Billy Squier / Triumph
Supergroups In Concert SGC 12
7/10/82
Billy Squier - The Warfield, San Francisco, CA - November 22, 1981
Triumph - Orlando-Seminole Jai Alai Fronton, Casselberry, FL ("Orlando") - March 3, 1982 (and)
Tampa Jai Alai Fronton, Tampa, FL ("St. Petersburg") - March 4, 1982
See below for evidence of these dates/venues.
Sides A, B, and C - Billy Squier:
00 NO ARTIST - 1 kc Tone
01 Pat St. John - Super Groups In Concert SGC-12 Intro
02 Commercial - Coca-Cola Coke Is It 1
03 Billy Squier - In The Dark
04 Billy Squier - Rich Kid
05 Billy Squier - My Kinda Lover
06 Billy Squier - Whadda You Want From Me
07 Pat St. John - Super Groups In Concert SGC-12 Break
08 Commercial - Coca-Cola Coke Is It 2
09 Billy Squier - Lonely Is The Night
10 Billy Squier - Young Girls
11 Billy Squier - I Need You
12 Pat St. John - Super Groups In Concert SGC-12 Break
13 Commercial - Coca-Cola Coke Is It
14 Billy Squier - The Stroke
15 Billy Squier - You Should Be High Love 2
16 Billy Squier - The Big Beat
17 Billy Squier - Band Introduction
18 Billy Squier - You Know What I Like
19 Pat St. John - Super Groups In Concert SGC-12 Break
20 Commercial - Coca-Cola Coke Is It 1
Sides D, E, and F - Triumph:
01 Triumph - Tear The Roof Off
02 Triumph - Allied Forces
03 Triumph - Fight The Good Fight
04 Pat St. John - Super Groups In Concert SGC-12 Break
05 Commercial - Coca-Cola Coke Is It 3
06 Pat St. John - Super Groups In Concert SGC-12 Segment intro
07 Triumph - Blinding Light Show
08 Triumph - Lay It On The Line
09 Pat St. John - Super Groups In Concert SGC-12 Break
10 Commercial - Coca-Cola Coke Is It 2
11 Triumph - Rock & Roll Machine
12 Triumph - Magic Power
13 Triumph - Hot Time (In This City Tonight)
14 Pat St. John - Super Groups In Concert SGC-12 Break
15 Commercial - Coca-Cola Coke Is It 1
16 Pat St. John - Super Groups In Concert SGC-12 Outro
Down in the run out grooves it says:
SGC•12 A MCR Bre
SGC•12 B MCR Bre
SGC•12 C MCR Bre
SGC•12 D MCR Bre
SGC•12 E MCR Bre
SGC•12 F MCR Bre
The Bre is a script character(s) and it's debatable exactly what it is. Various guesses have included "gre," "8e," "Bre" and "Sre." There is a discussion on Discogs about this signature that comes to the conclusion:
MCR + Bre (looks like gre)
Lacquer Cut At - Master Cutting Room
Lacquer Cut by - Joe Brescio
So I'm going with "Bre" as it matches the name of the mastering engineer.
You get: 300 dpi scans of the cue sheets, promo sheet, and all six disc labels. Plus! Newspaper pages to help prove the actual dates and locations of the shows.
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First of all, let's tackle the Squier show. This one turns up all over the internet attributed to the Warfield in San Francisco, but with two different dates: October 10, 1981, and November 22, 1981.
The October date seems to have the higher number of citations, and it's listed at Setlist.fm...along with the November date. If we look at the surrounding dates on Setlist.fm, we see
Oct 6 Baton Rouge, LA
Oct 10 San Francisco
Oct 16 Buffalo, NY
...(I'm leaving out dates here....)
Nov 19 San Diego
Nov 20 & 21 Los Angeles
Nov 22 San Francisco
Then no dates until Dec 1, when Squier is touring Europe.
The Oct 10 date is not supported by the geography. While there's probably dates missing from Setlist.fm, it just looks weird to play in the South on the 10th, on the West Coast four days later, and then in upstate New York in less than a week. The driving distances are just too far to make sense. The second set of dates look like a tour winding its way north through California, and ending in San Francisco. The first set of dates looks wrong, the second looks right.
