PART 1: American Beat ’84 – The Fleshtones; All in My Head – The Linda Lindas; 1-2-3 – Len Barry; How Rock and Roll You Are – Sour Ops; Picture Me Gone – Evie Sands; Lucky in Love – Palmyra Delran & the Doppel Gang; 1,000,000 – R.E.M.; Sally Go ‘Round the Roses – The Jaynetts; Honey, Honey (Swedish Version) – Abba; I’m Confused – The Muffs; LSDC – Kid Congo Powers & the Pink Monkey Birds; Dance Franny Dance – The Floyd Dakil Combo; Fascist Bumblebee Winter Formal – Blake Jones & the Trike Shop; Sacramento & Polk – Alejandro Escovedo; ’66 Impala – Booker T. feat. Poncho Sanchez & Sheila E.; Too Much Stress – Steve Cropper & the Midnight Hour feat. Brian May; Pounds and Hundreds (Lbs & 100s) – Otis Redding
PART 2: Shoot You Down – APB; Palace Filled With Love – APB; From You & Back to You – APB; My Love (John Peel Session 12/23/81) – APB; Higher the Climb (John Peel Session 12/23/81) – APB; Rainy Day – APB; One Day – APB; Danceability (David Jansen Session 5/23/82); Play It (John Peel Session (12/13/82) – APB; Summer Love – APB; Crazy Grey – APB; Wonderdrug (John Peel Session 12/13/82) – APB
PART 3: What Kind of Girl? – APB; So Many Broken Hearts – APB; Don’t Close the Door (Peter Powell Session 8/9/83) – APB; Something to Believe In – APB; You Can’t Have Her (David Jensen Session 3/29/84); Wonderdrug – APB; Crooner’s Lullaby – APB; Open Your Eyes – APB; Stop Before I Go – APB; Ghost of My Love – APB; Free Again – APB; Yawn – APB; House of the Living Dead – APB; Summer Song – Holly and the Byrd; In the Summertime – Beat Rodeo; Oh Sun! – Jonathan Richman; Ice Cream Man – Jonathan Richman & the Modern Lovers; Summer Snow – Lou Christie; Girl Don’t Tell Me – The Beach Boys; In the Hot, Hot Rays – Fleet Foxes; Lover Boy – General Johnson & the Chairmen of the Board; California Nights – Lesley Gore
… 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.