04/03/26Children of the Moon — The Alan Parsons Project
04/02/26The Way I Feel Tonight — Bay City Rollers
04/01/26Gold and Silver — Quicksilver Messinger Service
(Greg Elmore was the "glue" that held Quicksilver's intricate jamming together.)
2026 January—March
03/31/26Nice, Nice, Very Nice — Ambrosia
("I'm a free wheelin' man…" — Christopher North)
03/30/26You’re Next — Moon Walker
03/29/26Fool On the Hill — The Beatles
03/28/26The Man Who Would Be King (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) — Maurice Jarre
03/27/26Summer Breeze — Seals and Crofts
("Jimmy said, 'Would you like to tour through Texas and be Big Time?' So I went with them." — Dash Crofts)
03/26/26Scooby-Doo, Where Are You: Season 1 Intro (Instrumental Version) — Ted Nichols
(He Gave Scooby-Doo its heartbeat.)
03/25/26Angel In The Morning — Chip Taylor
("From now on, I'll be doing one thing—playing my music for whoever wants to listen.")
03/24/26The Older I Get — Bryan Andrews
03/23/26Bad News — Zach Bryan
03/22/26Criminals — Meghan Trainor
03/21/26Someone You Loved — Lewis Capaldi
03/20/26Ramblin' Heart — Wayne Perkins
("The song will always tell you what it needs." — Wayne Perkins)
03/19/26Gone, Gone, Gone — Crow
(David Waggoner was The Voice of Crow.)
03/18/26Dance The Night — Dua Lipa
03/17/26Kings & Queens — Ava Max
03/16/26Golden — Huntrix (Ejae, Audrey Nuna, and Rei Ami)
03/15/26Dark Days — Phil Campbell And The Bastard Sons
("I'm proud of it all. I never sold out." — Phil Campbell)
03/14/26LoveGame — Lady Gaga
03/13/26Blow — Kesha
03/12/26It’s Been Too Long — Ringo Starr
03/11/26The Rains Came — Sir Douglas Quintet
(Augie was the last of the originals standing.)
03/10/26What About Us — Tommy Decarlo
(The Unlikely Rockstar lived the dream.)
03/09/26Peace On Earth — Country Joe McDonald
("Gimme an F!”)
03/08/26Daylight Savings — Iration
03/07/26Womanizer — Britney Spears
03/06/26Confident — Demi Lovato
03/05/26Bang Bang — Jessie J, Ariana Grande, and Nicki Minaj
03/04/26NO — Meghan Trainor
03/03/26MacArthur Park Suite: MacArthur Park/One Of A Kind/Heavens Knows/MacArthur Park Reprise — Donna Summer
03/02/26See That My Grave Is Kept Clean — John Hammond, Jr.
(He was 100% the “real deal")
03/01/26War — Edwin Starr
02/28/26Breaking Up Is Hard To Do — Neil Sedaka
("I have inner peace; I have accomplished a great deal." — Neil Sedaka)
02/27/26Break My Heart — Dua Lipa
02/26/26Too Much — Dove Cameron
02/25/26Let’s Impeach the President — Neil Young
02/24/26Bitch Better Have My Money — Rihanna
02/23/26El Gran Varón — Willie Colón
("Porque pasan los años y sigo dando palo." (Because the years go by and I'm still hitting/going strong.) — Willie Colón)
02/22/26The World’s Gone Wrong — Lucinda Williams (featuring Brittney Spencer)
02/21/26Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out — Bruce Springsteen
02/20/26Horse Latitudes — The Doors
02/19/26Pigs (Three Different Ones) — Pink Floyd
02/18/26I Am, Sonebody — Jesse Jackson
("It is time for us to turn to each other, not on each other." — Jesse Jackson)
02/17/26How Do I Make You — Linda Ronstadt
("Songwriting is a part of me just like eating, breathing, and sleeping." — Billy Steinburg)
02/16/26Sea Cruise — Frankie Ford
02/15/26The Wolf — Manchester Orchestra
("So much quality time and conversations were had as well as a lot of laughter and music." — Tim Very)
02/14/26Binary Stars — Sophia Fredskild
02/13/26May the Cube Be with You — THomas Dolby
02/12/26Love You 'Till the End — The Pogues
(The Clobberer has passed)
02/11/26Never Fall In Love — Our Three
02/10/26Some Day Soon — Ian & Sylvia
02/09/26I Will Survive — CAKE
(RIP Greg Brown — In his mind, he's still driving, still making the grade.)
02/08/26When I’m Gone — 3 Doors Down
(“Pretty soon we're going home to a lot of bad things.” — Brad Arnold)
02/07/26A Love Like Ours — The 5th Dimension
("When I Retire, I'm Going To Eat, Sleep, Rest And Dress And Lay And Play." — Lamonte McLemore)
02/06/26Soul Of The Sea — Heart
02/05/26The Girl I Knew Somewhere — The Monkees
02/04/26The Patty Hearst Syndrome — Smoke or Fire
02/03/26Easy To Be Hard — Three Dog Night
(“I was in awe of what came out of me." — Chuck Negron)
02/02/26Right Side of History — Eric Hutchinson
02/01/26Super Stupid — Funkadelic
("I can beat you up with my fingers." — Billy Bass Nelson
01/31/26City Of Heroes — Billy Bragg
01/30/26Minnesota Anthem — Marc Skjervem
(This song was created using AI. The goal was to quickly offer a piece of music that could help people express what’s happening in Minnesota and feel inspired to take action.)
01/29/26Streets Of Minneapolis — Bruce Springsteen
01/28/26Great Big Blue — The Rentals
(40 years ago)
01/27/26Murder She Wrote — Chaka Demus & Pliers (featuring Sly & Robbie)
(“I listened and created my own style." — Lowell "Sly" Fillmore Dunbar)
01/26/26Revolution Calling — Queensrÿche
01/25/26Guns for Hire — AC/DC
01/24/26Still Loving You — Scorpions
("I want to build this band to become bigger." — Francis Buchholz)
01/23/26Strawman — Lou Reed
01/22/26Truth Comes Out — Willyecho
01/21/26King of the Mountain — Midnight Oil
("We are going to turn the world upside down, set it back on its proper course of kindness and compassion" — Rob Hirst)
01/20/26Mental Hopscotch — Missing Persons
01/19/26If I Can Dream — Elvis Presley (with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra)
01/18/26Winter In America — Gil Scott-Heron
01/17/26Participation Trophy — MaeThePirate
01/16/26Look Around — The Rascals
01/15/26Bright As Yellow — The Innocence Mission
01/14/25The Dilbert Zone — Danny Elfman
01/13/26Good Times Bad Times — Led Zeppelin
01/12/26Cheated and Lied — Reil Country and Jordyn Reil
01/11/26Jack Straw — The Grateful Dead
("Looking back, I guess I've lived an unusual life." — Bob Wier)
01/10/26Edge of a Broken Heart — Vixen
01/09/26Citizen Erased — Muse
01/08/26Murder By Numbers — The Police
01/07/26Money Is the Name of the Game — Buster Benton
01/06/26The Bigotry Blues — Jason Baker
01/05/26Woman in the White House — Sheryl Crow
01/04/26War Pigs — Black Sabbath
01/03/26Another Girl, Another Planet — The Only Ones
01/02/26Mirror in the Bathroom — The English Beat
01/01/26Don't Give Up On Love — Don Bryant
("If it wasn’t gonna be the singing, I was content with trying to do the writing.")
2025 October–December
12/31/25In The Air Tonight — Phil Collins
(PSA: If you hit play at 11:56:18PM this New Year’s Eve, the drum fill will welcome you into 2026. Start the New Year the right way!)
12/30/25Sex (I'm A...) — Berlin
12/29/25Boy — Book Of Love
12/28/25I Know What Boys Like — The Waitresses
12/27/25Maybe Someday — The Cure
(“I wish I could be invisible.” — Perry "Teddy" Bamonte
12/26/25Happy Boxing Day — John Swanson
12/25/25Stop Into Christmas — Elton John
12/24/25Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas — Rachel Sermanni and Roddy Hart
12/23/25Driving Home for Christmas — Chris Rea
("I'd never intended to write a Christmas hit - I was a serious musician!")
12/22/25Good Girls Don't — The Knack
12/21/25Dancing Barefoot — U2
12/20/25Divine Thing — The Soup Dragons
12/19/25Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker) — The Rolling Stones
12/18/25I Shall Be Released — Evelyn Harris
(She lit up the stage.)
12/17/25The Road Goes On Forever — Joe Ely
(The road goes on forever and the party never ends.)
12/16/25She’s a Bad Mama Jama (She's Built, She's Stacked) — Carl Carlton
(No Bullshit, — Keep On Swinging)
12/15/25What's Your Name (Flipped Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) — Rob Reiner, Michael Bolten, Shane Harper
("I like writing because you can make things happen and turn out the way they never do in real life." — Rob Reiner)
12/14/25I Laugh In Your Face — Bee Gees
12/13/25Chim Chim Cher-ee — Dick Van Dyke, Julie Andrews, Karen Dotrice, and Matthew Garber (Mary Poppins Soundtrack)
(Happy 100th Birthday, Dick Van Dyke!)
12/12/25Got The Time — Joe Jackson
12/11/25Love Reunited — The Desert Rose Band
(Co-founder Steve Duncan passed away on December 8th.)
12/10/25What a Crying Shame — The Mavericks
("You all carried me more than you know." — Raul Malo)
12/09/25Wishing Well — Free
(R.I.P. Tetsu Yamauchi)
12/08/25Uncontrollable Urge — Devo
12/07/2525 or 6 to 4 — Chicago
12/06/25Crocket’s Theme — Jan Hammer
12/05/25You Can’t Sit Down (Parts 1 & 2) — Philip Upchurch Combo
(One of my favorite instrumentals to play as a kid. We are losing the great ones at a rapid pace.)
12/04/25Without You — Steve Cropper & Felix Cavalieri
(“I believe usually your first hunch is right—if you follow your nose, you'll end up where you need to be." — Steve Cropper)
12/03/25Wide Awake — Audioslave
12/02/2552 Girls — The B-52's
12/01/25Heaven Must Be Missing An Angel (Part 1) — Tavares
("We’ve been together for 70-plus years, and nobody knows when it’s your turn to go." — Antone "Chubby" Tavares)
11/30/25Pump It Up — Elvis Costello & The Attractions
11/29/25Evil Hearted You — The Yardbirds
11/28/25Ain't That a Shame — Cheap Trick
11/27/25Tom Turkey — Charlie Crockett
11/26/25Give A Damn — Spanky & Our Gang
11/25/25Girlfriend — Matthew Sweet
11/24/25The Harder They Come — Jimmy Cliff
("I'd rather be a free man in my grave than living as a puppet or a slave." &mdash Jimmy Cliff)
11/23/25Love Is Just A Four Letter Word — Joan Baez
11/22/25I Don't Need Love — Sammy Hagar
11/21/25Opposites Attract — Paula Abdul
11/20/25Some Like It Hot — The Power Station
11/19/25Let the Music Play — Shannon
11/18/25Pandemonium — The Time
11/17/25Wrong — Depeche Mode
11/16/25Just Like Old Times — Todd Snider
("It ain't the despair that gets you, it's the hope." — Todd Snider))
11/15/25Kiss Them For Me — Siouxsie And The Banshees
11/14/25If I Were A Weapon — Suzanne Vega
11/13/25Real Man — Bonnie Raitt
11/12/25A Change Would Do You Good — Sheryl Crow
11/11/25Caving In — SYML
11/10/25Sideshow — Wendy & Lisa
11/09/25Computer Blue — Prince and the Revoluation
11/08/25Isn't Life Strange — John Lodge
11/07/25Up The Junction — Squeeze
(“I was a very aggressive player.” — Gilson Lavis)
11/06/25All That Money Wants — The Psychedelic Furs
11/05/25A Blue Wave — The Cleaners From Venus
11/04/25Sunrise — Grateful Dead
(“I was a studio singer, never singing off-key.” — Donna Godchaux)
11/03/25Dedicated To The One I Love — The Mamas & The Papas
11/02/25Fixing A Hole — The Beatles
11/01/25Autumn Afternoon — The Association
10/31/25The Dead Dance — Lady Gaga
10/30/25Graveyard — Halsey
10/29/25Bury This — Sarah Blasko
10/28/25Amnesia — Tora Tora
10/27/25We Used To Know — Jethro Tull
10/26/25Lassie — The TV Theme Players
(“I did Lassie for six years and I never had anybody come up to me and say, 'It made me want to be a farmer.'” — June Lockhart)
10/25/25Tainted Love — Soft Cell
("Spandau looked down at their noses at us—we'd see them chuckling." — David Bell)
10/24/25Already Gone — Gerry Rafferty
10/23/25Tear It Down — Def Leppard
10/22/25Wait — Vandenberg
10/21/25Get Out Of This House — Shawn Colvin
10/20/25I'm So Tired — The Beatles
10/19/25A Farewell To Kings — Rush
10/18/25The Future — Michael McDermott
10/17/25Hard Times — KISS
("I'm just a down-to-earth guy." — Ace Frehley)
10/16/25Higher — D'Angelo
("We should all aspire to be a Black Messiah." — D'Angelo))
10/15/25Runnin' from the Hounds — Phantom, Rocker & Slick
10/14/25Runnin' with the Devil — Van Halen
10/13/25I Hate Myself for Loving You — Joan Jett & the Blackhearts
("I left Radio City that night saying THAT'S the band I need to be in." — Tommy Price))
10/12/25First Christmas — Diane Keaton
("I am absolutely intrigued by life, and I really want to hold onto it." — Diane Keaton)
10/11/25Whispering Angels — John Lodge (featuring Geoff Downes and Dave Colquhoun)
("The past has gone forever, but the future is always within reach" — John Lodge)
10/10/25Ice Ice Baby — Vanilla Ice
10/09/25The Approaching Storm — Chicago
10/08/25The Day The Nazi Died — Chumbawamba
10/07/25Shine On Harvest Moon — Ruth Etting
10/06/25The Portland Sing — Jewel
10/05/25Slower Than Guns — Iron Butterfly
10/04/25Men Without Shame — Phantom, Rocker & Slick
10/03/25Over Under Sideways Down — The Yardbirds
("The Yardbirds broke every rule in the book at the time, and I thank God we did." — Chris Dreja)
10/02/25Jane — Stevie Nicks
("The greatest danger to our future is apathy." — Jane Goodal)
10/01/25Guilty — Tora Tora
2025 July–September
09/30/25Nothin' You Can Do About It — Airplay
09/29/25Simone — Boz Scaggs
09/28/25Seeing You for the First Time — Jimmy Messina
09/27/25House at Pooh Corner — Loggins & Messina
09/26/25Back on the Road Again — REO Speedwagon
09/25/25Radio, Radio — Elvis Costello & The Attractions
09/24/25California Man — Cheap Trick
09/23/25Your Cash Ain't Nothin' But Trash — Steve Miller Band
09/22/25Stone Cold Fever — Humble Pie
09/21/25More Than I Can Say — Sonny Curtis
("I’m glad to be able to go to the mall and not be recognized." — Sonny Curtis))
09/20/25Cast The First Stone — Angel
09/19/25Good Times Are So Hard To Find — Blue Cheer
09/18/25Unchanged World — Ellison
09/17/25Bird in a Cage — Robert Redford and Sasha Lazard
(“As an artist I just can't think of a better life than the one I've been blessed with. It's just a great ride.” — Robert Redford)
09/16/25Devil Woman — The Yellow Payges
09/15/25Let Me Swim — Cactus
09/14/25Out & About — Tommy Boyce & Bobby Hart
("Rest in peace, Bobby." — Micky Dolenz)
09/13/25Fantasy Girl — 38 Special
09/12/15Song from Platte River — Brewer & Shipley
(“There are good times even in the worst of time… if you look for them.” — Tom Shipley)
09/11/25Burning Heart — Vandenberg
09/10/25Third Rate Romance — The Amazing Rhythm Aces
09/09/25From Now On — Supertramp
(“Goodbye Stranger it’s been nice. Hope you find your paradise…” — Rick Davies)
09/08/25So Damn Dangerous — Dea Matrona
09/07/25Women from Memphis — Robby Turner and Waylon Jennings
(Robby Turner truly was The Man of Steel)
09/06/25Mama, Open Up — Flo & Eddie
("Every group hopes to have a 'Happy Together'. That makes us very fortunate." — Mark Volman)
09/05/25Sausalito Summernight — Diesel
09/04/25Hell Is For Children — Pat Benatar
09/03/25Back on My Feet Again — The Babys
09/02/25Welcome To The Working Week — Elvis Costello
09/01/25There is Power in a Union — Billy Bragg
08/31/25Crying in the Night — Buckingham Nicks
08/30/25Swayin’ To The Music (Slow Dancing) — Johnny Rivers
08/29/25Because of You, My Love — Rudy Jaymes (digitally generated)
08/28/25It Ain’t Me — Ella (digitally generated)
(The muisic and video are both digitally generated. The imagery synthesis is a bit glitchy, but the audio is scarily amazing. I appreciate the technical creativity required!)
08/27/25Gospel Plough — Robert Plant and Saving Grace
08/26/25Funky Rhythm Ride — Massilia Sound System
08/25/25Homesick — Atlanta Rhythm Section
08/24/25Tell Me What You Want — Zebra
08/23/25Midnight Rendezvous — The Babys
08/22/25Look Wot You Dun — Slade
08/21/25Magic Man — Heart
("Bon voyage, my old love." — Ann)
08/20/25Teen Angst (What The World Needs Now) — Cracker
08/19/25Dizz Knee Land — dada
08/18/25Still Alive and Well — Johnny Winter
08/17/25Shine On — Humble Pie
08/16/26Who Needs Ya — Steppenwolf
08/15/25Death Or Glory — Holocaust
08/14/25Pay My Dues — Blues Image
08/13/25Evil — Cactus
08/12/25Homicide — 999
08/11/25I was Born to Sing the Blues — Bobby Whitlock
("Life is what you make it, so take it and make it beautiful.")
08/10/25Heartbreaker — Nantucket
08/09/25Run Run Run — Jo Jo Gunne
08/08/25Once Bitten, Twice Shy — Ian Hunter
08/07/25Girls Talk — Dave Edmunds
08/06/25Seed Of Memory — Terry Reid
(“There are only three things happening in England: The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, and Terry Reid.” —`s Aretha Franklin)
08/05/25Hollywood — Junkyard
(Rest in peace, David Roach)
08/04/25White Punks On Dope — The Tubes
08/03/25Shake It Off (Taylor's Version) — Taylor Swift
08/02/25Better Together — Jack Johnson
08/01/25The Bottom Line — Big Audio Dynamite
07/31/25Postcards From Paradise — Flesh For Lulu
07/30/25I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend — The Rubinoos
07/29/25All That Stuff — the Windbreakers
07/28/25We Will All Go Together When We Go — Tom Lehrer
("Always predict the worst and you'll be hailed as a prophet.")
07/27/25That's Why — David Marks & The Marksmen
07/26/25Arrest The President — Ice Cube
07/25/25Children Of Sanchez — Chuck Mangione (featuring Don Potter)
("Because I don't believe music can be free unless it has something to be free from." — Chuck Mangione)
07/24/25Candy's Going Bad — Golden Earring
("We always said we would keep going until one of us fell over. I didn’t expect George [Kooymans] to be the first." — Barry Hay)
07/23/25See You On The Other Side — Ozzy Osbourne
(The crazy train has left the station)
07/22/25I'm Glad — Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
07/21/25Cuz It's You Girl — James Walsh Gypsy Band
(RIP Bobby Jones)
07/20/25Keep It Warm — Flo & Eddie
07/19/25Dancing Madly Backwards (On A Sea Of Air) — Captain Beyond
07/18/25You’re Gonna Miss Me — Connie Francis
("I tried to see humor in everything.")
07/17/25Times of Your Life — Paul Anka
07/16/25Black Cat Moan — Beck, Bogert, Appice
07/15/25Wicked World — Earth (Black Sabbath)
07/14/25I Ain’t Superstitious — Jeff Beck
07/13/25Slip Kid — The Who
07/12/25Legalize Living — The Hives
07/11/25Fool If You Love Him — Foreigner
07/10/25My Lover’s Box — Garbage
07/09/25Livin' in the U.S.A. — Steve Miller Band
07/08/25Breathless — Ringo Star (featuring Billy Strings)
07/07/25Can't You See I'm a Star — Moxy
07/06/25Rain King — Counting Crows
07/05/25I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die Rag (Woodstock '69) — Country Joe Mcdonald
07/04/25Robin Hood In Reverse — Bad Religion
07/03/25Smooth Criminal — Michael Jackson
07/02/25Vow — Garbage
07/01/25You'll Never Know — Hi-Gloss 
2025 April–June
06/30/25Ain't Nobody — Rufus and Chaka Khan
06/29/25Mission Impossible — Lalo Schifrin
("Make something exciting." — Bruce Geller to Lalo Schifrin)
06/28/2545 Years — Stan Rogers
(Happy 45th, Susan!)
06/27/25Breakin'... There's No Stopping Us — Ollie & Jerry
06/26/25Right On Track — Breakfast Club
06/25/25Little Woman — Bobby Sherman
("As far as advice to potential teenage idols, there is no formula." — Bobby Sherman)
06/24/25Ready for Love/After Lights — Mott the Hoople
("Put me on stage and I'm happy." — Mick Ralphs))
06/23/25Here We Go Again! — Portrait 
06/22/25Dreamin' — Christopher Williams
06/21/25I'm Ready — Tevin Campbell 
06/20/25I Like The Way (The Kissing Game) — Hi-Five
06/19/25Rhapsody In The Rain — Lou Christie
(It was exciting as thunder)
06/18/24Feel the Night — ARA Music
06/17/25State of Grace — The Doobie Brothers
06/16/25Young and Beautiful — Lana Del Ray
06/15/25Just Like 73 — Def Leppard (featuring Tom Morello)
06/14/25Born in The U.S.A. — Bruce Springsteen
06/13/25Photograph — Ringo Starr
06/12/25I Just Wasn’t Made For These Times — The Beach Boys
(“I think I need the demons in order to write, but the demons have gone.” — Brian Wilson)
06/11/25Never Marry a Railroad Man — Shocking Blue
06/10/25I Want to Take You Higher — Sly & The Family Stone
("Time needs another minute." — Sly Stone)
06/09/25Artificial Love — VITO
06/08/25Artificial — Walter Trout
06/07/25Witch — Suzanne Vega
06/06/26Route 66 — Depeche Mode
06/05/25You've Never Had It Better — The Electric Prunes
("…later in life you learn you were not as bad as you thought." — James Lowe)
06/04/25Helpless — Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
06/03/25Pineola — Lucinda Williams
06/02/25Try Lonely — AMOA
06/01/25The Next Big Thing — Lawn Chair
05/31/25Cathode Ray — Folk Bitch Trio
05/30/25Loyal Girl — Flopsy’s Dream
05/29/25Moving Through a Dream — Monarch
(10-year SOTD Anniversary!)
05/28/25Don't Ever Say Goodbye — Rick Derringer
(Won't you always be here?)
05/27/25Wet Dream — Wet Leg
05/26/25Dear Avery — The Decemberists
05/25/25Look at Miss Ohio — Gillian Welch
05/24/25Blame Brett — The Beaches
05/23/25Blame — Girl Tones
05/22/25Truth — Salarymen
05/21/25Hurricane — Cannons
05/20/25Killashandra · — Aska
05/19/25circle the drain — Soccer Mommy
05/18/25Expert In A Dying Field — The Beths
05/17/25Vacuum Man — Donut Kings
05/16/25pity dirty — pami
05/15/25Back To Me — The Marias
05/14/25Losing You — Grace Potter
05/13/25Cupid/I’ve Loved You for a Long Time — The Spinners
(The last Spinner…)
05/12/25The Deep Blue Okay — Self Esteem
05/11/25My Mama Said — ABBA
05/10/25Hold On — Night Storm
05/09/25All I Can Do — Savoy Brown
05/08/25Radio Ga Ga — Queen
05/07/25Radio Free Europe 2025 remix — R.E.M.
05/06/25Lucinda — Suzanne Vega
05/05/25Down to be wrong — HAIM
05/04/25Massachusetts — George Lanides
05/03/25Some Jingle Jangle Morning — Mary Lou Lord
05/02/25I Kissed a Girl — Jill Sobule
(“I was a weird kid.”)
05/01/25Heart of Gold — Fiona Apple
04/30/25Walk Forever By My Side — The Alarm
(“I wouldn’t change anything.” — Mike Peters)
04/29/25Second Opinion — Noah Nite
04/28/25Who’s There To Love Without You? — Picture Parlour
04/27/25Flow — Vella
04/26/25Heart Of Glass — Blondie
04/25/25Spike Island — Pulp
04/24/25End of the World — Miley Cyrus
04/23/25Henry, come on — Lana Del Rey
04/22/25The Landscape Is Changing — Depeche Mode
04/21/25Bluebeard — Cocteau Twins
04/20/25Personal Jesus — Depeche Mode
04/19/25Vanity Decay — Lord Jon Ray
04/18/25We Are The People — Empire Of The Sun
04/17/25This Is What You Came For — Calvin Harris & Rihanna
04/16/25Good Times — Chic
04/15/25Call It Fate, Call It Karma — The Strokes
04/14/25Am I Wrong — Nico & Vinz
04/13/25Them Belly Full (But We Hungry) — Bob Marley & The Wailers
04/12/25Simplicity — Ace of Cups
04/11/25Needles and Pins — Smokie
04/10/25Movin On — Missouri
04/09/25I Won't Back Down — Tom Petty
04/08/25Atomic — Blondie
(“I just like to play.” — Clem Burke)
04/07/25Dennis the Menace Theme — William Loose & John Seely
("I can't stand that kid, he's a menace!" — George Wilson)
04/06/25Bravado — Lorde
04/05/25Sleeves Up — Crys Matthews
04/04/25Where Did The Money Go — 54-40
04/03/25The Soft Parade — Val Kilmer
("I sang the songs in 'The Doors'.")
04/02/25Sail On Sail Away — Moxy
04/01/25City of Fools — Colette Kelly
2025 January–March
03/31/25This Is the Day — The The
03/30/25I Will Dare — The Replacements
03/29/25Don't Misunderstand Me — Rossington Collins Band
03/28/25You Only Live Once — The Strokes
03/27/25Masters of War — Bob Dylan
03/26/25All I Know — Screaming Trees
03/25/25Pretend We're Dead — L7
03/24/25Banditos — The Refreshments
03/23/25Idiots Are Taking Over — NOFX
03/22/25[I Can't Get No] Satisfaction — The Rolling Stones
03/21/25Satisfaction Guaranteed — The Firm
03/20/25Springtime for Hitler - Part I — The Producers Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
03/19/25Politician — Cream
03/18/25Grey Day — Jesse Colin Young
(All the great ones are leaving us.)
03/17/25Narrowback — Richard Cahillane
03/16/25Top Of The World — Carpenters
03/15/25Elmer Gantry Is Alive And Well — The Long Ryders
03/14/25Madman Across The Water — Elton John
03/13/25Con Man — Golden Earring
03/12/25Car Salesman — Adrian and the Sickness
03/11/25Train To Nowhere — Rare Earth
03/10/25Tales Of Brave Ulysses — Rotary Connection
03/09/25Clocks — Coldplay
03/08/25The Ballad of John and Yoko — The Beatles
03/07/25Rude — Magic!
03/06/25Weather With You — Crowded House
03/05/25Total Control — The Motels
03/04/25Man Of Colours — Icehouse
03/03/25Better Days — Badfinger
(Long Live Badfinger)
03/02/25Lonely Planet Boy — New York Dolls
("When I'm sleeping I do a lot of living.")
03/01/25Hey Hey Rise Up — Pink Floyd (featuring Andriy Khlyvnyuk of Boombox)
02/28/25No Lies — Noiseworks
02/27/25Freedom — Anthony Hamilton and Elaynaj Boynton
02/26/25Magic Key — Rare Earth
02/25/25The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face — Robertta Flack
(“My music is my expression of what I feel and believe in a moment.”)
02/24/25Hang On to Your Life — The Guess Who
02/23/25One Hundred Years — Dawn Landes
02/22/25The Revolution Will Not Be Televised — Gil Scott-Heron
02/21/25Evil — Earth, Wind & Fire
02/20/25(Not All) The Boys Will Be Boys (Solo Acoustic Version) — The Pinkerton Raid
02/19/25Independent Spirit — Dawn Landes
02/18/25Get Up, Stand Up — Bob Marley & The Wailers
02/17/25Hostile Government Takeover — Todd (TJ)
02/16/25Feels Blind — Bikini Kill (The Punk Singer Soundtrack)
02/15/25Oh Bondage! Up Yours! — X-Ray Spex
02/14/25Love the One You're With — Stephen Stills
02/13/25All You Fascists — Billy Bragg and Wilco
02/12/25Ball Of Confusion (That's What The World Is Today) — The Temptations
02/11/25I'm Tired — Phil Ochs
02/10/25Beat Up Guitar — The Hooters
02/09/25I Walk Alone — Mecca Normal
02/08/25Racist, Sexist Boy — The Linda Lindas
02/07/25Fight the Power (Part 1 & 2) — The Isley Brothers
02/06/25Talkin’ Bout a Revolution — Tracy Chapman
02/05/25Fuel — Ani DiFranco
02/04/25Mexican Chef — Xenia Rubinos
02/03/25[We Don't Need This] Fascist Groove Thang — Heaven 17
02/02/25When I Dream at Night — Marc Anthony
02/01/25Midnight Rider — Gregg Allman
01/31/25Working Class Hero — Marianne Faithfull
("I know for a fact that Heaven and Hell are here on Earth.")
