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RockRoll360 #170 - When The Revolution Comes ( Part 2 )

 

The signs are put away and everybody
is going home. At least here at RR360.
People are heading back to normalcy.
The revolution is done on this show. Instead I
bring you the remnants of my compilation of
“When The Revolution Comes” (Part 2),
recorded brand new here in the month of October 2011.
 
One hour show today !  WOW !   15 songs
Tunes include new songs by Ryan Adams,
The Head & The Heart & The Los Lonely Boys.
Also classic cuts by Dave Mason, The Kinks,
& The Doors. Not to mention  great tuneage by
The Kings of Leon and Rocco DeLucca would be a sin.
I like to mention my first request on this site by RJ Hog.
The tune he wanted is by Sister Hazel.  RJ is the administrator of
Classic Rock Bottom.  You might want to his site out.

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Music includes :::

WISH I CAN FLY LIKE ) SUPERMAN     /     THE KINKS
A HEARTACHE, A SHADOW, A  LIFETIME     /     DAVE MASON
COLORFUL     /     ROCCO DeLUCCA AND THE BURDEN
FREEDOM TRAIN     /     LENNY KRAVITZ
GIVING IT UP FOR YOUR LOVE     /     DELBERT McCLINTON
CHAMPAGNE HIGH     /     SISTER HAZEL
96 TEARS     ( Turn It Up Ending )    
                   /     QUESTION MARK AND THE MYSTERIANS
MOLLYS’ CHAMBERS     /     KINGS OF LEON
110 YARD DASH     /     RAPHAEL SAADIQ
LUCKY NOW     /     RYAN ADAMS
HORSE LATITUDES     /     THE DOORS
MOONLIGHT DRIVE    /     THE DOORS
LOST IN MY MIND     /     THE HEAD AND THE HEART
AMERICAN IDLE     /     LOS LONELY BOYS
EVERYDAY     /     BUDDY HOLLY

Sound bites include :::

RR360 Superman Intro - Short   /   RR360 Podcast intro
None stop music , music, music   /   Sound bite
KWFM In Tucson, AZ - I’m Mark Young   /   Progressive Radio I.D.
Sherman - Set the wayback machine to 1950’s   /   WBCN sound bite
Thank you    /    Sound Bite from  James Cagney

  

Tags: aaa radio, Buddy Holly, Classic Rock, dave mason, delbert mcclinton, eclectic, free mp3, freeform, jame cagney, kings of leon, kwfm, los lonely boys, mark young, mp3, music, peabody & shermon, progressive, question mark and the mysterians, raphael saadiq, rocco delucca, Rock, RockRoll360, ryan adams, sister hazel, superman, The Doors, the head and the heart, the kinks, wbcn, WLSO

ROCKOLLECTIONS: FOR VALENTINE’S- ALL HEART SONGS (EXCEPT ONE) PT.1

Here is a show I did when Valentine’s Day finally fell on the day of the radio show.
It consists of all songs with “HEART” somewhere in the title (except one!).
I considered “LOVE” but felt that would be too easy.
This was rather easy too though.
I hope you will enjoy the handpicked selections from my library.
As you know by now, I am no respecter of decades or genres of music- and I love to be all over the place.
So this is a good one, seems to me anyway.
From beginning to end, with all the surprises, songs you know, songs you have never heard, or haven’t heard in a long time, and that scholarly yet fun approach I try to squeeze into each broadcast.
Including a set in Part Two that is intended to rip your OWN heart out!
In this opening chapter, Herman’s Hermits, Buddy Holly, Lucy Kaplansky, a GREAT song from the McGarrigle Sisters, Jackson Browne and even Frankie Avalon.
But first, let’s see if we have a heartbeat!

Mike

Tags: Buddy Holly, Frankie Avalon, Herman’s Hermits, jackson browne, Lucy Kaplansky, McGarrigle Sisters

ROCKOLLECTIONS: REMEMBERING JOHN LENNON PT.2 END

 

We continue our celebration of John Lennon’s life.
Last week we talked about George Harrison’s last song, Horse To Water.
But what was John Lennon’s?
I will play 2 versions of what is commonly regarded as his final song, one a rough cut by him and the other by Mary Chapin Carpenter.
Carpenter does such a good job on it, I feel she took it away from John and made it her own!
Back to his Beatle days after that, with a take that sounds very Buddy Holly to me.
Engineer Ken and I decided to go back to the Mind Games album to finish things off.
There are so many good songs on that LP that were never heard, as the radio playlists began to get even tighter.
So to rectify that a little, we will hear Tight A$ (that’s right, no typo), a catchy rocker called Only People, Out Of The Blue and finish with One Day At A Time- the best way to live your life.
If those song titles do not sound familiar to you, well, I rest my case about commercial radio!
And that will do it for George and John this year.
Hope you got something out of it.

