Madness - House of Fun - Non-Album Tracks (1979-1982)

Madness was one of the most successful bands in Britain in the 1980s. They broke up for a while. But they're still going strong as I write this, releasing some acclaimed albums in the 2000s and still having six of their seven original members.

In the US these days, unfortunately, it seems they're mainly known for their one big US hit, "Our House," which reached Number 7 in 1983. They had one other Top 40 hit in the US, "It Must Be Love." But in Britain, they've had 26 Top 40 hits. Many of their singles contained A- and/or B-sides that weren't included on their studio albums. As a result, there's enough material for two albums of stray track materials for the years 1979 to 1986, when the band broke up for the first time.

All the songs here have been officially released. Four of them are A-sides: "In the City," "It Must Be Love," "House of Fun," and "Driving in My Car." Three more, tracks three through five, come from an EP. The rest are B-sides.

This album is 50 minutes long.

01 Nutty Theme (Madness)
02 Stepping into Line (Madness)
03 Deceives the Eye (Madness)
04 The Young and the Old (Madness)
05 Don't Quote Me on That (Madness)
06 Crying Shame (Madness)
07 In the City (Madness)
08 That's the Way to Do It (Madness)
09 Memories (Madness)
10 Never Ask Twice (Madness)
11 A Town with No Name [Instrumental] (Madness)
12 It Must Be Love (Madness)
13 Shadow on the House (Madness)
14 House of Fun (Madness)
15 Don't Look Back (Madness)
16 Driving in My Car (Madness)
17 Walking with Mr. Wheeze [Instrumental] (Madness)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15603349/Madns_1979-1982_HouseofFn_atse.zip.html

The album cover is simply the cover of the "House of Fun" single, without any significant changes. (I cropped it a bit.)

Bob Dylan with Carlos Santana, Eric Clapton, Van Morrison & Chrissie Hynde - Wembley Stadium, London, Britain, 7-7-1984

I've been working my way through Bob Dylan's music career chronologically. So far, as I write this in November 2022, I've made it to about 1976. But I recently came across this excellent concert from 1984, so it goes to the top of the pile of things to post.

In 1984, returned to commercial and critical success after a few controversial years with very religious albums. This concert must have been a symbolic triumph for him, playing before over 70,000 people in Wembley Stadium in London on a bill that included opening acts Nick Lowe, UB40, and Santana.

Dylan put on a long show, 2 hours and 31 minutes, with lots of special guests (who I will explain in a minute). He was in a very rocking mood, playing even some sedate songs like "Every Grain of Sand" and "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" in a lively style. His band included lead guitarist Mick Taylor, formerly of the Rolling Stones, who ripped many excellent solos throughout the show.

Here's a review from the time in Rolling Stone Magazine. The article title says it all: "Bob Dylan Back in Peak Form." The article calls it one of the concert highlights of Dylan's career, and I would agree.

Bob Dylan performs epic concert at Wembley Stadium – Rolling Stone

Dylan must have liked this show because he released a live album late in 1984, "Real Live," with six of the ten songs coming from this exact concert. Personally, I must prefer hearing a full concert like this one to a live album with songs chosen from different concerts. Besides, this is two and half hours long and "Real Live" is only 50 minutes long.

The sound quality of this bootleg is excellent. I found different versions of this concert on the Internet, and most of them are merely okay sounding audience bootlegs. But this version comes from a soundboard. It sounds just as good as the versions of the songs on the "Real Live" album, in my opinion.

There was only one sonic flaw. On four of the songs, there were some very small silent gaps, each of them only a second or less. But it was enough to be noticeable and annoying. I carefully edited those songs to remove the gaps, and when I did I found there wasn't any music missing. Those four have "[Edit]" in their names. 

Now, let me discuss the many special guests on this show. Dylan played two hours, mostly with a full band, but some songs done solo acoustic. Then he came back for what turned out to be a very unusual encore that lasted 35 minutes. For the whole encore, he was joined by Carlos Santana, Eric Clapton & Chrissie Hynde. Santana and Clapton often played guitar solos. Right before the song "Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat," Dylan joked, "There's too many guitar players up here. I may just sing the first verse and leave." It would be good if someone could watch the video of this concert on YouTube and figure out who played which solo in the encores (with Mick Taylor presumably playing some too).

Chrissie Hynde of the Pretenders mostly sang backing vocals, though apparently she also played a harmonica solo on one song. This was not her finest hour - it's very challenging to sing harmony with Dylan, since he changes how he sings the lyrics in unpredictable ways. 

On top of that, Van Morrison made a brief but important appearance in the encore too. He only showed up for the song "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue." That was a Dylan song he sang on a Them album back in 1966, and he's revisited in concert from time to time ever since. He sang the lead vocals for it here. I think Hynde also sang a verse, but unfortunately wasn't turned on because one can barely hear just a few traces of her voice in the middle of the song.

This concert shows Dylan swinging for the fences, trying to please a huge crowd, and hitting a home run. Look at the set list below. Almost every song is a well known classic, and he performed most of them in a rocking style. So if I were to present just one Dylan concert to someone not that familiar with his music, I probably would choose this one.

01 Highway 61 Revisited (Bob Dylan)
02 Jokerman (Bob Dylan)
03 All Along the Watchtower (Bob Dylan)
04 Just like a Woman (Bob Dylan)
05 Maggie's Farm (Bob Dylan)
06 I and I (Bob Dylan)
07 License to Kill (Bob Dylan)
08 talk (Bob Dylan)
09 I've Got to Use My Imagination (Bob Dylan & Greg Sutton)
10 A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall (Bob Dylan)
11 Tangled Up in Blue (Bob Dylan)
12 It's Alright, Ma [I'm Only Bleeding] (Bob Dylan)
13 Simple Twist of Fate (Bob Dylan)
14 Masters of War (Bob Dylan)
15 Ballad of a Thin Man (Bob Dylan)
16 Enough Is Enough [Edit] (Bob Dylan)
17 Every Grain of Sand [Edit] (Bob Dylan)
18 Like a Rolling Stone [Edit] (Bob Dylan)
19 Mr. Tambourine Man (Bob Dylan)
20 Girl from the North Country [Edit] (Bob Dylan)
21 It Ain't Me, Babe (Bob Dylan)
22 talk (Bob Dylan)
23 Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat (Bob Dylan with Carlos Santana, Eric Clapton & Chrissie Hynde)
24 talk (Bob Dylan)
25 It's All Over Now, Baby Blue (Bob Dylan & Van Morrison with Carlos Santana, Eric Clapton & Chrissie Hynde)
26 Tombstone Blues (Bob Dylan with Carlos Santana, Eric Clapton & Chrissie Hynde)
27 Senor [Tales of Yankee Power] (Bob Dylan with Carlos Santana, Eric Clapton & Chrissie Hynde)
28 The Times They Are A-Changin' (Bob Dylan with Carlos Santana, Eric Clapton & Chrissie Hynde)
29 Blowin' in the Wind (Bob Dylan with Carlos Santana, Eric Clapton & Chrissie Hynde)
30 Knockin' on Heaven's Door (Bob Dylan with Carlos Santana, Eric Clapton & Chrissie Hynde)
31 talk (Bob Dylan)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/KhBmeEi6

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/KjYCMNSw8z0s3rz/file

The cover photo is from the exact concert featured here. I'm pretty sure that's Chrissie Hynde in the white shirt with her back to the camera, and Eric Clapton standing next to her.

Procol Harum - BBC Sessions, Volume 5: Sight and Sound, Golders Green Hippodrome, London, Britain, 3-12-1977

This is the fifth and last of Procol Harum BBC albums I'm posting. If you were to only download one, I would suggest this one. The sound quality is excellent, a notch above some of the others. The song selection is well done as well, including some of their earlier classics they'd sometimes missed on their last few BBC albums, especially their signature song "A Whiter Shade of Pale," but also including some of their later good songs not on the earlier volumes, such as their 1975 Top Twenty hit "Pandora's Box."

The band broke up later in 1977. They didn't release another studio album until 1991, so this effectively comes at the end of their classic period.

The first track consists of a BBC DJ introducing the band. I cut it down, because much of it was the DJ talking about different BBC stations and programs, which isn't relevant anymore. That's why there's an "[Edit]" in the title. 

All of the performances here come from the deluxe version of the band's 1977 album "Something Magic." Except, strangely, for one: "A Salty Dog" wasn't included on that release. So that song comes from a bootleg of the show.

This concert is an hour and three minutes long. I would imagine their concerts were usually longer than that, but they had to cut them down for BBC programming purposes.

