Beaker Street 8/29/20 Playlist and Collected Singles

A year ago, The Shops On The Wapsi near Anamosa (formerly known as Anamosa Furniture Market) was a place that I stopped in and found a few 45s and a Sony Discman that I should have picked up. So passing the time before going to Stone City, I managed to pop in right before closing and managed to find some off the wall 45s from the past.  Also, my third shift boss gave me a bunch of scratched up 45s about a hundred in a container.

Wendae's Records Of Note:

Sunglasses At Night/Never Surrender-Corey Hart (EMI X-7113)
Windy/Never My Love-The Association (Warner GWB-7119)
When I Need You-Leo Sayer (Warner WBS-8332)  1977
Mighty Mighty Children-Baby Huey & The Babysitters (Curtom CR-1939)  1969
One More Cup Of Coffee-Brook Benton (Mercury 72265)  1964
Fireball Mail-Jim & Joe (Fabor 124)  1963
Pink Panther Theme-Henry Mancini (RCA Gold Standard 447-0739) 1963
The Devil Went Down To Georgia-Charlie Daniels Band (Epic 8-50700) #1 1979
Always Something To Remind Me-Naked Eyes (EMI B-8155) 1982
Good Golly Miss Molly-Little Richard (Specialty 624)   1958

To be honest, this may have came from a collection of records that Wendae's late husband Mike had out in the garage.  There's the inclusion of Convoy from C W McCall, but like Charlie Daniels and perhaps Naked Eyes, those records might be donated since Always Something To Remind Me is played on KDAT every day.  I like the version when Daniels calls out the devil you SOB rather than the tame Son of a gun version.   When I Need You has been one of my sentimental favorite belly rubbing songs from long ago and far away and the record seems to be in very good shape.  No rumblings or scratched out grooves, just like Three Dog Night's One is, and that version seems to be from a later version which doesn't fade out like the old Dunhill single used to be.   The Jim and Joe is James Burton and Joe Osborne kicking out a quick session, with that and b side Daisy Mae, which may have been the A side.

Out of all the records that didn't have sleeves, the Baby Huey, Jim and Joe, Brook Benton and Little Richard ones I could save, tho the Little Richard 45 was deep cleaned, it plays as well as a level 4 record could play.  It has been played a lot, B side is Going Back To Birmingham or Hey hey hey hey, one of the more tougher sounding songs from Richard in the 50s.  The Brook Benton's Coffee song actually plays better than it looks, tho I didn't attempt to be the other side.  Same thing with Baby Huey, side 2 is unplayable due to some deep creator scratches through that record.  Windy is the mono version with Terry Kirkman's vocal a bit further up in the mix on the final fade out.  Sunglasses At Night is 80s cheese, at least with Never Surrender, it's a bit more tuneful, tho I do find a guilty pleasure with Sunglasses at night.  Stoopid but fun.

Shops On The Wapsi Record Finds:

This Flight Tonight-Nazareth (A&M 1548)  1973
Holler And Shout-Elvin Bishop Group (Epic 5-10926)  1972
It Must Be Love-Don Williams (MCA-41089) 1978
You Gotta Learn Your Rhythm And Blues-Neil Sedaka (RCA  47-7530) 1958
What'll I Do-Gisele MacKenzie  (Capitol F-2059)  1951


This Flight Tonight has been one of my favorite Naz songs, tho the record wasn't in the best of shape. The Elvin Bishop number is another surprise and the guess is that Stephen Miller (Linn County, Grinderswitch) is lead singer, he is playing the piano for sure.  Don Williams' best period was 1975-1980 thereabouts and It Must Be Love still gets played on the radio, later covered by Alan Jackson in a faithful cover.  The Neil Sedaka song is the B side to Crying My Heart Out For You (#102 in 1958) and While Crying My Heart is teen idol pop, You Gotta Learn Your R&B is much more fun, I'm guessing Micky Baker played guitar and perhaps King Curtis as well.  The Gisele MacKenzie song of What I'll Do, to which is more uptempo to the moody ballad that Johnny Tillotson make it later on.  B side is I'm So Easy To Satisfy, which was kinda risque for 1951 standards.  45 Cat, the 45 reference guide doesn't even have this single listed.   For a 70 year old record, it does play very well. At least the owner kept a sleeve on it.    The Neil Sedaka record didn't have a sleeve but still looked good enough to find a sleeve and pick that up.

News:  KRNA let Jaymz  Larson go after four years.  People are up in a uproar over that.  KRNA is owned by Timesquare Media, which is worse than Cumulus and I Fart Radio.  Their original program director promised more deep tracks, but he has gotten the boot long time ago and the new station manager is a real douche. Chances are good Mike won't be around much longer either.  Shitty station managers are a dime a dozen.

Since the car Discman death of last month, it's been a chore trying to find a personal CD player that would fit my stringent needs when I go driving for bargain hunting.  However, I found this vintage Philips CD player for 2.88 at Goodwill complete with batteries, to which "surprise" they were still working.  You would think that Phillips, which invented the CD, would make a good CD player.  So far, it did play one CD, a 75 minute jazz comp, with no skips but it did stop twice on occasion, but picked up where it left.  The volume keeps going back to pre sets after each stop, but as long as it plays without skipping or hesitation, I hope this will last a while.  But I will still keep looking for the Car Discman, as a backup.

