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Emergency! Squad 51 playlist #2: Rocking with Johnny and Roy

Listen to and save Johnny and Roy’s playlist on Spotify, created by EMS attorney Doug Wolfberg, so you can listen to it whenever you like

Last month, we posted a Squad 51 playlist in homage to Emergency! and paramedics Johnny Gage and Roy DeSoto.

And because you can never have enough tunes to keep you entertained while on shift, we bring you round two of Squad 51’s playlist. EMS lawyer and rock and roll band guitarist Doug Wolfberg submitted this playlist.

“Roy’s playlist is more mellow, classic and he would ever so subtly roll his eyes at the edgier rock and roll and up-tempo tunes on Johnny’s playlist,” Wolfberg said.

Here are 25 tunes Johnny and Roy would have been playing on the radio in Squad 51, the 8-track players in the POVs or over the loudspeakers in their Los Angeles County fire station.

Listen to and save Johnny and Roy’s playlist on Spotify so you can listen to it whenever you like. If you have an idea for an EMS-themed playlist, send us an email or share it in the comment section below.

Roy’s playlist:


  • You Don’t Bring Me Flowers — Barbra Streisand and Neil Diamond
  • Don’t Cry Out Loud — Melissa Manchester
  • Just When I Needed You Most — Randy Vanwarmer
  • Love Is The Answer — England Dan and John Ford Coley
  • With A Little Luck — Wings
  • Take A Chance On Me — ABBA
  • Sometimes When We Touch — Dan Hill
  • Magnet And Steel — Walter Egan
  • Blue Bayou — Linda Ronstadt
  • Don’t It Make My Brown Eyes Blue — Crystal Gayle
  • Don’t Give Up On Us — David Soul
  • Looks Like We Made It — Barry Manilow
  • Heard It In A Love Song — Marshall Tucker Band
  • Muskrat Love — Captain and Tennille
  • Silly Love Songs — Wings
  • A Fifth Of Beethoven — Walter Murphy and The Big Apple Band
  • You’re Sixteen — Ringo Starr
  • Top Of The World — Carpenters
  • Oh Very Young — Cat Stevens
  • I’ll Have To Say I Love You In A Song — Jim Croce
  • Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round The Ole Oak Tree — Tony Orlando and Dawn
  • You Are The Sunshine Of My Life — Stevie Wonder
  • Loves Me Like A Rock — Paul Simon
  • Midnight Train To Georgia — Gladys Knight and The Pips
  • Garden Party — Rick Nelson

Johnny’s playlist:


  • Le Freak — Chic
  • Heart Of Glass — Blondie
  • I Want You To Want Me — Cheap Trick
  • Hold The Line — Toto
  • Rock ‘N’ Roll Fantasy — Bad Company
  • Sultans Of Swing — Dire Straits
  • Don’t Bring Me Down — Electric Light Orchestra
  • Love Is Like Oxygen — Sweet
  • We Will Rock You / We Are The Champions — Queen
  • Hot Blooded — Foreigner
  • Come Sail Away — Styx
  • Hollywood Nights — Bob Seger and The Silver Bullet Band
  • Margaritaville — Jimmy Buffett
  • Hotel California — The Eagles
  • My Sharona — The Knack
  • Blinded By The Light — Manfred Mann’s Earth Band
  • Don’t Stop — Fleetwood Mac
  • Barracuda — Heart
  • Bohemian Rhapsody — Queen
  • Theme From “S.W.A.T” — Rhythm Heritage (Who says the dudes from one ‘70s show can’t dig the theme from another ‘70s show)
  • Dream On — Aerosmith
  • Saturday Night — Bay City Rollers
  • Rock And Roll All Nite — Kiss
  • The Loco-Motion — Grand Funk Railroad
  • Band On The Run — Paul McCartney and Wings
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