01 talk [Edit] (Procol Harum)
02 Something Magic (Procol Harum)
03 Conquistador (Procol Harum)
04 Nothing but the Truth (Procol Harum)
05 Strangers in Space (Procol Harum)
06 Grand Hotel (Procol Harum)
07 Pandora's Box (Procol Harum)
08 talk (Procol Harum)
09 Skating on Thin Ice (Procol Harum)
10 talk (Procol Harum)
11 The Mark of the Claw (Procol Harum)
12 A Salty Dog (Procol Harum)
13 Wizard Man (Procol Harum)
14 talk (Procol Harum)
15 This Old Dog (Procol Harum)
16 A Whiter Shade of Pale (Procol Harum)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16697029/PROCLHRM1977BBSessonsVolum5SghtSundGoldrsGrenHippdrme__3-12-1977_atse.zip.html

The cover photo comes from an appearance on a Dutch TV show in 1976.

Joan Armatrading - BBC Sessions, Volume 3: In Concert, Hammersmith Odeon, London, Britain, 12-12-1981

Here's a 1981 BBC concert performed by British singer-songwriter Joan Armatrading.

Armatrading has only had a few significant hits, mostly in Britain only, mainly "Love and Affection," "My Myself I" and "Drop the Pilot." But she's been a steady success since the 1970s, and is still going as I write this in 2022. However, her most commercially successful records came between 1976 and 1983. So 1981 is a pretty good time for a live concert from her.

The concert is unreleased, but it is up to the usual high BBC standards of sound quality. The only gripe I have with it is that it doesn't include my favorite song from her, "Drop the Pilot," which was a hit in 1983. (Fun fact: the chorus of that song mentions the very obscure word "mahout," which is what one calls a person who rides and trains an elephant!) So I found a soundboard bootleg of that song and another popular one from 1983, "(I Love It When You) Call Me Names," and added those two to the end. 

The concert was a little short at only 58 minutes, compared to the usual concert length of about an hour an a half. With the two extra songs, that stretches it to an hour and seven minutes.

UPDATE: On April 25, 2025, I updated the mp3 download file. The music is the same, but I changed the album title, after making an earlier volume of BBC music by her that I'd missed.

01 I'm Lucky (Joan Armatrading)
02 Down to Zero (Joan Armatrading)
03 talk (Joan Armatrading)
04 I Wanna Hold You (Joan Armatrading)
05 Rosie (Joan Armatrading)
06 Cool Blue Stole My Heart (Joan Armatrading)
07 Love and Affection (Joan Armatrading)
08 talk (Joan Armatrading)
09 Eating the Bear (Joan Armatrading)
10 talk (Joan Armatrading)
11 When I Get It Right (Joan Armatrading)
12 I Can't Lie to Myself (Joan Armatrading)
13 Me Myself I (Joan Armatrading)
14 talk (Joan Armatrading)
15 The Weakness in Me (Joan Armatrading)
16 Tall in the Saddle (Joan Armatrading)
17 [I Love It When You] Call Me Names (Joan Armatrading)
18 Drop the Pilot (Joan Armatrading)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/xAt47Ntn

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/MAmJ65hcG9AwCaO/file

The cover art comes from an appearance on the Midnight Special TV show in late 1980. I improved it a bit with the use of the Krea AI program.

Paul Weller - Nobody's Fool - Non-Album Tracks (2019-2022)

I started posting Paul Weller stray tracks albums in July 2018. He's so prolific that I've posted 13 of them. It's now November 2022, and I've finally caught up to the current year. Phew!

Only three of the songs are unreleased: the first two, and "The Harder They Come," a cover of the classic Jimmy Cliff song. It's from an in person radio show appearance, and the instrumental intro had a DJ talking over it. Worse, the volume of the music for that intro was turned down to nearly nothing. Luckily, the intro was repeated later in the song, so I patched that in. That's why it has "[Edit]" in the title.

Most of the remaining songs are A-sides, B-sides, or bonus tracks, as well as an EP track.  "Deeper Love" is from an album by the band Stone Foundation.

This album is 47 minutes long.

01 Nobody's Fool (Suggs & Paul Weller)
02 Precious - Move On Up (Paul Weller & Stone Foundation)
03 On Sunset [Orchestral Mix] (Paul Weller)
04 Crowboy (Paul Weller)
05 Going to a Go Go (Paul Weller)
06 Deeper Love (Stone Foundation & Paul Weller)
07 I'm a Road Runner (Paul Weller)
08 What Does It Take [To Win Your Love] (Paul Weller)
09 Round the Floor (Paul Weller)
10 Pure Sound (Paul Weller)
11 Into the Sea (Paul Weller)
12 Serafina (Paul Weller)
13 The Harder They Come [Edit] (Paul Weller & Madness)
14 Room 309 (Paul Weller)
15 Ooh Do U Fink U R (Suggs & Paul Weller)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15849591/PaulW_2019-2022_NobdysFool_atse.zip.html

The cover photo of Weller was taken in April 2022 in a London concert.

Billy J. Kramer & the Dakotas - BBC Sessions, Volume 1 (1964-1965)

Next up in my BBC project is the British Invasion band Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas.I'm trying to get through most of the 1960s BBC stuff before getting more heavily into the 1970s stuff. There's enough material for two BBC volumes.

These days, Kramer and the Dakotas don't have that good of a reputation. Admittedly, they were a lower tier British Invasion band. They were managed by Brian Epstein, the same as the Beatles, and so they benefited by having hits with some Beatles leftovers. (The Beatles were so good that even their rejects almost always were hits for others.) That said, they did have talent, and they had a lot of hits for a couple of years, before musical tastes changed. It helps that they generally played their better songs for the BBC, so this is much like a two volume best of.

All but the first four songs here are unreleased and come from BBC transcription discs. That means the sound quality is excellent. I added the first four before the BBC recordings missed some of their biggest hits. It seemed that not many BBC recordings have survived from about the middle of 1964 and earlier, unless it's a big artist like the Beatles or the Rolling Stones, and this fits the pattern. So the first two songs are unreleased and come from an appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show. The third and fourth are released, but only on a box set of the band's complete works. They come from live concerts in 1964.

This album is 40 minutes long.

01 Bad to Me (Billy J. Kramer & the Dakotas)
02 Pride [It's Such a Little Word] (Billy J. Kramer & the Dakotas)
03 I Call Your Name (Billy J. Kramer & the Dakotas)
04 I'll Keep You Satisfied (Billy J. Kramer & the Dakotas)
05 Little Chidren (Billy J. Kramer & the Dakotas)
06 From a Window (Billy J. Kramer & the Dakotas)
07 Irresistable You (Billy J. Kramer & the Dakotas)
08 Love's Made a Fool of You (Billy J. Kramer & the Dakotas)
09 When You Ask about Love [Edit] (Billy J. Kramer & the Dakotas)
10 Sneakin' Around [Edit] (Billy J. Kramer & the Dakotas)
11 It's Got to Last Forever (Billy J. Kramer & the Dakotas)
12 Under the Boardwalk [Edit] (Billy J. Kramer & the Dakotas)
13 Don't You Do It No More [Edit] (Billy J. Kramer & the Dakotas)
14 Hello Josephine [Edit] (Billy J. Kramer & the Dakotas)
15 My Babe [Edit] (Billy J. Kramer & the Dakotas)
16 Trains and Boats and Planes (Billy J. Kramer & the Dakotas)
17 Today’s Teardrops [Edit] (Billy J. Kramer & the Dakotas)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15832942/BillyJK_1964-1965_BBSessionsVolume1_atse.zip.html

The cover photo comes from a concert in London in 1964.

Fred Neil & John Sebastian - Rolling Coconut Revue, Harumi Dome, Tokyo, Japan. 4-8-1977

Here's an amazing find, in my opinion. Fred Neil was a legendary folk singer and songwriter. His musical discography is scanty, because his music career only went from the early 1960s to 1971, despite the fact that he lived until 2001. In 1970, he co-founded the Dolphin Research Project, a non-profit organization dedicated to stopping the killing and exploitation of dolphins around the world. He spent most of the rest of his life focused on that. He only played a few concerts in the 1970s, all of them benefits for dolphin-related causes. The last concert he played was a benefit show in Tokyo, Japan, in 1977.

Luckily, it turns out that concert was professionally recorded, and released around the year 2020. Unfortunately though, it's only been released in Japan as part of a 12 disc box set. His concert was part of a festival that lasted three days, and featured many big names in Western folk rock music, such as Jackson Browne, John Sebastian, J. D. Souther, Country Joe McDonald, Richie Haven, Odetta, Warren Zevon, and Eric Andersen, plus more Japanese artists singing in Japanese. The rest of the box set includes some of the other performances, but apparently only those they got the rights to, because some big names like Browne and Zevon are missing.

