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/5LCqVKJL

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/UNpJylU5lrANZln/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. It's a bit blurry, but in this case I couldn't do much to fix that.

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.

Georgie Fame & Friends - BBC Sessions, Volume 7: Friday Night Is Music Night, Cheltenham Jazz Festival, Cheltenham, Britain, 5-3-2013

Here's another BBC album by Georgie Fame. This one is rather unusual in that it's kind of a celebration of him having over 50 years in the music business. It features some longtime collaborators as special guests: Alan Price, Zoot Money, and Madeline Bell.

Most of the songs were put together in a careful way, in order to tell the story of Fame's career, with interesting tidbits during the banter. For instance, the first song performed was one that he sang at a musical audition back in 1959. 

The special guests didn't have really big roles, but each of them got at least one spotlight song. And most of Fame's most famous songs were performed before the concert was over.

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

This album is an hour and 36 minutes long. 

01 talk (Georgie Fame)
02 High School Confidential (Georgie Fame)
03 talk (Georgie Fame)
04 What'd I Say (Georgie Fame, Alan Price, Zoot Money & Madeline Bell)
05 talk (Georgie Fame)
06 Parker's Mood (Georgie Fame)
07 Jumpin' with Symphony Sid (Georgie Fame)
08 talk (Georgie Fame)
09 It Should Have Been Me (Georgie Fame & Zoot Money)
10 talk (Georgie Fame)
11 Everything Happens to Me (Georgie Fame)
12 talk (Georgie Fame)
13 Flamingo Allnighter (Georgie Fame, Alan Price, Zoot Money & Madeline Bell)
14 talk (Georgie Fame)
15 Yeh Yeh (Georgie Fame)
16 talk (Georgie Fame)
17 Sunny (Georgie Fame)
18 talk (Georgie Fame)
19 Seventh Son (Georgie Fame)
20 Rosetta (Georgie Fame & Alan Price)
21 talk (Madeline Bell)
22 Sweet Georgie Fame (Madeline Bell)
23 The Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde (Georgie Fame)
24 talk (Georgie Fame)
25 Entertaining Mr. Sloane - Eros Hotel (Georgie Fame)
26 The Singer (Georgie Fame)
27 talk (Georgie Fame)
28 The Old Music Master (Georgie Fame)
29 talk (Georgie Fame)
30 The Nearness of You (Georgie Fame & Madeline Bell)
31 talk (Georgie Fame)
32 Get Away (Georgie Fame)
33 Rhythm King (Georgie Fame)
34 talk (Georgie Fame)
35 Funny How Time Slips Away (Georgie Fame)
36 talk (Georgie Fame)
37 Saturday Night Fish Fry (Georgie Fame, Alan Price, Zoot Money & Madeline Bell)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/GQ6fG1Ej

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/aIzBBDFey9dNRUb/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert. 

k. d. lang - BBC Sessions, Volume 1: In Concert, Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham, Britain, 10-13-2000

Here's another BBC concert that comes to me thanks to musical friend Progspog. This is a k.d. lang concert from 2000. 

I've previously two BBC concerts from her that took place after this one. So both of them are getting renumbered at the same time I'm posting this. Here are the links to those, it you want to update the cover art and mp3 tags and such:

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2023/02/k-d-lang-bbc-four-sessions-st-lukes.html

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2025/01/kd-lang-bbc-sessions-volume-2-in.html

This concert took place to support her 2000 album "Invincible Summer." It leans heavily on that, with lots of songs from it. But she also found time to performer great older songs like "Crying" and "Constant Craving." Note that her career started with country music, but there's almost no country here.

Thanks again to Progspog, because even though this bootleg has been quite obscure, the sound quality is excellent, like that of an officially released live album. 

This album is 59 minutes long.

01 Extraordinary Thing (k. d. lang)
02 talk (k. d. lang)
03 Summerfling (k. d. lang)
04 talk (k. d. lang)
05 The Consequences of Falling (k. d. lang)
06 Suddenly (k. d. lang)
07 talk (k. d. lang)
08 Crying (k. d. lang)
09 What Better Said (k. d. lang)
10 In Perfect Dreams (k. d. lang)
11 talk (k. d. lang)
12 Wash Me Clean (k. d. lang)
13 Love's Great Ocean (k. d. lang)
14 When We Collide (k. d. lang)
15 World of Love (k. d. lang)
16 talk (k. d. lang)
17 Constant Craving (k. d. lang)
18 Miss Chatelaine (k. d. lang)
19 It's Happening with You (k. d. lang)
20 Simple (k. d. lang)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/FbCan1ak

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/6ZwmuBbu8KPF76z/file

The cover photo was taken at the Shoreline Amphitheatre, in Mountain View, California, on August 5, 2000.