01/30/25Nobody Wants to Be Lonely — Ricky Martin
01/29/257 Seconds — Youssou N'Dour (featuring Neneh Cherry)
01/28/25Somebody Else — The 1975
01/27/25Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word — Blue (featuring Elton John)
01/26/25Insatiable — Darren Hayes
01/25/25To the Moon & Back — Savage Garden
01/24/25Sleeping Satellite — Tasmin Archer
01/23/25Independent Love Song — Scarlet
01/22/25Chest Fever — The Band
(The Last Waltz is over.)
01/21/25Cold Sweat — Thin Lizzy
01/20/25Send In The Clowns — Judy Collins
01/19/25Into The Ocean — Blue October
01/18/25Not Strong Enough — boygenius
01/17/25Twin Peaks Theme — Angelo Badalamenti
("Keep your eye on the donut and not on the hole.")
01/16/25So Long, London — Taylor Swift
01/15/25Soft Spot — keshi
01/14/25About You — The 1975
01/13/25Endsong — The Cure
01/12/25I Wish You Were Here — Simple Minds
01/11/25I Still Believe (Great Design) — The Call
01/10/25Rock of Ages — Avem Paradisi
01/09/25Same Sad Story — Little land
01/08/25Day Is Done — Peter, Paul, and Mary
("Music allows us to find a connection.” — Peter Yarrow)
01/07/25Who Knows Where The Time Goes? — Fairport Convention
01/06/25Big Black Crow — Isobel & November
01/05/25Waiting For Stevie — Pearl Jam
01/04/25Save It For Later — Eddie Vedder
01/03/25Title and Registration — Death Cab for Cutie
01/02/25Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels) — Arcade Fire
01/01/25New Year's Day — Pentatonix
2024 October–December
12/31/24Next Year — Foo Fighters
12/30/24Deeper and Deeper (Long Version) — The Fixx
12/29/24The Manic Phases — Artimus The Poet
12/28/24The Waves — Driftwood
12/27/24Traveling — Dawn Landes
12/26/24A Winter Snowscape — Jethro Tull
12/25/24Run Rudolph Run — Bryan Adams
12/24/24Walking In The Air — MonaLisa Twins
12/23/24Winter Time — Steve Miller Band
12/22/24Do You Believe In Love — Huey Lewis & The News
12/21/24Nowhere Fast — Fire Inc.
12/20/24High on You — Survivor
12/19/24White Hot — Red Rider
12/18/24Superstitious Feeling — Harlequin
12/17/24Action — Streetheart
12/16/24Dance — Queen City Kids
12/15/24Feel My Body — Headpins
12/14/24Your Daddy Don't Know (What Your Mama's Gonna Do Tonight) — Toronto
12/13/24Just Like You — FM
12/12/24Heaven (Must Be There) — Eurogliders
12/11/24What About Me? — Moving Pictures
12/10/24Solid Rock — Goanna
12/09/24I Hear Motion — Models
12/08/24Touch — Noiseworks
12/07/24Tucker's Daughter — Ian Moss
12/06/24Chained To The Wheel — The Black Sorrows
12/05/24Sounds Of Then (This Is Australia) — GANGgajang
12/04/24Great Southern Land — Icehouse
12/03/24Reckless (Don’t Be So…) — Australian Crawl
12/02/24That's When I Think Of You — 1927
12/01/24What About Me? — Quicksilver Messenger Service
11/30/24Roads To Moscow — Al Stewart
11/29/24Here Today — Paul McCartney
11/28/24Green, Green Grass of Home — Porter Wagoner
11/27/24Time On My Hands — Ringo Starr
11/26/24Be Here Now — George Harrison
11/25/24I Me Mine — Monster Mike Welch
11/24/24I Keep Forgettin’ (Every Time You’re Near) — Michael McDonald
11/23/24November Rain — Guns N’ Roses
11/22/24JoJo — Boz Scaggs
11/21/24Look Away — Chicago
11/20/24Forever — The Beach Boys
11/19/24Eve — Carpenters
11/18/24Bluebird (Long Version) — Buffalo Springfield
11/17/24Skipping Stone — Jim Armenti
11/16/24Delicate — Taylor Swift
11/15/24The Worm — Audioslave
11/14/24Chk Chk Boom — Stray Kids
11/13/24Girl With No Eyes — It’s a Beautiful Day
(Love takes a lifetime)
11/12/24Who — Jimin
11/11/241000 Yard Stare — Prelude
11/10/24[I Can’t Stand] Losing You — Fate
11/09/24Holding On — Aviator
11/08/24Runaway — Dakota
11/07/24Breaking Us In Two — Joe Jackson
11/06/24I Believe — R.E.M.
11/05/24It’s Time — The Winans
11/04/24What Good Is A Song — Quincy Jones
(“If y’all think I’m cutting out, forget it.”)
11/03/24Cold Heart (PNAU Remix) — Elton John and Dua Lipa
11/02/24Bad Decisions — benny blanco, BTS, and Snoop Dogg
11/01/24I Can’t Hold Back — Survivor
10/31/24Highway to Hell — AC/DC
10/30/24Snake In the Grass — The Black Angels
10/29/24Leave Before You Love Me — Marshmello and Jonas Brothers
10/28/24Austin (Boots Stop Workin’) — Dasha
10/27/24Do It Again — Ray Dalton
10/26/24Unbroken Chain — Grateful Dead
("Those moments, when you’re not a musician, you’re not even a person - you’re just there.")
10/25/24The Race Is On — Jack Jones
(I still have this KAPP 45)
10/24/24Stumblin’ In — CYRIL
10/23/24The Door — Teddy Swims
10/22/24Tattoo — Loreen
10/21/24Training Season — Due Lipa
10/20/24Story of My Life — One Direction
(“It's so amazing to hear a crowd of people singing one of your songs. It's the best feeling.”)
10/19/24SNAP — Rosa Linn
10/18/24Stargazing — Myles Smith
10/17/24Blinding Lights — The Weeknd
10/16/24Howling at the Moon (Sha-La-La) — Ramones
10/15/24Believer — Imagine Dragons
10/14/24The Lighthouse — Stevie Nicks
10/13/24When I Was Your Man — Bruno Mars
10/12/24Million Reasons — Lady Gaga
10/11/24Hymm for the Weekend — Coldplay
10/10/24What About Us — P!nk
10/09/24Take Me To Church — Hozier
10/08/24Van Gogh — Pony Bradshaw
10/07/24Love In The Dark — Adele
10/06/24Sitting In The Park — Billy Stewart
10/05/24Die With A Smile — Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars
10/04/24Good Luck, Babe! — Chappell Roan
10/03/24Please Please Please — Sabrina Carpenter
10/02/24Birds of a Feather — Billie Ellish
10/01/24One Last Kiss — The J. Giles Band
2024 July–September
09/30/24Feeling Mortal — Kris Kristofferson
(“The world could always use more songwriters.” — Kris Kristofferson)
09/29/24Even the Losers — Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
09/28/24Jean (End Title) — Rod McKuen
(Dame Maggie Smith was always in her prime)
09/27/24Over the Mountain — Ozzy Osbourne
09/26/24We Didn't Start The Fire — Billy Joel
09/25/24Hip To Be Square — Huey Lewis & The News
09/24/24Love Is A Long Road — Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
09/23/24One Thing Leads To Another — The Fixx
09/22/24Never Say Never — Romeo Void
09/21/24Talking In Your Sleep — The Romantics
09/20/24Across the Great Divide — The Band
09/19/24How Long — J.D. Souther
("He played hard, loved hard." — Jimmy Webb)
09/18/24Ride the River — Doug Walther
09/17/24Before I Go — Starship
09/16/24Boom Boom (Out Go The Lights) — Pat Travers
09/15/24Maybe I'm Amazed — Paul McCartney
09/14/24Apple Scruffs — George Harrison
09/13/24Rock Candy — Montrose
09/12/24Mr. Power — The Pleasure Seekers
09/11/24Karma — Taylor Swift
09/10/24Words — Missing Persons
09/09/24You’re My Everything — Santa Esmeralda (featuring Leroy Gómez)
09/08/24Any Old Sunday — Chaka Kahn
09/07/24Mais Que Nada — Sergio Mendes & Brazil '66
(A big part of my '60s…)
09/06/24Slow Dancer — Boz Scaggs
09/05/24Midnight Caller — Badfinger
09/04/24Dancing in the Moonlight — Isla June
09/03/24Everybody Needs A Friend — Wishbone Ash
09/02/24For Yasgur’s Farm — Mountain
09/01/24Carry On Till Tomorrow — Badfinger
08/31/24Tonight, Tonight, Tonight — Genesis
08/30/24Afternoon Delight — Starland Vocal Band
08/29/24Southern Nights — Glen Campbell
08/28/24Laughing — The Guess Who
08/27/24Rock & Roll Woman — Buffalo Springfield
08/26/24Anyway the Wind Blows — JJ Cale & Eric Clapton
08/25/24Call Me The Breeze — JJ Cale
08/24/24The Wait — Pretenders
08/23/24Freedom (Homecoming Live) — Beyoncé
08/22/24Real Men — Joe Jackson
08/21/24That’s Entertainment — The Jam
08/20/24Broken Stones — Paul Weller
08/19/24Your Love Gets Sweeter — Finley Quaye
08/18/24Imagine You There — Patranesia
08/17/24Rock Me — Great White
(Jack Russell, too; at 63)
08/16/24Love and Rock and Roll — Greg Kihn
(They just don’t write ‘em like that anymore)
08/15/24Can’t Let Go — Lucinda Williams
08/14/24It’s Over — Boz Scaggs
08/13/24Summer Days — The Partridge Family
08/12/24You and Me — The Checks
08/11/24Can’t Seem To Make You Mine — The Seeds
08/10/24Roll To Me — Del Amitri
08/09/24Debbie — The B-52s
08/08/24Sugar Town — Nancy Sinatra
08/07/24Hold Tight! — Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich
08/06/24Little Green Bag — George Baker Selection
08/05/24Louie Louie — The Kingsmen
08/04/24Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On — Jerry Lee Lewis
08/03/24Surfin' U.S.A — The Beach Boys
08/02/24Catch My Drift — The Colony Motel
08/01/24Home — Holly Conlan
07/31/24San Francisco Girls (Return of the Native) — Fever Tree
07/30/24Percolatin' — Debbie Davis
07/29/24The Rainbow — Talk Talk
07/28/24Rock And Roll, Hoochie Koo — Rick Derringer
07/27/24White Wedding — Billy Idol
07/26/24Peace In The Valley — Carole King
07/25/24Grow — Gloria Tells
07/24/24The Mists Of Time — John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers
(The blues have broken)
07/23/24For Pete’s Sake — The Monkees
07/22/24Let's Get It Started — Black Eyed Peas
07/21/24Walking On The Moon — The Police
07/20/24Fly Me To The Moon — Frank Sinatra
(55th Anniversary of the lunar landing)
07/19/24Some Feeling — Mild Orange
07/18/24Milwaukee Blues — David Davis & The Warrior River Boys
07/17/24To Susan On The West Coast Waiting — Donovan
07/16/24Would I Lie To You? — Eurythmics
07/15/24Watching and Waiting — The Moody Blues
07/14/24Let’s Go — The Cars
07/13/24Shame On the Moon — Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band
07/12/24Pictures of You — The Cure
07/11/24Waffle Stomp — Joe Walsh
07/10/24Find Your Way Back — Starship
07/09/24Distant Sun — Crowded House
07/08/24Burnin’ Sky — Bad Company
07/07/24Stuck In The Middle With You — Stealers Wheel
(We've lost the other Wheel)
07/06/24I Got You — Split Enz
07/05/24Chest Fever — Widespread Panic
07/04/24Holiday / Boulevard of Broken Dreams — Green Day
07/03/24Murder In My Heart For The Judge — Three Dog Night
07/02/24We The People.... — A Tribe Called Quest
07/01/24I’m Just A Singer (In A Rock And Roll Band) — The Moody Blues
2024 April–June
06/30/24No Tell Lover — Chicago
06/29/24I Love the Night — Blue Öyster Cult
06/28/24Anniversary — Tony! Toni! Toné!
(44th!)
06/27/24Midnight Cruiser — Steely Dan
06/26/24Undun — The Guess Who
06/25/24Think I’m In Love — Eddie Money
06/24/24I Want You to Want Me — Cheap Trick
06/23/24Changes — Yes
06/22/24Wild Night — John Cougar
06/21/24Nobody’s Fool — Cinderella
06/20/24Beds Are Burning — Midnight Oil
06/19/24Everybody Is A Star — Sly & The Family Stone
06/18/24Poison — Alice Cooper
06/17/24Close My Eyes Forever — Lita Ford (featuring Ozzy Osbourne)
06/16/24Shot In the Dark — Ozzy Osbourne
06/15/2472 Seasons — Metallica
(It's only a number)
06/14/24Sudden Change — The Electric Flag
(Happy Flag Day!)
06/13/24Wavelength — Van Morrison
06/12/24Forever — Alessi Brothers
06/11/24Steady — Jules Shear
06/10/24I Hear You Call — Bliss
06/09/24I’ll Be Around — Joan Osborne
06/08/24Sign Your Name — Sheryl Crow
06/07/24Love Comes to Everyone — Eric Clapton
06/06/24Crystal Blue Persuasion — Tommy James & The Shondells
06/05/24Shouldn’t Have Took More Than You Gave — Dave Mason
06/04/24Mercy Mercy Me/I Want You — Robert Palmer
06/03/24Will You Be Staying After Sunday — The Peppermint Rainbow
06/02/24We Lose All Our Sense — Pantranesia
06/01/24I’m A Stranger Here — Five Man Electrical Band
05/31/24Heaven Is In Your Mind — Three Dog Night
05/30/24Sea of Joy — Blind Faith
05/29/24Stranger In A Strange Land — Leon Russell and the Shelter People
05/28/24Easy Rider (Let the Wind Pay the Way) — Iron Butterfly
05/27/24Brothers In Arms — Dire Straits
05/26/24In the Time of Our Lives — Iron Butterfly
(His keyboard playing took us to church)
05/25/24Help Me, Rhonda — The Beach Boys
05/24/24Freeway Jam — Jeff Beck
05/23/24Loan Me a Dime — Boz Scaggs
05/22/24Goin’ Down Slow — Duane Allman
05/21/24White Man/Black Man — The James Gang
05/20/24On the Road Again — Canned Heat
05/19/24On the Road Again — The Lovin’ Spoonful
05/18/24It’s Wonderful — The Rascals
05/17/24Remedy — The Black Crowes
05/16/24Happy Together — The Turtles
(“Most drummers only go around once. I went around three times and played with the best musicians in the world.” — John Barbata)
05/15/24Tuesday Heartbreak — Stevie Wonder
("It's all about finding the right note at the right place and knowing when to leave well enough alone. And that's a lifelong quest." — David Sanborn)
05/14/24In the Evening — Led Zeppelin
05/13/24Crazy — Supertramp
05/12/24Mama We're All Crazy Now — Quiet Riot
05/11/24Mercy, Mercy, Mercy — The Buckinghams
05/10/24Bloody Well Right — Supertramp
05/09/24The Way Life’s Meant To Be — Electric Light Orchestra
(There was no keyboard he could not play)
05/08/24Black Dog — Led Zeppelin
05/07/24We’ll Sing In The Sunshine — Gale Garnett
05/06/24Harlem Shuffle — The Fabulous Flippers
05/05/24Miamiii — Becky G. And Karol G.
05/04/24Goodnight — Shabutie
05/03/24Guadalupe — The Colony Motel
05/02/24[Dance with the] Guitar Man — Duane Eddy
("The Twang's the Thang!")
05/01/24Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black) — Neil Young and Crazy Horse
04/30/24The Last Thing On My Mind — Yellow Pear
04/29/24Boulevard — Jackson Browne
04/28/24Excitable Boy — Warren Zevon
04/27/24Spirits in the Natural World — The Police
04/26/24The Best Way to Travel — The Moody Blues
(The Master of the Mellotron)
04/25/24Girl on the Moon — Foreigner
04/24/24Anxiety (Get Nervous) — Pat Benatar
04/23/24Connected — Stereo MCs
04/22/24Wake Up America — Miley Cyrus
04/21/24Sweet Harmony — The Beloved
04/20/24Smalltown Boy — Bronchi Beat
04/19/24Revival — Allman Brothers Band
("Everything comes to an end." — Dickey Betts)
04/18/24Too Shy — Kajagoogoo
04/17/24Things Can Only Get Better — Howard Jones
04/16/24Dance Hall Days — Wang Chung
04/15/24The Future’s So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades — Timbuk 3
04/14/24Turning Japanese — The Vapors
04/13/24Turn Me Loose — Loverboy
04/12/24Dirty Laundry — Don Henley
04/11/24Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy — Elton John
04/10/24A Life of Illusion — Joe Walsh
04/09/24Tweeter and The Monkey Man — Traveling Wilburys
04/08/24The Dark of the Sun — Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
04/07/24Across the Great Divide — Kate Wolf
04/06/24I Can’t Help but Wonder Where I’m Bound — Tom Paxton
04/05/24You Ain’t Going Nowhere — Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
04/04/24Little Wing — Stevie Ray Vaughan
04/03/24Wishing You Were Here — Chicago
04/02/24In the Afterglow — Bread
04/01/24I Pity the Fool — The Manish Boys
2024 January–March
03/31/24Easter Bunny — Eugenious
03/30/24Anywhere But Here — Silverada
03/29/24I Think We’re Old Enough — Adult Mom
03/28/24Night Train to Munich — Al Stewart (featuring Laurence Juber)
03/27/24Istanbul (Not Constantinople) — They Might Be Giants
03/26/24Jealous — Halflives
03/25/24Never Gonna Give You Up — Scary Pockets (featuring Reeve Carney)
03/24/24Hard Headed Woman — JJ Huggins
03/23/24Follow Me — Uncle Kracker
03/22/24Every Night — The Human Expression
03/21/24Wonderin’ — The Squires
03/20/24Let The Rain Be Me — The Magic Mushrooms
03/19/24She Came Out Of The Sky — The Things
03/18/24By the Way — Red Hot Chili Peppers
03/17/24If I Should Fall from Grace with God — The Pogues
03/16/24Fisherman’s Blues — The Waterboys
03/15/24When I Come Around — Green Day
03/14/24Gives You Hell — The All-American Rejects
03/13/24She’s The One — World Party
(How could it come to this?)
03/12/24All By Myself — Eric Carmen
(Love is all that matters…)
03/11/24One Track Mind — The Knickerbockers
03/10/24Standing in the Rain — The James Gang
03/09/24Candida — Tony Orlando & Dawn
03/08/24Early in the Morning — Vanity Fare
03/07/24Yellow Submarine — The Beatles
03/06/24When You’re In Love With A Beautiful Woman — Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show
03/05/24Call Me — Blondie
03/04/24Shake Your Groove Thing — Peaches & Herb
03/03/24Living On Video — Trans-X
03/02/24Your Love — Lime
03/01/24Love Is in the Air — John Paul Young
02/29/24Leap of Faith — Bruce Springsteen
02/28/24Help Me Girl — The Animals
02/27/24Automatic — The Pointer Sisters
02/26/24I Wonder If I Take You Home — Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam
02/25/24A Love Bizarre — Shelia E.
02/24/24Give It To Me Baby — Rick James
02/23/24Let It Whip — Dazz Band
02/22/24I Feel for You — Chaka Kahn
02/21/24Kiss — Prince
02/20/24I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me) — Whitney Houston
02/19/24Into the Groove — Madonna
02/18/24Tell It to My Heart — Taylor Dayne
02/17/24Sweet Dreams — La Bouche
02/15/24Fresh — Kool & The Gang
02/15/24What’s Love Got to Do with It — Tina Turner
02/14/24I Can’t Make You Love Me — Bonnie Raitt
02/13/24Misty Blue — Dorothy Moore
02/12/24Groove Me — King Floyd
02/11/24Hush Baby Hush — Buju Banton
02/10/24Bounce Baby Bounce — Struggle Brothers
02/09/24Instead — Madeleine Peyroux
02/08/24For the Good Times — The Little Willies
02/07/24The Nearness of You — Norah Jones
02/06/24Beer for My Horses — Toby Keith
("I wanted to write the best songs I could write.")
02/05/24Have I Told You Lately — Van Morrison
02/04/24She’s A Mystery To Me — Roy Orbison
02/03/24Montana — The Mothers of Invention
02/02/24Anywhere, Montana — The Colony Motel
02/01/24Together Again — Mungo Jerry
01/31/24I Need You — The Beatles
01/30/24I Need You — America
01/29/24Warm Ways — Fleetwood Mac
01/28/24Hard to Say — Dan Fogelberg
01/27/24Back On The Road — Joe Egan
01/26/24Talking Out Of Turn — The Moody Blues
01/25/24Ruby Tuesday — Melanie
(So, raise the candles high)
01/24/24Lazy Days — Rick Fenn
01/23/24Johnny Too Bad — The Slickers
01/22/24The Way You Do the Things You Do — UB40
01/21/24Every Kinda People — Robert Palmer
01/20/24Real Love — The Doobie Brothers
01/19/24Glad Tidings — Van Morrison
01/18/24Copperline — James Taylor
01/17/24Don’t Forget About Me — Emphatic
01/16/24Friends — Mike Francis
01/15/24Expressway (To Your Heart) — The Soul Survivors
01/14/24You Belong to Me — The Doobie Brothers
01/13/24Short People — Randy Newman
01/12/24Down in New Orleans — Dr. John
01/11/24Rosalita’s Wedding Day — The Colony Motel
01/10/249 Volt Heart — The Iguanas
01/09/24The Light Comes From Within — Linda McCartney
01/08/24Everyday Is Like Sunday — Pretenders
01/07/24Like the Weather — 10,000 Maniacs
01/06/24Watching the Detectives — Elvis Costello
01/05/24Ain’t None of Your Business — Detective
01/04/24Still In Love With You — Sherbet
01/03/24I Can't Believe How Much I Love You — Tony Orlando & Dawn
01/02/24I'll Never Dance Again — The Wynners
01/01/24New Year — Kate York
2023 October–December
12/31/23Let's Go Crazy — Prince and the Revolution
12/30/23Long Road Out of Eden — Eagles
12/29/23Naughty Naughty — John Parr
12/28/23(Don’t Go Back to) Rockville — R.E.M.
12/27/23Tom Dooley — The Smothers Brothers
("It's no fun playin' with a chicken.")
12/26/23Christmas Surprise — Hans Zimmer
12/25/23Let’s Drink a Toast — The Troggs
12/24/23What Christmas Means to Me — Mitch Ryder
12/23/23Two Tickets to Paradise — Eddie Money
12/22/23Free Ride — Edgar Winter
12/21/23Rockin’ Down the Highway — The Doobie Brothers
12/20/23Give A Little Bit — Supertramp
12/19/23Still... You Turn Me On — Emerson, Lake & Palmer
12/18/23Can’t Get It Out of My Head — Electric Light Orchestra
12/17/23Something About You — Bad Company
12/16/23Colour My World — Chicago
12/15/23Longer — Dan Fogelberg
12/14/23Hard Habit to Break — Chicago
12/13/23Babe — Styx
12/12/23The Flame — Cheap Trick
12/11/23Missing You — John Waite
12/10/23Oh Sherrie — Steve Perry
12/09/23Kyrie — Mr. Mister
12/08/23Nobody Told Me — John Lennon
12/07/23Late in the Evening — Paul Simon
12/06/23Time To Hide — Paul McCartney and Wings
(“I like to live in the future” — Denny Laine)
12/05/23Bend Me, Shape Me — The American Breed
12/04/23Black Coffee — Humble Pie
12/03/23Good Feeling — Three Dog Night
12/02/23Good Times, Bad Times — Rolling Stones
12/01/23Only a Fool Would Say That — Steely Dan
11/30/23The Ghost of a Smile — The Pogues
("I shall not die, though you bury me!")
11/29/23Javanaise — Claude Bolling (featuring Jean-Pierre Rampal)
11/28/23Heartache Tonight — Eagles
11/27/23It’s a Heartache — Bonnie Tyler
11/26/23Betty Davis Eyes — Kim Carnes
11/25/23Sharing the Night Together — Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show
11/24/23Slow Hand — The Pointer Sisters
11/23/23Love — John Lennon
11/22/23Unconscious Power — Iron Butterfly
11/21/23Keep It Heavy — Creme Soda
11/20/23Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger — Daft Punk
11/19/23Last Good Time In Town — Eagles
11/18/23I Feel Free — Cream
11/17/23Y.M.C.A. — Village People
11/16/23Jazzman — Carole King
11/15/23Moonhaze — Denny Ray Pelletier
11/14/23Closer To You — Adelitas Way
11/13/23Crash into Me — Dave Mathews Band
11/12/23Carnival — Natalie Merchant
11/11/23Sky Pilot — Eric Burdon and the Animals
11/10/23Back Again — Dog Wings
11/09/23Barely Breathing — Duncan Sheik
11/08/23Counting Blue Cars (Tell Me Your Thoughts On God) — Dishwalla
11/07/23I’ll Get It Right — Nathan Graham
11/06/23Maybe Tomorrow — Stereophonics
11/05/23Back In Time — Huey Lewis & The News
11/04/23Batteries Not Included — D₵
(I'm powered for another decade)
11/03/23Breathless — Dan Wilson
11/02/23Bell Bottom Blues — Derek & The Dominoes
11/01/23Badge — Cream
10/31/23The Ghost Song — Jim Morrison (music by The Doors)
10/30/23Sorry — Art of Dying
10/29/23My World — SR-71
10/28/23Indian Summer — America
10/27/23Love Changes (Everything) — Climie Fisher
10/26/23Don’t Say You Don’t Remember — Beverly Bremers
10/25/23Don’t Save Me — The Is Not Real
10/24/23Make a Move — Icon for Hire
10/23/23Walking the Line — The Emotions
10/22/23Waiting For the Sun — The Jayhawks
10/21/23Two Of Us — The Beatles
10/20/23Do Your Thing — Isaac Hayes
10/19/23Just Between You and Me — Lou Gramm
10/18/23Sweetheart — Franke and the Knockouts
10/17/23Heart Hotels — Dan Fogelberg
10/16/23Got a Hold on Me — Christine McVie
10/15/23The Long Run — Eagles
10/14/23Valerie — Steve Winwood
10/13/23You Haven’t Done Nothin’ — Stevie Wonder
10/12/23Nothing from Nothing — Billy Preston
10/11/23Heart and Soul — Huey Lewis & The News
10/10/23Let Me Take You Home Tonight — Boston
10/09/23Europa (Earth’s Cry Heaven’s Smile) — Santana
10/08/23Where the River Flows — Collective Soul
10/07/23Real World — Matchbox Twenty
10/06/23Rain — The Cult
10/05/23Oh Yeah! — Roxy Music
10/04/23Bizarre Love Triangle — New Order
10/03/23Love Will Find a Way — Yes
10/02/23Hard To Be — The Vaughan Brothers
10/01/23Wrap It Up — The Thunderbirds
2023 July–September
09/30/23Your Love Is Driving Me Crazy — Sammy Hagar
09/29/23Rock Me Tonight — Billy Squier
09/28/23Johnny and Mary — Robert Palmer
09/27/23Where Have All the Cowboys Gone — Paula Cole
09/26/23The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Theme — Jerry Goldsmith
(One of our spies is missing)
09/25/23Everything That Touches You — The Association
("I'm just going to shorten my name to Cherish.” — Terry Kingman)
09/24/23Seq — Seven Side
09/23/23I Want You (She’s So Heavy) — The Beatles
09/22/23Summer — The Alchemy
09/21/23In a Lifetime — Clannad
09/20/23I Don’t Want to Live Without You — Foreigner
08/19/23Lady, Lady, Lady — Joe “Bean” Esposito
09/18/23Little Jeanie — Elton John
09/17/23Bye Bye Love — David Lindley
09/16/23Time to Make a Turn — Crow
09/15/23Angel Eyes — The Jeff Healey Band
09/14/23Undercover Angel — Alan O’Day
09/13/23Fire — The Pointer Sisters
09/12/23And We Danced — The Hooters
09/11/23No Way Out — Jefferson Starship
09/10/23Good Times Roll — The Cars
09/09/23Thunder and Lightning — Chi Coltrane
09/08/23Back on the Chain Gang — Pretenders
09/07/23A Good Heart — Feargal Sharkey
09/06/23All Star — Smash Mouth
(Too many, too soon…)
09/05/23Dream Weaver — Gary Wright
("I always wanted to do something completely different.")