Anyway, in March 2021, a commenter here named Mystic pointed out to me that a recording of this Fred Neil concert exists. I started looking for it, but I couldn't find it anywhere. Even mentions of it are very few and far between. I put it on my wanted list through the SoulseekQT program. Yesterday, over a year and a half later, I finally got a positive hit and downloaded it! I'm sharing it here because it's so exceedingly rare.

It turns out this concert exceeded my expectations, especially in terms of sound quality, which is fantastic. The recording actually features two acts, John Sebastian, lead singer and main songwriter of the Lovin' Spoonful, and Neil. The Sebastian set is longer, at 38 minutes, while Neil's set is 29 minutes long. The two sets are linked because Sebastian and Neil were long-time musical associates and Sebastian is an excellent harmonica player. So after Sebastian's set ended, he stayed on stage, introduced Neil, and then played harmonica all through Neil's set.

Fred Neil led a troubled life. Apparently, he was hooked on heroin and other drugs from at least the mid-1960s onwards. Besides that, he was a stubborn and difficult guy to deal with, playing concerts rarely, often not showing up for them, or leaving in the middle of them. By 1977, he hadn't recorded any music in six years, and had only played a couple of short sets on stage since then. So one might have thought he was washed up, especially given the stories about his heavy drug use. But he's in very fine form here; he sounds just as good as ever. It's hard to believe this would be his last concert performance. (Although he got up on stage in a club once in the early 1980s and played a couple of songs.)

As for John Sebastian, he did very well with his set too. I find it ironic that in 1976, he had a Number One hit in the U.S. with "Welcome Back," the theme song to the "Welcome Back, Kotter" TV show, and yet his record company thought that was a fluke and dropped him. Then he couldn't get a new record contract (with disco being all the rage at the time), so he didn't put out another record until the 1990s. This is despite the fact that he had many previous hits, including three Number One or Number Two hits with the Lovin' Spoonful, so he was far from a one-hit wonder. But that's the music business for you. Sigh! Anyway, in this concert, he played "Welcome Back," but the rest consists mostly of Lovin' Spoonful songs.

This album is an hour and seven minutes long.

01 talk (John Sebastian)
02 Lovin' You (John Sebastian)
03 Link in the Chain (John Sebastian)
04 Someone Standin' in Your Door (John Sebastian)
05 talk (John Sebastian)
06 Welcome Back (John Sebastian)
07 Gas Man Blues (John Sebastian)
08 Fishin' Blues (John Sebastian)
09 Nashville Cats (John Sebastian)
10 talk (John Sebastian)
11 She's Funny (John Sebastian)
12 She's a Lady (John Sebastian)
13 Daydream (John Sebastian)
14 Darlin' Be Home Soon (John Sebastian)
15 Blues for Dad and JB's Happy Harmonica [Instrumental] (John Sebastian)
16 talk (Fred Neil with John Sebastian)
17 Everybody's Talkin' (Fred Neil with John Sebastian)
18 Roll on Rosie (Fred Neil with John Sebastian)
19 Blues on the Ceiling (Fred Neil with John Sebastian)
20 talk (Fred Neil with John Sebastian)
21 I Gotta Have My Baby Back (Fred Neil with John Sebastian)
22 The Other Side of This Life (Fred Neil with John Sebastian)
23 The Dolphins (Fred Neil with John Sebastian)
24 Goodnight, Irene (Fred Neil with John Sebastian)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/Lm9taBo4

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/Rmrti490Bll28PO/file

The cover photo is not from this exact concert. But in August 1976, Neil and Sebastian played another dolphin benefit concert in Florida, and there's a clip of one song from that on YouTube. So I took a screenshot of that. Neil is the one on guitar and Sebastian is the one on harmonica.

The Go-Go's - WMMR-FM, Emerald City, Cherry Hill, NJ, 8-31-1981

I'm particularly happy with how this album turned out. If you're interested in hearing the Go-Go's live at all, you really should listen to this. The Go-Go's put out three albums in the early 1980s, plus a reunion album in 2001. Despite that limited discography, they are celebrated enough to have been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. 

They've never released an official live album per se, but a complete 1981 live show was included on the deluxe edition of their debut album "Beauty and the Beat." I had that concert in my music collection for a long time, but I wasn't much of a fan due to the sound quality, which was just okay. But I figured that was as good as it got, since it was the one chosen for the official release. However, it turns out that this concert, which took place just eleven days after the Boston show on the deluxe edition, sounds noticeably better. It was broadcast live by a Philadelphia radio station (Cherry Hill is in New Jersey, but on the outskirts of Philadelphia), so it was professionally recorded.

Furthermore, when I listened to this, I noticed that the lead vocals were rather low in the mix. So I used the X-Minus audio editing program to boost the vocals relative to the instruments for all the songs. After that change, in my opinion, this sounds way better than the Boston concert on the deluxe edition. And since it took place only eleven days later, the set list is the same.

Additionally, three of the songs have "[Edit]" in their names because I made further edits on top of the lead vocals adjustments. For the song "Tonite," as soon as the song ended, a radio DJ spoke over the cheering to briefly promote his radio station. Thanks to the magic of X-Minus, his vocals were removed and I was able to keep the cheering. For the song "Can't Stop the World," the song came to a sudden end right at the last chord. Then when the banter began afterwards, it started in mid-sentence. Clearly, something was missing there. So I used the recording of the Boston show to fill in the gap, allowing that final chord to ring out. Luckily, the banter appeared to be exactly the same for the intro to the next tune, so I was able to patch in the missing words too.

The Go-Go's sound great here. This concert is relatively short, just 51 minutes long. But they played every song on their debut album "Beauty and the Beat" plus some more, such as "London Boys," "Cool Jerk," "Vacation," "Let's Have a Party," and "Surfing and Spying."

01 Skidmarks on My Heart (Go-Go's)
02 How Much More (Go-Go's)
03 Tonite [Edit] (Go-Go's)
04 talk (Go-Go's)
05 Fading Fast (Go-Go's)
06 London Boys (Go-Go's)
07 Cool Jerk (Go-Go's)
08 talk (Go-Go's)
09 Automatic (Go-Go's)
10 Lust to Love (Go-Go's)
11 Can't Stop the World [Edit] (Go-Go's)
12 talk [Edit] (Go-Go's)
13 This Town (Go-Go's)
14 Vacation (Go-Go's)
15 talk (Go-Go's)
16 You Can't Walk in Your Sleep [If You Can't Sleep] (Go-Go's)
17 Our Lips Are Sealed (Go-Go's)
18 Let's Have a Party (Go-Go's)
19 We Got the Beat (Go-Go's)
20 talk (Go-Go's)
21 Surfing and Spying [Instrumental] (Go-Go's)
22 Beatnik Beach (Go-Go's) 

https://www.upload.ee/files/15292921/TGogo_1981_WMMFMEmerldCityChrryHillNJ__8-31-1981_atse.zip.html

I couldn't find any great photos of the band in concert in 1981. But I did find one from 1982, so that's what's here on the cover. It comes from a concert in Sacramento, California, in August 1982. I took the band name at the top from the artwork of one of their singles.

Procol Harum - BBC Sessions, Volume 4: In Concert, Golders Green Hippodrome, London, Britain, 3-30-1974

Here's the next Procol Harum BBC album. Like the last one, it's a full concert. There's one more to go after this, another full concert from the 1970s.

This one takes place four years after the last BBC concert. In the meantime, they'd released three albums, so the song list is pretty different. The concert took place shortly before the release of the album "Exotic Birds and Fruit," so songs from that one are particularly featured.

The concert has the same format as the last one, in which the BBC DJ did all the talking between songs. Last time, that was John Peel, and this time it's Bob Harris. 

Also like last time, it seems the concert was meant to fit in an hour long time slot, because this concert is an hour and three minutes long.

01 talk (Procol Harum)
02 Conquistador (Procol Harum)
03 talk (Procol Harum)
04 Whaling Stories (Procol Harum)
05 Bringing Home the Bacon (Procol Harum)
06 talk (Procol Harum)
07 New Lamps for Old (Procol Harum)
08 talk (Procol Harum)
09 Beyond the Pale (Procol Harum)
10 talk (Procol Harum)
11 As Strong as Samson (Procol Harum)
12 talk (Procol Harum)
13 Simple Sister (Procol Harum)
14 talk (Procol Harum)
15 The Idol (Procol Harum)
16 talk (Procol Harum)
17 Grand Hotel (Procol Harum)
18 talk (Procol Harum)
19 Butterfly Boys (Procol Harum)
20 talk (Procol Harum)
21 Nothing but the Truth (Procol Harum)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16697028/PROCLHRM1974_BBSessonsVolum4InConcrtGoldrsGrenHippdrme__3-30-1974_atse.zip.html

The cover photo comes from an appearance on the TV show "Midnight Special" in 1973. The colors are a bit off, I think, but this was the best color photo I could find from the time period.

