This Monday’s Listen Up! show will feature demo’s of songs, “lost” and unreleased tunes and recordings from early lineups of bands before they became “known”.

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Playlist (Artist -Title – Year of song) 

Opening Theme

Man or Astroman?  –  Maximum Radiation Level  – Experiment Zero – 1996

Background Music

The Space Negros Do Generic Ethnic Muzak Versions of All Your Favorite Punk/Psychedelic Songs From the Sixties

Davey Jones & The King Bees – Liza Jane – 1964
David Bowie – Ziggy Stardust (demo) – 1971
David Bowie/Iggy Pop – Lust For Life (demo) -1977

The Ravens – I Believed You -1963
Ray Davies – I Go To Sleep – 1965
The Beatles – Dear Prudence (DEMO) -1968
The Beatles – While My Guitar Gently Weeps (demo) -1968
Icewater – Sunshine –  197?

The Mynah Birds – It’s My Time – 1965
Arthur Lee and the L.A.Gs – Rumble Still Skins – 1963
The Byrds – Stranger in A Strange Land -1965
Blackburn and Snow – Stranger in a Strange Land -1965

Moving Sidewalks – 99th Floor – 1967
Stalk-Forrest Group – Arthur Comics – 1970
Stalk- Forrest Group – Curse of The Hidden MIrrors -1970
The Spiders – Don’t Blow Your Mind – 1965
Alice Cooper – Reflected – 1969

Giles, Giles & Fripp – Thursday Morning – 1968
Gilles, Giles & Fripp – I Talk With The Wind (With Judy Dyble) -1968
Mabel Greer’s Toyshop – Beyond and Before – 1968

Brian Eno & The Winkies – I’ll Come Running – 1974
Brian Eno & The Winkies – Baby’s on Fire -1974

The Primitives – The Ostrich -1964
The Beachnuts – Cycle Annie -1964
Lou Reed – Perfect Day (demo) -1972

Andy Partridge – All I Dream of Is A Friend -1995
The Dukes of Stratosphere – What In The World? (demo) – 1985
The Helium Kidz – Adrenaline  -1976
The Beach Boys – I Guess I’m Dumb – 1965

Glen Campbell – I Guess I’m Dumb -1965

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Listen Up! presents a cornucopia of music from those overlooked recordings that fill up crates and shelves of music. Enjoy the menu of aural food options.

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Playlist (Artist -Title- Album – Year of song) 

Opening Theme

Man or Astroman?  –  Maximum Radiation Level  – Experiment Zero – 1996

Background Music

Carl Orff-  Schulwerk Volume 1: Musica Poetica

NRBQ – Imaginary Radio – Dummy – 2004
The Beatles – Child of Nature – The Esher Demos – 1968
Sun Ra – Rocket #9 – The Singles – 1960
Hawkwind – Time We Left This World Today -Doremi Fasol Latido – 1972

Kim Salmon & The Surrealists – You’re Such A Freak – Ya Gotta Let Me Do My Thing – 1997
Gil Evans Orchestra- 1983 A Mermaid I Should Turn To Be – Plays The Music of Jimi Hendrix – 1974

Mothers of Invention – Let’s Make The Water Turn Black – We’re Only In It For The Money – 1967
The GTO’s – I’m In Love With The Ooo-Ooo Man – Permanent Damage – 1969

Allen Ginsberg With  The Glouns – Birdbrain – 1980
Pink Fairies – Right On, Fight On – What A Bunch Of Sweeties -1972
Daevid Allen – It’s the Time of Your Life – Banana Moon – 1972

James Last – Mr. Giant Man – Voodoo Party – 1971
Justice League Of America – Metamorpho The Element Man Song -Stories And Songs About The Justice League Of America – 1966

Bobbi Blake – I Like Yellow Things – MSR Madness  Vol 5 – 197?

