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The Bedazzled Radio Hour: May 26th, 2025 - "Party Down" (Audio)

May 28, 2025

After the news at noon, "The Bedazzled Radio Hour" features pop, rock, and soul obscurities from the '60s, '70s, '80s, and beyond, including freakbeat, baroque rock, glam, bubblegum, pop-psych, sunshine pop, garage rock, girl groups, British invasion, punk, funk, new wave, Northern soul, and more.

Spike Priggen is a singer, songwriter, musician, and record store owner currently based in the Hudson Valley. He is the former editor and publisher of the retro pop culture blogs Bedazzled.tv and Scopitones.com. Priggen broadcasts live from Spike's Record Rack, his record store on Main Street in Catskill.


Little Beaver – Party Down

Trouble Funk – Hey Fellas

The Jaggerz – The Rapper

Liz Brady – Bas Les Pattes

The Golliwogs – Fight Fire

The Gap Band – You Dropped a Bomb on Me

Pere Ubu – Life Stinks

Larry Williams and Johnny Watson – A Quitter Never Wins

Jacob Miller – Tenement Yard

X-Ray Spex – The Day the World Turned Day Glow

The Jesus and Mary Chain – Head On

Peter and the Wolves – Birthday

Julian Cope – If You Love Me at All

The Dramatics – What You See Is What You Get

Hugh Mundell – Africa Must Be Free by the Year 1983

The Mystery Trend – Johnny Was a Good Boy

Joanna Newsom – Emily

Portishead – Glory Box

Carpenters – Your Wonderful Parade

The Shirelles – I Saw a Tear

The Outsiders – You Mistreat Me

John Lee Hooker – One Bourbon One Scotch One Beer

Jackie DeShannon – When You Walk in the Room

The Runaways – Cherry Bomb

John Cale – Fear Is a Man’s Best Friend