But we need evidence. So I looked through Newspapers.com, and found a San Francisco Examiner review from Nov. 23, 1983, mentioning the Squire concert that took place "last night...." which is Nov. 22, 1981. And the concert reviewed was at the Warfield. I found no reviews or concert ads for a Squier date in October in San Francisco. We have hard evidence for the Nov. 23 date.
Also...the Squire show is sometimes listed as a Westwood One show. I was not able to find a verified WW1 set list that matched. So I think "Westwood One" means "some sort of syndicated FM broadcast in general."
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| Orlando-Seminole Jai Alai Fronton |
So, on to Triumph.....Our pal Pat St. John turns up once again, and clearly states "Triumph recorded in Orlando and St. Petersburg, Florida." And the singer says "look out, Orlando" at start of "Allied Forces."
Looks easy to figure out, right? Well, I still needed the concert dates, and the Internet was no help, so it was back to Newspapers.com.
The Orlando Sentinel of Feb 26, 1982 says Triumph was playing the Orlando-Seminole Jai Alai Fronton "next Wednesday," which was March 3, 1982.
I found nothing for St. Petersburg....but the Tampa Times of Feb. 26, 1982 said Triumph was at the "Tampa Jai Alai March 4."
Orlando on March 3 and Tampa on March 4...look at a map, that makes geographical sense...and notice that Tampa is across a bay from St. Petersburg. I'll bet this is like the situation here in the Bay Area...confusion for the bands (or announcers). Bands totter out on stage at the Oakland Coliseum and yell, "it's great to be back in San Francisco!" Yes, they're only separated by five miles of water but jeez, the name of the venue ought to be a clue.
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One more thing.....let's give some credit for the Coke jingles:
Excerpts from the New York Times:
Ginny Redington Dawes, a songwriter whose compositions included memorable advertising jingles like the chipper McDonald’s declaration “You, You’re the One” and Coca-Cola’s boast that “Coke Is It,” died on Dec. 31 (2022) in Manhattan. She was 77.
Ms. Dawes never became well known herself, but she helped maintain or boost the popularity of the products she promoted. And she insinuated infectious tunes into the nation’s repertoire that Americans whistled and hummed as much as the songs played on Top 40 radio.
She hooked listeners with melodically and rhythmically catchy jingles that accompanied slogans for everything from Tide detergent to Kit Kat candy bars, to Johnson’s baby powder and to Hartz’s tick and flea-fighting pet collars.
In 1979, she married a jingle-writing competitor, Thomas W. Dawes, whose credits included Alka-Seltzer’s “Plop, Plop, Fizz, Fizz” and “7Up, the Uncola.”
They later collaborated on the music for, among other campaigns, American Airlines’ “Something Special in the Air” and the familiar “Coke Is It.” Mr. Dawes died in 2007.
The jingle that underscored Coke’s claim to be “It,” introduced in 1982, was described as a “piece of dynamite” by John F. Bergin, the worldwide director of the Coke account at the McCann-Erickson agency.
While David Ogilvy, a founder of the Ogilvy & Mather agency, was credited with the credo “If you don’t have anything to say, sing it,” Mr. Bergin argued that the musical accompaniment to the Coke commercial was anything but an afterthought. If soda drinkers paused to parse the ambiguity of what
“It” was, the tune was intended to define the term and embellish it.
“It’s like a football fight song,” Mr. Bergin told The New York Times. “Usually you get a languid ballad. We were looking for a big, bold sound, and a big, bold statement. This isn’t an ipsy-pipsy drink, and the music says that loud and clear.”
The song, composed by Ms. Dawes and arranged by her husband, was one of 18 jingles and 36 proposed slogans presented to Coca-Cola executives to succeed “Have a Coke and a Smile.”
The music and copy were tested separately in consumer focus groups and individual interviews until the agency and company reached a consensus that “Coke is it” was, indeed, it.
She and Mr. Dawes — a founder of the folk-pop group the Cyrkle, best known for its 1966 hit single “Red Rubber Ball,” written by Paul Simon and Bruce Woodley of the Seekers — married in 1979 and, merging their talents, formed TwinStar Music to produce jingles
