Penthouse Magazine College Rock Concert #1019 - UB40 / Hammersmith Odeon Oct. 26, 1983

Oct. 26 1983 - Evening Standard

UB40
Penthouse Magazine College Rock Concert #1019
LW's Limited Broadcast Week of February 12, 1984

Recorded at:
Hammersmith Odeon
London, England
October 26, 1983

01 Phil Harvey & Richard Skinner - College Concert 1018 Intro
02 UB40 - One In Ten
03 UB40 - Keep On Moving
04 UB40 - Don't Let It Pass You By


05 UB40 - Love Is All Is Alright
06 UB40 - Johnny Too Bad
07 Phil Harvey - College Concert 1018 Break
08 UB40 - Sweet Sensation
09 UB40 - Cherry Oh Baby
10 UB40 - Red Red Wine
11 UB40 - Please Don't Make Me Cry
12 UB40 - Present Arms
13 Richard Skinner & Phil Harvey - College Concert 1018 Outro

Runout Grooves: unknown
From the Sam Eliot's Mustache Collection

The Duke was a big fan
 of Tapper Zukie, too.

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This is also attributed to January 7, 1984.  Examination of newspapers reveals that a recording of the show was broadcast on BBC Radio One on that date, but the concert took place on October 26, 1983. I've included clippings proving the date.

Also issued as BBC Transcription Services CN 4304/S In Concert 321 and also as BBC Transcription TCDC 0052 Classic In Concert 49.

UB40 was touring to promote their fourth album "Labour Of Love," which consisted of ten covers of the band's favorite Jamaican oldies. The set list of this show has five of those covers ("Keep On Moving," "Johnny Too Bad" "Sweet Sensation," "Please Don't Make Me Cry," Eric Donaldson's "Cherry Oh Baby" (also covered by the Rolling Stones in 1976).

There are also two newspaper reviews in the Artwork folder.

https://mega.nz/file/nEQxXLCB#b_7DO7HiRwW7EJsKKRL9of0C2WZNvNafRTYk8ME1CXs

Westwood One In Concert #87-12 - Los Lobos / Del Fuegos

Westwood One In Concert
Show 87-12
for broadcast the week of June 22, 1986

Los Lobos / Del Fuegos

Both bands were recorded live at London's Kentish Town and Country Club, London, UK

Los Lobos recorded February 26, 1987

Del Fuegos recorded April 26, 1987

Sides 1 and 2:
01 Steve Downes - In Concert 87-12 Intro
02 Commercial - Budweiser
03 Los Lobos - Evangeline
04 Los Lobos - We're Gonna Rock
05 Los Lobos - Come On Let's Go
06 Los Lobos - Will The Wolf Survive
07 Commercial - Budweiser
08 Commercial - California Cooler
09 Commercial - Choco Bliss
10 Steve Downes - In Concert 87-12 Break
11 Heart - Heart Tour Update
12 Los Lobos - Our Last Night
13 Los Lobos - One Night In America
14 Los Lobos - My Baby's Gone
15 Commercial - Alpine Car Stereo
16 Commercial - California Cooler
17 Commercial - Choco Bliss
18 Steve Downes - In Concert 87-12 Break
19 Los Lobos - The Hardest Time
20 Los Lobos - Why Do You Do
21 Los Lobos - Tore Down
22 Los Lobos - Shakin' Shakin' Shakes
23 Los Lobos - Set Me Free (Rosa Lee)
24 Los Lobos - Don't Worry Baby
25 Commercial - U.S. Army
26 Commercial - Budweiser
27 Commercial - Choco Bliss
28 Steve Downes - In Concert 87-12 Break

Sides 3 and 4:
01 Del Fuegos - Hand In Hand
02 Del Fuegos - Name Names
03 Del Fuegos - I Can't Take This Place
04 Del Fuegos - I Still Want You
05 Commercial - Budweiser
06 Commercial - U.S. Army
07 Commercial - Choco Bliss
08 Brian Setzer - Westwood One Radio Network Promo
09 Steve Downes - In Concert 87-12 Break
10 REO Speedwagon - REO Speedwagon Tour Update
11 Del Fuegos - Nervous and Shakey
12 Del Fuegos - New Old World
13 Del Fuegos - Don't Run Wild
14 Del Fuegos - It's Alright

15 Steve Downes - In Concert 87-12 Outro
16 Steve Downes - In Concert 87-12 Promo

I did this one a while ago, so I didn't look at the runout grooves.  I'll track those down and add 'em later.

