CRUISIN’ THE DECADES – episode 40 – playlist – 10-22-22

  • Collins and Harlan “Those Charlie Chaplin Feet” (1915)
  • Henry Thomas “Red River Blues” (1927)
  • Josephine Baker “You’re Driving Me Crazy” (1930)
  • Woody Guthrie “This Land Is Your Land” (1945)
  • Bobby “Blue” Bland “Further Up The Road” (1957)
  • Roger Miller “My Uncle Used To Love Me But She Died” (1966)
  • The Clash “Stay Free” (1978)
  • Danger Danger “Bang Bang” (1989)
  • The The “Dogs Of Lust” (1993)
  • Dirty Vegas “Days Go By” (2002)
  • Taj Mahal & Keb’ Mo (Tajmo) “All Around The World” (2017)
  • Bruce Springsteen “Nightshift” (2022) [cover of The Commodores]
  • They Might Be Giants “Meet James Ensor” (live) (1994) [recorded live in a Minneapolis hotel room in 1994]

CRUISIN’ THE DECADES – episode 39 – playlist – 10-15-22

  • Wilbur Sweatman’s Original Jazz Band “Everybody’s Crazy ‘Bout The Doggone Blues (But I’m Happy) (1918)
  • Memphis Minnie ft. Kansas Joe McCoy “When The Levee Breaks” (1929) [original version of song covered by Led Zeppelin]
  • Skip James “Devil Got My Woman” (1931) [absolutely astounding Delta Blues selection]
  • The Mills Brothers “Paper Doll” (1943)
  • Betty Everett “The Shoop Shoop Song (It’s In His Kiss)” (1957)
  • 13th Floor Elevators “You’re Gonna Miss Me” (1966)
  • Loretta Lynn “The Pill” (1975) [RIP Loretta Lynn]
  • Rush (ft. Aimee Mann) “Time Stand Still” (1987)
  • Crowded House “Locked Out” (1993)
  • Goldfrapp “Ooh La La” (2005)
  • Man Man “Head On” (2013)
  • SPECIAL GUEST INTERVIEW: Milky Chance (duo from Germany)
  • Milky Chance “Colorado” (2021)

CRUISIN’ THE DECADES – episode 38 – playlist – 10-8-22

  • Arthur Fields “Along Came Ruth” (1914)
  • Clarence Williams’ Blue Five “Cake Walking Babies From Home” (1925)
  • Charlie Burse & His Memphis Mudcats “Baby You Win” (1939)
  • Helen O’Connell “Little Curly Hair In A High Chair” (1941)
  • Eddy Arnold “A Full Time Job” (1952)
  • The Knickerbockers “Lies” (1965)
  • Black Sabbath “N.I.B.” (1970)
  • The Primitives “Crash” (1988)
  • Coolio “Gangsta’s Paradise” (1995)
  • The Pipettes “Your Kisses Are Wasted On Me” (2007)
  • Alabama Shakes “Hold On” (2012)
  • EKKStacy “I Walk This Earth All By Myself” (2022)
  • BONUS TRACK: Kenny Price “The Shortest Song In The World” (1970) [This song is 0:19 seconds long!]

 

CRUISIN’ THE DECADES – episode 37 – playlist – 10-1-22

  • Charles W. Harrison “I’m Always Chasing Rainbows” (1918)
  • Bill Johnson’s Louisiana Jug Band “Get The ‘L’ On Down The Road” (1929)
  • Henry “Red” Allen “Whose Honey Are You?” (1935)
  • Hawkshaw Hawkins “Dog House Boogie” (1948)
  • Little Willie John “Fever” (1956)
  • Bob & Earl “Harlem Shuffle” (1963)
  • Billy Preston “Will It Go Round In Circles” (1972)
  • Agent Orange “Bloodstains” (1980)
  • Jesus & Mary Chain “Far Gone & Out” (1992)
  • Switchfoot “Meant To Live” (2003)
  • Lovelytheband “Broken” (2018)
  • The National ft. Bon Iver “Weird Goodbyes” (2022)
  • BONUS TRACK: The Equals “Police On My Back” (1967) [later covered by The Clash]

