December 11 Playlist: Rockin` Christmas Jams

Back to broadcasting from the studio after months away, here’s today’s pretty damn good show – if I do say so myself! (And I do!) Listen here!

• ALIEN ANT FARM Movies
• MICK JAGGER & DAVE GROHL Eazy Sleazy
• THE JAGS Back of My Hand (I’ve Got Your Number)
• LOVE BATALLION Keep Moving
• MARVIN GAYE Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)
• HUGH LAURIE as Governor Nix in “Tomorrowland”
• ADRIAN BELEW Burned by The Fire We Make
• THE BEATLES A Hard’s Day Night
• BILL HALEY & THE COMETS Rock Around the Clock
• RAMONES Rock n Roll High School
• SCHOOL OF ROCK Zach’s Song
• PANDORA’S BOX It’s All Coming Back to Me Now
• MEAT LOAF All Revved Up with No Place To Go
• TOWER OF POWER Please Come Back (To Stay)
• THE MAMAS & THE PAPAS California Dreamin’
• DROPKICK MURPHYS The Queen of Suffolk County
• DAVE KEENER Put Me with The People
• PERRY SERPA Nikola
• LAURIE ANDERSON Babydoll
• THE ATLICIC Bones / Honey
• BLACK ROSE BURNING Shout
• THE BLUES BROTHERS On a Mission from God
• MEET ME AT THE ALTAR Hit Like a Girl
• ROB BALDUCCI Seduction

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

Here is the playlist and link to our September 11 tribute show, hosted by my daughter Nancy (her segments were pre-recorded.) Listen here.

• Sky Blue and Black – Jackson Browne
• Concerto in D minor – Ian Freebairn-Smith & the MGM Studio Orchestra
• I Can’t See New York – Tori Amos
• Friend of Mine – John Hiatt
• Cavatina – John Williams
• One More Light – Linkin Park
• Empty Chairs – Don McLean
• You’re Missing – Bruce Springsteen
• Theme from “Missing” – Vangelis
• The House Where Nobody Lives – Tom Waits
• Summer’s End – John Prine
• Angel – Sarah McLachlan
• Saturn – Sleeping At Last
• My Father – This Mortal Coil
• Forse Ancora Poesia – I Pooh
• We Remember Them – Sylvan Kamens and Jack Reimer
• I Will Remember You – Sarah McLachlan
• We All Need Saving – John McLaughlin
• Song For Someone – U2
• The Maker – Daniel Lanois
• Lazarus – Porcupine Tree
• In Loving Memory – Alter Bridge
• My City of Ruins – Bruce Springsteen
• Rise Up – Audra Day
• Apache Grief Poem – Nancy Mameli
• Finale from “Last Exit to Brooklyn” – Mark Knopfler