Chicago - PBS Soundstage, Park West, Chicago, IL, 6-2003

Here's another episode of the excellent "PBS Soundstage" TV show. This one stars the band Chicago.

By 2003, the band was long past their 1970s heyday, and they'd lost some key members. It's too bad the show couldn't have had them on during that decade. But still, it's a solid bunch of classic songs. And I'm posting pretty much all the Soundstage episodes I can find, so I'm posting this one too.

If I recall, this is from a DVD, so it's longer than the usual episodes for this show. And that also means the sound quality is excellent.  

This album is an hour and 22 minutes long. 

01 Make Me Smile - So Much to Say, So Much to Give (Chicago)
02 Anxiety's Moment - West Virginia Fantasies - Colour My World (Chicago)
03 To Be Free - Now More than Ever (Chicago)
04 talk (Chicago)
05 If You Leave Me Now (Chicago)
06 Dialogue (Chicago)
07 talk (Chicago)
08 Hard Habit to Break (Chicago)
09 Saturday in the Park (Chicago)
10 Beginnings (Chicago)
11 Just You 'N' Me (Chicago)
12 talk (Chicago)
13 Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is (Chicago)
14 Feelin' Stronger Everyday (Chicago)
15 I'm a Man (Chicago)
16 Hard to Say I'm Sorry - Get Away (Chicago)
17 Free (Chicago)
18 25 or 6 to 4 (Chicago)
19 talk (Chicago)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/wLLgZpQj

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/eeX7HnPFOy1vwPM/file

The cover photo is a screenshot from a video of this exact concert.

Jimmy Cliff - Wolf Lake Memorial Park Pavilion, Hammond, IN, 7-16-2014

Yesterday (November 24, 2025), the world lost another musical great, Jimmy Cliff. He was 81 years old. I wanted to post something to pay tribute to his musical legacy. I looked around, and to my pleasant surprise, discovered this concert. Someone posted it at a bootleg sharing site for the first time just yesterday, also to pay tribute to him. So you haven't heard this before.

This comes from a soundboard, and the sound quality is excellent. However, there was one problem with the recording: it captured what was heard on stage great, but there was almost no sound of the audience. So I ran every song through the MVSEP program, splitting the crowd noise from everything else. Then I greatly (and I do mean greatly) boosted the crowd noise at the ends of songs and other appropriate places, like during singalongs. So this version sounds even better than the one that first appeared just yesterday.

Cliff put out a lot of classic reggae music in the late 1960s and early to mid 1970s. But then he put out mere okay albums for a long time. However, in 2012, he had an excellent comeback album appropriately titled "Rebirth." It won a Grammy for the best reggae album of the year, and Rolling Stone Magazine named it one of the best 50 albums of 2012. Even though this concert took place well over a year after the release of that album, he was still touring to support it. Four songs here come from that album: "Rebel Rebel," "World Upside Down," "One More," and "Children's Bread."

This is a fairly long concert, which gave Cliff time to play most of his best known songs. He also managed to weave in a kind of personal musical history, which included him performing some of his earliest songs, like "King of Kings" and "Miss Jamaica" from the early 1960s, but also some cover songs that were influences on him, like "Honor Your Mother and Father," "Judge Not" (written by Bob Marley before he was famous), "Hold Me Tight," and "Cupid." All in all, this is a great concert recording to remember him by.

This album is an hour and 58 minutes long.

