CRUISIN’ THE DECADES – episode 120 – playlist – 08-03-24 

• James F. Harrison & The Knickerbocker Quartet “Pack Up Your Troubles In Your Old Kit Bag (And Smile)” (1917)
• Fred Rich & His Hotel Astor Orchestra “Crazy Words, Crazy Tune” (1927)
• AUDIO HISTORY ACTUALITY: Gandhi Visits UK & London (1931)
• Skip James “Devil Got My Woman” (1931)
• Les Brown’s Orchestra ft. Doris Day (vocal) “Sentimental Journey” (1945)
• Louis Prima “Jump, Jive and Wail” (1956) [later covered by Brian Setzer Orchestra]
• Crazy World Of Arthur Brown “Fire” (1968)
• Pretty Purdie & The Playboys “Funky Mozart” (1971)
• Pat Benatar “You Better Run” (1980) [the SECOND video ever aired on MTV, 8-1-1981]
• Hole “Asking For It” (1994)
• SHORTWAVE SHOUT-OUTS: “Listener Greetings” with Martine in Poland
• Bloc Party “Banquet” (2005)
• The War On Drugs “Holding On” (2017)
• Jack White “That’s How I’m Feeling” (2024)
• BONUS TRACK: White Stripes “Little Room” (2001)

CRUISIN’ THE DECADES – episode 119B – playlist – 07-27-24
(replay of Episode #102, from February 2024) 

• Edward Meeker “Play That Barber Shop Chord” (1910)
• Bessie Smith “Backwater Blues” (1927)
• Fred Astaire with Johnny Green & His Orchestra “A Fine Romance” (1936)
• Sons Of The Pioneers “Cigareets and Whuskey and Wild Wild Women” (1947)
• Tiny Bradshaw “Train Kept A-Rollin’” (1951) [original version]
• The Animals “Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood” (1965) [Nina Simone song]
• Adriano Celentano “Prisencolinensinainciusol” 1972) [Italian singer doing a song in “nonsense” gibberish words meant to sound like English; was a hit in Europe!]
• John Lennon & Yoko Ono “Watching The Wheels” (1981)
• SHORTWAVE SHOUT-OUTS: “Listener Greetings” with Martine, our European correspondent in Poland
• Bic Runga “Sway” (1997) [artist from New Zealand]
• AUDIO HISTORY ACTUALITY: Northeast Power Grid Blackout (2003)
• Blue Man Group ft. Dave Matthews “Sing Along” (2003)
• Dr. John “Revolution” (2012) [album produced by Dan Auerbach (Black Keys)]
• JJ Grey & Mofro “Wonderland” (2024)
• BONUS TRACK: Jack Johnson “The 3 R’s (acoustic version)” (2004)

CRUISIN’ THE DECADES – episode 119 – playlist – 07-20-24

• Billy Murray “Snooky Ookums” (1913) 
• Marion Harris “You’ve Got To See Mama Every Night” (1923)
• Thomas A. Dorsey “If You See My Saviour” (1932) [Gospel artist; not Tommy Dorsey]
• Glenn Miller Orchestra “Don’t Sit Under The Apple Tree (With Anyone Else But Me)” (1942)
• Betty Hutton “It’s Oh So Quiet” (1954) [original version of song covered by Bjork]
• Roy Head & The Traits “Treat Her Right” (1965)
• SHORTWAVE SHOUT-OUTS: “Listener Greetings” with Martine in Poland
• Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers “Astral Plane” (1976)
• Voice Of The Beehive “I Say Nothing” (1987)
• AUDIO HISTORY ACTUALITY: Windows ‘95 Debuts (1995)
• Soul Coughing “Soundtrack To Mary” (1996) [reunion tour recently announced]
• Motion City Soundtrack “The Future Freaks Me Out” (2003)
• Pharrell Williams “Happy” (2014)
• Mavis Staples “Worthy” (2024)

CRUISIN’ THE DECADES – episode 118 – playlist – 07-13-24 

• Charles Harrison & The Columbia Stellar Quartette “Battle Hymn Of The Republic” (1918)
• Blind Willie Johnson “If I Had My Way I’d Tear This Building Down” (1927)
• Rudy Vallee Orchestra “A Pretty Girl Is Like A Melody” (1934) [Irving Berlin song]
• The Andrews Sisters “Rum and Coca-Cola” (1945)
• Carl Perkins “Honey Don’t” (1956)
• Freddy King “I’m Tore Down” (1961) [later covered by Eric Clapton]
• AUDIO HISTORY ACTUALITY: The film “West World” (1973)
• Faces “Glad and Sorry” (1973)
• Taco “Puttin’ On The Ritz” (1982) [Irving Berlin song]
• The Saw Doctors “Sing A Powerful Song” (1991) [featured in a great, obscure indie film “Floundering” (1994)]
• Mark Knopfler & Emmylou Harris “This Is Us” (2006)
• SHORTWAVE SHOUT-OUTS: “Listener Greetings” with Martine in Poland
• Yola “Ride Out In The Country” (2019)
• Slash & Chris Stapleton “Oh Well” (2024) [cover of Peter Green/Fleetwood Mac]