09/04/23Working Class Hero — Green Day
09/03/23Shelter — Zach Jones & the Tricky Bits
09/02/23Come Monday — Jimmy Buffett
("If there is a heaven for me, I’m sure there is a beach attached.")
09/01/23That Girl Could Sing — Jackson Browne
08/31/23My Kind of Life — LeFever
08/30/23School Days — Chuck Berry
08/29/23Wish You Were Here — Fleetwood Mac
08/28/23You Came — Kim Wilde
08/27/23Get Here — Oleta Adams
08/26/23Don't Dream It's Over — Sixpense None the Richer
08/25/23Sometimes Love Just Ain’t Enough — Patty Smyth and Don Henley
08/24/23Show Me — Pretenders
08/23/23Love Will Lead You Back — Taylor Dayne
08/22/23I Just Can’t Let Go — David Pack
08/21/23Never Let Her Go — David Gates
08/20/23I'll Still Be Loving You — Restless Heart
08/19/23You Were On My Mind — We Five
08/18/23Don’t Get Me Wrong — Pretenders
08/17/23Words Get In the Way — Miami Sound Machine
08/16/23Cool Night — Paul Davis
08/15/23The Valley Road — Bruce Hornsby and the Range
08/14/23Tender Is the Night — Jackson Browne
(My 3000th Song of the Day selection)
08/13/23Heart of the Night — Poco
08/12/23Girls On the Avenue — Richard Clapton
08/11/23Never Change — Crystal Skies (featuring Gallie Fisher)
08/10/23To Kingdom Come — The Band
("Boy, do I got some stories to tell.")
08/09/23Mercy — Duffy
08/08/23Rescue Me — Fontella Bass
08/07/23Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be) — Doris Day
08/06/23Hard Times — Paramore
08/05/23Destination Unknown — Missing Persons
08/04/23So What — P!nk
08/03/23Girlfriend — Avril Lavigne
08/02/23Fuck You — Lily Allen
08/01/23The Sweet Escape — Gwen Stefani
07/31/23Believe — The Bravery
07/30/23Getaway — Tritonal (featuring Angel Taylor)
07/29/23Make Your Own Kind of Music — Will-O-Bees
07/28/23Take It to the Limit — Eagles
("I think you miss a person more after they're gone for a while.")
07/27/23Nothing Compares 2 U — Sinéad O’Connor
("To say what you feel is to dig your own grave.")
07/26/23Don’t Bring Me Down — Juliana Hatfield
07/25/23Crystals from the Sky — Apollo Twins
07/24/23You Can Never Go Home — The Moody Blues
07/23/23Don't Wake Me Up — Awakend (featuring Luma)
07/22/23I Wanna Be Around — Tony Bennett
(The best singer in the business)
07/21/23Sympathy — Jo. Cohen (featuring Coral Oulu)
07/20/23Not Dawn Yet — The Colony Motel
07/19/23With My Face On the Floor — Emitt Rhodes
07/18/23Pretty Flamingo — Manfred Mann
07/17/23Song For Susan — Crosby, Stills & Nash
07/16/23Rainy Day, Dream Away — Jimi Hendrix
07/15/23Long Long Time — Linda Ronstadt
07/14/23Breathless — Gine Desire
07/13/23Girl In Blue — Animal Sun
07/12/23Perfectly Untrue — Lucia & The Best Boys
07/11/23Take Me to the River — Talking Heads
07/10/23Still Rainin’ — Jonny Lang
07/09/23Stormy — Classics IV
07/08/23Cruel Summer — Bananarama
07/07/23Soak Up the Sun — Sheryl Crow
07/06/23(Love Is Like A) Heat Wave — Martha and The Vandellas
07/05/23No One Is To Blame — Howard Jones
07/04/23Almost Independance Day — Van Morrision
07/03/23Find the Good — Action Skulls
07/02/23Constant Rain — Sergio Mendez & Brazil ‘66
07/01/23Blue Sky — The Allman Brothers Band
2023 April–June
06/30/23Riptide — Vance Joy
06/29/23Love Shack — The B-52s
06/28/23Two of Hearts — Stacey Q
06/27/23Stayin’ Alive — N-Trance
06/26/23Good Feeling — Flo Rida
06/25/23Substitution — Purple Disco Machine
06/24/23The House Is Rockin’ — Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble
06/23/23Levitating — Dua Lipa
06/22/23Hung Up — Madonna
06/21/23Say It Right — Nelly Furtado
06/20/23I Feel It Coming — The Weeknd
06/19/23Freedom — Beyoncé (featuring Kendrick Lamar)
06/18/23My Old Man — Zac Brown Band
06/17/23Rain — The Beatles
06/16/23Don’t Call Us (We’ll Call You) — Sugarloaf
06/15/23Summer of ’71 — Helen Reddy
06/14/23Lonely Song — The Electric Flag
06/13/23Sweet Cherry Wine — Tommy James & The Shondells
06/12/23Sweet Mary — Wadsworth Mansion
06/11/23Jim Dandy — Black Oak Arkansas
06/10/23Orange Skies — Love
06/09/23Smoke On the Water — Deep Purple
06/08/23Spanish Caravan — George Winston
(“I just play the songs the best I can”)
06/07/23The Shape I’m In — The Band
06/06/23The Girl From Ipanema — Astrud Gilberto
(Each one she passes goes, "Ah")
06/05/23Whole Lotta Love — The Tiers
(June 5th 1970 was the final performance of The Tiers, St. Luke’s United Methodist Church, Omaha)
06/04/23I’m Almost Ready — Pure Prairie League
06/03/23Searchin’ for a Rainbow — The Marshall Tucker Band
06/02/23You Need a Hero — Pages
06/01/23Suspicions — Eddie Rabbit
05/31/23You Belong to Me — Carly Simon
05/30/23Could It Be Magic — Donna Summer
05/29/23Aura — The Church
05/28/23A Little More Love — Olivia Newton-John
05/27/23C’est La Vie — Robbie Nevil
05/26/23Constant Craving — k.d. lang
05/25/23The Best — Tina Turner
(Simply the best)
05/24/23Maggie’s Farm — Bob Dylan
05/23/23My Mirage — Iron Butterfly
05/22/23More Love — Kim Carnes
05/21/23Lady Blue — Leon Russell
05/20/23Ebony Eyes — Rick James and Smokey Robinson
05/19/23Reunited — Peaches & Herb
05/18/23Just Don’t Want to Be Lonely — Blue Magic
05/17/23Walking In Rhythm — The Blackbirds
05/16/23Hearts — Marty Balin
05/15/23In My House — Mary Jane Girls
05/14/23Mom — Earth, Wind & Fire
05/13/23Feels So Real (Won't Let Go) — Patrice Rushen
05/12/23Watching You — Slave
05/11/23Bon bon vie (Gimme the Good Life) — T.S. Monk
05/10/23I Heard It Through the Grapevine — The California Raisins
05/09/23Shame — Evelyn “Champagne” King
05/08/23We Like Tequila — Tortured Soul
05/07/23Only the Lonely — The Motels
05/06/23I.G.Y. — Donald Fagen
05/05/23Oye Como Va — Santana
05/04/23Bicycle Race — Queen
05/03/23Is It You — Lee Ritenour
05/02/23Beautiful — Gordon Lightfoot
("Every time I hear a song of his, it's like I wish it would last forever." — Bob Dylan)
05/01/23Mayday — The Fat Rat (featuring Laura Brehm)
04/30/23Oh, I — Funkadelic
04/29/23You and I — Delegation
04/28/23Before the Rain — Lee Oskar
04/27/23Shelter (Ease Up) — Stop Press!
04/26/231978 — Jill Winter
04/25/23Jamaica Farewell — Harry Belafonte
(Farewell activist, actor, advisor, balladeer, humanitarian, and conscience of the world)
04/24/23If She Knew What She Wants — The Bangles
04/23/23She Is — Palmer (featuring Rachel Leanne)
04/22/23Basketball Jones — Cheech & Chong
04/21/23Mais Que Nada — Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66
04/20/23Suavecito — MALO
04/19/23People Get Up and Drive Your Funky Soul — James Brown
04/18/23Funky Rotator — Zamali
04/17/23Rock to the Beat — 101
04/16/23Push! — The Invincible Spirit
04/15/23Unveiling the Secret — Psyche
04/14/23Love My Way — The Psychedelic Furs
04/13/23Dreams of Glory — The Stone Coyotes
(Never give up)
04/12/23Another Nail In My Heart — Squeeze
04/11/23Watching the Wheels — John Lennon
04/10/23Long May You Run — Neil Young
04/09/23I Want Candy — The Strangeloves
04/08/23You Can’t Stop a Dreamer — Julian Fulco Perron
04/07/23Satellite — Guster
04/06/23Telstar — The Tornados
04/05/23Terrified — Guster
04/04/23Meadows — Joe Walsh
04/03/23Tend My Garden/Garden Gate — The James Gang
04/02/23The Sheltering Sky — Ryuichi Sakamoto
(Art is long, life is short)
04/01/23Fool — Djo
2023 January–March
03/31/23Beautiful Strangers — Kevin Morby
03/30/23Mykonos — Fleet Foxes
03/29/23California Stars — Billy Bragg and Wilco
03/28/23Windows Over You — The Colony Motel
03/27/23Don’t Notice You — Old Crush
03/26/23Turn Me Loose — The Record Company
03/25/23Ain’t Got the Blues — Swing Snake Blues
03/24/23Rockin’ the Blues Away — Paul James Band
03/23/23Mercury Blues — David Lindley
03/22/23Everlasting Love — Carl Carlton
03/21/23Stop and Listen — The Shag
03/20/23Whenever I’m Away from You — Gary Benson
03/19/23Rollen — Pineapple Willows
03/18/23Layla — Derek and the Dominos
(Such a troubled life)
03/17/23I’m Shipping Off to Boston — Dropkick Murphys
03/16/23Under My Thumb — Suzanna Hoffs
03/15/23Tempted — Squeeze
03/14/23See See Baby — Freddy King
03/13/23Moonshine Boogie — Tobacco Road Blues Band
03/12/23Just a Gigolo/I Ain’t Got Nobody — David Lee Roth
03/11/23Fadeaway — BoDeans
03/10/23Rock & Roll Widow — Three Dog Night
03/09/23Something to Talk About — Bonnie Raitt
03/08/23Pride and Joy — Stevie Ray Vaughn
03/07/23Lie to Me — Jonny Lang
03/06/23Simple Man — Lynyrd Skynyrd
(The last survivor has flown)
03/05/23Tomorrow Is the Last To Be Heard — Gypsy
(A Rock & Roll Nomad no longer, the Owl is gone)
03/04/23Will o’ the Wisp — DeWolff
03/03/23Stealin’ — Uriah Heep
03/02/23Tumbling Dice — The Rolling Stones
03/01/23Young Americans — David Bowie
02/28/23Silver Bird — Mark Lindsay
02/27/23Heavy — Collective Soul
02/26/23Cherry Bomb — John Mellencamp
02/25/23Cherry Bomb — The Runaways
02/24/23Rock ’n’ Roll (Part 2) — Gary Glitter
02/23/23Crazy Train — Ozzy Osborne
02/22/23Peace of Mind — Boston
02/21/23Those Shoes — Eagles
02/20/23Stranger In My House — Ronnie Mislay
02/19/23Somebody’s Knockin’ — Terri Gibbs
02/18/23Winter Song — Crash Test Dummies
02/17/23Nobody — Sylvia
02/16/23It’s a Heartache — Juice Newton
02/15/23When Will I Be Loved — Linda Ronstadt
02/14/23Endless Love — Diana Ross (with Lionel Richie)
02/13/23Shackles — Steven Rodrigues
02/12/23I Get Off — Halestorm
02/11/23What You Need — INXS
02/10/23This Guy’s in Love with You — Burt Bacharach
(“Never be afraid of the melody.”)
02/09/23Kicks — Paul Revere & the Raiders
02/08/23Under the Boardwalk — The Drifters
(That voice)
02/07/23Turn to Stone — Joe Walsh
02/06/23Fool for the City — Foghat
02/05/23Call Me The Breeze — Lynyrd Skynyrd
01/04/23Evil Ways — Santana
01/03/23I’m Movin’ On — George Thorogood & The Destroyers
02/02/23Turn It On, Turn It Up, Turn Me On — Dwight Yoakam
02/01/23Take a Letter, Maria — R.B. Greaves
01/31/23Money (That's What I Want) — Barrett Strong
(The hit that started it all)
01/29/23Shambala — Three Dog Night
(Floyd provided the muscle and flash)
01/29/311880 Or So — Television
(“I could leave this world quite without a care.”)
01/28/23Wild Night — Van Morrision
01/27/23Do It Or Die — Atlanta Rhythm Section
(It's been a Stormy 2023. Thanks for so many wonderful keyboard memories.)
01/26/23Inner City Blues — Molly Johnson
01/25/23Rude Mood — Stevie Ray Vaughn
01/24/23Out of the Silent Planet — King’s X
01/23/23Too Rolling Stoned — Robin Trower
01/22/23Train Kept a Rollin’ — Aerosmith
01/21/23When It’s Over — Loverboy
01/20/23Guinnevere — Crosby, Stills & Nash
("It might be my best song.")
01/19/23Bad Reputation — Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
01/18/23Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia) — Us3
01/17/23Makin’ Me High — Neko Milkshake
01/16/23Scarface (Push It to the Limit) — Paul Engemann
01/15/23No One Like You — Scorpions
01/14/23Roll On Down the Highway — Bachman-Turner Overdrive
(Yet another sad depature)
01/13/23Thanx — Lisa Marie Presley
(What a week)
01/12/23Stand On It — Jeff Beck
(The shop has closed)
01/11/23Mama Told Me Not to Come — Three Dog Night
01/10/23Wild Child — Sugarloaf & Jerry Corbetta
01/09/23Blue Moanin’ — Bachman-Turner Overdrive
01/08/23Slow Ride — Foghat
01/07/23Standin’ Out at Midnight — Wentus Blues Band
01/06/23Blues Drops Falling — Cristian Roccia
01/05/23Come Alone — Andres Meza
01/04/23The Road Blues — Luminal Abnormality
01/03/23Whole Lotta Rosie — AC/DC
01/02/23Facing Time — Gypsy
01/01/23More Than a Memory — Anita Pointer
(A last goodbye in 2022)
2022 October–December
12/31/22Up We Go — Lights
12/30/22Back to California — Sugarcult
12/29/22Electricity — Midnight Star
12/28/22I Wonder What She’s Doing Tonight? — Tommy Boyce & Bobby Hart
12/27/22Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter — Herman's Hermits
12/26/22I Woke Up In Love This Morning — The Partridge Family
12/25/22It Kinda Looks Like Christmas — The Royal Guardsmen
12/24/22You’re a Mean One, Mr Grinch — Small Town Titans
12/23/22Cold Rain and Snow — Grateful Dead
12/22/22Light It Up — Orianthi
12/21/22Higher Ground — Leilani Kilgore
12/20/22Enjoy Yourself It's Later Than You Think — The Specials
("All you can do is put your point across.")
12/19/22Strut — Adam Lambert
12/18/22It Takes Time — Shirley Eikhard
(She gave us something to talk about)
12/17/22Wang Dang Doodle — Savoy Brown
(Kim loved performing this one)
12/16/22Love Is a Beautiful Thing — The Young Rascals
(Dino Danelli: he was one of the best)
12/15/22Everything You’re Breathing For — The Parlor Mob
12/14/22Stop — Tony Spinner
12/13/22Keep On Swinging — Rival Sons
12/12/22Too Tired (For Common Sense} — The Sedonas
12/11/22Too Old to Die Young — Brother Dege
12/10/22Angel on My Shoulder — The Richie Scholl Band
12/09/22True Friends — Shannon Curfman
12/08/22Pleased to Meet You — Saint Jude
12/07/22Push that Rock up the Hill — Ghost Hounds
12/06/22Hard to Love — Bonneville
12/05/22Stranded in Sofia — The Colony Motel
12/04/22The Giant — Chris Cawthray
12/03/22Bring On the Dancing Horses — Echo and the Bunnymen
12/02/22M.E. — Gary Numan
12/01/22Songbird — Fleetwood Mac
(No more encores…)
11/30/22Take It Back — Cream
11/29/22The Creeper — Gypsy
11/28/22My Back Pages — Bob Dylan
11/27/22Fame — Irene Cara
(We remember)
11/26/22Paris Blues — The Doors
11/25/22Black Friday — Rod MacDonald
11/24/22Thanksgiving Theme — Vince Guaraldi Trio
11/23/22Home — Smash Mouth
11/22/22We Can Fly — The Cowsills
11/21/22Hitchin’ a Ride — Vanity Fare
11/20/22Venus — Shocking Blue
11/19/22Mickey’s Monkey / Love Lights — The Young Rascals
11/18/22Travelin' Man — Ricky Nelson
11/17/22Tales of Brave Ulysses — Cream
11/16/229 to 5 — Dolly Parton
11/15/22No Excess Baggage — The Yardbirds
11/14/22Everywhere — Fleetwood Mac
11/13/22You’re the Only Woman (You & I) — Ambrosia
11/12/22Dance Floor — The Apples in Stereo
11/11/22The Story of a Soldier — Ennio Morricone (The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly Soundtrack)
11/10/22Where Are You Now — Nazareth
(Another sad departure)
11/09/22The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia — Vicki Lawrence
11/08/22Elected — Alice Cooper
11/07/22It Keeps You Runnin’ — The Doobie Brothers
11/06/22Suspended In Time — Olivia Newton-John
11/05/22Night By Night — Steely Dan
11/04/22Flight of the Phoenix — Grand Funk Railroad
11/03/22Free Wheelin’ — Bachman-Turner Overdrive
11/02/22Shayla — Blondie
11/01/22Candy — Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
10/31/22Things That Go Bump In The Night — Allstars
10/30/22You Must Be Evil — Chris Rea
10/29/22Rock and Roll — Jerry Lee Lewis (featuring Jimmy Page)
(All Killer, No Filler)
10/28/22Riding the Blues — Snowy White
10/27/22Back to the Dirty Town — The Blues Mystery
10/26/22Back to Bonneville — Dealers Choice
10/25/22’66 Bonneville — Bonneville
10/24/22Jammin’ — The New Boyfriends
10/23/22Do It ('Til You’re Satisfied) — B.T. Express
10/22/22So Much Fun — A.J. Croce
10/21/22Every Morning — Sugar Ray
10/20/22Runaway — Jefferson Starship
10/19/22Sea of Heartbreak — Johnny Cash
10/18/22Hey You — Bachman-Turner Overdrive
10/17/22Box of Rain — Grateful Dead
10/16/22Turn It On Again — Genesis
10/15/22That, That Is — Yes
10/14/22Before Time Began — Deep Purple
10/13/22Edward, The Mad Shirt Grinder — Quicksilver Messenger Service
10/12/22Fur Elise / Moonlight Sonata — Vanilla Fudge
10/11/22In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida — Iron Butterfly
10/10/22On the Other Side — Kansas
10/09/22Just Be Good To Me — The S.O.S. Band
10/08/22I Can Make You Dance (Part 1) — Zapp
10/07/22Walking Into Sunshine — Central Line
10/06/22Time for Bedlam — Deep Purple
10/05/22Who’s Gonna Miss Me? — Loretta Lynn
(Everyone)
10/04/22I Saw Her Again — The Mamas & The Papas
10/03/22Elenore — The Turtles
10/02/22Eleanor Rigby — Booker T. & The M.G.’s
10/01/22Glide — Pleasure
2022 July–September
09/30/22Movin’ — Brass Construction
09/29/22Everybody Get Up — Marz Funk Band
09/28/22Ruby Baby — Donald Fagen
09/27/22A Girl Like You — The Rascals
09/26/22Lucretia’s Reprise — Blood, Sweat & Tears
09/25/22Lucretia Mac Evil — Blood, Sweat & Tears
09/24/22On the Dark Side — John Cafferty & The Beaver Brown Band
09/23/22The Heart of the Matter — Don Henley
09/22/22Malibu — Hole
09/21/22I’ll Fall In Love Again — Sammy Hagar
09/20/22How About That — Bad Company
09/19/22Since You Been Gone — Head East
09/18/22Nobody’s Fault But Mine — Led Zeppelin
09/17/22U.S. Blues — Grateful Dead
09/16/22New York Groove — KISS
09/15/22Little Guitars — Van Halen
09/14/22Time Waits for No One — The Rolling Stones
09/13/22Hang On Sloopy — The Ramsey Lewis Trio
(So many licks!)
09/12/22Jenny Take a Ride! — Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels
09/11/22I’m Alive — Don Fardon
09/10/22Gettin' Together — Tommy James & the Shondells
09/09/22Don't Let the Sun Go Down On Me — Elton John
09/08/22Let It Ride — Bachman-Turner Overdrive
09/07/22Time for Me to Fly — REO Speedwagon
09/06/22The Rain Song — Led Zeppelin
09/05/22Stormy Monday — The Allman Brothers Band
09/04/22Do It Again — The Beach Boys
09/03/22Follow You Follow Me — Genesis
09/02/22Joy of a Toy — Roxette
09/01/22Nothin’ At All — Heart
08/31/22Baby’s On Fire — Sammy Hagar
08/30/22All or Nothing — Little Bob Story
08/29/22Pictures of Matchstick Men — Status Quo
08/28/22Hand of Fate — The Rolling Stones
08/27/22Can’t Shake It — Angel City
08/26/22Rock ’n’ Roll Outlaw — Rose Tattoo
08/25/22Heart Full of Soul — Jeff Beck
08/24/22Mr. Soul — Buffalo Springfield
08/23/22You Beat Me to the Punch — Mary Wells
08/22/22That’s Life — Hurly Burly
08/21/22She’s Waiting — Eric Clapton
08/20/22Born In Time — Darren Meechan
08/19/22[They Long To Be] Close To You — Carpenters
08/18/22Touch and Go — The Cars
08/17/22Cruel To Be Kind — Nick Lowe
08/16/22You Wear It Well — Rod Stewart
08/15/22Walk Me Home — P!nk
08/14/22Another Park, Another Sunday — The Doobie Brothers
08/13/22Day After Day — Gypsy
(Another Gypsy has passed... bassist Randy Cates)
08/12/22Love Is the Answer — Todd Rundgren
08/11/22Uphill Battle — Rozzi
08/10/22The Carnival Is Over — The Seekers
(Goodbye Judith Durham)
08/09/22Zanadu — Olivia Newton-John
(Eternally)
08/08/22My Old School — Steely Dan
08/07/22Dreams — Van Halen
08/06/22Jenny Come On — Dressy Bessy
08/05/22Summer Nights — Van Halen
08/04/22Gloria — The Shadows of Knight
08/03/22Turn Around In Tokyo — The Baby’s
08/02/22Oh Sarah — Sturgill Simpson
08/01/22Jane — Jefferson Starship
07/31/22Everybody (Backstreet’s Back) — Backstreet Boys
07/30/22The End — The Beatles
07/29/22Fantastic Voyage — Lakeside
07/28/22I’ll Be Good To You — The Brothers Johnson
07/27/22Tell Me Something Good — Rufus (featuring Chaka Khan)
07/26/22Spacetime Fairytale — Regina Spektor
07/25/22I Wish It Would Rain — The Temptations
07/24/22Whispering Pines — The Band
(Playin' for the Pines, today!)
07/23/22Hey You — Pink Floyd
07/22/22It’s a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock ’N’ Roll) — AC/DC
07/21/22There’s a Kind of Hush — Herman’s Hermits
07/20/22Cracklin’ Rosie — Neil Diamond
07/19/22You’re the One — The Vogues
07/18/22You Baby — The Turtles
07/17/22Sunday Will Never Be The Same — Spanky and Our Gang
07/16/22And She Was — Talking Heads
07/15/22Melissa — The Allman Brothers Band
07/14/22Start Me Up — The Rolling Stones
07/13/22Hungry — Paul Revere & The Raiders
07/12/22A Million Dreams — P!nk
07/11/22At the Library — Green Day
07/10/22Plush — Stone Temple Pilots
07/09/22All Apologies — Nirvana
07/08/22Possum Kingdom — The Toadies
07/07/22Love Hurts — Nazareth
(Manny certainly found his “racket”)
07/06/22I’ll Never Find Another (Find Another Like You) — The Manhattans
07/05/22I’ll Never Find Another You — The Seekers
07/04/22Me and Bobby McGee — Janis Joplin
07/03/22Wildflower — The New Birth
07/02/22If I Ever Lose This Heaven — Average White Band
07/01/22Come Go With Me — Pockets
2022 April–June
06/30/22Zoom — The Commodores
06/29/22Bright Eyes — Art Garfunkel
06/28/22Love’s Holiday — Earth, Wind & Fire
(42nd anniversary!)
06/27/22Caterpillar — The Third Eye
06/26/22Trilogy: Lovin' Me/To Make a Woman Feel Wanted/Peace of Mind — Loggins & Messina
06/25/22It’s Not Up to You — Bjork
06/24/22It’s a Crime — Fat Chance
06/23/22New Orleans Ladies — Louisiana’s LeRoux
06/22/22Bittersweet — Big Head Todd and the Monsters
06/21/22It Must Be Summer — Fountains of Wayne
06/20/22Move on Up — Curtis Mayfield
06/19/22The Best Day — George Strait
06/18/22I Just Wanna Stop — Gino Vannelli
06/17/22Black Cow — Steely Dan
06/16/22Still Crazy After All These Years — Paul Simon
06/15/22Seventy — Hall and Oats
(Pleasently surreal)
06/14/22Every Now and Then — The Electric Flag
(Flag Day!)
06/13/22Simply Beautiful — Al Green
06/12/22The Bomber A: Closet Queen B: Bolero C: Cast Your Fate to the Wind (Medley) — The James Gang
06/11/22Mysteries of Love — Julee Cruise
(Floating into the night…)
06/10/22Listen to Your Heart — Durand Jones & The Indications
06/09/22The Way You Make Me Feel — Michael Jackson
06/09/22I’ll Play for You — Seals and Crofts
(And he did)
06/07/22This Masquerade — George Benson
06/06/22Amoreena — Elton John
06/05/22T.V. (Girl on Fire) — The Perfect Disaster
06/04/22Hard to Handle — Grateful Dead
06/03/22I Can See For Miles — The Who
06/02/22I Can See — Durand Jones & The Indications
06/01/22Eyes Without a Face — Billy Idol
05/31/22Tell Me Why — Neil Young
05/30/22The Unknown Soldier — Spiro Gyra
05/29/22Catch the Wind — Donovan
05/28/22Joey — Concrete Blonde
05/27/22Dreaming of Me — Depeche Mode
(Goodbye Andy Fletcher, Alan White, and Ray Liotta)
05/26/22How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You) — Jr. Walker & the All Stars
05/25/22Nowhere to Run — Martha and The Vandellas
05/24/22Low Rider — War
05/23/22Junior Cadillac — Norman Greenbaum
05/22/22Sweet Jane — The Cowboy Junkies
05/21/22The Spy — The Doors
05/20/22Conquest of Paradise — Vangelis
(“Vangelis Papathanassiou is no longer with us.” — Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis)
05/19/22Ruby Tuesday — The Rolling Stones
05/18/22Fever — The Kingsmen
05/17/22Caroline, No — The Beach Boys
05/16/22Golden Years — David Bowie
05/15/22Possession — Sarah McLachlan
05/14/22She’s a Beauty — The Tubes
05/13/22Don’t Forget Me (When I’m Gone) — Glass Tiger
05/12/22If You Should Try to Kiss Her — Dressy Bessy
05/11/22Chick Habit — April March
05/10/22Them Changes — Thundercat
05/09/22Ready for the Floor — Hot Chip
05/08/22Mama, I’m Coming Home — Ozzy Osbourne
05/07/22Traveling Blind — Faces on TV
05/06/22C’mon ’N Ride It (The Train) — Quad City DJ's
05/05/22Cinco De Mayo — War
05/04/22Force — Alan Walker
05/03/22Any Man Can Be a Fool — Rare Earth
05/02/22Love On a Real Train — Tangerine Dream
05/01/22Grandpa (Tell Me ‘Bout the Good Old Days) — The Judds
(So sad)
04/30/22Silly Girl — The Rascals
04/29/22She’s a Rainbow — The Rolling Stones
04/28/22She Comes in Colors — Love
04/27/22Which Way You Goin’, Billy? — The Poppy Family
(Beyond the clouds…)
04/26/22Dream Away — George Harrison
04/25/22Confusion — Electric Light Orchestra
04/24/22Massachusetts — Bee Gees
04/23/22The Hardest Button to Button — The White Stripes
04/22/22This Must Be the Place — Talking Heads
04/21/22I Can’t Decide — Scissor Sisters
04/20/22Beach Party — Hot Chip
04/19/22Never Been to Spain — Three Dog Night
04/18/22Mexico — The Refreshments
04/17/22Fly Away — John Denver (featuring Olivia Newton-John)
04/16/22The Letter — Joe Cocker
04/15/22Okay Okay — Lights
04/14/22Pacing — Tep No
04/13/22One Step to Eternity — Andromeda Dreams
04/12/22Come Alive — Ace Buchannon (featuring Anna Moore)
04/11/22Kyoto — Coastal (featuring Oblique)
04/10/22Take a Long Line — The Angels
04/09/22Don’t Speak — No Doubt
04/08/22Speak Loud — TRILLS
04/07/22Lay Down (Candles in the Rain) — Melanie
04/06/22Dancing in the Street — Martha and The Vandellas
(He was the white brother with soul)
04/05/22Don’t Sleep in the Subway — Petula Clark
04/04/22That Was Only Yesterday — Spooky Tooth
04/03/22Planet Claire — The B-52’s
04/02/22American Girl — Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
04/01/22Fool In the Rain — Led Zeppelin
(No foolin'—my 2500th SOTD pick!)
