Lulu - BBC Sessions, Volume 4: 1969-1971

If you think I've posted a "BBC Sessions, Volume 4" for Lulu, you're not wrong. I recently discovered a ton of Lulu's BBC material that I'd missed before. In fact, I found so much that previously I'd posted four volumes, but now I'll be posting a total of nine! The vast majority of the new stuff is from the 1970s, especially 1975, but there is some music from the late 1960s. There are so many changes that I got rid of the old "Volume 4" and I'm replacing it with this one. I'd guess about half of the songs on this revamped volume are new.

Note also that I radically overhauled "Volume 3." I added a bunch of songs to that, and moved some other songs from that one to this one. So if you're interested in this at all, I strongly suggest you download the revised version of that album. Here's the link:

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2020/10/lulu-bbc-sessions-volume-3-1968-1972.html

The first song is the only one not actually from the BBC. It's a duet with Johnny Cash, from Cash's own TV show. Most of the next bunch of songs are from the BBC radio show "Top of the Pops." Specifically, tracks 2 through 11 (with the exception of "Boom Bang a Bang," which was from a BBC TV special), plus track 19. These come from a musical associate named Marley, who sent me a bunch of performances from the BBC radio show "Top of the Pops." So a big thanks to him.

I mentioned in the previous volume that Lulu had her own BBC TV show from 1968 to 1975. I haven't been able to find many songs from her TV show from this time period, but I did find a handful from 1970. Those make up tracks 12 through 17. Track 18 ("Saved") is from another BBC TV show.

All of the performances here are officially unreleased. One snag with the new "Top of the Pops" tracks is that most of them had BBC DJs talking over the music. But I was able to remove the talking and keep the underlying music thanks to the X-Minus audio editing program. Those are the ones with " [Edit]" in their titles. I also got rid of the crowd noise as best I could for the songs that had that, mostly the TV show-sourced ones.

This album is 48 minutes long. 

01 Games People Play (Lulu & Johnny Cash)
02 Oh Me, Oh My [I'm a Fool for You Baby] [Edit] (Lulu)
03 Sweep Around Your Own Back Door [Edit] (Lulu)
04 The Letter [Edit] (Lulu)
05 Boom Bang a Bang (Lulu)
06 Feelin' Alright [Edit] (Lulu)
07 Marley Purt Drive [Edit] (Lulu)
08 Mr. Bojangles [Edit] (Lulu)
09 Dirty Old Man [Edit] (Lulu)
10 Hum a Song [From Your Heart] [Edit] (Lulu)
11 Show Me [Edit] (Lulu)
12 Girl Talk (Lulu & Cass Elliot)
13 Sugar, Sugar (Lulu, Dudley Moore & Cass Elliot)
14 Keep the Customer Satisfied (Lulu)
15 Sweet Little Sixteen - Long Tall Sally - Blue Suede Shoes (Lulu)
16 Free the People (Dusty Springfield & Lulu)
17 Joy to the World (Dusty Springfield & Lulu)
18 Saved (Lulu)
19 Help [Edit] (Lulu)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/iCGFCJJK 

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/uYCahxSGauK9xJd/file

The cover art photo comes from a BBC TV show in 1971, but I don't know the details.

The Pretty Things - Copenhagen Beat Festival, K.B. Hallen, Copenhagen, Denmark, 8-22-1970

I'm pretty psyched to present this album. One thing I like doing with this blog is trying to fill in musical gaps. For instance, the Pretty Things were a great band in the 1960s especially, and great live performers, but there are very few surviving live recordings worth listening to. So here's something to help fill in that gap.

I believe this recording comes from a European TV station that broadcast the entire Pretty Things set from the Copenhagen Beat Festival in 1970. You can find the entire video on YouTube in black and white. That makes this one of the earliest surviving musical recordings from the band. 

However, there were some sound quality issues, even though it was recorded by a professional film crew. One problem was that the lead vocals were low in the mix. I fixed that using the MVSEP program. For many of the songs, I went through line by line to bring up particularly quiet bits. I did the same with the banter between songs. But I took extra steps there. For instance, I ran all of those bits through Adobe's vocal enhancer program, and I got rid of extra reverb. Before, it was virtually impossible to understand most of the banter. Now, I can make out most of it.

Note that I've posted a BBC concert by this band from just a couple of months earlier that has a similar set list. But "similar" isn't the same. For instance, one nice surprise here is a cover of "Ohio" by Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young (although it's drastically different, and mostly instrumental, with only one verse the same as the original). This concert and the BBC one I just mentioned are the best two early concerts by this band that I've come across so far.

This album is 46 minutes long. 

01 Blue Serge Blues (Pretty Things)
02 talk (Pretty Things)
03 She's a Lover (Pretty Things)
04 talk (Pretty Things)
05 In the Square - The Letter - Rain (Pretty Things)
06 talk (Pretty Things)
07 Sickle Clowns (Pretty Things)
08 talk (Pretty Things)
09 Old Man Going (Pretty Things)
10 Mona - Drum Solo (Pretty Things)
11 Ohio (Pretty Things)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/EMB7dab3

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/9v4eaYVJNUA4XTC/file

The cover image is from this exact concert. I took it from a YouTube video of the concert. That was in black and white. But I used the Kolorize program to colorize it. That's lead singer Phil May in the black leather jacket, and Pete Tolson behind him.

Fairport Convention - Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA, 8-31-1970

First off, I have to warn that this concert is not up to the usual song quality of this music blog. It sounds pretty good to me, but not excellent. It's from an audience boot, not a soundboard, and it shows. I'm posting this for two reasons. One, a commenter named Chris repeatedly asked me to improve and post this specific concert. Two, early Fairport Convention is great, and recordings like this need to be preserved, so I decided Chris's idea had merit. 

In the end, I was able to make a lot of sonic improvements. (If you think this sounds rough, you should have heard it before.) There was a lot of muck in this recording. I used a few different audio editing tricks to reduce that, but I couldn't get rid of that entirely. I made a particularly big impact on the banter between songs. Before, that was barely intelligible. Now, most of what they're saying can be understood.

Frankly, there are some other live recordings from 1970 with similar set lists that sound better. But if you're a big fan of the band, especially in their early years, you'll want this one too. Richard Thompson was still in the band. He and violinist Dave Swarbrick had some good instrumental "duels" on some of the songs.

The music here is unreleased. As mentioned above, the sound quality is decent, but not the best. 

This album is an hour and 21 minutes long. 

