March 27 Playlist: Sir Elton John

The “Cars and Guitars” show was just so much fun to do and – from what I’ve been told – even more fun to listen to. Click the link here and decide for yourself.

• JOAN JETT Roadrunner (1986 version)
• THE RIP CHORDS ’40 Ford Time
• THE BEACH BOYS Fun, Fun, Fun
• RONNY & THE DAYTONAS G.T.O.
• WILSON PICKETT Mustang Sally
• “Expert Witness” from My Cousin Vinny
• THE BEATLES Drive My Car
• DAVID LINDLEY Mercury Blues
• RUFUS THOMAS Rocket 88
• DEEP PURPLE Highway Star
• Theme from “Speed Racer” (1967)
• THE BEACH BOYS 409
• THE RIP CHORDS Hey Little Cobra
• “The New Bluesmobile?” from The Blues Brothers
• THE HOOTERS Great Big American Car
• BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Ramrod
• PRINCE Little Red Corvette
• THE STRAY CATS Built for Speed
• CHUCK BERRY No Particular Place To Go
• BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Cadillac Ranch
• THE STRAY CATS Look at That Cadillac
• “A time machine…in a Delorean?” from Back to the Future
• SAMMY HAGAR I Can’t Drive 55
• KISS Detroit Rock City
• KISS Baby Driver
• GARY NUMAN Cars
• “Have you seen my car?” from Dude! Where’s My Car?
• ZZ TOP She Loves My Automobile
• EDDIE MONEY Shakin’
• MIKE CURB Theme from “Hot Wheels”
• “My a-hole brother” from Christine
• QUEEN I’m in Love with My Car
• RIHANNA Shut Up and Drive
• “Car or Debbie?” from Bachelor Party
• ACE FREHLEY Speedin’ Back to my Baby
• PAJAMA SLAVE DANCERS Fast Cars, Girls in Bikinis
• SNIFF N’ THE TEARS Driver’s Seat
• “The Ferrari” From Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
• AC/DC Highway to Hell
• JUDAS PRIEST Heading Out to the Highway
• ZZ TOP Arrested for Driving While Blind
• APOLLO SMILE Dune Buggy

Monday nights are always a blast on MPR, thanks to our dedicated listeners who interact with us via our chat room. Among them is Magyc, who requested me to fill the vacant spot in our schedule on her birthday. Even the gremlins (perhaps with an assist from old man winter?) joined the party. The link begins after our intro and opening song and includes an almost four-minute long dose of dead air that begins during Apollo 440. But once the sound comes back during Baha Men, it’s interruption free listening so tune in! Our “magycal” playlist:

• MODERN ENGLISH I Melt with You
• THE CARS Magic
• APOLLO 440 Stop the Rock
• BAHA MEN Dancing in the Moonlight
• CARLINHOS BROWN A Namorada
• HALESTORM Amen
• CYNDI LAUPER Girls Just Wanna Have Fun
• CORNELIUS BROTHERS AND SISTER ROSE Treat Her Like a Lady
• JOAN JETT & THE BLACKHEARTS Cherry Bomb
• SEX PISTOLS Anarchy in The U.K.
• DOUG & THE SLUGS Too Bad for You
• SOUL ASYLUM Runaway Train
• BLINK-182 Josie
• AMERICAN HI-FI I’m a Fool
• MACHINE GUN KELLY Lonely
• THE POLICE Every Little Thing She Does is Magic
• THE DRIFTERS This Magic Moment
• PILOT Magic
• HEART Magic Man
• THE B-52s Planet Claire
• THE CURE Just Like Heaven
• DEBORAH HARRY I Want That Man
• DEF LEPPARD Rock Brigade
• CRAZY ELEPHANT Gimme Gimme Good Lovin’
• CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL Hey Tonight
• SANTANA Black Magic Woman

Just hours before Staten Islanders were told to take cover due to a possible tornado, we had our own twister of a show. The link and playlist are right here:

• THE VELVET UNDERGROUND Rock and Roll
• THE BOBBY LEE COMBO Moon Dawg
• DAVE EDMUNDS Almost Saturday Night
• THE BOBBY LEE COMBO Let’s Dance
• DANNY GATTON Thirteen Women
• PAUL STANLEY’S SOUL STATION Lorelei
• THE SUFRAJETTES Toxic
• 311 Sunset in July
• DAVID LEE ROTH Goin’ Crazy
• ELI “PAPERBOY” REED A New Song
• THE REGRETTES Hey Now
• LITTLE BIG TOWN Wine Beer Whiskey
• MARTHA & THE VANDELLAS Heat Wave
• DAVE KEENER Girls and Guitars
• RUN DMC Can You Rock It Like This
• BLACK ROSE BURNING Shout
• THE ATLICIC Shackled
• AC/DC Thunderstruck
• GAMMA Skin and Bone
• VIOLENT FEMMES American Music
• PERRY SERPA This Song Kills Fascists
• HALESTORM Gold Dust Woman
• EMMA & THE IDLES Here Come the Tigers
• THE MOONDOGZ Trauma
• GARLAND JEFFREYS Wild in the Streets
• ‘TIL TUESDAY Coming Up Close
• HALEY REINHART Free
• WRECKLESS ERIC Whole Wide World
• ALAN MORRISSEY Fresh Kills