The Handsome Family – Weightless Again – Through The Trees – 1998
Lee Hazlewood – Pour Man – Love and Oher Crimes – 1968
The Gun Club – Run Through The Jungle – Miami – 1982
Go To Blazes – Bloody Sam – Anytime…Anywhere – 1994
The Clash – Bank Robber – Black Market Clash – 1980

Phil Manzanera – Big Day – Diamond Head –  1975
Dengue Fever – One Thousand Tears of A Tarantula -Escape from Dragon House – 2005
Talking Heads – Memories Can’t Wait – Fear of Music – 1979

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band – Zig Zag Wanderer – Safe As  Milk – 1967
Richard Hell & The Voidoids – The Kid With The Replaceable Head – Destiny Street – 1982

Edith Masey – Punks Get off The Grass – Punks, Get Off The Grass / Big Girls Don’t Cry – 1982

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Sport the paisley shirt or that polka dotted mini skirt because Listen Up! will be exploring those sounds from the 80’s Garage Rock “revival” scene. Lots of fuzz, jangle and distortion played on vintage gear with terse and catchy songs made with minimal recording budgets. Not to mention….a load of fun.

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Playlist (Artist -Title- Album – Year of song) 

Opening Theme

Man or Astroman?  –  Maximum Radiation Level  – Experiment Zero – 1996

Background Music

The Space Negros Do Generic Ethnic Muzak Versions of All Your Favorite Punk/Psychedelic Songs From the Sixties

The Lyres – Buried Alive – AHS 1005 – 1981
The Chesterfield Kings – She Told Me Lies – She Told Me Lies / I’ve Gotta Way With Girls – 1984
The Nomads – I Can’t Use The Stuff I Used To Use – Raw and Rare – 1983
Thee Milkshakes – I’m Out of Of Control – Thee Knights of Trashe – 1984

Boys From Nowhere – You Can Make It – Beg/You Can Make It – 1984
The Cynics – Girl, Your On My Mind – Rock ‘N’ Roll – 1989
The Mosquitos – Put Your Foot Down – That Was Then, This Is Now – 1985
The Secret Service – It’s All Happening Here – It’s All Happening – 1988

The Fuzztones – Ward 81 – The Rebel Kind – 1983
The Mad Violets – Psilocybe – Battle of the Garages Vol. 2 America’s Psychedelic Underground – 1984
Plasticland – Sipping The Bitterness – Plasticland- 1984
The Endorphins – Amazon Wood – Beasts From The East – 1986

The Creeps – Just What I Need – Enjoy The Creeps – 1986
Crawdaddys – Your Gonna Need Love Someday – Here ‘Tis – 1987
Teenbeats – Teenage Beat – Teenage Beat/Strength of The Nation – 1980
Psychotic Turnbuckles – Cool It – Beyond The Flip Out – 1987
The Misanthropes – Why Do You Treat Me So Bad? – Why Do You Treat Me So Bad? EP – 1988

The Pandoras – Hot Generation – Hot Generation/You Don’t Satisfy – 1984
The Dentists – Strawberries Are Growing In My Garden -Some People Are on the Pitch They Think It’s All Over It Is Now – 1985
The Point – All My Life – Magic Circle – 1983
The Things – Girls Of The World – Goldmine Presents Garage Sale! -1985
Mystic Eyes – I Lost My World – Goldmine Presents Garage Sale! -1985

The Creatures of The Golden Dawn – Cy-o-nide – Standing At The Gates of Time – 1986
The Cheepskates – Run Better Run – Run Better Run – 1984
Sharp Turn – Everybody Knows But Me – Battle of the Garages Vol. 2 America’s Psychedelic Underground – 1984
Thanes – I Am Alone – Dimensions of Sounds – 198?
The Twisted – Shez Wicked – Shez Wicked/The Thing – 1984

