BOY WONDER'S HOT CIRCLES/ MIDNIGHT-2 AM September Song/ LOTTE LENYA (’57) Soldier’s Wife/ MARIANNE FAITHFULL (’85, Lost in the Stars) Little Sister (Reed/Cale)/ NICO (’67, Chelsea Girl) Galileo/ DECLAN O’ROURKE (’03, Since Kyabram) It’s Only Time/ MAGNETIC FIELDS (’04, İ ) Carolyn’s Fingers/ COCTEAU TWINS (’88, Blue Bell Knoll) Bye Bye Bye/ PLANTS AND ANIMALS (’08)* I Can’t Talk About It/ EL PERRO DEL MAR
King Size/ CHRISTINA ROSENVINGE (’04, Foreign Land) Girls/ ELENI MANDELL (’07, Miracle of Five) Thanksgiving/ LILA NELSON (’08, Letter Home)* Just to Walk That Little Girl Home/ MINK DEVILLE (’80, Le Chat Bleu) Fernando/ THE BASEBALL PROJECT (’08, Frozen Ropes and Dying Quails)* New Lace Sleeve/ ELVIS COSTELLO & THE ATTRACTIONS (’80, Trust)
The Boy Wonders/ AZTEC CAMERA (’83, High Land, Hard Rain) Old Fashioned/ FRIGHTENED RABBIT (’08, The Midnight Organ Fight)* Girl Downtown/ HAYES CARLL (’08, Trouble in Mind)*Gun Street Girl/ TOM WAITS (’88, Big Time) Hot Blood/ LUCINDA WILLIAMS (Live in NY Town Hall, Oct. ’07) In the Street/ BIG STAR (single version, ’72) Dandelion/ MATTHEW SWEET (’04, Living Things)
One Wink at a Time/ THE ‘MATS (’90, All Shook Down) Planet Queen/ T. REX (’71, Electric Warrior) Desert Skies/ BEACHWOOD SPARKS (’00, self titled) To Baby/ VETIVER (’08, Thing of the Past)* Lazy Butterfly/ DEVENDRA BANHART (’05, Cripple Crow) When I Was a Young Girl/ FEIST (’04, Let It Die)
You and Your Sister (Country Version)/ CHRIS BELL (originally recorded from '72-'75. ’92, I Am the Cosmos) *new or recent release
BOY WONDER'S RADIO ROULETTE/ 9:00-11:00 PM Nickel Bag of Funk/ DIGABLE PLANETS (’93, Reachin’) Matadjem Yinmixan/ TINARIWEN (’06, Aman Iman) (I Know) I’m Losing You/ THE TEMPTATIONS Tainted Love/ GLORIA JONES Canto de Ossanha (Let Go)/ ASTRUD GILBERTO (’69) Talking Old Soldiers/ BETTY LAVETTE (’07, Scene of the Crime) Take Me/ GEORGE JONES & TAMMY WYNETTE I Don’t Like the Man That I Am/ PETE MOLINARI (’08, Virtual Landslide) The Lovely Sky Boat/ THE SUPERIMPOSERS (’05) Hold Your Place/ LILA NELSON (’08, Letter Home)* It’s Not the Only Way to Be Happy/ FIELD MUSIC (’05, self titled)
Nothin’ in the World Can Stop Me From Worryin’ ‘Bout That Girl/ MARK LANEGAN Amnesia/ THE MONSTER WOMEN (’04, Spacegirl Espionage) Mambo Sun/ T. REX (’71, Electric Warrior) Open My Eyes/ NAZZ (’67)
Violence/ MOTT THE HOOPLE (’73, Mott) Long Time Man/ NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS (’86, Your Funeral…My Trial) Faster Pussycat/ THE CRAMPS (’83, Smell of a Female) Dance the Night Away/ THE MOTORS (’77) You’ve Got My Number/ THE UNDERTONES (’80, Hypnotized) Ode to a Black Man/ THE DIRTBOMBS (’01, Ultraglide in Black) You Sound Like Your Sick/ THE RAMONES (’81, Pleasant Dreams) Is It My Body/ THE BOTSWANAS (’01, Fade and Your Gone)
Ghost on the Highway/ GUN CLUB (’81, Fire of Love) You’re a Lucky Guy/ THE MUFFS (’93, self titled) Only a Girl/ REDD KROSS (’93, Phaseshifter) Reptile Style/ REIGNING SOUND (’02, Time Bomb Highschool) Roadside Wreck/ SOUTHERN CULTURE ON THE SKIDS (’91, Too Much Pork) Back Slider/ JON SPENCER BLUES EXPLOSION (’92, Extra Width) Pen/ SIMPLE ONES (’95, Worth the Weight) *new or recent release
