
Episodes

Thursday Dec 31, 2020
Week of 3/26/06 - Will Success Spoil John E. Midnight?
Thursday Dec 31, 2020
Thursday Dec 31, 2020
1) The Night Sounds “Torment”
2) Madd, Inc. “I’ll Be the One”
3) The No-Nam-Ees “Gotta Hold On”
4) Moby Grape “Fall On You”
5) Dean Ford & the Gaylords “The Name Game”
6) The Hullaballoos “Beware”
7) Peter & Gordon “Whatcha Gonna Do ‘Bout It”
8) The Force Five “I Want You Babe”
Rock Block / Four of a Kind:
9) The Pretty Things “Oh Baby Doll”
10) The Pretty Things “Judgement Day”
11) The Pretty Things “Get the Picture?”
12) The Pretty Things “Grey Skies”
Compare & Contrast:
13) The Odd Persons “I’m Crying”
14) The Sevens “I’m Crying”
15) Los Jockers “Nueva Sociedad (Party Line)”
16) Los Mac’s “Degrees”
Embryonic Heroes:
17) The Sweet “It’s Lonely Out There”
18) July “I See”
19) The Honeybus “How Long”
20) The 23rd Turnoff “Michael Angelo”
21) Unit 4+2 “3.30 A.M.”
Geographic Rock Block:
22) The Hi-Fives “Goin’ Away”
23) The Artesians “Trick Bag”
24) The Bumps “Hey Girl”
25) The Kingsmen “Trouble”
26) Dickie Loader & the Blue Jeans “Chills & Fever”
27) Bobby & Laurie “You Are Gone”
28) The Sonic Invasion “Go Out and Get Her”
New Release of the Week:
29) The New Amsterdams “Calendar Days”
30) The Jets “Worker In the Night”
31) The Softs “Paarsebroek”
32) Brightness “But Why I Can’t”
Shoulda Been a Hit:
33) The Yo Yo’s “The Raven”

Tuesday Dec 29, 2020
Week of 3/19/06 - My Back Is Hairy
Tuesday Dec 29, 2020
Tuesday Dec 29, 2020
1) The Brand “I’m a Lover Not a Fighter”
2) Cuby & the Blizzards “Your Body Not Your Soul”
3) The Sparkles “No Friend of Mine”
4) The Remains “You Got a Hard Time Comin’”
Embryonic Heroes:
5) Sparrow “Baby Please Don’t Go”
6) The Quid “Wrong Line”
7) J.B. & the Playboys “I’m the Lonely One”
8) Los Beat 4 “Pobre Gato”
9) The Apollos “That’s the Breaks”
10) The Galaxies IV “Piccadilly Circus”
11) The Peers “Once Upon a Time”
12) The Rockin’ Roadrunners “Down”
Compare & Contrast / Rock Block:
13) We the People “In the Past”
14) The Chocolate Watchband “In the Past”
15) The Chocolate Watchband “Don't Need Your Lovin'”
16) The Chocolate Watchband “Baby Blue” (45 version)
17) The Chocolate Watchband “Gone and Passes By”
Shoulda Been a Hit:
18) Tintern Abbey “Beeside”
19) The State of Mickey & Tommy “Nobody Knows Where You’ve Been”
20) Human Instinct “Pink Dawn”
21) The Cedars / Sea-Ders “Hide If You Want to Hide”
Lousy Song of the Week:
22) The Guards “Hullabaloo”
23) The Phantom Brothers “Chicago”
24) Eric & his Misfits “Walking the Dog”
25) The Meteors with Curt Bilsbo “Anytime”
New Release of the Week:
26) The Boss Martians “Looking For You”
27) The Brymers “Sacrifice”
28) Lindy Blaskey & the Lavells “You Ain’t Tuff”
29) Jimmy Solley “I Just Gotta Get a Little More Sleep"
30) The Fairies “Anytime at All”
31) Ian & the Zodiacs “This Won’t Happen to Me”
32) Tony Summers & the Echoes “I’m On the Right Side”
33) The Art Collection “Millicent”
34) The Interpreters “The Only Man For You”

