Rob Reinhart’s Essential Music: Fond farewells to Tom Lehrer and Flaco Jimenez
Listen to “Rob Reinhart’s Essential Music” every Saturday from 2-4 p.m. ET on Detroit Public Radio 101.9 WDET.
Left: Musician Tom Lehrer sits beside the piano in his house in Santa Cruz, Calif., on April 21, 2000. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File). Right: Flaco Jimenez performs during the Americana Music Honors and Awards show Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2014, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/Mark Zaleski, File).
In this week’s episode of Rob Reinhart’s Essential Music, more fond farewells this week for musical-comic genius Tom Lehrer and Tex-Mex legend Flaco Jimenez.
Also, new music from Detroit’s Carmel Liburdi and Ryan Allen, August album anniversaries, some Yacht Rock vinyl, and lots more!
See the playlist below and listen to the episode for two weeks after it airs using the media player above.
Rob Reinhart’s Essential Music Playlist for August 2, 2025
HOUR ONE:
- “New Math” – Tom Lehrer
- “Fresh” – Kool & The Gang + Prince Hakim
- “So Far Down” – Sloan
- “’92 Subaru” – Fountains Of Wayne
- “Company’s Eyes” – Ryan Allen & His Extra Arms
- “Elegantly Wasted” – Hermanos Gutierrez w/Leon Bridges
- “Elegantly Wasted” – INXS
- “Crush” – Indigo De Souza
- “Watch Me Go” – Lord Huron
- “Dime” – Silvana Estrada
- “Mind Loaded” – Blood Orange
- “Treason” – Nilufer Yanya
- “Carmelita” – Flaco Jimenez w/Dwight Yoakam
- “Miami 2017” – Billy Joel
- “Vienna” – Billy Joel
- “Big Money” – Jon Batiste
- “Can’t Get Enough (Detroit Funk Mix)” – Nick Behnan
- “Stupid Girl'” – Garbage (released August 1995)
- “R-O-C-K In The USA” – John Mellencamp (released August 1985)
- “L-O-V-E” – Al Green (released August 1975)
- “I Keep Forgetting” – Michael McDonald
- “If Not For Love” – Durand Jones & The Indications
- “69” – Carmel Liburdi
- “You’ve Got Another Thing Coming” – Alex Williams
- “Who’s Next” – Tom Lehrer
Listen to Rob Reinhart’s Essential Music every Saturday from 2-4 p.m. ET on Detroit Public Radio 101.9 WDET and streaming on-demand at wdet.org
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