Imelda May - The Word Is Out - Non-Album Tracks (2018-2021)

I'm a big fan of Irish singer-songwriter Imelda May. She's a star in Britain and Ireland, but very little known in the US. This is the sixth stray tracks collection that I've posted of her, and it finally catches up more or less to current day.

This album is typical of these sorts of albums, with lots of different things from different sources. All but three of the performances here have been officially released. The three unreleased ones are "Always on My Mind," "When You're Gone," and "Grace." The first of those is from a radio show and the last one is from a TV show, so their sound quality is very good.

Of the remaining songs, many of them come from May's appearances on other artists' albums. For instance, the first two songs come from a Jeff Golblum album (the famous actor who is also a musician) and tracks nine and ten come from a Ronnie Wood album. There also are soundtrack appearances and various artists compilations appearances. 

In 2020, May released an EP called "Slip of the Tongue" that consists entirely of spoken word poems she wrote that were set to music. I've included three songs from that ("Elephant," "Becoming," and "The Word Is Out") and scattered them through the other songs so the flow doesn't stay very long on the spoken word style. There are a total of nine poems on that EP, but I only included the ones I considered the most song-like.

This album is 47 minutes long.

01 This Bitter Earth (Imelda May & Till Bronner with Jeff Goldblum)
02 Come On-A-My House (Imelda May with Jeff Goldblum)
03 Always on My Mind (Jack Savoretti & Imelda May)
04 Molly Malone (Dervish with Imelda May)
05 When You're Gone (Imelda May)
06 Elephant (Imelda May)
07 Waltz Around the Kitchen (John Lewis with Imelda May)
08 Becoming (Imelda May)
09 Wee Wee Hours (Ronnie Wood with Imelda May)
10 Rock and Roll Music (Ronnie Wood with Imelda May)
11 The Word Is Out (Imelda May)
12 Mercy (Bobby Bazini & Imelda May)
13 The God That Failed (Imelda May)
14 The Glory of Love (Imelda May)
15 Grace (Rod Stewart & Imelda May)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15602834/ImeldaM_2018-2021_TheWrdIsOut_atse.zip.html

The cover photo comes from a public appearance in London in February 2020.

Alison Moyet - BBC Sessions, Volume 1: In Concert, Dominion Theatre, London, Britain, 11-25-1984

I have to admit that I have yet to fully investigate Alison Moyet's career. I'm basically just familiar with the hits. But I know that she's a very talented British singer who also has written many of her own songs. Even about half of the songs she did with her first band, Yaz (or Yazoo, as it's known in Britain) were written by her.

Probably the reason I'm not more familiar with her songs is that I'm an American, and while she's sold many millions of records in Britain, her career hasn't made much of a dent in the US. People do tend to know a few of her songs with Yaz, since they're everywhere, like "Only You" and "Don't Go," showing up in tons of TV shows and movies. But I suppose most people don't know that she's the singer of them. But her debut solo album "Alf" was arguably an even higher commercial peak for her. That album hit Number One on the British charts, and went on to sell at least three million copies worldwide.

This BBC concert took place a couple of weeks after "Alf" was released. Not surprisingly, it contains the best songs from that album, as well as a few of her biggest hits from Yaz, which broke up the year before. She also did a couple of Motown covers that she's never put on album, "What Becomes of the Broken Hearted" and "That's the Way Love Is." She also did a Billie Holliday song from the 1940s, "That Ole Devil Called Love." At the time of this concert, it was unreleased too. But she would release it as a single in 1985 and it would go all the way to Number Two on the British charts.

I just read the Wikipedia page for her "Alf" album. One thing you'll see mentioned a lot there is that although critics generally considered it a strong album, they had issues with the production. (There's so much bad production in the 1980s!) With this concert, you get all of her best songs up until that point, without most of the production problems, with some fun covers thrown in to boot.

This album is 57 minutes long.

UPDATE: On February 25, 2025, I updated the download file. The music is exactly the same, but I renamed the album, adding the "Volume 1" part after I found a "Volume 2." I then had to update the cover art and mp3 tags.

01 Love Resurrection (Alison Moyet)
02 Honey for the Bees (Alison Moyet)
03 Invisible (Alison Moyet)
04 What Becomes of the Broken Hearted (Alison Moyet)
05 Twisting the Knife (Alison Moyet)
06 talk (Alison Moyet)
07 That Ole Devil Called Love (Alison Moyet)
08 talk (Alison Moyet)
09 Winter Kills (Alison Moyet)
10 That's the Way Love Is (Alison Moyet)
11 All Cried Out (Alison Moyet)
12 talk (Alison Moyet)
13 Situation (Alison Moyet)
14 talk (Alison Moyet)
15 Only You (Alison Moyet)
16 talk (Alison Moyet)
17 Don't Go (Alison Moyet)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/vxkL1oFJ

The good news is the cover photo comes from this same venue. However, it was from earlier in the month. I didn't tint a black and white photo. This photo really looks exactly like that. It looks like she was bathed in yellow lighting when the photo was taken.

In February 2025, I improved the cover image a bit with the use of the Krea AI program.

Paul McCartney - Soundcheck Songs, Volume 3: 1993 (Unknown Locations)

There are so very many great musical acts out there, and the BBC project I've been working on has pushed me to post music from many more artists. With all that going on, sometimes some artists have been lost in the mix. Paul McCartney is a case in point. I've been slowly working my way through his solo career chronologically, but I'm still only at 1993. (And I haven't even started with John Lennon's solo career yet.) Here's another album from him, to keep that effort going.

This is the third of four albums of songs from the soundchecks he did during his 1993 world tour. The reason there are so many of these songs is because McCartney has his people record all the soundchecks with excellent sound quality. Then he played many of them in his 1995 radio show series "Oubu Joobu." So everything here is unreleased on record, but it all sounds great due to usually coming from that radio show. 

But one downside is that sometimes he didn't make clear which soundcheck the songs were from. So this volume is made up of all the unknowns. We don't know the dates or the locations. But that doesn't matter much, because the music is just as good, and the sound quality is just as good, as with the other volumes in this series.

I prefer these soundcheck performances over recordings of his actual concerts from the time period, because he was much more adventurous about what he'd play. This volume is typical. "Lady Madonna," "Coming Up," and "Another Day" are all big hits that he played frequently on that tour, and "C'Mon People" was a new song he played a lot too. But the others are generally covers that he rarely did in concert, if at all. "Set This Town on Fire" appears to be an original that he never played in concert. (I've included that one on one of the stray tracks collections I've made too.)

This album is 43 minutes long.

01 I Lost My Little Girl (Paul McCartney)
02 Summertime (Paul McCartney)
03 Crackin' Up (Paul McCartney)
04 Miss Ann (Paul McCartney)
05 Coming Up (Paul McCartney)
06 Another Day (Paul McCartney)
07 Set This Town on Fire (Paul McCartney)
08 Lady Madonna (Paul McCartney)
09 Pull Away (Paul McCartney)
10 C'mon People (Paul McCartney)
11 Shake, Rattle and Roll (Paul McCartney)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16376647/PAULMCCRTNY1993eSoundchckSngsVlume3_1993_atse.zip.html

The cover photo was taken in London in September 1993.

World Party - World Cafe Live, Philadelphia, PA, 5-30-2014

I had been keeping an eye out for good live recordings from the British band World Party. Until recently, they'd been very few and far between. But a few months ago (as I write this in November 2022) my musical associate Lil Panda posted this soundboard recording. So now I want to share it here too. It's a drum-free acoustic performance, although lead singer and songwriter Kurt Wallinger is backed by a couple other musicians on guitar and keyboards.

World Party has had a strange history. They proceeded on the normal band path from 1986 to 2000, regularly putting out albums and having some hit singles. But in 2001, Wallinger had a brain aneurysm which resulted in serious medical trouble. He had to suspend all musical activity for the next five years, derailing his musical career. Since then, World Party hasn't released any new studio albums. However, in 2012, the five disc box set "Arkeology" was released, containing lots of new and old songs. The band toured some until 2015, but everything seems to have stopped since then.

A 2013 concert was recorded and released as the live album "World Party - Live." However, it must be exceedingly rare, because I've never come across it. However, I have seen the track list, and it's almost exactly the same as this show.

The sound quality is excellent. But I did make a couple of tweaks to the bootleg. For one, the vocals were often quiet during the banter between songs, so I frequently boosted those. The other is that I trimmed some dead air between songs, such as the tuning of guitars. 

