NEXT SHOW: Wednesday, March 5 @ 7:30pm at Sid Gold’s Request Room
The Oracle Show #38: “Do’s & Don’ts” w/ guests Stephin Merritt (The Magnetic Fields), Julia Joseph, & Brooks Allison (The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon)

The Oracle Show #1 - Boys and Girls
Thursday, June 4, 2015 at Sid Gold's Request Room, NYC

Boys & Girls (Bryan Ferry)
Girl U Want (Devo)
I’m a Boy (The Who)
Girls on Film / The Wild Boys (Duran Duran)
It’s Different for Girls (Joe Jackson)
Candy Girl (New Edition)

with Pascal Balthrop:
Two-Headed Boy (Neutral Milk Hotel)
*Gun Street Girl (Tom Waits)

Boys (David Nagler)
Girls (Miranda Lambert)
Girl (The Beatles) + New Girl Theme (Zooey Deschanel)
Girls in Their Summer Clothes (Bruce Springsteen)
The Boys of Summer (Don Henley) / Where the Boys Are (Connie Francis)

with Therese Cox:
White Girl (X)
Where Have All the Rude Boys Gone? (Ted Leo & The Pharmacists)
The Boys Are Back in Town (Thin Lizzy)

Video Girl (FKA Twigs)
Little Girl Blue (Rodgers & Hart, arr. Nina Simone)

with Paul Loren:
Garota de Ipanema (Antonio Carlos Jobim)
That Boy (The Beatles)
The Girl is Mine (Michael Jackson & Paul McCartney)

Excitable Boy (Warren Zevon)
Small-town Boy (Bronski Beat)
The Only Living Boy in New York (Simon & Garfunkel)
Girl You Know it's True (Milli Vanilli) incl. True (Spandau Ballet)

with Will Sheff:
First Girl I Loved (The Incredible String Band)
Another Girl, Another Planet (The Only Ones)
Girl Won't I (Lovestreams)
Boylife in America (Cody ChesnuTT)
Disney Girls (The Beach Boys)
American Girl (Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers)
Let's Hear it for the Boy (Deniece Williams)

West End Girls (Pet Shop Boys)
Drunk Girls (LCD Soundsystem)
Girls & Boys (Blur)

*with Paul Loren on stove pot lid


The Oracle Show #2 - Names
Thursday, July 9, 2015 at Sid Gold's Request Room, NYC



Catherine (PJ Harvey)

Timothy (The Buoys)

Roni (Bobby Brown)

Billericay Dickie (Ian Dury & The Blockheads)

Rikki Don't Lose That Number (Steely Dan)

Joanna (Scott Walker) / Joanna (Kool & The Gang) / Johanna (from the musical “Sweeney Todd” - Stephen Sondheim)

See Emily Play (Pink Floyd)

Mandy (Barry Manilow)



with Beth Wawerna:

Jesus Was a Crossmaker (Judee Sill)

Jesus' Hands (American Music Club)

Personal Jesus (Depeche Mode)



Ballad of John and Yoko (Beatles) / Johnny (Suicide) / Johnny and Mary (Robert Palmer)

Alison (Elvis Costello) / Allison (Pixies)

Oh Sheila (Ready for the World)



with Greta Gertler:

If Bob Was God (Greta Gertler - solo)

Making Plans for Nigel (XTC)

Fernando (ABBA)



Caroline, No (Beach Boys)

Luka (Suzanne Vega)

Hey Carol (Nova Social) / 867-5309/Jenny (Tommy Tutone)

My Maria (John Cale) / Maria (from the musical “West Side Story” - Leonard Bernstein/Stephen Sondheim) / Maria, Maria (Milton Nascimento)

with Xavier Smith:

Michelle (The Beatles)

Valerie (Amy Winehouse)

Bitch I'm Madonna (Madonna)



with Julian Murray:

Delilah (Tom Jones)


Come on Eileen (Dexy's Midnight Runners)


The Oracle Show #3 - Numbers
Wednesday, August 5, 2015 at Sid Gold's Request Room, NYC



1/1 (Brian Eno)

Love Plus One (Haircut 100)

One More Try (George Michael)

Number One (Chaz Jankel) / The Number One Song in Heaven (Sparks) / One of Us (Joan Osborne)

One More Night (Phil Collins) / One More Saturday Night (Grateful Dead) / One More Night (Can) / One More Saturday Night

One on One (Hall & Oates) feat. Alex Suarez on alto sax

One Step Beyond (Madness) feat. Alex Suarez on baritone sax



with Therese Cox:
16 Tons (Tennessee Ernie Ford)

50 Ft. Queenie (PJ Harvey)

Two Out of Three Ain't Bad (Meatloaf)



30 Seconds Over Tokyo (Pere Ubu)

Two of Hearts (Stacey Q)



with Joe McGinty:

This Song is Three Days Old (Baby Steps)



Just The Two Of Us (Grover Washington Jr. w/ Bill Withers) feat. Alex Suarez on alto sax
50 Ways to Leave Your Lover (Paul Simon)

4'33" (John Cage)


Dan Lipton:

Little One (Beck)

Love Me Two Times (The Doors)

Kiss Off (Violent Femmes)



Strawberry Letter 23 (Shuggie Otis)

Eighties (Killing Joke) / Disco 2000 (Pulp) / 2000 Miles (The Pretenders) / I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles) (The Proclaimers)



with Chris Mills:

One (Nilsson)

One (U2)

One (Metallica)


1999 (Prince)

1969 (The Stooges) / 1970 (The Stooges) feat. Alex Suarez on baritone sax


The Oracle Show #4 - Questions
Thursday, September 10, 2015 at Sid Gold’s Request Room, NYC



Who What When Where Why (Rupert Holmes)

How Will I Know (Whitney Houston)

How Do You Do It? (Gerry and the Pacemakers)

Untitled (How Does it Feel) (D’Angelo)

Do You Really Want to Hurt Me (Culture Club)



with Chris Lee:

What Would You Give in Exchange for Your Soul? (Bill Monroe & Doc Watson)

Are You Ready to Be Heartbroken (Lloyd Cole & The Commotions)

Why Can't We Live Together (Timmy Thomas)



What Do I Get? (The Buzzcocks)

Why (Annie Lennox)

Do You Realize?? (The Flaming Lips)

Do You Know the Way to San Jose? (Dionne Warwick)



with Sally Timms:

Where Are We Now? (David Bowie)

Where Were You? (Mekons)


What Color is Love (Terry Callier)

Where is Love? (from "Oliver") (Lionel Bart)

Where Did Our Love Go (The Supremes)

What is Love (Haddaway)

What's Love Got to Do With It (Tina Turner)

Who Do You Love? (Bo Diddley)

What Time is Love? (The KLF)

Does Anybody Really Know What Time it Is? (Chicago)



Paul Wallfisch:

Who Knows Where the Time Goes? (Sandy Denny)

How? (Botanica)

