89 Cat Stevens
Broadcast on April 1st, which also happened to be Easter Sunday, our audience was smaller than usual, which we should have expected if we’d noticed the significance of the date in time.
Preshow contained two Pentangle tracks, one long one to start with so that people had plenty of opportunity to get the channel connected.
The postshow started with a live version of Peace Train, a song which he continues to sing to this day, and one of his most well known.
As promised, I’ve linked to a fansite page with the translation of the Latin lyrics of O Caritas, and include the Greek text, a translation and a transliteration for the Greek verse of Rubylove. Though Cat Stevens has Greek ancestry, he is a Londoner born and bred and lead a cosmopolitan life, He no doubt picked up some Greek from his father, and may have attended Greek Orthodox church with him.
Latin lyrics and translation by Michael R Valenzuela for O Caritas here, along with some notes
Rubylove lyrics in Greek, with a transliteration for those who don’t read Greek text (like me) and an English translation
Ruby γλυκιά
Έλα ξανά,
Έλα ξανά κοντά μου
Έλα πρωί, με την αυγή
Χρυσή σαν ηλιαχτίδα
Ruby μου μικρή
Ruby glikya
Ela xana,
Ela xana konta mou
Ela proi, me tin avgy
Xrisi san iliaktida
Ruby mou mikri
Sweet Ruby
Come by once more
Come once more close to me
Come by at dawn
Golden like a ray of sun
My little Ruby
Preshow
Title | Artists | Album | Year |
Jack Orion | The Pentangle | Cruel Sister | 1970 |
Train Song | The Pentangle | Basket of Light | 1988 |
When I Speak to the Flowers | Cat Stevens | Matthew & Son | 1967 |
Morning Has Broken | Cat Stevens | Teaser And The Firecat | 1971 |
The Show
Matthew & Son | Cat Stevens | Matthew & Son | 1967 |
I Love My Dog | Cat Stevens | Matthew & Son | 1967 |
The Laughing Apple | Cat Stevens | New Masters | 1967 |
The First Cut Is the Deepest | Cat Stevens | New Masters | 1967 |
Lady D’arbanville | Cat Stevens | Mona Bone Jakon | 1970 |
Katmandu | Cat Stevens | Mona Bone Jakon | 1970 |
Wild World | Cat Stevens | Tea For The Tillerman | 1970 |
Father and Son | Cat Stevens | Tea For The Tillerman | 1970 |
Rubylove | Cat Stevens | Teaser And The Firecat | 1971 |
How Can I Tell You | Cat Stevens | Teaser And The Firecat | 1971 |
Moonshadow | Cat Stevens | Teaser And The Firecat | 1971 |
O Caritas | Cat Stevens | Catch Bull at Four | 1972 |
Angelsea | Cat Stevens | Catch Bull at Four | 1972 |
Sweet Scarlet | Cat Stevens | Catch Bull at Four | 1972 |
Later | Cat Stevens | Foreigner | 1973 |
Music | Cat Stevens | Buddha and the Chocolate Box | 1974 |
Ready | Cat Stevens | Buddha and the Chocolate Box | 1974 |
Another Saturday Night | Cat Stevens | Saturnight | 1974 |
Drywood | Cat Stevens | Numbers | 1975 |
Old Schoolyard | Cat Stevens | Izitso | 1977 |
Was Dog a Doughnut ? | Cat Stevens | Izitso | 1977 |
Last Love Song | Cat Stevens | Back to Earth | 1978 |
I’ve Got A Thing About Seeing My Grandson Grow Old | Cat Stevens | Box Set – Cd2 – The Search | 2001 |
Heaven Where True Love Goes | Yusuf [Cat Stevens] | An Other Cup | 2006 |
Shamsia | Yusuf Islam | Roadsinger | 2009 |
Editing Floor Blues | Yusuf | Tell ‘Em I’m Gone | 2014 |
See What Love Did to Me | Yusuf / Cat Stevens | The Laughing Apple | 2017 |
(I never wanted) to be a star | Cat Stevens | Izitso | 1977 |
Postshow
Peace Train | Cat Stevens | Majikat: Earth Tour 1976 | 1976 |
Sitting | Cat Stevens | Catch Bull at Four | 1972 |
The Hurt | Cat Stevens | Foreigner | 1973 |
Oh Very Young | Cat Stevens | Buddha and the Chocolate Box | 1974 |
Majik Of Majiks | Cat Stevens | Numbers | 1975 |
Gold Digger | Yusuf | Tell ‘Em I’m Gone | 2014 |
The Laughing Apple | Yusuf / Cat Stevens | The Laughing Apple | 2017 |
Grandsons | Yusuf / Cat Stevens | The Laughing Apple | 2017 |