more progressive radio sounds from yesterday
robear...@yahoo.com
radio was the variety of music played: rock, folk, jazz, fusion,
reggae, soul, and blues were all put into the mix by the
freeform/progressive djs.
here's a few more artists and songs that I heard on the FM radio back
then:
CIRCUS MAXIMUS: the wind (this long, dreamy song from 1967 is one of
the early classics of underground radio)
FLASH : small beginnings
MICHAEL MURPHY: carolina in the pines
LES DUDEK: city magic
HOT TUNA: keep on truckin'
CRAWLER: stone cold sober
GENTLE GIANT
NEW RIDERS OF THE PURPLE SAGE: Panama Red, glendale train, up against
the wall redneck mother
JESSE WINCHESTER: twigs and seeds
JESSE COLIN YOUNG: ridgetop, T-bone shuffle, sunlight, before you came
EARTHQUAKE: friday on my mind
FABUOLUS POODLES: roll your own
WEATHER EPORT: birdland
JOHN PRINE: illegal smile, sam stone
DAVID SANBORN: promise me the moon
OSIBISA
ARGENT: the coming of Kohotek, liar
BLOODROCK: DOA (this is another song that was a staple of progressive
radio in the old days. Everyone who's heard it remembers it. anther
one of their songs, "kool aid kids" got airplay back then, too)
DIXIE DREGS: cruise control
HAWKWIND
CARAVAN
ALEX HARVEY BAND
KENNY RANKIN
HEAD: (this band wrote the long, trippy instrumental song "cannibus
sativa', which was used as background music on the legendary "Beaker
Street" radioshow hosted by dj Clyde Clifford)
CHARLIE: she loves to be in love
IF: waterfall
AL KOOPER: I stand alone
MCKENDREE SPRING
RONNIE MONTROSE: town without pity
ANDY PRATT: avenging annie
THE STRAWBS: autumn, lay down
TOMITA: arabesque number 1
ALIOTA, HAYNES & JEREMIAH: Lake Shore Drive
BARCLAY JAMES HARVEST: hymn
CAMEL :lady fantasy
THE BUTTS BAND: be with me (this band featured 2 former members of the
Doors)
GUN: race with the devil
plus there was always comedy album bits from acts such as "the Firesign
Theater', "Conception Corporation", Martin Mull, Albert Brooks, and
more.
Bob