Richie Haven - BBC Sessions, Volume 4: In Concert, Mean Fiddler, London, Britain, 2-16-1995

Here's an acoustic concert done for the BBC by Richie Havens. 

Once again, I have this thanks to musical associate Progsprog. I didn't even know to look for it until he came along, so it was quite obscure.  

By this point, not many people were paying attention to new Havens albums. In fact, none of the songs here are from his most recent studio album at the time, "Cuts to the Chase," released in 1994. But he still sounded and played as if no time had passed since his heyday in the late 1960s and early 70s. Most of the songs are from back then as well.

This unreleased album is 52 minutes long. 

01 Nobody Left to Crown (Richie Havens)
02 Tupelo Honey - Just like a Woman (Richie Havens)
03 The Long Road (Richie Havens)
04 The Times They Are A-Changin' (Richie Havens)
05 Here Comes the Sun (Richie Havens)
06 Dear John - Good Day Sunshine (Richie Havens)
07 Zodiac (Richie Havens)
08 Freedom - I Just Came Here (Richie Havens)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/noWTA5vP

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/X37XmlInM5NICeD/file

The cover photo was taken backstage at the Summer Folk Festival in Burnsville, Minnesota on June 25, 1995. I darkened the background.

Hall & Oates - BBC Sessions, Volume 3: In Concert, Battersea Park, London, Britain, 6-6-1998

Here's a Hall and Oates concert for the BBC, in 1998. I thought this was another renumbering situation. But I looked at my music collection and realized I'd never posted a 2003 BBC concert from them. So I'll post this one, and then the 2003 soon thereafter.

Hall and Oates were huge in the 1980s, but they fell out of fashion in the 1990s. Their 1997 album "Marigold Sky" barely scraped the bottom of the Top 100 US. album chart. There's just one song from that album here, the first one, "Romeo Is Bleeding." Otherwise, this is a nice run through 1970s and 80s hits.

The music here is unreleased. It's another very hard to find bootleg that was given to me by Progsprog. The sound quality is excellent. 

This album is 51 minutes long. 

01 Romeo Is Bleeding (Hall & Oates)
02 talk (Hall & Oates)
03 Out of Touch (Hall & Oates)
04 She's Gone (Hall & Oates)
05 One on One (Hall & Oates)
06 Sara Smile (Hall & Oates)
07 I Can't Go for That [No Can Do] (Hall & Oates)
08 Maneater (Hall & Oates)
09 Rich Girl (Hall & Oates)
10 Kiss on My List (Hall & Oates)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/76ezFcLm

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/nn0lhSchu4AKzKj/file

The cover photo was taken in England in 1998. So it's possible it's from this concert. This is the only concert they did in England in 1998 according to setlist.fm, though that database is often incomplete. Oates (in the striped shirt) was further to the side. But I used Photoshop to move him closer to Hall.

Peter, Paul & Mary - BBC Sessions, Volume 2: Rhythm on Two, Southport Theatre, Southport, Britain, 3-1983

Here we go again, with another album discovered via musical associate Progsprog, leading to another renumbering. This is a 1983 BBC concert by the folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary.

I previously posted a BBC concert they did all the way back in 1965. That is now getting renamed to "BBC Sessions, Volume 1." Here's the link to that:

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2023/05/peter-paul-mary-bbc-in-concert-tonight.html

Peter, Paul and Mary were very popular in the 1960s. But they broke up in 1970, and stayed broke up throughout the 1970s, though with occasional reunions for special occasions. They decided to regroup permanently starting in 1981. They stayed together until the 2000s, when health issues finally got to them. 

At this point, they were still going strong musically, though most of their songs were ones they'd help make popular in the 1960s. However, I find it strange the concert ended with a version of "Leavin' on a Jet Plane," since they'd performed it earlier in concert and they had lots of other classic songs to play. But it seems that's what they did. 

Note that the timing of this concert is just an educated guess. The BBC website merely says it's from 1983. I tried to figure out an exact date. The best I could come up with was a mention in a newspaper article that the trio began a short European tour in Paris, France, on the last day of February, 1983. So the odds are good this took place in March. 

The music is unreleased. (It appears to be from a BBC TV show originally). The sound quality is excellent. 

This album is 57 minutes long. 

01 If I Had a Hammer (Peter, Paul & Mary)
02 talk (Peter, Paul & Mary)
03 Such Is Love (Peter, Paul & Mary)
04 Blowin' in the Wind (Peter, Paul & Mary)
05 This Land Is Your Land (Peter, Paul & Mary)
06 A' Soalin' (Peter, Paul & Mary)
07 Puff, the Magic Dragon (Peter, Paul & Mary)
08 There but for Fortune (Peter, Paul & Mary)
09 Leavin' on a Jet Plane (Peter, Paul & Mary)
10 Music Speaks Louder than Words (Peter, Paul & Mary)
11 Don't Think Twice, It's Alright (Peter, Paul & Mary)
12 Well, Well, Well (Peter, Paul & Mary)
13 Sweet Survivor (Peter, Paul & Mary)
14 Ballad of Spring Hill [Spring Hill Disaster] (Peter, Paul & Mary)
15 Power (Peter, Paul & Mary)
16 Day Is Done (Peter, Paul & Mary)
17 Leavin' on a Jet Plane [Second Version] (Peter, Paul & Mary)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/Qq9HS5Fq

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/MLf9p9XZYMWOwZZ/file

The cover photo is from a concert at the Casino de Paris, in Paris, France, on February 28, 1983.

Tom Paxton - BBC Sessions, Volume 4: In Concert, Cambridge Folk Festival, Cherry Hinton Hall Grounds, Cambridge, Britain, 7-28-1984

You may have noticed I'm posting a lot of music I recently got from musical associate Progsprog. That's because these generally involve renumbering BBC albums. I figure I should get that renumbering out of the way ASAP, before more people download the ones with the old numbers. Here's another case of that. I had previously posted a "BBC Sessions, Volume 4" from Tom Paxton. But that 1995 now becomes "Volume 5," and this becomes the new "Volume 4."

Here's a link to the renumbered "Volume 5," with new cover art and mp3 tags and such:

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2025/03/tom-paxton-bbc-sessions-volume-4-in.html

As for this one, it's pretty short, at less than half an hour. But still, I'm glad to get this out there. This was another concert recording that I'd never even knew existed until I got it from Progsprog. By the way, Paxton seems to have been fairly popular with the BBC. He's appeared a bunch of other times that I still haven't found, including some studio sessions. If anyone has more of those, please let me know. 

This album is 26 minutes long. 

01 Bad Old Days (Tom Paxton)
02 Who Speaks for Me (Tom Paxton)
03 Talking Vietnam Potluck Blues (Tom Paxton)
04 Jimmy Newman (Tom Paxton)
05 Mother (Tom Paxton)
06 Can't Help but Wonder Where I'm Bound (Tom Paxton)
07 talk (Tom Paxton)
08 The Last Thing on My Mind (Tom Paxton)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/w9ifoz66

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/gQjwCaeVf46CYV1/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert.

The Moody Blues - BBC Sessions, Volume 9: In Concert, NEC Arena, Birmingham, Britain, 3-8-1997

Here's another BBC concert album by the Moody Blues, from 1997.

At the time of this concert, the Moody Blues hadn't released a new album in six years, "Keys to the Kingdom," in 1991. Only one song from it was performed here, "Lean on Me [Tonight]." Otherwise, they performed their hits from the 1960s to the 1980s, with a full orchestra backing them.

It turns out that most of this concert was released on the band's box set, "Timeless Flight." However, I didn't know it was a BBC concert until musical associate Progsprog sent me his copy. It turns out that had one extra song not on the box set, "The Voice." Perhaps the reason that didn't make it to the box set was because a BBC DJ talked extensively during the instrumental intro to that song. But thanks to the use of the MVSEP program, I was able to remove that talking (although there was a little damage to the quality of the underlying music). That's why that song has "[Edit]" in the title.

According to the set list at setlist.fm, about eight more songs were performed. But this is all we have, since the concert was edited down for broadcast by the BBC.  

This album is an hour and three minutes long. 

01 The Voice [Edit] (Moody Blues)
02 Gemini Dream (Moody Blues)
03 Tuesday Afternoon (Moody Blues)
04 talk (Moody Blues)
05 Eternity Road (Moody Blues)
06 talk (Moody Blues)
07 Talking Out of Turn (Moody Blues)
08 I Know You're Out There Somewhere (Moody Blues)
09 Lean on Me [Tonight] (Moody Blues)
10 I'm Just a Singer [In a Rock and Roll Band] (Moody Blues)
11 Nights in White Satin (Moody Blues)
12 Question (Moody Blues)
13 Ride My See Saw (Moody Blues)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/eaPdhoyX

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/KquhjyIjDnE6sUj/file

The cover photo is an appearance on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" TV show, on February 21, 1995. That's Justin Hayward on the left and John Lodge on the right. Lodge was further to the side, but I moved him closer to Hayward with the use of Photoshop.