01 talk (Fairport Convention)
02 Walk Awhile (Fairport Convention)
03 talk (Fairport Convention)
04 Dirty Linen [Instrumental] (Fairport Convention)
05 talk (Fairport Convention)
06 Staines Morris (Fairport Convention)
07 talk (Fairport Convention)
08 The Lark in the Morning [Instrumental] (Fairport Convention)
09 talk (Fairport Convention)
10 Now Be Thankful (Fairport Convention)
11 talk (Fairport Convention)
12 Matty Groves (Fairport Convention)
13 talk (Fairport Convention)
14 The Banks of the Sweet Primroses (Fairport Convention)
15 talk (Fairport Convention)
16 Drums [Instrumental] (Fairport Convention)
17 Flatback Caper (Fairport Convention)
18 talk (Fairport Convention)
19 Sloth (Fairport Convention)
20 talk (Fairport Convention)
21 Instrumental (Fairport Convention)
22 talk (Fairport Convention)
23 Tam Lin (Fairport Convention)
24 talk (Fairport Convention)
25 Sir Patrick Spens (Fairport Convention)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/U7xVhxBB

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/MWGun0fAX7SLESu/file

The cover image is from a Philadelphia Folk Festival on August 29, 1970. The original photo was in black and white. But I colorized it with the help of the Kolorize program.

Country Joe McDonald - BBC Sessions, Volume 1: 1970-1972

I left for a two-week vacation about two weeks ago. (I'm writing this in late March 2026.) Around the time I left, I heard that singer-songwriter Country Joe McDonald had died. Specifically, he died on March 7, 2026, at the age of 84, of complications from Parkinson's Disease. 

To be honest, I can't say I'm that familiar with his discography. But since he died, I wanted to see if there were any worthy albums I could post of his music. To my surprise, I found not one, not two, not three, but four albums of unreleased material he performed for the BBC, all of it from the 1970s. Here's the first one. It consists of BBC studio sessions. 

The first seven tracks come from an appearance on John Peel's radio show, "Top Gear," in 1970. Tracks 8 and 9 are from the "One in Ten" radio show "One in Ten" in 1971. The rest of the songs are from the "Old Grey Whistle Test" TV show. Tracks 10 through 14 are from a 1972 episode. Most of the songs were performed in solo acoustic mode.

All the music here is unreleased. The sound quality is generally excellent, especially since there was no audience noise. 

This album is 40 minutes long. 

01 Hold On, It's Coming (Country Joe McDonald)
02 Balancing on the Edge of Time (Country Joe McDonald)
03 talk (Country Joe McDonald)
04 It's So Nice to Have Love (Country Joe McDonald)
05 Maria (Country Joe McDonald)
06 talk (Country Joe McDonald)
07 Tell Me Where You're Bound (Country Joe McDonald)
08 talk (Country Joe McDonald)
09 Jean Desprez (Country Joe McDonald)
10 Tricky Dick (Country Joe McDonald)
11 talk (Country Joe McDonald)
12 Trapped Inside a Fantasy (Country Joe McDonald)
13 talk (Country Joe McDonald)
14 Coulene Anne (Country Joe McDonald)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/N124GwUt

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/LXstnTF0Kdc6Uyi/file

The cover image is from an appearance on an unnamed British TV show some time in 1972. 

Dionne Warwick - Dionne, Burt and Hal: The Definitive Songbook, Volume 5: 1969-1970 (A Mike Solof Guest Post)

Here’s another album of Dionne Warwick singing all the songs written by Hal David and Burt Bacharach. Once again, thanks to Mike Solof for putting these albums together.

Warwick, David, and Bacharach had a great thing going from about 1963 until 1970. They had hit after hit after hit. The end of this album marks the end of that golden era. The three of them would still collaborate together, but much more intermittently. There are two more volumes dealing with those later years.

This album is 53 minutes long.

061 I'll Never Fall in Love Again (Dionne Warwick)
062 Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head (Dionne Warwick)
063 Dream Sweet Dreamer (Dionne Warwick)
064 Knowing When to Leave (Dionne Warwick)
065 Let Me Go to Him (Dionne Warwick)
066 Loneliness Remembers What Happiness Forgets (Dionne Warwick)
067 Paper Mache (Dionne Warwick)
068 The Wine Is Young (Dionne Warwick)
069 Check Out Time (Dionne Warwick)
070 Make It Easy on Yourself (Dionne Warwick)
071 The Green Grass Starts to Grow (Dionne Warwick)
072 The Very First Person I Met [In California] (Dionne Warwick)
073 They Don't Give Medals to Yesterday's Heroes (Dionne Warwick)
074 Walk the Way You Talk (Dionne Warwick)
075 The Look of Love (Dionne Warwick)
076 Who Gets the Guy (Dionne Warwick)
077 Only Love Can Break a Heart (Dionne Warwick)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/nMDebKmr

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/4j7hPKMNNw5COdY/file

The cover photo shows her on the Engelbert Humperdinck TV Show some time in 1969. 

Covered: Neil Young, Volume 1: 1967-1989

I'm leaving for a vacation to the Amazonian region of Peru tomorrow. I'll be gone for nearly two weeks. But while I'm gone, I'm going to try to keep posting. I have two big music projects that I have all set up. So pretty much all I need to do is hit "publish" on my cell phone to post each album. We'll see how it works out. Given that I'm going to a pretty remote area, I might be out of Internet contact for days at a time. So cross your fingers. 

Anyway, this is one of the two projects: a "Covered" collection for one of the greatest songwriters of all time, Neil Young. This one was mostly done by musical friend Fabio from Rio. That includes writing really great liner notes. 

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This is certainly one of the most daunting projects I've worked with Paul yet, and certainly the biggest and most demanding "Covered" collections at the "Albums That Should Exist" blog ever, at least at the time of writing these liner notes. 

I assume Neil Young needs no introduction. Everybody (or at least everybody who has not lived in an offline bunker for the last half century) knows that Neil is one of the most important rock artists of the last sixty years. He has been influencing generations of musicians since the 1960s, resulting in literally thousands of covers and tributes, officially and unofficially available on studio albums, tribute records, live performances, and YouTube uploads.

Our aim here was not to include every Neil Young composition (that would easily result in more than 25 volumes), but to present a good representation of his output, including not only the all-time hits but also deep cuts, some officially unreleased songs cherished by long-time fans (the so-called "Rusties"), and at least a few lesser-known but equally strong compositions from more recent years, since Neil has never stopped composing, performing and recording.

We would like this project to become "The Best Neil Young Cover Collection Ever" - not out of personal vanity, but as a tribute to the quality of the songs and artists featured. For that reason, we walked the proverbial extra mile in order to select what we believe are some of the best performances of each song. In some cases, this was quite difficult to determine and remains subject to endless debate, since certain songs have literally hundreds of different versions recorded by dozens of artists. Subjectivity inevitably played a part, since our personal tastes (mine and Paul's) may have resulted in some biased selections. However, we tried whenever possible to focus on performances that are widely recognized as among the best or most representative interpretations of a given song. At the same time, we also looked for unusual readings that might give a different or fresh spin to familiar melodies.

