CRUISIN’ THE DECADES – Episode 167 – 1-31-26

• W.C. Handy’s Memphis Blues Band “St. Louis Blues” (1914)
• Clyde Evans Band “How I Got My Gal” (1929)
• Horace Heidt & His Musical Knights “Dawn Of A New Day” (1939)
• AUDIO HISTORY: Miss Vivian Blane introduces “The Air Battle” (1942)
• Clyde Lucas & His Orchestra “We Did It Before (And We Can Do It Again)” (1942)
• Gay Crosse & The Good Humor Six “No Better For You” (1952) [features John Coltrane on saxophone]
• Bunker Hill “The Girl Can’t Dance” (1963) [featuring Link Wray]
• Junior Murvin “Police and Thieves” (1976) [RIP Sly Dunbar/later covered by The Clash]
• Black Uhuru “Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner” (1980) [RIP Sly Dunbar]
• Midnight Oil “Blue Sky Mine” (1990) [RIP Rob Hirst]
• Midnight Oil “Bed Are Burning” (1988) [RIP Rob Hirst]
• System Of A Down “Chop Suey!” (2001)
• Katie Pruitt “Ohio” (2019) [cover of CSN&Y song]
• Mon Rovia “Heavy Foot” (2026)

CRUISIN’ THE DECADES – Episode 166B – 1-24-26
REPLAY of Episode 159 from October 2025 

• Gladys Rice & Chorus “Pretty Baby” (1916)
• Irving Kaufman “Five Foot Two, Eyes Of Blue” (1925)
• Milton Brown & His Musical Brownies “Down By The O-H-I-O” (1935)
• Bull Moose Jackson “Keep Your Big Mouth Shut” (1947)
• BONUS TRACK: Bull Moose Jackson “Sneaky Pete” (1947)
• Big Al Downing “Down On The Farm” (1958)
• Les McCann & Eddie Harris “Compared To What” (1969)
• Roxy Music “Dance Away” (1979)
• Nuclear Valdez “Summer” (1989)
• Luka Bloom “I Need Love” (1992) [acoustic Irish folk cover of LL Cool J song]
• Stephen Kellogg & The Sixers “Shady Esperanto & The Young Hearts” (2009)
• Muddy Magnolias “Devil’s Teeth” (2016)
• SNOOPER “Worldwide” (2025) [Nashville-based buzz band on Third Man Records]

CRUISIN’ THE DECADES – Episode 166 – 1-17-26 

• Vernon Dalhart “Nobody Knows The Trouble I See” (1918)
• Fletcher Henderson’s Dance Orchestra ft. Alberta Hunter “Aggravatin’ Papa” (1923)
• Lonnie Johnson “Go Back To Your No Good Man” (1932)
• Johnny Mercer “Accentuate The Positive” (1944)
• The Moonglows “Sincerely” (1954) [original R&B version]
• The Grateful Dead “Beat It On Down The Line” (1967) [RIP Bob Weir]
• The Grateful Dead “Sugar Magnolia” (1970)
• Bob Weir “One More Saturday Night” (1972)
• Peter Gabriel “Sledgehammer LIVE” (1987) [rare “Live in Athens, Greece” version]
• Roni Size “Brown Paper Bag” (1997)
• Jenny Lewis & The Watson Twins “Handle With Care” (2006) [Traveling Wilburys cover, also featuring M. Ward, Ben Gibbard and Conor Oberst]
• TV On The Radio “Happy Idiot” (2014)
• Stephen Sanchez “Sweet Love” (2026)
• BONUS TRACK: They Might Be Giants “Meet James Ensor LIVE” (1994) [live in a hotel room somewhere in America for REV105]

CRUISIN’ THE DECADES – Episode 165 – 1-10-26 

• Premiere Quartet (aka The American Quartet) “Bing! Bang! Bing ‘em On The Rhine” (1918)
• The Goofus Five “Make My Cot Where The Cot-Cot-Cotton Grows” (1926)
• Ben Selvin & His Orchestra “She Didn’t Say Yes” (1931)
• The Ink Spots “I’ll Never Smile Again” (1940)
• AUDIO HISTORY: Patsy Cline is introduced by her mother on “Talent Scouts” (1957)
• Patsy Cline “Walkin’ After Midnight (LIVE)” (1957)
• The Nightcrawlers “The Little Black Egg” (1965)
• BONUS TRACK: The Sparkles “No Friend Of Mine” (1967)
• Nilsson “Driving Along” (1971)
• Bananarama “I Heard A Rumour” (1987)
• dada “Dim” (1992)
• U2 & Green Day “House Of The Rising Sun/The Saints Are Coming” (2006) [Hurricane Katrina charity benefit song; a cover of The Skids]
• DEJA VU: The Skids “The Saints Are Coming” (1979) [original version]
• The xx “On Hold” (2016)
• Tyler Childers “Bitin’ List” (2025)
• BONUS TRACK: Kenny Price “The Shortest Song In The World” (1970)

