Saturday, September 19, 2026

THE GREATEST RECORD EVER MADE! A weekly feature on THIS IS ROCK 'N' ROLL RADIO [updated list]

The pop noir genius of Todd Alcott

Time for another update on This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio's weekly Greatest Record Ever Made! feature.

With the publication of my book The Greatest Record Ever Made! (Volume 1), some of the GREM! pieces linked below have been removed from this blog for the time being; I'm told it's because of something about free milk and a cow, but I don't understand dairy farming. They'll be back...someday. In the mean time, y'know, BUY THE BOOK!!

Here's the weekly GREM! story so far:

In 2022, we started doing The Greatest Record Ever Made! as a (nearly) weekly feature on This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio. Here's an updated list of the weekly GREM!s so far. More to come. Some of these appeared in my GREM! book, some may or may not appear in the hypothetical GREM! (Volume 2), and one--the Ramones' "I Don't Want To Grow Up"--appears in my book Gabba Gabba Hey! A Conversation With The Ramones.

Each update gives me another chance to share some of Todd Alcott's brilliant images of classic rock 'n' roll songs reimagined as pulp paperbacks. I need to devote a full post to Alcott's work one of these days (or nights). Meanwhile, you can visit his site and buy some stuff. 

And here's a reprise of what I previously wrote about TIRnRR's weekly GREM! series:

An infinite number of tracks can each be THE greatest record ever made, as long as they take turns.

In 2022, with an eye toward mining the vast resource of material prepared for my ongoing concept The Greatest Record Ever Made!, we started doing a weekly GREM! feature on This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio with Dana & Carl.

Part of the motivation here was, frankly, an effort to cut a tiny little corner in writing my weekly 10 Songs column. See, laziness is the mother of invention. Deciding that one 10 Songs entry each week could be a link to a previously-written Greatest Record Ever Made! piece meant that I only hadda write about nine songs. FREEDOM!

But a weekly feature also enhances the show itself. Prior to this, it had been a very long time since we had any specific weekly feature on TIRnRR. There used to be a weekly Forgotten Original!, there was a weekly Mystery 45! (where Dana grabbed a single from his collection and played it without previewing it), there was a very brief flirtation with Unsafe At Any Speed! (playing a record back at something other than its intended rpm), and I think we even may have had a weekly GREM! feature at some point. Maybe not. Maybe.

But these were all many years ago. The tentative beginning of our current weekly GREM! feature was in February of 2022, when we played Dusty Springfield's "I Only Want To Be With You" on our February 6th show, and then followed with "Thank You, Girl" by the Beatles the next week. Then, in typical fashion, I completely forgot about the idea for a few weeks.

Pretty quick work, right?

GREM! resumed as a weekly thingie at the end of March in 2022, and continued thereafter. It skips a week every so often...but not very often. Anyway, here's a list of all of 'em so far. I think the only one we repeated was "That Thing You Do!" by teen sensations the Wonders. Please be aware that I am not under oath. 

But we played them all on the radio. It's our own ongoing contribution to the infinite.

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THE GREATEST RECORD EVER MADE! The Weekly TIRnRR Featured Songs [updated list]

SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY AND THE ASBURY JUKES: I Don't Want To Go Home
GRAHAM PARKER AND THE RUMOUR: Pouring It All Out

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My new book of short stories Guitars Vs. Rayguns!! Short Stories And Other White Lies and its shortened novelette version A Band Called Guitars Vs. Rayguns! are out now, and you can get autographed copies of the new books and my previous book The Greatest Record Ever Made! (Volume 1) directly from me. You can still get my previous previous book Gabba Gabba Hey! A Conversation With The Ramones from publisher Rare Bird Books, OR an autographed copy here. If you like the books, please consider leaving a rating and/or review at the usual online resources.

I compiled a various-artists tribute album called Make Something Happen! A Tribute To The Flashcubes, and it's pretty damned good; you can read about it here and order it here. 

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Friday, September 18, 2026

A Spoon Delayed


My guest appearance on The Spoon podcast with Robbie Rist, Chris Jackson,  and Thom Bowers was recorded earlier this week and originally scheduled to start streamin' today. Alas, matters of logistics have forced the Men of The Spoon to postpone this extravaganza until next Friday. Worth the wait! In the meantime, you can revisit my two past Spoon appearances (We Cook Our Hot Dogs and Still In The Garage [The Dana & Carl Story]), both of which have the added attraction of Dana's participation. Spoon away!

