Show 869 - Blaxploitation Friday

(Weekend of November 23 – November 25, 2018)

Blaxploitation Friday!

Hey baby, Little Steven here. Happy Thanksgiving to everybody, and everybody knows the day after Thanksgiving is known as Black Friday.

Historically, that is the biggest shopping day of the year, but since nobody has any money, we thought we would go to the movies instead.

This weekend in the Underground Garage we are going to call it Blaxploitation Friday.

Joining us will be James Brown, Curtis Mayfield, Bobby Womack, the Jimi Hendrix Experience, the Rolling Stones, the Jeff Beck Group, the Rascals, the Who, Rhinoceros, and Herman’s Hermits.

Come find out what Isaac Hayes, Anthony Quinn, Little Walter, and Joan Jett have in common.

I will see you this weekend for our Blaxploitation film festival in the world’s only Rock n’ Roll dance party on the radio.

I’ll see you this weekend in the Underground Garage.

Set 1:

Paint It Black (Rolling Stones)

Down And Out In New York City (James Brown)

Plynth (Jeff Beck Group)

Keep On Pushing (Glen Matlock)

Eye To Eye (Joan Jett & the Blackhearts)

Friday On My Mind (Easybeats)

Set 2:

Across 110th Street (Bobby Womack)

Crosstown Traffic (Jimi Hendrix Experience)

Bottoms Up (Here’s To Goodbye) (Ryan Hamilton)

Boom Boom (Little Walter)

Summer In The City (Lovin’ Spoonful)

Set 3:

Superfly (Curtis Mayfield)

Seeds Of Revolution (Willie Nile)

Pusherman (Curtis Mayfield)

Doctor Robert (Beatles)

Set 4:

Every Little Crack (Kris Rodgers and the Dirty Gems)

Just A Little Bit Better (Herman’s Hermits)

Digging My Grave (Wild Evel and the Trashbones)

Sueno (The Rascals)

Call Me Lightning (Who)

Set 5:

Trouble Man (Marvin Gaye)

Back Door (Rhinoceros)

Uptown (Crystals)

Tape A Nickel To The Tone Arm (Palmyra Delran)

Black Is Black (Los Bravos)

Show 868 - Thanksgiving

(Weekend of November 16 – November 18, 2018)

Thanksgiving!

Hey baby, Little Steven here. Who is the only country in the world full of fat people?

That’s right baby, you’re looking at it, and we’re about to get fatter because it’s Thanksgiving this week.

We are celebrating no matter how many steroids we eat in them turkeys, or diabetics we create with all them carbs.

We’re partying baby, with Little Eva, the Beatles, Buffalo Springfield, Rufus Thomas, the Byrds of course, Paul Revere & the Raiders, Traffic, and the Jimi Hendrix Experience.

Come find out what Sarah Josepha Hale, Rufus Thomas, and Charlie Brown have in common.

It’s our lean mean dancing machine called the Underground Garage. I’ll see you this weekend.

Set 1:

Rocks (Primal Scream)

Let’s Turkey Trot (Little Eva)

And Your Bird Can Sing (Beatles)

The Bird (Time)

Bluebird (Buffalo Springfield)

Do The Funky Chicken (Rufus Thomas)

Set 2:

Just Like Me (Coasters)

The World Turns All Around Her (Byrds)

Tape A Nickel To The Tonearm (Palmyra Delran)

Seeds Of A Revolution (WIllie Nile)

Set 3:

Everytime I Eat Vegetables (It Makes Me Think Of You) (Ramones)

Mashed Potato Time (Dee Dee Sharp)

Deaf Ears (Kevin Bowe & the Okemah Prophets)

Diggin’ My Grave (Wild Evel and the Trashbones)

Glad All Over (Dave Clark Five)

Set 4:

Keep On Pushing (Glen Matlock)

Hungry (Paul Revere & the Raiders)

Bottoms Up (Here’s To Goodbye) (Ryan Hamilton)

Coloured Rain (Traffic)

Don’t Waste My Time (Richard and the Young Lions)

Somebody’s Been Sleeping (100 Proof Aged In Soul)

Set 5:

Funny Freak Parade (Ultimate Spinach)

You Got Me Floatin’ (Jimi Hendrix Experience)

Boogaloo Down Broadway (Fantastic Johnny C)

Charlie Brown (Coasters)

Waiting For The Next Big Thing (D Generation)

I Ain’t Gonna Eat Out My Heart Anymore (Rascals)

Show 867 - Do The Zonk

(Weekend of November 9 – November 11, 2018)

Do The Zonk!

