Lyle Lovett - Roxy, West Hollywood March 24, 1988 - Westwood One Presents

Lyle Lovett
Westwood One Presents and/or Live From Gilley's
Show 88-26 
For broadcast the week of June 20, 1988

Recorded at The Roxy, West Hollywood, CA March 24, 1988

01 Intro - Jim Duncan
02 If I Had A Boat  
03 If I Were The Man You Wanted 
04 L.A. County 
05 Break
06 Commercials
07 God Will 
08 This Old Porch 
09 Give Me Back My Heart
10 Break
11 Commercials
12 An Acceptable Level of Ecstasy (The Wedding Song)
13 Break
14 Commercials
15 M-O-N-E-Y
16 Stand By Your Man
17 Break
18 Commercials
19 Cowboy Man (with Larry Carlton)
20 Commercials
21 Cowboy Man (with Larry Carlton)
20 She's Hot To Go

Run out grooves:

L-88-26-1 RMZ MDC KM (stamp)
L-88-26-2 RMZ MDC KM (stamp)

While the cue sheet says Westwood One Presents, the disc labels are still "Live From Gilley's Pasadena, Texas". Jim Duncan's Intro says he's the "host of Live From Gilley's", but on the show Outro he says it's Westwood One Presents. The name varied like this from 1986 into 1988, when they finally settled down and the disc labels and announcements changed once and for all to Westwood One Presents.  

Lovett did three shows for Westwood One:

LG 87-25
L 88-26 (Roxy, L.A.) two unique tracks (Give Me Back My Heart and An Acceptable Level of Ecstasy)
L 89-26 (Roxy, L.A.) two unique tracks (Here I Am and She's No Lady)

L 88-26 and L 89-26 are sourced from the March 24, 1988 show at the Roxy in West Hollywood. 

Tracks are the same, except for two unique tracks not on the other show.

I already digitized L 89-26 and that's still here in our archives.  I almost got the 87 show on Ebay a few weeks back but I was beaten by a bid of $136.00.  Stick with the Voodoo Wagon and eventually I'll win a copy!

Tracks from this show were bootlegged on Royal Sound Music – RSM 015 SQ "The Lights Of L.A. County" in Germany in 1994.

You get a 300 dpi scan of the cue sheet, both disc labels, and a pdf of a review of the show from the local newspaper.  This version digitized from the original syndicated radio LP in November 2021.

https://mega.nz/file/yIg2xTIY#LSzVAAmsGOe-MGo_So_0DPv8Dsnx3xbNyj1ntK2PUis

Lyle Lovett / Westwood One Presents #89-26 - The Roxy, West Hollywood 1989

Lyle Lovett

Westwood One Presents Show #89-26

For broadcast the week of June 19, 1989

Recorded at:

The Roxy

West Hollywood, CA

March 24, 1988

01 Westwood One Presents #89-26 Intro - Jim Duncan

02 God Will

03 This Old Porch

04 Give Back My Heart

05 Commercial - Phillips 66 Gasoline

06 Domino's Pizza

07 Commercial - Dramamine

08 If I Had a Boat

09 If I Were The Man You Wanted

10 L.A. County

11 Commercial - Nestea

12 Commercial - Dramamine

13 Commercial - American Express - Karl Malden

14 Here I Am

15 She's No Lady 

16 Commercial - One A Day Vitamins

17 Commercial - American Express - Karl Malden

18 Commercial - Dramamine

19 Cowboy Man

20 She's Hot To Go

21 Commercial - American Express - Karl Malden

22 Commercial - Domino's Pizza

23 Commercial - Sears

24 M-O-N-E-Y

25 Stand By Your Man

26 Westwood One Presents #89-26 Outro - Jim Duncan

Runout grooves:

L-89-26-1 RM2 MDC KM

L-89-26-2 RM2 MDC KM

Flac files of wavs.  Recorded from the original syndicated radio disc in February 2017. Includes scans of both disc labels and the cue sheet.  Updated January 2026 with both disc labels and print ads.

My prior posting said, "This was likely recorded in March of 1989."

I now think that needs revision, and I think I was wrong with that date.

There's a video up on Youtube that says this was recorded June 19, 1989. I believe that's also wrong.

By March of 1989, Lovett had recorded his Large Band album and would have been playing a set where the majority of songs were pulled from that album, which was released in January 1989.

There are two songs from that album on this show: "Here I Am" and "Stand By Your Man."

Six songs are from Pontiac (released January 1988): "If I Had A Boat," "L.A. County," "Give Me Back My Heart," "She's No Lady," "M-O-N-E-Y," and "She's Hot To Go," and the remaining four are from his 1986 debut Lyle Lovett, "God Will," "This Old Porch," "If I Had A Boat," and "If I Were The Man You Wanted."

That breakdown with the bulk of the songs drawn from the 1988 album argues for a concert in 1988.  There's only one original song from the 1989 album; "Stand By Your Man" is a cover.

I also ran searches on newspapers.com.  I didn't have access to newspapers.com when I digitized this in 2017.

I found that Lovett played the Roxy on March 24 in 1988.  The first show sold out, so they added a second set later the same evening.  

He did play in the Los Angeles metropolitan area in 1989: he did three nights in a row at three midsized venues: Celebrity Theatre in Anaheim, the Ventura Theatre, and the Wadsworth Theatre on the UCLA campus.  He wasn't playing clubs.

I'm calling this one as March 24, 1988.

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The LaSalle Hotel:

"And this old porch is like a steaming, greasy plate of enchiladas

With lots of cheese and onions

And a guacamole salad

And you can get'em down at the LaSalle Hotel

In old downtown

With iced tea and a waitress

And she will smile every time..."