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Thursday, September 17, 2026

10 SONGS:9/17/2026

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 # 1353

PERILOUS: Overwhelmed By Reality

We jump-start this week's demostration of better radio through better radio with the debut spin of "Overwhelmed By Reality," the great new single from Perilous. In our ongoing effort to be an eensy bit less, y'know, whelmed, we will hear this fine track again on our next show. In the mean time, rock und rollers in the 315 have a chance to witness Perilous perform the song live on Friday, September 18th--TOMORROW!--at Funk 'n Waffles in Syracuse. It's a SPARK RADIO FUNDRAISER, and Perilous will be on a bill with the Flashing Astonishers and Know Nothing. YOU should be there! It is, after all, an overwhelmingly worthy cause.

THE KENNEDYS: Girl On A Motorcycle

The release of a new album by esteemed coffeehouse pop masters the Kennedys always scores an automatic and irrefutable claim to a piece of TIRnRR airspace, and their latest effort Smoketree continues that well-earned tradition. My immediate Smoketree favorite is "Girl On A Motorcycle," partially for its immediate titular connection to the enduring mystique of Marianne Faithfull...but mostly 'cuz it sounds so good. See, we're proud to be suckers for stuff that sounds good.

THE COCKTAIL SLIPPERS: Back Where You Belong

Ooo--more stuff that sounds good! We've been meaning to play the Cocktail Slippers' exuberant "Back Where You Belong" for quite some time, starting from way back when it was an ace advance single from the group's then-forthcoming album Joyride. Yeah, we're late to the party, but the album's out now, and trust me: This party is where we all belong. Welcome back, Cocktail Slippers!

SPECTRAFLAME: The Look In Your Eyes

Continuing the saga of TIRnRR's dedication to being suckers for stuff that sounds good, from a previous edition of 10 Songs:

Awright, we've been playing St. Petersburg, Florida's phenomenal pop combo Spectraflame a lot this year, a situation cued up by our pal Robbie Rist's involvement with (and recommendation of) the group, but maintained in dedicated earnest by the quality of Steve Burgess's original pop songcraft. We have three hours of airtime to occupy each week, and it's more efficient to occupy that airtime with good stuff. Spectraflame has proven to be a reliable resource for the good stuff, and "The Look In Your Eyes" is Spectraflame's best one yet. Resistance is futile. Occupation continues. I know that look.

DAVID RUFFIN: I Want You Back

The Greatest Record Ever Made!

RADIO DAYS: Keep Me Straight


Aw, this is just so unerringly radio-ready, and I say that without intending a reference to the band's name. They're called Radio Days, but this is meant for radio days and nights and maybe even early mornings, too. It's from their new album Off The Record, but I'll go on the record with a straight-up vow to play this again on our next show.

THE MONKEES: Love To Love

September 12th marked the 60th anniversary of the debut broadcast of The Monkees TV series. I didn't see that first episode, but my sister got me watching not long thereafter, and I've been a fan ever since. We completely forgot about the anniversary when programming this week's show, but we did wind up including the Monkees anyway, with this spin of the 2016 remix of "Love To Love." As I wrote in a round up of my 25 favorite Monkees tracks:

Neil Diamond wrote four songs for the Monkees. We've discussed "A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You," "Look Out (Here Comes Tomorrow)," and (in passing) "I'm A Believer," but my pick of the bunch is "Love To Love," recorded right before Don Kirshner's expulsion in '67 and officially unreleased until the '80s (on Rhino Records' 1982 picture disc Monkee Business, though a lo-fi, bootleg-quality recording of the track appeared on a 1979 Australian compilation called Monkeemania, released by Arista). This is my favorite Davy Jones song, an absolutely winning confection of pure, sweet pop music. The version released on the 1996 vault dive Missing Links Volume Three is sublime, but I've come to prefer the 2016 remix used for the Good Times! album, with its added backing vocals by Peter Tork and Micky Dolenz.

[REDACTED] FEATURING [REDACTED]: [REDACTED]

Due out in November from the visionary Big Stir Records label. The 45 RPM single will be available for sale at Syracuse's legendary home for rock 'n' roll The Lost Horizon on the evening of November 7th, which just happens to be the night of a really loud memorial show honoring Syracuse punk/new wave patron saint Paul Armstrong. A coincidence, I'm sure.

We've been playing it here for weeks, while coyly refusing to name it. We are such mother[redacted]ing teases. We will name it at the top of our very next show. And before that--hey, TOMORROW!--I'll talk about it when I guest on The Spoon podcast with Robbie Rist, Chris Jackson, and Thom Bowers.