My initial selection comprised about 230 different songs, and I listened to more than a thousand performances (1,072 to be exact) in order to prepare the first short list, which was later shared with Paul. For some songs there were literally dozens of available covers, so our main challenge was deciding which one to include. For others, it was surprisingly difficult to find a strong version. In some cases - particularly with more obscure tunes - we had to resort to unofficial recordings, including some provided by the Rusties community, where both amateur and professional musicians share their interpretations.

Since my initial selection would result in too-long a collection even for die-hard fans standards, Paul made editorial cuts, excluding some songs (which I accepted with stoic dignity), but also requesting the inclusion of some of his personal favorites, which I happily complied. In the end, we settled on a 10-volume collection with about 150 tracks, with very little repetition (only two songs - "Heart of Gold" and "Cortez the Killer" - appear in more than one version, in different volumes). 

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Note that Fabio wrote individual paragraphs about all the songs in this volume. To see that, please look at the Word file added to the download zip file. Thanks again to Fabio for his help putting these albums together.

I also want to add that these albums are ordered by the years the covers were recorded, not the years the songs were first recorded by Neil Young. So if you don't see songs you want included, please wait. There are no less than TEN albums! And for instance, some songs from this time period don't show up until the last one. 

This album is an hour and three minutes long.

01 Do I Have to Come Right Out and Say It (Gallery Production)
02 Sugar Mountain (Joni Mitchell)
03 Everybody, I Love You (Happy Day)
04 Round and Round (Bernie Schwartz)
05 Southern Man (Merry Clayton)
06 Birds (Linda Ronstadt)
07 Ohio (Isley Brothers)
08 Only Love Can Break Your Heart (Jackie DeShannon)
09 See the Sky about to Rain (Byrds)
10 New Mama (Stephen Stills)
11 Love Is a Rose (Linda Ronstadt)
12 Mr. Soul (Cher)
13 The Loner (Stephen Stills)
14 Lotta Love (Nicolette Larson)
15 Look Out for My Love (Linda Ronstadt)
16 Like a Hurricane (Roxy Music)
17 Are You Ready for the Country (Jason & the Scorchers)
17 Winterlong (Pixies)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/esnnYxUY

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/vkDhlrs5SJscv2W/file

The cover photo is from 1966 or 1967. The original was in black and white, but I colorized it with the help of the Kolorize program. I also used the Krea AI program to add detail. 

The Carpenters - Full Acappella, Volume 1: 1966-1976

Back in 2018, I posted an album by the Carpenters called "Near Acappella." It featured versions of their best songs done with very minimal instrumental backing, usually just vocals, bass, and drums. Lately, I've been collaborating with Fabio from Rio on some albums. He shares my appreciation for the vocals of Karen Carpenter. I don't know what it is, but there was something very special and unique about her singing. So Fabio wanted to make a "Full Acappella" album, and he did most of the heavy lifting to make it happen. It turns out we had enough material for two albums. Here's the first one.

The rest of this write-up here was written by Fabio:

Inspired by Paul's "Near Acappella" Carpenters collection from some years ago, I decided to check if there were "full acappella" versions of Carpenters songs available, since in recent years audio tools (with or without AI) have gotten better separating vocals from instrumentals. It turns out there are indeed a lot of acappella versions of Carpenters songs out there, so I selected the best ones I could find. At first, the album I made from the acappella versions I found made for a relatively short album. So Paul suggested "two or three more tracks." But I got excited with my "new toy" (the MVSEP online tool that makes it possible to segregate all kinds of tracks from a multitrack source) and ended up creating an additional dozen tracks myself, while also finding some more. That ended up being too much for a single disc. So, as per another suggestion by Paul, this became a "twofer", or two volume collection. These albums may be considered twin siblings of the earlier "Near Acappella" collection.

I got about half of the tracks from YouTube channels or Facebook fan groups, and the remaining were done with MVSEP. I used Audacity software to exclude instrumental breaks, intros, and outros, as well as cleaning up the occasional odd instrument (a drum roll, a sax riff), in order to keep this new collection truly "full acappella." All those that have "[Edit]" in their titles had some additional cleaning done by Paul or me (other than what was already done by whoever shared the acappella tracks originally).

We (myself and Paul) discussed a bit about pros and cons of including harmony vocals (by Richard and/or backing singers, or even occasionally a full choir, like in "Sing" and "Goodnight"). Paul was inclined to keep only Karen's leading vocals. But I argued that a full album with just Karen's voice, regardless of how beautiful it is, could sound a bit monotonous, while the harmony vocals help to provide additional color and variety. So, in the end, we decided to keep them.

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There's more to Fabio's comments, including explanations of the sources of all the songs. Check out the Word file included in the download zip for that. However, here's one final comment from him, about the bonus track: 

While mining for tracks, I found two already done acappella versions of "We've Only Just Begun": one with only Karen's lead vocal track, and another with lead vocals and harmony vocals. Both are good - the "lead singing only" is more intimate and a bit melancholic, while the "lead vocals with harmonies" is quite exquisite. So, I suggested to Paul that we could keep them both, one at the official track list and another as a bonus track for Volume 1.

This album is 46 minutes long. 

01 I'll Be Yours [Edit] (Karen Carpenter)
02 Goodnight (Carpenters)
03 We've Only Just Begun (Carpenters)
04 Maybe It's You [Edit] (Carpenters)
05 [They Long to Be] Close to You [Edit] (Carpenters)
06 Baby It's You (Carpenters)
07 Rainy Days and Mondays [Edit] (Carpenters)
08 [A Place to] Hideaway (Carpenters)
09 Sometimes (Carpenters)
10 A Song for You (Carpenters)
11 Goodbye to Love [Edit] (Carpenters)
12 Sing [Edit] (Carpenters)
13 From the Heart Comes the Soul (Carpenters)
14 Aurora (Carpenters)
15 Only Yesterday [Edit] (Carpenters)
16 Solitaire [Edit] (Carpenters)
17 Love Me for What I Am [Edit] (Carpenters)
18 Eventide (Carpenters)
19 Good Friends Are for Keeps (Carpenters)
20 Ordinary Fool [Edit] (Carpenters)

We've Only Just Begun [Harmony Vocals Version] [Edit] (Carpenters)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/En3Makbp

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/2L3B4h5poc7r7wm/file

I don't know anything about the cover image except it's Karen Carpenter "circa 1970." The original was in black and white, but I colorized it with the use of the Kolorize program. 

The Flying Burrito Bros & the Byrds - The Flying Byrds Brothers, Whisky-A-Go-Go, Los Angeles, CA, 9-19-1970

If you're a fan of country rock, this is a very special concert. The Byrds helped invent country rock in 1968. But a couple of key members left and started a new band, the Flying Burrito Bros, that kept developing the country rock sound. The various band members remained friends, however. So when they happened to be on the same bill together, they decided to merge their bands together for most of one concert. So that makes this concert very unique and special. But, even better, it was recorded with soundboard quality, despite still being unreleased.

