A curious theme, indeed! We’re talking ‘questions’, naturally. And don’t you think it’s time we got around to this theme? There was no shortage of ammunition…songs that end with that curly-que that has been the topic of many theories. One such theory suggests that it originate from the Latin word “quaestio” which, shortened to “qo”, would evolve into the symbol we recognize today. Each and every track in the show today delivers that terminating mark in search of an answer. We’ve heard of answer songs, but what about these question songs and most demand good answers because, well, they’re good questions. Jazz, country, rock ‘n roll, and everything in between with selections from The Lovin’ Spoonful, Dan Hicks, The Robins, Joe Liggins and Bo Diddley are just a sampling of the nearly three dozen songs with “good questions” theme. Where would we be without music? Don’ have that answer but I’m guessing I don’t want to know.
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The Harlem Hamfats
What's On Your Mind?
Harlem Hamfats Vol. 3 1937-1938
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B.B. King
Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby?
Let the Good Times Roll: The Music of Louis Jordan
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Louis Jordan And His Tympany Five
Is You Is Or Is You Ain't My Baby
Louis Jordan And His Tympany Five / 1941 – 1944
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Ella Fitzgerald
How Long Has This Been Going On?
Pure Ella
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The King Cole Trio
Gee, Baby, Ain't I Good To You?
Jazz Noire (Darktown Sleaze of 1940s L.A.)
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The Robins
Whadaya Want?
50 Coastin' Classics [Disc 1]
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Joe Liggins
Do You Love Me Pretty Baby?
Joe Liggins & The Honeydrippers
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Varetta Dillard
What'll I Do?
Got You On My Mind
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Ruth Brown
Why Don't You Write Me?
Along Comes Ruth
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Bo Diddley
Who Do You Love?
Loud, Fast & Out of Control: The Wild Sounds of the '50s [Box] Disc 3
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Bette Midler
Do You Want to Dance?
Experience the Divine [1993]
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The Isley Brothers
Who's That Lady?
Something's Got A Hold On Me
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Barry White
What Am I Gonna Do With You?
All Time Greatest Hits
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The Amazing Rhythm Aces
Who Will The Next Fool Be?
Two Classic Albums From The Amazing Rhythm Aces: Stacked Deck/Too Stuffed To Jump
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Peggy Lee
Is That All There Is?
Peggy Lee – The Marvelous Miss Lee
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Los Lobos
Is This All There Is?
By the Light of the Moon
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Buck Owens
Would You Be Ready?
Dust On Mother's Bible
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The Texas Tornados
Who Were You Thinkin' Of
The Best Of Texas Tornados
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Wanda Jackson
Who Shot Sam?
Queen Of Rockabilly
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Eddy Arnold & Jaye P. Morgan
Do You Love Me?
Crossroads In Cowtown
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Frankie Miller
Hey! Where Ya Goin?
The World Is A Monster
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Jim Lauderdale
What Kinda Guy?
An American Troubadour: The Songs of Steve Forbert
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The Lovin' Spoonful
Do You Believe In Magic?
Do You Believe In Magic?
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The Lovin' Spoonful
Did You Ever Have To Make Up Your Mind?
Do You Believe In Magic?
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Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks
How Can I Miss You When You Won't Go Away
Love Is the Song We Sing: San Francisco Nuggets 1965-1970 Disc 4
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The Grass Roots
Where Were You When I Needed You
All Time Greatest Hits
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Creedence Clearwater Revival
Have You Ever Seen Rain?
All Time Greatest Hits Disc 1
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Chicago
Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?
The Heart Of Chicago 1967-1997
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Ramones
Do You Remember Rock 'n' Roll Radio?
Modern Rock: Lost Hits Of The 70s
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The Five Royales
$64,000 Question (Do You Love Me)
Bob Dylan – Radio Radio – Theme Time Radio Hour Volume Four [Disc 3]
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Lemon Nash
Anybody Seen My Kitty?
Papa Lemon: New Orleans Ukulele Maestro & Tent Show Troubadour
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Tom Paxton
What Did You Learn In School Today?
Best Of Tom Paxton: I Can't Help But Wonder Where I'm Bound
It’s finger poppin’ time…time to have a blast with some breakout party rockers from the mid-century. All for a good time with soul and roll and rhythm as the main course in today’s show. It’s all about those percussive rocking beats. Call it a party full of boogie, mojo, twistin’ and shaking. We’ve lit the fuse for a dynamite celebration of rebellious rock and cool upbeat soul rhythms with the music of Freddy Cannon, The Swingin’ Medallions, The Showstoppers and Ann Cole with an out of control party mix…just in time for our first show of May. KOWS Community Radio brings the fresh sounds of today, yesterday and tomorrow 24/7, with the very best of political and community discourse. You can tune us in on 92.5 FM in West Sonoma County or just drop by our stream on your Radio Rethink app, Alexa, Radio Garden, Tunein, or Radio Box. We’re here for you and Deeper Roots will be pitching a wang dang doodle this coming Friday morning here on member-supported radio for planet Earth.
