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A change of pace with this set, as we gave you a show of slower numbers, but not without some excitement.

Preshow was once again from my stash (now into the J’s of this pass through one section – there are three more once I’ve finished this one) and picking slower tracks again, from Jethro Tull, Jeff Beck and Jimmy Giuffre.  The postshow was made up of tracks that didn’t make the cut for the show, because we’d used them before perhaps, or did not fit into the storyline I’d assembled.

Once again, we had 30 listeners at peak, which is very satisfying.  Of course, we would always like more 🙂

Preshow

Title	Artists	Album	Year
Bourée	Jethro Tull	Stand Up	1969
Pibroch (Cap in Hand)	Jethro Tull	Songs from the Wood	1977
Gotta Dance	Jimmy Giuffre	The Jimmy Giuffre 3	1957
Behind The Veil	Jeff Beck	Jeff Beck’s Guitar Shop	1989
With You There to Help Me	Jethro Tull	Benefit	1970
Blue Monk	Jimmy Giuffre	Western Suite	1958

The Show

Lazy Ways	10cc	How Dare You!	1976
And Then…	Dave Gilmour	Rattle That Lock	2015
Bad Company	Bad Company	Bad Company	1974
Bridge Over Troubled Water	Simon & Garfunkel	Bridge Over Troubled Water	1970
Come Together	The Beatles	Abbey Road	1969
Convergance	Tim Larkin	Uru – Ages Beyond Myst Soundtrack	2003
Fly LIke An Eagle	Steve MIller	Fly Like An Eagle	1976
Flying	The Beatles	Magical Mystery Tour	1967
Solid Air	John Martyn	Solid Air	1973
Golf Girl	Caravan	In the Land of Grey and Pink	1971
Gone Fishing	Chris Rea	Auberge	1991
Hotel California	Eagles	Live – Hell Freezes Over	1994
Time After Time	Cindi Lauper	She’s So Unusual	1983
I Put A Spell On You	Audience	The House on the Hill	1971
In Your Eyes	Peter Gabriel	So	1986
Lady Fuschia	Strawbs	Bursting At The Seams	1973
Somebody Already Broke My Heart	Sade	Lovers Rock	2000
You’ve Got A Friend	Carole King	Tapestry	1971
Something Inside So Strong	Labi Siffre	Live – Later episode 475	2015
Walking The Ghost Back Home	The Bible	Walking The Ghost Back Home	1986
God Must Be A Boogie Man	Joni Mitchell	Shadows And Light	1979
Wonderful Tonight	Eric Clapton	Slowhand	1977
That’s Why God Made the Radio	The Beach Boys	That’s Why God Made the Radio	2012

Postshow

For What It’s Worth	Buffalo Springfield	Buffalo Springfield	1966
Front Page News	Wishbone Ash	Front Page News	1977
Smooth Operator	Sade	Diamond Life	1984
Hejira	Joni Mitchell	Shadows And Light	1979
The Theme From Hill Street Blues	Larry Carlton / Mike Post	single	1981
Colour My World	Chicago	Chicago II	1970
(Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay	Otis Redding	single	1968
A Horse With No Name	America	single	1972

 

Part 3 of a four-part series.  This show covered the period from 1975 to 1979 including the albums Wish You Were Here, Animals and The Wall.  A turbulent period in the band’s history.  Preshow and postshow both contained tracks from the Live at Pompeii movie, as well as some of Roger Waters’ solo album Radio K.A.O.S.

