Roger is back looking below the charts to find songs that didn't quite get on to the Billboard Hot 100. Among his subjects are a tribute to a DJ, a bunch of rich kids promoted by a smut peddler, a band proving a point to some young upstarts, an ode to unclad feet, a couple of recorded responses to the year's biggest blockbuster, and a misogyny anthem with a twist. Watch the bubbles burst on YouTube: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDWLXjsOJPQk2OFxy5wmBYgPJ0-rpdnjf And consider supporting the show on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=35903110&fan_landing=true Stoke your fireplace and join in on the pop popping action.

This week Roger goes back to the month that brought us The Lion King, the Bronco chase, and a World Cup in a country that preferred a different kind of football. Meanwhile, the charts featured lots of dance music and alternative, plus a future action heroine, a massive soundtrack ballad, veteran prog rockers teaming up with a famous scientist, some surrealist folk, a fractured nursery rhyme, a robbery, a song for an animated jungle dance party, and more. Follow along on YouTube: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDWLXjsOJPQlY2kmaWLPBxtAo8LdA32l3 And consider supporting the show on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=35903110&fan_landing=true Have a listen. I swear, you'll like it.

In 1973, ABC decided that they needed another singing heartthrob on their network to go with the Partridge Family's David Cassidy. After flipping through a stack of Tiger Beats, they picked an Australian with a single American hit. And what vehicle did they have in mind for him? Why, a Saturday morning cartoon where he played second fiddle to a teacher with magic powers, of course. Roger looks at the first episode of this extremely 70s TV show and tries to make sense of things when they seem backwards. Watch the episode on YouTube: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDWLXjsOJPQmvFP_PB7p5WqYctUHS3LEk And consider supporting the show on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=35903110&fan_landing=true Listen alone, or alongside your nameless henchman.

Roger's back in 1983, when the Jedi returned, a computer mogul put on a music festival just for Us, and the pop charts contained a lot of synthesizers. We've got funny-haired birds, girls who cry while wearing parkas, auto accident love, lizard-based cuisine, and SEX! Find out more on YouTube: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDWLXjsOJPQlo886ebmyXOEb59f8oa3Em And consider donating to the show's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=35903110&fan_landing=true You'll like this one, I know this much.

We're now into the fourth round of a tournament to determine the strangest American Top 40 hit of the 80s. Roger breaks down the matchups between all 32 remaining songs and is left with a Sweet? 16. Listen to the contenders on YouTube: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDWLXjsOJPQli4wdWVohdk1VQRUSFI4rt And you can support the show on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=35903110&fan_landing=true Turn on your heartlights, bust some moves, and listen.

This week Roger goes back 48 years to look at the songs that were hits while Congress was looking into some little burglary that a R. Nixon may have known more about than he said. There's a song about a creepy-crawly who really gets down, some nursery rhymes that aren't suitable for children, the early years of a metal icon, a preachy extraterrestrial, and a song to perform a very close shave by. Try to make some sense of it all on YouTube: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDWLXjsOJPQmcvokZSOyXBm2e1jM7VqVd And you can support the show on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=35903110&fan_landing=true Listen to the show, then call your mother!

Spring 1990. Environmental issues are beginning to move to the forefront, and cartoon characters are banding together to warn three dimensional beings of the dangers of narcotics. Meanwhile, on the charts, rap is on the rise, but their are also songs about tiny lights, filthy lucre, and a treatment for infertility that is simultaneously very simple and extremely complicated. Follow along on YouTube: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDWLXjsOJPQkaj_MkfhlMUIXDn2xYXsK3 And you can support the show on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=35903110&fan_landing=true Nothing compares to this episode.

Roger reaches into the Bargain Bin again and finds a Russian rock legend taking advantage of Mikhail Gorbachev's softening of barriers to the West to make an album with both Eurythmics and a Pretender. Was America ready for rock with an Eastern European accent, or was this guy's poetic and esoteric approach to pop met with a "nyet"? Hear most of the album on YouTube: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDWLXjsOJPQk36Byno9Fhhezs9u3XdyHs And you can support the show on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=35903110&fan_landing=true And remember, in Soviet Union, podcast listens to you!

This week Roger looks back at the hits from shortly after a certain irresistible force met a certain immovable object just outside Detroit. There's a movie hit written by The Boss, a potential theme song for the Chippendales, a British bassist's childhood memories, a superstar duet, a song that took six years to hit #1, and more. And everywhere you turn, there's something that reminds you of a Canadian actor. See and hear more on YouTube: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDWLXjsOJPQkCC7Eqncgtx79Gog8B_eeT And you can support the show on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=35903110&fan_landing=true Have a listen to the podcast where it's always Gino Time.

This week Roger takes a look at some songs that made the Bubbling Under the Hot 100 chart but didn't make the main list. Hear about some not quite hits by gospel funksters, one half of a legendary brother combo, a guy less well known than the band that took part of his name, the other King of Las Vegas, and more. Find out more about these songs on YouTube: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDWLXjsOJPQnLrLmZQtek8uXzmPV-Svzn And consider supporting the show on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=35903110&fan_landing=true Listen to some bubbles getting burst. It's much less dangerous than trying to jump the fountain at Caesars Palace.