Low Stakes

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Low Stakes w/ John F. was a weekly free-form radio show hosted by John Flansburgh on Jeffersonville, New York-based public radio station WJFF Radio Catskill. The show ran from June 2020 until January 2022. It was broadcast every Friday at 9 PM ET on the station and its website.

Description

Blurb from the WJFF website:

John F. spins music from all recorded genres, with everything from today's latest releases to field recordings from the 1930s. Thoughtfully curated with your mind in mind!

Prior to getting his own WJFF show, Flansburgh guest-hosted two episodes of The Secret Show (normally hosted by Bryan Sheehan) on WJFF on May 7 and 14, 2020. Three weeks later, Low Stakes began airing on June 5, 2020. Flansburgh had been using the Low Stakes name since 2017 for a series of playlists on the They Might Be Giants Spotify page, similarly highlighting selections of songs by some of his favorite artists.

Episodes were produced remotely at home by Flansburgh and were sent to WJFF for broadcast. The shows were archived on the station's website and Flansburgh's Mixcloud page shortly after airing. Between groups of tracks, Flansburgh often shared anecdotes about the selections, and referred to himself as "your radio pal, John F." or "your make-believe DJ." For bed music, he typically used instrumentals by Raymond Scott or the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. Flansburgh described his process putting together the show in a 2021 Tumblr post:

I have a show every week so I'm not looking to do anything that takes up oodles of hours or requires a lot of research. It's a freeform show so all the hard left turns of style and sensibility are kind of baked in. I do track the charts and all the new releases to keep things fresh (I find it fun to play the number one song in the world-so many people have lost track of that part of pop culture. #1s just aren't as ubiquitous as you'd think!)

The show came to an end in January 2022. Flansburgh explained on Tumblr: "Things have been heating up on the writing and recording front [with They Might Be Giants] so I'm on an unofficial sabbatical. Not even sure when I'll get back, although now that it's not part of my week I miss it!"

Episode playlists

January 14, 2022

Repeat of January 15, 2021

January 7, 2022

• Jazmine Sullivan - "Bust Your Windows" (2008)
• Liverpool Scene - "Batpoem" (1968)
• Republica - "Ready To Go" (1996)
• Tommy Tucker - "Hi-Heel Sneakers" (1963)
• Geraint Watkins - "Easy To Say 'Bon Temps Rouler'" (2008)
• Arthur Alexander - "Anna (Go to Him)" (1962)
• Sharon Van Etten - "The End of the World" (2017)
• The Weakerthans - "Plea from a Cat Named Virtute" (2003)
• 'Til Tuesday - "(Believed You Were) Lucky" (1988)
• Father John Misty - "I'm Writing a Novel" (2012)
• Billy J. Kramer and The Dakotas - "Trains and Boats and Planes" (1965)
• Television - "Little Johnny Jewel (Parts 1 & 2)" (1975)
• Mildred Bailey - "It's So Peaceful In The Country" (1941)
• The Honeycombs - "That's The Way" (1965)
• Neil Young - "Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black)" (1979)

December 31, 2021

• Kito - "Steal My Clothes" (2021)
• Prince - "1999" (1982)
• Faces - "Stay With Me" (1971)
• Peking Duk - "Fake Magic" (2017)
• Rihanna - "Pon de Replay" (2005)
• !!! - "Dancing Is The Best Revenge" (2017)
• Arctic Monkeys - "Do Me a Favour" (2007)
• Johnny Cash - "The Beast in Me" (1994)
• Death Cab for Cutie - "The New Year" (2003)
• Nada Surf - "Inside of Love" (1998)
• The Mountain Goats - "This Year" (2005)
• OK Go - "This Will Be Our Year" (2004)
• Simon & Garfunkel - "The Only Living Boy in New York" (1970)
• Fountains of Wayne - "Hey Julie" (2003)
• Harold Arlen & Yip Harburg - "Munchkinland Musical Sequence (Rehearsal Demo)" (1939)

December 24, 2021

• Judee Sill - "Jesus Was a Cross Maker" (1971)
• Marvin Gaye - "Purple Snowflakes" (1965)
• Tyler, the Creator - "ARE WE STILL FRIENDS?" (2019)
• Chris Montez - "The More I See You" (1966)
• Wynonie Harris - "Lovin' Machine" (1951)
• Kiss Me, Kate Original Broadway Cast - "Brush Up Your Shakespeare" (1949)
• The Cookies - "Only To Other People" (1954)
• Oscar Brown - "But I Was Cool" (1960)
• Nick Lowe - "True Love Travels on a Gravel Road" (1994)
• Lucinda Williams - "2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten" (1998)
• Lucy Dacus - "Addictions" (2018)
• Linda Ronstadt - "Willin'" (1974)
• Dolly Parton - "Jolene" (1973)
• Talking Heads - "Love → Building on Fire" (1977)
• Joe Liggins - "Pink Champagne" (1950)
• Too Short - "Blow The Whistle" (2006)
• Elliott Smith - "Between the Bars" (1997)
• The Beatles - "Sexy Sadie (Take 6)" (1968)

December 17, 2021

• Mitski - "Heat Lightning" (2021)
• Al Green - "Have You Been Making Out OK" (1973)
• Maxine Sullivan - "Enjoy Yourself (It's Later than You Think)" (1986)
• Jim Morrison - "Radio Spot for Cheetah Magazine" (1967)
• Alex Chilton - "What's Your Sign Girl" (1995)
• The Jolly Green Giants - "Busy Body" (1966)
• The Rolling Stones - "Rice Krispies Commercial" (1964)
• Willie Nelson - "Blue Skies" (1978)
• Del Close & John Brent - "How to Speak Hip Introduction" (1961)
• Miles Davis - "Blue Xmas (To Whom It May Concern)" (1962)
• Vince Guaraldi - "Christmas Time Is Here (Vocal)" (1965)
• The B-52s - "52 Girls" (1978)
• Kraftwerk - "Trans-Europe Express" (1976)
• Rufus Wainwright - "What Are You Doing New Year's Eve" (2005)
• NRBQ - "Feel You Around Me" (1980)
• Ray Charles - "Bein' Green" (1975)
• Bob Dylan - "Positively 4th Street" (1965)
• Amanda Palmer - "In My Mind" (2011)

December 10, 2021

Repeat of December 3, 2021

December 3, 2021

Theme: Stephen Sondheim Tribute

• West Side Story Film Cast - "Jet Song" (1961)
• The Coasters - "Shoppin' for Clothes" (1960)
• Webb Pierce - "There Stands the Glass" (1953)
• Donovan - "Hurdy Gurdy Man" (1968)
• The Frogs Broadway Cast - "Invocation and Instructions to the Audience" (2005)
• Harry Nilsson - "Marry Me a Little" (1969)
• Anyone Can Whistle Original Broadway Cast - "Anyone Can Whistle" (1964)
• Company Original Broadway Cast - "The Ladies Who Lunch" (1970)
• Into the Woods Film Cast - "Agony" (2014)
• Company Original Broadway Cast - "Getting Married Today" (1970)
• Linda Lavin - "The Boy From..." (1966)
• Yvonne De Carlo - "I'm Still Here" (1971)
• Ruth Brown - "Wild Wild Young Men" (1953)
• Iggy Pop - "I'm Bored" (1979)
• The Hollies - "Peculiar Situation" (1966)
• Bob Dylan - "Ninety Miles an Hour (Down a Dead End Street)" (1988)

November 26, 2021

Theme: Psychedelic Music

• Courtney Barnett - "Rae Street" (2021)
• Karen Dalton - "Something on Your Mind" (1971)
• Joan As Police Woman - "The Magic" (2011)
• Tegan and Sara - "Walking with a Ghost" (2004)
• Os Mutantes - "Bat Macumba" (1969)
• The Idle Race - "Morning Sunshine" (1968)
• (No Artist) - "Vox Instruments Radio Commercial" (1966)
• Tomorrow - "My White Bicycle" (1967)
• Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - "Frownland" (1969)
• The Apostles - "She's A Drop Out" (1975)
• Pink Floyd - "Ummagumma Radio Ad" (1969)
• The Creation - "Making Time" (1967)
• July - "Dandelion Seeds" (1968)
• The Beatles - "You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)" (1970)
• Tony Allen & Hugh Masekela - "We've Landed" (2020)
• The Electric Prunes - "I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night)" (1966)
• Teenage Fanclub - "It's All In My Mind" (2005)
• Taj Mahal - "Cakewalk Into Town" (1972)

November 19, 2021

• Snail Mail - "Glory" (2021)
• Ol' Dirty Bastard - "Got Your Money" (1999)
• Q-Tip - "Breathe and Stop" (2000)
• George Clinton and Funkadelic - "Standing on the Verge of Getting It On" (1974)
• Lee Dorsey, Allen Toussaint - "Yes We Can Can pt. 2" (1993)
• The Dixie Cups - "Iko Iko" (1964)
• Dr. John and The Band - "Such a Night" (1976)
• Alan Toussaint - "What Is Success" (1971)
• Ollabelle - "Before This Time" (2008)
• Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong - "Comes Love" (1957)
• Elvis Costello - "My Funny Valentine" (1979)
• Thee Headcoatees - "Gotta Get the First Plane Home" (1994)
• Arthur Alexander - "A Shot of Rhythm and Blues" (1961)
• Pavement - "Stereo" (1997)
• The Chicks - "There's Your Trouble" (1998)
• Smog - "Cold Blooded Old Times" (1999)
• The Monkees - "Me & Magdalena" (2016)
• Big Dee Irwin - "Swinging on a Star" (1963)

November 12, 2021

Listen: Mixcloud
Theme: Censored and Banned Music

• The Kingsmen - "Louie Louie" (1963)
• The Who - "My Generation" (1965)
• The Kinks - "Lola" (1970)
• Louis Armstrong - "Mack the Knife" (1955)
• Billie Holiday - "Strange Fruit" (1939)
• Frankie Laine - "Answer Me, Lord Above (Mutterlein)" (1953)
• Donna Summer - “Love to Love You Baby” (1975)
• The Sex Pistols - “God Save the Queen” (1977)
• John Adams - “Day Chorus” (1991)
• Galt MacDermot - “White Boys” (1979)
• Phil Collins - “In the Air Tonight” (1981)
• Sammy Davis Jr. - “Ding-Dong! The Witch Is Dead” (1966)

November 5, 2021

• Shirley & Company - "Shame, Shame, Shame" (1974)
• Pastor T.L. Barnett and the Youth for Christ Choir - "Nobody Knows" (1971)
• The Isley Brothers - "Work To Do" (1972)
• Willie Tee - ”Teasin’ You" (1962)
• JD McPherson - “North Side Gal” (2010)
• Ray Barretto - “Deeper Shade of Soul” (1968)
• Shirley Ellis - “The Nitty Gritty (1963)
• Karen Dalton - "Something on Your Mind" (1971)
• The James Hunter Six - "(Baby) Hold On" (2016)
• Beck - “Debra” (1999)
• Santigold - “Disparate Youth” (2012)
• JC Brooks Band - "I'm Trying to Break Your Heart” (2011)
• The Greenhornes -  "There Is an End" (2005)

