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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 Apr 05, 2019
Friday Apr 05, 2019
Nirvana: Lake Of Fire
Nirvana: Jesus Don't Want me For A Sunbeam
Nirvana: The Man Who Sold The World
Polyphonic Spree: Lithium
Vitamin String Quartet: In Bloom
Butch Walker & The Black Widows: In Bloom
Steve Earle: Breed
Charlie Hunter Trio: Come As You Are
Caetano Veloso: Come As You Are
Paul Anka: Smells Like Teen Spirit
Tori Amos: Smells Like Teen Spirit
Todd Snider: Talkin' Seattle Grunge Rock Blues
Weezer: Heart Songs
Friday Mar 29, 2019
Friday Mar 29, 2019
Friday Mar 08, 2019
Friday Mar 08, 2019
Taj Mahal: Take A Giant Step
Monkees: Last Train To Clarksville (live)
Cassandra Wilson: Last Train To Clarksville
Butterfield Blues Band: Mary Mary
Run DMC: Mary Mary
Sex Pistols: Stepping Stone
Shadows Of Knight: Tommorow's Going To be Another Day
Continental Drifters Some Of Shelly's Blues
The Church: Porpoise Song
Nobody featuring Chris Gunst and Ikey Owens: Porpoise Song
The King Of Luxembourg: Valleri
Apologetix: Armegeddon Valley Someday
Specials: A Little Bit Me (96)
Smash Mouth : I'm A Believer
Neil Diamond I'm A Believer
John Stewart : Daydream Believer
Anne Murray: Daydream Believer
Friday Feb 22, 2019
Friday Feb 22, 2019
177
Queen with David Bowie: Under Pressure
Queen: Message Of Love
David Bowie: Cat People
Kinks: Living On A Thin Line
John Wesley Harding: Like A Prayer
Jefferson Airplane: Pretty As You Feel
Grateful Dead: Eyes of the World
Marvin Gaye: Come Get To This
Michael Franks: Eggplant
Elton John: Mona Lisas And Mad Hatters
Bob Dylan: Visions Of Johanna
Nat Cole: Mona Lisa
Friday Feb 15, 2019
Friday Feb 15, 2019
VE 131 Prehistoric Rock:
Roll 'Em Pete Big Joe Turner 1938
House of Blue Lights Freddie Slack (co-writer with Don Ray) and Ella Mae Morse 1946
Down the Road Apiece: Will Bradley Trio 1940
Good Rockin' Tonight: Wynonie Harris: 1948
Joe Liggins: The Honeydripper
Bull Moose Jackson: Big Ten Inch
Amos Milburn: One Bourbon, One Scotch One Beer
Sister Rosetta Tharpe: Rock Daniel 1941
The Fat Man: Fats Domino:
Louis Jordan & His Tympany 5 : Ain't That Just Like a Woman
Julia Lee and her Boyfriends Gotta Gimme Whatcha Got
We're Gonna Rock Wild Bill Moore 1947
Rock t he Joint: Jimmy Preston 1949
Move It On Over Hank Williams 1947
Jack Guthrie: Oakie Boogie
Woody Guthrie: Jesus Christ
Robert Wilkins; That's No Way To Get Along
Rolling Stones: Not Fade Away
Van Morrison : In The Days Before Rock And Roll.
VE 131 Prehistoric Rock
Today on the VE---rock, before it rolled. A rumage through the pre-historic rock vaults for songs that
foreshadowed rock and roll, compiled by guest programmer Dan Miele. These are vintage recordings but
their vitality will surprise you. I'm PC and this is the VE
Roll 'Em Pete Big Joe Turner 1938
Prehistoric rock on the VE. From the year 1938 AD that's the blues shouting daddy of em all, Big Joe
Turner with "Roll Em Pete." One of the first R&B recordings to make use of what was to become the rock
and roll back beat - as opposed to the more common shuffle rhythm. This song was later recorded by
Count Basie, and Joe recorded with the Basie band in later years. Joe Turner was the frist to record Shake,
Rattle and Roll, which later became a hit for Bill Haley and His Comets.
Things are really rockin at the House Of Blue Lights....Freddie Slack and Ella May Morse...
House of Blue Lights Freddie Slack (co-writer with Don Ray) and Ella Mae Morse 1946
Down the Road Apiece: Will Bradley Trio 1940
Dinosaurs roam the earth again--it's prehistoric rock on the VE. A couple there that were echoed in 60s
rock. Mitch Ryder refefrenced "house Of Blue Lights" by Freddie Slack and Ella Mae Morse, and The
Rolling Stones covered Will Bradley's "Down The Road Apiece."
Robert Plant recorded this one by Wynonie Mr Blues Harris with his group The Honeydrippers...and I'll
follow it up with the song that gave th eband their name.........
Good Rockin' Tonight: Wynonie Harris: 1948
Joe Liggins: The Honeydripper
The Honeydripper was Joe Liggins, who along with Wynonie Harris, was an inspiration to Robert Plant.