Tuesday Dec 22, 2020
Week of 3/5/06 - Jacko Gets a Smacko
Tuesday Dec 22, 2020
Tuesday Dec 22, 2020
1) The Night Birds “Nightbirds"
2) Percy & the Gaolbirds “Who Can Help Me”
3) The Dynamites “Koiwa Mo Takusan”
4) The Other Side “Streetcar”
Embryonic Heroes (Allman Brothers)
5) The Allman Joys “Gotta Get Away”
6) The Bethlehem Exit “Blues Concerning My Girl”
7) The Young Monkeymen “I’m Waitin’ For the Letter”
8) The Munks “Long Time Waiting”
Compare & Contrast / Rock Block:
9) The Mauds “Searchin'"
10) The Hollies “Searchin’”
11) The Hollies “Lawdy Miss Clawdy”
12) The Hollies “What's Wrong With the Way I Live”
13) The Hollies “Long Dark Road”
Shoulda Been a Hit:
14) Wimple Winch “Save My Soul”
15) The Librettos “She’s a Go Go”
16) The D-Coys “Bad Times”
17) The Masters’ Apprentices “Undecided”
Lousy Song of the Week:
18) Matthew Reid “The Tarzan Twist (Bwama Ungawa)"
19) The Cavaliers “Seven Days of Cryin’”
20) Mumbles Scott & the Esquires “Baby What You Want Me to Do?”
21) Denise & Co. “Boy, What'll You Do Then”
22) The Classics “Mean Woman”
23) The Shades “I Need You”
24) The Escapades “I Tell No Lies”
25) First Crow to the Moon “Spend Your Life”
New Release of the Week:
26) The Brokedown / The Broken West “Down In the Valley”
27) Thursday’s Children “You’ll Never Be My Girl”
28) The Outcasts “The Birds”
29) The Changing Times “Cry”
30) Thor’s Hammer “Better Days”
31) The Four Rockets “The Place Where She Lives”
32) Chapter II “East of My Place”
33) The Shakers “Who Will Buy (These Wonderful Evils)”
34) The Fourmost “Something’s Got a Hold On Me”

Saturday Dec 19, 2020
Week of 2/19/06 - Cartoons Kill
Saturday Dec 19, 2020
Saturday Dec 19, 2020
1) Don & the Goodtimes “The Witch”
2) The Tamrons “Wild Man”
3) The Scorpions “Hey Honey”
4) The Passing Fancy “I’m Losing Tonight” (single version)
Embryonic Heroes (Steve Howe - unreleased, 1969):
5) Bodast “Do You Remember”
6) Grapefruit “Dear Delilah”
7) The Orange Bicycle “Hyacinth Threads”
8) The Lords (Holland) “Day After Day”
9) Simon Scott “Move It Baby”
10) The Bo Street Runners “Bo Street Runner”
11) Brett Young & the Ghost Squad “You Can’t Fool Me”
12) The Couriers “Done Me Wrong”
Rock Block:
13) The High Numbers “Leaving Here” (1964 unr acetate)
14) The Who “The Ox” (stereo version)
15) The Who “Pictures of Lily” (10/10/67 BBC)
16) The Who “I Can See For Miles” (10/10/67 BBC)
Compare & Contrast:
17) The Leaves “Dr. Stone”
18) The Beaten Path “Dr. Stone”
19) The Lykes of Us “7:30 Said”
20) The Stoics “Enough of What I Need”
Lousy Song of the Week:
21) Les Rockers “C’est D’Accord (That’s Alright Mama)”
22) Les Miserables “Chemises a pois cravates a fleurs”
23) The Purple Hearts “Of Hopes & Dreams & Tombstones”
24) The Rondells “Carol Ann”
New Release of the Week:
25) Soledad Brothers “Downtown Paranoia Blues”
26) The Harbinger Complex “I Think I’m Down”
27) The Barracudas “Baby Get Lost”
28) Danny Burk & the Invaders “Ain’t Going Nowhere”
Shoulda Been a Hit:
29) The Gants “Greener Days”
30) Poe “Up Up Through the Spiral”
31) The Fun and Games “The Way She Smiles"
32) Plant and See “Love & Affection”

