Todd Rundgren - The Midnight Special, NBC Studios, Burbank, CA, 2-14-1975

Here's another episode of the "Midnight Special" TV show. This one stars Todd Rundgren. Most of it is from 1975.

Rundgren never actually hosted an episode of this show. However, in early 1975, the show had an unusual episode that featured three musical acts, each of them getting one third of the time, uninterrupted. The three were Neil Sedaka, Spinners, and Todd Rundgren. (What an odd combination.) The show's host, Wolfman Jack, said this would be the first of many shows using this format. But it turned out to be the only one. 

I've used Rundgren's third of that show as the main part of this album. That makes up tracks 6 through 11. Tracks 1 through 3 come from a December 3, 1973 episode hosted by the Four Tops. The 1975 episode didn't really have a proper intro for Rundgren, given the weird format, so I used an intro spoken by various members of the Four Tops as the intro for this album. Tracks 4 and 5 come from a February 8, 1974 episode hosted by Ike and Tina Turner.

As I usually do with albums from this show, I added applause between songs to help with the flow. Often, the applause gets cut off by a commercial break or someone else talking, so I'll put in some extra applause until it tapers off to silence. Unfortunately, the last song, "Do Ya," a cover of a song originally by the Move, got cut off about two minutes into the song due to the TV broadcast ending. I found another live version from the 1975 album "Another Live," and used that to finish off the last two minutes of the song.

Note that for some of these songs, Rundgren was singing live to backing tracks he had prepared in advance. He mentioned that in track 6. But also, there was some more talk by the Four Tops in the 1973 show that I didn't include where they mentioned that as well for the two songs he did then. However, if you watch the video for the 1975, it's only "Real Man" where there's a backing track. For "Freedom Fighters," "The Seven Rays," and "Do Ya," he was backed by his band Utopia. For the two songs from the 1974 show, one can see he has a backing band then as well. 

It worked out very nicely how there were no repeat songs between his three appearances in 1973, 1974, and 1975. He hosted the show in 1978, plus another 1978 appearance. So when that eventually gets rereleased on YouTube, I look forward to making an album out of that as well. 

The music here is unreleased. The sound quality is excellent. 

As an aside, Rundgren got the seventh most votes in my poll asking people which albums they most wanted to see made out of this Midnight Special material. 

This album is 39 minutes long. 

01 talk by the Four Tops (Todd Rundgren)
02 Black Maria (Todd Rundgren)
03 Hello It's Me (Todd Rundgren)
04 Couldn't I Just Tell You (Todd Rundgren)
05 The Dream Goes On Forever (Todd Rundgren)
06 talk (Todd Rundgren)
07 Real Man (Todd Rundgren)
08 Freedom Fighters (Todd Rundgren)
09 The Seven Rays (Todd Rundgren)
10 Born to Synthesize (Todd Rundgren)
11 Do Ya [Edit] (Todd Rundgren)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/w7CiRSvb

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/2RF5zWQuRWKVB0r/file

The cover photo is from Rundgren's 1973 appearance on the TV show.

Jimi Hendrix & Various Artists - Jimi Hendrix as Session Musician, Volume 3: 1969-1970

Here's the third and last album showcasing the session work by Jimi Hendrix, arguably the greatest lead guitarist of all time. This deals with the last two years of his life, 1969 and 1970.

By 1969, Hendrix was a big star. He loved performing live, and often dropped in as a guest in concerts put on by other musicians he liked, especially when they played in small clubs near where he lived. However, he still didn't guest on records that much, especially those that got released while he was alive. 

A couple examples of him doing this are "Yes I Need Someone" and "The Clown" by Eire Apparent. Hendrix actually produced the entire debut album by this band from Northern Ireland, and these are just two of the songs from it. Unfortunately, he mostly kept a low profile with his guitar playing on this album, with these two songs probably showing the most playing by him. His Experience band mates Noel Redding and Mitch Mitchell also played on many of the songs. The band broke up after that single album. 

Another song released in his lifetime was "Old Times, Good Times," which came out on the 1970 debut solo album by Stephen Stills (of Crosby, Stills and Nash fame), simply called "Stephen Stills." Hendrix and Stills formed a musical connection and often jammed with each other, but very little of it saw the light of day. "30 Dollar Fine" and "No-Name Jam (Instrumental)," and "White Nigger (High and Dry)" are all Stills songs with Hendrix that didn't get officially released until decades later. In fact, "White Nigger (High and Dry)" is still unreleased, probably due to song title, obviously now considered quite offensive.

A song that almost came out in Hendrix's lifetime is "The Everlasting First," released by Love. This came out at the very end of 1970, a couple of months after Hendrix's death. Hendrix had a natural bond with Arthur Lee, the lead singer and main songwriter of Love, due to both of them being Black men in a overwhelmingly Causasian rock world at the time. This song was cowritten by Hendrix and Lee. The two of them actually knew each other before either of them became famous. Hendrix even played guitar on a song written by Lee back in 1964. 

Generally speaking, the other songs here came out much later, on archival releases. Tracks 3 and 4 are from the "West Coast Seattle Boy" box set. Track 6 is from "The Experience Sessions." Track 10 is from "People, Hell and Angels." Track 13 is a jam session, and remains unreleased. Track 5, "Doriella Du Fontaine," is a curious case, because the lead vocals weren't added until 1973. That's from "Change the Beat: The Celluloid Records Story."

That just leaves the three bonus tracks. These all sound fine, despite the fact they're all still unreleased. But the reason I made them bonus tracks is because they actually are from concerts where Hendrix guested, and the theme here is him guesting with studio sessions. Perhaps someone could help me find enough songs for a full album (or albums?) of Hendrix being a guest star in concerts, then I could move these to that. Unfortunately, in my opinion, a lot of the recordings of his guest appearances have poor sound quality. "Baby's Gone Away" and "The Sky Is Crying" come from the Newport 69 Festival in Northridge, California. "Mother Earth" is from a concert at a club in London on September 16, 1970. I'm not sure, but I think that might be his last public performance, because he died of a drug overdose just two days later, on September 18, 1970. I don't remember why I put "[Edit]" since I did that a long time ago. But I think I cleaned up a lot of the audience noise (it being from an audience boot), and possibly boosted the vocals.

This album is 52 minutes long, not including the three bonus tracks.

01 30 Dollar Fine (Stephen Stills with Jimi Hendrix)
02 Yes I Need Someone (Eire Apparent with Jimi Hendrix)
03 Instant Groove (King Curtis with Jimi Hendrix)
04 Mastermind (Larry Lee with Jimi Hendrix)
05 Doriella Du Fontaine (Lightnin' Rod with Jimi Hendrix & Buddy Miles)
06 Noel's Tune [Instrumental] (Noel Redding with Jimi Hendrix)
07 The Clown (Eire Apparent with Jimi Hendrix)
08 No-Name Jam [Instrumental] (Stephen Stills with Jimi Hendrix)
09 The Everlasting First [Extended Version] (Love with Jimi Hendrix)
10 Mojo Man (Albert Allen & the Ghetto Fighters with Jimi Hendrix)
11 Old Times, Good Times (Stephen Stills with Jimi Hendrix)
12 White Nigger [High and Dry] (Stephen Stills with Jimi Hendrix)
13 Dreamin' [Instrumental] (Eric Oxendine with Jimi Hendrix & Richie Havens)

Baby's Gone Away (Jimi Hendrix with Buddy Miles & Lee Oskar)
Mother Earth [Edit] (Eric Burdon & War with Jimi Hendrix)
The Sky Is Crying (Buddy Miles with Jimi Hendrix & Lee Oskar)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/n4ipEFiN

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/SmqRzx0abYg8ATZ/file

The cover photo shows Jimi Hendrix with Stephen Stills, presumably in a recording studio. I don't know any details about where or when the picture is from. The original was in black and white, which I colorized with the help of the Kolorize program. It also was dark and murky. I ran this through the Krea AI program a couple of times until it looked a little better. 