Diana Krall - BBC Sessions, Volume 3: Friday Night Is Music Night, Maida Vale Studios, London, Britain, 5-31-2009

Here's another BBC concert by Canadian jazz singer Diana Krall.

I haven't posted a lot of music like this on my blog so far. I'm not a big jazz fan, but I like vocal jazz of the "Great American Songbook" variety. I enjoyed the first Diana Krall BBC album I posted, so when I saw musical associate Progsprog had another one, I asked him if he could pass that one to me too. If people know of other good jazz vocalists like her you think I should be posting albums from, I'm open to suggestions.

We're very lucky Progsprog had this one in his collection, because this has been a very rare one. While I found some photos from this exact concert, there was no sign of this ever being shared at any of the usual musical sharing sites. So I'm glad to put this into public circulation.

This concert was part of a tour supporting the studio album "Quiet Nights," released earlier in 2009. It consisted entirely of cover versions. It reached Number Three on the U.S. albums chart, her highest album ranking so far.

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

This album is an hour and 11 minutes long. 

UPDATE: On December 16, 2025, I updated the mp3 download file. The music is the same, but I changed the title after finding material for an earlier volume. That means the cover art and mp3 tags changed as well. 

01 I Love Being Here with You (Diana Krall)
02 Let's Fall in Love (Diana Krall)
03 talk (Diana Krall)
04 The Girl from Ipanema (Diana Krall)
05 talk (Diana Krall)
06 Exactly like You (Diana Krall)
07 talk (Diana Krall)
08 'Deed I Do (Diana Krall)
09 talk (Diana Krall)
10 Corcovado [Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars] (Diana Krall)
11 talk (Diana Krall)
12 Summer Samba [So Nice] [Samba de Verao] (Diana Krall)
13 talk (Diana Krall)
14 You're My Thrill (Diana Krall)
15 Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye (Diana Krall)
16 talk (Diana Krall)
17 I Don't Know Enough about You (Diana Krall)
18 talk (Diana Krall)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/SSHXZF6v

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/user/files/6B2mvEOcyNVuFy9/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert. 

Mary Chapin Carpenter - BBC Sessions, Volume 2: In Concert, Hammersmith Apollo, London, Britain, 5-6-1995

Here's a BBC concert by American singer-songwriter Mary Chapin Carpenter. It's from 1995, arguably the peak of her popularity.

This is one of the least necessary albums I've ever posted at this blog. What I mean is, I've already posted an album from her, "The Barns at Wolf Trap, Vienna, VA, 7-3-1995," that is very similar, since it took place on the same tour, only two months later. But since I've been posting BBC albums from her, I want to be thorough and post this one too.

This is another album I found due to Progsprog sharing it from his music collection. Kudos to him. It's another one that I didn't even know existed, and there's virtually no mention of it on the Internet. One of the treats of focusing on posting BBC material is how rarities like this keep popping up. And despite its obscurity until now, the sound quality is excellent.  

I had already posted three BBC albums by her that take place after this one. So, once again, we have to do a renaming shuffle. I recommend you re-download the others, to get the now correct titles, cover art, mp3 tags, and so forth. 

This album is an hour and 38 minutes long.

01 Why Walk When You Can Fly (Mary Chapin Carpenter)
02 Passionate Kisses (Mary Chapin Carpenter)
03 I Feel Lucky (Mary Chapin Carpenter)
04 I Take My Chances (Mary Chapin Carpenter)
05 Rhythm of the Blues (Mary Chapin Carpenter)
06 Shut Up and Kiss Me (Mary Chapin Carpenter)
07 Quittin' Time (Mary Chapin Carpenter)
08 Tender When I Want to Be (Mary Chapin Carpenter)
09 talk (Mary Chapin Carpenter)
10 The Last Word (Mary Chapin Carpenter)
11 Only a Dream (Mary Chapin Carpenter)
12 John Doe No. 24 (Mary Chapin Carpenter)
13 talk (Mary Chapin Carpenter)
14 I Am a Town (Mary Chapin Carpenter)
15 The Hard Way (Mary Chapin Carpenter)
16 House of Cards (Mary Chapin Carpenter)
17 Right Now (Mary Chapin Carpenter)
18 He Thinks He'll Keep Her (Mary Chapin Carpenter)
19 Down at the Twist and Shout (Mary Chapin Carpenter)
20 Stones in the Road (Mary Chapin Carpenter)
21 Come On Come On (Mary Chapin Carpenter) 

https://pixeldrain.com/u/Fx3in6hK

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/YpwnbE81wKZD4P8/file

The cover photo is from 1995. I don't know any details beyond that. 

Alison Moyet - BBC Sessions, Volume 3: In Concert, Glastonbury Festival, Worthy Farm, Pilton, Britain, 6-26-1993

Here's a third BBC album from British singer-songwriter Alison Moyet. It's a set from the annual, massive Glastonbury Festival.

I didn't even know this recording existed. I have it thanks to musical friend Progsprog. So a big thanks to him.

I was pleasantly surprised to discover this was an acoustic performance. She was supported a little bit, but just light touches, such as hand drums instead of a full drum set. That's pretty impressive, considering she played songs like "Situation," basically a disco song, and ended the concert with the hard rocking classic "Rock and Roll" by Led Zeppelin.

At the time of the concert, Moyet hadn't released a new album since 1991. She would release the album "Essex" in 1994. She played a few songs that would appear on that album: "Whispering Your Name," "And I Know," and "Falling." She also sang the classic country song, "Will the Circle Be Unbroken," which she's never released.

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

This album is 55 minutes long. 

01 It Won't Be Long (Alison Moyet)
02 Rise (Alison Moyet)
03 talk (Alison Moyet)
04 Perfect Day (Alison Moyet)
05 Love Resurrection (Alison Moyet)
06 Whispering Your Name (Alison Moyet)
07 talk (Alison Moyet)
08 And I Know (Alison Moyet)
09 talk (Alison Moyet)
10 Ne Me Quitte Pas (Alison Moyet)
11 The First Time I Ever Saw Your Face - Only You (Alison Moyet)
12 talk (Alison Moyet)
13 Ode to Boy (Alison Moyet)
14 talk (Alison Moyet)
15 Falling (Alison Moyet)
16 Will the Circle Be Unbroken (Alison Moyet)
17 talk (Alison Moyet)
18 Wishing You Were Here (Alison Moyet)
19 I Love My Label (Alison Moyet)
20 talk (Alison Moyet)
21 Situation (Alison Moyet)
22 Rock and Roll (Alison Moyet)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/8ox2727m

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/KdwtBTd05hwPCrz/file

The cover photo is from the 1990s. I don't have any details more specific than that.

Richard Thompson - BBC Sessions, Volume 1: In Concert, The Venue, New Cross, London, Britain, 11-10-1983

Back in May 2025, I posted what I called "BBC Sessions, Volume 1" by Richard Thompson. But in my write-up, I noted that I'd seen mention of a BBC concert he did in 1983, and I wrote, "Note that if someone finds that one, I'll have to make that 'Volume 1' and rename everything after. So hopefully that can happen sooner rather than later, before I post more albums." Well, good news and bad news. The good is, that long-lost 1983 BBC concert has been found, and here it is! The bad news is, I've posted six later volumes already. So today I just renumbered them all, changing the cover art and mp3 tags for all of them as well. So, if you have downloaded some of them already, I suggest you get the latest versions.

The reason this has been found is due to musical associate Progsprog, who sent it to me. So a big thanks to him. I've looked high and low, and this hasn't been available on the Internet for a long time. Let's hope this puts it back into wide circulation, because it's a great concert.

Thompson broke up with his wife and musical duo partner Linda Thompson in 1982. He put out a solo album, "Hands of Kindness," in 1983. Many of the songs here are from that, though he also does songs written earlier in his musical career, as well as some covers ("Amaryllis - Nonesuch a la Mode de France," "Pennsylvania 6-5000," "Danny Boy," and "Great Balls of Fire").