Wednesday Dec 16, 2020
Week of 2/12/06 - Slyly Subversive
Wednesday Dec 16, 2020
Wednesday Dec 16, 2020
1) The Merseybeats “Good Good Lovin’”
2) Mickie Most with The Gear “That’s Alright”
3) The Untamed “It’s Not True” (BBC)
4) The Music Machine “Double Yellow Line”
5) World of Milan “One Track Mind”
6) The Concepts “Faces Come, Feelings Go”
7) The Romancers “She Took My Oldsmobile”
8) Jerry & the Playmates “Want-a-Love You”
Lousy Song of the Week:
9) Barnaby Rudge “Joe Organ & Co.”
Shoulda Been a Hit:
10) The Dave Miller Set “Mr. Guy Fawkes”
11) The Tremeloes “(Call Me) Number One” (BBC)
12) Turquoise “Saynia”
Embryonic Heroes (Davy Jones; pre- Monkees):
13) David Jones “Any Old Iron"
Rock Block:
14) The Monkees “I Don’t Think You Know Me” (1st version, unreleased until 1987)
15) The Monkees “The Girl I Knew Somewhere”
16) The Monkees “As We Go Along”
17) The Monkees “The Porpoise Song (Theme From ‘Head’)”
New Release of the Week:
18) The High Violets “Love Is Blinding”
19) Bobby Fuller Four “I Fought the Law” (early TX alt version)
20) ? & the Mysterians “96 Tears” (unreleased version)
21) The American Breed “Ready, Willing and Able”
22) The Ides of March “Give Your Mind Wings”
23) The Maze “Right Time”
24) The Sunrisers “I Saw Her Yesterday”
25) The Bacardis “This Time”
Compare & Contrast:
26) Bo Diddley “You Can’t Judge a Book By Its Cover”
27) The Bintangs “You Can’t Judge a Book By Looking At the Cover”
28) The Merseys “Nothing Can Change This Love”
29) The Roulettes “You Don’t Love Me”
30) Los Mockers “Can’t Be a Lie”
31) Los Ovni’s “Ya Se”
32) Cool Stove “Big Sensation”
33) The Napoleon “Koi O Kesunda”
34) The Tears “Rat Race”
35) The Underground Balloon Corps “(Heart) Made of Soul”

Sunday Dec 13, 2020
Week of 1/29/06 - Bird Flu Freakout
Sunday Dec 13, 2020
Sunday Dec 13, 2020
1) The Knack “Who’ll Be the Next In Line”
2) Billy J. Kramer & the Dakotas “Great Balls of Fire”
3) The Knickerbockers “I Can Do It Better”
4) The Sonics “Like No Other Man”
Shoulda Been a Hit:
5) P.F. Sloan “This Precious Time”
6) Barry McGuire “I’d Have to Be Out of My Mind”
Embryonic Heroes:
7) Jim & Ingrid Croce “What the Hell”
8) Solid Ground “She Played With Love”
Lousy Song of the Week:
9) George Washington & the Cherrybombs “Crisco Party”
10) The Blues Magoos “So I’m Wrong and You Are Right”
11) The Original Sinners “You’ll Never Know”
12) Peter Wheat & the Breadmen “Baby What’s New”
13) The Girls “My Love”
14) The Daughters of Eve “Don’t Waste My Time”
15) Kim and Grim “You Don’t Love Me”
16) Sandy Edmonds “Come See Me”
Rock Block:
17) Cream “Sweet Wine” (BBC: 11/8/66)
18) Cream “I Feel Free”
19) Cream “World of Pain” (stereo version)
20) Cream “Swlabr” (BBC: 1/9/68)
Compare & Contrast:
21) The New Order “You’ve Got Me High”
22) Science Poption “You Got Me High”
23) The Seasons “No Volvere”
24) Os Mutantes “A Minha Menina”
25) The Velvet Underground “Sunday Morning”
26) Lothar & the Hand People “This May Be Goodbye”
27) The United States of America “No Love to Give”
28) The Red Crayola “Dairymaid’s Lament”
New Release of the Week:
29) The Minus Five “My Life as a Creep”
30) The Escorts “C’mon Home Baby”
31) The Moquettes “Right String Baby, But the Wrong Yo-Yo”
32) Freddie & the Dreamers “A Little You”
33) Rick & Sandy “Lost My Girl”