The Headless Horsemen – Gotta Be Cool – Gotta Be Cool – 1988
The Odds – I”l Make You Sorry – Battle of the Garages Vol. 2 America’s Psychedelic Underground – 1984
The Addition – Obnoxious Girls – Goldmine Presents Garage Sale! -1985
The Optic Nerve – Ain’t That A Man – Ain’t That A Man – 1986
The Sickidz – LSD – The Rebel Kind – 1983
The Skeptics – The Ghost of Abraham Lincoln – Worry Beads -1985

The Slickee Boys – Invisible People – The Rebel Kind – 1983

Listen Up! returns with another intoxicating blend of sound. Join me as I dig up those hidden jewels of recorded music languishing below the surface . Orbit the universe and experience time travel. You will levitate, hear the future and revisit the past. Well…maybe not, but we can pretend.

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Playlist (Artist -Title- Album – Year of Song)

Opening Theme

Man or Astroman  –  Maximum Radiation Level -– Experiment Zero – 1996

Background Music

Lord Sitar

Photon Band – Saturn Returns – Our Own ESP Driven Scene: Singles, Comps. & Outtakes 1995-2000 – 1999
Music Emporium – Nam Myo Renge Kyo – Music Emporium- 1969
John Entwistle – Heaven and Hell –  Smash Your Head Against The Wall – 1971
Pete Townshend – Pure and Easy – Who Came First – 1972

Kevin Ayers – O Wot a Dream – The BBC Sessions 1970-1976 – 197?
Brother JT – Flaming –  Asyd Vinyl (A Tribute To Syd Barrett) -2000
Pink Floyd – Childhood’s End – Obscured By Clouds – 1972
Noctorum – A Girl In Every Graveyard – Sparks Lane – 2002

David Neil – Higher Than Yesterday – The Wilderness Years – 2011
The Church – Hounds of Love – Coffee Hounds – 2009
Asteroid #4 – To Be In Your Eyes – An Amazing Dream – 2006
Mike McGear – The Man Who Found God On The Moon – McGear – 1974

Witch – Little Clown – Lazy Bones!! – 1975  (Zambia)
The Third Eye – Valley of Sadness – Love, Peace & Poetry African Psychedelic Music – 1968 (South Africa)
Question Mark – Freaking Out – Nigeria Rock Special: Psychedelic Afro-Rock & Fuzz Funk in 1970’s – 1977  (Nigeria)

Hawkwind – Silver Machine – single – 1972
Eno – Seven Deadly Finns – Eno Box II Vocals – 1974
Ultravox! – The Wild, The Beautiful and The Damned – Ultravox! – 1977
Mick Ronson – Only After Dark – Slaughter on 10th Avenue – 1974
Tubeway Army – Are ‘Friends’ Electric? – Replicas – 1979

Sensations’ Fix – Grown On You- Music Is Painting In The Air (1974 – 1977) – 1977 (Florence, Italy)
Magic Shoppe – Shangri- La In Reverse – Triangulum Australe E​.​P. -2012
Damon – Song Of A Gypsy – Song of A Gypsy -1970

Photon Band – Saturn Returns Again – Oh The Sweet, Sweet  Changes – 2000

This week, it is Monster Au- Go-Go. A cool ghoul party is going on and it is filled with slimy and zany obscuro rock and roll and assorted other tricks and treats of a Halloweeny nature. Streaming live from 2pm – 4pm EST. .

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Playlist (Artist -Title) 

Opening Theme

Man or Astroman  –  Maximum Radiation Level

Jimmy Smith- The Munsters Theme
The Frantics – Werewolf
Tarantula Ghoul – Graveyard Rock
The Black Albinos – Ghost Party
The Connoisseurs – Count Macabre

The Geval Trio – Psicosis
Los Shains – El Monstruo
Dickie Goodman – Dracula Drag
The Ventures – Swinging Creeper
Mr. Gasser & The Weirdos – Hearse With A Curse
Larry and Blue Notes – Night of the Sadist
The Whips – Yes, Master