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The Isley Brothers
Shout (Part One)
Motor City Soul
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Wanda Jackson
Let's Have a Party
Loud, Fast & Out of Control: The Wild Sounds of the '50s [Box] Disc 2
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Ray Charles
Mess Around
Atlantic Rock & Roll
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The Swingin' Medallions
Double Shot (Of My Baby's Love)
Nuggets Sampler 1965-1968
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The Strangeloves
I Want Candy
Dick Van Dyke's Dance Party
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Claudine Clark
Party Lights
The Best Of The Girl Groups, Vol. 1
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Martha & The Vandellas
Mickey's Monkey
Dance Party
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Hank Ballard & the Midnighters
Finger Poppin' Time
Loud, Fast & Out of Control: The Wild Sounds of the '50s [Box] Disc 1
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Johnnie Morisette
Meet Me At The Twistin' Place
The Forgotten 45's 1960-1962
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Chubby Checker
Dancin' Party
Chubby Checker (Mr Twister)
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Chubby Checker
The Twist
Billboard Top Rock & Roll Hits: 1960
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Sam Cooke
Twistin' the Night Away
The Man Who Invented Soul [Box Set] (2 of 4)
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Dave Edmunds
Do You Wanna Dance
Porky's Revenge! [Expanded]
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The Contours
Do You Love Me
Dick Van Dyke's Dance Party
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Jerry Lee Lewis
Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On
Loud, Fast & Out of Control: The Wild Sounds of the '50s [Box] Disc 1
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Matchbox
Rockabilly Rebel
Rockabilly Rebel
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Freddy Cannon
Buzz Buzz A Diddle It
His Latest And Greatest
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Tommy James & the Shondells
Mony Mony
The Very Best of Tommy James & the Shondells
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Louis Jordan
Choo Choo Ch'Boogie
Number Ones
21
The Showstoppers
Ain't Nothing But A House Party
Ultimate Northern Soul – The Classics
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Ann Cole
Got My Mojo Workin' (But It Just Won't Work On You)
Blues Masters Vol. 6 – Blues Originals
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Koko Taylor
Wang Dang Doodle
Blues Classics '27_'69 [Disc 3]
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The Champs
Tequilla
Dick Van Dyke's Dance Party
25
Tarheel Slim
Number Nine Train
Loud, Fast & Out of Control: The Wild Sounds of the '50s [Box] Disc 4
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Chan Romero
The Hippy Hippy Shake
Loud, Fast & Out of Control: The Wild Sounds of the '50s [Box] Disc 2
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Sam The Sham & The Pharaohs
Wooly Bully
Memphis Celebrates 50 Years Of Rock 'n' Roll
28
Arthur Conley
Sweet Soul Music
Billboard Top Pop Hits: 1967
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Link Wray/Robert Gordon
Summertime Blues
Robert Gordon with Link Wray/Fresh Fish Specials
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Johnny Kidd
Shakin' All Over
Loud, Fast & Out of Control: The Wild Sounds of the '50s [Box] Disc 2
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The Kingsmen
Louie Louie
In Person ('64)
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Nick Todd
At The Hop
Chills & Fever: The Dot Records Story 1955-1962
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The Isley Brothers
Twist And Shout
Dick Van Dyke's Dance Party
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Little Richard
Good Golly Miss Molly
Loud, Fast & Out of Control: The Wild Sounds of the '50s [Box] Disc 4
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Gene Vincent & His Blue Caps
Cruisin'
Destination Freeway
36
Elvis Presley
Party
50,000,000 Elvis Fans Can't Be Wrong: Elvis' Gold Records – Volume 2
This week‘s show brings us echoes of resistance from the past because there’s a storm brewing, stirring from the louder voices of people recognizing that fascism has settled in. People in this country are getting organized around a common anger that democracy and freedom is being taken from them. The political fortification led by Republican leadership co-opted by white nationalism and support for the gestapo tactics must be held in check and the voices of the ballot box will be the final determination; that is, if there is time. Music this week features Roy Zimmerman, Billy Bragg, Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger and a whole host of sounds from the past century whose musical voices raged when fascism and autocracy attempted to take hold. Money is the root of this evil, make no mistake. There is always hope, however, and we need to be here for each other while practicing self-care with family and friends. The storm clouds are now above us and it’s up to all of us. Now. Not later.
