Various Artists - Covered: Bob Feldman, Jerry Goldstein & Richard Gottehrer: 1962-1982

Here's a rather unusual entry in my "Covered" series highlighting talented songwriters who were widely covered by others. This one focuses on the songwriting and production team of Bob Feldman, Jerry Goldstein, and Richard Gottehrer. You probably don't know their names, but I'll bet you know a bunch of their songs.

Bob Feldman and Jerry Goldstein were friends and neighbors growing up in Brooklyn, New York, in the 1950s. They began writing songs together, and released a single as "Bob and Jerry." In 1962, they met Richard Gottehrer, and he joined their songwriting team. Then the hits started coming. Their first really big smash was "My Boyfriend's Back" by the Angels, which made it all the way to Number One in the U.S. in 1963. The song was started by Feldman, after he overheard a girl talking to a boy she was rebuffing.

The three of them had their greatest success in the mid-1960s. As they were all young and musically talented, they decided to form their own rock band, which they called the Strangeloves. Although, weirdly, they claimed that they were three brothers from a sheep farm from Australia. Perhaps they thought being seen as Jewish kids from Brooklyn wasn't cool. In 1965, they had a Top Ten hit in the U.S. under the Strangeloves name with "I Want Candy," a song the three of them wrote with Bert Berns. (I've posted two Covered albums featuring him.) However, instead of including that version here, I've included the 1982 version by Bow Wow Wow, which was a Top Ten hit in Britain. They had two other Top 40 U.S. hits in 1965 as the Strangeloves: "Cara-Lin" and "Night Time." I've included the Strangeloves version of "Night Time," but I chose a version the Sorrows did of "Cara-Lin."

In addition to songwriting, the three of them also found success as producers. One of their biggest successes came early, with "Hang On Sloopy." They didn't have a hand in writing it (though Bert Berns did). But they were getting a big reaction performing it live in concerts. They wanted to release it as their next single, but their song "I Want Candy" was still rising in the charts. So they took the version they'd already recorded in the studio and had a then-unknown singer from another band, Rick Derringer, sing lead on it. That version, credited to the McCoys, hit Number One in the U.S.

This songwriting team was really good at the garage rock song that was all the rage in 1965 and 1966. When popular trends moved to psychedelic music in 1967, their success went way down. The Strangeloves faded away in 1968. The three of them gradually drifted apart. Each of them found success as producers. In 1966, Gottehrer co-founded Sire Records. It was a very successful independent record company for many years. In 1978, it essentially got swallowed up by Warner Brothers Records, though it still exists as a branch of that mega-company. Gottehrer went on to produce albums by the Go-Go's', Dr. Feelgood, Richard Hell, the Bongos, Marshall Crenshaw, Joan Armatrading, Link Wray, and many more.

As a songwriter, Goldstein was the only one of the three who continued to have big success into the 1970s. He became the producer for the band War from their very first album in 1970. He co-wrote most of their biggest hits while continuing to produce them, including "All Day Music," "Low Rider," and "Why Can't We Be Friends." In fact, he was so closely tied to the band War that in a 1990s lawsuit he won the right to the band name, forcing virtually all of the original members to record as the Lowrider Band instead. 

Feldman died in 2023 at the age of 83. Goldstein and Gottehrer are still alive as I write this in 2025.

Here are their Wikipedia pages, if you want to know more:

Bob Feldman - Wikipedia 

Jerry Goldstein (producer) - Wikipedia 

Richard Gottehrer - Wikipedia

This album is 56 minutes long.

01 What Time Is It (Jive Five)
02 My Boyfriend's Back (Angels)
03 I'm on Fire (Jerry Lee Lewis)
04 The Drifter (Ray Pollard)
05 Cara-Lin (Sorrows)
06 Sorrow (Merseys [Merseybeats])
07 Night Time (Strangeloves)
08 Say Those Magic Words (Birds)
09 Beat the Clock (McCoys)
10 Come On Down to My Boat (Every Mother's Son)
11 It's Nice to Be with You (Monkees)
12 All Day Music (War)
13 Low Rider (War)
14 Why Can't We Be Friends (War)
15 Summer (War)
16 I Want Candy (Bow Wow Wow)
17 You Got the Power (War)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/V55f5uau

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/NqTTavC8wYmm2eJ/file

Feldman, Goldstein, and Gottehrer were the members of the band the Strangeloves in the mid-1960s. The cover photo is taken from a promotional photo of the band. They put out a lot of photos wearing these zebra-striped vests. From left to right: Richard Gottehrer, Bob Feldman, and Jerry Goldstein.

Ringo Starr & Friends - Ringo at the Ryman, Ryman Auditorium, Nashville, TN, 1-14-2025

Just a few days ago, a commenter (Brett Allen) suggested that I post the "Ringo at the Ryman" concert, which was broadcast on TV in early 2025. I had never even heard of this, but I went to check it out. I discovered this was a really excellent suggestion, so here it is already. Thanks again to Brett for making that suggestion.

In January 2025, Ringo Starr released a studio album called "Look Up." It was the first album since his very first solo album in 1970 that had a overt country sound to it. For his supporting musicians, he picked some of my favorite currently performing musical acts, like Larkin Poe, Billy Strings, Molly Tuttle, and Alison Krauss. They appeared for this concert (minus Alison Krauss), plus some other very well chosen guests, like Jack White, Sheryl Crow, and Rodney Crowell. I'm especially gratified to see the prominent role Larkin Poe had. I've been promoting their music for a long time now. It's nice to see them gradually breaking into the major leagues, despite the lack of obvious hit singles or hit albums, but just from building up a following through touring and being really talented.

Oddly, though, two famous guests only appeared on stage to help with the singalongs on the last two songs: Emmylou Harris and Brenda Lee.

Out of the four Beatles, Starr was the one most influenced by country music. This concert was meant to promote his latest studio album, for sure. But it also showed the country influence in his earlier works, including many country-influenced country songs. Starr sang and/or played drums on some of the songs. But for a majority of the songs, he let the guest stars sing lead vocals. About half of the time, he wasn't even on stage.

I was able to find a video file of this concert. Then I converted it into audio format and broke it into mp3s. So I don't think this has been shared as an audio bootleg until now. The music is all unreleased, and the sound quality is excellent. 

This album is an hour and nine minutes long.

01 Matchbox (Ringo Starr with Jack White)
02 talk (Ringo Starr)
03 It Don't Come Easy (Ringo Starr with Sheryl Crow, Mickey Guyton & Molly Tuttle)
04 talk (Ringo Starr)
05 Time on My Hands (Ringo Starr)
06 talk (Molly Tuttle)
07 Octopus's Garden (Molly Tuttle)
08 talk (Jack White)
09 Don't Pass Me By (Jack White)
10 talk (Ringo Starr)
11 Thankful (Ringo Starr with Larkin Poe)
12 Honey Don't (Billy Strings)
13 talk (War & Treaty)
14 Without Her (War & Treaty)
15 talk (Sheryl Crow)
16 I Don't Want to Spoil the Party (Sheryl Crow with Molly Tuttle)
17 talk (emcee & Sheryl Crow)
18 Boys (Ringo Starr with Molly Tuttle, Sheryl Crow & Larkin Poe)
19 Have You Seen My Baby (Jamey Johnson)
20 talk (Mickey Guyton)
21 You Don't Know Me at All (Mickey Guyton)
22 talk (emcee)
23 Act Naturally (Rodney Crowell & Sarah Jarosz)
24 talk (Larkin Poe)
25 I Wanna Be Your Man (Larkin Poe)
26 talk (emcee)
27 What Goes On (Billy Strings & Molly Tuttle)
28 talk (Ringo Starr)
29 Look Up (Ringo Starr with Molly Tuttle)
30 Photograph (Ringo Starr with Billy Strings)
31 talk (emcee)
32 Yellow Submarine (Ringo Starr & Everyone)
33 With a Little Help from My Friends (Ringo Starr & Everyone)
34 talk (Ringo Starr)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/7TRMtQ7z

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/xe1onLDARTa363m/file

The cover photo is from the encore at the end of this exact concert. I can recognize some of the people, but not all of them. From left to right: unknown, Molly Tuttle, unknown, Jack White, Ringo Starr, Rodney Crowell, Brenda Lee (in front of Crowell), Rebecca Lovell and Megan Lovell of Larkin Poe, Emmylou Harris, Mickey Guyton, unknown, and Billy Strings. There were a few more people standing on each side that got cropped out, or otherwise everyone would have appeared considerably smaller.

