
The terrors of the night are revealed in this FOUR HOUR HALLOWEEN SPECIAL full of spooky delights on 45, horror soundtracks, sound effects and things that shouldn’t work but somehow do. Strap in and see if you survive! TRACKLIST Shadows of Knight – ShakeGoblin – InsectsDanny Hutton – Monster ShindigTim Hazel – In Cold BloodDon

The Rundgren and Lennon beef and the man who took it all too seriously. The time Dave performed with a Detroit soul legend and wishes he could do it all over again, better. The Wayne State University students who moved to LA and got signed to Lee Hazlewood’s label. The Band covers Diddley and Diddley

A memorial tribute to the songwriter Bobby Hart, party-starting Detroit soul 45s, outsider 60s psych rock, a soul cover of a Wilco song, 90s indie and R&B, City Pop, and much more! TRACKLIST Shadows of Knight – ShakeThe Gamma Goochee Himself – Gamma GoocheeJay and the Americans – Come a Little Bit CloserJean Mays –

Spotlight on the early work of Jackie DeShannon’s boyfriend, also known as Jimmy Page, the catchiest pop single Brian Wilson single wrote for his wife’s group that somehow isn’t even on YouTube, a block of songs featuring The Meters, deep Detroit soul grooves, bubblegum psych pop nuggets from around the world, the definitive version of

Del Shannon produces a hit that ends up in a Tarantino movie, Neil Young and Rick James record for Motown, mythologizing a member of the 27 club you might not have heard of, The Meters under a different name, two Detroit boogie classics, the person some call the Japanese Kate Bush, psych pop from the

The time Sonny Bono stunned Mick Jagger, spotlight on the Wrecking Crew productions, one last summer breeze from the Caribbean, Muddy Waters steals a song, an early Randy Newman-penned rarity, lots of soul 45s from New Orleans and Detroit, and so much more! Shadows of Knight – ShakeAl “TNT” Braggs – Out of the Pan

The moment rock’n’roll was born (according to Jerry Wexler), Billy Joel’s first band, two Beatles covers – one from Chicago soul scene and one from Brazil, the blurry line between 50s R&B and country, Detroit soul 45s, and much much more! TRACKLIST Shadows of Knight – ShakeJackie Wilson – The Who Who Song, 1967Irma Thomas

Songs that were covered into big hits (and one was that stolen), the Chi-Lites when they were wild young grizzly bears, imagining a Crosby Stills and Nash album in the mid-60s, Yusef Lateef at the wrong speed, Earth Wind and Fire when they were Salty Peppers (and backing up the Emotions), the Drifters lead singer

More from the late great Terry Reid, John Lennon’s last favorite song, a 70s private-press jam band, outsider psych pop, Ted Lucas’s Spike Drivers, multiple songs about Carolines that are better than the one you’re thinking of, the band whose claim to fame is not being the Beatles, and much more, all on 45 or

On this week’s show: Garth Hudson’s Windsor garage band, Huey Lewis before he was News, early James Brown productions, the big hit the Stones ripped off, 70s pop gems, a rarity written by a young Marshall Crenshaw, the late great Terry Reid, some Motown oddballs, Caribbean, New Orleans, R&B and soul 45s and much much