Mike

Tags: Beatles, Buddy Holly, Engineer Ken, George Harrison, Horse To Water, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Mind Games, One Day At A Time, Only People, Out Of The Blue, Tight A$

ROCKOLLECTIONS: 40TH ANNIVERSARY OF EAGLE LANDING-SPACE:THE FINAL FRONTIER PT.5

I really couldn’t wake up the day I recorded this show- and would have preferred staying in bed.
So I needed something to get me Higher & Higher, maybe something along the lines of 10 Billion Butterfly Sneezes, and that is just what this chapter opens with.
I will have more interesting info about the Moon Landing, including NASA sending Neil Armstrong a secret code word to tell him to slow down.
We’ll have a Harry Nilsson song about moonbeams, done by Steve Forbert, from a tribute album to the late Nilsson called For The Love Of Harry.
Buddy Holly after that, with a strange song from him that sounds much older than it is, also dealing with moonbeams and moondreams.
And as long as I was in that period, a great moon oldie.
Putting these shows together and pulling out Moon songs, I noticed how possessive we are about the Moon.
By that I mean, if I look at the Moon from where I am, it becomes a Brooklyn Moon or a New York Moon.
For someone else, it would be wherever THEY are- say, an Atlanta Moon, or a South Carolina Moon, or a Chicago Moon, or a Moon Over Miami- even though we are all looking at the SAME Moon!
So, we will begin a long set of music I am calling Proprietary Moon Songs.
Checking in with some examples, includes another from the early Sun Records (hey, another Moon song from  Sun!).
We will continue with these Proprietary Moon songs next episode- and I had to limit myself- there are dozens of them.

Mike

Tags: , 10 Billion Butterfly Sneezes, Buddy Holly, For The Love Of Harry, Harry Nilsson, Higher & Higher, NASA, Neil Armstrong, Proprietary Moon Songs, Steve Forbert, Sun Records

RockRoll360 #015 - Upside Down- Pt. 1

 

Welcome to my 15th episode on this site, which is called
“Upside Down”,  with one of my favorite songs redone and
done well. I learn to respect Mary J. Blige after singing
with U2. I always thought she was just another one of those
artist that would have pass me by, because she was no Etta James
or Aretha in my book.  Boy!  I was wrong. She has a great
voice and presence

Ok!  -  I know some of you are pretty sick by now of
Bad Day by Daniel Powter, but back in 2006 is when I
put this compilation together it was one of my guilty
pleasures  from Pop & AAA Radio. Thanks to radio over
playing it, and American Idol back in 2007. I kinda of cringe
when I hear this song today. In any case it was on the original
list for this compilation and that’s the way it it’s gonna stay.

If this episode looks familiar to you it is because it was
posted on another podcast site, back in March of this year.
It’s was another one of my past episodes, I have to download
into the greatest adult music site. That’s WLSO.FM the home of

Longtown Sound by Uncleshag
Rockollections by Mike Pell and of course my page
RockRoll360 by Mike Andrade

CHANGE THE WATER / DIRTIE BLOND
THAT’LL BE THE DAY Wolfman Jack Intro / BUDDY HOLLY
THE WEIGHT / THE BAND
ONE / THREE DOG NIGHT
ONE LOVE / MARY J. BLIGE & U2
CRUSH / GAVIN DEGRAW
BAD DAY / DANIEL POWTER
GRAVEDIGGER / THE DAVE MATTHEWS BAND

Sound bites include :::::

Dragnet Intro / Sound Bite from Dragnet
The Subject was booked under 60 / Sound Bite from Jack Webb in Dragnet
XERB Radio 1090 Wolfman Jack Show Intro / Radio I.D. with The Wolfman
WDRC ( The Big D ) 3 Dog Night / Radio I.D. with Three Dog Night Bed
Dead I’m so dead / Sound Bite from the movie License To Drive

Tags: aaa radio, Buddy Holly, Classic, Classic Rock, daniel powter, dave matthews, dirtie blond, eclectic, free mp3, freeform, gavin degraw, mary j. blige, mp3, music, Rock, RockRoll360, The Band, three dog night, u2, WLSO

ROCKOLLECTIONS: A LOTTA LITTLE PT.1

Well it is about time we honored one of the Founding Fathers of Rock & Roll!

And it’s reigning madman.

I am talking about Little Richard, or Richard Penniman.

But the reason it took over 10 years was because he has re-recorded his songs so many times, you never knew which version you would be getting.