Beaker Street 8/28/20  Playlist by Tyler Vincent
https://beakerstreetsetlists.com/

9 p.m. – 10 p.m.

1. Pink Floyd “Free Four”
2. REO Speedwagon “Start A New Life”
3. Joe Walsh “Mother Says”
4. Canned Heat “Sore Back Blues” (Live- Illinois Blues 1973)
5. Ten Years After “Slow Blues In C” (Recorded Live)
6. Blind Faith “Presence Of The Lord”
7. T. Rex “The Slider”
8. Black Sabbath “Planet Caravan”
9. Paul and Linda McCartney “Long Haired Lady”

10 p.m. – 11 p.m.

1. Mott The Hoople “Sweet Jane”
2. Coverdale And Page “Pride And Joy”
3. Neil Young “Rockin In The Free World”
4. Cactus “Long Tall Sally”
5. Savoy Brown “Street Corner Talking”
6. Fancy “Touch Me”
7. The Beatles “Rocky Raccoon (Take 8)”
8. Nilsson “Down”
9. Todd Rundgren “Little Red Lights”
10. Led Zeppelin “Bron-Y-Aur Stomp”

11 p.m. – Midnight

1. Johnny Rivers “Memphis
2. The Traveling Wilburys “Rattled”
3. Electric Light Orchestra “Ticket To The Moon”
4. Uriah Heep “Tales”
5. Golden Earring “Candy’s Gone Bad”
6. Dire Straits “Water Of Love”
7. The Rolling Stones “Hot Stuff”
8. The Rolling Stones “Moonlight Mile”
9. The Rolling Stones “2000 Light Years From Home”
10. Status Quo “Pictures Of Matchstick Men”
11. The Cars “Moving In Stereo”

Notes:

Cactus' Long Tall Sally got played again.  It's not out of the ordinary that Beaker Street plays repeats from time to time, Chris Rea's Road To Hell got played twice.

Surprises:  REO's Start A New Life with Gary Richrath singing lead from the underrated Riding The Storm Out LP,   Golden Earring's Candy's Going Bad, Joe Walsh's Mother Says and surprise track, Fancy's Touch Me, the second single to the Wild Thing album.    Surprise track no. 2: Nilsson's Down.

At this point, Vincent's site of the Beaker Street Playlist might be the place to go for archived Beaker Street playlist.  It's a shame that I didn't archive the 2000 playlist but I thought they would never take that site down.  I may discontinue the B.S. playlist if it gets too cumbersome or repetitious.   But I am a sucker for playlists or top tens, I've done that before, then decided to go with documenting 45s instead.   At any rate, Record World returned thanks to Beaker Street and the dedication of Tyler Vincent to keep a note to see what got played.   It may revive my Sunday Night show, to which I'm rapidly getting bored with it.  Perhaps I'll get out of that funk.


The New Improved R Smith Show Number 3  8-30-20

First Hour

Right Now-Herbie Mann
Get Away-Georgie Fame
Zombie Jamboree-King Flash
In The Ghetto-Solomon Burke
The Swinging Shepard Blues-Moe Koffman Quartette
We Didn't Ask To Be Brought  Here-Bobby Darin
From A Window-Billy J Kramer/Dakotas
Oh, My Surprise-Batdorf/Rodney
Summer Samba-Walter Wanderley
From The Beginning-Emerson, Lake And Palmer
Through The Lonely Nights-The Rolling Stones
John Henry-Lonnie Donegan
Peabody's Tomb-Steve Bledsoe And The Blue Jays
This Flight Tonight-Nazareth
I'm So Easy To Satisfy-Giselle MacKenzie

Second Hour:

Hey Hey Hey Hey-Little Richard
Fire-The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown
Some Things You Never Get Used To-Diana Ross/Supremes
Ted End/
You're Mine/
External Youth (No 29)
I Believe In Everything-John Entwistle
You Got Style-Jon And Robin
Motorcycle Mama-Sailcat
Look Who's Blue-Don Gibson
Linda Lu-Ray Sharpe
World's Famous-Malcom Mclearen
Prisoner-Peter Kaukonen
Titenena-Barry Douglas Trio
Daddy I Know-Norman Greenbaum

Beaker Street 8-21-2020

9 p.m. – 10 p.m.

1. Angel “Tower”
2. James Gang “Midnight Man”
3. Grateful Dead “Friend Of The Devil”
4. The Alan Parsons Project “Damned If I Do”
5. Zebra “Who’s Behind The Door”
6. Trapeze “Black Cloud”
7. Alliota Haynes Jeremiah “Lake Shore Drive”> Skip Haynes “Lake Shore Drive” (ending)
8. John Prine “Let’s Talk Dirty In Hawaiian”
9. The Doobie Brothers “Jesus Is Just Alright”
10. Free “Wishing Well”
11. New Riders Of The Purple Sage “I Don’t Need No Doctor”
12. Bachman-Turner Overdrive “Gimme Your Money Please”
13. Gary Moore “Still Got The Blues”

10 p.m. – 11 p.m. (Starting at 10:04 CST)

1. The Unspoken Word “Pillow”
2. Chris Rea “The Road to Hell (Part 1 & 2)”
3. White Witch “Illusion”
4. Foghat “A Hole To Hide In”
5. Leon Russell “Stranger In A Strange Land”
6. The Waterboys “Fisherman’s Blues”
7. The Marshall Tucker Band “This Ol’ Cowboy”
8. Santana “Incident At Neshabur”
9. Fever Tree “San Francisco Girls (Return Of The Native”)
10. The Rolling Stones “2000 Light Years From Home”
11. Sugarloaf “Tongue In Cheek”