Most of this was broadcast by the BBC, and later given to me by Progsprog. But not all of it. It turns out there also is a surprisingly good sounding audience bootleg of this exact concert. I compared the two, and found three songs on the audience boot that weren't broadcast by the BBC: "Wall of Death," "Down Where the Drunkards Roll," and "Great Balls of Fire." So I did some audio editing to try to bring them up to the same sound quality as the rest. I used the MVSEP program to boost the lead vocals relative to the instruments, and also to erase the crowd noise in the middle of those songs. Furthermore, I used the X-Minus program to get rid of some excessive echo on them. The final result is pretty impressive. Most of the time, it's hard to tell which ones of these are from the audience boot, except for the different sound of audience applause at the ends, and a brief flawed area in the middle of "Wall of Death" that I couldn't fix. 

Furthermore, the first 15 or so seconds of the first song, "The Wrong Heartbeat," were missed. So I patched in the missing portion from the audience boot. That's why that one song has "[Edit]" in its title. 

This album is an hour and 31 minutes long. 

01 The Wrong Heartbeat [Edit] (Richard Thompson)
02 A Poisoned Heart and a Twisted Memory (Richard Thompson)
03 Tear Stained Letter (Richard Thompson)
04 How I Wanted To (Richard Thompson)
05 talk (Richard Thompson)
06 Amaryllis - Nonesuch a la Mode de France [Instrumental] (Richard Thompson)
07 Don't Renege on Our Love (Richard Thompson)
08 Shoot Out the Lights (Richard Thompson)
09 talk (Richard Thompson)
10 Hand of Kindness (Richard Thompson)
11 Wall of Death (Richard Thompson)
12 talk (Richard Thompson)
13 Pennsylvania 6-5000 [Instrumental] (Richard Thompson)
14 talk (Richard Thompson)
15 A Man in Need (Richard Thompson)
16 Two Left Feet (Richard Thompson)
17 talk (Richard Thompson)
18 Back Street Slide (Richard Thompson)
19 talk (Richard Thompson)
20 Both Ends Burning (Richard Thompson)
21 Danny Boy (Richard Thompson)
22 talk (Richard Thompson)
23 Down Where the Drunkards Roll (Richard Thompson)
24 Great Balls of Fire (Richard Thompson)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/mRJ1etqY 

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/JIBOvIznlmfUvy1/file 

The cover photo is from a concert at Tuts, in Chicago, Illinois, on October 17, 1983.

Golden Earring - Live at the Record Plant, Record Plant, Sausalito, CA, 4-26-1975

Here's another episode of the "Live at the Record Plant" radio show. This one features the Dutch band Golden Earring. 

Recently, when I made a poll about possible future albums sourced from the "Midnight Special" TV show, I was surprised by some passionate responses asking for Golden Earring. I'm not ready to post anything they did from that show just yet. But here's something else to tide fans over for a while. Actually, this is probably better because the band had a lot more time to jam - and there's a lot of jamming here.

Golden Earring was one of a small number of bands for a non-English speaking country to "make it" in the U.S. and other English speaking countries. This was due to their 1973 hit "Radar Love" and the album it was included on, "Moontan." This concert took place while the band touring the U.S. to promote their 1975 follow-up album, "Switch." Most of the songs are from that album.

Tracks 1 through 11 are from the "Record Plant" show in the title. But I was taken aback that they didn't include "Radar Love." So I decided to include a version of that too. Luckily, I got about as close I could get to finding a version from this show without it actually being from the show. The version here was performed the night before, at the Winterland in San Francisco. It was from a concert broadcast on the WLIR radio station, which also was the station that broadcast the Record Plant show. There were a number of other songs performed at that concert. I didn't want to include a bunch, since I only wanted to supplement the Record Plant show a bit. But I couldn't resist adding "She Flies on Strange Wings" as well. That was a hit for the band back in the Netherlands in 1971.

The sound quality is generally excellent. There was no audience applause at all, so that helped keep the sound pristine. However, the banter between songs was rather quiet, plus there was a lot of echo on their voices. (Probably, their microphones were set up for lots of reverb, and they didn't turn that off between songs.) So I ran all the talking tracks through Adobe's voice enhancer program. That helped a lot. 

For the two extra songs at the end, there wasn't much crowd noise, but there was some. So I used MVSEP to get rid of that.

This album is an hour and ten minutes long. Without the two extra songs from the Winterland at the end, it's 44 minutes long. 

01 talk (Golden Earring)
02 The Switch (Golden Earring)
03 talk (Golden Earring)
04 Lucky Number (Golden Earring)
05 Kill Me [Ce Soir] (Golden Earring)
06 talk (Golden Earring)
07 Big Tree, Blue Sea (Golden Earring)
08 talk (Golden Earring)
09 Daddy's Gonna Save My Soul (Golden Earring)
10 Love Is a Rodeo (Golden Earring)
11 Intro- Plus Minus Absurdio [Instrumental] (Golden Earring)
12 talk (Golden Earring)
13 She Flies on Strange Wings (Golden Earring)
14 Radar Love (Golden Earring)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/qcULhT8Q

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/8OyNlnUtCn4TAhm/file

The cover shows the band on a 1974 TV show in Hilversum, Netherlands. From left to right: Rinus Gerritsen, Barry Hay, George Kooymans, and Cesar Zuiderwijk

Hot Chocolate - BBC Sessions, Volume 2: Lighthouse Poole Centre for Arts, Poole, Britain, 8-27-1982

Here's a short BBC concert by the British R&B band Hot Chocolate.

Note that I previously made a collection of BBC studio sessions by this band. Now that I've found this, I've renamed that album to "BBC Sessions, Volume 1." You can find the updated version with new cover art and so forth at this link:

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2025/05/hot-chocolate-bbc-sessions-1970-1976.html

When I was putting that album together back in May 2025, I was annoyed to find the band did many TV appearances in the 1970s and 80s, but the vast majority were lip-synced. They even did an entire concert for German TV that was lip-synced. Furthermore, the band never released a live album. I couldn't find any bootlegs from them either. This particular concert was so obscure that in all my digging to find any live recordings of the band, I never even found a hint of its existence.

Happily, recently, I've been in contact with a musical associate who goes by the nickname Progsprog. He has a very large music collection, and we've been trading dozens of albums. Look for a lot more great stuff sourced by him in the coming days and weeks. I was very pleasantly surprised to see he had this, and I'm posting it straight away. Now, a concert from this band can start to circulate.

This concert shows the band was very capable of performing live, so there was no need for them to lip-sync so much. That was probably just a reflection of the kinds of TV shows they were going on, where lip-syncing was often standard procedure. The sound quality is excellent. The only disappointment is it's quite short.

At the time, 1982, the band had two hits in Britain, "It Started with a Kiss" and "Girl Crazy." So it's not surprising that both of them were performed here. 

This album is 29 minutes long. 

01 You Sexy Thing (Hot Chocolate)
02 Are You Getting Enough (Hot Chocolate)
03 Emma (Hot Chocolate)
04 It Started with a Kiss (Hot Chocolate)
04 So You Win Again (Hot Chocolate)
05 Heaven Is in the Backseat of My Cadillac (Hot Chocolate)
06 Girl Crazy (Hot Chocolate)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/SHr8CfXd

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/EjWyEYD6PsiUNLw/file

The cover image is from a 1982 concert. It's a screenshot I took of the band's lead singer Errol Brown, taken from a YouTube video of a 1982 TV show. The video suggests it was a BBC TV show, but it doesn't seem to be this concert, since I checked versions of the song being performed, and they're different.

Fleetwood Mac - PBS Soundstage, FleetCenter, Boston, MA, 9-24-2003

Here's a Fleetwood Mac concert from the great "PBS Soundstage" TV show. This concert was split between two episodes, making for an extra long concert compared to most episodes.

This concert took place in 2003, shortly after the release of the band's album "Say You Will." This was a time when the band was led by two singer-songwriters, Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham, while their their singer-songwriter, Christine McVie, was pursuing a solo career. Six songs were played from their new album: "Peacekeeper," "Say You Will," "Goodbye Baby," "What's the World Coming To," and "Say Goodbye." The rest was filled with greatest hits, minus some written by McVie.

This full concert was later released on DVD. There was an audio album released as well, but it only contains ten songs out of 24, so it's very incomplete. 

This album is two hours and 24 minutes long.

