PART 1: American Beat ’84 – The Fleshtones; I Can’t Understand – The Double Naught Spys; Higgle-Dy Piggle-Dy – The Monks; I Fought the Law – The Bobby Fuller Four; Slow Down Girl – Jonny Benavidez; Love Rollercoaster – Ohio Players; Jimmy Loves Maryann – Josie Cotton; Dizzy Miss Lizzy – Larry Williams; Mr. Eli – Dolph Chaney; Long Live Rock’n’Roll – Rainbow; Happiness Lasts – Kelly Reilly; Those Expensive Eyes – Kat Jones & the Prophets; I Want You – Diamond Hands; I Can’t Get Over You – The Dogmatics; Are You Embarrassed Easily? – Monty Python; Rapture – Jalen Ngonda; More Love – Smokey Robinson & the Miracles
PART 2: Follow Me – lyme & cybelle (1966); Frank and Jesse James – Warren Zevon (Warren Zevon); Gorilla, You’re a Desperado – Warren Zevon (Bad Luck Streak in Dancing School); Play It All Night Long – Warren Zevon (Bad Luck Streak in Dancing School); Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door – Warren Zevon (The Wind); Detox Mansion – Warren Zevon (Sentimental Hygiene); Excitable Boy – Warren Zevon; Lawyers, Guns and Money – Warren Zevon (Excitable Boy); Things to Do in Denver When You’re Dead – Warren Zevon (Mr. Bad Example); Hit Somebody! (The Hockey Song) – Warren Zevon (w/David Letterman) (My Ride’s Here); Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner – Warren Zevon (Excitable Boy); Accidentally Like a Martyr – Warren Zevon (Excitable Boy); Werewolves of London – Warren Zevon; Splendid Isolation – Warren Zevon (Transverse City); A Certain Girl – Warren Zevon (Bad Luck Streak in Dancing School)
PART 3: Boom Boom Mancini – Warren Zevon (Sentimental Hygiene); Hasten Down the Wind – Warren Zevon (Warren Zevon); Mohammed’s Radio (live) – Warren Zevon (Warren Zevon) (Stand in the Fire); Jeannie Needs a Shooter (live) – Warren Zevon (Bad Luck Streak in Dancing School) (Stand in the Fire); Johnny Strikes Up the Band – Warren Zevon (Excitable Boy); Raspberry Beret – Hindu Love Gods (Hindu Love Gods, 1990); Carmelita – Warren Zevon (Warren Zevon); Poor Poor Pitiful Me – Warren Zevon; (Warren Zevon); Tenderness on the Block – Warren Zevon (Excitable Boy); Keep Me in Your Heart – Warren Zevon (The Wind); A Certain Girl – Ernie K-Doe; Raspberry Beret – Prince
… 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.