11 p.m. – Midnight (Started at 11:03 CST)

1. Dave Mason “Only You Know And I Know”
2. Long John Baldry “Don’t Try To Lay No Boogie-Woogie On The King Of Rock And Roll”
3. Cactus “Long Tall Sally”
4. The Moody Blues “Tortoise And The Hare”
5. The Acoustic Pagans “Minor Duel”
6. Faces “Ooh La La”
7. Strawberry Alarm Clock “Incense and Peppermints”
8. Led Zeppelin “The Rover”
9. Sonia Dada “Screaming John”
10. The Allman Brothers Band “Stormy Monday” (Live At Fillmore East)”

Tyler Vincent: Compiled.

Tom Wood returned to the booth and continued to mine the deep tracks 45s of the 70s, (NRPS-don't need no doctor, Free-wishing well, Doobies-jesus is just all right, BTO gimmee your money please), Long John Baldry's Don't lay No boogie woogie, a Beaker Street fave, gets played for the first time since the return of Beaker Street and even Foghat's Hole To Hide In shows that there's more to Foghat than just Slow Ride this n that. Even Tom found a Sugarloaf track to play outside of Green Eyed Lady.

Now if they can play Fantasy Stoned Cowboy........

Eye Candy:  Jane Dillon
(Photo by CJ  Twaites)

If you ever make it out to Poopy's in Savannah Illinois this summer, you might have seen Jane in the pool area.  I never been there but they tell me it's a fun place to be.  CJ is the bartender up there.   Petite and very pretty, Jane is that one dream date you'll never get. (in my case I'm too old)

The New R Smith Show 9-11

A handful of singles found at the thrift store on Saturday, which includes This Flight Tonight, Nazerth and Holler and Shout by Elvin Bishop

Plus side 1 of Georgio-Son Of My Father,
side 1 of Beach Boys Best Of

Paingiver by Full Fathom Five

Side 1 of the Cocktail Soundtrack (which includes the version of Powerful Stuff by The Fabulous Thunderbirds which include Kim Wilson's harp break  and Hippy Hippy Shake by Georgia Satellites

Then the show concluded with more 45s

Concluding with Sugar Blues by Barry Douglas Trio

The Perfect Shitstorm

Monday Morning-11:40 AM

Twas a hot and humid morning, the air very stifling.  On radar, there was a huge storm cell full of orange, tan and black coming from the west.  I can see the dark clouds a forming.  National Weather Service issuing a Thunderstorm Watch.  The local weather bureau went one further, issuing a Dangerous Storm Watch.  Then changed it to Dangerous Storm Warning.  I'm debating about leaving early to go into town to do errands and stop at my significant other's house.

12:15 PM

Going outside to water the plants.  Dark clouds, getting darker.  Phone rings, my brother is saying that the winds have picked up.  Decided not to run into town early.  Something is up and we just don't know it yet.

12:45 PM

The night light came on upstairs.  Outside, it is deathly quiet.  No birds are heard or seen.

1:00 PM

I'm watching the clouds begin to thicken and seen the upper clouds giving way to a greenish/blue.  The silence is beginning with the oncoming roar of the winds. I quickly came back indoors, shut the computer down and watched as SHITSTORM 2020 roared through and for the next 45 minutes would change our way of life, as trees uprooted and spilled over the highway, and then watching power lines snap and give way and roofs being ripped apart.  At 1:10 PM, I lost power.

They're called derechos,  a Midwestern combination of straight lined winds, and thunderstorms, or a inland hurricane.  I call these SHITSTORMS, for what they do is cause a lot a damage in a enlarged part of the US.  We had Shitstorms, back in 2014 when a one two punch of shitstorms took out most of our trees and fell on top of our house and flooded the basement and we had no power for four days.  That one did the most damage to our area.  Shitstorm 2020 wiped out 2/3rd of the state.  This makes the Flood of 2008 a walk in the park.   Shitstorm 2020 caused damage and held together for a mind bogging 860 miles in four states.  Yet, our fearless leader Donald Jackass Trump was too busy pulling up USPS mailboxes and calling Kamala Harris choice names.  Worthless Joni Ernst, stayed away as well as Ashley Hinson, they figured they couldn't do anything to get the people's votes.  Kegger Kim Reynolds finally decided to show up on Friday, five days after the Shitstorm   But back to the original story.

2:00 PM

The shitstorm has moved away, but it was still raining lightly when I got into the car to make my way to work.  The Neighbor's tree was blocking most of the road leading out but I made my way to the main road.  There were trees down everywhichway.  The turnoff to Hwy 1  was blocked by a tree as the house owner was doing his best to move it away.  The Casey's sign, was turned upside down but the further I went down the road I could see destroyed grain silos, destroyed barns and debris lining up and down the road.  The super sized silo at Martelle was crushed (as you can see in the photo). I made it to Mount Vernon.   Trees everywhere and no power.  It would be that way as I continued my trek to work.