CRUISIN’ THE DECADES – episode 36 – playlist – 9-17-22

  • American Quartet “On The 5:15” (1915)
  • Frank Crumit “I Used To Love You But It’s All Over Now” (1921)
  • Noble Sissle & Orchestra “Polka Dog Rag” (1934)
  • Frankie Carle & His Orchestra ft. Marjorie Hughes “Cruisin’ Down The River (On A Sunday Afternoon)” (1949)
  • The Four Jacks “Sure Cure For The Blues” (1952)
  • Dave Clark Five “Any Way You Want It” (1965)
  • George Benson “On Broadway” (1978)
  • The Call “I Still Believe (Great Design)” (1986)
  • Goldfinger “Here In Your Bedroom” (1996)
  • Coldplay “Viva La  Vida” (2008)
  • Luke Bell “Sometimes” (2016) [RIP, artist passed away last month]
  • TALK “Run Away To Mars” (2022)

CRUISIN’ THE DECADES – episode 35 – playlist – 9-10-22

  • Anna Chandler “You Can’t Get Along With ‘Em Or Without ‘Em” (1916)
  • Gene Austin “My Blue Heaven” (1928)
  • Fannie Brice “Cooking Breakfast For The One I Love” (1930)
  • Charlie Barnet’s Orchestra with Mary Ann McCall (vocals) “Between 18th and 19th on Chestnut Street” (1940)
  • Tony Martin & Fran Warren “I Said My Pajamas (And Put On My Prayers)” (1950)
  • Phil Ochs “I Ain’t Marching Anymore” (1965)
  • Betty Davis “If I’m In Luck I Might Get Picked Up” (1973)
  • Mantronix “Needle To The Groove” (1985) [later sampled by Beck]
  • Beck “Where It’s At” (1996)
  • Saving Jane “Girl Next Door” (2005)
  • Dorothy “Flawless” (2018)
  • SURPRISE GUEST INTERVIEW: Ben Gibbard (Death Cab For Cutie)
  • Ben Gibbard (Death Cab For Cutie) “Here To Forever” (2022) [solo acoustic]
    (Cruisin’ The Decades exclusive acoustic version recorded at NYC media event in Summer 2022)  

 

CRUISIN’ THE DECADES – episode 34 – playlist – 9-3-22

  • George M. Cohan “Life’s A Funny Proposition After All” (1910) [wait till you hear THIS!]
    [RIP Emmett, 2006-2022]
  • Memphis Jazzers (Cliff Jackson) “Just Blues” (1928)
  • Billie Holiday “Strange Fruit” (1939)
  • Tommy Dorsey & The Sentimentalists “On The Sunny Side Of The Street” (1945)
  • Hank Williams “Hey, Good Lookin’” (1951)
  • Blues Magoos “(We Ain’t Got) Nothin’ Yet” (1966)
  • Pretty Purdie & The Playboys “Funky Mozart” (1971) [wow!]
  • Gorky Park “Bang!” (1989)
  • Tricky “Black Steel” (1995) [cover of song by Public Enemy]
  • Arctic Monkeys “I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor” (2006)
  • MKTO “Classic” (2014)
  • Red Wanting Blue “Hey ‘84” (2022)

CRUISIN’ THE DECADES – episode 33 – playlist – 8-27-22

  • Miss Walton & Mister MacDonough “Shine On, Harvest Moon” (1910)
  • Irving Aaronson & His Commanders “Let’s Misbehave” (1928)
  • Artie Shaw & His Orchestra “Serenade To A Savage (1939)
  • Dorothy Shea (The Park Avenue Hillbillie) “Feudin’ and Fightin’” (1947)
  • Hollywood Flames “Buzz Buzz Buzz” (1957)
  • The Four Tops “I Can’t Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch) (1965) [tribute to Lamont Dozier]
  • Hello “New York Groove” (1975)
  • Asia “Only Time Will Tell” (1982)
  • New Radicals “Someday We’ll Know” (1998)
  • Ke$ha “Tik Tok” (2009)
  • M83 “Midnight City” (2011)
  • Cecilia Castleman “Lonely Nights” (2022)  