Is That All There Is? (Peggy Lee)


Is She Really Going Out With Him? (Joe Jackson)

The Fox (What Does the Fox Say?) (Ylvis)

What's My Name? (Rihanna ft. Drake)

How Soon is Now? (The Smiths)



with Annie Nero:

How Can You Mend a Broken Heart (The Bee Gees)

What's New Pussycat? (Tom Jones)

Why Does it Hurt When I Pee? (Frank Zappa)



Why Don't We Do it in the Road? (The Beatles)

Should I Stay or Should I Go (The Clash)


The Oracle Show #5 - Negatives
Thursday, October 8, 2015 at Sid Gold’s Request Room, NYC

No Quarter - Led Zeppelin
Never Going Back Again - Fleetwood Mac
No Children - The Mountain Goats
No One Is to Blame - Howard Jones
No Easy Way Down - Dusty Springfield/Carole King
*(Don't Fear) The Reaper - Blue Oyster Cult
 
with Robert Conroy:
 
It Ain't Easy - David Bowie/Ron Davies
No - The Associates
Can't Find My Way Home - Yvonne Elliman/Blind Faith
 
Couldn't Get Ahead - The Fall
Can't Get You Out of My Head - Kylie Minogue
Ne Me Quitte Pas - Jacques Brel
Don't Leave Me This Way - Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes
I'm Not in Love - 10cc
No One Knows - Queens of the Stone Age
Ain't Nobody - Rufus and Chaka Khan
^You Don't Know How it Feels - Tom Petty
 
with Wesley Stace:
Negative Love - John Wesley Harding
Nothing Rhymed - Gilbert O'Sullivan
We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together - Taylor Swift
 
Ain't No Sunshine - Bill Withers
No Surprises - Radiohead
Can't Feel My Face - The Weeknd (interpolating “You’ll Never Walk Alone”)
Never Never Gonna Give You Up - Barry White / Never Gonna Give You Up - Rick Astley

with Mic Murphy:
Ain't Too Proud to Beg - The Temptations
%I Can't Go For That (No Can Do) - Hall & Oates
%Don't Disturb This Groove - The System
 
~Won't Get Fooled Again - The Who
 
*Tom Cowell on cowbell
^Wesley Stace on harmonica & vocals
%Xavier Smith on vocals
~Joe McGinty on synthesizer, Paul Pesco on acoustic guitar & vocals


The Oracle Show #6 - Days and Nights
Thursday, November 5, 2015 at Sid Gold’s Request Room, NYC

Days (The Kinks)
The Nights (Lee Hazlewood)
Working Day and Night (Michael Jackson)
Nightclubbing (Iggy Pop)
(Looking for) The Heart of Saturday Night (Tom Waits)
Night of the Vampire (Roky Erickson)
I Drove All Night (Cyndi Lauper)
Night and Day (with Punctuation Marks) (Allan Sherman)
 
with Pierre de Gaillande:
I'm Dancing in the Show Tonight (Ween)
Everyday is Like Sunday (Morrissey)
I Die Every Night (The Snow)
 
Beautiful Day (Beth Sorrentino)
I Don't Like Mondays (The Boomtown Rats)
Monday, Monday (The Mamas & the Papas)
Blue Monday (Fats Domino) / Blue Monday (New Order)
Manic Monday (The Bangles)
Monday Morning (Fleetwood Mac)
Tuesday Heartbreak (Stevie Wonder)
 
with Scott Chasolen:
Sunday Papers (Joe Jackson)
 
Scott Chasolen:
Good Goodnight (Aqualung)
Sunday Sun (Beck)
The Endless Night (formerly "Insomnia") (Scott Chasolen)
 
In the Still of the Nite (The Five Satins) / Still of the Night (Whitesnake)

with Lauren Balthrop:
Night Fever (The Bee Gees)
Those Were the Days (Mary Hopkin) / Those Were the Days (Theme From "All in the Family")
One Night in Bangkok (from the musical "Chess") (Murray Head)
 
Everyone:
Goodnight Irene (Leadbelly / The Weavers)


The Oracle Show #7 - Places
Sunday, December 6, 2015 at Sid Gold’s Request Room, NYC

Child's Christmas in Wales (John Cale)
An Illustration of Loneliness (Sleepless in New York) (Courtney Barnett)
Werewolves of London (Warren Zevon)
First We Take Manhattan (Leonard Cohen)
To Live and Die in L.A. (Wang Chung)
Lodi (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
Talk to Me of Mendocino (Kate and Anna McGarrigle)
La Grange (ZZ Top)
Hanukkah in Cambodia (based on "Holiday in Cambodia" by the Dead Kennedys)
 
Franklin Bruno:
The Beehive State (Randy Newman)
California Baby (The Human Hearts)
Rhode Island is Famous for You (Blossom Dearie) - with Bree Benton
 
Queen of Denmark (John Grant)
The Guns of Brixton (The Clash)
Autumn in New York (Vernon Duke)
 
with Mark Eitzel:
I Left My Heart in San Francisco (Tony Bennett)
 
Viva Las Vegas (Elvis Presley)
Brazil (Ary Barroso)
Belfast (Boney M.)
Chicago (Carl Sandburg/David Nagler)
Via Chicago (Wilco)
 
Michael Leviton:
San Francisco Fan (Cab Calloway)
You'll Pay For Your Day at Pleasure Island (Michael Leviton)
There’s A Place In Hell For Me And My Friends (Morrissey)
 
America (Simon & Garfunkel)
Party in the U.S.A. (Miley Cyrus) incl. Brooklyn's Finest (Jay-Z feat. Notorious B.I.G.) & Till the World Ends (Britney Spears)
A Song for Europe (Roxy Music)
Back in the U.S.S.R. (Beatles)
Africa (Toto)
 
with Dawn Landes:
Lafayette (Lucinda Williams)
Atlantic City (Bruce Springsteen)
Christmas With You (The Bandana Splits)
 
with Therese Cox:
Fairytale of New York (The Pogues w/ Kirsty MacColl)


The Oracle Show #8 - Lost Lyrics
Wednesday, January 13, 2016 at Sid Gold’s Request Room, NYC - co-hosted by Joe McGinty

David Nagler:
Theme From M*A*S*H/Suicide is Painless (Johnny Mandel / Mike Altman)
 
Joe McGinty:
Baby Elephant Walk (Henry Mancini / Hal David)
Theme From “Midnight Cowboy” (John Barry / Jack Gold)
I Dream of Jeannie (Hugo Montenegro / Buddy Kaye)
Spanish Flea (Julius Wechter / Cissy Wechter)
 
Joe McGinty with Anna Roisman:
Star Trek (Alexander Courage / Gene Roddenberry)
 
Joe McGinty with Lauren Ireland:
Telstar (Joe Meek)
 