(so much for taking C St to work)

It was chaos.  Getting to Highway 30 was no problem but traffic begin to back up five miles away from the 380 turnoff.  I made the big mistake of turning to a side street and finding uprooted trees in the way and (gasp) power lines down.  I had some like minded people trying to follow me to find a way to get through town but I finally had to turn around and get back on the main drag.  Thankfully a gravel road got me to the road to work.   When I got to work, nobody was there and the cleaning people were leaving.  The receptionist said they were on limited power and I should leave before being stuck there.  So I made my way back to the road and took the long way home.  It took me 20 minutes to move a mile to Shueyville Rd.

As I made my way south, every town was in the dark, every town had damage, every town had trees down.  Solon had no power, the main place at Iowa City was dark and Iowa City was dark and dreary.  Traffic sucked, there was no lights working and people would run stop signs and no lights just to save themselves.   I made my way up to West Branch, where they too were dark.  Somehow I found the road to Tipton and finally found a grocery store that was open and Mi Terra Mexican likewise.  But Wally World and Dollar General was dark.  Eventually, I made it back to Anamosa, to which I was shocked that the Fareway was open.  For my efforts, I washed the car and called it a day.

Since then.....I was one of the lucky ones.  Monday Night, I opened the window and watched the shooting stars on a dark night to which the stars appeared and without the light pollution I got to see a  few meteors and thankfully it was a cool night, after the oppressive humidity.  Surprisingly, I managed to sleep fairly well despite no electricity.  At 10 in the morning, the power came on.

(J.Hall-Jones:Photo)

In the aftermath, Cedar Rapids and Marion got nailed. Downtown Marion's Park fared the worst.  Zoey's Pizza's Kitchen area was exposed to the world, Francis Marion's statue got leveled and he lost his head in the process.  The old train depot got smashed, The Granger House lost a lot of bricks but thankfully the roof held firm.  My parents house's wooden fence fell down.   Six days later, Marion, CR, Mount Vernon and Ely are still without power.

Since I lived away from the CR area and more north, we didn't get the full brunt of the storm but rather a glancing love tap.  The neighbor's flag pole (originally part of the Viola school) is bent at a 45 degree angle but it's still flying the flag.  Anything south of 151 got hit and hit hard.  From Boone, to Ames, to Des Moines to Marshalltown, to CR to Davenport, this is the perfect shit storm, probably as bad as the 1925 Tri State Tornado which might have been a deecho or shit storm but probably worse in today's dollars.   But a disaster is a disaster. 

I took a drive up 151 and once I left Anamosa, the crops were looking better and not bent or smashed over.  A shame for the farmers that the bumper crop of corn is ruin due to Shit Storm 2020.  Once I got to Monticello, the busted silos and barns were gone.  Dubuque was open for business so I stopped at Moondog to pick up the new Bush and Deep Purple albums and a handful of 45s.  And still was trying to put the overall opinion of Shit Storm 2020.  I knew Martin Birch passed away, and then Pete Way Friday.  I haven't posted the Beaker Street playlist since it hasn't arrived in my inbox.  A lot of folk complained about the song selection but I think Chris Rea's Road To Hell was one, Whipping Post was another. and a Plant/Page number from Unplugged.

https://littlevillagemag.com/caught-in-the-storm-in-cedar-rapids-brian-johannessen/?fbclid=IwAR0ehsuLkj4w0AMvuvHfln7bvwQ-4R2wpE5NY-hfQN0JG9x6PE3bwPxW8ss

There'll be updates from time to time till we all get back online.  But for those who have lived through this shit storm  it will make us stronger than ever when the next shit weather event comes.  And we all know that will happen.

Beaker Street Play list 8-14-2020

9 p.m. – 10 p.m.

1. Neil Young “Cowgirl In The Sand”
2. Chris Rea “The Road To Hell (Part 1&2)”
3. The Allman Brothers Band “Whipping Post” *Abbreviated (Live At The Fillmore East)
4. David Bowie “Starman”
5. David Gilmour “There’s No Way Out Of Here”
6. Deep Purple “Perfect Strangers”
7. Electric Light Orchestra “Here Is The News”
8. Emerson Lake & Palmer “Peter Gunn” (Live- “Works Live”)

10 p.m. – 11 p.m.

1. Donald Fagen “Snowbound”
2. FM “Phasors on Stun”
3. Oingo Boingo “Dead Man’s Party”
4. Harry Nilsson “Let The Good Times Roll”
5. Mott The Hoople “Sweet Jane”
6. Kansas “Song For America”
7. Emerson, Lake & Palmer “Bitches Crystal”
8. Robin Trower “Shame The Devil”
9. Golden Earring “Radar Love” (Live)

11 p.m. – Midnight

1. Roxy Music “Avalon”
2. T. Rex “Spaceball Ricochet”
3. Todd Rundgren “Couldn’t I Just Tell You”
4. Todd Rundgren “Born To Synthesize”
5. Todd Rundgren “Rain”
6. Ten Years After “Let The Sky Fall”
7. The Moody Blues “Say It With Love”
8. Stephen Stills “Love The One You’re With”
9. Eric Burdon & War “Spill The Wine”
10. The Doobie Brothers “Dark Eyed Cajun Woman”
11. Paul & Linda McCartney “Smile Away”
12. Jimmy Page & Robert Plant “Nobody’s Fault But Mine”

Tyler Vincent: Compiler

Notes:

A few complaints from the listeners but I don't see anything that much different than what Clyde would play.  A bit too much on the Todd Rundgren stuff, but they pick ELP's Bitches Crystal and failed single Peter Gunn.   Props for There's No Way Out Of Here by David Gilmour and Avalon by Roxy Music.  Chris Rea's Road To Hell is a Beaker Street staple.