October 29, 2021

Listen: Mixcloud

• Blossom Dearie - "To Keep My Love Alive" (1960)
• Jonathan Coulton - "Re: Your Brains" (2006)
• Steve Earle & The Dukes - "Devil Put The Coal In The Ground" (2020)
• The James Hunter Six - "(Baby) Hold On" (2016)
• The Raconteurs - "Steady, As She Goes" (2006)
• Karen Mantler - "Business is Bad" (2014)
• The Ramones - "I Don't Care" (1977)
• Dave Barry - "The Crying Game" (1964)
• Edwyn Collins - "A Girl Like You" (1994)
• Death Cab for Cutie - "I Will Follow You into the Dark" (2005)
• Marlene Dietrich - "Wenn Ich Mir Was Wünschen Dürfte" (1931)
• Baird - "Easy On Them Turns" (2021)
• James and Bobby Purify - "I Take What I Want" (1967)
• Sasha Dobson - "Girl Talk" (2021)
• The Heavy - "Coleen" (2015)
• The Kinks - "Tired of Waiting for You" (1965)
• The Tymes - "So Much in Love" (1963)

October 22, 2021

Listen: Mixcloud

• illuminati hotties - "(You're Better) Than Ever" (2018)
• The Reigning Sound - "Stormy Weather (2002)
• Leslie Gore - "You Don't Own Me" (1967)
• Mitski - "I Bet on Losing Dogs" (2018)
• Nico - "Chelsea Girls" (1967)
• Wilbert Harrison - "Let's Stick Together" (1962)
• Tony Joe White - "Polk Salad Annie" (1968)
• Au Revoir Simone - "Crazy" (2013)
• The Kinks - "Alcohol" (1971)
• The db's - "Let's Live for Today" (2021)
• Fabienne Delsol - "I’m Gonna Catch Me A Rat" (2007)
• Porter Wagoner - "The Rubber Room" (1971)
• The Dirtbombs - "Chains of Love" (2001)
• Laurie Anderson - "In Our Sleep" (1994)
• George Jones - "Play It Cool, Man" (1954)
• The Residents - "It's a Man's Man's Man's World (1966)
• The Who - "Our Love Was" (ending commercials only) (1967)
• Thee Headcoatees - "Teenage Kicks" (1997)
• Adele - "Chasing Pavements" (2008)

October 15, 2021

Listen: Mixcloud

• Mitski - "Working for the Knife" (2021)
• Lalo Schifrin - "Theme from Mission: Impossible" (1967)
• Tower of Power - "What Is Hip?" (1974)
• Talking Heads - "A Clean Break (Let's Work)" (2004)
• Jim Ford - "36 Inches High" (2007)
• Gustaf - "Book" (2021)
• Hüsker Dü - "Love Is All Around" (1980)
• The Velvet Underground - "Guess I'm Falling In Love" (1968)
• Kool & the Gang - "Jungle Boogie" (1973)
• Soul Coughing - "Super Bon Bon" (1996)
• Can - "Halleluhwah" (1971)
• Monie Love - "Monie In the Middle" (1990)
• Shannon and the Clams - "The Boy" (2018)
• The B-52's - "52 Girls" (1978)
• Sheila Jordan - "Ballad of the Sad Young Men" (1960)
• The Beatles - "Things We Said Today" (1964)
• Jeff Simmons - "Lucille Has Messed My Mind Up" (1969)

October 8, 2021

Listen: Mixcloud

• Syreeta - "I Love Every Little Thing" (1972)
• Wet Leg - "Wet Dream" (2021)
• Asphalt Orchestra - "Champagne" (2011)
• Curtis Mayfield - "Pusherman" (1972)
• Ween - "Push Th' Little Daisies" (1992)
• Money Mark - "Push the Button" (1998)
• Boy Genius - "Bite the Hand" (2021)
• Alan Toussaint - "Last Train" (1975)
• The Louvin Brothers - "Satan Is Real" (1959)
• Soccer Mommy - "Yellow is the Color of Her Eyes" (2020)
• The Meters - "Witchita Lineman" (1970)
• Brian Eno - "Over Fire Island" (1975)
• Sly and the Family Stone - "Everybody Is a Star" (1969)
• Lead Belly - "Where Did You Sleep Last Night?" (1944)
• Lucinda Williams - "2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten" (2006)

October 1, 2021

Theme: Bottle Episode

• Lil' Bob and the Lollipops - "I Got Loaded" (1965)
• The Housemartins - "Happy Hour" (1986)
• Nina Simone - "Lilac Wine" (1966)
• Willie Nelson - "Whiskey River" (1973)
• David Bowie - "Alabama Song" (1978)
• Beyonce - "Drunk in Love" (2013)
• Arctic Monkeys - "Why Do You Only Call Me When You're High?" (2013)
• Rick James - “Mary Jane” (1978)
• Tom Waits - “Jockey Full of Bourbon” (1985)
• Jefferson Airplane - “White Rabbit” (1967)
• The Replacements - “Here Comes a Regular (alternate version)” (2006)
• Johnny Cash - “The Beast in Me” (1994)
• Amy Allison - “The Whiskey Makes You Sweeter” (1996)
• Carmen McRae - “I’m Always Drunk in San Francisco” (2005)
• Randy Newman - “Guilty” (1974)

September 24, 2021

• Kacey Musgraves - "If This Was A Movie.." (2021)
• Big Thief - "Certainty" (2021)
• The Fiery Furnaces - "Single Again" (2004)
• Elvis Costello & the Attractions & Sebastián Yatra - "Llorar (Big Tears)" (2021)
• Carole King - "He's A Bad Boy" (1963)
• Malcolm McLaren - "D'Ya Like Scratchin'?" (1983)
• Wanda Jackson - "Funnel of Love" (1961)
• The Young Fresh Fellows - "Hillbilly Drummer Girl" (1991)
• Joe Meek & the Blue Men - "I Hear A New World" (1991)
• The Rolling Stones - "Monkey Man" (1969)
• Bar-Kays - "Soul Finger" (1967)
• The Troggs - "Reg Presley Interview - live" (2021)
• The White Stripes - "My Doorbell" (2005)
• Bobby Charles - "I Must Be In A Good Place Now" (1972)
• Ian McLagan & Rod Stewart - "Handbags and Gladrags" (1967)
• Miles Davis - "Willie Nelson (Take 2)" (1971)

September 17, 2021

• St. Vincent - "New York (live at Austin City Limits)" (2017)
• Anton Karas - "The Third Man Theme" (1949)
• Daisy the Great - "The Record Player Song" (2017)
• Southern Culture on the Skids - "Rose Garden (song)" (2007)
• Ray Charles - "Let's Go Get Stoned" (1966)
• Fred Astaire - "They All Laughed" (1957)
• The Furors "A Waste of Time" (2013)
• Ronnie Wood - "I Can Feel the Fire" (1974)
• Haley Heynderickx - "The Bug Collector" (2018)
• Eddie Floyd - "Big Bird" (1967)
• ABBA - "Don't Shut Me Down" (2021)
• Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen - Hot Rod Lincoln (1971)
• Johnny Williams - "The Lost in Space Theme" (1965)
• James Carr - "The Dark End of the Street" (1967)
• The Kingston Trio - "M.T.A." (1959)
• Ricky Nelson - "Lonesome Town" (1958)
• Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich song - "Hold Tight! (1966)
• Chet Atkins & Les Paul - "Caravan" (1976)
• The Magnetic Fields - "Papa Was a Rodeo" (1999)

September 10, 2021

Repeat of September 11, 2020

September 3, 2021

• Halsey - "You asked for this" (2021)
• Bob Dylan - "Bob Dylan's 115th Dream" (take 1 only) (1965)
• Kanye West - "Jail" (2021)
• Amy Winehouse - "You Know I'm No Good" (2006)
• Talking Heads - "Drugs" (1979)
• Tosca Tango Orchestra - "Otoño" (1999)
• The Pointer Sisters - "How Long (Betcha' Got a Chick on the Side)" (1975)
• Radiator Hospital - "Big Cloud" (1999)
• Charlie Rich - "Mohair Sam" (1965)
• Robert Fripp - "Miniature" (1985)
• Carole King - "Pleasant Valley Sunday" (2012)
• Nick Lowe - "The Beast in Me" (1994)
• Elvis Costello & The Attractions & Fito Páez - "Radio Radio" (2021)
• Thee Headcoatees - “Swallow My Pride” (1996)
• The Compulsive Gamblers - “Your Happiness” (2000)
• Jim Ford - “36 Inches High” (2007)
• Sir Douglas Quintet - “Sunday Sunny Mill Valley Groove Day” (1968)
• Bob Dylan - “Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?” (1965)

August 27, 2021

Listen: Mixcloud

• Jacqueline Taïeb - "7 AM" (1968)
• Lorde - "Solar Power" (2021)
• The Hollywood Jills - "He Makes Me So Mad" (1968)
• The Kinks - "David Watts" (1967)
• The Rolling Stones - "Tumbling Dice" (1972)
• Wet Leg - "Chaise Longue" (2021)
• The Cheese People - "Wake Up" (2008)
• Desmond Dekker - "007 (Shanty Town)" (1967)
• Lily Allen - "LDN" (2006)
• Don Ellis - "Theme to The French Connection" (1971)
• The Zombies - "This Will Be Our Year" (1968)
• Chris Stamey - "Beneath the Underdog" (2019)
• k.d. lang - "Theme From the Valley of the Dolls" (1997)
• Bo Diddly - "You Can't Judge a Book by the Cover" (1962)
• Latin Playboys - "Forever Night Shade Mary" (1994)
• Harry Nilsson - "Jump into the Fire" (1971)
• Erma Franklin - "Piece of My Heart” (1967)
• T. Rex - "20th Century Boy" (1973)
• The Modern Lovers - "Roadrunner" (1977)

August 20, 2021

Listen: Mixcloud

• Aimee Mann - "Labrador" (2012)
• Soul Coughing - "Super Bon Bon" (1996)
• Anni-Frid Lyngstad - "I Know There's Something Going On" (1982)
• Big Freedia - "Gin in My System" (2003)
• Marsha Gee - "Peanut Duck" (2005)
• David Lynch - "In Heaven (Lady in the Radiator Song" (from Eraserhead) (1977)
• George Clinton - "Atomic Dog" (1982)
• John Flansburgh - "WJFF Jingle" (2021)
• Hot 8 Brass Band - "What's My Name?" (2007)
• Murray Kellum - "Long Tall Texan" (2013)
• Cornershop - "Brimful of Asha (Norman Cook remix)" (1997)
• Anita Ellis - "Pull My Daisy" (1959)
• Son Volt - "Tear Stained Eye" (2005)
• Frank Black - "Headache" (1994)
• Robert Parker - "Everybody's Hip Huggin" (2006)
• Lucinda Williams - "Crescent City" (1988)
• The Velvet Underground - "After Hours" (1969)