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Gene "Mighty Flea" Conners & McCrarys
We Shall Overcome
Gospel Caravan
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Allen Toussaint
Yes We Can Can
Our New Orleans: A Benefit Album
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Pete Seeger
Which Side Are You On
Pete Seeger's Greatest Hits
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John Lennon & The Plastic Ono Band
Power To The People
Gimme Some Truth [Disc 1]
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Buffalo Springfield
For What It's Worth
Buffalo Springfield
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Molly Brandt
Revolution on the Horizon
American Saga
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Tracy Chapman
Talkin' Bout a Revolution
Tracy Chapman
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Woody Guthrie
Tear the Fascists Down
My Dusty Road
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Alan Lomax
All Of You Fascists Bound To Lose
Ballad Operas-Martins & The Co
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The Tillers
All You Fascists Bound to Lose
The Tillers
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Marc Ribot
Bella Ciao (Goodbye Beautiful) (feat. Tom Waits)
Songs of Resistance 1942 – 2018
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Garland Jeffreys
Wild in the Streets
Ghost Writer/One-Eyed Jack/American Boy & Girl [[Disc 1]]
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Jefferson Airplane
Volunteers
Volunteers
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Public Enemy
Fight The Power
Capturing Sound: How Technology Has Changed Music
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Perla Batalla
The Partisan
A Letter to Leonard Cohen
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Isley Brothers
Fight the Power EDIT
FunkGASM
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Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings
This Land is Your Land (Digital Album Exclusive)
Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Rendition Is In)
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Rosanne Cash with John Leventhal
Crawl into the Promised Land
Crawl Into the Promised Land (Single)
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Nanci Griffith
Hell No (I'm Not Alright)
Occupy This Album
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Bruce Springsteen
Born in the U.S.A.
Chapter & Verse
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Nina Simone
Revolution
Anthology Disc 2
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R.B. Morris
That's How Every Empire Falls
Singing Through the Wall. Songs for Western Sahara
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Woody Guthrie
This Land Is Your Land (Alternate Version)
Woody At 100: The Woody Guthrie Centennial Collection
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Dropkick Murphys
All You Fonies
This Machine Still Kills Fascists
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Gil Scott-Heron
Whitey On The Moon
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
27
Lou Christie
Self Expression (The Kids on the Street Will Never Give In)
Enlightnin'ment: The Best of Lou Christie
28
John Fogerty
Fortunate Son
The Long Road Home: Ultimate John Fogerty Creedence Collection
29
Billy Bragg & Wilco
All You Fascists
Mermaid Avenue, Vol. 2
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Marvin Gaye
What's Going On
Singers And Songwriters 1970-1971 [Disc 1]
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Marc Ribot
How To Walk In Freedom (feat. Sam Amidon & Fay Victor)
Every year about this time there’s a quick burst of blossom, a promise of renewal and that first pitch of the national pastime. I don’t know about you but it’s my favorite time of year, a time when winter’s cold is shut down and we’ve got that Spring Fever. This week’s show will take time out for a couple sets celebrating and remembering baseball’s past through music with the likes of The Treniers, Danny Kaye, and Dr. John with some early rapping from Mel Allen of all people. And that’s just the half of it because the fever goes beyond the diamond: we’ll share songs of April love with Shirley Jones, Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White with Perez Prado, Nina Simone, Martha Tilton, and a run of classic country with Johnny Horton, Sons of the Pioneers and the Sons of the San Joaquin. From stickball to kite-flying to the first frisbees of the year in the local park. Let’s get away from it all.
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Radio Commercial
'Spring Time Fever Time'
Spring Fever – 28 Easter Nuggets For Your Spring Season
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The Velvets
Spring Fever
Spring Fever – 28 Easter Nuggets For Your Spring Season
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Shirley Jones & Pat Boone
April Love (Film Version)
Spring Fever – 28 Easter Nuggets For Your Spring Season
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The Pentagons
It's Spring Again
Spring Fever – 28 Easter Nuggets For Your Spring Season
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Martha Tilton
I'll Remember April
The Liltin' Miss Tilton [Disc 1]
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Perez Prado And His Orchestra
Cherry Pink And Apple Blossom White
Magic Moments: Best Of 50's Pop (Disc 2)
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Count Basie
April in Paris
Pure Jazz
9
Naturals & Mel Allen
Baseball Dreams
Baseball's Greatest Hits
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Johnny Darling
Baseball Baby
Radio Radio Vol.5 [Disc 1] Bob Dylan
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Dr. John
Take Me Out To The Ballgame
Baseball A Film By Ken Burns – Original Soundtrack Recording
