Episodes
Friday Aug 29, 2014
Vinyl Experience - The Finest Work Songs - 08/29/14
Friday Aug 29, 2014
Friday Aug 29, 2014
VE 235 8/29/14
REM: Finest Worksong
Thom Chacon: American Dream
Julian Cope: Five O Clock World
Animals: We Gotta Get Out Of This Place
The Clash: Career Opportunities
Pet Shop Boys: Opportunities
Kinks: Dead End Street
Arcade Fire: The Suburbs
Eddie Cochran: Summertime Blues
Bob Dylan: Maggie's Farm
Marianne Faithful: Working Class Hero
Devo: Working In A Coal Mine
Tennesee Ernie Ford: Sixteen Tons
Lucero: Women And Work
Jonathan Edwards: Sunshine
Bruce Springsteen: Out In The Street
Rolling Stones; Salt Of The Earth
Friday Aug 22, 2014
The Vinyl Experience - 08/22/14
Friday Aug 22, 2014
Friday Aug 22, 2014
Replacements: Can't Hardly Wait
Vamipire Weekend: Diane Young
Incubus: A Certain Shade Of Green (acoustic)
Fleetwood Mac: For Your Love
Roberta Flack: Compared To What
Nu Musik: Straight Lines
Smiths: Ask
Stan Getz/Joao Gilberto: So Danco Samba
Ryan Adams: 1974
Stooges: 1969
The Doors: Ship Of Fools
The Band: King Harvest (Has Surely Come)
The Beatles: You Never Give Me Your Money
Tom Rush: Urge For Going
Woody Herman Sextet: Early Autumn
Monday Aug 18, 2014
The Vinyl Experience - For Robin Williams and Lauren Bacall - 08/15/14
Monday Aug 18, 2014
Monday Aug 18, 2014
Robin Williams: Nicky Lenin (from Reality What A Concept)
Cake: Mork And Mindy Theme (Disco Version)
Robin Williams as Adrian Cronauer: Good Morning Vietnam
Martha & The Vandellas: Nowhere To Run
Louis Armstrong: What A Wonderful World
Bertie Higgins: Key Largo
Lauren Bacall: And Her Tears Flowed Like Wine (from Key Largo)
Nat Cole/Nelson Riddle Orchestra: How Little We Know
George Harrison: Hong Kong Blues
Lauren Bacall: Welcome To The Theater (from Applause)
Robin Williams and Matt Damon in Good Will Hunting
Starland Vocal Band: Afternoon Delight
Robin Williams: Grandpa Funk (from Reality What A Concept)
Grand Funk Railroad: Closer To Home
Today on the VE....Robin Williams and Lauren Bacall left records as part of their indellible legacy. I'll play a few of them, and songs that evoke their classic screen roles.
Friday Aug 08, 2014
Vinyl Experience - Nixon's The One - 08/08/14
Friday Aug 08, 2014
Friday Aug 08, 2014
Commemorating the 40th Anniversary of Nixon's resignation
Connie Francis: Nixon's The One
John Lennon: Gimmie Some Truth
Denver Boise & Johnson: The '68 Nixon
Little Kathy Hoffman: Kathy's Letter
Neil Young: Campaigner
Country Joe McDonald: Tricky Dicky
Michael J. Brody Jr.: The War Is Over
Gene Marshall: God Bless Richard Nixon
Tom T. Hall: Watergate Blues
Bob Kirkpatrick: Watergate Blues
Howlin' Wolf: Watergate Blues
Big Joe Williams: Watergate Blues
The Honey Drippers: Impeach The President
Phil Ochs: Here's To The State Of Richard Nixon
Stevie Wonder: You Haven't Done Nothing
David Bowie: Young Americans
The Dead Kennedys: We've Got A Bigger Problem Now
Friday Aug 01, 2014
Vinyl Experience - Cities - 08/01/14
Friday Aug 01, 2014
Friday Aug 01, 2014
Today on the VE:
There are so many songs about cities..but a very special subset of those specifically list cities...a whole bunch of em...in each song..I'll play a cool assortment, from swing to punk, all from the original LPs. I'm PC and this is the VE
Talking Heads: Cities
Talking Heads from 1979's Fear Of Music...a record recorded in Long Island City, long before the hipsters arrived. David Byrne's quest for the right city to live in is just one entry among many songs that compare the virtues of various towns. But if you're born a New Yorker, it all comes back to the big apple. Here's jazz singer Chris Connor, along with Maynard Ferguson's band....
From the decade when New York really ruled...the 1950's....Sammy Davis and Ray Charles also recorded "New York's My Home, written by composer and arranger Gordon Jenkins. The VE is traveling from city to city in song...and Hank Snow's been...everywhere...
Hank Snow: I've Been Everywhere
Rolling Stones: Route 66
The VE, with the Bobby Troup song that the Nat King Cole trio made famous..the Rolling Stones rocked it up on their first album in 1964, and Depeche Mode revived it 25 years later. 'Route 66." Before that, Stones fave Hank Snow with "I've Been Everywhere."
The VE, spinning songs that list cities. Chuck Berry did that on a couple of very influential songs, "Back In The USA, and this one, "Sweet Little SIxteen."
Chuck Berry: Sweet Little Sixteen
Martha & The Vandellas: Dancing In The Streets
Don't forget the motor city....the VE with city songs....and so Martha & The Vandellas "Dancin In The Streets" gets a reference in this city-lister from 1983 by Los ANgeles' own ....X
X: The New World
Steve Miller Band: Rock N Me
The VE...a couple of city songs that reference others...Stve Miller's "Rock N Me" nods to The Beach Boy's California Girls, where the northern girls keep their boyfrinds warm at night...and X sings "don't forget the motor city," just like Martha Reeves did, in their song "The New World."
Songs not just about cities, but the movement froom city to city, as with ramblin' boy Dave Loggins, and this wimp-rock standard from the 70's, on The VE...
Dave Loggins: Please Come To Boston
Little Feat: Willin'
Grateful Dead: Truckin'
The VE with the rare single version of The Grateful Dead's "Truckin,"...despite all that was chopped out, all the cities they mention remain intact. Little Feat took us through some dusty southwest towns in "Willin," and Dave Loggins wooed a gal from town to town in "Please Come To Boston."
It's City-List songs on ther VE. From pop to post-punk now, beginning with The Bloodhound Gang's extreme take on the rock-road song, "Going Nowhere Slow."
Bloodhound Gang: Going Nowhere Slow
Smiths: Panic
The VE, songs that list cities...our first tour of Britian, with the Smiths and "Panic,"a and now a cosmopolitan take, from Ian Dury and The Blockheads....
Ian Dury And The Blockheads: Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick
James Brown: Night Train
Godfather--James Brown...and the ony way to travel...city to city, but Night Train...and so let's make one more stop by train of city-list songs tour, with the first great one...in fact, the first Gold Record award from 1941. The Glen Miller Orchestra, and a rare Hi Fi recording of his hot swing band from the film soundtrack Orchestra Wives
Glen Miller: Chattanooga Choo Choo
And that's the VE. Find this, and past shows in the Archives at PRN.FM
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