Cliff Richard - BBC Sessions, Volume 9: In Concert, Wembley Arena, London, Britain, 11-28-1992

Man, I never would have imagined that I wound post nine Cliff Richard BBC albums. But here we are, with another BBC concert. To be honest, there are still other BBC concerts out there I haven't posted, mostly from way late in his career. But I'm posting this because it's another album I got recently from Progsprog, and as far as I can tell, it's currently publicly unavailable. So this should put it back in circulation.

The previous BBC concert by Richard that I've posted is from 1988. Between 1988 and 1992, he continued to have more hit singles in Britain. Surprisingly, the biggest one, "Saviour's Day," which reached Number One in Britain in 1989, wasn't included here. However, his most recent studio album in 1992 was simply called "The Album." It contained two Top Ten hits, "I Still Believe in You" and "Peace in Our Time," and both of those are here.

Other than that, this is a lively collection of his most popular songs, going back to the 1950s. Thanks again to Progsprog for making this available, because the sound quality is excellent.

This album is 57 minutes long.

01 Move It (Cliff Richard)
02 talk (Cliff Richard)
03 Living Doll (Cliff Richard)
04 Daddy's Home (Cliff Richard)
05 Please Don't Tease (Cliff Richard)
06 On the Beach (Cliff Richard)
07 From a Distance (Cliff Richard)
08 Some People (Cliff Richard)
09 Devil Woman (Cliff Richard)
10 Miss You Nights (Cliff Richard)
11 Willie and the Hand Jive (Cliff Richard)
12 talk (Cliff Richard)
13 I Still Believe in You (Cliff Richard)
14 We Don't Talk Anymore (Cliff Richard)
15 Wired for Sound (Cliff Richard)
16 Peace in Our Time (Cliff Richard)
17 talk (Cliff Richard)
18 My Kinda Life (Cliff Richard)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/HXVykqiH

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/brLzlr4E8IQ2ny0/file

The cover photo is from the World Music Awards in Monaco City, Monaco, on May 14, 1992.

Don McLean - BBC Sessions, Volume 7: In Concert, Cambridge Folk Festival, Cherry Hinton Hall Grounds, Cambridge, Britain, 7-28-1990

When I first posted a BBC album by Don McLean, I hadn't found much by him yet, and I thought I might end up with maybe three BBC albums. But here I am with a seventh one, and an eighth on the way. This is an acoustic concert from 1990.

The reason I found two more is thanks to musical friend Progsprog. This one was particularly rare. I got some other BBC albums by a die-hard McLean fan, and even that person didn't know of this one. So hopefully this will put it into wider circulation. With it being a BBC recording, the sound quality is excellent.

By 1990, McLean was far from his 1970s commercial heyday. But he was still releasing new music, and his 1990 album "Headroom" got good reviews. He only performed two songs from it here though, "Headroom" and "Have You Seen Me," done together. But he included some unusual choices, along with the obligatory "Vincent" and "American Pie."

This album is 52 minutes long. 

01 Everyday (Don McLean)
02 talk (Don McLean)
03 Superman's Ghost (Don McLean)
04 talk (Don McLean)
05 Sea Man (Don McLean)
06 Vincent (Don McLean)
07 This Little Light of Mine (Don McLean)
08 La La Love You (Don McLean)
09 Homeless Brother (Don McLean)
10 Headroom - Have You Seen Me (Don McLean)
11 American Pie (Don McLean)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/jds3gZTd

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/tCKQuET0b7qvGxZ/file

The cover photo is from 1990. That's all I know about it. 

Midnight Oil - Malkin Bowl, Vancouver, Canada, 6-1-2022

Today, I updated the links for most of the Midnight Oil albums posted here, for various reasons. While doing that, I got to wondering what they were doing lately. I found out they say they performed their last tour in 2022, but they're still open to doing more studio work. I had assumed they would release a live album from that tour, but they haven't. So I found this, which I think is the best bootleg from that tour.

