Our annual season-opener, looking at musicians who’ve gone to their reward in the year gone by. Lots of big names this time, making it difficult to choose the playlist. Hope we did well enough for you.
As promised, a link to the Rick Beato podcast on Jeff Beck is below.
Preshow
| Title | Artists | Album | Year | In memoriam |
| Wuthering Heights | Kate Bush | The Kick Inside | 1978 | Iain Bairnson |
| Money | The Flying Lizards | The Flying Lizards | 1976 | Barrett Strong |
| Jungle Jazz | Kool & The Gang | Spirit of the Boogie | 1975 | George Brown |
| Papa Was A Rolling Stone | Phil Collins | Going Back | 2010 | Barrett Strong |
| Sundown | Gordon Lightfoot | Sundown | 1974 | Gordon Lightfoot |
| It’s in His Kiss | Linda Lewis | The Best Of | 1997 | Linda Lewis |
| Propositions | Curved Air | Air Conditioning | 1970 | Francis Monkman |
| Go Now | The Moody Blues | The Magnificent Moodies | 1965 | Denny Laine |
Main show
| God Give Me Strength | Elvis Costello With Burt Bacharach | Painted From Memory | 1998 | Burt Bacharach |
| On Broadway | Kurt Elling | 1619 Broadway: The Brill Building Project | 2012 | Cynthia Weil |
| Elegant People | Weather Report | Black Market | 1976 | Wayne Shorter |
| Misterioso | The Carla Bley Band | That’s The Way I Feel Now | 1984 | Carla Bley |
| Goodbye Pork Pie Hat | Jeff Beck | Wired | 1976 | Jeff Beck |
| On Reflection | Gentle Giant | GG at the GG | 1978 | Ray Shulman |
| Sirius + Eye in the Sky | The Alan Parsons Project | Eye In The Sky | 1981 | Iain Bairnson |
| Shadow Captain | Crosby, Stills & Nash | CSN | 1977 | David Crosby |
| Dress Me Up As A Robber | Paul McCartney | Tug Of War | 1982 | Denny Laine |
| Takin Care of Business | Bachman-Turner Overdrive | Universal Masters Collection: Classic Bachman Turner Overdrive | 2002 | Tim and Robbie Bachman |
| Play Children Play | Three Dog Night | Cyan | 1973 | Floyd Sneed |
| Rock & Roll Stew | Traffic | The Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys | 1971 | Jim Gordon |
| Mother Earth | Kool & The Gang | Spirit of the Boogie | 1975 | George Brown |
| Don’t Ask Me No Questions | Lynyrd Skynyrd | Second Helping | 1973 | Gary Rossington |
| Without You | Tina Turner | Twenty Four Seven | 1999 | Tina Turner |
| I Heard It Through the Grapevine | Marvin Gaye | Motown Chartbusters, Vol. 3 | 1971 | Barratt Strong |
| That Lady (Part 1) | The Isley Brothers | 3+3 | 1973 | Rudolph Isley |
| Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald | Gordon Lightfoot | Summertime Dream | 1976 | Gordon Lightfoot |
| Turn The World Around (live) | Harry Belafonte | An Evening With Harry Belafonte & Friends | 1997 | Harry Belafonte |
| May You Never | Linda Lewis | The Best Of | 1997 | Linda Lewis |
Postshow
| The Duke | Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass | Play The Jazz Classics | 1997 | Guido Basso |
| Disco Suicide | Brand X | Morrocan Roll | 1977 | Robin Lumley |
| Where Opposites Meet: Part 3 | Sky | Sky | 1979 | Francis Monkman |
| His Last Voyage | Gentle Giant | Free Hand | 2005 | Ray Shulman |
| The Very Last Time | Alan Parsons | The Time Machine | 1999 | Iain Bairnson |
| Oh So Sweet | Gordon Lightfoot | Solo | 2020 | Gordon Lightfoot |