The People‘s Playlist

RIP 2023 - Part 2 (July - December)

0:00:00 - 7/16 Jane Birkin “Jane B.”

0:02:59 - 7/21 Tony Bennett “I Left My Heart in San Francisco”

0:05:46 - 7/26 Sinead O’Connor “Nothing Compares 2 U”

0:10:38 - 7/26 Randy Meisner “Take It To The Limit”

0:14:48 - 7/30 Paul Reubens “The Girl on the Flying Trapeze”

0:16:49 - 8/4 The Kinks “Supersonic Rocket Ship” (featuring keyboarding John Gosling)

0:20:14 - 8/8 Sixto Rodriguez “Sugar Man”

0:23:54 - 8/9 The Band “The Weight” (featuring guitarist/singer Robbie Robertson)

0:28:24 - 8/17 MFSB “TSOP (The Sound of Philadelphia)” (featuring guitarist Bobby Eli)

0:31:58 - 8/17 Pavement “Summer Babe (Winter Version)” (featuring drummer Gary Young)

0:35:09 - 8/24 Whitesnake “Here I Go Again” (featuring guitarist Bernie Marsden)

0:39:35 - 9/1 Jimmy Buffett “Margaritaville”

0:43:41 - 9/4 Gary Wright “Love Is Alive”

0:47:19 - 9/4 Smash Mouth “Walkin’ On The Sun” (featuring singer Steve Harwell)

0:50:39 - 9/6 The Earls “Remember Then” (featuring singer Larry Chance)

0:52:43 - 9/20 The Marvelettes “Please Mr. Postman” (featuring singer Katherine Anderson)

0:55:08 - 9/30 The Chordates “Mr. Sandman” (featuring singer Carol Buschmann)

0:57:30 - 10/9 Brian and Michael “Matchstalk Men and Matchstick Cats and Dogs” (featuring singer Kevin Parrott)

1:01:52 - 10/11 The Isley Brothers “Fight the Power, Pt. 1” (featuring singer Rudolph Isley)

1:04:58 - 10/18 Dwight Twilley “Girls”

1:08:16 - 11/20 The Waitresses “Christmas Wrapping” (featuring saxophonist Mars Williams)

1:12:46 - 11/22 Jean Knight “Mr. Big Stuff”

1:15:23 - 11/26 Killing Joke “Eighties” (featuring guitarist Geordie Walker)

1:19:03 - 11/30 The Pogues “Fairytale of New York” (featuring singer Shane McGowan)

1:23:27 - 12/5 Moody Blues “Go Now” (featuring singer/guitarist Denny Laine)

1:26:35 - 12/29 Les McCann “Fish This Week, But Next Week Chitlins”

RIP 2023 - Part 1 (January - June)

0:00:00 - 1/1 Earth Wind & Fire “Getaway” (featuring drummer Fred White)

0:03:43 - 1/2 Kingsize Taylor and the Dominoes “Stupidity” (featuring singer Ted “Kingsize” Taylor)

0:06:00 - 1/10 Jeff Beck “Beck’s Bolero”

0:08:49 - 1/11 Yellow Magic Orchestra “Computer Game” (featuring drummer/singer Yukihio Takahashi and keyboardist/singer Ryuichi Sakamoto 3/28)

0:12:39 - 1/12 Lisa Marie Presley “Lights Out”

0:16:15 - 1/18 Crosby, Stills & Nash “Long Time Gone” (featuring singer David Crosby)

0:20:30 - 1/28 Television “See No Evil” (featuring singer Tom Verlaine)

0:24:15 - 1/29 Barrett Strong “Money (That’s What I Want)”

0:26:47 - 2/5 The Exciters “Tell Him” (featuring singer Lillian Walker)

0:29:19 - 2/12 De La Soul “Me Myself & I” (featuring rapper Trugoy the Dove)

0:32:52 - 2/13 Huey “Piano” Smith “Rockin’ Pneumonia and the Boogie Boogie Flu”

0:35:00 - 2/21 King Harvest “Dancing In The Moonlight” (featuring keyboardist Ron Altbach)

0:37:52 - 3/2 Wayne Shorter “Calm”

0:41:05 - 3/4 Barnes & Barnes “Fish Heads” (featuring musician Artie Barnes)

0:43:28 - 3/5 Lynyrd Skynyrd “Sweet Home Alabama” (featuring guitarist Gary Rossington)

0:48:06 - 3/9 Napoleon XIV “They’re Coming To Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa!”