Joe McGinty with Anna Roisman & Lauren Ireland:
Peter Gunn (Henry Mancini / Jay Livingston & Ray Evans) - with Michael Leonhart on Trumpet
Gonna Fly Now - Theme From Rocky (Bill Conti / Carol Connors & Ayn Robbins)
 
Joe McGinty with Anna Roisman, Lauren Ireland, & Nick Danger:
Mr. Softee Theme
 
Joe McGinty:
Old Spice Theme
 
David Nagler:
Bourgie Bourgie (Ashford & Simpson)
To Prove My Love (Ned Doheny)
 
David Nagler with Michael Leonhart:
Feels So Good (Chuck Mangione)
Waltz For Debby (Bill Evans / Gene Lees)
Music to Watch Girls By (Bob Crewe / Tony Velona)
 
David Nagler with Bree Benton:
Fishin’ Hole/The Andy Griffith Show (Andy Griffith)
Bewitched (Howard Greenfield / Jack Keller)
The Munsters (Jack Marshall / Butch Patrick)
 
Joe McGinty with Nick Danger:
The Dick Van Dyke Show (Earle Hagen / Morey Amsterdam)
Popcorn (Gershon Kingsley)
Theme From “Casino Royale” (Burt Bacharach / Hal David)
Lick My Love Pump (Spinal Tap)
 
Joe McGinty & David Nagler with Michael Leonhart:
The Odd Couple (Neal Hefti / Sammy Cahn)


The Oracle Show #9 - Love
Thursday, February 11, 2016 at Sid Gold’s Request Room, NYC

Love (John Lennon)
Love You Inside Out (Bee Gees)
Saving All My Love For You (Whitney Houston)
Love & Anger (Kate Bush)
This Guy's in Love With You (Herb Alpert)
Love Comes in Spurts (Richard Hell & The Voidoids)
 
with Richard Alwyn Fisher:
Love Ruins Everything (Lloyd Cole)
If You Could Love Me (Edwyn Collins)
*Modern Love (David Bowie)
 
I Love You, Honeybear (Father John Misty)
Love TKO (Teddy Pendergrass)
I Prefer Your Love (St. Vincent)
A World Without Love (Peter & Gordon)
I Believe in a Thing Called Love (The Darkness)
 
Adam Schatz:
God's Song (That's Why I Love Mankind) (Randy Newman)
^Girl Loves Me (David Bowie)
I Love You More Than You’ll Ever Know (Donny Hathaway)
 
Love Yourself (Justin Bieber)
Somebody to Love (Jefferson Airplane)
Sea of Love (Phil Phillips)
Tainted Love (Soft Cell/Gloria Jones)
Fell in Love With a Girl (The White Stripes)
 
with Clara Kennedy:
I’m Thru With Love (Fud Livingston / Nat King Cole)
Amorevole (Mina)
A Sunday Kind of Love (Etta James)
 
I Love It (Icona Pop feat. Charli XCX)
 
*Adam Schatz on Tenor Sax
^David Nagler on piano


The Oracle Show #10 - Colors
Thursday, March 10, 2016 at Sid Gold’s Request Room, NYC

Green Onions (Booker T. & the M.G.’s)
*Green Green Grass of Home (Tom Jones)
Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue (Crystal Gayle)
Theme in Yellow (Carl Sandburg/David Nagler)
Mellow Yellow (Donovan)
 
with Hoagie:
Blue Bayou (Roy Orbison)
Share the Red (Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks)
Out the Blue (John Lennon)
 
Blue Hotel (Chris Isaak)
 
with Kristopher John:
Pink Flag (Wire)
 
Blue (Joni Mitchell)
Black Sabbath (Black Sabbath)
 
with Peter Salett:
Pale Blue Eyes (Velvet Underground)
Black Coffee in Bed (Squeeze)
White Wedding (Billy Idol)
 
Tangled Up in Blue (Bob Dylan)
Blackstar (David Bowie)
Colors (Ice-T)
White Room (Cream)
Brown-Eyed Girl (Van Morrison)
 
with Larry & Mike Morris:
For You Blue (Beatles)
Blue Moon (Lorenz Hart/Richard Rodgers + arr. The Marcels)
Mr. Blue Sky (Electric Light Orchestra)

Purple Rain (Prince and the Revolution)
 
*monologue by Julian Murray


The Oracle Show #11 - Songs
Thursday, April 7, 2016 at Sid Gold’s Request Room, NYC

Song to the Siren (Tim Buckley)
Finest Worksong (R.E.M.)
Annie’s Song (John Denver)
The Breakup Song (They Don’t Write ‘Em) (The Greg Kihn Band)
Songs of Love (The Divine Comedy)
 
with Tim Duffy & Lesley Robin:
Undone - The Sweater Song (Weezer)

with Shannon McArdle:
Drug Song (Alan Hull)
Divorce Song (Liz Phair)
Tower of Song (Leonard Cohen)

Pyramid Song (Radiohead)
Space Age Love Song (A Flock of Seagulls)
Horse Song Part 1 (Nova Social)
Sea Song (Robert Wyatt)
 
Julian Velard:
Interstate Love Song (Stone Temple Pilots)
Another Guy’s Song (Julian Velard)
^I Write the Songs (Barry Manilow)

Redemption Song (Bob Marley & The Wailers)
 
with Michael Esper:
Academy Fight Song (Mission of Burma)
 
September Song (Kurt Weill/Maxwell Anderson)
Immigrant Song (Led Zeppelin)

Elizabeth Ziman:
Happy Pop (Elizabeth & The Catapult)
^Your Song (Elton John)
*^One Little Song (Gillian Welch)

Song 2 (Blur)
 
^David Nagler on piano
*Lauren Balthrop on vocals


The Oracle Show #12 - Desire
Thursday, May 5, 2016 at Sid Gold’s Request Room, NYC

I Wanna Be Your Lover (Prince)
Desire (Tuxedomoon)
All I Want is You (Roxy Music)
What Do You Want the Girl to Do? (Allen Toussaint)
Girls Just Want to Have Fun (Cyndi Lauper)

with Jo Lampert:
Desire (Jessie Ware)
Gimme All Your Love (Alabama Shakes)
Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want (The Smiths)
 
You Can Get it if You Really Want (Jimmy Cliff)
I Want You (Marvin Gaye)
I Need to Know / Dimelo (Marc Anthony)
If I Needed You (Townes Van Zandt)
What You Need / Need You Tonight (INXS)

Lee Feldman:
A Man Needs a Maid (Neil Young)
*I Want You (She’s So Heavy) (The Beatles)
Do You Want to Dance? (Lee Feldman)

I Wanna Destroy You (The Soft Boys)
I Wanna Be Sedated (The Ramones)
I Want it That Way (Backstreet Boys)
I Want You to Want Me (Cheap Trick)
 
with Michelle Nagler:
You Made Me Love You (I Didn’t Want to Do It) (James V. Monaco/Joseph McCarthy)
Everything She Wants (Wham!)
Don’t You Want Me (The Human League)
 
I Want You Back (The Jackson Five)

*David Nagler on electric guitar


The Oracle Show #13 - Women & Men
Thursday, June 9, 2016 at Sid Gold’s Request Room, NYC

Fanfare for the Common Man (Aaron Copland)

Sharp Dressed Man (ZZ Top)

Painter Man (The Creation)

Fisherman (The Congos)

Gypsy Woman (The Impressions) / Gypsy Woman (She’s Homeless) (Crystal Waters)


with Max Avery Lichtenstein:

Man on the Moon (R.E.M.)

