Hey everyone! After a week off due to Thanksgiving Break, I am back on the air ready to play some great music! Tonight’s theme is songs that tell a story in their lyrics.

• The first one of these songs we’re going to play tonight is “You Don’t Mess Around With Jim,” a 1972 single by Jim Croce.
• Next up is another song by Croce with relatively similar subject matter, “Bad, Bad Leroy Brown.”
• Switching gears a bit, the next song is a new one by Chicago-based band Carbon Tigers, who performed at a concert for the Marquette Radio Rock-a-Thon a few weeks ago; it’s “Silly Elephant.”
• Moving back to older songs that tell a story; the next song is “The Devil Went Down to Georgia,” by the Charlie Daniels Band. Fun fact: I met Charlie Daniels and got his autograph this summer.
• Next, another country storytelling song, and probably one of the best known country novelty songs, the 1975 Number One single, “Convoy,” by C.W. McCall.
• The next song is “A Boy Named Sue,” as performed by Johnny Cash, live at the San Quentin State Prison. Fitting with the story theme, it was originally written by Shel Silverstein, the greatest poet ever.
• Another father-son relationship themed song is next on the ledger, and this song is “Cat’s in the Cradle” by Harry Chapin.
• Switching the theme for just a bit, the next song is by the previously-played Carbon Tigers, off their new EP, The Burrows; it’s “Everything Along the Way.”
• The next song is probably one of the best-known ones performed by Billy Joel, and is also one that tells a semi-autobiographical story. This was his first hit single from 1973, which is “Piano Man.”
• Next is a song by a man who stated that his grave would be “a giant pineapple,” and is “Escape (The Piña Colada Song), by Rupert Holmes.
• This week’s A.C./Seth Putnam Song of the Week is a grindcore-themed, minute-long cover of “Escape.”
• Moving onto the next song, which is by a musician who actually has talent, is “Tangled Up in Blue,” by Bob Dylan.
• The next song is by a new band which, like Carbon Tigers, has a connection with Marquette Radio. It’s The Hops, and the song is “Fantasma,” off their new album, Won’t it Be Fun.
• This is followed by a song about a real-life event, which was about the sinking of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald on Lake Superior in 1975. It was immortalized by Gordon Lightfoot in his 1976 song “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.”
• This week’s Wesley Willis Song of the Week is next, and is about one of Willis’ real life experiences where his car’s engine overheated and he had to call a tow truck. It’s aptly titled “STP Conked Out My Engine.”
• Another song about a historical event follows, which was the 1959 hit single by Johnny Horton, “The Battle of New Orleans.”
• The next song is another song by The Hops, also off their new album, Won’t it Be Fun, which is titled “Everything.”
• Next up is another song about a historical event, namely the Battle of Little Big Horn in 1876; it’s the legendary novelty song “Mr. Custer,” by Larry Verne.
• The final song of the night is a hit 1970 single by The Kinks, “Lola.”

Thanks everyone for listening to this week’s episode of The Gus Knorr Show, and be sure to stay tuned next week for the Third Annual Christmas Episode of The Gus Knorr Show, where for once a year, I play some of my favorite Christmas songs, some obscure, and some common. You won’t want to miss this, so be sure to listen to that next week Wednesday, at 7:30 PM.