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A bunch of tracks to feature tonight, what a great show!

I'll start off with a great one by Long John Baldry called Flying. I was actually disappointed not to find this one on iTunes - I really thought it would be there as I was able to pick up a copy of the great album that this track is from (It Ain't Easy) back when it was re-released on CD back in 2005 - shortly after Long John's unfortunate death. I still remember David's show where he did a great tribute to Long John at that time. What can I say about Long John and this great album? I guess I'll just re-tell a story that I'm pretty sure I've heard David tell. Long John was at least part of the reason that the U-Know Awards (which eventually became the Casby's) were created - when Long John was nominated in the 80's as best 'New Artist' by the Juno Awards, that showed just how far out of touch with music those awards were and David decided that there should be an alternative. The nomination in that category completely ignored the incredible legacy that Long John had already established in his long career to that point!

If you enjoy the track I've posted, please go to Long John's website and order a copy of the CD - you won't be disapponted. My favourite selection on that album is actually a combination of the first two tracks - a spoken word opener: 'Conditional Discharge' and the amazing 'Don't Try To Lay No Boogie Woogie On The King Of Rock'N'Roll'. Fortunately, both those tracks are available on iTunes (the Canadian store anyways) on a release titled 'Rhino Hi-Five - Long John Baldry EP'. That selection is VERY high up on my all-time favourite tracks!



Long John Baldry - Flying

Next up is a great track by Thunderclap Newman - Accidents. If you've never heard of Thunderclap Newman - you still might still have heard their great track 'Something In The Air' - that was a reasonably big hit in when it was released in 1969 and was featured in the movie 'Almost Famous' in 2000.



Thunderclap Newman - Accidents

Another great song - Grand Hotel by Procol Harum.



Procol Harum - Grand Hotel

This is another great track - 1849 by Lighthouse. There's a recent band also called Lighthouse that I know nothing about. This track is from a Canadian band from the early 70's that featured Skip Prokop who was once a CFNY DJ! Skip has a website that sells CD's but unfortunately not any Lighthouse CD's that I could find.



Lighthouse - 1849

David just kept them coming, here's Leon Russell's It's A Hard Rain Gonna Fall - a great Dylan cover.



Leon Russell - It's A Hard Rain Gonna Fall

and Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes - Walk Away Renee



Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes - Walk Away Renee

Next up is Be Bop Deluxe with the track 'Japan'. I originally thought that this was on their 1978 album 'Drastic Plastic', but it may have been just released as a single in 1977. That's what's great about David's show - he preserves obsure tracks like this that everyone else has forgotten about (or never noticed in the first place!)



Be Bop Deluxe - Japan

And a band I've featured a couple times before, here's Closer Together by The Box



The Box - Closer Together

And last for tonight is the track Photography by Fiat Lux



Fiat Lux - Photography

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Here are a few from the April 22, 2004 playlist:

First, I'll start off with the inevitable Can Con item, another track from The Box - L'Affaire Dumoutier (Say to Me)



The Box - L'Affaire Dumoutier

Next up is a guy I don't know too much about, but he does a good version of this instrumental: Ronnie Montrose - Town Without Pity



Ronnie Montrose - Town Without Pity

Last for today is Icehouse with Great Southern Land. I was a bit surprised that an iTunes 'power search' for 'Icehouse' results in zero hits. I tried just 'ice' to be sure and that skips from Ice Cube right to Vanilla Ice....



Icehouse - Great Southern Land

I was actually planning on sharing a few more tracks from this playlist, but sometimes it amazes me as to what IS available on iTunes - tracks from bands like City Boy, Horslips and King Missile were all there. I've been able to pick up a few hard to find tracks from iTunes myself in the recent past, such as Play It Again and Mr. Radio both by Roderick Falconer as well as Ian Hunter's - Just Another Night, all in iTunes plus format (I've personally boycotted their 128kbps DRM files).

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Here are some hard to find tracks from the last few playlists I've posted. The first two are Can Con.



The Box - My Dreams Of You



Breeding Ground - Reunion



Way of the West - Don't Say That's Just For White Boys

Added April 11/08: Here's a bit of an update on Way Of The West. The main guy in the band has a blog which is located at:

Mercury66 - Pete Kearney's Blog

From there I found out that they released 5 singles from the period 81-84, with Don't Say being the first. In Pete's blog he gives links to a couple of other blogs that had posts on Way of the West, I found a working link to a file containing all 5 singles here:

Complete Singles