There's been some controversy about when this concert took place. When Lil Panda posted this on the Internet a few months ago, he listed three different dates in different parts of his post. It is known World Party played at this location on May 30, 2014, so I'm going with that date unless information that contradicts that emerges.

This album is an hour and 34 minutes long.

01 talk (World Party)
02 Waiting Such a Long Time (World Party)
03 Message in a box (World Party)
04 talk (World Party)
05 Is It Like Today (World Party)
06 talk (World Party)
07 Everybody's Falling in Love (World Party)
08 talk (World Party)
09 What Does It Mean Now (World Party)
10 When the Rainbow Comes (World Party)
11 talk (World Party)
12 She's the One (World Party)
13 Love Street (World Party)
14 What is Love About (World Party)
15 God on My Side (World Party)
16 talk (World Party)
17 Call Me Up (World Party)
18 talk (World Party)
19 Sweet Soul Dream (World Party)
20 talk (World Party)
21 Vanity Fair (World Party)
22 talk (World Party)
23 Who R You (World Party)
24 talk (World Party)
25 Ship of Fools (World Party)
26 talk (World Party)
27 Is It Too Late (World Party)
28 talk (World Party)
29 Mystery Girl (World Party)
30 Way Down Now (World Party)
31 talk (World Party)

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

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/cUnwVncPhjGtxb1/file

alternate:

https://www.imagenetz.de/kBKP9

I couldn't find any good photos of World Party and/or Wallinger from around 2014. The closest I could get was the photo used on the cover here, which is from a concert at SXSW in Austin, Texas, in 2006.

Sheryl Crow - Picture - Non-Album Tracks (2002-2003)

It's been a long time since I've posted a stray tracks collection from Sheryl Crow. Here's the next one. Then I still have about 20 more years to deal with!

Tracks three through eight have been officially released. "Light in Your Eyes," "Picture," and "The First Cut Is the Deepest" all come from a greatest hits album. The collaboration with the Rolling Stones comes from a Stones live album.

The rest of the songs come from concert bootlegs or from radio or TV appearances. They generally sound very good. But I thought they could sound better with some tweaks using the X-Minus audio editing program. The main thing I did with the ones marked "[Edit]" was to reduce the cheering and especially random "Woo-hoo!" screams. There still is some cheering though parts of those songs, but roughly about half as much as before. 

You may not there's a prevalence of covers of classic songs. I'd say eight of the 12 songs are like that, including one of the studio tracks, "The First Cut Is the Deepest." Some of these covers were also performed at a 2001 concert at the Shine Club that I've also posted here, but these versions are different.

This album is 46 minutes long.

01 Black Betty [Edit] (Sheryl Crow)
02 Walk Away [Edit] (Sheryl Crow)
03 Light in Your Eyes (Sheryl Crow)
04 Picture (Sheryl Crow & Kid Rock)
05 The First Cut Is the Deepest (Sheryl Crow)
06 Love Me like That (Michelle Branch & Sheryl Crow)
07 The Few that Remain (Sheryl Crow)
08 Honky Tonk Women [Edit] (Rolling Stones & Sheryl Crow)
09 Me and Bobby McGee (Sheryl Crow & Kris Kristofferson)
10 American Girl [Edit] (Sheryl Crow)
11 Jackson [Edit] (Sheryl Crow & Travis Tritt)
12 Hurt (Sheryl Crow)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15105048/SherylC_2002-2003_Pcture_atse.zip.html

The cover photo is from 2003. I don't know anything more than that.

Joan Osborne - A Tribute to Jerry Garcia, The Hamilton, Washington, D.C., 10-15-2022

Here's an acoustic concert from just a couple of weeks ago. Joan Osborne and a couple of her long-time guitar players performed a concert of Grateful Dead covers (aside from the encore of her sole big hit "One of Us"). The concert was supposed to have taken place on August 1, 2022, to mark exactly eighty years since Grateful Dead lead guitarist Jerry Garcia was born. However, Osborne came down with Covid at the time, so the concert had to be postponed.

I wasn't going to post this, except for the fact that the sound quality is so excellent that it deserves to be heard by more people. I don't know if this was a radio broadcast or web broadcast or what (at some point she commented that the show was being professionally recorded), but the sound is flawless.

Osborne is uniquely qualified to sing Grateful Dead covers because she sang with the surviving members of that band at different times, especially in 2003 and 2006. I plan to post albums of some highlights from those shows when my chronological posting of her albums reaches that point. She also did a short solo concert of acoustic Dead covers in 2013. I plan on posting that here eventually too.

This concert is an hour and 36 minutes long.

01 Alabama Getaway (Joan Osborne)
02 talk (Joan Osborne)
03 Deep Elem Blues (Joan Osborne)
04 talk (Joan Osborne)
05 Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo (Joan Osborne)
06 He's Gone (Joan Osborne)
07 talk (Joan Osborne)
08 New Speedway Boogie (Joan Osborne)
09 talk (Joan Osborne)
10 Ripple (Joan Osborne)
11 talk (Joan Osborne)
12 Shakedown Street (Joan Osborne)
13 talk (Joan Osborne)
14 Sugaree (Joan Osborne)
15 talk (Joan Osborne)
16 Stella Blue (Joan Osborne)
17 Eyes of the World (Joan Osborne)
18 I Know You Rider (Joan Osborne)
19 talk (Joan Osborne)
20 The Attics of My Life (Joan Osborne)
21 One of Us (Joan Osborne) 

The download is split into two. Here are the links to the two parts:

https://www.upload.ee/files/15941472/JoanO_2022_TributeJrryGarciaHamiltnWashingtonDC__10-15-2022_Part1_atse.zip.html

https://www.upload.ee/files/15941464/JoanO_2022_TributeJrryGarciaHamiltnWashingtonDC__10-15-2022_Part2_atse.zip.html

The cover photo is of the exact concert featured here.

John Fogerty - The Promised Land - Non-Album Tracks (1995-2005)

There are lots of artists where I still have more of their stray tracks collections that need posting. I haven't posted one of those from John Fogerty for ages, but I just remembered to do so after posting a concert from him a few days ago.

Fogerty is not very prolific. In the eleven year time period of this collection, he only released two studio albums, in 1997 and 2004. But what he does release tends to be of a high quality. That's the case with his stray tracks, even though in this case most of them are cover versions or acoustic versions of previously released songs. I think only "Premonition" and "Swing Blues No. 1" are new originals.

Five of the songs here are officially unreleased (tracks 1, 5, 6, 7, and 12). Those five are all from concerts or radio shows. For "The Promised Land," a Bruce Springsteen cover, I thought the lead vocals were low, so I used the X-Minus audio editing program to boost them. That's what the one has "[Edit]" in the title.

The rest of the songs come from all sorts of sources. Mostly, they're from various artists collections, appearances on other artist's albums, or B-sides. "Premonition" comes from a Fogerty live album of the same name. I've included it here because it was the only new song on that album.

01 In the Midnight Hour (John Fogerty & Sam Moore)
02 All Mama's Children (Carl Perkins & John Fogerty)
03 Just Pickin' [Instrumental] (John Fogerty)
04 Endless Sleep (John Fogerty)
05 Workin' on a Building (John Fogerty)
06 Joy of My Life [Acoustic Version] (John Fogerty)
07 Proud Mary [Acoustic Version] (John Fogerty)
08 Premonition (John Fogerty)
09 Blue Moon of Kentucky (John Fogerty)
10 Blue Ridge Mountain Blues (Earl Scruggs & John Fogerty)
11 Diggy Liggy Lo (John Fogerty)
12 The Promised Land [Edit] (John Fogerty)
13 Swing Blues No. 1 (John Fogerty & Jerry Douglas)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15116218/JohnFoge_1995-2005_ThePromisdLand_atse.zip.html

The cover photo comes from a concert in Mountain View, California, in August 1997.

Robyn Hitchcock - Robyn Hitchcock - Acoustic Versions (2017)

Robyn Hitchcock released a new album last week, called "Shufflemania." I just heard it and it's very good, with an upbeat sound. I strongly recommend it, if you're a fan. It's been a surprisingly long time since his last studio album by his prolific standards. The album "Robyn Hitchcock" was released in 2017. As it so happens, I've been slowly working my way through his career chronologically, and an acoustic version of all the songs from that album is next up. So here it is.

When it comes to making these acoustic versions of albums, I usually find acoustic versions for most of the songs, but not all of them. Maybe there's a few songs he never plays in concert, especially if they don't work well in the acoustic format. But this time I got lucky and found acoustic versions for all ten songs on the album. On top of that, I've included acoustic versions for two songs, "Love Is a Drug" and "Life Is Change," that were released on an obscure single a year earlier, in 2016.

