Kiki Dee - BBC Sessions, Volume 3: Sight and Sound, Golders Green Hippodrome, London, Britain, 2-26-1977

Here is the third and final BBC album for British singer Kiki Dee. Like the second one, this one is a concert.

As I wrote in the second volume in this series, after many years of struggling in the music business, Kiki Dee started having hits in 1973, especially with "Amoureuse" in 1973 and "I've Got the Music in Me" in 1974. But she really hit it big with a duet with Elton John, "Don't Go Breaking My Heart," which reached Number One in both the U.S. and Britain in 1976. It seems that was enough for her to get her own BBC concert in early 1977, even though she'd had one in 1975.

In this concert, she did play her two other big hits, but she didn't play "Don't Go Breaking My Heart." Perhaps that was because she didn't have John to duet with.

She ended the concert with a Motown classic, "Loving You Is Sweeter than Ever." At the time, her version of it was unreleased. But she would release a duet version of it with John in 1981.

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

Dee had another hit in 1981 ("Star"), which put her back in the spotlight. I believe that resulted in her getting another BBC concert that year, but I haven't been able to find it. If anyone has it, please share it with me so I can post it here as well. 

This album is 52 minutes.

01 Step by Step (Kiki Dee)
02 First Thing in the Morning (Kiki Dee)
03 Sugar on the Floor (Kiki Dee)
04 Amoureuse (Kiki Dee)
05 Chicago (Kiki Dee)
06 Night Hours (Kiki Dee)
07 talk (Kiki Dee)
08 Loving and Free (Kiki Dee)
09 You Need Help (Kiki Dee)
10 talk (Kiki Dee)
11 I've Got the Music in Me (Kiki Dee)
12 Loving You Is Sweeter than Ever (Kiki Dee)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/z2KczzS7

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/2iUDtFOxplxG7Lz/file 

The cover image is a screenshot from this exact concert. I used the Krea AI program to improve the image.

Kiki Dee - BBC Sessions, Volume 2: In Concert, Paris Theatre, London, Britain, 3-22-1975

Here's a second BBC album by British singer Kiki Dee. This one is a concert.

Dee started her singing career in the early 1960s, with her first single being released in 1963. But many years went by, and many singles releases, without her making the charts at all. Finally, in 1973, she had her first hit in Britain, with the song "Amoureuse." Then in late 1974, she had another hit in Britain with "I've Got the Music in Me." It seems that finally was enough success for her to get her own hour-long BBC concert in early 1975. 

Actually, it seems there may have been two BBC concerts, with another one taking place about a month earlier. But only a few songs from that one survive, and only one is different from this one ("Water"), so I put that on "Volume 1" in this series. 

This album is unreleased. The sound quality is excellent. 

This album is 57 minutes long. 

01 Step by Step (Kiki Dee)
02 You Need Help (Kiki Dee)
03 Loving and Free (Kiki Dee)
04 Sugar on the Floor (Kiki Dee)
05 Just like a Light (Kiki Dee)
06 Heart and Soul (Kiki Dee)
07 Six Days on the Road (Kiki Dee)
08 Going Down the Funky Road (Kiki Dee)
09 A Man After My Own Heart (Kiki Dee)
10 Instrumental (Kiki Dee)
11 Ready Steady Go (Kiki Dee)
12 I've Got the Music in Me (Kiki Dee) 

https://pixeldrain.com/u/AGRG2Zd9

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/ZXQ2lX85abSzZab/file

The cover image is a screenshot from this exact concert. The quality was pretty low-res and blurry though, so I used the Krea AI program to improve it. 

Kiki Dee - BBC Sessions, Volume 1: 1967-1981

If you've been following this blog for a while, you maybe be aware that I have an anonymous musical friend who has been sending me "Top of the Pops" BBC radio recordings that usually are not in public circulation at all. He sent me some of those for British singer Kiki Dee. That inspired me to make this album. 

The Top of the Pops recordings mentioned above make up the first three tracks, all from 1967. They also make up tracks 9 and 10, from 1973, and tracks 11, 12, and 13, from 1974. By 1973, that radio show usually just played the recorded versions, and it was getting increasingly rare for them to play unique versions recorded just for the show. But I double checked these 1973 and 1974 and confirmed they all are unique.

By the way, a few of these Top of the Pops songs have "[Edit]" in their titles. That was due to the usual problem of BBC DJ Brian Matthew talking over parts of the song. As usual, I fixed that with the help of the UVR5 program. 

Put together, all those Top of the Pops recordings only make up 27 minutes of music, which would make for a very short album. So I went looking for other BBC performances she did. I found some stray things here and there, mostly from BBC TV shows. Tracks 4, 5 and 6 are from "Scott," a 1968 TV show hosted by singer Scott Walker. Tracks 7 and 8 are from different TV shows in 1971. Tracks 16 and 17 are from a 1980 show, and track 18 is from a 1981 show.

That just leaves two songs. Track 14, "Water," is from a BBC concert she did in 1975. I'm only including the one song though, because I actually found two BBC concerts she did that year, and they're very similar. I'll be posting the other one in full, so the only thing that interested me from this one was that single unique song. I also found a 1977 BBC concert she did, so expect that one to be posted soon as well.

Finally, track 15, "Don't Go Breaking My Heart," is the song Dee is best known for. This duet with Elton John was a massive hit in 1976, hitting Number One in the both the U.S. and Britain. I wanted to include a version of it on this album. However, the TV appearances I found just had Dee and John lip-syncing. But I did find a concert version from 1976 that featured both of them, so I included that one. For all the other songs with audience applause, I got rid of the applause using the MVSEP program. But I kept the applause for this one, due to the spoken intro and some other things that wouldn't have sounded right without crowd noise.

If you want to know more about Dee's career, here's her Wikipedia page:

Kiki Dee - Wikipedia 

This album is 59 minutes long. 

01 Excuse Me (Kiki Dee)
02 If I Loved You [Edit] (Kiki Dee)
03 She Was Really Saying Something [Edit] (Kiki Dee)
04 Passing Strangers (Scott Walker & Kiki Dee)
05 Up, Up and Away (Kiki Dee)
06 Games People Play (Kiki Dee)
07 You've Made Me So Very Happy (Kiki Dee)
08 Do You Know the Way to San Jose (Kiki Dee)
09 Amoureuse [Edit] (Kiki Dee)
10 Loving and Free (Kiki Dee)
11 Little Frozen One (Kiki Dee)
12 Hard Luck Story (Kiki Dee)
13 I've Got the Music in Me (Kiki Dee)
14 Water (Kiki Dee)
15 Don't Go Breaking My Heart (Elton John & Kiki Dee)
16 Star (Kiki Dee)
17 Twenty-Four Hours (Kiki Dee)
18 Midnight Flyer (Kiki Dee)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/6t6xHnDH

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/FyUD0xC3QdCCv3P/file

The cover photo is from 1973. I don't know any other details.