01 Bongo Man - Rivers of Babylon (Jimmy Cliff)
02 talk (Jimmy Cliff)
03 King of Kings (Jimmy Cliff)
04 Miss Jamaica (Jimmy Cliff)
05 talk (Jimmy Cliff)
06 Hard Road to Travel (Jimmy Cliff)
07 You Can Get It If You Really Want (Jimmy Cliff)
08 Wild World (Jimmy Cliff)
09 Rebel Rebel (Jimmy Cliff)
10 Under the Sun, Moon and Stars (Jimmy Cliff)
11 talk (Jimmy Cliff)
12 Vietnam (Jimmy Cliff)
13 World Upside Down (Jimmy Cliff)
14 Treat the Youths Right (Jimmy Cliff)
15 Rub-A-Dub Partner - Reggae Movement (Jimmy Cliff)
16 Many Rivers to Cross (Jimmy Cliff)
17 talk (Jimmy Cliff)
18 Honor Your Mother and Father (Jimmy Cliff)
19 talk (Jimmy Cliff)
20 Judge Not (Jimmy Cliff)
21 talk (Jimmy Cliff)
22 Hold Me Tight (Jimmy Cliff)
23 talk (Jimmy Cliff)
24 Cupid (Jimmy Cliff)
25 talk (Jimmy Cliff)
26 The Harder They Come (Jimmy Cliff)
27 I Can See Clearly Now (Jimmy Cliff)
28 Reggae Night (Jimmy Cliff)
29 talk (Jimmy Cliff)
30 One More (Jimmy Cliff)
31 talk (Jimmy Cliff)
32 Welcome Home (Jimmy Cliff)
33 Wonderful World, Beautiful People (Jimmy Cliff)
34 talk (Jimmy Cliff)
35 Sitting in Limbo (Jimmy Cliff)
36 talk (Jimmy Cliff)
37 Children's Bread (Jimmy Cliff)
38 talk (Jimmy Cliff)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/68X6ncJE

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/Ey7q5QBV8qvDarH/file

The cover photo is from the Austin City Limits Festival at Zilker Park, in Austin, Texas, on October 10, 2014.

The O'Jays with James Brown - The Midnight Special, NBC Studios, Burbank, CA, 9-14-1974

Damn, there's so much good music I'm discovering from these "Midnight Special" TV shows. It's going to take me months to get through it all, I'm sure. (And there's more episodes being reposted weekly.) Here's an episode with the O'Jays as the main host. But James Brown is a prominently featured guest too. So this is a non-stop, funky soulfest.

The O'Jays were very big in 1973. In 1973, their song "Love Train" reached Number One on the main U.S. singles chart, and in 1974, "For the Love of Money" made it all the way to Number Three. Plus they had even more success on the U.S. R&B singles chart. So it made sense they would be hosts for an episode of this show.

James Brown was also doing very well. While he didn't have any really big hits, he had a seemingly continual stream of Top Forty hits. Three of the songs he performed here, "The Payback," "Papa Don't Take No Mess," and "My Thang," were Top Forty hits in 1974 (again, I'm referring to the main singles chart, not the R&B chart, where he did even better). Unfortunately, his winning streak would soon come to an end for a long time. After 1974, he wouldn't have another Top Forty hit until 1985. 

When I made a poll about potential Midnight Special albums, I put James Brown on there. I thought I would have enough material for an album by him, but unfortunately it turns out there's only enough for this shared album with the O'Jays. At least for now, that is. In 1976, he would actually host the show twice. So I'll hopefully have an album for that once it gets posted on YouTube.

The O'Jays were on the show twice before this, both in 1973. For one of them, they did a duet version of "Love Train" with Lou Rawls. I think I'll stick that on a different album eventually. For another, the May 11, 1973 episode, the did a version of "Love Train" on their own. That was lucky for me, because the version here was mostly cut off, due to the TV broadcast ending. So I was able to take the last two plus minutes of that 1973 version to finish off the version here. That's what that song has "[Edit]" in its title.

The only song that's from a different episode is "Get on the Good Foot." James Brown returned to the show just one month later, playing two songs for the October 18, 1974 episode: "Papa Don't Take No Mess" and "Get on the Good Foot." I didn't include that version of "Papa Don't Take No Mess" since he did a version of it here already. But I did include the rare "Get on the Good Foot" (especially since it's possibly my favorite James Brown song). 

I was a bit surprised that the O'Jays and James Brown didn't perform a song together. They would have made a good match. Oh well. 

The music here is unreleased. The sound quality is excellent. As usual for this show, I did a lot of editing, adding in audience applause to smooth the transitions between songs.

This album is 49 minutes long. 