By 1969, the main leader of the Byrds was Roger McGuinn. The Flying Burrito Bros were jointly led by ex-Byrds members Gram Parsons and Chris Hillman, but by the end of 1969, Parsons had left, making Hillman the temporary leader. (He in turn would leave in early 1972, passing the leadership to others.) McGuinn and Hillman went way back, both being founding members of the Byrds in 1964, and they remained on good terms. So when their bands were on the same bill one night at the Boston Tea Party club in Boston in February 1969, they merged bands together for about an hour and a half. Unfortunately, there are no known recordings of that show. 

But then, in September 1970, they shared the same bill at the Whisky-a-Go-Go club for three nights in a row, playing two shows a night. For the first two nights, and the first show of the third night, they just did their sets separately. I have included the Byrds set from the first show. (If there's a Flying Burrito Bros set, I don't have have it.) Then, for this performance, the late show on the third and final night, they had something special planned. The Flying Burrito Bros did their second set as usual. Then, when the headlining act, the Byrds, came on, the two bands merged. And they didn't just perform together for a couple of songs. No, they were together for a full hour! They mostly played Byrds songs, since Hillman was in the Byrds from 1964 until late 1968, so he no doubt remembered many of them well.

At one point between songs, McGuinn jokingly suggested the name "Flying Byrds Brothers" for the merging of the two bands. That sounded pretty good to me, so I added it to the title and the cover art. 

It could be there were more Flying Burrito Bros songs at the start that didn't make the recording. The version I found started with the last minute of "The Train Song." I cut that because there wasn't much left of that song at that point, just one line repeated over and over. So it's possible there were other songs prior to that one before someone started recording. I'm not aware of any complete set list so we could check.

Also, it's possible that the Byrds set from the early show is incomplete. There isn't a clear start to the first song, with an introduction of the band, so there could have been more there. And the last song, "This Wheel's on Fire," was cut off about 30 seconds before the song ended. I patched that up by adding in the end from a concert in Ames, Iowa, a month later. That's why that song has "[Edit]" in its title. But it also suggests there could have been more songs after that cut off.

This album is two hours and six minutes long.

UPDATE: On February 26, 2026, a few days after I first posted this, I was told about all the Byrds songs from the first set, so I added those in. This addition works out very nicely, because the Byrds clearly tried to play all different songs in the first set than in the second set. There's only one song played in both, "You Ain't Goin' There." It's telling that the leader of the Byrds, Roger McGuinn expressed surprise at the start of the song that the other band members wanted to play it again.

01 Lover of the Bayou (Byrds)
02 You Ain't Goin' Nowhere (Byrds)
03 talk (Byrds)
04 I Trust (Byrds)
05 My Back Pages (Byrds)
06 B.J. Blues - Baby What You Want Me to Do (Byrds)
07 Well Come Back Home (Byrds)
08 Truck Stop Girl (Byrds)
09 Take a Whiff [On Me] (Byrds)
10 It's All Right Ma [I'm Only Bleeding] (Byrds)
11 The Ballad of Easy Rider (Byrds)
12 Jesus Is Just Alright (Byrds)
13 This Wheel's on Fire [Edit] (Byrds)
14 Payday (Flying Burrito Bros)
15 talk (Flying Burrito Bros)
16 Wake Up Little Suzie (Flying Burrito Bros)
17 talk (Flying Burrito Bros)
18 Colorado (Flying Burrito Bros)
19 talk (Flying Burrito Bros)
20 Break My Mind (Flying Burrito Bros)
21 talk (Flying Burrito Bros)
22 Trying to Reach My Goal (Flying Burrito Bros)
23 talk (Flying Burrito Bros & the Byrds)
24 Roll Over Beethoven (Flying Burrito Bros & the Byrds)
25 You Don't Miss Your Water (Flying Burrito Bros & the Byrds)
26 I'll Feel a Whole Lot Better (Flying Burrito Bros & the Byrds)
27 Hickory Wind (Flying Burrito Bros & the Byrds)
28 So You Want to Be a Rock 'n' Roll Star (Flying Burrito Bros & the Byrds)
29 The Bells of Rhymney (Flying Burrito Bros & the Byrds)
30 Close Up the Honky Tonks (Flying Burrito Bros & the Byrds)
31 Time Between (Flying Burrito Bros & the Byrds)
32 Mr. Spaceman (Flying Burrito Bros & the Byrds)
33 Turn, Turn, Turn [To Everything There Is a Season] (Flying Burrito Bros & the Byrds)
34 Mr. Tambourine Man (Flying Burrito Bros & the Byrds)
35 Eight Miles High (Flying Burrito Bros & the Byrds)
36 Wasn't Born to Follow (Flying Burrito Bros & the Byrds)
37 Chimes of Freedom (Flying Burrito Bros & the Byrds)
38 talk (Flying Burrito Bros & the Byrds)
39 You Ain't Goin' Nowhere (Flying Burrito Bros & the Byrds)
40 Hold It (Flying Burrito Bros & the Byrds)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/eoQ4idQm

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/AIqu9SRH7L4DmF5/file

There is a photo of the Flying Burrito Bros and the Byrds playing in concert together in 1969. But to call it "low quality" is putting it mildly. It's about as bad a photo as you can imagine, with the people looking little more than black blobs. So I didn't want to use that. Instead, I kind of created a fake picture. This is a real picture of McGuinn (left) and Hillman (right) on stage together when they were both members of the Byrds. It was taken at the Grand Old Opry in 1968. But at that time, McGuinn kept his hair very short, and he grew it out by 1970. So I found a photo of him in concert in early 1970 and pasted that over his head in the original photo. I hope this comes close to what they might have actually looked like at this concert.

Also, the original photo was quite low-res and in black and white. I colorized it with the use of the Kolorize program. And I used Krea AI to help with the detail.

Aretha Franklin - Festival de Jazz d'Antibes, Juan-les-Pins, France, 7-21-1970

Here's a really nice Aretha Franklin from 1970, right in the middle of her peak era of the late 1960s and early 1970s.

There are very few concert bootlegs of Franklin from this time period. This is probably the earliest one, other than a 1968 Stockholm concert that I've posted at this blog already. She also released a 1968 live album. There's more live material from 1971 and 1972. But this helps fill a gap between the 1968 recordings and the ones from 1971 and after.

This definitely has soundboard-level sound quality. I don't know if that's because it's from an FM radio broadcast, or TV broadcast, or other, but it sounds as good as official live albums from this time period.

Note that two of the songs, "Put on a Happy Face" and "A Brand New Me," were sung by her back up singers. I believe one of those singers was Carolyn Franklin, her sister, who also helped her write some songs. 

This album is 52 minutes long. 

