I hope the "title" of this episode isn't too on the nose. But that line has been stuck in my head since he passed this weekend.

The Masked Marauder – Country Joe & the Fish

I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-To-Die Rag (1965 version) – Country Joe & the Fish

Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine – Country Joe & the Fish

Silver and Gold – Country Joe & the Fish

Coming Into Los Angeles – Arlo Guthrie

Hesitation Blues – Hot Tuna

Tamalpais High (At About 3) – David Crosby

Have You Seen the Stars Tonite – Paul Kantner and Jefferson Starship

Strawberry Letter 23 – Shuggie Otis

After the Gold Rush – k.d. lang

Only Love Can Break Your Heart – Neil Young

Junk – Paul McCartney

Wu-Tang – They Might Be Giants

Eyeball – They Might Be Giants

Goodbye Mr. Blue – Father John Misty

Shooting Star – Sunflower Bean

The Monsters of Pig Alley – Morrissey

Fresh Air for My Mama – 10cc

Solitude Is Exhausting – Paulzon Fire

Senses Working Overtime – XTC

I Wanna Go with Dignity – Peter Perrett

2468 – Horsegirl

Watch this space: my goal is to combine this Tuesday March 3rd 2026 Snap Crackle POP! 7-9 am episode (which is 95% dedicated to Neil music) with the previous Monday March 2nd Snap Crackle POP! 7-9 am episode (which is 100% dedicated to Neil music and is co-hosted by the great Dawn Eden Goldstein), and neaten it all up somehow, so you can get all yer NEIL SEDACKY [tm Carole King] in one place. Stay tun-ed.

(And if anyone wonders how my daughter's fabulous new single made the set list, I would argue she's following a Brill Building-path and has major-league songwriting chops - like, yes, Neil - and that her track can stand with the others on this show. Seriously.)

Working On a Groovy Thing– The 5th Dimension

Let the Good Times In – The Love Generation

Let the Good Times In – The Partridge Family

Rainy Jane – Davy Jones

Sugar (demo) – Neil Sedaka

We Had a Good Thing Goin' – The Cyrkle

(Is This The Way To) Amarillo – Tony Christie

I'm a Song, Sing Me – Neil Sedaka

Superbird – Neil Sedaka

Solitaire – Neil Sedaka

It Hurts to Be in Love – Gene Pitney

Donna – 10cc

Love Will Keep us Together – The Captain & Tenille

Puppet Man – The 5th Dimension

Don't Let It Mess Your Mind

The Hungry Years – Neil Sedaka

The Immigrant – Neil Sedaka

Just Once In My Life (demo) – Carole King

Ocean In His Eyes – Glen Cambell

My Life – Julia Cumming

Everything Put Together Falls Apart – Paul Simon

Beginning to Breathe Again – Neil Sedaka

I am probably going to re-upload this show shortly, vut for the time being here's this morning's Snap Crackle POP! tribute to Neil Sedaka, with my amazing co-host Dawn Eden Goldstein!

[All songs are performed by Neil Sedaka unless otherwise noted.]

That's When the Music Takes Me

Stupid Cupid – Connie Francis
The Diary
I Go Ape

One Way Ticket (To the Blues)
Oh! Carol
Oh! Neil – Carole King
Where The Boys Are – Connie Francis

Personality – Lloyd Price
Calendar Girl
Breaking Up Is Hard to Do
I Can't Stay Mad at You – Skeeter Davis
Magic Colors – Lesley Gore

Kissin' My Life Away (excerpt) – The Hondells
When Love Comes Knockin' (At Your Door) – The Monkees
Oh, Don't Come Crying Back To Me – Something Young
Just to Let You Know (I Love You So) – California (Curt Boettcher)

Beautiful You
Love Will Keep Us Together

Laughter In the Rain
Bad Blood

Breaking Up Is Hard To Do (Slow Version)
Anywhere You're Gonna Be (Leba's Song)

Snowhaustion? The g-ddamn blizzards keep happening on Sunday nights, which means these days that the commute to WPKN's Fairfield Avenue studios in downtown becomes impossible, so I have to pre-record these shows, which often improves the quality of the show (yay!) but it takes me too much damn time to prepare because I fuss over them too much. (Did I write about this about yesterday's show? I'm losing it, people. A mind is a terrible thing.)

