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Sandra McCracken - Goodbye George
Paper Route - Carousel
Delta Spirit - Gimme Some Motivation
Peter Buzzelle - Gold Star Boulevard
Meghan Cary - Invitation
The Famous - Come Home to Me
Texas Boogie - Chop Top Mercury 49
Paul Thorn - I’m a Lucky Man

I’ll close out the Beatles For Sale album with a couple of Carl Perkins songs.
As I state in the show, it is food for thought that when they were together, the Beatles released 3 Carl Perkins songs but never an Elvis one…very interesting!
We’ll hear an almost forgotten one by them originally done by Larry Williams.
Then I’ll move into the Help LP for the last cover songs the Beatles would include on an album released during that period.
(A couple would later appear on the Anthology collections.)
Another thought- A Hard Day’s Night was all original songs, the later Help had covers…again interesting, but the Beatles were always infinitely interesting!
Kick back, enjoy and pick a favorite- the cover or the original.
There are no right answers, and most assuredly no prizes, lol!

Mike

Michelle Featherstone - Perfect
John Meed - Pavilion Parade
Beth Bombara - Don’t You Know
Paul d’Amore - It’s Written on the Moon
Meghan Cary - Building This House
Vintage Blue - Speak
Green River Ordinance -  Don’t Give Up

February 7th 1964, 48 years ago TODAY, the Beatles arrived in America at New York’s JFK Airport!
2 days later they did their first live performance here on the Ed Sullivan Show.
And that quite simply changed music forever!
What better way to remember than with some of their Beatlemania-era early songs?
And this will be the final Covered By The Beatles show simply because I have run out of material they covered- tunes they didn’t write but were originally done by mostly American artists.
Although I now can think of TWO others I will play in some other show at some future date.
If you want a cheat sheet, you can look up the British album I will begin with, Beatles For Sale.
It came out in December 1964 in the U.K., and oddly was preceded by A Hard Day’s Night, which consisted of all Lennon/McCartney songs- so NO covers!
These songs you will be hearing were chosen by the band because they were stage favorites…ones they enjoyed playing in concert.
Let’s see if you enjoy them as recorded, with the original versions behind them!
 
Mike
 

 

Part 2 of the latest compilation No Harm,  posted on
this Super Bowl Weekend .  (  GO PATS !!!!! )

Updated recent tunes on this one, is by
Jerrod Niemann, Adele and Bush.
Also a themed section concerning the Motion Of Sex.
I ended the show with a great story song by the
late great Harry Chapin.

This is ONE BIG MP3 for your listening enjoyment.
Check it out by clicking the play button
and / or downloading. Also you can subscribe to the show
through with I-Tunes. Also I would like you to share
this show with the music lovers in your life..

Music includes ::::

STRAWBERRY FIELDS FOREVER    /    THE BEATLES
WE HAVEN’T TURN AROUND ( X-Ray Version )    /    GOMEZ
ONE MORE DRINKIN’ SONG    /    JERROD NIEMANN
LIVED IN BARS    /    CAT POWER
SOMEONE LIKE YOU    /    ADELE
HER STRUT    /    BOB SEGER
DON’T TOUCH ME THERE    /    THE TUBES
BABY LET ME BANG YOUR BOX      ( Rated R )
/    DOUG CLARK AND THE HOT NUTS
SQUEEZE BOX    /    THE WHO
THE SOUND OF WINTER / BUSH
30,0000 POUNDS OF BANANAS / HARRY CHAPIN

Sound bites include ::::

WABC AM 77 Beatles Bumper (Hold Hands )
/   Vintage WABC Radio Jingle
KSED - Sedona - Kolt Country   /   Radio I.D.
This is for ladies only    /    Sound Bite from the movie My Favorite Year
Sex in motion / Sound Bite from the WFMU 365 Project
Contains scenes of violence - Naked women
/ Sound Bite from TV’s Monty Python
Stand by for action / Sound bite from TV’s Stingray
Ring around the collar / Vintage TV Wisk Commercial
WRVB News from Lakeville, NJ
/ Sound bite on Harry Chapin’s death. July 16th,1981
School Of Time Control / Comedy from WZLX -WBCN
Stroke a guy off / Sound Bite from TV’s Family Guy

Phil Ayoub - Carnival Day
Kelly Carpenter - Waiting
Vintage Blue - Unchained
Among Savages - Start at the Beginning
Michelle Featherstone - You’re Not Alone
Max Carmichael - Nightcrawling
Tony Deziel - Something
The Kelly Richey Band - One Day We’ll Feel The Sun

Man, I am good at this laziness!
Gonna open the 2nd half with a song that was a big hit in England in the 60’s- not over here.
But if you were listening here in those early FM radio days, you should have no trouble remembering it.
If you had to pick, what is the best time of day to be lazy?
I’ll give you my musical answer.
Later in, I played a song from an album called Twin Sons Of Different Mothers.
I had noticed both Engineer Ken and I were wearing Beatle shirts…different ones, but still…and both black!
So are we Twin Sons Of Different Mothers?
I doubt it, lol!
But THAT was odd- it’s not like I call him and tell him my fashion statement of the day.
This is too much writing for a lazy guy!
Let’s just say I played some damn good music regarding our subject.
And I reverted to an old tradition from when I was a kid and always brought the music to parties, something I have done before on the show, I ended with one of my 2 favorite groups- seemed like a good time to do that again.
Let’s drink to those of who are into sloth, raise a glass to the lazy from birth.
And enjoy the music!