And if you already know what it is, that's fine, too. I don't mind.

THE BEATLES: Dizzy Miss Lizzy

Hey, speakin' of Syracuse's own power pop powerhouse [redacted], their '70s live sets used to include a cover of "Dizzy Miss Lizzy," a Larry Williams R 'n' B gem they (like most of us) learned from the Beatles. When [redacted] opened for the Runaways and the Ramones in 1978, I recall [redacted] guitarist Arty [Redacted] telling me that he'd always thought it was a Beatles original, and had then just recently discovered the Fabs didn't create it. Yeah, I replied helpfully, It was like Little Richard, I think. This serves as a reminder that, at the age of 18, I was already a dumbass.

I did learn better. No, honest! And recently, when I was interviewing Arty [Redacted] for a book I'm writing, he told me:

"Well, you know, the Beatles, you learn more and more when you listen to the songs that they were doing, all those beautiful gems of American black music. I mean, it's an incredible thing. I finally heard the original version of "Devil In Her Heart" [by the Donays] fairly recently. And it's just one of the greatest records you've ever heard. You know, the Beatles just had such unbelievable taste. Because those records, when you listen to Larry Williams and stuff, his versions really hold up in a big way. I mean, [the Beatles] were copying some of the greatest music...."

Agreed. Even the best of the best had to learn somewhere.

PERILOUS: Rock & Roll Runaway

Run away? From this reality? Oh, I am IN...!

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I compiled a various-artists tribute album called Make Something Happen! A Tribute To The Flashcubes, and it's pretty damned good; you can read about it here and order it here. 

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Wednesday, September 16, 2026

THE GREATEST RECORD EVER MADE! David Ruffin, "I Want You Back"

From my book The Greatest Record Ever Made! (Volume 1)

An infinite number of tracks can each be THE greatest record ever made, as long as they take turns. Today, this is THE GREATEST RECORD EVER MADE!

DAVID RUFFIN: I Want You Back

Written by The Corporation [Berry Gordy, Fonce Mizell, Freddie Perren, and Deke Richards]
Produced by Clay McMurray
Recorded circa 1970, originally unreleased. First issued on the various-artists set The Ultimate Rarities Collection # 1--Motown Sings Motown Treasures, Motown, 1998

When working on a new recording, there are times when an artist is absolutely confident the great track at hand will become a surefire hit. Book it. Top of the pops, # 1 with a bullet. In the '80s, the members of a fantastic pop band called the dB's were certain, certain that they'd created an irresistible worldwide smash with their recording of a terrific song called "Love Is For Lovers." The song didn't even chart. But it felt like a hit, and it still feels like it should have been a hit. 

One wonders if David Ruffin had that feeling when he was recording "I Want You Back," that surefire faith that he would hit the toppermost of the poppermost with this new hit. If he did, he could not have been more wrong.

In this situation, some hubris would have seemed justified, really. Ruffin had been a proven and experienced hitmaker with the Temptations. If Motown was the sound of young America in the '60s, the Temptations were arguably the sound of Motown. Their hits were many, their popularity vast, and "My Girl" in particular is immortal, and perhaps the definitive Motown single. "My Girl" is furthermore the sort of pervasive classic that is always lying somewhere near the surface of your subconscious, a tune you might not think anyone ever actually wrote, but which must instead have been passed down from generation to generation.

Ruffin had been the lead voice on "My Girl," as well as on the Temptations' "Ain't Too Proud To Beg," "(I Know) I'm Losing You," and "I Wish It Would Rain," among others. But by 1968, being one of the Temptations had ceased to bring Ruffin sunshine on a cloudy day. With that, he was no longer a Temptation.

Solo success ultimately proved fleeting for Ruffin. 1969's "My Whole World Ended (The Moment You Left Me)" was a Top 10 hit on both the pop and R & B charts, and "I've Lost Everything I've Ever Loved" and "I'm So Glad I Fell For You" were Top 20 soul hits ignored by the pop Top 40. As the success of the Temptations continued into the early '70s, the group's former lead singer could have used a sweeter song than the birds in the trees. For Ruffin, the hits had stopped.

Could Ruffin's version of "I Want You Back" have been the hit it deserved to be, the hit Ruffin's recording career kinda needed it to be? Alas, not in the real world. Some believe that Ruffin recorded "I Want You Back" roughly contemporary to when the Jackson Five cut the version that would become their smash debut Motown single. It was, after all, standard operating procedure for acts within Berry Gordy's empire to record competing versions of the same song, with a designated Chosen One then anointed as hit-worthy. But the J5's "I Want You Back" ascended the charts in 1969; Ruffin's version was likely recorded in 1970, part of the sessions for a proposed 1971 album shelved by Motown. 