Note also that I made some edits in Photoshop to the crowd at the bottom of the picture. In the original, a couple of people were holding their cell phones up high to take pictures, and I found that distracting. So I pasted in heads of more random people (taken from parts of the image cropped on either side) to cover up the cell phones.

Quicksilver Messenger Service - Fillmore East, New York City, 6-7-1968

First off, I want to say this post is all due to the excellent audio editing work of Prof. Stoned. It's taken from his blog, "Prof. Stoned: Rare and Deleted," which you can find here:

Prof Stoned: Rare & Deleted 

This is probably the very best full-length concert by Quicksilver Messenger Service when they were at their peak, in 1968.

The music has been officially released, but it was done so badly that Prof. Stoned ended up doing a ton of work to fix it. It was first released in 1983 as the album "Maiden of the Cancer Moon." However, that didn't use the best quality sources, had been partly mislabeled as being from a different concert, and wasn't complete. Then it was released in 1999 as "The Unreleased Quicksilver Messenger Service: Lost Gold and Silver," which was basically just a renaming of the 1983 released. Then it was released again in 2013, as "Live at the Fillmore June 7, 1968." But, as Prof. Stoned put it, this was "little more than a cash grab with its horrible mastering, shuffled track order and lame packaging."

Prof. Stoned found the best version publicly available, which is a soundboard made by the band, and then made some improvements to it. Here's more quotes from his notes, which I've included in full in the download: "The original stereo image is wonky with drums and vocals on one channel; I'm guessing this was the mono house mix. The other channel had a bit of everything except vocals. This new mix set to rectify the poor balancing where possible but also to create a much more satisfying stereo image, which vocals and drums in the center and guitars spread left and right. It proved to be a long arduous process to achieve that, requiring lots of manual work, but here it is."

The band performed two sets on this night. Unfortunately, this is most of what they played, but not all of it. The first ten tracks make up the first set. But there are an unknown number of songs before the first track that apparently didn't get recorded. But the second set is complete, from track 11 to 21. 

This album is an hour and 28 minutes long. 

01 talk (Quicksilver Messenger Service)
02 Smokestack Lightning (Quicksilver Messenger Service)
03 talk (Quicksilver Messenger Service)
04 Codine (Quicksilver Messenger Service)
05 talk (Quicksilver Messenger Service)
06 Light Your Windows (Quicksilver Messenger Service)
07 talk (Quicksilver Messenger Service)
08 Mona (Quicksilver Messenger Service)
09 Maiden of the Cancer Moon (Quicksilver Messenger Service)
10 Mona [Reprise] (Quicksilver Messenger Service)
11 Pride of Man (Quicksilver Messenger Service)
12 If You Live (Quicksilver Messenger Service)
13 Dino's Song (Quicksilver Messenger Service)
14 talk (Quicksilver Messenger Service)
15 Back Door Man (Quicksilver Messenger Service)
16 talk (Quicksilver Messenger Service)
17 Acapulco Gold and Silver (Quicksilver Messenger Service)
18 talk (Quicksilver Messenger Service)
19 Who Do You Love (Quicksilver Messenger Service)
20 talk (Quicksilver Messenger Service)
21 The Fool (Quicksilver Messenger Service)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/9Hj35ufP

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/bbhlXr2N6XjyBNl/file

There are surprisingly few good photos of this band in the late 1960s, and almost no color ones. After some digging, I found this one, which might be from a TV appearance. It was in black and white, but I colorized it with the Kolorize program.

Tower of Power - Live at the Record Plant, Record Plant, Sausalito, CA, 6-3-1973

I have a ton of "Live at the Record Plant" radio show episodes to share, so here's another one. This one features the Tower of Power in 1973.

Tower of Power was formed in 1968, at a time when many bands with horn sections started happening. Their first album was released in 1971. Released in early 1973, their third album, the cleverly titled "Tower of Power," was their commercial peak, containing their biggest hit, "So Very Hard to Go," along with the minor hits "This Time It's Real" and "What Is Hip." They played two of those here, but not "This Time It's Real."

I've read that these "Live at the Record Plant" had audiences up to 60 people. That's as many as could fit in the small confines of that recording studio. But there's virtually no audience noise on this one. Perhaps this was one of the first shows in the radio show series, and they hadn't began inviting audiences yet.

I cut out some banter by DJ Tom Donahue near the end, when he was hyping the products of the sponsor of the show. Basically, it was a commercial inserted into his banter.

The music is unreleased. The sound quality is very good. 

This album is 56 minutes long. 

01 Squib Cakes [Instrumental] (Tower of Power)
02 talk (Tower of Power)
03 What Is Hip (Tower of Power)
04 talk (Tower of Power)
05 Both Sorry Over Nothin' (Tower of Power)
06 Down to the Nightclub (Tower of Power)
07 talk (Tower of Power)
08 You're Still a Young Man (Tower of Power)
09 talk (Tower of Power)
10 Soul Vaccination (Tower of Power)
11 talk (Tower of Power)
12 Clean Slate (Tower of Power)
13 So Very Hard to Go (Tower of Power)
14 talk by Tom Donahue (Tower of Power)
15 talk (Tower of Power)
16 Knock Yourself Out (Tower of Power)
17 talk by Tom Donahue (Tower of Power) 

https://pixeldrain.com/u/rfZizjzn

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/B8qsM1kA4DkV8kk/file

The cover photo was taken in 1973. That's all I know about it. 

Linda Ronstadt - Live at the Record Plant, Record Plant, Sausalito, CA, 11-18-1973

Recently, I decided to add "Live at the Record Plant" radio shows to my list of priority postings. So here's one from 1973 starring Linda Ronstadt.

Based on the banter between songs, it seems there was a lot of confusion during this recording. The radio show just started broadcasting everything that was happening without any commercial breaks. You can hear that Ronstadt didn't really get that until well into the show. I cut out some diddling around and dead air between songs, but you can still hear some of that. 

One interesting thing about this performance is that it includes a version of "You're No Good." She started performing it in concerts in early 1973, but treated it as just another song. But she didn't release it until late 1974, and even then it was a last-minute addition to fill out her next album. But it was released as a single and went all the way to Number One in the U.S., turning her into a big star. 

The music here is unreleased. The sound quality is very good. 

This album is 55 minutes long. 

01 talk (Linda Ronstadt)
02 Nightingale (Linda Ronstadt)
03 talk (Linda Ronstadt)
04 I Fall to Pieces (Linda Ronstadt)
05 talk (Linda Ronstadt)
06 Silver Threads and Golden Needles (Linda Ronstadt)
07 Love Has No Pride (Linda Ronstadt)
08 Rock Me on the Water (Linda Ronstadt)
09 talk (Linda Ronstadt)
10 I Can't Help It [If I'm Still in Love with You] (Linda Ronstadt)
11 talk (Linda Ronstadt)
12 It Doesn't Matter Anymore (Linda Ronstadt)
13 talk (Linda Ronstadt)
14 The Dark End of the Street (Linda Ronstadt)
15 talk (Linda Ronstadt)
16 I Believe in You (Linda Ronstadt)
17 talk (Linda Ronstadt)
18 Crazy Arms (Linda Ronstadt)
19 talk (Linda Ronstadt)
20 Long, Long Time (Linda Ronstadt)
21 talk (Linda Ronstadt)
22 You're No Good (Linda Ronstadt)
23 talk (Linda Ronstadt)
24 Steel Guitar Rag [Instrumental] (Linda Ronstadt)
25 talk (Linda Ronstadt)
26 Break My Mind [Instrumental] (Linda Ronstadt)
27 talk (Linda Ronstadt) 

https://pixeldrain.com/u/gujj9HgQ

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/NhLSXhHS2lFHl83/file

The cover image is from an appearance on ABC TV in October 1973.