It's prehistoric rock on the VE. Here are a couple you'll know from their rock covers by Aerosmith and
George Thorogood....
Bull Moose Jackson: Big Ten Inch ***pull from YOutube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJpO4ObZSdg
Amos Milburn: One Bourbon, One Scotch One Beer *** pull from
youtubehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TqglR7YG1Y
The VE with prehistoric rock from Amos Milburn and Bull Moose Jackson...with the original versions of
songs you know well from seventies rock. Here's someon ewho held the title "queen of rock and roll"
when the competition iin thie category was pretty slim....but Sister Rosetta Tharpe had it all goin
gon...gospel chops and sex appeal....
Sister Rosetta Tharpe: Rock Daniel 1941
The Fat Man: Fats Domino:
The VE with PreHistoric Rock....but it begins inprope with thhe fat man, Antione Domino, from
1950....the tune is a variation on the traditional New Orleans tune Junker's Blues, which also provided the
melody for Lloyd Price's Lawdy Miss Clawdy.
Now, the guy known as the King of the Jukebox. Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five tore it up with
hilarious story-songs. His guitarist Carl Hogan guitar has been cited by Chuck Berry as one of his main
influences
Louis Jordan & His Tympany 5 : Ain't That Just Like a Woman 1946
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEqiWTb-UWA
Julia Lee and her Boyfriends Gotta Gimme Whatcha Got 1946http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=Pq98BQ7E7Bk
The VE with Prehistoric rock.. THAT girfriend could sing! Julia Lee And Her Boyfriends..who just
happened to be two legendary names of jazz-- Benny Carter and Red Norvo. No small wonder that she
commanded such prime session men--Julia sang and played piano in her brother George Lee's band,
which for a time also included Charlie Parker.
So where did 'rock" really begin? 1947--Wild Bill Moore
We're Gonna Rock Wild Bill Moore 1947
Rock the Joint: Jimmy Preston 1949
The VE with Prehistoric Rock, and the name itself, attributed to Clevland DJ Alan Freed, was taken from
tenor sax man Will Bill Moore's "We're Gonna Rock" which showed up on his Moondog Show radio
programs...also Jimmy Preston and Rock The Joint.
Let's rock out today's VE with one more that George Thorogood latched on to, by a legend of country
music who died before rock was born...
Move It On Over Hank Williams 1947
Jack Guthrie: Oakie Boogie
The Year was 1947. And like the legendary flying saucer that crash landed in Roswell, New Mexico, the
alien music life form of rock and roll was taking shape with some help from country cousin Hank
Williams, and right there Jack Guthrie and the western swing jam "Oakie Boogie, which Bill Haley's
Rock Around The Clock owes a debt to. Jack was the cousin of the seminal American music figure who
would have been 100 years old this week. Woody introduced one element of what would become rock
that we haven't touched on yet...the political and intellectual...soomething that was rare in popular music
of his day...but as a folk singer, Woody could speak his mind, and he makes an obvious political
statement in this song from 1940:
Woody Guthrie: Jesus Christ
Robert Wilkins; That's No Way To Get Along
Pre Historic Rock on The VE....Woody Guthrie, Jesus Christ, and Revered Robert Wilkins, "That's No
Way To Get Along..." rock rooted in bible stories....and that last one brings us to the half century mark
this week of the British rock band that brought all the early influences together in an entirely new,
original sound.
Rolling Stones: Not Fade Away
50 years ago, the Rolling Stones played their first gig at The Marquee Club in London. This week, they
posed outside thevenue and strongly hinted at a fiftieth anniversary tour. Not Fade Away. 20 years ago,
let alone 50, who would have thought that would be The Rolling Stones legacy.
To top off this VE exploration of Prehistoric rock, here is an evocative and epic song by another great
interperter of the rock roots. From his 1990 album "Enlightenment," Van Morrsion sings of "The Days
Before Rock And Roll, " and how those distant radio signals in the deepest night brought a brilliant new
light into his young world.
Van Morrison : In The Days Before Rock And Roll.
And that's the VE. A true mystic poet, Van Morrsion always finds a way to say it for all of us.
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Friday Feb 08, 2019
Friday Feb 08, 2019
VE 148
The Knack: Frustrated
The Everly Brothers: Problems
Graham Parker: Stupefaction
Animal Collective: Mercury Man
Pretenders: Time The Avenger
Aretha Franklin: Satisfaction
Pete Townshend: Let's See Action
Buddy Miles: Dreams (I'll Never See)
George Harrison: Wah Wah
Mountain Goats: Cry For Judas
Green Day: Welcome To Paradise
Bob Dylan: Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues
Peggy Lee: Is That All There Is
Today on the VE....
With holiday season approaching, the most stressful time of the year is upon us. Feeling a bit--edgy. An hour or vinyl track sto work off your frustrations to. I'm PC and this is the VE....
