The Best of Bob Dylan's Theme Time Radio Hour
The Best of Bob Dylan's Theme Time Radio Hour is a series of four compilation albums featuring songs Bob Dylan played on his shows as a deejay on the XM Satellite Radio and Sirius XM Satellite Radio program, Theme Time Radio Hour, from May 2006 through April 2009. Each album in the series includes 52 songs on two CDs. The tracks cover the range of genres Dylan highlighted on the program, including blues, R&B, rockabilly, doo-wop, soul, jazz, rock-and-roll and country.
Track listings
''Best of Bob Dylan's Theme Time Radio Hour, Volume 1''
Disc one
- "Keep on the Sunny Side", The Carter Family - 2:51
- " He Treats Your Daughter Mean", Ruth Brown - 2:59
- "Ain't Got No Money to Pay for This Drink", George Zimmerman & The Thrills - 2:33
- "The Ball Game", Sister Winona Carr - 3:09
- "Java Jive", The Ink Spots - 3:05
- "Send Me to the 'Lectric Chair", Bessie Smith - 3:22
- "Papa's on the Housetop", Leroy Carr & Scrapper Blackwell - 2:59
- "Married Women", Big Joe Turner - 2:48
- "Alimony Blues", Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson - 2:24
- "Ice Cream Man", John Brim - 2:48
- "Tulip or Turnip", Duke Ellington & His Orchestra - 3:12
- "No Money Down", Chuck Berry - 2:57
- "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?", Bing Crosby - 3:10
- "Race with the Devil", Gene Vincent - 2:03
- "Brown Eyed Handsome Man", Chuck Berry - 2:19
- "Hound Dog", Freddy Bell & the Bell Boys - 2:39
- "Last Night", Little Walter - 2:43
- "Disc Jockey Blues", Luke Jones & His Orchestra - 3:02
- "John the Revelator", Blind Willie Johnson - 3:18
- "Louisiana", Percy Mayfield - 2:04
- "Good Morning Little School Girl", Sonny Boy Williamson - 3:01
- "Telephone Is Ringing", Pee Wee Crayton - 3:07
- "Jesus Gave Me Water", The Five Blind Boys of Mississippi - 2:48
- "All the Time", Sleepy LaBeef - 1:52
- "Midnight Hour", Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown - 2:43
- "Pistol Packin' Mama", Al Dexter & His Orchestra - 2:47
Disc two
- "I Put a Spell on You", Screamin' Jay Hawkins - 2:25
- "When You Dance, The Turbans - 2:57
- "When It's Sleepy Time Down South", Louis Armstrong - 2:47
- "Matzoh Balls, Slim Gaillard & His Flat Foot Floogie Boys - 2:38
- "Let Me Play with Your Poodle", Tampa Red & Big Maceo - 2:39
- "Tennessee", Carl Perkins - 3:04
- "Blue Moon of Kentucky", Bill Monroe - 3:03
- "Five Long Years", Eddie Boyd - 2:42
- "Christmas Is A-Comin'", Leadbelly - 1:08
- "Zindy Lou", The Chimes - 3:08
- "Don't Touch My Head", J.B. Lenoir - 2:17
- "Don't Mess with My Ducktail", Joe Clay - 2:27
- " That Mello Saxophone", Roy Montrell - 2:25
- "Alright, Okay, You Win!", Buddy & Ella Johnson - 2:48
- "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry", Hank Williams - 2:48
- "Lose Your Blues and Laugh at Life", Jimmie Rev & His Oklahoma Playboys - 3:18
- "Good Morning Heartache", Billie Holiday - 3:12
- "Blue Suede Shoes", Carl Perkins - 2:17
- "Deep Purple", The Ravens - 2:48
- "Blue Yodel #1 ", Bob Downen - 2:34
- "Mystery Train", Little Junior Parker - 2:23
- "This Train", Sister Rosetta Tharpe - 2:53
- "Why Do Fools Fall in Love", Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers - 2:18
- "Take the "A" Train", Duke Ellington - 2:54
- "Taxes, Taxes", Hank Penny - 2:48
- "Richest Guy in the Graveyard", Dinah Washington - 2:54
''Best of Bob Dylan's Theme Time Radio Hour, Volume 2''
Disc one
- "Jamaica Hurricane", Lord Beginner
