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Saturday Morning Flashback: 1977

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In the year that Elvis died at Graceland, rock & roll began to evolve – growing louder, angrier, more invigorating, while disco gained momentum with the December release of Saturday Night Fever, and Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours provided well-crafted pop songs that set sales records. It all added up to four hours of memorable music on Flashback!

Beginning at 8 AM, tune in for Saturday Morning Flashback: 1977 with Wendy Rice!


This Week On Saturday Morning Flashback: 1968 [Playlist]

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Few years during the past few generations can compare for the quantity of timeless music, groundbreaking social movement, and widespread cultural evolution. Join Wendy Rice 8am-Noon on Saturday Morning Flashback as she revisits the pivotal year of 1968.

This Week’s Playlist: 1968

    Song – Artist
  • 8 am
  • Stray Cat Blues – The Rolling Stones
  • Pictures of Matchstick Men – Status Quo
  • Rainy Day, Dream Away – Jimi Hendrix
  • 1-2-3 Red Light – 1910 Fruitgum Company
  • Black Magic Woman – Fleetwood Mac
  • Picture Book – The Kinks
  • I Thank You – Sam & Dave
  • Suzie Q – Creedence Clearwater Revival
  • Baby Come Back – The Equals
  • Since You’ve Been Gone – Aretha Franklin
  • I Can’t Quit Her – Blood, Sweat & Tears
  • You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere – The Byrds
  • 9 am
  • Do It Again – The Beach Boys
  • Feelin’ Alright – Traffic
  • (Sittin’ on The) Dock of the Bay – Otis Redding
  • Hush – Deep Purple
  • Space Oddity – David Bowie
  • I Got the Feelin’ – James Brown
  • The Hurdy Gurdy Man – Donovan
  • I Heard it Through the Grapevine – Marvin Gaye
  • I Got a Line on You – Spirit
  • With a Little Help From my Friends – Joe Cocker
  • On the Road Again – Canned Heat
  • 10 am
  • Magic Bus – The Who
  • All Along the Watchtower – Jimi Hendrix
  • The Weight – The Band
  • The Best Way to Travel – The Moody Blues
  • Born Under a Bad Sign – Cream
  • Itchykoo Park – Small Faces
  • Tighten Up – Archie Bell & the Drells
  • Street Fighting Man – The Rolling Stones
  • Shine on Brightly – Procol Harum
  • I’ll be Your Baby Tonight – Bob Dylan
  • Born to be Wild – Steppenwolf
  • 11 am
  • Five to One – The Doors
  • Morning Dew – Jeff Beck
  • Glass Onion – The Beatles
  • Sweet Blindness – Laura Nyro
  • Living in the USA – Steve Miller Band
  • Mony Mony – Tommy James & the Shondells
  • I Put a Spell on You – Creedence Clearwater Revival
  • Hello, It’s Me – The Nazz
  • Green Tambourine – The Lemon Pipers
  • Love Story – Randy Newman
  • Piece of My Heart – Janis Joplin w/ Big Brother & the Holding Company
  • Dance to the Music – Sly & the Family Stone

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Playlist: Saturday Morning Flashback 12/4/10

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The Joshua Tree


Saturday Morning FlashbackLet it snow! We had the music and memories of 1987 to keep us warm. The XRT Listener Poll from ’87 included “Fatal Attraction” as the top movie, “L.A. Law” was the favorite TV show, and U2’s The Joshua Tree was the #1 album. Check out the playlist from the show, and then fast-forward your memory so you can vote for your faves in the 2010 Listener Poll!
Next week on Flashback: 1974