A trip to Independence/Waterloo I found a couple interesting cds, namely Trini Lopez's Latin Album, he passed away earlier in the week due to CORVID 19. And the expanded In Da Gadda De Vadda By Iron Butterfly (only 2 dollars) and regional artists such as Molly Nova/Turk E Krause 2001 album, after which they released after leaving the Blue Band.

Somebody donated a bunch of scratched up 45s, none that I could salvage. Oh Baby Doll from Chuck Berry and It Was I from Skip And Flip the highlights but a few others, but they were in poor shape. Lucky Lips (Ruth Brown) and Clyde McPlatter's Rock And Cry had a crack in it.  Another Chuck Berry 45 School Days, was scratched beyond belief. The Quin Tones' Down The Aisle To Love and Charlie Rich's Lonely Weekends were other notables.

Waterloo has their own Rudy's Tacos, more expensive than Davenport but the portions they serve are much better.  They had on the oldies channel which was fine, till they played six Beach Boys songs in a row.  On a plus, Rocket 88 by Jackie Brenston and The Rivingtons' Papa Om Mow Mow were played.  When I got up there, Metro Records was closed and no more is the St Vinnie's on Franklin.  Overall a productive batch of finds.


After six years being idle, The R Smith Show returns to Radio Maierburg on Sunday Night on a trail basis.  from 11 to 1.  I play selected cuts from selected albums.  Two hours doesn't cover much but at least we try not to play the same old shit like I Fart Radio or Timesquare Media or Cumulus.

Show Number 1  Songs played

Shattered-The Rolling Stones
When The Whip Comes Down
Dance Part 1 (If I Was A Dancer)
Crazy Mama

Apostrophe-Frank Zappa

Danville Girl-Vince Martin
Yonder Comes The Sun

Mad Dog-Elastica
Generator
How He Wrote Elastica Man
Nothing Stays The Same

Nightwatch-Kenny Loggins
Whenever I Call You Friend  (with Stevie Nicks/Melissa Manchester)
Angelique

Gloryland Boogie-Swanee River Boys
Ain't No Grave Gonna Hold My Body Down-Rev. Claude Ely

Wooly/1984-The Dawn

At The Crossroads-Mott The Hoople
Laugh At Me

Singles Going Steady 67-After The Storm Comes More Music

Pickings are getting less and less at Moondog Music but I did find some of value.


1)    Lonesome Old House-Don Gibson  (RCA 47-7905)  #71 1959

I admire myself of finding a lot of Don's 45's in the 10 years of actual singles finding.  Most have been in reasonable shape.  Don remains one of the all time best songwriters of my time and he could get a bit dark at times.  His uptempo stuff borderline on rockabilly, Don did produced songs that passed as rockabilly but still he was a country artist.  This song is famous for the chugging guitar riffs which actually sounds like Another Lonely Night by Carl Belew.  The surprise is seeing Lonesome Old House make it to the top 100 pop chart.  It peaked at number 11 on the country chart.  B side I Could Have Cared Less, owes more I Can't Stop Loving You, tho not as memorable. 


2)    Sea Cruise-The Hondells (Mercury 72479)  1965

Late to the Singles Going Steady party, this forgotten Frankie Ford cover got ignored on the top 100.  By then The Hondells hooked up with freaky Mike Curb, who at that time was into B movie motorcycle movies but stuck gold with Blue's Theme from The Wild Angels, a movie that you have to see once to see what you missed about drive in B Movies.  B side You Meet The Nicest People On A Honda comes from the mind and pen of one Mike Curb.  As clunky as it gets but it's only a 1:49 song.  A Mike Curb is like a Mike Love song, no brains and just filler.


3)    Two Dreams-Gogi Grant (RCA 47-7438)  1959

I have still yet to find her only chart placing RCA single Strange Are The Ways Of Love.  Two Dreams is somewhat one of those  ballads that would work better for Brenda Lee, but out of all the RCA singles I have heard, this is the best one that I would return to hear again.  (Kiss Me) Honey Honey, producer Dick Pierce hooks Gogi up with Shorty Rogers for a cha cha number.  More pop than rock.  Still worth a listen or two.

4)    Baretta's Theme-Sammy Davis Jr  (20th Century TC-2282)  1976

Mike Curb returns to produce Sammy for the TV theme to Baretta, this time Dave Grusin arranges the song.  Part disco, part funk, mostly Sammy getting down with the times.  Sure beats The Candy Man.

5)    Cry Baby Cry-Del Shannon (Island IS-038)  1975

Del never went away in the 1970s, he would pop up with a new single or two.  One of two singles for Island and a collaboration with Jeff Lynne of ELO fame. The perfect Del Shannon song, heartbreak and misery.  Man, the guy could write them heartbreak songs.  Lynne would return later to produce (along with Tom Petty, another admirer) Del's last album, the underrated Rock On! that was issued on Tom's Gone Gator label.  They never forgot the man.