All of the performances here are officially unreleased. Pretty much all of them were done in a studio setting though, such as live in person radio station performances. I think only "Sayonara Judge" is the only one that comes from a typical concert bootleg. As a result, the sound quality is generally excellent.

This album is 44 minutes long.

01 I Want to Tell You about What I Want (Robyn Hitchcock)
02 Virginia Woolf (Robyn Hitchcock)
03 I Pray When I'm Drunk (Robyn Hitchcock)
04 Mad Shelley's Letterbox (Robyn Hitchcock)
05 Sayonara Judge (Robyn Hitchcock)
06 Detective Mindhorn (Robyn Hitchcock & Emma Swift)
07 1970 in Aspic (Robyn Hitchcock & Emma Swift)
08 Autumn Sunglasses (Robyn Hitchcock)
09 Raymond and the Wires (Robyn Hitchcock)
10 Time Coast (Robyn Hitchcock & Emma Swift)
11 Love Is a Drag (Robyn Hitchcock & Emma Swift)
12 Life Is Change (Robyn Hitchcock & Emma Swift)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15274653/RobynH_2017_RobynHitchAcousticVersions_atse.zip.html

I'm very happy with what I did with the cover for this album. I wanted something similar to the official album cover, but different. It turns out the centerpiece of the original cover is a photo of Hitchcock holding his cat, which then was converted and abstracted into an artistic version. I found the original photo, and replaced the art version with that photo. So while the cover might look the same at first glance, it actually has that important difference. I also added some text at the bottom.

Paul Weller - Back in the Game - Non-Album Tracks (2015-2018)

I recently revamped a bunch of Paul Weller stray tracks albums. I ended up shifting some songs, so the first five songs here were on the last version of the previous album in this series, "Open Road." The rest here are new.

All but one of the songs here have been officially released. There's a mix of bonus tracks, A-sides, B-sides, EP tracks, and songs sung by Weller on other artists' albums. The two songs from an EP, "Birth of an Accidental Hipster" and "Whoosh," were released in 2022 but actually date to 2016 and 2017 respectively.

The one unreleased song is cover version of "Days" by the Kinks, performed on a radio show.

Speaking of covers, "Blackbird" and "I've Never Found a Girl (Who Loves Me like You Do)" are also covers. I believe the others are all originals.

This album is 41 minutes long.

01 Sun Goes (Paul Weller)
02 Alpha [Instrumental] (Paul Weller)
03 Hopper [White Label Remix] (Paul Weller)
04 Praise If You Wanna (Paul Weller)
05 Blackbird (Damon Albarn, Paul Weller & the Orchestra of Syrian Musicians)
06 Birth of an Accidental Hipster (Paul Weller)
07 Mother Ethiopia, Part 1 [Instrumental] (Paul Weller & Stone Foundation)
08 I've Never Found a Girl [Who Loves Me like You Do] (Paul Weller)
10 Back in the Game (Stone Foundation & Paul Weller)
11 Your Balloon Is Rising (Stone Foundation & Paul Weller)
12 Whoosh [Early Version of Woo Se Mama] (Paul Weller)
13 Days (Paul Weller)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16696874/PALWLLR2015-2018_BackinGme_atse.zip.html

The cover photo comes from a 2018 Weller concert tour poster. Even his name at the top is exactly how it was in the poster. I cropped out a bunch of text at the bottom and replaced it with the album name.

Aimee Mann - Infinity Hall, Norfolk, CT, 1-30-2012

I'm a big fan of singer-songwriter Aimee Mann, and I plan to post some more albums of her music. But one thing I hadn't been planning on posting were any full concerts from her. That's because although there are many bootlegs of her shows, I don't know of any really stellar sounding ones, the kind that usually come from soundboard or fm sources. 

But I recently stumbled across this concert on YouTube. It's a professionally filmed show (I don't know what for exactly), and as a result the sound quality is significantly better than any of those bootlegs I know of. The only thing that compares in terms of sound quality is her sole live album, "Live at St. Ann's Warehouse." But that's from 2004 and this is from 2012, so the shows are significantly different.

The one flaw with the recording was that the lead vocals were too low. So I applied my usual trick, using the X-Minus audio editing program to increase only the volume of the vocals. I did this with all the songs (though some more than others), so I don't think it's necessary to add "[Edit]" to all the titles.

This concert is a bit odd in that concerts are usually meant to promote albums, but at the time of this concert it had been three years since her last album, "@#%&x! Smilers." Her next one, "Charmer," would be released later in 2012, but about eight months later. Looking at setlist.fm, it seems she only did a handful of shows in January 2012, including this one, then was off the road until after the release of her next album. Still, she played four songs from "Charmer:" "Soon Enough," "Labrador," "Slip and Roll," and "Gumby."

One downside to this concert is that it's relatively short, at only 54 minutes long. Like most performers, she typically plays for roughly an hour and a half. Maybe that's due the format of whatever this short was filmed for? But in any case, it seems like the whole show is here, since she's introduced at the start and says goodbye at the end.

Mann played this concert with a small band consisting of bass, lead guitar, and keyboards. One problem I have with many of her albums is that she tends to get stuck in a mid-tempo rut, making the songs sound too similar to each other. Here, the songs are more lively and I think they're better for it.

01 talk (Aimee Mann)
02 High on Sunday (Aimee Mann)
03 talk (Aimee Mann)
04 You Could Make a Killing (Aimee Mann)
05 Looking for Nothing (Aimee Mann)
06 talk (Aimee Mann)
07 Going through the Motions (Aimee Mann)
08 Freeway (Aimee Mann)
09 talk (Aimee Mann)
10 Gumby (Aimee Mann)
11 talk (Aimee Mann)
12 Labrador (Aimee Mann)
13 Slip and Roll (Aimee Mann)
14 talk (Aimee Mann)
15 Good Enough (Aimee Mann)
16 Save Me (Aimee Mann)
17 Wise Up (Aimee Mann)
18 talk (Aimee Mann)
19 Red Vines (Aimee Mann)
20 Deathly (Aimee Mann)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15601791/AimeMn_2012a_InfintyHallNorfolkCT__1-30-2012_atse.zip.html

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

Procol Harum - BBC Sessions, Volume 3: John Peel's Sunday Concert, London, Britain, 6-4-1970

Starting in 1970, the BBC began broadcasting full rock concerts, and many of them were hosted by BBC DJ John Peel. This Procol Harum concert is a perfect example. One downside though is that in 1970 these shows had to fit into an hour long radio show slot. So this bootleg concert is 58 minutes long. There may have been more than has been lost since it was never broadcast.

One odd thing about these John Peel concerts is that Peel did all, or almost all, of the talking between the songs, as if the band members could only sing and not speak. That's the case here. 

The song quality of the music is very good, but not great. One problem was that the vocals weren't loud enough in the mix, in my opinion. But I used the X-Minus audio editing program to boost them all up a bit. Technically, all the songs, but not the talking, should had "[Edit]" in their titles, but you can get the point from my write up here.

Procol Harum avoided playing the two big hits they'd had by this point, "Homburg" and "A Whiter Shade of Pale." Perhaps there was more to the concert and those were encores that got cut. The concert happened right at the time the band's fourth album "Home" was released. Lead guitarist Robin Trower was still a part of the band, but he would leave a year later for a successful solo career.

01 talk (Procol Harum)
02 Still There'll Be More (Procol Harum)
03 talk (Procol Harum)
04 Wish Me Well (Procol Harum)
05 talk (Procol Harum)
06 About to Die (Procol Harum)
07 talk (Procol Harum)
08 A Christmas Camel (Procol Harum)
09 talk (Procol Harum)
10 Your Own Choice (Procol Harum)
11 talk (Procol Harum)
12 The Devil Came from Kansas (Procol Harum)
13 talk (Procol Harum)
14 Juicy John Pink (Procol Harum)
15 talk (Procol Harum)
16 Well I (Procol Harum)
17 talk (Procol Harum)
18 Nothing that I Didn't Know (Procol Harum)
19 talk (Procol Harum)
20 A Salty Dog (Procol Harum)
21 talk (Procol Harum)
22 Whisky Train (Procol Harum)
23 talk (Procol Harum)
24 Whaling Stories (Procol Harum)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15267502/ProclH_1970_BBSessionsVolume3SundyConcertLondnBritain__6-4-1970_atse.zip.html

The cover uses a publicity photo from 1970. I would have preferred to use a photo of the band in concert from around that time, but I couldn't find a good color one.

Shawn Colvin - Live for Fast Folk, The SpeakEasy, New York City, 1984

Here's an album that I'm especially happy to have made. I mentioned the other day that I really like it when I can find early material from famous musicians in great sound quality that stands up to their later work. That's a rare find, but here's another ideal case. 

