Dig, Baby, Dig! The 60s Rock & Roll Excavation with John E. Midnight

Week of 10/8/06 - Cheaper Than Gold

1) The Shadows of Knight “I’m Gonna Make You Mine”
2) The Terrifics “Lover’s Plea”
3) Jason Merrick & the Finders “I’m Not What You Are”
4) Blonde On Blonde “Ride With Captain Max”

Compare & Contrast:
5) The Leaves “Words”
6) The Boston Tea Party “Words”

7) The Vacels “I’m Just a Poor Boy”
8) The Barons “Now You’re Mine”
9) J.B. & the Playboys “Leave My Woman Alone”
10) The Free Thinkers “You Were Born For Me"
11) The Sound Magics “Don’t You Remember"
12) Percy & the Gaolbirds “I Will Do”
13) Los Monkeys “Stepping Stone (Triste Estoy)”
14) Los X-5 “Cuando"
15) Los Beat 4 “Abandonados Igual Que Tu"
16) Skaldowie “My Witch (Moja Czaeownica)”

Embryonic Heroes (Alice Cooper):
17) The Spiders “No Price Tag”

18) We the People “You Burn Me Up and Down”
19) William Penn & his Pals “Blow My Mind”
20) The Jagged Edge “How Many Times”

Shoulda Been a Hit:
21) The Heard “Laugh With the Wind”

22) The Henchmen “Get Off My Back”
23) The Undesyded “Baby, I Need You”
24) The Paul Butterfield Blues Band “Good Morning Little Schoolgirl”

New Release of the Week:
25) The Blue Van “The Secret Seasons”

26) The Roulettes “Mebody”
27) The Merseys “Penny In My Pocket”
28) The Redcaps “Funny Things”

Lousy Song of the Week:
29) Mechanical Switch “Mr. Spongeman”

30) Sentrifical Fours “You Put Me Through Changes”
31) The Kollektion “Savage Lost”
32) HP Lovecraft “That’s the Bag I’m In”
33) Orange Bicycle “Amy Peate”
34) Grapefruit “Lullaby”

Week of 10/1/06 - Thumbin' a Ride to Reno

1) Beat Merchants “Messin’ With the Man"
2) The King-Pins “Diamond Girl”
3) Sean Buckley & the Breadcrumbs “Everybody Knows”
4) The Chocolate Watchband “Let’s Talk About Girls”
5) The Fairies “I’ll Dance”
6) The Badd Boys “I Told You So”
7) The Clique (London, UK) “She Ain’t No Good” (1st version)
8) The Worrying Kynde “Got the Blame”

Compare & Contrast:
9) The A-Cads “Got My Mojo Working”
10) The Tages “I Got My Mojo Working”
Rock Block:
11) The Tages “Don’t Turn Your Back"
12) The Tages “Jealous Girl”
13) The Tages “Every Raindrop Means a Lot”

14) Derek’s Accent “Ain’t Got No Feeling”
15) The Five “There’s Time”
16) The Deep Set “Living It Down"
17) The Marksmen “Moonshine”

Embryonic Hero of the Week: (Electric Light Orchestra: Jeff Lynne & Roy Wood)
18) The Move “Message From the Country”

19) The Beathovens “Summer Sun”
20) The Kings “Trouve Un Altro"
21) La Setta “Our Little Rendezvous”

Shoulda Been a Hit:
22) The Mojo Men “She’s My Baby"

23) The Tasmanians “I Can’t Explain This Feeling”
24) The Honey Jug “Warm City Baby"
25) The Outcasts “I Didn't Have to Love Her Anymore” (Philadelphia, PA)

Lousy Song of the Week:
26) Kid Blast “Switchblade Love”

27) The Pandas “Walk”
28) The Knight Riders “I”
29) The Avengers “Be a Cave Man”

New Release of the Week:
30) The Skies of America “Get Up, Get On”

31) Eight Point Five “Casey's Mail Order Bride”

Week of 9/10/06 - An 11' Donut

1) Legend “Portrait of Youth”
2) Paul & Johnny with the Blue Jets “I’m Free"
3) The Buzz “You’re Holding Me Down”
4) The Wimple Winch “Rumble On Mersey Square South”

Rock Block / Four of a Kind:
5) The High Numbers “Zoot Suit”
6) The Who “Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere” (Ready, Steady, Go! 7/1/65)
7) The Who “So Sad About Us”
8) The Who “Disguises” (BBC: 9/13/66)

Compare & Contrast:
9) Leadbelly “Sweet Mary Blues”
10) The Artwoods “Sweet Mary”

11) Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich “Shame”
12) The Trekkas “ Please Go”
13) The Chums “I Like It"
14) Les Sunlights “Tanti Amici”
15) Los Hitters “Delincuente”
16) Os Brasas “Nao Va Me Deixar”

Embryonic Heroes (The American Breed):
17) Gary & the Nite Lites “I Don’t Think You Know Me”

18) Things to Come “’Til the End”
19) The Furniture “I Love It Baby”
20) The Nite Owls “Hassle”

New Release of the Week:
21) The Velvematics “She’s the One”

22) Rod & the Satalites “She Cares”
23) The “In” “Just Give Me Time”
24) The Oxford Circle “Since You’ve Been Away”

Shoulda Been a Hit:
25) The Majority “One Third”

26) Fresh Air “Stop Look Listen”
27) Paul & Ritchie & the Cryin' Shames “Come On Back”
28) Billy Nicholls “Would You Believe”

Lousy Song of the Week:
29) Mike Melvoin “Born to Be Wild”

30) Miller “Baby I Got News For You”
31) The Southern Sound “I Don’t Wanna Go"

Week of 9/24/06 - Calling All Quitters

1) Flash & the Memphis Casuals “Uptight Tonight”
2) The Razor’s Edge “Get Yourself Together”
3) Dave & the Stone Hearts “I’ll Feel a Whole Lot Better"
4) Rain “E.S.P.”

