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We'll enjoy a track written by the performer from 1972 and it was released as the B-Side of his big hit that year. The song is about going through the relationship motions, pretending that they are still in love, when in fact, they are both unhappy with the relationship. It;s quite the lonely game being played. This artist had one of the finest wedding songs of the era, and this one may be the ultimate divorce song in some ways. Name the artist and the song...
*The frontman of this band wrote just about all of the tracks recorded by this band, but all them certainly on the album we'll dip into. The writer was also the singer with a very theatrical style perfect for the operatic rock style of the band. The album was produced by Todd Rundgren and the song we'll play is highlighted by some metaphorical narration. Name the band, the singer and the song from 1977... *This band teamed with Felix Pappalardi for their 2nd album and it pushed them toward a psychedelia sound while giving the album a thematic coherence. The album also steered the band away from a rather recycled blues-rock toward its eccentric British core. Name the band and the album from 1967... *This artist's 1989 album had in mind the era of soul music of the mid-60's to the mid-70's although all the songs on this album are new...some with the aforementioned influence. The album had a ballad which amazingly became the artist's first ever #1 hit in the U.K. (pretty stunning fact). We'll steer deeper into the album for an energetic rocker. Name the artist and extra credit for the album's name... BATTLE OF THE BANDS Gimme Some Lovin’ by Spencer Davis Group vs Lola by The Kinks ANSWERS 1. Leon Russell, This Masquerade 2. Meat Loaf, Jim Steinman, Paradise By The Dashboard Light 3. Cream, Disraeli Gears 4. Elton John, sleeping with the past Spencer Davis Group preferred by listeners by a 53% margin
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Dale Hood Beautiful Noise Thursday @ 6pm
The movie soundtrack theme from last weeks Beautiful Noise show inspired many listeners to comment as they recollected classic movie scenes and songs that made them memorable. From Tom Cruise sliding across the big screen and into our hearts, in his underwear lip synching to Seger’s Old Time Rock and Roll to Aretha Franklin in The Blues Brother’s Movie also lip synching. Think ( a little known fact ) in the Diner dance scene. With popcorn and drink in hand, everyone seemed to have had a good time!! Dale (AGIT) Hood Jeff Weigl Beats Working Friday @ 4pm Marshall Tucker Band While the band was discussing possible band names one evening in an old warehouse, that they had rented for rehearsal space, someone noticed that the warehouse's door key had the name "Marshall Tucker" inscribed on it, and suggested they call themselves "The Marshall Tucker Band," not realizing it referred to an actual person. Later it came to light that Marshall Tucker was a blind piano tuner who had tuned a piano in that rented space before the band, and his name was inscribed on the key. Jethro Tull In England, in the late 1960’s, band names were often supplied by their booking agent's staff. One of whom, a history enthusiast, eventually christened the band Jethro Tull, after the 18th-century agriculturist. The name stuck because they happened to be using it the first time a club manager liked their show enough to invite them to return. Lynyrd Skynyrd Originally the band was known as The One Percent. In 1969, lead singer Ronnie Van Zant sought a new name after growing tired of taunts from audiences that the band had "1% talent". The group settled on Leonard Skinnerd, which was in a mocking tribute to their P.E. teacher Leonard Skinner. Skinner was notorious for strictly enforcing the school's policy against boys having long hair. Despite their high school acrimony, the band developed a friendlier relationship with Skinner and in later years and invited him to introduce them at a concert in the Jacksonville Memorial Coliseum. Craig Looney Looney’s Tunes Sunday @ 6:30pm Greetings...thanks for joining me for this show... Great start with Taj Mahal and Keb Mo creating the vibe carefully taken forward by The Traveling Wilburys and Argent. Isn't music a blast? All 4 segments exceptional, with a John Prine, 'Then and Later' followed by a Battle of the Bands where Linda Ronstadt comfortably defeated Roy Orbison...both singing the classic, Blue Bayou. The Police and Sting's Message In A Bottle was covered brilliantly by John Mayer in the 'Cover Me Up. Our Sing Along was Build Me Up Buttercup by The Foundations & a footnote reference to There's Something About Mary... Had an absolutely chill Supergroup Deconstruction as The Byrds were broken down to their individual artist's solo catalogues and brought it all home with the classic Byrds track, My Back Pages. Songs by Roger McGuinn, Chris Hillman, David Crosby, Gene Clark and toss in a Gram Parsons cut...preceded. If you didn't know it...The Byrds were a 'Supergroup'! Sunday evening....your Looney's Tunes reservation is assured....for some incredible music entertainment The LooneyMan * Early in the show we'll play a track from 1972 that was the only US top 40 hit for a band named for their keyboard player. The song attracted a much wider audience as a result of the band appearing on the British TV show, Top Of The Pops. I hesitate to consider them a one-hit wonder...but many might be hard-pressed to name another song by this group...that is unless you were a true fan. Name the band and the song...
