Huey Lewis & the News with Sam Moore and Lloyd Price - PBS Soundstage, WTTW Studios, Chicago, IL, 6-2-1994

The flood of "PBS Soundstage" concerts. This one is a concert by Huey Lewis and the Lewis, with special guests Sam Moore and Lloyd Price.

First off, note this isn't technically an episode of "PBS Soundstage." The program ran from 1974 to 1985 in its initial run. It would be revived in 1992 to 1993 under the name "Center Stage," but otherwise identical, and then revived again from 2003 to 2018. This concert is an anomaly, because it's the only one from 1994. I found an article in an old newspaper archive that explained what happened. Basically, Huey Lewis liked the old show, and wanted to do a concert on the show when it was revived for a season in 1992 to 1993, but the show had been cancelled again by the time he went to tour to support his next album. But he talked the producers of the show to make a single special episode called "Four Chords Live," which is this. Other than the name, it's exactly like a typical "Soundstage" episode, including the venue, length, and the appearance of special guests.

That name references his 1994 album, "Four Chords and Several Years Ago." It consists entirely of covers of R&B covers from the 1950s and 60s. So most of the songs performed here are covers, with just three songs that were hits for Huey Lewis and the News sprinkled in: "The Heart of Rock and Roll," "The Power of Love," and "I Want a New Drug." Given the emphasis on covers from that earlier era, it makes sense that the two special guests were Sam Moore and Lloyd Price. Moore was half of the famous 1960s R&B music duo Sam and Dave. Price had some R&B hits in the 1950s, especially "Lawdy Miss Claudy" and "Personality."

The episode began with about 30 seconds of Lewis and his band rehearsing a song. I cut that out since it wasn't part of the concert. I also had to make some edits between a few songs, when the applause after a song was immediately cut off. Probably those were where commercials were inserted. I patched in more applause from elsewhere to make those transitions sound natural.

This album is 58 minutes long.

01 The Heart of Rock and Roll (Huey Lewis & the News)
02 talk (Huey Lewis & the News)
03 Stagger Lee (Huey Lewis & the News)
04 Blue Monday (Huey Lewis & the News)
05 Some Kind of Wonderful (Huey Lewis & the News)
06 talk (Huey Lewis & the News)
07 I Thank You (Huey Lewis & the News with Sam Moore)
08 Little Bitty Pretty One (Huey Lewis & the News)
09 talk (Huey Lewis & the News)
10 Good Morning, Little Schoolgirl (Huey Lewis & the News)
11 Shake, Rattle and Roll (Huey Lewis & the News)
12 Searching for My Love (Huey Lewis & the News)
13 talk (Huey Lewis & the News)
14 Personality (Huey Lewis & the News with Lloyd Price)
15 talk (Huey Lewis & the News)
16 Don't Ever Break My Heart (Huey Lewis & the News with Lloyd Price)
17 The Power of Love (Huey Lewis & the News)
18 I Want a New Drug (Huey Lewis & the News)
19 Function at the Junction (Huey Lewis & the News)
20 But It's Alright (Huey Lewis & the News)
21 Better to Have and Not Need (Huey Lewis & the News)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/911mJvYW

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/4W5XyHEcUa47QPm/file 

The cover is from this exact concert.

Huey Lewis & the News - BBC in Concert, Dominion Theatre, London, Britain, 10-28-1984

My BBC project has taken me in some unexpected direction for me, and I'm sure will continue to do so. I'm not much of a Huey Lewis and the News fan, although I like some of their hits. However, I noticed they did a concert for the BBC in 1984, near the peak of their popularity. I listened to it, and it was pretty good. But also, I checked out the band's biography and was surprised to see they've only released one live album, and that was recorded in 2005, way after their popularity had peaked. So this can serve as the 1980s live album they should have put out.

The sound of this bootleg is excellent, although the crowd noise is rather loud. But I had one beef with this. Namely, it happened a little early to include some of their biggest songs. The album "Sports" was released in 1984, and this is from the tour to support that. It was their most popular album, going platinum seven times over. But a year later, they released the Number One hit "The Power of Love," used in the movie "Back to the Future." Then their 1986 album "Fore!" had some other big songs. That too was a big seller, but their popularity quickly declined after that.

Since this is probably the only live album from them that I'm going to have, I included three more songs from a 1986 bootleg concert: "Hip to Be Square," "Jacob’s Ladder," and "The Power of Love."

 01 The Heart of Rock and Roll (Huey Lewis & the News)
02 Trouble in Paradise (Huey Lewis & the News)
03 Don't Make Me Do It (Huey Lewis & the News)
04 talk (Huey Lewis & the News)
05 If This Is It (Huey Lewis & the News)
06 Heart and Soul (Huey Lewis & the News)
07 Walking on a Thin Line (Huey Lewis & the News)
08 It's Alright (Huey Lewis & the News)
09 Finally Found a Home (Huey Lewis & the News)
10 Some of My Lies Are True [Sooner or Later] (Huey Lewis & the News)
11 Workin' for a Livin' (Huey Lewis & the News)
12 talk (Huey Lewis & the News)
13 I Want a New Drug (Huey Lewis & the News)
14 Sea Cruise (Huey Lewis & the News)
15 talk (Huey Lewis & the News)
16 Hip to Be Square (Huey Lewis & the News)
17 Jacob’s Ladder (Huey Lewis & the News)
18 The Power of Love (Huey Lewis & the News)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15845002/HueyLws_1984_BBinConcertDminionTheatre__10-28-1984_atse.zip.html

The cover photo was taken at a concert in Irvine, California, in April 1984. I found the band's logo on the Internet and added that in.