I'm heading off this weekend to see Los Lobos with my wife, grandson, brother, two children, and my ex-wife, so I figured I'd jump the gun and put this up even though there's no runout grooves.

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Someone at Westwood One must have thought "Two roots rock bands with Spanish names are a great idea for our In Concert show!"

Well, it WAS a great idea.

Both shows took place at the Kentish Town and Country Club in London, and both were edited down from longer concerts.  Besides the U.S. Westwood One show, both were pressed up as LPs for the BBC Transcription Services.

But as usual, we have a Scooby Doo Rock and Roll Mystery: What was the full set list at the Town and Country show?

The Los Lobos show was broadcast twice by Westwood One, as 87-12, and also later the same year as 87-26 (which is in our archives).  The BBC also issued it as BBC Transcription Service In Concert 408. There is also a version posted at Archive.org.  There's another version on Guitars101. There's also a version that claims to be taken from the original radio station reels. Some have songs that are unique to that version.

I usually spend hours trying to make sense of this stuff, but I'm throwing in the towel on this one.  All of the versions have good sound.  So, if you like this, download the other Los Lobos Westwood One show from our archives and go look on the internet for the other four versions.  They're easy to find.

Commercials:

There's a note in pencil next to the first commercial that says "L. Mack "Budman" "

So...is it Lonnie Mack?  Or the Fabulous Thunderbirds?  We had an astute reader figure out that the Bud Man Boogie was Johnny Winter....do any of these four commercials remind you of a band or a singer?

https://mega.nz/file/6dQXxYqa#4Ry1ChLyYDRYGH1mMarzaXHNgkEkbPKosTGve4oT0ZY

BBC Rock Hour #201 - Whitesnake - Reading Festival 1980

Whitesnake
BBC Rock Hour #201
London Wavelength's Scheduled Broadcast Date - January 4th, 1981 

Recorded at:
The Reading Festival
August 24, 1980
England

01 Richard Skinner - BBC Rock Hour 201 Intro
02 Whitesnake - Sweet Talker
03 Whitesnake - Walking In The Shadow Of The Blues
04 Commercial - Dannon
05 Commercial - U.S. Army
06 Whitesnake - Ain't Gonna Cry No More
07 Whitesnake - Love Hunter
08 Commercial - Scotch Recording Tape
09 Commercial - U.S. Army
10 Whitesnake - Mistreated
11 Commercial - Heath Bar
12 Commercial - U.S. Army
13 Whitesnake - Ain't No Love In The Heart Of The City
14 Whitesnake - Fool For Your Loving
15 Richard Skinner - BBC Rock Hour 201 Outro 1
16 Commercial - Dannon
17 Richard Skinner - BBC Rock Hour 201 Outro 2

Runout grooves:
BBC Rock Hour #201-A CK
BBC Rock Hour #201-A CK

Another classic concert from the Sam Eliot's Mustache Collection!
Brought to you by the Collective For Live Music

Includes 300 dpi scans of the disc labels, cue sheets, plus Reading Festival coverage from the newspapers!

Whitesnake was the headliner at the three-day Reading Festival.

https://mega.nz/file/rUglATyK#6D_TdKCXnIaLXYalPp0XEgS9sNSynmtgzvMJD1Gyx_Y

BBC College Concert 16 - Gary Numan interview

Gary Numan
BBC College Concert #16
LW's Scheduled Broadcast Week of January 9, 1983

Recorded at:
KZEW-FM in Dallas, Texas.
Interview from October 18, 1982 
conducted by George Gimarc 

01 Pete Larkin - BBC College Concert 16 Intro
02 Gary Numan & George Gimarc - Interview
03 Gary Numan - Are Friends Electric
04 Gary Numan & George Gimarc - Interview
05 Gary Numan - Cars
06 Gary Numan & George Gimarc - Interview
07 Gary Numan - We Are Glass
08 Gary Numan & George Gimarc - Interview
09 Gary Numan - She's Got Claws
10 Pete Larkin - BBC College Concert 16 Break
11 Gary Numan - Stories

12 Gary Numan & George Gimarc - Interview
13 Gary Numan & Dramatis - Love Needs No Disguise
14 Gary Numan & George Gimarc - Interview
15 Gary Numan - Music For Chameleons
16 Gary Numan & George Gimarc - Interview
17 Gary Numan - White Boys & Heroes
18 Pete Larkin - BBC College Concert 16 Outro

Runout grooves: unknown
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through the courtesy of our pal, Sam Eliot's Mustache!