*We'll play a great ballad by this band from 1973. It was written by their lead singer and guitarist. The song is open for interpretation and the band kept it that way, politely refusing to tell anyone who or what the song is about. The 'you' in the title could be about a literal person, but it could also be about the demands of touring...road weariness leading to exhilarating shows. The writer could live with the weariness for the rush provided by the shows. Name the band and the name of the track... *Pretty astute at turning acoustic Bob Dylan folk tunes into melodic folk rockers, this band struck gold in 1967 with this one. For Dylan, it was a somewhat nondescript song of his from 1964. The version we'll play surprisingly stalled on the charts at #30 in 1967, but its reputation as a rock classic has only grown through the years. Name the band and extra credit for the name of the track... *This most excellent band's two albums prior to their 1974 album were blessed with some lengthy instrumental jams in addition to catchy melodies and lyrics. But this album veered away from the formula of those albums concentrating on concise songs...that might just indicate a tendency toward pop conventions. But that was not the result. The album presented us with their most complex and cynical set of songs to date. Name the band and extra credit for the name of the 1974 album... BATTLE OF THE BANDS Blue Bayou by Roy Orbison vs Blue Bayou by Linda Ronstadt ANSWERS 1. Argent, Hold Your Head up 2. Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Still . . . You Turn Me On 3. The Byrds, My Back Pages 4. Steely Dan, Pretzel Logic Linda Ronstadt prevailed by a 56% margin
Dale Hood Beautiful Noise Thursday @ 6pm They say Opposites Attract. That is especially true when it comes to music. My show Thursday night took two songs with opposite words brought together for everyone’s listening enjoyment. The first song, GOOD Lovin’ by the Young Rascals and second song Baby did a BAD BAD Thing, set the tone for the night. Bet you didn’t know the original title for the Tom Petty and Heartbreaker hit LAST dance with Mary Jane was originally Indiana Girl Or the story behind the Only the YOUNG, Journey hit, in which a 16 year old boy on his death bed, who the band visited in the hospital, had such an affect and inspiration on the band. Our listeners loved the theme of the show and showed their appreciation throughout with positive feedback!! Dale (All Good In The) Hood Jeff Weigl Beats Working Friday @ 4pm No Particular Place to Go by Chuck Berry At the time Chuck Berry wrote that song, he literally had no place to go, as he was in prison. Once he got out, he released that single, which cracked the top 10. That’s All Right by Elvis Presley On the evening of July 5, 1954, during recording session at Sun Studio, Elvis Presley was on acoustic rhythm guitar, Scotty Moore was on lead guitar, and Bill Black was on string bass. During a break between recordings, Presley began improvising an up-tempo version of Arthur Crudup's song "That's All Right, Mama. Producer Sam Phillips, at the suddenly upbeat atmosphere, asked the three to start again so he could record it. It became the debut single recorded and was released by Elvis Presley with "Blue Moon of Kentucky" as the B-side. It was ranked number 113 on the 2010 Rolling Stone magazine list of the "500 Greatest Songs of All Time". It is the start of what would become Rock n Roll. Give A Little Bit by Supertramp The song was written many years before it was recorded. Singer Rodger Hodson wrote the song when he was a teenager, around 1970 when a lot of the peace and love of the 1960s was still alive. But he waited about six