1987

  • Song – Artist
  • Need You Tonight- [lastfm]INXS[/lastfm]
  • American Roulette – [lastfm]Robbie Robertson[/lastfm]
  • Peace for the Wicked – [lastfm]Mick Jagger[/lastfm]
  • Learning to Fly – [lastfm]Pink Floyd[/lastfm]
  • I Need a Man – [lastfm]Eurythmics[/lastfm]
  • Think Too Hard – [lastfm]The dB’s[/lastfm]
  • Exhuming McCarthy – [lastfm]R.E.M.[/lastfm]
  • Like Dreamers Do – [lastfm]The Radiators[/lastfm]
  • First We Take Manhattan – [lastfm]Jennifer Warnes[/lastfm]
  • Hourglass – [lastfm]Squeeze[/lastfm]
  • Love Like Candy – [lastfm]Insiders[/lastfm]
  • I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For – [lastfm]U2[/lastfm]
  • I’m no Angel – [lastfm]Gregg Allman[/lastfm]
  • True – [lastfm]Concrete Blonde[/lastfm]
  • Mandinka – [lastfm]Sinead O’Connor[/lastfm]
  • The Right Stuff – [lastfm]Bryan Ferry[/lastfm]
  • Dreams – [lastfm]Bodeans[/lastfm]
  • Jammin’ Me – [lastfm]Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers[/lastfm]
  • Shakin’ Shakin’ Shakes – [lastfm]Los Lobos[/lastfm]
  • Sentimental Hygiene – [lastfm]Warren Zevon[/lastfm]
  • Just Like Heaven – [lastfm]The Cure[/lastfm]
  • A Touch of Grey – [lastfm]Grateful Dead[/lastfm]
  • Heartbreak Beat – [lastfm]Psychedelic Furs[/lastfm]
  • Memphis in the Meantime – [lastfm]John Hiatt[/lastfm]
  • The One I Love – [lastfm]R.E.M.[/lastfm]
  • Paper in Fire – [lastfm]John Mellencamp[/lastfm]
  • Solitude Standing – [lastfm]Suzanne Vega[/lastfm]
  • Rain in the Summertime – [lastfm]The Alarm[/lastfm]
  • Tunnel of Love – [lastfm]Bruce Springsteen[/lastfm]
  • Lips Like Sugar – [lastfm]Echo & the Bunnymen[/lastfm]
  • Can’t Hardly Wait – [lastfm]Replacements[/lastfm]
  • I Ain’t Ever Satisfied – [lastfm]Steve Earle[/lastfm]
  • Like the Weather – [lastfm]10,000 Maniacs[/lastfm]
  • Rock Steady – [lastfm]Sting[/lastfm]
  • I Feel Young Today – [lastfm]Peter Himmelman[/lastfm]
  • No New Tale to Tell – [lastfm]Love & Rockets[/lastfm]
  • Devil Inside – [lastfm]INXS[/lastfm]
  • River of Love – [lastfm]Nicholas Tremulis[/lastfm]
  • Where the Streets Have no Name – [lastfm]U2[/lastfm]
  • Turn me Round – [lastfm]k. d. lang[/lastfm]

1987 Listener Poll Results

Saturday Morning Flashback: 1991 [Playlist]

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The very first Lollapalooza Festival hit Chicago (Tinley Park) on August 3rd, staying for just one crazy night and then moving on to the next venue. The unique tour barnstormed through 21 cities; Rolling Stone magazine called it “the most successful and provocative package tour of the summer concert season.”

Other Chicago debuts in ’91 included the new Comiskey Park, the Harold Washington Library, the Shedd Oceanarium, and the Bulls first-ever NBA championship. Unforgettable!

Coming up:
August 6 – 1978
August 13 – 1967
August 20 – 1996

This Week’s Playlist: 1991

    Song – Artist
  • 8 am
  • Shiny Happy People – R.E.M.
  • Native Son – The Judybats
  • A Wall I Must Climb – Michael McDermott
  • Right Here, Right Now – Jesus Jones
  • Big Sky Country – Chris Whitley
  • Chocolate Cake – Crowded House
  • All This Time – Sting
  • I Feel So Good – Richard Thompson
  • Watch Yourself (live) – Eric Clapton
  • Groovy Train – The Farm
  • 9 am
  • Indigo Blues – The Smithereens
  • Under the Bridge – The Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Bertha – Los Lobos
  • Something to Talk About – Bonnie Raitt
  • Renee Remains the Same – Material Issue
  • Good Things – The Bodeans
  • Outta My Way – The Skeletons
  • Even Better Than the Real Thing – U2
  • Walkin’ (For Your Love) – Widespread Panic
  • 10 am
  • Come As You Are – Nirvana
  • Me in Honey – R.E.M.
  • Crazy – Seal
  • So You Think You’re in Love – Robyn Hitchcock & the Egyptians
  • There She Goes – The La’s
  • Love and Happiness – John Mellencamp
  • Girlfriend – Matthew Sweet
  • American Music – The Violent Femmes
  • There’s No Other Way – Blur
  • Learning to Fly – Tom Petty & the Hearbreakers
  • This is Hip – John Lee Hooker
  • 11 am
  • Cream – Prince
  • Rush – Big Audio Dynamite II
  • All in the Groove – Blues Traveler
  • Jeremy – Pearl Jam
  • All I Want – Toad the Wet Sprocket
  • Kozmik – Ziggy Marley & the Melody Makers
  • Jack Ass Ginger – Poi Dog Pondering
  • Stop Draggin’ Around – Lenny Kravitz
  • Three Pistols – The Tragically Hip
  • Mysterious Ways – U2
  • Fly Me Courageous – Drivin’-n-Cryin’

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Saturday Morning Flashback: 1997 [Playlist]

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By Frank E. Lee

1997 made its Flashback debut this week and despite being a slice of relatively recent history, it sounded fresh and nostalgic at the same time. Put 19 years on a backward bottle of Barolo or Bordeaux and it’s ready to pour. Music has a different reaction to age and there is the added human element of perception that impacts the way it churns through our mind as well.