Shoulda Been a Hit:
5) The Bit a Sweet “Out of Sight, Out of Mind”

6) The Mourning Reign “Our Fate”
7) The Trespassers “Living Memories”
8) The Doughboys “Rhoda Mendelbaum”

Rock Block:
9) Buffalo Springfield “Neighbor Don’t You Worry”
10) Buffalo Springfield “My Kind of Love”
11) Buffalo Springfield “Everybody’s Wrong”
12) Buffalo Springfield “Broken Arrow”

Embryonic Heroes (Crazy Horse):
13) The Rockets “Pill’s Blues”

14) The Dukes “From the Penitentiary” (Germany)
15) The Vampires “Something You Got”
16) The Pebbles “You’re Better Believe It”

Compare & Contrast:
17) The Grains of Sand “That’s When Happiness Began”
18) Mike Furber & the Bowery Boys “That’s When Happiness Began”

19) The Mascots “I Close Your Eyes”
20) Les Senders “Le cheveux longs”

Lousy Song of the Week:
21) The Mere Existence “The World Still Turns”

22) The Trodden Path “In This World I Need Love”
23) The Grifs “Catch a Ride”
24) The Swingin’ Machine “Do You Have to Ask?”

Geographic Rock Block (Bolivia):
25) The Loving Dark “Complicated"
26) Renan Michel “Fue una tarde de Domingo”
27) Los Donkeys “El Pobre”
28) Los Ecos “Callare Simplemente”

New Release of the Week:
29) The Kooks “Eddie’s Gun”

30) Mott’s Men “She Is So Mean”
31) The King-Beezz “Found and Lost”
32) The Odds & Ends “Be Happy Baby”

Week of 9/17/06 - Keep Your Oats, Leprechaun

1) The Haigs “Where to Run
2) I Sanniti “Che Shake Al Mac”
3) The Syndicats “Crawdaddy Simone”
4) Mickey Dolenz “Don’t Do It”

Shoulda Been a Hit:
5) The Shangri-Las “Right Now and Not Later”

6) Tammy St. John “Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey”
7) Jeannie & the Big Guys “I Want You”
8) Jan Panter “Scratch My Back”
 
Four of a Kind (Rock Block)
9) The Hollies “What Kind of Girl Are You”
10) The Hollies “Baby That’s All”
11) The Hollies “I Am a Rock”
12) The Hollies “I Can’t Let Go”

Lousy Song of the Week:
13) The Wonder Who? “Don't Think Twice”

14) The Outcasts “I’ll Set You Free”
15) Neil Ford & the Fanatics “Bitter Bells”
16) The Barons “Live and Die”
17) The Trolls “Every Day and Every Night”
18) Chris Allen & the Good-Timers “Sorry ‘Bout That”
19) The Victors “Little Girl”
20) Limey & the Yanks “Guaranteed Love”

Compare & Contrast:
21) Tom Thumb “Got Love”
22) Peter Belli & Les Rivals “Got Love If You Want It”

23) The Thyrds “Hide & Seek” (first version)
24) Running Jumping Standing Still “Diddy Wah Diddy”

Embryonic Heroes (Marc Bolan/T. Rex)
25) John's Children “Jagged Time Lapse”

26) The Magic Lanterns “I Stumbled”
27) The Renegades “Thirteen Women”
28) Our Plastic Dream “A Little Bit of Shangri-La”

New Release of the Week:
29) Radio Birdman “Connected”

30) The Guess Who “Clock On the Wall”
31) Les Miserables “Vivre Avec Toi”

Week of 9/3/06 - Fourth Annual All Beatles / No Beatles Special

1) The Naturals “I Should Have Known Better”
2) Los Yaki “Day Tripper (Era Mentira)”
3) The Neighb’rhood Childr’n “Can’t Buy Me Love"
4) Les Soundtrack “Birthday (Ce soir c’est ma fete)”
5) The Merseybeats “Soldier of Love” 
6) Gerry & the Pacemakers “Hello Little Girl”
7) Peter & Gordon “I Don’t Want to See You Again” (live: 11/15/64) 
8) The Hi-Fi’s “Baby’s In Black” 
9) Petula Clark “Please Please Me (Tu Perds Ton Temps)”
10) The Mamas & the Papas “I Call Your Name” 
11) Marianne Faithfull “Yesterday” 
12) Cilla Black “For No One”
13) The Supremes “A Hard Day’s Night” 
14) The Four Tops “Got to Get You Into My Life” 
15) Aretha Franklin “Eleanor Rigby” 
16) The Pair Extraordinaire “Run For Your Life”
17) Ramsey Lewis “Dear Prudence”

Compare & Contrast:
18) The Novas “Help!”
19) Jose Feliciano “Help!”