Rock & Roll fans knew which were the originals though, and I can assure you I will play the REAL, authentic Specialty label recordings of his many many hits here.

It took me a while to catch up with them all.

I will open with the most frenetic Ready Teddy the world has ever heard (with the possible exception of Buddy Holly’s take), and during this and the next chapter I will undoubtedly play some Little Richard you have never heard.

I gave Engineer Ken a few choices, and he picked Richard’s interpretation of the old Wilbert Harrison chestnut, Kansas City.

Listen to this and you will hear how the Beatles got THEIR version of the song!

Unfortunately, the biography I read from was poorly written, and I apologize for that.

But you will discover that Richard used to watch the medicine men at carnivals and used that to forge his style.

He was also greatly influenced by singer, and perhaps an even greater madman, Esquerita.

I would think probably most people have never heard of him, so maybe someday I’ll do a show on him.

For now, please join me for some timeless, high-energy music that without question was vital in the creation of what came to be known as Rock & Roll.

As crazy egotistical as Little Richard can be at times, he does have the credentials.

Mike

Tags: Beatles, Buddy Holly, Engineer Ken, Esquerita, Kansas City, Ready Teddy, Richard Penniman, Wibert Harrison

ROCKOLLECTIONS: FINDING THE LOST PLANET AIRMEN PT.1

If you are not familiar with Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen, you should be in for a treat!

For openers, I decided to let the emcee at a live concert introduce this band- and kick us off with some Good Rockin’ Tonight.

Then something I no longer do- drinking your way into getting Lost In The Ozone.

Luckily for all, we found them, lol.

I always say that sooner or later, every good rock & roll band or artist gets around to doing a Buddy Holly song (imagine if Buddy hadn’t died at 22?). Well, the Commander and His Airmen are no exception.

A first-rate version of some very early Holly, called Midnight Shift.

Followed immediately by an equally rousing interpretation of Eddie Cochran’s Twenty Flight Rock.

Some good old GOOD OLD!

Then one I thought Engineer Ken would like, as he is getting heavy into Bluegrass music.

After that the band’s biggest hit, a Top Ten song in 1972, Hot Rod Lincoln.

Closing things out this Part One, we have some live doo-wop sounds from the band and yet another rouser called Rock That Boogie.

A surprising amount of terrific music from a forgotten band.

And we ain’t through yet!

To be continued…

Mike

Tags: Bluegrass, Buddy Holly, Eddie Cochran, Good Rockin' Tonight, Hot Rod Lincoln, Lost In The Ozone, Midnight Shift, Rock That Boogie, Twenty Flight Rock

ROCKOLLECTIONS: TRIBUTE/MEMORIAL 2008 PT.1

 

Here is a tradition I have been doing for the last 9 years, and it may seem I have a preoccupation with death, coming so closely as it does after the series on Buddy Holly and company.
But this is the time of the year I usually do it, in fact it’s a little late because of the Feb. 3 series.
Not morbid nor maudlin, it is rather a celebration of the lives of those we lost in the previous year- in this case 2008.
Sort of an Irish Wake!
At least SOME of these people should have touched you in some way, shape or form, and made your life a bit happier and more pleasant.
I will be dealing with the notable or should be noted.
For the musical folks who passed on, they are deserving of at least one more play, at least.
And we will deal with other cultural figures as well, with some hopefully appropriate music for them.
You are welcome to anticipate or second-guess my own musical choices!
In this opening episode, covering January & just dipping into February 2008, those selected are:
Johnny Grant (”Honorary” Mayor of Hollywood)
Bill Belew
Vampira
Bobby Fischer
Roy Scheider.

They can’t give any more than they have.

Mike

Tags: 1959, Bill Belew, Bobby Fischer, Buddy Holly, Feb.3, Johnny Grant, Roy Scheider, Vampira

ROCKOLLECTIONS: FEBRUARY 3, 1959- THE DAY THE MUSIC DIED PT.6 CONCLUSION!

