We had a great 50th show, with a Golden theme that produced a lot of favourites, both ours and yours. I managed to get the notes finished just in time, and the show was a hit, with 19 listeners for most of the time and a peak of 25. We’re working on improving that, not sure if sending out scantily-clad tempters (of all sexes – we are an equal-opportunity team) or waiting in dark alleys to, ahem, persuade passers-by will work best.
Our thanks to Ainia who rebroadcast the show for us in real time in TJ’s Dance Hall in Second Life. I have plans afoot to include Ainia in our commentary team, and she is also hoping to widen the scope of our advertising in SL. Never a dull moment here on RFD.
We are still coming up with ideas that interest us, and I think will interest you as well. Next time we have picked Electric Folk as a theme, but will eschew the best known (who we’ve already featured quite heavily) to concentrate on some of the lesser-known champions of the genre. And believe me, there are a lot to choose from.
The Golden playlist is below, and we will be back in two weeks with some killer Electric Folk. See you then.
Preshow
| 101 | When Blue Turns Gold | Mahavishnu Orchestra | Mahavishnu | 1984 |
| 102 | Golden Dilemma | Gong | Expresso II | 1978 |
| 103 | A Golden Age | Rupert Hine | The Wildest Wish To Fly | 1983 |
| 104 | Golden Birdies | Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band | Clear Spot | 1972 |
| 105 | Fool’s Gold | Procol Harum | Ninth | 1975 |
| 106 | Fools Gold | Blondel | The Amazing Elsie Emerald | 2010 |
| 107 | Golden Rings | Godley – Creme | Goodbye Blue Sky | 1988 |
| 108 | Greenfields, Golden Sands | Yusuf [Cat Stevens] | An Other Cup | 2006 |
The Show
| 201 | The Gold Bug | The Alan Parsons Project | The Tun of a Friendly Card | 1979 |
| 202 | The Gold It’s In The . . . | Pink Floyd | Obscured by Clouds | 1972 |
| 203 | Goldrush | Supertramp | Slow Motion | 2002 |
| 204 | Burnin’ (Molten Gold) (Alternative Take) | Free | Free at Last (reissue) | 2002 |
| 205 | Fools Gold | Poco | Crazy Eyes | 1973 |
| 206 | Golden Notebooks | Gerry Mulligan | The Age Of Steam | 1971 |
| 207 | Golden Strings | Link Wray | Link Wray & The Raymen | 1960 |
| 208 | Book Of Golden Stories | Runrig | The Stamping Ground | 2001 |
| 209 | City Of Gold | BBM | Around The Next Dream | 1994 |
| 210 | Cold Gold | Larry Carlton | With Special Guest Robben Ford – Live In Tokyo | 2007 |
| 211 | Gold Dust Woman | Fleetwood Mac | Rumours | 1977 |
| 212 | Golden Earth Girl | Paul McCartney | Off The Ground | 1993 |
| 213 | Golden Brown | Stranglers | La Folie | 1981 |
| 214 | GoldenEye | Wise Guys | LIVE | 1999 |
| 215 | Blood and Gold/Mohacs | Maddy Prior/June Tabor | No More to the Dance | 1988 |
| 216 | Love Over Gold | Dire Straits | Love Over Gold | 1982 |
| 217 | Golden Years | David Bowie | Changes | 1990 |
| 218 | Heart of Gold | Neil Young | Harvest | 1972 |
| 219 | Pocketful Of Golden | Robert Plant | Lullaby And… The Ceaseless Roar | 2014 |
| 220 | Your Gold Teeth | Steely Dan | Countdown To Ecstasy | 1973 |
| 221 | 14 Karat Gold | Gordon Lightfoot | Shadows | 1982 |
| 222 | Golden Slumbers | The Beatles | Abbey Road | 1969 |
| 223 | Golden Slumbers | The Jazz Crusaders | Old Socks, New Shoes…New Socks, Old Shoes | 1970 |
Postshow
| 301 | Gold-Tipped Boots, Black Jacket And Tie | Jethro Tull | Catfish Rising | 1991 |
| 302 | A Golden Handshake For Every Daughter | China Crisis | Diary – A Collection | 1992 |
| 303 | Band of Gold | Freda Payne | single | 1970 |
Ed’s ISP suffered a catastrophic failure, and he dropped out after just three of the postshow tracks. We breathed a collective sigh of relief that it had not happened earlier. I took over, and about 16 listeners stayed with me as we went through a great dance set, and also managed to incorportate the missing bits of the postshow, later on. From the Mixxx logs, I can give you a rundown.
