Episodes
Wednesday Dec 08, 2010
SANTABEAR - DEC 5, 2009 It's My (Archive) Vinyl !!!!!
Wednesday Dec 08, 2010
Wednesday Dec 08, 2010
This archive from almost exactly one year ago features the narrated Santabear's First Christmas and an assortment of rock Christmas recordings, such as David Clayton Thomas, Firefall (without Rick Roberts - I know this from an awkward meeting with him where I asked him to autograph the soundsheet of "Christmas In Love"...oops! he was gracioius, though), the Kinks, Blue Laser, and a few surprises...
Wednesday Dec 08, 2010
DECEMBER 4, 2010: the Band Wagon (unsigned artists)
Wednesday Dec 08, 2010
Wednesday Dec 08, 2010
Unsigned artists featured on December 4 include Alicia Angel, Caleb Hawley, Waty, a holiday sentiment from UK's Lisa Redford ("New Year's Day"), Kylie Edmund, the Dare Ya Blues Band with a cover of The Ides of March's "Vehicle", Kayte Strong with a cover of "You've Got A Friend", Virma, and The EZ Powell Band, ...the unsigned portion of the hour completes with The Cambridge Harmonica Orchestra performing "Joy To The World", a 33-1/3 RPM 7-inch EP that was traded in 1983 with the then bassist from Roomful of Blues in return for a Michael Jackson 45 of "Billy Jean" with a non-album b-side...then a few SIGNED artists to take us to 6am: Eagles with "Please Come Home For Christmas", the first release with Timothy B. Schmidt replacing Randy Meisner, Elton John's "Step Into Christmas", and unsigned bed music, Martha Bernstein's instrumental version of "Cinderella Falling". The show ends with the beginning of Polka Madness hosted by Johnny Prytko.
Wednesday Dec 08, 2010
DEC 4, 2010: It's My Vinyl !!!!
Wednesday Dec 08, 2010
Wednesday Dec 08, 2010
Christmastime with Vinyl: Bruce Springsteen's "Santa Claus is Coming to Town" from the b-side of "My Hometown" (one 'town' per side down at Columbia?), and the same cut is also found on Sesame Street's album In Harmony 2. The Crystals with an excerpt from Phil Spector's Christmas Album (Phil Spector's Christmas Single - actually a 3-song 7-inch dia 45 rpm EP), and the same song "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town"...David McDonald circa 1981 from Rochester NY and a holiday original, from a 45 on DRC records produced by Scott Meade. The Beatles with the "Nowhere Man"/"What Goes On?" single, Capitol 5587, the latter being Ringo's first song authorship...first pressings of the single and album "Yesterday"...And Today, credited the song to Lennon/McCartney, but follow-on pressings corrected the credit to read "Lennon-McCartney-Starkey". This version is in mono, but the stero version gives you more audible "off-mike" vocals from Ringo...try it sometime....the hour continues with Keith Richards' first solo recording, a single on Rolling Stones Records from the late 70s, Chuck Berry's "Run Rudolph Run". We're saving the b-side, Jimmy Cliff's "The Harder They Come", for post-Holiday episodes...then nothing solo from Keith for over a decade (except a token lead vocal or two on Rolling Stones albums, and that Barbarians community service thing in Canada)...the hour continues with The Cowsills' "Hair", The Left Banke walking away from Renee, David Clayton Thomas's version of Joni Mitchell's "River" from a MusicGram soundsheet included with a Christmas greeting card, Donny Hatheway's "This Christmas" from a mono promo single on Atco, and a series of "O's"...Jeffery Osborne, Ozo, and Oxo...and of course, Wonderdog's instrumental version of "A Christmas Tail (instrumental disco mix)" and Rob Wasserman's version of "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" used as bed music throughout the hour.
Wednesday Dec 08, 2010
December 4, 2010: The Friday Allnight Show - first hour
Wednesday Dec 08, 2010
Wednesday Dec 08, 2010
...fading in from John Scott's Underground Radio, midnight to 3am, the show kicks off with the album version of "Hello It's Me" from Todd Rundgren, continues with a preview of unsigned artists Addie Browlee (originally featured on the now infamous suspended Nov 20 podcast of The Band Wagon), Caleb Hawley from NYC with a track from his new album We All Got Problems, and Kylie Edmund from Australia, Next is Rob Wasserman with a track from his Trios album featuring various trios with other artists, and a [Christmas?] collaboration he had with Edie Brickel and Jerry Garcia. As the program continues with some rather mainstream material (why not be alternative to alternative?): we hear "Ironic" (is situational or cosmic irony really irony or ironic-in-nature in the purest form of the word?) from Alannis Morissette, The Four Tops (two from the four!), and Shawn Colvin telling me to get out of her house, and rightly so if I had acted like that!! (a song I've always wanted to play on the radio - one can't play it too loud!). Remember Nu Shooz from Seattle ("I Can't Wait")? or Duran Duran from the early Y2Ks? The DD track is their 2004 "comeback" that is superior to their main catalogue from the 80s (my opinion, not a tangible fact). Wrap up the hour with another unsigned artist, Waty, a very signed artist, Roy Orbison, and a beautiful Jeff Lynee-produced track from Mystery Girl (George H on background vocals), and some country from 1994....