CRUISIN’ THE DECADES – Episode 164 – 1-3-26 

• Royal Dadmun “America, I Love You” (1915)
• Ernest Hare “Mindin’ My Business” (1924)
• Ethel Waters “I Got Rhythm” (1931) [George & Ira Gershwin song]
• The Jubalaires “Noah” (1946) [Early Gospel record considered influential in the development of rap music style]
• The Chordettes “Mr. Sandman” (1954)
• The Music Explosion “Little Bit O’ Soul” (1967) [RIP Songwriter Jerry Kasenetz)
• Ann Peebles “I Can’t Stand The Rain” (1973) [RIP Songwriter/Producer Don Bryant]
• Chris Rea “Fool (If You Think It’s Over)” (1978) [RIP Chris Rea]
• Moses P. “Twilight Zone” (1989) [Obscure, influential German rap artist]
• The Cure “Doing The Unstuck” (1992) [RIP Perry Bamonte of The Cure]
• Coal Chamber ft. Ozzy Osbourne “Shock The Monkey” (2000) [Cover of Peter Gabriel song]
• BONUS TRACK: Peter Gabriel “D.I.Y.” (1978)
• ARTIST ID: John Gorley of Portugal. The Man for “Cruisin’ The Decades”
• Portugal. The Man “Feel It Still” (2017)
• Haku “Kamukamo-Shikamo-Nidomokamo” (2025) [Japanese all-female indie rock band covering a song originally by Mono No Aware]
• ARTIST ID: Better Than Ezra for “Cruisin’ The Decades”
• BONUS TRACK: Better Than Ezra “Good” (1995)

CRUISIN’ THE DECADES – Episode 163z – playlist – 12-27-25
REPLAY of Episode 149 from June 2025 

• Billy Murray & Joe Belmont “An Afternoon In June” (1914)
• Mills’ Merry Makers ft. Benny Goodman and Scrappy Lambert (vocals) “Honey” (1929)
• Blind Willie McTell “Warm It Up To Me” (1933)
• Eddy Arnold “Bouquet Of Roses” (1948)
• Eddie Banks with The Five Dreams “Sugar Diabetes” (1956)
• Laura Nyro “Save The Country” (1968)
• Sly & The Family Stone “Everyday People” (1968) [RIP Sly Stone]
• The Cars “Just What I Needed (demo)” (1977) [rare early unsigned demo version]
• Howard Jones “Everlasting Love” (1989)
• DNA ft. Suzanne Vega “Tom’s Diner” (1990)
• Bingo Hand Job “Tom’s ?” (1991) [this is R.E.M. with Billy Bragg from the “Tom’s Album” compilation]
• Carbon/Silicon “The News” (2007) [duo consisting of Mick Jones & Tony James]
• Red Hot Chili Peppers ft. Rhythms Del Mundo Africa “Under The Bridge (Africa Mix)” (2012) [this is from the benefit album “Rhythms Del Mundo: Africa”]
• Everything Is Recorded ft. Sampha & Florence Welch “Never Felt Better” (2025)

CRUISIN’ THE DECADES – episode 163x – playlist – 12-20-25
(REPLAY of 2024 Holiday Episode) 

• Bransby Williams & The Edison Carol Singers “Christmas Eve In Old England” (1905)
• Metropolitan Quartet “Christmas, Christmas, Blessed, Blessed Day” (1917)
• Ernest Hare “Santa Claus Hides In Your Phonograph” (1922)
• Vernon Dalhart “Hooray for Saint Nick” (1928)
• Louis Prima Orchestra “What Will Santa Claus Say (When He Finds Everybody Swingin’)” (1936)
• Ella Logan “Jingle (Bingle) Bells” (1937)
• Perry Como “Santa Claus Is Comin’ To Town (1946 Version)” (1946)
• Jimmy Butler & The Blues Express Orchestra “Trim Your Tree” (1954)
• Ella Fitzgerald “Winter Wonderland” (1960)
• Miles Davis “Blue Xmas (To Whom It May Concern)” (1962)
• Loretta Lynn “To Heck With Ol’ Santa Claus” (1966)
• Rocki Lane & The Gross Group “Happy Hairy Hippy Harry Claus” (1969) [Santa Claus is a hippie!]
• Everclear “Santa Baby” (1996)
• Weezer “We Wish You A Merry Christmas” (2008)
• Kacey Musgraves & Willie Nelson “A Willie Nice Christmas” (2016)
• Adam Green “Dreidels Of Fire” (2019)
• Ben Folds “You Don’t Have To Be A Santa Claus” (2024) [originally done by The Mills Brothers in the 1940’s]
• Band Aid 40 “Do They Know It’s Christmas (2024 Ultimate Mix Single)” (2024)

