December 18 Playlist

Today’s edition of The Rocker offered a degree of catharsis from the solemn events of this morning. Plenty of bad dancing for the eyes but lots of good music for the ears. The link to the show is here.

• LOS LOBOS Love Special Delivery
• BOBBY LEE COMBO And Then There Were Drums
• THE FOUR TOPS Back to School Again
• CHUCK BERRY School Days
• THE YARDBIRDS Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
• PAUL SIMON Me and Julio Down by The Schoolyard
• JET Are You Gonna Be My Girl?
• BIFFY CLYRO Tiny Indoor Fireworks
• STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN Look at Little Sister
• ROLLING STONES Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker)
• THE UNDISPUTED TRUTH Smiling Faces
• THE IMPRESSIONS Choice of Colors
• URIAH HEEP Lady in Black
• GREEN DAY Still Breathing
• PERRY SERPA I Got a Fever
• BLACK ROSE BURNING Soul Is On Fire
• BON JOVI Older
• THE PRETTY RECKLESS Take Me Down
• SALIVA Bleed for Me
• TWISTED SISTER with ALICE COOPER Be Chrool to Your Scuel
• ADAM SANDLER The Lonesome Kicker
• DADDY DEWDROP Chick-a-Boom
• CAVIAR Tangerine Speedo
• SAXON Ride Like the Wind
• JUNIOR WALKER Shotgun
• AL WILSON Show and Tell
• MARVIN GAYE Inner City Blues
• CALEXICO Falling from the Sky
• MACHINE GUN KELLY featuring BLACKBEAR My Ex’s Best Friend
• REBECCA LOU Bad Heart
• PETULA CLARK Downtown
• BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN The Rising

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

Rest ye merry, gentlemen and ladies! We did all the work in putting together a rockin’ Christmas show for ya! If you missed it, just click here and turn up the volume! Here’s the playlist:

• GEORGE THOROGOOD Rock and Roll Christmas
• BOBBY HELMS Jingle Bell Rock
• CHUCK BERRY Run Run Rudolph
• THE PENGUINS Jingle Jangle
• JOAN JETT The Little Drummer Boy
• DROPKICK MURPHYS The Season’s Upon Us
• SPLIT Last Christmas
• NEON TREES Holiday Rock
• CHEAP TRICK I Want You for Christmas
• THE WAITRESSES Christmas Wrapping
• BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Santa Claus is Coming to Town
• Do You Hear What I Hear?
• THE SMITHEREENS Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer
• SI CRANSTOUN Christmas Twist
• JD McPHERSON Hey Skinny Santa
• JOSE FELICIANO Feliz Navidad
• BRENDA LEE Rocking Around the Christmas Tree
• .38 SPECIAL Hallelujah, It’s Christmas
• BRIAN SETZER ORCHESTRA You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch
• BUSTER POINDEXTER Zat You, Santa Claus?
• TRAIN Shake Up Christmas
• BOWLING FOR SOUP Frosty the Snowman
• KYLE BROOK Every Snowflake’s Different
• MARIAH CAREY & QUEEN Don’t Stop Christmas
• THE MAVERICKS Hey Merry Christmas
• BILLY IDOL Yellin’ at the Christmas Tree
• THE GREEDIES A Merry Jingle
• SLADE Merry Christmas Everybody
• TOM PETTY Christmas Time Again
• JOHN LENNON Happy Xmas (War is Over)