Once again President Scott Olson serves as guest DJ for the Winona State University campus radio station KQAL this fall.
President Olson joins the team at KQAL each semester to host his official program, “Working on a Dream.” His playlist, below, features songs organized in a manner that allows them to speak to another song in an attempt to show with music and lyrics where Bruce Springsteen gets his ideas. This curation of a musicological thesis explores how popular tunes evolve over time.
Don’t worry if you missed the original air time, you can listen anytime online.
Part One
Part Two
Playlist
- “Workin’ on the Chain Gang”: Sam Cooke live
- “Working on the Highway”: Bruce Springsteen
- “Jersey Girl”: Tom Waits
- “Quarter to Three”: Gary U.S. Bonds
- “Jeannie Needs a Shooter”: Warren Zevon
- “Because the Night”: Bruce Springsteen
- “Jersey Girl”: Bruce Springsteen
- “Quarter to Three”: Bruce Springsteen
- “Stand By Me”: Ben E. King
- “Wait for Me”: Bruce Springsteen
- “Only the Lonely”: Roy Orbison
- “Thunder Road”: Born to Run
- “Murder Incorporated”: Bruce Springsteen
- “Rolling Stone”: Bob Dylan
- “Blinded by the Light”: Bruce Springsteen
- “Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood”: Animals
- “Badlands”: Bruce Springsteen
- “Tom Joad’s Blues”: Woody Guthrie
- “Ghost of Tom Joad”: Bruce Springsteen
- “Domino”: :Van Morrison
- “Rosalita”: Bruce Springsteen
- “People Get Ready”: Aretha Franklin
- “Land of Hope and Dreams”: Bruce Springsteen
- “Turn Turn Turn”: Pete Seeger
- “Eyes on the Prize”: Bruce Springsteen
- “Be My Baby”: Phil Spector
- “Girls in their Summer Clothes”: Bruce Springsteen
- “A Change is Gonna Come”: Sam Cooke
- “It’s Been a Long Time”: Southside Johnny
