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The Jewel Case: To Sleep, Perchance to Dream (04-30-20)

Calling all units- this week's theme is "To Sleep, Perchance to Dream"; we'll be spinning songs about sleep and dreams (with a few nightmares thrown in just to keep things interesting). Cheap Trick to Hoagy Carmichael, Irene Kral to the Electric Prunes, Lightnin' Hopkins to Joni Mitchell.

  • The Chambers Brothers- All Strung Out Over You
  • Toots & the Maytals- Bla Bla Bla
  • Santo & Johnny- Sleepwalk (HB Johnny Farina)
  • The Sonics- Psycho
  • Bohanon- Let’s Start the Dance (RIP Hamilton Bohannon)
  • Tom Tom Club- Genius of Love
  • MC5- Rocket Reducer No. 62 (Rama Lama Fa-Fa-Fa) (HB Wayne Kramer)
  • Johnny Horton- The Wild One (HB)
  • Mimi and Richard Farina- House Un-American Blues Activity Dream (HB Mimi Farina/RIP Richard Farina)
  • Col. Bruce Hampton & the Aquarium Rescue Unit- Yield Not To Temptation (HB)
  • Jimmy Heath- Swamp Seed (HB Percy Heath)
  • Deep Purple- Wring That Neck
  • Jeff Buckley- Dream Brother

----------THEME: To Sleep, Perchance to Dream----------

  • Cheap Trick- Dream Police
  • The Everly Brothers- All I Have To Do Is Dream
  • The Youngbloods- Darkness, Darkness
  • The Electric Prunes- I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night)
  • Bob Dylan- Talkin’ World War II Blues
  • Joni Mitchell- Dreamland
  • The Nat “King” Cole Trio- Dream a Little Dream of Me
  • The Jimi Hendrix- One Rainy Wish
  • Steve Vai- Call it Sleep
  • Los Lobos- Dream In Blue (live)
  • Marvin Gaye- Mr. Sandman
  • Junior Mance & Irene Kral- Rock Me to Sleep
  • ZZ Top- Asleep in the Desert
  • Tom Verlaine- Sleepwalkin’
  • Joe Strummer- Sleepwalk
  • Smithereens- Behind the Wall of Sleep
  • The Beatles- I’m Only Sleeping
  • Radiohead- Go To Sleep
  • Ray Davies- I Go To Sleep (demo)
  • The Highway Q.C.’s- I Dreamed Heaven Was Like This
  • Fats Waller- You Meet the Nicest People in Your Dreams
  • Hoagy Carmichael- Two Sleepy People
  • Cream- Sleepy Time Time
  • Lightnin’ Hopkins- Awful Dream
  • Alice Cooper- Welcome To My Nightmare
  • Mark Lanegan- Where Did You Sleep Last Night?
  • Keith Richards- Goodnight Irene
  • The Dandy Warhols- Sleep
  • Wilco & Billy Bragg- California Stars

Join Tod Weidner on Thursday, 8-11pm for The Jewel Case, a weekly celebration of all manner of musical goodness: deep cuts, forgotten treasures, and curiosities with a new theme each show spanning all genres, eras and locales

A lifelong Miami Valley resident, Tod Weidner grew up in Ludlow Falls before moving to Dayton in the early 1990s. Tod has been heavily involved in the Dayton Music Scene for over 20 years, as both a solo performer and a member of such bands as The Motel Beds, Shrug, The American Static, and Set The Controls, to name just a few.