5 Mar 2013: it's... 1972!

[RGMike]

1. Jo Jo Gunne - Run Run Run
2. David Bowie - Starman
3. Elton John - Rocket Man
(Movie: What's Up, Doc?)
4. Todd Rundgren - I Saw The Light
5. Looking Glass - Brandy (You're a Fine Girl)
(Commercial - Calgon's "Ancient Chinese Secret")
6. Rod Stewart - You Wear It Well
7. Bonnie Raitt - Love Has No Pride
8. O'Jays - Back Stabber
(News - Nixon in China)
9. Paul Simon - Peace Like A River
10. Moody Blues - Isn't Life Strange?

For once I agree with the FB gripers: a deep track from Exile on Main St woulda killed. For that matter, so would the Osmonds.

[Lightnin' Rod]

Jeezus H Christ on a cracker: "Brandy", the uber-LN-iest of '72 LNs.

TANC:  I was just in Walgreens -- "Brandy" is playing.  I think we have a good LN argument for any song that plays on a Walgreens sound system.  "Rocket Man" would almost certainly fit that bill, and perhaps "You Wear It Well".  Not sure any of the other tunes make the Walgreens rotation.

[CapnJack]

My alternate 1972 playlist:

 1. The Rolling Stones - Rip This Joint
 2. Dave Edmunds - It Ain't Easy
 3. Elton John - I Think I'm Going To Kill Myself
 4. Todd Rundgren - The Night The Carousel Burnt Down
 5. Dennis Coffey And The Detroit Guitar Band - Scorpio
 6. J. Geils Band - Looking For A Love
 7. Carole King - Sweet Seasons
 8. Al Green - For The Good Times
 9. Chicago - State Of The Union
10. The Temptations - Papa Was A Rollin' Stone (full-length album version)

[Lightnin' Rod]

An alternative alternate list:

1. Deep Purple - Space Truckin
2. Humble Pie - C'mon Everybody
3. J Geils - Serves You Right to Suffer
4. Jethro Tull - A Song For Jeffrey
(here we need a clip encouraging people to sing along, perhaps a micth miller soundbite -- then play three instrumentals in a row)
5. Allman Brothers - Little Martha
6. The Edgar Winter Group - Frankenstein (super hit 6 6 6)
7. Roy Buchanan - The Messiah Will Come Again
8. Blue Oyster Cult - Then Came the Last Days of May
9. Niel Young - The Needle and the Damage Done
10. David Bowie - Rock 'n' Roll Suicide

[Big Fingers McGee]

The Temptations - Papa Was A Rollin' Stone (full-length album version)

Someplace a radical DJ is contemplating George Michael's medley cover of Seal's "Killer" and the Tempations' "Papa Was A Rollin' Stone", the full eleven minute version, for a 1993 set. I'm betting it won't be this station.

[urth]

An alternative alternate list:

1. Deep Purple - Space Truckin
2. Humble Pie - C'mon Everybody
3. J Geils - Serves You Right to Suffer
4. Jethro Tull - A Song For Jeffrey
(here we need a clip encouraging people to sing along, perhaps a micth miller soundbite -- then play three instrumentals in a row)
5. Allman Brothers - Little Martha
6. The Edgar Winter Group - Frankenstein (super hit 6 6 6)
7. Roy Buchanan - The Messiah Will Come Again
8. Blue Oyster Cult - Then Came the Last Days of May
9. Niel Young - The Needle and the Damage Done
10. David Bowie - Rock 'n' Roll Suicide

Nice segue there, Rod, for those last two.

[dischead]

How does Renee know what the Jersey Shore sound ca. '72 would sound like?

she got that directly from Looking Glass' wiki entry:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Looking_Glass_(band)

I'd've never pegged them as part of that, but they're from New Brunswick, apparently.

Or as my Mom says, "the guys from Rutgers."

I've never been a Jersey shore resident, but I did live just a couple of
counties away.  (You probably saw the pictures after Hurricane Sandy of
the roller coaster that was swept into the ocean.  That's where my
parents took the family every summer.)  I've never heard of the so-called
"Jersey Shore sound."  A quick web search indicates to me the concept is
somewhat sketchy, perhaps little more than the invention of a wikipedia
contributor.  Although I'm not familiar with all of them, I don't see
much of a unifying sound among the bands listed as being examples of
this genre.  To me it's just another example that Renee is getting her
musicology lessons on the fly by looking things up on the Internet.  Sigh.