01 [I Can't Get No] Satisfaction (Aretha Franklin)
02 Respect (Aretha Franklin)
03 [You Make Me Feel Like] A Natural Woman (Aretha Franklin)
04 I Say a Little Prayer (Aretha Franklin)
05 talk (Aretha Franklin)
06 Eleanor Rigby (Aretha Franklin)
07 Since You've Been Gone [Sweet Sweet Baby] (Aretha Franklin)
08 Tighten Up [Instrumental Version] (Aretha Franklin)
09 Put on a Happy Face (Aretha Franklin)
10 A Brand New Me (Aretha Franklin)
11 Dr. Feelgood [Love Is a Serious Business] (Aretha Franklin)
12 You Send Me (Aretha Franklin)
13 Spirit in the Dark (Aretha Franklin) 

https://pixeldrain.com/u/JmvpkgXc

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/rkl5PP8I67WKvJE/file

I got lucky with the cover photo, because it's from this exact concert. It's the only one that I found. The original was in black and white, but I colorized it with the help of the Kolorize program.

The Rascals - Live on TV: 1966-1970

A few weeks ago (writing this in February 2026), I posted a concert that included a set by the Rascals (originally known as the Young Rascals). A frequent commenter here, Sax and Guitar, saw that and emailed me with an album he'd made of performances the Rascals did for various TV shows in the 1960s, and he suggested that I posted it. It turns out I'd already made an album like that that I'd just never gotten around to posting. (I have hundreds if not thousands of albums like that that I need to post. Sigh!) In fact, the songs on his version were basically exactly the same as mine, since we both went looking for the same things at YouTube. Thanks to his push, I decided to post my Rascals collection sooner rather than later, so here it is.

Before I say more, here's the concert I mentioned above, that includes a set by the Rascals: 

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2026/01/various-artists-khj-third-annual.html

That concert is a real treasure, because publicly available recordings of the Rascals performing live in the 1960s are rarer than hen's teeth. Besides that, all we seem to have from the 1960s are occasional TV appearances. Some TV shows had them lip-sync to records. But Sax and Guitar and I collected all the ones that were genuinely performed live.

All the performances here are unreleased. I used MVSEP to boost the vocals on songs where the vocals were low in the mix, which was most of them. Also, most of the songs had most or all of the applause at the ends cut off. So I edited the applause to bridge the songs together. Typically, the applause at the end of one song continues until the next song starts. 

Sax and Guitar wrote a nice little write-up meant to go with this album. It includes a short history of the band during this time period. I've included that as a Word file in the download zip.

Note that Sax and Guitar already has two other albums he's helping with, with hopefully more to come, knock on wood. Thanks to him for helping to get this album finished off. 

01 Good Lovin' (Rascals)
02 Mickey's Monkey - Love Lights [Turn On Your Lovelight] (Rascals)
03 I've Been Lonely Too Long - Come On Up (Rascals)
04 Since I Fell for You (Rascals)
05 A Girl like You (Rascals)
06 Groovin' (Rascals)
07 Do You Feel It (Rascals)
08 A Beautiful Morning (Rascals)
09 Carry Me Back (Rascals)
10 In the Midnight Hour (Tom Jones & the Rascals)
11 Glory, Glory (Rascals)
12 People Got to Be Free - Oh Happy Day (Rascals with Barbara McNair)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/Ypr5L16V 

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/P2jGus4SU9ctROL/file

The cover photo was selected by Sax and Guitar. I don't know the exact details about it, but I believe it's from 1967. I used Krea AI to improve the detail.

Covered: Shel Silverstein - Volume 1: 1963-1972

Here's the next songwriter in my Covered series: Shel Silverstein. To say Silverstein was a colorful character is putting it mildly. Among his many talents was songwriting. I've found enough good covers of his songs for two volumes. Here's the first one.

Silverstein was born in Chicago in 1930, and raised there. He went to college, then spent a few years in the U.S. army. After that, he started to get known for his cartoons published in magazines. He especially had many of his cartoons published in Playboy Magazine, from the 1950s into the 1970s. He developed another creative career as the author of children's books. He eventually sold 20 million books. His most acclaimed books include "The Giving Tree," "Where the Sidewalk Ends," and "A Light in the Attic." He also had success writing for plays, movies, and TV shows.

So he was a creative Renaissance Man. But out focus here is on his songwriting. He was a music performer too, and released many albums, with the first one coming out in 1959. But he had a gruff voice with limited range. Also, it seems he very rarely performed in public, probably because he had so many other creative projects going on to want to go on long tours. So he was much more successful having others cover his songs.

His songwriting career started fairly slowly. He only had a few successes for most of the 1960s. But that changed drastically in 1969, when Johnny Cash had a huge hit with "A Boy Called Sue." That was such an unusual song, with lots of comedy, that many other musical acts went looking for other songs he'd written. It turns out his biggest fans were the band Dr. Hook. Their debut album "Doctor Hook," released in 1972, consisted entirely of songs written by Silverstein. And their second album, "Sloppy Seconds," released later in 1972, also consisted entirely of his songs! Those albums gave Dr. Hook their first two big hits, "Sylvia's Mother" and "The Cover of the Rolling Stone."

That takes us to the end of 1972. I'll write more about him in the second and last volume.

This album is 46 minutes long. 

01 Hey Nelly Nelly (Judy Collins)
02 In the Hills of Shiloh (Modern Folk Quartet)
03 25 Minutes to Go (Johnny Cash)
04 The Mermaid (Glen Yarbrough)
05 Boa Constrictor (Johnny Cash)
06 The Unicorn (Irish Rovers)
07 A Boy Named Sue (Johnny Cash)
08 Once More With Feeling (Jerry Lee Lewis)
09 One's on the Way (Loretta Lynn)
10 I Call That True Love (Dr. Hook)
11 The Taker (Kris Kristofferson)
12 Freakin' at the Freakers' Ball (Dr. Hook)
13 On Susan's Floor (Gordon Lightfoot)
14 Sylvia's Mother (Dr. Hook)
16 The Cover of Rolling Stone (Dr. Hook)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/Vdghqyqe

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/YfWSztH9v8E8ui0/file

The cover image is from 1972.

Roberta Flack - With These Hands - Non-Album Tracks (1970-1971)

This is a collection of non-album tracks for Roberta Flack that I recently found. They make up an excellent album from what I consider the peak of her career.

I've already posted some albums of non-album tracks from around this time period. So I was pleasantly surprised to find an entire album's worth more. That's because her 1970 album, "Chapter Two," and her 1971 album, "Quiet Fire," were recently rereleased with lots of bonus tracks. The first song here is the only "Chapter Two" bonus track, while the rest are all "Quiet Fire" bonus tracks.

I don't know why these songs weren't officially released at the time, because they sound as good to me as the ones on her albums. Perhaps it was that many of them were classic hits already, and she wanted to do more obscure material. But in any case, this makes for a very nice album all these years later.  

This album is 48 minutes long. 