CRUISIN’ THE DECADES – episode 117 – playlist – 07-06-24 

• Elizabeth Spencer & Irving Gillette (a.k.a. Henry Burr) “Are You Going To Dance?” (1912) [from “The Count of Luxembourg” musical]
• Solomon Ho’opi’i “The Only, Only One (For Me)” (1927)
• Josephine Baker “I’m Confessin’” (1933)
• The Korn Kobblers “Myrtle The Turtle & Flip The Frog” (1947)
• AUDIO HISTORY ACTUALITY: The Grand Opening of Disneyland (1955)
• Kitty Wells “Lonely Side Of Town” (1955)
• Pete Rodriguez “I Like It Like That” (1967) [a top Latin/Boogaloo genre song!]
• Johnny Thunders & The Heartbreakers “Born To Lose” (1977)
• Faith No More “Falling To Pieces” (1989)
• SHORTWAVE SHOUT-OUTS: “Listener Greetings” with Martine in Poland
• Speech “Like Marvin Said (What’s Going On)” (1995) [Speech is from the band Arrested Development; this song samples Marvin Gaye]
• A Perfect Circle “3 Libras” (2000)
• Margaret Glaspy “You And I” (2016)
• Chappell Roan “Good Luck, Babe!” (2024) [huge emerging artist this year!]

 

CRUISIN’ THE DECADES – episode 116 – playlist – 06-29-24 

• Arthur Collins & Byron G. Harlan “Buzzin’ The Bee” (1917)
• Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra “Charleston” (1925)
• Edythe Wright “The Music Goes Round and Around” (1935)
• Jimmie Lunceford’s Orchestra “Oh Gee, Oh Gosh” (1944)
• AUDIO HISTORY ACTUALITY: Willie Mays “AuraVision” Interview (1964) [RIP Willie Mays]
• The Wanderers “Say Hey (Willie Mays)” (1954)
• Mel Carter “Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me” (1965)
• SHORTWAVE SHOUT-OUTS: “Listener Greetings” with Martine in Poland
• The Slits “Typical Girls” (1979) [All-Women UK Punk Trailblazers]
• GUEST INTERVIEW SNIPPET: Master Gee/Washington DC’s Hip Hop Museum & 50th Anniversary of Hip Hop Culture
  [Master Gee is a founding member of The Sugarhill Gang]
• Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five “The Message” (1982)
• Pavement “Gold Soundz” (1994)
• Norah Jones “Feelin’ The Same Way” (2002)
• Cold War Kids “First” (2015)
• Nick Lowe with Los Straightjackets “Went To A Party” (2024)

CRUISIN’ THE DECADES – episode 115 – playlist – 06-22-24 

• W.C. Handy’s Orchestra of Memphis “Sweet Child” (1917)
• Bessie Smith (with Fletcher Henderson) “Nobody In Town Can Bake A Sweet Jelly Roll Like Mine” (1923)
• Eddie Duchin’s Orchestra (Lew Sherwood, vocal) “Let’s Fall In Love” (1934)
• Hank Williams “Move It On Over” (1947)
• Roger Williams “Near You” (1958)
• Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention “Trouble Every Day” (1966)
• BONUS TRACK: Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention “Motherly Love” (1966)
• Dave Mason “Only You Know and I Know” (1970)
• Joy Division “Dead Souls” (1980) [later covered by Nine Inch Nails]
• The Muffs “Lucky Guy” (1993) [RIP Kim Shattuck]
• SHORTWAVE SHOUT-OUTS: “Listener Greetings” with Martine in Poland
• Pete Yorn “Strange Condition” (2001)
• Florence + The Machine “Tiny Dancer” (2018) [cover of Elton John]
• Billie Eilish “Lunch” (2024)

CRUISIN’ THE DECADES – episode 114B – playlist – 06-15-24
(replay of Episode 94 due to schedule conflicts)