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The Treniers
Say Hey (The Willie Mays Song)
Baseball Anthems
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Sister Wynona Carr
The Ball Game
Baseball Anthems
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Russ Hodges
Bobby Thomson's Shot Heard 'Round The World
Baseball Anthems
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Terry Cashman
Talkin' Baseball (Willie, Mickey & "The Duke")
61* [Box Set] Disc 1
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Mickey Mantle & Teresa Brewer
I Love Mickey
Baseball's Greatest Hits
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Danny Kaye
D-O-D-G-E-R-S Song (Oh, Really? No, O'Malley)
Baseball's Greatest Hits
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Stormy Weather
The Land Of Wrigley
Baseball's Greatest Hits
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Steve Goodman
A Dying Cub Fan's Last Request
Baseball's Greatest Hits
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Betty Bonney & Les Brown and His Orchestra
Joltin' Joe Dimaggio
Baseball Anthems
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Little Willie John
I've Got Spring Fever
Little Willie John
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Birdlegs & Pauline And Their Versatility Birds
Spring
Birth Of Soul: 2
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Jerry Duane & The Monarchs
It Might As Well Be Spring
Spring Fever – 28 Easter Nuggets For Your Spring Season
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Nina Simone
It Might As Well Be Spring
The Best Of Nina Simone: The Colpix Years
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Craig Douglas
Hello Spring
Spring Fever – 28 Easter Nuggets For Your Spring Season
The downstream wave of sounds that flooded the charts seemed endless in the year 1960. As was exhibited in last week’s Deeper Roots exhibition of ‘also rans’ from that year, it was a very, very crowded field. That field was spread far and wide across genres and levels of production, songwriting and performance quality. We take on that same strata this week in the show. More teen crushes, tragedies, soulful exchanges and instrumentals that bore earworms galore. That’s what we’ve got in store with performances from Fats to Jackie, Smokey to Etta, the Burnette Brothers and Ricky, Dean Martin, Freddie King and Linda Laurie…all giving it their all and doing their very best to crawl to the top of their respective charts. We’re getting ready for a wild Sunday night here in Santa Rosa, celebrating KOWS Community Radio at the Barrel Proof Lounge in downtown Santa Rosa. Hope you can make today’s Deeper Roots show and Sunday’s benefit!
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Little Junior Parker
Driving Wheel
Feelin' Good. The 1952-1962 Recordings
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Jackie Wilson
Doggin' Around
American Music Library: The Hits Of 1960
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Rosie & The Originals
Angel Baby
Malt Shop Memories – Top Down Convertible Sound ( Disc 1)
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Jessie Hill
Ooh Poo Pah Doo Pt 1
The History of New Orleans Rhythm & Blues [Disc 5]
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Fats Domino
Walking To New Orleans
A Lot Of Dominos
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The Shirelles
Will You Love Me Tomorrow
The Brill Building Sound Disc 1
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Ray Peterson
Tell Laura I Love Her
Memories: Jukebox Gems (Disc 1
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The Browns
The Old Lamplighter
Nipper's Greatest Hits: The 60's. Vol. 2
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The Platters
Harbor Lights
All-Time Greatest Hits
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Johnny Burnette
Dreamin'
25 Greatest Hits
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Dorsey Burnette
Hey Little One
American Music Library: The Hits Of 1960
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Rick Nelson
Young Emotions
Greatest Love Songs
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Etta James
A Sunday Kind Of Love
Book Of Love: The Argo Records Story 1956-1962
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Jimmy Jones
Good Timin'
We Love Pirate Radio – 60s Favourites
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Kathy Young & The Innocents
A Thousand Stars
Memories: Jukebox Gems (Disc 1)
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Roy Orbison
Blue Angel
The Monument Singles: A-Sides (1960 – 1964) [Disc 1]
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The Smoothies
Softly
I Got A Woman : Gems From The Decca Vaults [Disc 3]
We’re at it again! Excavations below the crust of some pretty simple-minded teenage pap that seemed to occupy the Billboard Top 100 in the year 1960. Marketers had found the right blend of country, rhythm, pop, sentimentality and rock and this led to a churning out of as much and as they could as fast was possible. The result was a mixed bag: quantity over quality in most cases. We call it spit-balling these days. We’ll dig into the substrate of popular music that did not make the Top 40, and in some cases, the Top 100. We’ll hear from Wanda Jackson, Billy Bland, Donnie Brooks, Johnny Preston, Esther Phillips, and a few dozen others in this week’s show. Not withstanding what we do here, we have to consistently remind ourselves of the classic Tony Soprano quote: “’Remember when’ is the lowest form of conversation.” So, we’re mining for the ones we don’t necessarily remember. And the big news? It’s a rare two-parts-over-two-weeks extravaganza. Hope you can join in!
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John D Loudermilk
Tobacco Road
You Heard It Here First!