Judy Collins - Lenox Music Inn, Lenox, MA, 7-28-1973

I like posting bootleg concerts from quality musical acts that don't have their bootlegs shared that much. I also like posting rare bootleg concerts that deserve more attention, especially from long ago. So this one checks both of those boxes for me. It's a concert from singer-songwriter Judy Collins, in 1973.

I've posted three Collins concerts already, but all of those have been pretty short, an hour or less. This one actually is longer than typical concerts at the time, over an hour and a half.  

Collins was a very capable songwriter. For instance, at the time of this concert, her most recent album was 1973's "True Stories and Other Dreams," and this concert features three songs from it that she wrote on her own, "The Fisherman Song," "Secret Gardens," and "Song for Martin." However, she was better known for her covers of songs by other singer-songwriters, and we get plenty of those here, especially songs by Leonard Cohen (three) and Joni Mitchell (two).

This album remains unreleased. It's a soundboard, and the sound quality is excellent. 

This concert is an hour and 40 minutes long.

01 Oh, Had I a Golden Thread (Judy Collins)
02 Someday Soon (Judy Collins)
03 talk (Judy Collins)
04 City of New Orleans (Judy Collins)
05 talk (Judy Collins)
06 So Begins the Task (Judy Collins)
07 The Fisherman Song (Judy Collins)
08 Both Sides Now (Judy Collins)
09 The Hostage (Judy Collins)
10 Easy Times (Judy Collins)
11 Hard Lovin' Loser (Judy Collins)
12 Suzanne (Judy Collins)
13 Famous Blue Raincoat (Judy Collins)
14 Secret Gardens (Judy Collins)
15 talk (Judy Collins)
16 Song for Martin (Judy Collins)
17 Open the Door [Song for Judith] (Judy Collins)
18 Four Strong Winds (Judy Collins)
19 Chelsea Morning (Judy Collins)
20 My Father (Judy Collins)
21 Bird on a Wire (Judy Collins)
22 Sons Of (Judy Collins) 

https://pixeldrain.com/u/M8ucm9Ew

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/leHO7HMJSrOxW65/file

I don't know when or where the cover photo is from, just that it's from the 1970s. 

Def Leppard - BBC Radio 2 Live in the Park, Hylands Park, Chelmsford, Britain, 9-7-2025

Here's the last of the six albums that I'm posting from the 2025 BBC Radio 2 Live in the Park Festival. For the second and final night of the festival, the headliner was Def Leppard. As a result, their set was significantly longer than most of the other sets from the festival.

I already posted another Def Leppard concert, their VH-1 Storytellers performance in 1999, which you can find here:

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2024/09/def-leppard-vh-1-storytellers-vh-1.html

So I don't have a lot to say about them. Clearly, by 2025, their peak commercial era was far behind them. They haven't had a Gold studio album since 1999. But they've had the same line-up since 1992, and they show in this concert that they can still rock.

This music here is unreleased, and the sound quality is excellent. 

This album is an hour and 16 minutes. 

01 Rock, Rock [Till You Drop] (Def Leppard)
02 Rocket (Def Leppard)
03 talk (Def Leppard)
04 Let's Get Rocked (Def Leppard)
05 Foolin' (Def Leppard)
06 talk (Def Leppard)
07 Armageddon It (Def Leppard)
08 Animal (Def Leppard)
09 Love Bites (Def Leppard)
10 talk (Def Leppard)
11 Just like '73 (Def Leppard)
12 Bringin' on the Heartbreak (Def Leppard)
13 When Love and Hate Collide (Def Leppard)
14 talk (Def Leppard)
15 Rock of Ages (Def Leppard)
16 Photograph (Def Leppard)
17 Hysteria (Def Leppard)
18 Pour Some Sugar on Me (Def Leppard)
19 talk (Def Leppard) 

https://pixeldrain.com/u/zcJwPbMs

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/hr5uZI77jBuo08b/file

Frankly, by 2025, the band sounds a lot better than they look. So I figured this was a good occasion to show how large the crowd at the festival was. That's the band's lead singer Joe Elliott looking out over the crowd.

Suede - BBC Radio 2 Live in the Park, Hylands Park, Chelmsford, Britain, 9-7-2025

Here's another album from the 2025 BBC Radio 2 Live in the Park Festival. So far, I've posted four albums from September 6, 2025, the first day of the festival. I have two albums from the next day, and here's the first one, Suede.

Suede was one of the first and most important of the Britpop bands in the 1990s. They were considered one of the "big four" in that genre, along with Oasis, Blur, and Pulp. But for some reason, I've paid much attention to them until now. That's probably because I'm American, and they had less success in the U.S. than those other Britpop bands. For instance, they had three albums hit Number One in Britain, but none of their albums even made the Top 100 in the U.S.

Here's their Wikipedia entry, if you want to know more about them:

Suede (band) - Wikipedia 

As with all the albums from this festival, the music is unreleased and the sound quality is excellent. 

This album is 35 minutes long. 

01 Trash (Suede)
02 Dancing with the Europeans (Suede)
03 Animal Nitrate (Suede)
04 Trance State (Suede)
05 She Still Leads Me On (Suede)
06 talk (Suede)
07 Saturday Night (Suede)
08 Metal Mickey (Suede)
09 Beautiful Ones (Suede)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/Fjxg7z4A

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/Yqp3Dpr4X2Ciy3i/file

The cover photo of the band's lead singer Brett Anderson is from this exact concert. 

Various Artists - MusiCares Tribute to Bruce Springsteen, Los Angeles Convention Center, Los Angeles, CA, 2-8-2013

A few days ago, I got a request to post the MusiCares tribute concert to Bruce Springsteen. I'm happy to do so, because I've been meaning to post more of these MusiCares concerts soon anyway. So here you are.

MusiCares has been holding annual tribute concerts since 1991. They cleverly have these concerts in Los Angeles, where the Grammy Awards take place, and hold them only a couple of days apart from the Grammies. That way, many musical stars are in town and able to participate. I've only posted one such album so far, the tribute to Brian Wilson in 2005. But I have seven more to post after this. Thus, today I've created a MusiCares Tribute label to help you find them all.

Bruce Springsteen is a very big name in music, and lots of other big names paid tribute to him here, including Elton John, Neil Young, and Sting. This was a particularly long concert as far as these MusiCares tributes go. It's easily the longest of all the ones I've found so far, which is fitting since Springsteen concerts are known for their length. Springsteen himself played five songs at the end, which again is more than usual. 

This comes from a DVD. It hasn't been released on any audio format. The sound quality is excellent. 

This album is two hours and 16 minutes long. 

01 talk (Jon Stewart)
02 Adam Raised a Cain (Alabama Shakes)
03 Because the Night (Patti Smith)
04 Atlantic City (Natalie Maines, Ben Harper & Charlie Musselwhite)
05 American Land (Ken Casey)
06 talk (Jon Stewart)
07 My City of Ruins (Mavis Staples & Zac Brown)
08 talk (Jon Stewart)
09 I'm on Fire (Mumford & Sons)
10 American Skin [41 Shots] (Jackson Browne & Tom Morello)
11 My Hometown (Emmylou Harris)
12 One Step Up (Kenny Chesney)
13 talk (Jon Stewart)
14 Streets of Philadelphia (Elton John & Raphael Saadiq)
15 Hungry Heart (Juanes)
16 Tougher than the Rest (Tim McGraw & Faith Hill)
17 The Ghost of Tom Joad (Tom Morello & Jim James)
18 talk (Jon Stewart)
19 Dancing in the Dark (John Legend)
20 Lonesome Day (Sting)
21 Born in the U.S.A. (Neil Young)
22 talk (Jon Stewart & Bruce Springsteen)
23 We Take Care of Our Own (Bruce Springsteen)
24 Death to My Hometown (Bruce Springsteen)
25 Thunder Road (Bruce Springsteen)
26 Born to Run (Bruce Springsteen)
27 Glory Days (Bruce Springsteen)
28 talk (Bruce Springsteen)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/fXM5GV8j

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/B96M5E8MDQxu5O4/file

For the cover, I wanted a photo of Springsteen from this exact concert. But of the photos I saw, he was generally alone or with just one other person nearby, so I went with a group photo from this concert instead. From right to left: Zac Brown, Emmylou Harris, Ben Harper, Jackson Browne and Patti Scialfa. There were some distracting things in the background, so I used Photoshop to remove them.

