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Memphis to Manchester
Aug 18, 2022 7:00 AM – 10:00 AM
Music
With John Wendland
Join John Wendland for Memphis to Manchester, a fun-filled and action-packed three hours of soul, R&B, rock, pop, country and other great music.
7:00 AM |
| Chuck Berry Chuckwalk Johnny B. Goode: His Complete '50s Chess Recordings Geffen 2007 Music bed. 1957 instrumental composition by Chuck Berry. |
7:02 AM |
| The Rolling Stones Around and Around N Live at the El Mocambo Interscope / Polydor 2022 I thought I'd take a page from the Pop! The Beat Bubble Burst playbook and start the show off with a Chuck Berry cover. This was taken from this new official release of two secret shows which took place at the 300-seat El Mocambo club in Toronto on March 4-5, 1977. From All Music Guide: "Chuck Berry's "Around and Around" is at the very root of the Rolling Stones' sound. Not only did the Stones cover Berry more than they did any other songwriter, but "Around and Around" was actually the very first song they played in public. That performance took place when an ad hoc group of Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts, and two musicians who wouldn't be part of the Rolling Stones when the group took off (Dick Taylor and Cyril Davies) performed the song in April 1962 at the Ealing Jazz Club in London.' |
7:05 AM |
| Frank Wilson Do I Love You (Indeed I Do) The Complete Motown Singles, Vol. 5: 1965 Hip-O Select / Motown 2006 Motown rave-up written and recorded by Frank Wilson in 1965. Only two genuine original copies of this single which ended up not being released are known to exist. Check out Chris Clark's sublime version, as well. |
7:08 AM |
| The Four Tops I'm in a Different World The Complete Motown Singles-Volume 8:1968 Hip-O Select / Motown 2007 Thanks to John Ellis for reminding me of this one. As noted last week, Lamont Dozier passed away at age 81. As part of the songwriting team of Eddie Holland, Jr, Lamont Dozier, and Brian Holland, they were responsible for so many hits of the sixties and seventies, and beyond. Levi Stubbs provides the amazing lead vocal. Per the liner notes: Lamont Dozier consistently calls "I'm in a Different World" his favorite. "i thought it was the greatest song ever written," he told Mojo magazine. "But I guess it wasn't meant to be." |
7:11 AM |
| Billy Bragg Levi Stubbs' Tears Talking with the Taxman About Poetry Elektra 1986 "Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong / Are here to make everything right that's wrong / Holland and Holland and Lamont Dozier too / Are here to make it all okay with you One dark night he came home from the sea / And put a hole in her body where no hole should be / It hurt her more to see him walking out the door / And though they stitched her back together they left her heart in pieces on the floor When the world falls apart some things stay in place / She takes off the Four Tops tape and puts it back in its case / When the world falls apart some things stay in place / Levi Stubbs' tears..." |
7:15 AM |
| Chris Clark Love's Gone Bad Soul Sounds Motown 1967 Recorded in 1966 and written by Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier, and Eddie Holland Jr. |
7:17 AM |
| Choker Campbell's Big Band Come See About Me All Turned On! Motown Instrumentals 1960-1972 Ace 2022 Music bed. 1964 instrumental version of the Lamont Dozier / Brian Holland / Eddie Holland composition. |
7:20 AM |
| Aretha Franklin Ain't No Way Lady Soul Atlantic 1968 Soul ballad of the highest order written by Carolyn Franklin. Perfect way to close an album. |
7:25 AM |
| Barbara Stant Unsatisfied Woman Eccentric Soul: The Shiptown Label The Numero Group 2022 Thanks to the Numero Group for unearthing this soul gem. Written by Sam Dees and originally released on the Shiptown label circa 1974. |
7:29 AM |
| Sam Dees Troubled Child The Show Must Go On Atlantic 1975 Sam Dees and David Camon. Sam Dees is a terrific singer in his own right but has written so many songs recorded by other artists such as Gladys Knight, Aretha Franklin, Percy Sledge, George Benson, The Temptations, and so many more. |
7:33 AM |
| John Edwards Stop This Merry-Go-Round One In A Million: The Songs of Sam Dees Kent 2014 As evidenced by the album title, this compilation is made up entirely of versions of songs written by Sam Dees. John Edwards was born in St. Louis in 1944 and recorded this song for the Aware label in 1973. |
7:35 AM |
| The Cobra Kings Big Limas Instrumentals Soul-Style Vol. 3 – 1965-1966 Rhythm & Blues Records 2021 Music bed. 1964 soul instrumental originally released on the Memphis-based Black Gold label. |
7:38 AM |
| Miko Marks & The Resurrectors Feel Like Going Home N Feel Like Going Home Redtone Records 2022 Title track to her forthcoming album being released in October. "Now the time is coming to reap what I have sown." Both singles have been flat-out wonderful. |
7:43 AM |
| Robert Finley Better Than I Treat Myself Sharecropper's Son Easy Eye Sound 2021 Dan Auerbach has been responsible for a whole host of terrific albums. This 2021 release is the third by the Louisiana blues and soul singer-songwriter. Produced by Dan Auerbach. Written by Robert Finley, Dan Auerbach, and Nashville/Memphis piano extraordinaire Bobby Wood. Joining Bobby Wood on this track is drummer great Gene Chrisman. |
7:47 AM |
| The Band Stage Fright Rock of Ages Capitol Records 1972 Live recording from New Year's Eve 1971-1972. Written by Robbie Robertson and featuring lead vocals by Rick Danko.