0:50:10 - 3/14 Bobby Caldwell “What You Won’t Do For Love”

0:53:49 - 3/27 Jay and the Americans “Come a Little Bit Closer” (featuring singer Howie Kane)

0:57:32 - 4/16 Ahmad Jamal “Easy To Love”

1:00:49 - 4/17 April Stevens & Nino Tempo “Deep Purple” (featuring singer April Stevens)

1:03:27 - 4/25 Billy “The Kid” Emerson “Red Hot”

1:05:51 - 4/25 Harry Belafonte “Day-O”

1:08:55 - 4/28 Bachman-Turner Overdrive “You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet” (featuring guitarist Tim Bachman)

1:12:24 - 5/1 Gordon Lightfoot “Sundown”

1:15:51 - 5/19 The Smiths “This Charming Man” (featuring bassist Andy Rourke)

1:18:32 - 5/23 Young-Holt Unlimited “Soulful Strut” (featuring drummer Redd Holt)

1:21:25 - 5/24 Tina Turner “What’s Love Got To Do With It?”

1:25:02 - 6/5 Stan Getz & João Gilberto “The Girl From Ipanema” (featuring singer Astrud Gilberto)

RIP 2022

0:00:00 - 1/5 R. Dean Taylor “Indiana Wants Me”

0:03:36 - 1/6 Sidney Poitier “The Philosopher-King Must Rule”

0:06:02 - 1/6 The Parliaments “(I Wanna) Testify” (featuring singer Calvin Simon)

0:09:01 - 1/11 The Dixie Cups “Chapel of Love” (featuring singer Rosa Lee Hawkins)

0:11:43 - 1/12 The Ronettes “Be My Baby” (featuring singer Ronnie Spector)

0:14:18 - 1/20 Meat Loaf “I Would Do Anything For Love (But I Won’t Do That)”

0:21:56 - 1/22 The Ventures “Walk, Don’t Run” (featuring guitarist Don Wilson)

0:23:58 - 2/19 Procol Harum “A Whiter Shade of Pale” (featuring singer/keyboardist Gary Brooker)

0:29:50 - 2/22 Screaming Trees “Nearly Lost You” (featuring singer Mark Lanegan)

0:33:51 - 3/10 Sesame Street “Loud and Soft” (featuring Emilio Delgado and Bob McGrath 12/4)

0:35:54 - 3/25 Foo Fighters “Everlong” (featuring drummer Taylor Hawkins)

0:39:58 - 4/1 C.W. McCall “Convoy”

0:43:36 - 4/20 Robert Morse “The Best Things In Life Are Free”

0:45:09 - 4/30 The Judds “Mama He’s Crazy” (featuring singer Naomi Judd)

0:48:07 - 5/17 Vangelis “Chariots of Fire”

0:51:33 - 5/26 Depeche Mode “Enjoy the Silence” (featuring keyboardist Andy Fletcher)

0:55:40 - 5/26 Yes “Release, Release” (featuring drummer Alan White)

1:01:24 - 5/29 Ronnie Hawkins “40 Days”

1:03:29 - 6/5 Bon Jovi “Livin On a Prayer” (featuring bassist Alec John Such)

1:07:30 - 6/6 Seals and Crofts “Summer Breeze” (featuring singer/musician Jim Seals)

1:10:48 - 6/9 Julee Cruise “Falling” (also featuring composer Angelo Badalamenti 12/11)

1:15:54 - 7/14 The Delfonics “Ready or Not Here I Come (Can’t Hide From Love)” (featuring singer William Hart)

1:17:48 - 7/29 Shadows of Knight “Gloria” (featuring singer Jim Johns)

1:20:20 - 7/30 Nichelle Nichols “Why Don’t You Do Right?”

1:22:24 - 8/5 The Seekers “Georgy Girl” (featuring singer Judith Durham)

1:24:36 - 8/8 Olivia Newton-John “Physical”

1:28:12 - 8/22 Buddy Holly & The Crickets “Peggy Sue” (featuring drummer Jerry Allison)tZ

1:30:40 - 9/14 Friend & Lover “Reach Out of the Darkness” (featuring singer Jim Post)

1:33:44 - 9/28 Coolio “Gangsta’s Paradise”

1:37:45 - 10/4 Loretta Lynn “You Ain’t Woman Enough (To Take My Man)”

1:39:54 - 10/11 Angela Lansbury “Beauty and the Beast”

1:42:35 - 10/28 Jerry Lee Lewis “Great Balls of Fire”

1:44:24 - 10/28 Dead Kennedys “I Fought the Law” (featuring drummer D.H. Peligro)

1:46:40 - 11/5 Low “Canada” (featuring drummer/singer Mimi Parker)

1:50:19 - 11/8 Nazareth “Love Hurts” (featuring singer Dan McCafferty)

1:54:05 - 11/11 Public Image Ltd. “Public Image” (featuring guitarist Keith Levine)