Here Comes Your Man (Pixies)

I Got a Woman (Ray Charles)


Manchild (Neneh Cherry)

Pieces of a Man (Gil Scott-Heron)


with Xavier Smith:

I Need a Man (Grace Jones)


Women (Lou Reed)

Woman (John Lennon)

Woman in Love (Barbra Streisand)


with Laura Cantrell:

Just Because I’m a Woman (Dolly Parton)

*Worried Man Blues (The Carter Family)

*Mr. Tambourine Man (Bob Dylan)


%This Woman’s Work (Kate Bush)

More Than a Woman (Bee Gees)

^Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 (Bob Dylan)


with Will Sheff:

I’m Waiting for the Man (Velvet Underground)

Man From Reno (Scott Walker/Goran Bregovic)

Starman (David Bowie)


Iron Man (Black Sabbath) / Piano Man (Billy Joel)


*Mark Spencer on guitar

%Allan Rubinstein on vocals

^Richard Alwyn Fisher on harmonica


The Oracle Show #14 - People
Thursday, July 7, 2016 at Sid Gold’s Request Room, NYC

Tom Violence (Sonic Youth)
Eleanor Rigby (Beatles)
Philip Guston (Vic Chesnutt)
David Watts (The Kinks)
Donna Summer (Prefab Sprout)
Andy Warhol (David Bowie)
 
with Tammy Faye Starlite as Nico:
Henry Hudson (Nico)
Genghis Khan (Nico)
Eulogy to Lenny Bruce (Nico)
 
Gary Gilmore’s Eyes (The Adverts)
Lee Feldman (Lee Feldman)
 
with Therese Cox:
Sally MacLennane (The Pogues)
 
Forrest Gump (Frank Ocean)
Clint Eastwood (Gorillaz)
 
Matt Kanelos:
Duke Ellington’s Sound of Love (Charles Mingus)
Pablo Picasso (The Modern Lovers)
Georgia Lee (Tom Waits)
 
Alex Chilton (The Replacements)
Tom Sawyer (Rush)
 
with David Grant:
Genghis Khan (Miike Snow)
Son of Sam (Elliott Smith)
Vampira (Misfits)

Buddy Holly (Weezer)


The Oracle Show #15 - Life & Death
Thursday, August 4, 2016 at Sid Gold’s Request Room, NYC

Strings of Life (Rhythim is Rhythim)
Live and Let Die (Paul McCartney & Wings)
Teenage Suicide (Unrest)
I Wanna Live (Gary Ogan & Bill Lamb)
Born Slippy .NUXX (Underworld)
 
with Pete Galub:
The Only Living Boy in New York (Simon & Garfunkel)
Wall of Death (Richard & Linda Thompson)
Death and the Maiden (The Verlaines)
 
In My Secret Life (Leonard Cohen)
 
with Jodie Rae Charity:
(I Just) Died in Your Arms (Cutting Crew)
 
Lush Life (Billy Strayhorn)
My Life is Good (Randy Newman)
Life’s Been Good (Joe Walsh)

with Ereni Sevasti:
My Death (Jacques Brel)
Life on Mars? (David Bowie)
Psycho Killer (Talking Heads)

Live to Tell (Madonna)
Born to Be Alive (Patrick Hernandez) / My Life (Billy Joel)
 
with Lee Ranaldo:
What Did You Do to My Life? (Neil Young)
Born in Time (Bob Dylan)
*Lust for Life (Iggy Pop)
 
Born to Run (Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band)
 
*with Steve Shelley on tambourine


The Oracle Show #16 - Family
Thursday, September 8, 2016 at Sid Gold’s Request Room, NYC

Family Affair (Sly & The Family Stone)
Mama Roux (Dr. John)
Mama Tried (Merle Haggard)
Mama Can’t Buy You Love (Elton John)
Mama (Genesis)
 
with Nina & Son featuring David Terhune:
Hey Grandma (Moby Grape)
Uncle Salty (Aerosmith)
(Mom’s Got a New) Home in Cincinnati (David Terhune)
 
My Wife and My Dead Wife (Robyn Hitchcock)
Be My Wife (David Bowie)
Be My Husband (Nina Simone)

with Corn Mo:
Does Your Mother Know (ABBA)
Father Figure (George Michael)
*Mother (Danzig)
 
Father Cannot Yell (CAN)
Dance With My Father (Luther Vandross)
Papa Won’t Leave You, Henry (Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds)
Big Poppa (The Notorious B.I.G.)
 
with Beth Wawerna:
Dad (Bird Of Youth)
Papa Was a Rodeo (The Magnetic Fields)
Sister Christian (Night Ranger)
 
We Are Family (Sister Sledge)
 
*Corn Mo on piano


The Oracle Show #17 - Animals
Thursday, November 10, 2016 at Sid Gold’s Request Room, NYC

Pigs on the Wing 1 (Pink Floyd)
Piggies (Beatles)
I Wouldn’t Treat a Dog (The Way You Treated Me) (Bobby “Blue” Bland)
Mad Dogs and Englishmen (Noël Coward)
Dog on Wheels (Belle and Sebastian)

with Joe McGinty:
I Wanna Be Your Dog (The Stooges)
 
The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway (Genesis)
Cool for Cats (Squeeze)
Year of the Cat (Al Stewart)
Release the Bats (The Birthday Party)
The Fox (What Does the Fox Say?) (Ylvis)
 
with Anna C Cabanna:
The Love Cats (The Cure)
Hounds of Love (Kate Bush)
War Pigs (Black Sabbath)
Pigs on the Wing 2 (Pink Floyd)

Bird on the Wire (Leonard Cohen)


The Oracle Show #18 - Rock
Thursday, January 5, 2017 at Sid Gold’s Request Room, NYC


It’s a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock ‘n’ Roll) (AC/DC)

Sheena is a Punk Rocker (The Ramones)

Laptop Rock (Nova Social)

Rock the Boat (Aaliyah)

Rock Me Amadeus (Falco)



with Don Piper:

Rock On (David Essex)

I Am a Rock (Simon & Garfunkel)

Rock ‘n’ Roll With Me (David Bowie)


Rock and Roll Night Club (Mac Demarco)

The Weak in Rock (David Nagler)

Rock Your Baby (George McCrae)

Rock Your Body (Justin Timberlake)

Rockit (Herbie Hancock)

Planet Rock (Afrika Bambaataa & the Soulsonic Force)