01 Put Your Hands Together Intro (O'Jays)
02 Put Your Hands Together (O'Jays)
03 People Keep Tellin' Me - Time to Get Down (O'Jays)
04 This Air I Breathe - 992 Arguments (O'Jays)
05 Backstabbers - People Keep Tellin' Me (O'Jays)
06 The Payback (James Brown)
07 Cold Sweat (James Brown)
08 Papa's Got a Brand New Bag (James Brown)
09 For the Love of Money (O'Jays)
10 Hell (James Brown)
11 Papa Don't Take No Mess (James Brown)
12 Sunshine (O'Jays)
13 My Thang (James Brown)
14 Get on the Good Foot (James Brown)
15 Love Train [Edit] (O'Jays) 

https://pixeldrain.com/u/w6CJgGNb

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/haNPB3PzACjWgPz/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert. 

Alison Moyet - Plenary Hall, Melbourne, Australia, 6-1-2025

Here's a concert recording from just five months ago as I post this in November 2025, starring Alison Moyet.

I don't post music from the recent past like this very often. One of the main reasons for that is sound quality. One can find a steady steam of audience recordings of concerts that happened mere days ago, but I try to avoid audience boots due to the sound quality issue. However, this one is different. It's a rare IEM (in ear monitor) recording. That's a broadcast within the concert venue so the band members can hear what the others are doing. Somehow, someone made a bootleg out of that here. The sound quality is like an excellent soundboard or FM radio broadcast, which is rare for a concert only a few months old.

Moyet was touring to support her new album "Key." This was her first album in seven years. It mostly consists of rerecordings of songs from earlier in her career, but given different arrangements, and most of the songs are deep cuts.

While the sound quality is great overall, there was one problem: for her banter between songs, there was a lot of reverb or echo on her voice. So I ran all the banter tracks through the Adobe voice enhancement program, which brings clarity to voices. 

This album is an hour and 35 minutes long. 

01 Fire (Alison Moyet)
02 talk (Alison Moyet)
03 More (Alison Moyet)
04 talk (Alison Moyet)
05 Such Small Ale (Alison Moyet)
06 talk (Alison Moyet)
07 Nobody's Diary (Alison Moyet)
08 talk (Alison Moyet)
09 The Impervious Me (Alison Moyet)
10 So Am I (Alison Moyet)
11 Can't Say It like I Mean It (Alison Moyet)
12 This House (Alison Moyet)
13 Changeling (Alison Moyet)
14 Beautiful Gun (Alison Moyet)
15 Only You (Alison Moyet)
16 talk (Alison Moyet)
17 Ordinary Girl (Alison Moyet)
18 It Won't Be Long (Alison Moyet)
19 Is This Love (Alison Moyet)
20 talk (Alison Moyet)
21 All Signs of Life (Alison Moyet)
22 Footsteps (Alison Moyet)
23 Whispering Your Name (Alison Moyet)
24 talk (Alison Moyet)
25 All Cried Out (Alison Moyet)
26 talk (Alison Moyet)
27 Situation (Alison Moyet)
28 Love Resurrection (Alison Moyet)
29 Don't Go (Alison Moyet)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/siFYhMye 

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/LRi2HgKFXLC669M/file

The cover photo is from the Latitude Festival at Henham Park in Southwold, Britain, on July 27, 2025.

The Bee Gees with Helen Reddy - The Midnight Special, NBC Studios, Burbank, CA, 9-12-1975

Here's another episode of the Bee Gees hosting the "Midnight Special" TV show. They were joined by Helen Reddy, who is originally Australian, just like the Bee Gees are.

The Bee Gees sure were on the Midnight Special show a lot. I am in the process of posting no less than five albums from them. Four of those are from 1973. I've already posted one of those. Then, after skipping the show in 1974, they were on it enough in 1975 to justify making this album. Unfortunately, they would not appear on the show again after that. In 1977, they would be the main stars on the "Saturday Night Fever" albums, which would go on to sell 40 million copies (the best selling album of all time until Michael Jackson's "Thriller") and turn them into global superstars. So, at that point, I think they became too big to appear on a mere very late night TV show like the Midnight Special. 

