KSHE KLASSICS SHOW, July 26th, 2020

[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 Norfolk, Virginia, where the governor is threatening to roll back to Stage Two after a disturbing rise in cases.]

Quotation Of The Week ~ Thomas Jefferson: The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

I learned something this morning. According to the ad from the Sana Lake Recovery Center of Dittmer, Missouri (https://sanalake.com/ ), the leading cause of death in people under sixty is overdose. I wondered if that statement might be a bit self-serving as they're a for-profit medical facility and thought it would more likely be heart disease, but i did a very quick search and discovered that we're both wrong. It's actually malignant neoplasm. It's always disconcerting to me to hear hospitals and similar services advertising on the radio, and now we know that they're just like every other advertiser: they lie. Oh, er, i should say, exaggerate to their own ends. Tra La.

My personal ethical / medical qualms aside, what a very nice show today! There were some surprises (Leo Sayer, David Lee Roth and Melanie, none of whom is exactly a regular visitor to these shores) but none was an unwelcome surprise. In fact, there was nothing unwelcome at all this morning – nothing annoying whatsoever. I'm giving it a grade of “A.” As our neighbour to the south descends into chaos and anarchy and their miserable excuse for a president tramples all over the First Amendment, it's nice to find that the Klassics Show remains a beacon of stability.

There were as usual several songs i can truly say that i love, plus quite a few relatively obscure songs by performers i like – and those are always nice to hear. The longest track of the morning was the ten-minute “Child In Time,” which was probably the number i disliked the most – Ian Gillan's vocal being a just a little OTT for me – but when the worst track of the day is by Deep Purple, you know you're on a winner.

I picked up a couple of bits of musical trivia today, too. “South City Midnight Lady” is about a woman from San Francisco, not Chicago (or St Louis) as i had always supposed. In the “i should pay more attention to liner notes” department, i have had Crosby, Stills & Nash's debut album since its release in 1969 and i didn't know until today that Jerry Garcia played pedal steel guitar on “Teach Your Children.” Wow. Or, maybe, duh to me.

Anyway, here's the Norfolk skyline, and the playlist:

Blue Őyster Cult – I Love The Night

Todd Rundgren – Real Man

Roger Daltrey – Free Me

Trapeze – Black Clouds

The Grateful Dead – Not Fade Away / Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad

The Doobie Brothers – South City Midnight Lady

Traffic – Glad

Wings – Venus And Mars / Rock Show

Leo Sayer – Long Tall Glasses

Dave Mason – Every Woman

Foreigner – Women

Triumvirat – Dimplicity / Last Dance

Crosby, Stills & Nash – Teach Your Children

Styx – This Old Man

Rush – A Passage To Bangkok

The Steve Miller Band – I Want To Make The World Turn Around

David Lee Roth – Just Like Paradise

Dwight Twilley – I'm On Fire

The Moody Blues – Gypsy / Eternity Road

Survivor – Is This Love

Head East – I Surrender

Uriah Heep – July Morning

Heart – Dog And Butterfly

The Beatles – Being For The Benefit Of Mr Kite

Bob Dylan – Just Like A Woman

Peter Frampton – I'm In You

Stingray – Lovesaver

The Spencer Davis Group – Gimme Some Loving

Taxxi – Walking Wounded

Jefferson Airplane – Lather

Dicky Betts – Long Time Gone

Santana – You Know That I Love You

Deep Purple – Child In Time 10 minutes

Melanie – Lay Down (Candle In The Rain)

Charlie – Fantasy Girls

Shooting Star – Hang On For Your Life

Let's see – one 3-CD set (Big Country), one two-disc set (Robert Johnson), and lots of Joan Osborne appeared on the corporate optical drive this week. (I love Joan Osborne!) Here's the list, and it's not overly lengthy:

Big Country – Wonderland: The Essential Big Country

Joan Osborne – Songs Of Bob Dylan

The Beatles – Rubber Soul

Various Artists – Hard Cash

Bruce Springsteen – Working On A Dream

The Kinks – Preservation Act 1

Alan Stivell – The Best Of Alan Stivell

Rosanne Cash – The Wheel

k.d. lang – Ingénue

Rob Hyman et al. -- Largo

Joan Osborne – Righteous Love

City Boy – Anthology

The Musicians Of The Nile – Luxor To Isna

Robert Johnson – The Complete Recordings

Marillion – With Friends From The Orchestra

Roxy Music – For Your Pleasure

Eagles – Desperado

Caro Emerald – The Shocking Miss Emerald

Dan Fogelberg – Souvenirs

Joan Osborne – How Sweet It Is

Rush – Power Windows

Camper Van Beethoven – Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart

Genesis – Foxtrot

Manfred Mann's Earthband – Chance

Joan Osborne – Little Wild One

Jeff Beck – Live At B.B. King Blues Club

Rory Gallagher – Top Priority

Survivor – Vital Signs

Steeleye Span – Live At Last!

Kate Bush – Never For Ever

The Alan Parsons Project – I Robot

The Johnstons – The Johnstons

Peter Green w. Nigel Watson & The Splinter Group – The Robert Johnson Songbook

Loggins & Messina – Sittin' In Again

Roy Wood -- Mustard