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Wanda Jackson
Dona'a Wan'a
Rockin' With Wanda [US Bonus Tracks]
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Peter Sellers & Sophie Loren
Goodness Gracious Me
The Greatest Novelty Songs, Disc 3
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The Flares
Hotcha Cha-Cha Brown
Foot Stompin'
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Sugar Pie DeSanto
I Want to Know
100 Northern Soul Classics
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Ruth Brown with Howard Biggs Orchestra
Takin' Care Of Business
Wail Man Wail!: The Best Of King Curtis 1952-1961 (Disc 3)
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Billy Bland
Let The Little Girl Dance
The Rock 'n' Roll Era: 1960
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Larry Hall
Sandy
The Forgotten 45's 1960-1962
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Varetta Dillard
A Little Bitty Tear
Rhythm & Western Volume 4 – I Hang My Head and Cry
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Hank Ballard & The Midnighters
Finger Poppin' Time
American Music Library: The Hits Of 1960
12
Earl King
Come On, Pt. 1
Living The Blues: Blues Classics 1960-1964
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Ernie K-Doe
A Certain Girl
The History of New Orleans Rhythm & Blues [Disc 5]
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Skip & Flip
Cherry Pie (1960 #11)
Greatest Hit Singles Collection
15
Donnie Brooks
Mission Bell
The Teen Years Collection: Volume 1- Dream Lover [Disc 2]
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Manos Hadjidakis
Main Title: Never On Sunday
Never On Sunday
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The Mark II
Night Theme
Banana Split for My Baby
18
The String-A-Longs
Wheels
Rock Instrumental Classics, Vol. 2
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The Piltdown Men
Brontosaurus Stomp
American Music Library: The Hits Of 1960
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Esther Phillips
Wild Child
The Great American Soul Book Chapter 1: Any Way You Wanta!
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Brenda Lee
That's All You Gotta Do
The Brenda Lee Story: Her Grea
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Eddie Cochran
C'mon Everybody
Eddie Cochran: 2 Classic Albums Plus Singles And Session Tracks [Disc 1]
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Duane Eddy
Peter Gunn
Twang Thang: The Duane Eddy Anthology [Disc 1]
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Joe Jones
You Talk Too Much
Pure R&B: Vol. 4- Whatd I Say [Disc 1]
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Ral Donner
The Girl Of My Best Friend
War Paint – The Gone Records Story
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The Everly Brothers
When Will I Be Loved
The Complete Cadence Recordings 1957-1960 Disc 2
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Johnny Preston
Cradle Of Love
Running Bear
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Little Willie John
Sleep
Little Willie John: All 15 of His Chart Hits from 1953-1962
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Paul Evans
Happy-Go-Lucky-Me
American Music Library: The Hits Of 1960
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The Safaris
Image of a Girl
Teen Ballads
31
Maurice Williams & The Zodiacs
Stay
Pure R&B: Vol. 4- Whatd I Say [Disc 2]
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Sam Cooke
Wonderful World
Greatest Hits
33
Dinah Washington & Brook Benton
A Rockin' Good Way (To Mess Around & Fall In Love)
First Issue: The Dinah Washington Story [Disc 2]
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Ronnie Hawkins & The Hawks
Hey Boba Lou
The Best of Ronnie Hawkins and The Hawks
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Bobby Vee
Devil Or Angel
Malt Shop Memories – Top Down Convertible Sound ( Disc 1)
There’s an echo in the well of Americana and it reverberates from tradition and some of the early songsmiths and blues masters who delivered the blues proper through the depths of the past century of America’s music. We’ll be pulling some of the classic blues covers of songs composed by just a small collection of the great blues masters: Charley Patton, Muddy Waters, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Lonnie Johnson, Blind Blake and beyond in this week’s episode. There is seldom enough time to make a dent in only two hours but we’ll do our best with covers from some of the inheritors like BB King, Carl Perkins, Bob Dylan, Jorma Kaukonen and a couple dozen others. We’re excavating some deeper roots this week and then tilling the airwaves with freshly turned songs of the earth; a landscape of blues cutting a deep swath across the musical landscape of the past 100 years. Celebrating blues and those who brought it home this week on KOWS Community Radio.