Genesis - More Seconds Out - Hallenstadion, Zurich, Switzerland, 7-2-1977 - Studiofied (A MIKE SOLOF GUEST POST)

Here's another guest post by Mike Solof. It's a 1977 Genesis concert, with lots of bonus tracks from the same time period. This is part of Mike's relatively new "studiofied" series. The idea is to take a high quality concert bootleg and completely remove all the banter and crowd noise, so it sounds like a studio recording. This way, one can better appreciate the nuance in the performance.

There's lots more detail in the PDF Mike has included with the download zip, like he usually does. I'll just quickly note that tracks 1 through 15 come from the Zurich concert mentioned in the title. The rest are bonus tracks, given the same treatment, from 1976 or 1977. Further details about them can be found in the PDF.

The music here is unreleased. The sound quality is excellent. 

This album is two hours and 38 minutes long.

01 Squonk (Genesis)
02 One for the Vine (Genesis)
03 Robbery, Assault and Battery (Genesis)
04 Inside and Out (Genesis)
05 Firth of Fifth (Genesis)
06 The Carpet Crawlers (Genesis)
07 In that Quiet Earth (Genesis)
08 Afterglow (Genesis)
09 I Know What I Like (Genesis)
10 Eleventh Earl of Mar (Genesis)
11 Supper's Ready (Genesis)
12 Dance on a Volcano (Genesis)
13 Los Endos (Genesis)
14 The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway (Genesis)
15 The Musical Box (Genesis)
16 Your Own Special Way (Genesis)
17 All in a Mouse's Night (Genesis)
18 The Cinema Show (Genesis)
19 White Mountain (Genesis)
20 Entangled (Genesis)
21 The Knife (Genesis)
22 It - Watcher of the Skies (Genesis)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/uP9yJeKZ

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/Nk5EZeo2G1Ahmco/file

The cover was selected by Mike. I don't know where he got it from. I added the subtitle text. 

Cold Blood - Live at the Record Plant, Record Plant, Sausalito, CA, 7-2-1974

Here's an episode of the "Live at the Record Plant" radio show. This one features the band Cold Blood.

Perhaps you haven't heard of Cold Blood, because they never had widespread success. I wasn't that familiar with them myself. But I heard this, since I want to post all the "Record Plant" episodes I can find, and I was very pleasantly surprised. They were a "jazz rock" band with a horn section, similar to early Chicago, or Tower of Power, or Blood, Sweat and Tears. But they had a female lead vocalist, Lydia Pense, who was reminiscent of the vocal talent of Janis Joplin. In fact, when Cold Blood started out in 1968 and was looking for a lead vocalist, it was Joplin who found out about Pense and recommended her to the band.

So that horn section plus soulful female lead vocals was a powerful combination. The problem was, they never had a hit single to bring them to wider public attention. The closest they got was in 1970, when their cover of a Sam and Dave song, "You Got Me Hummin'," made it to Number 52 in the U.S. singles chart, missing the all-important Top Forty. One key problem was that the band did very little songwriting of their own. But they had a knack for finding good cover songs that weren't overplayed. Pense had the looks, voice, and stage presence to be a big star. I think she would have been, had her band been signed to a record company that gave the band top material and promoted them well.

The band's first four albums, released from 1969 to 1973, are considered their best. Then musical trends started to change in the 1970s, and the band broke up in 1976. Pense suspended her musical career to raise a daughter. But she reformed the band in 1988, and they are still going as I write this in 2025. Here's their Wikipedia entry if you want to know more:

Cold Blood (band) - Wikipedia

The music is unreleased. The sound quality is excellent. 

This album is 58 minutes long.

01 Valdez in the Country (Cold Blood)
02 Too Many People (Cold Blood)
03 Under Pressure (Cold Blood)
04 Feel So Bad (Cold Blood)
05 talk (Cold Blood)
06 When It's Over (Cold Blood)
07 talk (Cold Blood)
08 Simple Love Life - Consideration (Cold Blood)
09 Funky on My Back (Cold Blood)
10 talk (Cold Blood)
11 Down to the Bone (Cold Blood)
12 Simple Love Life [Reprise] (Cold Blood)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/5nF8NJSj

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/vV8c4a9aS6VgEuC/file

The cover photo is a screenshot I took of Lydia Pense singing with the band on the "Underground" TV show in 1972. It was rather low-res, so I used Krea AI to sharpen it up some.

Dead Man Walks Again

I got a tip from a commenter the other day, pointing to an additional song from the "Dead Man Walking" 1998 concert that I posted here in 2022. I investigated further, and found out that the entire Tom Waits set from the show somehow was leaked to the public with excellent sound quality about a week ago (as I write this in mid-November 2025). That's eight songs, over half an hour long, almost like a mini-Tom Waits concert.

So I've updated the album with those extra songs included. Here's the link to the post if you want to update your version: 

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2022/02/various-artists-dead-man-walking.html

And thanks to aranyláz for giving me the tip!

Wilco - PBS Soundstage, WTTW Studios, Chicago, IL, 5-7-2003

Here's another episode of the great "PBS Soundstage" TV show. This one features the band Wilco in 2003.

Wilco has been a very critically acclaimed band. They've been led by Jeff Tweedy, who has also done a lot as a solo artist. Their 2001 album "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot" is their most acclaimed, for instance making Rolling Stone Magazine's list of the top 500 albums of all time. It also was their best selling, selling over half a million copies in the U.S. and almost making it to the Top Ten in the U.S. album charts. This concert took place when they were still promoting that album, since they wouldn't release their next album until 2004.

There's a long and interesting story about how their record company refused to release that album and then cancelled their record contract. In fact, an  documentary has been made about it. If you want to know more about that, and the band in general, here's their Wikipedia link:

Wilco - Wikipedia 

The music here is unreleased. The sound quality is excellent. 

This album is 43 minutes long. Note that this is suspiciously short, since the show was an hour long without commercials, and most other episodes are about 58 minutes long. I don't know if there are some missing Wilco songs, or if the band shared the show with another musical act that didn't make it to the video I found, or if there's some other reason for this length. According to the setlist.fm set list, the band did perform a few more songs, but I don't know if those were televised or not.

01 Handshake Drugs (Wilco)
02 Sunken Treasure (Wilco)
03 I Am Trying to Break Your Heart (Wilco)
04 War on War (Wilco)
05 talk (Wilco)
06 When the Roses Bloom Again (Wilco)
07 Poor Places (Wilco)
08 Red-Eyed and Blue (Wilco)
09 I Got You [At the End of the Century] (Wilco)
10 talk (Wilco)
11 Kicking Television (Wilco)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/BpZtZC2u

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/QTRqGs0BxiGTFon/file

The cover image is a screenshot I took from a video of this exact concert. 

Chris Isaak - BBC Sessions, Volume 2: In Concert, Manchester Apollo, Manchester, Britain, 6-28-1993

Here's another BBC concert by Chris Isaak, from 1993.

I previously thought there was just one BBC concert, in 1991. So when I posted that one, I just called it "BBC In Concert." Now, I've changed that to "BBC Sessions, Volume 1," and changed the cover art and mp3 tags accordingly. If you want to get the updated version, here's the link:

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2022/12/chris-isaak-bbc-in-concert-town-and.html

Isaak was at the peak of his popularity in the early to mid-1990s, thanks mostly to his classic song "Wicked Game." But the above "Volume 1" album took place around the time that song was a hit. This concert took place two years later, when he was supporting his 1993 album "San Francisco Days." So the songs here are fairly different, though it's not surprising he played "Wicked Game" again.

