As promised, in celebration of the first day of summer, today’s “Moldy Oldies” show featured “songs of summer,” with titles and/or subjects related to sunshine, summer fun, or with some connection to this season. In case you missed it, below is a list of the songs I played this afternoon:
- The Who – Summer Time Blues
- Eddy Heywood – Soft Summer Breeze
- Richie Havens – Here Comes The Sun
- Silver Convention – Fly, Robin, Fly
- Nat King Cole – Those Lazy-Hazy Days of Summer
- John Denver – Sunshine On My Shoulder
- Jonathan Edwards – Sunshine
- Corey Hart – Sunglasses At Night
- Bryan Adams – Summer Of ’69
- Chicago – Saturday In The Park
- First Class – Beach Baby
- Zombies – Time Of The Season
- Bobby Hebb – Sunny
- Boz Scaggs – Miss Sun
- Richard Marx – Endless Summer Nights
- Blue Cheer – Summertime Blues
- War – Summer
- Donovan – Sunshine Superman
- Cream – Sunshine Of Your Love
- The Lovin’ Spoonful – Summer In The City
- John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John – Summer Nights
- Mungo Jerry – In The Summertime
- Percy Faith – Theme from A Summer Place
- Terry Jacks – Seasons In The Sun
- Stevie Wonder – You Are The Sunshine Of My Life
- Animals – House Of The Rising Sun
- 5Th Dimension – Aquarius Let The Sunshine In
If you are unfamiliar with the Moldy Oldies show, this is a program I’ve been doing for many years on WCUR. As faculty adviser to our campus radio station, I feel that it is important for me to spend some time every week “in the trenches” doing a show on the air. Besides, I enjoy playing music from an earlier generation. So on most Thursday afternoons during the school year, I’m on the air from 4 to 6 p.m. I typically play mostly classic pop music from the 1960s and 1970s, with occasional tunes from before or after these decades. I often have a guest or two each week, and regularly feature an interview segment at 5 p.m. (coordinated by my former student and now “Associate Producer” Kathy Schlegel).