• Collins & Harlan “Oh How She Could Wicki Wacki Woo” (1916)
• Miss Patricola & The Virginians “Running Wild” (1923)
• Billy Cotton & His Band “I’ve Got A Note” (1935)
• Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five “Choo Choo Ch’ Boogie” (1946)
• AUDIO HISTORY ACTUALITY: Langston Hughes “The Negro Speaks Of Rivers” (poetry piece) (1946/written in 1921)
• Perry Como “Round & Round” (1957)
• Love “Alone Again Or” (1967)
• Bruce Springsteen “Prove It All Night” (1978)
• Randy Newman ft. Mark Knopfler “It’s Money That Matters” (1988)
• SHORTWAVE SHOUT-OUTS: “Listener Greetings” with Martine in Poland
• Dar Williams “Are You Out There?” (1997)
• Paul Simon “Outrageous” (2006) [produced by Brian Eno]
• Kenrick Lamar “i” (2014) [samples Isley Brothers]
• BONUS TRACK: Isley Brothers “That Lady” (1973)
• Sleaford Mods “West End Girls” (Pet Shop Boys Remix) (2023) [new cover; remix version by Pet Shop Boys themselves!]

CRUISIN’ THE DECADES – episode 114 – playlist – 06-08-24 

• Albert Campbell & William H. Thompson “Baby Blue Eyes” (1911)
• Clara Smith “Ain’t Got Nobody To Grind My Coffee” (1928)
• Mildred Bailey & Her Orchestra “Thanks For The Memory” (1938)
• Vaughn Monroe & The Moon Maids “I Wish I Didn’t Love You So” (1947)
• Frank Sinatra “(How Little It Matters) How Little We Know” (1953)
• The Everly Brothers “Cathy’s Clown” (1960)
• Mick Jagger “Memo From Turner” (1970) [solo track from the film “Performance”]
• Rob Base & DJ E-Z Rock “Joy & Pain” (1988)
• Blaque “Bring It All To Me” (1999)
• SHORTWAVE SHOUT-OUTS: “Listener Greetings” with Martine, our European Correspondent located in Poland
• Rise Against “Swing Life Away” (2004)
• Tony Lewis “Into The Light” (2018) [solo release from the late singer of The Outfield]
• BONUS TRACK: The Outfield “Your Love” (1984) (rare acoustic version)
• Girl In Red “Girlfriend Is Better” (2024) [Talking Heads cover from recent tribute LP]

CRUISIN‘ THE DECADES – episode 113B – playlist – 06-01-24
(replay of Episode 82 due to schedule conflicts)

• Walter Van Brunt & Chorus “Any Girl Looks Good In The Summer” (1913)
• Paul Tremaine & His Orchestra “Four Four Rhythm” (1929)
• AUDIO HISTORY ACTUALITY: Mahatma Gandhi Visits The UK (1931)
• Lucille Bogan “Struttin’ My Stuff” (1931)
• Carmen Miranda with Xavier Cugat & His Orchestra “Cuanto Le Gusta” (1948)
• Percy Faith & His Orchestra “Theme From ‘A Summer Place’” (1959)
• Johnny Cash “The One On The Right Is On The Left” (1965)
• Thin Lizzy “Jailbreak” (1976)
• Robbie Robertson “Somewhere Down The Crazy River” (1987) [RIP Robbie Robertson]
• SAMPLE SOURCE EXAMPLE: Chicago “Street Player” (1979) [snippet – used as the main sample in next song]
• The Bucketheads “The Bomb! (These Sounds Fall Into My Mind)” (1995)
• The Exploding Hearts “I’m A Pretender” (2003) [recently reissued on Third Man Records/tragic tale of this band]
• Logan Ledger “(I’m Gonna Get Over This) Some Day” (2019)
• The Last Dinner Party “Nothing Matters” (2023)
• BONUS TRACK: Kenny Price “The Shortest Song In The World” (1970) [x2, LOL!]

CRUISIN’ THE DECADES – episode 113 – playlist – 05-25-24 

• Billy Murray “Fido Is A Hot Dog Now” (1914)
• Charley Patton “Pony Blues” (1929)
• Ethel Waters “You Can’t Keep Me From Loving You” (1931)
• Johnny Mercer & The Pied Pipers “Accentuate The Positive” (1944)
• Muddy Waters “I Just Want To Make Love To You” (1954) [later covered by Foghat!]
• AUDIO HISTORY ACTUALITY: Baseball Spring Training Preview (1954)
• Freddy Cannon “June, July and August” (1962) [summertime song!]
• Little Feat “Willin’” (1972)
• Love & Rockets “No New Tale To Tell” (1987)
• Letters To Cleo “Awake” (1995)
• SHORTWAVE SHOUT-OUTS: “Listener Greetings” with Martine, our European Correspondent located in Poland
• Gnarls Barkley “Crazy” (2006)
• Margo Price “A Little Pain” (2017)
• Cedric Burnside “Closer” (2024) [Grandson of bluesman R.L. Burnside]
• BONUS TRACK: The Dictators “(I Love For) Cars & Girls” (1975)