We had solid contributions from Mary Dixon on the news of the year, Lin Brehmer with a deadly list of popular but terrible tunes and the Regular Guy on the year’s best films. I had a wonderful time with the presentation filling in for Wendy Rice, but no one does it better than the mistress of the backward glance. Here is the playlist:

“Staring At the Sun” by U2
“Push” by Matchbox 20
“Landslide” (live) by Fleetwood Mac
“Bitter Sweet Symphony” by the Verve
“Baby Blue” by Aimee Mann
“Song 2” by Blur
“Jack Ass Ginger” (live) by Poi Dog Pondering
“Blue on Black” by Kenny Wayne Shepherd
“Summertime” by the Sundays
“World Turning” by Leo Kottke
“Faded” by Ben Harper
“Monkey Wrench” by Foo Fighters
“Telephone Road” by Steve Earle
“The World Tonight” by Paul McCartney
“Shame On You” by the Indigo Girls
“The Freshmen” by the Verve Pipe
“Sunny Came Home” by Shawn Colvin
“Jack-Ass” by Beck
“Anybody Seen My Baby” by the Rolling Stones
“Heroes” (live) by David Bowie
“Karma Police” by Radiohead
“Flagpole Sitta” by Harvey Danger
“Do You Think About Me” by Waco Brothers
“Building a Mystery” by Sarah McLachlan
“Elegantly Wasted” by INXS
“16 Days” by Whiskeytown
“A Change” by Sheryl Crow
“People Get Ready” by Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers
“6 Underground” by Sneaker Pimps
“Early to Bed” by Morphine
“She Cries Your Name” by Beth Orton
“Good Riddance” by Green Day
“Sex and Candy” by Marcy Playground
“Aunt Avis” by Widespread Panic
“Please Don’t Tell Her” by Big Head Todd and the Monsters
“The Thrill is Gone” by B.B. King and Tracy Chapman
“Blueboy” by John Fogerty
“Listen” by Collective Soul
“Christmastime” by Smashing Pumpkins


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Saturday Morning Flashback: 1973 [Playlist]

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It was the year the Sears Tower was completed, giving Chicago the world’s tallest building. A horse called Secretariat won the Triple Crown. The reality TV series of the summer was the Senate Watergate hearings. Among the many music highlights, Pink Floyd released Dark Side of the Moon, and WXRT introduced the Featured Artist card and a new DJ: Terri Hemmert!

Coming up:
May 6 – 1980
May 13 – 1993
May 20 – 1970

This Week’s Playlist: 1973

    Song – Artist
  • 8 am
  • Dancing With Mr. D – The Rolling Stones
  • If You Want Me to Stay – Sly & the Family Stone
  • You’ve Been in Love Too Long – Bonnie Raitt
  • Sail On Sailor – Beach Boys
  • Long Train Running – The Doobie Brothers
  • The Jean Genie – David Bowie
  • Sufficiently Breathless – Captain Beyond
  • Over the Hills and Far Away – Led Zeppelin
  • Give it to Me – J. Geils Band
  • Bodhisattva – Steely Dan
  • 9 am
  • Let’s Get it On – Marvin Gaye
  • On Your Way Down – Little Feat
  • Dear Abby (live) – John Prine
  • Sitting in Limbo – Jimmy Cliff
  • Mind Games – John Lennon
  • Emerald Eyes – Fleetwood Mac
  • Rosalita – Bruce Springsteen
  • 5:15 – The Who
  • LaGrange – Z Z Top
  • All the Way From Memphis – Mott the Hoople
  • 10 am
  • Time – Pink Floyd
  • Take it Easy – Jackson Browne
  • I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe) – Genesis
  • Loves Me Like a Rock – Paul Simon
  • Band on the Run – Paul McCartney
  • Gypsy Man – War
  • Only Love – Bill Quateman
  • Living in the Material World – George Harrison
  • Dream On – Aerosmith
  • 11 am
  • Jessica – The Allman Brothers
  • Higher Ground – Stevie Wonder
  • If You Wanna Get to Heaven – Ozark Mountain Daredevils
  • I Can’t Stand the Rain – Ann Peebles
  • Growin’ Up – Bruce Springsteen
  • Generation Landslide – Alice Cooper
  • I Shot the Sheriff – Bob Marley & the Wailers
  • Outlaw Man – Eagles
  • Why Can’t We Live Together – Timmy Thomas
  • Bringing Home the Bacon – Procol Harum
  • Yes We Can Can- The Pointer Sisters

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Saturday Morning Flashback: 1988 [Playlist]

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By Frank E. Lee

Had a great 1988 once again (even better than the first go round 29 years ago) filling in for Wendy on Flashback this week sharing news about the exciting advent of zebra mussels, Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Stephen Hawking’s bestseller A Brief History of Time (theunofficial owners manual of Flashback.) The music sounded excellent as well and here’s what it looked like: (Yes, I did play Guns and Roses…loud)