Mike

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Katie Herzig - Make a Noise
Lee Tyler Post - Almost Over You
Graham Colton - You’re So Vain
Kris Bell - Grey
Green River Ordinance - Heart Of Me
Jess Penner - Bring Me the Sunshine
Louie Zagoras - Waiting For The Sun

During my self-imposed exile from the radio station, I became lazy.
As much as I love doing the shows, I enjoyed being lazy- it was fun!
No picking out songs, no mad scrambling for songs…no going into Manhattan in the morning.
And I am still lazy.
That’s enough information- this two-parter is called In Praise Of Laziness.
Think I might have “Lazy” songs?
You’ll just have to listen.
There’s a lot to be said for laziness.
I’m just too lazy to do it here, lol!

Mike

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Vintage Blue - Just Breathe
Pamela Polland - Chimayo
True Mad North - Nothing To Lose
Rosie Thomas - Songbird
Kelly Carpenter - Summer Rain
Delta Spirit -  Bushwick Blues
Goose Creek Symphony - Eight Years Old

 

Welcome back my friends with a brand new compilation I
made here in the month Of January of 2012, called No Harm.
This show ( Part 1 ) features 6 recent tracks made during the
latter part of the last decade and a few more made last year.
Also a really deep track from 1968. I wouldn’t be surprise
if you were brought up in the 50’s and 60’s,  and might not
even remember this song by Fever Tree. Mike Pell from
ROCKOLLECTIONS,  brought this one up on one of his shows,
and I barely remember it. I think the last time I heard this
song was when it was probably released. Hope you enjoy as
much as I did when I heard it again. Talk about your hippie
laced tunes about a girl during the Height Asbury days in San Fran.

By the way :::: Thanks for the pretty decent download numbers
I received for my last two shows. You also might want to check
out this show for a special little surprise. The closer to the
post date - January 28th the better ……
well let’s just leave it at that.

This show is ONE BIG MP3 for your listening enjoyment.
Check it out by clicking the play button
and / or downloading. Also you can subscribe to the
show through I-Tunes.
I also would like you to share this show with
the music lovers in your life..

Also check out the Doobie Brothers Vid,
if your a softie like me.. Click on the song ” Far From Home “
Watch till end….. ( Tissues please ! )  

Music includes :::

COUSINS    /    VAMPIRE WEEKEND
MAN IN MOTION   /   WARREN HAYNES
FAR FROM HOME    / THE DOOBIE BROTHERS
CALAMITY SONG / THE DECEMBERIST
SAN FRANCISCO GIRLS ( Return Of The Native )   /   FEVER TREE
REWRITE   /   PAUL SIMON
NO HARM   /   THE BOXER REBELLION
PERFECTLY GOOD GUITAR   /   JOHN HIATT
WAITING   /   GREEN DAY

Sound Bites include :::

Their gonna cram it down your throat / RR360 Start I.D. Sound bite
WXRV - True Music Diversity - Haverhill - Boston / Radio I.D.
KFML ( You don’t say - Transistor Radio ) / Vintage Progressive Radio
Station I.D.

Click the links below and follow the artists!

The Brilliant Mistakes - Good Year for a Change
Ten Year Vamp - Thinking of Me
Donna Lewis - Shout It Out
Jesse Malin Broken Radio - Something To Live For
Nees and Vos - Burn Me Down
Green River Ordinance - Dancing Shoes
Paper Route - Good Intentions

It took a while after I began playing Rock & Roll at the radio station for record companies to begin sending us CD’s.
But they did- not too many- after all, I was the only one playing our music (still am), and only for one hour once a week- but enough to keep Engineer Ken Stanley and I fairly up to date with new releases.
We’d split them and take them home to listen.
Occasionally we would play one of these NEW albums all the way through on a show, not an old classic one, just for something different.
Well, Tom Petty’s 3rd solo album Highway Companion in 2006, caught Engineer Ken’s ear.
So he suggested we do that one.
As I recall, I hadn’t even ever heard any of it, but I went along with it.
Hey it was an easy show, any dope can play an album straight through…not much thought goes into that, lol!
As things turned out, we took the chance and the CD was a successful one.
Produced excellently by Jeff Lynne from ELO & The Traveling Wilburys, etc., it topped out at # 4 on the Billboard charts.
It was different from Petty’s previous releases, with songs about the road (as suggested by the title) and aging- they were darker but still rocked.
What we have here is a show from 2006, when this album was new, and we will be playing the songs in their arranged order.
Here is the closing half of what turned out to be a fun time for me, with a rather light-hearted, humorous presentation.
And because I never used to pre-read the copy, out of nowhere I came upon a word I was in no way expecting and not prepared to pronounce- if I had taken a moment to slow down it would have been easy, but no, not me.
So listen for the battle between me and that word…the word won, lol!

