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"