PART 1: Living Legends – The Fleshtones; The Loco-Motion – Grand Funk Railroad; Vehicle – The Ides of March; Come On Marianne – The 4 Seasons; Why Do I Cry (Boston Tea Party, 3/16/69) – The Remains; People – Farmertan; Good Grief – The Problem With Kids Today; Authoritarian – The Pist; Be Around Anymore – Transylvanian Death Express; Springtime in New York – Jonathan Richman; The Starter Wife – Daphne Parker-Powell; Last to Leave – Sarah Dunn; Fantastic Girl – Amy Cabot; The Dark Night – Bedsit Poets; This Time – Eric Hisaw
PART 2: Soul Force – Dion feat. Susan Tedeschi; I Aim to Please – Dion feat. Danielle Nicole; Stop Drop and Roll – Dion feat. Valerie Tyson; Do Ladies Get the Blues – Dion feat. Christine Ohlman & Debbie Davies; An American Hero – Dion feat. Carlene Carter; Don’t You Want a Man Like Me – Dion feat. Rory Block; Sugar Daddy – Dion feat. Christine Ohlman; Endless Highway – Dion feat. Randi Fishenfeld; I Got Wise – Dion feat. Maggie Rose; Hey Suzy – Dion feat. Sue Foley; Mama Said – Dion feat. Shemekia Copeland; Just Like That – Dion feat. Joanne Shaw Taylor; Op-Operator – The Shang Hi Los; They Came to Rock – The Amplifier Heads Featuring Barrence Whitfield; Love Loves to Love Me – Mozzy Dee; Roller Coaster Ride – Brent Seavers; Of Poetry – Brent Seavers; Evolves – Brent Seavers
PART 3: Street Singin’ – Lady Flash; That Was Then, This Is Now – The Mosquitos; Four Green Fields – Tommy Makem; The Band Played Waltzing Matilda – Tommy Makem & Liam Clancy; The Foggy Dew – The Chieftains w/Sinéad O’Connor; The Wild Colonial Boy (Carnegie Hall, 1962) – The Clancy Brothers with Tommy Makem; I’ll Tell Me Ma – Van Morrison w/The Chieftains; The Sick Bed of Cuchulainn – The Pogues; Funky Ceili (Bridie’s Song) – Black 47; N17 – The Saw Doctors; Stranger in a Strange Land – U2; Mystic Eyes – Them; Whiskey in the Jar – Thin Lizzy; Thousands Are Sailing – The Pogues; The Reels – Black 47; Salsa O’Keefe – Black 47; Three Little Birds – Black 47
… 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.