Friday, May 31, 2013

In Memoriam, 2012-13 (Week One)

Remembering musicians from the Lost and Found era who've passed away within the last year.

  1. Andrews Sisters - Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy (LP, 1041) (for Patty Andrews)
  2. McGuire Sisters - Rhythm and Blues (45, 1955) (for Dorothy McGuire)
  3. Patti Page - Old Cape Cod (CD, 1957)
  4. Andy Williams - Can't Help Falling in Love (CD, 1970)
  5. Kenny Ball & His Jazzmen - Midnight in Moscow (CD 1962)
  6. Cadillacs - Speedo (CD, 1955) (for Earl "Speedo" Carroll)
  7. Jimmy Jones - Handy Man (CD, 1960)
  8. Mickey & Sylvia - Baby You're So Fine (CD, 1961) (for Mickey Baker)
  9. Annette - Pineapple Princess (CD, 1960)
  10. Don Shirley - Water Boy (CD, 1961)
  11. Ray Charles - Unchain My Heart (LP, 1962) (for co-writer Bobby Charles)
  12. Brenda Lee - Break It to Me Gently (CD, 1962) (for co-writer Diane Lampert)
  13. Smokey Robinson & the Miracles - Going to a Go Go (CD, 1966) (for group member and co-writer Bobby Rogers)
  14. Dionne Warwick - Do You Know the Way to San Jose (CD, 1968) (for lyricist Hal David)
  15. Fontella Bass - Recovery (CD, 1966)
  16. Marva Whitney - It's My Thing (LP, 1969)
  17. Jimmy McCracklin - Think (45, 1965)
  18. Liz Lands - One Man's Poison (CD, 1966)
  19. Bob Babbitt - Ain't Nothin' Like the Real Thing (CD) (member of Motown's "Funk Brothers")
  20. Tony Sheridan & the Beat Brothers - My Bonnie (CD, 1962)
  21. Soft Machine - Joy of a Toy (LP, 1968) (for Kevin Ayres)
  22. Fleetwood Mac - Lay It All Down (LP, 1971) (for Bob Welch)
  23. Ten Years After - Portable People (CD, 1968) (for Alvin Lee)
  24. George Jones - Tender Years (CD, 1961)
  25. Kitty Wells - Heartbreak USA (45, 1961)
  26. Jack Greene - Statue of a Fool (LP, 1969)
  27. Claude King - All for the Love of a Girl (CD, 1969)
  28. Doc Watson - Country Blues (CD, 1964)
  29. Rivieras - California Sun (CD, 1964) (for Marty "Bo" Fortson)
  30. Hombres - It's a Gas (45, 1968) (for B.B. Cunningham)
  31. Bubble Puppy - If I Had a Reason (45, 1969) (for Ray Cox)
  32. Scott McKenzie - Like an Old Time Movie (CD, 1967)
  33. Joe South - Rose Garden (CD, 1970)
  34. Iron Butterfly - Easy Rider (45, 1970) (for Lee Dorman)
  35. Spirit - Animal Zoo (CD, 1970) (for Ed Cassidy)
  36. Mountain - Don't Look Around (CD, 1971) (for Steve Knight)
  37. Doors - The Crystal Ship (CD, 1967) (for Ray Manzarek)
  38. Ravi Shankar - Joi Bangla (45, 1971)

May 30, 2013 Playlist w/Host Bob Dubrow

Set 01:
1. Tim Buckley - "Danang" (1968 from The Dream Belongs to Me: Rare and Unreleased Recordings  1968/1973 compilation 2001)
2. Hedgehog Pie - "Fishing Song" (Hedgehog Pie 1974)
3. Grateful Dead - 'Mountains of the Moon" (Aoxomoxoa 1969)
4. Pink Floyd - "Fearless" (Meddle 1971)