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Graham Parker
Poor Me
Down the Dirt Road: The Songs of Charley Patton
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Rising Sons
By And By (Poor Me) [Album Version]
Rising Sons
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Charlie Musselwhite
Pea Vine Blues
Down the Dirt Road: The Songs of Charley Patton
5
Jorma Kaukonen & Tom Hobson
Police Dog Blues
Quah [Bonus Tracks]
6
Jimmie Dale Gilmore
Black Snake Moan
Braver Newer World
7
Bo Diddley
Diddy Wah Diddy
Bo Knows Bo
8
Bob Dylan
See That My Grave Is Kept Clean
Bob Dylan
9
Andy Fairweather Low
Matchbox
The Invisible Bluesman
10
Carl Perkins
Matchbox
Dixie Fried
11
Sam Price and his Texas Blusic
Match Box Blues
1929-1941
12
B.B. King
Tomorrow Night
Reflections
13
Lonnie Johnson, John Hughes, Roy Coulter
Tomorrow Night
Tomorrow Night
14
John Sebastian
I Found A Dream – (Live At Winterland)
Faithful Virtue: The Reprise Recordings – Faithful Virtue: The Reprise Recordings [Disc 3]
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Lonnie Johnson
I Found A Dream
Blues & Ballads (With Elmer Snowden) (Reissued 1990)
16
Ramblin' Jack Elliott
Rambler's Blues
A Stranger Here
17
Elmore James
Call It Stormy Monday
Greatest Blues Legends
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Roomful of Blues
I Know Your Wig Is Gone
That's Right
19
Boz Scaggs
T-Bone Shuffle
Come On Home
20
Peter Wolf
Rollin' & Tumblin'
A Tribute To Muddy Waters – King Of The Blues
21
Shannon McNally
The Stuff You Gotta Watch
Black Irish
22
Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown
Cross My Heart
Chess Blues Guitar / Two Decades Of Killer Fretwork, 1949-1969
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Johnny Winter
Help Me
The Progressive Blues Experiment
24
Dr. John/John Hammond, Jr./Michael Bloomfield
Last Night
Triumvirate
25
Tommy Castro And The Painkillers
Bad Luck
Method To My Madness
26
Dinah Washington
Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby?
Verve Unmixed
27
Louis Jordan
Caldonia
Number Ones
28
B.B. King
Jack, You're Dead!
Let the Good Times Roll: The Music of Louis Jordan
Put another nickel in that nickelodeon ‘cause rhythm saved the world. This week on Deeper Roots we’re spinning up songs about the jukebox, hit records, little bitty records, disc jockey pleas, and swinging syncopated rhythms from across the past century. That’s right, we’re taking a trip across ninety years featuring jazz from Jimmie Lunceford, country from the Sons of the Pioneers, gospel from the Chuck Wagon Gang, and swinging send-ups from Louis Armstrong, NRBQ, Slim Gaillard, and The Sensations. Well, you can also count on more from the usual suspects in this week’s thematic celebration of the very best of Americana. Whether that’s reaching out to the jukebox, the DJ or that record hawker…we’ve got two hours of rhythm here on KOWS Community Radio. Spend your time with music, not your hard earned dough on this day of resistance.
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Nuclear Survival Course Record Album (1954)
Rock'N'Roll & Rock-A-Billy Inferno
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The Sensations
Please Mr Disc Jockey
Atlantic Vocal Groups – [Disc 3] – The Rock 'n' Roll Era
4
Fred Astaire
Music Makes Me
American Songbook Series
5
Tommy Dorsey & His Clambake Seven
The Music Goes Round And Round
Me & Orson Welles (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
6
Louis Prima
The Music Goes 'Round and Around
Capitol Collectors Series
7
Louis Armstrong
Rhythm Saved The World
Rhythm Saved The World
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Tex Beneke, The Modernaires
Jukebox Saturday Night
Stagedoor Canteen Music Of The War Years Vol 1
9
Jimmie Lunceford
Rhythm Is Our Business
An Introduction To Jimmie Lunceford
10
The Boswell Sisters
That's How Rhythm Was Born
Music From The Motion Picture – The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button
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Three Sharps And A Flat
That's The Rhythm
Hot Harmony Groups 1932-1951: Vol 1: That's the Rhythm
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Ella Fitzgerald
Vote For Mr Rhythm
The Millenium Anthology – Ella Fitzgerald [Disc 3]
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Ella Fitzgerald
My Last Affair
The Millenium Anthology – Ella Fitzgerald
14
Fats Waller
Music Maestro Please
Music Maestro Please
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The Cats & The Fiddle
Mr. Rhythm Man
The Very Best Of
16
Slim Gaillard
Jumpin' At The Record Shop
Vout For Voutoreenes
17
The Mills Brothers
Rhythm Saved The World
The 1930's Recordings – Chronological Volume 4
18
George Kent
Hello, I'm A Jukebox
The Beginning Of The End – The Existential Psychodrama In Country Music (1956-1972)
19
Boyd Bennett & His Rockets
Cool Disc Jockey
Bob Dylan – Radio Radio Vol.5
20
Sons of the Pioneers
Syncopated Rhythm
Songs of the Prairie – CD4
21
Jerry Lee Lewis
Jukebox Junky
Killer Country
22
Brook Benton
Hit Record
Mercury 1962
23
Charles Senns
Dig Me A Crazy Record
One More Record Please
24
Norma Jean
I Heard the Jukebox Playing
1965-1966
25
Willie Nelson
Mr. Record Man
One More Record Please
26
Gal Holiday and the Honky Tonk Revue
Jones On the Jukebox
Set Two
27
Chuck Wagon Gang/George Jones
Turn Your Radio On
70th Anniversary
28
Bill Kirchen
Little Bitty Record
King of Dieselbilly: Classic Kirchen
29
NRBQ
Music Goes Round And Around
Tiddly Winks
30
BR5-49
A1 On The Jukebox
Dog Days
31
The Blasters
Border Radio
Testament: The Complete Slash Recordings (1981-1985) (1 of 2)
A sleepy time themed collection this week as we take a deep dive into classic sounds from the past and present, all with a blend of sentiments we hold close as midnight approaches. We’ll have some old doo wop and early rock chestnuts from Jesse Belvin, The Fleetwoods, The Valentines and The Spaniels with just the right amount of rock, R&B and country. That means a little bit of Fats Domino, some rockabilly from Charline Arthur and Sonny Burgess, middling pop from Doris Day, Jimmy Durant and Dean Martin in store. Little Jimmy Dickens, Milton Brown and Swamp Dogg will also fill the air with country and blues. Friday mornings are the time to tune in for a fresh dose of America’s music from the past 100 years hear on KOWS-LP, Occidental, streaming to all of Planet Earth on kowsfm.com/listen. Be sure to install the Radio Rethink app on your Apple device and look us up. We’d be glad to have you.