20) The Four Rogues “The Ralphie”

Lousy Song of the Week:
21) The Ventures “Strawberry Fields Forever”

Embryonic Heroes (ZZ Top):
22) The Moving Sidewalks “I Want to Hold Your Hand”

23) The Gestures “Things We Said Today” 
24) The Vikings “You Can’t Do That”
25) The Kingsmen “If I Needed Someone"
26) Charles Christy & the Crystals “I’m Down” 
27) The Grass Roots “You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away”
28) Bobby Goldsboro “Michelle” 
29) The Tremeloes “Good Day Sunshine” (live: BBC)
30) Los Tijuana Five “Drive My Car (Mi Auto Puedes Manejar)”
31) El Amor “I’ll Be Back (Si Me Dejas)”
32) The Master’s Apprentices “I Feel Fine”
33) The Bee Gees “Ticket to Ride”

Week of 8/20/06

1) The Bluestars “Social End Product”
2) The Pedestrians “It’s Too Late”
3) The Beatniks “Alligator Hat”
4) The MC5 “Ramblin’ Rose”

Shoulda Been a Hit:
5) The Rationals “Feelin’ Lost”

6) The Bad Seeds “King of the Soap Box” 
7) The Uniques “My Babe”
8) Factory “High Blood Pressure”

Compare & Contrast:
9) The Scorpions “Not Fade Away”
10) The Corporate Image “Not Fade Away” 

11) The Pickwicks “Little By Little”
12) Gary Farr & the T-Bones “I’m Louisiana Red” 

Flip Over the Record (flip of “I Fought the Law”):
13) Bobby Fuller Four “Little Annie Lou”

14) The Lykes of Us “Tell Me Why Your Light Shines”
15) The 4th Amendment “Always Blue”
16) Rockin’ Ramrods “Bright Lit Blue Skies”
17) The Insects “She’s a Pest” 
18) The Swingin’ Lamp Liters “Get Away”
19) Young Aristocracy “Don’t Lie”
20) Rocky & the Riddlers “You Weren't Using Your Head”

New Release of the Week:
21) The Atomic Mosquitos “Kid of Speed” Release the Mosquitos!

22) ? & the Mysterians “Got To”
23) The Beacon Street Union “Blue Avenue”
24) The United States of America “Coming Down”

Embryonic Heroes (Peter Gabriel):
25) Genesis “Silent Sun” 

26) The Throb “Black”
27) St. Davids Road  “Strange Loves of Gwyneth”
28) Turquoise “Tales of Flossie Fillett”

Lousy Song of the Week:
29) L.S.D. Orkestrasi “Donmeyen Sevgili”

30) The T-Boones “At the Club”
31) Double Dutch “You’re Out of Sight” 
32) The Zipps “Kicks and Chicks”
33) The Defenders “Wooly Bully”

Week of 8/13/06 - Darwin's Vegas

1) The Unrelated Segments “Where You Gonna Go?”
2) The Purple Hearts “Long Legged Baby” (demo version)
3) Freddie & the Dreamers “Feel So Blue”
4) The Boots “Jump Back Baby”

Compare & Contrast:
5) The Gisha Brothers “Maybelline”
6) Los Apson “El Ultimo Tren (Maybelline)”

7) Los Sirex “El Tren De La Costa (The Train Kept a-Rollin’)”
8) Los Ovnis “Infinito”

Rock Block / Four of a Kind:
9) The Beau Brummels “I Want More Loving” (unreleased alt. mix 2/5/65)
10) The Beau Brummels “Don’t Talk to Strangers”
11) The Beau Brummels “One Too Many Mornings”
12) The Beau Brummels “Turn Around"

13) The Allies “I’ll Sell My Soul”
14) The Mod 4 “Open Up Your Mind”
15) The Lavender Hour “I’ve Gotta Way With Girls”
16) The Abandoned “Come On Mary”

Shoulda Been a Hit:
17) Chad & Jeremy “Teenage Failure”

18) Billy Adams “Alone”
19) The String Tones “Don’t Run and Hide”
20) The Shanes “Blue Feeling”
21) The Rags “Take Your Time”
22) The Lords (Berlin, Germany) “What They Gonna Do”
23) Nicky & the Shouts “Tears Inside”
24) The Shoes (Zoeterwoude, Holland) “Standing and Staring"

Embryonic Heroes (Suzi Quatro):
25) The Pleasure Seekers “Light of Love”

26) The Angels “Get Away From Me”
27) The Termites “Tell Me”
28) Jacqueline Taieb “7 Heures Du Matin”

Lousy Song of the Week:
29) The Beggars “Night of Pleasure”

30) The Balloon Farm “A Question of Temperature”
31) The Human Beings (Detroit) “An Inside Look”
32) The Youngbloods “The Other Side of This Life”

New Release of the Week:
33) The Lostprophets “The New Transmission” Liberation Transmission

Week of 8/6/06 - Monolingualism

1) The Sonics “Psycho”
2) The Namelosers “But I’m So Blue” 
3) The Eyes “I’m Rowed Out”
4) The Misunderstood “Find a Hidden Door”
5) Love “Alone Again Or”
6) The Smubbs “White Paper Sail”
7) Mars Bonfire “Lady Moon Walker”
8) Rupert’s People “Hold On”
9) The Smoke “Girl In the Park”
10) Sound Barrier “Groovin’ Slow”
11) Virgin Sleep “Secret”
12) Felius Andromeda “Meditations”