Set 02:
1. Galliard - "Ask For Nothing" (New Dawn 1971)
2. Group 1850 - "Misty Night" (1966 bonus track from Agemo's Trip to Mother Earth 1997)
3. Moving Sidewalks - "Flashback" (unreleased version from The Complete Collection compilation 2012)
4. Rolling Stones - "Let's Spend the Night Together" (Between the Buttons 1967)
5. Bryan Ferry - "Let's Stick Together" (Let's Stick Together 1976)

Set 03:
1. The Nova Local - "Games" (1967 from V/A: Die Today compilation 2008)
2. Infinity - "Taxman" (1970 from 1969-1970 compilation 2002)
3. The Mushrooms - "Burned" (1966 from V/A: Friday at The Hideout: Boss Detroit Garage 1964-1967 compilation 2001)
4. Deadwood - "That Don't Help Me None" (1971 from V/A: A Visit to the Spaceship Factory: 20 Gems from the Early Years of Prog compilation 2007)
5. The Cryan' Shames - "Mr. Unreliable" (1966 bonus track from CD-rerelease of 1966's Sugar and Spice 2002)

Set 04:
1. Clive John - The Ferret Interview / Hold Your Ferret Aloft" (You Always Know Where You Stand with a Buzzard 1975)
2. Frank Zappa - "Squeeze It. Squeeze It. Squeeze It." (2/14/1969 from The Ballroom, Stratford, CT off Finer Moments compilation 2012)
3. Van Der Graaf Gernerator - "Whatever Would Robert Have Said?" (The Least We Can Do is Wave to Each Other 1970)
4. Velvet Opera - "Eleanor Rigby" (Ride a Hustler's Dream 1969)
5. Van Morrison - "Redwood Tree" (Saint Dominic's Preview 1972)

Set 05:
1. The Monkees - "Saturday's Child" (The Monkees 1966) REQUEST
2. Cat Stevens - "Hard Headed Woman" (Majikat: Earth Tour 1976)
3. Gene Clark - "Strength of Strings" (No Other 1974)

Outro: Grateful Dead w/ Duane Allman (live 4/26/1971 from Skydog: The Duane Allman Retrospective box 2013)

Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Tuesday, May 28, 2013 - Eli Polonsky

12:02. Strawberry Alarm Clock - Unwind With The Clock
12:05. Listening - 9/8 Song
12:10. Orpheus - Congress Alley
12:12. The Young Rascals - It's Wonderful
12:16. The Freeborne - Images
12:22. Jefferson Airplane - The Farm - REQ
12:25. New Riders of The Purple Sage - Panama Red - REQ
12:28. Moby Grape - Indifference - REQ
12:32. Love - The Red Telephone - REQ
12:37. Pink Floyd - Bike
12:44. The Rolling Stones - Something Happened To Me Yesterday
12:48. Peter Green - The End Of The Game - REQ
12:54. The Nice - America - REQ
01:02. Blood Sweat and Tears - House In The Country
01:05. Jeff Beck - Beck's Bolero
01:08. Traffic - Paper Sun ->
01:11. Traffic - We're A Fade, You Missed This
01:12. The Youngbloods - Grizzly Bear
01:14. New York Rock Ensemble - Ride, Ride My Lady - REQ
01:19. Spirit - Nothin' To Hide - REQ
01:23. The Grateful Dead - Scarlet Begonias
01:28. Bob Dylan - Tell Me, Mama - REQ • LIVE
01:34. John Prine - Spanish Pipe Dream

For the 68th birthday of John Fogerty:
01:40. Creedence Clearwater Revival - Keep On Chooglin'
01:45. Creedence Clearwater Revival - Ramble Tamble
01:52. Creedence Clearwater Revival - Poorboy Shuffle ->
01:54. Creedence Clearwater Revival - Feelin' Blue

Thanks for listening!
Eli Polonsky

Saturday, May 25, 2013

5/24/13 Host: "DJ Mully" fills in

01. The Fleur De Lys - Tick Tock
02. Paul Revere & the Raiders - Kicks
03. Sparrow - Green Bottle Lover
04. The Remains - Don't Look Back

05. Brenton Wood - Psychotic Reaction
06. Syndicate of Sound - Hey Little Girl
07. Donny and the Outcasts - Big Fat Alaskan
08. Wild Bill Kennedy and the Twiliters - Shakin' All Over