Bryan Adams - BBC Radio 2 Live in the Park, Hylands Park, Chelmsford, Britain, 9-6-2025

Here's another album from the 2025 BBC Radio 2 Live in the Park Festival that took place earlier this month. (I'm writing this in September 2025.) This is the set by Canadian rocker Bryan Adams.

The festival mainly took place on September 6th and 7th, 2026. I've previously posted three sets from the 6th. Adams was the headliner for that day, so his set was twice as long as the others I've posted. After this, I'll post the sets from the 7th.

Adams has been extremely successful for a very long time. He's sold close to 100 million records worldwide. He had many hit albums from the early 1980s until the late 2000s, though his sales have slowed a lot since then. His most recent album, "Roll with the Punches," was released just a week prior to this festival. He played three songs from it: "Roll with the Punches," "Make Up Your Mind," and "Never Ever Let You Go."

Other than those, he generally focused on his earlier hits. He kept banter between songs to a minimum, squeezing in a lot of songs for the time he was allotted. He's 65 years old at the time of this concert, but he still sounds energetic and good.

This album is an hour and 16 minutes.

01 Kick Ass (Bryan Adams)
02 Run to You (Bryan Adams)
03 Somebody (Bryan Adams)
04 Roll with the Punches (Bryan Adams)
05 talk (Bryan Adams)
06 18 til I Die (Bryan Adams)
07 talk (Bryan Adams)
08 Shine a Light (Bryan Adams)
09 Heaven (Bryan Adams)
10 talk (Bryan Adams)
11 Make Up Your Mind (Bryan Adams)
12 talk (Bryan Adams)
13 You Belong to Me [False Start] (Bryan Adams)
14 You Belong to Me - Blue Suede Shoes (Bryan Adams)
15 talk (Bryan Adams)
16 When You're Gone (Bryan Adams with Melanie C)
17 The Only Thing that Looks Good on Me Is You (Bryan Adams)
18 Never Ever Let You Go (Bryan Adams)
19 [Everything I Do] I Do It for You (Bryan Adams)
20 Back to You (Bryan Adams)
21 So Happy It Hurts (Bryan Adams)
22 Cuts like a Knife (Bryan Adams)
23 Summer of '69 (Bryan Adams)
24 talk (Bryan Adams)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/GBa6n6Pj

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/0yLdirePNuDCVvr/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert. 

Stereophonics - BBC Radio 2 Live in the Park, Hylands Park, Chelmsford, Britain, 9-6-2025

Here's another album from the 2025 BBC Radio 2 Live in the Park Festival. This is the set by the British band Stereophonics.

I have to say Stereophonics haven't really been on my radar screen until now. Maybe that's because I'm an American, and they are very big in Britain but not the U.S. Nine of their albums have hit Number One in Britain, and they've had lots of hit singles there too, but not even a single hit single in the U.S. 

Listening to this album, I thought it was okay, but I wouldn't be posting this had it not been for them doing well in the poll I posted about this festival. Maybe I haven't listened to their music enough yet.

Note this album is pretty short. I think it's the shortest out of all the albums I'm posting from this festival. But it seems to be complete.

The music here is unreleased. The sound quality is excellent. This album is 33 minutes long. 

01 Vegas Two Times (Stereophonics)
02 I Wanna Get Lost with You (Stereophonics)
03 talk (Stereophonics)
04 Have a Nice Day (Stereophonics)
05 talk (Stereophonics)
06 There's Always Gonna Be Something (Stereophonics)
07 Maybe Tomorrow (Stereophonics)
08 Dakota (Stereophonics)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/ADaxDCSy

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/TwRR6POO61O0Gq5/file

The cover photo the band's lead singer Kelly Jones is from this exact concert. 

Belinda Carlisle - BBC Radio 2 Live in the Park, Hylands Park, Chelmsford, Britain, 9-6-2025

Here's more from the poll results for the BBC Radio 2 Live in the Park Festival from earlier this month (writing this in September 2025). This is a set by Belinda Carlisle, former lead singer of the Go-Go's.

While I think Carlisle is a good singer and I like a lot of her songs, I'm bummed she didn't sing even one song by the Go-Go's. Not even "We Got the Beat?" Really? She had a lot of success with a solo career in the late 1980s and 1990s, and most of the songs come from that. Curiously, she released a new album just a couple of weeks prior to this concert, "Once Upon a Time in California," and she didn't play a single song from it. It's a covers albums of famous songs, so I think those songs would have gone over reasonably well with the crowd. Perhaps she felt limited by the time, since this concert is pretty short, due to there being lots of musical acts getting squeezed into the festival.

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

This album is 43 minutes long. 

01 [We Want] The Same Thing (Belinda Carlisle)
02 talk (Belinda Carlisle)
03 Summer Rain (Belinda Carlisle)
04 talk (Belinda Carlisle)
05 Big, Big Love (Belinda Carlisle)
06 talk (Belinda Carlisle)
07 I Get Weak (Belinda Carlisle)
08 Circles in the Sand (Belinda Carlisle)
09 Big Scary Animal (Belinda Carlisle)
10 Live Your Life Be Free (Belinda Carlisle)
11 Leave a Light On (Belinda Carlisle)
12 Heaven Is a Place on Earth (Belinda Carlisle)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/uVyb3KxB

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/R6pfRWgubak9to3/file 

The cover photo is from this exact concert.

Maria Muldaur - King Biscuit Flower Hour, Troubadour, Los Angeles, CA, 12-22-1974

I have to admit I don't know much about Maria Muldaur and her music beyond her one hit, "Midnight at the Oasis," which reached the U.S. Top Ten in 1973. But I stumbled across this concert, and I thought it was intriguing because in 1974 she was performing mostly swing songs from decades earlier with a jazz band. I gave it a listen, and I liked it enough to post it. 

One album I really enjoy is "Joe Jackson's Jumpin' Jive," in which Joe Jackson did a kind of tribute album to jump blues from decades earlier. This is a similar sort of tribute to music that was way out of style in the early 1970s. What's even more interesting is that there isn't much overlap with her studio albums. I checked the two albums she released at the time of this concert. From her first album, "Maria Muldaur," released in 1973, she played two songs: "Any Old Time" and "Don't You Feel My Leg (Don't You Make Me High)." And from 1974's "Waitress in a Donut Shop," she played three songs: "Squeeze Me," "I'm a Woman," and "It Ain't the Meat (It's the Motion)." Also, there are no songs from the album she'd release in 1975. So about half of the songs here were not put on her albums.

It seems this concert  was not part of her usual tour at the time with her usual backing musicians. Instead, it was one of only a handful where she performed with the Benny Carter Jazz All-Stars, which led to the different set list. Benny Carter had a very respected and long career as a composer, musician and bandleader. In fact, his career was so long that he first recorded in the 1920s, and ended up recording in eight different decades! (He died in 2003 at the age of 95.)

I don't know if or when I'm going to post more Maria Muldaur albums. "Midnight at the Oasis" wasn't included in this concert, though I don't know if this recording is incomplete or she just chose not to play it. But since I associate that song so strongly with her, and it was a hit the year before this concert, I stuck a live version of it at the end as a quasi bonus track. It's from a concert at Ebbets Field, Denver, Colorado, on January 30, 1974.

