PART 1: American Beat ’84 – The Fleshtones; When Harpo Played His Harp – Jonathan Richman & the Modern Lovers; White Castle Blues – The Smithereens; Higgle-Dy Piggle-Dy – the monks; She’s So Strange – Sour Ops; Catch These Fists – Wet Leg; This Old Heart of Mine (Is Weak for You ) – The Isley Brothers; Love Slipped Through My Fingers – Ohio Players; Down in the Underground – Muck and the Mires; Who’ll Buy My Memories? – Willie Nelson; The Old Lamplighter – Sammy Kaye (vocal refrain by Billy Williams & Choir); Little Brown Jug – Glenn Miller; A Boy Named Sue – Johnny Cash; The Snakes Crawl at Night – Charley Pride; On a Clear Day (You Can See Forever) – Sammy Davis Jr.; Sixteen Tons – Frankie Laine; Cry of the Wild Goose – Frankie Laine; That Lucky Old Sun – Frankie Laine; I’ll Have a New Life – Hank Williams
PART 2: Rock and Roll Is at It Again – Keith Streng; How Pretty Is Pretty – Keith Streng; Beautiful Collision – Keith Streng; The Girl in Me – Keith Streng; Carried Away – Keith Streng; Hero No One Knows – Keith Streng; In the Court of the King of Queens – Keith Streng; Fire Flies – Keith Streng; I’m a Boy, I’m a Girl – Keith Streng; Just a Number – Keith Streng; More Than Beautiful – Keith Streng; Until Forever – Keith Streng; Nordic Surf – The Vacuum Cleaners; Keith – Jonathan Richman; They Showed Me the Door to Bohemia – Jonathan Richman; Love You Like That – The Altons
PART 3: Feels So Good – Chuck Mangione; Best Friends – The Pist; Jim Martin – The Pist; P.I.S.T. – The Pist; Risen – The Pist; Authoritarian – The Pist; Narcissist – The Pist; Cognitive Dissonance – The Pist; Right to Choose – The Pist; None of Your Business – The Pist; Fight Fire – The Pist
PART 4: Black Sabbath – Black Sabbath; War Pigs – Black Sabbath; Paranoid – Black Sabbath; Crazy Train – Ozzy Osbourne; Flying High Again – Ozzy Osbourne; Bark at the Moon – Ozzy Osbourne; Born to Be Wild – Miss Piggy & Ozzy Osbourne; No More Tears – Ozzy Osbourne; Mama, I’m Coming Home – Ozzy Osbourne; See You on the Other Side – Ozzy Osbourne
… 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.