The Duponts – Screamin’ Ball
Ronnie Cook & The Gaylords – Goo Goo Muck
The Three Stooges (Mac Rebennack (Dr. John), Jerry Byrne and Ronnie Barron) – You’re My Girl
Cobwebs – Devil Girl ‘66
Frankie Stein & His Ghouls – Knives and Lovers

Bill Taylor – Wombie Zombie
Lord Luther – Teenage Creature
Bobby Bare – Vampira
Danny Ware – The Zombie Stomp

The Symbols – Do The Zombie
The Devils – The Devil Dance
Maury Lewis – The mummy
The Monstrosities – Dance Along With Dracula (Doin’ The Drac)
Gene “Bowlegs” Miller – Frankenstein Walk
The Traits – Nobody Loves The Hulk

Marie Roberson – Hell Bound Train
Jimmy Minor – Satan’s Chauffeur
The Fabulous Wailers – High Wall
Harry Belafonte – Zombie Jamboree
Brita Borg – Frankenstein Rock
Kip Tyler & The Flips – She’s My Witch

Deadly Ones – It’s Monster Surfing Time
Al Saxon – Evil Eye
Screamin’ Jay Hawkins – I Hear Voices

Screaming Lord Such – Monster Man
Dave Gardner – Mad Witch
Jim Burgett – Jekyll & Hyde
Roy Clark – Spooky Movies
The Sonics – The Witch

Billy Strange – The Munsters Theme

This week Listen Up! is “Releasing  The Bats!”.  All those dark post punk sounds from the 80’s that some called goth and various other names will be dusted off.. Streaming live from 2pm – 4pm EST.

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Playlist (Artist -Title- Album – Year of song) 

Opening Theme

Man or Astroman  –  Maximum Radiation Level  – Experiment Zero – 1996

Background Music

Funerary music of Charles Sandbury

The Birthday Party – Release The Bats – Junkyard -1981
Killing Joke – Tomorrow’s World – Killing Joke -1980
Test Dept. – Shock Work – Shoulder To Shoulder -1985
Virgin Prunes – Pagan Love Song – If I Die, I Die -1982
Flesh For Lulu – Subterranean – Flesh For Lulu – 1984
Joy Division – Dead Souls – Still – 1981
Bauhaus – She’s In Parties – Burning From The Inside – 1983
Dalis Car – His Box – The Waking Hour – 1984
Tones On Tail – Christian Says – Everything! -1984
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry – Walking On Your Hands – Paint Your Wagon – 1986
Specimen – Dead Man’s Autochop – The Bat Cave, Young Limbs & Numb Hymns – 1983
Christian Death – Romeo’s Distress – Only Theater of Pain – 1990
Rat At Rat R – Plague – Amer$ide / Rock & Roll is Dead, Long Live Rat at Rat R -1985
Fields of Nephilim – Power – Dawnrazor -1987
The Mission UK – Wasteland – God’s Own Medicine -1986
The March Violets – Snake Dance – Botanic Verses -1986
Sisters of Mercy – Dominion – Return of The Batcave Vol 2 – 1987
Miranda Sex Garden – Ardera Sempre – Suspiria -1993
Clan of Xymox – Muscoviet Mosquito – promotional 7″ – 1986
Dead Can Dance – The Arcane – Garden of the Arcane Delights -1984
Siouxsie & The Banshees – Christine – Kaleidoscope -1980
The Cure – The Hanging Garden – Pornography – 1982
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds – The Weeping Song – The Good Son -1990
The Venomettes – Dance of The Death -Batcave – Young Limbs and Numb Hymns -1983

This week Listen Up! is offering up an intoxicating blend. I’m all lost in my music library this week, so join me for a misguided tour where I will be rescuing obscure recording artists and playing music to satisfy your sweet spots. Streaming live from 2pm – 4pm EST.