01 The Chain (Fleetwood Mac)
02 Dreams (Fleetwood Mac)
03 Eyes of the World (Fleetwood Mac)
04 talk (Fleetwood Mac)
05 Peacekeeper (Fleetwood Mac)
06 Second Hand News (Fleetwood Mac)
07 talk (Fleetwood Mac)
08 Say You Will (Fleetwood Mac)
09 Never Going Back Again (Fleetwood Mac)
10 Rhiannon (Fleetwood Mac)
11 Come (Fleetwood Mac)
12 Gypsy (Fleetwood Mac)
13 Big Love (Fleetwood Mac)
14 talk (Fleetwood Mac)
15 Landslide (Fleetwood Mac)
16 talk (Fleetwood Mac)
17 Say Goodbye (Fleetwood Mac)
18 talk (Fleetwood Mac)
19 What's the World Coming To (Fleetwood Mac)
20 talk (Fleetwood Mac)
21 Beautiful Child (Fleetwood Mac)
22 Gold Dust Woman (Fleetwood Mac)
23 I'm So Afraid (Fleetwood Mac)
24 Silver Springs (Fleetwood Mac)
25 Tusk (Fleetwood Mac)
26 Stand Back (Fleetwood Mac)
27 Go Your Own Way (Fleetwood Mac)
28 World Turning (Fleetwood Mac)
29 talk (Fleetwood Mac)
30 Don't Stop (Fleetwood Mac)
31 talk (Fleetwood Mac)
32 Goodbye Baby (Fleetwood Mac)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/aoBCe4dL

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/V7OAfRrxR46ZrQ2/file

The cover image is a screenshot taken from this exact concert. It shows Stevie Nicks up close and Lindsey Buckingham further back.

Gallagher & Lyle - BBC Sessions, Volume 2: Sight and Sound, Aylesbury Civic Hall, Aylesbury, Britain, 3-2-1978

Here's a second and final BBC album from the singer-songwriter duo Gallagher and Lyle. 

In the early 1970s, Gallagher and Lyle wrote a couple of hits when they were members of the band McGuinness Flint. They went solo as a duo in late 1971. They didn't have much success for a few years. But then they broke through with their 1976 album "Breakaway," which contained three hits in Britain, "Heart on My Sleeve," "I Wanna Stay with You," and "Breakaway." Then, in 1977, they had a minor hit with "Every Little Teardrop." Curiously, this doesn't include "Every Little Teardrop," but it does include their other three hits, plus "When I'm Dead and Gone," which was a big hit they wrote for McGuinness Flint in 1970.

To be honest, I've found three other Gallagher and Lyle BBC concerts. I included a few songs from them on the "BBC Sessions, Volume 1" album. But I don't plan on posting them, as I don't think there would be much demand. Besides, this one is the longest and the best, since it happened after they had their big success in 1976.

Five of the songs here were released on the official album "Live in Concert." Those are tracks 2, 7, 8, 13, and 19. Everything else is unreleased. The sound quality is excellent.

This album is 53 minutes long. 

01 You're the One (Gallagher & Lyle)
02 Hurts to Learn (Gallagher & Lyle)
03 talk (Gallagher & Lyle)
04 Breakaway (Gallagher & Lyle)
05 All Grown Up (Gallagher & Lyle)
06 talk (Gallagher & Lyle)
07 Throwaway Heart (Gallagher & Lyle)
08 Next to You (Gallagher & Lyle)
09 Fifteen Summers (Gallagher & Lyle)
10 Stay Young (Gallagher & Lyle)
11 talk (Gallagher & Lyle)
12 The Runaway (Gallagher & Lyle)
13 Showdown (Gallagher & Lyle)
14 talk (Gallagher & Lyle)
15 I Wanna Stay with You (Gallagher & Lyle)
16 talk (Gallagher & Lyle)
17 Heart on My Sleeve (Gallagher & Lyle)
18 talk (Gallagher & Lyle)
19 When I'm Dead and Gone (Gallagher & Lyle) 

https://pixeldrain.com/u/eqyfvNWf

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/zu6Bbz1U2AxBRnG/file

I don't know any details of the cover photo. But it obviously was taken in the 1970s. 

Various Artists - Covered: Antonio Carlos Jobim, Volume 2: 1998-2011 (A Fabio from Rio Guest Post)

Here's the second out of three albums celebrating the music of songwriter Antonio Carlos Jobim. Like the others in this series, Fabio from Rio was more responsible for putting this together than I was. So a very big thanks to him. Due to the fact that he's a Brazilian with deep knowledge of Brazilian music, he knew Jobim covers way better than I did.

Jobim wrote most of his classic songs from the 1950s to the 1970s. He actually died in 1994, of heart and cancer problems at the age of 67. So all the covers here are from after his death, of songs that often were written decades earlier. That's a sign that his songs keep getting covered, long after their first appearances on records. 

Fabio and I selected these choices together. We rarely went for the big hit versions, because his songs rarely turned into big hits. But he's had dozens of songs with literally hundreds of cover versions. Typically, Fabio selected a bunch of versions of a given song, then I would listen to them and pick my favorite. If you want to hear more versions, go to the write-up for Volume 1, because Fabio has made six more albums of Jobim covers that you can find there.

Also note that I kept this to versions in English, despite the fact that Jobim wrote nearly all of the original versions of his songs in Portuguese. And I kept my selections to versions with vocals, since there are countless hundreds of instrumental versions of his songs as well. I figured English versions would have more popular appeal for people who aren't that familiar with his music. 

This album is 46 minutes long. 

01 For All of My Life [Por Toda a Minha Vida] (Eliane Elias)
02 Modinha [Broken Heart] (Paquito D'Rivera & New York Voices)
03 Ela e Carioca [She's a Carioca] (Celso Fonseca)
04 Someone to Light Up My Life [Se Todos Fossem Iguais a Voce] (Ann Hampton Callaway)
05 No More Blues [Chega de Saudade] (Idea of North)
06 Porpoise [Boto] (Beijbom Kroner Big Band)
07 Song of the Jet [Samba do Aviao] (BR6)
08 Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars [Corcovado] (Diana Krall)
09 I Was Just One More for You [Esperanca Perdida] (Dawn Clement)
10 That Look You Wear [Este Seu Olhar] (Elly Hoyt)
11 Zingaro [Retrato em Branco e Preto] [Portrait in Black and White] (Nina Ripe)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/gSWRErwx

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/N9ABCsEsu77SMaL/file

I don't know the details about the cover photo. But based on his appearance and the other photos I saw of him putting this together, I'd guess the picture was taken in the 1980s. 

Jimi Hendrix & Various Artists - Jimi Hendrix as Session Musician, Volume 2: 1967-1968

Over a week ago (as I post this in early November 2025), I posted Volume 1 of this series, highlighting Jimi Hendrix when he was in the role of a session musician for others. That first volume dealt with the years 1964 to 1966, before he was famous. This was deals with the years 1967 and 1968, when he quickly went from a musical nobody to a superstar.

In early 1967, Hendrix took the British musical world by storm, leaving even "guitar gods" like Eric Clapton and Pete Townshend with their jaws on the floor. So he would have been in great demand as a session musician. But for most of 1967 and 1968, he was too busy with his own career. Plus, I imagine many other musical acts would have been too intimidated to ask him. Most of the records he was on in a session musician role in these years were for people he had been musically associated with before he was famous, especially Curtis Knight and Lonnie Youngblood. So performances with those two people make up five of the eight tracks here.

All but one of the songs here have been officially released. The one exception is an instrumental jam with the members of the band Traffic, simply called "Jam Thing." Perhaps Hendrix wasn't acting as a session musician in a strict sense for that one, but again this seems the best album to fit it in.

Note the version of "Save Me" here isn't exactly an "outfake," but it is a clever edit that created something new. Basically, at different times, Aretha Franklin sang over the exact same backing track that Jimi Hendrix played lead guitar over. So I just combined the two of them together. I made a separate post just for this song edit, which you can find here for more details:

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2020/03/aretha-franklin-with-jimi-hendrix-save.html

Anyway, I thought this is as good an album to include that edit to as any. 

As for the other songs, track 1 is from "You Can't Use My Name: The RSVP/PPX Sessions." Tracks 3 and 4 are from "The Summer of Love Sessions." All three of those are songs Hendrix did with Knight in the summer of 1967 to fulfill a record contact he'd signed before he got famous. Track 5 is from "Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues." Track 7 is from the Hendrix compilation album "People, Hell and Angels." Track 6 is from the album "McGough and McGear." Track 9 is from the Hendrix box set "West Coast Seattle Boy."

The last song, "Ex-Art Student," is also from "McGough and McGear." Like track 6, "So Much in Love," it was written by Mike McGear, who is the brother of Paul McCartney. The song features Hendrix on the guitar, with Dave Mason on sitar. Backing vocals were done by Graham Nash, McCartney, and McCartney's girlfriend at the time, Jane Asher.

If I've missed any session work he did during these years, let me know and I'll add them in. I only wanted to include songs where his guitar playing was prominent, especially if he performed guitar solos. And I didn't include any guest concert appearances. He often joined other bands on stage to jam, though sadly precious few of these events got recorded.  

This album is 49 minutes long. 

