NELSON RIDDLE ORCHESTRA . . . . . Route 66 Theme (opening theme) . . . . . Route 66 and Other Great TV Themes/More Hit TV Themes
THE BEATLES . . . . . Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds . . . . . Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Remastered)
JOHNNY RIVERS . . . . . Summer Rain . . . . . Johnny Rivers: Greatest Hits (Capitol)
KITES WITH LIGHTS . . . . . Sound Of The Rain . . . . . The Weight Of Your Heart
THE BALDWIN BROTHERS . . . . . Dream Girl . . . . . Cooking with Lasers
TAKEN BY TREES . . . . . Watch The Waves . . . . . East of Eden
THE DIRTY PROJECTORS & DAVID BYRNE . . . . . Knotty Pine . . . . . Dark Was the Night
XTC . . . . . Garden Of Earthly Delights . . . . . Oranges & Lemons

SAM COOKE . . . . . Another Saturday Night . . . . . The Man and His Music
GRAHAM PARKER & THE RUMOUR . . . . . Fool’s Gold . . . . . Heat Treatment
EELS . . . . . Beginner’s Luck . . . . . Hombre Lobo: 12 Songs of Desire
CAMERA OBSCURA . . . . . The Sweetest Thing . . . . . My Maudlin Career
THE FOUR TOPS . . . . . I Can’t Help Myself . . . . . 50th Anniversary Anthology
YO LA TENGO . . . . . If It’s True . . . . . Popular Songs
JENS LEKMAN . . . . . A Postcard To Nina . . . . . Night Falls Over Kortedala
JOE COCKER . . . . . The Letter . . . . . Mad Dogs & Englishmen
LOU RAWLS . . . . . Bring It On Home . . . . . The Very Best of Lou Rawls: You'll Never Find Another

THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS . . . . . Loose Translation . . . . . Electric Version
T. REX . . . . . 20th Century Boy . . . . . T. Rextasy: The Best of T. Rex, 1970-1973
JOAN JETT AND THE BLACKHEARTS . . . . . Do You Wanna Touch Me (Oh Yeah) . . . . . Fit to Be Tied: Great Hits by Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
VISQUEEN . . . . . Hand Me Down . . . . . Message To Garcia
ROBYN HITCHCOCK & THE VENUS 3 . . . . . Up To Our Necks . . . . . Goodnight Oslo
JULIAN PLENTI . . . . . Unwind . . . . . Julian Plenti Is Skyscraper
DUSTY SPRINGFIELD . . . . . I Only Want To Be With You . . . . . The Very Best of Dusty Springfield
MARY WEISS . . . . . My Heart Is Beating . . . . . Dangerous Game
THE COCKTAIL SLIPPERS . . . . . Anything You Want . . . . . Saint Valentine's Day Massacre
PAUL REVERE AND THE RAIDERS . . . . . Hungry . . . . . Paul Revere & The Raiders - Greatest Hits

BOB MARLEY AND THE WAILERS . . . . . Trench Town . . . . . Confrontation
BUNNY WAILER . . . . . Ballroom Floor . . . . . Rock'n'Groove
GREGORY ISAACS . . . . . Mi Come Again . . . . . The Definitive Collection
YELLOWMAN . . . . . Zungguzungguguzungguzeng! . . . . . Zungguzungguguzungguzeng
MICHAEL PROPHET . . . . . Emanuel Road . . . . . Cease-Fire
STEELY & CLEVIE (WITH DAWN PENN) . . . . . You Don’t Love Me . . . . . Play Studio One Vintage

This one debuted on the Day of Nines, which was also the peak of Beatlemania, 2009 style, so we began with one from the remastered Sgt. Pepper and followed it with a Johnny Rivers tune that quoted a little bit from that disc's title track. Next up was an appealing slice of Electro Pop from Kites With Lights debut EP, which fed nicely into the Baldwin Brothers sensuously rhythmic sounds. Taken By Trees were next with a new one that showcases just how recording in a studio in Pakistan can influence your music; the Dirty Projectors (here with some help from David Byrne) also like to mix and match a variety of sounds and styles, and the energy of the track we heard led us to XTC celebrating life's possibilities on this planet we all inhabit together.

A hankering for some Sam Cooke resulted in this section's opener, and from there we heard Graham Parker & the Rumour, Eels and Camera Obscura with their interpretations of that sweet soul music. Then we heard the real deal from the Four Tops, which brought on a new track from Yo La Tengo that incorporates a similar bass line. Jens Lekman incorporates a little of the Philly Soul sound into his distinctive tale of a man posing as his friend's boyfriend so her father won't find out she's a lesbian, and then it was another mail-related tune Joe Cocker's cover of a Box Tops tune. Finally, we heard from Lou Rawls with another Sam Cooke tune, one that he was more than familiar with since he sang on the original with Cooke in 1961.

The New Pornographers track that began this set always brings up an old favorite by T. Rex, which led to Joan Jett and the Blackhearts covering a Gary Glitter tune, speaking of '70s Glam Rock stars. Then we heard from Visqueen, whose new disc is full of high-energy rock & roll, and the horns on that one made for a fine connection to the Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3 track that followed. The Julian Plenti and Dusty Springfield tracks featured a similar use of brass, and then we heard from Mary Weiss, a contemporary of Dusty's from back in the day who put out a disc full of excellent garage tunes a couple of years back. Then it was the Cocktail Slippers working in the same vein from their Steve Van Zandt-produced album before Paul Revere and the Raiders finished it off with a favorite from way back when.

I read of Wycliffe Johnson's passing a few days before this program went up; he was much better known as Steely, one half of a duo along with Cleveland (Clevie) Browne who were the leading producers in Jamaica in the mid-to-late '80s when dancehall was making the move to incorporate digital sounds. Before that (and during, as well as after) he was a session guy, and by some estimates he played on more of them than any other Jamaican musician. That's how I was most familiar with his work, especially from the time he spent in the Root Radics, one of the great reggae sessions bands of all time. They accompanied Bunny Wailer on the track we heard here, which followed the Bob Marly and the Wailers song that contains an uncredited appearance by a still teenage Steely. We also heard a trio of sessions he participated on that resulted in excellent discs from Gregory Isaacs, Yellowman and Michael Prophet. The final piece comes from a 1991 Steely & Clevie disc that reworks some classic Studio One tracks from the past; this Dawn Penn song was a big hit in Jamaica in the late '60s and did very well for a much wider audience in the early '90s after the Steely and Clevie version was picked up and released by Atlantic Records.

Here's another one from Graham Parker & the Rumour (covering the Jackson 5)