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- Radiohead: Karma Police/Creep
- Ann Rabson: One Meatball/Hopin’ It Will Be All Right
- Mohammad Rafi: Jaan Pehchan
- Bonnie Raitt and Alison Krauss: Papa Come Quick
- The Ramones: I Wanna Be Sedated/The KKK Took My Baby Away
- The Rascals: People Got to Be Free/A Beautiful Morning
- Maurice Ravel: Boléro
- Red Hot Chili Peppers: Purple Stain
- Leon Redbone: Up a Lazy River/Mr. Jelly Roll Baker
- Otis Redding: Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa (Sad Song)/Try a Little Tenderness
- Jerry Reed: Eastbound and Down/Chuck Berry Medley
- Jerry Reed and Chet Atkins: Mule Skinner Blues
- Lou Reed: Sweet Jane/Dirty Boulevard
- R.E.M.: Losing My Religion/It’s the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
- Django Reinhardt: J’attendrai Swing
- Revolutionary War Music: The World Turned Upside Down
- Robert Randolph and the Family Band: Ain’t Nothing Wrong with That/I Need More Love
- Tony Rice: Blue Railroad Train/Nine Pound Hammer
- Cliff Richard: Move It/We Don’t Talk Anymore
- Richard Kapps & the Gowns: Radio Fips/Conditioned Man
- Nelson Riddle: Moonlight in Vermont (Sinatra vocals)/Goodbye (Ronstadt vocals)
- Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio Espagnol Op. 34/Flight of the Bumblebee
- The Robert Cray Band: Smoking Gun/Back Door Slam
- Luckey Roberts: Pork and Beans
- Marcus Roberts: Maple Leaf Rag/It’s a Folk Dance
- Paul Robeson: Vi Azoy Lebt der Kayser?/Ol’ Man River
- Playlist: Six From The Rolling Stones
- The Rolling Stones: Street Fighting Man
- Sonny Rollins: The Bridge/Alfie
- The Ronettes: Be My Baby
- Linda Ronstadt: Blue Bayou
- The Rooftop Singers: Walk Right In/Mama Don’t Allow
- Roomful of Blues: Slam Jam/Back Seat Blues
- Ryan Shupe & the RubberBand: Simplify/Walk the Walk
- Roswell Rudd: Here, There and Everywhere/Going Sane
- The Rumjacks: An Irish Pub Song
- Run-DMC: King of Rock/Christmas in Hollis
- Otis Rush: I Can’t Quit You Baby/So Many Roads
- Leon Russell: Crystal Closet Queen/Of Thee I Sing
- Leon Russell/JJ Cale: Live from The Paradise Studios, 1979
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- Santana: No One to Depend On
- Damien Saez: On a Pas la Thune/J’accuse
- The Scaramanga Six: Stabby Fork
- St. Paul and the Broken Bones: Shuffle/Second Church of the Cosmic Lamb
- Santigold: Disparate Youth
- Savoy Brown: Poor Girl/Living on the Bayou
- Boz Scaggs: Georgia
- Lipa Schmeltzer: Mizrach
- Arnold Schoenberg: Verklaerte Nacht
- Franz Schubert: Impromptu in G Flat Major D899 No.3/Ave Maria
- Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs: Down the Road
- Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs: Salty Dog Blues
- Andres Segovia: Gavootte 1 and 2 /Asturias
- Will Shade: Evergreen Money Blues/Field Mouse Stomp
- Sea Shanties: South Australia/Drunken Sailor
- The Searchers: Love Potion No. 9/Needles and Pins
- Seratones: Don’t Need It/Chandelier
- Seu Jorge: Changes/É isso Aí
- Compay Segunda and The Buena Vista Social Club: Chan Chan
- Pete Seeger, Bruce Springsteen: This Land is Your Land
- Emmanuelle Seigner: Forget Me Not/Sing Sing
- Del Shannon: Runaway
- Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings: Stranger to My Happiness/I Learned the Hard Way
- Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings: This Land is Your Land
- Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings: Call on God
- Charlie Shavers/Ben Webster: Dirty Old Blues
- Marlena Shaw: California Soul
- The Shelby Bottom String Band: East Nashville Rag
- Allan Sherman: Shake Hands with Your Uncle Max
- Wayne Shorter: Joy Ride and Footprints
- Dimitri Shoshtakovich: Waltz No. 2/Can Can
- Sia: Santa’s Coming for Us
- Matt Siffert: Daybreak in Alabama and Riverside Drive
- Horace Silver: Song for My Father/Señor Blues
- Rockin Sidney Simien: Don’t Mess with My Toot Toot
- Terrance Simien: Pressure Drop/Like a Rolling Stone
- Simon and Garfunkel: Kodachrome/Maybellene
- Playlist: Five From Nina Simone
- Frank Sinatra: That’s Life/I Get a Kick Out of You
- Frank Sinatra: I’ll Never Smile Again
- Frank Sinatra: It was a Very Good Year
- Playlist: Five From (Yes That) Shel Silverstein
- Ricky Skaggs: Little Maggie/Bluegrass Breakdown
- The Skatalites: Phoenix City/The Guns of Navarone
- Sleepy John Estes: Mailman Blues/Down South Blues
- Sleepy John Estes: Mailman Blues/Someday Baby
- Slim Dusty: Waltzing Matilda
- Sly and the Family Stone: Higher
- Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee: Hootin’ Blues
- Doug Smith: Stars and Stripes Forever
- Jabbo Smith: Climax Rag
- Jimmy Smith: The Sermon/The Jumpin’ Blues
- Patti Smith: Dancing Barefoot/Gloria
- Richard Smith: Happy Blues
- Willie (The Lion) Smith: Medley
- Smoking Time Jazz Club: Percolatin’ Blues
- Hank Snow: I’ve Been Everywhere/I’m Moving On
- Song Focus: We’ll Meet Again
- John Philip Sousa: The Washington Post/Stars and Stripes Forever
- Southern Culture on the Skids: Voodoo Cadillac
- New Music: Michael Soward: What Are You Gonna Do?