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7:51 AM |
| Bob Dylan On a Night Like This Planet Waves Asylum 1974 This is his only studio album recorded with backing by the Band and the entire album was recorded in three days. This is when he took his slight detour away from the Columbia label. Slightly ramshackle in the right way and rather overlooked, in my estimation. |
7:54 AM |
| Patti Smith Wicked Messenger Gone Again Arista 1996 Edgy and rocking version of the Bob Dylan song. I dig it. |
7:58 AM |
| Joe Strummer Omotepe The Future Is Unwritten (Music from the Film) Sony Legacy Recordings 2007
Music bed. 1987 instrumental originally released on the "Walker" motion picture original soundtrack.
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8:00 AM |
| Jimmy Smith These Foolish Things Softly As a Summer Breeze (The Rudy Van Gelder Edition Remastered) Blue Note Records 1958 Music bed. Seemingly, every jazz artist of note has recorded this song composed by Harry Link, Holt Marvell, and Jack Strachey. |
8:02 AM |
| Joe Henry Flag Tiny Voices Anti/Epitaph 2003 "Take that noise out in the street, / This rubble out from under my feet / No rest for the weary in here, / And make a fuss, you're a volunteer. / These days, they lord above me / Growing mean as they grow shorter, / Like a flag on a closing border now... / Closing right behind you" |
8:07 AM |
| Tom Waits In the Neighborhood Swordfishtrombones Island Records 1983
"Well, the eggs chase the bacon round the fryin' pan / And the whinin' dog pigeons by the steeple bell rope / And the dogs tipped the garbage pails over last night / And there's always construction work bothering you / In the neighborhood." Written by Tom Waits.
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8:11 AM |
| Mose Allison Stop This World Swingin' Machine Atlantic 1963
Recorded in NYC in 1962 and composed by Mose Allison.
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8:14 AM |
| Nina Simone Tell Me More and More and Then Some Pastel Blues Verve 1965 Smoldering vocal on this song written by Billie Holiday. Arranged by Nina Simone. |
8:17 AM |
| Birdlegs & Pauline Teardrops Birdlegs Numero Group 2018 Music bed. Instrumental from this reissue of an almost impossible to find 1964 release. |
8:19 AM |
| Eilen Jewell Summertime Green River / Summertime - Single Signature Sounds Recordings 2020 Another version of the George Gershwin / Ira Gershwin / DuBose Heyward standard in my continuing series of playing a different version during each summer episode of M2M. |
8:24 AM |
| The Kinks Days The Anthology 1964 - 1971 Sony Music/BMG Rights Management 2014 Written by Ray Davies and recorded in London in 1968 for the Pye label. |
8:27 AM |
| Amanda Shires Empty Cups N Take It Like A Man ATO Records 2022 Written by Amanda Shires and featuring harmony vocals by Maren Morris. Brutally honest. "You used to lean in like I was whispering / Any excuse to get near again / I still miss the way you lean in / What happened between now and then?" |
8:31 AM |
| John Prine 1959 N Something Borrowed, Something New: A Tribute to John Anderson Easy Eye Sound 2022
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8:34 AM |
| Rockpile Cruel to be Kind Live at The Palladium Vogon 2018 Live version of an Ian Gomm / Nick Lowe composition from the summer of 1979 recorded at the Palladium in NYC, for a radio broadcast. |
8:38 AM |
| Los Straitjackets Rollers Show What's So Funny About Peace, Love and Los Straitjackets Yep Roc Records 2017 Music bed. Instrumental version of a Nick Lowe song. |
8:41 AM |
| The Beths Knees Deep N Expert in a Dying Field Carpark Records 2022 From the New Zealand band's forthcoming album being released on September 16. Elizabeth Stokes on lead vocals. Thurs 8/18 The Beths w/ Rosie Tucker – Duck Room. Miss at your own peril!
