It’s not as easy to draw up a D-Day playlist as it looks but we took a stab at it, aided mightily by Nat King Cole’s jaunty song “D-Day,” presented here as our own 70th anniversary present.
The rest of the four hour show had a salute to Four Tops singer Levi Stubbs on what would have been his 78th birthday and long sets from artists coming to the region this week, from Lucinda Williams and Seun Kuti to Morrissey. There was some time spent, too, with CLap Your Hands Say Yeah, who were just in town, and Alex Chilton, who certainly was not.
I was a little worried about playing two weeks of long shows in a row, but it turned out I didn’t run out of things to play.
Here’s what was on the playlist on the radio tonight:
Friday Night Rock Radio CPR 97.5 FM Washington, D.C. June 6, 2014 9 p.m. – 1 a.m.
- “Underground System,” Fela Anikulapo Kuti & Egypt ’80
- “Can’t Buy Me Love (No Puedes Comparme),” Guianko
- “Reach Out I’ll Be There,” The Four Tops
- “Standing in the Shadows of Love,” The Four Tops
- “Bernadette,” The Four Tops
- “7 Rooms of Gloom,” The Four Tops
- “Walk Away Renee,” The Four Tops
- “If I Were A Carpenter,” The Four Tops
- “Baby I Need Your Loving,” The Four Tops
- “Ask the Lonely,” The Four Tops
- “I Can’t Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch),” The Four Tops
- “It’s the Same Old Song,” The Four Tops
- “Keeper of the Castle,” The Four Tops
- “Ain’t No Woman Like the One I’ve Got,” The Four Tops
- “Levi Stubbs’ Tears,” Billy Bragg
- “D-Day,” Nat King Cole
- “We Did It Before and We Can Do It Again,” Eddy Howard & His Orchestra
- “Eton Rifles,” The Jam
- “Der Fuehrer’s Face,” Johnny Byrd & His Band
- “English Civil War,” The Clash
- “Between the Wars,” Billy Bragg
- “Some Mother’s Son,” The Kinks
- “Sentimental Marching Song,” Jon Langford
- “April in Paris,” Alex Chilton
- “Lipstick Traces,” Alex Chilton
- “Oogum Boogum,” Alex Chilton
- “Holocaust [rough mix],” Big Star
- “Details of the War,” Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
- “Over and Over Again (Lost & Found),” Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
- “Mama, Won’t You Keep Them Castles in the Air and Burning?” Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
- “Coming Down,” Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
- “Runaway,” Imperial Teen
- “Tattoo,” Petra Haden
- “Our Love Was,” Petra Haden
- “I Can’t Reach You,” Petra Haden
- “What Goes Boom,” The Pixies
- “I Just Wanted to See You So Bad,” Lucinda Williams
- “Something About What Happens When We Talk,” Lucinda Williams
- “Right in Time,” Lucinda Williams
- “Car Wheels on a Gravel Road,” Lucinda Williams
- “Sweet Old World,” Lucinda Williams
- “Lake Charles,” Lucinda Williams
- “Lonely Girls,” Lucinda Williams
- “Blue,” Lucinda Williams
- “Are You Alright?” Lucinda Williams
- “Seeing Black,” Lucinda Williams
- “Night School,” Rosanne Cash
- “Different Days,” Jason Isbell
- “I Could Never Be Ashamed of You,” Hank Williams
- “Trying to Get to You,” Elvis Presley
- “I’m On Fire,” Johnny Cash
- “Downbound Train,” Raul Malo
- “Atlantic City,” Hank III
- “Open All Night,” Son Volt
- “Reason to Believe,” Beat Farmers
- “Dream Baby Dream,” Bruce Springsteen
- “The ore You Ignore Me, The Closer I Get,” Morrissey
- “Everyday is Like Sunday,” Morrissey
- “We Hate It When Our Friends Become Successful,” Morrissey
- “American is Not the World,” Morrissey
- “I’m Throwing My Arms Around Paris,” Morrissey
- William, It Was Really Nothing,” The Smiths
- “Panic,” The Smiths
- “There is a Light That Never Goes Out,” The Smiths
- “Brothers Gonna Work It Out,” Willie Hutch
Friday Night Rock returns June 20 at 9 p.m. on Radio CPR, 97.5 FM, Washington D.C.