years before bringing it to the band to record. I Will Survive by Gloria Gaynor That song was written by the former Motown producers Freddie Perren and Dino Fekaris. When Perren and Fekaris left Motown, they formed their own production company and scored big with Peaches & Herb, taking "Reunited" to #1. When they wrote "I Will Survive," they had nobody to sing it. The pair agreed that the next diva that came their way would get the song. That diva was Gloria Gaynor. Craig Looney Looney’s Tunes Sunday @ 6:30pm As we near our 4 year anniversary of broadcasting, Inside The Gates Radio has come a very, very long way. Delaine Faris joined me early in the broadcast to announce her new show that will be presented every Wednesday at 6:30 P.M., The Journey. Her first broadcast will be September 21 and we should all be incredibly excited. This will give us 6 consecutive days of live programming on our small, but powerful community radio station. We started this show fast with some early Boss from 1973, Rosalita and kept the vibe going in fine fashion through the evening. All four regular segments were simply great... Then and Later featured the great Delbert McClinton...Then from 1973...Later from a new album in 2022. The Battle Of The Bands between heavyweights, The Doors (Riders On The Storm) vs. David Bowie (TVC15) was a classic. Jim Morrison's gang jumped to the early lead and never relinquished it. Cover Me Up segment went back to 1968 and the incredible Beatles White Album offering Dear Prudence as the original, followed immediately by a cover from Al Di Meola from his 2020 album, Across The Universe. Most unusual! Our Sing Along didn't disappoint as we all journeyed back to the 60's to sing and dance to The Kingsmen's, Louie, Louie. Sure we took some liberties with the lyrics, but so did the Kingsmen. The choruses were particularly strong! Each show we try to wind it down to a very mellow pace and our last 3 tracks played did just that. We started with a great one from Ana Popovic (Slow Dance) followed by Tears For Fears (Woman In Chains) and closed the show with Rod Stewart and The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra with the most sublime, Stop Loving Her Today. I am so very excited for a Special Mid-Week Artist show that I'll have the honor of presenting, this Wedesday, 9/14. The life, career and music of Bonnie Raitt. This will be unforgettable. Join the LooneyMan promptly at 6:30 P.M. to dig deep into the incredible music she has recorded through the decades. Bonnie Raitt...as you've never heard her before...only on Inside The Gates Radio... Keep on Rockin! The LooneyMan Shiraz Alikhan San Francisco Nights Monday @ 6:30pm Candle in the Wind (1997 version) Elton John sang a revised version of "Candle in the Wind" (also called "Goodbye, England's Rose") with new lyrics by Bernia Taupin at Princess Diana's funeral on Sept. 6, 1997. The single was released on Sept. 13 and became the best-selling single of all time in the UK. It was the second best-selling physical single after Bing Crosby's "White Christmas" and the global proceeds went to Diana's charities. Elton received the Best Male Pop Vocal Performance Grammy for this version. * David Paich, who would go on to form the band, Toto, co-wrote this track with the artist who recorded it back in 1976. The song came from a weekend getaway outside of Los Angeles where armed with only a piano, the pair stayed up all night bangng around ideas. They settled on a 1-word title, brought it back to the band and recorded it, a track that became a huge hit from an album full of most excellent tracks. Name the artist who recorded it and extra credit for the name of the track...
