EPISODE #170: GOING TO ARIZONA
The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME]
The Go-Go’s — “Vacation”
The Beach Boys — “Airplane”
R.E.M. — “Houston”
Art Brut — “Arizona Bay”
They Might Be Giants — “Tucson”
The Dead Milkmen — “Big Lizard”
Butterglory — “Cactus”
The Magnetic Fields — “The Cactus Where Your Heart Should Be”
The Bandana Splits — “Desert Love”
Colin Clary — “Lost in the Desert”
The Flamin’ Groovies — “Second Cousin”
Alejandro Escovedo — “Wedding Day”
Freedy Johnston — “Western Sky”
Glen Campbell — “By the Time I Get to Phoenix”
Raymond Scott Quintet — “Bumpy Weather in Newark”
Karl Hendricks Trio — “The Men’s Room at the Airport”
Waco Brothers — “Arizona Rose”
broadcast live from Hoboken, NJ, on “Jack’s Aquarium”
Tuesday, 3/3/15, 10:00-11:10 a.m. eastern time
Is the REM song “Houston” a cover of the Dean Martin song by that name?
No, it’s from their penultimate album, Accelerate. But they should reform to record that cover!
Suggest that when you do the Cities show you play the Dean Martin song for Houston.