Note that I've gotten some conflicting information about the venue. At the end of concert, the BBC DJ voiceover stated it took place at the Manchester Apollo. But the BBC website from the date the concert was broadcast stated it took place at the Palace Theatre in Manchester. However, a commenter noted that a local newspaper article review of the concert stated it took place at the Manchester Apollo, so it seems clear the BBC website made a mistake.

The main concert is just 28 minutes long. I thought that was a bit too short, so I went looking for some extra songs to add. I found a version of "Can't Do a Thing (To Stop Me)" from a BBC TV show in 1993, so I added that. Then I found three more songs from another BBC TV show in 1995, when he was promoting his next album, "Forever Blue."

This album is 41 minutes long.

01 Dancin' (Chris Isaak)
02 San Francisco Days (Chris Isaak)
03 talk (Chris Isaak)
04 Gone Ridin' (Chris Isaak)
05 Blue Spanish Sky (Chris Isaak)
06 I Want Your Love (Chris Isaak)
07 Wicked Game (Chris Isaak)
08 Blue Hotel (Chris Isaak)
09 Can't Do a Thing [To Stop Me] (Chris Isaak)
10 Goin' Nowhere (Chris Isaak)
11 Graduation Day (Chris Isaak)
12 I Believe (Chris Isaak)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/caC3Kmkt

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/KnrhlZYE9E1R4ZR/file

The cover photo is from 1993. I don't know any additional details.

Aerosmith - BBC Sessions, Volume 3: In Concert, Forest National Theatre, Brussels, Belgium, 10-31-1993

A few days ago (writing this in November 2025), I posted an earlier Aerosmith album. I said I had a "Volume 3" as well, so here it is. This one is extra nice because BBC concerts often are edited down to an hour or less, but this is the full concert, nearly two hours long.

Aerosmith's career got a second wind starting in the late 1980s. That continued in the early 1990s. Their 1993 album, "Get a Grip" sold seven million copies in the U.S. alone. This concert was part of a world tour to support the album. The band leaned heavily on playing songs from that album, as well as their late 1980s ones. So there were relatively few songs from their 1970s albums.

There's a 1994 BBC concert as well (at the Monsters of Rock festival in England), but it isn't that different from this one, so I don't think I'll post that one. So these three volumes in this series are probably all the BBC albums I'll be posting from this band, unless something else pops up.

The music here is unreleased. The sound quality is excellent. 

This album is an hour and 51 minutes long. 

01 Eat the Rich (Aerosmith)
02 Young Lust (Aerosmith)
03 F.I.N.E (Aerosmith)
04 Love in an Elevator (Aerosmith)
05 Fever (Aerosmith)
06 talk (Aerosmith)
07 Draw the Line (Aerosmith)
08 What It Takes (Aerosmith)
09 Last Child (Aerosmith)
10 talk (Aerosmith)
11 The Other Side (Aerosmith)
12 Cryin' (Aerosmith)
13 Boogie Man (Aerosmith)
14 Shut Up and Dance (Aerosmith)
15 talk (Aerosmith)
16 Stop Messin' Around (Aerosmith)
17 Rag Doll (Aerosmith)
18 talk (Aerosmith)
19 Janie's Got a Gun (Aerosmith)
20 Dude [Looks like a Lady] (Aerosmith)
21 Dream On (Aerosmith)
22 Walk This Way (Aerosmith)
23 talk (Aerosmith)
24 Livin' on the Edge (Aerosmith)
25 Sweet Emotion (Aerosmith)
26 Peter Gunn Theme [Instrumental] (Aerosmith)
27 Train Kept A-Rollin' (Aerosmith)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/7BjHGAga 

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/HhGyAlYTssEUdLa/file

This is one of those times I got lucky and found a photo from the exact concert presented here.

Bill Withers with Bobby Womack & Buddy Miles - The Midnight Special, NBC Studios, Burbank, CA, 3-22-1974

Here's another episode of the "Midnight Special" TV show. This one is hosted by singer-songwriter Bill Withers. But it's kind of a soul music triple header, because there are two guest stars, Bobby Womack and Buddy Miles, and they have larger roles than usual.

Normally when posting these Midnight Special episodes, I just have the main artist plus sometimes a guest artist. But this episode ended with Withers singing one of his songs with both Womack and Miles, so it made sense to include all three of them. That's especially so since they performed similar kinds of music.

The episode was rather short, however, so I added in some extra songs from other episodes. It turns out Withers only performed one more song for the show, "Lovely Day," in 1977. That isn't publicly available yet (with the episodes being rereleased one per week on YouTube), so I didn't have the option of including that one. However, both Womack and Miles performed the occasional song prior to this, so I included more of their songs. "Harry Hippie" by Bobby Womack is from an August 3, 1973 episode. "It's All Over Now" by Bobby Womack is from a June 15, 1973 episode. And "Life Is What You Make It" by Buddy Miles is from a June 7, 1974 episode. That's not all either of them did on the show, but hopefully some other stuff will come out on other albums I post eventually.

I edited the first track, where emcee Wolfman Jack is introducing the guests for the show. I removed the names of the other guests not included here. In case you're curious, they were Rory Gallagher, Montrose, Melissa Manchester, and Cliff de Young. I also got rid of the theme song playing in the background, and replaced it with more applause. And unfortunately, the last song, "Railroad Man," got abruptly cut off, due to the TV broadcast ending. Since it was a unique version with all three stars, I couldn't find a different version to finish it off. Instead, I faded it out and faded in some applause. So that's why those two songs have "[Edit]" in their titles. 

This album is 45 minutes long.

01 talk [Edit] (Wolfman Jack)
02 Ain't No Sunshine (Bill Withers)
03 talk (Bill Withers)
04 Lookin' for a Love (Bobby Womack)
05 talk (Bill Withers)
06 You Really Got Me (Buddy Miles)
07 The Same Love that Made Me Laugh (Bill Withers)
08 Nobody Wants You When You're Down and Out (Bobby Womack)
09 Lean on Me (Bill Withers)
10 Harry Hippie (Bobby Womack)
11 talk (Bill Withers)
12 Green Grass (Bill Withers)
13 It's All Over Now (Bobby Womack)
14 Life Is What You Make It (Buddy Miles)
15 Railroad Man [Edit] (Bill Withers, Bobby Womack & Buddy Miles)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/zdBKEC8X

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/Gu1S6BkLihVSfcf/file

The cover photo is a screenshot taken from this exact concert. From right to left: Bobby Womack, Bill Withers, and Buddy Miles.

Don McLean Again, and Chris Isaak

Just yesterday, I posted a BBC album of Don McLean performing at the Glastonbury Festival in 2011. The version I posted was 36 minutes. But musical friend Progsprog saw that post, realized he has a longer version, and sent that to me. So I just updated that album. Now, it's 58 minutes long. So if you've downloaded it already, you might want to go back and get the longer version. Thanks to Progsprog for the timely help.

Also, a few days ago, a commenter name Kris pointed out that he had a better sounding version of the  1991 Chris Isaak BBC concert I'd posted back in 2022. He gave a link, and sure enough that version does sound better. So I've just updated that one. Here's the link:

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2022/12/chris-isaak-bbc-in-concert-town-and.html

Note that I've also renamed it to "BBC Sessions, Volume 1" because I found material for a "Volume 2," which I plan on posting here soon. 