Party Rock Anthem (LMFAO)

Punk Rock Girl (The Dead Milkmen)


Glenn Patscha:

I’ve Just Seen the Rock of Ages (Ralph Stanley)

*Rock and Roll Music (Chuck Berry)

^Elijah Rock (Mahalia Jackson)


Rock the Casbah (The Clash)


with Leslie Goshko:

Rock Lobster (The B-52’s)


with Gary Burton:

Rock With You (Michael Jackson)

Sgt. Rock (Is Going to Help Me) (XTC)

Rockaria! (Electric Light Orchestra)


Rock & Roll (The Velvet Underground)


*with Antoine Drye on trumpet

^with Antoine Drye and Markus Rutz on trumpet


The Oracle Show #19 - Heart & Soul
Thursday, February 2, 2017 at Sid Gold’s Request Room, NYC


Heart and Soul (Joy Division)

Heart and Soul (T’Pau)

Heart Full of Soul (The Yardbirds)

Heart Like a Wheel (Kate & Anna McGarrigle)

Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker) (The Rolling Stones)


with Raymond Rizzo:

Bullet Proof Soul (Sade)

Keep Me in Your Heart (Warren Zevon)

Hungry Heart (Bruce Springsteen)


Heartbeat City (The Cars)

Symmetry of Two Hearts (Bright Light Bright Light)

Elastic Heart (Sia) + Dyslexic Heart (Paul Westerberg)

You’ve Always Had Her Heart (David Nagler)

You’re Breaking My Heart (Harry Nilsson)


with Leslie Goshko:

Body and Soul (Billie Holiday)

What Becomes of the Brokenhearted (Jimmy Ruffin)


Leslie Goshko:

Lady Grinning Soul (David Bowie)


Soul Finger (The Bar-Kays)

Stoned Soul Picnic (Laura Nyro)

Heart-Shaped Box (Nirvana)


with Cathy Cervenka:

Open Your Heart (Madonna)

Heart of Glass (Blondie)

Heartbreaker (Pat Benatar)


My Heart Will Go On (Love Theme From “Titanic”) (Celine Dion)


The Oracle Show #20 - Salutations & Farewells
Thursday, March 2, 2017 at Sid Gold’s Request Room, NYC


Welcome to the Working Week (Elvis Costello)

Hello Walls (Faron Young)

Goodbye Toulouse (The Stranglers)


with Galen Ayers:

Bye Bye Love (The Everly Brothers)

Ev’ry Time We Say Goodbye (Ella Fitzgerald)

Hey, That’s No Way to Say Goodbye (Leonard Cohen)


Welcome to Heartbreak (Kanye West)


with Matt Parker:

Goodbye Pork Pie Hat (Charles Mingus)


Theme from “Welcome to my Study” (Mitch Magee)

Welcome to the Pleasuredome (Frankie Goes to Hollywood)


with Adam Minkoff:

Welcome to the Machine (Pink Floyd)


with Bridget St John:

Goodbaby Goodbye (Bridget St. John)


Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (Elton John)

Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah - A Letter From Camp (Allan Sherman)


with Dana Lyn:

Hello Again (Neil Diamond)


with Dana Lyn & Megan Reilly:

Farewell, Farewell (Fairport Convention)


with Dana Lyn & Joanna Choy:

Hello Earth (Kate Bush)


with Steve Goulding:

Hello Goodbye (The Beatles)


Bye Bye Bye (*NSYNC)

Welcome Back (Theme From “Welcome Back Kotter”) (John Sebastian)


with Renee LoBue:

Never Can Say Goodbye (The Jackson 5)

Hello It’s Me (Todd Rundgren)


with Renee LoBue & Matt Parker:

Say Goodbye to Hollywood (Billy Joel)


Hello (Adele)


The Oracle Show #21 - Dance
Thursday, April 6, 2017 at Sid Gold’s Request Room, NYC



Dance of Death (John Fahey)

You Make Me Feel Like Dancing (Leo Sayer)

Dancing Days (Led Zeppelin)

Private Dancer (Tina Turner)


with Therese Cox:

Dance Stance (Dexy’s Midnight Runners)


with Andrew Kirell:

Two Hearts in True Waltz Time (Bruce Springsteen)

Save the Last Dance for Me (The Drifters)

Tango Till They’re Sore (Tom Waits)


After the Dance (Marvin Gaye)


with Richard Alwyn Fisher:

Dancing with Myself in the Dark (Generation X / Bruce Springsteen)


He’s the Greatest Dancer (Sister Sledge)

Too Many Dicks (on the Dance Floor) (Flight of the Conchords)

Dance (Disco Heat) (Sylvester)

Everybody Dance (CHIC)

You Should Be Dancing (Bee Gees)


with Nick Hallett:

Dance Round the Maypole (Acid Gallery)

The Dancer (PJ Harvey)

With Whom to Dance (The Magnetic Fields)


One Dance (Drake)

The Safety Dance (Men Without Hats)

Dancing on My Own (Robyn)


with Bridget Barkan:

I Don’t Feel Like Dancin’ (Scissor Sisters)

I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me) (Whitney Houston)

Last Dance (Donna Summer)


Let’s Dance (David Bowie)


The Oracle Show #22 - The Body
Thursday, May 4, 2017 at Sid Gold’s Request Room, NYC


The Body (The Raincoats)

Shake Your Body (Down to the Ground) (The Jacksons)

Taking Your Life in Your Hands (John Cale)

Shake Hands With Danger (Jim Stringer)

I Want to Hold Your Hand (The Beatles)



with Ned Sublette:

The Head is the Seat of the Soul (Ned Sublette)

Aquellos Ojos Verdes (Nilo Menéndez)

Kiss You Down South (Ned Sublette)


Is It All Over My Face? (Loose Joints)

Natural Eye Shadow (Nova Social)


with Jesse Krakow:

Body Language (Queen)


Fall at Your Feet (Crowded House)


with Hoagie:

A Shot in the Arm (Wilco)


Brain Damage (Pink Floyd)


with Xavier Smith:

Knocks Me Off My Feet (Stevie Wonder)


with Joanna Choy:

Doctor My Eyes (Jackson Browne)

These Arms of Mine (Otis Redding)

Sat in Your Lap (Kate Bush)


The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face (Ewan MacColl arr. Roberta Flack)


with Michelle Nagler:

Baby Got Back (Sir Mix-a-Lot)


Dick in a Box (The Lonely Island feat. Justin Timberlake)

Poker Face (Lady Gaga)


The Oracle Show #23 - God & the Devil
Thursday, June 1, 2017 at Sid Gold’s Request Room, NYC

With God on Our Side (Bob Dylan, additional lyrics by David Nagler)

Jesus Christ Pose (Soundgarden)

(You’re the) Devil in Disguise (Elvis Presley)


with Chris Lee:

Christine’s Tune (Devil in Disguise) (The Flying Burrito Brothers)

