If you see a painted sign at the side of the road, it says Welcome to the B-52′s Cover Story! Where, coincidentally, you won’t hear any covers of Love Shack. Happy Birthday, Fred Schneider!

49 minutes |

Featuring:

1	Dance This Mess Around Asylum Street Spankers Mercurial Orig. B-52′s	2	Roam The Yayhoos Put The Hammer Down Orig. B-52′s	3	Give Me Back My Man Venus Mission Body Rockin’ Orig. B-52′s
4	Coconut (with Deadly Cupcake) Fred Schneider Just Fred Orig. Harry Nilsson	5	Downtown The B-52′s The B-52′s Orig. Petula Clark	6	Rock Lobster No Vacancy Living On Mars Orig. B-52′s
7	52 Girls The Problem The Problem Orig. B-52′s	8	Planet Claire Les Deux Love Orchestra Planet Claire 3-D Maxi Single! Orig. B-52′s	9	Private Idaho Karmadoza The K-52′s: A Tribute To The B-52′s Orig. B-52′s
10	Song For A Future Generation Chicks On Speed Chix52 Orig. B-52′s

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A pre-birthday tribute to the most commercially successful of the former fab four, Sir Paul McCartney. A strong focus in tonight’s show on his earlier albums, and some of those great hits and deeper cuts that came from them.

49 minutes |

Featuring:

1	Maybe I’m Amazed Bettye Lavette Interpretations: The British Rock Songbook Orig. Paul McCartney	2	Man We Was Lonely World Party LIsten to What the Man Said Orig. Paul McCartney	3	Junk Inlets Summer Tour 2010 Orig. Paul McCartney
4	Uncle Albert / Admiral Halsey Radar Bros. RAM On L.A. Orig. Paul & Linda McCartney	5	Dear Boy Dawn Landes Before the Goldrush Orig. Paul & Linda McCartney ITUNES	6	My Love Tex Perkins & His Ladyboyz No. 1′s and No. 2′s Orig. Paul McCartney & Wings
7	Let Me Roll It Brendan Benson Metarie Orig. Paul McCartney & Wings	8	Junior’s Farm Galactic Cowboys Feel The Rage Orig. Paul McCartney & Wings	9	Live And Let Die Duffy War Child Presents Heroes Orig. Paul McCartney & Wings	10	This One Cliff Hillis Coming Up! Orig. Paul McCartney & Wings ITUNES

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A singer and songwriter who’s long overdue for a Cover Story, and since his birthday is next week, there’s no better time. Covers by power poppers like Jellyfish and Crowded House, as well as indie darlings like Neko Case and The Format on tonight’s show! (Hiccup on the server, so I’m reposting this one)

43 minutes |

Featuring:

1	One Dokken Erase The Slate Orig. Harry Nilsson	2	Coconut Sprung Monkey Music For Our Mother Ocean 3 Orig. Harry Nilsson	3	Everybody’s Talkin’ Crowded House Like A Version Four Orig. Fred Neil
4	Without You Badfinger No Dice Orig. Badfinger	5	Think About Your Troubles Jellyfish For The Love Of Harry – Everybody Sings Nilsson Orig. Harry Nilsson	6	Don’t Forget Me Neko Case Middle Cyclone Orig. Harry Nilsson
7	The Lottery Song The Format B-Sides & Rarities Orig. Harry Nilsson	8	Without Her Beckley-Lamm-Wilson Like A Brother Orig. Harry Nilsson	9	Me and My Arrow The Simple Carnival Me and My Arrow EP Orig. Harry Nilsson
10	Living Without You Harry Nilsson Nilsson Sings Newman Orig. Randy Newman

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One of my favorite groups growing up was Oingo Boingo. So why did it take over 650 shows for me to finally do a show dedicated to music by the band and frontman and soundtrack visionary Danny Elfman? The answer might be in this very show!

51 minutes |

Featuring:

1	We Close Our Eyes Susanna Hoffs Buffy the Vampire Slayer Orig. Oingo Boingo	2	Heard Somebody Cry Jack the Original Drink to Bones That Turn to Dust: a Toast to Oingo Boingo Orig. Danny Elfman	3	On The Outside Suburban Legends Dead Band’s Party: A Tribute To Oingo Boingo Orig. Oingo Boingo
4	California Girls Oingo Boingo Orig. Beach Boys	5	Simpsons Theme Martin Motnik Bass Invader Orig. Danny Elfman	6	Oogie Boogie’s Song Rodrigo Y Gabriela Nightmare Revisited Orig. Danny Elfman
7	What’s This? Fall Out Boy The Nightmare Before Christmas Orig. Danny Elfman	8	Violent Love Willie Dixon The Chess Box Orig. Willie Dixon	9	Who Do You Want to Be Joyslam Heat Moon Orig. Oingo Boingo
10	Stay Sixth Wave Sixth Wave Orig. Oingo Boingo

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For previous Bob Dylan Cover Stories, click the following: Bob Dylan I, Bob Dylan II, Bob Dylan III, and Bob Dylan IV. The music of Zimmy on tonight’s cover story, in honor of the bard’s upcoming birthday this Monday.

54 minutes |

Featuring:

1	Gotta Serve Somebody Nichole Nordeman Brave Orig. Bob Dylan	2	It Ain’t Me Effect and D-Tension of Los Wunder Twins del Rap Fine Tuned Tantrum Orig. Bob Dylan	3	The Times They Are A Changin’ Vice Squad The Very Best of Vice Squad Orig. Bob Dylan
4	My Back Pages Joan Osborne And Jackson Browne Steal This Movie Orig. Bob Dylan	5	Make You Feel My Love Adele 19 Orig. Bob Dylan	6	Not Dark Yet Jimmy Lafave Cimarron Manifesto Orig. Bob Dylan
7	Tomorrow Is A Long Time Nickel Creek Why Should The Fire Die? Orig. Bob Dylan	8	Like a Rolling Stone Janusz Iwanski Yanina & Stanisław Soyka Neopositive Orig. Bob Dylan	9	Chimes Of Freedom Youssou N’Dour The Guide (Wommat) Orig. Bob Dylan
10	Tangled Up In Blue Robyn Hitchcock Robyn Sings Orig. Bob Dylan

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