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Playlist: Flashback’s DJ Jason Royce

Featuring Lionel Richie, Candi Staton, ABBA and more!

DJ Jason Royce — Photo: Ward Morrison

Running With the Night
Lionel Richie

Don’t Wanna Fall In Love
Jane Child

Young Hearts Run Free
Candi Staton

Give It Up
KC and the Sunshine Band

Gimme, Gimme, Gimme!
ABBA

Change of Heart
Cyndi Lauper

Show Me Love
Robin S

Knocked Out
Paula Abdul

We Don’t Have To Take Our Clothes Off
Jermaine Stewart

The Glamorous Life
Sheila E.

Jason Royce currently spins two varieties of his long-running Flashback party. Every Tuesday at JR.’s at 9 p.m. is a music video night featuring a wide variety of music from 1975 to 1999. Every Thursday at Pitchers, along with DJ Darryl Strickland, he spins high-energy extended and dance versions of music from 1975-2005.

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