CRUISIN’ THE DECADES – episode 32 – playlist – 8-20-22

  • W.C. Handy’s Memphis Blues Band “St. Louis Blues” (1914)
  • Johnny Hamp’s Kentucky Serenaders “If I Had A Talking Picture Of You” (1929)
  • Ethel Waters “I Got Rhythm” (1931)
  • Roy Brown “Mighty Mighty Man” (1948)
  • Dale Hawkins “Susie-Q” (1957) [original version of song later covered by C.C.R.]
  • Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band “Diddy Wah Diddy” (1966)
  • Budgie “Breadfan” (1973) [original version of song later covered by Metallica]
  • General Public “Tenderness” (1983)
  • Lush “Hypocrite” (1994)
  • Tegan & Sara “Walking With A Ghost” (2004)
  • Carolina Chocolate Drops (Rhiannon Giddens) “Hit ‘Em Up Style” (2010)
  • SURPRISE GUEST INTERVIEW: Julian Lennon
  • Julian Lennon “Lucky Ones” (2022)

CRUISIN’ THE DECADES – episode 31 – playlist – 8-13-22

  • Alan Turner “Till The Sands of the Desert Grow Cold” (1913)
  • Eddie Cantor “I Love Her, She Loves Me (I’m Her He, She’s My She) (1922)
  • Andy Kirk & His Twelve Clouds of Joy “Dunkin’ A Doughnut” (1938)
  • Julia Lee “I Didn’t Like It The First Time (The Spinach Song)” (1947)
  • Mickey & Sylvia “Love Is Strange” (1957)
  • The Foundations “Build Me Up Buttercup” (1968)
  • LaBelle “Lady Marmalade” (1974)
  • Red Hot Chili Peppers “Fight Like A Brave” (1987)
  • 2nu “This Is Ponderous” (1991)
  • T.A.T.U. “All The Things She Said” (2003)
  • Boo Ray & Lilly Winwood “Hard To Tell” (2018)
  • Cuco ft. Kacey Musgraves & Adriel Favela “Sitting In The Corner” (2022)  

CRUISIN’ THE DECADES – episode 30 – playlist – 8-6-22

  • Billy Murray “I Love A Piano” (1916)
  • Blossom Seeley “Way Down Yonder In New Orleans” (1923)
  • The Boswell Sisters “Everybody Loves My Baby” (1932)
  • Vaughn Monroe “There, I’ve Said It Again” (1945)
  • The Drifters “Hot Ziggety” (1954)
  • Buck Owens “I’ve Got A Tiger By The Tail” (1965)
  • Brownsville Station “Martian Boogie” (1977)
  • Replacements “I Will Dare” (1984)
  • Gumball “Here It Comes Again” (1993)
  • The Avalanches “Frontier Psychiatrist” (2001)
  • Echosmith “Cool Kids” (2013)
  • Metric “All Comes Crashing” (2022)

CRUISIN’ THE DECADES – episode 29 – playlist – 7-30-22

  • American Quartet “I Want A Girl Just Like The Girl Who Married Dear Old Dad” (1911)
  • Ernest Hare & Billy Jones “In The Little Red School House” (1922)
  • Benny Goodman Orchestra ft. Martha Tilton “And The Angels Sing” (1939)
  • Curley Williams & His Georgia Peach Pickers “Southern Belle (From Nashville, Tennessee)” (1945)
  • Carl Perkins “Blue Suede Shoes” (1955)
  • Temptations “Get Ready” (1966)
  • Brothers Johnson “Strawberry Letter 23” (1977)
  • Force MD’s “Force MD’s Meet The Fat Boys” (1985)
  • Hole “Celebrity Skin” (1998)
  • American Hi-Fi “Flavor Of The Weak” (2001)
  • Train “If It’s Love” (2010)
  • Will Hoge “John Prine’s Cadillac” (2022)
  • BONUS TRACK: John Prine “Paradise” (1971)