And thank you as well, Kris. It would be great if more people could send me stuff they think I should post that I'm missing, especially BBC material. If you have a vast collection and want to send me a list to see if I might find something useful in it, please do!

The Pointer Sisters with Dan Hicks - The Midnight Special, NBC Studios, Burbank, CA, 3-15-1974

Here's another episode of the "Midnight Special" TV show. This one stars the Pointer Sisters. As I made it, I realized the album would be pretty short. So I added in two songs performed by Dan Hicks from the same episode. I think that's a good fit, since both acts at this time were performing older styles of music not commonly played in the 1970s, like swing.

I've already posted a televised BBC concert by the Pointer Sisters that was broadcast in February 1974. This was broadcast just one month later. (Unfortunately, with TV shows like this, I usually only have the broadcast dates, not the actual recording dates.) So one would think the two appearances would be pretty similar, but at least half of the material was different.

One thing I noticed is that there were four Pointer Sisters at this time: Anita, Bonnie, Ruth, and June (all of them actual sisters). In the BBC concert the month before, all four performed. But in this concert, June wasn't there. Maybe she was sick or something? I don't know. They would remain a foursome until 1977, when Bonnie would leave for a solo career. One song here, "Black Coffee," was sung just by Bonnie.

The presence of Dan Hicks here is curious, due to the timing. Hicks was the leader of the band Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks from 1967. But he broke up the band in 1973, later saying, "It was getting old. We became less compatible as friends. I was pretty disillusioned, had some money, and didn't want to do it any more." The last album with the Hot Licks came out in 1973. He wouldn't release a solo album until 1978. So this appearance took place at a time when he didn't have a new album to promote, or even a backing band of his own. I'm just speculating here, but perhaps since the Pointer Sisters were the hosts of the episode, they had some influence on which other acts would be chosen for the episode, and they wanted Hicks since he was interested in the same sort of retro styles they were at the time. 

In any case, here's the Wikipedia links for Hicks:

Dan Hicks (singer) - Wikipedia 

In case you're curious, the other musical acts in the episode were Focus, Billy Paul, the Crusaders, the Butts Band, and the Strawbs. 

The last song, "Cloudburst," is not from this episode. Instead, it's the only song they performed when they were on the show for the July 20, 1973 episode. They wouldn't be on the show again until much later. They would host it again in 1979, and Bonnie Pointer would be a host as a solo artist in 1980. I'll probably make an album out of that once those episodes are made public.

As usual with these episodes, I did a lot of editing to get rid of the gaps between nearly every song,  due to commercial breaks or switches to other musical acts. I mostly did this by adding in more applause. Also, the song "Wang Dang Doodle" was heavily edited. After about two minutes, the recording of the song came to an end, because the TV broadcast ended at that point, in mid-song. So I went looking for a different version of the song. I found a good one, from the European TV show "TopPop," broadcast on January 28, 1974 (with all four sisters). I used that to finish off the song. Also, since it was a studio version, I added applause at the end so it would fit in with the rest of the concert. That's why that song has "[Edit]" in its title. 

This album is 37 minutes long.

01 talk by Wolfman Jack (Pointer Sisters)
02 Yes We Can Can (Pointer Sisters)
03 talk (Pointer Sisters)
04 13-D (Dan Hicks)
05 talk (Pointer Sisters)
06 Little Pony (Pointer Sisters)
07 talk (Pointer Sisters)
08 Salt Peanuts (Pointer Sisters with Wolfman Jack)
09 Bangin' on the Pipes - Steam Heat (Pointer Sisters)
10 Hummin' to Myself (Dan Hicks)
11 Black Coffee (Bonnie Pointer)
12 Wang Dang Doodle [Edit] (Pointer Sisters)
13 Cloudburst (Pointer Sisters)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/5LCqVKJL

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/UNpJylU5lrANZln/file

The cover photo is a screenshot taken from this exact concert. The screenshot was taken by a volunteer named Liam, who also did most of the rest of the cover work. It's a bit blurry, but in this case I couldn't do much to fix that.

Diana Ross - BBC In Concert, Glastonbury Festival, Worthy Farm, Pilton, Britain, 6-26-2022

Here's Diana Ross performing a set at the annual Glastonbury Festival. It's the only music I've found from her performed for the BBC.

This was the only time Ross has performed for the festival. In 2022, when this concert took place, she was 78 years old. Unfortunately, I think she might have waited a little too long, because her vocals made me wince a few times. I wonder if that's due to age, or if she doesn't have the kind of voice needed to fill massive venues like this one, or some combination. But in any case, the vocals might be a bit off sometimes, but she performed classic after classic. She's sold over 100 million records in her music career, both as part of the Supremes and then in her long solo career.

This is another album I wasn't actively looking for, but I saw that musical friend Prosprog had it, so I decided what the heck, why not post it. Just like the Lionel Richie one I also posted today, I saw that it has been available as a massive video file. But this might be the first time it's being shared as an audio bootleg, I'm not sure. 

This album is an hour and 14 minutes long.

01 Instrumental (Diana Ross)
02 I'm Coming Out (Diana Ross)
03 More Today than Yesterday (Diana Ross)
04 My World Is Empty without You (Diana Ross)
05 Baby Love (Diana Ross)
06 Stop, in the Name of Love (Diana Ross)
07 You Can't Hurry Love (Diana Ross)
08 talk (Diana Ross)
09 Chain Reaction (Diana Ross)
10 talk (Diana Ross)
11 Thank You (Diana Ross)
12 talk (Diana Ross)
13 Tomorrow (Diana Ross)
14 talk (Diana Ross)
15 If the World Just Danced (Diana Ross)
16 I'm Still Waiting (Diana Ross)
17 Upside Down (Diana Ross)
18 Love Hangover - Take Me Higher (Diana Ross)
19 Ease on Down the Road (Diana Ross)
20 Why Do Fools Fall in Love (Diana Ross)
21 Theme from Mahogany [Do You Know Where You're Going To] (Diana Ross)
22 Ain't No Mountain High Enough (Diana Ross)
23 I Will Survive - All I Do Is Win (Diana Ross)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/vZTxjGM3

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/OrxATmvNfRZdi2p/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert. 

Lionel Richie - BBC In Concert, Glastonbury Festival, Worthy Farm, Pilton, Britain, 6-28-2015

Here's the sole BBC album I can find for R&B superstar Lionel Richie. It's a set from the 2015 Glastonbury Festival.

I wasn't looking for anything from Richie, but I saw musical friend Progsprog had this one, so I figured what the heck, and asked for it. I did then look around, and I found it elsewhere, but only as a very large video file. This could be the first time it's being widely shared as an audio bootleg.

This is the only time Richie has appeared at the massive annual Glastonbury Festival. By 2015, he was past his commercial peak. But he sold close to 100 million records in his career, so he still had to be a very popular act at the festival.

As expected, his set mostly consisted of big hits from his time in the Commodores and his solo career. The final song, "We Are the World," was co-written by him and Michael Jackson. 

This album is an hour and 18 minutes long. 

01 Running with the Night (Lionel Richie)
02 Penny Lover (Lionel Richie)
03 talk (Lionel Richie)
04 Easy (Lionel Richie)
05 You Are (Lionel Richie)
06 talk (Lionel Richie)
07 Three Times a Lady (Lionel Richie)
08 talk (Lionel Richie)
09 Brick House - Fire - Brick House (Lionel Richie)
10 talk (Lionel Richie)
11 Stuck on You (Lionel Richie)
12 Lady (Lionel Richie)
13 My Destiny (Lionel Richie)
14 Angel (Lionel Richie)
15 Say You, Say Me (Lionel Richie)
16 talk (Lionel Richie)
17 Dancing on the Ceiling (Lionel Richie)
18 talk (Lionel Richie)
19 Hello (Lionel Richie)
20 All Night Long [All Night] (Lionel Richie)
21 talk (Lionel Richie)
22 We Are the World (Lionel Richie)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/tfB3eGCw

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/OrxATmvNfRZdi2p/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert. 