Hey baby, Little Steven here.

Once upon a time Rock n’ Roll was a man’s game, but not anymore...and not ever in the Underground Garage, where we play more cool girl groups than anybody, and we are celebrating all of them this week.

Come check out the Crystals, the Cookies, the Shangri-Las, and the Chiffons.

We have some guys at the party like the Rolling Stones, the Beatles, Johnny Thunders and David Johansen.

It’s a celebration of girl groups in the world’s only Rock n’ Roll dance party on the radio...the Underground Garage.

Set 1:

Girls (David Johansen)

I Have A Boyfriend (Chiffons)

In And Out (Pandoras)

Boy Trouble (Rev-lons)

Still I Rise (Soraia)

Stay Awhile (Dusty Springfield)

Set 2:

Chew hew Fee Fi Fum (Goldie and the Gingerbreads)

Dum Dum Ditty (Downbeta 5)

Wow Wow Wee (Angels)

Da Do Ron Ron (Rolling Stones)

Da Do Ron Ron (Crystals)

Set 3:

Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow (Shirelles)

Only Seventeen (Beatle-ettes)

Boys (Beatles)

Beatles Please Come Back (Gigi Parker & the Lonelies)

A Teenager In Love (Regrettes)

Sorrow (Pristeens)

Set 4:

Tape A Nickel To The Tone Arm (Palmyra Delran)

The Locomotion (Little Eva)

Get Radical (Dollyrots)

100 Feet Away (Joan Jett)

I’ll Come Running (Hell On Heels)

Don’t Say Nothing Bad About My Baby (Cookies)

Set 5:

She’s A Fool (Lesley Gore)

Rockin’ America (Catholic Girls)

Great Big Kiss (Johnny Thunders)

Heaven Only Knows (Shangri-las)

T-shirt (Beaches)

Do The Zonk (Donna Loren)

Show 866 - Revenge of the Candy

(Weekend of November 2 – November 4, 2018)

Revenge Of The Candy!

Hey baby, Little Steven here. It’s almost Election Day, and there is only one thing scarier than that.

It’s Halloween Pt. 2 Revenge of the Candy! this weekend in the Underground Garage.

Find out why the Roaring Twenties really dug King Tut.

And find out why Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein isn’t actually the Frankie you have come to know and love.

Music from the fabulous compilation Halloween A Go-Go, which includes Donovan, Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band, the Chesterfield Kings, Sweatmaster, and the Electric Prunes.

Find out what Bobby ‘Boris’ Pickett, Nigel Tufnel, and Donovan have in common.

Come join us for the scariest Halloween party above ground, this weekend in the Underground Garage.

Set 1:

I Want Candy (Bow Wow Wow)

Running Through My Nightmares (Chesterfield Kings)

Restless Nights (Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band)

Like Ghosts (New Bomb Turks)

Nightmares (Creation)

I Am A Demon and I Love Rock N’ Roll (Sweatmaster)

Set 2:

King Tut (Steve Martin)

Wrap It Up (Sam & Dave)

Walk Like An Egyptian (Bangles)

Little Red Riding Hood (Sam the Sham & the Pharoahs)

Set 3:

I Had Too Much To Dream (Electric Prunes)

Lies Of The Living Dead (Minus 5)

Creature With The Atom Brain (Roky Erickson & the Explosives)

Child of the Moon (Rolling Stones)

Walking With A Ghost (Tegan & Sara)

Set 4:

Seeds Of Revolution (Willie Nile)

Howlin’ At The Moon (Ramones)

Diggin’ My Grave (Wild Evel and the Trashbones)

Walking Through My Dreams (Pretty Things)

Monster Mash (Bobby ‘Boris’ Pickett)

Set 5:

Feed My Frankenstein (Alice Cooper)

Hell Hole (Spinal Tap)

Night In My Veins (Pretenders)

Mystic Eyes (Them)

Season Of The Witch (Donovan)

Show 865 - Halloween

(Weekend of October 26 – October 28, 2018)

Halloween!

