Phantom Tracks
Phantom Tracks
Tommy Fan
60s and 70s top 40 pop and rock with some Motown and blues mixed in. All done with a campy little twist, all in good fun. In a way, I try to emulate the DJs from the days when AM was king and everyone was larger than life.
# 25 I just needed a Revolution
Did you know that one of The Who's best songs, gave Pete major grief and inspired the Beatles to write Helter Skelter? Or which song by the Beatles is considered to be the loudest most aggressive song they ever wrote? All kinds of neat stuff this week. I Can See for Miles - The Who Lets Stay Together - Al Greene Play Something Sweet - 3 Dog Night Just What I Needed - The Cars The End - The Doors Revolution - Beatles Turn Back the Hands of Time - Tyrone Davis I Just Can't Help Believing B.J. Thomas Heard It In a Love Song - Marshal Tucker
Dec 10, 2007
55 min
#24 Afternoon Delight for Angie on the Train
Hey do you know who the Angie is in the Stone's song? How about where Denver's Country Road really is? Or the weirdness behind Floyd's Wish you were Here... that and plenty more.... Starland Vocal Band - Afternoon Delight Rolling Stones - Angie The Guess Who - No Time Left For You The Byrds - Hey Mr. Tambourine Man Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here The Pharaohs - Little Red Riding-Hood Monkees - Last Train to Clarkesville Mamas and the Papas - This is Dedicated Little River Band - lonesome Loser John Denver - Take Me Home Country Road
Dec 2, 2007
56 min
#23 Slyvia Don't Go  out my Back Door
How about a CCR song inspired by Dr. Seuss! Or a CSN song written in 15 minutes on a bet? Or the hit song that John Lennon got writing credit for and no its not a Beatles tune.....That and more CCR - Looking out my BackDoor Chicago - I've Been Searching So Long Coasters - Poison Ivy Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose - It's Too Late Crosby Stills & Nash - Just a Song Before I Go David Bowie - Fame Dr Hook - Slyvia's Mother Eagles - I Can't Tell You Why Eddie Money - Two Tickets To Paradise ELO - Don't Bring Me Down
Nov 25, 2007
57 min
Wooly Bully, Use These Boots!
better late...well....anyway, here is number 22 Did you know that the best song of Nancy Sinatra's career almost was the end of her career? Or AC/DC highway to hell is not about a lifestyle...but something ummm a bit closer to home? Or the singer that had throat surgery and was even more popular afterwards?! Yep, that and more!! Live and Let Die - Wings Wooly Bully - Sam the Sham These Boots - Nancy Sinatra Make it with You - Bread Use Me Up - Bill Withers Highway To Hell - ac/dc Movin out - Billy Joel We've Got Tonight - Bob Seger Its a Heartache - Bonny Tyler Its Too Late - Carol King Help - Beatles
Nov 22, 2007
1 hr 54 min
#21 Brown Sugar and Brandy so happy together!
Did you know Rich Girl was based on a rich brat...but a guy instead? Hall thought Rich Boy didn't work quite right...lol and a spree killing may have been motivated by the song? Did you know the person who wrote Woodstock....never attended the concert? Or that Brown Sugar might have been a thinly veiled song about drugs? Yep, that and more weirdness! Hall and Oats - Rich Girl The Foundations - Build Me Up Buttercup Crosby Stills & Nash - Woodstock Queen - We Are the Champions Rolling Stones - Brown Sugar The Monkees - I'm a Believer The Turtles - So Happy Together Badfinger - Baby Blue Association - Windy Looking Glass - Brandy
Nov 12, 2007
58 min
#20 Don't Let the Cats Escape! for 11/03/07
Elton John - Don't Let the Sun England Dan - I'd Really Love to See You Foreigner - Cold As Ice Gilbert O'Sulivan - Alone Again Naturally Gordon Lightfoot - If You Could Read My Mind Harry Chapin - Cat's in the Cradle Heart - Straight On For You Jim Croce - Operator Rupert Holmes - Escape
Oct 17, 2007
52 min
#19 I Heard You Got A Secret for 10/27/07
Beatles - Do You Want to Know a Secret Billy Joel - Only the Good Die Young Bob Seger - Main Street Carly Simon - Your So Vane Carole King - You Got a Friend Captain and Tennille - Love Will Keep Us Together CCR - I Heard it Through The Grapevine Eagles - Take it to the Limit ELO - Livin Thing
Oct 17, 2007
58 min
#18 I am the Secret Agent Black Magic Woman for 10/20/07
Johnny Rivers - Secret Agent Man KC & the Sunshine Band - That's the Way I Like It Beatles - I Am the Walrus Santana - Black Magic Woman Joe Cocker - Feelin All Right Cream - Strange Brew Carpenters - Rainy Days and Mondays Andy Kim - Rock Me Gently Bad Company - Can't Get Enough of Your Love Tom Jones - It's Not Unusual Sonny and Cher - The Beat Goes On
Oct 16, 2007
57 min
17 Gloria & the Southern Boys are back in Alabama
Did you know Sweet Home Alabama was an rebuttal to Neil Young's Southern Man? Or that Jimmy Page played session on Them's Gloria? or that Break on Through is supposed to have backward masking? who knew?! Neil Young - Southern Man Lynard Skinner - Sweet Home Alabama The Trogs - Wild Thing Thin Lizzy - The Boys Are Back in Town Them - Gloria Temptations - Papa Was A Rollin Stone Greatful Dead - Truckin The Fortunes - Here Comes That Rainy Day feeling Doors - Break on Through to the Otherside
Oct 14, 2007
55 min
#16 Baby I Love A Devil Preacher
Did you know that Dusty Springfield changed how she sang Son of a Precher? Why? Or that Procul Harum's name is mangled latin? Or the song you thought the Stones was playing at Alamonta wasn't! Was it artistic or did they just screw up on Maria's song? That and more! Peter Frampton - Baby I Love The Way Little River Band - A Long Way There Maria Muldaur - Midnight at the Oasis Nick Guilder - Hot Child in the City Dusty Springfield - Son of a Precher Otis Redding - Sitting on the Dock of the Bay Procol Harum - Conquistordor Rolling Stones - Sympathy for the Devil Redbone - Come and Get Your Love
Oct 8, 2007
58 min
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