- Joseph Spence and the Pinder Family: I Bid You Good Night
- Spencer Davis Group: Gimme Some Lovin’/Somebody Help Me
- Joseph Spence and the Pinder Family: I Bid You Goodnight
- Podcast: Ryan White on Bruce Springsteen
- Bruce Springsteen: John Henry
- Squeeze: Cool for Cats/Up the Junction
- Song Focus: People Get Ready
- Song Focus: Stagger Lee
- Staple Singers: Respect Yourself/Why Am I Treated So Bad?
- Edwin Starr: War/25 Miles
- Podcast: The Many (Professional) Lives of Andy Stein
- Steely Dan: Black Friday
- Steely Dan: My Old School
- The Steve Thorpe Band: Dust My Broom
- Curtis Stigers: This Life
- Sturgill Simpson: Live a Little (Brace for Impact)
- Sonny Stitt: Buzzy/Everything Happens to Me
- Ralph Stanley: Little Maggie/The Rank Stranger
- Lindsay Stirling: Roundtable Rival/Prince of Tides
- Joss Stone: People Get Ready
- Stone Temple Pilots: Plush/Interstate Love Song
- Johann Strauss II: The Blue Danube Waltz
- Igor Stravinsky: Excerpt from The Firebird
- Igor Stravinsky: Lullaby/Final Hymn from the Firebird Ballet Suite
- The String Cheese Incident: Joyful Noise/Black and White
- Marty Stuart: (Now And Then) There’s A Fool Such As I/The Whiskey Ain’t Workin’
- Jimmy Sturr: Clarinet Polka/Pennsylvania Polka
- Donna Summer: On the Radio
- Franz von Suppé: Light Cavalry/Poet and Peasant Overture
- The Supremes: You Just Keep Me Hanging On
- Maxine Sullivan: Loch Lomomd
- Danay Suarez: Yo Aprendi
- Quinn Sullivan: Buddy’s Blues
- The Supremes: You Can’t Hurry Love/Come See About Me
- The Sweet: Ballroom Blitz
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- Talking Heads: Psycho Killer
- The Tallest Tree: I’ll Be Your (For You)
- Tampa Red: It Hurts Me Too/Boogie Woogie Dance
- Tangerine Dream: Stratosfear
- Edward Tarte: Come, Ye Thankful People, Come/Prayer of Thanksgiving
- Art Tatum: Humoresque
- James Taylor: Copperline/Mexico
- Susan Tedeschi: Little by Little
- Tedeshi Trucks Band: Let Me Get By/Keep On Growing
- Clark Terry: Somewhere Over the Rainbow
- Clark Terry: Take the A Train/On the Trail
- Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee: Walk On
- Sister Rosetta Tharpe: Up Above My Head
- Tedeschi Trucks Band: Just As Strange/Don’t Know What It Means
- Temples: Shelter Song
- The Temptations: Papa Was a Rollin’ Stone
- Clark Terry: Take the A Train/On the Trail
- Joe Tex: The Love You Save
- Texas Tornados: Hey Baby, Que Paso?/Adios Mexico
- These United States: Honor Amongst Thieves
- Three Dog Night: Mama Told Me (Not to Come)
- Playlist: Five From Richard Thompson
- Mel Tillis: Stateside
- Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Mary Jane’s Last Dance/Jammin’ Me
- Tony! Toni! Tone!: Thinking of You/If I Had No Loot
- Toots & The Maytals: Funky Kingston/Fine & Dandy
- Peter Tosh: Johnny B. Goode
- Allen Toussaint: Fortune Teller/Who’s Going to Help Brother Get Further
- Traffic: John Barleycorn Must Die
- Meghan Trainor: All About That Bass
- Playlist: Seven About Trains
- Trampled Under Foot: Love My Baby
- Trashmen: Surfin’ Bird
- Merle Travis: 16 Tons/Lost John
- Charles Trenet: Douce France/La Mer
- Lennie Tristano: You Don’t Know What Love Is/Lullaby of the Leaves
- Trombone Shorty: One Night Only/Hurricane Season
- Robin Trower: Little Bit of Sympathy/Bridge of Sighs
- Ernest Tubb: Drivin’ Nails in My Coffin/Thanks A Lot
- Big Joe Turner: Low Down Dog
- Stanely Turrentine: Don’t Mess with Mr. T/Sugar
- Two Bottle Jump: Solid Ground
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- Underhill Rose: Hopeless Wanderer/Two Thousand Miles
- Jay Ungar: Ashokan Farewell
