Transmissions)
GENE PITNEY: It Hurts To Be In Love (One Way, Ultimate Anthology)
MIRANDA LAMBERT: Vice (RCA, single)
THE SMITHEREENS: Only A Memory (Capitol, Blown To Smithereens)
EURYTHMICS: Would I Lie to You? (Arista, Greatest Hits)
THE EVERLY BROTHERS: Gone, Gone, Gone (Warner Brothers, Walk Right Back)
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MELANIE MARTINEZ: Alphabet Boy (Atlantic, Cry Baby)
THE MONKEES: What Am I Doing Hangin' 'Round? (Rhino, Music Box)
EMILY C. SMITH: 1234 (n/a, Marina's Laughing)
THE RAMONES: Rockaway Beach (Sire, It's Alive!)
ROBIN DAGGERS: P.S. I Love You (20th Century Fox, VA: How I Met Your Mother)
CHEAP TRICK: I Want You To Want Me (Epic, At Budokan)
ADELE: River Lea (Columbia, 25)
THE BEACH BOYS: God Only Knows (Capitol, Pet Sounds)
KARMIN: Acapella (Epic, Pulses)
THE FLASHCUBES: Do Anything You Wanna Do (Northside, Brilliant)
LINDSEY STIRLING: Swag (Lindseystomp, Shatter Me)