2022 January–March
03/31/22Straight On — Heart
03/30/22Say You Love Me — Fleetwood Mac
03/29/22Forever in Blue Jeans — Neil Diamond
03/28/22Bang the Drum All Day — Todd Rundgren
03/27/22Praise You — Fatboy Slim
03/26/22Gravediggers & Gunslingers — Coheed and Cambria
(I’m your guy. — Taylor Hawkins)
03/25/22Tenderness — General Public
03/24/22Flower Girl — Thompson Twins
03/23/22When Will I See You Again — The Three Degrees
03/22/22Knock Three Times — Tony Orlando & Dawn
03/21/22Easy Come, Easy Go — Bobby Sherman
03/20/22Springtime — Donald Fagen
03/19/22Tracy — The Cuff Links
03/18/22It Can Happen — Yes
03/17/22Poison Glen — Clannad
03/16/22Unnatural Selection — Muse
03/15/22You, You, You — Ides of March
03/14/22Stroll On — The Yardbirds
03/13/22The Times They Are A-Changin’ — Bob Dylan
03/12/22Big Heartbreak — Sheyda
03/11/22All the Girls Love Alice — Elton John
03/10/22SOS — ABBA
03/09/22Not to Touch the Earth — The Doors
03/08/22Legend of a Mind — The Moody Blues
03/07/22Bad Company — Bad Company
03/06/22Sunny Days — Lighthouse
03/05/22When the Levee Breaks — Led Zeppelin
03/04/22Hey Man Nice Shot — Filter
03/03/22Youth Gone Wild — Skid Row
03/02/22The Man Who Sold the World — David Bowie
03/01/22Why Can’t We Be Friends — War
02/28/22Black Diamond — Bee Gees
02/27/22Resistance — Muse
02/26/22Cold Morning Light — Todd Rundgren
02/25/22Heart of the Sunrise — Yes
02/24/22The One I Love — R.E.M.
02/23/22A Whiter Shade of Pale — Procol Harum
(But the crowd called out for more)
02/22/22Two High — Moon Taxi
(Twos Day)
02/21/22Round and Round — Ratt
02/20/22Nothin’ But a Good Time — Poison
02/19/22Moving In Stereo — The Cars
02/18/22Sound Delight — Pastel Jungle
02/17/22Moonlight Shadow — Mike Oldfield (featuring Maggie Reilly)
01/16/22Dancing Barefoot — Patti Smith
01/15/22Ain’t Talkin’ ‘Bout Love — Van Halen
02/14/22Love Is Like Oxygen — The Sweet
02/13/22Flight of the Ibis — McDonald and Giles
(He got it on)
02/12/22Oh! Sweet Nuthin’ — The Velvet Underground
02/11/22Little Black Submarine — The Black Keys
02/09/22Right Back Where We Started From — Maxine Nightingale
02/08/22Rejoice in the Sun — Joan Baez
(Douglas Trumbull's VFX work starred in many of my favorite movies)
02/07/22I Like It Like That — Pete Rodriguez
02/06/22Come a Little Bit Closer — Jay and the Americans
02/06/22Suffragette City — David Bowie
02/05/22Wind Up — Jethro Tull
02/04/22Slip Slidin’ Away — Paul Simon
02/03/22American Pie — Don McClean
02/02/22I See a Shadow (Not a Fantasy) — Jennifer Rush
02/01/22Instant Karma (We All Shine On) — John Lennon
01/31/22WKRP in Cincinnati — Steve Carlisle
(Give it to me straight, Doctor. I can take it!)
01/30/22I’ve Seen All Good People: a. Your Move, b. All Good People — Yes
01/29/22White Trails — Chris Rainbow
01/28/22New Frontier — Donald Fagen
01/27/22Comes a Time — Neil Young
01/26/22Birdland — Weather Report
01/25/22Jump Into the Fire — Harry Nilsson
01/24/22After Dark — Tito & Tarantula
01/23/22Every 1’s a Winner — Hot Chocolate
01/22/22All Night Long — Mary Jane Girls
01/21/22Heaven Can Wait — Meat Loaf
(Larger than life)
01/20/22Sweet Jane — The Velvet Underground
01/19/22Sweet Virginia — The Rolling Stones
01/18/22In the Beginning — Silver Synthetic
01/17/22In the Still of the Night — The Five Satins
(So long, Fred Parris)
01/16/22Omaha — Counting Crows
01/15/22Indiana Wants Me — Dean Taylor
(Another member of Motown's "The Clan" has passed)
01/14/22Mary Jane’s Last Dance — Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
01/13/22Be My Baby — The Ronettes
(Fairwell Ronnie)
01/12/22Bad Fish — Sublime
01/11/22Short Skirt/Long Jacket — CAKE
01/10/22Ball and Biscuit — The White Stripes
01/09/22Soul Vaccination — Tower of Power
01/08/22Can You Get To That — Funkadelic
(Fly on, sir!)
01/07/22The Ballad of Curtis Lowe — Lynyrd Skynyrd
01/06/22Jailbreak — Thin Lizzy
01/05/22Holy Diver — Dio
01/04/22Man On the Silver Mountain — Rainbow
01/03/22In My Life — The Beatles
01/02/22On Almost Any Sunday Morning — Counting Crows
01/01/22The New Year — Death Cab for Cutie
2021 October–December
12/31/21Happy New New — ABBA
12/30/21It’s All I Can Do — The Cars
12/29/21Intro/3 Strange Days — School of Fish
12/28/21A Long December — Counting Crows
12/27/21Any Road — George Harrison
12/26/21’Twas in the Moon of Wintertime — Pamela Bruner
12/25/21Christmas Wrapping — The Waitresses
12/24/21Santa Clause Is Coming to Town — Bruce Springsteen
12/23/21Christmas Is Coming — Vince Guaraldi Trio
12/22/21With Your Love — Jefferson Starship
12/21/21The Air That I Breathe — The Hollies
12/20/21Solitary Man — Neil Diamond
12/19/21Hey, Hey, What Can I Do? — Led Zeppelin
12/18/21Siren Song — The Alan Parsons Project
12/17/21(Ghost) Riders in the Sky — Outlaws
12/16/21Ride Captain Ride — Blues Image
12/15/21Magic Bus — The Who
12/14/21Life Is a Highway — Tom Cochrane
12/13/21Everybody’s Talking — Harry Nilsson
12/12/21Sunday Morning Coming Down — Kris Krisofferson
12/11/21Good Clean Fun — The Monkees
(Goodbye, Papa Nez)
12/10/21Fast Car — Boyce Avenue (featuring Kina Grannis)
12/09/21Listen, the Snow Is Falling — Galaxie 500
12/08/21Moonlight Feels Right — Starbuck
12/07/21Poetry Man — Phoebe Snow
12/06/21Help Me — Joni Mitchell
12/05/21Touch Me in the Morning — Diana Ross
12/04/21Midnight Blue — Melissa Manchester
12/03/21Classical Gas — Mason Williams
12/02/21It Don’t Come Easy — Ringo Starr
12/01/21Tea For One — Led Zeppelin
11/30/21From the Beginning — Emerson, Lake & Palmer
11/29/21Catch Hell Blues — The White Stripes
11/28/21Feel Like Breaking Up Somebody’s Home — Gov’t Mule
11/27/21Side by Side by Side/What Would We Do Without You? — Stephen Sondheim (Company, original Broadway cast)
“If life were only moments, then you'd never know you had one."
11/26/21Lonely People — America
11/25/21Ode to My Family — The Cranberries
11/24/21Smile In Your Sleep — Silverstein
11/23/21I’m Gonna Crawl — Led Zeppelin
11/22/21How High the Moon — John 5
11/21/21Keep Your Hands to Yourself — Georgia Satellites
11/20/21Go For a Soda — Kim Mitchell
11/19/21I Am the Highway — Audioslave
11/18/21Bring It On Home — Led Zeppelin
11/17/21Riders of the Storm — The Doors
11/16/21Don't Take Me Alive — Steely Dan
11/15/21Lonely Boy — Andrew Gold
11/14/21Keep On Loving You — REO Speedwagon
11/13/21Isn’t It a Pity — George Harrison
11/12/21After You Came — The Moody Blues
(The Search is over)
11/11/21Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick — Ian Dury & The Blockheads
11/10/21Bohemian Like You — The Dandy Warhols
11/09/21It’s All Over, Baby Blue — Them
11/08/21Angel of the Morning — Merrilee Rush & The Turnabouts
11/07/21Turn Back the Hands of Time — Tyrone Davis
11/06/21I Can Hear Music — The Ronettes
11/05/21What Is and What Should Never Be — Led Zeppelin
11/04/21Atlantis — Donovan
11/03/21Loving Cup — The Rolling Stones
11/02/21The Changeling — The Doors
11/01/21Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground — The White Stripes
10/31/21Ghosts ’n’ Stuff — deadmau5
10/30/21The Night Owls — Little River Band
10/29/21Rebel Rouser — Duane Eddy
10/28/21The Wizard — Uriah Heap
10/27/21Four Strong Winds — Neil Young
10/26/21Dream a Little Dream of Me — The Mamas & The Papas
10/25/21Eclipse — Pink Floyd
10/24/21Brain Damage — Pink Floyd
10/23/21They’re Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa! — Napoleon XIV
10/22/21Lucifer — The Alan Parsons Project
10/21/21Green Onions — Booker T. & the M.G.'s
10/20/21Baby, Please Don’t Go — Them
10/19/21Gone Gone Gone (Done Moved On) — Robert Plant and Alison Krauss
10/18/21Think (About It) — Lyn Collins
10/17/21Slightly Hung Over — Blues Delight
10/16/21Birdman of Alcatraz — Rick Wakeman
10/15/21The Thrill Is Gone — B.B. King
10/14/21Golden Brown — The Stranglers
10/13/21The Lady Don’t Mind — Talking Heads
10/12/21Love Her Madly — The Doors
10/11/21(Lover) You Don’t Treat Me No Good — Sonia Dada
10/10/21Slice of Heaven — Dave Dobbyn (featuring Herbs)
10/09/21Ooh La La — Faces
10/08/21Lay Down Sally — Eric Clapton
10/07/21She’s So Cold — The Rolling Stones
10/06/21People Are Strange — The Doors
10/05/21Abracadabra — Steve Miller Band
10/04/21Mendocino — Sir Douglas Quintet
10/03/21The Mexican — Babe Ruth
10/02/21Trouble — Lindsay Buckingham
10/01/21Jeopardy — Greg Kihn Band
2021 July–September
09/30/21(Feels Like) Heaven — Fiction Factory
09/29/21Wild, Wild West — The Escape Club
09/28/21Let’s Go All the Way — Sly Fox
09/27/21Steal Away — Robbie Dupree
09/26/21The Captain of Her Heart — Double
09/25/21Never Gonna Give You Up — Rick Astley
09/24/21Give It Up — KC and The Sunshine Band
09/23/21I Love Music — The O’Jays
09/22/21Groove Is in the Heart — Deee-Lite
09/21/21Misdemeanor — Foster Sylvers
09/20/21It’s a Shame — The Spinners
09/19/21Release the Beast — Breakwater
09/18/21Rock the Boat — The Hues Corporation
09/17/21More, More, More — The Andrea True Connection
09/16/21Take Me in Your Arms (Rock Me a Little While) — The Doobie Brothers
09/15/21Burning Bridges — The Mike Curb Congregation
09/14/21Livin’ Thing — Electric Light Orchestra
09/13/21I Wouldn’t Want to Be Like You — The Alan Parsons Project
09/12/21St. Elmo’s Fire (Man in Motion) — John Parr
09/11/21Freedom Rider — Traffic
09/10/21Goodbye to You — Scandal
09/09/21Scream — Lindsey Buckingham
09/08/21Promises in the Dark — Pat Benatar
09/07/21Stop in the Name of Love — Vanilla Fudge
09/06/21Somebody’s Baby — Jackson Browne
09/05/21Listen to Her Heart — Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
09/04/21Bad Habits — Ed Sheeran
09/03/21Mr. Brightside — The Killers
09/02/21Rain — Madonna
09/01/21My Own Worst Enemy — Lit
08/31/21I Aim Low — Lonesome Brothers
08/30/21Are You Happy — Iron Butterfly
(A heavy day)
08/29/21Green River — Creedence Clearwater Revival
08/28/21Small Town Saturday Night — Hal Ketchum
08/27/21Notorious — Duran Duran
08/26/21Wild Horses — The Rolling Stones
08/25/21Gimme Shelter — The Rolling Stones
(Charlie was the heartbeat)
08/24/21Rockin’ Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu — Johnny Rivers
08/23/21Crying in the Rain — The Everly Brothers
(Another goodbye)
08/22/21It’s Coming Down — CAKE
08/21/21Fishin’ in the Dark — Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
08/20/2180’s Ladies — K. T. Oslin
08/19/21Midnight At the Oasis — Maria Muldaur
08/18/21Lazy Day — Spanky and Our Gang
08/17/21Pretty Ballerina — The Left Banke
08/16/21Walk Like a Man — The Four Seasons
08/15/21Don’t Pull Your Love — Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds
08/15/21Heaven — Nanci Griffith
(Her interpretation of Julie Gold's song seemed appropriate today)
08/13/21Nice to Be with You — Gallery
08/12/21Intro / Me and You and a Dog Named Blue — Los Lobos
08/11/21Come Back When You Grow Up — Bobby Vee
08/10/21Suspicion — Terry Stafford
08/09/21Denise — Randy & the Rainbows
08/08/21Go Your Own Way — Fleetwood Mac
08/07/21Bad Time — Grand Funk Railroad
08/06/21You Should Be Dancing — Bee Gees
08/05/21Keep It Comin’ Love — KC and The Sunshine Band
08/04/21Makin’ It — David Naughton
08/03/21Sky High — Jigsaw
08/02/21Raise a Little Hell — Trooper
08/01/21Mama Let Him Play — Jerry Doucette
07/31/21Sad Eyes — Robert John
07/30/21Getcha Back — The Beach Boys
07/29/21Tush — ZZ Top
(Certified blue)
07/28/21Roll Over Beethoven — The Beatles
07/27/21A Fifth of Beethoven — Walter Murphy
07/26/21Disco Inferno — The Tramps
07/25/21Born To Be Alive — Patrick Hernandez
07/24/21Rock Me Gently — Andy Kim
07/23/21Key Largo — Bertie Higgins
07/22/21A Little Bit More — Dr. Hook
07/21/21Hang On Sloopy — The McCoys
07/20/21Turn to Stone — Electric Light Orchestra
07/19/21You’re Gonna Get Your Fingers Burned — The Alan Parsons Project
07/18/21Blind Alley — Fanny
07/17/21Travelin’ Band — Creedence Clearwater Revival
07/16/21The Power of Rock ’N’ Roll — The Respectables
07/15/21Sunspot Baby — Bob Seger
07/14/21Feel Flows — The Beach Boys
07/13/21Come On Up — The Young Rascals
07/12/21Nobody But Me — The Human Beinz
07/11/217-11 — Ramones
07/10/21Turn Around, Look At Me — The Vogues
07/09/21Don’t You Care — The Buckinghams
07/08/21Temptation Eyes — The Grass Roots
07/07/21Seven and Seven Is — Love
07/06/21Walk Away Renee — The Left Banke
07/05/21After the Rain — Jack Tempchin and The Seclusions
07/04/21Bicentennial Blues (Love It or Leave It) — Ray Manzarek
07/03/21Rainy Day People — Gordon Lightfoot
07/02/21One More Rainy Day — Deep Purple
07/01/21FM — Steely Dan
2021 April–June
06/30/21Sweet City Woman — Stampeders
06/29/21California — Joni Mitchell
06/28/21California — Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
06/27/21California Sun — The Rivieras
06/26/21Boogie Shoes — KC and The Sunshine Band
06/25/21Hot Rod High — The Hondells
06/24/21Mustang Sally — Wilson Pickett
06/23/21Old Days — Chicago
06/22/21Why Don’t You & I — Santana (featuring Alex Band)
06/21/21More Than Words Can Say — Alias
06/20/21Diamond Girl — Seals and Crofts
06/19/21Lotta Love — Nicolette Larson
06/18/21Brother Louie — The Stories
06/17/21Keep Pushin’ — REO Speedwagon
06/16/21Gates of Babylon — Rainbow
06/15/21’69 — Deep Purple
(All those years ago)
06/14/21The Band Kept Playing — The Electric Flag
(Celebrating Flag Day!)
06/13/21Ffun — ConFunkShun Band
06/12/21Sideshow — Blue Magic
06/11/21Just Don’t Want To Be Lonely — The Main Ingredient
06/10/21Could It Be I’m Falling In Love — The Spinners
06/09/21When It’s Love — Van Halen
06/08/21Don’t Disturb This Groove — The System
06/07/21Keep On Walkin’ — CeCe Peniston
06/06/21Everybody Everybody — Black Box
06/05/21In the Heat of the Moment — Noel Gallagher
06/04/21Stand or Fall — The Fixx
06/03/21Make Me Smile / Now More Than Ever — Chicago
06/02/21Fly At Night (In the Morning We Land) — Chilliwack
06/01/21Please Come Home — Gary Clark Jr
05/31/21Requiem for the Masses — The Association
05/30/21Most of All — B.J. Thomas
(Raindrops are falling)
05/29/21Green Onions — Memphis Funk All-Star Reunion
05/28/21Right Here — SVW
05/27/21Big Change In the Weather — Gerry Rafferty
05/26/21Express — B.T. Express
05/25/21Lunatic Fringe — Red Rider
05/24/21Funk #49 — The James Gang
05/23/21Rock and Roll, Hoochie Koo — Rick Derringer
05/22/21Little Dreamer — Van Halen
05/21/21Stones — The Ace of Cups
05/20/21I Need You — Lynyrd Skynyrd
05/19/21Hush — Deep Purple
05/18/21Ride the Wind — The James Gang
05/17/21How’s This Go — The Gina Powers Band
05/16/21Holy Water — Bad Company
05/15/21Get Ready — Rare Earth
05/14/21Jump — Van Halen
05/13/21Smokin’ — Boston
05/12/21No Smoke Without a Fire — Bad Company
05/11/21Feeling That Way — Journey
05/10/21You Wreck Me — Tom Petty
05/09/21A Real Mother for Ya — Johnny “Guitar” Watson
05/08/21Foreplay / Long Time — Boston
05/07/21Steam — Peter Gabriel
05/06/21A Million Miles Away — The Plimsouls
05/05/21American Music — Violent Femmes
05/04/21Uncertain Smile — The The
05/03/21Making Plans for Nigel — XTC
05/02/21Buck Rogers — Feeder
05/01/21Mayday — Sohodolls
04/30/21Wait a Million Years — The Grass Roots
04/29/21Get It Right Next Time — Gerry Rafferty
04/28/21Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 — Bob Dylan
04/27/21I Got a Line On You — Spirit
04/26/21Draggin’ the Line — Tommy James
04/25/21Just Another Day — Jon Secada
04/24/21I Only Wanna Dance with You — Bay City Rollers
(Bye, bye, Les…)
04/23/21Fields of Gold — Sting
04/22/21Big Yellow Taxi — Joni Mitchell
04/21/21Paradise By the Dashboard Light — Meat Loaf
(so long Jim)
04/20/21One Toke Over the Line — Brewer & Shipley
04/19/21No One to Run With — The Allman Brothers Band
04/18/21The Core — Eric Clapton (featuring Marcy Levy)
04/17/21The Wind Cries Mary — Jimi Hendrix Experience
04/16/21Stormy — Santana
04/15/21Taxman — The Beatles
04/14/21You Need to Calm Down — Taylor Swift
04/13/21Bad Guy — Billie Eilish
04/12/21Otherside — Red Hot Chili Peppers
04/11/21You Know What I Mean — Cults
04/10/21I Turn My Camera On — Spoon
04/09/21Walking On a Dream — Empire of the Sun
04/08/21Little Dark Age — MGMT
04/07/21Something to Look Forward To — Spoon
04/06/21Fool — Frankie Cosmos
04/05/21Upside Down — Jack Johnson
04/04/21Use Me — Bill Withers
04/03/21Cold Weather Blues — Muddy Waters
04/02/21Alive — Hegazy
04/01/21Everybody Plays the Fool — The Main Ingredient
2021 January–March
03/31/21Rock Me On the Water — Jackson Browne
03/30/21The Vision — Gypsy
03/29/21We’re All Alone — Rita Coolidge
03/28/21Let It Rain — Eric Clapton
03/27/21Bad Water — AronChupa ((featuring J & The People)
03/26/21Stronger — Britney Spears
03/25/21After the Rain — Nelson
03/24/21If I Ever Feel Better — Phoenix
03/23/21Shot Through the Heart — Bon Jovi
03/22/21Staring at the Sun — TV on the Radio
03/21/21Sitting in the Sun — Band de Soleil (featuring Michelle Malone)
03/20/21Driver’s Seat — Sniff'n'the Tears
03/19/21All Night — Icona Pop
03/18/21Where I Belong — Switchfoot
03/17/21Somewhere I Belong — Linkin Park
03/16/21Lithium — Nirvana
03/15/21Break My Stride — Mathew Wilder
03/14/21Seven Nation Army — The White Stripes
03/13/21Hey Ya! — OutKast
03/12/21Basement — Zach Jones
03/11/21Dangerous Type — The Cars
03/10/21Every Time I Think of You — The Babys
03/09/21I Love You — Climax Blues Band
03/08/21Dog & Butterfly — Heart
03/07/21Go All the Way — Raspberries
03/06/21Feel Like Makin’ Love — Bad Company
03/05/21Nights are Forever Without You — England Dan & John Ford Coley
03/04/21Street of Dreams — Rainbow
03/03/21Stay the Night — Benjamin Orr
03/02/21Could It Be Magic — Barry Manilow
03/01/21I Won’t Hold You Back — Toto
02/28/21Into the Night — Benny Mardones
02/27/21Sing Me Away — Night Ranger
02/26/21Sweet Life — Paul Davis
02/25/21Baby, What a Big Surprise — Chicago
02/24/21Get Closer — Seals and Crofts
02/23/2199 — Toto
02/22/21How Much I Feel — Ambrosia
02/21/21Torn to Pieces — Pop Evil
02/20/21The Down Town — Days of the New
02/19/21Fell On Black Days — Soundgarden
02/18/21Silent Lucidity — Queensryche
02/17/21Valley of the Damned — DragonForce
02/16/21The Unforgiven — Metallica
02/15/21Change of Heart — Change
02/14/21Don't Let the Moment Pass — Alan Parsons and Eric Woolfson (featuring Marti Webb)
(Happy Valentine's Day)
02/13/21Fallin’ in Love — Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds
02/12/21Early Afternoon Blues — Chick Corea
(A bitter blue day)
02/11/21Higher and Higher — The Moody Blues
02/10/21We’re Ready — Boston
02/09/21Thunder Island — Jay Ferguson
02/08/21Let’s Live for Today — The Grass Roots
02/07/21You Showed Me — The Turtles
02/06/21The Loco-Motion — Little Eva
02/05/21The Steps — Haim
02/04/21Us — Regina Spektor
02/03/21Science Fiction/Double Feature — The Rocky Horror Picture Show
02/02/21Listen, the Snow Is Falling — Yoko Ono
02/01/21I’m On Fire — Bruce Springsteen
01/31/21Winter — The Rolling Stones
01/30/21Sitting In the Sun — Hilton Valentine
(That riff is rising still…)
01/29/21Going to California — Let Zeppelin
01/28/21Out In the Field — West, Bruce & Lang
01/27/21Slip Away — Clarence Carter
01/26/21Yellow — Coldplay
01/25/21How to Save a Life — The Fray
01/24/21Wild World — Cat Stevens
01/23/21Waiting On the World to Change — John Mayer
01/22/21Gimme Some Truth — John Lennon
01/21/21Here Comes the Sun — The Beatles
01/20/21Happy — Pharrell Williams
01/19/21The Last Day — Moby (feat Skylar Gray)
01/18/21Free Bird — Lynyrd Skynyrd
01/17/21How to Fight Loneliness — Wilco
01/16/21It's Time to Go — Taylor Swift
01/15/21You Don't Have to Cry — New York Dolls
(Too much too soon)
01/14/21Come Together — The Beatles
01/13/21Going Down — Jeff Beck Group
01/12/21The Last Time — The Rolling Stones
01/11/21Stop — The James Gang
01/10/21Ship of Fools — The Doors
01/09/21Ship of Fools — World Party
01/08/21Ship of Fools — Robert Plant
01/07/21The Morning After — Maureen McGovern
01/06/21Georgia On My Mind — Stringspace
01/05/21Con Man — Five Americans
01/04/21Don't Let the Sun Catch You Crying — Gerry and the Pacemakers
(The Ferry has crossed)
01/03/21Brand New Key — Melanie
01/02/21Good to Be Alive (Hallelujah) — Andy Grammer
01/01/21Quarantine — Zach Jones & the Tricky Bits
2020 October–December
12/31/20Hello Hello (The Year 2020 Medley) — Ofori Amponsah
12/30/20Goodbye Year, Goodbye — X
12/29/20Our Last Goodbye — KilliT
12/28/20Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye — Bettye Swann
12/27/20Church Street Blues — Tony Rice
(The grass is blue today)
12/26/20Joy — Isaac Hayes
12/25/20Snoopy’s Christmas — The Royal Guardsmen
12/24/20Never In My Life — Mountain
(Climbing still…)
12/23/20Christmas Carol — Mary Chapin Carpenter
12/22/20Because the Night — Patti Smith Group
12/21/20Behind Blue Eyes — The Who
12/20/20Pale Blue Eyes — The Velvet Underground
12/19/20Morning Dew — Grateful Dead
12/18/20When I Paint My Masterpiece — The Band
12/17/20Snow (Hey Oh) — Red Hot Chili Peppers
12/16/20I’m No Angel — Gregg Allman
12/15/20Skating On the Thin Ice of a New Day — Jethro Tull
12/14/20Count Me In — Gary Lewis and the Playboys
12/13/20I’m Just Me — Charley Pride
(“What a horrible, horrible virus.”)
12/12/20Lucky Man — Emerson, Lake & Palmer
12/11/20Cause We’ve Ended as Lovers — Jeff Beck
12/10/20Stay With Me — Faces
12/09/20Cowboy Song — Thin Lizzy
12/08/20Seeing Things — The Black Crowes
12/07/20I Don’t Care Anymore — Phil Collins
12/06/20Big Log — Robert Plant
12/05/20Hypnotized — Fleetwood Mac
12/04/20Reminiscing — Little River Band
12/03/20Junior’s Farm — Paul McCartney & Wings
12/02/20What Is Life — George Harrison
12/01/20Epitaph — King Crimson
11/30/20Do You Feel Like I Do — Peter Frampton
11/29/20Thick As a Brick (Part 2) — Jethro Tull
(And now for the rest of our song…)
11/28/20Thick As a Brick (Part 1) — Jethro Tull
(When a parody of concept albums becomes the mother of all concept albums)
11/27/20Black Friday — Steely Dan
11/26/20Be Thankful For What You Got — Love
(Have a happy and safe Thanksgiving)
11/25/20Promises — Eric Clapton
11/24/20Ain’t Even Done with the Night — John Cougar
11/23/20Stone In Love — Journey
11/22/20Lonely Is the Night — Billy Squier
11/21/20A Man I’ll Never Be — Boston
11/20/20Suite Madame Blue — Styx
11/19/20Fight the Good Fight — Triumph
11/18/20If Looks Could Kill — Heart
11/17/202000 Days — Jeff Jensen
(This is my 2000th Song of the Day selection)
11/16/20We’ve Got It — Cults
11/15/20There’s Only One Way to Rock — Sammy Hagar
11/14/20If I’d Been the One — 38 Special
11/13/20When You Close Your Eyes — Night Ranger
11/12/20Isn’t It Time — The Babys
11/11/20Armistice Day — Midnight Oil
11/10/20I Just Want To Celebrate — Rare Earth
11/09/20Think! (Jeopardy! Theme) — Merv Griffin
(Alex Trebek was pure class)
11/08/20Philadelphia Freedom — Elton John
11/07/20Once Upon a Dream — The Rascals
11/06/20Once Upon a Dream — Lana Del Ray
11/05/20Orange Sky — Alexi Murdoc
11/04/20Sleeping In — The Postal Service
11/03/20Time For Change — Mötley Crüe
11/02/20The Waiting — Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
11/01/20James Bond Theme — John Barry Orchestra
(“Bond, James Bond”)
10/31/20Wicked Ones — Dorothy
10/30/20Dead Souls — Nine Inch Nails
10/29/20Who Made Who — AC/DC
10/28/20You’ve Got Another Thing Coming — Judas Priest
10/27/20What You Give Is What You Get — Ratt
10/26/20Heroes and Villains — The Beach Boys
10/25/20Last Song — Jerry Jeff Walker
(He sang of life)
10/24/20Crazy — Daniela Andrade
10/23/20The Reason — Hoobastank
10/22/20I’m a Man — Spencer Davis Group
(We're so glad you made it!)