BOY WONDER'S HOT CIRCLES/ MIDNIGHT-2:00 AM One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer/ AMOS MILBURN ('57) Bossa Cubana/ LOS ZAFIROS El Pito/ JOE CUBA Slow Drain/ MINK DeVILLE (’80, Le Chat Bleu) Fernando/ THE BASEBALL PROJECT* Even So/ EVERTHING BUT THE GIRL (’85, Eden) Too Drunk/ NOUVELLE VAGUE (’05) Live Let Live/ BRIAN WILSON (’08, That Lucky Old Sun)* Just As You Are/ ROBERT WYATT ('07, Comic Opera, w/ Monica Vosconselos) Accidental/ INARA GEORGE (’08, An Invitation, w/ Van Dyke Parks)* Identity Theft/ NELLIE McKAY (’07, Obligatory Villagers)
All the Way From Home/ THE GREEN PAJAMAS (’05) Wave/ ALEJANDRO ESCOVEDO (’01, A Man Under the Influence) There She Still Remains/ PETE MOLINARI (’08, A Virtual Landslide) Stranger in the House/ RACHEL SWEET (’78, Fool Around) The Other Side of Town/ STEVE EARLE (’97, El Corazon)
The Great Atomic Power/ LOUVIN BROTHERS (’61) Do Right Woman/ FLYING BURRITO BROTHERS (’69, Gilded Palace of Sin) Do You Got the Time/ LILA NELSON (’08, Letter Home)* Killing For Love/ JOSE GONZALES (’07, In Our Nature) Kamera/ WILCO (’01, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot) Shade and Honey/ SPARKLEHORSE (’06, Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain) Opportunity/ ELVIS COSTELLO & THE ATTRACTIONS (’80, Get Happy!!) Ex-Girl Collection/ THE WRENS (’03, The Meadowlands)
The General Specific/ BAND OF HORSES (’07, Cease to Begin) I Love My Label/ NICK LOWE Good Friend/ PLANTS & ANIMALS (’08, self titled)* Roscoe/ MIDLAKE (’06, The Trials of Van Occupanther)
Drink to You, Babe, Then/ A.C. NEWMAN (’04, The Slow Wonder) *new or recent release
BOY WONDER (for BUCK CALHOUN SHOW)/ WED., 10 SEPT. 08/ 10:00 PM-MIDNIGHT Thingamajig/ JOHNNY LEE WILLS & HIS BOYS Excerpt/ LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Lady is a Tramp/ FRANK SINATRA ('57) Each and Every One/ EVERYTHING BUT THE GIRL (’85, Eden) Shopping/ THE JAM San Diego Zoo/ THE 6TH’S (’95, feat. Barbara Manning & Stephen Merritt, Wasps’ Nests) A Place in My Heart/ ORANGE JUICE (’84, Texas Fever) There She Goes/ THE LA’S (’88, BBC Session w/ Liz Kershaw) Pages Turn/ 28TH DAY (’85) Radio/ TEENAGE FANCLUB (’93, 13)
All of a Sudden/ XTC (’82, English Settlement) Talk About the Passion/ REM (’83, Murmur) Heads Will Roll/ ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN (’82, Porcupine) Harmony/ THE CLINIC (’02, Walk With Thee) Privilege (Set Me Free)/ PATTI SMITH (’78, Easter) Digital/ JOY DIVISION +by request Happy Nightmare Baby/ OPAL (’87, self titled)
Statues & Glue/ SUNSHINE FIX (’04, Green Imagination) In the Street (single version)/ BIG STAR (’72) Shackles & Chains/ SNAKE HIPS (’93, Lit) Casino Queen/ WILCO (’95, A.M) Date in Church/ THE ‘MATS (’87) Faster Pussycat/ BOTWEEDS Crazy About You/ THE HELLCATS (’87, Hoodoo Train) Pleasure Seeker/ THE BOTWANAS (’01, Fade and Your Gone) The Most Exalted Potenate of Love/ THE CRAMPS (’83, live, Smell of a Female) Brand New Cadillac/ VINCE TAYLOR & HIS PLAYBOYS Cadillac Walk/ MINK DeVILLE (’77) Your Love is Mine/ HOLLY GOLIGHTLY
Nitroglycerine/ THE GORIES (’93) You’ve Got My Number/ THE UNDERTONES (’80, Hypnotised) Thick As Thieves/ THE JAM (’79, Setting Sons) Sugar Kane/ SONIC YOUTH (’92, Dirty)
