The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit Show - A musical mid-life crisis -- a late-night search for meaning and happiness airs on WRIR LP Monday nights from 9 PM to 11 PM. Stream the show @ www.wrir.org
Hey Listeners,
It’s good to be back in the studio. I am recently back from a trip to the UK that included time in London, Liverpool, and Wales. Several years ago, I read about a gentleman curating a series of CDs entitled Watch the Closing Doors. He planned to chronicle New York’s music history in this series. I searched out and purchased the first 2-CD set, but he never released any additional CDs. Fast forward 10-12 years and Helen and I are traveling in the UK, and we’re struck by the Brits “Mind the Gap” while boarding and de-boarding the “tube”. As it turns out Helen had a mix tape of her brother’s called Mind the Gap that was a compilation of a German-based label that featured bands out of the UK. It was label Stu bought from often and I am sure has been featured on Helen Ilnickys great Stu’s Fave shows. Anyway, tonight I’ll be doing an all-British show featuring tons of great artists. Of course, we’ll kick it off with some artists (the very famous and less so) out of Liverpool that got the ball rolling.
Everyone recognizes the lads in this statue from the docks of Liverpool.
Fewer of you may be able to recognize this artist also on the docks in Liverpool. But the first caller tonight that can identify this fellow, will win two tickets to Sarah Shook and the Disarmers at The Camel on 11/14.
Anyway I had a great time on my trip and I hope you all enjoy the selection of tunes from the UK tonight.
The Haberdasher
Cilla Black This Empty Place (1993 Remastered Version) Completely Cilla (1963-1973) Parlophone UK Billy Fury Last Night Was Made for Love The Best of Billy Fury M&J Music Lonnie Donegan Does Your Chewing Gum Lose It's Flavour On the Bed Post King of Skiffle One Day Music Tony Crombie and His Rockets Let's You and I Rock Rockin' Rockets Smith & Co. Humphrey Littleton Bad Penny Blues British Beat Before the Beatles 1955 - 1962 3CD Gerry & The Pacemakers You'll Never Walk Alone You'll Never Walk Alone: All the Best Warner Music Group - X5 Music Group Jamie Webster Allez Allez Allez Allez Allez Allez - Single BOSS Night Records The Beatles Please Please Me Anthology 1 UMC (Universal Music Catalogue) Cilla Black Love Letters (With the Sounds Incorporated) (2003 Remastered Version) Completely Cilla (1963-1973) Parlophone UK Rocky Horror Show Original London Cast Sweet Transvestite The Rocky Horror Show (Original 1973 London Cast) Revvolution Records Marc Bolan & T. Rex Spaceball Ricochet Born to Boogie The Soundtrack Album Edsel John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers Hideaway Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton Universal Records The Rolling Stones Tell Me The Rolling Stones ABKCO Music & Records, Inc. The Kinks A Well Respected Man The Kinks - The Ultimate Collection Sanctuary The Who 5:15 Quadrophenia (Remastered) Polydor Records Billy Bragg Sexuality Don't Try This at Home Cooking Vinyl Graham Parker You Can't Be Too Strong Squeezing out Sparks Quake Records Elvis Costello Mystery Dance My Aim Is True UMe/Elvis Costello Billy Bragg Take Down the Union Jack England, Half English Cooking Vinyl Dead or Alive You Spin Me 'Round (Like a Record) Rip It Up Epic Tom Robinson Band You Gotta Survive Power In the Darkness Parlophone UK Graham Parker Passion Is No Ordinary Word Squeezing out Sparks Quake Records Richard & Linda Thompson Living in Luxury Shoot Out the Lights Ryko/Rhino Fairport Convention The Ballad of Easy Rider Unhalfbricking (Bonus Track Edition) UMC (Universal Music Catalogue) Billy Bragg You Woke up My Neighbourhood Must I Paint You a Picture?: The Essential Billy Bragg Cooking Vinyl The Clash White Riot Clash On Broadway Epic Sleaford Mods TCR All That Glue Rough Trade Sex Pistols Anarchy In the U.K. Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols Rhino/Warner Records Frank Turner Substitute Love Ire & Song Anti/Epitaph The Clash Julie's Been Working for the Drug Squad Give 'Em Enough Rope Sony Music UK The Jam That's Entertainment The Very Best Of The Jam (Remastered) Polydor Records The Style Council My ever changing moods Sweet Loving Ways - The Style Council Collection Spectrum