Children of the Americas Radiothon, United Nations Building, New York City, 11-18-1989, Part 1 - Warren Zevon, Graham Parker, Ten Years After, Etc...

Back in 2024, I posted a 1988 "Hungerthon" concert that took place at the United Nations (U.N.) building in New York City. This seems to have been a yearly event for some time. I couldn't find anything about the other years, but I found most or all of the 1989 concert, which also took place at the U.N. building. I found enough for three parts. Here's "Part 1."

It seems this concert took place in two stages on the same day. In the first stage, a bunch of less famous acts performed in the United Nations waiting room. This is a smaller venue, just outside of the General Assembly, where the U.N. diplomats meet and vote. These acts, all the ones included here, played to a relatively small crowd. I'm not sure if I have all of these acts. I did find a mention on the Internet that Poco also performed, but I couldn't find a recording of their set. So it's possible there were others I missed as well. If anyone has more, please let me know.

All the music here was broadcast live on a local radio station, which is why we have this with excellent sound quality. The downside though was that since it was a "radiothon" meant to raise money, there were very frequent appeals for donations. The phone number to call was pitched often, practically between every song. So I carefully edited all that out, since those appeals and that phone number are now defunct. I also had to do a lot of editing of the applause, because talkative DJs typically spoke mere moments after each song ended. But I think I was able to patch in enough applause, from spots where some applause was allowed, to make this sound coherent.

Also, for most of these musical acts, there were interviews, usually lasting a few minutes, right in the middle of each performance. I cut all those out. I want this to have replay value, and those interviews weren't so interesting. Most of these performances are solo acoustic in nature, but not all of them.

By the way, here's the link to the 1988 United Nations concert:

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2024/06/various-artists-children-of-americas.html 

If anyone has these concerts from any other years (with worthy sound quality), please let me know and I'll try to post those as well.

As far as I know, these recordings have been very rare. I haven't seen them on any of the usual bootleg sharing sites. So hopefully this posting will get the music to a wider audience. 

This album is an hour and 45 minutes long.

01 Dance with Me Baby (Southside Johnny)
02 Little Calcutta (Southside Johnny)
03 talk (Southside Johnny)
04 Trapped Again (Southside Johnny)
05 The Horses (Rickie Lee Jones)
06 talk (Rickie Lee Jones)
07 On Saturday Afternoons in 1963 (Rickie Lee Jones)
08 Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner (Warren Zevon)
09 talk (Warren Zevon)
10 Boom Boom Mancini (Warren Zevon)
11 Splendid Isolation (Warren Zevon)
12 talk (Warren Zevon)
13 Werewolves of London (Warren Zevon with Paul Schaffer)
14 Rock and Roll Music to the World (Ten Years After)
15 Victim of Circumstance (Ten Years After)
16 I'm Going Home (Ten Years After)
17 talk (Ten Years After)
18 Choo Choo Mama (Ten Years After)
19 Drown in My Own Tears (David Bromberg)
20 talk (David Bromberg)
21 Summer Wages (David Bromberg)
22 Testify (David Bromberg)
23 Big Man on Paper (Graham Parker)
24 talk (Graham Parker)
25 Green Monkeys (Graham Parker)
26 talk (Graham Parker)
27 Slash and Burn (Graham Parker)
28 talk (Richie Havens)
29 They Dance Alone (Richie Havens)
30 Lives in the Balance (Richie Havens)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/8Widw8qm

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/vYQYdYY00B8VCzb/file

I couldn't find ANY photos of any musicians performing in this concert. However, I did find some art relating to it, so I used that. The cover image here is from a T-shirt with a design created by famous artist Peter Max, especially for this concert. The text at the bottom is mostly the same, but I made some changes, especially adding all the text in red.

Texas International Pop Festival, Dallas International Motor Speedway, Lewisville, TX, 9-1-1969, Part 5: Ten Years After

The fifth album from the third day of the 1969 Texas International Pop Festival is a set by the British blues band Ten Years After.