01 Midnight Cowboy (Roberta Flack)
02 What's Going On (Roberta Flack)
03 Free at Last (Roberta Flack)
04 Chasin' the Sunshine (Roberta Flack)
05 Here, There and Everywhere (Roberta Flack)
06 O-o-h Child (Roberta Flack)
07 With These Hands (Roberta Flack)
08 Superstar [Groupie] (Roberta Flack) 

https://pixeldrain.com/u/uyTa5KfK

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/2JNZyu1zumLlqsq/file

The cover photo is from a promo photo taken around 1971. I colorized it with the help of the Kolorize program.

Tony Joe White - BBC Sessions, Volume 1: In Concert, London, Britain, 11-23-1970

At the end of 2024, I posted a short BBC concert by singer-songwriter Tony Joe White. I thought it was from 1974, because that's how it was labeled, but it turns out that was wrong. It actually was from 1970. The problem was that he appeared on the same BBC TV show, "In Concert," twice, in 1970 and 1974. So it was easy to mistake one for another. Now, at the end of 2025, I figured out the mistake because I found a copy of the 1974 concert. 

So I've completely deleted the old version I posted last year and I'm replacing it with this. It's actually the same music as before, but with changed title, cover art, and mp3 tags. I'll follow this by posting the 1974 concert.

White is probably best known for the song "Polk Salad Annie," which he wrote and which was a Top Ten hit in the U.S. in 1969. He also wrote "Rainy Night in Georgia," which was a Top Ten hit for Brook Benton in 1970, and was included in Rolling Stone Magazine's list of the top 500 songs of all time. White's career faded into obscurity in the late 1970s, done in by disco like so many others at the time. But he had a revival in the 1990s, including writing some hits for Tina Turner.

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

Tony Joe White - Wikipedia

The date I'm using here is the broadcast date. If anyone knows the recording date please let me know, so I can use that instead. The music here is unreleased. The sound quality is excellent.

This album is 30 minutes long.

01 Polk Salad Annie (Tony Joe White)
02 talk (Tony Joe White)
03 Rainy Night in Georgia (Tony Joe White)
04 talk (Tony Joe White)
05 Willie and Laura Mae Jones (Tony Joe White)
06 talk (Tony Joe White)
07 Groupy Girl (Tony Joe White)
08 talk (Tony Joe White)
09 The Migrant (Tony Joe White)
10 talk (Tony Joe White)
11 Roosevelt and Ira Lee [Night of the Moccasin] (Tony Joe White)
12 talk (Tony Joe White)
13 Save Your Sugar for Me (Tony Joe White)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/CUa8eUGz

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/eYf9ImF35xlgvCs/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert.

Brinsley Schwarz - BBC Sessions, Volume 1: 1970-1972

In 2021, I posted three albums of the British band Brinsley Schwarz performing for the BBC. At the time, that was the best I thought I could do, since it was hard to find a lot of their BBC recordings. But since then, I've found more. Most importantly, I've found four short but (probably) complete BBC concerts. So I decided to completely redo my Brinsley Schwarz BBC albums. Now, instead of three, I have seven. I find it easier to just start from scratch. So I've deleted the three albums I previously posted, and I'll be replacing them with seven new ones. Starting with this one, "Volume 1."

 Weirdly, Brinsley Schwarz was the name of the band and a member of the band, but not the most important or most visible member. Brinsley Schwarz was the lead guitarist. But the member who sang and wrote most of the songs was Nick Lowe. He would later go on to have a long and successful solo career. Another key member was Ian Gomm, who also sang and wrote some songs, and also would have a hit as a solo artist. (Gomm isn't on this album though, since he joined the band in 1971.)

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

Brinsley Schwarz - Wikipedia 

In April 1970, the band released their debut album, simply titled "Brinsley Schwarz." Then, in December 1970, they released their second album, "Despite It All." This album consists entirely of radio appearances in 1970 when they were promoting those two albums, with one exception. 

The first three songs come from an appearance on the German TV show "Beat Club" in June 1970. True, that's not a BBC thing, but I'm including it anyway. It's one of very few TV or radio appearances they did (and survived) that wasn't for the BBC.

"Love Song" is from a BBC concert in September 1970. Unfortunately, it seems no recordings of this concert are known except for this one song. I found two versions of it. Both had issues. For instance, one version was missing the beginning. But I was able to combine them to create a decent version. So that's why this song has "[Edit]" in its title. I also removed the audience noise at the end.

The next four songs, tracks 5 through 8, come from an appearance on the "Top Gear" radio show in November 1970. 

The last song, "She's Got to Be Real" is from an appearance on the Bob Harris BBC radio show in early 1972. 

Most of the songs performed here were from the band's first two albums. However, "Indian Woman" and "Seymour (I Love You)" were unreleased at the time. Eventually, versions were released on archival albums in the 2020s. "Indian Woman" came out on the "Last Orders" album, and it's this version. However, that version, and all versions I found, have the beginning cut off, with the song beginning in mid-verse. But I managed to fix it by patching in some music from later in the song. That's why it has "[Edit]" in its title. 

"Seymour (I Love You)" and "Funk Angel" came out on the "Thinking Back" box set. "She's Got to Be Real" came out on the official BBC album "What IS So Funny about Peace, Love and Understanding." All the other performances are unreleased. However, they generally have sound quality similar to the officially released ones.

This album is 52 minutes long.

01 Ebury Down (Brinsley Schwarz)
02 Ballad of a Has-Been Beauty Queen (Brinsley Schwarz)
03 Indian Woman [Edit] (Brinsley Schwarz)
04 Love Song [Edit] (Brinsley Schwarz)
05 Seymour [I Love You] [Instrumental] (Brinsley Schwarz)
06 Funk Angel (Brinsley Schwarz)
07 The Slow One (Brinsley Schwarz)
08 Rock and Roll Station (Brinsley Schwarz)
09 She's Got to Be Real (Brinsley Schwarz)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/DBWw4shB

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/849iAbTbA8CQRMq/file

The cover art photo comes from a concert in Tunbridge Wells, Britain, in 1973. The original was in black and white, but due to the severe lack of good color photos of the band, I went through some trouble to colorize it. I later improved the image detail with the Krea AI program.

Covered: Hoyt Axton: 1963-1977

Here's another edition of the "Covered" series, where I pay tribute to talented songwriters by collecting cover versions of their songs. This time, the focus is on Hoyt Axton.

Axton was born in a small town in Oklahoma in 1938. He came from a musical family. His mother, Mae Boren Axton, was a songwriter who co-wrote the Elvis Presley classic hit "Heartbreak Hotel" and many country songs, and one of his cousins was folk singer Arlo Guthrie. After going to college and serving a few years in the U.S. Navy, he began playing his songs in clubs. He released his first album in 1962, and released a couple dozen from that time until the end of the 1990s.

However, while Axton had some minor hits in the 1970s, especially on the U.S. country chart, he had much greater success by having others cover his songs. He also had a successful parallel career as an actor, especially playing colorful characters in supporting roles in dozens of TV shows and movies. 