 

Alright, gonna bring this all home with a Grand Finale.
I’ll open with one of those marvels of technology, like Nat King Cole & Natalie Cole singing together, long after Nat’s death.
This is from a 1996 tribute album, and it is Buddy Holly singing with the Hollies- who liked him so much they took their NAME from him!
Buddy Holly & The Crickets were a self-contained group- they wrote, recorded and battled with producers over what the final results of their songs should sound like.
They also used very different instruments and rhythms, far ahead of their time.
Buddy Holly simply was a visionary!
They have found what are known as “The Apartment Tapes”, recorded at Buddy’s residence in Greenwhich Village in New York.
He had purchased an Ampex reel-to-reel tape recorder, and made many demos, as well as experimenting with different speeds on the recorder- just as any of us who had one did, lol.
There is an amazing amount of magical material on these tapes, and I highly recommend them to anyone who is interested in hearing a great artist in development.
Plus I will have the FINAL tape recording Buddy Holly ever made.
And what do you think it was for?
Finally, we will begin the end with a song about something we have to learn the hard way, another one that seems to me has some strange sort of Latin rhythms to it, another one that had already been done by Elvis, then an additional favorite of mine that has some rather sexy lyrics for the time.
And closing it all out, a posthumous hit for Holly- a beautiful song with some bittersweet lyrics.
To all who took the entire ride with me throughout this series, you have my immense appreciation and gratitude!
Now it is off to another series…

Mike

Tags: Buddy Holly, Nat King Cole, Natalie Cole, The Apartment Tapes, The Crickets, The Hollies

ROCKOLLECTIONS: FEBRUARY 3, 1959- THE DAY THE MUSIC DIED PT.4

This time we will give more attention to the Richie Valens and The Big Bopper.
But first, I mentioned the supergroup Blind Faith earlier, and how they recorded a Buddy Holly song on their one and only studio album.
And I could have played it by them, but decided to switch gears and play that same song instead by a hugely popular and well-known group- and I wonder if you were aware that they did the song, and/or that it was written by Buddy. And we’ll do it in contrast with his version too.
Then from my private collection, another wonderful piece of interview tape you have most likely NEVER heard- a definite “Oh wow” moment!
Did you know that Richie’s real last name was Valenzuela, and that admirably only English was spoken in his household?
So he had to learn the words to La Bamba phonetically!
I say admirably because that should only be the case today- call me traditional but I think if you choose to live in a country, you at least ought to make an effort to learn the language of the host country.
I move to Italy, I learn Italian!
After that I got my fave Richie Valens song, followed by a couple from the Bopper.
One a humorous look at marriage that I will offset with a sweeter look at it by Mr. Holly.
With a vast amount of great songs remaining unplayed, I decided to go ahead and do another show.
Such being the case, like it or not, more to come- mainly from my man, Buddy Holly.
No apologies.
And know this- good music is good music whenever it was made.
I’ll live or die with my free-form style and decisions!

Mike

Tags: Big Bopper, Blind Faith, Buddy Holly, La Bamba, Richie Valens, Richie Valenzuela

ROCKOLLECTIONS: FEBRUARY 3, 1959- THE DAY THE MUSIC DIED PT.3

Some planes crash, some planes don’t.
In light of our subject, I’ll open this chapter up with a song for a hero pilot, Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger.
Oh yes, do we need heroes!
It’s about expecting more from yourself, and being better than the rest.
And if you have ever wondered, with no false modesty, that is how I regard myself and this show!
I’ll give a tip of the hat to the end of last week’s show, the one with my favorite Buddy Holly song, by playing a rare version of it by a Wing, a Beatle and a Wife.
Did you know that the very first song we heard here in the U.S. in 1964 by the Rolling Stones was a Buddy Holly song?
You’ll hear it and the original.
And a few more originals- just simply great Rock & Roll songs!
Here’s another did you know?
Eric Clapton has been in two supergroups that made only one studio album- Blind Faith and Derek & The Dominoes.
BOTH albums included Buddy Holly songs!
I’ll have what will probably be a surprise.
Then I’ll play what might be my 2nd fave Holly song- it’s really tough to say since there are so many.
Buddy was doing what few at the time were.
Writing and performing his own songs, AND insisting on how they should be produced!
Back then, the producers had the power- you did the song they said, and how they said to do it.
Holly took the power back, and said this is the way I hear it in my head, and this is how it should be done!
And like the Beatles and all the GREAT ones, no two Buddy Holly songs sound alike.
We are halfway home with this incisive look at a historic day!

Mike

Tags: Beatles, Big Bopper, Blind Faith, Buddy Holly, Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger, Derek & The Dominoes, Eric Clapton, Richie Valens, Rolling Sones

ROCKOLLECTIONS: FEBRUARY 3, 1959- THE DAY THE MUSIC DIED PT.2

 

We will open up this chapter with a couple of really good tribute songs to Buddy Holly.
First, one from a 1960’s pre-Buckingham/Nicks LP by Fleetwood Mac, that was written by Buddy’s mother!
And the other from a band that did their song in 1994.
Then I’ll give you my own theory as to why that 1959 plane crash was and is still so historically important after 50 years.
After that, something you have most likely never heard, that is so eerie and creepy I will say no more about it.
Followed by a couple of beautiful folkie interpretations of a song Buddy wrote.
One by Eva Cassidy, who had her own tragic and sad story.
I have some more very specific info about that fateful takeoff and crash, some of which was even news to me.
Buddy Holly & The Crickets were VERY influential on the Beatles, and I will make the case to prove it.
We’ll have some contrasts between them, including one Buddy song the Beatles never got around to realeasing.
In fact, and this speaks volumes, the Beatles even chose the name Beatles because of its similarity to Crickets!
We’ll end this, in my opinion thoroughly enjoyable episode, with my very favorite Buddy Holly song, in which he takes a four-letter word and turns it into 4 syllables.
Much more to come, with many more surprises.