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Playlist (Artist -Title- Album – Year of song) 

Opening Theme

Man or Astroman  –  Maximum Radiation Level  – Experiment Zero – 1996

Background Music

Yellow Submarine film instrumental music

Ten Years After – Religion – Rock and Roll Music To The World – 1972
Flaming Lips – Jesus Shooting Heroin – Here It Is – 1986
The Rolling Stones – Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker) –  Goats Head Soup – 1973
The Velvet Underground – Ocean- VU -1969
Toy Love – Frogs – AK79 -1979
Mud Pie Sun – Three More Days – Wooden Circle – 2012
Barbara Manning – Don’t Rewind – Acoustic Music Project – 1990
Paul Clayton – The Greenland Whale Fisheries – Whaling and Sailing Songs from the Days of Moby Dick – 1956
The Bigger Lovers – So It Goes – The Stiff Generation -2002
Stiv Bators – The Last Year – Disconnected – 1980
Off Broadway – Stay In Time – On – 1980
20/20 – Yellow Pills – 20/20 – 1979
The Last – She Don’t Know Why I’m Here – LA Explosion -1979
The Green Pajamas – Walking In The Rain – Book Of Hours -1987
Bocky & The Visions – Spirit of ’64 – Bigger Than The Beatles – 1964
The Outsiders – The Guy With The Long Liverpool Hair – Bigger Than The Beatles – 1964
The Motions – Long Hair – Bigger Than The Beatles – 1964
Doc Severinsen & The Now Generation Brass – In The Court Of The Crimson King – Doc Severinsen’s Closet – 1970
McDonald and Giles – Tomorrow’s People – McDonald and Giles – 1970
Koko Taylor & Willie Dixon – Insane Asylum – Koko Taylor – 1969
Tom Waits – Rains On Me – Free The West Memphis Three – 2000
Wendell Austin – LSD Made A Wreck Of Me – Wavy Gravy – 1968
The Winstons – Amen, Brother – Ultimate Breaks and Beats -1969
The Wailers – Amen – Simmer Down At Studio One – 1964
Prince Buster – She Loves You – Rude Boy Scorcher – 1964
Manito – Sock It To ‘Em, JB – O Incrivel -1970
Derrick Morgan – Moon Hop – Best of the Early Years 1960-69 – 1969
Supersuckers – Heavy Heart – Free The West Memphis Three – 2000

This  week,  there is no special theme or focus this week. But don’t worry, it will still be a trip through a labyrinth of music shining a beacon on the unsung, should-be-sung, and will-be-sung recordings that clutter the maze’s dusty corridors that crisscross time and continents.

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Playlist (Artist -Title- Album – Year of song)

Opening Theme

Man or Astroman – Maximum Radiation Level – Experiment Zero – 1996

Background Music

Selected works from composer Vic Mizzy

The Modern Lovers – She Cracked – The Modern Lovers – 1972

Nico – Chelsea Girls – Chelsea Girl – 1967

Marianne Faithfull – Incarceration of  a Flower Child – Vagabond Ways – 1998

The Handsome Family – So Much Wine – In The Air – 2000

The Kinks – Wicked Annabella – The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society – 1968

The Original Sins – Why Don’t You Smile, Joan? – Big Soul – 1987

Peter Laughner – Sylvia Plath – Take the Guitar Player for a Ride – 197?

Wilco – Sunloathe – The Whole Love – 2011

Peter Cooke and Dudley Moore – Bedazzled – Bedazzled – 1967

Rupert Hine – Orange Song – Unfinished Picture -1973

John Cale – Hanky Panky Nohow -Paris 1919 -1973

Bonzo Dog Band – Readymades – Tadpoles – 1967

The Left Banke – Pretty Ballerina – There’s Gonna Be a Storm: The Complete Recordings 1966–1969 –  1967

