PART 1: American Beat ’84 – The Fleshtones; Wild Summer Nights – Beaver Brown; Drag Racing – Big Stick; Dune Buggy – Apollo Smile; Hot Generation – The Pandoras; This Ain’t the Summer of Love – Blue Oyster Cult; The Other Side of Summer – Elvis Costello; Long Hot Summer – Joe Simon; It Must Be Summer – Fountains of Wayne; The Summer Place – Irene Peña; Celebrated Summer – Husker Du; Record Cover Girl – Blake Jones & the Trike Shop; Fascist Bumblebee Winter Tour – Blake Jones & the Trike Shop; Mock Stoner Voices – Blake Jones & the Trike Shop; Used Record Stores – Blake Jones & the Trike Shop; Dreaming About Sleeping – Blake Jones & the Trike Shop
PART 2: You Put Theremin on My Hype Sticker – Blake Jones & the Trike Shop; String Lights and Hold On – Blake Jones & the Trike Shop; What’s Enough? – Blake Jones & the Trike Shop; The Queen Is Dead – Blake Jones & the Trike Shop; Mr. Saturday Sun – Blake Jones & the Trike Shop; Shake Your Dress – Blake Jones & the Trike Shop; We Love the Tower – Blake Jones & the Trike Shop; Cottagecore Lesbian Daydream – Sarah Dunn; Jet Set – Reale Wolfe; Young & Stupid – Farmertan; Here Comes the Song – The Armoires; Ghosting – Kevin Robertson; Search for Replies – Kevin Robertson; Rain Again – Kevin Robertson; Ode to Stephen – Kevin Robertson; Fortune Teller Lied – Kevin Robertson
PART 3: Sunshine Getaway – JD McPherson; Running Alone – Richard Duguay & the Beautiful Decline; Different Kind of Blue – Nick Lowe & Los Straitjackets; All in My Head – The Linda Lindas; Resolution-Revolution – The Linda Lindas; Too Many Things – The Linda Lindas; Big Black X – X; This Can’t Be Love – The Four Tops; Stranger on the Shore – The Four Tops; Baby, I Need Your Loving – The Four Tops; Ask the Lonely – The Four Tops; I Can’t Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch) – The Four Tops; 7-Rooms of Gloom – The Four Tops; It’s the Same Old Song – The Four Tops; Helpless – The Four Tops; Your Love Is Amazing – The Four Tops; Shake Me, Wake Me (When It’s Over) – The Four Tops; Something About You – The Four Tops; I Like Everything About You – The Four Tops; I’ll Turn to Stone – The Four Tops; Bernadette – The Four Tops; If I Were a Carpenter – The Four Tops; Walk Away Renee (Alternate Mix) – The Four Tops; Ain’t No Woman (Like the One I’ve Got) – The Four Tops; Keeper of the Castle – The Four Tops; Are You Man Enough? – The Four Tops; Reach Out (I’ll Be There) – The Four Tops
… is the hostess of Franorama 2.0, most Thursdays from 1-5 p.m. Eastern Time on Cygnus Radio. So what’s a genre? I just throw everything against a wall and see what sticks. Rock’n’roll, garage, punk, soul (especially Northern), rockabilly, real country, cheesy goofball stuff – no matter what generation, if it has a heart and soul, it has a home here.