09. The Litter - Action Woman • REQ
10. Beatle-ettes - Only Seventeen • REQ
11. Tommy Roe - Dizzy • REQ
12. The Hangmen - What A Girl Can't Do
13. The Sonics - Like No Other Man
14. Mongrel's Band - Be My Girl
15. The Cheapskates - Run Better Run
16. Bill Deal & the Rhondells - I've Been Hurt • REQ
17. Challengers - Moon, Send My Baby
18. The Ides of March - Life Has Been So Good
19. Larry & the Blue Notes - In Out
20. The Litter - I'm A Man

21. The Motions - My Babe
22. The Downliners Sect - Easy Rider
23. The Yardbirds - Drinking Muddy Water
24. Groundhogs - You Don't Love Me
25. Badfinger - Rock of all Ages • REQ
26. Black Fire - Do It

27. The Doors - Gloria (live)

28. Love - Stand Out
29. John Wooley and the Just Born - Look and You Will Find
30. Stack Waddy - I'm A Lover Not A Fighter
31. Sir Lord Baltimore - Hard Rain Fallin'

32. Sly and the Family Stone - Are You Ready
33. Bill Withers - Friend of Mine (live)
34. Joe Wilson - Other Side Of Your Mind
35. Z.Z. Hill - Baby I'm Sorry
36. The Meters - Fire on the Bayou
37. Black Nasty - Mama Didn't Lie

38. Curtis Mayfield - We Got To Have Peace

Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Tuesday, May 21, 2013 - Eli Polonsky

In tribute to Doors keyboardist Ray Manzarek D.5/20/2013:
12:01. The Doors - When The Music's Over - LIVE
12:22. Ray Manzarek - Bicentennial Blues - REQ
12:30. The Doors - Take It As It Comes
12:32. The Doors - The WASP (Texas Radio And The Big Beat)
12:37. The Doors - The Soft Parade

For Peter Rowan who performed in the area on 5/23:
12:46. Seatrain - Out Where The Hills
12:53. Old And In The Way - Land Of The Navaho - LIVE
01:00. Peter Rowan - Letter From Beyond (2013)
01:05. Peter Rowan - Keepin' It Between The Lines (2013)
01:10. Old And In The Way - Knocking On Your Door - LIVE
01:14. Peter Rowan - Drop The Bone (2013)
01:19. Peter Rowan - Live telephone interview
01:34. Old And In The Way - Midnight Moonlight - LIVE

01:45. Merl Saunders/Jerry Garcia - Positively 4th Street - LIVE
01:55. The Rolling Stones - 2000 Man - REQ

Thanks for listening!
Eli Polonsky

Tuesday, May 21, 2013

5/20/13 Host: Mighty Slim filling in.

01. Led Zeppelin - We're Gonna Groove (3-21-70 PNE Coliseum Vancouver)
02. Rainbow - Mistreated (10-20-77 Munich)
03. The Who - Young Man Blues (2-15-70 Hull City Hall Hull, England)
04. Sly and the Family Stone - M'Lady (8-16-69 Woodstock)
05. ZZ Top - Chevrolet
06. Allman Joys - Lost Woman
07. Ramsey Lewis - Slippin into Darkness
08. War - Where was you at?
09. Dylan - Hard Rain is Gonna Fall (Bootleg Series Vol 5 Rolling Thunder Review 12-4-75 Montreal)
10. Steve Miller - Your Old Lady ('68 Live in Berkeley)
11. Country Joe and the Fish - Happiness is a Porpoise Mouth (11-15-68 Concertgebouw Amsterdam)
12. Beatles - Child of Nature (from the Escher Demos)
13. Rolling Stones - Fingerprint File (7-13-75 L.A. Forum)
14. Jorma Kaukonen - Killing Time in the Crystal City (2-26-79 Paradise Boston)
15. Santana - Ballin'
16. Byrds - Ballad of Easy Rider (2-20-70 Stockton, CA)
17. The Mothers of Invention - King Kong (8-25-68 Kerrisdale Arena Vancouver, B.C.)
18. Tower of Power - Down to the Nightclub