Badfinger – We’re For The Dark – No Dice -1970

The Zombies – Leave Me Be – The Singles: A’s and B’s -1965

The Minders – Hooray For Tuesday – Hooray For Tuesday – 1998

Big Star – Feel – #1 Record – 1972

Monochrome Set – Tomorrow Will Be Too Long – Strange Boutique – 1980

Mission of Burma – Academy Fight Song – Signals, Calls, and Marches -1981

Magazine – A Song For Under The Floorboards – The Correct Use of Soap -1980

Wire – Strange – Pink Flag -1977

Urinals – Black Hole – Urinals -1979

Vibrators – Baby, Baby – Pure Punk – 2009

The Damned – Smash It Up – Machine Gun Etiquette – 1979

The Stranglers – Goodbye Toulouse – Rattus Norvegicus -1977

Brian Eno – Burning Airlines Give You So Much More – Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) -1974

David Peel and The Lower East Side – I Want To Kill You – American Revolution – 1970

The Fugs – New Amphetamine Shriek – Virgin Fugs – 1965

James Rebel O’Leary – South Bound 81 – Only In America Vol. 2  -1982

Dick Kent – Maker of Smooth Music – Tom Ardolino Presents: The Makers of Smooth Music -??

Magnapop – Favorite Writer – Magnapop – 1992

This week, Listen Up! brings you two solid hours filled with British Mod and Freakbeat sounds along with other 60’s Brit Pop pounders!

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Playlist (Artist -Title- Album – Year of song)

Opening Theme

Man or Astroman – Maximum Radiation Level – Experiment Zero – 1996

Background Music

Selected works from composer John Barry

Bonzo Dog Band – Cool Britannia – Gorilla – 1967

The  Creation – Biff Bang Pow – Our Music Is Red With Purple Flashes – 1967

The Action – I’ll Keep Holding On – The Ultimate! Action – 1966

The Eyes – When The Night Falls – Nuggets II: Original Artyfacts From The British Empire And Beyond – 1965

The Quick – Bert’s Apple Crumble – The Mod Scene – 1967

The Syn – Grounded – Original Syn – 1967

John’s Children – Desdemona –  Nuggets II: Original Artyfacts From The British Empire And Beyond – 1967

The Human Instinct – Pink Dawn –Staircase to Nowhere – 1968

The Pretty Things – Midnight to 6 – The Singles A’s & B’s – 1966

The Syndicats – Crawdaddy Simone – You’re Holding Me Down – 1965

The Wards of Court – How Could You Say One Thing – The Mod Scene -1967

The Rolling Stones – Citadel – Their Satanic Majesties Request – 1967

The Chants R&B – I’m Your Witch Doctor – Nuggets II: Original Artyfacts From The British Empire And Beyond – 1965

The Pete Best Combo – The Way I Feel About You – Beyond The Beatles – 1966

The Primitives – You Said – Nuggets II: Original Artyfacts From The British Empire And Beyond -1965

The Poets – That’s The Way It’s Got To Be – The Immediate Records Story – 1965

The Birds – No Good Without You Baby – The Collector’s Guide to Rare British Birds – 1965

The La De Das –How Is The Air Up There? – Nuggets II: Original Artyfacts From The British Empire And Beyond – 1966

The Mark Four – I’m Leaving – Maximum Freakbeat -1965

The Move – Fire Brigade – The Move Anthology – 1968

The Idle Race – Imposters Of Life’s Magazine – Back To The Story – 1967

The Troggs – 66-5-4-3-2-1 – Trogglodynamite – 1966

The Score – Beg Me – The Mod Scene – 1966

Eyes of Blue – Supermarket Full Of Cans – The Mod Scene – 1967

The Flies – I’m Not Your Stepping Stone – The Electric Crayon Set: Rubble, Vol. 5 – 1966

The Who – So Sad About Us – A Quick One – 1966

The Kinks – Victoria – Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire) – 1969

The Attack – We Don’t Know – The In Crowd – 1967

The Fire – Father’s Name Was Dad – Chocolate Soup For Diabetics – 1968

The Small Faces – Understanding – The Anthology 1965-1967 – 1966

The Buzz – You’re Holding Me Down – Joe Meek; The Alchemist of Pop – 1966

The Downliners Sect – Why Don’t You Smile Now – Nuggets II: Original Artyfacts From The British Empire And Beyond – 1965