Everything here is unreleased, and sounds great, including the song at the end from the other source. 

This album is 51 minutes long.

01 talk (Maria Muldaur & the Benny Carter Jazz All-Stars)
02 Squeeze Me (Maria Muldaur & the Benny Carter Jazz All-Stars)
03 talk (Maria Muldaur & the Benny Carter Jazz All-Stars)
04 Any Old Time (Maria Muldaur & the Benny Carter Jazz All-Stars)
05 talk (Maria Muldaur & the Benny Carter Jazz All-Stars)
06 Ain't I Good to You (Maria Muldaur & the Benny Carter Jazz All-Stars)
07 talk (Maria Muldaur & the Benny Carter Jazz All-Stars)
08 Sweetheart (Maria Muldaur & the Benny Carter Jazz All-Stars)
09 talk (Maria Muldaur & the Benny Carter Jazz All-Stars)
10 Doozy [Instrumental] (Maria Muldaur & the Benny Carter Jazz All-Stars)
11 It Don't Mean a Thing [If It Ain't Got That Swing] (Maria Muldaur & the Benny Carter Jazz All-Stars)
12 talk (Maria Muldaur & the Benny Carter Jazz All-Stars)
13 Lover Man [Oh, Where Can You Be] (Maria Muldaur & the Benny Carter Jazz All-Stars)
14 talk (Maria Muldaur & the Benny Carter Jazz All-Stars)
15 Walking One and Only (Maria Muldaur & the Benny Carter Jazz All-Stars)
16 talk (Maria Muldaur & the Benny Carter Jazz All-Stars)
17 Don't You Get Me High [Don't You Feel My Leg] (Maria Muldaur & the Benny Carter Jazz All-Stars)
18 talk (Maria Muldaur & the Benny Carter Jazz All-Stars)
19 I'm a Woman (Maria Muldaur & the Benny Carter Jazz All-Stars)
20 talk (Maria Muldaur & the Benny Carter Jazz All-Stars)
21 It Ain't the Meat [It's the Motion] (Maria Muldaur & the Benny Carter Jazz All-Stars)
22 Midnight at the Oasis (Maria Muldaur)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/Lh9xtDcC

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/6X1fS1wLxMgFHVy/file

The cover photo is from a concert in Montreux, Switzerland, on July 20, 1975. I used the Krea AI program to clean it up and sharpen it a bit.

James Taylor - Benefit for Gerry Studds, Cape Cod Coliseum, South Yarmouth, MA, 8-30-1975

Here's a great concert from James Taylor that seems to be surprisingly little known. What makes it stand out is that it was a solo acoustic concert in 1975, and he almost never performed in that mode after 1971, until decades later. It sounds much like Taylor playing to a small group of friends on his front porch (even though the venue actually held about 5,000 people).

This was a benefit concert for Gerry Studds, a Democrat, who was in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1973 to 1997. The concert took place a couple of months before the next election for Studds.

This actually consisted of two concerts. First, Taylor performed for about an hour, with a break halfway through. Then Studds gave a speech. Then Taylor performed for another hour, with another halfway break. I assume there were different crowds for the two sets, because Taylor played almost the exact same songs in the same order for both. This recording is based on the late show. There were only two songs exclusively performed in the early show: "Walking Man" and "Rainy Day Man." I put those at the start. Then the late show follows, in full. However, he sometimes made comments between songs in the early show that were different from comments he made in the late show. So I added those in as well. That means this is kind of a mix of both shows, due to some early show banter sprinkled in to the late show. But hopefully from a listener's point of view, it should sound like one seamless show.

The concert took place a few months after the release of Taylor's hit album "Gorilla." He played a couple of songs from the album, "Gorilla" and "Lighthouse," as a well as a B-side, "I Can Dream of You," written by his brother Livingston Taylor. But surprisingly, he didn't play either of the two big hits from the album, "Mexico" and "How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You)." I strongly suspect that for some songs here, this is the only recording of them being performed in solo acoustic mode, but I don't know for sure. 

This concert is unreleased. There were no sound problems. However, I used some noise reduction on the banter to remove some hiss and background noise. But I didn't use any of that for the actual music. 

This album is an hour and 13 minutes long. 

01 talk (James Taylor)
02 Walking Man (James Taylor)
03 Rainy Day Man (James Taylor)
04 You Can Close Your Eyes (James Taylor)
05 talk (James Taylor)
06 Sunny Skies (James Taylor)
07 talk (James Taylor)
08 One Man Parade (James Taylor)
09 Brighten Your Night with My Day (James Taylor)
10 talk (James Taylor)
11 Things Go Better with Coke (James Taylor)
12 talk (James Taylor)
13 I Can Dream of You (James Taylor)
14 talk (James Taylor)
15 Anywhere like Heaven (James Taylor)
16 talk (James Taylor)
17 Mud Slide Slim (James Taylor)
18 talk (James Taylor)
19 Baby, It's Cold Outside (James Taylor)
20 talk (James Taylor)
21 talk (James Taylor)
22 Hello Old Friend (James Taylor)
23 talk (James Taylor)
24 Riding on a Railroad (James Taylor)
25 talk (James Taylor)
26 Blossom (James Taylor)
27 Don't Let Me Be Lonely Tonight (James Taylor)
28 Gorilla (James Taylor)
29 Circle Round the Sun (James Taylor)
30 Lighthouse (James Taylor)
31 talk (James Taylor)
32 Migration (James Taylor)
33 Fire and Rain (James Taylor)
34 talk (James Taylor)
35 Steamroller (James Taylor)
36 talk (James Taylor)
37 Sweet Baby James (James Taylor) 

https://pixeldrain.com/u/pXmTf5wb 

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/Aqi04KxiJDsvnLZ/file

Listening to the banter between songs, I heard Taylor complain about the great heat. So that means this concert must have taken place in the middle of the day. Based on that, I wanted to use a photo of him outside. I couldn't find any photos of him in concert outside in the mid-1970s. I ended up using a screenshot taken from a movie he starred in in 1971 called "Two Lane Blacktop." The hair blowing in the wind on the right side was cropped off in the original photo, but I used the AI powers of Photoshop to extend the image on that side.

Kid Creole & the Coconuts - BBC Radio 2 Live in the Park, Hylands Park, Chelmsford, Britain, 9-6-2025

I promised that I would post the musical acts that got the most votes in a poll for the BBC Radio in the Park Festival, which was held on September 6th and 7th, 2025. Here's the first result. I'm starting by posting the set from my favorite musical act from the festival, Kid Creole and the Coconuts.

The band's peak years were in the 1980s, which was a long time ago. But listening to this, you'd never know that so many years have passed. It was a solid show, but a short one. That's because most musical acts in the festival had sets under 40 minutes, except for the big headliners.

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

This album is 35 minutes long. 

01 Caroline Was a Drop-Out (Kid Creole & the Coconuts)
02 I'm a Wonderful Thing, Baby (Kid Creole & the Coconuts)
03 Stool Pigeon (Kid Creole & the Coconuts)
04 Trombone - Stool Pigeon (Kid Creole & the Coconuts)
05 talk (Kid Creole & the Coconuts)
06 Annie, I'm Not Your Daddy (Kid Creole & the Coconuts)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/DNnWs6iM

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/Of8DKuXj5SlLcTo/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert. It show's the band's lead singer August Darnell with the three women making up the Coconuts.

James Brown - Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles, CA, 9-16-1966

Here's a James Brown concert from 1966.

I usually don't post much live music from Brown, because there's been a large number of official live albums released already. However, it's very rare to have a recording from this far back with this pristine sound quality, even though it's a bootleg. Also, I don't think there have been any official live releases from 1966. And this recording seems to have stayed surprisingly obscure, so hopefully this post will help spread it around.

At the time of this release, Brown's most recent single hit was "Money Won't Change You." That's probably why it was emphasized, getting played once at the start and then again at the end. " It's a Man's, Man's, Man's World" was also emphasized, making up most of a 14-minute-long medley, as that was a big hit earlier in the year.