Numan was in town for an October 18th show at the Dallas Agora.

https://mega.nz/file/yVxxFAbK#CLKeMu6tVH4dODPy1E1j0ytb8a034Rfr4f41Z_dpyfo

This is an unusual BBC College Concert, as there's no live music included.  There are short interviews with disk jockey George Gimarc of Dallas's KZEW-FM, interspersed with studio tracks.

Canada - Foreigner Live - Omni Theater, Atlanta, GA Nov. 15, 1979

Canada - Foreigner Live
syndicated broadcast date: unknown

Recorded at:
Omni Theater
Atlanta Georgia
November 15, 1979

CD1:
01 Bill Minkin - Intro
02 Foreigner - Long, Long Way from Home
03 Foreigner - Blue Morning, Blue Day
04 Foreigner - I'll Get Even With You
05 Foreigner - Rev On The Red Line
06 Bill Minkin - Break and Segment Intro
07 Foreigner - Head Games
08 Foreigner - Dirty White Boy
09 Foreigner - Fool For You Anyway
10 Foreigner - Cold As Ice
11 Foreigner - Double Vision
12 Foreigner - Modern Day
13 Foreigner - Women
14 Bill Minkin - Break

CD2:
01 Bill Minkin - Segment Intro
02 Foreigner - Starrider
03 Foreigner - Feels Like The First Time
04 Bill Minkin - Break and segment intro
05 Foreigner - Love On The Telephone
06 Foreigner - Headknocker
07 Foreigner - Hot Blooded
08 Bill Minkin - Break
09 Bill Minkin - Outro

Runout grooves: unknown

From the Sam Eliot's Mustache Collection
Brought to you by the Collective For Live Music

This is chaptered from a CD-r copy of the original syndicated radio discs that was archived by our pal Sam Eliot's Mustache, back before we started documenting the runout grooves and scanning the disc labels.  He sends 'em to me and I removed the clicks n' pops and chapter the songs and announcements. 

The original broadcast was live on November 15, 1979.   In the U.S.A., more than 170 FM stations broadcast the concert carried to them by AT&T's Long Lines System, sponsored by Pabst Brewing Co.  Satellite transmission brought the concert to Canada, Japan, Australia, the United Kingdom, Italy, France.  The U.S. Armed Forces Radio carried it, too. Listening parties were set up at American colleges.  The estimated audience was 25,000,000 and was claimed to be the "biggest audience in history."

As big as this was, Foreigner's concert at the Civic Center Coliseum in Birmingham, Alabama a few weeks later was cancelled due to low ticket sales.

This copy was digitized from a Canadian syndicated broadcast, distributed on vinyl records. We're not clear on the relation of this to the original broadcast, except that it must have been distributed later. As is typical of Canadian syndications, there are no commercials on the discs.  Commercials would have been inserted by the local radio station.

I've included press coverage of the original broadcast.

https://mega.nz/file/GUIggYSI#ghJTtOHJxLmT8N6E7sUsefDGUorze0HadJc588jiAUw

NBC The Source 82-8 - REO Speedwagon, Denver, CO April 25, 1981

REO Speedwagon
NBC The Source NBC 82-8
Broadcast dates: March 5, 6, 7

Recorded at:
McNichols Sports Arena
Denver, Colorado
April 25, 1981

01 REO Speedwagon - Don't Let Him Go
02 REO Speedwagon - Like You Do
03 REO Speedwagon - Keep Pushin'
04 REO Speedwagon - Only The Strong Survive
05 Commercial - Levi's
06 REO Speedwagon - In Your Letter
07 REO Speedwagon - Time For Me To Fly
08 REO Speedwagon - Take It On The Run
09 REO Speedwagon - Keep On Loving You
10 Commercial - Levi's
11 REO Speedwagon - Say You Love Me Or Say Goodnight
12 REO Speedwagon - Back On The Road Again
13 REO Speedwagon - Ridin'  The Storm Out
14 Commercial - Levi's
15 REO Speedwagon - 157 Riverside Avenue
16 Commercial - Levi's
17 REO Speedwagon - Golden Country
18 REO Speedwagon - Shakin' It Loose

Runout Grooves!
NBC-82-8-A > L-8694 ALSHIRE (STAMP)
NBC-82-8-B > L-8694 ALSHIRE (STAMP)
NBC-82-8-C > L-8694 ALSHIRE (STAMP)
NBC-82-8-D > L-8694

This could be you!

