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Legendary New York DJ Paul Cavalconte brings you the only radio show all about records, celebrating the Vinyl LP resurgence and the unique culture of analog recording.
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Friday Jun 03, 2016
Friday Jun 03, 2016
The Vinyl Experience 124
Bee Gees: First Of May
Faith No More: I Started A Joke
Janis Joplin: To Love Somebody
Sarah Vaughn: Run To Me
Astrud Gilberto: Holiday
Al Green: How Can You Mend A Broken Heart
Donna Summer: Hot Stuff/Heaven Knows
Blondie: I Feel Love
Red Hot Chili Peppers: I Feel Love
Tom Tom Club: Love To Love You Baby
Happy Mondays: Stayin' Alive
The Bird And The Bee: How Deep Is Your Love
Eve's Plum: If I Can't Have You
Bee Gees: Nights On Broadway
Today
on the Vinyl Experience, 2 musicians who carried the record industry to
unimaginable heights. No matter what side of the rock-disco debate you
may have been on in the 1970s, there's no denying that The Bee Gees and
Donna Summer made an indelible mark. So let's put together some of their
songs, and some reflections of their music. I'm Paul Cavalconte and
this is the Vinyl Experience.
Bee Gees: First Of May
Faith No More: I Started A Joke
The
Vinyl Experience with Killing Joke's version of the pre-disco BGs hit
"I Started A Joke," and The BGs at the start with "First Of May." Robin
Gibb was the lead singer back then, and the songs had a
folky-psychedelic Beatles feel. These early songs lent themselves to
interpretation by divas...and here are 3 great female voices with 3
early BGs hits....
Janis Joplin: To Love Somebody
Sarah Vaughn: Run To Me
Astrud Gilberto: Holiday
The
Vinyl Experience, remembering Robin Gibb with 3 great diva takes on
early BGs songs. Bossa nova queen Astrud Gilberto did the BGs late 60s
smash "Holiday" on her album "September 17, 1969." Jazz master Sarah
Vaughn tenderly rendered "Run To Me," which was also a hit for Dionne
Warwick. And Janis Joplin belted out "To Love Somebody" on "Ive Got Dem
Ol Kosmic Blues Again." Another chart-topping hjit that Robin sang lead
on was "How Can You Mend A Broken Heart" in 1971. That same year, on
the album that made him a star, "Let's Stay Together," Al Green does a
soulful reading...
Al Green: How Can You Mend A Broken Heart
The
Vinyl Experience with The BGs first era. We'll pick it up shortly with
unique renditions of their late 70s hits but first, the game changer the
voice that launched the Disco revolution. Donna Summer ....
Donna Summer: Hot Stuff/Heaven Knows
(Clip)
So much industrial and alternative rock couldn't have been without
Donna Summer and producer Giorgio Moroder's records....not to mention
the new top 40 era that Michael Jackson and Madonna carrien don into the
80s....
Disco and punk co-incided, but they didn't necessarily
clash. Blondie performed this cover of Donna Summer's seminal trance
classic "I Feel Love" at their own height in 1979....
Blondie: I Feel Love
Red Hot Chili Peppers: I Feel Love
Tom Tom Club: Love To Love You Baby
Donna
ruled at Studio 54, while Talking Heads sweated it out on the Bowery at
CBGBS, Dona Summer's alternative influence with Tom Tom Club's :"Love
To Love You Baby," Flea feeling the deep bass of "I Feel Love" with
RHCP, and Blondie's take opt he same song, from a live B side....
Once
Donna Summer kicked off the endless night that was disco, the BGs were
ready for re-invention, the BGs Saturday Night Fever Era through the
ears of some impressionable fans.... Happy Mondays...
Happy Mondays: Stayin' Alive
The Bird And The Bee: How Deep Is Your Love
A
tender song that The Bird And The Bee do justice, "How Deep Is Your
Love," as The Vinyl Experience salutes Robin Gibb one of the BGs biggest
hits was a cover...Yvonne Eliman take "If I Can't Have You" to #1, and
Eve's Plumb took it to a grunge place
Eve's Plum: If I Can't Have You
Bee Gees: Nights On Broadway