A salute to George Clinton’s birthday was followed by a memorial to Alan Vega, the innovator and former member of Suicide who died last Saturday at 78.
There was a big set of Bryan Ferry and Roxy Music in advance of his shows in town this week, and some Sufjan Stevens to mark his show at Wolf Trap tonight. Also a few things from Jeff Beck, who will be there Wednesday. Closed with this and that including some Hank Williams.
Here’s what I played on the radio tonight.
Friday Night Rock, 7-22-2016, 9:30 p.m.-1 a.m., Radio CPR, 101.7 FM, Washington, D.C.
- “Wake Up Everybody,” Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes
- “Chocolate City,” Parliament
- “P. Funk (Wants to Get Funked Up),” Parliament
- “Undisco Kid,” Funkadelic
- “Flash Light,” Parliament
- “One Nation Under a Groove,” Funkadelic
- “Atomic Dog,” George Clinton
- “Paint the White House Black,” George Clinton
- “Hey Lord,” Suicide
- “Cheree,” Suicide
- “No More Christmas Blues,” Alan Vega
- “Jukebox Babe,” Alan Vega
- “Fireball,” Alan Vega
- “Kung Foo Cowboy,” Alan Vega
- “Love Cry,” Alan Vega
- “Dream Baby Dream,” Bruce Springsteen
- “Virginia Plain,” Roxy Music
- “Oh Yeah,” Roxy Music
- “More Than This,” Roxy Music
- “Love is the Drug,” Roxy Music (live)
- “Like a Hurricane,” Roxy Music (live)
- “Editions of You,” Roxy Music (live)
- “Avalon,” Roxy Music
- “Jealous Guy,” Roxy Music
- “Let’s Stick Together,” Bryan Ferry
- “Slave to Love,” Bryan Ferry
- “For the Widows in Paradise, For the Fatherless in Ypsilanti,” Sufjan Stevens
- “No Shade in the Shadow of the Cross,” Sufjan Stevens
- “Casimir Polaski Day,” Sufjan Stevens
- “Come On! Feel the Illinoise!” Sufjan Stevens
- “Should Have Known Better,” Sufjan Stevens
- “Carrie & Lowell,” Sufjan Stevens
- “All of Me Wants All of You,” Sufjan Stevens
- “Morning Dew,” Jeff Beck Group
- “Shapes of Things,” Jeff Beck Group
- “I Ain’t Superstitious,” Jeff Beck Group
- “It’s Good News Week,” Hedgehoppers Anonymous
- “Sue (Or in a Season of Crime),” David Bowie
- “Love Untold,” Paul Westerberg
- “The Devil is in Her Eyes,” The Jayhawks
- “Tryin’ to Love Two,” William Bell
- “Ask the Angels,” Patti Smith Group
- ”Born to Lose,” The Heartbreakers
- “A Mansion on the Hill,” Hank Williams
- “Lost Highway,” Hank Williams
- “My Son Calls Another Man Daddy,” Hank Williams
- “Turning Off a Memory,” Merle Haggard
- “Time is On My Side,” The Rolling Stones
- “Just a Memory,” Elvis Costello
- “Long, Long, Long,” The Beatles
Friday Night Rock returns Aug. 26 on Radio CPR, 101.7 FM, Washington, D.C., which can be heard worldwide at www.tinyurl.com/radiocpr