August 13, 2021

Theme: WJFF Pledge Drive
Repeat of April 23, 2021

August 6, 2021

Listen: Mixcloud
Theme: WJFF Pledge Drive

• Holly Golightly - "There's an End" (2003)
• HAIM - "Summer Girl" (2019)
• Yo La Tengo - "You Can Have It All" (2000)
• Desmond Dekker - "007 (Shanty Town)" (1967)
• Aretha Franklin - "Young, Gifted and Black" (1970)
• Lee Dorsey - "Occapella" (1970)
• Doja Cat ft. SZA - "Kiss Me More" (2021)
• Smokey Robinson and the Miracles - "My Girl Has Gone" (1965)
• Bob Dylan - "If You See Her, Say Hello (Take 1)" (1974)
• Willie Nelson - "Not That I Care" (2006)
• Lee Remick - "Anyone Can Whistle" (1957)
• Nathan Lane - "Invocation And Instructions To The Audience" (2008)
• Dean Jones - "Company" (1970)
• Alex Chilton - "The Oogum Boogum Song" (1999)
• The Sonics - "Have Love Will Travel" (1965)

July 30, 2021

• Vulfpeck - “Back Pocket” (2015)
• Brittany Howard - "Stay High" (2019)
• Muna - "Number One Fan" (2019)
• Berzilla Wallin - "Conversation with Death (Oh Death)" (1964)
• Swamp Dogg - "Lonely" (2021)
• Dusty Springfield - "Just a Little Lovin'" (1969)
• Bruce Springsteen - "4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)" (1974)
• Daniel Johnston - "The Beatles" (1983)
• The Coup - "The Guillotine" (2012)
• American Standard Companies - "My Bathroom" from The Bathrooms are Coming (1969)
• Otis Redding - “Hard to Handle” (1968)
• The Dirty Projectors - “What Is the Time” (2018)
• The Ink Spots - “The Gypsy” (1946)
• Tierra Whack - “Dora” (2020)
• The Rose Garden - "Next Plane to London" (1967)
• Jamie Lidell - "Multiply" (2005)

July 23, 2021

Theme: Low Stakes' Greatest Hits, Week Two

• Lucy Dacus - "Thumbs" (2021)
• Måneskin - "Beggin'" (2021)
• Fiona Apple - "Fetch the Bolt Cutters" (2020)
• The Beatles - "Sour Milk Sea" (Escher Demo)” (1968)
• Girlpool - "Cut Your Bangs" (2015)
• Machine Gun Kelly ft. Halsey - "forget me too" (2020)
• Kanye West - "I Love Kanye" (2016)
• Annette Hanshaw - "Ho Hum" (1931)
• Nada Surf - "Inside of Love" (2003)
• Lil' Bob and the Lollipops - "I Got Loaded" (1965)
• Ben Folds - "Radio Jingles For Tokyo's Inter-FM" (2005)
• Big Dee Irwin - "Swinging on a Star" (1963)
• The Bottle Rockets - "Farmer John" (2013)
• St. Vincent - "Marry Me" (2007)
• Lee Marvin - "Wand'rin' Star" (1970)
• Hot 8 Brass Band - "Ghost Town" (2012)
• Richard Adler and Jerry Ross - Hernando's Hideaway (1954)

July 16, 2021

Theme: Low Stakes' Greatest Hits, Week One

• Magic Dondee and Noisebody - "Ray Allen" (2021)
• Mitski - "Me and My Husband" (2018)
• Tony Allen - "Mau Mau" (2021)
• Joe Cocker - "Marjorine" (1969)
• Big Thief - Paul (2016)
• Esso Trinidad Steel Band - "I Want You Back" (1971)
• Evie Sands - "Take Me For a Little While" (1969)
• Tune-Yards - “Cannonball“ (2021)
• Lil Nas X - "Montero (Call Me by Your Name)" (2021)
• Little Willie John - "I'm Shakin'" (1960)
• Ted Hopkins - “Sorry You’re Sick” (1982)
• Tracey Thorn - "Oh, the Divorces!" (2010)
• The Mountain Goats - "This Year" (2005)
• Art Brut - "Formed a Band" (2020)
• Bobby Charles - "Small Town Talk" (1972)
• The Band - "Commercial for the album Stage Fright" (1970)
• The Turtles - "Chevrolet Camaro Commercial" (1967)
• The Creatures - "Right Now" (1983)
• Arctic Monkeys - "Why Do You Only Call Me When You're High?" (2013)
• Soccer Mommy - "royal screw up" (2020)

July 9, 2021

• Wet Leg - "Chaise Longue" (2021)
• Valerie June - "Astral Plane" (2017)
• David Bowie - "Sound and Vision" (1977)
• Kraftwerk - "Das Model" (1978)
• Car Seat Headrest - "Golden Years" (2021)
• Girlpool - "123" (2017)
• Ida Maria - "Celebration" (2021)
• Legendary Stardust Cowboy - "I Took a Trip on a Gemini Spaceship" (1984)
• Curtis Mayfield - “Future Shock” (1973)
• Radiator Hospital - "Big Cloud" (2013)
• Daft Punk - "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger" (2001)
• Talking Heads - "Thank You for Sending Me an Angel" (1978)
• The Creation - "How Does It Feel to Feel (1966)
• Noonday Underground - "London" (1999)
• Ted Hawkins - "Who Got My Natural Comb?" (1982)
• Deerhoof - "Life is Suffering" (2016)
• Phoebe Bridgers - "Seize the Day" (2021)
• Ringo Starr - "Back Off Boogaloo" (1972)

July 2, 2021

Theme: An hour of power pop!

• Chris Stamey - "The Summer Sun" (1977)
• Redd Kross - "One of the Good Ones" (2012)
• Fountains of Wayne - "It Must Be Summer" (1999)
• The Merseys - "Sorrow" (1966)
• The Bangles - "Going Down to Liverpool" (1984)
• Raspberries - "Let's Pretend" (1973)
• The Choir - "It's Cold Outside" (1966)
• The Apples in Stereo - "High Tide" (1995)
• Matthew Sweet - "Sick of Myself" (1995)
• Squeeze - "Is That Love" (1981)
• Todd Rungren - "Couldn't I Just Tell You" (1972)
• Marshall Crenshaw - "You're My Favorite Waste of Time" (1998)
• The Buzzcocks - "Ever Fallen in Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've)" (1978)
• The Jesus and Mary Chain - "Head On" (1989)
• Boys - "Please Change Your Mind" (1978)
• The Dwight Twilley Band - "I'm on Fire" (1975)
• The dB's - "Amplifier" (1984)
• Nick Lowe - "When I Write the Book" (1980)
• The Nerves - Hanging on the Telephone (1976)

June 25, 2021

Theme: A belated Juneteenth celebration

• The Persuasions - "Good Times" (1971)
• Sly and the Family Stone - "Everybody Is a Star" (1969)
• Bill Withers - "Lovely Day" (1977)
• Aretha Franklin - "You're All I Need to Get By" (1971)
• Rufus & Chaka Khan - "You Got the Love" (1974)
• Irma Thomas - "Wish Someone Would Care" (1964)
• Ann Peebles - "Troubles, Heartaches & Sadness" (1971)
• Labi Siffre - "I Got The..." (1975)
• The Meters - "Find Yourself" (1976)
• Shuggie Otis - "Inspiration Information" (1974)
• Gil Scott-Heron - "I Think I'll Call It Morning" (1971)
• The Staples Singers - "Let's Do It Again" (1975)
• Syreeta - "I Love Every Little Thing About You" (1972)

Medley of Songs That Sample "Funky Drummer" (1970):

• Public Enemy - "Fight the Power" (1989)
• LL Cool J - "Mama Said Knock You Out" (1990)
• Madonna - "Justify My Love" (1990)
• Kris Kross - "Jump" (1992)
• N.W.A. - "Fuck tha Police" (1988)

• Nina Simone "To Be Young Gifted and Black" (1970)

June 18, 2021

• The Magnetic Fields - "Acoustic Guitar" (1999)
• Django Reinhardt - "Brazil" (1947)
• Soccer Mommy - "circle the drain" (2020)
• The Belles - "Melvin" (2017)
• Liz Phair - "Soberish" (2021)
• The Hold Steady "Family Farm" (2021)
• Dinosaur Jr. - "I Ran Away" (2021)
• The Groupies - "Primitive" (2020)
• Connie Converse - "Playboy of the Western World" (2009)
• The Chosen Gospel Singers - "What a Wonderful Sight" (1992)
• Artie Shaw - "Nightmare" (1938)
• Carsie Blanton - "That Boy" (2019)
• Delaney & Bonnie - "Only You Know and I Know" (1972)
• Aretha Franklin - "Oh Me Oh My (I'm a Fool for You Baby)" (1972)
• Ella Fitzgerald - "What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?" (1960)
• Andrew Lloyd Webber & Tim Rice - "Heaven On Their Minds" from Jesus Christ Superstar (1970)

June 11, 2021

• The Staples Singers - "We've Got To Get Ourselves Together" (1968)
• Ida Maria - "Dirty Money" (2021)
• Tyrone Davis - "Can I Change My Mind" (1968)
• Dua Lipa - "Levitating" (2020)
• Ruth Brown - "I Don't Know" (1959)
• Fiona Apple - "Why Try to Change Me Now" (2009)
• The Rolling Stones - Sway" (1971)
• Tony Allen - "Mau Mau" (2021)
• The Band - "Long Black Veil" (1968)
• Fountains of Wayne - "Radiation Vibe" (2006)
• Patti LuPone, Jane Ohringer, and Mandy Patinkin - "Another Suitcase in Another Hall" (1976)
• Gram Parsons and Emmylou Harris - "Love Hurts" (1974)
• Ray Price - "Night Life" (1963)
• The Bobby Fuller Four - "I Fought the Law" (1966)
• Sex Pistols - "God Save the Queen" (1977)

June 4, 2021

Listen: Mixcloud
Theme: "Tonight, let's all make love in London" UK Special (Part 2)

• Pink Floyd - "Interstellar Overdrive" (1967)
• Johnny Kidd & the Pirates - "Shakin’ All Over" (1960)
• Kirsty MacColl - "They Don’t Know" (1979)
• The Merseys - "Sorrow" (1966)
• The Pretty Things - "The Good Mr. Square" (1970)
• The Sons of Fred - "Baby What You Want Me To Do" (1967)
• Cream - "I Feel Free" (1966)
• The Hollies - "Peculiar Situation" (1966)
• Sandie Shaw - "Long Live Love" (1965)
• Joe Cocker - "Marjorine" (1969)
• Jona Lewie - "You’ll Always Find Me in the Kitchen at Parties" (1980)
• Petula Clark - "La Nuit N’en Finit Plus" (1963)
• Manfred Mann - "Pretty Flamingo" (1966)
• Cilla Black - "Alfie" (1966)
• The Who - "The Kids Are Alright" (1966)
• The Kinks - "Dead End Street" (1966)
• The Swinging Blue Jeans - "You’re No Good" (1964)

May 28, 2021

Listen: Mixcloud

• Jackie DeShannon - "Dream Boy" (1965)
• Lil Nas X - "Montero (Call Me by Your Name)" (2021)
• Lee Marvin - "Wand'rin' Star" (1970)
• Dominic Fike - "3 Nights" (2018)
• The Equals - "I Get So Excited" (1968)
• D'Angelo - "Ain't That Easy" (2014)
• Michael Shelly - "We Invented Love" (2005)
• Mitski - "Me and My Husband" (2018)
• Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks - "I Scare Myself" (1969)
• Otis Redding - "Cigarettes and Coffee" (1966)
• Buddy & Julie Miller - "I’m Gonna Make You Love Me" (2019)
• Roger Miller - "Little Green Apples" (1968)
• Noel Coward - "Why Must the Show Go On?" (1957)
• Bobby Charles - "I Must Be in a Good Place Now" (1972)

May 21, 2021

Theme: In honor of Dylan's 80th, an evening of music from several artists who were considered "the new Bob Dylan."