- "Just Walkin' in the Rain", The Prisonaires
- "Mother Fuyer", Dirty Red
- "One Mint Julep", The Clovers
- "Did You See Jackie Robinson Hit That Ball", Buddy Johnson
- "Forty Cups of Coffee", Ella Mae Morse
- "Folsom Prison Blues", Johnny Cash
- "My Son Calls Another Man Daddy", Hank Williams
- "Fannie Brown Got Married", Roy Brown
- "Divorce Me C.O.D.", Merle Travis
- "June-teenth Jamboree", Fatso Bentley
- "Bonny Bunch of Roses", Paul Clayton
- "Every Woman I Know", Billy "The Kid" Emerson
- "Get Rich Quick", Little Richard
- "Must Have Been The Devil", Otis Spann
- "20/20 Vision", Jimmy Martin
- "Ain't I'm a Dog?", Ronnie Self
- "My Next Door Neighbor", Jerry McCain & His Upstarts
- "Radio Boogie", L.C. Smith & His Southern Playboys
- "The Old Ark's A'Moving", A.A. Gray & Seven Foot Dilly
- "Take Me Back to Tulsa", Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys
- "Professor Bop", Babs Gonzales
- "Atomic Telephone", The Spirit of Memphis Quartet
- "Water, Water", Effie Smith & The Squires
- "24 Hours", Eddie Boyd
- "Shotgun Boogie", Tennessee Ernie Ford
Disc two
- "Hoo-Doo Say", The Sly Fox
- "Back To Back, Belly To Belly ", The Charmer
- "I Can't Dance ", Roy Newman
- "A Man's Best Friend Is a Bed", Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five
- "Hungry Man", Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five
- "Let's Be Friends", Billy Wright
- "Tennessee Border", Hank Williams
- "Havana Moon", Chuck Berry
- "3 x 7 = 21", Jewel King
- "Christmas Morning", Titus Turner
- "Peggy Sue", Buddy Holly
- "Red Headed Woman", Sonny Burgess
- "Uncle Pen", Bill Monroe & His Bluegrass Boys
- "Bad Luck Blues", Guitar Slim
- "Drown in My Own Tears", Lula Reed
- "I've Got The Last Laugh Now", Roy Brown
- "Hearts of Stone", The Jewels
- "Paper in My Shoes", Boozoo Chavis
- "Pink Cadillac", Sammy Masters
- "Drifting Texas Sand", Webb Pierce
- "Still A Fool ", Muddy Waters
- "All Aboard", Muddy Waters
- " A Fool Such as I", Hank Snow
- "Let Me Off Uptown", Anita O'Day & Roy Eldridge
- "Tax Payin' Blues", J.B. Lenoir
- "Bad, Bad Whiskey", Amos Milburn
''Bob Dylan's Theme Time Radio Hour, Volume 3 (Best of the Second Series)''
Disc one
- "Hello Stranger", The Carter Family - 2:48
- "Young Man's Blues", Mose Allison - 1:26
- "Young Fashioned Ways", Muddy Waters - 3:02
- "Lucy Mae Blues", Frankie Lee Sims - 2:32
- "Blue Monday", Smiley Lewis - 2:42
- "California Blues" , Webb Pierce - 3:02
- "Rollin' Stone", Muddy Waters - 3:05
- "Mr. Thrill", Mildred Jones - 2:34
- "Speedo", The Cadillacs - 2:23
- "Dry Bones", The Delta Rhythm Boys - 3:31
- "Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms", The Monroe Brothers - 2:30
- "Big Legs", Gene Phillips - 2:58
- "Brain Cloudy Blues", Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys - 2:47
- "Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! " , Tex Williams & His Western Caravan - 2:54
- "Cigareets, Whuskey and Wild, Wild Women", Red Ingle & The Natural Seven - 2:38
- "Reefer Man", Baron Lee - 2:50
- "All I Have To Do Is Dream", The Everly Brothers - 2:20
- "Sh-Boom", The Chords - 2:28
- "Let's Have a Party", Wanda Jackson - 2:11
- "Caldonia's Party", Smiley Lewis - 2:10
- "One Bad Stud", The Honey Bears - 2:26
- "Dedicated to the One I Love", The "5" Royales - 2:44
- "One Night", Elvis Presley - 2:32
- "Walking By Myself", Jimmy Rogers & Big Walter Horton - 2:48
- "The Walk", Jimmy McCracklin - 2:42
- "Down in Mexico", The Coasters - 3:14