Saturday Dec 12, 2020
Week of 1/22/06 - Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Rant
Saturday Dec 12, 2020
Saturday Dec 12, 2020
1) The Outsiders “If You Don’t Treat Me Right”
2) Q65 “I Got Nightmares”
3) The Primitives “You Said”
4) The Descendants “Lela”
5) The Denims “I’m Your Man”
6) The Skeptics “Bit O’Honey”
7) The Torres “Ride On”
8) The New Breed “Want Ad Reader”
Compare & Contrast:
9) Chuck Willis “C.C. Rider”
10) Johnny Kendall & the Heralds “See See Rider"
11) The Jay-Jays “I Keep Tryin’”
12) The Nicols “Lord I've Been Thinking”
13) The Breakaways “Sea Cruise”
14) Ray Brown & the Whispers “Ain’t It Strange”
15) The Bluestars “Don’t Wanna Be Lonely Anymore”
16) The Birds (AUS) “Dust In My Pants”
Shoulda Been a Hit:
17) The Flower Pot Men “Heaven Knows When”
18) The Smoke “High In a Room”
19) Fire “Treacle Toffee World”
20) The Shy Limbs “Trick Or Two”
Lousy Song of the Week:
21) The Keggs “To Find Out”
22) Murphy & the Mob “Born Loser”
23) The Illusions “City of People”
24) The Split Ends “Rich With Nothin’”
Embryonic Heroes (Ted Nugent):
25) The Amboy Dukes “J.B. Special” (alternate version)
26) The Plague “Go Away”
27) The Playboys of Edinburg “Wish You Had a Heart”
28) The Tree “No Good Woman”
United Nations of Rock & Roll:
29) Les Loups Garous “Twist a La Baule”
30) Los Huracanes “Ocho Dias Cayendo Lluvia”
31) Billy & I Cani Fedeli “Lei Ama Me”
32) The Ones “Lady Greengrass”
New Release of the Week:
33) Steve Wynn & the Miracle 3 “Wild Mercury”

Wednesday Dec 09, 2020
Week of 11/27/05 - The Orphans of Rock & Roll
Wednesday Dec 09, 2020
Wednesday Dec 09, 2020
1) The Bachs “You’re Mine”
2) The Shady Daze “I’ll Make You Pay”
3) The Reddlemen “ I’m Gonna Get In That Girl’s Mind”
4) The Four Tops “I’m a Believer”
Rock Block:
5) Paul Revere & the Raiders “I’m Not Your Stepping Stone”
6) Paul Revere & the Raiders “Over You”
7) Paul Revere & the Raiders “The Great Airplane Strike” (LP version)
8) Paul Revere & the Raiders “I’m a Loser Too"
Compare & Contrast (Howlin’ Wolf):
9) (unknown) “Spoonful”
10) The Impalas “Spoonful”
11) David John & the Mood “Pretty Thing”
12) Group Five “What’s That”
Embryonic Heroes (Steven Tyler pre-Aerosmith ~ 1968):
13) Chain Reaction “Ever Lovin’ Man”
B-Side / Flip Over the Record (“Summertime Blues” 3/68):
14) Blue Cheer “Out of Focus”
15) Big Brother & the Holding Company “The Last Time”
16) Fairport Convention “It’s Alright Ma, It’s Only Witchcraft"
Lousy Song of the Week:
17) The One Way Streets “We All Love Peanut Butter”
18) The Lost Agency “One Girl Man”
19) The Wanted “Big City Girl”
20) The Fugitives “Baby Come Back”
Shoulda Been a Hit:
21) Zakary Thaks “Mirror of Yesterday”
22) The Haunted “1-2-5”
New Release of the Week:
23) The Dials “Sick Times”

