On today’s show, we featured the songwriter Burt Bacharach for most of the first hour. He pushed songwriting into new, fresh territory in the 60’s and 70’s.

1. The Story of My Life – Marty Robbins
2. Please Stay – The Drifters
3. Walk On By/Say a Little Prayer/Do You Know the Way to San Jose? (Live) – Dionne Warwick
4. Baby It’s You – Haley Reinhart
5. It’s Love That Really Counts – Dionne Warwick
6. Let the Music Play – The Drifters
7. Blue Guitar – Richard Chamberlain
8. Always Something There to Remind Me – Dionne Warwick
9. Raindrops Keep Fallin’ On My Head (Live) – Ben Folds Five
10. God Give Me Strength (Live) – Elvis Costello – End Burt Bacharach feature
11. Sunny Afternoon – Haley Reinhart feat. Scott Bradlee
12. Let’s Face the Music and Dance – Frank Sinatra
13. I Get a Kick Out of You – Frank Sinatra
14. Blue Moon – Elvis Presley
15. Bridge Over Troubled Water – Elvis Presley with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
16. That’ll Be the Day – Buddy Holly
17. Come On, Let’s Go – Ritchie Valens
18. Walkin’ Through My Dreams – Big Bopper
19. Blue Jean Bop – Gene Vincent and the Blue Caps
20. Twenty Flight Rock – Eddie Cochran
21. Peggy Sue – Buddy Holly
22. Malaguena – Ritchie Valens
23. Rocket 88 – Bill Haley and the Comets
24. White Lightnin’ – Big Bopper
25. Race With the Devil – Gene Vincent and the Blue Caps
26. Rip It Up – Bill Haley and the Comets
27. Somethin’ Else – Eddie Cochran
28. Born on the Bayou – Little Richard
29. Keep a Knockin’ – Little Richard
30. Goodnight Sweetheart Goodnight/Johnny B. Goode/Let It Rock/School Day – Chuck Berry
31. This Magic Moment – Lou Reed
32. Peggy Sue – Buddy Holly
33. Everyday – Fiona Apple and Jon Brion
34. Try a Little Tenderness (Live) – Florence + the Machine
35. Who Knows – Marion Black