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AMERICAN ROUTES ON INSTAGRAM
BACK TO SCHOOL
Back-to-School with music from across the American landscape meant to provoke memories of early grades, high school and college. Also a visit to the football locker room and band practice. Nick is kicked out of the Public Radio Honor Society for playing music from class cut-ups and non-conformists like Tom Lehrer, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Thelonius Monk, as well as straight-arrows Doris Day, Ralph Stanley, and the Coasters—all in one show!
HOUR ONE
- Open Bed: School Days Chuck Berry
The Chess Box, MCA/Chess - Hey Schoolgirl/Black Slacks Simon & Garfunkel
Old Friends, Columbia/Legacy - Good Morning, Little School Girl Muddy Waters
His Best 1956 to 1964, MCA/Chess - Teacher, Teacher Johnny Mathis
16 Most Requested Songs, Columbia/Legacy - Teacher Teacher Rockpile
Seconds of Pleasure, Columbia - You've Been Taking Lessons in Love Fats Waller
A Portrait of Fats Waller, Gallerie - Wonderful World Sam Cooke
Greatest Hits, RCA - Instrumental: Tres Palabras Dave Samuels
Dave Samuels Presents Tjaderized: A Cal Tjader Tribute, Verve - High School Madness Firesign Theatre
Shoes for Industry! The Best of the Firesign Theatre, Columbia/Legacy - High School Confidential Jerry Lee Lewis
Sun Classics, Charly - Rock & Roll High School The Ramones
Ramones Mania, Sire - Eyes of Texas Bill Boyd
Western Swing, Old Timey - Texas Tornados Judy Garland
Star Spangled Rhythm, Smithsonian Collection - Fight Fiercely Harvard Tom Lehrer
Songs & More Songs By Tom Lehrer, Rhino - Ivy League Roy Brown
The Complete Imperial Recordings, Capitol - Collegiana The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
The Best of The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, EMI - Stay in School Otis Redding
Otis! The Definitive Otis Redding, Rhino/Atlantic - Still in School NRBQ
Peek-A-Boo, Rhino - Instrumental: Soul Finger Bar-Kays
Rock Instrumental Classics Vol. 4: Soul, Rhino - Going to School Buddy Guy
The Complete Chess Recordings, Chess - School Days Dizzy Gillespie
Birks Works - The Verve Big-Band Sessions, Verve - School Days Aretha Franklin
Aretha, Arista
HOUR two
- The Last Race Jack Nitzsche
Big Boss Instrumentals, Vol. 3, The Right Stuff - Shop Bill Cosby
Why Is There Air?, Warner Brothers - Charlie Brown Coasters
50 Coastin' Classics, Atlantic/Rhino - Teacher's Pet Doris Day
16 Most Requested Songs, Encore!, Columbia/Legacy - You Don't Learn That in School Louis Armstrong & his orchestra
From the Big Band to the All Stars, 1946-1956, RCA - Don't Stand So Close To Me The Police
The Very Best of Sting & The Police, A &M - No School Bus in Heaven Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys
Classic Bluegrass, Rebel - Kiss Me On the Bus The Replacments
Tim, Sire - Instrumental: Django's Tiger Django Reinhardt
The Best Of Django Reinhardt, Blue Note - Don't Be A Dropout James Brown
James Brown Sings Raw Soul, Polydor - Be True to Your School Beach Boys
Good Vibrations - Thirty Years of the Beach Boys, Capitol - You're Just An Old Antidisestablish-mentarianismist Duke Ellington
Stars of the Apollo, Columbia/Legacy - Conjunction Junction Better Than Ezra
Schoolhouse Rock Rocks!, Atlantic - ABC Jackson Five
The Ultimate Collection, Motown - Instrumental: Just Another Sucker On The Vine Tom Waits
Swordfishtrombones, Island - The Last Rose of Summer Tom Waits
The Black Rider, Island - Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams Abbey Lincoln w/Stan Getz
You Gotta Pay the Band, Verve - To Sir With Love Lulu
Stand By Your Man, Nick at Night - Rumble Link Wray & His Ray Men
Guitar Player Presents Legends of Guitar - Rock: The '50s, Vol. 1, Rhino - End Bed: Schoolhouse Rocky Bob Dorough & Friends
Schoolhouse Rock Rocks!, Atlantic