Lousy Song of the Week:
13) The Leaves of Grass “Crabs”

14) The Viscount V “She Doesn’t Know”
15) The E-Types “Back to Me”
16) The Jackson Investment Co. “Not This Time”

Compare & Contrast:
17) The Blues Magoos “(We Ain't Got) Nothin' Yet”
18) The Flippers “(We Ain't Got) Nothin' Yet”

19) The Lemon Fog “Summer”
20) The Gurus “Mystic”
21) The Jynx “How”
22) The Boys “It Ain’t Fair”
23) Kingsize Taylor “Somebody's Always Trying”
24) The Knack (Ilford, UK) “Time, Time, Time”

Embryonic Heroes: (David Bowie):
25) Davey Jones & the King Bees “Liza Jane”

26) The Primitives “Oh Mary”
27) Les Fleurs De Lys “So Come On”
28) The Strangers with Mike Shannon “Do You Or Don’t You"

Shoulda Been a Hit:
29) The Tempters “Himitsu No Aikotoba”

30) The Matadors “My Situation”
31) The Clique “Love Me Girl”
32) The Equals “Baby, Come Back”

New Release of the Week:
33) The Marked Men “A Little Time” Fix My Brain

34) Solid Ground “Sad Now”

Week of 7/30/06 - Beethoven's Secret

1) The Merry-Go-Round “Listen, Listen”
2) The Colors of Night “C-O-L-O-R-S” 
3) The Sherlocks “Skin of My Teeth” 
4) The Vejtables “Good Things Are Happening”

Shoulda Been a Hit:
5) The Spencer Davis Group “I’m Lost”

6) The Montanas “Take My Hand”
7) Les Baroques “Such a Cad” 
8) The Grains of Sand “Passing Through the Night”

Rock Block / Four of a Kind:
9) The Small Faces “Sorry She’s Mine”
10) The Small Faces “Understanding” (BBC Saturday Club ~ 8/30/66)
11) The Small Faces “Plum Nellie”
12) The Small Faces “If I Were a Carpenter” (BBC Top Gear ~ 4/14/68)

Compare & Contrast:
13) The Beach Boys “Summertime Blues”
14) Sounders Avec Pat Winther “L’Argent De Poche (Summertime Blues)”

15) The Coopers “Didn’t I”
16) The Beat Buddies “Pins In My Heart”

New Release of the Week:
17) The Cherry Tempo “All Our Lives Are Running Down” S/T

18) The Beethovens “Long Live Beethoven”
19) The Daytonas “Ready Set Go”
20) The Beatnicks “A One Way Love”

Embryonic Heroes (Frank Zappa ~ recorded 8/66)
21) The Mothers of Invention “Trouble Every Day”

22) 13th Floor Elevators “Fire Engine”(live TV ~ 3/25/66)
23) Fairport Convention “Time Will Show the Wiser”
24) The Open Mind “Cast a Spell”

Lousy Song of the Week:
25) The Ambushers “I Need Love”

26) Bud & Kathy “Hang It Out to Dry”
27) The Show Stoppers “If You Want To, Why Don’t You”
28) The Amberjacks “Hey Eriq!”
29) The Ingrediants “Please Don’t Leave Me”
30) The Country Gentlemen “Saturday Night”
31) The Skeptics “Ride Child”
32) The Inferno “Your Heart Is Too Big For Your Head”
33) The Laurie Jay Combo “Teenage Idol”
34) The Juveniles “I Wish I Could”

Week of 7/23/06 - Middle East Madness

1) The Outsiders (Hague, Netherlands) “That’s Your Problem”
2) The Jay-Jays “All Around the World”
3) Johnny Kendall & the Heralds “Girl”
4) Q65 “Cry In the Night”
5) Casey Jones & his Engineers “Don’t Ha Ha” 
6) The Rainy Daze “Make Me Laugh” 
7) The Jay Bees “Good Times” 
8) Nobody’s Children “Good Times” 

Shoulda Been a Hit:
9) The Twilights “9.50”

10) The Fifth Estate “That’s Love”
11) The Rose Garden “Long Time”
12) We Five “Let’s Get Together”

Lousy Song of the Week:
13) Mae West (with Somebody’s Chyldren) “Shakin’ All Over”

14) The Quests “I’m Tempted”
15) Lincoln St. Exit “The Bummer”
16) Third Evolution “Gone Gone Gone”

Embryonic Heroes (Van Morrison ~ 1964 debut):
17) Them “Don’t Start Crying Now”

18) Chants R&B “Mystic Eyes"

Compare & Contrast:
19) The Breakaways “Baby Please Don’t Go”
20) The Moonrakers “Baby Please Don’t Go”

21) The Tremolos “Kackle”
22) Bobby Allison & the Dawns “Bark Like a Dog”
23) The Cavaliers “Sea Weed”
24) Billy Bo & his Arrows “Shuffle"
25) The Vandals “I Saw Her In a Mustang”

26) The Vogues “Humpty Dumpty”
27) The Lost Souls “Simple to Say”
28) The Soothsayers “Black Nor Blue”

New Release of the Week:
29) Slender Means “Painless Life” Neon & Ruin

Week of 6/25/06 - Sing a Song of Summer

1) Ronnie King & the Passions “Girl, Break Away”
2) The Last Image “Leaving You”
3) The Mondels “I Got a Feeling” 
4) The Jolly Green Giants “Busy Body” 