“Rev It Up” Jerry Harrison
“The Ability to Swing” by Thomas Dolby
“Sweet Jane” by the Cowboy Junkies
“The Crush of Love” by Joe Satriani
“Only a Memory” by the Smithereens
“What I Am” by Edie Brickell and the New Bohemians
“She’s No Lady” by Lyle Lovett
“Orange Crush” by REM
“Put On Your Dancing Shoes” by Steve Winwood
“The Flame” by Cheap Trick
“If Love Was A Train” by Michele Shocked
“This Note’s For You” by Neil Young
“I’m An Adult Now” by The Pursuit of Happiness
“The Devil’s Right Hand” by Steve Earle
“Chrome Plated Heart” by Melissa Etheridge
“Get Started, Start a Fire” by Graham Parker
“Sell My Soul” by Midnight Oil
“It’s Money That Matters” by Randy Newman
“Flesh Number One” by Robyn Hitchcock
“Handle With Care” by The Traveling Wilburys
“Desire” by U2
“Let It Roll” by Little Feat
“(Nothing But) Flowers by Talking Heads
“Fast Car” by Tracy Chapman
“Paper Thin” by John Hiatt
“Tumblin’ Down” by Ziggy Marley
“Rockawhile” by Keith Richards
“Ana Ng” by They Might Be Giants
“Tall Cool One” by Robert Plant
“Don’t Go” by Hothouse Flowers
“Glamour Boys” by Living Colour
“Jane Says” by Jane’s Addiction
“Cruella De Ville” by The Replacements
“Holding On To the Eart” by Sam Phillips
“Reptile” by the Church
“Patience” by Guns N’ Roses
“Better Be Home Soon” by Crowded House
“Turn You Inside Our” by REM
“People Have The Power” by Patti Smith
“The Valley Road” by Bruce Hornsby
“Just a Little Bit” by Bobby King and Terry Evans
“World Party” by World Party was a mistake and and anachronism. (1987)


Join Wendy For One More Saturday Morning Flashback

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Join Wendy Rice as she broadcasts her final Saturday Morning Flashback this Saturday.

Wendy is set to retire from XRT, but not before she features the year in which she started as a programming intern, 1978. Listen on Saturday and help us send Wendy off with lots of laughs and some tears…

Wendy’s Final Saturday Morning Flashback Playlist: 1978

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Everyone has their favorite Flashback years, and this happens to be one of mine. In the spring of ’78, WXRT Program Director John Platt was the speaker at an annual event hosted by WPGU, the student-run station at the University of Illinois. I was a sophomore and was so impressed with Platt’s ideology that I jumped at the opportunity to serve as a summer intern in XRT’s programming department. I was hooked. After three years as Music Director at WWCT in Peoria, I did my first overnight shift on Chicago’s Finest Rock on June 1, 1982.

It’s been a wonderful run. The XRT family includes both colleagues and listeners, and those relationships – along with the music – are what I will always treasure.

Thank you for listening and for all your thoughtful and sincere wishes. You’ve kept me setting that alarm clock on Saturday mornings. Now it’s Frank and Johnny’s turn, and I’ll be tuning in!

Coming up next week: 1989 from 8 – 11 a.m.

This Week’s Playlist: 1978

    Song – Artist
  • 8 am
  • Good Times Roll – The Cars
  • Soul Man – The Blues Brothers
  • Night People – Robert Palmer
  • Champagne Jam – The Atlanta Rhythm Section
  • Satisfaction – Devo
  • I Ain’t Living Long Like This – Emmylou Harris
  • Dreadlock Holiday – 10cc
  • Bad Case of Loving You – Moon Martin
  • Wavelength – Van Morrison
  • One Way or Another – Blondie
  • 9 am
  • Shattered – The Rolling Stones
  • Shakedown Street – The Grateful Dead
  • You Cried Wolf – Todd Rundgren
  • Pump it Up – Elvis Costello
  • I Need to Know – Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
  • Remember – Greg Kihn
  • Had Enough – The Who
  • Because the Night – Patti Smith
  • Darkness on the Edge of Town – Bruce Springsteen
  • Hoochie Coochie Man – Muddy Waters
  • 10 am
  • Take Me to the River – Talking Heads
  • Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll – Ian Dury & the Blockheads
  • Sultans of Swing – Dire Straits
  • So It Goes – Nick Lowe
  • Lawyers, Guns and Money – Warren Zevon
  • Fire – Robert Gordon with Link Wray
  • I Wanna be Sedated – The Ramones
  • Is This Love? – Bob Marley
  • 2-4-6-8 Motorway – The Tom Robinson Band
  • So Lonely – The Police
  • 11 am
  • Surrender – Cheap Trick
  • FM – Steely Dan
  • Funky but Chic – David Johansen
  • All That You Dream (live) – Little Feat
  • Sign of the Times – Bryan Ferry
  • I’m a Woman – Koko Taylor
  • Watch Out for Lucy – Eric Clapton
  • Don’t Look Back – Peter Tosh with Mick Jagger
  • Ca Plane Pour Moi – Plastic Bertand