• Patti Smith - "Free Money" (1975)
• Loudon Wainwright III - "Talking New Bob Dylan" (1992)
• Donovan - "Hurdy Gurdy Man" (1968)
• Bruce Springsteen - "Growin' Up (demo version)" (1973)
• Phil Ochs - "Chords of Fame" (1970)
• John Prine and Iris DeMent - "In Spite of Ourselves" (1999)
• The Byrds - "You Ain't Goin' Nowhere" (1968)
• The Band - "I Shall Be Released" (1968)
• Bob Dylan - Bob Dylan takes callers on WBAI radio (1966)
• Bob Dylan - "4th Time Around" (Live at the Royal Albert Hall) (1966)
• Bob Dylan - Bob Dylan takes more callers on WBAI radio (1966)
• Nico - "I'll Keep It With Mine" (1967)
• Bob Dylan - Bob Dylan takes more callers on WBAI radio (1966)
• Faces - "Wicked Messenger" (1970)
• The Byrds - "Ballad of Easy Rider" (1969)

May 14, 2021

• War - "Summer" (1976)
• Doja Cat and SZA - "Kiss Me More" (2021)
• Woody Herman - "Caldonia" (1945)
• The Beatles - "Happiness is a Warm Gun (Escher Demo)” (1968)
• Gil Scott-Heron - "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" (1971)
• The Flaming Lips - "The Race for the Prize” (1999)
• Erma Franklin - "Piece of My Heart” (1967)
• Jack Ingram, Miranda Lambert, and Jon Randall - “Am I Right or Amarillo” (2021)
• Jeff Beck - “Shapes of Things” (1966)
• Pixies - “Wave of Mutilation” (1989)
• The Paragons - “On a Beach” (1967)
• Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers - “New England” (1976)
• Ted Hopkins - “Sorry You’re Sick” (1982)
• Curtis Mayfield - “Future Shock” (1973)
• The Ink Spots - “Do I Worry?” (1941)
• Liza Minnelli - “Maybe This Time” (from Cabaret) (1972)
• The Meters - “Wichita Linemen” (1970)

May 7, 2021

• Minnie Riperton - "Les Fleurs" (1970)
• Lucinda Williams - "Drunken Angel" (1998)
• The Rose Garden - "Next Plane to London" (1967)
• Fleetwood Mac - "Tusk" (1979)
• Quasi - "I Never Want to See You Again" (1998)
• The Weakerthans - "Plea From A Cat Named Virtute" (2003)
• TV on the Radio - "Wolf Like Me" (2006)
• The Hollies - "I Can't Let Go" (1965)
• Linda Ronstadt - “Long, Long Time” (1970)
• Jeffrey Lewis - “Cult Boyfriend” (2011)
• John Prine - “Sam Stone” (1971)
• Kurt Weill - "Big Mole" (from Lost in the Stars) (1948)
• Fountains of Wayne - “Hackensack” (2003)
• Dionne Warwick - “Anyone Who Had a Heart” (1963)
• Girlpool - "Cut Your Bangs" (2015)
• The Tornados - “Telstar” (1962)

April 30, 2021

• The Mountain Goats - "This Year" (2005)
• Jonathan Coulton and Sarah Quinn - "Still Alive" (2011)
• Rubblebucket - "If U C My Enemies" (2017)
• The Decemberists - "Sixteen Military Wives" (2005)
• Wilco - "Heavy Metal Drummer" (2002)
• The Clash - "Lost in the Supermarket" (1979)
• The Impressions - "We're a Winner" (1967)
• This Heat - "Paper Hats" (1981)
• The Pogues - "Sally MacLennane" (1984)
• Yvonne De Carlo - “I’m Still Here” (from Follies) (1971)
• Loudon Wainwright III - “More I Cannot Wish You” (2020)
• Feist - “Any Party” (2017)
• Sons of Fred - “Baby What You Want Me to Do” (1967)
• Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart - “Two For the Price of One” (1967)
• Elvis Costello - “Hoover Factory” (1979)

April 23, 2021

• Courtney Barnett - “Avant Gardner” (2012)
• Jake Holmes - “Dazed and Confused” (1967)
• The Poppy Family - “Where Evil Grows” (1971)
• Gorillaz feat. George Benson - “Humility” (2021)
• The Beach Boys - “Little Bird” (1968)
• St. Vincent - “The Melting of the Sun” (2021)
• Langston Hughes - “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” (1921)
• Bobby Womack - “Across 110th Street” (1973)
• Vulfpeck - “Back Pocket” (2015)
• The Hollies with Peter Sellers - “After the Fox” (1966)
• The Kinks - “Picture Book” (1968)
• Jack Kerouac and Steve Allen - “I’d Rather Be Thin Than Famous” (1958)
• Sharon van Etten - “A Crime” (2010)
• Jimmy Radcliffe - “(There Goes) The Forgotten Man” (2008)
• Queens of the Stone Age - “No One Knows” (2001)
• Led Zeppelin - “Immigrant Song” (1969)
• Édith Piaf - “La Vie en rose” (1947)

April 16, 2021

• Tierra Whack - “Link” (2021)
• John Spencer Blues Explosion - “Bellbottoms” (1994)
• King Floyd - “Baby Let Me Kiss You” (1971)
• Gladys Knight and the Pips - “The End of Our Road” (1967)
• Nick Lowe - “36 Inches High” (2008)
• Benjamin Britten - “Opus 7: Cuckoo!” (1995)
• Yo La Tengo - “You Can Have It All” (2000)
• Allen Toussaint - “What is Success?” (2019)
• Swamp Dogg - “Creeping Away” (1991)
• Ella Fitzgerald - “When I Get Low I Get High” (1937)
• Royal Jesters - “Take Me For a Little While” (1969)
• Prince - “When You Were Mine” (1980)
• J Mascis - “Listen To Me” (2011)
• Vivian Blaine and The Hot Box Girls - “Take Back Your Mink” (from “Guys and Dolls”) (1950)
• Georgie Fame - “Somebody Stole My Thunder” (1969)
• Beck - “Lost Cause” (2001)

April 9, 2021

• Les Paul and Mary Ford - “How High the Moon“ (1952)
• Big Thief - “Off You” (2021)
• Nina Simone - “I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free” (1966)
• Dengue Fever - “Tiger Phone Card” (2007)
• Chris Pine and Billy Magnussen - “Agony” (from Into the Woods) (2013)
• Jimmy Scott - “On Broadway” (1970)
• Harry Nilsson - “I Guess the Lord Must Be in New York City” (1969)
• Tom Waits - “Downtown Train” (1985)
• Television - “Marquee Moon” (1977)
• Bobby Short - “I Happen To Like New York” (1973)
• Bobbie Gentry - “Mississippi Delta” (1967)
• The Neighborhoods - “Prettiest Girl” (1979)
• Dr. John - “Mama Roux” (1967)
• King Pleasure - “Moody’s Mood for Love” (1959)
• Glen Campbell - “Galveston” (1969)
• Calexico - “Alone Again Or” (2004)

April 2, 2021

• The Greenhornes - “There Is An End“ (2001)
• Tune-Yards - “Cannonball“ (2021)
• Rose Mitchell - “Baby, Please Don’t Go” (1954)
• Fadoul - “Sid Redad” (1971)
• Dua Lipa - “Don’t Start Now” (2020)
• Dan the Automator - “Ganges a Go-Go” (1999)
• Elliott Smith - “Between the Bars” (1997)
• Neil Young & Graham Nash - “Birds (Demo)” (2021)
• The Reigning Sound - “Stormy Weather (2002)
• Jacques Dutronc - “Hippie Hippie Hourrah” (1968)
• Can - “Vitamin C” (1971)
• Moondog - “Bird’s Lament” (1997)
• Bedhead - “Golden Brown” (1998)
• The Mothers Of Invention - “Help, I’m a Rock” (1966)
• Elvis Presley - “Crawfish” (1958)
• Talking Heads - “Sugar On My Tongue” (1992)
• The Comedian Harmonists - “Wir sind von Kopf bis Fuß auf Liebe eingestellt” (1930)
• Stu Phillips, Lynn Carey & Barbara Robison - “In the Long Run” (1970)

March 26, 2021

Theme: "Songs About Happiness and Rickenbacker Guitars"

• The Edwin Hawkins Singers - "Oh Happy Day" (1967)
• Alive 'N Kickin' - "Tighter, Tighter" (1969)
• Jackie DeShannon - "Put a Little Love in Your Heart" (1969)
• Every Mother's Son - "Come On Down to My Boat" (1967)
• The 5th Dimension - "Sweet Blindness" (1968)
• The Toys - "A Lover's Concerto" (1965)
• The Box Tops - "Soul Deep" (1968)
• The Jam - "Art School" (1977)
• The Jayhawks - "Stumbling Through the Dark" (2003)
• The Who - "I Can't Explain" (1971)
• R.E.M. - "Fall On Me" (1986)
• The Byrds - "Eight Miles High" (1966)
• Matthew Sweet - "I've Been Waiting" (1990)
• Teenage Fanclub - "I Need Direction" (2000)
• The Smiths - "Ask" (1986)
• The Great Scots - "That's My Girl" (1998)
• Big Star - "September Gurls" (1974)
• The La's - "There She Goes" (1988)
• The Kinks - "Tired of Waiting for You" (1965)