01 Gloomy Monday [Edit] (Curtis Knight with Jimi Hendrix)
02 Save Me [Edit] (Aretha Franklin with Jimi Hendrix)
03 Taking Care of No Business (Curtis Knight with Jimi Hendrix)
04 Love Love [Edit] (Curtis Knight with Jimi Hendrix)
05 Georgia Blues (Lonnie Youngblood & Jimi Hendrix)
06 So Much in Love (McGough & McGear with Jimi Hendrix)
07 Jam Thing [Instrumental] (Jimi Hendrix & Traffic)
08 Let Me Move You (Lonnie Youngblood with Jimi Hendrix)
09 Sweet Thang (Billy Lamont with Jimi Hendrix)
10 Ex-Art Student (McGough & McGear with Jimi Hendrix)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/1WHcJWzD

The cover photo was taken in Zurich, Switzerland, in May 1968. From right to left, that's Steve Winwood, Jimi Hendrix, John Mayall, and Eric Burdon. The original I found was in black and white. But I colorized it with the help of the Kolorize program, and then Photoshop.

In September 2026, I used the Ask Gemini program to improve the image quality. 

ZZ Top - Monsters of Rock, Donington Park, Castle Donington, London, Britain, 8-17-1985

Here's a full ZZ Top concert bootleg from 1985, when they were at the peak of their popularity.

There are surprisingly few excellent sounding live ZZ Top recordings from their prime 1970s and 80s time. There's a bunch from around 1980, including an officially released one, and a short one I've posted from 1983. But there's very little for many years before or after that with sound quality that I find acceptable. So I decided to take this one, the best 1980s audience boot I could find, and do some audio editing to improve it some more. The final result is close to sounding as good as a soundboard boot, but not quite there. Still, this is probably the best sounding recording from this time period (other than that short 1983 I've posted) that you're likely to find, until something new emerges.

ZZ Top were the headliners for the Monsters of Rock festival, which had been held in the same Castle Donington location since 1980. The festival mostly featured heavy metal acts, and it would peter out in the mid-1990s when the popularity of heavy metal declined due to the rise of grunge. The other acts at the festival in 1985 were Marillion, Bon Jovi, Metallica, Ratt, and Magnum. About 50,000 people attended. I wouldn't call ZZ Top heavy metal, but they'd become superstars with their 1983 album "Eliminator," which sold eleven million copies. It combined their bluesy hard rock sound with the synth-based sound popular at the time. Somehow, they managed to attract lots of new New Wave focused fans while still staying popular with the likes of heavy metal fans.

This audience bootleg sounded pretty good to begin with, so much so that it's sometimes claimed to be a soundboard or radio broadcast. But it clearly is an audience boot, based on the constant rumble of crowd noise through all the songs. So I ran the songs through the MVSEP program, separating the crowd noise, then removing it during the songs while keeping the cheering at the ends of songs. I also used MVSEP to boost the lead vocals relative to the instruments for some of the songs.

The final result is pretty good, though not great. The 1983 live album I've posted sounds better. But this is double the length of that one, containing a full concert. Note that the band was coming close to releasing their next album, "Afterburner." It would be released two months after this concert. They played just one songs from it, "Can't Stop Rockin'." The other songs are generally originals, other than the Elvis Presley classic "Jailhouse Rock."

This album is an hour and 23 minutes long.  

01 Got Me Under Pressure (ZZ Top)
02 talk (ZZ Top)
03 I Got the Six (ZZ Top)
04 Gimme All Your Lovin' (ZZ Top)
05 Waitin' for the Bus (ZZ Top)
06 Jesus Just Left Chicago (ZZ Top)
07 talk (ZZ Top)
08 Sharp Dressed Man (ZZ Top)
09 Ten Foot Pole (ZZ Top)
10 talk (ZZ Top)
11 TV Dinner (ZZ Top)
12 Manic Mechanic (ZZ Top)
13 I Heard It on the X (ZZ Top)
14 I Need You Tonight (ZZ Top)
15 talk (ZZ Top)
16 Pearl Necklace (ZZ Top)
17 talk (ZZ Top)
18 Cheap Sunglasses (ZZ Top)
19 talk (ZZ Top)
20 Arrested for Driving while Blind (ZZ Top)
21 Party on the Patio (ZZ Top)
22 Legs (ZZ Top)
23 Tube Snake Boogie (ZZ Top)
24 Can't Stop Rockin' (ZZ Top)
25 Jailhouse Rock (ZZ Top)
26 La Grange (ZZ Top)
27 Tush (ZZ Top)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/Meb5KEaa

alternate: 

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

The cover image is taken from some promotional material for this exact concert. I used the Krea AI program to improve the colors and sharpen the details.

Randy Newman - BBC Sessions, Volume 1: In Concert, Paris Theatre, London, Britain, 3-6-1974

A couple of weeks ago (writing this in early November 2025), I posted a Randy Newman BBC album from 1978, and called it "BBC Sessions, Volume 1." I had heard of another BBC concert he did in 1974, but I looked high and low and couldn't find it anywhere. I'm happy to say it now has been found, and here it is. So that 1978 album has now been retitled "Volume 2."

The reason this has been found is due to a helper nicknamed Progsprog. This person has sent me a lot of very rare BBC material I plan on posting in the weeks to come. In this case, I had looked all over for this concert for a long time, so it was for all practical purposes out of public circulation. So an extra big thanks to him.

In 1974, Newman released the album "Good Old Boys," which was his critique of life in the Deep South region of the U.S. However, that album wasn't released until September 1974, and this concert took place in March. Still, he performed three songs from it, "Birmingham," "Marie," and "A Wedding in Cherokee County." 

The music here is unreleased (and very hard to find, up until now!). The sound quality is excellent. 

This album is 32 minutes long. 

01 talk by Alan Black (Randy Newman)
02 Lover's Prayer (Randy Newman)
03 talk (Randy Newman)
04 You Can Leave Your Hat On (Randy Newman)
05 Marie (Randy Newman)
06 Simon Smith and His Amazing Dancing Bear (Randy Newman)
07 talk (Randy Newman)
08 I'll Be Home (Randy Newman)
09 talk (Randy Newman)
10 Birmingham (Randy Newman)
11 talk (Randy Newman)
12 A Wedding in Cherokee County (Randy Newman)
13 talk (Randy Newman)
14 Old Kentucky Home (Randy Newman)
15 talk (Randy Newman)
16 Political Science (Randy Newman)
17 Dayton, Ohio - 1903 (Randy Newman)
18 talk (Randy Newman)
19 I Think It's Gonna Rain Today (Randy Newman) 

https://pixeldrain.com/u/MJCtF4iA 

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/9k4Ezv70Jdo8jVW/file

The cover image is a screenshot I took from an appearance on German TV in 1974. 

Paul Williams with Kris Kristofferson & Rita Coolidge - The Midnight Special, NBC Studios, Burbank, CA, 6-29-1973

Here's another episode of Paul Williams on the "Midnight Special" TV show. This time, he was joined by Kris Kristofferson and Rita Coolidge.

I already posted an album of Williams hosting this show in 1973. That episode aired at the start of June 1973. Remarkably, he was back to host the show again at the end of June. I've looked over a lot of these show episodes, and I have yet to see another case of the host being the same twice in one month.

Kris Kristofferson and Rita Coolidge were married from 1973 to 1980. During that time, they did a lot of musical collaboration, so it's not surprising they were both on the same episode of this show, even though they mostly did their own songs. I've included their songs because they joined Williams on a version of "Me and Bobby McGee," a song written by Kristofferson. In case you're curious, here are the other music acts on the June 29th show hosted by Williams: the Electric Light Orchestra, Commander Cody and his Lost Planet Airmen, King Harvest, and Brewer and Shipley.

All the songs here are from the June 29, 1973 episode, except for the last two. Those two are from an episode aired on July 19, 1974. Williams also hosted another episode in 1976, so I'll probably post that once it becomes available. And he performed two other songs in 1974, but I plan to put that on a different album where he was a guest of the Righteous Brothers, and sang a song with them.

As usual for this show, everything is unreleased, and the sound quality is excellent. I started with the YouTube video, converted it to audio, and broke it into mp3s. Then I added in audience noise between some songs to help link them together.

This album is 41 minutes long. 

01 Someday Man (Paul Williams)
02 talk (Paul Williams)
03 talk (Paul Williams)
04 Loving Her Was Easier [Than Anything I'll Ever Do Again] (Kris Kristofferson)
05 talk (Paul Williams)
06 I'll Be Your Baby Tonight (Rita Coolidge)
07 That's What Friends Are For (Paul Williams)
08 I Never Had It So Good (Rita Coolidge with Kris Kristofferson)
09 Out of Mind, Out of Sight (Kris Kristofferson)
10 My Crew (Rita Coolidge)
11 talk (Paul Williams & Kris Kristofferson)
12 Me and Bobby McGee (Paul Williams, Kris Kristofferson & Rita Coolidge)
13 Look What I Found (Paul Williams)
14 You Know Me (Paul Williams)
15 Driftwood (Paul Williams)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/NzzyfFbw

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/BrjeHxt1qzKC38b/file

The cover image is from this exact concert. It's a screenshot I took during the one song done with Williams, Kristofferson, and Coolidge. Williams is in the middle, and Kristofferson is the one with the beard.