This bootleg stands out because it's a combination of an IEM recording and an audience bootleg. "IEM" stands for "in ear monitor," and it's usually an audio feed meant to help the band members hear themselves, being broadcast directly into earpieces they wear. Soundwise, it's usually like a great soundboard boot. But it can have flaws, such as not including much crowd noise. So mixing in an audience boot can take care of that. In short, this sounds fantastic, the kind of sound one would expect from an official live album.

In 2002, Midnight Oil broke up after being together since the early 1970s. The band's lead singer Peter Garrett then pursued a political career in Australia. He was elected to Parliament, then went on to first be Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts, and then Minister for Education. But in 2017 he returned to music and Midnight Oil went back on tour. In 2022, they released, "Resist," their first studio album since 2002. After a short tour in Australia, this was the first show they performed on the tour in North America. This concert includes four songs from the "Resist" album: "At the Time of Writing,"
"Nobody's Child," "Rising Seas," and "Barka-Darling River."

This album is exactly two hours long. 

01 Intro [Instrumental] (Midnight Oil)
02 Read about It (Midnight Oil)
03 Brave Faces (Midnight Oil)
04 talk (Midnight Oil)
05 Nobody's Child (Midnight Oil)
06 talk (Midnight Oil)
07 Barka-Darling River (Midnight Oil)
08 talk (Midnight Oil)
09 Redneck Wonderland (Midnight Oil)
10 Truganini (Midnight Oil)
11 talk (Midnight Oil)
12 First Nation (Midnight Oil)
13 The Dead Heart (Midnight Oil)
14 My Country (Midnight Oil)
15 U.S. Forces (Midnight Oil)
16 Short Memory (Midnight Oil)
17 talk (Midnight Oil)
18 Kosciusko (Midnight Oil)
19 Only the Strong (Midnight Oil)
20 talk (Midnight Oil)
21 At the Time of Writing (Midnight Oil)
22 Power and the Passion (Midnight Oil)
23 Rising Seas (Midnight Oil)
24 talk (Midnight Oil)
25 Sometimes (Midnight Oil)
26 King of the Mountain (Midnight Oil)
27 Beds Are Burning (Midnight Oil)
28 Blue Sky Mine (Midnight Oil)
29 talk (Midnight Oil)
30 Forgotten Years (Midnight Oil)
31 talk (Midnight Oil)
32 Hercules (Midnight Oil)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/gC5WjRzi

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/a4NHbKszaFuBkI4/file

The cover photo shows band members Peter Garrett (with bald head) and Rob Hirst (on drums) performing at the  Hordern Pavilion, in Sydney, Australia, on October 3, 2022. I was glad to find a photo of both Garrett and Hirst, because Hirst is a key songwriter for the band in addition to being a drummer. 

Also, I used the primitive computer styled lettering for the cover, because that's the type of font the band used for this tour.

Hall & Oates - BBC Sessions, Volume 4: In Concert, Hackney Ocean, Hackney, Britain, 4-7-2003

A couple of days ago, I posted a Hall and Oates BBC concert from 1998. Here's another one, probably the last one I can find from them, from 2003.

In 2003, Hall and Oates released a new studio album, "Do It for Love." The sales were still quite low compared to the 1970s and 1980s heyday, but critical appraisal improved. They played three songs from it here: "Do It for Love," "Forever for You," and "Getaway Car." They also finished with a cover of the 1970s soul classic, "Me and Mrs. Jones," which they didn't release on any studio album.

In 2023, Hall and Oates broke up due to a financial conflict that led to a lawsuit. So this is probably the last BBC album they did, unless there are others hiding out there that I don't know about. 

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

This album is 55 minutes long.