Hey baby, Little Steven here. Our show this week in the Underground Garage is Halloween A Go-Go to prepare you for Garage Rock’s favorite holiday.

We’re going to tell you how the whole thing got started. And contrary to popular belief it wasn’t started by a bunch of dentists.

Joining us will be the Who, the Sonics, the Mothers Of Invention, and the Shadows Of Knight.

We will be playing the band version of “Dinner With Drac” by John Zacherle not heard on the radio in forty years.

Not to mention the band version of Larry and the Blue Notes’ Texas classic not heard for thirty five years.

And the band version of Screaming Lord Sutch and the Savages, never heard.

Find out what Lux Interior, Jarvis Humby, and Tito & Tarantula have in common.

It’s Halloween A Go-Go, this weekend in the Underground Garage.

Set 1:

Time Warp (Dr. Frank-N-Furter & Cast)

I Walked With A Zombie (Rocky Erickson)

I’m The Wolfman (Fuzztones)

Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (The Who)

Dracula’s Daughter (Woggles)

Jolly Green Giant (Kingsmen)

Set 2:

Jack The Ripper (Screaming Lord Sutch)

Man With The X-Ray Eyes (Jarvis Humby)

Psycho (Sonics)

Night Of The Sadist (Larry * The Blue Notes)

Dead Flowers (Rolling Stones)

Set 3:

(You Must Fight To Live) On The Planet Of The Apes (Mummies)

Mommy’s Little Monster (Social Distortion)

Put Your Cat Clothes On (Carl Perkins)

Hungry Freaks, Daddy (Mothers Of Invention)

She (Monkees)

Set 4:

Diggin’ My Grave (Wild Evel and the Trashbones)

Dream Police (Cheap Trick)

Tell It To Carrie (Romantics)

Alone (Shadows Of Knight)

Weird Scene (Mr. Brown)

Set 5:

Cretin Hop (Ramones)

She’s A Monster (Stems)

Dinner With Drac, Pt. 1 (John Zacherle)

The Creature From The Black Leather Lagoon (Cramps)

After Dark (Tito & Tarantula)

Show 864 - Johnny and Stiv

(Weekend of October 19 – October 21, 2018)

Johnny and Stiv!

Hey baby, Little Steven here, and this weekend in the Underground Garage we are celebrating Johnny Carson, Stiv Bators, and Tiny Tim!

Joining us at the party will be the Beatles, the Byrds, the J. Geils Band, the Shirelles, and U2.

Brand new music from Palmyra Delran and the Doppel Gang, Kevin Bowe and the Okemah Prophets, Ryan Hamilton and the Harlequin Ghosts, and Richard and the Young Lions.

Come find out what Johnny Cash, Sonny Bono, and Ed McMahon have in common.

I’ll see you this weekend in the world’s only Rock n’ Roll dance party on the radio.

I’ll see you in the Underground Garage.

Set 1:

I’m All Right (Rolling Stones)

Johnny Carson (Beach Boys)

Night Time (J. Geils Band)

Deaf Ears (Kevin Bowe & the Okemah Prophets)

Tonight’s The Night (Shirelles)

Johnny Come Lately (Woggles)

Set 2:

Circumstantial Evidence (Stiv Bators)

Evil Boy (Stiv Bators)

What Love Is (Dead Boys)

No Dreams (Wanderers)

Open Your Eyes (Lords Of The New Church)

Like A Virgin (Lords of the New Church)

Set 3:

I’m A Boy (Who)

Laugh At Me (Sonny Bono)

