Westwood One Superstar Concert
Men At Work
For airing the weekend of 7/22/83
Recorded at:
The Akron Agora
Akron, OH
November 15, 1982
Sides 1, 2 and 3:
01 David Perry - Superstar Concert 83-4 Intro
02 Commercial - Sprite
03 David Perry - Superstar Concert 83-4 Segment Intro
04 Men At Work - No Restrictions
05 Men At Work - I Can See It In Your Eyes
06 Men At Work - People Just Love To Play With Words
07 Commercial - Sprite
08 Commercial - Sprite
09 Men At Work - Overkill
10 Men At Work - Touching the Untouchables
11 Men At Work - Catch A Star
12 Commercial - Sprite
13 David Perry - Superstar Concert 83-4 Break
14 Men At Work - F-19
15 Men At Work - Shintaro
16 Men At Work - High Wire
17 Commercial - Sprite
18 David Perry - Superstar Concert 83-4 Break
Sides 4, 5, and 6:
01 Commercial - Coke
02 Men At Work - Down Under
03 Men At Work - Underground
04 Men At Work - Helpless Automaton
05 Commercial - Coke
06 David Perry - Superstar Concert 83-4 Break
07 Men At Work - Who Can It Be Now
08 Men At Work - Mr. Entertainer
09 Commercial - Coke
10 David Perry - Superstar Concert 83-4 Break
11 Men At Work - It's A Mistake
12 Men At Work - I Like To
13 Men At Work - Be Good Johnny
14 David Perry - Superstar Concert 83-4 Outro
15 Commercial - Coke
16 David Perry - Superstar Concert 83-4 Promo
Runout grooves:
SSCS-SEG-1-7-22-83
SSCS-SEG-2-7-22-83
SSCS-SEG-3-7-22-83
SSCS-SEG-4-7-22-83
SSCS-SEG-5-7-22-83
SSCS-SEG-6-7-22-83
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I found an article in the January 22, 1983 issue of Billboard announcing a major expansion of Westwood One's programming. Already producing the live concert series In Concert (Rock), Live From Gilley's (Country), and the Budweiser Concert of the Month (R&B), Westwood One added five new shows, one of which was the Superstars Concert series.
The "Superstar Concerts" was a 10 concert summer series, sponsored by the Coca-Cola Company. The shows came in a record box with a two-color printed front cover.
Behind the scenes, the deal with Coke moved the company's sponsorship away from the ABC Radio Networks' "Super Groups In Concert" to the new Superstar Concert series. Coca-Cola and Sprite were the only products advertised on the Westwood One show that summer. The series was a huge success and was picked up for a second run in 1984...and continued on through the 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, until it finally sputtered to a stop sometime in 2012.
There were no show numbers on the cue sheet or the record labels, but there were runout groove etchings. The Journey show has "83-10" and it's the tenth show of the summer, so it makes sense that the shows were numbered 83-1, 83-2, 83-3, etc.
However, we also have the Men At Work show which does not have this numbering system, but has the run date in the etching: SSCS-SEG-1-7-22-83 (it runs SEG-1, SEG-2, etc. for each side). I also have a copy of the Stray Cats show, and it's got the show number instead of the run date, too.
This leaves me with two "official" numbering systems. Given that the series carried on for decades with the (year)(ascending number) numbering format, I'm making the executive decision that the Men At Work show was 83-4 in spite of the lack of official labeling. Men At Work = 4th show in the series, so quod erat fairdinkum, mate.
The 10 show, first season of Westwood One's Superstar Concert series:
83- 07/01/83 Rod Stewart
83- 07/09/83 Styx
83- 07/15/83 REO Speedwagon
83-4 07/22/83 Men At Work (the air date is in the run-out grooves)
83- 07/29/83 Genesis
83- 08/05/83 Sammy Hagar/Quarterflash
83-7 08/12/83 Stray Cats (show number in the run-out grooves)
83- 08/19/83 Fleetwood Mac
83- 08/26/83 Loverboy
83-10 09/02/83 Journey (show number in the run-out grooves)
The same concert was broadcast as Westwood One In Concert IC-83-06-Y, with an air date of 3/18 - 3/20 1983, but minus the song "I Like To." And guess what? Yes! That's in our Archives!
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of the most excellent Rock On Vinyl blog
can explain if the plumbing works differently Down Under...
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