10/21/20Say It Isn’t So — The Outfield
(Into the light…)
10/20/20In the End — Linkin Park
10/19/20Complicated — Avril Lavigne
10/18/20Fall For You — Secondhand Serenade
10/17/20Welcome to My Life — Simple Plan
10/16/20What’s My Age Again? — blink-182
10/15/20High School Never Ends — Bowling For Soup
10/14/20Flagpole Sitta — Harvey Danger
10/13/20Pretty Fly (For a White Guy) — The Offspring
10/12/20Goldfinger (Main Title) — Shirley Bassey
(The Golden Girl)
10/11/20Peaches — The Presidents of the United States
10/10/20I Believe In a Thing Called Love — The Darkness
10/09/20Orange Menace — Queen’s Teeth
10/08/20Stir It Up — Johnny Nash
(Far too many losses…)
10/07/20I’m the One — Van Halen
(Yes you were!)
10/06/20Joker and the Thief — Wolfmother
10/05/20Everything You Know Is Wrong — Chumbawamba
10/04/20You’re Gonna Go Far, Kid — The Offspring
10/03/20Boom — P.O.D.
10/02/20Just Desserts — Chumbawamba
10/01/20What Is Hip? — Tower of Power
(You were, sir)
2020 July–September
09/30/20I Believe In Music — Helen Reddy
(Helen and Mac Davis on the same day is doubly sad)
09/29/20No Rain — Blind Mellon
09/28/20Orange Crush — R.E.M.
09/27/20Stop the Coup — Strad Sounds
09/26/20Brain Stew — Green Day
09/25/20Sleepy Hollow People — The Paper Fortress
09/24/20Inside Out — Eve 6
09/23/20Believe — Mumford & Sons
09/22/20Little Talks — Of Monsters and Men
09/21/20Slow It Down — The Lumineers
09/20/20Hypocrites — Jimmy Cliff
09/19/20I'll Fight — Jennifer Hudson
(Now it is our turn)
09/18/20One Headlight — The Wallflowers
09/17/20Blue On Black — Kenny Wayne Sheppard Band
09/16/20[I Know] I’m Losing You — Rare Earth
09/15/20Mandolin Wind — Rod Stewart
09/14/20Burn Down the Mission — Elton John
09/13/20Peace Perfect Peace — Toots and the Maytals
(Peace to you sir…)
09/12/20Better Days — Goo Goo Dolls
09/11/20Collide — Howie Day
09/10/20Shooting Star — Bad Company
09/09/20Hey Jealousy — Gin Blossoms
09/08/20American Woman — The Guess Who
09/07/20Night Train — The Kingsmen
09/06/2096 Tears — ? and The Mysterians
09/05/20100 Years — Five for Fighting
09/04/20Absolutely (Story of a Girl) — Nine Days
09/03/20Come On Get Higher — Matt Nathanson
09/02/20You and Me — Lifehouse
09/01/20Dazed and Confused — Led Zeppelin
08/31/20Eminence Front — The Who
08/30/20Stranglehold — Ted Nugent
08/29/20Money for Nothing — Dire Straits
08/28/20I’ll Be — Edwin McCain
08/27/20Work From Home — Fifth Harmony
08/26/20Alejandro — Lady Gaga
08/25/20Style — Taylor Swift
08/24/20Closer — The Chainsmokers (featuring Halsey)
08/23/20Circles — Post Malone
08/22/20Starving — Hailee Steinfeld
08/21/20Sit Still, Look Pretty — Daya
08/20/20Classic — MTKO
08/19/20Tonight Tonight — Hot Chelle Rae
08/18/20Beverly Hills — Weezer
08/17/20That Was Yesterday — Foreigner
08/16/20The Name of the Game — ABBA
08/15/20I Know There’s Something Going On — Frida
08/14/20Heartbreaker — Pat Benatar
08/13/20Vacation — The Go-Go’s
08/12/201985 — Bowling for Soup
08/11/20Stacy’s Mom — Fountains of Wayne
08/10/20Hungry Like the Wolf (Night Version) — Duran Duran
08/09/20Carry On Wayward Sun — Kansas
08/08/20Welcome to the Black Parade — My Chemical Romance
08/07/20Eye of the Tiger — Survivor
08/06/20Don’t Stop Believin’ — Journey
08/05/20Mr. Blue Sky — Electric Light Orchestra
08/04/20Gloria — Laura Branigan
08/03/20Kids In America — Kim Wilde
08/02/20Oh Babe, What Would You Say? — Hurricane Smith
08/01/20Heaven Is a Place on Earth — Belinda Carlisle
07/31/20Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now — Starship
97/30/20Making Love Out of Nothing At All — Air Supply
07/29/20Forever Young — Alphaville
07/28/20The Power of Love — Huey Lewis & The News
07/27/20Rock Your Baby — George McCrea
07/26/20Closing My Eyes — Fleetwood Mac
(Out of phase no longer)
07/25/20Get Down Tonight — KC and The Sunshine Band
07/24/20The Power — SNAP!
07/23/20Car Wash — Rose Royce
07/22/20Good Vibrations — Marky Mark And The Funky Bunch (featuring Loleatta Holloway)
07/21/20Summertime — DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince
07/20/20Live Till You Die — Emitt Rhodes
(The rainbow has ended)
07/19/20Sunny — Boney M.
07/18/20Louie, Go Home — Paul Revere & The Raiders
07/17/20[Your Love Keeps Lifting Me] Higher & Higher — Jackie Wilson
07/16/20Ain't No Woman (Like The One I've Got) — The Four Tops
07/15/20Sugar Sugar — The Archies
07/14/20I Wanna Get Next to You — Rose Royce
07/13/20The Rubberband Man — The Spinners
07/12/20Sunburned — Raspberry Jam
07/11/20Rainy Day Mushroom Pillow — Strawberry Alarm Clock
07/10/20Who Do You Love (Part 2) — Quicksilver Messenger Service
07/09/20Who Do You Love (Part 1) — Quicksilver Messenger Service
07/08/20I’m a Man — Chicago Transit Authority
07/07/20Who Are You — The Who
07/06/20The Ecstasy of Gold — Ennio Morricone (The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly Soundtrack)
(“They’re all my children… every score I’ve done.”)
07/05/20Stop — Mike Bloomfield, Al Kooper & Steven Stills
07/04/20I Don’t Believe In Statues — Mount Rushmore
07/03/20Bad Day — Daniel Powter
07/02/20Sweet Sixteen — Billy Idol
07/01/20Suicide Is Painless — Johnny Mandel
(So this is all I have to say)
2020 April–June
06/30/20Hide Away — Daya
06/29/20Bittersweet Haj — Umphrey’s McGee
06/28/20Must Be Love — The James Gang
(Our 40th anniversary ❤️)
06/27/20When I'm With You — Sheriff
06/26/20Summer Night City — ABBA
06/25/20The Boogie — Outasight
06/24/20You and Me — The Moody Blues
06/23/20Oh I Wept — Free
06/22/20Goodbye Horses — Q Lazzarus
06/21/20Forever Young — Bob Dylan
06/20/20Miracles — Jefferson Starship
06/19/20If 60's were 90's — Beautiful People
06/18/20Catch the Rainbow — Rainbow
06/17/20Congregation — Low
06/16/20Nightcall — Kavinsky
06/15/20You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet — Bachman-Turner Overdrive
06/14/20Inside Information — The Electric Flag
(Well, it is Flag Day…)
06/13/20Runnin' Out of Fools — Isaac Hayes
06/12/20Runnin’ Away — Sly & The Family Stone
06/11/20I’d Love to Change the World — Ten Years After
06/10/20No Time to Lose — Tarney/Spencer Band
06/09/20Feels Like June — Anita and Bonnie Pointer
(Bonnie’s last recording)
06/08/20Long, Long Way from Home — Foreigner
06/07/20Takin' It to the Streets — The Doobie Brothers
06/06/20Volunteers — Jefferson Airplane
06/05/20Fox On the Run — The Sweet
(and without Steve Priest, there is only one)
06/04/20Going In Circles — The Friends of Distinction
06/03/20Smiling Faces Sometimes — The Undisputed Truth
06/02/20Wake Up Everybody — Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes
06/01/20Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler) — Marvin Gaye
05/31/20We the People Who are Darker than Blue — Curtis Mayfield
05/30/20How Many More Times — Led Zeppelin
05/29/20Listen — Chicago Transit Authority
(Starting my 6th year of SOTD selections!)
05/28/20Wasting My Time — Default
05/27/20One Thing — Finger Eleven
05/26/20Little Sister — Queens of the Stone Age
05/25/20Woman — Wolfmother
05/24/20Cold Hard Bitch — Jet
05/23/20Never There — CAKE
05/22/20Low — Cracker
05/21/20Pets — Porno for Pyros
05/20/20Plowed — Sponge
05/19/20In the Meantime — Spacehog
05/18/20Good — Better than Ezra
05/17/20Laid — James
05/16/20Nowhere Man — The Beatles
05/15/20Nowhere Girl — B-Movie
05/14/20So Alive — Love and Rockets
05/13/20I Go Crazy — Flesh for Lulu
05/12/20Let My Love Open the Door — Pete Townshend
05/11/20Tonight Is the Night — Betty Wright
(Such a sad week, Ty, Andre Harrell, Little Richard, and now Betty Wright)
05/10/20Thinkin’ ‘bout My Mother — Little Richard
(The Architect has left the building…)
05/09/20Only Time Will Tell — Asia
05/08/20Spy in the House of Love — Was (Not Was)
(He'll always be walking that dinosaur)
05/07/20Trans Europa Express — Kraftwerk
(Man Machine, super human being…)
05/06/20The Breakup Song (They Don't Write 'Em) — Greg Kihn Band
05/05/20My City Was Gone — Pretenders
05/04/20Ohio — Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
(50 years ago today)
05/03/20A Girl Like You — The Smithereens
05/02/20Ah! Leah! — Donnie Iris
05/01/20The Wheel and the Maypole — XTC
(My 1800th Song of the Day selection)
04/30/20Medicine Man (Part 1) — Buchanan Brothers
04/29/20Bad Medicine — Bon Jovi
04/28/20Here I Go Again — Whitesnake
04/27/20Wait — White Lion
04/26/20Dance the Night Away — Van Halen
04/25/20Roll with the Changes — REO Speedwagon
04/24/20Chain Lightnin’ — 38 Special
04/23/20There Goes Another Love Song — Outlaws
04/22/20Keep On Smilin’ — Wet Willie
04/21/20Good Time Charlie's Got the Blues — Danny O’Keefe
04/20/20I’d Really Love To See You Tonight — England Dan & John Ford Coley
04/19/20Danny’s Song — Loggins & Messina
04/18/20Help Is On the Way — Little River Band
04/17/20Strange Way — Firefall
04/16/20We May Never Pass This Way (Again) — Seals and Crofts
04/15/20The Way It Is — Bruce Hornsby and the Range
04/14/20Sunshine (Go Away Today) — Jonathan Edwards
04/13/20Mariners Apartment Complex — Lana Del Rey
04/12/20Easter? — Jefferson Airplane
04/11/20Beautiful Soul — Jesse McCartney
04/10/20Hurt — Christina Aguilera
04/09/20The Way We Were — Barbra Streisand
04/08/20Far from Me — John Prine
(And I was prepared for the worst)
04/07/20It’s a Mistake — Men at Work
04/06/20Couldn’t Get It Right — Climax Blues Band
04/05/20April — Deep Purple
04/04/20Watching You, Watching Me — Bill Withers
(There ain't no sunshine today)
04/03/20So Far Away — Dire Straits
04/02/20Everything’s Ruined — Fountains of Wayne
(This really hurts)
04/01/20What Kind of Fool — Barbra Streisand and Barry Gibb
2020 January–March
03/31/20Old Friends / Bookends — Simon & Garfunkel
03/30/20Goodbye Rock N Roll Heroes — Alan Merril
(An' next we were movin' on)
03/29/20Cum On Feel the Noize — Quiet Riot
03/28/20Don’t Tell Me You Love Me — Night Ranger
03/27/20Fantasy — Aldo Nova
03/26/20Lay It On the Line — Triumph
03/25/20Twilight Zone — Golden Earring
03/24/20F**kin’ Perfect — P!nk
03/23/20Fight Song — Rachel Platten
03/22/20Scars to Your Beautiful — Alessia Cara
03/21/20Something’s Burning — Kenny Rogers and the First Edition
(The best that you can hope for is to die in your sleep)
03/20/20Habits (Stay High) — Tove Lo
03/19/20Human — Christina Perri
03/18/20Roll Em Easy — Little Feat
03/17/20Take It Slow — Lighthouse
03/16/20You Don't Own Me — Grace (featuring G-Easy)
03/15/20Black Widow — Iggy Azalea (featuring Rita Ora)
03/14/20Black Magic Woman / Gypsy Queen — Santana
03/13/20Black Magic — Little Mix
03/12/20The Unguarded Moment — The Church
03/11/20Shotgun — Monkey House
03/10/20Monkey — George Michael
03/09/20Shock the Monkey — Peter Gabriel
03/08/20Dance Monkey — Tones and I
03/07/20Monkey Man — The Rolling Stones
03/06/20Everybody’s Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey — The Beatles
03/05/20Monkey Time — Boz Scaggs & Band
03/04/20Revolution — The Score
03/03/20Voting Booth Cafe’ — LimboManBand
(Super Tuesday)
03/02/20Until the Day I Die — Story of the Year
03/01/20The Great Escape — Boys Like Girls
02/29/20Santeria — Sublime
02/28/20Handle with Care — Traveling Wilburys
02/27/20Island in the Sun — Weezer
02/26/20Steady, as She Goes — The Raconteurs
02/25/20I’m Shakin’ — Jack White
02/24/20There’s No Home for You Here — The White Stripes
02/23/20Living On a Thin Line — The Kinks
02/22/20Silver, Blue & Gold — Bad Company
02/21/20Faith to Arise — Terry Reid
02/20/20Dear Mr. Fantasy — Traffic
02/19/2030 Days in the Hole — Humble Pie
02/18/20Walk Away — The James Gang
02/17/20No Sugar Tonight/New Mother Nature — The Guess Who
02/16/20Sundown — Gordon Lightfoot
02/15/20Honey — Bobby Goldsboro
02/14/20Can’t Stop the Feeling (Film Version) — Justin Timberlake, Anna Kendrick and Gwen Stefani
02/13/20Sailin’ the Wind — Loggins & Messina
02/12/20Wooden Ships — Jefferson Airplane
02/11/20Wooden Ships — Crosby, Stills & Nash
02/10/20Down by the River — Neil Young with Crazy Horse
02/09/20Bye Bye Baby — Bob Conrad
(Long before the West became so very Wild…)
02/08/20You Don’t Know How It Feels — Tom Petty
02/07/20Splendid Isolation — Warren Zevon
02/06/20Oh Well (Part 2) — Fleetwood Mac
02/05/20Oh Well (Part 1) — Fleetwood Mac
02/04/20Here Comes My Baby — The Tremeloes
02/03/20Colors — Donovan
02/02/20Bob — “Weird Al” Yankovic
(Fitting on 02/02/2020)
02/01/20Look What They’ve Done to My Song, Ma — Melanie
01/31/20Diamonds and Rust — Joan Baez
01/30/20Both Sides Now — Judy Collins
01/29/20All My Sorrows — The Kingston Trio
(Not soon forgotten, Bob Shane)
01/28/20Different Drum — The Stone Poneys
01/27/20Unsatisfied — The Replacements
01/26/20It’s No Reason — The Church
01/25/20That’s All — Genesis
01/24/20Roll Me Away — Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band
01/23/20Whipping Post — The Allman Brothers Band
01/22/20Fire on the Mountain — The Marshall Tucker Band
01/21/20If You Wanna Get to Heaven — Ozark Mountain Daredevils
01/20/20Happy Birthday — Stevie Wonder
(MLK)
01/19/20Tokyo Storm Warning — Elvis Costello
01/18/20Woman from Tokyo — Deep Purple
01/17/20No One Sleeps in Tokyo — EDO Boys
01/16/20Tokyo’s On Fire — W.A.S.P.
01/15/20Godzilla — Blue Öyster Cult
01/14/20Hair of the Dog — Nazareth
01/13/20I Like to Rock — April Wine
01/12/20Gangsters — The Specials
01/11/20Time Stand Still — Rush
(Freeze this moment a little bit longer — Neil Peart)
01/10/20Get Smart Theme — Irving Szathmary
(Heaven couldn't wait any longer… Buck Henry was commedy genius)
01/09/20I'll Be Around — Otis Gayle
01/08/20Vehicle — Ides of March
01/07/20Get It On — Chase
01/06/20One Fine Morning — Lighthouse
01/05/20Acela — Fountains of Wayne
01/04/20Toxic — Britney Spears
01/03/20Remedy — Little Boots
01/02/20This Will Be Our Year — The Zombies
01/01/20My Dear Acquaintance (A Happy New Year) — Regina Spektor
2019 October–December
12/31/19Friends at the End — Neil Innes
(This really sucks! Truly A Hard Day’s Rut…)
12/30/19Next Year About the Same Time — The Apples In Stereo
12/29/19Time — Pink Floyd
12/28/19I Can’t Let Go — The Hollies
12/27/19Can’t Get Enough — Bad Company
12/26/19You Can’t Always Get What You Want — The Rolling Stones
12/25/19Christmas — The Who
12/24/19We All Need Christmas — Def Leopard
12/23/19Another Christmas Without You — Orianthi and Cyril Niccolai
12/22/19Christmastime (A Song for Marissa) — The Cowsills
12/21/19Christmas in New Orleans — Rickie Lee Jones
12/20/19Jack Frost and the Hooded Crow — Jethro Tull
12/19/19Ego — Elton John
12/18/19I Think We’re Alone Now — Lene Lovich
12/17/19Airport — The Motors
12/16/19Science Fiction — XTC
12/15/19News of the World — The Jam
12/14/19X Offender — Blondie
12/13/19Hanging By a Moment — Lifehouse
12/12/19Baby Baby — The Vibrators
12/11/19Who Will You Be — Mawk Pheonix
12/10/19Back Pocket — Brooke White
12/09/19I Wanna Be Adored — The Stone Roses
12/08/19I Can’t Escape Myself — The Sound
12/07/19No Love Lost — Joy Division
12/06/19Angel — Massive Attack
12/05/19How You Like Me Now — The Heavy
12/04/19The Distance — CAKE
12/03/19Where Is My Mind? — PIXIES
12/02/19Cold Cold Cold — Cage the Elephant
12/01/19White Room — Cream
11/30/19Violet — Roddy Hart & The Lonesome Fire
11/29/19Pipeline — Incredible Bongo Band
11/28/19Eat It — “Weird Al” Yankovic
(Happy Thanksgiving!)
11/27/19Let’s Go — Stuck In the Sound
11/26/19Heartbeat — Jeddi
11/25/19I Can’t See Your Face In My Mind — The Doors
(Until we say goodbye, Doug Lubahn…)
11/24/19I See the Rain — Marmalade
11/23/19The Answer — The Ninth
11/22/19Help — Deep Purple
11/21/19Freudiana — Eric Woolfson
11/20/19Wine from the Water — Alon Parsons
11/19/19For the Love of Life — David Sylvian
11/18/19von — Yokko Kanno (featuring Arnór Dan)
11/17/19Cheerleader — OMI
11/16/19Shut Up and Dance — Walk the Moon
11/15/19Pumped Up Kicks — Foster the People
(Enough!)
11/14/19Crossfire — Stephen
11/13/19Vacate — Wet Bandits
11/12/19Dollar For Your Sadness — Unlike Pluto
11/11/19Catch a Feeling — Michi
11/10/19Lay, Lady, Lay (Take 2, Alternate Version) — Bob Dylan
11/09/19She Belongs to Me — Rick Nelson and The Stone Canyon Band
(Covering this at tonight's Bob Dylan Open Mic/Food Bank Benefit)
11/08/19Daydreamer — Alexander Luck
11/07/19Here to Stay — Boz Scaggs & Band
(Excited to see Boz tonight at the Calvin Theatre, but a fever intervened)
11/06/19Drift — Great Gable
11/05/19Let Me Live/Let Me Die — Des Rocs
11/04/19Save My Soul — Big Bad Voodoo Daddy
11/03/19Black Holes (Solid Ground) — The Blue Stones
11/02/19Float On — Modest Mouse
11/01/19We Got U — Lemaitre (featuring The Knocks)
10/31/19Halloween (She So Mean) — Rob Zombie (featuring The Ghastly Ones)
10/30/19Despicable — grandson
10/29/19Strangers — Portishead
10/28/19Teardrop — Massive Attack
10/27/19Run Boy Run — Woodkid
10/26/19Panic Room — Au/Ra
10/25/19Psychotic Girl — The Black Keys
10/24/19Burn the Witch — Shawn James
10/23/19Witch's Brew — Peter Cincotti
10/22/19Season of the Witch — Mike Bloomfield, Al Kooper & Steven Stills
10/21/19Alison — Elvis Costello
10/20/19Alison — Slowdive
10/19/19Spooky — Dusty Springfield
10/18/19Who Is She? — I Monster
10/17/19Body — Mother Mother
10/16/19Pick Your Poison — Black Pistol Fire
10/15/19Róisín Murphy — Ramalama (Bang Bang)
10/14/19Shoot Him Down — Alice Francis
(1600 SOTD picks and counting—no repeats!)
10/13/19Closer — Lemaitre (featuring Jennie Abrahamson)
10/12/19Bad Karma — Axel Thesleff
10/11/19Doses & Mimoses — Cherub
10/10/19Oh Devil — Electric Guest
10/09/19I’m the One — Average White Band
(One half of the "Dundee Horns" is with us no more)
10/08/19Hold On Loosely — 38 Special
(The Big Man on the Big Bass has left us)
10/07/19Toad (Live) — Cream
(Goodbye Ginger Goodbye)
10/06/19Genghis Kahn — Miike Snow
10/05/19Left Hand Free — Δ (alt-J)
10/04/19Obsession — Joywave
10/03/19I’ll Always Remember You (That Way) — Bowling For Soup
(ALS has taken The Muffs co-founder far too soon)
10/02/19still feel. — half•alive
10/01/19Cool People — Chloe x Halle
2019 July–September
09/30/19Come a Little Closer — Cage the Elephant
09/29/19Chelsea Dagger — The Fratellis
09/28/19Do It All the Time — I Don’t Know How but They Found Me
09/27/19Man of Reason — Gypsy
(Jim Johnson, founding member of Gypsy and The Underbeats has passed away)
09/26/19Dangerous — Big Data (featuring Joywave)
09/25/19Bad Things (Soundtrack Version) — Jace Everett
09/24/19A Girl Like You — Edwyn Collins
09/23/19Your Woman — White Town
09/22/19Dangerous Charms — The Delmonas
09/21/19September [The Reflex Revision] — Earth, Wind & Fire
09/20/19This Is How We Do It — Montell Jordan
09/19/19Push It — Salt-N-Pepa
09/18/19Gettin’ Jiggy Wit It — Will Smith
09/17/19Play with Fire — The Rolling Stones
09/16/19Please Don’t Let Me Down — Ric Ocasek
(Such a sad few days)
09/15/19Rasputin — Boney M.
09/14/19My Friends, My Friends — Eddie Money
(Departed far too soon…)
09/13/19Whip It — Devo
09/12/19Psycho Killer — Talking Heads
09/11/19Above the Clouds — Cyndi Lauper
09/10/19Who Can It Be Now — Men at Work
09/09/19Rock the Casbah — The Clash
09/08/19Don’t Bring Me Down — Electric Light Orchestra
09/07/19Kokomo — The Beach Boys
09/06/19Hold Me — The Baskerville Hounds
09/05/19Along Comes Mary — The Association
09/04/19Commercial — Spanky and Our Gang
09/03/19Papa was a Rolling Stone (Full Version) — The Temptations
(It was the third of September)
09/02/19Europa and the Pirate Twins — Thomas Dolby
09/01/19Where Have All the Good Times Gone — Van Halen
08/31/19The Rover — Led Zeppelin
08/30/19Go — The Black Keys
08/29/19Sugar Daniel — Raspberry Jam
08/28/19Hit or Miss — Odetta
08/27/19Respect — Rotary Connection
08/26/19(We Ain’t Got) Nothin’ Yet — The Blues Magoos
08/25/19She’s About a Mover — Sir Douglas Quintet
08/24/19Got To — ? and the Mysterians
08/23/19You Talk Too Much — Joe Jones
08/22/19What I’d Say — Rare Earth
08/21/19Refried Boogie (Part 1) — Canned Heat
(A long goodbye to bassist extrodinaire Larry “The Mole” Taylor…)
08/20/19Gonna Be Alright Now — Gayle McCormick
08/19/19Your Own Sweet Way — The Notting Hillbillies
08/18/19With a Little Help from My Friends — Joe Cocker
08/17/19Stormy Monday — Mountain
08/16/19Woodstock — Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
08/15/19Not Dark Yet — Bob Dylan
08/14/19Say Hello — Lisa Loeb
08/13/19Devil Woman — Cliff Richard
08/12/19Where Evil Grows — The Poppy Family
08/11/19The Way It Really Is — Lisa Loeb
(Looking forward to her show tonight at the Iron Horse Music Hall)
08/10/19Bad Motor Scooter — Montrose
08/09/19Stray Cat Strut — The Stray Cats
08/08/19Peter Gunn Locomotion — The Delmonas
08/07/19Walk On In — Rita Coolidge
08/06/19Bridge of Sighs — Robin Trower
08/05/19Beginnings (50th Anniversary Remix) — Chicago Transit Authority
08/04/19The Art of Starting Over — Monkey House
08/03/19Get Together — Cherie Currie and Brie Darling
08/02/19I Knew You Were Trouble — We Came As Romans
08/01/19My Friends Over You — New Found Glory
07/31/19You’re So Last Summer — Taking Back Sunday
07/30/19Ocean Avenue — Yellowcard
07/29/19Talk Talk Talk — This Bliss
07/28/19Feel Good — The Ace of Cups
07/27/19Magic — The Cars
07/26/19If You’re Gone — Matchbox Twenty
07/25/19Finding Me — Vertical Horizon
07/24/19Floating — The Moody Blues
07/23/19Everybody Gets to Go to the Moon — Thelma Houston
07/22/19Astronaut — Simple Plan
07/21/19Man On the Moon — R.E.M.
07/20/19There’s a Moon In the Sky (Called the Moon) — The B-52’s
(LM Lunar landing at 3:17 p.m. EST July 20, 1969)
07/19/19Mother Country — John Stewart
07/18/19I’m the Urban Spaceman — The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band
07/17/19You Make My Dreams — Hall & Oats
07/16/19Love — Buddy Miles Express
07/15/19Why Don’t You Get a Job — The Offspring
07/14/19Under My Thumb — Kim Carnes
07/13/19Basket Case — Green Day
07/12/19Don’t Let Me Get Me — P!nk
07/11/19All the Small Things — blink-142
07/10/19The Middle — Jimmy Eat World
07/09/19Move Along — The All-American Rejects
07/08/19Animal — Neon Trees
07/07/19Fresh Eyes — Andy Grammer
07/06/19Good Life — OneRepublic
(1500th Song of the Day!)
07/05/19Shakin’ — Eddie Money
07/04/19Living In America — James Brown
07/03/19Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye — The Tiers
(50 years ago today, The Tiers played a dual bill with Thee Prophets ("Playgirl") in West Point, NE)
07/02/19Why Can’t I — Liz Phair
07/01/19All You Wanted — Michelle Branch
2019 April–June
06/30/19She’s so High — Tal Bachman
06/29/19Oh, Honey — Delegation
06/28/19Near You — Boz Scaggs
06/27/19Just the Two of Us — Grover Washington, Jr.
06/26/19Let’s Stay Together — Al Green
06/25/19The Afternoon — The Moody Blues
06/24/19Slide — Goo Goo Dolls
06/23/19Disappear — Boxing Gandhis
06/22/19Our House — Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
06/21/19ABC [The Reflex Revision] — Jackson 5
06/20/19When Smokey Sings — ABC
06/19/19Crusin’ — Smokey Robinson
06/18/19Best I Ever Had (Grey Sky Morning) — Vertical Horizon
06/17/19Steal My Sunshine — LEN
06/16/19Soulshine — The Allman Brothers Band
(Happy Father’s Day!)