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Saturday Morning Flashback: 1989 [Playlist]

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By Frank E. Lee

It was back to 1989 this week as the post-Wendy Rice era of Flashback began and the transitional year was celebrated with a delightful blend of the sounds that were very much a part of the big 80’s but created in part with an ear for the decade to come. And yes, that meant we got to jump around like fish to Faith No More! Here’s the playlist:

“You Got It” by Roy Orbison
“See a Little Light” by Bob Mould
“The End of the Innocence” by Don Henley
“King For a Day” by XTC
“Trouble Me” by 10000 Maniacs
“Voodoo” by the Neville Brothers
“Everything Is Broken” by Bob Dylan
“Sowing the Seeds of Love” by Tears For Fears
“Veronica” by Elvis Costello
“Love Shack” by the B52s
“Martha Say” by John Melloncamp
“The Angels” by Melissa Etheridge
“Let Love Rule” by Lenny Kravitz
“Head On” by the Jesus and Mary Chain
“So Alive” by Love and Rockets
“Janie’s Got a Gun” by Aerosmith
“Here I Am” by Lyle Lovett
“I Won’t Back Down” by Tom Petty
“Twist In My Sobriety” by Tanita Tikaram
“I’ll Be You” by the Replacements
“Tightrope” by Stevie Ray Vaughan
“Love Song” by the Cure
“Black Velvet” by Alana Myles
“No Alibis” by Eric Clapton
“Closer To Fine” by the Indigo Girls
“A Girl Like You” by the Smithereens
“Epic” by Faith No More
“Here Comes Your Man” by the Pixies
“Rock and a Hard Place” by the Rolling Stones
“Don’t Make Me Dream About You” by Chris Isaak
“Let the Day Begin” by the Call
“Sold Me Down the River” by the Alarm

Saturday Morning Flashback: 1991 [Playlist]

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By Frank E. Lee

Once again, the tricky time currents were navigated successfully and the year 1991 returned to the airwaves. No anachronisms or paradoxes were observed. We were treated to cogent reports on the beginning of Lolla and the Bulls first championship and lots of great tunes that helped set the beat for the rest of the decade. Our return to the present was uneventful except for a brief side trip to hinder Carrot Top’s career. (It was ineffective.) Here’s the playlist:

“Tears In Heaven” by Eric Clapton
“1000 Miles Away” by Hoodoo Gurus
“Radio Song” by R.E.M.
“Lift Me Up” by Yes
“It’s Only Natural” by Crowded House
“The Other Side of Summer” by Elvis Costello
“This Is Hip” by John Lee Hooker
“Give It Away” by the Red Hot Chili Peppers
“Ordinary Average Guy” by Joe Walsh
“All This Time” by Sting
“Rush” Big Audio Dynamite II
“The Sky is Crying” by Stevie Ray Vaughan
“Lithium” by Nirvana
“A Wall I Must Climb” by Michael McDermott
“Three Strange Days” by School of Fish
“Calling Elvis” by Dire Straits
“Learning To Fly” by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
“Woman With the Strength of 10000 Men” by Peter Himmelman
“Right Here, Right Now” by Jesus Jones
“If You Don’t Start Drinkin'” by George Thorogood and the Destroyers
“Girlfriend” by Matthew Sweet
“I Touch Myself” by the Divinyls
Get a Leg Up” by John Mellencamp
“Damn Right, I’ve Got the Blues” by Buddy Guy
“Crazy” by Seal
“What About Now” by Robbie Robertson
“There She Goes” by The LA’s
“I Can’t Dance” by Genesis
“Even Better Than the Real Thing” by U2
“Diane” by Material Issue
“Black” by Pearl Jam
“Big Sky Country” by Chris Whitley
“Good Things” by Bodeans

Saturday Morning Flashback: 1987 [Playlist]

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By Frank E. Lee

It was a thrilling trip back to the big 80’s this week as we relived the year of Black Monday, talking Alf dolls and the fantastic scarf-mitten accessories that almost no one wears anymore! It was 1987 and, as always, the laws of cause and effect were not violated. It sounded like this:

