NELSON RIDDLE ORCHESTRA . . . . . Route 66 Theme (opening theme) . . . . . Route 66 and Other Great TV Themes/More Hit TV Themes
AIR . . . . . Be A Bee . . . . . Love 2
THE POSTMARKS . . . . . For Better . . . Or Worse? . . . . . Memoirs at the End of the World (Dig)
FRANCIS LAI . . . . . Today It’s You . . . . . A Man and a Woman ("Un homme et une femme")
DIONNE WARWICK . . . . . Anyone Who Had A Heart . . . . . The Dionne Warwick Collection: Her All-Time Greatest Hits
NEKO CASE . . . . . That Teenage Feeling . . . . . Fox Confessor Brings the Flood (Bonus Disc Version)
GIRLS . . . . . Laura . . . . . Album
TEENAGE FANCLUB . . . . . Don’t Look Back . . . . . Grand Prix
BIG STAR . . . . . September Gurls . . . . . #1 Record/Radio City
THE SEARCHERS . . . . . When You Walk In The Room . . . . . The Very Best of the Searchers

THE ROLLING STONES . . . . . Can’t You Hear Me Knocking . . . . . Sticky Fingers
WILLIE BOBO . . . . . Lisa . . . . . Sounds from the Verve Hi-Fi
BEBEL GILBERTO . . . . . The Real Thing . . . . . All in One
OSCAR PETERSON . . . . . Wave . . . . . The Girl From Ipanema: The Antonio Carlos Jobim Songbook
ZEEP . . . . . Just A Little Bit . . . . . People & Things
AK-MOMO . . . . . World Traveler . . . . . Return to N.Y.
BECK . . . . . Tropicalia . . . . . Mutations

PETER, PAUL & MARY . . . . . 500 Miles . . . . . Peter, Paul And Mary (1st LP)
RICHARD BUCKNER . . . . . Mile . . . . . Meadow
LUCINDA WILLIAMS . . . . . Out Of Touch . . . . . Essence
ELVIS PERKINS . . . . . While You Were Sleeping . . . . . Ash Wednesday
STEVE EARLE . . . . . Amerika V. 6.0 (The Best We Can Do) . . . . . Jerusalem
BOB DYLAN . . . . . When The Ship Comes In . . . . . No Direction Home: The Soundtrack (The Bootleg Series Vol. 7)
PETER, PAUL & MARY . . . . . Blowin’ In The Wind . . . . . In the Wind

PETER, PAUL & MARY . . . . . Puff (The Magic Dragon) . . . . . Moving
PAUL MCCARTNEY . . . . . Hi Hi Hi . . . . . Wings - Greatest Hits
DAVID GARZA . . . . . Blow My Mind . . . . . Overdub
VISQUEEN . . . . . Beautiful Amnesia . . . . . Message To Garcia
THE BUZZCOCKS . . . . . What Do I Get? . . . . . Operators Manual
SPOON . . . . . You Got Yr. Cherry Bomb . . . . . Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
CAMERA OBSCURA . . . . . Lloyd, I’m Ready To Be Heartbroken . . . . . Let's Get Out of This Country
VAN MORRISON . . . . . Wild Nights . . . . . Hard Nose the Highway
OTIS REDDING . . . . . I Can’t Turn You Loose . . . . . Live in London and Paris

The launch point for this program was a track from the upcoming new disc by Air that has some good forward momentum and a bit of lead guitar with some '60s surf twang; it was followed by one from the Postmarks' latest that has a similar energy and a soundtrack appeal (which is apparent on most of the disc) that flowed well into one that accompanies a driving sequence from A Man and A Woman, the 1966 film by Claude Lelouch. The romantic feel of that track was followed by Dionne Warwick from very early on in her extremely successful partnership with Burt Bacharach and Hal David. From there we heard Neko Case determined to reclaim the intensity of young love brought on Girls hoping to correct what went wrong in the form of some terrific guitar pop, which was followed by a trio of tunes from Teenage Fanclub, Big Star and the Searchers that all cover the same basic territory of romantic yearning in excellent fashion.

To kick of the next set I pulled out one from the Rolling Stones that I hadn't heard in quite some time; the tight second-half groove of that one flowed nicely into an old '60s instrumental by Willie Bobo, which then brought on Bebel Gilberto covering Stevie Wonder from her upcoming disc. That led quite naturally to Oscar Peterson covering an Antonio Carlo Jobim tune, and from there it was a new one from Zeep that has a late-night bossa nova feel followed first by AK-Momo with their playful take on the same idea via the Optigan, Orchestran and Mellotron and then Beck sounding as if he's enjoying himself on an isolated South American beach.

Mary Travers passed away a few days before this show aired, and we acknowledged her life and work during the second half of this program. Peter, Paul and Mary released their first disc in 1962, a time that seemed to be full of great possibilities in America, and they became the face of the folk movement to the general public during the '60s. Their sound was relatively simple and easy on the ears, but more than that it was the commitment in their voices to the songs and the issues they touched on that enabled them to reach so many people. Their cover of "Blowin' In The Wind" that closed this section introduced Bob Dylan's music to a much wider audience at a time in his career when he was still essentially unknown outside of folk music circles. To open we began with one from that aforementioned debut that featured Mary Travers on vocals, and in between we traveled a path that gradually moved from the personal to the political with tunes from Richard Buckner, Lucinda Williams, Elvis Perkins, Steve Earle and Bob Dylan.

The final Peter, Paul and Mary track we heard started out as a poem written in the late '50s by a friend of Peter Yarrow's; he added to the words, put them to music and the result made it to No. 2 on the Billboard charts in the Spring of 1963. It wasn't many years afterward that the song's meaning was reinterpreted from a children's tune about a loss of innocence to one containing coded references about the '60s drug culture. Bogus as those "insightful" explications were/are, they did provide the departure point here to the Paul McCartney tune that followed. David Garza ripped through one with a suitable title, and then Visqueen maintained the energy level from their new album that's full of terrific guitar-based rock 'n' roll. From there it was the always welcome punk-pop of the Buzzcocks leading to Spoon adding some Motown horns to the mix, Camera Obscura doing the same and adding some strings, Van Morrison leaning more in the direction of Stax/Volt and the amazing Otis Redding finishing it off with a signature tune taken from a concert in London in the Spring of 1967

Here's another one from Peter, Paul and Mary