PART 1: American Beat ’84 – The Fleshtones; Happy Together – The Jam; You Keep Me Hangin’ On – The Supremes; Like Wow-Wipeout – Hoodoo Gurus; King Louie Stomp – Impala; The City of the Dead – The Clash; Summer Love – APB; Come Around and Love Me – Jalen Ngonda; Can’t Stop – That Petrol Emotion; Maybe I Should Run – Lucy’s Neighbor; My Private Provincetown – Anne Marie Menta; Wonderland – The Shellye Valauskas Experience; It’s the Little Things – The Skeletons; Girl Don’t Tell Me – The Smithereens; Heart Full of Soul – Chris Isaak
PART 2: Margins – The Sawtelles; Present Tense 2 – The Sawtelles; Spotlight – The Sawtelles; Time – The Sawtelles; Winding Down – The Sawtelles; Catch These Fists – Wet Leg; CPR – Wet Leg; davina mccall – Wet Leg; Polaris – Los Straitjackets; Say You Will – Ivy; I Was Just a Frozen Piece of Sky Anyway – Jonathan Richman; But We Might Try Weird Stuff – Jonathan Richman; Night Fever – Jonathan Richman; You Need Me Too – Jonathan Richman; The Dog Star – Jonathan Richman; Se Va Pa’volver – Jonathan Richman
PART 3: That Older Girl – Jonathan Richman; Little Black Bat – Jonathan Richman; O Guitar – Jonathan Richman; David & Goliath – Jonathan Richman; The Wavelet – Jonathan Richman; I Am the Sky – Jonathan Richman; That Summer Feeling – Jonathan Richman & the Modern Lovers; Cold Pizza – Jonathan Richman & Tommy Larkins; Double Chocolate Malted – Jonathan Richman & the Modern Lovers; Foggy Notion –The Modern Lovers; The U.F.O. Man – Jonathan Richman & the Modern Lovers; Dodge Veg-O-Matic – Jonathan Richman & the Modern Lovers; Let’s Take a Trip – Jonathan Richman & the Modern Lovers; When Harpo Played His Harp – Jonathan Richman & the Modern Lovers; It’s You – Jonathan Richman & the Modern Lovers
… 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.