EPISODE #135: REQUESTS VIII
The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME]
Wang Chung — “Everybody Have Fun Tonight” [for Deb F.]
Allan Sherman — “Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah” [for Deanna]
Blondie — “Picture This” [for Brad Kleiman]
Billy Bragg — “A New England” [for Chico]
XTC — “Earn Enough for Us” [for Deb C-O]
Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes — “Talk to Me” [for Audrey]
Steve Forbert — “Goin’ Down to Laurel” [for Suzanne]
John Prine — “All the Best” [for Joe]
Daniel Johnston w/ Yo La Tengo — “Speeding Motorcycle (live on WFMU)” [for Pat]
Hoodie Allen — “Song for an Actress” [for Caren Lissner]
All About Eve — “Martha’s Harbour” [for Kate]
Ultrafine — “Going Somewhere” [for Mike Daly]
Bern & the Brights — “Sleepless Aristotle” [for Terry McCarthy]
The Band — “Ophelia” [for Greg]
The Replacements — “Can’t Hardly Wait” [for David]
Life in a Blender — “In the USA” [for Dave]
broadcast live from Hoboken, NJ, on “Jack’s Aquarium”
Tuesday, 7/1/14, 10:00-11:15 a.m. eastern time
Very good show, actually twice in one day to hear “Everybody Have Fun Tonight”. A local station is doing a retro weekend.
Thanks David! For the request and the comment. Maybe this week you’ll have a three-time Wang Chung day.
That song has some gravitas; it’s been referenced by no less a TV character than Frazier Crane (who quoted it as he arrived for his bachelor party) and was used on “That Seventies Show” in a time-travel episode (maybe the pilot for “That 80s Show”?).
And Wang Chung played a big part in the soundtrack to “The Breakfast Club” though it’s been largely forgotten. Their song “Fire in the Twilight” plays during the hallway scramble scene, when the kids are trying to get back to the library and avoid being caught by the mean teacher. Actually a better song by them than their bigger hits.