Preshow

Title	Artists	Album	Year
Echoes, Part 1	Pink Floyd	Pink Floyd Live at Pompeii	1972
Who Needs Information	Roger Waters	Radio K.A.O.S	1987
Careful With that Axe, Eugene	Pink Floyd	Pink Floyd Live at Pompeii	1972
Me Or Him	Roger Waters	Radio K.A.O.S	1987
A Saucerful of Secrets	Pink Floyd	Pink Floyd Live at Pompeii	1972

The Show

Welcome to the Machine	Pink Floyd	Wish You Were Here	1975
Have A Cigar	Pink Floyd	Wish You Were Here	1975
Wish You Were Here	Pink Floyd	Wish You Were Here	1975
Pigs On The Wing 1	Pink Floyd	Animals	1977
Dogs	Pink Floyd	Animals	1977
Pigs (Three Different Ones)	Pink Floyd	Animals	1977
Sheep	Pink Floyd	Animals	1977
Pigs on the Wing 2	Pink Floyd	Animals	1977
Another Brick In The Wall – Part 1	Pink Floyd	The Wall	1979
Another Brick In The Wall – Part 3	Pink Floyd	The Wall	1979
Goodbye Blue Sky	Pink Floyd	The Wall	1979
Empty Spaces	Pink Floyd	The Wall	1979
Hey You	Pink Floyd	The Wall	1979
Is There Anybody Out There?	Pink Floyd	The Wall	1979
Comfortably Numb	Pink Floyd	The Wall	1979
In The Flesh	Pink Floyd	The Wall	1979
Run Like Hell	Pink Floyd	The Wall	1979
The Trial	Pink Floyd	The Wall	1979
Outside The Wall	Pink Floyd	The Wall	1979

Postshow

Another Brick In The Wall – Part 2	Pink Floyd	The Wall	1979
Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun	Pink Floyd	Pink Floyd Live at Pompeii	1972
Echoes, Part 2	Pink Floyd	Pink Floyd Live at Pompeii	1972

Something close to all our hearts (well, just below in fact), food, and being the first of several, this one’s about breakfast. In the preshow we had Alan’s Psychedelic Breakfast (I wanted to get that out of the way early) followed by some stuff from the H section of the stash, Hayseed Dixie and Huey Lewis.

The breakfast theme included Cyril Tawney’s Chicken on a Raft, a made-up sea shanty – Cyril served on diesel submarines – and includes some Royal Navy slang – a short glossary is included below

Chicken on a Raft = Fried Egg on fried bread
Jimmy = Jimmy-the-One = 1st lieutenant
Comic Cuts = A sailor’s personal file, record of service, misdemeanors etc.
Dabtoes = seamen (not specialist ratings), used the Foreward Mess
Dustmen = Engine Room specialist ratings (originally stokers), used the Aft Mess
middle, forenoon = watches
Whalin’ crew = Whaler’s Crew / Whaler = Ship’s boat
pusser = purser
DonnyB: Donnybristle in Fifeshire, not far from Rosyth dockyard

The postshow included some alternate takes (my, we are getting good at this) on songs from the show, plus a couple of ones that didn’t quite make it.

Preshow

Title	Artists	Album	Year
Alan’s Psychedelic Breakfast	Pink Floyd	Atom Heart Mother	1970
Centerfold	Hayseed Dixie	Let There Be Rockgrass	2004
Don’t Fear the Reaper	Hayseed Dixie	Hair Down To My Grass	2014
The Heart Of Rock & Roll	Huey Lewis & The News	Sports	1983
Hip To Be Square	Huey Lewis & The News	Fore!	1986

The Show

Let’s Eat (Real Soon)	Hatfield And The North	Hatfield & The North	1973
Breakfast In America	Supertramp	Breakfast In America	1979
Breakfast in Mayfair	Fairport Convention	Babbacombe Lee	1971
Breakfast With Werner von Braun	Stackridge	Mr Mick	1976
Danielle’s Breakfast	Chris Rea	Dancing With Strangers	1987
Chicken On A Raft	Cyril Tawney	In Port	1972
The Unauthorised Breakfast Item	Caravan	The Unauthorised Breakfast Item	2003
Hart Wie Marmelade	Extrabreit	Flieger, Grüss Mir Die Sonne	1980
Spoonful	Cream	Wheels of Fire – Live At the Fillmore (CD2)	1968
Barkbrödslåten	Kebnekajse	Kebnekajse	1990
Candy	The Manhattan Transfer	The Manhattan Transfer	1975
Candy	Iggy Pop	Nude & Rude: The Best Of Iggy Pop	1990
Cartoons & Candy	Bruce Hornsby	Big Swing Face	2002
Sweet Candy	AC/DC	Rock or Bust	2014
Pineapple Heart	Béla Fleck and The Flecktones	Little Worlds	2003
Pineapple Rag – Gladiolus Rag	Marvin Hamlisch	The Sting	1973
Lemon Pie	Dave Cousins	A Taste of Strawbs CD2 – Changing Places	1974
Green Onions	Booker T & The MGs	Green Onions	1962
Chocolate Cake	Crowded House	Woodface	1991
Cut The Cake	Average White Band	Volume 8	1980
Breakfast	Alan Hull	Pipedream	1973
Breakfast at Igor’s	Spyro Gyra	Road Scholars	1998
Welcome To Breakfast Television	Godley & Creme	Random Brainwaves 2	2003
TV Dinners	ZZ Top	Eliminator	1983