1:56:59 - 11/25 Irene Cara “What a Feeling”

2:00:49 - 11/30 Fleetwood Mac “Little Lies” (featuring singer/keyboardist Christine McVie)

2:04:18 - 12/15 The Rascals “Good Lovin’” (featuring drummer Dino Danelli)

2:06:46 - 12/18 Primal Scream “Movin’ On Up” (featuring keyboardist Martin Duffy)

2:10:09 - 12/18 Maggie Thrett “Soupy”

2:13:02 - 12/19 The Specials “Friday Night, Saturday Morning” (featuring singer Terry Hall)

2:16:29 - 12/23 Faithless “God is a DJ” (featuring vocalist Maxi Jazz)

2:19:51 - 12/31 Modest Mouse “Float On” (featuring drummer Jeremiah Green)

2:23:18 - 12/31 The Pointer Sisters “Slow Hand” (featuring singer Anita Pointer)

R.I.P. 2021 - Part 3 (September - December)

0:00:00 - 9/20 Labelle “Lady Marmalade” (featuring singer Sarah Dash)

0:03:52 - 9/20 Delta 5 “Mind Your Own Business” (featuring singer Julz Sale)

0:06:58 - 9/21 Cabaret Voltaire “Here To Go” (featuring musician Richard H. Kirk)

0:12:06 - 9/26 Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen “Hot Rod Lincoln” (featuring singer/keyboardist George Frayne IV)

0:14:45 - 9/27 The Vibrators “Automatic Lover” (featuring bassist Darrell Bath)

0:17:47 - 9/28 Lonnie Smith “Jeannine”

0:21:11 - 9/29 Nouvelle Vague “I Melt With You” (featuring musician Olivier Libaux)

0:25:03 - 10/5 The Jazz Butcher “Southern Mark Smith (Big Return)” (featuring musician Pat Fish)

0:30:09 - 10/8 The English Beat “Mirror In the Bathroom” (featuring drummer Everett Morton)

0:33:10 - 10/16 Alan Hawkshaw “Beat Me Til I’m Blue”

0:35:46 - 10/21 Robin McNamara “Lay a Little Lovin’ On Me”

0:38:41 - 10/21 Switch “There’ll Never Be” (featuring singer/bassist Tommy DeBarge)

0:43:56 - 10/22 Jay and the Americans “Come a Little Bit Closer” (featuring singer Jay Black)

0:46:39 - 11/2 The Gap Band “You Dropped a Bomb On Me” (featuring singer/musician Ronnie Wilson)

0:51:47 - 11/6 808 State “Pacific State” (featuring keyboardist Andy Barker)

0:55:33 - 11/6 UB40 “Red Red Wine” (featuring singer Astro)

0:58:27 - 11/13 The Tokens “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” (featuring percussionist/singer Philip Margo)

1:01:05 - 11/20 Dino, Desi & Billy “I’m a Fool” (featuring singer/musician Billy Hinsche)

1:03:46 - 12/7 Bronski Beat “Why?” (featuring keyboardist Steve Bronski)

1:07:47 - 12/8 Sly and Robbie “Boops (Here To Go)” (featuring bassist Robbie Shakespeare)

1:11:21 - 12/8 Tavares “Heaven Must Be Missing An Angel” (featuring singer Ralph Tavares)

1:14:46 - 12/8 Rare Earth “I Just Want to Celebrate” (featuring singer Gil Bridges)

1:17:36 - 12/10 The Monkees “Mary Mary” (featuring singer/guitarist Mike Nesmith)

1:19:45 - 12/10 Five Man Electrical Band “Signs” (featuring singer Les Emmerson)

1:23:42 - 12/16 The Marvelettes “Please Mr. Postman” (featuring singer Wanda Young)

1:26:08 - 12/31 Betty White “Nevertheless (I’m In Love With You)”

R.I.P. 2021 - Part 2 (May - August)

0:00:00 - 5/2 Lloyd Price “Stagger Lee”

0:02:17 - 5/4 Nick Kamen “I Promised Myself”

0:06:01 - 5/6 The Staple Singers “Why? (Am I Treated So Bad)” (featuring singer Pervis Staples)

0:08:50 - 5/17 Neal Ford and the Fanatics “Gonna Be My Girl” (featuring singer Neal Ford)

0:11:20 - 5/25 Rusty Warren “Bounce Your Boobies”

0:14:32 - 5/27 Patrick Sky “Fight For Liberation”

0:16:46 - 5/29 B.J. Thomas “Hooked On a Feeling”

0:19:21 - 6/4 Sticky Fingaz “Drop a Jewel On Me” (featuring actor Clarence Williams III)