Nonetheless: it should have been released. And it should have been a hit.

Ruffin's "I Want You Back" eventually saw the light of day in...wait, 1998?! Well, that's screwy. It was on a compilation called The Ultimate Rarities Collection # 1: Motown Sings Motown Treasures. It was the second track on the CD, following (of course) the Jackson Five's rendition of the Miracles' "You've Really Got A Hold On Me." Ruffin had already been dead for seven years by the time this track finally made its long-delayed trip to retail racks.

Who can say what might have been? Ruffin's unreleased 1971 album was at long last exhumed for belated public consumption in 2004. David (aka The Unreleased Album) is absolutely prime Ruffin, and I can't wrap my head around wondering why we weren't allowed to hear it when it was new. And, as great as the Jackson Five's "I Want You Back" is, Ruffin's is even better. A hit. It should have been a hit.

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I compiled a various-artists tribute album called Make Something Happen! A Tribute To The Flashcubes, and it's pretty damned good; you can read about it here and order it here. 

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Tuesday, September 15, 2026

THE GREATEST RECORD EVER MADE! Great Buildings, "Hold On To Something"

Drawn from a previous post, this is not part of my book The Greatest Record Ever Made! (Volume 1).

An infinite number of tracks can each be THE greatest record ever made, as long as they take turns. Today, this is THE GREATEST RECORD EVER MADE!

GREAT BUILDINGS: Hold On To Something
Written by Danny Wilde, Ian Ainsworth, and Phil Solem
Produced by John Boylan
Single from the album Apart From The Crowd, Columbia Records, 1981

Recommended if you like [your Fave Rave here].

RIYLs can help us find new favorites. But they can also create a false and unfair expectation. In 1981, I read somewhere (possibly in CREEM, maybe in Trouser Press) that Great Buildings were like a male counterpart to the Go-Go's. I believe it was meant as a compliment, and since Beauty And The Beat was my top album that year, the comparison provided sufficient push for me to purchase Great Buildings' Apart From The Crowd LP before I had ever heard a note of the group's music.

And I was disappointed. It didn't sound anything at all like the Go-Go's. I filed it away.

I came back to it, though. Freed of the misconception that it would sound like boys singin' original tunes that channeled "We Got The Beat," I grew to appreciate the LP on its own sterling merit. Opening track "Hold On To Something" freaking knocked me out, once I gave it its proper opportunity. 

Great Buildings' Danny Wilde and Ian Ainsworth had been in the Quick, whose quirky 1976 cover of the Beatles' "It Won't Be Long" got some airplay on Utica's WOUR-FM when I was in high school. After Great Buildings closed up shop, Wilde went solo, and eventually reconnected with Great Buildings guitarist Phil Solem to form the Rembrandts. The Rembrandts scored a Top 20 hit with "Just The Way It Is, Baby," and achieved pop culture immortality with "I'll Be There For You," the theme from Friends. Maybe you're sick of that song--dig what you dig--but it was the number one song on the radio the week my daughter was born, and I will always, always cherish that memory.

Comparing Great Buildings to the Go-Go's was a fake-out, and the disparity between what was teased and what was delivered turned me off. Initially. But without that PSYCH! moment, would I have even gotten around to hearing Great Buildings at the time? No harm, no foul. The apparent dead end of that RIYL still led me to "Hold On To Something," a magnificent track that has now been in my all-time Hot 200 for more than four decades. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Baby, baby, baby, hold on.

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I compiled a various-artists tribute album called Make Something Happen! A Tribute To The Flashcubes, and it's pretty damned good; you can read about it here and order it here. 

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Sunday, September 13, 2026

This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio # 1353

This week's extravaganza opens with "Overwhelmed By Reality," the latest supercool single from the mighty Perilous. In addition to its status as another righteous rock 'n' roll ripper from these ever-reliable TIRnRR fave raves, the title itself serves as my own status update.

Overwhelmed by reality? Yeah, that sums me up pretty succinctly nowadays. I don't want to do anything. I don't even feel like writing, and I usually love writing. I disagree with Dorothy Parker's POV of disliking the act of writing and only digging the result of having written. Man, I enjoy the process of writing, and I am my own biggest fan. But the spark isn't sufficiently there at the moment. It's not writer's block; I know how to deal with that. It's a lack of motivation. It's a feeling of defeat.