BOY WONDER’S HOT CIRCLES/ TUES., 9 SEPT. 08/ MIDNIGHT-2 AM The Good Life/ THE WEEK THAT WAS (’08, self-titled)* The Beast and Dragon, Adored/ SPOON (’05, Gimme Fiction) Flying Lesson (Hot Chicken #1)/ YO LA TENGO (’95, Electr-O-Pura) Chains, Chains, Chains/ RED RED MEAT (’95, Bunny Gets Paid) Can’t Hardly Wait (the “Tim” version)/ REPLACEMENTS (’97, All For Nothing, Nothing For All) Amphetamine/ STEVE WYNN & THE MIRACLE 3 (’03, Static Transmission)
Motorcycle Boy/ GUTTERBALL (’93, self titled) Cigarettes, Coffee & Booze/ MINUS 5 (’06, the “Gun” album) Fernando/ THE BASEBALL PROJECT (’08, Vol. 1: Frozen Ropes and Dying Quails)* The News About William/ CALEXICO (’08, Carried to Dust)* Look For Me (I’ll Be Around)/ NEKO CASE (’02, Blacklisted) Soon Enough/ THE CONSTANTINES (’05, Tournament of Hearts) Pineola/ LUCINDA WILLIAMS (’07 October, NY/ Town Hall, live)
All the Same to You/ LAURA CANTRELL (’02, When the Roses Bloom Again) Start a War/ THE NATIONAL (’07, The Boxer) Secret Agent Eyes/ LILA NELSON (’08, Letter Home)* Good Year for the Roses/ ELVIS COSTELLO & ATTRACTIONS (’81, Almost Blue) Wichita Lineman/ FREEDY JOHNSTON (’93, Unlucky ep) Witchcraft/ FRANK SINATRA (’57) Out in the Street/ THE SHANGRI-LA’S (’65, Greenwich/Barry tune) Summer Wine/ LEE HAZELWOOD (’66, w/ Suzie Jane Hokum) Virtually Happy/ HOLLY GOLIGHTLY (’95, The Good Things) Spanish Stroll/ MINK DeVILLE (’77, Cabaretta) Don’t Ever Do That Again/ GOLDEN SHOULDERS (’04, Friendship is Deep)
Broken English/ MARIANNE FAITHFULL (’79, Broken English) Fanfare/ ERIC MATTHEWS (’95, It’s Heavy in Here) Ballad of Big Nothing/ ELLIOT SMITH (’97, Either/Or) Bye, Bye, Bye/ PLANTS AND ANIMALS (’08, self titled)* *new or recent release
BOY WONDER/ HOT CIRCLES/ TUES., 2 SEPT. 08/ MIDNIGHT-2AM Crescent City/ LUCINDA WILLIAMS (’92, self titled) You’re Still on My Mind/ THE BYRDS (’68, Sweetheart of the Rodeo) Don’t Break the Heart/ AMY RIGBY (’96, Diary of a Mod Housewife) Passenger Side/ WILCO (’95, AM) Neon Rainbow/ BOX TOPS (’67) Look For Me I’ll Be Around/ NEKO CASE (’02, Blacklisted) Hold Your Place/ LILA NELSON (’08, Letter Home)* Dirty Life and Times/ WARREN ZEVON (’03, The Wind) Dirty Old Town/ THE POGUES (’85, Rum, Sodomy & the Lash) This Wonderous Day/ PETE MOLINARI (Walking Off the Map)
Drove Up From Pedro/ MIKE WATT (’95, Ball-Hog or Tugboat) Bye, Bye, Bye/ PLANTS AND ANIMALS (’08, self titled)* Gin Rummy/ NELLIE McKAY ('07, Obligatory Villagers) Freeway/ AIMEE MANN (’08, @#%&*! Smilers)* Don’t You Worry/ JIM NOIR (’08, self titled)
Past Time/ BASEBALL PROJECT (’08, Vol. 1)* Baba O’Riley/ WACO BROTHERS Let’s Love/ MATTHEW SWEET (’08, Sunshine Lies)* About You/ TEENAGE FANCLUB (’95, Grand Prix) Radiation/ APPLES IN STEREO (’07, New Magnetic Wonder) Gold Day/ SPARKLEHORSE (’01, It’s A Wonderful Life) Perfect Day/ LOU REED ('72, Transformer) Messiah Ward/ NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS (’04, Abbatoir Blues) Lowlands Low/ BRYAN FERRY & ANTONY (Rogue’s Gallery) Let the Bitches Die/ LIGHTSPEED CHAMPION (’08, Falling Off the Lavender Bridge) Johnny 99/ BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN (’82, Nebraska)
Thanksgiving/ LILA NELSON (’08, Letter Home)* Withered & Died/ ELVIS COSTELLO (Richard Thompson cover) *new or recent release