His first success as a songwriter was "Greenback Dollar," which became kind of a folk music classic after it was covered by the Kingston Trio in 1963. He didn't have much more success with others covering his songs for the rest of the 1960s, although "The Pusher" became one of Steppenwolf's best known songs in 1968. However, everything changed for him in 1970, because Three Dog Night covered "Joy to the World." Not only was it a Number One hit in the U.S., it was the best selling song of the year! After that, he had quite a few more successes with other people covering his songs for the rest of the 1970s. For instance, Three Dog Night had a Top Five hit with "Never Been to Spain," and Ringo Starr had a Top Five hit with "No No Song."

I've tried to avoid including songs sung by Axton, since this is supposed to be a collection of other musical acts covering his songs. However, I've included two duets he was involved in. "When the Morning Comes," a duet with Linda Ronstadt, is particularly notable for being his biggest hit as a singer. It reached Number 10 in the U.S. country chart in 1974.

He kept putting out new music until the end of his life. He died in 1999 at the age of 61 due to a heart attack.

Axton's songs weren't often big hits, though occasionally they were. However, they usually were distinctive and interesting.   

This album is 46 minutes long. 

01 Greenback Dollar (Kingston Trio)
02 The Pusher (Steppenwolf)
03 Willie Jean (Sunshine Company)
04 Joy to the World (Three Dog Night)
05 Snowblind Friend (Steppenwolf)
06 Ease Your Pain (Jackie DeShannon)
07 Never Been to Spain (Three Dog Night)
08 Sweet Fantasy (Glen Campbell)
09 When the Morning Comes (Hoyt Axton & Linda Ronstadt)
10 No No Song (Ringo Starr)
11 Sweet Misery (Martha Reeves)
12 Southbound (Three Dog Night)
13 Boney Fingers (Hoyt Axton & Rene Armand)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/V6H6sG3w

alternate:

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

I don't know where or when the cover photo is from. The original was in black and white, but I colorized it with the help of the Kolorize program. 

Gerry Rafferty (with the Humblebums and Stealers Wheel) - BBC Sessions, Volume 1: 1970-1972

Here's a collection of BBC studio sessions by singer-songwriter Gerry Rafferty. During this time, he was in two bands, the Humblebums and Stealers Wheel, while also putting out music as a solo artist. So this includes material from all of those bands.

Today, Rafferty is best known for the songs "Stuck in the Middle with You," "Right Down the Line," and "Baker Street." (You might not recognize the title "Baker Street," since it's only mentioned once in the song, but I'll bet you recognize the saxophone riff. Weirdly, the song didn't reach Number One in the U.S. despite being a massive hit in 1978, but it stayed at Number Two for six weeks!) But he was a very talented singer and songwriter who deserves to be known for a lot more than just those three songs. (I use the past tense, because he died in 2011 at the age of 63.)

 In 1969, Rafferty joined the band the Humblebums. The band had already existed for a few years, and was led by Billy Connolly. Connolly wouldn't have great success as a musician, but he would transition to becoming a world famous comedian and actor. When Rafferty joined, the Humblebums split between songs written and sung by Connolly and songs written and sung by Rafferty. The songs here generally are the Rafferty ones. By Connolly's own admission, Rafferty was leagues ahead of him musically, while Connolly excelled in comedic stage banter, which is missing here.

The Humblebums split in 1971. That same year, Rafferty put out his first solo album, "Can I Have My Money Back?" It was largely ignored due to poor record company support, but got good reviews. However, by the end of 1971, Rafferty joined another band, Stealers Wheel. This was a collaboration with singer-songwriter Joe Egan, with both of them writing and singing songs. I'll have more songs from Stealers Wheel in Volume 2. But for now, that band is represented by the last seven songs on this album.

The songs here come from a variety of BBC sources, all of them unreleased. The first nine songs come from four different BBC radio shows in 1970. Four of those songs have "[Edit]" in their titles due to the common problem of BBC DJs talking over the music. As I usually do, I used the UVR5 program to wipe the talking while keeping the music.

Track 10, "Can I Have My Money Back," is from an appearance on the "Old Grey Whistle Test" in 1971. Tracks 11, 12, and 13 are from an appearance by Stealers Wheel on a BBC "In Concert" radio show, though they only performed these three songs. Then the last four tracks are from an appearance on the "Top Gear" BBC radio show in early 1972.

Two songs, "A Little of Your Time" and "Oh No," have been bumped down to mere bonus track status, due to poor sound quality. Both of those are from the same BBC studio session in 1970.

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

UPDATE: On December 5, 2025, only about a week after I first posted this album, I updated the mp3 download file. A person named Alick who downloaded it noticed that it was missing a BBC session, and sent that session to me. That makes up tracks 11, 12, and 13. 

01 Rick Rack [Edit] (Humblebums)
02 Everybody Knows That [Edit] (Humblebums)
03 Mother [Edit] (Humblebums)
04 Please Sing a Song for Us [Edit] (Humblebums)
05 Mary of the Mountains (Humblebums)
06 Cruising (Gerry Rafferty)
07 Keep It to Yourself (Gerry Rafferty)
08 My Singing Bird (Gerry Rafferty)
09 All the Best People Do It (Humblebums)
10 Can I Have My Money Back (Gerry Rafferty)
11 I Get By (Stealers Wheel)
12 Please Sing a Song for Us (Stealers Wheel)
13 Steamboat Row (Stealers Wheel)
14 We're on the Right Track (Stealers Wheel)
15 Jose (Stealers Wheel)
16 Mary Skeffington (Stealers Wheel)
17 I Get By (Stealers Wheel)

A Little of Your Time (Humblebums)
Oh No (Humblebums)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/94k7gsff

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/lpYbzyUDi14ovYR/file

The cover photo was taken in Amsterdam, Netherlands in 1972. The original was in black and white, but I colorized it with the use of the Kolorize program.

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. 

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.) 

Covered: Joe South: 1962-2005

Lately, I've had so much music I'm discovering, especially from "Midnight Special," "Ultrasonic," Live at the Record Plant," and "PBS Soundstage," that my Covered series highlighting worthy songwriters has fallen by the wayside. Again. But I'm going to make more of a concerted effort to post more of these, since a have a big number ready to go. Here's an album celebrating the songs of Joe South.

Joe South's songs were very popular for a few years in the late 1960s and early 1970s. He was born in 1940 in Atlanta, Georgia, and his music has an obvious southern influence. He began a career as both a performer and a songwriter in the late 1950s, when he was in his late teens. For many years, he only had minor success with both of those pursuits. The first song here is from 1962, and the second is from 1965. But then he hit his stride in 1968, when more people started covering his songs, and sometimes having big hits with them. For instance, Deep Purple had a big hit with "Hush" in 1968 (which was pretty atypical for them compared to their usual hard rock sound).