“La Bamba” by Los Lobos
“Say You Will” by Mick Jagger
“Just Like Heaven” by the Cure
“On the Turning Away” by Pink Floyd
“Have a Little Faith In Me” by John Hiatt
“Like the Weather” by 10000 Maniacs
“Rain in the Summertime” by the Alarm
“Rag Doll” by Aeromith
“Tougher Than the Rest” by Bruce Springsteen
“Big Love” by Fleetwood Mac
“Sentimental Hygiene” by Warren Zevon
“Lips Like Sugar” by Echo and the Bunnymen
“Heart Full of Soul” by Chris Isaak
“The One I Love” by R.E.M.
“Hourglass” by Squeeze
“Alex Chilton” by the Replacements
“I’m No Angel” by Greg Allman
“Luka” by Suzanne Vega
“Kiss And Tell” by Bryan Ferry
“Jammin’ Me” by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
“Somewhere Down the Crazy River” by Robbie Robertson
“True Faith” by New Order
“We Care a Lot” by Faith No More
“When We Was Fab” by George Harrison
“Where the Streets Have No Name” by U2
“Only Love” by Bodeans
“Be still My Beating Heart” by Sting
“Heartbreak Beat” by the Psychedelic Furs
“Unchain My Heart” by Joe Cocker
“Kick” by INXS
“Ghost on the Beach” by Insiders
“Check It Out” by John Mellencamp

Saturday Morning Flashback: 1992 [Playlist]

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By Frank E. Lee

Once again (or maybe for the first time) we had a fun three hours in 1992. There were two songs about big love, a one-hit wonder, some good covers, a sequel to a classic album and even some choice words from Isaac Asimov (who died in 1992) with a pithy rephrasing of our biggest problem: “Against stupidity, the very gods themselves contend in vain.” Here’s the playlist:

“Human Touch” by Bruce Springsteen
“Big Love” by Little Village
“Ripple” by the Church
“99.9 Fahrenheit Degrees” by Suzanne Vega
“Drive” by R.E.M.
“Be the One” by Poi Dog Pondering
“Murder, Tonight in the Trailer Park” by Cowboy Junkies
“Runaway Train” by Soul Asylum
“Great Big Love” by Bruce Cockburn
“You and Me” by Neil Young
“Dizz Knee Land” by Dada
“What Girls Want” by Material Issue
“Happy Birthday to Me” by Cracker
“Salome” by U2
“Why” by Annie Lennox
“Born of Frustration” by James
“Santa Monica” by Everclear
“What’s Up” by 4 Non Blondes
“If I Can’t Change Your Mind” by Sugar
“Kiss That Frog” by Peter Gabriel
“That Train Don’t Stop Here” by Los Lobos
“Fly Like an Eagle” by the Neville Brothers
“Sting Me” by the Black Crowes
“Behind the Sun” by Red Hot Chili Peppers
“Beautiful Girl” by INXS
“Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out” by Eric Clapton
“Friday I’m in Love” by the Cure
“Tomorrow” by Morrissey
“Candy Everybody Wants” by 10000 Maniacs
“Mrs. Robinson” by the Lemonheads
“Spiritual High” by Moodswings
“Just Like a Man” by Del Amitri
“The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead” by XTC

Saturday Morning Flashback: 1983 [Playlist]

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By Frank E. Lee

Update: 93XRT’s Saturday Morning Flashback will air from 9 AM – 12 PM beginning this Saturday with host Johnny Mars

Our trip back to the middle of the rock era went smoothly with no cause and effect violations to speak of (although big hair appears to have made a comeback) and we celebrated a great year in music with traditional rock, some rootsy throwbacks, a tasty electro cover by Robert Palmer, and even a couple of Old Testament inspired numbers. Here’s the playlist from 1983:

“Come Dancing” by the Kinks
“True Love-Part II” by X
“Far Post” by Robert Plant
“Sweet Dreams” by Eurythmics
“Pride and Joy” by Stevie Ray Vaughan
“Pale Shelter” by Tears For Fears
“Lawyers in Love” by Jackson Browne
“The One Thing” by INXS
“Memphis” by Joe Jackson
“Stand Back” by Stevie Nicks
“Make a Circuit With Me” by Polecats
“Sharp Dressed Man” by ZZ Top
“Our House” by Madness
“Suddenly Last Summer” by the Motels
“Seconds” by U2
“Oblivious” by Aztec Camera
“Undercover of the Night” by the Rolling Stones
“Eyes Without a Face” by Billy Idol
“Buffalo Soldier” by Bob Marley and the Wailers
“You Are in My System” by Robert Palmer
“China Girl” by David Bowie
“Talk About the Passion” by R.E.M.
“Riding With the King” by John Hiatt
“Slippery People” by Talking Heads
“IN a Big Country” by Big Country
“Slipping Away” by Dave Edmunds
“I Love L.A.” by Randy Newman
“Synchronicity II” by the Police
“The Walls Came Down” by the Call
“Bang the Drum All Day” by Todd Rundgren
“Blister in the Sun” by Violent Femmes
“It Can Happen” by Yes
“Belly of the Whale” by Burning Sensations


Saturday Morning Flashback: 1995 [Playlist]

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We hit the mid 90’s on Saturday Morning Flashback and we recalled when Coolio had us in a Gangsta’s Paradise, Mel Gibson wore a kilt in Braveheart all the way to Oscar gold and we listened to music from soundtracks to Batman Forever & Empire Records. Heard big sweeping albums from Smashing Pumpkins and quieter harmonies from The Jayhawks. All part of the year 1995. Here is our musical trek….