From the Sam Eliot's Mustache Collection
Brought to you by the Collective For Live Music

We've got all four disc labels scanned at 300 dots per inch!  And the two page cue sheet!  

But wait, there's more!  We have the original script for you to read!  Yes, in the privacy of your own home, you can practice being a radio announcer!  You can pause the recording and do the "open!"  You can read the "close!" Impress your friends! You'll stand out at the party when you show off your professional radio announcer skills!

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The script says "recorded live at Nichols Arena in Denver Colorado, in May 1981."

Wiki says:
"McNichols Sports Arena was an indoor arena located in Denver, Colorado, United States. Located adjacent to Mile High Stadium and completed in 1975, at a cost of $16 million, it seated 16,061 for hockey games and 17,171 for basketball games.

It was named after Denver mayor William H. McNichols Jr., who served from 1968 to 1983."

It was demolished in 1999, just 24 years after it was built.

We've got a newspaper clipping that confirms the date and venue.

https://mega.nz/file/6RYnDD7C#9DFDmpy--cfOASgrEgaFL0i7m89uOL_GnnDOhG52AuY

BBC College Concert #15 - Blotto / The Chance, Poughkeepsie, NY Nov. 20, 1982

Blotto
BBC College Concert #15
LW's Limited Broadcast Week of December 19, 1982

Recorded at:
The Chance
Poughkeepsie, NY
November 20, 1982

01 Joe Piscopo & Pete Larkin - BBC College Concert 15 Intro
02 Blotto - It's Not You
03 Blotto - When The Second Feature Starts
04 Blotto - Occupational Hazard
05 Blotto - (We Are) The Nowtones
06 Blotto - My Baby's The Star Of A Driver's Ed Movie
07 Blotto - Gimme The Girl
08 Blotto - I Quit
09 Joe Piscopo & Pete Larkin - BBC College Concert 15 Break
10 Blotto - Scream
11 Blotto - Too Much Fun
12 Blotto - Goodbye, Mr. Bond
13 Blotto - I Wanna Be a Lifeguard
14 Blotto - Metal Head
15 Pete Larkin - BBC College Concert 15 Outro

Runout grooves (from Discogs):
Matrix / Runout (Side A runout): BBC COLLEGE CONCERT - 12/19/82-A
Matrix / Runout (Side B runout): BBC COLLEGE CONCERT - 12/19/82-B

From the Sam Eliot's Mustache Collection
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Blotto has a website at:  https://blotto.net/index.html

The website has everything you'll need to know about the band, including Blotto merchandise.

The short version of their story is: Blotto was a regionally popular band from the Albany area in New York that mixed humor with a party band sound.  The band issued several independent EPs and an album, and received national exposure when their video for "I Wanna Be A Lifeguard" was aired on MTV. They opened for Blue Oyster Cult on a tour.  In spite of the national exposure, they were never signed to a major label contract.

I found print ads for The Chance Club & Restaurant that show Blotto was booked in January, March, July, September, October, and November in 1982, plus some press coverage.

https://mega.nz/file/2RAkmKpQ#b2dGHbe6L2TN0raDXFLWRnKnVqAAm653pYxnAHbLFK0

NBC The Source 83-24 / Zebra, Kix

Zebra / Kix
NBC The Source 83-24
Broadcast date: June 17, 18, 19, 1983

Recorded at:

Zebra
Palladium
New York City, NY
May 14, 1983s

Kix
The Sand Bar
Pasadena / Riviera Beach ("Baltimore")
May 14, 1983

(From WIKI:  "the areas of Lake Shore, Riviera Beach and Pasadena are collectively referred to as Pasadena by residents. As all areas are governed by Anne Arundel County, there is no distinction in services such as fire, police, or public schools. All three areas are encompassed by the 21122 zip code.")