 

CRUISIN‘ THE DECADES – episode 112 – playlist – 05-18-24

• Walter Van Brunt “Everything’s At Home Except Your Wife” (1913)
• Aileen Stanley & Billy Murray “Nobody’s Sweetheart” (1924)
• Wingy Manone’s Orchestra “Shake That Thing” (1936)
• The Four Clefs “I Like Pie, I like Cake” (1941)
• AUDIO HISTORY ACTUALITY: Wendell L. Wilkie Visits England (1941)
• Elmore James “Dust My Broom” (1951)
• The Nazz “Open My Eyes” (1968) [Todd Rundgren’s first group]
• David Bowie “Young Americans” (1974) [R.I.P. David Sanborn]
• The Jets “Rocket 2 U” (1988)
• Nirvana “Pennyroyal Tea” (1993) [R.I.P. Steve Albini, producer]
• BONUS TRACK: Big Black “Bad Penny” (1987) [band featuring Steve Albini]
• Little Jackie “The World Should Revolve Around Me” (2008)
• SHORTWAVE SHOUT-OUTS: “Listener Greetings” with Martine, our European Correspondent located in Poland
• Spoon “Do You” (2014)
• Dehd “Dog Days” (2024)

 

 

CRUISIN’ THE DECADES – episode 106 – playlist – 03-16-24

• Arthur Fields “Don’t Forget The Salvation Army (My Doughnut Girl)” (1919)
• Charley Lincoln “If It Looks Like Jelly, Shakes Like Jelly, It Must Be Gelatine” (1928)
• Blanche Calloway & Her Joy Boys “Sugar Blues” (1931)
• Chuck Harding & His Colorado Cowhands “Leap Year Blues” (1948)
• Lloyd Price “Lawdy Miss Clawdy” (1952) [Ft. Fats Domino & Dave Bartholomew]
• Race Marbles “Like A Dribbling Fram” (1965) [Obscure Canadian DJ Spoof of Bob Dylan]
• AUDIO HISTORY ACTUALITY: McDonald’s Introduces The Happy Meal (1979)
• Donna Summer “Hot Stuff” (1979)
• Richard Marx “Don’t Mean Nothing” (1987) [ft. Joe Walsh, guitar]
• Inspiral Carpets “Commercial Rain” (1990)
• Fiction Plane “Two Sisters” (2007) [band features Joe Sumner, Sting’s son]
• SHORTWAVE SHOUT-OUTS: “Listener Greetings” with Martine, our European correspondent in Poland
• Bishop Briggs “Champion” (2019)
• Benson Boone “Beautiful Things” (2024) [internet buzz emerging artist]

CRUISIN’ THE DECADES – episode 105 – playlist – 03-09-24 

• Billy Murray & Rachael Grant (aka Gladys Rice) “All I Need Is Just A Girl Like You” (1918)
• Speckled Red “The Dirty Dozen No. 1” (1929)
• Hartman’s Heartbreakers “Please Mr. Moon Don’t Tell On Me” (1936)
• Benny Goodman’s Orchestra ft. Helen Forrest (vocal) “Lazy River” (1941)
• Dolly Cooper “I Wanna Know (What’cha Doin’ Down There)” (1953)
• Question Mark & The Mysterians “96 Tears” (1966)
• SHORTWAVE SHOUT-OUTS: “Listener Greetings” with Martine, our European correspondent in Poland
• Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band “Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)” (1974)
• AUDIO HISTORY ACTUALITY: “The Simpsons” debut (1987)
• Steve Winwood “The Finer Things” (1987)
• The Cure “Never Enough” (1990)
• David Gray “Be Mine” (2003)
• ARTIST ACTUALITY DROP: Sheryl Crow for “Cruisin’ The Decades”
• Sheryl Crow “Summer Day” (2010)
• Pearl Jam “Dark Matter” (2024)