The Bee Gees managed to have at least one hit single every year since becoming stars in 1967, but 1973 and 1974 were relative down years for them. However, they came back in a very big way in 1975. Their 1975 album "Main Course" contained two big hits, "Jive Talkin'" and "Nights on Broadway." "Jive Talkin'" in particular went all the way to Number One in the U.S. singles chart. More importantly, it gave the band a new musical direction, after they had mainly been known for ballads. Here's what the Wikipedia entry for the album says: "This album marked a great change for the Bee Gees as it was their first album to include mostly R&B, soul, disco and funk-influenced songs, and created the model for their output through the rest of the 1970s. It rejuvenated the group's career and public image, particularly in the US, after the commercial disappointment of their preceding albums."

This album has them in transition. It includes versions of "Jive Talkin'," "Nights on Broadway," and "Winds of Change" from their latest "Main Course" album. But pretty much everything else are versions of hits from their earlier style.

The reason Helen Reddy was included is because she did a duet with the Bee Gees on their song "To Love Somebody." For some reason I can't figure out, she was the host of the Midnight Special a remarkable number of times, including a majority of the 1975 shows. This is a combination of two episodes, both of them hosted by Reddy. The first nine tracks are from September 12, 1975, as mentioned in the title of this album, and the rest are from October 10, 1975. 

This includes all the songs done by both the Bee Gees and Reddy from those two shows. The Bee Gees performed more of the music in these two episodes combined, 29 minutes, compared to 23 minutes for Reddy, despite the fact that Reddy was the host of both shows. That's because Reddy was more of a nominal host in 1975, since she was hosting practically every single show that year.

The music here is unreleased. The sound quality is excellent. As typical with this show, I did a lot of editing, smoothing transitions between songs by adding applause to hide commercial breaks.

This album is 47 minutes long. 

01 talk (Helen Reddy)
02 Jive Talkin' (Bee Gees)
03 talk (Bee Gees)
04 Ain't No Way to Treat a Lady (Helen Reddy)
05 talk (Helen Reddy)
06 To Love Somebody (Bee Gees & Helen Reddy)
07 Mama (Helen Reddy)
08 Nights on Broadway (Bee Gees)
09 I Am Woman (Helen Reddy)
10 This Must Be Wrong (Helen Reddy)
11 New York Mining Disaster 1941 (Bee Gees)
12 Run to Me - World (Bee Gees)
13 Holiday (Bee Gees)
14 I Can't See Nobody (Bee Gees)
15 How Can You Mend a Broken Heart (Bee Gees)
16 You're My Home (Helen Reddy)
17 Wind of Change (Bee Gees)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/KLiLaPo5

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/NM6zH66arcKtBgS/file

The cover image is a screenshot of Barry Gibb of the Bee Gees and Helen Reddy, taken from this exact concert. I used Photoshop to move them closer together. I also used Krea AI to improve the image detail.

Tori Amos - PBS Soundstage, WTTW Studios, Chicago, IL, 5-2-2003

Here's an episode of the great "PBS Soundstage" TV show, starring Tori Amos.

Amos had most of her commercial success in the 1990s and early 2000s. All five of her 1990s albums reached Platinum status (sales of a million or more) is the U.S. Her last Gold status album (sales of half a million or more) was in 2002, with "Scarlet's Walk," the album she was touring to support at the time of this concert. Also, if you look at the crowd-sourced ratings of her albums at rateyourmusic.com, her albums through "Scarlet's Walk" are her most highly rated ones. So this was a good time for a Soundstage episode from her.

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

This album is 59 minutes long. 

