The Al Franken Show - Music

Music

  • Theme: Grateful Dead - "Terrapin Station" (live)
  • Grateful Dead - "Sugaree" (live)
  • Commercial Bumpers: Grateful Dead "Going Down the Road Feeling Bad" (live)
  • The Klezmatics - "N.Y. Psycho Freylekhs" (used for "The Oy Yoy Yoy Show" segment)
  • many original compositions of Adam Albright-Hanna, including the phone number song, "866-303-2270"
  • Grateful Dead - "Touch Of Grey" (last segment intro, later replaced by "Sultans Of Swing")
  • Dire Straits - Sultans of Swing (Plays this song until "that note", after commercials)
  • Jerry Garcia - "The Wheel" Garcia
  • Fleetwood Mac - "Little Lies" (the theme song to "Wait Wait... Don't Lie To Me!")

The show also did musical parody introductions for regular guests:

  • "Jonnie Alter" (to introduce Jonathan Alter) - Parody of Shelley Fabares' "Johnny Angel"
  • "We Will Brock You" (to introduce David Brock) - Parody of Queen's "We Will Rock You"
  • "Carry On Joe Conason" (to introduce Joe Conason) - Parody of Kansas' "Carry on Wayward Son"
  • "Oh Howard You're So Fine" (to introduce Howard Fineman) - Parody of Toni Basil's "Mickey"
  • "Christy" (to introduce Christy Harvey) - Parody of Johnny Mathis' "Misty"
  • "Can't Touch This" (to introduce Paul Krugman) - Parody of MC Hammer's "Can't Touch This"
  • "Hey Judd" (to introduce Judd Legum) - Parody of The Beatles' "Hey Jude"
  • "Oh Donnell" (to introduce Lawrence O'Donnell) - Parody of Ritchie Valens' "Donna"
  • "Baby Oliphant Walk" (to introduce Tom Oliphant) - Parody of Henry Mancini's "Baby Elephant Walk"
  • "Norm in the USA" (to introduce Norman Ornstein) - Parody of Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA"
  • "My Sirota" (to introduce David Sirota) - Parody of The Knack's "My Sharona"
  • "Melanie Sloan" (to introduce Melanie Sloan) - Parody of George Thorogood and the Destroyer's "Bad to the Bone"

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