B-Side / Flip Over the Record (3/68: flip of “Cry Like a Baby”):
5) The Box Tops “The Door You Closed to Me”

6) The Deep Six “Last Time Around” 
7) Plant Life “Flower Girl” 
8) The Darelycks “Bad Trip” 

Four of a Kind / Rock Block:
9) The Downliners Sect “One Ugly Child” 
10) The Downliners Sect “Find Out What’s Happening” 
11) The Downliners Sect “All Night Worker” 
12) Don Craine’s New Downliners Sect “Roses” 

13) The Beatniks “Wouldn’t You Like Now” 
14) Les Bowlers “Il Est Trop Tard” 
15) The Playboys “Pourquoi”
16) The Zoot “Little Roland Lost”

Shoulda Been a Hit:
17) The Exotics “Queen of Shadows”

18) Mouse & the Traps “A Public Execution”
19) Electric Love “This Seat Is Saved” 
20) The Weathervane “4-4, 5-4” 

Compare & Contrast:
21) The Athenians “Louie Louie”
22) The Neighb’rhood Childr’n “Louie Louie”

23) The Outsiders (Tampa, FL) “She’s Coming On Stronger”
24) The Ugly Ducklings “She Ain’t No Use to Me”

New Release of the Week:
25) The Clarks “You Know Everything” Still Live

26) The Unwritten Law “This Whole World Is Blind”
27) Something Else “I Can’t Believe”
28) The Ovaitt Brothers “How Can I”

Lousy Song of the Week:
29) 1910 Fruitgum Co. “Bingo, Bingo” 

30) Wildflowers “More Than Me”
31) Graf Zeppelin “You’re In My Mind”

Embryonic Heroes:
32) The Bob Seger System “Lucifer”

Week of 6/18/06

1) The Del-Vetts “Last Time Around”
2) The Grifs “Keep Dreaming” 
3) Sounds Unlimited “Why Doesn’t She Believe Me” 
4) The Outcasts Four “She Gives Me Love” 

Embryonic Heroes (Procol Harum: Gary Brooker & Robin Trower):
5) The Paramounts “Poison Ivy” 

6) Paddy, Klaus & Gibson “Quick Before They Catch Us”
7) The Black Diamonds “I Want, Need, Love You” 
8) Simon Raven “I Wonder If She Remembers Me” 

Compare & Contrast:
9) The Homesick Blues “Mona (I Need You Baby)” 
10) The Teddy Boys “Mona” 

11) Invasion “Do You Like What You See?” 
12) The Rock Garden “Super Stuff” 
13) Spyder Turner “You’re Good Enough For Me” 
14) Big Mac “That’s the Way You Treat Your Woman”
15) Jackie Wilson “You Brought a Change In Me”
16) Eddy “G” Giles “Music”

Lousy Song of the Week: 
17) The Chordettes “No Wheels"

18) The Quads “409” 
19) Los Stevios “G.T.O.”
20) Ronny & the Daytonas “Hot Rod Baby”

Shoulda Been a Hit:
21) The Electras “’Bout My Love” 

22) The Knaves “Away”
23) The Shades of Blue “The Time of My Life” 
24) The New Yorkers “Mr. Kirby” 

New Release of the Week:
25) The Rainy Day Saints “Don’t Look Away” Diamond Star Highway

26) The Haunted “Searching For My Baby” 
27) The Jury “Who Dat?” 
28) The Flippers “I Could Hear Her Cry” 
29) The Male “You’re Playing With Fire” 
30) The Yo-Yo’s “Gotta Find a New Love” 
31) The Rumbles “Fourteen Years” 
32) The Black & Blues “Bye Bye Baby”

Week of 6/11/06 - Conspiracies and Sticktoitiveness

1) The High-Tensions “Poor Man”
2) The Jail-Birds “Baby’s Gone”
3) Ray Columbus & the Invaders “Made You”
4) Les Sauterelles “Liverpool”

Embryonic Heroes (pre-Abba):
5) The Hep Stars “So Mystifying” (studio / 45 version)

6) The Cherokees “Woman With Soul” 
7) The Knacks (Chile) “Si, Quiero Vivir (Tema De Cronopios)” 
8) The Lords “Please Don’t Bring Me Down” 
9) The Omens “Searching” 
10) Sir Laurence & the Crescents “Flip Me Over” 
11) The Myddle Class “Lovin’ Season” 
12) The Intruders “I’ll Go On” 
13) The Flying Circus “I’m Going” 
14) The Five Americans “The Train” 
15) The Transatlantic Train “The Train” 
16) The Aerovons “Train” 

New Release of the Week:
17) The Frauds “Amy" S/T

18) The Nashville Teens “Whatcha Gonna Do?” 
19) The Sidekicks “Holiday Maker”
20) Donovan “Bert’s Blues” 

Compare & Contrast:
21) Michael & the Messengers “Midnight Hour”
22) The Wanted “Midnight Hour”

23) The Young Rascals “Mustang Sally”
24) The Last Word “Don’t Fight It”

Lousy Song of the Week:
25) Sir Michael & the Sounds “Can You” 

26) Seeds of Reason “I’m Your True Love” 
27) Bittervetch “I Will Follow You”
28) The Mergers “I’ll Be On My Way”

Shoulda Been a Hit:
29) The Everpresent Fullness “Lonesome Tears”

30) Dalek: The Blackstones “Never Feel the Pain”
31) M.G. & the Escorts “A Someday Fool” 
32) The Wailers “Bama Lama Bama Loo”

Week of 6/4/06 - Schlock Jock!