Postshow

Candy	Nat King Cole	The Very Best of Nat King Cole	2006
An Hour in the Shower	Chicago	Chicago III	1971
Pine Apple Rag	Joshua Rifkin	Scott Joplin: Piano Rags	1994
Spoonful	Cream	Fresh Cream	1966
Mudslingers Of The Milky Way	Béla Fleck and The Flecktones	Little Worlds	2003
Lemon Pie	Strawbs	Ghosts	1975

 

The 75th show made use of the wedding-anniversary convention and had a theme of diamonds – which had to be augmented by ice (the slang term for diamonds, we are lead to believe).  A very wide-ranging selection was the result of combing all our stash for suitable candidates.  In the end we had enough to cover the pre- and post-show requirements as well.

Preshow

Title	Artists	Album	Year
Black Diamonds	Jez Lowe	Back Shift: A Collection Of Songs From 1980-1986	1992
The Diamond Collection	De Danaan	Jigs, Reels & Rock N’ Roll	2010
Diamante	Zuccero	Zucchero Sings His Hits in English	1990
Diamonds And Gold	Fairport Convention	Jewel In The Crown	1995
The Diamondtina Drover	Christy Moore	Ordinary Man	1989
Cut Like a Diamond	The Strawbs	Burning For You	1977
Lady Diamond	Steeleye Span	Back In Line	1986

The Show

Black Diamond	Kiss	Kiss	1974
Jack O’Diamonds	John Lee Hooker	Jack O’Diamonds	1949
Diamond Jack	Wishbone Ash	Front Page News	1977
Diamonds and Pearls	Link Wray	Indian Child	1993
Diamonds On The Soles Of Her Shoes	Paul Simon	Graceland	1986
Diamonds on the Water	Enya	Dark Sky Island	2015
Diamonds	Chris Rea	Deltics	1979
Bonnie Ship The Diamond	Wolfstone	The Half Tail	1996
Walking On Ice	Keats	Keats	1984
Ice Mountain	Spyro Gyra	Down The Wire	2009
Fire & Ice	Steeleye Span	Wintersmith	2013
Crown of Ice	Steeleye Span	Wintersmith	2013
Black Ice	AC/DC	Black Ice	2008
Break That Ice	Extrabreit	LP der Woche	1984
Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds	The Beatles	Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band	1967
Diamond-Hard Blue Apples of the Moon	The Nice	Elegy [Virgin 1990 remaster]	1971
Diamond Dogs	David Bowie	Changes	1990
Smooth Operator	Sade	Diamond Life	1984
Diamond Head	The Beach Boys	Friends	1968
Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Part 6-9)	Pink Floyd	Wish You Were Here (Gold Edition)	1975
Skating Away On The Thin Ice Of The New Day	Jethro Tull	Original Masters	1985
The Diamond Mountain	Sharon Shannon & The Woodchoppers	Live in Galway	2001

Postshow

Thin Ice	Robin Trower	Truce	1982
Diamonds And Rust	Blackmore’s Night	Ghost Of A Rose	2003
Ice Water	Jazz Crusaders	Pacific Jazz Quintet Studio Sessions	2005
Shine On You Crazy Diamond	Christy Moore	Listen	2009
Shine On You Crazy Diamond	The Royal Philharmonic Orchest	Hits of Pink Floyd	1994

 

An excellent third anniversary show, put together by Edison Rex, drew over 30 listeners at one point, which is close to the best we’ve ever had.  All the tracks are selected from shows we’ve broadcast over the past year, and I have listed the shows against the tracks below.

