Mondays 1pm etHost: Roger Catlin From Washington DC comes the urgent sounds of recorded import, from blues moans of a century ago to the digitized homegrown innovations of today’s youth, with punk, soul, rockabilly, country, doo wop and pop in between. And don’t forget Bobby Womack.Hosted by Roger Catlin, onetime Hartford Courant rock critic and
Kenny Gamble, half of Philly International’s famed writing and production team Gamble & Huff turned 82 today, so there was an array of some of their greatest tunes. It was also the 71st birthday of Joe Jackson, and we blew out candles for Eric Carmen, producer Shel Talmy, Ben Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie,
Finally getting around to posting a couple of radio shows from the beginning of the month, pre-recorded before I was out of the country for a couple of weeks. Aug. 4 was the anniversary of the first ever Billboard Hot 100 so we revisited some of the well known and not so well known songs
The death of Ozzy Osbourne July 22 at 76 brought an abundance of unusual collaborations — from Ian Hunter and Elton John to Miss Piggy — as well as some of his high points from his singular solo career and that of Black Sabbath, emphasizing covers he recorded in 2005. (Here’s a thing I wrote
We began with a half dozen hits from Connie Francis, who died Wednesday at 87 and paid tribute to Jamaica’s Owen Gray, who died Sunday at 86. Then it was a dozen-song salute to Kim Fowley, the unusual producer, writer and sometime performer who worked on the fringes of recording for decades, born this day
In the mood for a revolution? We marked Bastille Day 2025 with ten such songs, before turning to songs from some of France’s beloved roster of performers from Edith Piaf and Maurice Chevalier to Serge Gainsbourg and Françoise Hardy. Also: songs simply in French, or about Paris. But it was also the birthday of Bob
Here’s the rare Capital Radio show that was recorded but never played (at its regular time). So here it is a day late, belatedly celebrating what would have been the 124th birthday of baseball great Satchel Paige, the Negro League and MLB pitcher who is remembered not only for his five-decade-long career but for his
Out traveling, so I haven’t been able to post the last show of June until now. It was dedicated largely to a holiday already passed (though some are still shooting off remaining firecrackers). But it was also the birthday of, among others, Lena Horne, Stanley Clark, Florence Ballard and Andy Scott (from Sweet, turning 76!).
The last show before Christmas warrants the annual avalanche of holiday songs, starting with the Bosstones, Aimee Mann and Nick Lowe, shifting to ’60s oddities from Bobby Goldsboro and Brian Hyland, and enduring rokcers from the Kinks and the Ramones. There was so much Yuletide, there wasn’t time for the usual birthday salutes, except for
Things don’t always go right when you pre-record a show. Sometimes, last week’s show repeats by mistake, which it did today. And as happy as I was with that show, I’m sadder that the today’s Shane MacGowan-dominated show didn’t go live. But here it is, a few hours later, in archived form. Besides our full-bodied
Taping my show last week means the Shane MacGowan tribute will have to wait a week. Instead, today’s Capital Radio had a couple songs about December, and 25 musical numbers in a sort of opposite of a countdown. There were a lot of birthdays to count up as well — including Southside Johnny, turning 75
