The Drive, week of 1/7/13

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Mon 1/7/13:

Van Halen - Panama
Pretenders - Middle Of The Road
Don Henley - The Boys of Summer
Bon Jovi - Runaway
Bruce Springsteen - I'm On Fire
Talking Heads - Take Me To The River (live)
Foreigner - I Want To Know What Love Is
Russ Ballard - Voices 
Cars - Magic
Elton John - Sad Songs (Say So Much)

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Tue 1/8/12: 1968

uber-uber-LN to start: Otis.

I love her valleri -- it's the nicest valleri I've ever seen.  BOS1 Monkees.

uber-uber-LN2: "Piece of My Heart"

LN but VHM anyway: Stones.

Oy: Louis Armstrong's "What a Wonderful World" in its orig year of release.

VHM "Lady Madonna"

uber-uber-LN4: "The Mighty Quinn"

always welcome: "San Jose's own" People, people. BOS2

LN5: Jimi on da watchtowah; LN6 CCR, "Suzie Q"

Otis Redding - (Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay 
Monkees - Valleri 
Janis Joplin/Big Brother & The Holding Company - Piece Of My Heart 
Rolling Stones - Street Fighting Man 
Louis Armstrong - What A Wonderful World 
Beatles - Lady Madonna 
Manfred Mann - The Mighty Quinn (Quinn the Eskimo) 
People! - I Love You 
Jimi Hendrix - All Along The Watchtower 
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Suzie Q 

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Wed 1/9/13: 1977

Touchdownnnn Raiiiiderzzzz!

TOTHK: Foreigner "Long Long Way From Home" -- VHM for not being one of their bigger hits.

"Gold Dust Woman" twice in less than a week.

WOS1: UFO, "Too Hot To Handle"

VHM ELO, "Turn To Stone", just for not being "Mr Blue Sky"

BOS1 and proxy of shray: MTB "Heard it in a Love Song"

I've certainly heard Styx's "Come Sail Away" one too many times, but it remains their career peak IMHO.

In Boise, I da 'ho!  WOS2 Skynyrd.

Damn -- it's "Traffic Jam". Proxy of GazWOS.

our OHW today: Sanford-Townsend Band.

uber-uber-uber LN: "Barracooooooooduh"

Foreigner - Long, Long Way From Home 
Fleetwood Mac - Gold Dust Woman 
UFO - Too Hot To Handle 
Electric Light Orchestra - Turn To Stone 
Marshall Tucker Band - Heard It In A Love Song 
Styx - Come Sail Away 
Lynyrd Skynyrd - What's Your Name 
James Taylor - Traffic Jam   
Sanford & Townsend - Smoke From A Distant Fire 
Heart - Barracuda   

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Thur 1/10/13: 1972

instant LNs: "Suffragette City" and "Superstition"

WOS1: "Space Truckin'" -- yes, beloved by many but really -- it's an awful song.

LN3: Gary Glitter; LN4 "You Wear it Well"; LN5 "Thick as a Brick".

always a BOS for "I Saw the Light" despite its LN status.

VHM Doobs, rockin' down the highway -- at least it's not "Listen to the Muzak"

Segue of the day:  news clip about death of harry Truman --> "Old Man". Heh. BOS2 Neil Y.

always a BOS for Chi Coltrane and that huuuuge "thing" she found.

Bowie - Suffragette City   
Stevie Wonder - Superstition 
Deep Purple - Space Truckin'   
Gary Glitter - Rock n' Roll Part 2 
Rod Stewart - You Wear It Well   
Jethro Tull - Thick As A Brick   
Todd Rundgren - I Saw The Light 
Doobie Brothers - Rockin' Down The Highway 
Neil Young - Old Man 
Chi Coltrane - Thunder And Lightning 

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Fri 1/11/13: 1979

ZZTop - Cheap Sunglasses 
Jefferson Starship - Jane 
AC/DC - Girl's Got Rhythm 
Off Broadway - Full Moon Turn My Head Around 
Pink Floyd - Run Like Hell   
Journey - Too Late 
Eagles - I Can't Tell You Why   
Supertramp - Breakfast In America 
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Refugee 
Santana - All I Ever Wanted 

Oy vey. uber-uber-uber-WOS janeyjaneyjaneyjane. everything else: LN except Off-Broadway, which is one we only hear on the Drive.