06/15/10Feelin’ Alright — The Tiers
(I’m still feeling’ pretty damn good! Happy B'day to me!!)
06/14/19Sweet Soul Music — The Electric Flag
(Celebrating [Electric] Flag day)
06/13/19Soul Clap ’69 — Booker T. & the M.G.'s
06/12/19I Wanna Rock — Bang Bang Betty & the H-Bombs
06/11/19[She’s] Sexy + 17 — Stray Cats
06/10/19Rockin’ at Midnight — The Honeydrippers
06/09/19No More Lonely Nights — Paul McCartney
06/08/19Nights On Broadway — Bee Gees
06/07/19Let’s Make a Better World — Dr. John
(Let’s indeed)
06/06/19On Broadway — George Benson
06/05/19Take Five — Dave Brubeck
06/04/19Feels So Good — Chuck Mangione
06/03/19Freetime — Spyro Gyra
06/02/19Lisa — Stanley Clarke
06/01/1996 Tears — Big Maybelle
05/31/19If We Never Meet Again This Side of Heaven — Leon Redbone
(Thanks for 127 eclectic years)
05/30/19Fourteen Years — The Rumbles
05/29/19Rolling Funk Driver — Black Level
05/28/19Rockit — Herbie Hancock
05/27/19The Reflex — Duran Duran
05/26/19The Politics of Dancing — Re-Flex
05/25/19Hang ‘em High — Booker T. & the M.G.’s
05/24/19Impeach the President — The Honey Drippers
05/23/19Time Will Make It Better — Gypsy
05/22/19Hand Me Down World — The Guess Who
05/21/19You Must Have — Nick Smolenski
(This reworking is gorgeous!)
05/20/19Angel in Your Arms — Hot
05/19/19Main Titles (Game of Thrones) — Ramin Djawadi
(The end has come)
05/18/19Country Club — Travis Tritt
05/17/19Last of the American Girls — Green Day
05/16/19Androgynous — American Girls
05/15/19Albert’s Shuffle — Mike Bloomfield, Al Kooper & Steven Stills
05/14/19Softly, As I Leave You — Doris Day
(After all the years)
05/13/19Weatherman — Stormy Mondays
05/12/19Someday (I Will Understand) — Britney Spears
05/11/19I’ll Be Around — The Spinners
05/10/19Heaven — Los Lonely Boys
05/09/19Come and Get Your Love — Redbone
05/08/19Baby I Need Your Loving — The Four Tops
05/07/19The Motivator — Cherie Currie and Brie Darling
05/06/19Kasmir — Led Zeppelin
05/05/19Blood Like Lemonade — Morcheeba
05/04/19I Think We’re Alone Now — Tiffany
05/03/19Hot Pants Funk — Hot Pants Road Trip
05/02/19Lessons In Love — Level 42
(Heavy hearts)
05/01/19Show Me the Way — Maypole
04/30/19Impermanent Things — Joe Crookston
04/29/19The Journey — Molly Hatchet
(Ended far too soon)
04/28/19Roller — April Wine
04/27/19Never Tear Us Apart — Paloma Faith
04/26/19Cottage Cheese — Crow
04/25/19Short Change Hero — The Heavy
04/24/19Get Me to the World on Time — The Electric Prunes
04/23/10Major Tom — Shiny Toy Guns
04/22/19Journey to the Center of the Mind — The Amboy Dukes
04/21/19I’m Your Captain/Closer to Home — Grand Funk Railroad
04/20/19Evil Woman — Electric Light Orchestra
04/19/19Gypsy — Fleetwood Mac
04/18/19Gypsy Queen Part Two — Gypsy
04/17/19Gypsy Queen Part One — Gypsy
04/16/19A Song of Ash and Smoke — Mot
04/15/19Don't Dream It's Over — Crowded House
04/14/19Ordinary World — Duran Duran
04/13/19Listen To Your Heart — Roxette
04/12/19Burning For You — Shiny Toy Guns
04/11/19Take Me Away — Blue Öyster Cult
04/10/19Breathe (2AM) — Anna Nalick
04/09/19Kiss Me — Sixpence None the Richer
04/08/19Lips Like Sugar — Echo and the Bunnymen
04/07/19Stop and Stare — OneRepublic
04/06/19Look After You — The Fray
04/05/19Someday — Sugar Ray
04/04/19Living It Up — Rickie Lee Jones
04/03/19The Losing End — Zach Jones & the Tricky Bits
04/02/19Ever Again — Robyn
04/01/19Something Stupid — Frank and Nancy Sinatra
2019 January–March
03/31/19Glory Days — Bruce Springsteen
03/30/19Bill Lee — Warren Zevon
03/29/19Centerfield — John Fogerty
03/28/19Kool Thing — Sonic Youth
(My 1400th Song of the Day)
03/27/19Out Tonight — Rosario Dawson
03/26/19New In Town — Little Boots
03/25/19The Sun Ain’t Gonna Shine Anymore — The Walker Brothers
(The little clock's stopped ticking now…)
03/24/19Stoned Soul Picnic — The 5th Dimension
03/23/19Boogie Nights — Heatwave
03/22/19Doing It to Death — Fred Wesley & The J.B.’s
03/21/19Cold Sweat, Pt. 1 — James Brown
03/20/19Soul with a Capital 'S' — Tower of Power
(Hello Spring!}
03/19/19Pipeline — The Chantays
03/18/19Miserlou — Dick Dale
(He played hard)
03/17/19Love and Money — B*Witched
(Happy St. Patrick’s Day!)
03/16/19Cuts You Up — Peter Murphy
03/15/19Statesboro Blues — The Allman Brothers Band
03/14/19The Sky Is Crying — Gary B.B. Coleman
03/13/19I’ll Play the Blues for You — Daniel Castro
03/12/19Midnight Flight — White Chocolate
(Them Changes…)
03/11/19Weak — SVW
03/10/19Until Then — Crystal Bowersox
(Looking forward to tonight's show at the Iron Horse Music Hall)
03/09/19Red Wine — MØ
03/08/19Come Dancing — The Kinks
03/07/19Red Right Hand — Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
03/06/19Barracuda — Heart
03/05/19Roadhouse Blues — The Doors
03/04/19Love Is the Chemical — KilliT
03/03/19Without You — Harry Nilsson
03/02/19You Can’t Measure the Cost — Bread
03/01/19Heard It in a Love Song — The Marshall Tucker Band
02/28/19Ol’ 55 — Tom Waits
02/27/19You’re Only Lonely — J.D. Souther
02/26/19Time It’s Time — Talk Talk
(Now that it's over)
02/25/19Angel of Mine — Monica
02/24/19Weasel and the White Boys Cool — Rickie Lee Jones
(So excited to be seeing her show tonight at the Iron Horse Music Hall!)
02/23/19Running Up that Hill (A Deal with God) — Kate Bush
02/22/19Higher and Higher — Peter Tork
(And then there were only two…)
02/21/19Badge — Fanny
02/20/19Dreams — Fleetwood Mac
02/19/19These Eyes — The Guess Who
02/18/19Promise — Jagged Edge
02/17/19Nobody Knows — The Tony Rich Project
02/16/19I Believe — Blessid Union of Souls
02/15/19All My Life — K-Ci & JoJo and Randy Walkman
02/14/19Every Time I Close My Eyes — Babyface, Mariah Carey, Kenny G, Shelia E.
02/13/19Who Will Save Your Soul — Jewel
02/12/19In the House of Stone and Light — Martin Page
02/11/19I Know — Dionne Farris
02/10/19Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover — Sophie B. Hawkins
02/09/19Hungry Eyes — Eric Carmen
02/08/19Glory of Love — Peter Cetera
02/07/19In Too Deep — Genesis
02/06/19Waiting for a Girl Like You — Foreigner
02/05/19When I Need You — Leo Sayer
02/04/19We Are the Champions — Queen
02/03/19Arthur’s Theme (Best That You Can Do) — Christopher Cross
02/02/19Every Time You Go Away — Paul Young
02/01/19Purple Rain — Prince
01/31/19Give Me One Reason — Tracy Chapman
01/30/19One More Rhythm — James Ingram
(So much more than good enough)
01/29/19Run-Around — Blues Traveler
01/28/19Follow You Down — Gin Blossoms
01/27/19The Summer Knows (Summer of ‘42 Theme) — Michel Legrand
(It’s time to dress for Fall…)
01/26/19Only Wanna Be With You — Hootie & The Blowfish
01/25/193AM — Matchbox Twenty
01/24/19Tomorrow — Silverchair
01/23/19Glycerine — Bush
01/22/19Semi-Charmed Life — Third Eye Blind
01/21/19You Get What You Give — New Radicals
01/20/19The Game of Love — Santana and Michelle Branch
01/19/19Vogue — Madonna
01/18/19Give Him Something He Can Feel — En Vogue
01/17/19Whatta Man — Salt 'N' Pepa (featuring En Vogue)
01/16/19Larry Pockets — Scary Pockets (featuring Larry Goldings)
01/15/19Puzzles — The Yardbirds
01/14/19Under My Thumb — The Rolling Stones
01/13/19Shut It Down — KilliT
01/12/19Rock This Town — Stray Cats
01/11/19Dreamboat Annie (Reprise) — Heart
01/10/19Dreamboat Annie — Heart
01/09/19Crimson and Clover (Long Version) — Tommy James & The Shondells
01/08/19Time of the Season — The Zombies
01/07/19Friends — Dido
01/06/19This Night Won’t Last Forever — Michael Johnson
01/05/19Nights In White Satin — The Moody Blues
01/04/19Reflections of My Life — Dean Ford
(I’m slightly bending my rule about repeats with today’s selection. This recent solo version is truly wonderful. I’m told that Reflections was the closing song at Dean’s last public performance. No song could have been more fitting.)
01/03/19We Never Really Say Goodbye — Captain & Tennille
(Such a sad musical start to 2019)
01/02/19Sexy Eyes — Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show
(“No more lonely nights for me, this is how its gonna be.”)
01/01/19New Years Day — U2
2018 October–December
12/31/18New Year’s Eve — MØ
12/30/18United We Stand — The Brotherhood of Man
12/29/18Gimme Dat Ding — The Pipkins
12/28/18Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes) — Edison Lighthouse
12/27/18My Baby Loves Lovin’ — White Plains
12/26/18She Said to Me — The Cowsills
12/25/18The Christmas Song (Merry Christmas to You) — Nat King Cole
12/24/18Above The Northern Lights — Mannheim Steamroller
12/23/18It Doesn’t Often Snow at Christmas — Pet Shop Boys
12/22/18Winter’s Come — Gerry Rafferty
12/21/18Nothing Else Matters — Metallica
12/20/18Dark Star — Crosby, Stills & Nash
12/19/18Deanna — Zach Jones & the Tricky Bits
12/18/18You Keep Me Hanging On — Vanilla Fudge
12/17/18I Don’t Want to Wait — Paula Cole
12/16/18Are You Sure — So
12/15/18That’s What I Want for Chistmas — Nancy Wilson
(She gave us style)
12/14/18Hard Pill — Garret Shider
12/13/18Most Girls — P!nk
12/12/18Easy Lover — Phil Collins
12/11/18All I See Is You — Icewater
12/10/18Betcha By Golly, Wow — The Stylistics
12/09/18Kiss from a Rose — Seal
12/08/18Heaven Sent — Keyshia Cole
12/07/18These Dreams — Heart
12/06/18You Can Do Magic — America
12/05/18What Can I Do — The Corrs
12/04/18Oops (Oh My) — Tweet (featuring Missy Elliot)
12/03/18Dip It Low — Christina Milian
12/02/18Every Little Thing I Do — Soul For Real
12/01/18Tell Me — Groove Theory
11/30/18My Love Is the Shhh — SFP
11/29/18Get It Together — 702
11/28/18Better In Time — Leona Lewis
11/27/18Case of the Ex (Whatcha Gonna Do) — Mýa
11/26/18Oops!… I Did It Again — Britney Spears
11/25/18Genie 2.0 — Christina Aguilera
11/24/18Genie In a Bottle — Christina Aguilera
11/23/18Dertli Dolap (“Endless Trouble” Is My Name) — Özgür BaBa
11/22/18Macy’s Day Parade — Green Day
11/21/18Almost Thanksgiving Day — Graham Parker
11/20/18Jolly Green Giant — The Kingsmen
11/19/18I Just Want To Be Your Everything — Andy Gibb
11/18/18Right Here Waiting — Richard Marx
11/17/18If You Leave Me Now — Chicago
11/16/18Hurricanes — Dido
11/15/18Biggest Part of Me — Ambrosia
11/14/18What You Won’t Do For Love — Bobby Caldwell
11/13/18Black Horse and The Cherry Tree — KT Tunstill
11/12/18A Thousand Miles — Vanessa Carlton
11/11/18Armistice Day — Paul Simon
11/10/18Give Me the Night — George Benson
11/09/18Bang a Gong (Get It On) — T. Rex
11/08/18Hold the Line — Toto
11/07/18That’s the Way of the World — Earth, Wind & Fire
11/06/18Heroes — David Bowie
11/05/18Let’s Do This — Hanna Montana (Miley Cyrus)
11/04/18What a Fool Believes — The Doobie Brothers
11/03/18Never Let You Go — Third Eye Blind
11/02/18Exposition/We Can Work It Out — Deep Purple
11/01/18Rainbow Children — Prince
10/31/18Over at the Frankenstein Place — Susan Sarandon, Barry Bostwick, and Richard O'Brien
10/30/18Werewolves of London — Warren Zevon
10/29/18Raise the Dead — Hollywood Vampires
10/28/18Uncomfortable — Halestorm
10/27/18Hocus Pocus — Focus
10/26/18Ghost In Your Dreams — Melody Slater
10/25/19Trip — Ella Mai
10/24/18The Trip — Still Corners
10/23/18I Can’t Go for That (No Can Do) — Hall & Oats
10/22/18Sunrise — Simply Red
10/21/18Come Undone — Duran Duran
10/20/18Chocolate Cake — Crowded House
10/19/18Ridgetop — Jesse Colin Young
10/18/18The Last Chance Texaco — Rickie Lee Jones
10/17/18We Just Disagree — Dave Mason
10/16/18Do You Know What I Mean — Lee Michaels
10/15/18World Turning — Fleetwood Mac
10/14/18Catch Me Now I’m Falling — The Kinks
10/13/18The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys — Traffic
10/12/18Ten Years Gone — Led Zeppelin
10/11/18Wish You Were Here — Pink Floyd
10/10/18All I Wanted — Paramore
10/09/19Learning to Fly — Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
10/08/18Fly Away — Lenny Kravitz
10/07/18Breakfast at Tiffany’s — Deep Blue Something
10/06/18Tubthumping — Chumbawamba
10/05/18Slew Foot — James McMurtry (featuring Joe Ely)
10/04/18Fooled Around and Fell In Love — Elvin Bishop
10/03/18A Day In the Life — The Beatles
(Geoff Emerick's favorite Beatles track among so many.)
10/02/18Telephone Line — Electric Light Orchestra
10/01/18I Saw the Light — Todd Rundgren
2018 July–September
09/30/18Or Maybe the Autumn — Prelude
09/29/18Today — Jefferson Airplane
(I can’t use words they don’t say enough.)
09/28/18China Grove — The Doobie Brothers
09/27/18A Rock ’n’ Roll Fantasy — The Kinks
09/26/18Chevy Van — Sammy Johns
09/25/18Harvest Moon — Neil Young
09/24/18Rock On — David Essex
09/23/18Hold Your Head Up — Argent
09/22/18I Hear You Knocking — Dave Edmunds
09/21/18Celebration — Kool & The Gang
09/20/18(It Ain’t Necessarily) Byrd Avenue — Spanky and Our Gang
09/19/18You’ve Made Me So Very Happy — Blood, Sweat & Tears
09/18/18Whatever’s Written In Your Heart — Gerry Rafferty
09/17/18Ridin’ With the Radio — Crystal Bowersox
09/16/18Sing a Mean Tune Kid — Chicago
09/15/18Don’t Stop Me Now — Queen
09/14/18Too Late for Goodbyes — Julian Lennon
09/13/18Thirteen — Zach Jones & the Tricky Bits
(A great cover of one of my favorite songs.)
09/12/18Over the Hills and Far Away — Led Zeppelin
09/11/18Tuesday — Five for Fighting
09/10/18Sing — Pentatonix
09/09/18Just a Song Before I Go — Crosby, Stills & Nash
(1200 Song of the Days and counting…!)
09/08/18Song 2 — Blur
09/07/18Let’s Do Something Cheap and Superficial — Burt Reynolds
(For the money, for the glory, and for the fun… mostly for the money.)
09/06/18Let’s Groove — Earth, Wind & Fire
09/05/18Give Up the Funk (Tear the Roof Off the Sucker) — Parliament
09/04/18Uhlala! — My Funk Guitar — Hot Pants Road Club
09/03/18Ask — The Smiths
09/02/18Lazy Eye — Silversun Pickups
09/01/18Sex & Candy — Marcy Playground
08/31/18Interstate Love Song — Stone Temple Pilots
08/30/18Cumbersome — Seven Mary Three
08/29/18Dreams I’ll Never See — Molly Hatchet
08/28/18Sit Next to Me — Foster the People
08/27/18Don’t Go Breaking My Heart — Backstreet Boys
08/26/18Summer Sun — Texas
08/25/18Borrowed Time — Fanny
08/24/18Tusk — Fleetwood Mac
08/23/18Intro — The xx
08/22/18Gold On the Ceiling — The Black Keys
08/21/18Knights of Cydonia — Muse
08/20/18Reptilia — The Strokes
08/19/18Everlong — Foo Fighters
08/18/18If You Could Only See — Tonic
08/17/18Don’t Play That Song — Aretha Franklin
(Respect)
08/16/18Everything You Want — Vertical Horizon
08/15/18Shine — Collective Soul
08/14/18Two Princes — Spin Doctors
08/13/18All That She Wants — Ace of Bass
08/12/18Twilight In Your Hands — Steve Stevens
08/11/18Counting Stars — OneRepublic
08/10/18Clarity — Zedd (featuring Foxes)
08/09/18Summer — Calvin Harris
08/08/18Runaway (U & I) — Galantis
08/07/18Fenk Shui — Here Come the Mummies
08/06/18Funky Worm — Ohio Players
08/05/18Rave in the Grave — AronChupa & Little Sis Nora
08/04/18Party Til We Die (Extended Mix) — MAKJ & Timmy Trumpet (featuring Andrew W.K.)
08/03/18Animals — Martin Garrix
08/02/18Better Off Alone — Alice Deejay
08/01/18Every Time We Touch — Cascada
07/31/18Heaven — DJ Sammy (featuring Do)
07/30/18Another Night — Real McCoy
07/29/18Funkytown — Lipps Inc.
07/28/18Move Your Feet — Junior Senior
07/27/18Take Me Out — Franz Ferdinand
07/26/18Feel Good Inc. — Gorillaz
07/25/18Are You Gonna Be My Girl — Jet
07/24/18Can’t Stop — Red Hot Chili Peppers
07/23/18Ain’t No Rest for the Wicked — Cage the Elephant
07/22/18Work This Out — Colin Egan
07/21/18Booty Swing — Parov Stelar
07/20/18Lone Digger — Caravan Palace
07/19/18All Eyes On Me — OR3O
07/18/18Mr. Saxobeat — Alexandra Stan
07/17/18Here's to Never Growing Up — Avril Lavigne
07/16/18Get Lucky — Daft Punk (featuring Pharrell Williams)
07/15/18Feelin' Stronger Every Day — Chicago
07/14/18I’m OK — The Sola Jets
07/13/18Knock On Wood — Eddie Floyd
07/12/18Sweet Soul Music — Arthur Conley
07/11/18Grazing in the Grass — The Friends of Distinction
07/10/18The Horse — Cliff Nobles
07/09/18Cool Jerk — The Capitals
07/08/18It’s All Right — The Impressions
07/07/18Better than Magic — Arc Divers
07/06/18Magic — Olivia Newton-John
07/05/18We All Matter — Lana White
07/04/18Power to the People — John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band
07/03/18What Is Love — Haddaway
07/02/18Self Control — Laura Branigan
07/01/18Tarzan Boy — Baltimora
2018 April–June
06/30/18Happy — Athens Sunshine Company
06/29/18More Than Words — Extreme
06/28/18Caught Up In You — 38 Special
(Celebrating our 38th anniversary today!)
06/27/18Obsession — Animotion
06/26/18(Keep Feeling) Fascination — The Human League
06/25/18What’s On Your Mind (Pure Energy) — Information Society
06/24/18Comfortably Numb — Pink Floyd
06/23/18Wind of Change — Scorpions
06/22/18Champagne Supernova — Oasis
06/21/18Summer Song — Fanny
06/20/18The Promise — When In Rome
06/19/18Naked All Night — Rita Coolidge
06/18/18Night Moves — Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band
06/17/18Father's Day — Jack Sundrud
06/16/18Saturday Night’s Alright (For Fighting) — Elton John
06/15/18It’s My Birthday — will.i.am & Cody Wise
06/14/18Killing Floor — The Electric Flag
(Yep, it's Flag Day!)
06/13/18Love Is All Around — The Troggs
06/12/18To Sir, With Love — Lulu
06/11/18Tobacco Road — The Nashville Teens
06/10/18If I Loved You — Chad & Jeremy
06/09/18You Turn Me On — Ian Whitcomb
06/08/18Don't Turn Around — The Merseybeats
06/07/18Someone, Someone — Brian Poole & The Tremeloes
06/06/18Bad to Me — Billy J. Kramer with The Dakotas
06/05/18Go Now! — The Moody Blues
06/04/18Don’t Bring Me Down — The Animals
06/03/18Have I The Right — The Honeycombes
06/02/18Tossing and Turning — The Ivy League
06/01/18My Generation — The Who
05/31/18Just One Look — The Hollies
05/30/18I’m Telling You Now — Freddie and The Dreamers
05/29/18Come Tomorrow — Manfred Mann
(Starting my fourth year of Song of the Day picks…)
05/28/18Universal Soldier — Donovan
05/27/18You’ve Got Your Troubles — The Fortunes
05/26/18Tell Her No — The Zombies
05/25/18Hippy Hippy Shake — The Swinging Blue Jeans
05/24/18The Game of Love — Wayne Fontana & The Mindbenders
05/23/18Love Potion No. 9 — The Searchers
05/22/18Keep On Running — Spencer Davis Group
05/21/18I Go to Pieces — Peter and Gordon
05/20/18Baby, Please Don’t Go — Them
05/19/18As Tears Go By — Marianne Faithfull
05/18/18Heart of Stone — The Rolling Stones
05/17/18Heart Full of Soul — The Yardbirds
05/16/18Ferry Across the Mersey — Gerry and the Pacemakers
05/15/18I Know a Place — Petula Clark
05/14/18Catch Us If You Can — The Dave Clark Five
05/13/18The Sweetest Gift — Sade
(Happy Mother's Day!)
05/12/18Can’t Find My Way Home — Blind Faith
05/11/18Ramble On — Led Zeppelin
05/10/18Ramblin’ Man — The Allman Brothers Band
05/09/18Green, Green — The New Christy Minstrels
05/08/18(Nothing But) Flowers — Talking Heads
05/07/18Tip-Toe Thru’ the Tulips with Me — Tiny Tim
05/06/18Feet On the Ground — The Hollies
05/05/18Cinco de Mayo — Baby Bash & Frankie J
05/04/18Magic — Pilot
05/03/18Strange Magic — Electric Light Orchestra
05/02/18Do You Believe in Magic — The Lovin’ Spoonful
05/01/18I Can See Clearly Now — Jimmy Cliff
04/30/18A Lover’s Concerto — The Toys
04/29/18For Your Love — The Yardbirds
04/28/18One White Duck/0^{10} = Nothing At All — Jethro Tull
04/27/18Great Again — Zach Jones & the Tricky Bits
04/26/18Monster/Suicide/America — Steppenwolf
04/25/18I Can Change — Lake Street Dive
04/24/18Butterfly Bleu — Iron Butterfly
04/23/18Elusive Butterfly — Bob Lind
04/22/18Nature’s Way — Spirit
04/21/18Without You — Avicii (featuring Sandro Cavazzo)
(“Live a life you will remember”)
04/20/18When the Music’s Over — The Doors
04/19/18Don’t Stop the Music — Yarbrough & Peoples
04/18/18Rock Steady — The Whispers
04/17/18Love Me Right (Oh Sheila) — Angel City
04/16/18Oh Sheila — Ready For the World
04/15/18The Glamorous Life — Sheila E.
04/14/18Last Dance (12” Version) — Donna Summer
04/13/18Thank God It’s Friday — Love & Kisses
04/12/18Evacuate the Dancefloor — Cascada
04/11/18Keep on Dancing — The Gentrys
04/10/18Just Dance — Lady Gaga
04/09/18Way Down We Go — Kaleo
04/08/18My House — Flo Rida
04/07/18Home Again — Michael Kiwanuka
04/06/18California Earthquake — Norman Greenbaum
04/05/18Take the Long Way Home — Supertramp
04/04/18Rocket Man — Elton John
04/03/18The Dreamer — Badfinger
04/02/18The Other Side of Life — Bread
04/01/18Foolin’ — Def Leppard
2018 January–March
03/31/18Hey Big Brother — Rare Earth
03/30/18Compared to What — John Kay & Steppenwolf
03/29/18Crazy — Cat Dahlia
03/28/17Copacabana (Disco Version) — Barry Manilow
(Singing along with Barry, 3 years ago!)
03/27/18Rhymes — Donald Fagen and Todd Rundgren
03/26/18Rapper’s Delight — The Sugarhill Gang
03/25/18Pick Up The Pieces — Average White Band
03/24/18Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad — Meat Loaf
03/23/18Pillow Talk — Sylvia
03/22/18Look Over Your Shoulder — The Escorts
03/21/18Love Jones — Brighter Side of Darkness
03/20/18We Come Alive — Ghosts of Our Former Selves
03/19/18Catching the Sun — Spiro Gyra
03/18/18Rise and Fade — Ross Bellenoit
03/17/18The Last — Katie Hargrove
03/16/18To Make It Right — Steve Cropper & Felix Cavaliere
03/15/18Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Flight — Klaatu
(World Contact Day, 2018)
03/14/18Student Demonstration Time — The Beach Boys
03/13/18Welcome to Hollywood — Gerry Rafferty
03/12/18Californication — Red Hot Chili Peppers
03/11/18Flower of the Universe — Sade
03/10/18Charity Ball — Fanny
03/09/18Count On Me — Bruno Mars
03/08/18Playgirl — Thee Prophets
03/07/18Jammin’ Me — Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
03/06/18Jamming — Bob Marley and The Wailers
03/05/18Cissy Strut — The Meters
03/04/18Isn’t It Time — The Babys
03/03/18Piano Man — Billy Joel
03/02/18Everything Will Turn Out Fine — Stealers Wheel
03/01/18Back Home — Bee Gees
02/28/18Goin’ Back to Miami — The Blues Brothers
02/27/18Never Give Up — ¡Reviva!