01 Adult Education (Hall & Oates)
02 talk (Hall & Oates)
03 Out of Touch (Hall & Oates)
04 talk (Hall & Oates)
05 Do It for Love (Hall & Oates)
06 talk (Hall & Oates)
07 Forever for You (Hall & Oates)
08 One on One (Hall & Oates)
09 talk (Hall & Oates)
10 Getaway Car (Hall & Oates)
11 Sara Smile (Hall & Oates)
12 I Can't Go for That [No Can Do] (Hall & Oates)
13 talk (Hall & Oates)
14 Man on a Mission (Hall & Oates)
15 Me and Mrs. Jones (Hall & Oates)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/yYpVYNYp

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/aX13LVZzC5DFyY7/file

The cover photo isn't from this exact concert, but it's close. It was taken at the Manchester Apollo in Manchester, Britain, three days earlier, on April 4, 2003.

Alan Price - BBC Sessions, Volume 3: In Concert, BBC Television Centre, London, Britain, 5-15-1970

Here's another BBC concert by Alan Price. This was from the BBC TV show "In Concert" in 1970 (as opposed to the countless number of BBC radio shows also called "In Concert."). 

This is another recording that I never knew even existed, but fell into my hands thanks to musical associate Progsprog. Thanks again to him. 

It turns out that Price also did an episode of this TV show in 1974. At first, I thought this had to be that episode instead, because three of the songs, "Smells like Lemon, Tastes like Wine," "Savaloy Dip," and "And So Goodbye," wouldn't be released on album until 1974. But then I changed my mind, because just before he sang "The House of the Rising Sun," he commented that it had just been a big hit again. That wasn't a hit in 1974, but the band Frijid Pink had a big hit with it in early 1970, which would be perfect timing for that comment.

The timing of the concert is a bit curious, because he didn't have an album to promote in 1970. In fact, at the time, his last album had been released in 1967. He did release a single of the song "Sunshine and Rain (The Name of the Game)" right around this time, but unfortunately, it didn't even make the charts in Britain. 

His next album would be a duet album with Georgie Fame in 1971, and then he'd do a soundtrack album in 1973, "O Lucky Man." His next proper solo album wouldn't be released until 1974. So perhaps that's why three of the songs here weren't released until then. 

Once again, there's some renumbering involved. I had already posted a Price BBC concert from 1979. So that one is now being renamed to "Volume 4." You can find the revised version of that one here: 

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2025/01/alan-price-bbc-sessions-volume-3-in.html

If anyone has the 1974 BBC concert by Price mentioned above, and wants to send that to me, then there will be more renumbering in the future!  

This album is 35 minutes long.

01 Sunshine and Rain [The Name of the Game] (Alan Price)
02 talk (Alan Price)
03 Smells like Lemon, Tastes like Wine (Alan Price)
04 talk (Alan Price)
05 The House of the Rising Sun (Alan Price)
06 talk (Alan Price)
07 Savaloy Dip (Alan Price)
08 talk (Alan Price)
09 The House that Jack Built (Alan Price)
10 talk (Alan Price)
11 Is There Anybody Out There (Alan Price)
12 talk (Alan Price)
13 Don't Stop the Carnival (Alan Price)
14 talk (Alan Price)
15 And So Goodbye (Alan Price)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/PztPqWwS

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/qXDz1Lk3I1h8oiY/file

The cover photo appears to be from this exact concert. (It's from a BBC TV show in May 1970, and this likely was the only one.) 

Georgie Fame - BBC Sessions, Volume 5: In Concert, Barbican, London, Britain, 8-1-1989

Here's another BBC album by Georgie Fame. This one is a concert from 1989.

Fame had most of his commercial success in the 1960s and early 1970s with a pop style of R&B. In the 1980s, he moved into more of a jazzy style, and that can be seen here. He performed this concert with a swing-styled big band. He generally avoided performing his 1960s hits, though he did do a different styled take on "The Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde."

I didn't even know this recording existed, but it came to me thanks to musical associate Progsprog. So thanks again to him. This is yet another recording that had disappeared from the Internet but now can go back into circulation.

Once again though, there's some renumbering involved. I had already posted a Fame BBC concert from 2005. So that one is now being renamed to "Volume 6." You can find the revised version of that one here:

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2025/01/georgie-fame-bbc-sessions-volume-5-bbc.html 

This album is 43 minutes long.