Wednesday Dec 09, 2020
Week of 1/15/06 - Suburban Angst
Wednesday Dec 09, 2020
Wednesday Dec 09, 2020
1) Peter Belli & Les Rivals “Little By Little”
2) Tyme’s Children “Take Me Back”
3) The Preachers “Stay Out of My World”
4) The Vejtables “Hide Yourself”
5) Gerry & the Pacemakers “When Oh When”
6) The Strangers “What a Way”
7) The Shondels “Don’t Put Me Down”
8) The Tages “The One For You”
Rock Block:
9) Herman’s Hermits “Little Boy Sad”
10) Herman’s Hermits “Wild Love”
11) Herman’s Hermits “Where Were You When I Needed You”
12) Herman’s Hermits “Ace, King, Queen, Jack”
Compare & Contrast:
13) Them “I Can Only Give You Everything”
14) Tommy Scott “I Can Only Give You Everything”
15) The Marquees “Call My Name”
16) The Oxford Circle “Baby Please Don’t Go”
Lousy Song of the Week:
17) The District Six “Cherish”
18) The Moon Rakers “You’ll Come Back”
19) The Blox “Hangin’ Out”
20) Our Gang “Careless Love”
Shoulda Been a Hit:
21) Cherry Smash “Green Plant”
22) Gates of Eden “Too Much On My Mind”
23) The Breakthru “Julius Caesar”
24) Rupert’s People “I Can Show You”
New Release of the Week:
25) The Dukes of Stratosphear “Vanishing Girl”
26) I Ribelli “Eh!…Voi!”
27) The Trailers “Don’t Laugh (You’ll Cry)”
28) The Other Side “Out My Light”
Embryonic Heroes (Keith Emerson; pre- ELP; 11/67):
29) The Nice “The Thoughts of Emerlist Davjack”
30) The Cyrkle “Red Chair Fade Away”
31) The Yellow Balloon “Junk Maker Shoppe”
32) Fever Tree “I Can Beat Your Drum”

Sunday Dec 06, 2020
Week of 1/1/06 - Hangover Enhancer
Sunday Dec 06, 2020
Sunday Dec 06, 2020
1) The Human Beings “You’re Bad News”
2) The Underdogs “Get Down On Your Knees”
3) The River Styx Blues Emporium “Holding For Me”
4) Flat Earth Society “Shadows”
Compare & Contrast:
5) Fats Domino “Don’t Lie to Me”
6) Four + One “Don’t Lie to Me”
7) The Redcoats “Baby Don’t Go”
8) The Novas “William Junior”
Lousy Song of the Week 2-fer (Two Time Loser):
9) The Brook Brothers “Warpaint”
10) The Scouts “The Mr. Custer Stomp”
11) The Standells “Medication”
12) Love “My Little Red Book”
United Nations of Rock & Roll:
13) MPD Limited “If You Were Mine”
14) Steve & the Board “Giggle Eyed Goo”
15) De Maskers with Chubby Checker “My Little Girl”
16) The Matadors “Little Lover”
17) The Birds “How Can It Be?”
18) John Carter “She Won’t Show Up Tonight”
19) Chad & Jeremy “Paxton Quigley’s Had the Course”
20) Status Quo “Technicolor Dreams”
Embryonic Heroes (Todd Rundgren):
21) Nazz “Wildwood Blues"
22) The Third Evolution “Don’t Play With Me”
23) The Aardvarks “I’m Higher Than I’m Down”
24) The Shag “Stop and Listen”
Rock Block:
25) Simon & Garfunkel “Leaves That Are Green”
26) Simon & Garfunkel “Fakin’ It”
27) Simon & Garfunkel “Richard Cory”
28) Simon & Garfunkel “Keep the Customer Satisfied"
Shoulda Been a Hit:
29) The Grass Roots “Lollipop Train (You Never Had It So Good)”
30) The Cowsills “How Can I Make You See”
31) West Minist’r “Bright Lights, Windy City”
New Release of the Week:
32) The Lords of Altamont “Project Blue”