Del Amitri – Roll To Me
Alice In Chains – Heaven Beside You
Jeff Buckley – Last Goodbye
Soul Asylum – Misery
Spacehog – In The Meantime
The Beatles – Free As A Bird
Joan Osborne – One Of Us
Red Hot Chili Peppers – My Friends
Ben Harper – Ground On Down
Natalie Merchant – Wonder
Chris Isaak – Baby Did A Bad Thing
Collective Soul – December
Garbage – Only Happy When It Rains
Van Morrison – Days Like This
Dave Matthews Band – Ants Marching
Melissa Etheridge – If I Wanted To
Goo Goo Dolls – Name
Bob Dylan – All Along The Watchtower (Unplugged)
Radiohead – Fake Plastic Trees
Green Day – When I Come Around
Alanis Morissette – You Oughta Know
John Hiatt – Cry Love
Better Than Ezra – Good
U2 – Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me
Tracy Chapman – Give Me One Reason
Smashing Pumpkins – 1979
Oasis – Wonderwall
PJ Harvey – Down By The Water
Gin Blossoms – Til I Hear It From You
Tom Petty – Wildflowers
Bush – Comedown
Jayhawks – Blue
Toad The Wet Sproket – Good Intentions


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Saturday Morning Flashback: 1974 [Playlist]

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By Frank E. Lee

1974 proved to be a difficult journey down the corridors of time primarily because we had to avoid many of the numerous pop hits that became part of our global soundtrack back then. A good number of them were insipid but catchy (like superflu) and hard to steer around. We were able to play some of the good ones however, and the usual practices of safe 4th dimensional travel (don’t kill your grandfather, don’t advise your younger self to buy IBM, etc…) were followed to the letter. Here’s the list of the sound of other days from 1974:

“Number 9 Dream” by John Lennon
“Skating Away on the Thin Ice of a New Day” by Jethro Tull
“U.S. Blues” by the Grateful Dead
“People Say” by the Meters
“Call Me the Breeze” by Lynyrd Skynyrd
“Dreamer” by Supertramp
“Cats in the Cradle” by Harry Chapin
“Turn To Stone” by Joe Walsh
“Another Saturday Night” by Cat Stevens
“Out of the Blue” by Roxy Music
“For the Love of Money” by the O’Jays
“James Dean” by the Eagles
“Lamb Lies Down on Broadway” by Genesis
“You’re No Good” by Linda Rondstadt
“All Along the Watchtower” by Dave Mason
“Pure And Easy” by the Who
“Pick Up the Pieces” by Average White Band
“Mainline Florida” by Eric Clapton
“Take Me To the River: by Al Green
“Intro/Sweet Jane” by Lou Reed
“Can’t Get Enough” by Bad Company
“Jazzman” by Carole King
“You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet” by Bachman Turnerr Overdrive
“Boogie Thing” by James Cotton
“Musta Got Lost” by the J. Geils Band
“As the Raven Flies” by Dan Fogelberg
“If You Can’t Rock Me” by the Rolling Stones
“Ride the Tiger” by Jefferson Starship
“Pretzel Logic” by Steely Dan
“Black Water” by the Doobie Bros.
“Nothing From Nothing” by Billy Preston
“Same Old Song And Dance” by Aerosmith

Saturday Morning Flashback: 1970 [Playlist]

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Some writers have suggested that the spiritual end of the 60’s began at the deadly Rolling Stones concert a the Altamont speedway in December of 1969. In 1970, more grim news with the deaths of Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin within weeks of each other, along with the break-up of the Beatles, added more fuel to that rising fire.

But all was not lost. 1970 saw a greater awareness and desire to protect the planet. The first Earth Day took place and Richard Nixon established the Environmental Protection Agency.

It was, like every year, good and bad. A ball of confusion. We have all been here before, as Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young put it.

And on Saturday Morning Flashback, it’s always Deja Vu all over again.

Here’s a look at our musical journey through 1970 this time….

