4) Desert Inn/Nevada Public Radio
(This track, Las Vegas Extravaganza, The D. I. & The Mob and Entertainers are a part of a 2005 radio series called ‘The Las Vegas I Remember’ that was broadcast on the Vegas NPR station, KNPR-FM. It is a series of 10 to 15 minute audio documentaries on the town’s history; there are stories on the 1980 MGM Grand fire, women’s contribution to the town, the civil rights struggle, showgirls, etc. The selections I used here are more closely related to the casino industry. The series is still on line, so check them out!)
5) Lights of Las Vegas/Rod Rogers & the Travis Jay Jones Orchestra
(If you’re not familiar with the Song-Poem genre, it’s basically people paying musicians to set their poems to music and slap them in a vanity record label. It’s a small industry you could find in small ads in the back of magazines. See the documentary ‘Off The Charts’ for further details.What make this track notable is that it was taken from an album filled with Vegas related ‘song-poem’ songs, ‘Las Vegas Souvenir’. Even more astonishing is that it has just been released on CD 
on the Essential Media Group label.)
6) Godzilla Eats Las Vegas/UNLV Orchestra
7) Hotel Nevada
8) Las Vegas Love Song/The Barnyard Cupcakes
9) Las Vegas-Jennifer Halloway/‘How’s Your News?’ Gang
(Even I don’t even know how I dumped into this track. The ‘How’s Your News?’ gang were a modly crew of the ‘mentally challenged’ reporters that traveled around the country in a RV asking various by-standards “How’s your news?” There’s a documentary on them and their activities and they were favorite guests on the Howard Stern Show.)
10) Las Vegas Extravaganzas/Nevada Public Radio
11) Sahara’s Summer Spectacular/Sahara Hotel & Casino (w/Don Rickles)
(I’m including these two radio spots as they are different versions of the same commercial, edited for seasonal adjustment. Also, there’s Don Rickles intimidating ‘you pain suckers’ to visit.)
12) Entertainers/Nevada Public Radio
13) Sahara’s Winter Spectacular/Sahara Hotel & Casino (w/Don Rickles)
(see above liner note)
14) I Left My Wife In Las Vegas/The Doel Brothers
15) Las Vegas/Haven Records
16) Vegas Dollar/Rod Rogers & the Travis Jay Jones Orchestra
17) Fiesta Showroom/Hotel Frontier
18) The Mob, The D. I. and other stories/Nevada Public Radio
19) Four Queens
(The Four Queens Hotel & Casino had, for a long time, a New Orleans theme and it mentions ‘Louis Prima’s Witnesses’, who was actually Sam Butera’s band as Prima left for the great Mardi Gras parade in the sky in 1976.)
20) When The Saints Go Marching In-Closing/Louis Prima & Keely Smith
(Grant you, this is an unusual choice for this whole set as the song is usually associated with the City Of New Orleans, but there is a connection between these two cities at work. First off, New Orleans and Las Vegas are American cities that have made their reputation directly based on human pleasure and desire, have little care of the outside world and both worship money and air conditioning, though N. O. has a MUCH longer and deeper history as compared to Vegas’ young age and lack of tolerance for its own history and traditions.Then there’s the New Orleans-born Louie Prima who has both feet firmly planted in both cities.)
21) KDWN I.D. acapella