01 A Sorta Fairytale (Tori Amos)
02 Bliss (Tori Amos)
03 Horses (Tori Amos)
04 talk (Tori Amos)
05 Black-Dove [January] (Tori Amos)
06 Wednesday (Tori Amos)
07 China (Tori Amos)
08 Jackie's Strength (Tori Amos)
09 Taxi Ride (Tori Amos)
10 Precious Things (Tori Amos)
11 Cornflake Girl (Tori Amos)
12 Tombigbee (Tori Amos)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/h6BiUcE4

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/hd6btu8h5c04mHk/file 

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

Roy Orbison & Various Artists - The Midnight Special, NBC Studios, Burbank, CA, 2-15-1974

Here's a special theme edition of the "Midnight Special" TV show. The show's emcee Wolfman Jack called it the show's third "solid gold" show. What "solid gold" meant was what people were already starting to call "oldies," meaning musical acts that had hits in the 1950s and early 1960s, but generally stopped having them by the 1970s. Roy Orbison was the show's host. But in this case, that was a nominal position. He got to perform four songs, while the other guest stars got three or two.

The other performers on this show: Drifters, Del Shannon, Jackie Wilson, Bobby Vee, Lloyd Price, Duane Eddy, and Tommy Roe. That's a pretty impressive list, if you were looking for stars from that earlier era. 

Listening to this sounds a lot like listening to an oldies radio station playing one classic hit after another, except everything here was performed live. And while their hit-making days were generally over, they were all still relatively young and still in full capacity of their musical powers. 

This show started and edited a little different than most shows. Typically, the show started with about a minute of the song "Midnight Special," performed by Johnny Rivers. (I usually try to edit that out.) But this one began with just a few seconds of comments by Wolfman Jack, then bang, right into the first song. It also ended differently, with some final comments first by Wolfman Jack, and then Roy Orbison. As Orbison talked, the "Midnight Special" finally started to play, and then faded out. I got rid of that, and replaced it with audience applause. So that's why that track has "[Edit]" in its title. 

As usual with this show, the music is unreleased and the sound quality is excellent. Also as usual, I did a lot of editing to smooth over the gaps between songs by adding in extra audience applause. 

This album is an hour and five minutes long. I guess the usual format mentioned above allowed this episode to have slightly more music in it than usual. The show was an hour and a half long, but that included commercials, so this length is about as long as these albums from the show can get. 

01 talk [Edit] (Wolfman Jack)
02 Oh, Pretty Woman (Roy Orbison)
03 talk (Roy Orbison)
04 Up on the Roof (Drifters)
05 talk (Roy Orbison)
06 Runaway (Del Shannon)
07 talk (Roy Orbison & Del Shannon)
08 [Your Love Keeps Lifting Me] Higher and Higher (Jackie Wilson)
09 talk (Roy Orbison)
10 Take Good Care of My Baby (Bobby Vee)
11 talk (Wolfman Jack)
12 Personality (Lloyd Price)
13 talk (Roy Orbison)
14 Rebel-'Rouser [Instrumental] (Duane Eddy)
15 talk (Jackie Wilson)
16 Dream Baby [How Long Must I Dream] (Roy Orbison)
17 Save the Last Dance for Me (Drifters)
18 Hats Off to Larry (Del Shannon)
19 talk (Roy Orbison)
20 Sheila (Tommy Roe)
21 The Night Has a Thousand Eyes (Bobby Vee)
22 Lonely Teardrops (Jackie Wilson)
23 Stagger Lee (Lloyd Price)
24 Running Scared (Roy Orbison)
25 talk (Roy Orbison & Wolfman Jack)
26 Everybody (Tommy Roe)
27 Ramrod [Instrumental] (Duane Eddy)
28 That's Why [I Love You So] (Jackie Wilson)
29 Keep Searching (Del Shannon)
30 Only the Lonely (Roy Orbison)
31 Jam Up Jelly Tight (Tommy Roe)
32 Devil or Angel (Bobby Vee)
33 talk (Wolfman Jack)
34 talk [Edit] (Roy Orbison)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/cSheycvb

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/pFyuyT0alyzHswm/file 

The cover image shows Wolfman Jack interviewing Roy Orbison (in the sunglasses). It's a screenshot I took from this exact concert.

