News of the death of Jimmy Cliff today at 81 brought a couple of his best-known songs to the top of today’s Capital Radio, followed by a nod to Gary “Mani” Mounfield, bassist of the Stone Roses, who died last week at 63. All of it after some 40 minutes of delay and technical difficulty.
Nevertheless, there were birthdays to note, for Clem Burke, Pete Best, Duck Dunn and Terry Lewis, among others.
But the bulk of the show were the remaining 35 songs of the 70 or so titles mentioned in Bob Dylan’s epic “Murder Most Foul,” featured to note the 62nd anniversary of the assassination of JFK. That meant hearing everything from Queen to Monk, Prine to Presley, and Sinatra to the Allman Brothers — all by request from Mr. Zimmerman.
We closed with a half dozen odes to Thanksgiving.
Here’s the link to the whole show (minus the initial difficulties); the setlist follows:
Capital Radio November 24, 2025. 1:45 to 5:15 p.m. www.cygnusradio.com
- “Washington D.C.” The Magnetic Fields
- “The Harder They Come,” Jimmy Cliff
- “Many Rivers to Cross,” Jimmy Cliff
- “I Am the Resurrection,” The Stone Roses
- “Dreaming,” Blondie
- “Love Me Do,” The Beatles
- “Time is Tight,” Booker T. & the MG’s
- “When I Think of You,” Janet Jackson
- “Hard Times Come Again No More,” Yo-Yo Ma, Edgar Mayer, Mark O’Connor with James Taylor
- “Murder Most Foul,” Bob Dylan
- “Another One Bites the Dust,” Queen
- “Old Rugged Cross,” John Prine and Mac Wiseman
- “Long Lonesome Road,” Ian & Sylvia
- “Mystery Train,” Little Junior Parker
- “Brotherhood of Man,” Oscar Peterson
- “Samba de Uma Nota So,” Stan Getz
- “Blue Sky,” The Allman Brothers Band
- “You’d Be So Nice to Come Home To,” Art Pepper
- “Epistrophy,” Thelonious Monk
- “Scrapple from the Apple,” Charlie Parker Quintet
- “All That Jazz,” Liza Minnelli
- “Pretty Boy Floyd,” Woody Guthrie
- “Cry Me a River,” Julie London
- “The Chain,” Fleetwood Mac
- “Nature Boy,” Nat King Cole
- “Down in the Boondocks,” Billy Joe Royal
- “One Night of Sin,” Elvis Presley
- “Stella by Starlight,” Victor Young
- “Misty,” Erroll Garner
- “Old Devil Moon,” Frank Sinatra
- “Anything Goes,” Ella Fitzgerald
- “Memphis in June,” Hoagy Carmichael
- “It’s Lonely at the Top,” Randy Newman
- “Shreveport Stomp,” Jelly Roll Morton
- “Lucille,” Little Richard
- “Deep in a Dream,” Chet Baker
- “Driving Wheel,” Little Junior Parker
- Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 27 No. 2, Vladamir Horowitz
- “Key to the Highway,” Little Walter
- “Marching Through Georgia (live),” Jay Ungar & Molly Mason
- “Dumbarton’s Drums,” Jean Redpath
- “Darkness,” Leonard Cohen
- “Love Me or Leave Me,” Ruth Etting
- “Get It,” Pudding Powell Trio
- “Blood Stained Banner,” The Adams Family
- “Thanksgiving Eve,” Jimmy Fallon
- “Almost Thanksgiving Day,” Graham Parker
- “Thanksgiving Day,” Ray Davies
- “Thanksgiving Song,” Ben Rector
- “Thanksgiving [live],” Loudon Wainwright III
- “Thankful,” Neil Young & The Chrome Hearts
Capital Radio returns Dec. 1 at 1 p.m. ET until after 4 on www.cygnusradio.com, where this and other recent shows are posted. The show can also be heard via the cygnusradio.com app, available free at iTunes or GooglePlay. Older shows are available at Substack.com/@rogercatlin.