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Artist
Title
Album
Buy
2
Fats Domino
Sleeping on the Job
This Is Gold Disc 2
3
Doris Day
A Little Kiss Goodnight
The Vintage Years Part Two
4
Jimmy Durante
I'll See You in My Dreams
As Time Goes By: Best of
5
Dean Martin
I Love the Way You Say Goodnight
Cocktail Hour Disc 2
6
Les Paul and The Andrews Sisters feat Vic Schoen & His Orchestra
It's A Pity To Say Goodnight
Trio's Complete Decca Recordings Plus (1936-47) [Disc 2]
7
Linda Scott
Who's Been Sleeping In My Bed?
The Complete Hits Of Linda Scott
8
The Spaniels
Goodnight Sweetheart, Goodnight
Rhythm 'N' Blues: Early Doo Wop 1943-55, vol. 2
9
The Valentines
Don't Say Goodnight
Doo Wop Box, Vol. 3: 101 More Vocal Group Gems from the Golden Age of Rock-N-Roll Disc 2
10
Jesse Belvin
Goodnight My Love (Pleasant Dreams)
Doo Wop Vocal Group Greats
11
The Fleetwoods
(Goodnight My Love) Pleasant Dreams
Come Softly To Me: The Very Best Of The Fleetwoods
12
Roy Orbison
Goodnight
The Monument Singles: A-Sides (1960 – 1964) [Disc 1]
13
Aaron Neville
I Bid You Goodnight
Warm Your Heart
14
Los Lobos
Goodnight My Love
La Bamba
15
North Mississippi Allstars
Bid You Goodnight
Prayer for Peace
16
Harry Nilsson
Are You Sleeping?
The Point!
17
The Tokens
Dream Angel Goodnight
Wimoweh!!! – The Best Of The Tokens
18
The Weavers
Goodnight Irene
Best Of Decca Years
19
Charline Arthur
Kiss The Baby Goodnight
Welcome To The Club
20
Little Jimmy Dickens
A-Sleeping At The Foot Of The Bed
Roughneck Blues 1949 – 1956
21
Sonny Burgess
A Kiss Goodnight
Rock n' Roll Legend
22
Swamp Dogg
Sleeping Without You Is a Dragg (feat. Justin Vernon & Jenny Lewis)
Sorry You Couldn't Make It
23
Los Lobos
Let's Say Goodnight
El Cancionero: Mas y Mas (1 of 4)
24
Loudon Wainwright III
Where the Whippoorwill is Whispering Goodnight
High Wide & Handsome – The Charlie Poole Project
25
Milton Brown & His Musical Brownies
A Thousand Goodnights
Daddy of Western Swing, Vol. 4 : Keep a Knockin'
26
Hank Snow
Goodnight Little Buckaroo
We'll Never Say Goodbye
27
Johnnie Taylor
Somebody's Sleeping In My Bed [Single Version]
The Very Best Of Johnnie Taylor
28
Shirelles
Don't Say Goodnight and Mean Goodbye
The Shirelles
29
The McGuire Sisters
Goodnight, Sweetheart, Goodnight
The Mid-'50s
30
Barbara Mandrell
Sleeping Single in a Double Bed
Superstars Of Country Hello Darlin' [Disc 1]
31
Vera Lynn
Goodnight Children Everywhere
A Tribute, Volume II: It's A Lovely Day Tomorrow
32
The Gumm Sisters
Where The Butterflies Kiss The Buttercups Goodnight
It’s our annual look back paying respect to some of the greats who we lost this past year. We find ourselves saying goodbye to a number of artists who contributed in their own way to America’s popular culture…in music. I’ll be sharing the names of the many contributors from the halls of country, jazz, pop, rock, and beyond. Time demands a filter which is based on direct lines of roots descent; either by song selection, expression of a genre, or by Americana popular cultural influence. I’m going to try to keep the talk to a minimum so I can catch you up on many of the artists…and I’m also going to be limiting some of the music to 30 second clips because, frankly…this was another year of loss. ….and I’m sure there are more of the obscure that we just couldn’t fit into our roll call. Tune in for a journey through the past century of America’s music on community radio for West Sonoma Country, streaming to all of planet Earth at the same time on kowsfm.com/listen. We’d love to have you.