Then, in 1969, he had a big hit of his own, "Games People Play." It just missed the Top Ten in the U.S. singles chart, and since then is probably considered his signature song. Then he had another in 1970, with "Walk a Mile in My Shoes," which also just missed the Top Ten. I've chosen to include the Joe South version of "Games People Play." But the main point of this series is to focus on cover versions, so that's the only song I've included that's performed by him. 

In 1970, he also had his biggest success as a songwriter with "(I Never Promised You A) Rose Garden." It was first released by Billy Joe Royal in 1967, and there were a couple more covers after that. But when Lynn Anderson released her version in 1970, it went all the way to Number One in the country chart, and Number Three in the main U.S. singles chart, and became one of the best selling songs of the year. 

After all this success in just a couple of years, his future looked very promising. But then tragedy struck. Tommy South, his brother, committed suicide. Tommy had been in Joe's backing band, and they two of them were very close. Joe irrationally blamed himself for the suicide. He sank into a deep depression that lasted for years, and started taking heavy drugs to cope. His time as a promising songwriter basically ended at that point, as he lost his inspiration for many years. He later said, "I really kicked myself around for years... one of the main hang-ups was I just refused to forgive myself. You know, you can go through drug treatment centers, and it's not a permanent healing until it's a spiritual healing." He finally turned his life around in the late 1980s, but musical trends had largely passed him by, and he never released any new albums after 1975. All the songs here were written before that 1971 tragedy, though some of them were covered many years later. 

He died of a heart attack in 2012, at the age of 72. Here's his Wikipedia entry if you want to know more: 

Joe South - Wikipedia 

This album is 50 minutes long.

01 You're the Reason (Arthur Alexander)
02 I've Got to Be Somebody (Billy Joe Royal)
03 Hush (Deep Purple)
04 Games People Play (Joe South)
05 Down in the Boondocks (Billy Joe Royal)
06 These Are Not My People (Johnny Rivers)
07 Don't It Make You Want to Go Home (Brook Benton)
08 Walk a Mile in My Shoes (Elvis Presley)
09 [I Never Promised You A] Rose Garden (Lynn Anderson)
10 Redneck (Swamp Dogg)
11 Yo-Yo (Osmonds)
12 Don't Throw Your Love to the Wind (Jody Miller)
13 Birds of a Feather (Johnny Nash)
14 I Knew You When (Linda Ronstadt)
15 Children (Stephanie Finch)
16 The Greatest Love (Kelly Hogan)

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alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/SgxQeTnbykRnLm9/file

I took the cover photo from the cover of an album called "The Joe South Story." I don't know the details. But it was one of very few I could find that was in color and showed him when he was young. 

McGuinness Flint - BBC Sessions, Volume 1: 1970-1974

I'm continuing my effort to post BBC sessions of lesser known musical acts. Here's a BBC album by the British band McGuinness Flint. This consists entirely of studio sessions.

This also continues my efforts to post "Top of the Pops" sessions. (As usual, note that's a reference to the BBC radio show, not the BBC TV show of the same name. Note that every single song here is sourced from Top of the Pops sessions. However, the vast majority of these have been officially released on the album "Malt and Barley Blues." It's a pretty damn hard to find album, but it does exist. However, three of the songs are unreleased. Those are tracks 15, 16, and 17. I figure the reason they're unreleased is because they come from a short time when then band was actually called "Coulson, Dean, McGuinness & Flint," so one might argue they technically didn't belong on a McGuinness Flint album. Anyway, those three come from my great unknown source of Top of the Pops sessions. I believe those three haven't been available to the public until now.

McGuinness Flint was formed in 1970 by Tom McGuinness, a bassist and guitarist with Manfred Mann, and Hughie Flint, a drummer with John Mayall's band. It also included vocalist and keyboard player Dennis Coulson, and multi-instrumentalists and singer-songwriters Benny Gallagher and Graham Lyle. 

This caused a problem, because the band was named "McGuinness Flint," but in my opinion the main reason for their success was the songwriting of Gallagher and Lyle. The band had a big hit with their very first release in 1970, "When I'm Dead and Gone," which went all the way to Number Two in the British singles chart. The next year, they had another hit with "Malt and Barley Blues," which also made the Top Five in Britain. Both of those songs, plus most of their other songs from those years, were written by Gallagher and Lyle. So it wasn't surprise that Gallagher and Lyle left the band by the end of 1971 to start their own career as a duo. They would have a lot of success, though they didn't have more hit singles until 1976. They also would have success writing songs for each other. For instance, Lyle co-wrote "What's Love Got to Do with It," which was a Number One hit in the U.S. for Tina Turner in 1984.

After Gallagher and Lyle left, the band had trouble coming up with new material. For their next album, released in 1972, they had the smart idea of releasing an album, "Lo and Behold," consisting entirely of Bob Dylan songs that hadn't been released by Dylan yet at that time. That is represented by the three unreleased songs I mentioned above, when the band was briefly known as Coulson, Dean, McGuinness & Flint. The band then resumed as McGuinness Flint for two more albums, released in 1973 and 1974. But those flatlined with the public, not making the albums chart at all. The band then broke up in 1975.

Here's the Wikipedia page on the band:

McGuinness Flint - Wikipedia 

This album is an hour and six minutes long. 

UPDATE: On October 22, 2025, I updated the mp3 download file. The music is exactly the same, but I changed the title (and cover art) to "Volume 1" after a second volume was found. 

01 When I'm Dead and Gone (McGuinness Flint)
02 Mister Mister (McGuinness Flint)
03 Bodang Buck (McGuinness Flint)
04 Dream Darlin' Dream (McGuinness Flint)
05 I'm Letting You Know (McGuinness Flint)
06 Heritage (McGuinness Flint)
07 Malt and Barley Blues (McGuinness Flint)
08 Conversation (McGuinness Flint)
09 Rock On (McGuinness Flint)
10 Who You Got to Love (McGuinness Flint)
11 Happy Birthday Ruthy Baby (McGuinness Flint)
12 Faith and Gravy (McGuinness Flint)
13 Mama Mine (McGuinness Flint)
14 Oh My Love (McGuinness Flint)
15 Get Your Rocks Off (Coulson, Dean, McGuinness & Flint)
16 Lo and Behold (Coulson, Dean, McGuinness & Flint)
17 Odd and Ends (Coulson, Dean, McGuinness & Flint)
18 Ride on My Rainbow (McGuinness Flint)
19 Rocking Chair (McGuinness Flint)
20 [I Don't Like Your] Country Music (McGuinness Flint)
21 Siren Sadie (McGuinness Flint) 

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alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/sMW5z4CDC6ESjMN/file

The cover photo is from a photo shoot taken at Manchester Square, in London, in December 1970. From left to right: Tom McGuinness, Graham Lyle (sitting in blue shirt), Hughie Flint, Benny Gallagher, and Dennis Coulson (sitting in brown jacket).