PART 1: American Beat ’84 – The Fleshtones; The Dreg – The Fleshtones; Alex Trebek – The Fleshtones; Do You Swing? – The Fleshtones; Deep in My Heart – The Fleshtones; The Girl in Me – Keith Streng; Precious to Me – Phil Seymour; Ouch! – The Rutles; Help! – The Beatles; You’re Going to Lose That Girl – The Beatles; The Night Before – The Beatles; Ticket to Ride – The Beatles; Found a Job – Talking Heads; Finest Worksong – R.E.M.; Birth, School, Work, Death – The Godfathers; 9 to 5 – Dolly Parton; Work to Do – The Isley Brothers
PART 2: Hot Rod – The Collins Kids; Hot Rod Man – Tex Rubinowitz; Led Sled – Denny Freeman feat. Jimmie Vaughan; Dragster – Johnny Fortune; Stick Shift – The Duals; Drag City – Jan & Dean; Bite Bite Barracuda – Buddy Randell & the Knickerbockers; R.P.M. – The Four Speeds; SS 396 – Paul Revere & the Raiders; Living in the U.S.A. – The Steve Miller Band; Drag Racing – Big Stick; Dune Buggy – Apollo Smile; Motor Head Baby – Johnny “Guitar” Watson; Ice Cream Man – John Brim; Ice Cream Man – Jonathan Richman & the Modern Lovers; Ice Cream Man – Van Halen; Ice Cream Embers – Dolph Chaney; Good Humor Ice Cream Man Jingle 2020 – RZA; Ice Cream Castles – The Time; Mothers Talk – Tears for Fears
PART 3: Summer’s Cauldron/Grass – XTC; Old Cape Cod – Patti Page w/Vic Schoen & His Orchestra; One Summer Night – The Danleers; Wishing You Were Here – Chicago; Lonely Island (Keen Records version) – Sam Cooke; Summer Song – Roy Orbison; Summer Breeze – Seals & Crofts; The Paris Match – The Style Council; All I Have to Do Is Dream/A Summer Song – Christine Lavin; Castles in the Sand – Stevie Wonder; Girls – Marshall Crenshaw; Starlit Summer Sky – Marshall Crenshaw; Cherry Bomb – John Mellencamp; Skate – Silk Sonic; Too Hot to Hold – Major Lance; Makin’ With the Magilla – Little Eva; Cruise to Nowhere – The Reducers; Ruby’s Olde Time – The Fleshtones; Weird Summer – Velvet Crush
… 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.