Gallagher & Lyle - BBC Sessions, Volume 1: 1971-1978

I recently posted a couple of BBC albums by the British band McGuinness Flint. I pointed out at that time that most of their success was due to the songwriting talent of two members in that band, Benny Gallagher and Graham Lyle, better known as Gallagher and Lyle. In late 1971, they left McGuinness Flint and began a music career as a duo. Here's the BBC studio sessions they left behind. 

Gallagher and Lyle wrote the two big hits McGuinness Flint had, "When I'm Dead and Gone" and "Malt and Barley Blues." But they didn't have much success on their own at first. Their first big success came in 1975, when Art Garfunkel had a Top Forty hit in the U.S. with a song they wrote, "Breakaway." (Their own version is included here.) Then, in 1976, they had Top Ten hits in Britain with "Heart on My Sleeve" and "I Wanna Stay with You." Their success petered out towards the end of the 1970s, and they broke up in 1980. But they continued to have some success as songwriters after that. Most notably, Lyle co-wrote "What's Love Got to Do with It?" which was a Number One hit in the U.S. for Tina Turner in 1984.

Here's their Wikipedia entry:

Gallagher and Lyle - Wikipedia 

This album is all from BBC sources, and mostly consists of studio sessions. The first seven songs are from the BBC radio show "Top of the Pops" (and not the BBC TV show of the same name). These are from the same helper who gave me access to lots of other stuff from this show. I don't know if these have been easily publicly available before. Those date from 1971 and 1972. The next four songs come from the officially released album "Live in Concert," and are from a BBC concert in 1973. Then tracks 12, 13, and 14 are from the "Old Grey Whistle Test" BBC TV show in 1973. Tracks 15 and 16 are from another BBC concert in 1974, and also made it to the "Live in Concert" album. Then tracks 17 and 18 are from another appearance on the "Old Grey Whistle Test" BBC TV show, in 1976. Finally, the last three tracks are from another on the "Old Grey Whistle Test" BBC TV show, in 1978.

For the live tracks from the "Live in Concert" album, I used the MVSEP program to get rid of the applause, so they'd fit in with the other studio tracks. The "Old Grey Whistle Test" songs were performed live, but without an audience.

There's a BBC concert from 1978 that I will be posting as well. 

This album is an hour and two minutes long. 

01 Desiderata (Gallagher & Lyle)
02 Comfort and Joy (Gallagher & Lyle)
03 City and Suburban Blues (Gallagher & Lyle)
04 Home (Gallagher & Lyle)
05 Among the Birks (Gallagher & Lyle)
06 Give the Boy a Break (Gallagher & Lyle)
07 Joie de Vivre [The Great Australian Dream] (Gallagher & Lyle)
08 Conversation (Gallagher & Lyle)
09 Willie (Gallagher & Lyle)
10 Thoughts from a Station (Gallagher & Lyle)
11 International (Gallagher & Lyle)
12 Shine a Light (Gallagher & Lyle)
13 talk (Gallagher & Lyle)
14 I Believe in You (Gallagher & Lyle)
15 Seeds (Gallagher & Lyle)
16 The Clearing (Gallagher & Lyle)
17 Breakaway (Gallagher & Lyle)
18 I Wanna Stay with You (Gallagher & Lyle)
19 Showdown (Gallagher & Lyle)
20 talk (Gallagher & Lyle)
21 Throw Away Heart (Gallagher & Lyle) 

https://pixeldrain.com/u/YSW1dqef

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/o0zLJ4Pd7AXTgbV/file

That's Lyle on the left and Gallagher on the right. 

Blood, Sweat and Tears with Janis Ian - PBS Soundstage, Park West, Chicago, IL, 8-12-1975

Here's another episode of the "PBS Soundstage" TV show. This one is headlined by the band Blood, Sweat and Tears. But they also performed some songs with singer-songwriter Janis Ian on lead vocals.

As I've said before, one of the things I like most about this TV show is how it often encouraged collaborations by having the main musical act supplemented by a guest act. Let me explain why I think Ian was chosen.

Blood, Sweat and Tears was extremely popular around 1970. But their popularity soon declined. One problem was the lead singer with a distinctive voice, David Clayton-Thomas, left the band for a solo career in 1972. But his solo career didn't have much success, and the band's popularity went further down without him. So, in 1975, he rejoined the band. The first album with him back in the band was called "New City," released in April 1975. One of the songs on that was "Applause," written by Ian. So I think that's why Ian was chosen.

Meanwhile, Ian had a big hit in 1966 with "Society's Child," when she was still a teenager. But she didn't have much success for quite a few years after that. But that changed in July 1975, when she released "At Seventeen" as a single. It caught fire, and made it all the way to Number Three in the U.S. charts. 

I don't know the exact timing of this concert. It's possible the August 1975 date in the title is the broadcast date, not the date the concert was recorded. It would be interesting to find out, due to Ian's popularity surging in the middle of 1975. It would also be interesting if Blood, Sweat and Tears helped her with the guest spot before her resurgence began.  

This concert began with several songs just performed by Blood, Sweat and Tears. The heavily relied on songs from their new album at the time, "New City." Tracks 1, 4, 5, and 7 are from that album. But for tracks 5, 6, 7, and 8, they were joined by Ian on vocals.  

The last song, "At Seventeen," isn't from this concert. Or at least this version isn't. I strongly suspect there are a couple more songs from this concert that I don't have, because these episodes were an hour long (without commercial breaks), and this one is more than ten minutes short of that. If anyone has more of this concert, or at least just knows the songs played, please let me know. But I thought it was kind of weird to have Ian in concert in 1975 and not include her big hit from that year. So I added in an unreleased performance of "At Seventeen" done on the "Saturday Night Live" TV show in September of that year.

This album is 48 minutes long. 

01 Got to Get You into My Life (Blood, Sweat & Tears)
02 Yesterday's Music (Blood, Sweat & Tears)
03 And When I Die (Blood, Sweat & Tears)
04 Ride Captain Ride (Blood, Sweat & Tears)
05 Applause (Blood, Sweat & Tears & Janis Ian)
06 In the Winter (Blood, Sweat & Tears & Janis Ian)
07 I Was a Witness to a War (Blood, Sweat & Tears & Janis Ian)
08 Hallelujah (Blood, Sweat & Tears & Janis Ian)
09 At Seventeen (Janis Ian)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/rPWqF6Zg

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/caOBVkVtix43iAB/file

The cover is a screenshot of Blood, Sweat and Tears lead singer David Clayton-Thomas, from this exact concert.

Various Artists - Covered: Antonio Carlos Jobim, Volume 1: 1962-1998 (A Fabio from Rio Guest Post)

The next songwriter in my Covered series is a really big one: Antonio Carlos Jobim. He's written more standards than practically anyone, especially for jazz. And he's a rarity in the series in that he wasn't from one of the usual native English speaking countries like the U.S., Britain, or Canada, but from Brazil. And while he mostly wrote in Portuguese, I've selected only English language versions, to give this a wider appeal.

Actually, I should say "we selected." For Jobim, I relied heavily on the work on a new volunteer, who goes by the name "Fabio from Rio." As you can guess from the name, Fabio is a Brazilian, from Rio de Janeiro, so he was the ideal person to help with a Jobim collection. Furthermore, Fabio enjoyed helping to make three volumes of Jobim covers, and has been helping me with other collections, for instance Tom Waits, Bob Dylan, Brian Wilson, Lennon-McCartney, Neil Young, and more. So look for some of those in the near future.

Rather than say more, I've asked Fabio to give the introduction to Jobim for this first volume. Take it away, Fabio:

Since I'm Brazilian, Paul kindly invited me to help him curate this tribute collection of Antonio Carlos ("Tom") Jobim covers. Jobim was, quite literally, my neighbor - my family lived near his home in the Jardim Botanico district of Rio during my teenage years. I even bumped into him once at a local restaurant where he used to go for a drink or two. (There's a photo of the two of us somewhere, probably lost in a box in my mother's basement.) I was also lucky enough to attend a couple of his concerts at the legendary Canecao in the late 1980s and early 1990s. So, working on this project and revisiting his vast body of work has been a real treat.