Katharine McPhee with Eric Benet - PBS Soundstage, WTTW Studios, Chicago, IL, 10-10-2017

Here's another episode of the "PBS Soundstage" TV show, from 2017. This one stars Katharine McPhee with Eric Benet as a guest star.

I have to admit that I'd never heard of McPhee before putting this album together. She rose to fame by making it to the final round in the "American Idol" TV show in 2005. That led to a record contract. That didn't lead to a huge music career, but she did have some success. In particular, her self-titled debut album did pretty well, reaching Number Two on the U.S. album chart in 2007. And she had two Top Forty singles around that time, "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" and "Over It."

She's also had success as an actress and a model. Here's here Wikipedia entry if you want to know more about her:

Katharine McPhee - Wikipedia 

What I like about this album, and the reason I'm posting it here, is because it consists entirely of covers, usually of classics from the "Great American Songbook." In November 2017, one month after this concert, she released the album "I Fall in Love Too Easily," consisting entirely of covers of these types of songs. So she stuck to that style, not even performing her 2007 hit "Over It." She has a nice voice, and it's hard to go wrong with these kinds of songs.

I similarly knew nothing about Eric Benet before posting this album. His role is pretty minor here, singing duets with McPhee on two songs. He put out a couple of albums in the late 1990s that did well, but his sales declined after that. Here's the Wikipedia entry about him:

Eric Benét discography - Wikipedia 

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

This album is 56 minutes long.

01 Blame It on My Youth - You Make Me Feel So Young (Katharine McPhee)
02 I'll Be Seeing You - Some Other Time (Katharine McPhee)
03 Night and Day (Katharine McPhee)
04 I Fall in Love Too Easily (Katharine McPhee)
05 Sooner or Later (Katharine McPhee)
06 It Never Entered My Mind (Katharine McPhee)
07 talk (Katharine McPhee)
08 Everything Must Change (Katharine McPhee & Eric Benet)
09 The Last Time (Katharine McPhee & Eric Benet)
10 I've Grown Accustomed to His Face (Katharine McPhee)
11 Who Can I Turn To (Katharine McPhee)
12 All the Way (Katharine McPhee)
13 Somewhere Over the Rainbow (Katharine McPhee)
14 That's Life (Katharine McPhee)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/EA71R4s3

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/rMONQ8vJ8HYkB8z/file 

The cover image is a screenshot from this exact concert. 

Randy Newman with Dr. John & Maria Muldaur: The Midnight Special, NBC Studios, Burbank, CA, 9-27-1974

Here's another episode of the "Midnight Special" TV show. The host of this episode was singer-songwriter Randy Newman. He was one of the top vote getters in the poll I posted asking for most desired episodes from this show, getting the sixth most votes. But this show is shared with Maria Muldaur and Dr. John as well, with both of them getting nearly as much time as Newman.

This 1974 episode was nearly the only time Newman appeared live on the show. (He would perform one more song in 1978.) He was allowed to play eight songs, which is more than usual for this show, but then again, his songs tend to be rather short. Normally, with these shows, I just post the music from the host, plus sometimes one other guest, sometimes not, and ignore the rest. But for this one, I chose two include two guests. That's because Dr. John and Muldaur played a song together, "Three Dollar Bill," as can be seen on the cover image, and I thought their musical styles fit well with Newman's. 

All the songs come from this concert, except for two. It turns out the only other time Muldaur performed for the show was in the February 22, 1974 episode, when she played two songs, including her Number One hit "Midnight at the Oasis." So I slipped those two into the show near the end, tracks 20 and 21. Dr. John also performed two songs for the show in 1973, but I've included them on a Gladys Knight and the Pips album already. He would return to the show later as a guest in 1977 and 1979. Hopefully, I'll post those songs when they become available.

In case you're curious, the only other musical acts on this episode were Flo and Eddie of the Turtles, and Ry Cooder. Flo and Eddie performed four songs, but I didn't think they made a good fit with Newman and the others, so I didn't include them. Cooder only performed one song.   