6)    He Comes Around-Molly And The Heymakers (Reprise 7-19332)  1991 #59 Country

Latter day singles of the 1990s were mostly country and aimed for the jukeboxes.  I have a soft spot for Molly Sheer, the singer of this band that did make one album for Reprise and it's a product of the time, harmonies and mandolin.  The album is worth seeking out, perhaps the problem was that they tried many styles of country rock.  B side This Time also had potential for the radio, but by then Warner music cut their losses and dropped the Heymakers.   Even in the 1990s being on a major label didn't bring much for band except seeing their albums in the cutout bins six months later.  As a radio programmer, I'd go with This Time.

7)     Sunshine-The Archies (Kirshner 63-1009)  #57 1970

The last song that made the top 100 from The Archies, the manufactured comic cartoon band led by Ron Dante, Toni Wine and Jeff Barry.  I never cared for their number one Sugar Sugar, but they did have some good songs.  I love a good sunshine pop song and Sunshine is that,  better than Sugar Sugar.  Perhaps I might spring to get the Archies Greatest Hits in the future.  B side Over And Over rips off the intro to A Little Bit O Soul but still bubblegum fun. Somewhere in the mix Ellie Greenrich, my fave 60s girl singer is singing background.  But I can't help but singing A Little Bit Of Soul on the chorus tho.

8)    Laugh At Me-Sonny (Atco 45-6369)  #10 1965

This song is forever claimed by Mott The Hoople when Ian Hunter covered that song on their album and I'm surprised that Sonny got a top 10 hit single out of this.  Sonny Bono did work with Phil Spector to the point that Sonny made his (and Cher) songs to sound like the Wall Of Sound.  Of course Sonny used the Wrecking Crew.  Then again, Bono really didn't carry a tune very well, but I thank him (and Ian Hunter) for writing such a cool song.  And having Mott The Hoople turn it into a epic trainwreck. B side Tony, is the Wrecking Crew doing a jam along the lines of Honky Tonk but more sloppier.  Guess who took the credit for this song (Not the Wrecking Crew).

9)    Water, Paper And Clay-Mary Hopkin (Apple 1843)  1971

Hopkin was still recording for Apple Records but the hits were few and far between and Paul McCartney was replaced by future husband Tony Visconti and her Earth Song album was more toward Fairport Convention type of folk rock.  Which didn't translate into record sales, in fact the US buyers couldn't relate to this.  The Fairport connection is completed with the Ralph McTell's written Streets Of London, the B side, which would have been the better side to promote.

10)   Windfall-Rick Nelson (MCA 40187)  1974
11)    Rock And Roll Lady-Rick Nelson (MCA 40458) 1975

Two later MCA singles that didn't do anything for Rick.  The teen idol years long ago forgotten, Rick and the Stone Canyon Band did managed to make some very good country rock singles with the exception of Garden Party, went passed the public eye.    Rick has been very busy on the SGS blog with these latter day MCA and Capitol singles.  Windfall shows Rick has been paying attention to the melodies and harmonies of Poco and Crosby, Stills And Nash and why radio ignored his efforts is mind bogging.   B side Legacy continues that soft country rock vibe and the melody sounds is close to Peaceful Easy Feeling (the intro).  Not as strong as Windfall but it's honest.

Rock And Roll Lady is his final MCA single.  Jerry Fuller (Gary Puckett, Mark Lindsay) is producer and livens up the song.  I'm sure MCA told Rick that it's time to deliver a hit and that might have provoked a change in sound.  It still did not fit rock or country radio for that matter.  It's not that bad of a song.  The ironical Fadeaway (as title) returns the band back into a country mode once again.  It makes pleasant background noise but it really doesn't stand out.  The next year Rick would try his luck with Epic Records, with less satisfying results.


Davenport Finds From Last Week

Hurt Her Once For Me-Wilburn Brothers (Decca 32018)  1966 #3 Country
Worry-Johnny Tillotson (MGM K-13255)  #49 1964
Sweet Adorable You-Eddy Arnold (RCA 47-8363) 1964  #26 Country
Blue Side Of Lonesome-Jim Reeves (RCA 47-8902)  #59  1966  #1 Country
Homesick-Bobby Bare (RCA 47-8908)  1966  #38 Country
I Can't Stop Loving You-Don Gibson (RCA  47-7133) #81  1958 #7 Country
Oh Lomesome Me (b side)  #7 1958  #1 Country
In The Middle Of A Heartbreak-Wanda Jackson (Capitol 4635)  #27 1961 #6 Country
Cow Pattie-Jim Stafford (Viva/Warner WBS-49611) 1981  #31 Country

Mostly country from the RCA artists of the 60s. Most were jukebox copies without sleeves. Out of all of them the Wanda Jackson and Don Gibson sides sounded the best, despite the Gibson 45's looks. The Eddy Arnold song is uptempo, which is very rare from Eddy, who was going toward MOR music.

Beaker Street with Tom Wood 8/7/2020

9 p.m. – 10 p.m.

1. Fleetwood Mac “Morning Rain”
2. Creedence Clearwater Revival “Ramble Tamble”
3. The Moody Blues “Legend Of A Mind”
4. 13th Floor Elevators “You’re Gonna Miss Me”
5. Todd Rundgren “Black Maria”
6. Traffic “Shanghai Noodle Factory”
7. AC/DC “Ride On”
8. Little Feat “Easy To Slip”
9. Uriah Heep “Stealin'”
10. Doucette “Mama Let Him Play”
11. Edgar Winter’s White Trash “Keep Playing That Rock’N’Roll”

10 p.m. – 11 p.m.