1) The Lyrics “So What!”
2) All of Us “It’s All Right With Me”
3) The Voxmen “You Tell Me”
4) The Craig “I Must Be Mad”

Four of a Kind / Rock Block:
5) The Kinks “Cadillac” (BBC version)
6) The Kinks “Party Line”
7) The Kinks “Dedicated Follower of Fashion” (2/66 unreleased stereo alternate take)
Shoulda Been a Hit:
8) The Kinks “Get Back In Line”

9) Randy & the Radiants “My Way of Thinking”
10) The Five Canadians “Writing On the Wall”
11) Scott Bedford Four “You Turned Your Back On Me”
12) Zakary Thaks “Face to Face”
13) Peter & the Blizzards “Bye Bye Baby”
14) Sincron “Pe Linga Plopii Fara Sot”
15) Alex Fontaine “Tu N’es Pas Sincere”
16) Os Jovens “Se Voce Contar (If You’ll Tell)”

Compare & Contrast:
17) The Everly Brothers “Man With Money” 
18) Saturday’s Children “Man With Money” 

19) The Scavengers “She Don’t Care About Time” 
20) Denis & the Times “Flight Patterns” 

Embryonic Heroes (Iggy Pop ~ 1966):
21) The Iguanas “Again and Again” 

22) The Boys “You Deceived Me” 
23) The King Bees “On Your Way Down the Drain”
24) The Painted Ship “I Told Those Little White Lies”

New Release of the Week:
25) The Goldstars “It’s All About You” Purple Girlfriend

26) The Wheels “Road Block” 
27) New York Public Library “Got to Get Away” 
28) The Living Daylights “Always With Him”

Lousy Song of the Week:
29) Mysterious Clown “Mysterious Clown”

30) The Centurys “83” 
31) Countdowns “You Know I Do” 
32) Unbelievable Uglies “Get Straight”

Week of 5/28/06 - Memorial Day

1) Jose Feliciano “If I Really Bug You (Then You Don’t Love Me)”
2) The Soul Survivors “Shakin’ With Linda” 
3) The Cavedwellers “Run Around” 
4) Woody Carr & the Entertainers “I Think I Love You” 

Compare & Contrast:
5) The Chartbusters “She’s the One” 
6) The Delegates “She’s the One” 

7) The Mop Tops “I Tried” 
8) The Striders “Am I On Your Mind” 
9) Terry Dean & the Nitebeats “If I Can” 
10) The Slam Creepers “Nobody”
11) Les Hou-Lops “Oh Non” 
12) Kawalerowie (The Bachelors) “Nigdy Juz Nie Wolaj Mnie (Don’t You Ever Call Me Again)” 

Shoulda Been a Hit:
13) Clear Light “They Who Have Nothing” 

14) John Fred & his Playboy Band “No Good to Cry”
15) Sir Douglas Quintet “In Time” 
16) Dino, Desi & Billy “Tie Me Down” 
17) The Symbols “Again” 
18) The Washington D.C.’s “I’ve Done It All Wrong” 
19) Los Walkers “Where’s Miss Lee On Saturdays” 
20) Abel Fletcher “Esmeralda”
21) The Cyclones “Oh No, She Didn’t Say”
22) The Strangers “I’d Never Be Blue”
23) The Rhythms “Go With Him”
24) Los Shain’s “Un Profundo Sentimiento”

Lousy Song of the Week:
25) The Cosmic Camel “The King’s Winetaster”

26) Phil & the Frantics “Till You Get What You Want” (stereo version)
27) Last Knight “Shadow of Fear”
28) The Foggy Notions “Take Me Back and Hold Me”

Embryonic Heroes (Rolling Stones’ 1st Single ~ 6/63)
29) The Rolling Stones “Come On”

30) The Big Three “You’ve Gotta Keep Her Underhand”
31) Mickey Finn “I Still Want You”
32) Cops'n Robbers “There’s Got to Be a Reason”

New Release of the Week:
33) The Royal Purple “I Tried to Make You Happy” Transcendental Medication

34) The Age of Reason “Dirty Shame”
35) Thursday’s Children “Help, Murder, Police”
36) Ty Wagner with the Scotchmen “I’m a No-Count”
37) The Monuments “African Diamonds”
38) The Wyngates “See What’s Right”

Week of 5/14/06 - Mother's Day Special

1) The Electric Prunes “Are You Lovin’ Me More”
2) The Lemon Drops “Sometime Ago” 
3) The Zephyrs “There’s Something About You” 
4) The Evil “I’m Movin’ On” 

Embryonic Heroes (Steve Miller):
5) The Goldberg-Miller Blues Band “The Mother Song”

6) The McCoys “Don’t Worry Mother, Your Son’s Heart Is Pure” 
7) The Penthouse 5 “The Years Have Passed” 
8) The Syndicate of Sound “Mary (Marrie)” (alt version) 

Four of a Kind / Rock Block:
9) The Easybeats “Made My Bed, Gonna Lie In It”
10) The Easybeats “Who’ll Be the One” 
11) The Easybeats “Women (Make You Feel Alright)” 
12) The Easybeats “Mother In Law” 