CRUISIN‘ THE DECADES – episode 104 – playlist – 03-02-24

• Helen Clark & Joseph A. Phillips “Daises Won’t Tell” (1915)
• Alberta Hunter “Second Hand Man” (1928)
• Daddy John Love “Blue Days” (1936)
• Dinah Washington “Evil Gal Blues” (1945)
• Nat King Cole “Don’t Get Around Much Anymore” (1957)
• The Trashmen “Surfin’ Bird” (1963)
• Brian Eno “Needles In The Camel’s Eye” (1973)
• Mojo Nixon & Skid Roper “Elvis Is Everywhere” (1987) [RIP Mojo Nixon]
• Dodgy “Good Enough” (1996)
• Usher, Ludacris & Lil’ Jon “Yeah” (2004) [Super Bowl Half-time Show Anthem]
• SHORTWAVE SHOUT-OUTS: “Listener Greetings” with Martine, our European correspondent in Poland
• Christone “Kingfish” Ingram “Outside Of This Town” (2019)
• Royel Otis “Murder On The Dance Floor” (2024) [cover of Sophie Ellis-Bextor]

CRUISIN‘ THE DECADES – episode 103 – playlist – 02-24-24

• Billy Williams “The Worst Of It Is I Like It” (1914)
• Mae Glover “Gas Man Blues” (1929)
• Ozzie Nelson & His Orchestra “And Then Some” (1935)
• Freddy Martin Orchestra (ft. Jack Fina, piano) “Warsaw Concerto” (1943)
• SHORTWAVE SHOUT-OUTS: “Listener Greetings” with Martine, our European correspondent in Poland
• Bob McFadden “The Mummy” (1959)
• Bob McFadden & Dor “The Beat Generation” (1959)
• AUDIO HISTORY ACTUALITY: Jack Kerouac “San Francisco Scene (The Beat Generation)” (1959)
• The Sharpees “Do The 45” (1965)
• Stiff Little Fingers “Alternative Ulster” (1978)
• Dolly Parton “Time For Me To Fly” (1989) [cover of REO Speedwagon]
• Elastica “Stutter” (1994)
• Ryan Shaw “Nobody” (2006)
• Brett Dennen “Sydney (I’ll Come Running)” (2011)
• Beyonce ft. Rhiannon Giddens “Texas Hold ‘Em” (2024)

 

CRUISIN’ THE DECADES – episode 102 – playlist – 02-17-24

• Edward Meeker “Play That Barber Shop Chord” (1910)
• Bessie Smith “Backwater Blues” (1927)
• Fred Astaire with Johnny Green & His Orchestra “A Fine Romance” (1936)
• Sons Of The Pioneers “Cigareets and Whuskey and Wild Wild Women” (1947)
• Tiny Bradshaw “Train Kept A-Rollin’” (1951) [original version]
• The Animals “Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood” (1965) [Nina Simone song]
• Adriano Celentano “Prisencolinensinainciusol” 1972) [Italian singer doing a song in “nonsense” gibberish words meant to sound like English; was a hit in Europe!]
• John Lennon & Yoko Ono “Watching The Wheels” (1981)
• SHORTWAVE SHOUT-OUTS: “Listener Greetings” with Martine, our European correspondent in Poland
• Bic Runga “Sway” (1997) [artist from New Zealand]
• AUDIO HISTORY ACTUALITY: Northeast Power Grid Blackout (2003)
• Blue Man Group ft. Dave Matthews “Sing Along” (2003)
• Dr. John “Revolution” (2012) [album produced by Dan Auerbach (Black Keys)]
• JJ Grey & Mofro “Wonderland” (2024)
• BONUS TRACK: Jack Johnson “The 3 R’s (acoustic version)” (2004)

 

CRUISIN’ THE DECADES – episode 101 – playlist – 02-10-24

• Wilkie Bard “Sea Shells” (1908) [BONUS DECADE! Earlier than usual]
• AUDIO HISTORY ACTUALITY: Thomas Edison “An Important Message From…” (1919)
• Ernest V. Stoneman “When The Work’s All Done This Fall” (1926)
• Cab Calloway “I Gotta Right To Sing The Blues” (1932)
• International Sweethearts of Rhythm “Slightly Frantic” (1945) [First-ever all female multi-racial jazz band]
• Frank Sinatra “Anything Goes” (1956)
• David Bowie “The Laughing Gnome” (1967) [Very strange early single; you must hear this]
• MC5 “Shakin’ Street” (1970) [In memory of Wayne Kramer]
• Faster Pussycat “Babylon” (1987)
• Frente! “Labour Of Love” (1993)
• Eve 6 “Here’s To The Night” (2000)
• Bleachers “I Wanna Get Better” (2014) [Big Winner at recent Grammys]
• Billy Joel “Turn The Lights Back On” (2024) [First new song/single since 1993]