October 23 Playlist: Saints In The City

A rare departure from our diverse hodgepodge of generation-spanning rock music takes you down my personal musical memory lane. Turning 65 made me wax nostalgic about the songs that helped shape my musical tastes in my formative years. Here’s a sampling of songs that resonated with me from toddler to tween to teenager in the years from 1961 through 1979. Click here to access the stream.

• HOT BUTTER Popcorn
• REUNION Life is a Rock (But the Radio Rolled Me)
• THE BEATLES She Loves You
• BOBBY LEWIS Tossin’ and Turnin’
• THE BEACH BOYS Barbara Ann
• LOU CHRISTIE Lightning Strikes
• THE ARCHIES Sugar Sugar
• THE BOX TOPS The Letter
• THE DRIFTERS On Broadway
• BEN E. KING Spanish Harlem
• THE O’JAYS Back Stabbers
• OTIS REDDING (Sittin’ on) The Dock of the Bay
• THE BYRDS Turn! Turn! Turn!
• THE ROLLING STONES Mother’s Little Helper
• SIMON & GARFUNKEL Mrs. Robinson
• JEFFERSON AIRPLANE White Rabbit
• BOB DYLAN Lay Lady Lady
• CREAM White Room
• JIMI HENDRIX Purple Haze
• THUNDERCLAP NEWMAN Something in the Air
• EDWIN STARR War
• RAIDERS Indian Reservation
• ELVIS PRESLEY Burning Love
• ELTON JOHN Crocodile Rock
• THREE DOG NIGHT Joy to the World
• CHUCK BERRY My Ding-A-Ling
• NEW YORK DOLLS Personality Crisis
• THE WHO The Real Me
• LED ZEPPELIN Heartbreaker / Living Loving Maid
• BLACK SABBATH Paranoid
• ALICE COOPER No More Mr. Nice Guy
• CHEAP TRICK Surrender (Live)
• KISS Rock and Roll All Nite (Live)
• VAN HALEN You Really Got Me
• BLONDIE One Way or Another
• JOE JACKSON Is She Really Going Out With Him?
• RAMONES I Wanna Be Sedated
• MOTT THE HOOPLE All the Young Dudes
• THE ROLLING STONES In the Stars
• JETHRO TULL Too Old to Rock ‘n’ Roll, Too Young to Die (coda)

On his latest trip to his hometown from his second home in Nashville, singer / songwriter Dan Corio made some time to join me in the MPR studio. We did some catching up and he performed several new tunes which will be released in the weeks and months to come. Click here to access the show in all its sonic glory.

• CHUCK BERRY School Day
• DAN CORIO BAND Heartbreaker
• DELTA CIRCLE Here’s to a Small Town
• JON CASPI & THE FIRST GUN New Record
• ELVIS COSTELLO Red Shoes
• DAN CORIO Not Tonight (Live in the MPR Studio)
• THE CALL Let the Day Begin
• REAL-LIFE SUPERHERO Heart Has Had Enough
• RHONDA FUNK When Lovers Say Goodbye
• DAN CORIO Stay Gone (Live in the MPR Studio)
• JOAN CADDELL & THE MIDNIGHT CHOIR Divine Women
• QUEEN TIPSY Beware the Dog
• LISA SCHERMA Jump and Shout
• LIVVA JONES Same Page
• DAN CORIO The Ballad of That Night (Live in the MPR Studio)
• OUR OWN YOKOS Deriving Dariya
• JACUZZI FIRE Wasted Daze
• INDIGO GIRLS Nashville
• CANCION FRANKLIN Just Made Rent
• DAN CORIO BAND Hanging Up the Phone
• LUCINDA WILLIAMS Rock and Roll Heart
• DAN CORIO & LIVVA JONES Stay or Go
• BREWSTER MOONFACE End of the Day
• TOM PETTY & THE HEARTBREAKERS Breakdown
• GREEN DAY Tired of Waiting
• DAN CORIO Used to Love the Rain
• ERIC CHURCH Springsteen
• JESSE MALIN & THE ST. MARKS SOCIAL All the Way from Moscow
• MIRANDA LAMBERT & CHRIS STAPLETON A Song to Sing
• DAN CORIO BAND Still Ahead
• BON JOVI Red, White and Jersey
• STEVE EARLE Someday
• MARSHALL CRENSHAW Grab the Next Train
• DAN CORIO BAND Hold On
• MIGHTY JOE CASTRO & THE GRAVAMEN Embers in the Ash
• THREE CHORD MONEY Hope and a Hard Road
• AZTEC CAMERA The Crying Scene
• B52s Deadbeat Club
• DAN CORIO BAND Forever With You
• LITTLE VILLAGE Don’t Think About Her (When You’re Trying to Drive)