Saturday, May 18, 2013

Tuesday, May 14, 2013 - Eli Polonsky

12:00. The Serpent Power - Endless Tunnel
12:14. Cream - N.S.U. - LIVE
12:25. The Beach Boys - California Saga/Big Sur - REQ
12:28. The Beach Boys - California Saga/The Beaks Of Eagles - REQ
12:32. The Beach Boys - California Saga/California - REQ
12:37. Creedence Clearwater Revival - Graveyard Train

Ticket giveaway promo Mickey Hart Band at Paradise Club 5/19:
12:47. The Mickey Hart Band - The Other One (2012) - LIVE
01:01. Mickey Hart - The Main Ten (Playing In The Band)
01:05. Mickey Hart - Pump Song

For John Ford Coley at The Bull Run, Shirley MA, 5/18:
01:12. Southwest F.O.B. - The Smell Of Incense
01:15. Southwest F.O.B. - Green Skies
01:18. John Ford Coley - Live telephone interview
01:45. England Dan & John Ford Coley - I'm Home
01:48. England Dan & John Ford Coley - What I'm Doing

01:55. Tom Rush - Who Do You Love - REQ

Thanks for listening!
Eli Polonsky

Friday, May 10, 2013

May 10, 2013, Playlist with Host Alex McNeil

Bands with names that are deliberate misspellings of common words:

  1. Beatles - I Don't Want to Spoil the Party (CD, 1964)
  2. Frijid Pink - Heartbreak Hotel (45, 1971)
  3. Spiral Starecase - Baby What I Mean (CD, 1968)
  4. Iveys - Maybe Tomorrow (CD, 1969)
  5. Kuf-Linx - So Tough (CD, 1958)
  6. Dyna-Sores - Alley Oop (CD, 1960)
  7. Henrietta & the Hairdooz - Penn Station (45, 1963)
  8. Fourmost - Hello Little Girl (CD, 1963)
  9. Joe Brown & the Bruvvers - It Only Took a Minute (CD, 1963)
  10. Kenny & the Kasuals - Journey to Tyme (CD, 1966)
  11. Gonn - Blackout of Gretely (CD, 1967)
  12. Kytes - Frosted Panes (CD, 1966)
  13. Phluph - Another Day (CD, 1968)
  14. Tymes - To Each His Own (45, 1964)
  15. Mike & the Censations - Victim of Circumstance (CD, 1966)
  16. Brilliant Korners - Change in Me (CD, 1969)
  17. Jyve Fyve - If You Let Me Make Love to You (CD, 1970)
  18. Lulu & the Luvers - Shout (45, 1964)
  19. Goodees - Double Shot (Of My Baby's Love) (CD, 1969)
  20. Silkie - Born to Be with You (CD, 1966)
  21. Stone Poneys - Just a Little Bit of Rain (LP, 1966)
  22. Left Banke - She May Call You Up Tonight (CD, 1967)
  23. Cryan Shames - Mr. Unreliable (CD, 1967)
  24. Groop - The Jet Song (CD, 1969)
  25. Monkees - Mommy and Daddy (45, 1969)
  26. Velvett Fogg - Lady Caroline (CD, 1969)
  27. Tygers - Sing It All Together (CD, 1969)
  28. Sixpentz - Imitation Situation (CD)
  29. Cyrkle - Red Chair Fade Away (CD, 1968)
  30. Murmaids - Wild and Wonderful (CD, 1965)
  31. Chymes - Quite a Reputation (CD, 1966)
  32. Hairem - Come On Along (CD, 1966)
  33. Luv'd Ones - Up Down Sue (CD, 1966)
  34. Nu-Luvs - So Soft, So Warm (CD, 1966)
  35. Crome Syrcus - Take It Like a Man (45, 1968)
  36. Head Lyters - You'd Better Come Home (CD, 1965)
  37. Turnstyle - Riding on a Wave (CD, 1968)
  38. Yellow Payges - Jezebel (CD, 1967)
  39. Byrds - Change Is Now (CD, 1968)

