8 a.m. Hour:
Gordon Lightfoot, Beautiful, Gord's Gold
Janis Ian, Society's Child, The Essential Janis Ian
Bob Dylan, Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You, Nashville Skyline
Flying Burrito Brothers, Christine's Tune, Hot Burritos!
Traffic, Dear Mr. Fantasy, Welcome To The Canteen
Peter Gabriel, Solsbury Hill, Secret World Live
David Bowie, All The Young Dudes, Best Of Bowie
The First Edition, Just Dropped In, The First Edition
Flock, Big Bird, The Best Of The Flock
Vassar Clements, Yakety Bow, Superbow
Marshall Tucker Band, Take The Highway, Where We All Belong
9 a.m. Hour:
Melaine, Candles in the Rain/Lay Down, Candles in the Rain + Leftover Wine (Edsel EDSD 2001)
Staple Singers, If You're Ready, The Very Best Of
Ohio Express, 1 2 3 Red Light, The Best Of/Yummy Yummy Yummy
Doors, Love Me Two Times (Take 3), Strange Days (2007 Reissue)
Don McLean, Words and Music, Legendary Songs Of
Deep Purple, Space Truckin', Machine Head
George Harrison, Isn't It a Pity, Songs By George Harrison
Bonzo Dog Band, The Intro And The Outro, The History of the Bonzos
Freddy Fender, Wasted Days and Wasted Nights, Super Hits of the 70's/Have a Nice Day Vol. 18
Randy Newman, I Love L.A., The Best of
Mose Jones, Mose Knows, Mose Knows
Jimmy Buffett, Pencil Thin Mustache, Living and Dying in 3/4 Time
Saturday, August 31, 2013
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I welcome your comments to this family-friendly, moderated blog. To keep you from being disappointed, I don't profess to be an expert in music, play only deep cuts, and be a music snob. I listened to top 40 and liked it. And I do repeat songs because I pull music off the wall on the fly - just like the old days.
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great program !!
ReplyDeleteloving the live versions of the classics; Peter Gabriel (still have all his vinyls, Traffic, Bowie. How bout Frank Zappa's Yo Mamma, live Jane's Addiction of Jane Sys off the Kettle Whistle cd...a true classic. Dig the Little Feat, all others. FLOCK--very cool; some little feat with fiddling, horns, a bit of funk--rich flavors. Check out youtube Jean Luc Ponty 2010 live doing Frank Zappa's 1969 composition of King Kong.
DJW 8.31.13
Going further back, there's some great Big Head Todd & the Monsters, Little Feat,
Great Show again, Jeff, but one thing.
ReplyDeleteI've turned lots of folks on to your show the last 2 years, but we're noticing that you're repeating some stuff. Great stuff, but I'm getting suggestions like Gong, Deep track stuff from Jethro Tull, FZ, and more Be Bop Deluxe. Oh, and Hot Tuna from the live album Double Dose. A friend of mine wants to hear Neil Young's "Last Trip To Tulsa." Another friend of mine heard "I Love LA, and wants to hear side one of Little Criminals.
Again Love the show.
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I agree...and when the show came back last year I tried to keep a spreadsheet of the songs and the dates they played, but at the same time I took a new job that is keeping me hopping for over 50 hours per week - it just became too time consuming to track it all. And then there is the little problem that we had a decade ago when the station had to be relocated for a renovation and our album library wasn't considered important enough to find storage for. So, I've sunk a lot of my personal funds into buying back a lot of what we lost, but that takes time. If we had WREK's space we'd be in great shape. Oh...and I refuse to play MP3s unless it's a special RIP set. People forget how good FM sounds when you're playing from a good LP pressing or a good CD. Listeners under 25 don't know what they're missing - there is so much emotional impact when you hear the full timbre of a song. It depresses me to hear the classic albums on MP3 or even AAC. Oh well, I'll close to say that I'll have to buy more Randy Newman, 'cause some of his best stuff not PC. After all, I work there and I can't get away with "Let’s drop the big one and see what happens." Some folks wouldn't think that's funny.
DeleteJeff, my wife wonders why I bound out of bed at 7:45 every Sat morning. Your show is wonderful. I was a near obsessive fan of WRAS in the early to mid 70s when I was in high school. In fact, I recorded on tape (cassette of course) many hours of WRAS music during this time frame and I have cherished those tapes over the years, most of which are still intact 40 years later! I've started noticing the tapes are breaking when I try to play them, so I've started making a written list of the playlists that I recorded, which are the actual songs played by the various DJs that I recorded -- most at night and during the weekend (i.e. not during school hours). I have 83 cassettes of genuine WRAS music from 1973 until 1975. I have transcribed the songs into writing and, more significantly, into actual iTunes playlists, at least those songs that I can find. Probably about 1 out of every 5 songs played either I could not understand the DJ, or they didn't announce the song or I couldn't find the song online. What still strikes me is the brilliant selectivity of the playlist then at WRAS. Whether that is attributable to the program managers (including -- unless I'm mistaken -- someone named "Jim Morrison" -- could that be?) or the DJs themselves. Regardless, the SEQUENCE of songs is typically brilliant and not at all random. I mean, where else other than WRAS (crica 1973) will you hear Time Has Come Today by the Chambers Bros, followed by Hot Smoke and Sassafras by Bubble Puppy, followed then by Maggot Brain by Funkadelic, followed by Hocus Pocus by Focus. BRILLIANT. Where else would you hear two lost gems of the 60s (Which Way You Going Billy? and Back on the Streets Again) within 15 minutes of Zepp's "Ramble On" and yet it sounds entirely RIGHT. Jeff, does the station maintain an archive of playlists? If so, my little snippets from history may be of interest to you. Accordingly, I'm sending you 10 CDs of some of my favorite real live playlists from this era. I know you only play vinyl at the station but I think you'll enjoy the brilliance of what these DJs were doing during this period -- the superb mix of some r&b, a little top 40 (but only great cuts -- e.g. Dnacing in the Moonlight by King Harvest) and, primarily, excellent rock n roll with a driving beat. I notice that you repeat a number of songs (Elected by Alice Cooper and Woodchopper's Ball by 10 Years After -- both excellent by the way) but why repeat anything with so much out there that hasn't been played. Not a criticism -- just a question. Most of your selections nail it on the head -- the old WRAS that I recall from the early and mid-70s. I will send you the package of CDs in a couple of weeks. They will be annotated with a written list of the names of the songs. Unfortunately, I didn't keep track of the dates and times that I recorded the station (i.e. January 6, 1974 from 2pm -4pm) but they're all from 1973-1975. Keep making my Sat mornings so much fun, Jeff!!
ReplyDeleteAlex, I see that a long reply I just thought I submitted was lost, so the short version is: The tapes you have are rare and cool, but don't play them again until you can record them straight to a digital recorder - see the wiki article on sticky-shed tape syndrome - but don't try it at home...cassettes will get warped. The station doesn't have old playlists, so transcripts would be nice for the Archives Collection of GSU. We had brilliant staff in the 70's, like Richard Belcher, Jim Morrison, Willard, and Bob Bailey. Bob had an incredible collection of music and knowledge. So mixes like today's Flock into Vassar Clements were common then. If you want to sleep in Saturdays, consider the $5 app from "tunein". You can record the show and listen when you want! Thanks for listening and in the words of Ken Roberts from the TV 5 News Scene sign off, "That's all for us from here for now".
ReplyDeleteOh...I forgot Anita Sarko, one of the most famous club DJs of the past 40 years. She was at WRAS too!
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