*The track we'll play by this artist was released in 1970 and it became the zenith of his live performances from that year on. What begins as a strong melodic slice of Americana, it eventually unfurls to an accelerated fervent ramp up. It has all kinds of stages including an authentic sounding revival gospel flavor, a Revolutionary War-esque call to action in addition to its 'down home' flavor. Name the artist, the song and extra credit if you name the album from which it came... *We'll play the first hit song written by Joni Mitchell, whose version appeared on her 1969 album, Clouds. The song was inspired by a plane ride Mitchell was taking while reading Saul Bellow's book, Henderson The Rain King. The book included a plane ride and when Mitchell took a break from reading it during the flight, she immediately started writing this song. Another very popular artist recorded the song one year later and that version won the 1968 Grammy for Best Folk Performance. Name the artist who recorded it and the name of the song... *Commemorating the anniversary of a very dark day in our nation's history (9/11/2001), we'll play a song that was recorded live in Tuscany, Italy for an album this artist made on that exact day. While the artist actually considered cancelling the concert altogether, he went through with it...in a gesture to honor those who perished and those who responded. Name the artist... BATTLE OF THE BANDS Riders on the Storm by The Doors vs TVC 15 by David Bowie ANSWERS 1. Boz Scaggs, Lowdown 2. Elton John, Burn Down the Mission, Tumbleweed Connection 3. Judy Collins, Both Sides Now 4. Sting The Doors prevailed by a 54% margin Dale Hood Beautiful Noise Thursday @ 6pm Another well received, Thursday edition of Beautiful Noise this past Labor Day weekend as we celebrated the hard working men and women that keep this great country moving forward. Opening the show with Huey Lewis and the News with “Working for a Living” set the tone for the evening. We kept it rocking with Loverboy and “Working for the Weekend“ and did not forget our Country artist fans with songs such as “Work Hard, Play Harder” by Gretchen Wilson and “Shiftwork”by Kenny Chestney. We celebrated working professions as well, Lawyers, Teachers, Operators, Preachers, Musicians, Postmen, and even Pirates! Even a musical tidbit was shared with my audience, that being, one Marvin Gaye at the young age of 22 while attempting to make his mark in the music industry played drums on the #1 Motown smash by the Marvelettes Thanks and Keep Rocking Dale (All Good In The) Hood Jeff Weigl Beats Working Friday @ 4pm The song Whole Lotta Love by Led Zeppelin was the first song by the band allowed to be a US single.It became their biggest hit, going to #4. Many of their other popular songs, like Stairway to Heaven were never released as singles. The band War got the idea for the song Why Can’t We Be Friends when they were traveling in Japan in the early '70s. War drummer Harold Brown said: "We're all connected by language, and by our food, and by our culture.You find out we're more alike inside than we are on the outside. We started realizing that’s what is really important. You travel all over the world, you can't speak a lot of their language. But one thing they do know, they know your body language, and how you may react.” The song Mad World by Tears for Fears is about a depressed young person who feels out of place in this world. He sees life as being empty and looks for ways to escape the pain. The line in the song, "The dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had" suggests thoughts of suicide, but according to Roland Orzabal who wrote the lyrics, it relates to the psychologist Arthur Janov's idea that our most dramatic dreams release the most tension. So, the guy in the song isn't necessarily looking to die - he wakes up from morbid, lucid dreams feeling better. The song Ghost Riders in the Sky was originally written and recorded by Stan Jones in 1948. Jones was a forest ranger who wrote songs on the side. Artists like Burl Ives, Bing Crosby, Gene Autry, Johnny Cash and The Outlaws, all recorded it, and it became a cowboy standard. Dinnis Keefe Song Sense Saturday @ 6:30pm Any of you regular listeners to SongSense might have noticed that I take particular interest in the season of Summer. Me, personally, I enjoy the soaking heat of the US South. But, if I surrender to the reality of where I live and where Inside The Gates Radio resides, I would have to say that Georgia Fall and Spring rule. Georgia Summer: Hot, humidity like the equator, cicadas singing praises to this soup of sauna 24-hours a day. Georgia Winter: Averages forty-something degrees, humidity same as summer, no frostbite here, but a bone-soaking cold that just never seems to leave without chemical intervention. Georgia Spring: Heh. Now the secret is out. THIS is why people move here. The mid-southern United States can have travel-photo Springs (Not going to try to describe in this limited space). And that, of course, calls up... Georgia Fall,: A photo-negative of glorious Spring, complete with leaves turning from eye-soothing greens to nerve-and-mood stimulating reds, yellows, oranges, all soaking in mild temps. What's not to like? I started SongSense this week with what I consider one of the most joyous songs of Fall: Earth, Wind & Fire's "September." To wit: "Do you remember The 21st night of September? Love was changin' the minds of pretenders While chasin' the clouds away Our hearts were ringin' In the key that our souls were singin' As we danced in the night, remember How the stars stole the night away, oh, yeah..." 