0:22:45 - 6/7 Ambrosia “Biggest Part of Me” (featuring keyboardist David C. Lewis)

0:28:03 - 6/8 Dean Parrish “I’m On My Way”

0:30:40 - 6/18 The Bunnys “Dark Eyes” (featuring guitarist Takeshi Terauchi)

0:33:47 - 6/18 Blackalicious “Alphabet Aerobics” (featuring rapper Gift of Gab)

0:35:57 - 7/4 Sanford Clark “The Fool”

0:38:35 - 7/16 Biz Markie “Just a Friend”

0:42:33 - 7/17 Kansas “Dust in the Wind” (featuring singer/violinist Robby Steinhardt)

0:46:46 - 7/19 Chuck E. Weiss “Tupelo Joe”

0:48:56 - 7/20 Vince Guaraldi Trio “Skating” (featuring drummer Jerry Granelli)

0:51:12 - 7/28 ZZ Top “Tush” (featuring bassist Dusty Hill)

0:53:25 - 8/6 Trevor Moore “Kitty History”

0:56:53 - 8/7 Kool & the Gang “Jungle Boogie” (featuring saxophonist Dennis Thomas)

0:59:57 - 8/11 Caroline Peyton “Try To Be True”

1:02:33 - 8/13 Nanci Griffitih “Lone Star State of Mind”

1:06:18 - 8/20 Tom T. Hall “I Love”

1:08:21 - 8/21 The Everly Brothers “All I Have To Do Is Dream” (featuring singer Don Everly)

1:10:33 - 8/24 Simply Red “If You Don’t Know Me By Now” (featuring keyboardist Fritz McIntyre)

1:13:52 - 8/24 The Rolling Stones “Get Off Of My Cloud” (featuring drummer Charlie Watts)

1:16:40 - 8/29 The Amboy Dukes “Journey To The Center of the Mind” (featuring singer John Drake)

1:20:12 - 8/29 Lee “Scratch” Perry “Soul Fire”

R.I.P. 2021 - Part 1 (January - April)

0:00:00 - 1/3 Gerry and the Pacemakers “How Do You Do It?” (featuring singer/guitarist Gerry Marsden)

0:01:52 - 1/13 New York Dolls “Personality Crisis” (featuring guitarist Sylvain Sylvain)

0:05:31 - 1/13 Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five “The Message” (featuring rapper Duke Bootee)

0:12:39 - 1/13 The Trammps “Disco Inferno” (featuring vocalist Stanley Wade)

0:16:06 - 1/18 Jimmie Rodgers “Honeycomb”

0:18:18 - 1/23 Patsy Ann Noble “Good Looking Boy”

0:20:54 - 1/29 The Animals “House of the Rising Sun” (featuring guitarist Hilton Valentine)

0:25:22 - 1/29 Little Richard “You Keep a Knockin” (featuring saxophonist Grady Gaines and drummer Charles Connor (7/31))

0:27:35 - 1/30 People Under the Stairs “Acid Raindrops” (featuring rapper Double K)

0:32:14 - 2/3 Anne Feeney “Have You Been To Jail For Justice?”

0:34:45 - 2/4 Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes “Don’t Give Me Up” (featuring singer Gil Saunders)

0:39:27 - 2/8 The Supremes “Come and Get These Memories” (featuring singer Mary Wilson)

0:41:28 - 2/9 Chick Corea “Windows”

0:44:36 - 2/17 U-Roy “The Tide Is High”

0:47:13 - 2/17 Stereo Total “I Love You, Ono” (featuring singer Françoise Cactus)

0:50:21 - 2/18 The Fat Boys “All You Can Eat” (featuring rapper Prince Markie Dee)

0:53:27 - 3/2 Bunny Wailer “Dreamland”

0:56:19 - 3/15 Yaphet Kotto “Have You Ever Seen The Blues”

0:59:05 - 3/24 Jessica Walter (with Michael Callan) “Always True To You In My Fashion”

1:01:47 - 3/28 Malcolm Cecil “Melodious Wind Song”

1:03:14 - 4/2 War “Low Rider” (featuring bassist/vocalist Morris “B.B.” Dickerson)

1:06:14 - 4/9 DMX “Party Up (Up In Here)”

1:10:40 - 4/16 The Kingsmen “Louie Louie” (featuring singer Mike Mitchell)

1:13:22 - 4/19 Jim Steinman “Out of the Frying Pan (And Into the Fire)”

1:19:21 - 4/20 Bay City Rollers “Saturday Night” (featuring singer Les McKeown)

1:22:11 - 4/22 Digital Underground “The Humpty Dance” (featuring rapper Shock G (aka: Humpty Hump))

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