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Lunch Hour Special 1-19-17 (Extended Version)

Writer: John SimonJohn Simon

Updated: Jun 18, 2019


  • Bad Moon Rising - Thea Gilmore [nouveau folk cover of CCR classic]

  • Fortunate Son - Bang Data [cool cover of CCR classic from "Quiero Creedence" compilation]

  • Revolution - The Beatles [mono 45 version]

  • * Eve Of Destruction - Barry McGuire [two separate callers requested it]

  • Something In The Air - Thunderclap Newman ["call out the instigators...."]

  • End Of The Innocence - Don Henley [feat. Bruce Hornsby on piano and Wayne Shorter on horn]

  • The Way It Is - Bruce Hornsby & The Range [groundbreaking debut single from the mid-Eighties]

  • Peace Train - Richie Havens [tasty cover of the Cat Stevens classic]

  • * Save The Country - Laura Nyro [original Columbia single version]

  • Saturn - Stevie Wonder [peace anthem from "Songs In The Key Of Life"]

  • * Mr. Big Stuff - Jean Knight [this song suddenly has a whole new meaning to me]

  • Everybody Wants To Rule The World - Tears For Fears [first of three singles from "Songs From The Big Chair"]

  • When I'm President - Ian Hunter [released shortly after Pres. Obama's second inauguration]

  • Mean Things Happenin' In This World - Blackfire [Native American punk version of the Woody Guthrie song]

  • I Am A Patriot - Jackson Browne [from "Lives In The Balance"]

  • We Take Care Of Our Own - Bruce Springsteen [from "Wrecking Ball"]

  • For What It's Worth - Buffalo Springfield [1967 single]

  • People Have The Power - Patti Smith [1979 single]

  • * Monster - Steppenwolf [1969 medley: "Monster/Suicide/America," requested by two separate listeners]

  • * Wooden Ships - Crosby Stills & Nash [post-apocalyptic fairy tale co-written by Stills, Crosby and Paul Kantner]

  • * Shouldn't Have Took More Than You Gave - Dave Mason

  • * A Apolitical Blues - Little Feat

  • Talkin' 'Bout a Revolution - Tracy Chapman

  • Call It Democracy - Bruce Cockburn [radio edit]

  • * Mercedes Benz - Janis Joplin [a populist jibe requested on her birthday]

  • The Ghost Of Tom Joad - Bruce Springsteen

  • Youngstown - Bruce Springsteen [a populist double-shot from the "Ghost of Tom Joad" album]

  • Devotion - Earth, Wind & Fire


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