As the Budweiser Concert Hour was broadcast twice a month in 1982, the original broadcast date is likely in the Spring of 1982. The show had been named the Budweiser Concert of the Month prior to changing to the 2x month schedule.
Bar-Kays recorded at the Celebrity Theatre, Phoenix, AZ. February 27, 1981
Tracks from the Bar-Kays show were also released on Budweiser Concert of the Month BC 81-3 The versions of "Body Fever" and "Holy Ghost" are longer on this version. On BC 81-3, they were cut short so an additional song could be included.
No venue is announced for The Time, but they talk to "Los Angeles" and "L.A." several times during the show.
This version digitized from the syndicated radio disc in July of 2014. Tags and post updated December 2021.
01. BC 82-8 Intro - J.J. Johnson
02. Boogie Body Land
03. Shine
04. Commercial - Budweiser - Rick James (backing music sounds like Rick James' "Give It To Me Baby")
05. BC 82-8 Break - J.J. Johnson
06. Holy Ghost
07. Body Fever
08. Commercial - Budweiser
09. BC 82-8 Break - J.J. Johnson
The Time / Los Angeles
10. The Stick
11. After Hi School
12. Commercial - Budweiser
13. BC 82-8
14. Get It Up
15. Cool
16. BC 82-8 Outro - J.J. Johnson
Tracks from the Bar-Kays show were also released on Budweiser Concert of the Month BC 81-3. The version of Body Fever on that show was edited down to 3:48, while it is 7:23 on this version (BC 82-8). Holy Ghost was also edited down from 4:56 to 3:03. In place of the lost music, BC 81-3 adds "Say It Through Love" to the set list.
J.J. Johnson has a Kindle book available on Amazon (as of July 2014). "AIRCHECK: Life In Music Radio." J.J. Johnson was a DJ on KDAY in Los Angeles.
All of the songs from The Time's set are drawn from their first album, "The Time" which was essentially a Prince album with Morris Day on lead vocals. The group did not actually play on their debut album, so this is a chance to here them do 2/3rds of that album live.
