August 10, 2024 Playlist – Our Own Yokos

Celebrating the 250th anniversary of the founding of the U.S.A. with perhaps her greatest export – rock and roll music! Click here to access the restream.

• VIOLENT FEMMES American Music
• THE BLASTERS American Music
• DAVID LEE ROTH Yankee Rose
• GREEN DAY Last of the American girls
• PAUL McCARTNEY Freedom
• THE GASLIGHT ANTHEM American Slang
• THE BEACH BOYS Surfin’ USA
• MARTHA REEVES & THE VANDELLAS Heat Wave
• JOHN MELLENCAMP Pink Houses
• IAN HUNTER Cleveland Rocks
• GRAND FUNK RAILROAD We’re an American Band
• KISS Kissin’ Time USA
• DEBBIE HARRY French Kissing in the USA
• KIM WILDE Kids in America
• SHARON JONES & THE DAP-KINGS This Land is Your Land
• JAMES BROWN Living in America
• LENNY KRAVITZ American Woman
• DAVE ALVIN 4th of July
• BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN American Land
• BOB SEGER & THE SILVER BULLET BAND American Storm
• TOM PETTY & THE HEARTBREAKERS American Girl
• DEF LEPPARD Hello America
• NIGHTRANGER You Can Still Rock in America
• CHUCK BERRY Back in the USA
• BROOKS & DUNN Only in America
• ME FIRST & THE GIMME GIMMES Country Roads
• Y&T All American Boy
• COUNTING CROWS American Girls
• NEIL DIAMOND America
• JOHN MELLENCAMP R.O.C.K. in the U.S.A.
• CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL Fortunate Son
• NEIL YOUNG Hawks and Doves
• DON McLEAN American Pie
• BROTHER DYNAMITE What are You Waiting For?
• VAN HALEN Dreams
• JACKSON BROWNE I Am a Patriot
• JEFFERSON AIRPLANE Volunteers
• STEVE MILLER BAND Living in the USA
• THE TEMPTATIONS Ain’t Too Proud To Beg
• MARTHA REEVES & THE VANDELLAS Dancing in the Street
• RAY CHARLES America the Beautiful

Sometimes, the best laid plans get wrecked by life’s nasty little gremlins. Such was the case with this edition of the program. Unfortunately, our “Breakfast On The Rocker” contest winner, Nancy Glennon, also had to endure their mischievous misdeeds. We’ll make it up to her by having her on again in the not-too-distant future. If you’re interested in hearing the mayhem unfold, click here to listen to it in all its ragged glory. (Songs with an * were selected by Nancy.)

• HOUNDS OF JUSTICE Wisdom Teeth
• DROPKICK MURPHYS Who’ll Stand With Us?
• WEEZER Pork and Beans
• THE CLASH Should I Stay or Should I Go
• THE BEATLES I Want to Hold Your Hand *
• BLINK-182 All The Small Things
• THE MONKEES I’m A Believer *
• SPUTNIK THE BAND They Don’t Know
• THE PARTRIDGE FAMILY I Think I Love You *
• JOURNEY Separate Ways *
• IAN HUNTER Just Another Night
• THE CARS My Best Friend’s Girl *
• REAL-LIFE SUPERHERO Heart Has Had Enough
• BROTHER DYNAMITE Violet
• LINKIN PARK Waiting For The End
• RATT You’re In Love *
• CARMEN TOTH Time Bomb Heart
• INXS What You Need *
• BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Brilliant Disguise *
• TOM PETTY & THE HEARTBREAKERS Breakdown
• THE KILLERS Runaways *
• GREEN DAY Tired Of Waiting For You
• TRACY CHAPMAN Fast Car *
• BILLY JOEL The Stranger *
• WAR Low Rider
• DONNA SUMMER & BARBRA STREISAND No More Tears *
• MELISSA ETHERIDGE Like The Way I Do *
• DAN CORIO BAND Hold On
• COUNTING CROWS Round Here *
• THE 1975 Love Me *
• SOMBR Canal Street
• MATCHBOX TWENTY If You’re Gone *
• THE CRETONES Mad Love
• SABRINA CARPENTER Espresso *

Country-Blues artist Cancion Franklin joined us live in the studio for an interview and to perform a few of his excellent songs. You can listen to the show here.

• HEARTLESS BASTARDS Got to Have Rock ‘n’ Roll
• GOON DADS Katydid
• THE KINGS This Beat Goes On / Switchin’ to Glide
• RED KROSS Dancing Queen
• GIFTSHOP Doncha Know
• SPUTNIK THE BAND Theme from “A Summer Place”
• THE DOLLYROTS Brand New Key
• ALEX SHILLO Had It All
• BLACK ROSE BURNING Become the Machine
• THE KILLERS Human
• BE BOP DELUXE Kiss of Light
• DEAR BOYS They Say Don’t Waste Your Vote
• ROVER BOYS TRIO Stop That Boogie
• CANCION FRANKLIN Seven Whiskeys Down (live in the MPR Studio)
• ELI PAPERBOY REED Mama Tried
• OUR OWN YOKOS Carry On
• MIGHTY JOE CASTRO & THE GRAVAMEN Embers in the Ash
• CANCION FRANKLIN You Better Not Let Me Knock (live in the MPR Studio)
• HOWLIN’ WOLF Smokestack Lightnin’
• JOHNNY CASH Folsom Prison Blues
• INXS Never Tear Us Apart
• ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND Melissa
• CANCION FRAKLIN Just Made Rent (live in the MPR Studio)
• MIDDLE AGES Silver Lining (Don’t Count Me Out Yet)
• RHONDA FUNK When Lovers Say Goodbye
• BREWSTER MOONFACE Used to Have a Lover
• CANCION FRANKLIN Six String Buck (live in the MPR Studio)
• SHAWN PARSONS Disco Ball Blues