12/19/25

This week on RITY...

• For The Featured Five Theme, I'm playing songs that mention Christmas, but are not Christmas songs

• A Stones song that's based in the American South, but inspired by the Caipira people of Brazil

• Burton Cummings of The Guess Who shares the backstory behind "These Eyes"

• A song by The Goo Goo Dolls that Johnny Rzeznik wrote about MTV VJ Kennedy

• A rare tribute to Peanut Butter done by The J. Geils Band in the mid 70s

• Levon Helm's response to an Elton John song that's named after him

• A Top 40 hit inspired by a series of teen suicides in Pennsylvania during the early 80s

• Deep cuts from John Prine, King Curtis, Willie Murphy & Jon Koerner, Hard Working Americans, and much more!