March 19, 2021

• Wild Billy Childish - “He's making a tape” (2008)
• The Breeders - "The Dirt Eaters" (2021)
• Edna St. Vincent Millay - "Recuerdo" (1923)
• Awakebutstillinbed - "beauty" (2020)
• Compulsive Gamblers - "Your Happiness" (2000)
• Johnny Kidd & the Pirates - "Shakin' All Over" (1960)
• The Bottle Rockets - "Farmer John" (2013)
• Iggy Pop - "Nightclubbing" (1977)
• Lyle Lovett - "That's Right (You're Not From Texas)" (1999)
• Selena Gomez - "Adiós" (2021)
• Loudon Wainwright III - "You Rascal You (I'll Be Glad When You're Dead)" (2020)
• The Buff Medways - "Archive from 1959" (2002)
• Betty Everett - "Getting Mighty Crowded" (1964)
• Jimi Hendrix - "Crosstown Traffic" (1968)
• The Ramones - "Judy is a Punk" (1976)
• Mary Hopkin - "There's No Business Like Show Business" (1969)
• Nathan Lane, Roger Bart - "Invocation and Instructions to the Audience" (2012)
• Ivor Cutler - "Women of the World" (1983)

March 12, 2021

• Thee Headcoats - “The First Plane Home” (1991)
• St. Vincent - “Pay Your Way in Pain“ (2021)
• The Muffs - “Do You Want Her - 4-Track Demo’” (2015)
• Remi Wolf & Dominic Fike - “Photo ID’” (2021)
• Lil’ Queenie & The Percolators - “My Darlin’ New Orleans” (2010)
• Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass - “Casino Royale” (1967)
• Beck - “Sexx Laws” (1999)
• The Dirtbombs - “Chains of Love” (2013)
• Redd Kross - “Stay Away from Downtown” (2012)
• Quasi - “Which Side Are You On, Colonel?” (2001)
• Frank Black - “I Burn Today” (2005)
• Bo Diddley - “Pills” (1966)
• Lyres - “Help You Ann” (1984)
• Darrell Banks - “Open the Door to Your Heart“ (1967)
• Teenage Fanclub - "It's All in My Mind" (2005)
• The Dukes of Stratosphear - “Vanishing Girl” (1987)
• The Stooges - “I Wanna Be Your Dog” (1969)

March 5, 2021

• NRBQ - "I Want You Bad" (1978)
• The 6ths - "San Diego Zoo" (1995)
• The Fall - "How I Wrote 'Elastic Man'" (1980)
• Better Oblivion Community Center - "Sleepwalkin'" (2019)
• Mike Adams At His Honest Weight - “Wonderful to Love” (2019)
• Bob Dylan - “Talkin’ Hava Negeilah Blues” (1962)
• Ella Fitzgerald - “Mack the Knife (Live in Berlin)” (1960)
• Soccer Mommy - “Circle the Drain” (2020)
• Chris Stamey - “(I Thought) You Wanted to Know” (2015)
• Roomful of Teeth - “No” (2012)
• Robert Morse - “How To” (1961)
• Bob Dylan - “LIke a Rolling Stone” (outtake) (1965)
• Alex Chilton - “What’s Your Sign Girl” (1995)
• France Gall - “Poupée de cire, poupée de son” (1965)
• Human Sexual Response - “Jackie Onassis” (1980)
• Daft Punk - “Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger” (2001)

February 26, 2021

• Betty Davis - "Anti Love Song" (1973)
• The Weather Station - "Parking Lot" (2021)
• Machine Gun Kelly ft. Halsey - "forget me too" (2020)
• Linda Lyndell - "What a Man" (1968)
• Mel Tormé - "Right Now" (1966)
• Manu Dibango - "Soul Makossa" (1972)
• Mott the Hoople - "All the Young Dudes" (1972)
• Fats Waller - "Two Sleepy People" (1938)
• Johnny Williams - "Theme to Time Tunnel" (1967)
• Arctic Monkeys - "Despair in the Departure Lounge" (2006)
• Ray Barretto - "Deeper Shade of Soul" (1968)
• Nichols and May - "Thank You Very Much" (1961)
• Lil Rascals Brass Band - "Knock With Me, Rock With Me" (2008)
• The Louvin Brothers - "The Great Atomic Power" (1962)
• The Band - "Commercial for the album Stage Fright" (1970)
• Little Willie John - "I'm Shakin'" (1960)
• Willie Bobo - "Fried Neck Bones and Some Home Fries" (1966)

February 19, 2021

Theme: "The 'going' edition."

• Jet - "Are You Gonna Be My Girl" (2003)
• Bob Dylan - "You Ain't Goin' Nowhere" (1971)
• The Bangles - "I'm Going Down To Liverpool" (1984)
• Dusty Springfield - "Goin' Back" (1966)
• The White Stripes - "We're Going to Be Friends" (2002)
• The Jam - "Going Underground" (1979)
• Mose Allison - "If You're Going to the City" (1962)
• The Zombies - "Going Out Of My Head" (1976)
• Eels - "I Like The Way This Is Going" (2010)
• LL Cool J - "Going Back To Cali" (1988)
• The Poppy Family - "Which Way You Goin', Billy?" (1969)
• Joe Jackson - "Is She Really Going Out With Him?" (1979)
• Jennifer Holliday - "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going" (1982)
• Ben Folds - "Radio Jingles For Tokyo's Inter-FM" (2005)
• Elliot Smith - "Going Nowhere" (1994-1997)
• The Mountain Goats - "Going To Port Washington" (1999)
• The Monkees - "Goin' Down" (1967)
• ZZ Top - "Goin' Down To Mexico" (1971)

February 5, 2021

Theme: "Smoking, drugs, plus one segment of all new releases"

• The Isley Brothers - "Work to Do" (1972)
• Ronnie Spector - "Try Some, Buy Some" (1971)
• Françoise Hardy - "L'amour ne dure pas toujours" (1963)
• Sincere Engineer - "Tourniquet" (2021)
• The Band - "Time to Kill" (Live at the Royal Albert Hall, 1971)
• Weezer - "All My Favorite Songs" (2021)
• Willie Nelson - "That's Life" (2021)
• Arthur Russell - "Time Away" (2004)
• James Carr - "The Dark End of the Street" (1967)
• The Rolling Stones - "Connection" (1967)
• The Free Design - "Love You" (1970)
• The Dixie Cups - "Iko Iko" (1964)
• Dave Von Ronk - "Cocaine Blues" (1962)
• The Original Blind Boys - "People Don't Sing Like They Used To Sing" (1965)
• Dan Reeder - "Clean Elvis" (2003)
• Cilla Black - "Anyone Who Had a Heart" (1964)
• The Clique - "Superman" (1969)
• k.d. lang - "Theme From the Valley of the Dolls" (1997)
• Little Feat - "Willin'" (1972)

January 29, 2021

• St. Vincent - "Marry Me" (2007)
• Ms. Lauryn Hill - "Ex-Factor" (2008)
• The Magnetic Fields - "Acoustic Guitar" (1999)
• Norma Fraser - "The First Cut is the Deepest" (1967)
• The Roches - "Mr. Sellack" (1979)
• Dear Nora - "To Fail Is Not to Fail" (1999)
• The Mynabirds - "Numbers Don't Lie" (2010)
• Mary Ford, Les Paul - "Smoke Rings" (1952)
• Human Switchboard - "(Say No to) Saturday's Girl" (1981)
• Helen Forrest - "You Better Go Now" (1985)
• Shelly Duvall - "He Needs Me" (1980)
• P.P. Arnold - "Medicated Goo" (2017)
• Margo Guryan - "Sunday Morning" (2007)
• Margo Guryan - "Chopsticks Variation 3 - Allegretto" (2009)
• Love Apple - "Man on the Side" (2012)
• Olivia Rodrigo - "drivers license" (2021)

January 22, 2021

Theme: "Tonight Let's All Make Love in London"

• X-Ray Spex - "Germ Free Adolescents" (2001)
• Allen Ginsburg - "Tonite Let's All Make Love in London" (1968)
• Lily Allen - "LDN" (2006)
• The Who - "Substitute" (1971)
• Sandie Shaw - "Jeane" (1988)
• The Specials - "Enjoy Yourself (It's Later Than You Think)" (1980)
• Billy Bragg - "Sexuality" (1991)
• Kristy McColl - "A New England" (1985)
• The Jazz Butcher - "Party Time" (1985)
• Mekons - "Where Were You?" (2010)
• The Troggs - "I Can't Control Myself" (1966)
• Arctic Monkeys - "Fluorescent Adolescent" (2007)
• Lloyd Cole and The Commotions - "Lost Weekend" (1985)
• Cat Stevens - "Portobello Road" (1967)
• The Jam - "Town Called Malice (demo)" (1982)
• Allen Ginsburg - "Tonite Let's All Make Love in London" (1968)
• David Bowie - "Where Are We Now?" (2013)
• Peter Stampfel - "Goldfinger" (1995)

January 15, 2021

• Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings - "This Land Is Your Land" (2005)
• Beauty Pill - "Instant Night" (2021)
• Aimee Mann - "Can't You Tell?" (2016)
• Joe Higgs - "(I'm the) Song My Enemies Sing" (1966)
• Harry Nilsson - "Jump into the Fire" (1971)
• The Honey Drippers - "Impeach The President" (1973)
• The Impressions - "This Is My Country" (1968)
• John Lennon - "Gimme Some Truth" (1971)
• James Brown - "Funky President (People It's Bad)" (1974)
• Phil Ochs - "When I'm Gone" (1966)
• The Staple Singers - "Sit Down Servant" (1961)
• The Chambers Brothers - "Time Has Come Today" (1966)
• Vera Lynn - "We'll Meet Again" (1953)

January 8, 2021

• Laura Cantrell - "Lee Harvey Was A Friend Of Mine" (1996)
• Bob Dylan & The Band - "See You Later Allen Ginsberg (Take 1)" (1967)
• Alabama Shakes - "Don't Wanna Fight" (2015)
• David Bowie - "Alabama Song" (1980)
• The Jacksons - "Enjoy Yourself" (1976)
• The Strokes - "The Adults Are Talking" (2020)
• Reigning Sound - "Never Coming Home" (2014)
• Carsie Blanton - "Smoke Alarm" (2012)
• Madness - "It Must Be Love" (1981)
• Rufus Wainwright - "Damsel In Distress" (2020)
• Ruth Etting - "Ten Cents a Dance" (1930)
• The Furors - "A Waste of Time" (1987)
• Gladys Knight & the Pips - "It Should Have Been Me" (1968)
• Father John Misty - "I'm Writing a Novel" (2012)
• Lucky Millinder - "Who Said Shorty Wasn't Coming Back?" (1950)
• The Hives - "Main Offender" (2001)
• Bobby Charles - "I Must Be in a Good Place Now" (1972)

