This Weeek's Playlist & Podcast

Statler Brothers

This week saw the airing of the 110^th edition of the Idiosyncratic History of Rock, with a theme of Big Screen/Little Screen—songs related to movies and television. You can see the playlist below, and by clicking here, you can listen to a recording of the full broadcast.

TV Party, Black Flag

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Hugo Montenegro

Prove It, Television

A Hard Day’s Night, Beatles

Western Movies, Olympics

Ringo, Lorne Greene

Whatever Happened to Randolph Scott, Statler Brothers

Rowdy, Clint Eastwood

My Rifle, My Pony & Me, Dean Martin & Ricky Nelson

Celluloid Heroes, Kinks

Silent Film Star, Grandpaboy

The Curley Shuffle, Jump n the Saddle Band

Rock Around the Clock, Bill Haley & the Comets

Highly Illogical, Leonard Nimoy

Dinner With Drac. Part 1, John Zacherle

TeleVee-Shun, Stan Freberg w/ Billy May & Orchestra

I Hate the TV, Violent Femmes

Rock’n’Roll High School, Ramones

A Million Miles Away, Plimsouls

Don’t You Forget About me, Simple Minds

Moving in Stereo, Cars

I Melt With You, Modern English

Hooray for Captain Spaulding, Groucho Marx

I Taut I Taw a Puddy Tat, Mel Blanc

Cruella DeVille, Replacements

Wake Up Little Susie, Everly Brothers

Goldfinger, Shirley Bassey

Kung Fu Fighting, Carl Douglas

The Barney Fife Song, Gums and Moses

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, Gil Scott-Heron

Bonanza, Johnny Cash

Hawaii Five-O, Ventures

She Loves You, Peter Sellers

King Tut, Steve Martin

Let Her In, John Travolta

Everybody’s Talkin’, Nilsson

Stuck in the Middle with You, Stealers’ Wheel

57 Channels (and Nothin’ On), Bruce Springsteen

Television, the Drug of the Nation, Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy