Reelin' In The Years (RITY)

On this episode of Reelin'... The Featured Five Theme is Making The "Cut"... Also, the day Paul McCartney unknowingly became Nirvana's lead singer... Why Berry Gordy almost kept a Stevie Wonder classic off the radio... The strange story behind Jefferson Airplane's most unusual song title... A Bryan Adams classic born from a happy accident that felt so right... New music from The Rolling Stones, Ho...

On this episode of Reelin'... The Featured Five Theme is Boom!... What Beatles song was inspired by a phrase uttered by reggae singer, Jimmy Scott?... A Motown song that had to be recorded three different times before it passed quality control... Amphetamine abuse + Occultism = A 1968 title track by The Velvet Underground... Music from a soul singer who got his big break as a backing singer for Ce...

On this episode of Reelin'... The Featured Five Theme is Life, Liberty, and The Pursuit of Happiness: Celebrating America's Independence... Also, music from a singer who's been out of the public eye for 16 years! I'll tell you why... What Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers' tune was inspired by a quote from Janis Joplin?... What song by Wings is named after Paul McCartney's old Labrador Retriever?....

On this episode of Reelin' In The Years... The Featured Five Theme is Hiking... Also, the story of Johnnie Taylor's death and the lengthy legal battle that ensued... A Smashing Pumpkins song that was initially titled "Strolling" and nearly cut from the album... What band formed in England, but shares their name with their native country?... How the Traveling Wilburys evolved out of a proposed Geor...

On this episode of Reelin'... The Featured Five Theme is A Backyard Barbeque... Also, a 90s hit song that was inspired by the disappearance of Lela & Raymond Howard... A tune that went from a love song to one of the creepiest songs ever thanks to alcohol... One of three Pink Floyd tunes to feature a guest lead vocalist. Cigar, anyone?... That time when the Stone Temple Pilots recorded with the...

On this edition of Reelin' In The Years... The Featured Five Theme is Subconscious Behavior: Song titles that represent responsibilites of the subconscious... Also, a demo of the most played song in the history of American radio... What Stevie Ray Vaughan song is inspired by "shaggin' wagons" from the 70s?... A song by The Who that's named after Meher Baba and Terry Riley... New music from Devon G...

On this episode of Reelin' In The Years... The Featured Five Theme is What's Your Fortune: Song titles that could serve as a message inside of a fortune cookie... Also, who is the woman on the cover of The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan?... A song about an alternate universe where J Mascis of Dinosaur Jr. is president... What Blue Oyster Cult song was inspired by a drug deal gone horribly wrong?... Ringo...

On this edition of Reelin'... The Featured Five Theme is Playing "Favorites": Songs that mention the word "favorite" in the title... Also, Paul McCartney talks about partnering with John Lennon to write "A Day In The Life"... Paul Simon on finding love on the set of Saturday Night Live... What band gets their name from a passage in the Spanish novel, Don Quixote?... New music from Marcus King, The...

On this episode of RITY... The Featured Five Theme is Car Trouble: Songs that mention some sort of car-related issue in the lyrics... Also, Norman Greenbaum explains the process of writing his big hit from 1970... What do people from Vermont call the period between Halloween and the winter snow?... We know Tommy was the deaf, dumb, and blind kid, but why was he the pinball wizard?... What Joni Mit...

On this episode of Reelin'... The Featured Five Theme is At The Library... Plus, A band that gets their name from a term they found in a TV Guide Magazine... The story behind one of Bob Seger's most well-known songs... The Tubes will give us a deep cut about rich kids in Hollywood with drug problems... Music from a guy who worked in a factory installing toilets on airplanes prior to his big break....

On this episode of Reelin' In The Years... The Featured Five Theme is Gone Fishin'... Plus, a song inspired by Peter Fonda's near-death experience that happened when he was a kid... A Bowie tune that's nearly a reworking of "I'm Waiting For The Man" by Velvet Underground... What influential Delta Blues musician simply vanished in the early 1940s?... The band - Heart - and a song inspired by the ru...

This week on Reelin' In The Years... The Featured Five Theme is The State Line: Songs that mention "state line" in the lyrics... Also, The Beatles give us a diss track inspired by the illegitimacy of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi... An 80s hit inspired by the story of a murderous plastic surgeon who steals his victim's skin... Charlotte Caffey - of The Go-Go's - shares the inspiration behind, "We Got The...