This was actually a re-jiggered (and, franky, improved) January 26th show. I think it came out well. My apologies to Steve Di Costanzo for my forgetting to mention that I was filling in for his RADIO BASE CAMP SHOW, as I will continue to do until April. Enjoy your world travels, Steve, but get back here safely and soonly!

Cold, Cold, Cold – Little Feat

Blizzard of '77 – Nada Surf

Cold Hands, Warm Heart – Brendan Benson

Snowglobe – Sugar Fight

Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out – Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band

Coldest Winter EVER! – Lewis Black

She’s So Cold – The Rolling Stones

Ice Cold Daydream – Shuggie Otis

Slip Slidin’ Away – Paul Simon

The Blizzard – Camera Obscura

Cold, Cold Heart – Norah Jones (Hank Williams cover)

Out In the Cold Again – Sam Cooke

Snow – Claudine Longet (Randy Newman cover)

Snowfall – Eisley

Looks Like a Cold, Cold Winter – Ingrid Michaelson

Song for a Winter’s Night – Gordon Lightfoot

Hazy Shade of Winter – Simon & Garfunkel

Avenue – Saint Etienne

The Fox in The Snow – Belle & Sebastian

Cold Light of Day – Lewisburg

Howlin’ Wind – Graham Parker & The Rumour (R.I.P. & thank you Andrew Bodnar)

Ice Cold Ice – Hüsker Dü

When It Touches You, A Snowflake Dies – Norma Tanega

Soon It Will Be Cold Enough – Emancipator

It’s a Cold Night for Alligators – Roky Erickson

The Blizzard – Jim Reeves

Amid the Falling Snow – Enya

The Frozen Man – James Taylor

Walking On Thin Ice – Yoko Ono

Sometimes in Winter – Blood, Sweat & Tears

Today was the crazy-ass "Calvin" blizzard day - still happening as I post this - so for this morning it was time for another last-minute Sunday pre-recorded Snap Crackle POP! show for a Monday morning. And yeah, yada yada I like to do these shows live, weather traffic yada yada, and pre-recording is such a pain because I fuss over the shows too much (tho grateful to have an opportunity to delete all my ummms and ahhhs and delete my word-retrieval shenanigans). But this show gets to the point, PLUS I get to play my daughter Julia's first-ever solo single. I'm enjoying the re-listen, especially after last week's live fiascoes. Valhalla, I am coming!

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Cold Rain and Snow (live at the Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, NY 2/21/1971) – Grateful Dead

Angel In the Snow – Elliot Smith

Valley Winter Song – Fountains of

Cold As Ice – Foreigner

Hazy Shade of Winter – The Bangles

Wu Tang – They Might Be Giants

Goodbye Girl – The Shins

Junior’s Farm (live BBC 2) – Squeeze

Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five – Paul McCartney and Wings

The Immigrant Song – Led Zeppelin

Snow Blind – Black Sabbath

Heavy Snow – Lightnin’ Hopkins

Cold, Cold Heart – Hank Williams

Hold Steady – Queen Esther

Headless Heroes – Eugene McDaniels

My Life – Julia Cumming

Anyone Who Ever Had a Heart (live) – Wynonna

So Far Away – Carole King

That’s the Way I’ve Always Heard It Should Be – Carly Simon

American Obituary – U2

How Much Did You Get for Your Soul? – Lucinda Williams

A Plea – Flea

The Windows of the World – Dionne Warwick

Winter (Giles Martin 2020 mix) – The Rolling Stones

Frozen Pines – Lord Huron

White Winter Hymnal – Fleet Foxes

Freeing Wheels – Souled American

Laissez les bons temps rouler! Yes, this is a fundraiser for our dear radio station, but the music is SO GOOD and I had SO MUCH FUN. Christine Ohlman (The Beehive Queen!) and Amy Wachtel (The Night Nurse!) and I had never hung out - heck, I hadn't even met Christine, a legendary and soulful vocalist/performer who fronts NBC's Saturday Night Live, whom I was hoping I could someday meet, until 10 minutes to air. (I was 50 minutes late!!! So sorry ladies.) It was such a pleasure doing this show, and - you know - I really do miss New Orleans. I gotta get back there, tout de suite!!!

