Monday, April 28, 2025

The Roches - PBS Soundstage, WTTW Studios, Chicago, IL, 5-25-1983

Still another episode of "PBS Soundstage." This time, it's the Roches, a vocal trio consisting of three sisters (Maggie, Terre, and Suzzy Roche).

The Roches were critically acclaimed, especially their debut album in 1979 (simply called "The Roches"), but their unusual vocal style never resulted in any hits or widespread popularity. Still, they were popular enough to appear on "Saturday Night Live" in 1979 and "The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson" in 1985. They stayed together until 1997, with one last reunion album in 2007.

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

The Roches - Wikipedia 

I had to do some more editing than usual for this album, as can be seen with the four songs with "[Edit]" in their titles. This was one of those episodes where the editors decided to have voiceovers on top of instrumental sections of songs. I did my usual thing of using the UVR5 program to erase the voiceovers while keeping the music, but there was some damage to the music in a few places. 

The album is 53 minutes long.

01 Mr. Sellack (Roches)
02 It's Bad for Me [Edit] (Roches)
03 The Train (Roches)
04 talk (Roches)
05 The Largest Elizabeth in the World (Roches)
06 talk (Roches)
07 One Season [Edit] (Roches)
08 talk (Roches)
09 Want Not Want Not (Roches)
10 The Married Men [Edit] (Roches)
11 Nurds (Roches)
12 talk (Roches)
13 The Troubles (Roches)
14 talk (Roches)
15 Hallelujah [Excerpt from Messiah Part II] (Roches)
16 Hammond Song (Roches)
17 talk (Roches)
18 Keep On Doing What You Do - Jerks on the Loose [Edit] (Roches)
19 We (Roches)

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alternate:

https://bestfile.io/wdsLQFeJONeASmk/file

The cover image is from this exact concert. It's based on a screenshot I took from a YouTube video of this concert. The video quality was poor, so I used a combination of Photoshop and Krea AI to make it look better.

2 comments:

  1. Thanks I always liked their sense of humour.

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  2. One of my favorite groups! I probably have over 50 live recordings of them from the mid-70s until they disbanded. And more of Maggie & Suzzy as a duo.

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