Preshow

Track	Artists	Album	Year	RFD show
Highway Star	Deep Purple	Machine Head	1972	52 On the Road Again
I Heard It Through the Grapevine	Marvin Gaye	In The Groove	1968	55 Covered Up 1
Tight Rope	Leon Russell	Carny	1972	58 A Bad Year for Good Music
Equinoxe Part 4	Jean-Michel Jarre	Équinoxe	1978	60 Playing The Game
Take On Me	A-Ha	Hunting High and Low	1985	61 One-Hit Wonders
The Chain	Fleetwood Mac	Rumours	1977	62 No Fillers
I Shot the Sheriff	Eric Clapton	461 Ocean Boulevard	1974	64 BYfGM 2: Robert Stigwood

The Show

Mustang Sally	Wilson Pickett	single	1966	52 On the Road Again
The Point	Klaus Doldinger	Constellation	1984	53 RaWI 6
Turn!Turn!Turn!	The Byrds	Turn!Turn!Turn!	1965	54 By The Book
The Boar’s Head Carol	Steeleye Span & Maddy Prior	A Rare Collection 1972-1996	1999	57 Not Your Average Christmas Music
Lucky Man	Emerson, Lake and Palmer	Emerson, Lake & Palmer	1970	58 A Bad Year for Good Music
Playing The Game	Gentle Giant	The Power and The Glory	1974	60 Playing The Game
Blinded by the Light	Manfred Mann’s Earth Band	The Roaring Silence	1976	61 One-Hit Wonders
Talk of the Town	Bruce Hornsby	Harbour Lights	1993	62 No Fillers
Flip Flop and Fly	Vince Weber	Octoroon	1991	63 Covered Up II
Satisfaction	CCS	Whole Lotta Love (CCS I)	1970	63 Covered Up II
Layla	Derek & The Dominos	Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs	1970	64 BYfGM 2: Robert Stigwood
Matty Groves	Fairport Convention	Liege and Lief	1969	65 BYfGM 3: Dave Swarbrick
Walk Awhile	Fairport Convention	Full House	1970	65 BYfGM 3: Dave Swarbrick
Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts I-V)	Pink Floyd	Wish You Were Here	1975	66 Songs That Get Under Your Skin
Journey Of The Sorcerer	Eagles	One Of These Nights	1975	67 Unexpected Instrumentals
Eleanor Rigby	The Beatles	Revolver	1966	68 BYfGM 4: George Martin
Tomorrow Never Knows.	The Beatles	Revolver	1966	68 BYfGM 4: George Martin
I Heard It Through The Grapevine	Creedence Clearwater Revival	Cosmo’s Factory	1970	69 A History of CCR
Rosanna	Toto	Toto IV	1982	70 Girls…
Bloody Well Right	Supertramp	Crime of the Century	1974	71 No Fillers 2: No More Fillers Any More

Postshow

Solsbury Hill	Peter Gabriel	Car (Remaster)	1977	56 Difficult Times
Down Under	Men At Work	Business As Usual	1981	61 One-Hit Wonders
Higher Ground	Red Hot Chili Peppers	Mother’s Milk	1989	63 Covered Up II
You Should Be Dancin’	The Bee Gees	Children of the World	1976	64 BYfGM 2: Robert Stigwood
O’Carolans Farewell To Music	Dave Swarbrick + Simon Nicol	In The Club	1982	65 BYfGM 3: Dave Swarbrick
Eve Of The War	Richard Burton/Justin Hayward	Jeff Wayne’s The War Of The Worlds	1978	66 Songs That Get Under Your Skin
Red Barchetta	Rush	Moving Pictures	1981	66 Songs That Get Under Your Skin