Sides 1 and 2:
01 Dan Formento - NBC The Source 83-24 Intro
03 Commercial - Sun-In
04 Zebra - As I Said Before
05 Zebra - Slow Down
06 Zebra - When You Get There
07 Zebra - Don't Walk Away
08 Zebra - Tell Me What You Want
09 Dan Formento - NBC The Source 83-24 Break
10 Commercial - U.S. Army
11 Commercial - Snickers
12 Zebra - The La La Song
13 Zebra - One More Chance
14 Zebra - Take Your Fingers From My Hair
15 Zebra - Who's Behind The Door
16 Dan Formento - NBC The Source 83-24 Break
17 Commercial - Budweiser (A Flock of Seagulls)
18 Commercial - Impulse Body Spray

Batman rocks out.

Sides 3 and 4:
01 Dan Formento - NBC The Source 83-24 Intro
02 Kix - Restless Blood
03 Kix - The Itch
04 Kix - Atomic Bombs
05 Kix - Cool Kids
06 Dan Formento - NBC The Source 83-24 Break
07 Commercial - U.S. Army
08 Commercial - Snickers
09 Kix - Body Talk
10 Kix - Poison
11 Kix - For Shame
12 Dan Formento - NBC The Source 83-24 Outro

From the Sam Eliot's Mustache Collection
brought to you by the Collective For Live Music.

We're missing the cue and disc scans but once again, Discogs has provided some replacements.  They're not up to my 300 dpi standards but it's better than nothing.

I've included a bit of press coverage.  Yes, back in the olden days we read things written by humans instead of generated by computers.

I was unfamiliar with both of these bands but enjoyed giving them a spin on the old Victrola.

https://mega.nz/file/TAJESahI#ADhASg0tikTRZ3yPpEH8k2LGt9MQ8O-roFBAQBSgju4

BBC College Concert #7 - Missing Persons, Six Flags Magic Mountain Sept. 10, 1982

BBC College Concert #7
Missing Persons
London Wavelength limited broadcast week of October 24, 1982

Recorded at:
Six Flags Magic Mountain 
Showcase Amphitheatre
Valencia, CA
September 10, 1982

01 Pete Larkin Sylvie Simmons - BBC College Concert 7 Intro
02 Missing Persons - Mental Hopscotch
03 Missing Persons - Noticeable One
04 Missing Persons - Words
05 Missing Persons - Tears
06 Missing Persons - It Ain't None Of Your Business
07 Missing Persons - Bad Streets
08 Pete Larkin - BBC College Concert 7 Break
09 Missing Persons - Windows
10 Missing Persons - Here and Now
11 Missing Persons - Walking In L.A.
12 Missing Persons - No Way Out
13 Missing Persons - I Like Boys
14 Missing Persons - Destination Unknown
15 Pete Larkin - BBC College Concert 7 Outro

From the Sam Eliot's Mustache Collection
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We are missing the disc labels and runout grooves.

https://mega.nz/file/WIhjGJQI#8DZuX2RMSnW39MEws1_6lV7Trd36yhrj46sx6236KiU

NOTE:

This is the SAME MUSIC as BBC Rock Hour #341 Version A, and Version B... both of which are in our archives.  The only difference is the announcements.  Yes, three different versions of the same music is beating a dead horse, but I figure you may be trying to collect all of the BBC College Concerts.

Steve Winwood / WW1 Superstar Concert 89=23 / Great Woods, Mansfield, MA 1988

Steve Winwood
Superstar Concert Series
Show 89-23

For broadcast the weekend of September 1, 1989
Recorded at:
Great Woods Performing Arts Center
Mansfield, MA
August 21 or 22, 1988

Sides 1, 2 and 3:
01 Steve Downes - Superstar Concert 89-23 Intro
02 Commercial - Miller Lite
03 Steve Winwood - Freedom Overspill
04 Steve Winwood - Put On Your Dancing Shoes
05 Commercial - Miller Lite
06 Commercial - Teledisc
07 Steve Downes - Superstar Concert 89-23 Break
08 Commercial - Miller Lite
09 Steve Winwood - Don't You Know What The Night Can Do
10 Steve Winwood - The Finer Things
11 Commercial - Miller Lite
12 Commercial - Black & Decker Irons
13 Steve Downes - Superstar Concert 89-23 Break
14 Steve Winwood - The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys
15 Steve Winwood - Glad
16 Commercial - Coke I.O.D. Promo
17 Commercial - California Summer Fruit
18 Steve Downes - Superstar Concert 89-23 Break

