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FROM THE ARCHIVES Barclay James Harvest: Pools Of Blue original air date: 1/20/07 As featured on the CD accompanying the April 2006 issue of...

Mikado: Naufrage En Hiver Recorded at Studios Davout, Paris, October 1984.

Paul Humphrey: Hot Ice Cream From his album Supermellow , on the Blue Thumb label.

Archie Shepp: Attica Blues Quiet Dawn From the album Attica Blues . Recorded January 24-26, 1972, at A&R Recording, New York. "Atti...

Phish: Mexican Cousin

Grant Green: Idle Moments [1963] Grant Green on Guitar, Joe Henderson on Tenor Sax, Bobby Hutcherson on Vibes, Duke Pearson on Piano (song c...

Rachel Sweet: It's So Different Here From the album Fool Around . Written and produced by Liam Sternberg (who also wrote Walk Like An Eg...

Geechie Wiley: Last Kind Word Blues As heard in that movie Crumb . From what I can make out of the lyrics, the "last kind word" is...

Bob Welch: Future Games From the album The Other One . For the Fleetwood Mac original, see here. See here for Bob Welch on CD. The future s...

Buck Owens: Made In Japan [1972] Why I thought it would be funny to pair these two songs is now lost on me... David Bowie: ChinaGirl [1983] ...

FROM THE ARCHIVES 10cc: Dreadlock Holiday [original air date: 11/21/06] From the album Bloody Tourists Written and produced by Eric Stewart...

Gram Parsons & The Fallen Angels: Love Hurts [1973] Broadcast and recorded live to 2-track tape on March 13, 1973 at Ultra Sonic Recordi...

Francis Lai: Emmanuelle's Lesson Of Love From the Emmanuelle II soundtrack. For more neo-Floydian softcore sounds from Francis, see her...

West Phillips: (I'm Just A) Sucker For A Pretty Face vocal instr. alternate (w/vocoder) Discogs reviewer davejay more or less echoes my...

Sam Cooke: Mean Old World [1963] "At the heart of the story is a man who, while creating some of the most memorable pop songs of a gene...

Phil Collins: I'm Not Moving (Idjut Boys edit) [1981/2007] Featuring a guided tour through the history of reverb, plus periodic vinyl cr...

Legion Of Mary: Let It Rock written by Chuck Berry recorded "live" at the Masonic Temple, Scranton, PA, on Saturday April 12, 1975...

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Delta 5: Train Song [1981] "Here's your letter with a page to burn..." Formed in Leeds, Yorkshire 1979. Band bio by Alan Delt...

The Mike Curb Congregation: Sweet Gingerbread Man

James Brown: Brother Rapp recorded "live" at L'Olympia, Paris, Monday March 8, 1971 with the JB's: Bobby Byrd - MC, vocals...

ULTIMATE ALBUM SIDE Beyond The Wizards Sleeve: Spring Face A: Don't Cry Girl Words The Fifth Note These are re-edits, with additional in...

Mighty Baby: Egyptian Tomb This jam appears on the CD in the new ish of MOJO. I think it's time for me to take the plunge and buy the al...

Jimi Hendrix: Machine Gun from Band Of Gypsys This is one of those cuts you turn to in times of need, and it always does what you need it to...

Hervé Roy: Spring Leitmotiv I have this on this . I've not been able to determine the name/year of the original Telemusic LP it appeared...

Cymande: Dove Simply an immortal classic that's been hitting the spot for me lately. Taken from this CD.

Blonde On Blonde: Whole Lotta Love The Wonder Band: Whole Lotta Love written by Page/Plant/Jones/Bonham/Dixon

KC: Give It Up Great pennywhistle-and-horns part. I'm always expecting to hear this in the preview of the latest romantic comedy. Perhap...

Jan Akkerman: Pavane Recorded at the Soundpush Studios - Blaricum - Holland

Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five: The Message b/w The Message (instr.) [1982] Cymande: The Message [1972] These musical homonyms hav...

The Beatles: The Sheik Of Araby [1962] Art Tatum: The Sheik Of Araby [1937] This chestnut was written in 1921, with lyrics by Harry B. Smith...

Mel & Tim: Starting All Over Again [1972] Shirley Brown: Woman to Woman [1974] In 1972, Barbara was the 58th most popular name for baby ...

THE WHO ?: A QUICK ONE WHILE HE'S AWAY Okay. The posts here lately on Art Decade have gotten mysteriously long-winded and verbose, stret...

THE LEFT BANKE: TURN LEFT FOR CLEVELAND - YOU ARE NOW LEAVING GREENWICH VILLAGE Myrah 45: ib design I know, i know. As Big B commented sever...

TINSELTOWN IN THE RAIN The 80s was a disquieting period for me for a number of reasons. First and foremost, i couldn't get behind the wa...

JOE MEEK: MADMAN ACROSS THE WATER ; THE HITMAN AND HER Robert George Meek: born, April 5, 1929, Newent, Gloucestershire ; died February 3, 1...

WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE HEROES ?: No. 1 OF A SERIES OF LESS THAN ZERO - DAN TREACY 1977. And what have we here ? Syd Barrett aficionado, a...

JOURNEY IN THE SHADOW OF THE MEMPHIS MAFIA PART II: GLASGOW CHILTON FC Glasgow, Gorbals, 1970: picture by Harold Chapman Scratch away at the...

THE BOX TOPS: JOURNEY IN THE SHADOW OF THE MEMPHIS MAFIA Memphis Press-Scimitar Photo, Robert Tomb Collection If there were an "Around...

Friends, take note: Starting tomorrow, longtime Art Decade reader and stalwart commentator "ib" will be making a special guest app...

The Greek National Tourist Organisation: The Land Of The Orange Tree Blossoms Solfege Lesson I'm not entirely sure of the raison d'ê...

Fantasy Three: It's Your Rock (vocal) b/w It's Your Rock (instrumental) Way back when we played a more streamlined version of this ...

The Stark Reality: Shooting Stars written by Hoagy Carmichael and Aileen Fisher from Discovers Hoagy Carmichael's Music Shop recorded sp...

Peter Gabriel: Close Up [1984] Instrumental track for the film Birdy . The theme is recycled from 'Family Snapshot' from 1980's ...

The Manhattans: Shining Star