Unfortunately, as often happens with this show, the last song, "Louisiana 1927," was cut off due to the broadcast coming to an end. The cut off happened during the last chorus in the song. So I was able to patch in the rest of the chorus from earlier in the song. But still, the song needed a proper ending for its last few seconds. I resorted to using a few seconds from a Newman concert on the "Live at the Record Plant" radio show in 1974. (I plan on posting all of that radio show episode eventually.) So that's why this one song has "[Edit]" in its title. 

The music here is unreleased. The sound quality is excellent. As usual with episodes from the TV show, I did a lot of editing by adding more applause to smooth the transitions between songs. 

This album is 58 minutes long. 

01 Mama Told Me Not to Come (Randy Newman)
02 talk (Randy Newman)
03 Simon Smith and the Amazing Dancing Bear (Randy Newman)
04 talk (Randy Newman)
05 Political Science (Randy Newman)
06 Davy and the Fat Boy (Randy Newman)
07 Sweetheart (Maria Muldaur)
08 talk (Randy Newman)
09 Let's Make a Better World (Dr. John)
10 talk (Dr. John)
11 Desitively Bonnaroo (Dr. John)
12 I Think It's Going to Rain Today (Randy Newman)
13 Three Dollar Bill (Dr. John & Maria Muldaur)
14 Lover Man [Oh, Where Can You Be] (Maria Muldaur)
15 Squeeze Me (Maria Muldaur)
16 Rolling (Randy Newman)
17 Mos' Scocious (Dr. John)
18 He Gives Us All His Love (Randy Newman)
19 Mama Don't Allow [Edit] (Dr. John)
20 Don't You Feel My Leg (Maria Muldaur)
21 Midnight at the Oasis (Maria Muldaur)
22 talk (Randy Newman)
23 Louisiana 1927 [Edit] (Randy Newman) 

https://pixeldrain.com/u/4Ctrgf88

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/d7IVkVT0hXDttHL/file

For the cover image, I could have taken a screenshot of Randy Newman singing and playing the piano. But I figure there are plenty of those. Whereas there probably aren't any publicly available images of Maria Muldaur and Dr. John together. So I took a screenshot of that from this exact concert.

Electric Light Orchestra - The Midnight Special, NBC Studios, Burbank, CA, 1-17-1975

Here's an episode of Electric Light Orchestra (ELO) performing for the "Midnight Special" TV show.

In my poll asking people which Midnight Special albums they wanted to see me make, ELO got the most votes. Also, I've seen it claimed that ELO performed more times on the show than any other musical act. I'm not entirely sure of that. The Bee Gees, at least, would be right up there as well. But certainly they were one of the most. They were the host of an episode in 1975, and most of this album comes from that. But it also gathers up songs they did for the show in 1973 and 1974.

The first song, "Kuiama," comes from a June 29, 1973 episode. The second song, "Ma-Ma-Ma Belle," comes from a November 23, 1973 episode. "Showdown" and "Bluebird Is Dead" come from a February 8, 1974 episode. There are some additional songs that were played that I'm not including, because they're repeats. Namely, between 1973 and 1975, "Showdown" was played twice, and "Roll Over Beethoven" was played three times.

The rest of the songs, tracks 5 to 13, come from the 1975 episode mentioned in the title. The only problem was the last song, "Roll Over Beethoven." After about a minute, the emcee Wolfman Jack started talking over the music, then the episode came to an end. Luckily, that was a song that had been performed by ELO on the show twice before. So I used the 1973 version to finish it off (which is why that one song has "[Edit]" in its title). But the one minute I saved from the 1975 version is interesting, because that was a longer instrumental intro than usual for the song. The first part of that intro references Beethoven's "Fifth Symphony," which is what you'll find on the studio version. But the second part of that intro references Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata," which I think was rare for the band to do. 

I was curious what was going to happen to the banter between songs for the episode ELO was hosting, since the band's lead singer, Jeff Lynne, was obviously a very shy person and rarely spoke on stage. It turns out there was very little banter, and what there was, mainly a naming of the band members, was spoken by Bev Bevan, the band's drummer.  