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Artist
Title
Album
Buy
2
Bill Hayes
The Ballad Of Davy Crockett
Your Hit Parade – 1955
3
Les McCann
Blues 5
Drivin' Blues
4
Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66
Mas Que Nada
Cocktail Mix, Vol. 2: Martini Madness
5
Quincy Jones
Soul Bossa Nova
Cocktail Mix, Vol. 2: Martini Madness
6
Chita Rivera
All That Jazz
Ultimate Broadway
7
Steve Lawrence
Pretty Blue Eyes
The Forgotten 45s 1957-1959 (CD3)
8
Mitzi Gaynor
Wash That Man Right Outta My Hair (South Pacific)
Golden Memories of Stage & Screen – Disk 2
9
Jack Jones
This Could Be the Start of Something
Ultra-Lounge: Vegas Baby!
10
James Darren
Goodbye Cruel World
The Best Of James Darren
11
The Collins Kids
Hot Rod
The Oxford American Southern Music CD No. 6
12
The Shangri-Las
Sophisticated Boom Boom
Myrmidons of Melodrama
13
Chan Romero
The Hippy Hippy Shake
Loud, Fast & Out of Control: The Wild Sounds of the '50s [Box] Disc 2
14
Duane Eddy
Peter Gunn
Especially for You / Girls! Girls ! Girls!
15
Clarence "Frogman" Henry
A Little Too Much
Book of Love – The Argo Records Story [Disc 1]
16
Cissy Houston
Deep River/Campground
Testify! The Gospel Box
17
Maurice Williams & the Zodiacs
Stay
Doo Wop Box Disc 4
18
Marlena Shaw
Go Away Little Boy
Chess Uptown Soul
19
The Four Tops
Reach Out I'll Be There
The Ultimate Collection
20
The Spinners
It's a Shame
One of a Kind Love Affair Disc 1
21
Melanie
Brand New Key
70s Music Explosion – Miracles
22
J.D. Souther
You're Only Lonely
You're Only Lonely
23
Martin Mull
Eggs
Martin Mull
24
Moby Grape
8:05
Moby Grape
25
The Grateful Dead
Box of Rain
American Beauty
26
John Mayall
Room to Move
The Turning Point
27
The Allman Brothers Band
Revival
Stand Back: The Anthology Disc 1
28
Dave Loggins
Please Come To Boston
Classic Soft Rock [Disc 2]
29
It's a Beautiful Day
White Bird
Walk on the Moon
30
Brewer & Shipley
One Toke Over The Line
70s Music Explosion
31
Eric Carmen
Hungry Eyes
The Ultimate Rock Ballads Collection: The Flame [Disc 2]
32
Greg Kihn
The Breakup Song (Re-Recorded)
True Kihnfessions (Re-Recorded Versions)
33
Mojo Nixon
Elvis Is Everywhere
Bo-Day-Shus!!!
34
Kinky Friedman
Rapid City, South Dakota
Kinky Friedman
35
The Oak Ridge Boys
Elvira
The Best Of Classic Country 80's
36
Kris Kristofferson
Me And Bobby McGee
Kristofferson
37
Toby Keith/Willie Nelson
Beer for My Horses
Lost Highway
38
Jo-El Sonnier
Tear-Stained Letter
Various Artists: THEME TIME RADIO HOUR – SEASON 2/[Disc 2]
39
Happy Traum
Church Street Blues (feat. Byron Isaacs, Larry Campbell & Teresa Williams)
Just For the Love Of It
40
Rick Nelson
Travelin' Man
The Best of Rick Nelson, Vol. 2
41
Malcolm Holcombe
Bits and Pieces
Bits & Pieces
42
Barbara Dane
I Hate the Capitalist System
I Hate the Capitalist System
43
John "Spider John" Koerner
Duncan and Brady
Folk Song America-A 20th Century Revival [Disc 3]
44
MC5
The American Ruse
Jon Savage's 1969-1971: Rock Dreams On 45 [Disc 2]
45
Lou Reed
Walk On The Wild Side
Best Of NRJ
46
Monty Norman
James Bond Theme
Dr. No
47
Rachel Sweet
Everlasting Love
Fool Around: The Best of Rachel Sweet
48
Ella Jenkins & Nannie McNeil
How Do You Do Ev'rybody? (Greeting Shout)
The Long Road To Freedom: An Anthology Of Black Music [Disc 1]