James Taylor – Steamroller
Santana – Oye Como Va
Temptations – Psychedelic Shack
Dave Mason – Look At You, Look At Me
Beatles – The Long And Winding Road
Crosby, Stills, Nash, And Young – Our House
Traffic – Empty Pages
Elton John – Burn Down The Mission
Creedence Clearwater Revival – Run Through The Jungle
Grateful Dead – Truckin
Bobby Bloom – Montego Bay
George Harrison – Beware Of Darkness
Dave Edmunds – I Hear You Knockin’
Joni Mitchell – Big Yellow Taxi
Guess Who – Hand Me Down World
Stevie Wonder – Signed, Sealed, Delivered I’m Yours
The Band – The Shape I’m In
Jethro Tull – Teacher
Joe Cocker – The Letter-Live
Spirit – Nature’s Way
Jimi Hendrix – Angel
Derek And The Dominos – Bell Bottom Blues
Mick Jagger – Memo From Turner
Sly And The Family Stone – Thank You
Chicago – Questions 67 & 68
Paul McCartney – Every Night
Velvet Underground – Sweet Jane
Badfinger – No Matter What
The Doors – Peace Frog
Van Morrison – Domino
J. Geils Band – First I Look At The Purse
Grand Funk Railroad – I’m Your Captain

Saturday Morning Flashback: 1980 [Playlist]

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By Frank E. Lee

The trip back to 1980 went well with just a few glitches including an on air whoop into a hot mic during the rousing conclusion to “Even It Up” by Heart (which only made the song more exciting in my opinion) and some slight chronal addling of the presenter’s brain. A brief anachronistic interlude occurred when Todd Rundgren’s upcoming Holiday Concerts for the Kids were mentioned before a fine example of his work with Utopia and there were also some last minute additions to the playlist that nonetheless flowed seamlessly into the ether. Here’s the tuneage:

“Pressure Drop” by the Clash
“Let My Love Open the Door” by Pete Townshend
“Love Will Tear Us Apart” by Joy Division
“Redemption Song” by Bob Marley and the Wailers
“Her Strut” by Bob Seger
“Girl You Want” by Devo
“Call Me” by Blondie
“Casa Dega” by Tom Petty
“A Certain Girl” by Warren Zevon
“Even It Up” by Heart
“Mirror In The Bathroom” by English Beat
“Crosseyed and Painless” by Talking Heads
“People Who Died” by Jim Carroll Band
“Ashes To Ashes” by David Bowie
“This Beat Goes On/Switch Into Glide” by the Kings
“8 Miles High” by Roxy Music
“Caravan” by Utopia
“While You See a Chance” by Steve Winwood
“Sweet Home Chicago” by Lonnie Brooks
“Me and the Boys” by NRBQ
“Crazy Little Thing Called Love” by Queen
“I’m A Rocker” by Bruce Springsteen
“Generals and Majors” by XTC
“Give Me Back My Man” by the B52s
“I’m Losing You” by John Lennon
“Expresso Love” by Dire Straits
“Alabama Getaway” by Grateful Dead
“That Girl Could Sing” by Jackson Browne
“Games Without Frontiers” (German version) by Peter Gabriel
“She’s So Cold” by Rolling Stones
“Pulling Mussels” by Squeeze
“Girls Talk” by Elvis Costello
“Canary in a Coalmine” by Police
“Looking For Clues” by Robert Palmer
“Cars” by Gary Numan
“Games People Play” by Alan Parsons Project

Saturday Morning Flashback: 1993 [Playlist]

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Our weekly time travel found us drifting almost a quarter-century back to 1993. Bill Clinton was inagurated our 42nd President. Whoomp (There It Is!) was frying our brains. The first Three-Peet, as the Chicago Bulls are NBA champions again. Prince changed his name to an unpronounceable symbol. And a release of three albums from local artists that caught the attention of music lovers and moved the center of the alternative music world to our town. So, as usual, there was good and not-so-good.

Here’s the playlist from the show…

BoDeans – Closer To Free
Ten Thousand Maniacs – Because The Night
Los Lobos – Kiko And The Lavender Moon
Cracker – Low
Pearl Jam – Elderly Woman Behind The Counter
Freddy Jones Band – In A Daydream
Pogues – Tuesday Morning
Red Hot Chili Peppers – Soul To Squeeze
Belly – Feed The Tree
Smashing Pumpkins – Disarm
Widespread Panic – Wondering
James – Laid
Sting – Fields Of Gold
Buddy Guy – Red House
Big Head Todd & The Monsters – Bittersweet
Spin Doctors – Two Princes
R.E.M. – Nightswimming
The The – Slow Emotion Replay
Lenny Kravitz – Are You Gonna Go My Way
Tragically Hip – Courage
Gin Blossoms – Found Out About You
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers – Mary Jane’s Last Dance
Nirvana – Dumb
Blind Melon – No Rain
Dada – Dorina
Urge Overkill – Sister Havana
U2 – Stay (Faraway, So Close)
Porno For Pyros – Pets
The Cranberries – Dreams
Stone Temple Pilots – Plush
Stereo MC’s – Connected
John Mellencamp – What If I Came Knocking
The Cure – Purple Haze

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