Catching up on posting a couple of shows that I taped before I went away. This one is so old, it happened just after Father’s Day, which seems like an eon ago (instead of less than three weeks). But it starts with all manner of daddy songs, father musing, relationships between father and daughter.
But there was also a bakeshop full of birthdays June 22, starting with the 78th birthday of Todd Rundgren and the 79th of Howard Kaylan of the Turtles and Flo & Eddie. Gary Beers of INXS was turning 69, Jimmy Sommerville of Bronski Beat and Bobby Gillespie of Primal Scream were both turning 65; Derek Forbes of Simple Minds, 70.
Peter Asher, once of Peter & Gordon and eventually a producer of some note, was turning 82, so there were songs he sung and some he produced. Island Records founder Chris Blackwell was turning 89, so there was a sampling of the work he helped bring into the world, from Traffic to Bob Marley. And Cindi Lauper turned 73, so we heard her voice. We closed with the work of Kris Krisofferson, born on this day in 1936.
Here’s the archived show in three parts; the setlist follows:
Capital Radio June 22, 2026 1 – 4:20 p.m. www.cygnusradio.com
- “Washington, D.C.,” The Magnetic Fields
- “Oh Daddy [outtake],” Fleetwood Mac
- “Diddley Daddy,” Bo Diddley
- “Rattlesnake Daddy,” Joe D. Johnson
- “Daddy Go Down,” David Byrne
- “Daddy Rolling Stone,” The Who
- “Daddy Sang Bass,” Johnny Cash
- “Daddy-O [live],” NRBQ
- “Daddy-O,” Bonnie Lou
- “Daddy Frank (The Guitar Man),” Merle Haggard & The Strangers
- “Gone Daddy Gone,” Violent Femmes
- “My Father’s House,” Bruce Springsteen
- “Dear Father,” Pete Ham
- “Father’s Day,” Butch Walker
- “Father’s Day,” Groucho Marx
- “Color Him Father,’ Linda Martell
- “Father & Daughter,” Paul Simon
- “Daughter,” Loudon Wainwright III
- “Father/Daughter Dialogue,” Loudon Wainwright III and Martha Wainwright
- “Unwed Fathers,” Deer Tick -with Liz Isenberg
PART II
- “It Wouldn’t Have Made Any Difference,” Todd Rundgren
- “Can We Still Be Friends,” Todd Rundgren
- “Boat on the Charles,” Todd Rundgren
- “Down with the Ship,” Todd Rundgren & Rivers Cuomo
- “Elenore,” The Turtles
- “She’d Rather Be With Me,” The Turtles
- “Tears Began to Fall [live],” Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention
- “Hot,” Flo & Eddie
- “Listen Like Thieves,” INXS
- “Smalltown Boy,” Bronski Beat
- “Promised You A Miracle,” Simple Minds
- “Movin’ On Up,” Primal Scream
- “World Without Love,” Peter and Gordon
- “I Go to Pieces,” Peter and Gordon
PART III
- “Blossom,” James Taylor
- “Alison,” Linda Ronstadt
- “Trouble Me,” 10,000 Maniacs
- “Feels Like Home,” Bonnie Raitt
- “The Touchables (All of Us),” Nirvana (UK)
- “Glad,” Traffic
- “Planet Claire,” The B-52’s
- “Pull Up to the Bumper,” Grace Jones
- “Funky Kingston,” Toots & the Maytals
- “Could You Be Loved,” Bob Marley and he Wailers
- “She Bop,” Cyndi Lauper
- “Pee-Wee’s Playhouse,” Original Theme
- “Blue” [live], Cyndi Lauper
- “Time After Time,” Miles Davis
- “Loving Her Was Easier (Than Anything I’ll Ever Do Again),” Kris Kristofferson
- “The Pilgrim – Chapter 33,” Kris Kristofferson
- “The Taker,” Kris Kristofferson
Capital Radio can be heard Mondays at 1 p.m. EDT until after 4 on www.cygnusradio.com. The show can also be heard via the cygnusradio.com app, available free at iTunes or GooglePlay. Recent shows are available on demand at cygnusradio.com. Older shows are posted at Substack.com/@rogercatlin.