02/26/18Back To the Island — Leon Russell
02/25/18Orinoco Flow — Enya
02/24/18On the Beach — Neil Young
02/23/18(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay — Otis Redding
02/22/18Visions of Paradise — The Moody Blues
02/21/18Vacation — Dirty Heads
(My 1000th Song of the Day and counting…)
02/20/18Why Can’t We Live Together — Timmy Thomas
02/19/18When We Need Her — Fanny Walks the Earth
02/18/18Real Love — Jody Watley
02/17/18Smolder — Hegazy
02/16/18Back to December — Taylor Swift
02/15/18Kind Woman — Buffalo Springfield
02/14/18My Love — Paul McCartney and Wings
02/13/18Linger Awhile — Vic Damone
(The best pipes in the business)
02/12/18I Guess That’s Why They Call It the Blues — Elton John
02/11/18Hell to Pay — Boz Scaggs (featuring Bonnie Raitt)
02/10/18Singin’ the Blues Too Long — The Rascals
02/09/18The Jam, Part 1 — Bobby Gregg & His Friends
02/08/18In the Winter — Janis Ian
02/07/18White Winter Hymnal — Fleet Foxes
02/06/18Things We Said Today — Velvet Crest
02/05/18Fly Like an Eagle — Steve Miller Band
02/04/18Do It Again — Steely Dan
02/03/18Cloud Nine — The Temptations
(You're as free as a bird in flight)
02/02/18Adventures In Paradise — The Islanders
02/01/18Lured Away — Fanny Walked the Earth
01/31/18You Don’t Know — Katelyn Tarver
01/30/18In My Head — Peter Manos
01/29/18If I Go, I’m Going — Gregory Alan Isakov
01/28/18Meet Me In the Woods — Lord Huron
01/27/18What You Know — Two Door Cinema Club
01/26/18My Hawaii — The Rascals
(Aloha 🏄)
01/25/18Bruises — Chairlift
01/24/18Chasing Stars — Moux
01/23/18Grazing In the Grass — Hugh Masekela
(So real, so real, so real…)
01/22/18Don and Dewey — It’s a Beautiful Day
01/21/18Take It Easy — Eagles
01/20/18Take It Easy — Savoy Brown
01/19/18Embryonic Journey — Jefferson Airplane
01/18/18Bron-Yr-Aur — Led Zeppelin
01/17/18Mood For a Day — Yes 
01/16/18Raining in My Heart — The Cranberries
(And the sun won't shine today)
01/15/18Abraham, Martin and John — Dion
01/14/18Real Love — Lo Moon
01/13/18Dynomite — Timothy Wisdom & The Funk Hunters
01/12/18The Jam — Graham Central Station
01/11/18Waitin’ For the Wind — Spooky Tooth
01/10/18Rising Water — James Vincent McMorrow
01/09/18The Tide Is High — Blondie
01/08/18And The Tide Rushes In — The Moody Blues
(Travelling eternity road…)
01/07/18Cold — Maroon 5 (featuring Future)
01/06/18Cold as Ice — Foreigner
01/05/18The Diary (Explicit) — Hollywood Undead
01/04/18Diary — Bread
01/03/18Dear Diary — The Moody Blues
01/02/18Sometimes in Winter — Blood, Sweat & Tears
01/01/18I’m Eighteen — Alice Cooper
2017 October–December
12/31/17Reelin' In the Years — Steely Dan
12/30/17Wish I Knew You — The Revivalists
12/29/17Love’s Theme — The Love Unlimited Orchestra
12/28/17Goodbye Babe — The Castaways
12/27/17Let It Go — Demi Lovato
12/26/17Long Distance Runaround — Yes
12/25/17On This Christmas Day — The Moody Blues
12/24/17Carol of the Bells — Mannheim Steamroller
12/23/17Santa Clause Is Coming to Town — Buddy Miles
12/22/17This Christmas All I Want Is a Kiss — Roddy Hart & The Lonesome Fire
12/21/17Light My Way — The Bangles
12/20/17SWLABR — Cream
12/19/1796 Tears — The Stranglers
12/18/17Blue Christmas — Keely Smith
(Won't be the same dear, if you're not here…)
12/17/17Feel the Burn — Hollowstar
12/16/17Don’t Lose Your Mind — The Galaxies IV
12/15/17Magic Potion — The Open Mind
12/14/17Deep Black — The Smithereens
(Deep black tragedy)
12/13/17Tongue Tied — GROUPLOVE
12/12/17Yoo Hoo — Imperial Teen
12/11/17What’s Up? — 4 Non Blondes
12/10/17Drops of Jupiter — Train
12/09/17Bitter Sweet Symphony — The Verve
12/08/17Platinum Blonde — Prelude
12/07/17Ain’t That Peculiar — Fanny
12/06/17Dreams — Beck
12/05/17Dreams — The Cranberries
12/04/17Love Me Like a Song — Kimmie Rhodes (featuring Willie Nelson)
12/03/17I Will Stay — Emma Cook
12/02/17Hazy Shade of Winter — Simon & Garfunkel
12/01/17I’m Free — The Who
11/30/17Take This Job and Shove It — Johnny Paycheck
11/29/17Flow — Transister
11/28/17The World Is Not Enough — Garbage
11/27/17Map of the World — Action Skulls
11/26/17Take a Walk — Passion Pit
11/25/17Whatever It Takes — Imagine Dragons
11/24/17Money — The Flying Lizards
11/23/17Alice’s Restaurant Massacree — Arlo Guthrie
11/22/17Echo Valley 2-6809 — The Partridge Family
(Now we're separated)
11/21/17And That Reminds Me — Della Reese
(Your favorite kind of music)
11/20/17How Bad Do You Want to Be Good — Mel Tillis
(He spoke clearly through song)
11/19/17Back In Black — AC/DC
(The power’s gone out)
11/18/17We Are Young — Fun (featuring Janelle Monáe)
11/17/17Dreams Never End — New Order
11/16/17Nocturnal Me — Echo and the Bunnymen
11/15/17Just a Memory — ODESZA (featuring Regina Spektor)
11/14/17I’m Lucky — Joan Armatrading
11/13/17Why Are People Like That? — Junior Wells
(900 SOTDs and counting…)
11/12/17Soulful Strut — Young-Holt Unlimited
11/11/17Rock and Roll Stew Parts 1 & 2 — Traffic
11/10/17Take Me In Your Arms (Rock Me a Little While) — Kim Weston
11/09/17The Entertainer — Tony Clarke
11/08/17Hope You Like It — Geordie
11/07/17I Am the Audience — XTC
11/06/17It’s My Life — No Doubt
11/05/17Marley Purt Drive — Bee Gees
11/04/17All My Life — Lana White
11/03/17Don’t You Worry Child — Swedish House Mafia (featuring John Martin)
11/02/17Glad You Came — The Wanted
11/01/17Wake Me Up — Avicii
10/31/17Monster Mash — Bobby “Boris” Picket & The Crypt-Kickers
10/30/17Monster — Paramore
10/29/17Ghost Dance — Marianne Faithfull
10/28/17Ghost Town — The Specials
10/27/17Dear Fellow Traveler — Sea Wolf
10/26/17I Lived My Life — Fats Domino
(Goin' back home to stay)
10/25/17Autumn Leaves — Eva Cassidy
10/24/17Cough Syrup — Young the Giant
10/23/17Electric Feel — MGMT
10/22/17Safe and Sound — Capital Cities
10/21/17Shooting Stars — Bag Raiders
10/20/17Dino’s Song — Quicksilver Messenger Service
10/19/17Scared — The Tragically Hip
(Tragically sad)
10/18/17Never Comes The Day — The Moody Blues
10/17/17White Bird — It’s a Beautiful Day
10/16/17Saved by Zero (Extended Version) — The Fixx
10/15/17Down to Zero — Joan Armatrading
10/14/17How Soon Is Now? — The Smiths
10/13/17Superstition — Stevie Wonder
10/12/17Corporate America — Boston
10/11/17Hugh the Manatee — Magpie
10/10/17On Melancholy Hill — Gorillaz
10/09/17Melancholy Man — The Moody Blues
10/08/17Share the Land — The Guess Who
10/07/17Listen People — Herman's Hermits
10/06/17Love’s In Need of Love Today — Stevie Wonder
10/05/17In My Dreams I’m Always Losing (Acoustic Version) — Roddy Hart
10/04/17Indian Summer — Brewer & Shipley
10/03/17Flirting With Time — Tom Petty
(Some days are rocks)
10/02/17World Gone Crazy — The Doobie Brothers
10/01/17Liberty and Justice — Ursa Major
2017 July–September
09/30/17True — Spandau Ballet
09/29/17Holdin' On To Yesterday — Ambrosia
09/28/17And the Beat Goes On — The Whispers
09/27/17I Want Your Love — Chic
09/26/17Everytime I Think of You — The Babys
09/25/17Love Will Find a Way — Pablo Cruise
09/24/17Love Is the Answer — England Dan & John Ford Coley
09/23/17Right Down the Line — Gerry Rafferty
09/22/17Walk On Down the Road — Mason Proffit
09/21/17Tarkio Road — Brewer & Shipley
09/20/17Willin’ — Seatrain
09/19/17Higher Ground — ODESZA (featuring Naomi Wild)
09/18/17Take a Picture — Filter
09/17/17Witches' Song — Marianne Faithfull
09/16/17Ready to Go — Republica
09/15/17Now That You Know Me — Grant Hart
(The Argument is over…)
09/14/17#1 Crush — Garbage
09/13/17Glad — Traffic
09/12/17Omaha — Moby Grape
09/11/17Paul B. Allen, Omaha Nebraska — Buddy Miles
09/10/17For What It’s Worth — Crystal Bowersox
09/09/17Beware of Darkness — George Harrison
09/08/17Summer Daze — Beware of Darkness
09/07/17Thirteen — Dawn Landes and Roddy Hart
09/06/17Good Morning Starshine — Oliver
09/05/17Sleep — Todd Rundgren and Joe Walsh
09/04/17Bob Is Not Your Uncle Anymore — Walter Becker
(The Reelin’ ended far too soon…)
09/03/17Dancing in the Rain — The Fizz
09/02/17There Must Be Something — Friday, Saturday, & Sunday
09/01/17Carry On — Fun
08/31/17Carry On — Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
08/30/17Watching the River Run — Loggins & Messina
08/29/17Who’ll Stop the Rain — Creedence Clearwater Revival
08/28/17Butterflies and Hurricanes — Muse
08/27/17Little Do You Know — Alex & Sierra
08/26/17Lessons — Shirley Green 
08/25/17Wish — Kosheen
08/24/17Don’t Shut Me Out — Bread
08/23/17This Wall Between Us — Emitt Rhodes
08/22/17I Miss You — Klymaxx
08/21/17Total Eclipse — Iron Maiden
08/20/17All Cried Out — Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam
08/19/17One Night In Bangkok — Murray Head
08/18/17Rock Me Amadeus — Falco
08/17/17Girlfriend — Phoenix
08/16/17Told You Once — The Apples In Stereo
08/15/17I Can’t Wait — Nu Shooz
08/14/17Forget Me Not — Roddy Hart & The Lonesome Fire
08/13/17Tin Foil Hat — Todd Rundgren and Donald Fagen
08/12/17Love Is Blue (L’Amore Est Bleu) — Paul Mauriat
08/11/17You’ll Never Get to Heaven (If You Break My Heart) — The Stylistics
08/10/17White Flag — Dido
08/09/17Times Like These — Glen Campbell
(He left us so many beautiful, iconic songs that are being played today. Yet, this is a song that reminds me that he could bring his unique styling to anything.)
08/08/17Everybody Hurts — R.E.M.
08/07/17The Silence — Manchester Orchestra
08/06/17Just What I Needed — The Cars
08/05/17Yes or No — The Go-Go’s
(My 800th SOTD pick…)
08/04/17Magic Carpet Ride — Steppenwolf
(Goldy was one of my Hammond B3 idols; sadly gone)
08/03/17Eyes of a Child I — The Moody Blues
08/02/17Outta Space (Extended Version) — Billy Preston
08/01/17N.E.O. — Thomas Dolby
07/31/17Blue Monday 1988 — New Order
07/30/17The Story In Your Eyes — The Moody Blues
07/29/17Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight) — ABBA
07/28/17Rhythm of the Night — DeBarge
07/27/17New Kids — Jerad Finck
07/26/17Beautiful — Goldfrapp
07/25/17Turn To You — The Go-Go’s
07/24/17Steppin' Out — Joe Jackson
07/23/17All Day Music — War
07/22/17All Night Long — Lionel Richie
07/21/17Numb — Linkin Park
(Everything that you thought I would be has fallen apart right in front of you.)
07/20/17Midnight Sun — The Choir
07/19/17Into White — Cat Stevens
07/18/17Theme from an Imaginary Western — Leslie West
07/17/17You Didn’t Have To Be So Nice — The Lovin’ Spoonful
07/16/17No Time — The Guess Who
07/15/17Time Has Come Today — The Chambers Brothers
(The complete version, for those who have the time)
07/14/17Running Out of Time — Rexy
07/13/17Lay Me Down — Renée
(My 777th Song of the Day!)
07/12/17Melodies of Love — Pink Rhythm
07/11/17Storm — Rare Silk
07/10/17The Visit (She Was Here) — The Cyrkle
07/09/17Groovin' — The Young Rascals
07/08/17The Groove Line — Heatwave
07/07/17Boogie Oogie Oogie — A Taste of Honey
07/06/17Reach For It — George Duke
07/05/17Mothership Connection (Star Child) — Parliament
07/04/17Blowin’ Sky High — Berlin
07/03/17Cake by the Ocean — DNCE
07/02/17Fireflies — Owl City
07/01/17Cool Kids — Echosmith
2017 April–June
06/30/17Unwritten — Natashia Beddingford
06/29/17Everything Is Free — Gillian Welsh
06/28/17I Only Have Eyes for You — Art Garfunkel
06/27/17Fallin’ For You — Colbie Caillat
06/26/17Love Song — Sara Bareilles
06/25/17Be OK — Ingrid Michaelson
06/24/17Don’t Be Afraid — Boston
06/23/17Feel Fear — Matthew Sweet
06/22/17The Fear — Lily Allen
06/21/17Scary But Fun — Grace Jones
06/20/17Not Afraid — Eminem
06/19/17Skyline — Norman Greenbaum
06/18/17My Father's Eyes — Eric Clapton
06/17/17I Go Crazy — Paul Davis
06/16/17On and On — Steven Bishop
06/15/17She Belongs to Me — The Tiers
(Reminiscing with my younger self…)
06/14/17Groovin' Is Easy — The Electric Flag
(It's Flag Day!)
06/13/17Groovin'(Out On Life) — UB40
06/12/17Groovin' In the Midnight — Maxi Priest
06/11/17Batman Theme — Neil Hefti & his Orchestra and Chorus
(“He who laughs last laughs best, not good! Best! Best! Best!” — Batman)
06/10/17Walking On Sunshine — Katrina & The Waves
06/09/17Yes, the River Knows — The Doors
06/08/17Wade In the Water — Ramsey Lewis
06/07/17Water of Love — Dire Straits
06/06/17Put Down the Duckie — Sesame Street
06/05/17Riverside — Wild-Wood
06/04/17Mill River — Mikey Sweet
06/03/17Ode to Billy Joe — Booker T. & the M.G.'s
06/02/17Can't Fight This Feeling — REO Speedwagon
06/01/17I Want To Know What Love Is — Foreigner
05/31/17Everything She Wants — Wham!
05/30/17Something About You — Level 42
05/29/17The Last Rebel — Lynyrd Skynyrd
05/28/17Just Ain't Easy — The Allman Brothers Band
(No, it just ain't easy)
05/27/17I Can Dream About You — Dan Hartman
05/26/17Waiting for a Star to Fall — Boy Meets Girl
05/25/17All I Need Is a Miracle — Mike + The Mechanics
05/24/17A View to a Kill — Duran Duran
(“But when I go, I’d just like everyone to say: ‘He lived longer than anyone I knew.’”)
05/23/17Linger — The Cranberries
05/22/17Just Like Heaven — The Cure
05/21/17What You Gonna Do (When She Says Goodbye) — Pablo Cruise
05/20/17Smoke from a Distant Fire — Sanford-Townsend Band
05/19/17Last Song — Edward Bear
05/18/17Long Gone — Chris Cornell
(“No one seems to get this, but 'Black Hole Sun' is sad.”)
05/17/17Who Do You Think You Are — Jigsaw
05/16/17Jar of Hearts — Christina Perri
05/15/17Silly Love Songs — Paul McCartney and Wings
05/14/17Mother's Day — Jennifer Hamady
05:13/17Promises, Promises — Naked Eyes
05/12/17I Melt with You — Modern English
05/11/17Space Age Love Song — A Flock of Seagulls
05/10/17Elegia — New Order
05/09/17Atmosphere — Joy Division
05/08/17Drink It Up — Negativland
05/07/17Drip, Drip, Drip — Chumbawamba
05/06/17We Got the Beat — The Go-Go’s
05/05/17Tequila — The Champs
(Happy Cinco de Mayo!)
05/04/17The Saga Begins — “Weird Al” Yankovic
(Star Wars Day!))
05/03/17Where Were You When I Needed You — The Bangles
05/02/17Train in the Distance — Paul Simon
05/01/17Scarborough Fair — Sergio Mendes & Brazil '66
04/30/17Changes — Black Sabbath
04/29/17Everyone’s Gone to the Moon — Jonathan King
04/28/17After Midnight (1988 Michelob Version) — Eric Clapton
04/27/17Midnight Movies — Saint Motel
04/26/17Midnight Blue — Lou Gramm
04/25/17East of Eden — Jack Tempchin
04/24/17Memphis Train — Melissa Etheridge
04/23/17She Blinded Me with Science (Extended Version) — Thomas Dolby
04/22/17Song For a Dying Planet — Joe Walsh
04/21/17Fresh Garbage — Spirit
04/20/17People Make the World Go Round — The Stylistics
04/19/17This Isn’t What the Governmeant — Bread
04/18/17What If We All Stopped Paying Taxes? — Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings
04/17/17The End's Not Near — Band of Horses
04/16/17Resist — Kosheen
04/15/17Uprising — Muse
04/14/17Policy of Truth — Depeche Mode
04/13/17Power — Tears For Fears
04/12/17(Ain't Nothin' But a) House Party — The J. Geils Band
(The party's over)
04/11/17Games Without Frontiers — Peter Gabriel
04/10/17A Great Day For Freedom — Pink Floyd
04/09/17Laughing into 1939 — Al Stewart
04/08/17Mr. Peppercorn — The Assembled Multitude
04/07/17A Last Illusion — Trans-Siberian Orchestra
(So long Paul…)
04/06/17She's Too Good For Me — Warren Zevon
04/05/17There She Goes — The La's
04/04/17Then She Appeared — XTC
04/03/17I Want You With Me — Bread
04/02/17One of Those Days — Steve Cropper & Felix Cavaliere
04/01/17Fool For You Anyway — Foreigner
2017 January–March
03/31/17Mr. Dieingly Sad — The Critters
03/30/17No Other — Gene Clark
03/29/17Go Back — Crabby Appleton
03/28/17Where Have You Gone — Barry Manilow
03/27/17Long Train Runnin' — The Doobie Brothers
03/26/17Memphis Train — Buddy Miles
03/25/17Hellbound Train — Savoy Brown
03/24/17Devil With a Blue Dress On/Good Golly Miss Molly — Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels
(My 666th SOTD pick!)
03/23/17Superman (It’s Not Easy) — Five For Fighting
03/22/17Lost Boy — Ruth B
03/21/17Mississippi — John Phillips
03/20/17I Can Help — Billy Swan
03/19/17No Particular Place to Go — Chuck Berry
(Gone to the promised land)
03/18/17So Into You — Atlanta Rhythm Section
03/17/17When the Stars Go Blue — Tim McGraw
03/16/17Late Again — Rita Coolidge
03/15/17Stella's Song — Zach Jones & the Tricky Bits
03/14/17Stella — All Time Low
03/13/17Someday We'll Be Together — The Supremes
03/12/17Who Killed Tangerine — Tears for Fears
03/11/17Can'tcha Say (You Believe In Me)/Still In Love — Boston
03/10/17Bad Romance — Lady Gaga
03/09/17To Feel Love — Butterfly Boucher
03/08/17Hard Way — Vices of Vanity
03/07/17Missing You — Orianthi
03/06/17We’re Back — Bobby Brown
03/05/17Major Tom (Coming Home) — Peter Schilling
03/04/17Space Oddity — David Bowie
03/03/17Come Home — The Dave Clark Five
03/02/17Give Me Just a Little More Time — The Chairmen of the Board
03/01/17Evil Woman — Crow
02/28/17Little Girl — Syndicate of Sound
02/27/17Flip Side — Rich Clayton & The Rumbles
02/26/17Here In the Garden II — Gypsy 
02/25/17Here In the Garden I — Gypsy
02/24/17Hold Me Now — Thompson Twins
02/23/17Shadows of the Night — Pat Benatar
02/22/17Shadows In the Moonlight — Anne Murray
02/21/17In the Shadows — Foreign Air
02/20/17Shadow Dancing — Andy Gibb
02/19/17Do You Want to Dance — Bette Midler
02/18/17Dance With Me — Orleans
02/17/17Flesh and Blood — Wilson Phillips
02/16/17Imaginary Lover — Atlanta Rhythm Section
02/15/17The Things We Do For Love — 10cc
02/14/17Valentine’s Day — David Bowie
02/13/17Feels Like Heaven — Al Jarreau
(He was the voice of versatility)
02/12/17Snowbound — Donald Fagen
02/11/17The Cold Part — Modest Mouse
02/10/17Snowstorm — Galaxie 500
02/09/17Sitting By the Window — Moby Grape
02/08/17Battlestar Galactica Theme — Stu Phillips conducting the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra
(Captain Apollo: “I missed you, too.”)
02/07/17The Fly — David Axelrod
(He left so many footsteps)
02/06/17I'm Not Gonna Let It Bother Me Tonight — Atlanta Rhythm Section
02/05/17Gone Troppo — George Harrison
02/04/17Southern Cross — Crosby, Stills & Nash
02/03/17South American — Brian Wilson
02/02/17Expo Tenerife — South American Getaway
02/01/17February Air — Lights
01/31/17All I Ever Wanted — Santana
01/30/17Sexcrime (Nineteen Eighty-Four) — Eurythmics
01/29/171984 — Spirit
01/28/17Mannix — Lalo Schifrin
(“I’m licensed, inspected, and suspected by the police.”)
01/27/17One Way Out — The Allman Brothers Band
(I just don't know…)
01/26/17Love Is All Around — Sonny Curtis
(Who can turn the world on with her smile?)
01/25/17Idioteque — Radiohead
01/24/17American Idiot — Green Day
01/23/17Stand — Sly & The Family Stone
01/22/17People Got To Be Free — The Rascals
01/21/17Save the County — The 5th Dimension
01/20/17Puppet Man — The 5th Dimension
01/19/17We Got To Live Together — Buddy Miles Express
01/18/17Honesty — Billy Joel
01/17/17Liar — Three Dog Night
(My 600th SOTD selection)
01/16/17See — The Rascals
01/15/17Let It Rock (Rock and Roll On the Radio) — Savoy Brown
01/14/17The Heart of Rock and Roll — Huey Lewis & The News
01/13/17Kids Wanna Rock — Bryan Adams
01/12/17Life Is a Rock (But the Radio Rolled Me) — Reunion
01/11/18Keep Playin' that Rock 'n Roll — Edgar Winter's White Trash
01/10/17It's Only Rock and Roll (But I Like It) — The Rolling Stones
01/09/17Good Rockin' — The Doors
01/08/17I Love Rock-n-Roll — Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
01/07/17For a Rocker — Jackson Browne
01/06/17The Golden Age of Rock 'N' Roll — Mott the Hoople
01/05/17Rock and Roll — Led Zeppelin
01/04/17Rock and Roll Is Here to Stay — Danny and the Juniors
01/03/17My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue) — Neil Young & Crazy Horse
01/02/17Out of the Blue — Caldera
01/01/17Blue World — The Moody Blues
2016 October–December
12/31/161999 — Prince
12/30/16If We Make It Through December — Merle Haggard
12/29/16A Home in the Meadow — Debbie Reynolds
(This song from How the West Was Won had a big impact on me when I saw it in Cinerama in 1962. A bittersweet memory…)
12/28/16Princess Leia's Theme — John Williams
(A rebel to the end…)
12/27/16Sometimes In Winter — Sergio Mendes & Brazil '66
12/26/16December Song (I Dreamed of Christmas) — George Michael
(To wipe the year away…)
12/25/16Happy Xmas (War Is Over) — John Lennon & Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band
12/24/16I'll Be Home For Christmas — The Mills Bothers
12/23/16Merry Christmas Baby — The Beach Boys
12/22/16The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don't Be Late) — Alvin and the Chipmunks
12/21/16Winter Wonderland — Buddy Miles
12/20/16Black Hole Sun — Ramin Djawadi [Westworld sountrack]
12/19/16Election Day — Arcadia
12/18/16Ain’t Gonna Lie — Keith
12/17/16Liar, Liar — The Castaways
12/16/16Lies — The Knickerbockers
12/15/16Pushin’ Too Hard — The Seeds
12/14/16Shape of Things To Come — Max Frost & The Troupers
12/13/1699 Luftballoons (English Version) — Nena
12/12/16Come On Eileen — Dexys Midnight Runners
12/11/16Some Nights — Fun
12/10/16Stolen Dance — Milky Chance
12/09/16I Believe In Father Christmas — Greg Lake
(Another goodbye)
12/08/16Life In a Northern Town — The Dream Academy
12/07/16Sweater Weather — The Neighbourhood
12/06/16Come Back July — Colorway
12/05/16Demons — Imagine Dragons
12/04/16Breakeven — The Script
12/03/16Chasing Cars — Snow Patrol
12/02/16Wherever You Will Go — The Calling
12/01/16Heaven — Warrant
11/30/16Faithfully — Journey
11/29/16Truly Madly Deeply — Savage Garden
11/28/16When I See You Smile — Bad English
11/27/16Home — Sheryl Crow
11/26/16Two Hangmen — Mason Proffit
11/25/16On eBay — Chumbawamba
11/24/16Family Tree — Gerry Rafferty
11/23/16A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving — George Winston
11/22/16Last Night a D.J. Saved My Life — Indeep
11/21/16Fade Into You — Mazzy Star
11/20/16Chains — The Beatles
11/19/16I'm Still Here — Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings
(Her music certainly is…)
11/18/16The End of the World — Herman’s Hermits
11/17/16Careless Words — Ani DiFranco
11/16/16Drift Away — Dobie Gray
11/15/16Under the Moon — The Rosewood Project
11/14/16This Masquerade — Leon Russell
(I know down in my soul I'm really gonna miss you)
11/13/16Bring Me Home — Sade
11/12/16The Man From U.N.C.L.E. Theme — Daniel Caine Orchestra
11/11/16Winter Lady — Leonard Cohen
(No way to say goodbye…)
11/10/16The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald — Gordon Lightfoot
(Lost 41 years ago on 11/10/75)
11/09/16O-o-h Child — The Five Stairsteps
11/08/16Voting Time — Robert Lund
11/07/16Jimmy Carter Says “YES” — Gene Marshall
11/06/16Prologue/Someday August 29, 1968 — Chicago Transit Authority
(The whole world is watching)
11/05/16Get Together — The Youngbloods
11/04/16Eve of Destruction — Barry McGuire
11/03/16Sweet Freedom — Michael McDonald
11/02/16I See the Light — The Music Explosion
11/01/16Long As I Can See the Light — Creedence Clearwater Revival
10/31/16Put Your Lights On — Santana ft. Everlast
10/30/16Witchy Woman — Eagles
10/29/16Season of the Witch — Donovan
10/28/16Spooky — Classics IV
10/27/16Boris the Spider — The Who
10/26/16Monster Mash — John Zacherle
10/25/16The Night Has a Thousand Eyes — Bobby Vee
(Yet another departure)
10/24/16Festival — Ballin`jack
10/23/16Jubilee — Norman Greenbaum
10/22/16Witchy-Tai-To — Brewer & Shipley
10/21/16People of the South Wind — Kansas
10/20/16Winds of Change — Eric Burdon & The Animals
10/19/16Warmth of the Sun — The Beach Boys
10/18/16The Heat Is On — Glenn Frey [Beverly Hills Cop Soundtrack]
10/17/16She’s Not There — Santana
10/16/16Pleasant Valley Sunday — The Monkees
10/15/16Tonight’s the Night (Gonna Be Alright) — Rod Stewart
10/14/16Looking For a Stranger — Pat Benatar
10/13/16Stranger In Town — Del Shannon
10/12/16Strange Days — The Doors
10/11/16Dance Me to the End of Love — Kate Gibson [Strange Days Soundtrack]
10/10/16Clementine — Sarah Jaffe
10/09/16Paris (Aeroplane Remix ft. Au Revoir Simone) — Friendly Fires
(My 500th pick!)