Lousy Song of the Week:
13) Thee Midniters “I Found a Peanut” 

14) The Bondsmen “I See the Light” 
15) The Black Watch “Left Behind” 
16) Quicksilver Messenger Service "Dino's Song"

Shoulda Been a Hit:
17) The Nightcrawlers “If You Want My Love”

18) Wheel of Fortune “Before You Leave” 
19) The Pagens “Mystic Cloud” 
20) The Looking Glasses “Visions” 
21) The Tikis “If I’ve Been Dreaming”
22) The Distant Cousins “Let It Ring” 
23) The Del Counts “Let the Good Times Roll” 
24) The Outsiders (Michigan City, IN) “Go Go Ferrari”

Compare & Contrast:
25) The Coasters “Little Egypt (Ying-Yang)” 
26) Bern Elliott & the Fenmen “Little Egypt”

27) The Applejacks “Baby Jane”
28) The Shamrocks “Dusty Road” 
29) The Downbeats “You Gotta Tell Me”
30) The Youngers “Hanashitakunai”
31) The Entertainers “Down Home Girl” 

New Release of the Week:
32) The Everyothers “Something Wrong” Pink Sticky Lies

Week of 5/7/06 - Third Anniversary Special

1) The Shondells “Something’s Got a Hold On Me” 
2) The Sound Track “I See the Light” 
3) Manfred Mann “Tired of Trying, Bored With Lying, Scared of Dying” 
4) The Attack “We Don’t Know” 

Compare & Contrast:
5) The Zombies “Sticks and Stones” 
6) The Vince Maloney Sect “Sticks and Stones” 

7) The Atlantics “Pretty Thing” 
8) Russ Kruger “Little Bit of Soul” 

Rock Block / Four of a Kind:
9) The Sorrows “Baby” 
10) The Sorrows “Teenage Letter” 
11) The Sorrows “No, No, No, No” 
12) The Sorrows “She’s Got the Action” 

Embryonic Heroes (The Turtles):
13) The Crossfires “That’ll Be the Day” 

14) The Wilde Knights “Tossin’ & Turnin’” 
15) Byron & the Mortals “Do You Believe Me” 
16) The Gestures “I’m Not Mad” 

Lousy Song of the Week:
17) The Watchband “No Dice!” 

18) The Young Alley Cats “Since She’s Been Gone” 
19) One of Hours “Feel the Pain” 
20) The Knights of the Road “The Color of Dream” 

Shoulda Been a Hit:
21) Wayne Fontana & the Mindbenders “Like I Did” 

22) The Marauders “That’s What I Want” 
23) The Swinging Blue Jeans “You’re No Good” 
24) The Truth “Baby You’ve Got It” 
25) The Pussycats “Gone Gone Gone” 
26) Met & Zonder “Meneertje Pils” 
27) Names and Faces “You’re an Old Leaf” 
28) The Californians “The Cooks of Cake & Kindness” 

New Release of the Week:
29) The Stems “Just Ain’t Enough” Terminal Cool – Anthology ’83-’86 

30) The Blizzards “Hab’ Keine Lust Heut Aufzustehn” 
31) Los Brujos “Solo Quiero Amor” 
32) Los Belmonts “Brinquen” 
33) The Shaynes “From My Window” 
34) The Inmates “More Than I Have” 

Week of 4/30/06 - John E. the Ripper

1) The “In” Crowd “Old McDonald”
2) The First Gear “Leave My Kitten Alone”
3) The Huns “Destination Lonely” 
4) Larry & the Blue Notes “In and Out” 

Compare & Contrast:
5) The Johnny Burnette Trio “Train Kept A-Rollin’” 
6) The Rogues “Train Kept A-Rollin’” 

7) The Human Beinz “Evil Hearted You” 
8) The Palmes “The Nazz Are Blue” 

Shoulda Been a Hit:
9) The Lee Kings “It’s Not Right” 

10) The Jormas “The Locomotion” 
11) The Lincolns “You Can’t Come ‘Round Anymore”
12) The Tremendoes “Vem Quente Que Eu Fervendo”
13) The Juveniles “Bo Diddley”
14) The Chancellors “I’m a Man"
15) The Clefs “Bring It to Jerome”
16) Captain Beefheart & his Magic Band “Diddy Wah Diddy”

Embryonic Heroes (pre- Jefferson Airplane):
17) Marty Balin “I Specialize In Love”

18) The Rooks “Believe In You”
19) The Mods “Days Mind the Time”
20) Teddy and the Pandas “(Bye Bye) Out the Window"

New Release of the Week:
21) The Rewinds “Sentimental Flaw”

22) Focal Point “Girl On the Corner”
23) The Accent “Red Sky at Night” 
24) The Barrier “Uh!” 

Lousy Song of the Week:
25) Vince Edwards “Squeelin Parrot (Twist)”

26) The Stumps “Think of the Good Times”
27) The Clefs of Lavender Hill “One More Time”
28) The U.S. Stamps “Pull the Wool” 
29) Gene Vincent “Bird Doggin’” 
30) Jim Harpo Valley “I’m Real” 
31) Bo Allen (Bo & the Weevils) “I Hope You’re Proud” 
32) The Bojax “Go Ahead and Go” 
33) The Avantes “Baby Go” 
34) The Fugitives “Said Goodbye”

Week of 4/23/06 - Earth Day Rant

1) The Lovin’ Spoonful “On the Road Again”
2) Russ Kennedy & the Little Wheels “I’ve Got My Eyes On You (& I Like What I See)”
3) Jack & the Beanstalks “Don’t Bug Me”
4) The Sons of Adam “Saturday’s Son”
5) The Ju-Ju’s “You Treat Me Bad” 
6) The Creations “Don’t Be Mean” 
7) The Starfires “I Never Loved Her” 
8) Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs “I Couldn’t Spell !!*@!” 