Don McLean - BBC Sessions, Volume 8: In Concert, Glastonbury Festival, Worthy Farm, Pilton, Britain, 6-26-2011

Here's the eighth, and probably last, BBC album I'm posting from Don McLean. This is his appearance at the enormous annual Glastonbury Festival in 2011.

This appears to be the only time McLean has performed at this festival. The good news is we have this recording at all. This is a bootleg I got from a die-hard McLean fan. Then, a couple of days after I posted it, musical friend Progsprog noticed his version was almost twice as long, and sent that to me, so I upgraded to the longer version. I don't believe it's been in circulation on the Internet until now. 

McLean was assisted by a small band. At the time of this concert, he was about 66 years old. (He's 80 years old as I write this in 2025.) But while he was getting up there in age, I'm glad to say I didn't notice it affecting his performance in this concert all that much.

McLean didn't play some of his best known original songs, like "Castles in the Air," "And I Love You So," and "Dreidel." Instead, he chose to play some covers, like starting out with a medley of three Buddy Holly songs, as well as a medley of two country songs, "Tulsa Time" and "Deep in the Heart of Texas," and an Elvis Presley song, "I Gotta Know." Plus, "Crying" is a cover originally by Roy Orbison, though McLean had a big hit with it as well.

This album is 59 minutes long. 

01 talk (Don McLean)
02 Well... All Right - Crying, Waiting, Hoping - Peggy Sue Got Married (Don McLean)
03 La La Love You (Don McLean)
04 Love in My Heart (Don McLean)
05 Homeless Brother (Don McLean)
06 talk (Don McLean)
07 Have You Seen Me (Don McLean)
08 talk (Don McLean)
09 Vincent (Don McLean)
10 Tulsa Time - Deep in the Heart of Texas (Don McLean)
11 Crying (Don McLean)
12 American Pie (Don McLean)
13 I Gotta Know (Don McLean)
14 talk (Don McLean)
15 Sea Man (Don McLean)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/9Xu4fiyz

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/5IuccTBNKZy2ezd/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert.

Ralph McTell - BBC Sessions, Volume 3: In Concert, Cambridge Folk Festival, Cherry Hinton Hall Grounds, Cambridge, Britain, 6-28-1984

Here's another BBC album by British singer-songwriter Ralph McTell. This is a concert recorded at the annual Cambridge Folk Festival, in 1984.

To be honest, I'm still not very familiar with McTell's music, other than the two BBC albums I've posted from him so far. But I've enjoyed what I've heard, and I saw that musical friend Progsprog had this in his music collection, so I asked him to pass it on to me. This seems to be another case where this album hasn't been publicly available, or at least it's been so hard to find that I couldn't track it down anywhere. Hopefully that'll change now, because this is a nice acoustic performance with excellent sound quality. 

At the time of this concert, McTell hadn't put out a regular studio album since 1982. But he was getting a higher profile through TV and radio work, including hosting his own BBC radio show in 1983, and writing songs for British TV shows aimed at children, "Alphabet Zoo" and "Tickle on the Tum."

This album is 50 minutes long.

01 talk (Ralph McTell)
02 First Song (Ralph McTell)
03 talk (Ralph McTell)
04 Michael in the Garden (Ralph McTell)
05 Mr. Connaughton (Ralph McTell)
06 Water of Dreams (Ralph McTell)
07 talk (Ralph McTell)
08 From Clare to Here (Ralph McTell)
09 Sweet Mystery (Ralph McTell)
10 When Maddy Dances (Ralph McTell)
11 talk (Ralph McTell)
12 Tequila Sunset (Ralph McTell)
13 talk (Ralph McTell)
14 Zimmerman Blues (Ralph McTell)
15 talk (Ralph McTell)
16 One Heart (Ralph McTell)
17 talk (Ralph McTell)
18 Spiral Staircase (Ralph McTell)
19 talk (Ralph McTell)
20 Streets of London (Ralph McTell)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/hDBSoh2v

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/27NabisyCLW1KFY/file 

The cover photo is from this exact concert. 

Aerosmith - BBC Sessions, Volume 1: In Concert, Hammersmith Odeon, London, Britain, 11-15-1989

Here's an Aerosmith concert broadcast by the BBC, from 1989.

I kind of fell into this album by accident. I previously posted an Aerosmith BBC concert album from 1990. I thought that was the only one they'd done for the BBC. But I recently stumbled across a 1993 one, which I plan on posting soon. That inspired me to dig for more, and I came across this one too.

Note that the one I posted before has been renamed to "Volume 2." If you want the updated version, with changed cover art and mp3 tags, here's the link:

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2022/12/aerosmith-with-jimmy-page-bbc-in.html

Aerosmith was very popular in the 1970s. But they had tough times in the early and mid-1980s, with drug use and personal conflict problems. But they got their act together and had some smash albums starting with "Permanent Vacation" in 1987. This was from the tour to support their second comeback album, "Pump," released in 1989, which sold seven million copies in the U.S. alone.

Finding these BBC concerts from the band's second wave of popularity made me wonder if the BBC ever broadcast any concerts from their first wave of popularity in the 1970s. It seems not. I checked the setlist.fm website. According to that (which admittedly in sometimes incomplete), Aerosmith only performed five concerts in Britain in all of the 1970s. It appears they were almost entirely focused on building up a fan base in the U.S. at the time. Sometimes, the BBC bought the rights to broadcast concerts recorded by other radio networks in the U.S. or elsewhere, but I guess they didn't do that with Aerosmith back then.

Anyway, this is a fairly short bootleg concert. No doubt, the BBC edited it down to fit into an hour-long radio show time slot. But the sound quality is excellent. 

This album is 56 minutes long. 

01 Rats in the Cellar (Aerosmith)
02 Same Old Song and Dance (Aerosmith)
03 talk (Aerosmith)
04 Monkey on My Back (Aerosmith)
05 Don't Get Mad, Get Even (Aerosmith)
06 Permanent Vacation (Aerosmith)
07 Hangman Jury (Aerosmith)
08 Mama Kin (Aerosmith)
09 Dream On (Aerosmith)
10 Love in an Elevator (Aerosmith)
11 talk (Aerosmith)
12 Dude [Looks like a Lady] (Aerosmith)
13 Walk This Way (Aerosmith)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/sLs97NHT

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/Ltx4qhCADVp7R08/file

The cover photo of lead singer Steven Tyler is from a 1989 concert, but I don't know any details. (My God, he has the world's largest mouth!)

The Bee Gees & Friends - The Midnight Special, NBC Studios, Burbank, CA, 8-10-1973

Here's a full episode of the "Midnight Special" TV show. It was a rare episode with a theme, with the theme being a focus on British Invasion bands that were big around 1964. The Bee Gees were the hosts, but their role was less than usual, since there also were performances from Herman's Hermits, Gerry & the Pacemakers, Wayne Fontana & the Mindbenders, the Hollies, the Searchers, Billy J. Kramer & the Dakotas.

For some reason, the Midnight Special TV show really liked the Bee Gees in 1973, even though their popularity was near a relative low point around that time. They hosted the show four times that year, and made additional appearances on top of that! I plan on turning that into four albums, with this one being the first to get posted. 