- New Music from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
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- Rudy Vallee: You’re Just Another Memory
- Dave Van Ronk: Sunday Street/Green Green Rocky Road
- Townes Van Zandt: Pancho and Lefty/Tecumseh Valley
- New Music: Vaudeville Etiquette
- Vaughn Monroe and His Orchestra: Ghost Riders in the Sky
- Sarah Vaughan: Misty
- Sarah Vaughan: Over the Rainbow/Tenderly
- Stevie Ray Vaughan: Texas Flood
- The Ventures: Hawaii Five-O
- Giuseppe Verdi: Triumphal March from Aida/La Travia
- Vivaldi: Concerto in D Major for Violins and Orchestra
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- Bunny Wailer: Predominate/Dreamland
- Tom Waits: Tom Traubert’s Blues/Ol ’55
- Albertina Walker: I Can Go to God in Prayer/This is the Way to Sing Praises
- Junior Walker: Shotgun/Way Back Home
- T-Bone Walker: Call It Stormy Monday/Woman, You Must Be Crazy/Goin’ to Chicago Blues
- T-Bone Walker: Goin’ to Chicago
- Fats Waller: The Joint is Jumpin’
- War: Low Rider/Cisco Kid
- Wartoad: Merry Christmas Everybody
- Washboard Sam: Diggin’ My Potatoes/Don’t Tear My Clothes
- Washboard Sam: Towboat Blues
- Dinah Washington: All of Me/Lover Come Back to Me
- Rupert Wates: Prayer/Prisoner of the Open Road
- Doc Watson: Freight Train Boogie
- Doc Watson: Tennessee Stud
- Waxahatchee: Never Been Wrong
- Chick Webb: Go Harlem
- Chick Webb/Ella Fitzgerald: St. Louis Blues
- Dan Weber: Oh Woody/Hank and Jesus
- Podcast: A Conversation with Dan Weber
- Ben Webster: Chelsea Bridge
- Ben Webster: Old Folks
- Ben Webster: Over the Rainbow
- Ween: Roses are Free/Big Jim
- Kurt Weill: Alabama Song/Surabaya Johnny
- Emily Weinschenk: Flamenco
- Song Focus: We’ll Meet Again
- Kitty Wells: It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels
- Gillian Welch: The Way it Goes/Elvis Presley Blues
- Gillian Welch (with Emmylou Harris and Alison Krauss): Didn’t Leave Nobody But the Baby
- Joel P. West: Summer Storm
- Kanye West: Stronger
- Bukka White: Poor Boy Long Way From Home
- Matthew E. White: Rock ‘n’ Roll is Cold/Will You Love Me
- The Who: Who Are You?/Substitute
- The Who: Who Are You?
- Widespread Panic: Airplane/Fire on the Mountain
- Wilco: Handshake Druges/Impossible Germany
- Wild Belle: Another Girl/Giving Up On You
- Hank Williams Sr.: Jambalaya on the Bayou
- Lucinda Williams: Side of the Road/Drunken Angel
- Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys: Ida Red/Wake Up Susan/Liberty
- Johnny and Edgar Winter and Rick Derringer: Highway 61 Revisited
- Steve Winwood: John Barleycorn Must Die
- Steve Winwood: Roll With It
- Playlist: Johnny Winter (1944-2014)
- Mac Wiseman: Carry Me Back to the Mountains
- Howlin’ Wolf: Sitting on Top of the World
- Stevie Wonder: Superstition/Sir Duke/I Wish
- Tammy Wynette: Stand By Your Man
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Y
- Yam Yam: No Vacation
- Podcast: John Yao Runs a 17 Piece (Avante Garde) Big Band
- The Yardbirds: For Your Love/Heart Full of Soul
- Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Heads Will Roll/Zero
- Yes: Roundabout/Changes
- Lester Young: Pennies From Heaven
- Playlist: Lester Young
- Neil Young: Fork in the Road
- Neil Young: Oh Susanna
- Young Rascals: People Got to be Free/A Beautiful Morning
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- Frank Zappa: Cosmik Debris
- Frank Zappa: Playing a Bicycle on the Steve Allen Show
- Warren Zevon: Excitable Boy
- Warren Zevon: Lawyers, Guns and Money
- Buckwheat Zydeco: Hey Ma Petit Fille I’m Going Now/Creole Country
- ZZ Top: I Gotsta Get Paid/La Grange