Jobim's career began in the mid-1940s and lasted until his passing in 1994. He gained international fame in 1962 after a historic concert at Carnegie Hall. From then on, many English-speaking artists - as well as Brazilian musicians with international careers, like Astrud Gilberto and Sergio Mendes - began recording his music. While he's best known for his contributions to bossa nova, Jobim's work spans other genres too, including jazz, soul, and classical music. He even composed a full symphony!

According to his biographers, Jobim wrote between 350 and 400 songs - and at least half of them are considered standards, especially for jazz musicians. For that reason, my initial selection for this project included 97 songs, totaling nearly eight hours of music. Paul wisely suggested we trim it down, and we ultimately arrived at a more manageable set: three albums featuring 37 songs. As per Paul's request, we focused on songs with available English lyrics. Sadly, that meant leaving out some incredible tunes that only exist in Portuguese - but they can be discovered elsewhere. Due to this limitation, the collection is not fully comprehensive, but it serves as a strong introduction and a welcoming entry point for anyone curious to explore Jobim's remarkable legacy. I hope you enjoy the journey!

If you enjoy this collection, there's more! I've posted my Youtube channel a different compilation of Jobim covers, called "The Tom Jobim Songbook." It consists of 74 tracks at five volumes, but arranged by year of composition instead of year of recording. Here are the links:

Volume 1 (1954-1959 songs) -
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZdAlno7O9qY0EjtcIu1yWzVedm2CDUVH&si=wXEDLOVHVxzCuxA9

Volume 2 (1960-1965 songs) -
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZdAlno7O9qbR05RYgOLSjre8ZjATfuSE&si=6rGE19iG467gQy27

Volume 3 (1966-1971 songs) -
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZdAlno7O9qb_K6GUUlXwGFHD5Lq0Qx9e&si=lAjrtD7Zk4wNb4kJ

Volume 4 (1972-1994 songs) -
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZdAlno7O9qYLnNNv1AsqV6tmJsZl7Iim&si=hjqsRtZ1gpkodLYf

Volume 5 (instrumentals) -
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZdAlno7O9qYIFTYOFcS09DDPBSwJFBbO&si=o97Ryn158raeVUC3

Additionally, here's a zip file with all five volumes, plus a bonus:

https://pixeldrain.com/u/QLY5Fh3w

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/izPoztcsjW9CsxZ/file

Due to personal preference, I selected different interpreters than Paul for some of the songs, and also included an 'instrumentals only' volume (although no Portuguese versions). For these reasons, there is little overlap with the Albums That Should Exist version, which I feel is a good thing since these playlists may function as a complementary treat to the official "Covered: Jobim" collection, for those willing to delve further into the Brazilian maestro's music. 

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Thank you, Fabio from Rio. This is Paul again.  I'll write more about Jobim in the other two volumes. But, for now, here's the Wikipedia link about him:

Antônio Carlos Jobim - Wikipedia 

I will add that although Jobim wrote many classics, his signature song has to be "The Girl from Ipanema." I've included two versions of that for this series, both of which happen to fall into this volume. There's the female perspective version by Astrud Gilberto that was a huge worldwide hit in 1963. But also, near the end of this album, I've chosen a male perspective version by Frank Sinatra in 1981. Sinatra famously did an album with Jobim in 1967 called "Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim." But I accidentally stumbled across a version he did for a TV show in 1981 that I liked better, due to the guitar work of Tony Mottola, so I picked that one. I believe it's unreleased.  

This album is 48 minutes long. 

01 Slightly Out of Tune [Desafinado] (Julie London)
02 The Girl from Ipanema [Garota de Ipanema] (Astrud Gilberto & Stan Getz)
03 Jazz 'n' Samba [So Danco Samba] (Milt Jackson)
04 Dindi (Astrud Gilberto)
05 Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars [Corcovado] (Marvin Gaye)
06 Dreamer [Vivo Sonhando] (Astrud Gilberto)
07 Pardon My English [Samba Torto] (Sylvia Telles)
08 Water to Drink [Agua de Beber] (Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66)
09 Stone Flower (Santana)
10 Triste (Sarah Vaughan)
11 Don't Ever Go Away [Por Causa de Voce] (Ella Fitzgerald)
12 The Girl from Ipanema [Garota de Ipanema] (Frank Sinatra with Tony Mottola)
13 A Felicidade [Happiness] (Susannah McCorkle)
14 Waters of March [Aguas de Marco] (Marisa Monte & David Byrne)
15 How Insensitive [Insensatez] (Sting & Antonio Carlos Jobim)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/yPdJNa5X

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/gbVNLCnCMS2lpgB/file

For the album cover, I used a photo that appeared on the cover of a Jobim album called "World's Greatest Composer." I don't know the exact year, but I picked it because he's obviously quite young in the image.

Paul Williams - The Midnight Special, NBC Studios, Burbank, CA, 6-1-1973

When I posted a poll about which "Midnight Special"-based live albums would be most wanted, singer-songwriter Paul Williams did much better than I had expected. So, to honor that, here's a Midnight Special album from him already.

Williams was on the show a bunch of a times. As a result, I was able to make two albums out of the currently available 1973-1975 material. Plus, he hosted the show again in 1976, so I should be able to make another album when that becomes available. 

(By the way, I recently figured out the episodes are being posted at YouTube at a steady once a week rate. There are over 200 episodes still to be posted. So it could take four more years to get to them all!)

This first album of his is compiled from three appearances. The first three tracks come from the episode broadcast on February 9, 1973. The next four come from the episode broadcast on March 9, 1973. Then he was the host for the June 1, 1973 episode, so the rest of the tracks come from that. In case you're curious, the other musical acts on the episode he hosted were Slade, the Stylistics, Argent, the Statler Brothers, Gunhill Road, and Sydney Jordan.

In case you don't know about Williams, he was a very successful singer and songwriter in the 1970s. I plan on posting a "Covered" album highlighting covers of his songs along with those of his frequent songwriting partner Roger Nichols. But he also was probably even better known as an actor. I was a kid in the 1970s, and I remember seeing him as a guest star on practically every show, it seemed, especially musical variety shows. Here's a quote from Wikipedia: "He made numerous television appearances in the 1970s and 1980s, including on The Odd Couple, Hawaii Five-O, Match Game '79, Hollywood Squares, The Love Boat, Police Woman, Fantasy Island, The Hardy Boys, The Fall Guy, The Flip Wilson Special, Gimme a Break!, and The Gong Show."

His career petered out in the 1980s due to excessive drug use. However, he recovered from his addictions in the 1990s and has had continued success in the entertainment industry since then (as I write this in 2025). Here's his Wikipedia entry, if you want to know more:

Paul Williams (songwriter) - Wikipedia 

Despite having show business charisma and a good voice, he never had any big hits of his own, though he wrote many hits for other. Perhaps that's the reason that I couldn't find any sign of concert recordings from him, bootleg or official, except for one official live album recorded much later, after 2000. So this could be the first concert recording from him in his 1970s ever made publicly available.

Williams sang "Drift Away" here. That was a very big hit for Dobie Gray at the time of this TV show, reaching Number Five in the U.S. singles chart in 1973. But while Paul Williams didn't write it, his brother Mentor Williams did. I'm a bit surprised he didn't mention that before singing it. I checked, and it looks like Paul Williams never released a version of that song.

As usual with this TV show, I converted the YouTube video to audio then cut it into mp3s. I patched in extra applause to better link the songs together. So this should sound like a single concert instead of parts of three concerts frequently broken up by commercials.  

This album is 37 minutes long. 

01 talk by Johnny Rivers (Paul Williams)
02 Out in the Country (Paul Williams)
03 I Won't Last a Day without You (Paul Williams)
04 An Old Fashioned Love Song (Paul Williams)
05 talk (Paul Williams)
06 Drift Away (Paul Williams)
07 That's Enough for Me (Paul Williams)
08 My Love and I (Paul Williams)
09 talk (Paul Williams)
10 Let Me Be the One (Paul Williams)
11 We've Only Just Begun (Paul Williams)
12 talk (Paul Williams)
13 Rainy Days and Mondays (Paul Williams)
14 I Never Had It So Good (Paul Williams) 

https://pixeldrain.com/u/hzyJpBcj

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/fLKia9NgLXHlwK3/file

The cover photo is from one of the appearances Williams made that have been compiled here. It's the first appearance, on February 9, 1973. 

The Faces with Keith Richards - The Midnight Special, Kilburn State Gaumont Theatre, London, Britain, 12-23-1974

Here's one of the top vote getters from my recent poll about the "Midnight Special" TV show. The Faces were number two in that poll. The Faces only appeared in one episode of the show, which was broadcast on April 25, 1975. But it was a special show in three respects. For one, the entire show was dedicated to just them, which was very unusual for that show. Two, it took place at a different location, even a different country, months earlier. And three, they were joined by Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones, who played lead guitar on three songs.