January 1, 2021

• Soccer Mommy - "royal screw up" (2020)
• The Greyboy Allstars - "How Glad I Am" (2007)
• Slim Gaillard - "Yep-Roc-Heresy" (1956)
• The Magnetic Fields - "The Book of Love" (1999)
• Camille Harris - "Accentuate the Positive" (2014)
• Rebirth Brass Band - "Take It to the Street" (1992)
• Ted Hawkins - "Peace & Happiness" (1982)
• Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings - "Longer and Stronger" (2011)
• Flo Morrissey and Matthew E. White - "Look at What the Light Did Now" (2017)
• Ray Charles - "I Got a Woman" (1954)
• Nick Lowe - "When I Write the Book" (1989)
• Arthur Russell - "Nobody Wants a Lonely Heart" (2008)
• Dr. John - "Right Place, Wrong Time" (1973)
• Crooked Fingers - "Sleep All Summer" (2005)
• Rising Sons - "Take a Giant Step" (1966)
• Sister Rosetta Tharpe - "Rock Me" (1938)
• The Kinks - "Where Have All the Good Times Gone" (1965)

December 25, 2020

Theme: "The last bit of Christmas music for 2020"

• Fountains of Wayne - "Better Things" (1981)
• Miles Davis and Bob Dorough - "Blue Xmas (To Whom It May Concern)" (1962)
• Kay Kyser and Harry Babbitt - "What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?" (1947)
• Radiator Hospital - "Imposter Syndrome" (2020)
• James Brown - "Santa Claus Is Definitely Here to Stay" (1970)
• Surfaces - "Sunday Best" (2019)
• N.A.S.A. ft. RZA, Barbie Hatch, and John Frusciante - "Way Down" (2009)
• Judy Garland - "I Happen to Like New York" (1962)
• Car Seat Headrest - "Weightlifters" (2020)
• Bee Gees - "Turn of the Century" (1967)
• Paul McCartney - "Find My Way" (2020)
• Una Mae Carlisle - "I Met You Then, I Know You Now" (1940)
• Brendan Benson - "Metarie" (2002)
• Neil Young - "White Line" (2020)
• Cass Elliot - "New World Coming" (1970)
• Chris Collingwood as Look Park - "Shout Part 1" (2016)

December 18, 2020

• Zara McFarlane - "Plain Gold Ring" (2014)
• Buddy and Julie Miller - "I'm Gonna Make You Love Me" (2019)
• Elizabeth Cotten - "Shake Sugaree" (1967)
• Ruth Brown - "Wild, Wild Young Men" (1953)
• The Flying Burrito Brothers - "The Dark End of the Street" (1969)
• Jimi Hendrix - "Are You Experienced?" (1967)
• The Raconteurs - "Help Me Stranger" (2019)
• Daniela Andrade - "La Vie en rose" (2015)
• Allen Toussaint - "Sweet Touch of Love" (1971)
• Margo Guryan - "Sunday Morning" (1968)
• Thelonious Monk - "I'm Confessin' (That I Love You)" (1965)
• Karen Dalton - "Little Bit of Rain" (1969)
• Captain Beefheart - "Her Eyes Are a Blue Million Miles" (1972)
• The Beach Boys - "Little Bird" (1968)
• Laura Cantrell - "The Whiskey Makes You Sweeter" (2000)
• Buffalo Springfield - "Out Of My Mind" (1966)

December 11, 2020

Theme: "John F.'s soul spectacular"

• Big Maybelle - "96 Tears" (1967)
• Baby Washington - "What Becomes of the Brokenhearted" (1969)
• Willie Tee - "Walking Up a One Way Street" (1965)
• Gino Washington - "Puppet on a String" (1964)
• Eddie Bo - "Check Your Bucket" (1970)
• The Impressions - "We're a Winner" (1967)
• Dusty Springfield - "Live It Up" (1964)
• Jolly Green Giants - "Busy Body" (1966)
• Hot 8 Brass Band - "Ghost Town" (2012)
• James Brown - "Get on the Good Foot" (1972)
• The Beginning of the End - "Funky Nassau" (1971)
• Don Gardner - "My Baby Likes to Boogaloo" (1966)
• Ohio Players - "Fire" (1974)
• The Action 13 - "More Bread (To The People)" (1973)
• Don Covay - "Yo-Yo Part 2" (1977)
• The Chi-Lites - "Stoned Out of My Mind" (1973)
• The Rolling Stones - "Mercy, Mercy" (1965)

December 4, 2020

• Patti Smith - "Gloria: In Excelsis Deo" (1975)
• The Residents - "Amber" (1980)
• Shirley Bassey - "Goldfinger" (1964)
• Aimee Mann - "Labrador" (2012)
• The Creatures - "Right Now" (1983)
• Tom Waits - "Jockey Full of Bourbon" (1985)
• Irma Thomas - "Ruler of My Heart" (1963)
• Ted Hawkins - "Sorry You're Sick" (1982)
• Ray Price - "Night Life" (1963)
• Bryan Ferry - "Casanova" (1976)
• Cream - "I Feel Free" (1966)
• T. Rex - "Jeepster" (1971)
• Tom Robinson Band - "Glad to Be Gay" (1978)
• The Paragons - "The Tide Is High" (1967)
• The Clash - "Straight to Hell" (1982)
• Earnest - "Straight to Neil" (2006)
• The Flirtations - "Nothing but a Heartache" (1968)

November 27, 2020

• Broadcast - "Tears in the Typing Pool" (2005)
• Lucinda Williams - "Car Wheels on a Gravel Road" (1998)
• Lyle Lovett - "That's Right (You're Not from Texas)" (1997)
• The Magnetic Fields - "Papa Was a Rodeo" (1999)
• The 6ths - "San Diego Zoo" (1995)
• D'Angelo and The Vanguard- "Ain't That Easy" (2014)
• Jane Wiedlin and The Specials - "Our Lips Are Sealed" (1981)
• Queens of the Stone Age - "The Lost Art of Keeping a Secret" (2000)
• Fiona Apple - "Fetch the Bolt Cutters" (2020)
• Jonathan Coulton - "You Ruined Everything" (2006)
• Dressy Bessy - "If You Should Try to Kiss Her" (1999)
• Son Volt - "Tear Stained Eye" (1995)
• Dante & the Evergreens - "What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?" (1960)
• The Electric Prunes - "Vox wah-wah pedal advertisement" (1967)
• The Nervous Breakdowns - "I Dig Your Mind" (1960)
• AC/DC - "Shot in the Dark" (2020)

November 20, 2020

• Au Revoir Simone - "Crazy" (2013)
• Rev. Milton Brunson's Thompson Community Singers - "It's Gonna Rain" (1998)
• The Barbarians - "Are You a Boy or Are You a Girl" (1965)
• Sylvia Plath - "The Surgeon at 2 a.m." (1971)
• Mick Jagger - "Memo from Turner" (1968)
• Salaam Remi ft. Black Thought, Syleena Johnson, Cee-Lo Green, Anthony Hamilton, and Stephen Marley - "Is It Because I'm Black" (2020)
• The Merseys - "Sorrow" (1966)
• Merle Haggard and The Strangers - "Mama Tried" (1968)
• Daniel Johnston - "Speeding Motorcycle" (1985)
• The Modern Lovers - "Roadrunner" (1972)
• Dexys Midnight Runners - "Tell Me When My Light Turns Green" (1980)
• Dennis Wilson - "Pacific Ocean Blues" (1977)
• Bobby Womack - "Across 110th Street" (1973)
• The Hollies - "Peculiar Situation" (1966)
• Ella Fitzgerald - "What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?" (1960)

November 13, 2020

• Sincere Engineer - "Trust Me" (2021)
• Laurie Anderson - "Walk the Dog" (1981)
• Dylan Thomas - "In my Craft or Sullen Art" (1946)
• Titus Andronicus - "Dimed Out" (2015)
• Karen O & Willie Nelson - "Under Pressure" (2020)
• Sam Smith - "To Die For" (2020)
• Tierra Whack - "Dora" (2020)
• Matthew Sweet - "At a Loss" (2021)
• The Young Rascals - "I Ain't Gonna Eat Out My Heart Anymore" (1965)
• Fountains of Wayne - "Sink to the Bottom" (1997)
• Hüsker Dü - "Makes No Sense at All" (1985)
• Television - "Marquee Moon" (1977)
• The Soul President - "Got to Have It" (1968)
• The Big Three - "Some Other Guy" (1963)
• Gene Vincent and His Blue Caps - "Woman Love" (1956)
• Bob Dylan - "Positively 4th Street" (1965)
• Dylan Thomas - "Do not go gentle into that good night" (1951)
• Webb Pierce - "There Stands the Glass" (1953)

October 30, 2020

• Elizabeth Bishop - "Late Air" (1955)
• Webb Pierce - "In the Jailhouse Now" (1954)
• The Beatles - "I'm So Tired (Anthology 3 Version)" (1968)
• E. E. Cummings - "pity this busy monster, manunkind" (1944)
• Teenage Fanclub - "I Need Direction" (2000)
• Kraftwerk - "Computer World" (1981)
• Ben Folds - "Radio Jingles for Tokyo's Inter-FM" (2005)
• Pops Staples - "Somebody Was Watching" (2015)
• Dr. John - "Me Minus You Equals Loneliness" (1974)
• Connie Converse - "How Sad, How Lovely" (2009)
• Ace Frehley - "New York Groove" (1978)
• Mose Allison - "Your Mind Is on Vacation" (1976)
• The Weakerthans - "Sun in an Empty Room" (2007)
• Billie Eilish - "My Future" (2020)
• Dyke and the Blazers - "We Got More Soul" (1969)
• Joe Cocker - "Marjorine" (1968)
• Elvis Costello - "Hoover Factor" (1980)
• Saint Etienne - "London Belongs to Me" (1991)
• Tracey Thorn - "Dancefloor" (2018)

October 23, 2020

• Nina Simone - "Feeling Good" (1965)
• Neil Young - "I Wonder If I Care As Much" (2014)
• Jeff Beck - "You Shook Me" (1968)
• John Cooper Clarke - "Night People" (1982)
• Nancy Sinatra - "Not the Lovin' Kind" (1966)
• Liz Green - "Bei Mir Bist Du Shein" (2012)
• Fiona Apple & Jon Brion - "Everyday" (2011)
• Yo La Tengo - "Wasn't Born to Follow" (2020)
• T. Rex - "Mambo Sun" (1971)
• James Chance and the Contortions - "Contort Yourself" (1978)
• Lijadu Sisters - "Come On Home" (1979)
• Girlpool - "Before the World Was Big" (2015)
• The Nashville Teens - "Tobacco Road" (1964)
• The Louvin Brothers - "Satan Is Real" (1959)
• Blossom Dearie - "Some Other Time" (1959)
• Falsettos - "Four Jews in a Room Bitching" (2016)
• Jimmy Giuffre - "Jimmy & Bobby"

October 16, 2020

• Shamir - On the Regular (2014)
• Shamir - Diet (2020)
• Better Oblivion Community Center - Dylan Thomas (2019)
• Soul Vibrations - The Dump (2001)
• Van Halen - Panama (1984)
• The Residents - It's a Man's Man's Man's World (1984)
• The Pretty Things - The Good Mr. Square (1970)
• Prince - If I Was Your Girlfriend (1987)
• Prince - Soul Psychodelicide (1986)
• Prince - Hot Thing (1987)
• Marvin Gaye - Sad Tomorrows (1971)
• Marvin Gaye - Symphony (Demo) (1971)
• Wanda Jackson - Funnel of Love (1961)
• The Budos Band - Long in the Tooth (2020)
• Matthew Sweet - Sick of Myself (1995)
• George "Bongo Joe" Coleman - I Wish I Could Sing (1969)
• Gwen Verdon - Whatever Lola Wants (1955)
• The Mills Brothers - Till Then (1944)

October 9, 2020

• Big Thief - Paul (2016)
• Tune-Yards - Nowhere, Man (2021)
• Nellie McKay - Ding Dong (2004)
• Claire Rosinkranz - Backyard Boys (2020)
• Better Oblivion Community Center - Didn't Know What I Was In For (2019)
• Lulu - Love Loves to Love Love (1967)
• Marvin Hamlisch - At the Ballet (1975)
• Eels - Are We Alright Again (2020)
• Sufjan Stevens - Lamentations (2020)
• Flamin' Groovies - Shake Some Action (1976)
• Sugar - If I Can't Change Your Mind (1992)
• Kurt Vile and John Prine - How Lucky (2020)
• John Prine and Iris DeMent - In Spite of Ourselves (1999)
• The Nerves - Hanging on the Telephone (1976)
• Blossom Dearie - Tout Doucement (1957)
• Helen Reddy - I Am Woman (1972)

October 2, 2020

Theme: "A full hour tribute to the compositions, productions, arrangements and performances of Allen Toussaint. Everything this shows plays is going to be funky."