This album is 54 minutes long.

01 talk by emcee (James Brown)
02 The King [Instrumental] (James Brown)
03 Money Won't Change You (James Brown)
04 Try Me (James Brown)
05 Papa's Got a Brand New Bag (James Brown)
06 Prisoner of Love (James Brown)
07 Maybe the Last Time (James Brown)
08 I Got You [I Feel Good] (James Brown)
09 talk (James Brown)
10 It's a Man's, Man's, Man's World - Lost Someone (James Brown)
11 When a Man Loves a Woman - It's a Man's, Man's, Man's World [Reprise] (James Brown)
12 Please, Please, Please (James Brown)
13 Money Won't Change You [Reprise] (James Brown)
14 talk by emcee (James Brown)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/oR9hd5be

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/9aejtTgDWUBJ6mu/file

The cover photo shows Brown on the Ed Sullivan Show in 1966. I used the Krea AI program to improve the image quality. For the name at the top, I used a concert poster from the 1960s.

Blondie - PBS Soundstage, WTTW Studios, Chicago, IL, 12-10-2015

I just posted a Blondie concert album yesterday, but I'm going to post this one here already before I forget about it. This was Blondie's turn on the excellent TV show "PBS Soundstage."

It's rather unfortunate it took so long before Blondie appeared on this show, especially since the show first began the same year the band was formed, way back in 1974. But at least the band has stayed pretty active coming up with new material. They released three new studio albums in the 2010s. The second one, "Ghosts of Download," was released a year prior to this concert. Although it was a sign of their declining sales that they felt the need to bundle it with a greatest his collection.

This album is a mix of old and new. I count seven songs from their recent albums, compared to seven of their classic hits.

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

This album is an hour and 12 minutes long. 

01 Dreaming (Blondie)
02 One Way or Another (Blondie)
03 Rave (Blondie)
04 Hanging on the Telephone (Blondie)
05 talk (Blondie)
06 Gravity (Blondie)
07 talk (Blondie)
08 Mile High (Blondie)
09 Call Me (Blondie)
10 Mother (Blondie)
11 Euphoria (Blondie)
12 A Rose by Any Name (Blondie)
13 talk (Blondie)
14 My Monster (Blondie)
15 Rapture (Blondie)
16 The Tide Is High - Groove Is in the Heart (Blondie)
17 talk (Blondie)
18 Heart of Glass (Blondie) 

https://pixeldrain.com/u/F5FkPyze

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/wlsGDqIuQb5HhA1/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert.

Various Artists - A Grammy Salute to the Beach Boys, Dolby Theatre, Hollywood, CA, 2-8-2023

A few days ago, a commenter suggested I should post this concert. It so happened that I already had it all ready to go (except for making the cover), which is the case for countless hundreds, if not thousands of albums. But since it was requested, I put it at the top of the pile, and here it is. It's a Grammy salute to the Beach Boys from 2023.

This tribute was shown on prime time television, so that meant it was faced paced, and with lots of guest stars. Famous actor Tom Hanks started things off with a spoken tribute, and actors John Stamos and Drew Carey also had turns to speak. 

I found a video of this concert, converted it to audio, and then broke it into mp3s. So I don't think it's circulated as an audio bootleg before. The music is unreleased, and the sound quality is excellent.

This album is an hour and eleven minutes long. 

01 talk (Tom Hanks)
02 Help Me Rhonda (Little Big Town)
03 talk (John Stamos)
04 California Girls (Weezer)
05 talk (Jimmy Jam)
06 Sail On, Sailor (John Legend)
07 Barbara Ann (Hanson)
08 In My Room (Brandi Carlile)
09 Wouldn't It Be Nice (Charlie Puth)
10 Don't Worry Baby (Michael McDonald & Take 6)
11 talk (John Legend)
12 The Warmth of the Sun (Norah Jones)
13 Do It Again (Foster the People)
14 Surfer Girl (Lady A)
15 talk (Drew Carey)
16 Do You Wanna Dance (Fall Out Boy)
17 talk (emcee)
18 Sloop John B (Beck)
19 Caroline, No (LeAnn Rimes)
20 talk (Mumford & Sons)
21 I Know There's an Answer (Mumford & Sons)
22 Darlin' (Andy Grammer)
23 talk (Norah Jones)
24 You Still Believe in Me (St. Vincent)
25 I Get Around (My Morning Jacket)
26 talk (LeAnn Rimes)
27 Heroes and Villains (Pentatonix)
28 talk (John Stamos)
29 Surfin' U.S.A. - Fun, Fun, Fun (Luke Spiller & Taylor Momsen)
30 Good Vibrations (Beck & Jim James)
31 talk (Brandi Carlile & John Legend)
32 God Only Knows (Brandi Carlile & John Legend)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/BvP9j4sK

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/I8sT7w5JNg2CT8v/file

The cover image is from this exact concert. It shows Brandi Carlile singing to John Legend, who has his back to the camera.

Poll Results

A few days ago, I made a poll that asked you which musical acts you'd like to see me post from the BBC Radio 2 in the Park Festival that took place on September 6th and 7th, 2025. I'm closing that poll now. Here are the results: 

Bryan Adams                            XXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Stereophonics                           XXXXXXXXXXX
Kid Creole and the Coconuts   XXXXXXXXXXX
Belinda Carlisle                        XXXXXXXXXX
Def Leppard                              XXXXXXXXX
Suede                                        XXXXXXXX
David Gray                               XXXX
Sophie Ellis‐Bextor                  XXX    
Ella Henderson                         XX
Jessie J                                      XX
Marti Pellow                             X
Ronan Keating                          X
Louise                                       X
Anastacia                                  X
Soul II Soul                
Olly Murs                
Gary Davies                

I see a clear demand for the first six acts, so those are the ones I'll post. I already have most of those ready, so look forward to those in the next few days. Thanks for participating. 

Marvin Gaye - The Midnight Special, Atlanta Stadium, Atlanta, GA, 9-6-1974

Here's an unreleased concert from the soul great Marvin Gaye, from 1974.

In 1974, Gaye went on tour for the first time since 1968. That resulted in the live album "Marvin Gaye Live!" which was released shortly before this concert. This comes from "The Midnight Special" TV show. An entire episode was devoted just to this concert, without any other acts, which was unusual for the show. Even so, I think only parts of this were shown, and the full version has only emerged as a bootleg in recent years. 

The original file was well over an hour long, but I cut it down. The reason for the cutting is that there were some extra parts added that weren't from the concert. The main ones were interview segments between Gaye and his parents. I separated those bits out and strung them together as the bonus track. It makes strange listening to hear Gaye talk with his father for some of it, in light of the fact that his father would end up murdering him in 1984 after Gaye tried to intervene in a fight between his parents. (His father's first degree murder change was later reduced to manslaughter after it emerged he had a brain tumor that may have affected his behavior.)

The set list between this concert and the one for "Marvin Gaye Live!" is very similar. Gaye, unfortunately, didn't change his set list very much. Even the new few tours would largely have the same set list as this one. But this has two extra songs not on the official live album: "Come Get to This" and "Keep Gettin' It On." And even removing those two songs from the count, the rest of the album is still several minutes longer than the official album, because some of these versions are longer. Also, the song order is somewhat different. 

By the way, "Keep Gettin' It On" has "[Edit]" because some of the interview talk overlapped some of the song. I got rid of the overlap with the use of the MVSEP audio editing program.

Tracks 8 through 11 are a medley of older hits. On the official live album, it's called the "Fossils Medley."

The music here is unreleased. The sound quality is pretty good, but not great.

This album is 54 minutes long, not including the interview bonus track. 