I also know that bad guys win when good guys give in or give up. I may not quite qualify as a good guy, and writing about pop music or superheroes falls far short of even a minimal threshold for truly fighting the good fight. But living is an act of defiance. Enjoying life and love and art and community is de facto resistance. Surrender bad; perseverance good. Our path to overcoming a seemingly overwhelming reality begins by moving forward, in whatever incremental step is within our capability.

These are the incremental steps in my immediate view. This week, I'll be appearing on The Spoon podcast with Robbie Rist, Chris Jackson, and Thom Bowers to talk about my books, and probably about navigating our current road to ruin. I'm going to try to restart and continue work on my next book. I'm going to walk hand-in-hand with my wife, I'm going to play music, and I'm going to dance, because oppressors just hate it when we dance. 

And when early voting commences in New York next month, my ballot will be straight BLUE, no matter who. It's time WE overwhelm THEM. 

In the meantime, we got songs! And this is what rock 'n' roll radio sounded like on another Sunday night in Syracuse this week.

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Volume 2: CD or download
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Volume 4: CD or download
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TIRnRR # 1353: 9/13/2026
TIRnRR FRESH SPINS! Songs we think we ain’t played before are listed in bold

PERILOUS: Overwhelmed By Reality (single)
NICK LOWE: Nutted By Reality (Yep Roc, Jesus Of Cool)
MARVIN GAYE AND TAMMI TERRELL: Ain't Nothing Like The Real Thing (Motown, VA: Hitsville USA: The Motown Singles Collection 1959-1971)
BLONDIE: Kung Fu Girls [Take 8] (Numero, Against The Odds: 1974-1982)
CHRISTINA JEAN AND HER ALL-STARS: Teenage Kicks (Rum Bar, single)
VIOLENT FEMMES: Blister In The Sun (Beyond, Viva Wisconsin)
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THE KENNEDYS: Girl On A Motorcycle (The Kennedys, Smoketree)
THE HOLLIES: Carrie Anne (EMI, All The Hits And More: The Definitive Collection)
THE VIBEKE SAUGESTAD BAND: Last Days Of Summer (Rum Bar, The Sun Sessions)
MARY LOU LORD: Driven Away (Fire, She'd Be A Diamond)
THE CYNZ: Neighborhood Bully (Jem, VA: Jem Records Celebrates Bob Dylan)
JOAN JETT: Wooly Bully (Blackheart, Bad Reputation)
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COCKTAIL SLIPPERS: Back Where You Belong (Wicked Cool, Joyride)
DEBBIE DUVEEN AND THE MILLBANKS: Don't Belong (Woronzow, Neon Classic)
THE KINKS: This Is Where I Belong (Sanctuary, The Anthology 1964-1971)
THE QUICK: It Won't Be Long (Real Gone Music, Mondo Deco)
TOM PETTY AND THE HEARTBREAKERS: I Don't Belong (Reprise, An American Treasure)
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GARY CALAMAR: She's So Mid-Century (Big Stir, Odd Numb3rs And Slanted Rhymes)
LUIS FONSI/ELVIS COSTELLO AND THE ATTRACTIONS: Tu Eres Para Mi [You Belong To Me] (Universal, Spanish Model)
LIBRARIANS WITH HICKEYS: 1972 (Big Stir, single)
THE ENGLISH BEAT: Two Swords (IRS, I Just Can't Stop It)
JOHN LARSON: Let's Kiss And Break Up (Shiny Fly, Wonder Over Worry)
THE KNACK: Can I Borrow A Kiss (Rhino, Zoom)
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TA-80: Two Slices Of Bread (single)
ROB MOSS AND SKIN-TIGHT SKIN: Black Glitter (single)
THE BANGLES: Glitter Years (Columbia, Everything)
SIR PRIZE AND THE TOMORROW KNIGHTZ: Illuminaughty (n/a, Glitter Gum And Bubble Pop)
THE EQUALS: Police On My Back (Ice, First Among Equals)
THE JAC (INTERNATIONAL EDITION): Are You Ever Coming Back (single)
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DEAN LANDEW: Sayin' Goodbye To My Crazy Days (DRL, single)
JOE JACKSON: Beat Crazy (A & M, Steppin' Out: The Very Best Of Joe Jackson)
SPECTRAFLAME: The Look In Your Eyes (single)
ROXY MUSIC: Angel Eyes (Atco, Manifesto)
DARRELL BANKS: Angel Baby (Don't You Ever Leave Me) (Sepia Tone, Darrell Banks Is Here!)
THE GRIP WEEDS: Before I Close My Eyes (Ground Up, House Of Vibes Revisited)
--
The Greatest Record Ever Made!
DAVID RUFFIN: I Want You Back (Hip-O Select, David Ruffin--The Unreleased Album)
THE PRETENDERS: Back Down (Rhino, Pirate Radio 1979-2005)
RADIO DAYS: Keep Me Straight (Wild Honey, Off The Record)
MATTHEW SWEET AND SUSANNA HOFFS: Back Of A Car (Shout Factory, Under The Covers Vol. 2)
SKOOSHNY: Crossing Double Lines (Think Like A Key Music, The Recordings 1971-1981)
THE WELL WISHERS: Back Of The Line (n/a, Expected Outcomes)
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GLENN ERB: Foggy Clouds (single)
THEE HEADCOATEES: Give It To Me (Damaged Goods, The Kids Are All Square--This Is Hip & Girlsville)
THE RAMONES: I Can't Give You Anything (Rhino, Rocket To Russia)
THE MUFFS: My Mind's Eye (Sympathy For The Record Industry, Hamburger)
THE HALF/CUBES: The Mighty Quinn (Jem, VA: Jem Records Celebrates Bob Dylan)
THE 'B' GIRLS: Fun At The Beach (Other Peoples Music, Who Says Girls Can't Rock)
JOE GIDDINGS: Tonite Tonite (Kool Kat Musik, Stories With Guitars)
PEARL HARBOR AND THE EXPLOSIONS: Black Slacks (Blixa Sounds, Pearl Harbor & the Explosions)
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RADIO KARMA: Sweetheart Deal (n/a, We Were Gods)
SHOUT OUT LOUDS: Oh, Sweetheart (Bud Fox Recordings, Howl Howl Gaff Gaff)
THE MONKEES: Love To Love (Rhino, Good Times!)
SPEEDFOSSIL: Sweetheart (Sonic Escort, Room With A VU, Vol. 1)
THE FOUR TOPS: Reach Out I'll Be There (Motown, The Ultimate Collection)
SPITBALLS: Way Over There (Castle, Home Of The Hits/The Beserkley Records Story
[REDACTED] FEATURING [REDACTED]: [REDACTED] (Big Stir, single)
THE BEATLES: Dizzy Miss Lizzie [live] (Apple, The Beatles At The Hollywood Bowl)
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PERILOUS: Rock & Roll Runaway (single)
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Tonight on THIS IS ROCK 'N' ROLL RADIO