American singer-songwriter Shawn Colvin put out her first album in 1989. But it turns out she was singing in public since at least the mid-1970s. I don't know why it took her so long to get a record contract, because it's clear she was a fine singer and songwriter long before then. From at least the early 1980s, there was a publication first briefly called "The CooP" and then "Fast Folk Musical Magazine" that put out obscure records promoting emerging singer-songwriters in New York City. Between 1982 and 1989, Colvin had individual songs on Fast Folk records at least nine times, generally taken from concerts in New York City.

Yesterday, I stumbled across a bootleg of a complete concert Colvin did at some unknown point for "The CooP" in 1984. There was no location given, but all of her songs released for The Coop/Fast Folk in 1984 were recorded in a club called the SpeakEasy, so I'm guessing that's where this is from. What struck me immediately is the sound quality. This recording sounds fantastic! One couldn't ask for better sound, which is shocking considering she was five years away from her first album.

I could have posted this entire concert, but it's available elsewhere. Instead, I decided to do something else with it. About half of the songs are ones she would put on record years later, and about half are ones that she's never officially released. I realized there are enough of the latter for a nice album. I believe all the songs are covers, with the exceptions of "No Friends to Me" and "I'm Talking to You." I was familiar with "I'm Talking to You" already because singer-songwriter Mary Lou Lord has released a version of it, but strangely Colvin herself never has, even though it's a strong song.

All of these songs have been edited by me using the X-Minus audio editing program. But I haven't added the usual "[Edit]" in the titles since I edited all of them in the same way. I thought this bootleg sounded so great that it could easily pass for studio sessions, with the exception of clapping and cheering at the end of each song. I used X-Minus to split the songs into different instruments, and found that all of the applause was put on the drums track. Since there were no drums, I just deleted the end bit of that track, and basically all of the applause was gone. I got lucky - I've never been able to remove applause so effectively, since the applause usually gets spread out to different tracks. Now, all of these sound exactly as good as studio versions, even though they actually were performed in concert.

By the way, it sounds at first as if it's just Colvin and her acoustic guitar. But she's actually accompanied by Mark Dann on bass on all the songs. But it's subtle bass that just fills out the sound a little bit.

All but the last three songs are from the undated bootleg I mentioned above. The last three are quasi-bonus tracks taken from those CooP/ Fast Folk records I mentioned. "I'm Talking to You" is from 1982, "Heart on Ice" is from 1986, and "Talk Around Town" is from 1988. She did some others, as I also mentioned above, but those are songs she put on later albums. I wanted to keep everything here to songs she never officially released otherwise.

The end result of all this is that this is basically a lost acoustic covers album that's 53 minutes long. In my opinion, it's a very strong album, with excellent song selection and solid performances. In retrospect, Colvin should have had a record contract long before she did.

01 No Friends to Me (Shawn Colvin)
02 Romeo and Juliet (Shawn Colvin)
03 Ready or Not [So Ripe] (Shawn Colvin)
04 The Vigilante (Shawn Colvin)
05 When I Get to the Border (Shawn Colvin)
06 Washable Ink (Shawn Colvin)
07 American Jerusalem (Shawn Colvin)
08 Ballad of Spider John (Shawn Colvin)
09 On the Avenue (Shawn Colvin)
10 Baby, Now that I've Found You (Shawn Colvin)
11 Sin City (Shawn Colvin)
12 Heart on Ice (Lucy Kaplansky & Shawn Colvin)
13 I'm Talking to You (Shawn Colvin)
14 Talk Around Town (Shawn Colvin)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/vFKGHBky

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/fNjDiUQqdq5bZBx/file

I got lucky with the album cover photo. I didn't expect to find any photos of Colvin from around 1984, since she was still years from starting to get famous. But she put on her own Facebook page a publicity photo that she says dates to circa 1985, so I've used that one. It was in black and white, but I colorized it using the Palatte program. In January 2025, I improved it some more with the Krea AI program.

Tina Turner - Park West, Chicago, IL, 8-17-1984

I'm not that big of a Tina Turner fan, but she is a great vocalist, and her career has had many highlights. Her career had a strange arc. She was quite famous in the 1960s and early 1970s as the focal point in the Ike and Tina Turner duo. But after that duo broke up in the mid-1970s (due to her husband Ike Turner being an abusive asshole), she languished in obscurity until 1984. That year, she put out the album "Private Dancer." It was a huge hit and led to one of the biggest and most unexpected comebacks in musical history. Just a few years earlier, she had literally been living on food stamps, but by the late 1980s she found herself selling out entire stadiums!

The problem I have with Tina Turner's career is that most of her songs in her comeback era are generic, slick, and/or overproduced. The songs on her "Private Dancer" are of a higher quality, generally speaking, but they also suffer from all the usual 1980s production issues that sound badly dated today. So this concert hits the sweet spot for me. It took place about two months after "Private Dancer" was released. Her new surge of fame was building, but she was still playing relatively small venues. She did mosr of the songs from the "Private Dancer" album, but because they were done live and with a relatively small band, that gets past most of the 1980s studio production problems.

This is a bootleg from a live radio broadcast. The sound quality is fantastic, as good as an official live album from the era. There is no official album of hers from this time period. The closest is "Tina Live in Europe," recorded in various shows from 1985 to 1987 and released in 1988. But that already was very different, concerts done in grandiose style for massive audiences, complete with multiple special guest stars. That album was also overcooked, with a whole team of musicians performing overdubs, making it a stretch to call it a truly live album at all. I like this album much better - it's much more of the "real" Tina Turner.

The set list consists of most of the "Private Dancer" album - seven of its nine songs - plus three earlier hits ("River Deep, Mountain High," "Nutbush City Limits," and "Proud Mary"). Additionally a slowed down cover of "Help!" by the Beatles was on some editions of the "Private Dancer" album but not others, and later was included as a bonus track. 

The last song is a real treat. Turner is renowned for her attractive, muscular legs. So that's probably why she closed with an extended cover of "Legs," a hit for ZZ Top just the year before. She never did a studio version of that song, but a live version was released as a B-side in 1988.

This album is an hour and 13 minutes long.

01 talk (Tina Turner)
02 Let's Pretend We're Married (Tina Turner)
03 Show Some Respect (Tina Turner)
04 talk (Tina Turner)
05 I Might Have Been Queen [Soul Survivor] (Tina Turner)
06 River Deep, Mountain High (Tina Turner)
07 Nutbush City Limits (Tina Turner)
08 talk (Tina Turner)
09 What's Love Got to Do with It (Tina Turner)
10 I Can't Stand the Rain (Tina Turner)
11 Better Be Good to Me (Tina Turner)
12 Private Dancer (Tina Turner)
13 Let's Stay Together (Tina Turner)
14 talk (Tina Turner)
15 Help (Tina Turner)
16 Proud Mary (Tina Turner)
17 talk (Tina Turner)
18 Legs (Tina Turner)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16067897/TinaTrnr_1984_PrkWestChicagoIL__8-17-1984_atse.zip.html

The cover photo was taken at this same venue in this same month of the same year. But it's from August 2nd, instead of August 17th. But hey, that's pretty close.

Iwan Fals - Ngalor Ngidulnya, Volume 5 (2021)

I consider Iwan Fals one of my favorite musicians of all time. Unfortunately, he only sings in Indonesian, and his lyrics are a big part of his appeal. He's been called the "Bob Dylan of Indonesia." So this album only has a limited appeal, but hopefully those who enjoy it will really enjoy it.

In 2020 and 2021, like many musicians during the height of the Covid pandemic, Fals released videos of himself playing songs in solo acoustic format on YouTube. This is the fifth and last album in that series of videos, which he called "Ngalor Ngidulnya," an idiom which roughly means "my north to south," or "my here to there." I don't know why he stopped when he did exactly, but this goes to the end of the series. He's written so many great songs over the years that he could have gone on much longer.

This album is an hour and four minutes long.

01 Berapa (Iwan Fals)
02 Cik (Iwan Fals)
03 Damai Kami Sepanjang Hari (Iwan Fals)
04 Gali Gongli (Iwan Fals)
05 Aku Sayang Kamu (Iwan Fals)
06 Jangan Tutup Dirimu (Iwan Fals)
07 Kota (Iwan Fals)
08 Selamat Tinggal Malam (Iwan Fals)
09 Timur Tengah I (Iwan Fals)
10 Timur Tengah II [Bakar] (Iwan Fals)
11 Ya Hui Ha He Ha (Iwan Fals)
12 14-4-'84 (Iwan Fals)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16064370/IwanF_2021_NgalrNgidlnyaVolum5_atse.zip.html

As with the other albums in this series, the cover photo is a screenshot taken from one of his YouTube videos recorded here.

