Monday, 15 July 2019

KSHE KLASSICS SHOW, July 14th, 2019

Quotation Of The Week ~ Graham Nash (on Dan Fogelberg): The world became a little brighter because of his music.

[As you may or may not know, i live in Canada, and for some reason KSHE doesn't stream their audio to here; i have to connect via a VPN, to spoof a non-Canadian address. This week, according to https://whatismyipaddress.com/ , i was listening from San Francisco again.]

Well, that didn't start in too promising a fashion: the lead singer of Pavlov's Dog (a St Louis band), David Surkamp, has one of the most irritating voices i have ever heard. (Mike Reno of Loverboy, whose song was the next but one, has a voice that can effect me like fingernails on a blackboard, wasn't too bad on “Queen Of The Broken Hearts”).

I knew that it couldn't possibly get any worse and of course it didn't, in spite of the inclusion of Ted Nugent and (ugh) REO Speedwagon (whose singer, Kevin Cronin, is another whose voice makes me want to perform self-evisceration). It wasn't extraordinary, though. I was all set to grade it an A- until Dan Fogelberg came on in the final hour, which automatically kicked it up to A++

Lots of music to love, and a lot of Canadian music too – not necessarily the same thing, obviously, but KSHE does play a lot of Canadian music that is never heard on Canadian radio and today there was more than usual. (Uman even admitted that he was in a Canadian mood – what, no Max Webster? -- maybe because there's a heat wave in St Lou and it's not all that hot here; he's jealous!)

For me, today's highlights were Bob Dylan, The Strawbs, Marillion and of course, Dan Fogelberg. The best four hours (minus commercials) of radio anywhere.

Pavlov's Dog – Julia
Prism – Julie
Loverboy – Queen Of The Broken Hearts
Uriah Heep – July Morning
UFO – Too Hot To Handle
April Wine – Shot Down
Bob Dylan – Just Like A Woman
David Lee Roth – Just Like Paradise
Ted Nugent – Just What The Doctor Ordered
Marillion – Kayleigh
Triumph – I Live For The Weekend
Streets – If Love Should Go
The Doobie Brothers – South City Midnight Lady
Strawbs – Lay Down
Kayak – Keep The Change
Kenny Loggins – Celebrate Me Home
REO Speedwagon – That Ain't Love
Heart – White Lightning And Wine
Queen – Stone Cold Crazy
Steely Dan – The Royal Scam
Charlie – Fantasy Girl
The Jimi Hendrix Experience – The Wind Cries Mary
Deep Purple – Child In Time
Trooper – Knock 'Em Dead Kid
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers – King's Road
Journey – Topaz
Brownsville Station – Lady Put The Light On Me
Leon Russell – Lady Blue
The Beatles – Maxwell's Silver Hammer
The Guess Who – Albert Flasher
Dan Fogelberg – Love Gone By
Aliotta Haynes Jeremiah – Lake Shore Drive
Lake – Between The Lines
Rush – A Passage To Bangkok
Shooting Star – Hang On For Your Life
Michael Stanley – Rosewood Bitters
The Babys – I'm Falling
U2 – In God's Country
The Marshall Tucker Band – I'll Be Loving You

As i've mentioned, i pay my psychiatrist a vast amount of money every week and she recommends albums for me to play at home as a form of stress relief. This was this week's list. She is very good (and the fact that she looks like Marica Hase doesn't hurt, either!):

Steely Dan – Pretzel Logic
Loggins & Messina – Sittin' In Again
Collective Soul – Youth
The Sabri Brothers & Ensemble - Qawwali
Nik Kershaw – To Be Frank
Fairport Convention – Nine
Amazing Blondel – Blondel
Kathleen Edwards – Back To Me
Dixie Chicks – Fly
Joan Osborne – Songs Of Bob Dylan
Peter Hammill – The Silent Corner And The Empty Stage
Garfield – Out There Tonight
Dixie Chicks – Live
Eagles – On The Border
A Fine Frenzy – One Cell In The Sea
The Waterboys – Room To Roam
Jane Siberry – Bound By The Beauty
Peter Gabriel – Peter Gabriel
Max Webster – Max Webster
Jon & Vangelis – Short Stories
Natalie Maines – Mother
Mott The Hoople – Mott
Renaissance – A Song For All Seasons
Maddy Prior – Woman In The Wings
A Fine Frenzy – Bomb In A Birdcage
Dead Can Dance – Dionysus
The Beat – I Just Can't Stop It
Horslips – Happy To Meet ... Sorry To Part
The Kinks – Lola vs Powerman And The Money-Go-Round
Various Artists – LB Folk 37



















































































































































































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