Disc two
- "All Around The World", Little Willie John - 2:58
- "Ubangi Stomp", Warren Smith - 2:00
- "The Key ", Sonny Boy Williamson - 3:17
- "Key To The Highway", Little Walter - 2:57
- "Write Me a Letter", The Ravens - 2:52
- "I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter", Fats Waller - 3:30
- "I Feel That Old Age Coming On", Wynonie Harris - 2:47
- " Upside Your Head", Buddy & Ella Johnson - 2:46
- "Gloomy Sunday", Billie Holiday - 3:13
- "Send For The Doctor", Doc Pomus - 2:14
- "Dr. Kinsey Report", Lord Lebby - 3:13
- "Hadocal Boogie", Bill Nettles & The Dixie Blue Boys - 2:46
- "Better Beware", Esther Phillips - 2:38
- "You're The Dangerous Type", Bob Dorough - 4:20
- "Be Careful ", John Brim - 2:41
- "The Rooster Song", Fats Domino - 2:06
- "Bird Gets The Worm", Charlie Parker - 2:37
- "White Dove", The Stanley Brothers - 3:17
- "Hold 'Em Joe", Andre Toussaint - 1:25
- "Where's Joe?", Blue Lu Barker - 2:49
- "Diamond Joe", Cisco Houston - 2:25
- "Red Hot", Billy Lee Riley - 2:32
- "Great Balls Of Fire", Jerry Lee Lewis 1:53
- "Hot Little Mama", Johnny "Guitar" Watson - 2:42
- "Cold Cold Feeling", T-Bone Walker - 3:10
- "Stone Cold Man", The Charmer - 2:32
''Bob Dylan's Theme Time Radio Hour: The Best Of The Third Series''
Disc one
- "Greenbacks", Ray Charles
- "My Baby's Just Like Money", Lefty Frizzell
- "Your Cash Ain't Nothin' But Trash", The Clovers
- "Money Honey", The Drifters
- "Why Don't You Eat Where You Slept Last Night?", Zuzu Bollin
- "In the Night", Professor Longhair
- "Don't Start Me to Talkin'", Sonny Boy Williamson
- "In the Middle of the Night", Amos Milburn
- "Flesh, Blood and Bone", Little Esther
- "She Made My Blood Run Cold", Ike Turner
- "Searching for a Soldier's Grave", The Bailes Brothers
- "Drive Soldiers Drive", Little Maxie Bailey
- "Peaches in the Springtime", Memphis Jug Band
- "W-P-L-J", The Four Deuces
- "The Banana Boat Song ", Harry Belafonte
- "Straight Street", The Pilgrim Travelers
- "Lost Highway", Hank Williams
- "Route 90", Clarence "Bon Ton" Garlow
- "Jack Palance", Mighty Sparrow
- "My Boy Elvis", Janis Martin
- "Forty Days and Forty Nights", Muddy Waters
- "Girl Fifteen", Floyd Dixon
- "Call It Stormy Monday ", T-Bone Walker
- "Nice Work If You Can Get It", Sarah Vaughan
- "That Ain't Nothin' But Right", Mac Curtis
- "She's Got Something", Jimmy Ballard
Disc two
- "Dead Cats on the Line", Tampa Red & Georgia Tom
- "It's Fun to Be Livin' in the Crazy House", Redd Foxx
- "Lost Mind", Mose Allison
- "I Want to Be Happy", Ella Fitzgerald
- "Happy Home", Elmore James
- "Feelin' High And Happy", Hot Lips Page
- "Dirty People", Smiley Lewis
- "Sugar Coated Love", Lazy Lester
- "Big Rock Candy Mountain", Harry McClintock
- "Who Do You Love?", Bo Diddley
- "Whadaya Want?", The Robins
- "What Is This Thing Called Love?", Billie Holiday
- "True Blue Papa", Leon Chappel
- "Your True Love", Carl Perkins
- "It's Only Make Believe", Conway Twitty
- "I'm My Own Grandpa", Lonzo & Oscar
- "The Seventh Son", Willie Mabon
- "Barnyard Boogie", Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five
- "Fattening Frogs For Snakes", Sonny Boy Williamson II
- "Calling All Cows", Lazy Bill Lucas & the Blues Rockers
- "Little Sadie", Clarence Ashley
- "Bon Ton Roula", Clarence "Bon Ton" Garlow
- "Ain't Got No Home", Clarence "Frogman" Henry
- "Much Later", Jackie Brenston
- "So Long, I'm Gone", Warren Smith
- "So Long, It's Been Good to Know Yuh ", Woody Guthrie