Mike

Tags: Beatles, Buddy Holly, Eva Cassidy, Fleetwood Mac, Lindsay Buckingham, Stevie Nick, The Crickets

ROCKOLLECTIONS: FEBRUARY 3, 1959- THE DAY THE MUSIC DIED PT.1

February 3, 1959, 50 years ago…that’s right, 50 YEARS AGO TODAY!
The plane crash that took the lives of Buddy Holly, Richie Valens and the Big Bopper.
While I have no firsthand memories of the tragic event, my well-known love for the music of Buddy Holly and my sense of history kept me aware that the 50 year anniversary was coming.
Now that it is here, there is a sadness, a melancholy in me that goes beyond the incident and brings thoughts of my own mortality.
As I do from time to time, I will make a promise here- you will hear things throughout this series that YOU HAVE NEVER HEARD BEFORE!
Probably beginning right away in our lengthy opening set, firing the first salvo and making a statement about the staying power of good old Rock & Roll.
And don’t be alarmed, I will only be playing a small portion of a long song you will hear in that set.
I’ll talk about the crash, and the inevitable “tribute” songs that came as a result.
Some were good, some were horrible- we’ll sample some of the bad ones in this chapter.
Some of the good ones next time.
While I don’t doubt the sincerity of these songs, I still think a true pioneer rocker like Eddie Cochran, and a friend of Buddy’s, should have had better taste.
And here too, these may be songs you have never heard.
I’ll close this one out with some inside info about just how those passengers were chosen for their fateful seats.
Much more wondrous and fascinating things to come in this look back at what Don McLean called, “The day the music died”!

Mike

Tags: 50 Year Anniversary, Big Bopper, Buddy Holly, Don McLean, Eddie Cochran, Richie Valens

ROCKOLLECTIONS: WILBURY THEM PT.3

Sorry for the delay, I had computer problems- this baby has been ready to go for days.
And it is a STRONG episode!
I’ll start with the Wilburys trading vocals on the opening track to their Vol.3.
What happened to Vol.2?
Well, there are 3 theories.
One, it is more of that quirky Wilbury humor.
Two, Vol.2 is now considered to be Tom Petty’s album Full Moon Fever- produced by Jeff Lynne and featuring Lynne, Harrison and Orbison (only one missing was Dylan).
Three, it had to do with the loss of Roy Orbison, and I will have more about that next chapter.
At any rate, I thought I’d play a cut from the Petty LP, dedicated to the approaching anniversary of 9/11.
When I was preparing these shows, I remember hearing a Wilbury song and thinking it could have been done by the Beatles, or Buddy Holly, or the Diamonds or a group like that from the 50’s.
I will play that one, and follow it with a doowop style song from Bob Dylan called 7 Deadly Sins- that’s right, count ‘em- 7.
Though it is a wonderful album, Orbison was sorely missed on Vol.3.
And during the period between the 2 albums, they could have called themselves the Traveling Circus.
They singly or in groups appeared on other people’s records.
I have a great example with George Harrison playing slide guitar on the album Duane Eddy, His Twangy Guitar & The Rebels.
It is an instrumental called The Trembler, and comes with a VERY interesting story about how George brought it to the session, having to do with Ravi Shankar.
After that, an outtake of a song you should know, by the boys and Del Shannon, rumored to take Roy Orbison’s place in the group.
Strangely, he instead took his own life.
We will go out on a happier note, with a great instrumental (?) version of New Blue Moon, that was a B-side to Wilbury singles TWICE!
As I said, a STRONG episode, and an equally good one coming next to close the series out.
Mike

Tags: 7 Deadly Sins, 9/11, Beatles, Bob Dylan, Buddy Holly, Del Shannon, Duane Eddy, Full Moon Fever, George Harrison, His Guitar & The Rebels, Jeff Lynne, New Blue Moon, Ravi Shankar, Roy Orbison, The Diamonds, The Trembler, Tom Petty, Traveling Wilburys