Compare & Contrast:
9) Carl Perkins “Boppin’ the Blues” 
10) Lee Curtis & the All-Stars “Boppin’ the Blues” 

11) Los Speakers “Roll Over Beethoven”
12) Los Vidrios Quebrados “Time Is Out of Question”
13) The Fifth Order “Goin’ Too Far”
14) Brian Arthur “What Can You Do With a Broken Heart?”
15) The Nooney Rickett Four “This Is the Time”
16) The Cascades “She’ll Love Again” 
17) The Just Four Men “Things Will Never Be the Same” 
18) The Rockin’ Berries “Flashback”
19) The Pete Best Combo “Castin’ My Spell”
20) The Shags “Hide Away”

Shoulda Been a Hit:
21) Soul, Inc. “I Belong to Nobody”

22) The Penny Arkade “Lights of Dawn”
23) The Living Children “Crystalize Your Mind”
24) T.C. Atlantic “Faces”

New Release of the Week:
25) Jetpack UK “Mathematics”

26) The Freshmen “Carpet Man”
27) Floribunda Rose “One Way Street”
28) The Fresh Windows “Summer Sun Shines”

Embryonic Heroes (pre- Blue Oyster Cult – 7/70):
29) The Stalk-Forrest Group “What Is Quicksand?”

30) The Livin’ End “Empty Heart” 
31) Just Too Much “She Gives Me Time” 
32) The Live Wires “Love” 

Lousy Song of the Week:
33) Ray Stevens “Spinning Wheel”

34) The Wheels “Dancing In the Street”

Week of 4/9/06 - Telethon 2006: Man vs. Machine

1) The Motions “It’s Gone”
2) The V.I.P.’s “Sad Story”
3) The Troggs “I Want You” 
4) The Swinging Blue Jeans “Make Me Know You’re Mine” 

Compare & Contrast:
5) The Animals “I Ain’t Got You” 
6) The Yardbirds “I Ain’t Got You” 

7) The Bad Boys “Runnin’ & Hidin’” 
8) The Thoughts “All Night Stand” 

Shoulda Been a Hit:
9) The Dovers “The Third Eye”

10) The Chambers Brothers “A New Time – A New Day”
11) The Matadors “Get Down From the Tree”
12) Los Shakers “On a Tuesday I Watch Channel 36”

Mod R&B / 45rpm:
13) Gene Chandler “There Was a Time"
14) The Contours “Determination” 
15) Mike Williams “If This Isn’t Love”
16) Joe Tex “Fresh Out of Tears”

Lousy Song of the Week:
17) The Ivy Three “Yogi”

18) The Satans “Makin’ Deals”
19) The Count Five “Double-Decker Bus”
20) The Brogues “Don’t Shoot Me Down”

United Nations of Rock & Roll:
21) The Pleazers “Don’t Gimme No Lip Child”
22) The Dynamites “Jenny, Jenny”
23) The Panthers “I’ll Be Pleased”
24) The Quests “I’ll Be Your Man”

Embryonic Hero of the Week (The Buckinghams):
25) The Centuries “I Love You No More”

26) Young Enterprise “Think I’m Gonna Make It” 
27) Kenny & the Kasuals “Nothing Better to Do”
28) Denny Noie & the 4th of Never “Don’t Follow Me”

Week of 4/2/06 - The Joe Show

1) The Leaves “Hey Joe”
2) The Byrds “Hey Joe”
3) Love “Hey Joe”
4) The Warlocks “Hey Joe”
5) The Hazzards “Hey Joe”
6) The Pied Pipers “Hey Joe”
7) The Tangents “Hey Joe”
8) The Roks “Hey Joe”
9) Gonn “Hey Joe”
10) The Swamp Rats “Hey Joe”
11) The Outcasts “Hey Joe” (live)
12) The Kreeg “Hey Joe” (live)
13) Sammy Lee & the Summits “Hey Joe”
14) The Cryan’ Shames “Hey Joe”
15) The Shadows of Knight “Hey Joe"
16) The Shadows of Knight “Hey Joe” (live)
17) The Standells “Hey Joe” 
18) The Music Machine “Hey Joe” 
19) The Fever Tree “Hey Joe” (single version) 
20) The Stillroven “Hey Joe”
21) Euphorias Id “Hey Joe”
22) The Litter “Hey Joe"
23) The Fragile Zookeeper “Hey Joe”
24) The Outer Mongolian Herd “Hey Joe”
25) Los Locos Del Ritmo “Hey Joe”
26) The Creation “Hey Joe”
27) Baronen “Hey Joe”
28) The Golden Cups “Hey Joe”
29) The Marmalade “Hey Joe”
30) Cher “Hey Joe”
31) Jimi Hendrix Experience “Hey Joe” (BBC version)
32) Deep Purple “Hey Joe”
33) The Arbors “Hey Joe”