Monday, 31 August 2020

KSHE KLASSICS SHOW, Aug. 30th, 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 Pittsburgh. I don't recall ever being there before, at least cybernautically. I have been there in "real life" (whatever that is).] 

Quotation Of The Week ~ Henry David Thoreau: If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. 

I won't say that this radio program is the only thing that makes my life worth living. I have my health, after all; food, shelter, a cat who loves me (albeit only because i feed her) and more money in the bank than i know what to do with. A show like this morning's, though, was definitely the highlight of an otherwise tedious week. I'm grading it an “A”. 

There's was nothing annoying – no, not even the Ted Nugent song! I could probably have lived without the 16½ minute piece by Nektar, but there was nothing wrong with it, it's just that there are so many better 16½ minute pieces. And yet again this week, no “deep track” by The Beatles? So much other great stuff, though, right from the opening track, and so much that i have in my own collection – which is one of my criteria for grading the show each week. 

The highlight? Although it wasn't the greatest song this morning, it was an enormous pleasure to hear Cheryl Dilcher. I'd never heard of her until i started listening to KSHE and somehow feel a personal connection to her. Alas, there's not much about her life on the Internet. She was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania, was mixed up with the son of the mayor of St Louis at one time – and was very popular there. She performed on a George Harrison album, George was a fan. She only made four albums (i have one of them, the others are very hard to find now) and she died in 2005 at the age of 58. 

Here's a nice picture of her, and the playlist: 


 

The Electric Light Orchestra – Mr Blue Sky 

Loggins & Messina – Pretty Princess 

The Kinks – Set Me Free 

Point Blank – Nicole 

Jo Jo Gunne – Run, Run, Run 

Jimi Hendrix – Red House 

The Rolling Stones – Mixed Emotions 

Jefferson Starship – Miracles 

Jonathan Edwards – Shanty 

Bryan Adams – One Night Love Affair 

Ted Nugent – Free For All 

The Greg Kihn Band – Remember 

Allan Clarke – Slipstream 

The Yardbirds – Shapes Of Things

 Nektar – Remember The Future 

The Guess Who – Share The Land 

Russ Ballard – Rene Didn't Do It 

Bill Quateman – Only Love 

Nite City – Nite City 

The Charlie Daniels Band – Orange Blossom Special 

Eric Clapton – No Alibis 

Foreigner – Rev On The Red Line 

Blues Image – Ride Captain Ride 

Steve Winwood – Holding On 

Queen – 39 

Bad Company – No Smoke Without A Fire 

Uriah Heep – That's The Way That It Is 

Peter Frampton – (I'll Give You) Money 

Michael Murphey – Geronimo's Cadillac 

The Souther, Hillman Furay Band – Fallin' In Love 

Batdorf & Rodney – Can You See Him 

Graham Nash – Chicago / Change The World 

George Harrison – Got My Mind Set On You 

Slade – How Does It Feel 

Cheryl Dilcher – Together 

Hammersmith – Late Night Lovin' Man 

Ian Hunter – Just Another Night 

Journey – Kohoutek Chilliwack – Something Better 

Lighthouse – One Fine Morning 

The double CDs on my personal playlist this week have been marked with a thorn (þ). Well, why not? Anyone can use an asterisk. Am i wrong to prefer and Old English / modern Icelandic letter, usually pronounced as a voiceless dental fricative (e.g., the “th” in “the”). Be grateful there were no triple or quadruple sets this time – i may have had to resort to Chinese ideograms! 

Camel – Breathless 

Steeleye Span – The Journey þ 

Yes – Tales From Topographic Oceans þ 

The Pointer Sisters – Jump: The Best Of The Pointer Sisters 

Levellers – Zeitgeist 

The Beatles – Let It Be ... Naked 

Various Artists – Rubáiyát: Elektra's 40th Anniversary þ 

Renaissance – Live At Carnegie Hall þ 

June Tabor – Rosa Mundi 

Joan Osborne – Pretty Little Stranger 

Runrig – The Stamping Ground 

The Beatles – The Beatles þ 

Dead Can Dance – Within The Realm Of A Dying Sun 

The Psychedelic Furs – Greatest Hits 

Various Artists – Crossing Jordan: Music From The NBC Television Series 

Eliza Carthy – Anglicana 

Jimi Hendrix & The Band Of Gypsys – Live At Fillmore East þ 

Dengue Fever – Cannibal Courtship 

The John Renbourn Group – Live In America 

The New Broadway Cast Recording -- “Guys And Dolls” 

Roy Wood – Music Book þ 

Van Morrison – The Healing Game 

Dixie Dregs – Night Of The Living Dregs 

Mama's Pride – Uptown And Lowdown 

Rory Gallagher – Big Guns: The Very Best Of Rory Gallagher þ 

Lindisfarne – The Very Best Of Lindisfarne 

Pete Townshend – White City: A Novel 

Various Artists – Motown Nuggets 

Outback – Baka 

Nik Kershaw – To Be Frank 

Jeff Beck – Wired 

Jon & Vangelis – Short Stories

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