01 Strike Up the Band (Georgie Fame)
02 talk (Georgie Fame)
03 The Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde (Georgie Fame)
04 talk (Georgie Fame)
05 Cool Cat Blues (Georgie Fame)
06 talk (Georgie Fame)
07 The More I See You (Georgie Fame)
08 talk (Georgie Fame)
09 J and B [Instrumental] (Georgie Fame)
10 talk (Georgie Fame)
11 Drip Drop (Georgie Fame)
12 talk (Georgie Fame)
13 Rockin' Chair (Georgie Fame)
14 talk (Georgie Fame)
15 The Blues and Me (Georgie Fame)
16 talk (Georgie Fame)
17 Little Pony (Georgie Fame)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/iboMUfnN

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/FBCmRws7SbqkRdk/file 

All I know about the cover image is that it was taken in concert at some point in 1990.

The Action - BBC Sessions (1966-1967)

One area of focus I've had for this blog is posting BBC studio sessions from the 1960s and 70s, even if it's from obscure musical acts. In fact, especially from obscure musical acts, if they were good. Here's BBC sessions from a band that definitely was good: the Action.

In the late 1960s, there were a lot of great British bands that should have had a lot of success, but the lucky breaks didn't go their way. The Action were one of those bands. The started out in the early 1960s like most British bands at the time, specializing in covers of American R&B music. They were very good at it, and developed a following and critical acclaim. But they failed to get the all important hit single.

Then, 1967, musical tastes drastically changed in Britain, from R&B covers to original psychedelic music. Not many bands had the talent to make that transition, but the Action did. They wrote enough songs for what should have been a classic album, to be called "Rolled Gold." But their record company had lost faith in them by that point, and wouldn't approve the recording and release of it. At least fairly fleshed out demos of those songs were released in the 1990s, suggesting what might have been. But after that failure, the band broke up, though most of the band went on to slightly more success for a few years under the name "Mighty Baby."

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

The Action - Wikipedia 

Up until mere days ago, I didn't know they had enough songs for a decent-length BBC album. But it turns out their BBC performances were compiled on a 2004 archival release called "Uptight and Outasight." These are the exact songs released on that album, since this is everything that could be found from the BBC by the band. 

However, this is different than that album, because I edited most of the songs. Four of the songs suffered the usual problem of the era of BBC DJs talking over the music. So I did my usual thing, using the MVSEP program to wipe out the talking while keeping the underlying music. Those songs are marked with "[Edit]" in their titles. Additionally, the vocals were low for most of the songs, so I boosted them relative to the instruments with the use of the UVR5 program. Finally, the first two songs aren't from BBC studio sessions at all, but were from an appearance on the "Ready, Steady, Go!" TV show in 1966. There was an audience, so I also used the MVSEP program to get rid of the cheering. I did the same to tracks 7 and 8, which were from a BBC radio show, "Pop North," that had a cheering audience too.

Even though this album is short, it shows the musical transition I described above. The first eight songs are from 1966 or early 1967, and are mainly R&B covers. By the last four songs are from a July 1967 session that already show the band transitioning to more of a psychedelic style. That includes a cover of "I See You," a band making a similar transition at the same time.

The Action performed for the BBC a few more times. Unfortunately, this is all that seems to have survived. Interestingly, some of the music here survived because Phil Collins (yes, that Phil Collins), who was a young teenager at the time, was a huge Action fan and recorded some of their music off the radio, then passed the recording to a record company decades later. 

This album is 30 minutes long. 

01 I'll Keep On Holding On (Action)
02 Land of a 1000 Dances - Uptight [Everything's Alright] (Action)
03 Mine Exclusively (Action)
05 Baby You Got It (Action)
06 Take Me in Your Arms [Rock Me a Little While] [Edit] (Action)
07 Going to a Go-Go (Action)
08 Never Ever (Action)
09 Love Is All [Edit] (Action)
10 I See You [Edit] (Action)
11 India [Instrumental] (Action)
12 Shadows and Reflections [Edit] (Action)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/uS22byyX

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/Zy0oDKSv7MqMyJi/file 

The cover photo of the band was taken in March 1967. The band name at the top was taken from an album cover, and then stretched horizontally.

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 2: 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.

Note that because I found this album, I added "Volume 1" to the title of her 2004 BBC album I previously posted. Here's a link to that one, if you want to redownload it to get the updated cover art and so forth:

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2025/10/diana-krall-bbc-in-concert-mermaid.html

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

This album is an hour and 11 minutes long. 

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/yQrrxQyh

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/ZsB3ahP3HLkUFrj/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) 

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