God Only Knows (The Beach Boys)

Jesus (The Velvet Underground)


Satan Satan Satan Satan (Nova Social)

The Hairstyle of the Devil (Momus)


with Will Sheff:

Sympathy for the Devil (The Rolling Stones)

God’s Children (The Kinks)


GOD. (Kendrick Lamar)

God Give Me Strength (Elvis Costello & Burt Bacharach)


with Eszter Balint:

God’s Song (That’s Why I Love Mankind) (Randy Newman)


with Tammy Faye Starlite:

*God Has Lodged a Tenant in My Uterus (Tammy Faye Starlite)


with Tammy Faye Starlite & Eszter Balint:
Me and Jesus (Tom T. Hall)


with Andrew Vladeck AKA Hopalong Andrew:

Thank God I’m a City Boy (Hopalong Andrew, based on John Denver’s “Thank God I’m a Country Boy”)

God is Love (Marvin Gaye)


with Gary Burton:

Dear God (XTC)


Running with the Devil (Van Halen)

Devil’s Haircut (Beck)


with Larry & Mike Morris:

Friend of the Devil (Grateful Dead)

Devil With a Blue Dress On / Good Golly Miss Molly (Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels)

My Sweet Lord (George Harrison)


God (John Lennon)


*with Eszter Balint on violin


The Oracle Show #24 - House & Home
Thursday, September 7, 2017 at Sid Gold’s Request Room, NYC



A House is Not a Home (Dionne Warwick)

A House is Not a Motel (Love)

Home is Where the Hatred Is (Gil Scott-Heron)

Home Again (Michael Kiwanuka)

I Wonder if I Take You Home (Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam with Full Force)


with Mark Gallay:

Burning Down the House (Talking Heads)


At Home, At Work, At Play (Sparks)

Homeward Bound (Simon & Garfunkel)

The House That Jack Kerouac Built (The Go-Betweens)

Subterranean Homesick Alien (Radiohead)

*Subterranean Homesick Blues (Bob Dylan)


Stephanie Sanders:

Sunny Came Home (Shawn Colvin)


with Stephanie Sanders:

She’s Leaving Home (The Beatles)

Bring it on Home to Me (Sam Cooke)


At Home He’s a Tourist (Gang of Four)


with Dan Brantigan on flugelhorn:

Harry’s House (Joni Mitchell)

Home at Last (Steely Dan)


House in the Suburbs (Spontaneous Generation)

My House (Flo Rida)


with Katy Hartnett:

Shanty (Jonathan Edwards)

House of the Rising Sun (trad. arr. The Animals)

Daft Punk is Playing at My House (LCD Soundsystem)


with Dan Brantigan on trumpet:

Our House (Madness)


*Stephanie Sanders on upper piano


The Oracle Show #25 - Clothes
Thursday, November 2, 2017 at Sid Gold’s Request Room, NYC

The Emperor’s New Clothes (Sinead O’Connor)

Those Shoes (Eagles)

Fuck Me Pumps (Amy Winehouse)

Strangers in Blue Suede Shoes (Kevin Ayers)

Blue Suede Shoes (Carl Perkins)


with Jason Bemis Lawrence:

Cloudy Shoes (Damien Jurado)

You Can Leave Your Hat On (Randy Newman)


with Jason Bemis Lawrence & Ellie Skrzat:
Undone (The Sweater Song) (Weezer)


Blue and Grey Shirt (American Music Club)


with Keith Hartel on vocals + bass:

Green Shirt (Elvis Costello)


Girls in Their Summer Clothes (Bruce Springsteen)


Walter Martin:

Jeans and Boots (Milan McAlevey)

How Do My Lovely Dress So Slow (Milan McAlevey)


Hand in Glove (The Smiths)


with Franklin Bruno & Jessica Pavone on viola:

Dress (PJ Harvey)


with Jessica Pavone on viola:

Famous Blue Raincoat (Leonard Cohen)


with Jessica Pavone on vocals:

Bell Bottom Blues (Derek & the Dominos)


with Tammy Faye, Keith Hartel on bass, Jessica Pavone on viola:

Venus in Furs (The Velvet Underground)


with Joe McGinty:

I Love My Shirt (Donovan)


Nikes (Frank Ocean)


with Dan Brantigan on trumpet:

Goody Two Shoes (Adam Ant)


with Jennifer O'Connor:

Dress You Up (Madonna)

We Don’t Have to Take Our Clothes Off (Jermaine Stewart)

Raspberry Beret (Prince and the Revolution)


with Dan Brantigan on trumpet & Jason Lawrence on tambourine:

These Boots Are Made for Walkin’ (Nancy Sinatra)


The Oracle Show #26 - Exclamations & Expletives
Wednesday, May 16, 2018 at Sid Gold’s Request Room, NYC


Fucked My Way Up to the Top (Lana Del Rey)

Shit, Damn, Motherfucker (D’Angelo)

Aw Shit Man (The Minus Five)

Calliope! (The Veils)

*Ouch! (The Rutles) / Help! (Beatles)


with John Brodeur on vocals + guitar:

You Fucked Yourself (Quasi)

Stand! (Sly & The Family Stone)

Fuck Her Gently (Tenacious D)


Fucking the Past (Nova Social)

Schoolboy Blues/C**ksucker Blues (The Rolling Stones)


with Therese Cox:

Fuck You (Lily Allen)

Nazi Punks Fuck Off (Dead Kennedys)


Man! I Feel Like a Woman! (Shania Twain)

Oh Bondage Up Yours! (X-Ray Spex)


Dan Lipton:

It’s a Motherfucker (Eels)

Asshole (Beck)

Oops!... I Did it Again (Britney Spears)


with Steve Shelley:

Oh Yoko! (John Lennon)

They’re Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa! (Napoleon XIV)


Oh! Susanna (Stephen Foster)

Ding-Dong! The Witch is Dead (from “The Wizard of Oz,” Harold Arlen & E.Y. Harburg)


with Blythe Gruda:

Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart (Judy Garland)

Bloody Mother Fucking Asshole (Martha Wainwright)

Pissing in a River (Patti Smith)


with Steve Shelley & Dan Lipton:

Hey Ya! (OutKast)



*John Brodeur on vocals


The Oracle Show #27 - Good & Bad
Wednesday, November 14, 2018 at Sid Gold’s Request Room, NYC


Tell Me Something Good (Rufus & Chaka Khan)

Bad (Michael Jackson)

I’m Into Something Good (Herman’s Hermits)

Johnny Too Bad (The Slickers)

You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown (theme from the musical, composed by Clark Gesner)


with Chris Mills:

Bad Moon Rising (Creedence Clearwater Revival)

Good Times Bad Times (Led Zeppelin)

Hurts so Good (John Cougar)


Hurt So Bad (Little Anthony and the Imperials)

Are We Good? (Eleanor Friedberger)

The Goonies ‘R’ Good Enough (Cyndi Lauper)