Barefootin' – Robert Parker

Enjoy Yourself (It's Later Than You Think) – The Specials

504 – Soul Rebels Brass Band

Meet De Boys On The Battlefront - The Wild Tchoupitoulas
Iko, Iko – The Dixie Cups

Ja Funmi – King Sunny Ade

79rs Bout to Blow – 79rs Gang

Holy Cow – Lee Dorsey

Let the Four Winds Blow – Toots & The Maytals

Hey Pocky Way – The Neville Brothers

She Put the Hurt on Me – Prince La La

Who Shot the Lala – Oliver Morgan

They All Ask'd for You – The Meters

Party Time – Lee “Scratch” Perry

Tell It Like It Is – Aaron Neville

You Talk Too Much – Joe Jones

Here Comes the Hotstepper – Ini Kamoze

Time Is On My Side – Irma Thomas

House Of The Rising Sun – Gregory Isaacs

Tell The Truth (Uptown Remix) – Jon Batiste feat. Big Chief Romeo

Lady Marmalade – LaBelle

Trick Bag – Earl King

I'm Gone – Jon Cleary

One Scotch – Admiral Bailey & Chaka Demus

Sophisticated Cissy – The Meters

Ooh Poo Pah Do – Jessie Hill

My People – Cha Wa

Right Place Wrong Time – Dr. John

Life (Is What You Make of It) – Frighty

Ride Your Pony – Lee Dorsey

Say Hey [I Love You] – Michael Franti & Spearhead Feat. Cherine Anderson

Bony Moronie – Larry Williams

Walking To New Orleans – Fats Domino

Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans? - Louis Armstrong

As part WPKN's Black History Month celebration, I focus here on the type of music Kenny Gamble, Leon Huff and Thom Bell made - something I'm here calling "Black Orchestral Pop", and what some others would call "Champagne Soul" (although that can be a problematic phrase to the creators themselves). Ironically, this music is such a focus of love and a huge topic for me... it was ridiculous that I dedicated a 2-hour show to it - I only played one Thom Bell song, right at the end. I HAVE TO DO ANOTHER ONE.

There Goes My Baby – The Drifters
Smoke Gets In Your Eyes – The Platters
I Only Have Eyes For You – The Flamingos
Don't Make Me Over – Dionne Warwick
Make It Easy On Yourself – Jerry Butler

Baby I'm Yours – Barbara Lewis
Any Day Now (My Wild Beautiful Bird) – Chuck Jackson
I Hear a Symphony – The Supremes
Reach Out (I'll Be There) –The Four Tops
My Whole World Ended (The Moment You Left Me) – David Ruffin
Give Me Just a Little More Time – Chairmen of the Board
Stay with Me – Lorraine Ellison

The Last One to Be Loved – Lou Johnson
Goin' Out of My Head – Little Anthony & the Imperials
Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing – Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell
Someday We'll Be Together – Diana Ross & the Supremes

California Soul – The 5th Dimension
Where Is the Love – Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway (Groovefunkel Extended Remix)
A Song for You – Donny Hathaway
I'm Going Down – Rose Royce

Just My Imagination (Running Away with Me) – The Temptations
Keep On Truckin' (part 1) – Eddie Kendricks

Rainy Night In Georgia – Brook Benton
Didn't I Blow Your Mind This Time – The Delfonics

Today’s Snap Crackle POP! was a tribute to the epic production team of drummer Sly Dunbar and bassist Robbie Shakespeare. Sly passed away on January 26th 2026 at the age of 73.

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Double Barrel – Dave & Ansell Collins

Right Time – The Mighty Diamonds
Two Sevens Clash – Culture
Get Up Stand Up – Peter Tosh

Sponji Reggae – Black Uhuru
Greetings – Half Pint
Don't Stop the Music – Bits & Pieces

Pull Up to the Bumper – Grace Jones
Padlock (Larry Levan Mix) – Gwen Guthrie

Jokerman – Bob Dylan
So Good, So Right – Joe Cocker
Girls Watching – Ian Dury

Breakdown – Grace Jones
Just Another Night – Mick Jagger

Murder She Wrote – Chaka Demus & Pliers
Here Comes the Hotstepper – Ini Kamoze