There were Thanksgiving leftovers at the radio show, too, before we got into what Bob Dylan played in town this week and looked forward to shows in the coming week by NRBQ and Yo La Tengo.
Played a little live John Lennon to mark his last live appearance, 40 years ago tonight, popping up at an Elton John concert at Madison Square Garden (though we played live stuff from his 1972 show there).
Closed out with some Vampire Weekend, since it’s Rotsam Batmanglij’s birthday. And if you listened close, you heard Tchaikovsky twice (the Ellington and the ‘Q song based on Piano Concerto No. 1).
Here’s what I played on the radio tonight:
Friday Night Rock Radio 11-28-2014 9 p.m.- 1 a.m. CPR 97.5 FM Washington D.C.
- “Love’s in Need of Love Today,” Stevie Wonder
- “Chilly Winds,” Nina Simone (Fink Mix)
- “November, Tom Waits
- “Thanksgiving Day,” Ray Davies
- “Thanksgiving,” Loudon Wainwright III
- “Suddenly It’s Christmas,” Loudon Wainwright III
- “Thanks’s A Lot,” Ernest Tubb
- “Be Thankful for What You Got,” Yo La Tengo
- “I Thank You,” Sam & Dave
- “Thanksgiving Day,” Brave Combo
- “Sugar Rum Cherry (Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy),” Duke Ellington
- “Love You in the Fall,” Paul Westerberg
- “Long and Wasted Year,” Bob Dylan
- “Pay in Blood,” Bob Dylan
- “Scarlet Town,” Bob Dylan
- “Early Roman Kings,” Bob Dylan
- “High Water (for Charley Patton),” Bob Dylan
- “Lovesick,” Bob Dylan
- “Beyond Here Lies Nothin,'” Bob Dylan
- “Spirit on the Water,” Bob Dylan
- “Blowin’ in the Wind,” Bob Dylan
- “Keep This Love Goin,'” NRBQ
- “Gone with the Wind,” NRBQ
- “Sweet and Petite,” NRBQ
- “In Every Dream,” NRBQ
- “The Animal Life,” NRBQ
- “If I Don’t Have You,” NRBQ
- “Me and the Boys,” NRBQ
- “Ridin’ in My Car,” NRBQ
- “Rain at the Drive-In,” NRBQ
- “I Want You Bad,” NRBQ
- “Howard Johnson’s Got His HoJo Workin,'” NRBQ
- “It Comes to Me Naturally,” NRBQ
- “I Love Her, She Loves Me,” NRBQ
- “It was an Accident,” NRBQ
- “My Girlfriend’s Pretty,” Ron Sexsmith
- “Never Take the Place of You,” Los Lobos
- “Magnet,” Yo La Tengo
- “Little Honda,” Yo La Tengo
- “You Tore Me Down,” Yo La Tengo
- “Speeding Motorcycle,” Yo La Tengo
- “Oklahoma U.S.A.,” Yo La Tengo
- “Today is the Day,” Yo La Tengo
- “Needle of Death,” Yo La Tengo
- “Mr. Tough,” Yo La Tengo
- “The Race is On Again,” Yo La Tengo
- “I’ll Be Around,” Yo La Tengo
- “OHM,” Yo La Tengo
- “It’s So Hard,” John Lennon (live)
- “Well Well Well,” John Lennon (live)
- “Instant Karma,” John Lennon (live)
- “In the Street,” Big Star
- “Trouble,” Ryan Adams
- “Gotta Get Away,” The Black Keys
- “Genovese Bag,” Wreckless Eric & Amy Rigby
- “Burning Bridges,” Lucinda Williams
- “Country Down,” Beck
- “Obvious Bicycle,” Vampire Weekend
- “Hannah Hunt,” Vampire Weekend
- “White Sky,” Vampire Weekend
- “Cousins,” Vampire Weekend
- “A-Punk,” Vampire Weekend
- “Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa,” Vampire Weekend