Generally speaking with these Midnight Special albums, I cut them down to just the host act and maybe one more, because I want them to stay musically consistent. But if the show has a musical theme, like this one does, I have no problem posting the whole thing. That's what I did here. However, there still are some cuts. For instance, I removed a section where the musical acts on the next episode are all named. I also did a lot of editing to get rid of the commercial breaks, usually smoothing them over with extra applause. 

This must have been one of the first mass media instances of a British Invasion revival, since it had been less than ten years since the "Invasion" actually happened. Unfortunately, show business is an unforgiving business, and most of the acts on this show were far from the singles charts in 1973. The only exceptions were the Bee Gees, though as mentioned above 1973 was a slow year for them, and the Hollies, who'd had a big hit with "Long Cool Woman (In a Black Dress)" in 1972, and Peter Noone of Herman's Hermits, who had some success with a solo career in the early 1970s. 

By the way, note that "Long Cool Woman" was co-written by Allan Clarke of the Hollies, who also was the lead singer on it. He left the Hollies in 1971, and rejoined in July 1973. But the lead singer seen and heard in this episode is band member Terry Sylvester. So this episode must have been filmed shortly before Clarke rejoined the Hollies. (Unfortunately, for virtually all the Midnight Special episodes, I only know the broadcast date, not the actual recording date, which I always prefer.)

Performing for this show must have been a bit strange for most of the musical acts here. It hadn't been that many years since they had been big stars, and they basically looked and sounded the same as before. But other than rare short appearances like this show, most of them must have been touring supper clubs, on an oldies circuit. But kudos to this show for giving them a national TV platform like this, when their probably wasn't a big call for it.

Musically, I think the highlight has to be a long medley of Beatles songs performed by the Bee Gees in the middle of the show: "If I Fell," "I Need You," "I'll Be Back," "This Boy," and "She Loves You." If you're a Bee Gees fan, it's worth getting this just for that medley. They never put any such medley on an album. 

This album is an hour and two minutes long. 

01 talk by Wolfman Jack (Bee Gees)
02 New York Mining Disaster 1941 (Bee Gees)
03 talk (Bee Gees)
04 I'm Henry the VIII I Am (Herman's Hermits)
05 talk (Bee Gees)
06 How Do You Do It (Gerry & the Pacemakers)
07 I Like It (Gerry & the Pacemakers)
08 talk (Bee Gees)
09 The Game of Love (Wayne Fontana & the Mindbenders)
10 talk (Bee Gees)
11 Long Cool Woman [In a Black Dress] (Hollies)
12 talk (Bee Gees)
13 Needles and Pins (Searchers)
14 talk (Bee Gees)
15 If I Fell - I Need You (Bee Gees)
16 I'll Be Back (Bee Gees)
17 This Boy - She Loves You (Bee Gees)
18 talk (Bee Gees)
19 Little Children (Billy J. Kramer & the Dakotas)
20 Ferry Cross the Mersey (Gerry & the Pacemakers)
21 talk (Bee Gees & Peter Noone)
22 Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter (Herman's Hermits)
23 A Groovy Kind of Love (Wayne Fontana & the Mindbenders)
24 He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother (Hollies)
25 Turn of the Century (Bee Gees)
26 Sweets for My Sweet (Searchers)
27 There's a Kind of Hush (Herman's Hermits)
28 Don't Let the Sun Catch You Crying (Gerry & the Pacemakers)
29 I Can't See Nobody (Bee Gees)
30 Love Potion No. 9 (Searchers)
31 talk (Bee Gees)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/rCWB1ARe

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/a5Qh8RSzKdG23Zd/file 

The cover of the Bee Gees is a screenshot taken from this exact concert, during their Beatles medley.

Covered: Antonio Carlos Jobim, Volume 3: 2012-2024

Here is the third and final Covered album celebrating the songwriting of Antonio Carlos Jobim.

I didn't get around to writing about the basics of Jobim's life with the first two volumes in this series, so let me do that now. Jobim was born in 1927 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In the 1940s, he made a living playing piano in bars and nightclubs in Rio. His first song to be recorded by someone happened in 1953. But he didn't have significant success until 1958, when Joao Gilberto recorded what would become one of his most famous songs, "Desafinado (Out of Tune)." Then, in 1964, he really hit it big with "The Girl from Ipanema." A version of that song by Stan Getz and Astrud Gilberto reached the Top Five in the U.S. singles chart. But its success went way beyond that. In fact, it has become the second most recorded song of all time, behind only "Yesterday" by the Beatles.

This song led many people to discover not only other songs written by Jobim, but songs from Brazil in general, especially bossa nova music. For a couple of years, there was a sort of bossa nova craze in Western countries, especially in the jazz world. Jazz musicians in particular fell in love with Jobim's songs, because they were both musically complicated and interesting while being tuneful and catchy. Many of his songs became standards. Looking at the website secondhandsongs.com in 2025, which tallies cover versions, I count 34 songs written or co-written by Jobim that have been covered over 100 times. It may not sound like a lot, but that's a crazy amount. By comparison, only 18 songs by Bob Dylan have been covered over 100 times. Or consider Carole King, one of the most successful songwriters of all time. Only eight of her songs have been covered over 100 times.

Jobim released several dozen albums, with about half of them being collaborations with other famous musicians. He often collaborated with singers, since he wasn't much of a singer himself. His own albums didn't sell that well, but his collaboration albums often did. Overall, he had much more success with other musicians covering his songs. 

Here's his Wikipedia entry, if you want to know more:

Antônio Carlos Jobim - Wikipedia 

He died in 1994 at the age of 67. As a result, all of the songs here are from well after his death. Most of them were written in the 1950s to 1970s, and it just so happens these are the versions that Fabio from Rio and I liked the best (since all three of these albums were put together by Fabio and myself). As with the two previous volumes in the series, the focus was on songs sung in English, when in fact there are even more covers of his songs in other languages, especially Portuguese, which is spoken in his home country of Brazil.

Thanks again to Fabio of Rio for his helping putting this Jobim albums together. I already had plans to make Covered albums from Jobim on my own. But they wouldn't have been nearly as good without Fabio's input, since he's much more familiar with this type of music than I am. 

This album is 46 minutes long. 

01 I Love You [Eu Te Amo] (Alessandra Maestrini)
02 Somewhere in the Hills [O Morro Nao Tem Vez] (Lisa Sanchez & Jon Eriksen Quartet)
03 Forever Green [Sempre Verde] (Trudy Kerr)
04 Photograph [Fotografia] (Stephanie Patton)
05 Little Bird [Passarim] (Daniel Vincke)
06 Once I Loved [O Amor em Paz] (Baila Nova)
07 This Happy Madness [Estrada Branca] (Delicatessen)
08 Useless Landscape [Inutil Paisagem] (Emma Pask)
09 Meditation [Meditacao] (Nicole Magolie)
10 One Note Samba [Samba de Uma Nota So] (Arpi Alto)
11 Wave (Natalie Jacob, Tamir Hendelman, Anthony Wilson & Kevin Winard)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/uUAZTVi5

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/kSoOFxh4c0rb9Nm/file

The cover photo is cropped from a photo of Jobim with Sting. I don't know when it was taken, but I'd guess it's from the 1990s, because the two of them collaborated on a song around then which was released in 1996. The original version was black and white, but I colorized it with the help of the Kolorize program.

Georgie Fame & Friends - BBC Sessions, Volume 7: Friday Night Is Music Night, Cheltenham Jazz Festival, Cheltenham, Britain, 5-3-2013

Here's another BBC album by Georgie Fame. This one is rather unusual in that it's kind of a celebration of him having over 50 years in the music business. It features some longtime collaborators as special guests: Alan Price, Zoot Money, and Madeline Bell.