Wednesday, May 08, 2013

Tuesday, May 7, 2013 - Eli Polonsky

12:03. Pink Floyd - Interstellar Overdrive

For Carl Palmer who played at the Bull Run in Shirley on Thurs. 5/9:
12:20. Atomic Rooster - Before Tomorrow
12:26. Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Tank
12:32. Carl Palmer - Live telephone interview
12:46. Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Abaddon's Bolero
12:56. Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Aquatarkus
01:00. Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Trilogy

01:13. The Bubble Puppy - Hot Smoke & Sasafrass - REQ

For the release of "Exile on Main Street" on this date in 1972:
01:21. The Rolling Stones - Rocks Off
01:25. The Rolling Stones - Rip This Joint
01:29. The Rolling Stones - Shine A Light

01:35. Judee Sill - Lopin' Along Through The Cosmos - REQ

For the 43rd anniversary of the Grateful Dead at MIT DuPont Gym:
01:39. The Grateful Dead - Drums (live MIT 5-7-70) - LIVE
01:42. The Grateful Dead - The Other One (live MIT 5-7-70) - LIVE

In memoriam, Boston blues legend Shirley Lewis, d.5-5-13.
01:53. Shirley Lewis Experee-ance - Blues Medley (1994) - LIVE

Thanks for listening!
Eli Polonsky

Monday, May 06, 2013

May 6, 2013 Playlist w/ Host Bob Dubrow

Set 01:
1. Chilliwack - "Sundown" (Chilliwack 1972)
2. Gravy Train - "Morning Coming" (Second Birth 1973)
3. Jethro Tull - "To Cry You a Song" (Benefit 1970)
4. Horslips - "Charolias" (The Tain 1973)

Set 02:
1. Arzachel - "Leg" (Arzachel 1969)
2. Cream - "Crossroads" (Wheels of Fire 1968)
3. Stack Waddy - "With One Leap Dan Was By Her Side, 'Muriel' He Breathed" (1970 bonus track from 2007 CD re-release of Stack Waddy 1971)
4. Jimi Hendrix - "Somewhere" (1968 from People, Hell and Angels 2013)

Set 03:
1. Steve Stills - "49 Reasons" (1968 from Carry On box set 2013)
2. Lou Reed - "Coney Island Baby" (previously unreleased version from 2006 CD re-release of Coney Island Baby 1976)
3. David Bowie - "Growin' Up" (1973 bonus track from 2004 30th Anniversary Edition of Diamond Dogs 1974)
4. Chocolate Watchband - "Living in the Past"(The Inner Mystique 1968)
5. Alice Cooper - "Be My Lover" (Killer 1971)
6. Loudon Wainwright III - "Down Drinking at the Bar" (Attempted Mustache 1973)
7. Mike Heron - "Flowers of the Forest" (Smiling Men With Bad Reputations 1971)

Set 04:
1. Grateful Dead - "St. Stephen / Mason's Children" (live at Fox Theatre, St. Louis, MO 2/2/70 from Dave's Picks Vol. 6 2013)
2. The Big Three featuring Mama Cass Elliot - "Rider" (The Big Three 1963)
3. The Beatles - "No Reply (Take 2)" (1964 from Anthology 1 1995)
4. Audience - "Man on Box" (The First Audience Album 1969)
5. Michael Chapman - "It Didn't Work Out" (Rainmaker 1969)
6. The Who - "Under My Thumb" (1967 from 1998 CD re-release of Odds & Sods 1974)

Set 05:
1. Caravan - "Love to Love You (recorded in session for Alan Black on the BBC 3/11/71 from Songs For Oblivion Fishermen 1998)
2. Roy Harper w/ The Nice - "Hell's Angels" (Flat Baroque and Berserk 1970)

Friday, May 03, 2013

Number One Somewhere, Part Two

Records that reached #1 on a local radio survey somewhere in the US or Canada during the late 60s, but weren't big hits nationally.