I noticed the lead vocals seemed low for all of these songs. So I ran them through the UVR5 program and boosted the vocals relative to the instruments on most of the songs. 

ELO was on the show three more times after this, in 1976 and 1977, including hosting it once more. So I would like to make another album out of that material, once it all gets released on YouTube. 

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

This album is 49 minutes long. 

01 Kuiama (Electric Light Orchestra)
02 Ma-Ma-Ma Belle (Electric Light Orchestra)
03 Showdown (Electric Light Orchestra)
04 Bluebird Is Dead (Electric Light Orchestra)
05 In the Hall of the Mountain King [Instrumental] (Electric Light Orchestra)
06 Great Balls of Fire (Electric Light Orchestra)
07 talk (Electric Light Orchestra)
08 Orange Blossom Special [Instrumental] (Electric Light Orchestra)
09 Eldorado Overture - Can't Get It Out of My Head (Electric Light Orchestra)
10 Laredo Tornado (Electric Light Orchestra)
11 Flight of the Bumblebee [Instrumental] (Electric Light Orchestra)
12 talk (Electric Light Orchestra)
13 Roll Over Beethoven [Edit] (Electric Light Orchestra)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/w92oR4sv

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/7ROvDkjaZ03WyGS/file

The cover image of lead singer Jeff Lynne is a screenshot I took from the 1975 episode. I used Krea AI to help add detail.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This album is 39 minutes long. 

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

https://pixeldrain.com/u/44aqCoan

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/iCwTQ3LTm5PsNE2/file

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

https://pixeldrain.com/u/n4ipEFiN

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/SmqRzx0abYg8ATZ/file

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

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

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

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

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

This album is two hours and 38 minutes long.

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

https://pixeldrain.com/u/uP9yJeKZ

alternate:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Cold Blood (band) - Wikipedia

The music is unreleased. The sound quality is excellent. 

This album is 58 minutes long.

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

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

alternate:

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

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

Dead Man Walks Again

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

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

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

And thanks to aranyláz for giving me the tip!

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

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

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

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

Wilco - Wikipedia 

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

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

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

https://pixeldrain.com/u/BpZtZC2u

alternate:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This album is 41 minutes long.

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

https://pixeldrain.com/u/caC3Kmkt

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/KnrhlZYE9E1R4ZR/file

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

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

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

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

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

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

This album is an hour and 51 minutes long. 

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

https://pixeldrain.com/u/7BjHGAga 

alternate: 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This album is 45 minutes long.

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

https://pixeldrain.com/u/zdBKEC8X

alternate:

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

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

Don McLean Again, and Chris Isaak

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dan Hicks (singer) - Wikipedia 

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

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

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

This album is 37 minutes long.

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

https://pixeldrain.com/u/Eh6PKabY

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/K3x5rrGxyWSaIx9/file

The cover photo is a screenshot taken from this exact concert. The screenshot was taken by a volunteer named Liam, who also did most of the rest of the cover work.

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

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

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

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

This album is an hour and 14 minutes long.

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

https://pixeldrain.com/u/vZTxjGM3

alternate:

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

The cover photo is from this exact concert. 

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

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

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

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

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

This album is an hour and 18 minutes long. 

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

https://pixeldrain.com/u/tfB3eGCw

alternate:

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

The cover photo is from this exact concert. 

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

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

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

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

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

This album is 59 minutes long. 

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

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

alternate:

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

The cover photo is from this exact concert.

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

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

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

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

This album is 50 minutes long.

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

https://pixeldrain.com/u/hDBSoh2v

alternate: 

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

The cover photo is from this exact concert. 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This album is 56 minutes long. 

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

https://pixeldrain.com/u/sLs97NHT

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/Ltx4qhCADVp7R08/file

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This album is an hour and two minutes long. 

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

https://pixeldrain.com/u/rCWB1ARe

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/a5Qh8RSzKdG23Zd/file 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Antônio Carlos Jobim - Wikipedia 

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

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

This album is 46 minutes long. 

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

https://pixeldrain.com/u/uUAZTVi5

alternate:

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

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