Like the two musical acts I just posted from this festival, Ten Years After was a band on the rise at this time in 1969. They were formed in 1967, and put out their first album that year, which didn't make the charts anywhere. They put out their second album in early 1969. It made the Top Ten in Britain, but didn't dent the U.S. charts at all. Then, in August 1969, they performed a well-received set at the Woodstock festival. That was a big breakthrough for them in the U.S., especially once the Woodstock movie and album were released. 

However, at this point, I imagine they still were largely unknown by the audience at this festival, though some may have heard of the buzz from the Woodstock performance. Just like at Woodstock, the audience loved their energetic jamming. When they finished, they got one of the longest standing ovations from the festival.

The recording is another "good news, bad news" situation. The good news is, this is either all of their set, or at least nearly all of it. The recording ran out partway through the last song here, so it could be they played a song or two after that. But at over an hour, they played longer than most acts, so there probably wasn't much more. The bad news though is that this comes from an audience bootleg, not a soundboard one. That means lower sound quality. And that's especially the case because their style of loud and electrified music demands good sound quality. (Acoustic recordings, for instance, are much more forgiving.) I did my best, using the MVSEP program to reduce the crowd noise during the songs, and using the UVR5 program to boost the lead vocals relative to the instruments. But still, one can tell this doesn't sound as good as the soundboards from the festival.

Also, I found a different live recording from 1969 for their last song, "Help Me," and used that to patch in the missing section. And I did more extensive editing work on the songs than usual, for instance sometimes boosting specific lines in songs when they were extra quiet. But still, I could only do so much. So beware this doesn't sound fantastic.

This album is an hour and nine minutes long. 

01 Good Morning, Little Schoolgirl (Ten Years After)
02 talk (Ten Years After)
03 I Can't Keep from Cryin' Sometimes (Ten Years After)
04 talk (Ten Years After)
05 Hobbit [Instrumental] (Ten Years After)
06 Spoonful (Ten Years After)
07 I'm Goin' Home (Ten Years After)
08 Help Me [Edit] (Ten Years After)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/XhZtux42 

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/VaLh49Fd1WqHrZ1/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert. It shows lead guitarist and vocalist Alvin Lee. The original was in black and white. I used the Kolorize program to colorize it.

Isle of Wight Festival, Afton Down, Isle of Wight, Britain, 8-27-1970 to 8-30-1970 - 8-29-1970: Part 4: Ten Years After

The next musical act to play the 1970 Isle of Wight Festival was Ten Years After.

This set started with the songs "Love like a Man" and "Good Morning, Little Schoolgirl." When I first posted this album, I didn't include them, because they sounded worse than the others. But I have since changed my mind, after making some tweaks to improve their sound somewhat. However, they still are rougher than the others.

As far as I know, the only song to be officially released is "I Can't Keep from Cryin' Sometimes," which was included in "The First Great Rock Festivals of the Seventies" album. Everything else is from audience bootleg sources. The remaining songs sound decent, though maybe not always as good as some of the other sets from the festival.

Apparently three more songs were played that I don't have, period: "Hobbit," "Classical Thing," and "Scat Thing." If anyone has what I'm missing, or has songs with better sound quality, please let me know.

There are only six songs here. But Ten Years After was knowing for extensive jamming, and that's the case here. "I'm Goin' Home" is over ten minutes long, and "I Can't Keep from Cryin' Sometimes" is nearly twenty minutes long.

This album is 55 minutes long.

UPDATE: On November 8, 2023, I updated the mp3 download file, because I added the first two songs, "Love like a Man" and "Good Morning, Little Schoolgirl."

061 Love like a Man (Ten Years After)
062 Good Morning, Little Schoolgirl (Ten Years After)
063 No Title (Ten Years After)
064 I Can't Keep from Cryin' Sometimes (Ten Years After)
065 talk (Ten Years After)
066 I'm Goin' Home (Ten Years After)
067 Sweet Little Sixteen (Ten Years After)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/6TtPfmrc

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/VPwL7DjgMH19efk/file

The cover photo comes from this exact concert.