  1. Them - Gloria (CD, 1965 and 1966)
  2. Alan Price Set - I Put a Spell on You (CD, 1966)
  3. Lyme & Cybele - If You Gotta Go, Go Now (CD, 1966)
  4. Berrys - Midnight Hour (45, 1967)
  5. Clefs of Lavender Hill - Stop! Get a Ticket (CD, 1966)
  6. Don & the Goodtimes - I Could Be So Good to You (CD, 1967)
  7. Coachmen - Mr. Moon (45, 1966)
  8. Hangmen - What a Girl Can't Do (CD, 1966)
  9. Harlow Wilcox & the Oakies - Groovy Grubworm (LP, 1969)
  10. Bettye Swann - Make Me Yours (CD, 1967)
  11. Brenton Wood - The Oogum Boogum Song (LP, 1967)
  12. James Brown - Kansas City (45, 1967)
  13. Jimmy Holiday - Baby I Love You (CD, 1966)
  14. O.C. Smith - Friend, Lover, Woman, Wife (LP, 1969)
  15. Bob Shane - Honey (45, 1968)
  16. Wayne Newton - Love of the Common People (45, 1967)
  17. Saturday Morning Cartoon Show - Hayride (CD, 1968)
  18. Lemon Pipers - Rice Is Nice (LP, 1968)
  19. Davie Allan & the Arrows - Blue's Theme (CD, 1967)
  20. Moby Grape - Omaha (LP, 1967)
  21. Yardbirds - Happenings Ten Years Time Ago (CD, 1966)
  22. Steppenwolf - Move Over (LP, 1969)
  23. Terry Knight & the Pack - Better Man Than I (CD, 1966)
  24. Guess Who - His Girl (LP, 1967)
  25. Martha & the Vandellas - Love (Makes Me Do Foolish Things) (CD, 1966)
  26. Brenda Holloway - Just Look What You've Done (CD, 1967)
  27. Tymes - People (45, 1968)
  28. Dells - Wear It on Our Face (CD, 1968)
  29. Meters - Cissy Strut (LP, 1969)
  30. Wayne Fontana - Pamela, Pamela (CD, 1967)
  31. Equals - I Get So Excited (CD, 1968)
  32. Dusty Springfield - Breakfast in Bed (CD, 1969)
  33. Robbie Basho - Pasha (LP, 1967)
  34. Robert John - If You Don't Want My Love (CD, 1968)
  35. 2 of Clubs - Walk Tall (Like a Man) (CD, 1967)
  36. Dino, Desi & Billy - If You're Thinkin' What I'm Thinkin' (CD, 1967)

Wednesday, May 01, 2013

Tuesday, April 30, 2013 - Eli Polonsky

A mostly request show.

12:04. Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention - Call Any Vegetable - REQ
12:07. Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention - Invocation & Ritual Dance Of The Young Pumpkin
12:14. Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention - Soft-Sell Conclusion
12:15. The Moody Blues - Legend Of A Mind - REQ
12:22. Donovan - The Trip
12:28. Quicksilver Messenger Service - The Fool - REQ
12:40. Gentle Giant - Black Cat - REQ
12:44. Moby Grape - Mr. Blues - REQ
12:49. The Chambers Brothers - Time Has Come Today - REQ
01:00. Jefferson Airplane - Wooden Ships - REQ
01:07. Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks - Waiting For The 103 - REQ
01:10. Stephen Stills & Manassas - How Far - REQ
01:13. The Thirteenth Floor Elevators - Splash 1 - REQ
01:17. The Grateful Dead - Mountains Of The Moon - REQ
01:23. Fleetwood Mac - Sunny Side Of Heaven - REQ
01:31. Derek & The Dominoes - Little Wing
01:37. Jethro Tull - We Used To Know - REQ
01:42. Neil Young - Like A Hurricane - REQ
01:49. The Grateful Dead - Estimated Prophet - REQ • LIVE

Thanks for listening, and for your requests!
Eli Polonsky