1. J. Geils Band “Hard Drivin’ Man”
2. Van Morrison “Caravan”
3. Poco “Legend”
4. Emerson, Lake & Palmer “Fanfare For The Common Man”
5. Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks “I Scare Myself”
6. Jefferson Airplane “Embryonic Journey”
7. Jeff Beck “I Ain’t Superstitious”
8. Montrose “Rock Candy”
9. April Wine “Roller”
10. ZZ Top “Nasty Dogs and Funky Kings/ Beer Drinkers and Hell Raisers”
11. Stephen Stills “Treetop Flyer (Demo)”
12. Join Mitchell “Raised On Robbery”

11 p.m. – Midnight

1. Richard Thompson “1952 Vincent Back Lightning” (Live)
2. Yes “And You And I: i) Cord of Life ii) Eclipse iii) The Preacher, The Teacher iv) Apocalypse”
3. Jimi Hendrix “Voodoo Child (Slight Return)” (Live at Woodstock)
4. Status Quo “Pictures Of Matchstick Men”
5. The Kinks “Stop Your Sobbing”
6. Gentle Giant “Peel The Paint”
7. Styx “Best Thing”
8. Steely Dan “Don’t Take Me Alive”
9. Dr. John & The Band “Such A Night” (Live- The Last Waltz)
10. The Band “The Weight” (Live- The Last Waltz)
11. Pacific Gas & Electric “Are You Ready?”

Extra Innings (Post-Midnight)

1. Santana “Soul Sacrifice” (Live At Woodstock)


Great job and kudos to Tom Wood who shake things up with songs from Little Feat and Doucette.  Even AC DC got some love with the mellow Ride On.  J Geils Hard Driving Man.

I think this was better than last week.

Tyler Vincent: Compiled the songs.

The Rest Of The Madison Records and Beaker Street 7 31 20 20 playlist

The last of the batch:

1)   Silver Star-The Four Seasons (Warner WBS 8203)  #38 1976

Third and final single from Who Loves You, silly lyrics from Bob Gaudio and Judy Parker and Frankie Valli takes a break from this song.  I still love the song for what it is.  A forty five edit of the six minute song to which Curb Records did reissue later on, but with a different song sequence than on the Warner album.  B side Mystic Mr. Sam is silly fun, so is this Mystic Mr. Sam and his Cosmic Christian Band.  We should ask Bob Gaudio about this.

2)   Too Late The Hero-John Entwistle (Atco 7337)  1981

John's Atco album with Joe Walsh and Joe Vitale should have been much better effort.  John has played second fiddle to Pete Townsend's songs in The Who but he has written some winners, My Wife, Boris The Spider and the best songs off Face Dances and It's Hard was from John.  Two singles were issued off Too Late The Hero.  This one and Talk Dirty.  B side I'm Coming Back might have done wonders had Atco promoted that one, but they replaced it with Dancing Master.  Too Late The Hero was edited to three and half minutes from it's 7:29 album cut.

3)   Peter Gunn-Emerson, Lake & Palmer (Atlantic 3641)  1979

Love Beach pretty much ruined ELP to the point that Peter Gunn got hardly any airplay on the radio. KRNA played it twice.  Tiger In The Spotlight is a lesser known song off Works Vol 2.

4)    It Takes Time-Dave Dudley (Mercury 73404)  1973  #37 Country

5)   Nothing To Do (and all night to do it)-Billy Burnette (Warner 7-19042)  1992  #64 country

Billy never broke through, he did a couple a cool Rockabilly albums on Columbia, with Ian Wallace playing drums on the S/T album and Gimme You, which the Muscle Shoals swampers helped but neither sold and Billy drifted from label to label, in the process was in Fleetwood Mac during the Behind the Mask album and later on, Time, by far the worst selling and worst sounding Mac album in history.  At this time, Billy decided to try his hand back into country and it never took off.  Tho' Warner Music issued this as a 45, the purported album Coming Home would be released on Capricorn Records, which Warner distributed for a couple years.


6)    Slow Walk-Sil Austin  (Mercury 70963x45)  #17 1956

Sil's answer to Honky Tonk A slow building blues song, which influenced something we call The Stroll. I remembered this from the 1987 45s On CD that Polygram issued showcasing the hits of the Mercury label.

7)   Oh Oh I'm Falling In Love-Jimmie Rodgers (Roulette R-4045)  #7 1958

8)    Don't You Write Her Off Like That-McGuinn, Clark, Hillman (Capitol 4893)  #33 1979

9)    Step Out Of Your Mind-The American Breed (Atca 45-804)  #24  1967

10)  Dawn Of Correction-The Spokesmen (Decca 31844)  #36 1965

So upon completing this top ten, I came up one short and looked through my collection to see if i may have missed one from the past and turns out, I bought this single at Half Price Books last year.  I did find the album five years before hand.  Long story short, J. Madena decided to do an answer record to the bleak Eve Of Destruction by Barry McGuire and it did fairly well, tho once again time and corporate radio have rendered this into the forgotten pile.