The involvement of Richards in this concert is pretty interesting if one considers how it fit in to the break up of the band. By the time of this concert at the end of 1974, the Faces were well on their way to breaking up. The main problem was lead singer Rod Stewart. He'd become a superstar as a solo act, so it was easier for him to pursue that, where he could call all the shots, instead of remaining in the Faces. The last album the Faces put out was in 1973. They would only manage to tour and release a couple of singles after that. As a sign of Stewart's growing popularity, by the time of this concert, they were getting billed as "Rod Stewart and the Faces."

Meanwhile, Mick Taylor left the Rolling Stones in 1974, meaning that more successful band needed a new lead guitarist. By early 1975, the top choice was Ronnie Wood of the Faces. He actually started touring with the Stones beginning in June 1975, although he wasn't an official member of that band yet. It seems Wood tried to juggle being a member of both the Faces and the Stones for a while, because when the Stones tour ended in early August, he joined a Faces tour starting in late August. But problems between members of the Faces grew and grew, until they announced their break-up at the end of 1975. Wood officially joined the Stones in early 1976.

Given that context, the appearance of Richards here wasn't just random. One could see this as part of a process of Wood moving from the Faces to the Stones. Perhaps it was part of Richards trying to woo Woods into the Stones, and/or see how well he and Woods clicked while performing in concert.

There's one bonus track. In the middle of the episode, there was seven-minute long interview of the band's lead singer Rod Stewart by the show host Wolfman Jack. Clearly, it was recorded at a different time and place than the concert, so it didn't fit. But I figure some people might be interested, so I stuck it in as a bonus track. 

Normally, the sound quality on all these Midnight Special shows has been excellent. But for this one, I noticed the lead vocals were low in the mix. So I boosted them up for all the songs. I also did the usual trick of getting rid of commercial breaks by editing out little bits (especially host Wolfman Jack announcing the breaks) and using more applause to get of the cuts between songs. 

Mere minutes after posting this, a commenter corrected me on the date and location, and also told me there was an extra song not broadcast on Midnight Special, namely, "I'd Rather Go Blind." So I found a different version of this concert that included that song, and added it in. I also added in some banter between songs by Stewart that was edited out by the TV show. Otherwise, the two versions are basically the same. It seems this concert later got released as a movie called "Rod Stewart and the Faces - The Final Concert." It has since come out on DVD, but not in an audio format. 

You can watch this concert/ episode on YouTube. Although Richards doesn't sing (except some very brief backing vocals), his lead guitar work with Woods is excellent. 

This album is an hour and three minutes long, not including the bonus track. 

01 talk by Wolfman Jack (Faces)
02 talk (Faces)
03 It's All Over Now (Faces)
04 talk (Faces)
05 Take a Look at the Guy (Faces)
06 Bring It on Home to Me - You Send Me (Faces)
07 Sweet Little Rock and Roller (Faces with Keith Richards)
08 talk (Faces with Keith Richards)
09 I'd Rather Go Blind (Faces with Keith Richards)
10 talk (Faces)
11 Angel (Faces)
12 I Can Feel the Fire (Faces)
13 You Can Make Me Dance, Sing or Anything (Faces)
14 talk (Faces)
15 Twistin' the Night Away (Faces with Keith Richards)
16 You Wear It Well (Faces)
17 Maggie May (Faces)
18 We'll Meet Again (Faces)

interview (Faces) 

https://pixeldrain.com/u/hzhFMx66

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/ulSGDNNzhUI9E4t/file

The cover image is a screenshot taken from this exact concert. From right to left: Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood, and Rod Stewart. For once, I didn't have to move them closer together in Photoshop, since they were all trying to get near the microphone.

Poll Results

Here are the results of the recent poll to find out which potential "Midnight Special" albums people would be most interested in. 

ELO                                       XXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Faces                                      XXXXXXXXXXXXX
Byrds / Roger McGuinn        XXXXXXXXXXXX
Golden Earring                      XXXXXXXXXX
Guess Who                            XXXXXXXXXX
Randy Newman                     XXXXXXXXX
Todd Rundgren                      XXXXXXXXX    
Leon Russell                          XXXXXXXX
Paul Williams                        XXXXXXXX    
Bill Withers                           XXXXXXXX    
Steve Miller Band                 XXXXXXX
Ray Charles                           XXXXXX
Bee Gees                               XXXXXX
Curtis Mayfield                     XXXXXX
B.B. King                              XXXXX
Jerry Lee Lewis                     XXXXX
Earth, Wind & Fire                XXXXX
Bobby Womack                     XXXXX
Wilson Pickett                       XXXX
Billy Preston                         XXXX
Spinners                                XXXX    
Ike & Tina Turner                 XXXX    
Neil Sedaka                           XXXX
Linda Ronstadt                      XXXX
Hoyt Axton                            XXX
Joan Baez                              XXX
Blood, Sweat & Tears           XXX
James Brown                         XXX
Canned Heat                          XXX
Fats Domino                          XXX
Dr. Hook                                XXX
Little Anthony & Imperials    XXX
Ohio Players                          XXX
Rufus / Chaka Khan              XXX
Pointer Sisters                       XXX    
Chuck Berry                          XX
Jose Feliciano                        XX
Four Tops                              XX
Waylon Jennings                   XX
Edgar Winter Group              XX    
Seals & Crofts                       XX
Olivia Newton-John              XX
Frankie Valli & 4 Seasons     X
Barry White                           X    
Stylistics                                X
Righteous Brothers                X
Smokey Robinson                 X
Helen Reddy                          X
Paul Anka            
Leo Sayer            
Marty Robbins            
Anne Murray            
Mac Davis            

Keep in mind that I'm not necessarily going to post all the albums from these musical acts above a certain cut off point, as I have done in earlier polls. I just did this to see where the demand was. For instance, the most surprising result of this poll for me was how high Paul Williams ended up. I thought he was considered very "uncool," like Paul Anka and Mac Davis, both of whom got zero votes. But Williams made it into the top ten. So I'll have to post an album by him, when I previously almost certainly wouldn't have. I was also particularly surprised how high Golden Earring ended up. And I was surprised by how few votes some acts got, especially Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons and Smokey Robinson, both with just one vote.

To be honest, I really like this Midnight Special material, so I imagine I'll end up posting albums from the vast majority of these musical acts by and by. But I'll try to prioritize the ones that got the most votes sooner rather than later. Thanks again for your feedback.

Gloria Estefan - PBS Soundstage, WTTW Studios, Chicago, IL, 8-16-1993

Here's an episode of Gloria Estefan performing for the great "PBS Soundstage" TV show.

Gloria Estefan's music isn't my cup of tea. But her record sales exceed over 100 million, making her one of the best selling musical acts of all time. And she's even won a Gershwin Prize. So I figure I should post her episode for the people who want it.

(By the way, note that this episode took place in the one year the show was called "Center Stage." But I'm just calling it "Soundstage" for consistency with all the other episodes I'm posting.) 

This was one of those episodes where, unfortunately, the producers tried to spice things up with more than just music from the concert, for instance interviews. I cut that extra stuff one. In a few cases, there was some overdubbed talking related to that extra stuff that went over the actual music. So I used the UVR5 audio editing program to get rid of the talking. That's why three songs have "[Edit]" in their titles.

This concert took place a couple of months after the release of her studio album "Mi Tierra," which was one of her best selling albums. It also was her first all-Spanish-language album. However, all but a couple of songs here are sung in English.

This unreleased album is 54 minutes long.

01 Rhythm Is Gonna Get You (Gloria Estefan)
02 talk (Gloria Estefan)
03 Words Get in the Way (Gloria Estefan)
04 talk (Gloria Estefan)
05 Here We Are [Toda Pra Voce] [Edit] (Gloria Estefan)
06 Live for Loving You (Gloria Estefan)
07 Can't Stay Away from You (Gloria Estefan)
08 Don't Wanna Lose You (Gloria Estefan)
09 talk (Gloria Estefan)
10 Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me (Gloria Estefan)
11 Oye Mi Canto (Gloria Estefan)
12 talk (Gloria Estefan)
13 Anything for You [Edit] (Gloria Estefan)
14 Coming Out of the Dark [Edit] (Gloria Estefan)
15 Conga (Gloria Estefan)
16 talk (Gloria Estefan)
17 Always Tomorrow (Gloria Estefan)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/P1MvNm58

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/xAEwvI5LAKRWXBr/file

The cover image is from an appearance on the "Tonight Show with Jay Leno," on June 21, 1993.