The Saturday Night Themer

Every Saturday night at 10pm, right after Greatest Hits USA, Dr. J presents The Saturday Night Themer, a specialty show based on the first song that provides the clue to the next two hours of music.

Each podcast is a 2 hour show which you may stop, start, and advance or rewind at will. Enjoy!

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	THE SATURDAY NIGHT THEMER
	RECENT SHOWS
	“With This Ring” Original airdate: October 11, 2025 We continue to experience some technical difficulties where my voice tracks do not air. Apologies as we work out this issue.
	“Carolina In My Mind” Original airdate: October 4, 2025
	“September” Original airdate: September 13, 2025
	SHOWS FROM 2025
	“Ebony & Ivory” Original airdate: September 6, 2025
	“Shapes of Things” Original airdate: August 30, 2025
	“The Thrill Is Gone” Original airdate: August 16, 2025
	“Mother And Child Reunion” Original airdate: August 9, 2025
	“I Guess That’s Why They Call It The Blues” Original airdate: April 26, 2025
	“Rocky Raccoon” (“Gideon’s Bible”) Original airdate: April 19, 2025
	“The Letter” Original airdate: March 22, 2025
	“Blowin’ In The Wind” Original airdate: March 15, 2025
	“The Cover of Rolling Stone” Original airdate: March 8, 2025
	“How Does It Feel?” Original airdate: February 22, 2025
	“Benny And The Jets” Original airdate: February 15, 2025
	“Love & Marriage” Original airdate: February 8, 2025
	“I’m A Loser” Original airdate: February 1, 2025
	“Want Ads” Original airdate: January 25, 2025
	“Sad Songs” Original airdate: January 18, 2025
	“Nineteen Hundred Eighty Five” Original airdate: January 11, 2025
	SHOWS FROM 2024
	“Misty” (In Memoriam 2024) Original airdate: January 4, 2025
	“Act Naturally” Original airdate: December 21, 2024
	“Do That To Me One More Time” Original airdate: December 14, 2024
	“Snowbird” Original airdate: December 7, 2024
	“Thanksgiving Song” Original airdate: November 30, 2024
	“Get Here” Original airdate: November 23, 2024
	“Heartache By The Number” Original airdate: November 9, 2024
	“Did You Ever Have To Make Up Your Mind?” Original airdate: November 2, 2024
	“Season of the Witch” Original airdate: October 25, 2024
	“Love’s Lines, Angles and Rhymes” Original airdate: October 19, 2024
	“Islands In The Stream” Original airdate: October 12, 2024
	“Breaking Up Is Hard To Do” Original airdate: October 5, 2024
	“Sailing” Original airdate: August 31, 2024
	“Back To School Again” Original airdate: August 24, 2024
	“Things” Original airdate: August 17, 2024
	“Alexander Graham Bell” Original airdate: August 10, 2024
	“We Are Family” Original airdate: August 3, 2024
	“Dance With Me” (Second Try July, Show #3) Original airdate: July 27, 2024 This is a revisit of the “Bandstand Boogie” Themer, which aired on January 28, 2023
	“Cover Me” (Second Try July, Show #2) Original airdate: July 13, 2024 This is a revisit of the third Themer I ever made, which aired on October 22, 2022
	“Who’s That Girl” (Second Try July, Show #1) Original airdate: July 6, 2024 This is a revisit of the first Themer I ever made, which aired on October 8, 2022
	“Eye In The Sky” Original airdate: June 29, 2024
	“Too Darn Hot” Original airdate: June 22, 2024
	“I Go To Extremes” Original airdate: June 15, 2024
	“It Don’t Mean a Thing” Original airdate: June 8, 2024
	“The Circle Game” Original airdate: June 1, 2024
	“Two Occasions” Original airdate: May 25, 2024
	“I Put A Spell On You” Original airdate: May 18, 2024
	“Mama Said” Original airdate: May 11, 2024
	“You Fill Up My Senses” Original airdate: May 4, 2024
	“A Total Eclipse of the Sun” Original airdate: April 6, 2024