01 Introduction (Marvin Gaye)
02 Overture [Instrumental] (Marvin Gaye)
03 Trouble Man (Marvin Gaye)
04 Inner City Blues [Make Me Wanna Holler] (Marvin Gaye)
05 talk (Marvin Gaye)
06 Come Get to This (Marvin Gaye)
07 Keep Gettin' It On [Edit] (Marvin Gaye)
08 I'll Be Doggone - Try It Baby (Marvin Gaye)
09 Can I Get a Witness - You're a Wonderful One (Marvin Gaye)
10 Stubborn Kind of Fellow (Marvin Gaye)
11 How Sweet It Is [To Be Loved by You] (Marvin Gaye)
12 Distant Lover (Marvin Gaye)
13 talk (Marvin Gaye)
14 Let's Get It On (Marvin Gaye)
15 Jan (Marvin Gaye)
16 What's Going On (Marvin Gaye)

interview (Marvin Gaye) 

https://pixeldrain.com/u/Fma563hs

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/E1rvpafH4PI5Rse/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert.

Melissa Manchester - Live at the Record Plant, Record Plant, Sausalito, CA, 2-26-1975

Here's a concert by singer-songwriter Melissa Manchester. She had quite a few hits in the 1970s and 80s. But this concert was recorded in 1975, after she had released just two studio albums and hadn't had any hits yet. I'm not a big fan of her music, but I've noticed there are almost no concert recordings from her, so this will hopefully fix that a little bit.

I just posted that I'm making a new concerted effort to post more albums from the WLIR Ultrasonic concert series. As if I don't have enough on my plate in terms of good music to post at this blog already, I've decided to make another concerted effort to post more albums from this radio show as well, called "Live at the Record Plant." It was a frequent concert series done by the San Francisco Bay Area radio station KSAN, and went from 1973 to 1978. It turns out I've posted two albums from it already, one by Bonnie Raitt in 1973 and one by Fleetwood Mac in 1974. I've made a new label called "Record Plant" to help you find others in this series. So far, this is only the third album from the series, but I've discovered about 60 more! So it'll be a long time before I manage to post all of those.

Getting back to Manchester, this concert caught her right at the brink of stardom. She had co-written most of her songs on her early albums with Carole Bayer Sager, who was a talented hit-making songwriter. One song they wrote together, "Midnight Blue," was performed in this concert. When it would be released as a single a couple of months later, it would reach Number Six on the U.S. singles chart. 

Note that one song here, "Newton's Ego," is an instrumental mainly performed by James Newton Howard, a member of Manchester's band at the time. He was just a lowly session musician then, but he would go on to compose scores for over a 100 movies, earning a Grammy Award and Emmy Award along the way.

This bootleg recording is very rare. I streamed it through my computer and then broke it up into mp3 files. 

This album is 56 minutes long.

01 Bright Eyes (Melissa Manchester)
02 Midnight Blue (Melissa Manchester)
03 Party Music (Melissa Manchester)
04 talk (Melissa Manchester)
05 This Lady's Not Home Today (Melissa Manchester)
06 talk (Melissa Manchester)
07 Stevie's Wonder (Melissa Manchester)
08 talk (Melissa Manchester)
09 Newton's Ego [Instrumental] (James Newton Howard with Melissa Manchester)
10 We've Got Time (Melissa Manchester)
11 Easy (Melissa Manchester)
12 Just Too Many People (Melissa Manchester)
13 talk (Melissa Manchester)
14 Love Havin' You Around (Melissa Manchester)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/8B2ZYUda

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/9e1ZBYzG4Q8o6JF/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert. It was blurry and low-res. I used the Krea AI program to improve it, but it's still rather blurry.

Bonnie Raitt & John Hammond Jr. with Lowell George - WLIR Ultrasonic Concert Series, Ultrasonic Recording Studios, Hempstead, NY, 10-17-1972

Here's a very good acoustic concert split between sets performed by Bonnie Raitt and John Hammond Jr., in 1972. But also, Lowell George, the lead guitarist for Little Feat, played on most of Raitt's songs and a couple of those by Hammond Jr., and even sang one song of his own.

This concert was part of a series of concerts hosted by the radio station WLIR on Long Island, in New York. From 1971 to 1975, they usually broadcast a live show from their Ultrasonic Recording Studios every Tuesday night. They had a really great selection of musical acts. And while these concerts took place in front of a studio audience, it was very small. I came across an article saying that no more than 60 people could fit in the small venue. So these concerts stand out because while there was an audience, the fact that it was a small one, and it was being professionally recorded by a radio station meant the sound quality was excellent.

I already have way too many albums I want to post at this blog. That said, I've decided to make a more concerted effort to post more of these WLIR Ultrasonic concerts. It turns out I've already posted five of them, concerts by: Fleetwood Mac, Lou Reed, Jonathan Edwards, the Doobie Brothers, and Dr. John. If you want to find them, I've made a new label called "WLIR Ultrasonic Concert Series," so look for that at the side bar on any webpage at my blog. I just redid the album covers of all five of those albums I've posted already, so they all can share the same font type and color. In case you're curious, I've found 30 more concerts recorded for that radio show, and there's probably still more out there.

Anyway, getting back to this specific concert, Raitt's long music career had just begun at the time. It took place a month after she released her second studio album, "Give It Up." John Hammond Jr. is the son of John Hammond, a legendary record producer, who helped start the music careers of Billie Holiday, Aretha Franklin, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, and many, many more. John Hammond Jr. has spent most of his music career playing the blues, especially by singing and playing the harmonica and slide guitar. At the time of this concert, he was already a music veteran having released about a dozen albums since 1963.

Fun fact about Hammond Jr.: in 1966, Jimi Hendrix was the lead guitarist in his band, for about a week, just before Hendrix left to try to make it big in England. Then, in 1967, after making it big there, Hendrix was back in the U.S. where he was still relatively unknown, and had some time off. So he sat in with Hammond Jr.'s band again for another week, and at the same time, Eric Clapton sat in with the band as well! Too bad nobody made any recordings of that. Here's the source of that story:

Tangled up in blues | AudioFile | Colorado Springs Independent 

For this concert, Raitt performed in acoustic mode for the first half. She was backed just by Freebo, a bassist, on all her songs. Plus, for all but two of her songs, she was also backed by Lowell George on lead guitar. Then George sang one of the songs he wrote for his band Little Feat, "Apolitical Blues." Hammond Jr. also played on two of Raitt's songs. At that point, Hammond Jr. took over for the second half of the concert. He played five songs by himself. Then, for the last two songs, he was joined by Raitt and George. The changing musicians are a bit confusing, so look to the names mentioned in the song list.

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

This album is an hour and 19 minutes long. 

01 talk (Bonnie Raitt)
02 Love Me like a Man (Bonnie Raitt with Lowell George)
03 talk (Bonnie Raitt)
04 Under the Falling Sky (Bonnie Raitt)
05 talk (Bonnie Raitt)
06 Love Has No Pride (Bonnie Raitt)
07 talk (Bonnie Raitt)
08 Going Down to Louisiana - Rollin' and Tumblin' (Bonnie Raitt with Lowell George)
09 talk (Bonnie Raitt with Lowell George)
10 Can't Find My Way Home (Bonnie Raitt with Lowell George)
11 tuning (Bonnie Raitt with Lowell George)
12 Big Road (Bonnie Raitt with Lowell George & John Hammond Jr.)
13 You Got to Know How (Bonnie Raitt with Lowell George)
14 talk (Bonnie Raitt with Lowell George)
15 Apolitical Blues (Lowell George with Bonnie Raitt & John Hammond Jr.)
16 talk (John Hammond Jr. & Bonnie Raitt)
17 Riding in the Moonlight (John Hammond Jr.)
18 talk (John Hammond Jr.)
19 As the Years Go Passing By (John Hammond Jr.)
20 All Night Long (John Hammond Jr.)
21 talk (John Hammond Jr.)
22 I Can't Be Satisfied (John Hammond Jr.)
23 The Sky Is Crying (John Hammond Jr.)
24 talk (John Hammond Jr.)
25 Honest I Do (John Hammond Jr. with Bonnie Raitt & Lowell George)
26 talk (John Hammond Jr. with Bonnie Raitt & Lowell George)
27 It's Too Late (John Hammond Jr. with Bonnie Raitt & Lowell George)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/RVd7h517

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/sq7mBENPRmetmhj/file

I found a photo of everyone involved here taken backstage at this exact concert. However, I decided not to use it for the album cover, for a couple of reasons. One is that the picture is in black and white, and is low-res. It would be hard to make it look good, and to colorize it. But the other problem is there are a bunch of people in the photo who I'd rather not be there. Still, it's an interesting photo, especially in showing Bonnie Raitt sitting in the lap of John Hammond Jr. Here it is, if you're curious.

