PART 1: American Beat ’84 – The Fleshtones; My Love Machine – The Fleshtones; Rock and Roll Is At It Again – Keith Streng; Spread It Around – Stupdity; Stand Up and Fight – Bush Tetras; Not Looking Back – Lyres; (You Must Fight to Live) On the Planet of the Apes – The Mummies; By the Rich, for the Rich – Happy Ending; Fight Fire – The Pist; Born in the U.S.A. (Electric Nebraska) – Bruce Springsteen; Fight the Power – The Isley Brothers; $100 Bill – Buddy Guy; Sound of Breaking Down – The Reducers; Dose of Thunder (Ed Stasium Mix) – The Replacements
PART 2: Days of Our Lives Opening Theme – Tommy Boyce & Bobby Hart; Girl of My Dreams – Robert Luke Harshman (Bobby Hart); Be My Guest – Fats Domino; Theme from The Monkees (Unreleased Demo) – Tommy Boyce & Bobby Hart; Last Train to Clarksville – The Monkees; Words – The Monkees; (I’m Not Your) Stepping Stone – Paul Revere & the Raiders; (I’m Not Your) Steppin’ Stone – The W.C. Fields Memorial Electric String Band; (I’m Not Your) Stepping Stone – The Monkees; (I’m Not Your) Stepping Stone – Sex Pistols; Seven Days in September – Ginger & the Snaps; Thank You for Loving Me – The Sapphires; Hurt So Bad – Little Anthony & the Imperials; Come a Little Bit Closer – Jay & the Americans; She – The Monkees; The Dum Dum Ditty – The Shangri-Las; Never Again – The Royalettes; Action – Paul Revere & the Raiders; I Wonder What She’s Doing Tonight – Tommy Boyce & Bobby Hart; Alice Long (You’re Still My Favorite Girlfriend) – Tommy Boyce & Bobby Hart; Valleri – The Monkees
… 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.