• Robert Palmer - "Night People" (1978)
• Labelle - "Lady Marmalade" (1974)
• Irma Thomas - "Time Is on My Side" (1964)
• Lee Dorsey - "Working in the Coal Mine" (1966)
• Aaron Neville - "Hercules" (1973)
• Dr. John - "Right Place, Wrong Time" (1973)
• Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - "Fortune Teller" (2007)
• Allen Toussaint - "Get Out of My Life, Woman" (Live)
• Bonnie Raitt - "What Is Success" (1974)
• The Band - "Life Is a Carnival" (1971)
• The Meters - "Cissy Strut" (1969)
• Irma Thomas - "It's Raining" (1962)
• Jonathan Richman and The Modern Lovers - "It Will Stand" (1975)
• Allen Toussaint - "Southern Nights" (1975)
• The Yardbirds - "A Certain Girl" (1964)
• Little Feat - "On Your Way Down" (1973)

September 25, 2020

Theme: "An hour of hard lefts and rights because it is being put together very spontaneously"

• The Modern Lovers - "Hospital" (1972)
• The Tokens - "Hear the Bells" (1963)
• The Fugs - "Nothing" (1965)
• The Band - "Commercial for the album Stage Fright" (1970)
• Fountains of Wayne - "Hackensack" (2003)
• The Pointer Sisters - "Yes We Can Can" (1973)
• The Firesign Theatre - Sketch (from Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers) (1970)
• The Cookies - "Only to Other People" (1963)
• NRBQ - "I Want You Bad" (1978)
• The Undertones - "Teenage Kicks" (1978)
• Charles Strouse & Martin Charnin - "Tomorrow" from the Musical Annie (1977)
• Pere Ubu - "Life Stinks" (1978)
• Raymond Scott & Jim Henson - "Bufferin:Memories Commercial" (1967)
• The Exciters - "Blowing Up My Mind" (1972)
• The Monks - "Monk Time" (1966)
• Au Pairs - "We're So Cool" (1981)
• Bob Dylan - "Copper Kettle" (1970)
• Chairmen of the Board - "Chairmen of the Board" (1971)

September 18, 2020

• Elvis Costello - Lipstick Vogue (1978)
• Salem Ilese - Mad at Disney (2020)
• The Beatles - Yes It Is (1965)
• Pee Wee Crayton - Do Unto Others (1954)
• The Beatles - Sour Milk Sea (1968)
• Shelby Lynne - Your Lies (1999)
• The Strokes - What Ever Happened (2003)
• Richard Adler and Jerry Ross - Hernando's Hideaway (1954)
• The Band - Katie's Been Gone (1975)
• Johnny Cash - Sunday Coming Down (1970)
• Spanky and Our Gang - Commercial (1967)
• The Lovin' Spoonful - Six O'Clock (1967)
• Richard Hell and the Voidoids - Blank Generation (1976)
• Roger Miller - King of the Road (1965)
• Anita O'Day - That's What You Think (1942)
• Manfred Mann - Pretty Flamingo (1966)
• King Pleasure - Moody's Mood for Love (1952)
• Generation X - Kiss Me Deadly (1978)

September 11, 2020

• The B-52s - "Give Me Back My Man" (1980)
• Dirty Projectors - "Blue Bird" (2018)
• Funkadelic - "Can You Get To That" (1971)
• Duke Ellington - "Take The "A" Train" (1941)
• Liz Phair - "6'1"" (1993)
• Allen Toussaint - "What Is Success" (1971)
• Gene Pitney - "She's A Heartbreaker" (1968)
• Adam Green - "Bluebirds" (2003)
• The Roches - "We" (1979)
• The Shins - "Name For You" (2017)
• The Who - "Radio London/Speakeasy/Rotosound Strings Commercial" (1967)
• Teenage Fanclub - "Commercial Alternative" (1993)
• Evita Original Broadway Cast - "Another Suitcase in Another Hall" (1979)
• Guitar Wolf - "Girl Boss of Paris" (2019)
• Harry Nilsson - "Don't Forget Me" (1974)
• The Creation - "Can I Join Your Band" (1967)
• The Chiffons - "I Have A Boyfriend" (1963)
• George Harrison - "What Is Life" (1970)

September 4, 2020

• St. Vincent - "Bad Girls" from the Bob's Burgers Music Album (2017)
• Blossom Dearie - "Try Your Wings" (1958)
• Lizzo - "Good as Hell" (2016)
• Fiona Apple - "Fetch the Bolt Cutters" (2020)
• Blondie - "Denis" (1978)
• Lee Remick - "Anyone Can Whistle" (1964)
• k.d. lang - "(Theme from) The Valley of the Dolls" (1997)
• The Breeders - "Cannonball" (1993)
• Sugar Pie DeSanto - "Soulful Dress" (1964)
• Carole King - "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman" (1967)
• Margherita Vicario - "Nota Bene" (2013)
• Judee Sill - "Jesus Was a Cross Maker" (1971)
• Dolly Parton - "Jolene" (1974)
• Dusty Springfield - "Take Me for a Little While" (1967)
• Richard and Linda Thompson - "I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight" (1974)
• Karen Dalton - "Something on Your Mind" (1971)
• Judy Garland - "If Love Were All" (1961)
• The Pretenders - "Didn't Want to Be This Lonely" (2020)

August 28, 2020

Repeat of August 21, 2020

August 21, 2020

Theme: Soul music

• Gloria Jones - "Tainted Love" (1965)
• The Showstoppers - "Ain't Nothin' but a House Party" (1967)
• Otis Redding - "Mr. Pitiful" (1964)
• Gino Washington - "Gino's a Coward" (1964)
• The Outsiders - "Respectable" (1966)
• The Staple Singers - "I'll Take You There" (1972)
• Irma Thomas - "Breakaway" (1964)
• Don Covay - "Everything I Do Goin' Be Funky" (1969)
• Eddie Floyd - "Big Bird" (1969)
• Captain Beefheart - "I'm Glad" (1967)
• Derek Martin - "Soul Power" (1967)
• Swamp Dogg - "Synthetic World" (1970)
• The Jades - "I'm Where It's At" (1965)
• Rufus Thomas - "Walking the Dog" (1963)
• Betty Wright - "Shoorah! Shoorah!" (1974)
• Otis Redding and Carla Thomas - "Tramp" (1967)
• James Brown - "Make It Funky" (1971)
• The Bar-Kays - "Soul Finger" (1967)
• The Esquires - "Get On Up" (1967)
• Willie Tee - "Thank You John" (1965)
• Etta James - "Tell Mama" (1967)

August 14, 2020

• Penny and the Quarters - "You and Me" (ca. 1970-1975)
• The Kinks - "This Time Tomorrow" (1970)
• Pere Ubu - "The Modern Dance" (1978)
• Scritti Politti - "Perfect Way" (1985)
• Dominic Fike - "Joe Blazey" (2020)
• Dominic Fike - "Vampire" (2020)
• Little Willie John - "I'm Shakin'" (1960)
• The Normal - "Warm Leatherette" (1978
• The Turtles - "Chevrolet Camaro Commercial" (ca. 1967)
• The Gants - "I Wonder" (1967)
• Kurt Weill & Maxwell Anderson - "Lost in the Stars" (1949)
• Baby Huey - "Hard Times" (1971)
• The Clash - "I Fought the Law" (1979)
• Deer Tick - "Miss K" (2011)
• Steve Reich - "Clapping Music" (1972)
• Nada Surf - "Inside of Love" (2002)

August 7, 2020

• The Velvet Underground - "After Hours" (1969)
• Annie Ross - "Twisted" (1951)
• Prince - "Kiss" (1986)
• The Barbarians - "Are You a Boy or Are You a Girl" (1965)
• Peggy Lee - "Fever" (1958)
• Belle and Sebastian - "If She Wants Me" (2003)
• Shuggie Otis - "Aht Uh Mi Hed" (1974)
• Mary J. Blige ft. 50 Cent - "MJB da MVP" (2005)
• Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels - "Sock It to Me Baby!" (1967)
• Vampire Weekend - "Oxford Comma" (2008)
• Madeline Kenney - "White Window Light" (2020)
• Moondog - "All is Loneliness" (?)
• Stephen Sondheim & Mary Rodgers - "The Boy From..." from The Mad Show (1966)
• The Folk Implosion - "Pole Position" (1997)
• The Kinks - "Where Have All the Good Times Gone" (1965)
• King Pleasure & Annie Ross - "Red Top" (1957)

July 31, 2020

• Sylvan Esso - "Ferris Wheel" (2020)
• Joan Armatrading - "Love and Affection" (1976)
• Andrew Lloyd Webber & Tim Rice - "Heaven On Their Minds" from Jesus Christ Superstar (1970)
• The Specials - "Ghost Town" (1981)
• Yo La Tengo - "Meet the Mets" (2006)
• Johnny Kidd & the Pirates - "Shakin' All Over" (1960)
• Victor Uwaifo - "Arabade" (1980)
• Joni Mitchell - "A Case of You" (1971)
• Paul Williams - "Someday Man" (1970)
• Lou Reed - "Vicious" (1973)
• Curtis Mayfield & The Impressions - "Sad, Sad Girl and Boy" (1963)
• Run the Jewels ft. Greg Nice & DJ Premier - "Ooh La La" (2020)
• Tweedy - "Low Key" (2014)
• War - "Slippin' into Darkness" (1971)
• The Mountain Goats - "This Year" (2005)

July 24, 2020

Theme: Dance party!