Most of the songs were put together in a careful way, in order to tell the story of Fame's career, with interesting tidbits during the banter. For instance, the first song performed was one that he sang at a musical audition back in 1959. 

The special guests didn't have really big roles, but each of them got at least one spotlight song. And most of Fame's most famous songs were performed before the concert was over.

The music here is unreleased. The sound quality is excellent. 

This album is an hour and 36 minutes long. 

01 talk (Georgie Fame)
02 High School Confidential (Georgie Fame)
03 talk (Georgie Fame)
04 What'd I Say (Georgie Fame, Alan Price, Zoot Money & Madeline Bell)
05 talk (Georgie Fame)
06 Parker's Mood (Georgie Fame)
07 Jumpin' with Symphony Sid (Georgie Fame)
08 talk (Georgie Fame)
09 It Should Have Been Me (Georgie Fame & Zoot Money)
10 talk (Georgie Fame)
11 Everything Happens to Me (Georgie Fame)
12 talk (Georgie Fame)
13 Flamingo Allnighter (Georgie Fame, Alan Price, Zoot Money & Madeline Bell)
14 talk (Georgie Fame)
15 Yeh Yeh (Georgie Fame)
16 talk (Georgie Fame)
17 Sunny (Georgie Fame)
18 talk (Georgie Fame)
19 Seventh Son (Georgie Fame)
20 Rosetta (Georgie Fame & Alan Price)
21 talk (Madeline Bell)
22 Sweet Georgie Fame (Madeline Bell)
23 The Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde (Georgie Fame)
24 talk (Georgie Fame)
25 Entertaining Mr. Sloane - Eros Hotel (Georgie Fame)
26 The Singer (Georgie Fame)
27 talk (Georgie Fame)
28 The Old Music Master (Georgie Fame)
29 talk (Georgie Fame)
30 The Nearness of You (Georgie Fame & Madeline Bell)
31 talk (Georgie Fame)
32 Get Away (Georgie Fame)
33 Rhythm King (Georgie Fame)
34 talk (Georgie Fame)
35 Funny How Time Slips Away (Georgie Fame)
36 talk (Georgie Fame)
37 Saturday Night Fish Fry (Georgie Fame, Alan Price, Zoot Money & Madeline Bell)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/GQ6fG1Ej

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/aIzBBDFey9dNRUb/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert. 

k. d. lang - BBC Sessions, Volume 1: In Concert, Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham, Britain, 10-13-2000

Here's another BBC concert that comes to me thanks to musical friend Progspog. This is a k.d. lang concert from 2000. 

I've previously two BBC concerts from her that took place after this one. So both of them are getting renumbered at the same time I'm posting this. Here are the links to those, it you want to update the cover art and mp3 tags and such:

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2023/02/k-d-lang-bbc-four-sessions-st-lukes.html

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2025/01/kd-lang-bbc-sessions-volume-2-in.html

This concert took place to support her 2000 album "Invincible Summer." It leans heavily on that, with lots of songs from it. But she also found time to performer great older songs like "Crying" and "Constant Craving." Note that her career started with country music, but there's almost no country here.

Thanks again to Progspog, because even though this bootleg has been quite obscure, the sound quality is excellent, like that of an officially released live album. 

This album is 59 minutes long.

01 Extraordinary Thing (k. d. lang)
02 talk (k. d. lang)
03 Summerfling (k. d. lang)
04 talk (k. d. lang)
05 The Consequences of Falling (k. d. lang)
06 Suddenly (k. d. lang)
07 talk (k. d. lang)
08 Crying (k. d. lang)
09 What Better Said (k. d. lang)
10 In Perfect Dreams (k. d. lang)
11 talk (k. d. lang)
12 Wash Me Clean (k. d. lang)
13 Love's Great Ocean (k. d. lang)
14 When We Collide (k. d. lang)
15 World of Love (k. d. lang)
16 talk (k. d. lang)
17 Constant Craving (k. d. lang)
18 Miss Chatelaine (k. d. lang)
19 It's Happening with You (k. d. lang)
20 Simple (k. d. lang)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/FbCan1ak

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/6ZwmuBbu8KPF76z/file

The cover photo was taken at the Shoreline Amphitheatre, in Mountain View, California, on August 5, 2000.

Cliff Richard - BBC Sessions, Volume 9: In Concert, Wembley Arena, London, Britain, 11-28-1992

Man, I never would have imagined that I wound post nine Cliff Richard BBC albums. But here we are, with another BBC concert. To be honest, there are still other BBC concerts out there I haven't posted, mostly from way late in his career. But I'm posting this because it's another album I got recently from Progsprog, and as far as I can tell, it's currently publicly unavailable. So this should put it back in circulation.

The previous BBC concert by Richard that I've posted is from 1988. Between 1988 and 1992, he continued to have more hit singles in Britain. Surprisingly, the biggest one, "Saviour's Day," which reached Number One in Britain in 1989, wasn't included here. However, his most recent studio album in 1992 was simply called "The Album." It contained two Top Ten hits, "I Still Believe in You" and "Peace in Our Time," and both of those are here.

Other than that, this is a lively collection of his most popular songs, going back to the 1950s. Thanks again to Progsprog for making this available, because the sound quality is excellent.

This album is 57 minutes long.

01 Move It (Cliff Richard)
02 talk (Cliff Richard)
03 Living Doll (Cliff Richard)
04 Daddy's Home (Cliff Richard)
05 Please Don't Tease (Cliff Richard)
06 On the Beach (Cliff Richard)
07 From a Distance (Cliff Richard)
08 Some People (Cliff Richard)
09 Devil Woman (Cliff Richard)
10 Miss You Nights (Cliff Richard)
11 Willie and the Hand Jive (Cliff Richard)
12 talk (Cliff Richard)
13 I Still Believe in You (Cliff Richard)
14 We Don't Talk Anymore (Cliff Richard)
15 Wired for Sound (Cliff Richard)
16 Peace in Our Time (Cliff Richard)
17 talk (Cliff Richard)
18 My Kinda Life (Cliff Richard)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/HXVykqiH

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/brLzlr4E8IQ2ny0/file

The cover photo is from the World Music Awards in Monaco City, Monaco, on May 14, 1992.

Don McLean - BBC Sessions, Volume 7: In Concert, Cambridge Folk Festival, Cherry Hinton Hall Grounds, Cambridge, Britain, 7-28-1990

When I first posted a BBC album by Don McLean, I hadn't found much by him yet, and I thought I might end up with maybe three BBC albums. But here I am with a seventh one, and an eighth on the way. This is an acoustic concert from 1990.

The reason I found two more is thanks to musical friend Progsprog. This one was particularly rare. I got some other BBC albums by a die-hard McLean fan, and even that person didn't know of this one. So hopefully this will put it into wider circulation. With it being a BBC recording, the sound quality is excellent.

By 1990, McLean was far from his 1970s commercial heyday. But he was still releasing new music, and his 1990 album "Headroom" got good reviews. He only performed two songs from it here though, "Headroom" and "Have You Seen Me," done together. But he included some unusual choices, along with the obligatory "Vincent" and "American Pie."

This album is 52 minutes long. 

01 Everyday (Don McLean)
02 talk (Don McLean)
03 Superman's Ghost (Don McLean)
04 talk (Don McLean)
05 Sea Man (Don McLean)
06 Vincent (Don McLean)
07 This Little Light of Mine (Don McLean)
08 La La Love You (Don McLean)
09 Homeless Brother (Don McLean)
10 Headroom - Have You Seen Me (Don McLean)
11 American Pie (Don McLean)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/jds3gZTd

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/tCKQuET0b7qvGxZ/file

The cover photo is from 1990. That's all I know about it. 