As for the actual cover photo used, I wanted to find a photo of Raitt and Hammond together, but I couldn't find a good one. So I went with a photo of just Raitt in concert, in 1971. It was black and white, so I colorized it using the Kolorize program. (It's way easier to colorize a photo with just one person in it.)  

Various Artists - Gershwin Prize for Popular Song Honoring Billy Joel, D.A.R. Constitution Hall, Washington, DC, 11-19-2014

Here's another "Gershwin Prize for Popular Song" award concert. This one from 2014 honors Billy Joel.

This follows the usual format of these concerts. First, some guest stars performed cover versions of songs by the honoree. Then there was an award presentation, and a speech by the honoree. Finally, the honoree performed a couple of songs to end the concert. There were a couple of twists this time, however. One is that the person to give a speech leading to Joel's speech was none other than Sonia Sotomayor, one of the justices of the U.S. supreme court. That's pretty unusual behavior for a supreme court justice, but I guess she must be a really big Billy Joel fan. The other twist is that Joel played five of his own songs, instead of the usual two or three.

It's unfortunate that the emcee for the concert was Kevin Spacey, due to his sex scandals that pretty much destroyed his career. But those scandals weren't reported on until 2017, three years after this concert. Another disappointment is that Paul McCartney didn't actually perform a song. Instead, he just sent a video message praising Joel. I noticed he would do the exact same thing for the Gershwin Prize concert for Elton John and Bernie Taupin in 2024.

Sadly, this may be the last of these Gershwin concerts I post until I can find more of them. I have most of the concert honoring Burt Bacharach, but I'm missing a couple of songs, so I'm still waiting on posting that. Otherwise, if anyone has any of the others, please let me know so I can share them. That especially goes for the two (Carole King and Smokey Robinson) that seem to only be available to people who pay for a PBS pass that's only available in you live in Wisconsin.

This album is an hour and three minutes long.

01 talk (Kevin Spacey)
02 The Longest Time (Boyz II Men)
03 Lullaby [Goodnight, My Angel] (LeAnn Rimes)
04 It's Still Rock and Roll to Me (Gavin DeGraw)
05 talk (emcee)
06 She's Always a Woman (Josh Groban with Sharon Isbin)
07 talk (Michael Feinstein)
08 She's Got a Way (Natalie Maines)
09 talk (John Mellencamp)
10 Allentown (John Mellencamp)
11 talk (Paul McCartney)
12 talk (emcee)
13 New York State of Mind (Tony Bennett)
14 talk (Sonia Sotomayor)
15 talk (Billy Joel)
16 Movin' Out [Anthony's Song] (Billy Joel)
17 Vienna (Billy Joel)
18 talk (Billy Joel)
19 Miami 2017 [I've Seen the Lights Go Out on Broadway] (Billy Joel)
20 You May Be Right (Billy Joel)
21 talk (Kevin Spacey)
22 Piano Man (Billy Joel & Everyone [Edit])

https://pixeldrain.com/u/zGtLvUp6

alternate:

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

The cover photo is from this exact concert. I'm not sure who the two men behind him are. If anyone knows, let me know so I can add that information.

Blondie - BBC Sessions, Volume 2: In Concert, Glastonbury Festival, Worthy Farm, Pilton, Britain, 6-25-1999

I was all set to post a "PBS Soundstage" concert by Blondie today. But when I looked in my Blondie music folder, I noticed that I'd never posted this BBC concert, even though I was sure I had. So I'm posting this first. The Soundstage one will come soon. 

As an aside, note that I previously posted another Blondie BBC concert, from 1979. Since this is the second one I've found, today I renamed that other one "Volume 1." Here's a link to the updated version of that one if you want to redownload it:

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2022/07/blondie-bbc-in-concert-apollo-theatre.html

Anyway, this concert is from 1999. The band Blondie was together from 1974 to 1982. They broke up for nearly two decades, but finally reunited in 1997, and put out a new studio album in 1999, called "No Exit." Usually when it comes to reunions like this, the new music doesn't sell very well. But Blondie found great success with their single "Maria," which reached Number One in Britain in 1999. So that made this a good time for another BBC concert. 

Naturally, they performed the song "Maria" here. But they only performed two other songs from their new album, "Screaming Skin" and "Nothing Is Real but the Girl." Otherwise, the album consists of their best known songs from the 1970s and 80s. One exception is "Shayla," a deep cut from their 1979 album "Eat to the Beat."

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

This album is an hour and eight minutes long. 

01 Call Me (Blondie)
02 Hanging on the Telephone (Blondie)
03 Screaming Skin (Blondie)
04 Atomic (Blondie)
05 Shayla (Blondie)
06 Union City Blue (Blondie)
07 Denis (Blondie)
08 The Tide Is High (Blondie)
09 Sunday Girl (Blondie)
10 Maria (Blondie)
11 One Way or Another (Blondie)
12 talk (Blondie)
13 Nothing Is Real but the Girl (Blondie)
14 Rapture (Blondie)
15 Heart of Glass (Blondie)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/t5nGFyef

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/GkOTF0gtR3szYep/file

The cover photo of lead singer Deborah Harry is from this exact concert.

Sheryl Crow - PBS Soundstage, WTTW Studios, Chicago, IL, 8-5-2003

Here's another episode of the "PBS Soundstage" TV show. This one stars Sheryl Crow, in 2003.

Normally with this show, I only know the broadcast date, and not the actual performance date. But in this case, I'm pretty sure this is the performance date. The episode wasn't broadcast until June 2004. Crow didn't release a new studio album in 2003 (or 2004 either). But she did release a best of album, "The Very Best of Sheryl Crow." That contained a cover version of "The First Cut Is the Deepest" by Cat Stevens, which she performed here. Her version was a hit, and she hasn't had a bigger hit since then.

Generally speaking, the set list mostly consists of her best known songs. One surprise though is a cover of "(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding," written by Nick Lowe. She has yet to release that on album.

These episodes are typically an hour long. This is longer though. That's because her full concert was released on DVD in 2008, so I used that. It has yet to be released in any audio format, however. 

This album is an hour and 31 minutes long.

01 My Favorite Mistake (Sheryl Crow)
02 talk (Sheryl Crow)
03 You're an Original (Sheryl Crow)
04 The First Cut Is the Deepest (Sheryl Crow)
05 talk (Sheryl Crow)
06 Leaving Las Vegas (Sheryl Crow)
07 Strong Enough (Sheryl Crow)
08 Redemption Day (Sheryl Crow)
09 talk (Sheryl Crow)
10 Sweet Rosalyn (Sheryl Crow)
11 talk (Sheryl Crow)
12 If It Makes You Happy (Sheryl Crow)
13 Home (Sheryl Crow)
14 All I Wanna Do (Sheryl Crow)
15 Soak Up the Sun (Sheryl Crow)
16 Everyday Is a Winding Road (Sheryl Crow)
17 talk (Sheryl Crow)
18 [What's So Funny 'Bout] Peace, Love and Understanding (Sheryl Crow)
19 talk (Sheryl Crow)
20 Let's Get Free (Sheryl Crow)
21 Safe and Sound (Sheryl Crow)
22 I Shall Believe (Sheryl Crow)
23 talk (Sheryl Crow)
24 Steve McQueen (Sheryl Crow)
25 talk (Sheryl Crow) 

https://pixeldrain.com/u/vGoPQRhE

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/4qtt9QmrJjvQKko/file

The cover image is from this exact concert.