The Knack: Frustrated
The Everly Brothers: Problems
Graham Parker: Stupefaction
Graham Parker, The Everly Brothers and The Knack, to get this Vinyl Experience ...and the knots in your neck....worked out andn stress free. Animal Colllective's current LP is Centipede...this song, Mercury Man deals with how the balancing act of life can be as impossible as keeping a ball of mercury still....
Animal Collective: Mercury Man
Pretenders: Time The Avenger
Aretha Franklin: Satisfaction
The opposite of frustration---satisfaction....but even the Queen of Soul ain't gettin' any. The Rolling Stones classic, perhaps the greatest frustration song ever, from the Atlantic album Aretha Arrives. Also The Pretenders with "Time The Avenger, " from the MFSL reissue of Learning To Crawl....Pete Townshend now, the original version of a song that the Who would put out as a single...a procrastinators anthem...."Let's See Action!"
Pete Townshend: Let's See Action
Buddy Miles: Dreams (I'll Never See)
George Harrison: Wah Wah
Frustration grips the VE today, with George Harrison feeling it in his last yeears with The Beatles, and letting it all out on All Things Must Pass. Buddly Miles from Them Changes and a seldom heard version of the Allman Brothers great modern blues, "Dreams I'll Never See." The new LP by The Mountain Goats is rich and reewarding...not frustrating at all. It's Trancendental Youth, and from it, a song that works out some issues called "Cry For Judas."
Mountain Goats: Cry For Judas
Green Day: Welcome To Paradise
Bob Dylan: Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues
Dylan throws inthe towel on "Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues," from teh Mono Box reissue of Highway 61 Revisited. Green Day perfected the frustration anthems of the 90s, such as "Longview" and "Basket Case," but it all started with that little letter to mom , "Welcome To Paradise," from Kerplunk. ANd finally, another from the "be careful what yuou wisih for" file......
Peggy Lee: Is That All There Is
And that's the VE. Peggy Lee's 1969 hit of the jaded Lieber & Stoller song "Is That All There Is." Feeling relieved?! I hope this VE worked out some issues for you too! Find some more shows in the archives at PRN.FM and on demands at RTDS. Please share this show with your vinyl lovin gfriends on facebok and twitter. I'm PC
Friday Feb 01, 2019
Friday Feb 01, 2019
VE 355
El Jarocho: La Bamba
Los Lobos: La Bamba
The Blood Teds: Ooh My Head
Ramones (with The Paley Brothers): C’Mon Let’s Go
Ritchie Valens: Fast Freight
Ritchie Valens: Framed
Ritchie Valens: We Belong Together
Marty Wilde: Donna
Clem Snide: Donna
The Big Bopper: Chantilly Lace
George Jones: White Lightning
Johnny Preston: Running Bear
The Big Bopper: The Big Bopper’s Wedding
Buddy Holly: Peggy Sue Got Married
Buddy Holly: Peggy Sue
Blind Faith: Well All Right
Rolling Stones: Not Fade Away
Beatles: Don’t Let Me Down
Beatles: Get Back
Friday Jan 25, 2019
Friday Jan 25, 2019
VE 158
Rod Stewart Mandolin Wind
Steve Miller Band: Winter Time
Avett Brothers: January Wedding
The Band: Acadian Driftwood
Bob Dylan/Johnny Cash: Girl From The North Country
Jayhawks: Blue
Joni Mitchell: The Last Time I Saw Richard
Mumford & Sons: Winter Winds
Fleetwood Mac: Bare Trees
Elvin Bishop Group: Fooled Around And Fell In Love
Box Tops: Neon Rainbow
Decemberists: January Hymn
U2: White As Snow
Friday Jan 18, 2019
Friday Jan 18, 2019
VE 105 Politics
PRN:
Bob Dylan: Political World
Little Feat A Apolitical Blues
CSNY American Dream
Cream: Politician
Edward Broughton Band: Up Yours
Tom Robinson Band: Bully For You
The Beat: Stand Down Margaret
Sex Pistols: God Save The Queen
Against Me: I Was Teenage Anarchist
Rise Against: Architects
Rage Against The Machine: Killing In The Name
Bruce Springsteen with Tom Morello; The Ghost Of Tom Joad
Pearl Jam with Bono: Rockin' In The Free World
Green Day: American Idiot
Friday Jan 11, 2019
Friday Jan 11, 2019
VE 202
Glen Gray Casa Loma Orchestra: Snowfall
Elliot Smith: Angel In The Snow
Fleetwood Mac: Bare Trees
Alice In Chains: Heaven Beside You
Steve Miller Band: Winter Time
June Christy: Midnight Sun
Coldplay: Shiver
Cage The Elephant: Shiver
Steppenwolf: Snowblind Friend
Simon & Garfunkel: The Boxer
The Band: When You Awake
Mumford & Sons: Winter Winds
Rolling Stones: Moonlight Mile
Anne Murray: Snowbird