Sides 4, 5 and 6:
19 Commercial - Miller Lite
20 Steve Winwood - While You See A Chance
21 Steve Winwood - Roll With It
22 Commercial - Miller Lite
23 Commercial - Flintstones Vitamins
24 Steve Downes - Superstar Concert 89-23 Break
25 Commercial - Miller Lite
26 Steve Winwood - Valerie
27 Steve Winwood - Higher Love
28 Commercial - California Summer Fruit
29 Commercial - Coke I.O.D. Promo
30 Steve Downes - Superstar Concert 89-23 Break
31 Steve Winwood - Back In The High Life Again
32 Steve Winwood - Gimme Some Lovin'
33 Steve Downes - Superstar Concert 89-23 Outro
34 Commercial - Miller Lite
35 Steve Downes - Superstar Concert 89-23 Promo

the groovy runout grooves say:
(etched) CO • 89-23-1  MDC KM (stamp)
(etched) CO • 89-23-2  MDC KM (stamp)
(etched) CO • 89-23-3  MDC KM (stamp)
(etched) CO • 89-23-4  MDC KM (stamp)
(etched) CO • 89-23-5  MDC KM (stamp)
(etched) CO • 89-23-6  MDC KM (stamp)
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We've got 300 dpi scans of the cue sheet, all six disc labels, a newspaper print ad for a ticket broker that proves Winwood played two nights at Great Woods Performing Arts Center on August 21 and 22, 1988.  There's no evidence which date (or if both) was the source of the recording. 

This set of tracks was broadcast three times by Westwood One.  The first broadcast was 88-G broadcast in December 1988, followed by this show (89-23), and then the final broadcast as 90-03.  I put up 89-23 back in 2013 and it's still up in our archives. If you've got that one, you don't need this version unless you want to collect 'em all for the commercials.  I've tossed in the print ad for 88-G, even though this isn't from that particular syndication.

https://mega.nz/file/TE4WBIKB#ZVhp0mQiGkB4dpB12YP7U4cRECZwhUhFHGF2RC3UicQ

Westwood One In Concert IC 88-06 Thin Lizzy / Def Leppard

 Thin Lizzy / Def Leppard
Westwood One In Concert IC 88-06
for broadcast the week of March 28, 1988

According to Discogs, this was...

Recorded at:

THIN LIZZY
Hammersmith Odeon
London, England
November 25 or 26, 1981 and March 1983

(Discogs doesn't list the March 1983 date; Setlist.fm says March 12, 1983...but the newspaper ad says the two Thin Lizzy shows were March 16 and 17)

DEF LEPPARD
Paris Theatre
London, England
August 22, 1979

Sides 1 and 2
01 Steve Downes - Westwood One IC 88-06 Intro
02 Commercial - U.S. Army
03 Commercial - 20th Century Fox (Bad Dreams)
04 Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak
05 Thin Lizzy - This Is The One
06 Thin Lizzy - Still In Love With You
07 Thin Lizzy - Dancing in the Moonlight (It's Caught Me in Its Spotlight)
08 Commercial - Budweiser (Neville Brothers)
09 Commercial - Dentyne
10 Steve Downes - Westwood One IC 88-06 Break
11 Thin Lizzy - Renegade
12 Thin Lizzy - Hollywood (Down On Your Luck)
13 Commercial - Tennis Magazine
14 Commercial - Listerine
15 Commercial - U.S. Army
16 Steve Downes - Westwood One IC 88-06 Break
17 Thin Lizzy - Killer On The Loose
18 Thin Lizzy - The Boys Are Back In Town
19 Thin Lizzy - Baby Drives Me Crazy
20 Commercial - Doublemint
21 Commercial - 20th Century Fox (Bad Dreams)
22 Steve Downes - Westwood One IC 88-06 Break

Sides 3 and 4
01 Def Leppard - Glad I'm Alive
02 Def Leppard - Hello America
03 Def Leppard - When The Walls Came Tumbling Down
04 Commercial - Budweiser (Bud Man Boogie) (Johnny Winter)
05 Commercial - U.S. Army
06 Commercial - Air & Space Magazine
07 Steve Downes - Westwood One IC 88-06 Break
08 Def Leppard - Overture
09 Def Leppard - Rocks Off
10 Def Leppard - Wasted
11 Steve Downes - Westwood One IC 88-06 Outro
12 Steve Downes - Westwood One IC 88-06 Promo

Runout grooves:
I 88•06 1 DBT KM 
I 88•06•2 DBT KM 
I 88•06•3 DBT KM 
I 88•06 4 DBT KM
Pressing Plant ID (Stamped): KM

Brought to you by the Collective For Live Music
Đ®åⒻṬëŕṽøï digitized 1 de marzo de 2026

You get 300 dpi scans of all four disc labels and the cue sheet!  Hurrah!