Friday Dec 04, 2020
Week of 12/4/05
Friday Dec 04, 2020
Friday Dec 04, 2020
1) The Banshees “Project Blue”
2) Park Avenue Playground “The Trip”
3) The Countdown 5 “Candy”
4) The Fallen Angels “Bad Woman”
Shoulda Been a Hit:
5) The Dantes “Can’t Get Enough of Your Love”
6) The Savages “Roses Are Red My Love”
7)Mouse & the Traps “Cryin’ Inside”
8) The Fantastic Dee-Jays “Get Away Girl”
Compare & Contrast:
9) Chuck Berry “Our Little Rendezvous”
10) Downliners Sect “Our Little Rendezvous”
11) Thane Russal “I Need You”
12) Nashville Teens “That’s My Woman”
Lousy Song of the Week:
13) Leonard Nimoy “Proud Mary”
14) The Merry-Go-Round “On Your Way Out”
15) The Outer Limits “Just One More Chance”
16) The Pink Floyd “Jugband Blues”
Embryonic Heroes: (The Outsiders):
17) Tom King & the Starfires: “Stronger Than Dirt”
18) The Marauders “I Can Tell”
19) The Friedles “I Lost Her”
20) The Jaguars “It’s Gonna Be Alright”
New Release of the Week:
21) The Blueskins “Stupid Ones”
22) Los Monstruos “Junto A Mi (Just Like Me)”
23) The Shangaans “Yeh Girl”
24) Little Chris & the Boumerangs “Girl of Radium”
25) The Rainbows “Tubon”
26) D’4 Ever “Mungkir Janji”

Friday Dec 04, 2020
Week of 12/18/05 - Winter Solstice Spectacular
Friday Dec 04, 2020
Friday Dec 04, 2020
1) Lulu & the Luvvers “Surprise Surprise”
2) Pat Harris & the Blackjacks “Hippy Hippy Shake”
3) The King Bees “Little Girl”
4) The Prodigal “You Got Me”
Compare & Contrast:
5) The Electras “Action Woman”
6) The Litter “Action Woman”
7) Jimmy & the Offbeats “I Ain’t No Miracle Worker”
8) The Unrelated Segments “Story of My Life”
Embryonic Heroes (The Small Faces):
9) The Moments “Money Money”
Rock Block:
10) The Small Faces “Whatcha Gonna Do About It”
11) The Small Faces “It’s Too Late”
12) The Small Faces “You’d Better Believe It” (BBC)
13) The Small Faces “Runaway”
New Release of the Week:
14) The Numbers “The Fast”
15) The Allusions “Looks Like Trouble”
16) Tony Worsley & the Blue Jays “Talkin’ ‘Bout You”
17) The Missing Links “All I Want”
United Nations of Rock & Roll:
18) Los Reno “El Arabe”
19) Bill Kimber & the Couriers “Come On, Come On, Come On”
20) The Bluebirds “Sweet Polly”
21) The Poets “In Your Tower”
Lousy Song of the Week:
22) The Unknowns “Night Walkin’”
23) The Chentelles “Be My Queen”
24) The Unlimited “Feelings”
25) The Twiliters “Move It”
Shoulda Been a Hit:
26) The Fly-Bi-Nites “Found Love”
27) Every Mother’s Son “Put Your Mind at Ease”
28) The Hard Times “Goodbye”
29) The Third Rail “Invisible Man”
30) The Dirty Shames “Makin’ Love”
31) Swinging Machine “Comin’ On Back Home”
32) The Magpies “Never See Her Again”