CRUISIN’ THE DECADES – Episode 163 – 12-13-25 

• Dave Martin “Goldberg’s Automobile Troubles” (1916) [Spoken word comedy piece about maintaining a vehicle] 
• Buell Kazee ft. Carson Robison “The Old Maid (I’ll Not Marry At All)” (1927)
• Victor Young’s Orchestra “Donald Duck” (1936)
• Doris Day “A Guy Is A Guy” (1949) 
• George Jones “Tall Tall Trees” (1958) 
• Booker T. & The MG’s “Green Onions” (1962) [RIP Steve Cropper]
• Wilson Pickett “In The Midnight Hour” (1965) [RIP Steve Cropper]
• Sam & Dave “Soul Man” (1967) [RIP Steve Cropper] 
• The Blues Brothers ft. Ray Charles “Shake A Tail Feather” (1979) [RIP Steve Cropper] 
• DEVO “Whip It” (1980)
• The Mavericks “Dance The Night Away” (1998) [RIP Raul Malo] 
• The Redwalls “Build A Bridge” (2005) [RIP Justin Baren] 
• ARTIST RADIO ID: Sheryl Crow for Cruisin’ The Decades 
• Sheryl Crow “Sign Your Name” (2010) [cover of Terence Trent D’Arby] 
• Guns N’ Roses “Nothin’” (2025) [New release with 3/5 original members] 
• BONUS TRACK: The Mavericks “Live Close By (Visit Often)” (2024) [RIP Raul Malo] 

CRUISIN’ THE DECADES – Episode 162B – 12-6-25
REPLAY of Episode 156 – from September 2025

• Rita Villa “Una Noche En La Mar (A Night At Sea)” (1911)
• American Quartet “Carolina In The Morning” (1923)
• Annette Hanshaw “You’re The One That I Care For” (1931)
• Glenn Miller Orchestra “(I’ve Got A Gal In) Kalamazoo” (1942)
• Huey “Piano” Smith & The Clowns “Don’t You Just Know It” (1957)
• The Seeds “Can’t Seem To Make You Mine” (1967)
• N.R.B.Q. “Ridin’ In My Car” (1977)
• AUDIO HISTORY: “Black Monday” Stock Market Crash (1987)
• Julian Cope “World Shut Your Mouth” (1987)
• Spacehog “In The Meantime” (1995)
• Cut Copy “Hearts On Fire” (2008)
• Greta Van Fleet “Highway Tune” (2017)
• CMAT “When A Good Man Cries” (2025) [Critically acclaimed new Irish artist]
• BONUS TRACK: Oasis “Wonderwall” (2025) [LIVE in Dublin, 8-16-25 on reunion tour]

CRUISIN’ THE DECADES – Episode 162 – 11-29-25 

• Irving Kaufman “California and You” (1914)
• Ethel Waters “Do What You Did Last Night” (1928)
• AUDIO HISTORY: “Behind The Scenes” of a Radio Broadcast (1928)
• Frankie Franko & His Louisianians “Somebody Stole My Gal” (1930)
• The Four King Sisters “Miss Otis Regrets” (1940)
• The Platters “Only You” (1955)
• The Electric Flag “Killin’ Floor” (1968)
• Jimmy Cliff “The Harder They Come” (1972) [RIP Jimmy Cliff]
• Jimmy Cliff “Trapped” (1972) [later covered by Bruce Springsteen]
• The Stone Roses “She Bangs The Drums” (1989) [RIP Gary “Mani” Mounfield]
• The Time – Jerk Out! (1990) [RIP Jellybean Johnson]
• Unrest “Make Out Club” (1993)
• Peter Gabriel & Hot Chip “Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa” (2008) [rare cover of Vampire Weekend song]
• Jain “Makeba” (2015) [huge global/world hit]
• Brother Wallace “Who’s That” (2025)

CRUISIN’ THE DECADES – Episode 161 – 11-22-25 

• Charley Straight & New York Military Band “Humpty Dumpty Rag” (1914)
• Josephine Baker “Who” (1926)
• Benny Goodman’s Orchestra ft. Martha Tilton (vocals) “Bob White” (1937)
• Blue Lu Barker “A Little Bird Told Me” (1948) [original version]
• Chuck Berry “Johnny B. Goode” (1958)
• BONUS TRACK: Bo Diddley “I’m A Man” (1955)
• The Doors “Twentieth Century Fox” (1967)
• Gayle McCormick “It’s A Cryin’ Shame” (1971)
• Beastie Boys “Shake Your Rump” (1989)
• Todd Snider “Alright Guy” (1994) [RIP Todd Snider]
• Todd Snider “Vinyl Records” (2002) [RIP Todd Snider]
• New Found Glory “My Friends Over You” (2002)
• Bleachers “I Wanna Get Better” (2014)
• Howl Owl Howl “My Cologne” (2025) [A collaboration between Darius Rucker, Mike Mills, and Steve Gorman]
• BONUS TRACK: Hootie & The Blowfish “Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child” (1995) [Spiritual/Gospel piece dates back to 1850’s]