10/08/16Aeroplane — Look Park
10/07/16Michael and Heather at the Baggage Claim — Fountains of Wayne
10/06/16Next Plane to London — The Rose Garden
10/05/16One Day to Fly — Alan Parsons
10/04/16Summer's Almost Gone — The Doors
10/03/1619th Nervous Breakdown — The Rolling Stones
10/02/16Psychobabble — The Alan Parsons Project
10/01/16Real Fright — Iron Butterfly
2016 July–September
09/30/16Land of Confusion — Genesis
09/29/16Reflections of My Life — Marmalade
09/28/162 Years On — Bee Gees
09/27/16Indian Summer — The Dream Academy
09/26/16Suddenly Last Summer — The Motels
09/25/16September Gurls — The Bangles
09/24/16Aserejé (The Ketchup Song) — Las Ketchup
09/23/16Mamba No. 5 — Lou Bega
09/22/16Si no llego a Mañana (Que No Cierre El Club) — Interactivo
09/21/16Guantanamera — The Sandpipers
09/20/16Love Letters In the Sand — Patsy Cline
09/19/16Rainy Days and Mondays — Carpenters
09/18/16Summer Rain — Belinda Carlisle
09/17/161979 — The Smashing Pumpkins
09/16/16King Harvest (Has Surely Come) — The Band
(Tonight's the last harvest moon eclipse until 2024)
09/15/16If You Could Read My Mind — Gordon Lightfoot
09/14/16Oil Man — Chad Cooke Band
09/13/16Gasoline — Sheryl Crow
09/12/16Long Road Out of Eden — Talon
(A good cover of the original Eagles song that, unfortunately, isn’t allowed on YouTube in 2016)
09/11/16New Killer Star — David Bowie
09/10/16Buffalo — Mason Proffit
09/09/16Shapes of Things — The Yardbirds
09/08/16Every Day Is Exactly the Same — Nine Inch Nails
09/07/16Wake Up Boo! — The Boo Radleys
09/06/16Richie and Rubin — Fountains of Wayne
09/05/16Bright Future In Sales — Fountains of Wayne
09/04/16Dakota — Stereophonics
09/03/16Staying Out For the Summer — Dodgy
09/02/16Summer Soft — Stevie Wonder
09/01/16Morning Glory — Blood, Sweat & Tears
08/31/16(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay — The California Raisins
08/30/16California Sun — The Rivieras
08/29/16Summer Fades — Jeff Larson
08/28/16Barefootin' — Robert Parker
08/27/16Call Off Your Dogs — Lake Street Dive
08/26/16Summer Madness (DJ “S” bootleg bonus beat re-mix) — Kool & The Gang
08/25/16Heard It From a Friend — LOLO
08/24/16Going Back — The Byrds
08/23/16Sunny Afternoon — The Kinks
08/22/16Popsicle Toes — Michael Franks
08/21/16Sunshine — Andy Kim
08/20/16Separate Ways (Worlds Apart) — Journey
08/19/16You Give Love a Bad Name — Bon Jovi
08/18/16Your Love — The Outfield
08/17/16Out of Touch — Hall & Oates
08/16/16I Ran (So Far Away) — A Flock of Seagulls
08/15/16Rio (Night Version) — Duran Duran
08/14/16Baby the Rain Must Fall — Glenn Yarbrough
(Definitely Heaven…)
08/13/16Sun Is Shining — Bebel Gilberto
08/12/16Long Hot Summer — The Style Council
08/11/16Summer Love — FO&O
08/10/16Lake of Fire (Unplugged Version) — Nirvana
08/09/16Fire Lake — Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band
08/08/16Spirits In the Night — Manfred Mann’s Earth Band
08/07/16Spirit In the Sky (demo) — Norman Greenbaum
08/06/16It Came Out of the Sky — Creedence Clearwater Revival
08/05/16Men In Black (Main Theme) — Men In Black Soundtrack
08/04/16The Little Things — Wanted Soundtrack
08/03/16Here I Am (Keira Version) — Barbie: The Princess & the Popstar Soundtrack
08/02/1698.6 — Keith
08/01/16A Summer Song — Chad & Jeremy
07/31/16Perfect Day — Lou Reed
07/30/16Soul Searchin' — Glenn Frey
07/29/16Soul Searchin' — The Beach Boys
07/28/16A Million Miles Away — Rory Gallagher
07/27/16Sweet Sour — Band of Skulls
07/26/16Shield — Deep Purple
07/25/16Soul Sacrifice — Santana
07/24/16Texas — Buddy Miles Express
07/23/16Tighten Up, Pt 1 & 2 — Archie Bell and the Drells
07/22/16Lady Marmalade — Patti & Labelle
07/21/16Bullet Proof Soul — Sade
07/20/16Up On Cripple Creek — The Band
07/19/16Where To Now St. Peter? — Elton John
07/18/16Bus Rider — The Guess Who
07/17/16Bus Stop — The Hollies
07/16/16The Hissing of Summer Lawns — Joni Mitchell
07/15/16Summer Sky — Shakatak
07/14/16Up On the Roof — The Drifters
07/13/16Summer In the City — The Lovin’ Spoonful
07/12/16Brazilian Summer — SoulChef
07/11/16Every Summer Night — Pat Metheny Group
07/10/16A Warm Summer Night — Chic
07/09/16Fun, Fun, Fun — The Beach Boys
07/08/16Surf City — Jan & Dean
07/07/16Cruisin' Music — Raspberries
07/06/16Breezin’ — George Benson
07/05/16Light of Day — Little River Band
07/04/16Independence Day — Elliot Smith
(A counterpoint to today's parades, barbeques, and fireworks…)
07/03/16New Moon on Monday — Duran Duran
(Tomorrow (the 4th of July) is the only new moon on a Monday this year)
07/02/16Superman’s Song — Crash Test Dummies
07/01/16Summertime — Angélique Kidjo
(My 400th SOTD selection)
2016 April–June
06/30/16It’s a Beautiful Day Today — Moby Grape
06/29/16Oh How Happy — Shades of Blue
06/28/16Love Can Make You Happy — Mercy
06/27/16Let Her Go — Passenger
06/26/16Say Something — A Great Big World
06/25/16Wicked Game — Chris Isaak
06/24/16We're Not Gonna Take It /See Me, Feel Me — The Who
06/23/16Return to Camp Granada — Alan Sherman
06/22/16Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah (A Letter from Camp) — Alan Sherman
06/21/16Summer Moon — Africanism All Stars
06/20/16Here Comes Summer — Jerry Keller
06/19/16Father and Son — Cat Stevens
(Happy Father’s Day!)
06/18/16Georgia On My Mind — Ray Charles
06/17/16Rainy Night In Georgia — Brook Benton
06/16/16Who Knows What Tomorrow May Bring — Traffic
06/15/16When I’m Sixty-Four — The Beatles
(Woah! And now I am!!)
06/14/16You Don’t Realize — The Electric Flag
(Because it is Flag Day…)
06/13/16Get Along — Guy Sebastian
06/12/16Baby Come Back — Player
06/11/16Never Can Say Goodbye — Jackson 5
06/10/16If I Can't Have You — Yvonne Elliman
06/09/16Everything Is Nothing — Sweetbox
06/08/16Everything Is Alright — Motion City Soundtrack
06/07/16Lovely Day — Bill Withers
06/06/16Blue Bayou — Linda Ronstadt
06/05/16Born On the Bayou — Creedence Clearwater Revival
06/04/16Poke Salad Annie — Tony Joe White
06/03/16Ode to Billy Joe — Bobbie Gentry
(It was the 3rd of June…)
06/02/16You Bring the Summer — The Monkees
06/01/16June Is Bustin’ Out All Over — Carousel Soundtrack
05/31/16Sealed With a Kiss — Brian Hyland
05/30/16I Will Remember You — Sarah McLachlan
05/29/16Next Year People — Colin Hay
(Starting another year of #SongOfTheDay selections! Where does the time go…?)
05/28/16Then Came the Last Days of May — Blue Öyster Cult
05/27/16Sympathy — Rare Bird
05/26/16New Day — Iron Butterfly
05/25/16Möbius Trip — H. P. Lovecraft
05/24/16Fresh Air — Quicksilver Messenger Service
05/23/16A Beautiful Morning — The Rascals
05/22/16Wake Up, Wake Up — The Grass Roots
05/21/16Sleep Walk — Santo & Johnny Farina
05/20/16Your Wildest Dreams — The Moody Blues
05/19/16I Had a Dream — Paul Revere & The Raiders
05/18/16Sound Asleep — The Turtles
05/17/16Time — The Alan Parsons Project
05/16/16Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is? — Chicago Transit Authority
05/15/16Misty Mountain Hop — Led Zeppelin
05/14/16Itchycoo Park — Small Faces
05/13/16Drive — R.E.M.
05/12/16Baby Driver — Simon & Garfunkel
05/11/16Twenty Four Hours From Tulsa — The Assembled Multitude
05/10/16Super Highway — Ballin`jack
05/09/16Mother — Chicago
05/08/16Mama — Spice Girls
(Happy Mother's Day!)
05/07/16Fresh As a Daisy — Emitt Rhodes
05/06/16Humble Daisy — XTC
05/05/16Cinco de Mayo — Liz Phair
05/04/16A New Hope — Blink 182
(May the 4th be with you)
05/03/16Sunny — Bobby Hebb
05/02/16The Rain, the Park & Other Things — The Cowsills
05/01/16The Lusty Month of May — Sierra Boggess and the John Wilson Orchestra
04/30/16April Come She Will — Simon & Garfunkel
04/29/16Nobody Does It Better — Carly Simon
04/28/16All Time High — Rita Coolidge
04/27/16Live and Let Die — Wings
04/26/16Undercover — Joey DeLuxe
04/25/16Skyfall — Adele
04/24/16Games People Play — The Allan Parsons Project
04/23/16'Til I Die — The Beach Boys
04/22/16Colonized Mind — Prince
(What has gone wrong with the world…?)
04/21/16Dumpster World — Band of Horses
04/20/16Sky Fell Over Me — Shiny Toy Guns
04/19/16Under the Milky Way — The Church
04/18/16A Little On the Windy Side — Paul Williams
04/17/16Celebrate — Three Dog Night
04/16/16Put Your Records On — Corinne Bailey Rae
(Record store day)
04/15/16Beauty On the Fire — Natalie Imbruglia
04/14/16Seven — Shirley Green
04/13/16Come Down In Time — Elton John
04/12/16Suite: Clouds, Rain — David Gates
04/11/16Blue Blue Sky — Alan Parsons
04/10/16Another Rainy Day in New York City — Chicago
04/09/16Here Comes the Rain Again — Eurythmics
04/08/16Ashes the Rain and I — The James Gang
04/07/16Unfair Weather Friend — Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard
(Another goodbye)
04/06/16Rhythm of the Rain — The Cascades
04/05/16Why Does It Always Rain On Me? — Travis 
04/04/16London Bridge — Bread
04/03/16Just Between You and Me — April Wine
04/02/16Rockin' Robin — Jackson 5
04/01/16Won’t Get Fooled Again — The Who
2016 January–March
03/31/16Rock Bottom Blues — Fanny
03/30/16Fell For You — Green Day
03/29/16If I Fell — The Beatles
03/28/16Free Fallin’ — Tom Petty
03/27/16Oh Happy Day — The Edwin Hawkins Singers
03/26/16Morning Dew — Bonnie Dobson
03/25/16Darkness, Darkness — Robert Plant
03/24/16The Windmills of Your Mind — Sting
03/23/16Psychotic Reaction — Count Five
03/22/16Crazy — Gnarls Barkley
03/21/16Goin’ Out of My Head/Can’t Take My Eyes Off You — The Lettermen
03/20/16Spring Fever — Orleans
03/19/16Falling — Julee Cruise
03/18/16Nantucket Sleighride (To Owen Coffin) — Mountain
03/17/16Róisín Dubh (Black Rose): A Rock Legend — Thin Lizzy
(Happy St. Patrick’s Day!)
03/16/16Waltz#1 — Ross Bellenoit
03/15/16Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft — Carpenters
(It’s World Contact Day)
03/14/16After the Goldrush — Prelude
03/13/16Soul Searching — Little River Band
03/12/16Knife-Edge — Emerson, Lake & Palmer
(He sang to us with his hands and made our hearts soar)
03/11/16Soul Man — Sam & Dave
03/10/16I’ll Take You There — The Staple Singers
03/09/16A Little Bit O’ Soul — The Music Explosion
03/08/16Cat Size — Suzi Quatro
(International Women's Day)
03/07/16Goodbye Stranger — Supertramp
03/06/16Think Like a Man — Orianthi
03/05/16Sharp Dressed Man — ZZ Top
03/04/16House of the Rising Sun — Frigid Pink
03/03/16Put Some Rhythm To It — Emitt Rhodes
03/02/16Sing — Carpenters
03/01/16Pump Up the Volume — M/A/R/R/S
02/29/16Breathe — Télépopmusik
(What? Another day in February?)
02/28/16Dance Little Sister — Terence Trent D'Arby
02/27/16Stomp! — The Brothers Johnson
02/26/16You Take the Dark Out of the Night — Emitt Rhodes
02/25/16Dream On — Aerosmith
02/24/16Wrapped In Grey — XTC
02/23/16We Gotta Get Out of This Place — The Animals
02/22/16Second Coming/Ballad of Dwight Fry/Sun Arise — Alice Cooper
02/21/16Reach Out Your Hand — Gypsy
02/20/16Reach Out of the Darkness — Friend & Lover
02/19/16Darkness, Darkness — The Youngbloods
02/18/16Slippin' Into Darkness — War
02/17/16Black Hole Sun — Soundgarden
02/16/16Black Is Black — Los Bravos
02/15/16Paint It Black — The Rolling Stones
(Tell him what we said 'bout “Paint It Black”)
02/14/16Thirteen — Big Star
02/13/16I Love You — People
02/12/16Lovesong — Adele
02/11/16Lujon — Henry Mancini
02/10/16Love Is Alive — Gary Wright
02/09/16Crosstown Traffic [shortened edit] — Gil Evans & His Orchestra
02/08/16Rocky Mountain Way — Joe Walsh
(Super Bowl L is history. Congratulations Denver Broncos!)
02/07/16I Scare Myself — Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks
(No one at all sounded like Dan…)
02/06/16Kiss You All Over — Exile
02/05/16Sing a Song — Earth, Wind & Fire
(Hard to choose a single song to celebrate the life of Maurice White. His drumming with Ramsey Lewis, the many EW&F hits, … So many songs!)
02/04/16How Do You Do — Mouth & MacNeal
02/03/16Tighter, Tighter — Alive 'N Kicking
02/02/16I Got You Babe — Sonny & Cher
(It’s Groundhog Day… and my 250th SOTD!)
02/01/16Do It Again a Little Bit Slower — Jon & Robin and The In Crowd
01/31/16Run, Baby Run — The Newbeats
01/30/16Runnin’ Down a Dream — Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
01/29/16The Ballad of You & Me & Pooneil — Jefferson Airplane
(Will the moon still hang in the sky?)
01/28/16Ever Find Yourself Running? — Emitt Rhodes
01/27/16(I've Been) Searchin' So Long — Chicago
01/26/16I Know You're Out There Somewhere — The Moody Blues
01/25/16Explorer — Billy Barber
(I love the orchestral synth that begins at 3:08)
01/24/16Don't Eat the Yellow Snow Suite — Frank Zappa
01/23/16Bare Trees — Fleetwood Mac
01/22/16Never Been Any Reason — Head East
01/21/16So Very Hard To Go — Tower of Power
(…and we lost Mic Gillette, too. Such a heartbreaking week in the music world.)
01/20/16All the Young Dudes — Mott the Hoople
(We also lost Dale Griffin on Sunday night…)
01/19/16No More Cloudy Days — Eagles
(It's been such a sad stretch…)
01/18/168 Miles High — Dave Stewart & Barbara Gaskin
01/17/16South Side of the Sky — Yes
01/16/16Jam On It — Newcleus
01/15/16Jungle Love — The Time
01/14/16Take Your Time (Do It Right) — The S.O.S. Band
01/13/16Comfort In Sound — Feeder
01/12/16Stars — Grace Potter and The Nocturnals
01/11/16TVC 15 — David Bowie
(I've heard a rumour from Ground Control. Oh no, don't say it's true.)
01/10/16The Load Out/Stay — Jackson Browne
01/09/16Rockin’ In the Free World — Neil Young
01/08/16The One In the Middle — Manfred Mann
01/07/16Walkin' On the Sun — Smash Mouth
01/06/16The Way — Fastball
01/05/16River Deep Mountain High — Eric Burdon & The Animals
01/04/16Respect/In the Midnight Hour — Johnny Rivers
01/03/16Shakin’ All Over — Johnny Kidd & The Pirates
01/02/16Number 1 — Goldfrapp
01/01/16Funky New Year — Eagles
2015 October–December
12/31/15New Year’s Eve Party — George Thorogood & the Destroyers
12/30/15Celtic New Year — Van Morrison
12/29/15l Am a Rock — Simon & Garfunkel
12/28/15December, 1963 (Oh, What a Night) — The Four Seasons
12/27/15What Are You Doing New Years Eve? — Ramsey Lewis Trio
12/26/15The Marvelous Toy — The Chad Mitchell Trio
12/25/15Why Can't It Be Christmastime All Year — Rosie Thomas
12/24/15'Twas the Night Before Christmas — Fred Waring and his Pennsylvanians
(A holiday favorite from my childhood. This original 1942 version has never appeared on a CD, and later recordings that have appeared digitally just don't measure up. Merry Christmas!)
12/23/15Christmas Time Is Here (Instramental) — Vince Guaraldi Trio
12/22/15Yellin' at the Christmas Tree — Billy Idol
12/21/15Silver Bells — Bing Crosby and Carol Richards
12/20/15Jingle Bell Rock — Buddy Miles
(My favorite version of this holiday classic!)
12/19/152000 Miles — Pretenders
12/18/15Cool the Engines — Boston
12/17/15Star Wars Main Theme — John Williams
(The Force Awakens!)
12/16/15Also Sprach Zarathustra — Deodato
(Getting in the Star Wars mood with a shout-out to 2001. Blew me away in 1968!)
12/15/15Last Christmas — Wham!
12/14/15Santa's Beard — The Beach Boys
12/13/15Look Up (Joy To the World) — Lalo Schifrin
(Do look up tonight, #GeminidMeteorShower)
12/12/15Dear Prudence — Morgan James and Haley Reinhart
12/11/15Please Come Home For Christmas — Eagles
12/10/15Winter Song — Sara Bareilles and Ingrid Michaelson
12/09/15Hazy Shade of Winter — The Bangles
12/08/15Lady — Little River Band
12/07/15Wintertime Love — The Doors
12/06/15Time Is Tight — Booker T. & the M.G.'s
12/05/15You and I — Rick James
12/04/15Livin' It Up — Bell & James
12/03/15La Grange — ZZ Top
12/02/15Fried Hockey Boogie — Canned Heat
12/01/15Ooh La La — Goldfrapp
(Supernature is today's BBC Radio 6 Music #ClassicAlbumOfTheDay)
11/30/15Monday — Wilco
11/29/15Little Red Light — Fountains of Wayne
11/28/15All You Want — Dido
11/27/15Homeward Bound — Simon & Garfunkel
11/26/15Gratitude — Earth, Wind & Fire
11/25/15All the Rowboats — Regina Spektor
11/24/151994 — Shirley Green
11/23/15Forever Autumn — Justin Hayward
11/22/15Beautiful Sunday — Daniel Boone
11/21/15Gimme Gimme Good Lovin' — Crazy Elephant
11/20/1524 Hour Fool — Debbie Davies
11/19/15Seven Bridges Road — Home Free
11/18/15Green Grass and High Tides — Outlaws
11/17/15Secret Agent Man — P. F. Sloan
(He wrote/performed many favorites of mine. Although it seems we're still on the eve of destruction, I chose this clip for today. R.I.P.)
11/16/15Can't Get Next To You — Savoy Brown
11/15/15As Far As You Can See, As Much As You Can Feel — Gypsy
(A long, marvelous ride from 1971. Did we have longer attention spans back then…?)
11/14/15Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream — Mason Proffit
11/13/15Green-Eyed Lady — Sugarloaf
11/12/15Blown By the Wind — Alan Parsons
11/11/15Flow — Sade
11/10/15Keep Coming Back — Haley Reinhart
11/09/15Sledgehammer — Morgan James
11/08/15Not Gonna Let You Walk Away — LOLO
11/07/15The Look of Love — Isaac Hayes
11/06/15Blame It On the Girls — MIKA
11/05/15Right Kind of Love — Quarterflash
11/04/15Turnaround — Stealin’ Horses
11/03/15According To You — Orianthi
11/02/15Free — Brooke White
11/01/15All Right Now — Free
10/31/15(Don't Fear) The Reaper — Blue Öyster Cult
(Happy Halloween!)
10/30/15The Eve of the War/Horsell Common and the Heat Ray [shortened] — Jeff Wayne’s Musical Version of The War of the Worlds
10/29/15Welcome to My Nightmare — Alice Cooper
10/28/15Ghostbusters — Ray Parker, Jr.
10/27/15Popeye (the Gravedigger) — John Zacherle
10/26/15Experiment In Terror — Henry Mancini
10/25/15Thriller — Michael Jackson
10/24/15My Dead Drunk Friends — Hollywood Vampires
10/23/15Disco Duck — Rick Dees and His Cast of Idiots
10/22/15Try a Little Tenderness — Three Dog Night
("The 'Family of Man' just got a little smaller." — Chuck Yarborough)
10/21/15Let's All Chant — Michael Zager Band
10/20/15Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood — Santa Esmeralda
10/19/15Be Mine — The Heavy
10/18/15Leaves That Are Green — Simon & Garfunkel
10/17/15Moondance — Van Morrison
10/16/15Sister Christian — Night Ranger
10/15/15Turn Up the Radio — Autograph
10/14/15Take Out the Trash — They Might Be Giants
10/13/15Immigrant Song — Led Zeppelin
10/12/15Bob Dylan's 115th Dream — Bob Dylan
(Satirical reflections on Indigenous Peoples Day)
10/11/15Too Late To Turn Back Now — Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose
10/10/15It's a Long Way There — Little River Band
10/09/15I Had a Good Time — Boston
10/08/1569 Freedom Special — Buddy Miles Express
10/07/15Walk On the Wild Side — Lou Reed
10/06/15Sunshine of Your Love — Rotary Connection
10/05/15Hot Smoke & Sasafrass — Bubble Puppy
10/04/15Rock You Like a Hurricane — Scorpions
(Joaquin kept away from the East Coast, but still threatens Bermuda)
10/03/15Baby Mine — Bonnie Raitt and Was (Not Was)
10/02/15Fly — Sugar Ray (featuring Super Cat)
10/01/15Push — Matchbox Twenty
2015 July–September
09/30/15Maggie May — Rod Stewart
09/29/15I Love It — Icona Pop
09/28/15Take My Breath Away — Berlin
09/27/15Total Eclipse of the Heart — Bonnie Tyler
(Wishing everyone a great view of tonight's blood moon eclipse!)
09/26/15Sir Duke — Stevie Wonder
09/25/15I Ain't Got Nothin' But the Blues — The Pointer Sisters
09/24/15I’m Tired — Savoy Brown
09/23/15Runnin’ Blue — Boz Scaggs & Band
09/22/15Summer's Gone — Jackopierce
09/21/15September — Earth, Wind & Fire
(Because it is the 21st of September…)
09/20/15September — Daughtry
09/19/15September Morn — Neil Diamond
09/18/15September Gurls — Big Star
09/17/15Wake Me Up When September Ends — Green Day
09/16/15Lonely Days — Bee Gees
09/15/15Those Were the Days — Mary Hopkin
09/14/15Eight Days a Week — The Beatles
09/13/15Sunday Mornin' — Spanky and Our Gang
09/12/15Won't You Try/Saturday Afternoon — Jefferson Airplane
09/11/15Friday On My Mind — The Easybeats
09/10/15Thursday Morning — Giles, Giles & Fripp
09/09/15Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M. — Simon & Garfunkel
09/08/15Tuesday Morning — The Pogues
09/07/15Manic Monday — The Bangles
(Even a holiday can still be a Monday…)
09/06/15Dreaming — Blondie
09/05/15Airhead — Thomas Dolby
09/04/15Forget Everything — Was (Not Was)
09/03/15Teacher [Original U.K. Mix] — Jethro Tull
09/02/15Back To School Again — The Four Tops
(First day of school here in Amherst, MA)
09/01/15Los Angelenos — Billy Joel
08/31/15Dreamin' In the Shade (Down In L.A.) — Brewer & Shipley
08/30/15Get Back — The Beatles
08/29/15Here With Me [Roswell theme] — Dido
08/28/15The WASP (Texas Radio And The Big Beat) [alternate version] — The Doors
08/27/15Nashville Cats — The Lovin' Spoonful
08/26/15Look Out Cleveland — The Band
08/25/15Radar Love — Golden Earring
08/24/15Going Mobile — The Who
08/23/15Mobile — Avril Lavigne
08/22/15Keeper — Butterfly Boucher
08/21/15Can I Make It Last (Or Will It Just Be Over) — Boz Scaggs
08/20/15Fool If You Think It’s Over — Chris Rea
08/19/15Fool On the Hill — Sergio Mendes & Brazil '66
08/18/15Rainbow Lake — Wendy & Lisa
08/17/15Early Morning Blues and Greens — The Monkees
08/16/15Baby Hold On — Eddie Money
08/15/15Hold On — Ballin`jack
08/14/15You've Got To Earn It — The Staple Singers
08/13/15We're All Looking — Steve Winwood
08/12/15Alive — Goldfrapp
08/11/15Rainy Day — John Lee Hooker
08/10/15Here Comes That Rainy Day Feeling Again — The Fortunes
08/09/15Sylvia's Mother — Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show
08/08/15Hate It Here — Wilco
08/07/15Don't Look Back — Boston
08/06/15Don't Let It Get You Down — Johnnyswim
08/05/15Hey Grandma — Moby Grape
08/04/15Isn't She Lovely — Stevie Wonder
(And she is!)
08/03/15Brother Love's Traveling Salvation Show — Neil Diamond
08/02/15Around You — Gypsy
08/01/15Dancing in the Moonlight — King Harvest
(It was a blue moon last night!)
07/31/15Dance to the Music — Sly & The Family Stone
07/30/15(Don't Try To Lay No Boogie Woogie On The) King of Rock & Roll — Crow
07/29/15Rebel Yell — Billy Idol
07/28/15Cinecitta — Steve Stevens
(A wonderful song from an amazing album by one of my favorite rock guitarists. [I so wish that he would release a sequel!] This song ain't no White Wedding, and it ain't no Rebel Yell.)
07/27/15Absolutely Right — Five Man Electrical Band
07/26/15Joy to the World — Three Dog Night
07/25/15Saturday Night — Bay City Rollers
07/24/15Stage Fright — The Band
07/23/15The Summer Place — Fountains of Wayne
07/22/15Double Shot (Of My Baby's Love) — The Swinging Medallions
07/21/15Beach Baby — First Class
07/20/15Cool Cool Water — The Beach Boys
07/19/15Out In the Country — Three Dog Night
07/18/15Hot In the City — Billy Idol
07/17/15Hot Summer Day — It's a Beautiful Day
07/16/15Summertime Blues — Blue Cheer
07/15/15In the Summertime — Mungo Jerry
07/14/15Hot Fun In the Summertime — Sly & The Family Stone
07/13/15Summer of '89 — Butch Walker & the Black Widows
07/12/15One Man Band — Three Dog Night
07/11/15Star — Stealers Wheel
07/10/15Juke Box Hero — Foreigner
07/09/15Rock and Roll Band — Boston
07/08/15M.T.A. — The Kingston Trio
(Another song about the joys of Boston.)
07/07/15Dirty Water — The Standells
(They had a cameo at the end of yesterday's SOTD video.)
07/06/15We're an American Band — Grand Funk Railroad
07/05/15America — Simon & Garfunkel
07/04/15Let Freedom Ring — Barry Manilow
(Happy Independence Day! I wish #BarryManilow would have had enough time to perform this at his Foxwoods show last March. His #RockVoices backup choir had it so nailed down!)
07/03/15Fifty States of Freedom — Brewer & Shipley
(Getting an early start on the 4th of July weekend.)
07/02/15One of Our Submarines — Thomas Dolby
07/01/15Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2) — Pink Floyd
(History continues…)
2015 initial pick–June
06/30/15The Last Day of June 1934 — Al Stewart
(Last week’s incredible events are a reminder that history is important…)
06/29/15Baby It's You — Smith
06/28/15Just Remember I Love You — Firefall
(Celebrating our 35th anniversary today!)
06/27/15Saturday In the Park — Chicago
06/26/15Miss You — The Rolling Stones
06/25/15Alone Again (Naturally) — Gilbert O'Sullivan
06/24/15Cruel Summer — Ace of Bass
06/23/15See You In September — The Happenings
06/22/15School's Out — Alice Cooper
(Last day of school here in Amherst, MA)
06/21/15Somewhere In America There's a Street Named After My Dad — Was (not Was)
(Fathers Day brings me stark contrasts. I'm reminded how much I miss my dad and how joyous it is to be one.)
06/20/15Get The Party Started — P!nk
06/19/15Got My Mind Set On You — George Harrison
06/18/15Nobody But You — The Apples In Stereo
06/17/15It's Judy's Turn To Cry — Lesley Gore
(And the story continued… Karma's a B!)
06/16/15It’s My Party — Dave Stewart & Barbara Gaskin
(A wonderful deconstructed cover of this classic. I love how it builds to the uptempo finish!)
06/15/15Birthday — The Tiers
(Indulging myself on my birthday…)
06/14/15Another Country — The Electric Flag
(Celebrating Flag Day with the Flag! The sudden shift in tempo at the 4 minute mark, with a new rhythm section & pre-Santana guitar work, is marvelous.)
06/13/15The Last Thing On Your Mind — Lights
06/12/15All For Me — Wild-Wood
(In celebration of the Wild-Wood reunion at Mocha Maya’s)
06/11/15For What It’s Worth [live at Monterey Pop 1967] — Buffalo Springfield
06/10/15Monterey — Eric Burdon & The Animals
06/09/15Going Back To Big Sur — Johnny Rivers
06/08/15Twelve Thirty — The Mamas & The Papas
06/07/15Walking In L.A. — Missing Persons
06/06/15Coming Into Los Angeles — Arlo Guthrie
06/05/15Circle For a Landing — Three Dog Night
06/04/15Jet Airliner — Steve Miller Band
06/03/15Roam — The B-52's
06/02/15Travelin' Blues — Loggins & Messina
06/01/15Cool Change — Little River Band
05/31/15Sail On Sailor — The Beach Boys
05/30/15Ships With Sails — The Doors
05/29/15Sailing to Philadelphia — Mark Knopfler & James Taylor