	“(March) Madness” Original airdate: March 30, 2024
	“Standing in the Shadows of Love” Original airdate: March 23, 2024
	“How Lucky Can You Get” Original airdate: March 16, 2024
	“Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood” Original airdate: March 2, 2024 Errata: 1) I mixed up the correct and misheard lyrics of the first song. The line in People is indeed “half, then whole,” and Silent Parter/Co-Producer Mom who heard it as “hot, then cold.” 2) Jimmy Buffet could have, in fact, slipped on a Pop Tart in 1977, as they were invented in 1964 (copied from a product premiered by Post 6 months earlier).
	“England Swings” Original airdate: February 24, 2024
	“Let’s Do It” Original airdate: February 10, 2024
	“The Winner Takes It All” Original airdate: February 3, 2024
	“Fame” Original airdate: January 20, 2024
	“Baby, It’s Cold Outside” Original airdate: January 13, 2024
	“Sons of 1984” Original airdate: January 6, 2024
	SHOWS FROM 2023
	“In Memoriam 2023 (Part 2)” Original airdate: December 30, 2023
	“In Memoriam 2023 (Part 1)” Original airdate: December 23, 2023
	“The Story of My Life” Original airdate: December 16, 2023 RIP Burt Bacharach (1928-2023)
	“Morning, Noon and Night” Original airdate: December 9, 2023
	“I Want To Take You Higher” Original airdate: December 2, 2023
	“Warmed Over Kisses and Leftover Love” Original airdate: November 25, 2023
	“(There’s No Place Like) Home for the Holidays” Original airdate: November 18, 2023
	“You Can’t Always Get What You Want” Original airdate: November 4, 2023
	“Spooky” Original airdate: October 28, 2023
	“Get Together” Original airdate: October 21, 2023
	“Teach the World To Sing” Original airdate: October 14, 2023
	“50 Ways To Leave Your Love” Original airdate: October 9, 2023
	“I Hear A Symphony” Original airdate: September 9, 2023
	“The Name of the Game” Original airdate: September 2, 2023 RIP Bob Barker (1923-2023), host of The Price is Right (1972-2007)
	“Bodies of Water” Original airdate: August 26, 2023
	“A Little Bit Country…” Original airdate: August 19, 2023
	“French Connection” Original airdate: August 12, 2023
	“The Walk” Original airdate: August 5, 2023
	“Our House” Original airdate: July 29, 2023
	“At The Zoo” Original airdate: July 22, 2023
	“Just The Two of Us” Original airdate: July 15, 2023
	“R.O.C.K in the USA” Original airdate: July 8, 2023
	“Space: The Final Frontier” Original airdate: July 2, 2023 For my father, 1943-2023. May his memory be a blessing.
	“Hot Stuff” Original airdate: June 17, 2023
	“True Colors” Original airdate: June 10, 2023
	“San Francisco” Original airdate: May 6, 2023 For my father, 1943-2023. May his memory be a blessing.
	“Thunderdome” Original airdate: May 27, 2023
	“Question” Original airdate: April 4, 2023
	“Man! I Feel Like a Woman!” Original airdate: March 4, 2023
	“Same Old Song” Original airdate: February 25, 2023
	“Get a Job” Original airdate: February 18, 2023
	“One” Original airdate: February 11, 2023
	“Let’s Hear it for the Boy” Original airdate: January 21, 2023
	“Eight Days A Week” Original airdate: January 7, 2023
	SHOWS FROM 2022
	“In Memoriam (2022)” Original airdate: December 31, 2022
	“Higher Love” Original airdate: December 24, 2022
	“Once Upon a Time” Original airdate: December 17, 2022
	“Peter, Paul and Mary” Original airdate: December 10, 2022
	“Body Talk” Original airdate: December 3, 2022
	“Celebrate Me Home” Original airdate: November 26, 2022
	“How Sweet It Is” Original airdate: October 29, 2022
	“Cover Me” Original airdate: October 22, 2022

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