Don’t Waste My Time (Richard and the Young Lions)

Over Under Sideways Down (Yardbirds)

Vertigo (U2)

Set 4:

(Bottom’s Up) Here’s To Goodbye (Ryan Hamilton)

Every Little Thing (Beatles)

Wait And See (Byrds)

Let’s Live For Today (Grass Roots)

Set 5:

Who’ll Be The Next In Line (Kinks)

Come Spy With Me (Palmyra Delran)

Outside Chance (Turtles)

Johnny 99 (Johnny Cash)

Show 863 - Jailhouse Rock

(Weekend of October 12 – October 14, 2018)

Jailhouse Rock!

Well winter is creeping in.

So what are you doing this weekend?

Drive in is out. Forget about the beach.

I know, let’s go to prison.

We’re celebrating Jailhouse Rock, Elvis Presley’s coolest movie. Joining us will be the Tremeloes, the Fleshtones, the Sex Pistols, the Byrds, and the Dave Clark 5.

There is only one place to find out what Johnny Rotten, Wilson Pickett, and Serge Gainsbourg have in common.

We are calling it Jailhouse Rock, and it is exclusively, on this, the coolest radio station in town.

I will see you this weekend in the world’s only Rock n’ Roll dance party on the radio, in solitary, in the Underground Garage.

Set 1:

Jailhouse Rock (Jeff Beck Group)

Jailhouse Rock (Elvis Presley)

Anyway You Want It (Dave Clark 5)

Sugar Sugar (Wilson Pickett)

Come On To Me (Paul McCartney)

Loudmouth (Ramones)

Set 2:

I Want To Hold Your Hand (Beatles)

Don’t Waste My Time (Richard and the Young Lions)

The Good’s Gone (Who)

The World Keeps Bringing Me Down (Tiger Tiger)

Here Comes My Baby (Tremeloes)

Set 3:

Soul Kitchen (Doors)

Too Much Blood (Rolling Stones)

Harley Davidson (Brigitte Bardot)

Wear Your Love Like Heaven (Donovan)

Set 4:

Deaf Ears (Kevin Bowe & the Okemah Prophets)

Route 66 [Live] (Rolling Stones)

I Never Dreamed (Cookies)

Come Spy With Me (Palmyra Delran)

Love Comes In Spurts (Richard Hell)

Set 5:

Pretty Boy Floyd (Byrds)

Pretty Pretty Pretty (Fleshtones)

Pretty Little Angel Eyes (Curtis Lee)

Pretty Flamingo (Manfred Man)

Pretty Vacant (Sex Pistols)

Show 862 - Motorpsycho Nightmare

(Weekend of October 5 – October 7, 2018)

Motorpsycho Nightmare!

Oh my god is the show cool this week.

This is Little Steven, and in the Underground Garage this weekend we are celebrating all things motorcycle.

The best motorcycle movies. The best motorcycle actors.

Generally lionizing these lazy roustabout outlaw degenerate filthy unclean but lots of fun motorcycle people.

Joining us will be Iggy Pop, the Ramones, the Jeff Beck Group, Steppenwolf, Aerosmith, and Moby Grape.

It’s Motorpsycho Nightmare! this weekend in the Underground Garage.

Set 1:

I Can Only Give You Everything (Them)

Real Wild Child (Wild One) (Iggy Pop)

The World Keeps Bringing You Down (Tiger! Tiger!)

She Said She Said (Beatles)

Outsider (Ramones)

Set 2:

Blues Theme (Davie Allen & the Arrows)

Sway (Rolling Stones)

Open My Eyes (Nazz)

It’s A Drag (More Kicks)

You’re On My Mind (Animals)

Set 3:

Born To Be Wild (Steppenwolf)

What You Think We Are (Woggles)

Spanish Boots (Jeff Beck Group)

Come Spy With Me (Palmyra Delran)

Leader Of The Pack (Shangri-Las)

Set 4:

Don’t Waste My Time (Richard and the Young Lions)

Big Man In Town (4 Seasons)

Stop Me (Split Squad)

Hungry (Paul Revere & the Raiders)

Sick As A Dog (Aerosmith)

Set 5:

The Hunter (Free)

Steve McQueen (Sheryl Crow)

Still I Rise (Soraia)

Don’t Drag No More (Susan Lynne)

Motorcycle Irene (Moby Grape)

Show 861 - Groucho Marx

(Weekend of September 28 – September 30, 2018)

Groucho Marx!

