Beach Week came with sunny skies and a whole lot of heat (80 degrees at midnight?). But it also came with 30 songs of beach, surf and sand from Annette Funicello to to the Ramones in a prerecorded Capital Radio.
It was also the 68th birthday of Belinda Carlile, the 60th for Jill Cunniff of Luscious Jackson, the 57th for Kelvin Mercer or Poisonous of De La Soul, the 71st for Colin Moulding of XTC, the 73rd for Kevin Rowland of Dexy’s Midnight Runners, the 32nd for Phoebe Bridgers, the 62nd for Maria McKee of Lone Justice and the 72nd for guitarist Eric Johnson (whose track was cut short last week). Folkie Dave Ray of Koerner, Ray and Glover was also born this day in 1943.
Robert De Niro was also turning 83, and in lieu of a song from him, we had Bananarama.
Here’s the archived show (cut in three parts); the setlist follows.
Capital Radio August 17. 2026 1 – 4:20 p.m. www.cygnusradio.com
- “Washington, D.C.,” The Magnetic Fields
- “Beach Party,” Annette
- “Rockaway Beach,” The Ramones
- “King of the Beach,” Waaves
- “Dockweiler Beach,” Camper Van Beethoven
- “Redondo Beach,” Patti Smith
- “Our Party Will Be on The Beach Tonight,” Jonathan Richman
- “Plastic Beach,” Gorillaz
- “I Want to Go to The Beach,” Iggy Pop
- “On the Beach,” Neil Young
- “On the Beach,” Faces
- “On the Beach,” Raspberries
- “Castles in the Sand,” Stevie Wonder
- “Castles Made of Sand,” Jimi Hendrix
- “The Girls on the Beach,” Beach Boys
- “Ocean City Girl,” Ivy
- “Pipeline,” The Chantays
- “Life is a Beach,” Django Django
PART II
- “Queen of the Beach,” Carole King
- “Edge of the Ocean,” Bob Dylan & the Band
- “Learned to Surf,” Superchunk
- “Surf Bunny,” Gene Gray & the Stingrays
- “Surf City,” Jan & Dean
- “The Lonely Surfer,” Jack Nitzsche
- “Slicin’ Sand,” Elvis Presley
- “Remember (Walkin’ in the Sand),” The Shangri-La’s
- “Sea and Sand,” The Who
- “Sand and Sea,” Frank Sinatra
- “Black Sand,” Jenny Lewis
- “Head in the Sand,” Laurie Biagini
- “Burning Sand,” Dwight Twilley
- “Sand,” Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood
- “Sand,” Tom Tom Club
- “Vacation,” The Go-Go’s
- “We Got the Beat,” The Go-Go’s
- “Mad About You,” Belinda Carlile
- “Reflections of My Life,” Belinda Carlile
PART III
- “Naked Eye [Propellerhead Remix],” Luscious Jackson
- “Ladyfingers,” Luscious Jackson
- “Robert De Niro’s Waiting,” Bananarama
- “Me Myself and I,” De La Soul
- “Plug Tunin’ (Are You Ready for This),” De La Soul.
- “Life Begins at the Hop,” XTC
- “Making Plans for Nigel,” XTC
- “Generals and Majors,” XTC
- “Come on Eileen,” Dexy’s Midnight Runners
- “Delia’s Gone,” Koerner, Ray & Glover
- “Chinese Satellite,” Phoebe Bridgers
- “Kyoto,” Phoebe Bridgers
- “East of Eden,” Lone Justice
- “Ways to Be Wicked,” Lone Justice
- “Cliffs of Dover,” Eric Johnson
Capital Radio returns August 24 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.