 

We have both sides of a new single by PERILOUS, both sides of a new split single by ROB MOSS AND SKIN-TIGHT SKIN and TA-80, and more new sides from THE KENNEDYS, COCKTAIL SLIPPERS, CHRISTINA JEAN AND HER ALL-STARS, GARY CALAMAR, JOHN LARSON, DEAN LANDEW, RADIO DAYS, GLENN ERB, and RADIO KARMA. We'll bolster the new with a bracin' mix of old, recent, and who-cares-when-it's-from--it's-GREAT! by MARVIN GAYE AND TAMMI TERRELL, THE CYNZ, THE HALF/CUBES, BLONDIE, JOAN JETT, DEBBIE DUVEEN AND THE MILLBANKS, LIBRARIANS WITH HICKEYS, THE VIBEKE SAUGESTAD BAND, THE EQUALS, NICK LOWE, THE BANGLES, SPECTRAFLAME, MARY LOU LORD, SKOOSHNY, ROXY MUSIC, THE KINKS, THE MONKEES, THE RAMONES, SIR PRIZE AND THE TOMORROW KNIGHTZ, THE ENGLISH BEAT, THE QUICK, THE GRIP WEEDS, PEARL HARBOR AND THE EXPLOSIONS, THE WELL WISHERS, THE MUFFS, and more. Of course, we'll also serve up another spin of the fab forthcoming new single side by [REDACTED] FEATURING [REDACTED], with a promise that all will be revealed in the coming week. All sides agree: This is the Best Three Hours Of Radio On The Whole Friggin' Planet. And want you on OUR side. Sunday night, 9 to Midnight Eastern, on the air in Syracuse at SPARK! WSPJ 103.3 and 93.7 FM, streaming via sparksyracuse.org, and as WESTCOTT RADIO on the Radio Garden app. The weekend stops HERE!

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