Hey baby, Little Steven here.

Join us in the Underground Garage this week where we are celebrating Groucho Marx’s birthday.

Joining us will be Graham Parker & the Rumour, the Animals, the Bobby Fuller Four, and Sam & Dave.

Come discover what the MC5, Dewey Phillips, and Lydia the Tattooed Lady have in common.

Come join us this weekend in the world’s only Rock n’ Roll dance party on the radio.

I’ll see you in the Underground Garage.

Set 1:

I’m Against It (Ramones)

Good Times (Easybeats)

Pourin’ It All Out (Graham Parker & the Rumour)

It’s A Drag (More Kicks)

School Days (Chuck Berry)

Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood (Animals)

Set 2:

She Don’t Care About Time (Byrds)

Let Her Dance (Bobby Fuller Four)

You Don’t Know Like I Know (Sam & Dave)

Come Spy With Me (Palmyra Delran)

Congratulations (Rolling Stones)

Set 3:

A Well Respected Man (Kinks)

Shakin’ Street (MC5)

Still I Rise (Soraia)

You’re Not An Ordinary Girl (Temptations)

Circles (Who)

Set 4:

The World Keeps Brining Me Down (Tiger Tiger)

Come On To Me (Paul McCartney)

Good Thing (Paul Revere & the Raiders)

Stop Me (Split Squad)

Pretty Little Angel Eyes (Curtis Lee)

Set 5:

Baby Let’s Play House (Elvis Presley)

The Seventh Son (Johnny Rivers)

Starlight (Jeremy & the Harlequins)

Rack My Mind (Yardbirds)

Wild One (Jerry Lewis)

Show 860 - TV A Go-Go

(Weekend of September 21 – September 23, 2018)

TV A Go-Go!

Hey baby, Little Steven here, and this week in the Underground Garage we are going TV A Go-Go!

We are celebrating all the teenage Rock n’ Roll shows that were all over TV when we were growing up including Shindig!, Upbeat, Ready Steady Go, and god himself, otherwise known as Ed Sullivan.

Joining us will be the Byrds, the Beatles, Smokey Robinson & the Miracles, the Troggs, the Ramones, the Angels, and the Tuff Darts.

Come find out what Howln’ Wolf, Bonnie Bramlett, and Freddy “Boom Boom” Cannon have in common.

It’s the coolest TV shows ever on the coolest Rock n’ Roll dance party on the radio ever.

I’ll see you this weekend in the Underground Garage.

Set 1:

Where The Action Is (Freddy “Boom Boom” Cannon)

Just Like Me (Paul Revere & the Raiders)

It Won’t Be Wrong (Byrds)

Epistle To Dippy (Donovan)

Little Latin Lupe Lu (Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels)

Come On To Me (Paul McCartney)

Set 2:

I’m A Loser (Beatles)

Comin’ Home (Delaney & Bonnie)

Come Spy With Me (Palmyra Delran)

How Many More Years (Howlin’ Wolf)

Empty Heart (Rolling Stones)

Set 3:

Anyway You Want It (Dave Clark Five)

Going To Go Go (Smokey Robinson & the Miracles)

Over Under Sideways Down (Yardbirds)

Stop Me (Split Squad)

I’m Alive (Hollies)

Set 4:

It’s A Drag (More Kicks)

I Want You (Troggs)

Still I Rise (Soraia)

Time Bomb (Ramones)

Set 5:

Long Tall Sally (Little Richard)

Starlight (Jeremy and the Harlequins)

I Adore Him (Angels)

All For The Love Of Rock ‘n Roll (Tuff Darts)

I’m So Young (the Students)