Episodes
Friday Jun 28, 2019
The Vinyl Experience - Apples and Oranges
Friday Jun 28, 2019
Friday Jun 28, 2019
VE 126 Apples and Oranges
Richard Dawson: Apples And Oranges
Pink Floyd: Apples And Oranges
Pink Floyd: If
Bread: If
Roberta Flack: Feel Like Making Love
Bad Company: Feel Like Making Love
Bon Jovi: Runaway
Del Shannon: Runaway
Jefferson Starship: Runaway
Ringo Starr: Photograph
Def Leppard: Photograph
Cars Bye Bye Love
Everly Brothers: Bye Bye Love
Radiohead: High And Dry
Rolling Stones: High And Dry
Five Satins: In The Still Of The Night
Frank Sinatra: In the Still Of The Night
Today on the VE... a real cool theme that will have you connecting the dots thorugh the next hour of music--but
first, let's begin with a salute to actor and game show master Richard Dawson, who died last week, but left this 45
RPM relic as part of his show business lagacy. I'm PC and this is the VE :
Richard Dawson: Apples And Oranges
Richard Dawson, at the height of his Hogan's Heroes fame, with the psychedelic novelty record, "Apples And
Oranges." Funny...didn't Pink Floyd releaase a single with the same title at about the same time? (Pink Floyd:
Apples And Oranges, est & fade) ....and so, my eureka moment....struggling with a theme for this week's Vinyl
Experience...it's right there...like apples and oranges...some songs can share the same title, but be very
different..case in point--let's stay with with Pink Floyd, and a cut from their 1970 album "Atom Heart Mother," called
"If, " and follow that with a very different group, song of the same title, and similar emotional tenor...can you guess
who it will be ...
Pink Floyd: If
Bread: If
The VE with Bread, and Pink Floyd...two groups as different as apples and oranges, and two different, but relatable
songs with the common title of "If." See how this works. OK.. Let's stay in the early 70's....1974 specifically, when
two songs, both on Atlantic Records, shared the same title, and the distinction of being two of the year's bigest
hits...
Roberta Flack: Feel Like Making Love
Bad Company: Feel Like Making Love
The VE....Feel Like Making Love, by Bad Company, and Roberta Flack. As different as Apples and Oranges...let's
keep it going , two entirely differnt eras of rock and roll, but two teen-idol bad boys, each debuting with a song
called "Runaway."
Bon Jovi: Runaway
Del Shannon: Runaway
The VE, Apples and Oranges...the songs Runaway by Del Shannon ion 1961, and Bon Jovi, who was an infant the
year that came out, but shot to stardom in '83 with his tune. How about a bonus "Runaway" ?!
Jefferson Starship: Runaway
The VE....same title, different songs. Like apples and oranges...or paintings and.... photographs...
Ringo Starr: Photograph
Def Leppard: Photograph
The VE....I know you've got the hang of this by now
Cars Bye Bye Love
Everly Brothers: Bye Bye Love
Apples and oranges, and Cars and Everly Brothers, "Bye Bye Love," on the VE. There are so many twin title
songs, we'll have to do a sequel hour some time....but for now, just time for another couple of sets...this one is
Radiohead's most covered tune
Radiohead: High And Dry
Rolling Stones: High And Dry
The Rolling Stones first attempt at a country-blues tune, and with fine harmonica by Mick jagger, on Aftermath's
"High And Dry," and Radiohead, wit thie lonesome cowboy ballad "High ANd Dry," a tune Thom Yorke dislikes, but
artists as diverse as Sugarland and Jamie Cullum, adore...they'e done their own versions...apples and oranges
indeed. Let's wrap it up with some greasers, and the original skinny kid singer from the neighborhood....
Five Satins: In The Still Of The Night
Frank Sinatra: In the Still Of The Night
And that's the VE. As simple as The Five Satins, as sophisticated as Sinatra.....
Monday Jun 24, 2019
The Vinyl Experience - Summer Solstice
Monday Jun 24, 2019
Monday Jun 24, 2019
VE 179 Summer Solstice
Miles Davis: Summertime
The Band: Time To Kill
XTC: Season Cycle
Ray La Montagne: For The Summer
B52s: June Bug
The Kinks: Wonderboy
Love: The Good Humor Man
Lovin Spoonful: Rain On the Roof
Small Faces: Itchycoo Park
Tony Bennett: Lazy Afternoon
Pink Floyd: Grantchester Meadows
Wilco: Sky Blue Sky
Oasis: Don't Look Back In Anger
Thin Lizzy: The Boys Are Back In Town
Today on the VE--celebrating the summer solstice with songs to roll out the season. I'm PC and this is the VE:
Miles Davis: Summertime
The Band: Time To Kill
XTC: Season Cycle
Happy Sumer Solstice from the VE. "Season Cycle" came from XTC's album Skylarking. That record, and the one
before it, Stage Fright by the Band were produced by Todd Rundgren, some 16 years apart. Rick Danko's song "
Time To Kill' captures the easy free feeling of early summer with many sweet days ahead---- God Willing And The
Creek DOn't Rise...that's the title of Ray La Montagne's 2009 LP featuring the song "For The Summer'
Ray La Montagne: For The Summer
B52s: June Bug
"Cosmic Thing" was one of the great LP comeback stories..for The B52's...from it, "June Bug." Summer Solstice
Celebration. spining some records from the 60s that havent lost innocence, or freshness. As the Kinks sing,
"everybody's looking for the sun...."
The Kinks: Wonderboy
Love: The Good Humor Man
Lovin Spoonful: Rain On the Roof
A couple of American bands--Love and Lovin Spoonful...sandwiched in between British legends The Kinks...and
this summer essential by Small Faces....
Small Faces: Itchycoo Park
The VE Summer Solstice celebration continues with a couple of great word-picture songs, by artists who come from
far corners of the galaxy..but still places where summer comes...
Tony Bennett: Lazy Afternoon
Pink Floyd: Grantchester Meadows
As dissimilar as Pink Floyd and Tony Bennett are, they seem to be on the same page when it comes to summer
daydreaming. From Ummagumma, early Floyd and "Grantchester Meadows" fly-swat and all...and from an early
June night at Carnegie hall in 1962, Tony Bennett in his prime, with the tulip trees a bloomin and the beetle bugs a
zoomin on a Lazy Afternoon.
Summer is a state of min dtoo. If you're havin gtrouble getting into it, take refuge in these songs by Wilco and then
Oasis...
Wilco: Sky Blue Sky
Oasis: Don't Look Back In Anger
Oasis, from the LP with the summer tite What's The Story Morning Glory..and Wilco with the title cut of 2008's Sky
Blue Sky. Finally on the VE...if all we've heard hasn't convinced you that it won't be long till summer comes--this
one will do it.
Thin Lizzy: The Boys Are Back In Town
And that's the VE...Thin Lizzy makes it official...summer's here and the time is right....to download some VE shows
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