Devils dominated this year’s Halloween edition of Capital Radio, mostly because the show fell on the traditional Devil’s Night. And there are a lot of songs about beelzebub, it turns out. Our nearly three dozen selections included the obvious, from the Stones and the Dead, to the less expected Cat Power, Stereophonic and Max Romeo, with a solid sampling of hellhounds from Robert Johnson, Skip James and Otis Spann.
There were also seven Halloween songs at the beginning and end of the show, and time for birthday salutes to Grace Slick, who turns 84 today — as does Motown’s Eddie Holland. The last surviving Temptation, Otis Williams, turns 82; Ken Stringfellow of The Posies is 55; Timothy B. Schmidt is 76. And there were a couple of songs from New Orleans mainstay Tommy Ridgely, born this day in 1925.
Here’s a link to the archived show; the setlist follows:
Capital Radio, Oct. 30, 2023, 1 -4:30 p.m., www.cygnusradio.com
- “Capital Radio Two,” The Clash
- “Halloween Parade,” Lou Reed
- “Halloween,” Phoebe Bridgers
- “Halloween Head [live],” Ryan Adams
- “Do They Know It’s Hallowe’en,” North American Hallowe’en Prevention Initiative
- “We Can Be Together,” Jefferson Airplane
- “Someone to Love,” The Great Society
- “Boogie Woogie Mama,’ Tommy Ridgely
- “Looped,” Tommy Ridgely
- “Leaving Here,” Eddie Holland
- “Beauty is Only Skin Deep,” The Temptations
- “Dream All Day,” The Posies
- “I Can’t Tell You Why,” Eagles
- “A Night with the Jersey Devil,” Bruce Springsteen
- “Me and the Devil Blues,” Robert Johnson
- “Race with the Devil,” Gene Vincent & His Blue Caps
- “Devil in her Heart,” The Beatles
- “Devil’s Sidewalk,” Neil Young & Crazy Horse
- “Devil’s Flame,” Ashleigh Dallas
- “Devil Woman,” Cliff Richard
- “Devil’s Gun,” CJ & Co
- “Devil in My Car,” The B-52’s
- “Devil with a Blue Dress,” Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels
- “Devil,” Anthony Dares Progress
- “Devil,” Stereophonics
- “Chase the Devil,” Max Romeo and the Upsetters
- “The Devil’s Daughter,” Cat Power
- “Devil Song,” Beth Orton
- “Devil in Me,” Gin Wigmore
- “(You’re the) Devil in Disguise,” Elvis Presley
- “Devil Doll,” X
- “Devil Doll,” Roy Orbison
- “Devil Got My Woman,” Skip James
- “Devil No More,” Future Clouds and Radar
- “The Devil,” PJ Harvey
- “Devil or Angel,” The Clovers
- “Kissed by the Devil,” Blackfield
- “Friend of the Devil,” Grateful Dead
- “The Devil Has Thrown Him Down,” Sister Rosetta Tharpe
- “The Devil’s Workday,” Modest Mouse
- “Sympathy for the Devil [live],” The Rolling Stones
- “Run Devil Run,” Jenny Lewis & the Watson Twins
- “It Must Have Been the Devil,” Otis Spann
- “The Music of the Devil,” Graham Parker & the Goldtops
- “Devil’s Haircut,” Beck
- “The Devil,” The Rapture
- “Old Devil Moon [live],” Tony Bennett
- “Halloween Mary,” P.F. Sloan
- “Halloween,” Kirsty MacColl
- “The Halloween Dance,” Reverend Horton Heat
- “Slugs” Slow Pulp
Capital Radio returns Nov. 6 at 1 p.m. EST on cygnusradio.com, where recent shows are also archived. Can also be heard on the free CygnusRadio app available from iTunes or GooglePlay.