Simon & Garfunkel - Millett Hall, Miami University, Oxford, OH, 11-9-1969

This is one of Simon and Garfunkel's most bootlegged concerts, due to its excellent sound quality. I recently downloaded a version that was posted on the Internet this year that has even better sound quality. This now sounds as good as an official album from the 1960s.

In late 1969, Simon and Garfunkel went on tour for the first time in about a year, despite the fact that they were still putting the finishing touches on their new album "Bridge Over Troubled Water," which would be released in January 1970. Most or all of the short tour was professionally recorded for a possible live album that never came to pass, as well as for video footage meant for a TV special broadcast at the end of November. Decades later, an archival live album of highlights of this tour was released called "Live 1969." I prefer this bootleg over that album. "Live 1969" is a seemingly random selection of songs in seemingly random order, with band performances mixed with acoustic ones, and no banter between songs. Whereas this is longer, and a compete show, with the songs in order and all the banter included.

Speaking of the songs being in order, versions of this bootleg have been around for decades, but I believe the song order has been messed up all that time. In short, Simon and Garfunkel performed an acoustic set and a set with a full band. All versions of this bootleg that I've seen have the full band set first, followed by the acoustic set. But it appears to have been the opposite. It's usually done the other way for concerts in general, and that's how it was done for the other shows on the tour. I even found a review of the concert from the night before the states as much. Here's an excerpt from the article:

"During the first half of the show, there was little informal bantering between performers and audience. However, the numbers , which included 'Homeward Bound, ' 'America,' 'For Emily, Whenever I May Find Her.' and 'Scarborough Fair,' were warmly received.  For most of the second half, Simon and Garfunkel performed with the backup group that records with them. 'Mrs. Robinson,' the first number after the intermission, was ruined by a too-loud background and an audible whistle in the equipment."  

Other details in the article make clear the two sets should be released. For instance, the full band set included an encore of "Bye Bye Love" for both nights.

Further research revealed that the correct date of the concert was November 9th, not November 11th, as it has been on all versions of this bootleg up until now. There are mentions of the concert being on the 9th written in that time period. So I made that correction too.

Some versions of this bootleg contain two extra songs compared to other versions: "Overs" and "A Most Peculiar Man." Those do seem to fit with the show. For instance, they have the same stellar sound quality. But they seem to have been out of order. So I had to use some guesswork to figure out where to place them. The last song of the first set not including these two, "For Emily, Whenever I May Find Her," ends with a regular amount of applause. But "A Most Peculiar Man" ends with a rapturous amount of applause (which gets suddenly cut off). That wouldn't make much sense, since it's not one of the duo's most favorite songs. But it would make sense if that was the end of the set and they left the stage. 

So I'm pretty sure that song ended the first set and I have the songs in their correct spots. But if anyone knows of the correct, complete set list for the show, please let me know. It's also possible that other songs were played that didn't get bootlegged. For instance, the review of the show from the night before that I quoted above mentioned two more encores after "Bye Bye Love," which is not the case here.

This show was rather unusual in that four songs from the still unreleased "Bridge Over Troubled Water" album were played, as well as an original, "Cuba Si, Nixon No," that never got released, plus a cover of a relatively obscure song, "That Silver-Haired Daddy of Mine." (One song on that album, "The Boxer," had been a big hit as a single already.) So the audience was in for some surprises. The biggest was the song "Bridge Over Troubled Water." This future classic was only played in concert for the first time a week earlier. The audience was totally amazed, as you can tell from the lengthy applause when the song ended.

This concert is an hour and ten minutes long. I cut out a little bit of dead air between songs, but not much, maybe a minute or two in total. 

As an aside, the band members were all part of the famous "Wrecking Crew" that played on the recordings of hundreds of hits in the 1960s and 70s, including drummer Hal Blaine.

01 Homeward Bound (Simon & Garfunkel)
02 talk (Simon & Garfunkel)
03 At the Zoo (Simon & Garfunkel)
04 America (Simon & Garfunkel)
05 talk (Simon & Garfunkel)
06 Song for the Asking (Simon & Garfunkel)
07 A Poem on the Underground Wall (Simon & Garfunkel)
08 talk (Simon & Garfunkel)
09 For Emily, Whenever I May Find Her (Simon & Garfunkel)
10 talk (Simon & Garfunkel)
11 Overs (Simon & Garfunkel)
12 A Most Peculiar Man (Simon & Garfunkel)
13 Mrs. Robinson (Simon & Garfunkel)
14 talk (Simon & Garfunkel)
15 Fakin' It (Simon & Garfunkel)
16 The Boxer (Simon & Garfunkel)
17 talk (Simon & Garfunkel)
18 So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright (Simon & Garfunkel)
19 Why Don’t You Write Me (Simon & Garfunkel)
20 talk (Simon & Garfunkel)
21 That Silver-Haired Daddy of Mine (Simon & Garfunkel)
22 Cuba Si, Nixon No (Simon & Garfunkel)
23 Bridge Over Troubled Water (Simon & Garfunkel)
24 The Sound of Silence (Simon & Garfunkel)
25 Bye Bye Love (Simon & Garfunkel)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15176023/SimnandG_1969_MillettHllMiamiUnversityOxfrdOH__11-9-1969_atse.zip.html

Good color photos of Simon and Garfunkel in concert in the 1960s are surprisingly hard to find. The problem with the one I chose for the cover is that I have no idea where or when it's from. However, I saw some black and white photos from the tour, and they looked basically like that. (Simon would grow his hair longer shortly thereafter, and grow a mustache for a little while too.)

The Byrds - Nothin' to It - Non-Album Tracks (1970-1971)

I got a request the other day to post more from the Byrds, so here's the next in my series of stray tracks albums for them. (I've got tons of albums all ready to go, I just need to make the album covers and write the blurbs. So if you want something posted sooner rather than later, please let me know.)

1970 was a big year for the Byrds, with the successful double album "(Untitled)" and lots of touring. For my purposes, nearly all of the new music for that year wound up on the expanded versions of both parts of that double album. As a result, only the first three songs are from 1970.

The fact that there's enough material here for an album is rather surprising, because 1971 was another busy year for the band, with two studio albums, "Byrdmaniax" and "Farther Along." Three of the songs here are officially released "Byrdmaniax" bonus tracks: "Think I'm Gonna Feel Better," "Nothin' to It," and "Just like a Woman." "Roll Over Beethoven" is from the archival live album "Live at Royal Albert Hall 1971." The last two songs will be discussed separately.

The other seven songs are unreleased. The Byrds toured heavily during this time period, and there are many soundboard bootlegs of their shows. I believe all of these are from soundboards, and they all sound excellent. We're especially lucky to have this version of the Bob Dylan song "She Belongs to Me," because it may have only been played in concert once (or at least a very small number of times). 

Most of the songs are sung by Roger McGuinn, the undisputed head of the Byrds at the time. But a couple were sung by Skip Battin. The song "Central Park" would later appear on a solo album he released in 1973. 

The song "Hanoi Hannah" had a drop out in it that lasted for a couple of seconds. Luckily, it was during a chorus, so I was able to patch it up with a different section of the song. That's why it has "[Edit]" in the title. By the way, a studio version of that song would later appear on McGuinn's 1973 solo album.

The last two songs, "One in a Hundred" and "She's the Kind of Girl," are a different kettle of fish. They were both written and sung by Gene Clark. Clark was the original leader of the Byrds, but he left in 1966 for a less commerically successful solo career. I don't know the story of how these songs came to be recorded, but they were performed in 1971 by all five of the original members of the Byrds: Clark, McGuinn, David Crosby, Chris Hillman, and Michael Clarke. They were released on Clark's 1973 album "Roadmaster." 

One could argue these two songs don't belong on this album, because the personnel is very different, with only McGuinn on all the songs. But I figure these songs are part of the Byrds legacy and fit here chronologically. The five original Byrds would briefly unite for a studio album in 1973, simply called "Byrds."

This album is 37 minutes long.

01 She Belongs to Me (Byrds)
02 Last Time I Was Home [Home Sweet Home] (Byrds)
03 Think I'm Gonna Feel Better (Byrds)
04 I'm So Restless (Byrds)
05 Hanoi Hannah [Edit] (Byrds)
06 Central Park (Byrds)
07 Rolling in My Sweet Baby's Arms (Byrds)
08 O Mary Don't You Weep (Byrds)
09 Nothin' to It [Instrumental] (Byrds)
10 Just like a Woman (Byrds)
11 Roll Over Beethoven (Byrds)
12 One in a Hundred (Gene Clark & the Byrds)
13 She's the Kind of Girl (Gene Clark & the Byrds)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16067826/TByrd_1970-1971_NthintoIt_atse.zip.html

The cover photo was taken in Amsterdam in 1970 or 1971.