She is Beyond Good and Evil (The Pop Group)

Bad Blood (Taylor Swift)


with Mic Murphy:

I Wanna Make You Feel Good (The System)

Bad Case of Loving You (Doctor, Doctor) (Moon Martin / Robert Palmer)


Someone Great (LCD Soundsystem)

Good Times (theme from the TV show, performed by Jim Gilstrap & Blinky Williams)

Good Vibrations (Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch) / Good Vibrations (The Beach Boys)


with Annie Nero:

Tres Bien (Le Tigre)

Better Be Good to Me (Tina Turner)

Bad to the Bone (George Thorogood & The Destroyers)


Bad Romance (Lady Gaga)

The Oracle Show #28 - In & Out
Monday, April 20, 2020 on Facebook Live to benefit Sid Gold’s Request Room

Let’s Go Out Tonight (The Blue Nile)

School’s Out (Alice Cooper)

In Time (Sly and the Family Stone)

You Should See Me in a Crown (Billie Eilish)

Shoot Out the Lights (Richard & Linda Thompson)

Stuck in the Middle with You (Stealers Wheel)

Cranes in the Sky (Solange)

Come Out Into the World (Nova Social)

Keep Me in Your Heart (Warren Zevon)

Take Me Out (Franz Ferdinand)

In C (Terry Riley)

Insane in the Brain / Ain’t Goin’ Out Like That (Cypress Hill)


with Therese Cox:

Stressed Out (Twenty One Pilots)

Right in Time (Lucinda Williams)


Is She Really Going Out with Him? / Steppin’ Out (Joe Jackson)

Movin’ Out (Billy Joel) / In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida (Iron Butterfly)

I’m Coming Out (Diana Ross)

Lost in the Stars (Kurt Weill / Maxwell Anderson)

The Oracle Show #29 - Heaven & Hell
Wednesday, September 6, 2023 at Sid Gold’s Request Room, NYC

Heaven and Hell (The Who)
One Hell of a Life (Katell Keineg)
Heaven (Bryan Adams)
If I Ever Lose This Heaven (Quincy Jones)

with Pascal Balthrop:
Highway to Hell + Satan is Real (AC/DC / The Louvin Brothers)
Too Much Heaven (Bee Gees)

with Pascal Balthrop & Therese Cox:
Another Hell (Balthrop Alabama)

Hell is Round the Corner (Tricky)
Wear Your Love Like Heaven (Donovan)
Your Pretty Face is Going to Hell (Iggy and the Stooges)
Heaven is a Place on Earth (Belinda Carlisle)

with Therese Cox:
Straight to Hell / Paper Planes (The Clash / M.I.A.)
Heaven/Hell / Hidegen fujnak a szelek (Chumbawamba / Muzsikas)
Heaven and Back (Mekons)

with Therese Cox & Anthony Cekay
Hell (Squirrel Nut Zippers)

with Anthony Cekay:
Benny’s From Heaven (Eddie Jefferson)

In Heaven (The Lady in the Radiator Song) (David Lynch)

with Tim Duffy:
Monkey Gone to Heaven (Pixies)

Rose Kelso:
Heaven Must Be Missing an Angel (Tavares)

Rose Kelso & Martin Vaillancourt:
The Devil Went Down to Georgia (Charlie Daniels Band)

with Anthony Cekay:
Stairway to Heaven (Led Zeppelin)

The Oracle Show #30 - Size
Wednesday, October 4, 2023 at Sid Gold’s Request Room, NYC

Big White Cloud (John Cale arr. David Nagler)
Big Me (Foo Fighters)
Small Axe (Bob Marley & The Wailers)
Sweet Little Mystery (John Martyn)
I Say a Little Prayer (Dionne Warwick)

with Jessie Kilguss:
Big Science (Laurie Anderson)
A Little Rain (Tom Waits)
Big Yellow Taxi (Joni Mitchell)

Little Johnny Jewel, Pts. 1 & 2 (Television)
Big Poppa (The Notorious B.I.G.)
Little (Suzzy Roche)
This Town Ain’t Big Enough for Both of Us (Sparks)

with Sam Brown:
Little Earthquakes (Tori Amos)
Stay All Night (Stay a Little Longer) (Willie Nelson)
Little Lies (Fleetwood Mac)

with Vicki Peterson:
Big Brown Eyes (The dB’s)

with Paul Loren:
Short People (Randy Newman)

Paul Loren:
A Little Bit of Everything (Dawes)

with Paul Loren:
Big Shot (Billy Joel)
Try a Little Tenderness (Otis Redding)

Everyone:
With a Little Help From My Friends (Beatles)

The Oracle Show #31 - Professions
Wednesday, November 8, 2023 at Sid Gold’s Request Room, NYC

Police and Thieves (Junior Murvin)
Avant Gardener (Courtney Barnett)
My Therapist (As For the Future)
The Jeweler (Pearls Before Swine)
Don’t Pay the Ferryman (Chris de Burgh)

with Dave Derby:
Mayor of Simpleton (XTC)
Waitress in the Sky (Replacements)
Lawyers, Guns and Money (Warren Zevon)

Farmer in the City (Scott Walker)
Mr. Pharmacist (The Other Half)
Mr. Telephone Man (New Edition)

with Jesse Krakow:
Hot for Teacher (Van Halen)

with John Cowsill:
Wichita Lineman (Glen Campbell)

with Chris Buckridge:
River Man (Nick Drake and the Sad Beads)
Dear Landlord (Bob Dylan)
DJ (David Bowie)
Watching the Detectives (Elvis Costello)

Pilot of the Airwaves (Charlie Dore), interrupted by Tammy Faye Starlite:
Janitor of Lunacy (Nico)

Witch Doctor (David Seville)

with Vicki Peterson:
The Perfect Nanny (from “Mary Poppins”
Son of a Preacher Man (Dusty Springfield)

with Vicki Peterson & John Cowsill:
The Boxer (Simon & Garfunkel)

The Oracle Show #32 - Kisses
Wednesday, February 7, 2024 at Sid Gold’s Request Room, NYC

Give Him a Great Big Kiss/Looking For a Kiss (The Shangri-Las/New York Dolls)
Shut Up Kiss Me (Angel Olsen)
Kiss Me, Son of God (They Might Be Giants)
He Hit Me (And It Felt Like a Kiss) (The Crystals)

with Dave Foster:
Kiss on My List (Hall & Oates)
Seagulls Screaming Kiss Her Kiss Her (XTC)
Kiss Me Baby (Beach Boys)
Kizza Me (Big Star)

Kisses on the Wind (Neneh Cherry)

Joe McGinty:
Kiss Me, Stupid (Baby Steps)

One Kiss (Calvin Harris, Dua Lipa)

with Richard Alwyn Fisher
Bachelor Kisses (The Go-Betweens)

Passionate Kisses (Lucinda Williams)

with Sarah Cabral:
Beijo Partido (Toninho Horta)
Kiss (Prince)

with Howard Robot:
Kiss Off (Violent Femmes)