Midnight Oil - Malkin Bowl, Vancouver, Canada, 6-1-2022

Today, I updated the links for most of the Midnight Oil albums posted here, for various reasons. While doing that, I got to wondering what they were doing lately. I found out they say they performed their last tour in 2022, but they're still open to doing more studio work. I had assumed they would release a live album from that tour, but they haven't. So I found this, which I think is the best bootleg from that tour.

This bootleg stands out because it's a combination of an IEM recording and an audience bootleg. "IEM" stands for "in ear monitor," and it's usually an audio feed meant to help the band members hear themselves, being broadcast directly into earpieces they wear. Soundwise, it's usually like a great soundboard boot. But it can have flaws, such as not including much crowd noise. So mixing in an audience boot can take care of that. In short, this sounds fantastic, the kind of sound one would expect from an official live album.

In 2002, Midnight Oil broke up after being together since the early 1970s. The band's lead singer Peter Garrett then pursued a political career in Australia. He was elected to Parliament, then went on to first be Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts, and then Minister for Education. But in 2017 he returned to music and Midnight Oil went back on tour. In 2022, they released, "Resist," their first studio album since 2002. After a short tour in Australia, this was the first show they performed on the tour in North America. This concert includes four songs from the "Resist" album: "At the Time of Writing,"
"Nobody's Child," "Rising Seas," and "Barka-Darling River."

This album is exactly two hours long. 

01 Intro [Instrumental] (Midnight Oil)
02 Read about It (Midnight Oil)
03 Brave Faces (Midnight Oil)
04 talk (Midnight Oil)
05 Nobody's Child (Midnight Oil)
06 talk (Midnight Oil)
07 Barka-Darling River (Midnight Oil)
08 talk (Midnight Oil)
09 Redneck Wonderland (Midnight Oil)
10 Truganini (Midnight Oil)
11 talk (Midnight Oil)
12 First Nation (Midnight Oil)
13 The Dead Heart (Midnight Oil)
14 My Country (Midnight Oil)
15 U.S. Forces (Midnight Oil)
16 Short Memory (Midnight Oil)
17 talk (Midnight Oil)
18 Kosciusko (Midnight Oil)
19 Only the Strong (Midnight Oil)
20 talk (Midnight Oil)
21 At the Time of Writing (Midnight Oil)
22 Power and the Passion (Midnight Oil)
23 Rising Seas (Midnight Oil)
24 talk (Midnight Oil)
25 Sometimes (Midnight Oil)
26 King of the Mountain (Midnight Oil)
27 Beds Are Burning (Midnight Oil)
28 Blue Sky Mine (Midnight Oil)
29 talk (Midnight Oil)
30 Forgotten Years (Midnight Oil)
31 talk (Midnight Oil)
32 Hercules (Midnight Oil)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/gC5WjRzi

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/a4NHbKszaFuBkI4/file

The cover photo shows band members Peter Garrett (with bald head) and Rob Hirst (on drums) performing at the  Hordern Pavilion, in Sydney, Australia, on October 3, 2022. I was glad to find a photo of both Garrett and Hirst, because Hirst is a key songwriter for the band in addition to being a drummer. 

Also, I used the primitive computer styled lettering for the cover, because that's the type of font the band used for this tour.

Hall & Oates - BBC Sessions, Volume 4: In Concert, Hackney Ocean, Hackney, Britain, 4-7-2003

A couple of days ago, I posted a Hall and Oates BBC concert from 1998. Here's another one, probably the last one I can find from them, from 2003.

In 2003, Hall and Oates released a new studio album, "Do It for Love." The sales were still quite low compared to the 1970s and 1980s heyday, but critical appraisal improved. They played three songs from it here: "Do It for Love," "Forever for You," and "Getaway Car." They also finished with a cover of the 1970s soul classic, "Me and Mrs. Jones," which they didn't release on any studio album.

In 2023, Hall and Oates broke up due to a financial conflict that led to a lawsuit. So this is probably the last BBC album they did, unless there are others hiding out there that I don't know about. 

This music here is unreleased. The sound quality is excellent. 

This album is 55 minutes long.

01 Adult Education (Hall & Oates)
02 talk (Hall & Oates)
03 Out of Touch (Hall & Oates)
04 talk (Hall & Oates)
05 Do It for Love (Hall & Oates)
06 talk (Hall & Oates)
07 Forever for You (Hall & Oates)
08 One on One (Hall & Oates)
09 talk (Hall & Oates)
10 Getaway Car (Hall & Oates)
11 Sara Smile (Hall & Oates)
12 I Can't Go for That [No Can Do] (Hall & Oates)
13 talk (Hall & Oates)
14 Man on a Mission (Hall & Oates)
15 Me and Mrs. Jones (Hall & Oates)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/yYpVYNYp

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/aX13LVZzC5DFyY7/file

The cover photo isn't from this exact concert, but it's close. It was taken at the Manchester Apollo in Manchester, Britain, three days earlier, on April 4, 2003.

Alan Price - BBC Sessions, Volume 3: In Concert, BBC Television Centre, London, Britain, 5-15-1970

Here's another BBC concert by Alan Price. This was from the BBC TV show "In Concert" in 1970 (as opposed to the countless number of BBC radio shows also called "In Concert."). 

This is another recording that I never knew even existed, but fell into my hands thanks to musical associate Progsprog. Thanks again to him. 

It turns out that Price also did an episode of this TV show in 1974. At first, I thought this had to be that episode instead, because three of the songs, "Smells like Lemon, Tastes like Wine," "Savaloy Dip," and "And So Goodbye," wouldn't be released on album until 1974. But then I changed my mind, because just before he sang "The House of the Rising Sun," he commented that it had just been a big hit again. That wasn't a hit in 1974, but the band Frijid Pink had a big hit with it in early 1970, which would be perfect timing for that comment.

The timing of the concert is a bit curious, because he didn't have an album to promote in 1970. In fact, at the time, his last album had been released in 1967. He did release a single of the song "Sunshine and Rain (The Name of the Game)" right around this time, but unfortunately, it didn't even make the charts in Britain. 

His next album would be a duet album with Georgie Fame in 1971, and then he'd do a soundtrack album in 1973, "O Lucky Man." His next proper solo album wouldn't be released until 1974. So perhaps that's why three of the songs here weren't released until then. 

Once again, there's some renumbering involved. I had already posted a Price BBC concert from 1979. So that one is now being renamed to "Volume 4." You can find the revised version of that one here: 

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2025/01/alan-price-bbc-sessions-volume-3-in.html

If anyone has the 1974 BBC concert by Price mentioned above, and wants to send that to me, then there will be more renumbering in the future!  

This album is 35 minutes long.

01 Sunshine and Rain [The Name of the Game] (Alan Price)
02 talk (Alan Price)
03 Smells like Lemon, Tastes like Wine (Alan Price)
04 talk (Alan Price)
05 The House of the Rising Sun (Alan Price)
06 talk (Alan Price)
07 Savaloy Dip (Alan Price)
08 talk (Alan Price)
09 The House that Jack Built (Alan Price)
10 talk (Alan Price)
11 Is There Anybody Out There (Alan Price)
12 talk (Alan Price)
13 Don't Stop the Carnival (Alan Price)
14 talk (Alan Price)
15 And So Goodbye (Alan Price)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/PztPqWwS

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/qXDz1Lk3I1h8oiY/file

The cover photo appears to be from this exact concert. (It's from a BBC TV show in May 1970, and this likely was the only one.)