CRUISIN’ THE DECADES – episode 28 – playlist – 7-23-22

  • Collins and Harlan “They’re Wearing Them Higher In Hawaii” (1917)
  • Harold “Scrappy” Lambert “Cherrio, Cherry Lips, Cheerio” (1928)
  • Billie Holiday “Nice Work If You Can Get It” (1937)
  • Kay Kyser & His Orchestra “Ole Buttermilk Sky” (1946)
  • Peppermint Harris “I Got Loaded” (1951) [later covered by Los Lobos]
  • Howlin’ Wolf “Spoonful” (1960) [later covered by Cream]
  • Rufus & Chaka Khan “Tell Me Something Good” (1974)
  • Teena Marie “Lovergirl” (1984)
  • Scatterbrain “Down With The Ship” (1990) [request for a listener in Frederick, MD]
  • P.O.D. “Youth Of The Nation” (2002)
  • Mark Ronson ft. Bruno Mars “Uptown Funk!” (2015)
  • Laufey “Everything I Know About Love” (2022)
  • BONUS TRACK: The Box Tops “The Letter” (1967)

CRUISIN’ THE DECADES – episode 27 – playlist – 7-16-22

  • Ada Jones “Row! Row! Row!” (1913)
  • Charley Patton “Lord, I’m Discouraged” (1929)
  • Cliff Edwards “Six Women (Me & Henry The Eighth)” (1934)
  • Ernest Tubb “Walking The Floor Over You” (1941)
  • Chuck Willis “C.C. Rider” (1957)
  • Dean Martin “Ain’t That A Kick In The Head” (1961)
  • Buzzcocks “Ever Fallen In Love?” (1978)
  • Breathe “Hands To Heaven” (1988)
  • Anthrax + Public Enemy “Bring Tha Noize” (1991)
  • Wiseguys “Start The Commotion” (2001)
  • Samsaya “Stereotype” (2014) 
  • The Suffers “Don’t Bother Me” (2022)

CRUISIN’ THE DECADES – episode 26 – playlist – 7-2-22

  • Marion Harris “I Ain’t Got Nobody Much” (1917)
  • Annette Hanshaw & Her Sizzlin’ Syncopators “I Must Have That Man” (1928)
  • Vincent Lopez & His Orchestra “Cheerful Little Earful” (1930)
  • Patti Page & Vic Damone “You Was!” (1948)
  • Louis Prima “Jump, Jive and Wail” (1956)
  • Everly Brothers “Love Hurts” (1961)
  • KC & The Sunshine Band “Boogie Shoes” (1978)
  • Sheena Easton “Strut” (1984)
  • The Shamen “Move Any Mountain (Landslide Mix)” (1991)
  • Stone Sour “Bother” (2002)
  • AJR “Bang!” (2019)
  • Lucius ft. Brandi Carlile & Sheryl Crow “Dance Around It” (2022)

CRUISIN’ THE DECADES – episode 25 – playlist – 6-25-22

  • Irving Kaufman “If We Can’t Be The Same Old Sweethearts (We’ll Just Be The Same Old Friends)” (1915)
  • Johnny Marvin’s Orchestra “A Little Birdie Told Me So” (1927)
  • Stuff Smith “It Ain’t Right” (1936)
  • Sister Rosetta Tharpe & Marie Knight “Up Above My Head, I Hear Music In The Air” (1948)
  • The Louvin Brothers “There’s A Higher Power” (1959)
  • Otis Redding “Respect” (1965) [original version of Aretha Franklin’s hit]
  • Kiss “Do You Love Me” (1976)
  • Manfred Mann’s Earth Band “For You” (1980)
  • Mighty Mighty Bosstones “Simmer Down” (1993) [cover of The Wailers]
  • Ryan Shaw “Nobody” (2007)
  • Scars On 45 “Heart On Fire” (2011)
  • Lettuce ft. Bootsy Collins “Keep That Funk Alive” (2022)