| 1 | Lawyers, Guns and Money | Warren Zevon | Stand in the Fire | 1980 |
| 2 | Put The Money Down | The Who | Odds And Sods | 1974 |
| 3 | All Right Now | Free | The Free Story | 1989 |
| 4 | Big Money | Rush | Power Windows | 1985 |
| 5 | Billie Jean | Michael Jackson | single, from Thriller | 1983 |
| 6 | Black Horse And The Cherry Tree | K.T. Tunstall | Eye To The Telescope | 2004 |
| 7 | Breadfan | Budgie | Never Turn Your Back on a Friend | 1973 |
| 8 | Can’t Get Enough | Bad Company | Bad Company | 1974 |
| 9 | Cherry Pie | Sade | Lovers Live | 2002 |
| 10 | Dancing | Decameron | Tomorrow’s Pantomime | 1976 |
| 11 | Let’s Dance | Chris Rea | Dancing With Strangers | 1987 |
| 12 | Money, Money, Money | ABBA | single, from Arrival | 1976 |
| 13 | Nutbush City Limits | Ike & Tina Turner | single | 1973 |
| 14 | Put It Where You Want It | The Crusaders | The Best Of The Crusaders | 1976 |
| 15 | Spirit In The Sky | Norman Greenbaum | single | 1969 |
| 16 | Take Me to the River | Andrew Strong | The Commitments | 1991 |
| 17 | The Ability To Swing | Thomas Dolby | Aliens Ate My Buick | 1988 |
| 18 | Three Button Hand Me Down | Faces | First Step | 1970 |
| 19 | Whatever You Want | Status Quo | Whatever You Want | 1979 |
| 20 | You Never Give Me Your Money | The Beatles | Abbey Road | 1969 |
| 21 | Your Cash Ain’t Nothin’ But Trash | Steve Miller Band | The Joker | 1973 |
| 22 | Golden Hours | Brian Eno | Another Green World | 1975 |
| 23 | Red And Gold | Fairport Convention | Red & Gold | |
| 24 | Rhythm in Gold | Jethro Tull | 20 Years of Jethro Tull (Disc 2) – Flawed gems and the other sides of Tull | 1988 |
| 25 | Silver Threads And Golden Needles | Fotheringay | Wild Mountain Thyme | 1970 |
| 26 | The Golden Glove | Fairport Convention | Wishfulness Waltz | 2000 |
| 27 | Golden Mile | Caravan | The Album | 1980 |
| 28 | Solid Gold Easy Action | T.Rex | single | 1972 |
| 29 | Your Gold Teeth II | Steely Dan | Katy Lied | 1975 |
| 30 | Moonlight And Gold | Gerry Rafferty | One More Dream | 1995 |
| 31 | Life In The Air Age | Be Bop Deluxe | Tremulous Antenna | |
| 32 | Natural Thing | The Doobie Brothers | The Captain and Me | |
| 33 | Walk Like An Egyptian | The Bangles | The Best Of 1980-1990 Vol. 4 | 2004 |
| 34 | The Girl From Ipanema | Stan Getz & Astrud Gilberto | Getz/Gilberto | 1964 |
About three hours of good golden dance tracks and other nice music – well I think so, and I hope you liked it too.
Reviewing this, I’ve been reminded of just how influential Jobim’s ‘Girl from Ipanema’ was – I wonder if we can put together a set of ‘influential songs’. It would be pretty impressive listening, I think. What do you think? Let us know by commenting below.