Started by marking the birthdays of Neil Innes of the Bonzo Dog Band and Dan Hicks. Noted the passing of Greg Lake this week at 69.
Then a bunch of songs expressing concern about the elections — 12 years ago. Closed with not quite Christmas songs that nonetheless spoke of oncoming winter weather, the buying of trees and a first snowfall. There’s still plenty of Friday nights to get more directly into holiday music mode.
Here’s what I played on the radio tonight:
Friday Night Rock 12-9-2016, 10 p.m.- 1 a.m. Radio CPR, 101.7 FM, Washington, D.C.
- “Hello Mabel,” Bonzo Dog Band
- “Rockaliser Baby,” Bonzo Dog Band
- “Beautiful Zelda,” Bonzo Dog Band
- “We Are Normal,” Bonzo Dog Band
- “I’m the Urban Spaceman,” Bonzo Dog Band
- “In the Court of the Crimson King,” King Crimson
- “Still You Turn Me On,” Emerson, Lake & Palmer
- “I Believe in Father Christmas,” Greg Lake
- “How Can I Miss You When You Won’t Go Away?” Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks
- “I Scare Myself,” Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks
- “Canned Music,” Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks
- “Payday Blues,” Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks
- “I Know What I’m Gettin,’” The Christmas Jug Band
- “This Will Be Our Year,” OK Go
- “Ain’t Got So Far to Go,” David Byrne
- “Jerry Falwell Destroyed the Earth,” Ben Kweller
- “Off with Your Head,” Sleater-Kinney
- “Final Straw,” R.E.M.
- “Going for the Gold,” Bright Eyes
- “The Commander Thinks Aloud,” The Long Winters
- “Tippicanoe and Tyler Too,” They Might Be Giants
- “The Ballad of David Icks,” Clem Snide
- “Date with the Night,” Yeah Yeah Yeahs
- “Everything’s Ruined,” Fountains of Wayne
- “Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots,” The Flaming Lips
- “Northern Line,” Old 97’s
- “Day After Tomorrow,” Tom Waits
- “A Distorted Reality is Now a Necessity to Be Free,” Elliott Smith
- “Chilly Winds,” Nina Simone [Fink remix]
- “I’ve Got My Love to Keep me Warm,” Billie Holiday [Yesking Remix]
- “Blow Blow Thou Winter Wind,” Cleo Lane
- “Wild Winter,” Smoke Fairies
- “In the Bleak Midwinter,” Blind Boys of Alabama with Chrissie Hynde and Richard Thompson
- “If We Make It Through December,” Merle Haggard
- “I Hate December,” Ivy
- “Last Month of the Year,” The Staples Singers
- “O Fir Tree Dark,” Bing Crosby
- “O Tannenbaum,” They Might Be Giants
- “Not a Pine Tree,” Bugs Eat Books
- “My Evergreen,” Squirrel Nut Zippers
- “Snowfall,” Esquivel
- “First Snowfall,” The Coctails
- “Snowfall! Snowfall Cha-Cha,” George Shearing/Billy May
- “Snow,” Loreena McKennitt
- “Snow,” Tracey Thorn
- “Out in the Cold Again,” Dean Martin
Friday Night Rock returns Dec. 16 on Radio CPR, 101.7 FM in Washington, D.C., or online at www.tinyurl.com/radiocpr