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8:44 AM |
| Quivers Nostalgia Will Kill You Golden Doubt Bobo Integral 2021 Sam Nicholson is a really fine songwriter and harmonies have really been put to the forefront on the latest album by the Australian band now based out of Melbourne. Jangly, literate, and tuneful. They are touring the U.S. in September but, so far, are getting no closer than Chicago. |
8:48 AM |
| The Broken Heartbreakers Swipe Card Valley How We Got to Now The Broken Heartbreakers 2015 This band out of Auckland, NZ features the songwriting and vocals of John Guy Howell and Rachel Bailey. |
8:52 AM |
| The Go-Betweens Right Here Tallulah Big Time 1987 Written by Robert Forster and Grant McLennan. |
8:56 AM |
| The Saints Just Like Fire Would All Fools Day WM Australia 1986 Written by Chris Bailey. This completes the Australia/New Zealand quintfecta. |
8:59 AM |
| The Hollywood Surfers King of The Stomp Surf-Age Nuggets: Trash & Twang Instrumentals 1959-1966 RockBeat 2012 Music bed. 1962 surf instrumental. |
9:03 AM |
| Lloyd Green and Jay Dee Maness Hickory Wind A Journey to the Beginning "Tribute to the Byrds" Coastal Bend Music 2018 Music bed. Instrumental version of the Bob Buchanan / Gram Parsons song found on this instrumental tribute to the Byrds' "Sweetheart of the Radio" album from 1968 which both Lloyd Green and Jay Dee Maness both played pedal steel on. |
9:04 AM |
| The Byrds Mr. Spaceman Fifth Dimension Columbia 1966 Written by Roger McGuinn.
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9:06 AM |
| Diesel Island Poor Me L Diesel Island Euclid Records 2017 Kip Loui, Carl Pandolfi, and Richard Tralles shared songwriting duties on this album. This one was written by bassist Richard Tralles. Diesel Island will be at the Tower Grove Farmers Market this Saturday (8/20) from 10am-noon. |
9:10 AM |
| Kelly Hogan Plant White Roses I Like to Keep Myself in Pain Anti/Epitaph 2012 Composed by Stephin Merritt of Magnetic Fields. Even though every song was written by a different songwriter, the album is a cohesive thing of beauty by one of pop music's finest vocalists.
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9:13 AM |
| Robbie Fulks Cocktails 13 Hillbilly Giants Bloodshot Records 2001 Duet version of a Bill Anderson cautionary tale featuring the vocals of Robbie Fulks and Donna Fulks. |
9:16 AM |
| Amy Rigby Beer & Kisses Diary of a Mod Housewife Koch 1996 Duet between Amy Rigby and John Wesley Harding written by Amy Rigby. Elliot Easton plays guitar and bass, Greg Leisz plays pedal steel, and the departed Don Heffington plays drums and percussion. "All hopped up on love and foam." |
9:20 AM |
| Jon Rauhouse's Steel Guitar Air Show Agent Burns (Theme) Jon Rauhouse's Steel Guitar Air Show Bloodshot 2002 Music bed. Instrumental for an imaginary TV show composed by Jon Rauhouse.
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9:22 AM |
| S.G. Goodman All My Love Is Coming Back To Me N Teeth Marks Verve Forecast 2022 Fri 10/7 S.G. Goodman w/ Le Ren – Off Broadway. Fine double bill.
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9:26 AM |
| Nikki Lane First High N Denim & Diamonds New West Records 2022 From her forthcoming album being released on September 23rd. Thur 9/29 Nikki Lane – Off Broadway |
9:29 AM |
| Jonathan Richman Corner Store Jonathan Goes Country Rounder 1990 Written by Jonathan Richman and featuring musical backing by the Skeletons and pedal steel great Tom Brumley. |
9:32 AM |
| The Blasters Border Radio The Blasters Rhino/Slash 1981 One of Dave Alvin's finest early compositions with a great vocal by Phil Alvin and a Fats Domino treatment by Gene Taylor. "One more midnight, her man is still gone / The nights move too slow / She tries to remember the heat of his touch / While listening to the Border Radio / She calls toll-free and requests an old song / Something they used to know / She prays to herself that wherever he is, / He's listening to the Border Radio This song comes from nineteen sixty-two / Dedicated to a man who's gone / Fifty thousand watts outta Mexico / This is the Border Radio" |
9:35 AM |
| Dwight Yoakam Some Dark Holler Dwight's Used Records Koch Records 2004 The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band joins Dwight Yoakam on this traditional song. |
9:38 AM |
| Dale Watson Agent Elvis Dale Watson Presents: The Memphians Audium Nashville 2021 Music bed. Instrumental composition by Dale Watson and the guitarist on this album, Mario Monterosso. Rather unexpected that Dale Watson would release an album of all original instrumentals. |
9:42 AM |
| The Figgs The Essex Princess N Chemical Shake Stomper 2022 Cover version of a song written by Martin Newell from Essex, England. This was recorded originally by Cleaners From Venus, a band Martin Newell is somestimes in. |
9:45 AM |
| Camera Obscura Honey In the Sun My Maudlin Career 4AD 2009 Written and sung by Traceyanne Campbell. A pop song of the highest order to close out the album. |
9:50 AM |
| Bettie Serveert Had2Byou Oh, Mayhem! Palomine Records 2012
Bettie Serveert hails from Amsterdam. Carol van Dijk sings lead on this pop gem.
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9:53 AM |
| Buddy Holly Ready Teddy Buddy Holly Coral 1958 Written by Robert "Bumps" Blackwell and John Marascalco. |
9:54 AM |
| Bill Justis Raunchy Teen Beat Volume 4 Ace Records 1997 Music bed. 1957 instrumental composition by Bill Justis and Sidney Manker. |