Les Fleur De Lys – Mud In Your Eye – Nuggets II: Original Artyfacts From The British Empire And Beyond -1966

The Yardbirds – Stroll On – Ultimate! – 1966

The Open Mind – Magic Potion – Nuggets II: Original Artyfacts From The British Empire And Beyond – 1969

Denis Couldry & The Next Collection – I Am Nearly There –Freakbeat Scene -1968

The Blue Stars – I Can’t Take It – Trans-World Punk Rave-Up Volume Two – 1966

Timebox – Poor Little Heartbreaker – The Deram Anthology – 1969

Billy Nichols – London Social Degree – Real Life Permanent Dreams – 1968

Listen Up! pays tribute to the late Joe South who passed away last week. He didn’t get much credit outside of the snobbiest rock snob circles, but the man wrote some classic tunes that became huge hits for other artists, like “Hush,” “Rose Garden,” “Down in the Boondocks,” and “Games People Play.” Hey even laid down some tasty guitar work on Aretha Franklin and Bob Dylan albums.

The songs of Joe South are passionate and righteous, empathetic and generous and those are under appreciated qualities these days. All the more reason to pay tribute to the songs and session work of Joe South (from South’s own fantastic recordings as well as a few covers of his songs).

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Playlist (Artist -Title- Album – Year of song)

Opening Theme

Man or Astroman – Maximum Radiation Level – Experiment Zero – 1996

Background Music

King Curtis – Games People Play – Wounded Bird – 1969

Veijo  Airaksinen – Rose Garden – Mr.Frosty – ?

Joe South – Hush – Games People Play – 1969

Joe South – The Purple People Eater Meets The Witch Doctor – The Rockin’ South – 1958

The A-Bones – I’m Snowed – Daddy Wants a Cold Beer and Other Million Sellers – 2004

The Tams – Untie Me – Time For The Tams – 196?

Joe South – Games People Play – Games People Play – 1969

Bryan Ferry – Walk A Mile In My Shoes – Another Place, Another Time – 1974

Joe South – What Makes Lovers Hurt One Another – Don’t It Make You Want to Go Home? – 1970

Kelly Hogan – The Greatest Love – The Joe South Tribute Record – 2005

Joe South – Mirror Of Your Mind – Anthology A Mirror Of His Mind – 1968

Ben Vaughn – Dark Glasses – Mono USA – 1994

Arthur Alexander – Concrete Jungle – The Monument Years – 196?

The Believers – Soul Raga Simmerin’ – Voyages into Psychedelia – 1968

Tommy Roe – Sheila – At The Hop – 1962

Bob Dylan – Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again – Blonde on Blonde – 1966

Aretha Franklin – Chain of Fools – Lady Soul – 1968

Joe South – Million Miles Away – Don’t It Make You Want To Go Home? – 1969

Joe South – Children – Anthology A Mirror of His Mind – 1970

Joe South – Fool Me – Joe South – 1971

Ron Silva & The New Believers – I Knew You When – The Joe South Tribute Record – 2005

Joe South – Rose Garden – Introspect – 1969

Chuck Prophet – Don’t It Make You Want To Go Home? – The Joe South Tribute Record – 2005

Paul Revere & The Raiders – Birds of  a Feather – Indian Reservation – 1971

Joe South & The Believers  – Hearts Desire – 1968

Joe South – Party People – Games People Play – 1969

The Barracudas – Down In The Boondocks – Bucket Full of Brains 45 –  2006

Gene Vincent – Gone Gone Gone – The Crazy Beat of Gene Vincent – 1963

Joe South – Don’t Throw Your Love to The Wind – Introspect – 1969

Joe South – All My Hard Times – Introspect – 1969

Joe South – These Are Not My People – Games People Play – 1969