Mike

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Peter Buzzelle - 67 Mustang
Soul of the River - My Rebecca
Dare Dukes - Crooked Mouth
Rosie Thomas - Where Was I
Nees and Vos - Remember Me
Graham Colton - My Resignation
John Roy Zat - Moths To A Flame
Delta Spirit - My Dream

It took a while after I began playing Rock & Roll at the radio station for record companies to begin sending us CD’s.
But they did- not too many- after all, I was the only one playing our music (still am), and only for one hour once a week- but enough to keep Engineer Ken Stanley and I fairly up to date with new releases.
We’d split them and take them home to listen.
Occasionally we would play one of these NEW albums all the way through on a show, not an old classic one, just for something different.
Well, Tom Petty’s 3rd solo album Highway Companion in 2006, caught Engineer Ken’s ear.
So he suggested we do that one.
As I recall, I hadn’t even ever heard any of it, but I went along with it.
Hey it was an easy show, any dope can play an album straight through…not much thought goes into that, lol!
As things turned out, we took the chance and the CD was a successful one.
Produced excellently by Jeff Lynne from ELO & The Traveling Wilburys, etc., it topped out at # 4 on the Billboard charts.
It was different from Petty’s previous releases, with songs about the road (as suggested by the title) and aging- they were darker but still rocked.
What we have here is a show from 2006, when this album was new, and we will be playing the songs in their arranged order.
Here is the opening half of what turned out to be a fun time for me, with a rather light-hearted, humorous presentation.

Mike

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Among Savages - Cold Wind
True Mad North - Answers On A Postcard
Rosie Thomas - The One I Love
Jess Penner - Everywhere I Go
Delta Spirit - People Turn Around
Paper Route - Lovers Anthem
Graham Colton - Hold Onto My Heart
Sylvia Bennett - I Still Love You

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8 Ball Aitken - Guitar Man
Brian Franke - Jersey Driver
Carbon Leaf - The Boxer
Chris DeMarco - The Mirror
Robert Walker - Ghostriders in the Sky
Jack Falk Project - Cruising The Rainforest
Doug Gill - United States of Generica

Part 2 of an unforgettable concert that is totally free.

ROCK ON !!!!!

SHOW ME THE WAY     -   PETER FRAMPTON
FRESH AIR   -   QUICKSILVER MESSENGER SERVICE
STAY WITH ME   -   ROD STEWART
FAT MAN IN THE BATHTUB   -   LITTLE FEAT
BETTER MAN   -   PEARL JAM
Maybe we can stop this rain - No Rain !   -  Sound Bite from Woodstock 69
THE NEEDLE AND THE DAMAGE DONE   -   NEIL YOUNG
HEY HEY   -   ERIC CLAPTON
It’s a free concert from now on   -   Sound Bite from Woodstock 69
STEAMROLLER BLUES   -   JAMES TAYLOR
GRAVEL - ANI DIFRANCO
SMOKE ON THE WATER - DEEP PURPLE

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Simon Fagan - Something I Don’t Know
John Roy Zat - Crazy Glue
Avi Wisnia - Rabbit Hole
Beggar’s Ride - Way of the Heart
Susan Picking - Wonder In The Wander
Jeremy Schonfeld -  If Ever
Jim Armstrong - When It Rains

1 John 3:1  See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him.

Visit the artists at the links below.
Triumphant Quartet - Almost Home
Gordon Mote - Pray About Everything
John Berry - Straight Down Rain
Beka Fox - Bound
Sisters - Brothers And Sisters
The Stevens Family - Anybody Got Joy
Eddie Ramirez - Season
Sandi Patty - The Lord’s Prayer

I have to bring this piece of crap back because among other things the sound card doesn’t work in the back, only in the front.
And I really hate this Windows 7- compared to XP it sucks big time!
Frankly, I hate computers period!
The thrill is long gone.
An honest appraisal would confirm that my active, social and intellectual life has gone down since I first got one about 6 or 7 years ago.
Have I returned to doing this show?
Answering now, it will be a good while before that happens- like I said, if it ain’t fun, I ain’t doing it!
It all depends on the comfort level, and right now I am not at all comfortable.
So it appears a parade of re-runs will be forthcoming…if that!
Here’s how the 2nd half of that early Summer of 2009 show went those years ago:

We return for this 2nd half with more “return” songs, lol.
Including one from an ex-Beatle that for some reason was never released, but will blow your mind!
After that, I knew that in my self-exile I had missed an entire season, Spring, by just a couple of days.
For all the Hallmark card feelings about Spring, it is often forgotten there was a time that for the Native American Indians in many parts of the country, to have SURVIVED the Winter was a cause for celebration.
Just plain being glad you had made it to Spring and weren’t dead!
So a song about that, written by a Cree Indian jazz musician named Jim Pepper, but the version I’ll play was taken over and done much better by a folk-rock duo.
This song and I have been friends for a very long time- since the early 70’s- so I hope you like it!
And bear in mind when this was broadcast, June 23rd was just 3 days into Summer.
I’ll end by going out pretty much the way we came in.
You may have noticed that I am the lone holdout when it comes to printing playlists of these shows.
I don’t believe in them!
There are maybe half a dozen people in radio that I like to listen to- who of course share my “anything goes” attitude about what to play.
And I most certainly do NOT want to know IN ADVANCE what they are going to play.
The chance to bring back a forgotten song long dormant in your memory, or one you have never heard but catches your ear- these are the things that are the most delightful to me, and why I guard my free-form status so closely.
Why in the hell would I want to tell you what I am going to play before I do so- and why would you bother listening if I did?
The element of surprise or anticipation is key- this show is not background music while you do something else, and I am not wallpaper hanging there so long you don’t notice it anymore!
Let’s finish this ride together.

Mike

Just got a new computer, and I don’t know this damn new Windows 7, just feeling my way around.
Maybe it’s better than Vista, but certainly NOT XP!
I was without anything for a long time.
And it’s incredible how much you always LOSE in the process.
Programs and equipment that used to work, are changed- using them must be figured out or are just plain ineffective.
So for the time being, here’s a show I did in early Summer of 2009 after a prolonged absence.
When I am comfortable and things are running smoothly & easily (if ever), I will do a NEW show.
Ticks me off because I had a rocking couple of shows planned.
Have I returned?
Who knows…the question mark is there because if it ain’t fun, I ain’t doing it!
Here’s how the 1st half went those years ago:

I have mentioned it here before, so some of you may know that I had a problem at the radio station where I have been for almost 11 years.
Serious enough to make me stay home and not return for four months- stubborn bastard that I can be, lol!
I don’t want to get into the details, but it had to do with my doing Talk and not Music for cost reasons.
There is enough mindless chatter on the radio without mine.
Well I guess I won, because I came back, I am not doing talk, and I continue to have no restrictions whatsover about the music I play- very rare indeed on today’s computerized playlist radio.
Chalk one up for the iconoclasts.
It was broadcast June 23, 2009, and I believe in the next chapter you will hear me refer to Summer having begun just days ago, which it had.
Now it was suggested to me that I not say anything about my lengthy absence- typical of radio, people come and go without comment.
But that’s not my style, I consider my listeners my friends, and I would not insult their intelligence by ignoring the fact I was missing for so long.
So I dedicated the hour to the fact that I had been gone, now I was back, and tested the freedom to play what I want by choosing songs about returning to places.
I also wanted the people who cared enough to be concerned, to know that my not having been there for so long had absolutely nothing to do with any health problems on my part, and felt it proper to ask both aloud and musically about THEIR state of health.
So that’s the background for this, the first of two parts.
And I had enough time away to think of the most PERFECT song to open with- about being Back Where You Started and Doing It All Again!
And I went from there…!
Mike

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Vintage Blue - California Road
Elle B. Willson - Just Me
Christopher Leigh (Broken Arrow Blues Band) -  Gotta Boogie
Kelly Carpenter - The View From Here
Simon Fagan - Tomorrow’s Another Day
Pheroze - Kingdoms

James 1:22 “But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only”. (KJV)

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The Perrys - Blue Skies Coming
Legacy Five - Ask Me Why
Gold City - Peter James And John
The Chuck Wagon Gang - Bare Hands
Keith Plott - Love Flowed
Bret Short - By The Grace Of God (The Purpose Driven Life)
JD Sumner - The Lord And The Farmer/Haven Of Rest
Aaron Neville - The Lord’s Prayer

Since recorded time people have been running late.
Ever think maybe they should have started earlier?

For more artist info click the links below!
John Roy Zat - Johnny Fonteneau
Beggars Ride - Another Day
Chad Kichula - Miner Road
Jeremy Schonfeld - Piece of Me
Julia Sinclair - Lies
Wes Tucker and the Skillets - What You Stole
Lee Tyler Post - And We Danced