This week: A Tribute To Elvis, featuring songs by Elvis himself, songs about Elvis, Elvis songs as subsequently covered by other artists, and earlier versions of others' songs as subsequently covered by Elvis. Note: Two days ago, Elvis would've turned 86 ... he's already been gone for 53 years now!

This week's episode: "R.I.P.", paying musical tribute to artists who passed away in 2020 (as many of 'em as could be crammed into the time slot).

This week's episode: The annual HAPPY NEW YEAR special.

This week's episode: MERRY PROGMAS!

This week's episode: TV SHOW THEMES FROM THE 50's TO STILL ON-THE-AIR ... a total of 51 different tunes!

This week's episode: THE BRITISH INVASION, with 23 different acts representing this legendary musical era.

This week's episode: IT'S IN THE CARDS, with all tunes reflecting cards or card games in their titles and (for the most part) their lyrical substance. This topic showed up a slew of different eras and genres -- Rock, Jive, Pop, R&B and C&W. Although initially I was reluctant to jack with such a theme, I hope that I aced it.

Since regular host Rockin' Mike Lytle was unavailable (he's out on a mission to dig up a slew of new music to lay on listeners in upcoming TRD shows), guest sub Patrick Lloyd hosted tonight's program.

This week's episode celebrates LOCAL/REGIONAL MUSIC, in commemoration of KKFI's "UnBand Auction" weekend. All songs comprising the playlist were performed by artists who hail from around the KC area.

This week's show was by listener request/suggestion: ACOUSTIFIED -- playing slimmed-down versions of great tunes, with lots of obscure and hard-to-find material by some artists that you know (and many with which you won't be familiar).

This week's theme: MORE COWBELL (or "cowbell from hell", take your pick). 'Nuff said.

This week's show: UNDER THE COVERS, featuring 40 different cover versions of well-known tunes. Genres represented included rock, neo-classical, folk, pop, big-band, soul/r&b, schmaltz, spoken-word, jazz, bluegrass, country, electronica, ska and comedy (although many were unintentionally comical).

Today's episode: A RADIO SHOW. Indeed, all songs were about the airwaves and had the word "radio" in their title.

KKFI's Fall Fund Drive: In addition to pitching for this fundraising campaign, the theme was the number 90 (in homage to KKFI's 90.1 spot on the dial). We played a selection of tunes that were ranked #90 in the year-end Billboard Singles Charts, counting backwards from the year 2000 and ending with 1956 (the year the charts began) -- having to skip several years in between due to time constraints. I'm extremely gratified that the Mashup exceeded its targets for both number-of-donors and dollars raised, so ... HUGE thanks to all who contributed!

This week's episode: THE SOULFUL SIXTIES, featuring tunes by 58 different artists from that glorious era (including among them a host of listener requests).

This week: STRANGEITUDE. All songs comprising the playlist had the word "strange" in their title, and each was preceded by a strange little audio snippet of one sort or another.

This week (per a listener's suggestion): POWER POP OBSCURITIES. The vast majority of today's playlist comprises songs/artists with which folks will likely not be familiar ... but all of 'em harken back to The Beatles in one way or another.

This week's show theme was suggested by a regular listener (thanks, Lyrical Linda): songs with women's names in their title. I took it a step further and built the playlist from 50's-60's tunes (with one exception, that was a listener request).

This week's episode: Every song had the name of a real-not-fictitious famous person in the title.

This week's theme: MAN. Back in January, I aired a playlist in which all tunes featured the word "woman" in their title. I meant to follow it up with a "manly version", but got sidetracked until today. This one gave me a great opportunity to include several listener requests that I'd fielded (and was only waiting for the right show theme in which to play them). Lots of calls this morning, as well as song requests that I was able to accommodate on-the-fly ... so a good time was had by all, methinks.