The Kiss (Judee Sill)

with Lizzie Edwards:
Kiss Me Deadly (Lita Ford)
I Kissed a Girl (Jill Sobule)
Kiss Me (Sixpence None the Richer)

This Kiss (Faith Hill)

The Oracle Show #33 - Abbreviations & Acronyms
Wednesday, March 6, 2024 at Sid Gold’s Request Room, NYC

T.S.O.P. (The Sound of Philadelphia) (MFSB ft. The Three Degrees)
TSLAMP (MGMT)
D.I.Y. (Peter Gabriel)
Signed D.C. (Love)
Expressway to Yr Skull (Sonic Youth)

with Anna Copa Cabanna:
SOS (ABBA)

with Marlon Cherry:
TVC15 (David Bowie)

T.V.O.D. (The Normal)
I.G.Y. (Donald Fagen)
LLYLM (Rosalía)

with Ellie Skrzat:
B.Y.O.B. (System of a Down)

B.O.B. (Bombs Over Baghdad) (Outkast)

with Jeremy Haines:
Party in the U.S.A. (Miley Cyrus)
N.I.B. (Black Sabbath)
24K Magic (Bruno Mars)

Did you know that there's a tunnel under Ocean Blvd (Lana Del Rey)

with Anna Copa Cabanna:
Mr. Roboto (Styx)

with Georgia Hubley & Ira Kaplan:
Jesus, Etc. (Wilco)
Trem Two (Mission of Burma)
Mr. Spaceman (The Byrds)

with Anna Copa Cabanna:
Y.M.C.A. (Village People)

The Oracle Show #34 - Royalty
Wednesday, April 3, 2024 at Sid Gold’s Request Room, NYC

In the Hall of the Mountain King (Edvard Grieg)
The Queen is Dead (The Smiths)
Caribbean Queen (Billy Ocean)
King of Rock (Run-D.M.C.)

with Kendall Jane Meade:
The King of Rock ’n’ Roll (Prefab Sprout)
Your Love is King (Sade)

with Kendall Jane Meade & Margaret White:
Homecoming Queen (Sparklehorse)

with Joe McGinty:
King Ink (The Birthday Party)

The King of Wishful Thinking (Go West)

with Shannon McArdle:
The King of Carrot Flowers, Pt. One (Neutral Milk Hotel)

In the Court of the Crimson King (King Crimson)
King Tut (Steve Martin)

with Jules Verdone:
King of Pain (The Police)
Queen Elvis (Robyn Hitchcock)
The Emperor’s New Clothes (Sinead O’Connor)

with Lydia Suzan:
Royals (Lorde)

with Ted Leo:
Prince Charming (Adam and the Ants)

with Ted Leo & Margaret White:
Tam Lin (Fairport Convention)

with Ted Leo:
The King of the Jailhouse (Aimee Mann)

Everyone:
Dancing Queen (ABBA)

The Oracle Show #35 - Seasons
Wednesday, September 18, 2024 at Sid Gold’s Request Room, NYC

Four Seasons in One Day (Crowded House)
Fall (Wayne Shorter / Miles Davis)
Spring Rain (The Go-Betweens)
Winter in America (Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson)
In the Summertime (Mungo Jerry)

Damon Smith:
Summertime Rolls (Jane’s Addiction)
Spring (Angel Olsen)
Girls in Their Summer Clothes (Bruce Springsteen)

Season of the Witch (Donovan)
Suddenly Last Summer (The Motels)
Summer 1991 (David Nagler)
The Colour of Spring (Mark Hollis)

with Brendan Jacob Smith:
A Hazy Shade of Winter (Simon & Garfunkel)

with Rebecca Turner:
Autumn in New York (Vernon Duke)
Valley Winter Song (Fountains of Wayne)
Summer Breeze (Seals & Crofts)

with Gary Burton:
Cruel Summer (Taylor Swift / Bananarama)

with Michael Esper:
Autumn Sweater (Yo La Tengo)
Summer Babe (Winter Version) (Pavement)

with Michelle Nagler & Amy Warshaw Fiore:
Summer Nights (from the musical “Grease”)

The Oracle Show #36 - Up & Down
Wednesday, October 16, 2024 at Sid Gold’s Request Room, NYC

Sunday Morning Coming Down (Kris Kristofferson)
Up for the Down Stroke (Parliament)
Up the Junction (Squeeze)
Down by the Water (PJ Harvey)

with Lenny Zenith:
Upside Down (Diana Ross)
Downtown Train (Tom Waits)
I Can’t Stand Up for Falling Down (Sam & Dave)

Uptown Top Ranking (Althea & Donna)

with Christina Campanella:
Don’t Get Your Hopes Up (from “Dust”) (Robert Ashley)

with Marlon Cherry:
Up on the Roof (The Drifters)

Wake Up and Make Love with Me (Ian Dury)
Don't Bring Me Down (Electric Light Orchestra)

with Verena Wiesendanger:
Dans le temps (French version of “Downtown”) (Petula Clark)
Never Let Me Down (David Bowie)
Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me (Elton John)

Rip it Up (Orange Juice)
Word Up (Cameo)
Never Never Gonna Give You Up / Never Gonna Give You Up (Barry White / Rick Astley)

with Rembert Block:
Burning Up (Madonna)
Love Come Down (Evelyn “Champagne” King)
Breaking Up is Hard to Do (Neil Sedaka)

with Anna Copa Cabanna:
Down Under (Men at Work)”)

The Oracle Show #37 - Dreams
Wednesday, November 20, 2024 at The Friki Tiki, NYC

You Made Me Forget My Dreams (Belle & Sebastian)
I Can Dream About You (Dan Hartman)
I Often Dream of Trains (Robyn Hitchcock)
These Dreams (Heart)
Iowa Dream (Arthur Russell)

with David Driver:
Dreaming (Blondie)
This Time the Dream’s on Me (Harold Arlen/Johnny Mercer)
I Have Dreamed (from “The King & I”) (Richard Rodgers/Oscar Hammerstein)

Disagreeable Dreams (Nova Social)
Wet Dream (Wet Leg)
Busby Berkeley Dreams (The Magnetic Fields)
In Every Dream Home a Heartache (Roxy Music)
Only in My Dreams (in the style of Roxy Music) (Debbie Gibson)

with Aviva Jaye:
Dream a Little Dream of Me (Kahn/Andre/Schwandt)
Dreams (Fleetwood Mac)
Walking on a Dream (Empire of the Sun)

#9 Dream (John Lennon)
In Dreams (Roy Orbison)
Don’t Dream It’s Over (Crowded House)

with Michael Shannon:
I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine (Bob Dylan)
City of Dreams (Talking Heads)
The Silvery Light of a Dream, Pts. 1 & 2 (Apples in Stereo)

with Aviva Jaye:
Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) (Eurythmics)