CRUISIN’ THE DECADES – episode 24 – playlist – 6-18-22

  • Nora Bayes “How You Gonna Keep ‘Em Down On The Farm (After They See Paree)” (1919)
  • Billy Jones & Ernest Hare “Does The Spearmint Lose Its Flavor On The Bedpost Overnight” (1924)
  • Buddy Moss “You Got To Give Me Some Of It” (1935)
  • Wild Bill Moore “We’re Gonna Rock, We’re Gonna Roll” (1947)
  • George Jones “White Lightnin’” (1959)
  • The Great Society “Someone To Love” (1966) [Grace Slick’s first band prior to Jefferson Airplane!]
  • Charles Wright & The Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band “Express Yourself” (1970)
  • Kate Bush “Running Up That Hill” (1985) [Top 10 hit again NOW in 2022 due to “Stranger Things”]
  • Buffalo Tom “Taillights Fade” (1992)
  • The Mooney Suzuki “Alive & Amplified” (2004)
  • Twenty One Pilots “House Of Gold” (2012)
  • Maggie Rogers “Want Want” (2022)
  • BONUS TRACK: White Stripes “You’re Pretty Good Looking (For A Girl)” (2001)

CRUISIN’ THE DECADES – episode 23 – playlist – 6-11-22

  • Fred Van Eps “Red Pepper (A Spicy Rag)” (1912)
  • Helen Kane “Get Out and Get Under The Moon” (1928)
  • Wingy Manone’s Orchestra “On The Good Ship Lollipop” (1935)
  • Danny Kaye & The Andrews Sisters “Civilization (Bongo Bongo Bongo)” (1947)
  • Frank Sinatra “Young At Heart” (1953)
  • Tex Ritter “I Dreamed Of A Hillbilly Heaven” (1961)
  • Three Dog Night “Joy To The World” (1971) [request for a listener in Maryland]
  • Touch “Don’t You Know What Love Is” (1980)
  • Soup Dragons “I’m Free” (1990)
  • R.E.M. “Supernatural Superserious” (2008)
  • Ingrid Michaelson “Hell No” (2016)
  • Strange Dimensions “Beauty In Crime” (2022) [emerging indie rock band from Scotland, as shared by listener Iain in Greenock, Scotland – and now debuted worldwide on this show!]
  • :60 PSA: Sojourner Truth Project

CRUISIN’ THE DECADES – episode 22 – playlist – 6-4-22

  • Van and Schenck “I Don’t Want To Get Well” (1918)
  • Doc Cook’s Dreamland Orchestra “The Memphis Maybe Man” (1928)
  • Coleman Hawkins ft. Thelma Carpenter (vocal) “She’s Funny That Way” (1939)
  • Big Maceo Merriweather “Tuff Luck Blues” (1941)
  • Big Joe Turner “Shake, Rattle & Roll” (1954)
  • Beatles “A Hard Day’s Night” (1964) [dedication to Alaska listener]
  • Fleetwood Mac “Go Your Own Way” (1977) [request for UK listener]
  • Bryan Adams & Tina Turner “It’s Only Love” (1984)
  • Belly “Feed The Tree” (1993)
  • Owl City “Firelies” (2009)
  • Royal Blood “Figure It Out” (2014)
  • Stephen Sanchez “Until I Found You” (2022)
  • BONUS TRACK: Amy Shark “I Said Hi” (live acoustic Zoom session from Sydney, Australia, 2020)

CRUISIN’ THE DECADES – episode 21 – playlist – 5-28-22

  • Billy Murray “Bagdad” (1913)
  • Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra “The Charleston” (1925)
  • Riley-Farley & Their Only Club Boys “The Music Goes ‘Round & ‘Round” (1935)
  • Nat King Cole Trio “Straighten Up and Fly Right” (1944)
  • Jerry Lee Lewis “Wild One” (1958)
  • Love “Seven & Seven Is” (1966)
  • Jorge Ben “Ponta De Lanca Africano (Umbabarauma)” (1976) [Brazilian artist championed by David Byrne of Talking Heads!]
  • Ozzy Osbourne “Shot In The Dark” (1986)
  • Morcheeba “Trigger Hippie” (1996)
  • Foxboro Hot Tubs “Mother Mary” (2007) [Obscure underground release which is actually Green Day under an alias!]
  • First Aid Kit “Emmylou” (2012)
  • Glass Animals “Heat Waves” (2021)
  • COMEDY BIT: “Planet Web Zone Direct” (1999)