5 Star Mud Bowl Game:  San Francisco 21  Los Angeles 13  (Kezar Stadium 11/6/1966)

Kezar Stadium had the worst drainage system, which mean when it rained, you were going to get lots of puddles in the soft ground turning into mud.  The NFL Game Of The Week at that time, showed Merlin in a nice clean white uniform, which went by the wayside when Lamar Lundy  plopped him from behind and the next play, his back numbers were covered up.   Later on, Deacon Jones bumped into him into the muck.  These games are so much fun to watch over and over again.  Real football, real weather.  However the rains ended and the sun came out in the 4th quarter.  This was John Brodie's game as he rushed for two touchdowns and threw a TD Pass to Kent Kramer. LA had two FGs and a Tommy McDonald TD reception.  But for a real mud game.   We must be in Kezar Stadium. (Note: somehow this starts in the middle of the game, so you may have to move it back to start.  This starts at the 9 35 mark.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M99oFzpZhv0&fbclid=IwAR1TUaiskEovbYcFlrUqhtx8-oF4N9f1J4-PA_RHtjcYfQuaE1FdvFWyP94

Subject for further research: Fausto Papetti.  Beneath this friendly face lies a guy who has many albums out there with not safe for work softcore photo work.  I knew nothing of his albums, but he recorded two per year.  Google Fausto Papetti's sexy album covers and go from there.  I'd post them but they might censor me for that.

 https://bassic-sax.info/blog/2011/the-very-sexy-covers-of-fausto-papetti/

Record Reviews:

Dave Edmunds-Pile Of Rock (Castle 2001)

Little did we know that this 1997 concert with Billy Bremner and G. Watkins backed with the Refreshments (not the Roger Clyne led band) would be one of the last things Edmunds would issue. He really did walk away from it all and retired back to Wales, but in a final blast, he tears through most of his classic songs and takes Sabre Dance into a whole new level.  While some claim that this is the better of the live albums, I think it holds better than the King Biscuit show, but still think I Hear You Rocking was a tad bit better.  The presence of Billy Bremner from the Rockpile era helps of course.  But since this came out on the Sanctuary label in the US, it turned out to be hard find even when available.  I love Dave Edmunds enough to buy this and celebrate his memory, after all Rockpile was my Beatles during the late 70s and early 80s, till they split up, and neither Nick Lowe or Dave Edmunds recovered, they still made good albums but the tension was long gone.  Edmunds would record a album of guitar instrumentals and a revisit of his Plugged In album, but A Pile Of Rock is his farewell.   And a sound one.

B+

Brandy Clark-Your Life Is A Record  (Warner 2020)

The most anticipated record of last year kept getting delayed to the point that I damn near forgot all about her, after being wowed by her Big Day In A Small Town, which came out in 2016.  Even when this did come out, I ended up buying the record than the CD.  What it was worth the wait?  In some ways it was, getting gruff ole Randy Newman to co sing on Bigger Boat is a WOW factor. And side closers Apologies and The Past Is The Past are grand statements to end the record on a positive.  The surprise is how Jay Joyce, after fucking up Miranda Lambert's last album, stays in the background most of the time and brings out the best in Brandy with less gimmicks.   Of course this is not like Kacey Musgraves' Happy Hour to which Kacey sells out to pop music, Brandy is far into real Americana and real country, but a bit darker and respective from within.   But we all know how much Warner Nashville has messed with Brandy Clark's albums to to point that the public never quite knew they were out there. Your Life Is A Record is not as catchy as Big Day is, but give it a few plays and you'll be humming the songs in your subconscious.  And thank your lucky stars Dave Cobb didn't get a hold of her.
B+

Beaker Street Play List: Clyde's Temporary Sign Off
Tyler Vincent compiled.  Clyde has some medical issues to take care of but his replacement will do a good job. Highlights:  Crow's forgotten Cottage Cheese, Moody Blues' Watching And Waiting and our very own Linn County's Fever Shot.

9 p.m. – 10 p.m.

1. Crow “Cottage Cheese”
2. Shocking Blue “Venus”
3. Mountain “Mississippi Queen”
4. Mike Oldfield “Shadow On The Wall”
5. Canned Heat “Sandy’s Blues”
6. Python Lee Jackson (f/ Rod Stewart) “In A Broken Dream”
7. Doc Severinson “In The Court Of The Crimson King”
8. Everything Is Everything “Witchi Tai To”
9. Yes “Take The Water To The Mountain”
10. Billy Thorpe “Children Of The Sun (Revisited)”
11. Joe Walsh “The Confessor”
12. Frank Zappa “Peaches En Regalia”

10 p.m. – 11 p.m.

1. The Youngbloods “Get Together”
2. Flipoff Pirates “Copperhead/ Walkin’ Blues”
3. Trapeze “Medusa”
4. Deep Purple “Sheild/ Anthem”
5. Uriah Heep “Bird of Prey”
6. Grateful Dead “Hell In A Bucket”
7. The Moody Blues “Eyes Of A Child Part 1> Floating/ Watching and Waiting”

11 p.m. – Midnight

1. The Allman Brothers Band “One Way Out” (Live- Eat A Peach)
2. String Cheese Incident “Mouna Bowa” (Live)
3. Moonalice “Dance Inside The Lightning”
4. The Spring Standards “Goodbye Midnight”
5. The Corporation “Drifting”
6.. Quicksilver Messenger Service “What About Me?”
7. Within Temptation “Mother Earth” (Live)
8. Trout Fishing In America “No Matter What Goes Right”
9. Linn County “Fever Shot”
10. Stevie Ray Vaughn & Double Trouble “Riviera Paradise”