• Dua Lipa - "Don't Start Now" (2019)
• Q-Tip - "Vivrant Thing" (1999)
• Robyn - "Call Your Girlfriend" (2011)
• Daft Punk - "One More Time" (2000)
• Sia - "Chandelier" (2014)
• Childish Gambino - "Redbone" (2016)
• Rihanna ft. Jay-Z - "Umbrella" (2007)
• Bell Biv DeVoe - "Poison" (1990)
• The Weeknd - "Can't Feel My Face" (2015)
• N.E.R.D. - "She Wants to Move" (2004)
• Teena Marie - "Square Biz" (1981)
• Karol G & Nicki Minaj - "Tusa" (2019)
• Pete Shelley - "Homosapien" (1981)
• Lauryn Hill - "Everything is Everything" (1999)
• Eric B. & Rakim - "Paid in Full" (1987)

July 17, 2020

Mini Theme: Songs with "one note things" (saxophone in "Flying Home", guitar in "Cinnamon Girl", and saxophone in "Corn Bread")

• The Beths - "I'm Not Getting Excited" (2020)
• Pearly Queen - "Quit Jive'in" (1974)
• Christopher Logue - "Sometimes It's Like You're Dead" (1963)
• Robbie Fulks & Linda Gail Lewis - "Wild! Wild! Wild!" (2018)
• Sharhabil Ahmed - "Argos Farfish" (2020)
• Sasha Dobson - "Simple Things" (2020)
• Robert Preston - "Ya Got Trouble" from The Music Man (1957)
• Lionel Hampton with Illinois Jacquet - "Flying Home" (1939)
• Neil Young - "Cinnamon Girl" (1970)
• Hal Singer Sextet - "Corn Bread" (1948)
• Van Morrison - "Whatever Happened to P.J. Proby?" (2002)
• Jakob Dylan & Jade Castrinos - "Go Where You Wanna Go" (2019)
• Pete Shelley - "Homosapien" (1981)
• Al Green - "For the Good Times" (1972)
• The Monkees - "She" (1967)
• The Magnetic Fields - "How I Failed Ethics" (2017)

July 10, 2020

Theme: Songs you may know more popular versions of.

• Ann Peebles - "I Can't Stand the Rain" (1973)
• Avenue Beat - "F2020" (2020)
• Leonard Bernstein & Stephen Sondheim - "Jet Song" from West Side Story (1957)
• Billy Bragg - "Sexuality" (1991)
• Eartha Kitt - "I Want to Be Evil" (1954)
• Das Racist - "Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell" (2008)
• Ramones - "Sheena Is a Punk Rocker" (1977)
• Norma Tanega - "You're Dead" (1966)
• France Gall - "Laisse tomber les filles" (1964)
• The Elgins - "Put Yourself In My Place" (1965)
• Fountains of Wayne - "All Kinds of Time" (2003)
• The Delfonics - "Ready or Not Here I Come (Can't Hide from Love)" (1968)
• Barbara Dane - "I Hate the Capitalist System" (1973)
• Television - "Little Johnny Jewel Parts 1 and 2" (1975)
• Aaron Neville - "She Took You for a Ride" (1967)
• LCD Soundsystem - "New York, I Love You but You're Bringing Me Down" (2007)
• Arthur Alexander - "Burning Love" (1972)

July 3, 2020

• Pixies - "Gigantic" (1988)
• Annette Hanshaw - "Ho Hum" (1931)
• The Chi-Lites - "Are You My Woman? (Tell Me So)" (1970)
• Cate le Bon - "Are You With Me Now?" (2013)
• Malcolm McLaren - "Buffalo Gals" (1983)
• Amerie - "1 Thing" (2005)
• The Meters - "Oh, Calcutta!" (1969)
• Eddie Bo and the Soul Finders - "Hook and Sling" (1968)
• Dr. John - "Such a Night" (1973)
• David Bowie - "Héros" (1973)
• Laurie Anderson - "O Superman" (1981)
• The Cramps - "Human Fly" (1983)
• The Equals - "I Get so Excited" (1968)
• The Who - "Batman" (1966)
• Charles Wright & The Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band - "Express Yourself" (1970)

June 26, 2020

• Pretenders - "Stop Your Sobbing" (1980)
• Ernie K-Doe - "Here Comes the Girls" (1970)
• The Beths - "Future Me Hates Me" (2018)
• Arctic Monkeys - "Why'd You Only Call Me When You're High" (2013)
• Frank Black - "Headache" (1994)
• The Zombies - "This Will Be Our Year" (1968)
• Luke Kelly - "The Auld Triangle" (1967)
• Jay-Z & Kanye West - "Otis" (2011)
• Marius Constant, Dominik Hauser - The Twilight Zone End Title Theme (2012)
• Yung Wu - "Big Day" (2018)
• Todd Rundgren - "Couldn't I Just Tell You" (1972)
• Nick Lowe - "When I Write the Book" (1980)
• Paul Jones - "Free Me" (1967)
• Levon & The Hawks - "He Don't Love You (And He'll Break Your Heart)" (1994)
• Mac DeMarco - "Nobody" (2019)
• Georgie Fame & the Flames - "Get On The Right Track, Baby" (1965)
• Skeeter Davis - "The End of the World" (1962)
• The Who - "Baby Don't You Do It" (1971)

June 19, 2020

• Michael Shelley - "Baby's In A Bad Mood" (1998)
• Big Star - "September Gurls" (1974)
• Jenny Lewis - "Just One of the Guys" (2014)
• Swamp Dogg, Justin Vernon - "Sleeping Without You Is a Dragg" (2020)
• Elvis Costello - "Watching the Detectives" (1977)
• T.S. Eliot, Robert Speaight - "The Hollow Men" (1954)
• St. Vincent - "Prince Johnny" (2014)
• Les Paul, Mary Ford - "How High The Moon" (1953)
• The National - "You Had Your Soul With You" (2019)
• Ohmme - "Icon" (2018)
• Soccer Mommy - "I Think You're Alright" (2020)
• The Walker Brothers - "The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore" (1966)
• Jamie Lidell - "Multiply" (2005)
• Wee Willie Walker - "Not That I Care" (2015)
• The Creation - "How Does It Feel to Feel (1966)

June 12, 2020

• Billie Holiday - "Strange Fruit" (1939)
• Johnny Cash - "Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream" (2003)
• Gil Scott-Heron - "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" (1971)
• Public Enemy - "Fight the Power" (1990)
• Nina Simone - "Mississippi Goddam" (1964)
• The Clash - "Career Opportunities" (1977)
• Lotte Lenya - "Pirate Jenny" (1954)
• Childish Gambino - "This Is America" (2018)
• Aimee Mann - "Can't You Tell" (2016)
• The Weavers - "Which Side Are You On?" (1961)
• Stevie Wonder - "You Haven't Done Nothin'" (1974)
• Mike Doughty - "Busting Up a Starbucks" (2005)
• The Residents - "When We Were Young" (1980)
• Rudy Vallée - "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" (1932)
• Marvin Gaye - "Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)" (1971)
• Phil Ochs - "When I'm Gone" (1989)

June 5, 2020

• Girlpool - "Cut Your Bangs" (2015)
• The Goon Sax - "Home Haircuts" (2016)
• Big Thief - "Cut My Hair" (2019)
• Pavement - "Cut Your Hair" (1994)
• Nina Simone - "Ain't Got No, I Got Life" (1968)
• Charles Ives - "General William Booth Enters Into Heaven" (1914)
• Kraftwerk - "Trans-Europe Express" (1977)
• Stephen Sondheim - "Not Getting Married" (1970)
• The Long Winters - "The Commander Thinks Aloud" (2005)
• The Jaynetts - "Sally Go 'Round the Roses" (1963)
• Os Mutantes - "A Minha Menina" (1968)
• Norma Tanega - "A Street That Rhymes at 6am" (1966)
• Car Seat Headrest - "Fill in the Blank" (2016)
• Guided By Voices - "Kicker of Elves" (1994)

May 14, 2020

Theme: John F. fills in for The Secret Show

• Raymond Scott, Dorothy Collins - "Hangover Dirt (Instant Fels Naptha)" (1961)
• Teenage Fanclub - "It's All in My Mind" (2005)
• The Roches - "The Married Men" (1979)
• Matthew Sweet - "Time Capsule" (1993)
• The Cookies - "I Never Dreamed" (1964)
• The Jive Five - "What Time Is It" (1962)
• Big Star - "September Gurls" (1974)
• Flamin' Groovies - "You Tore Me Down" (1976)
• The Bangles - "Going Down to Liverpool" (1984)
• The Feelies - "Fa ce-La" (2009)
• The Mills Brothers - "How'm I Doin'? (Hey! Hey!)" (1932)
• The Kossoy Sisters - "Bowling Green" (1956)
• The Beatles - "Two of Us" (1970)
• Carole King - "He's a Bad Boy" (1963)
• Caroline Shaw - "Partita for 8 Singers: No. 4. Passacaglia" (2013)
• Brian Wilson - "One for the Boys" (1988)
• Comedian Harmonists - "Veronika, der Lenz ist da" (1930)
• The Monkees - "Ríu Ríu Chíu" (1967)
• Gullivers People - "Splendor in the Grass" (1966)
• The Persuasions - "You Can Have Her" (1986)

May 7, 2020

Theme: John F. fills in for The Secret Show

• Bobby Charles - "Small Town Talk" (1972)
• Louis Armstrong - "(When We Are Dancin') I Get Ideas" (1951)
• Lorraine Ellison - "Try (Just a Little Bit Harder)" (1966)
• The Creation - "How Does It Feel to Feel" (1966)
• Esso Trinidad Steel Band - "I Want You Back" (1971)
• Skeeter Davis - "Things to You" (1986)
• Brian Eno - "Cindy Tells Me" (1973)
• Evie Sands - "Take Me For a Little While" (1969)
• Judy Garland - "If Love Were All" (1961)
• Fiona Apple - "Under the Table" (2020)
• Connie Converse - "Talkin' Like You (Two Tall Mountains)" (2009)
• Courtney Barnett - "Depreston" (2015)
• Glen Campbell - "Witchita Lineman" (1968)
• Drake - "Toosie Slide" (2020)
• John Prine - "Sam Stone" (1971)
• Dan Auerbach - "Waiting on a Song" (2017)
• Ron Sexsmith - "Secret Heart" (1995)
• Willie Bobo - "Spanish Grease" (1965)

External links

• Low Stakes homepage on WJFF 90.5FM Radio Catskill
• Low Stakes with John F. on Mixcloud, featuring full archived episodes
• WJFF on Mixcloud
• Low Stakes w/ John F., a public Spotify playlist curated by Flansburgh
• The Complete Low Stakes w/ John F. Playlist, an unofficial playlist comprised of every song played on the show