'Nuf said. Craig Looney Looney’s Tunes Sunday @ 6:30pm After spending 20 hours in the car Friday through Sunday, Looney's Tunes Live Show #194 kicked off with an enthusiastic gang of Looney's Tuners that created a great vibe from our opening track...Tinsley Ellis and his Don't Know Beans song from the album, Ice Cream In Hell. It was quite the ride from there out. We had some fun with a bit of a twist on the Then And Later Segment as we followed a song (not a band or an artist) through time and with different covers. Starting with Carol King's Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow from 1971 followed shortly thereafter by Dave Mason's version from 1978. To cap it off, we then dove head first into Joe Walsh's version of the same song from his 1992 album, Songs For A Dying Planet. Very cool to hear three separate interpretations of the same song in a period over 3 decades. I enjoy all the comments from our faithful listeners during the show, but it is really something when I hear from some of those same listeners who weren't able to listen that evening, telling me how much they missed it. Had a few Sunday night and I assured them it was all right, as I know they'll be back. One even asked if he could vote in the Battle Of The Bands Segment without being on board. I reminded him that since we have no rules...he was more than welcome to participate. So...he did! BTW...Pink Floyd nipped Led Zeppelin... I think perhaps the largest song reaction of the show came during and just after the Sing Along Song...Del Shannon's, Runaway from 1961. I was informed of more than a few folks also getting to their feet to dance while they sang. How special is that? Once again, my three closing tracks for the evening were quite popular. Steely Dan's The Royal Scam, Dancing Girl by Dion with Mark Knopfler and a closing track from The Allman Brothers Band, In Memory Of Elizabeth Reed made for a most sublime end to a most satisfying Looney's Tunes. Thanks to all for tuning in...catch you next Sunday at 6:30... The LooneyMan Please feel free to add any comments for your DJ's below. *The band member who wrote this track did so after it came to him in a dream. He wanted to create a song that the audience could participate in. He succeeded! The song was performed at their induction into The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame and inspired a musical of the same name. Name the band, the artist who wrote it and extra credit for the name of the track...
*We'll play a track that many people thought was about drugs, but it actually is not. The writer of the song states the lyrics are all about whe he felt like as a child when he was sick with fever...a state of delirium and a detachment from reality. He actually got this very feeling at one of the band's concerts. He played on despite being unable to focus, but he did realize that the fans simply did not care because they were so busy screaming. Hence...the name of the track. Name the band, the writer and extra credit for the name of the song... *A track originally written and recorded by Bob Dylan in 1964 finds the singer telling a girl that he is not her true love, and that she should forget about him as he is just a temporary fix for her loneliness. It is quite possible the song was inspired by Joan Baez. But we'll play a version that became this band's very first hit the following year (1965). Name the band and track... *A 2020 album by this superstar artist is a true sequel to his 2016 memoir and its 2017 Broadway stage show, finds the artist reckoning with the weight of the past, and how its ghosts are still readily apparent in the present. He is also keenly aware he has more road in his rearview mirror than he does the highway ahead of him (so true for many of us). He meant the album and the title track to celebrate that we are all in the moment....the present moment...a point of celebration. Name the artist and the name of the song (also the name of the album)... BATTLE OF THE BANDS Going To California by Led Zeppelin vs Comfortably Numb by Pink Floyd ANSWERS 1. Queen, Brian May, We Will Rock You 2. Pink Floyd, Roger Watters, Comfortably Numb 3. Turtles, It Ain’t Me Babe 4. Bruce Springsteen, Letter To You Pink Floyd prevailed by a mere 3 votes |
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