On this episode of Reelin'... The Featured Five is The Ocean... Plus, a Steely Dan song inspired by the rise and fall of LSD Chemist, Owsley Stanley... An ode to a train caboose that's been turned into a vacation rental in WA... Music from a guy who enjoyed occasionally streaking on stage... What Beatles song was inspired by the group learning they were nearly bankrupt?... New music from Iron &amp...

This week on Reelin' In The Years, The Featured Five Theme is Bootlegs. These are considered some of the best Bootlegs of all-time according to multiple sources online... Also, a song inspired by a dream that involved Jimi Hendrix and a Holiday Inn bathroom... A Collective Soul song inspired by a two hour stroll around New York City... What White Stripes song gets it's name from a North-English ex...

On this week's edition of Reelin' In The Years... The Featured Five Theme is American Folk Heroes... Plus, Rock 'n' Roll muse - Annabella Corro - shares the true meaning behind "Spill The Wine"... Music from an artist who sadly took his own life by jumping from his hotel room window... The Byrds, Art Reynolds Singers, and Gene Parsons - What's the connection?... How Phil Spector - quite literally...

This week on Reelin' In The Years... The Featured Five Theme is Secret Agent Man: The CIA Theme... Plus, who was John Sinclair and how John Lennon had a role in getting him out of prison... A song written for the 1989 film, Say Anything, but was omitted from the movie... A song that was inspired by a ghostly visit from the songwriter's mother... Dickey Betts, Boz Scaggs, and a random grave - What'...

This week on Reelin'... The Featured Five Theme is In Bloom: The Spring Theme... Plus, music from a former mailman who used to write songs in his head during routes... A young and relatively unknown Angelina Jolie appeared on what band's album cover?... How a child running wild in a grocery store inspired the title of an Allman Bros. hit... A song written at the historic Lorraine Motel during a st...

On this episode of Reelin' In The Years... The Featured Five Theme is songs that correspond with the five levels of Maslow's Hierarchy Of Needs... A song that Van Morrison nailed in one take!... Idol turned Rival? Todd Rundgren's beef with John Lennon in the 70s... The song that was the end result of being stuck in Tulsa during a snowstorm... Who was Ann Cole and why didn't she follow the directio...

On this episode of Reelin' In The Years... The Featured Five Theme is At The Diner: Song titles that mention something you could probably order from the menu... Also, a cut from the newly released soundtrack to the McCartney documentary, Man On The Run... Music from an artist who had a habit of starting bar fights, unfortunately it cost him his life... A song that marked the final time CCR played...

This week on Reelin' In The Years... The Featured Five Theme is songs used as background music during the Local On The 8s Segment on The Weather Channel... Music from a band that's named after the psychological concept of Primal Therapy... What band is comprised of members from Wilco, Soul Asylum, The Jayhawks, and others?... What is an Albert Flasher and what does it have to do with radio broadca...

This week on Reelin' In The Years... The Featured Five Theme is The "Silver Spoon"... Plus, a song David Bowie wrote about actress, model, and Warhol superstar - Cyrinda Foxe... A hit by Badfinger that was first recorded at a slower tempo and was nearly not released... A song inspired by an awkward relationship between a father and his son... John Fogerty shares the story behind the 1969 CCR hit,...

On this episode of Reelin' In The Years... The Featured Five Theme is 1 Is The Loneliest Number: Bands or Artists who only released one album... That one time when Rick James & Neil Young played in the same band in the 1960s... Arthur Lee of the band - Love - explains the meaning behind "7 And 7 Is"... A track from the first album to win a Grammy for Best Americana Album in 2010... A song that...

On this episode of Reelin' In The Years... The Featured Five Theme is Stage Fright... Music from a short-lived California band formed by Neil Young & Bob Mosley... A band that formed in 1970, but didn't release their debut album until '08... Music from a former professional boxer, who was a Middleweight Champion... Why Anne Murray's 1986 album, Something To Talk About, is missing a title track...

On this episode of Reelin' In The Years... The Featured Five Theme is Units Of Measurement... The story behind the cover of Abandoned Luncheonette by Hall & Oates... How the discovery of lost Bob Dylan lyrics led to the formation of a supergroup... A song inspired by the tragic story of a delivery truck involved in a fatal crash... A song that's been played a million times on Pandora, but it's...

On this episode of Reelin' In The Years... The Featured Five Theme is Author: Unknown - Songs with an unknown origin... A song that features the longest sustained note of all songs to have ever charted in the U.S.... An R.E.M. song inspired by a torrential downpour that occurred in their hometown in 1983... The lead single from Badfinger's so-called comeback album, Airwaves, released '79... Paul M...