KSHE KLASSICS SHOW, Aug. 2nd, 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 Campbellsville, Kentucky. I don't recall ever being there before.]

Quotation Of The Week: John Lennon ~ “George has done a great Indian one. We came along one night and he had about 400 Indian fellas playing there ... it was a great swinging evening, as they say.”

I hate to say it, but this morning's program was almost ... ordinary. I'm grading it “A+”.

I'll explain. The show got off to a very slow start with John O'Banion's song. I know, right? I had to look him up. He did actually have one hit single – if making it to #24 on the charts can be considered a hit, but it wasn't today's selection. He was the lead singer in Doc Severinson's band (which has never been played on KSHE) and won the Tokyo Music Festival Award in 1982, but was better known as an actor. Now you know.

After that (and after The Clash), there was some seriously mundane music – not much more than generic rock, really, with Widowmaker, Kayak (a band i've really liked at times), 38 Special, Louise Goffin (daughter of Gerry Goffin and Carole King), and Point Blank. At least the Ted Nugent song wasn't overly annoying. The Eric Clapton was probably the most boring item today, he's capable of so much better, and the track by Chicago shows a group well past its prime..

So, why the high marks (i hear you ask)? Well, Uman played Dan Fogelberg which automatically means an “A+” -- and it was a track from one of my favourites of his albums, “Nether Lands” -- but beyond that we had some of my very favourite songs by Strawbs, Bob Marley, Marillion, Brownsville Station, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, the Allmans, Billy Joel and my very favourite Steely Dan song!

While it's been great hearing deep tracks by The Beatles every week lately, “Within You Without You” is only just barely a Beatles' track. George Harrison is the only one of the Fab Four who appears on it. He sings on it, of course, and, along with Neil Aspinall plays tambura (pictured below), but otherwise the instrumentalists are all un-named Indian musicians. Here's the playlist:

John O'Banion – Love Is Blind

The Clash – London Calling
Strawbs – Lay Down
Eddie Money – Gimme Some Water
Dan Fogelberg – Love Gone By
Widowmaker – Leave The Kids Alone
The Babys – Every Time I Think Of You
The Beatles – Within You Without You
Manassas – It Doesn't Matter
Les Dudek – It Can Do
Crosby, Stills & Nash – Too Much Love To Hide
Ted Nugent – Just What The Doctor Ordered
The Moody Blues – Legend Of A Mind
Bob Marley – Jamming
Marillion – Kayleigh
Kayak – Keep The Change
Eric Clapton – I've Got A Rock 'N' Roll Heart
The Scorpions – Loving You Sunday Morning
Bob Dylan – Maggie's Farm
Brownsville Station – Martian Boogie
Emerson, Lake & Palmer – Lend Your Love To Me Tonight
Deep Purple – Kentucky Woman
38 Special – If I'd Been The One
Louise Goffin – Kid Blue
Joe Walsh – Meadows
Jesse Colin Young – Light Shine
Billy Joel – I've Loved These Days
Point Blank – Mean To Your Queenie
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers – Letting You Go
Trooper – Knock 'Em Dead Kid
Journey – La Raza Del Sol
Streets – If Love Should Go
The Jimi Hendrix Experience – If 6 Was 9
The Allman Brothers Band – Statesboro Blues
Fleetwood Mac – Heroes Are Hard To Find
U2 – In God's Country
Procol Harum – Pandora's Box
The Tubes – She's A Beauty
Chicago – (I've Been) Searching So Long
Van Morrison – Wavelength
Moxy – Sail On Sail Away
Steely Dan -- Bodhisattva

We're well into phase three of the re-opening here now and i'm working a bit more – although still leaving the office earlier than i would like – so my week's playlist isn't as lengthy as some have been recently. This is partly because of one 2-CD set (Blodwyn Pig) and one 4-disc box (Emerson Lake & Palmer), though.

Blodwyn Pig – All Said And Done

Jethro Tull – Thick As A Brick

The Mahavishnu Orchestra – The Inner Mounting Flame

The Albion Country Band – Battle Of The Field

Wolfscote – Turn The Glass

Amazing Blondel – Evensong

The Beatles – Help!

Terje Rypdal – The Singles Collection

Peter Gabriel – Rated PG

Van der Graaf Generator – H To He Who Am The Only One

Norma Waterson – Norma Waterson

Various Artists – A Tribute To Dan Fogelberg

Electric Light Orchestra – Out Of The Blue

Annie Haslam – Annie Haslam

Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman, Howe -- Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman, Howe

The Soft Machine – Land Of Cockayne

The Mothers Of Invention – Freak Out!

The Doobie Brothers – Takin' It To The Streets

Emerson, Lake & Palmer – The Return Of The Manticore

The Waterboys – Room To Roam

Jefferson Starship – Red Octopus

Mary-Chapin Carpenter – Come On, Come On

The Beatles – Yellow Submarine

Jeff Beck – Wired

Various Artists – Joni 75: A Joni Mitchell Birthday Celebration

City Boy – Anthology

America – History: America's Greatest Hits

Dixie Dregs – Night Of The Living Dregs

Rhiannon Giddens – Freedom Highway

Sharon Shannon – Out The Gap

Laurie Anderson – The Ugly One With The Jewels

Jethro Tull – Songs From The Wood

Maddy Prior w. Hannah James & Giles Lewin – Shortwinger

Davy Spillane Band – Out Of The Air

Various Artists – A Tribute To Stevie Ray Vaughan

Afro-Celt Sound System – Volume 2: Release