Actual teenage slang
from the 1970s.

Two solid sets from two great bands from Ireland and England.  Thin Lizzy's from Dublin and Def Leppard hails from Sheffield.

Thin Lizzy is apparently sourced from two different concerts.  BBC Transcription 274 has Renegade, Hollywood, Killer On The Loose, The Boys Are Back In Town, and Baby Drives Me Crazy on it, supposedly sourced from Hammersmith on Nov. 25, 1981. Some resources on the Internet say the tracks are Nov. 26.  Either way, that leaves the other four tracks as likely from 1983.  

The Def Leppard is early in their career.  Their first gig was the prior summer of 1978.  The earliest newspaper reference I found on Newspapers.com was on July 6, 1979, just a few weeks before this show.

On the commercials:

I need your help.  The blues-rock "Bud Man Boogie" commercial sounds familiar but I can't place the band or the singer.  Come on, one of Our Beloved Audience must have some idea of who these jaspers are or perhaps can make a suggestion. Any ideas?

Three ads about your breath: Dentyne, Doublemint, and Listerine.  Proper dental hygiene is important! If you haven't flossed today, please do so.

Bad Dreams was a 1988 American supernatural mystery slasher film co-written and directed by Andrew Fleming and starring Jennifer Rubin, Bruce Abbott, E. G. Daily, Dean Cameron, Harris Yulin and Richard Lynch.  I've never seen it.  Does anyone in Our Beloved Voodoo Wagon audience remember it?

Thanks to the ears of Anonymous, we think we've solved the mystery of who sings "the Bud Man Boogie!  We are sure it's JOHNNY WINTER.

https://mega.nz/file/bZQWyRiZ#6AcrkKe9Q4oO56H4rrVDHGPUwVfFX5Hr68jy2P9hMgY

King Biscuit Flower Hour #464 - Greg Kihn Band - Arlington Theatre, Santa Barbara Feb 25, 1983

Greg Kihn Band

King Biscuit Flower Hour #464
air date March 27, 1983

Recorded at:
Arlington Theatre
Santa Barbara, CA
February 25, 1983

00 NO ARTIST - 1000 Hz Tone at 0vu
01 Bill Minkin - KBFH Intro
02 Commercial - Honda
03 Bill Minkin - KBFH Segment Intro
04 Greg Kihn Band - Fascination
05 Greg Kihn Band - Tear That City Down
06 Greg Kihn Band - You Can't Love 'em All
07 Greg Kihn Band - Can't Stop Hurting Myself
08 Bill Minkin - KBFH Break
09 Commercial - U.S. Army Reserve
10 Bill Minkin - Promo 1
11 Greg Kihn Band - Promo 2 music bed
12 Bill Minkin - KBFH Segment Intro
13 Greg Kihn Band - Curious
14 Greg Kihn Band - Talking To Myself
15 Greg Kihn Band - Jeopardy
16 Greg Kihn Band - Valerie
17 Bill Minkin - KBFH Break
18 Commercial - TDK Tapes
19 Commercial - Honda
20 Bill Minkin - KBFH Segment Intro
21 Greg Kihn Band - Keep A-Knockin' (But You Can't Come In)
22 Greg Kihn Band - Break-up Song
23 Greg Kihn Band - Testify
24 Greg Kihn Band - I Fall To Pieces
25 Bill Minkin - KBFH Break
26 Commercial - U.S. Army Reserve
27 Commercial - Columbia Pictures (Spring Break)
28 Bill Minkin - KBFH Outro

Great Googa-Mooga!  It's the RECORD GROOVES!
KB∙464∙A   MCR Joe
KB∙464∙B   MCR Joe
KB∙464∙C   MCR Joe

Note: the "Joe" is a cursive script squiggle, also interpreted as Bre, gre, 8re, SRE or Joe. MCR stands for "Master Cutting Room," and the squiggle for Joe Brescio, the mastering engineer. As his first name is "Joe" and last name starts with "Bre" it's possible he intended it to be both.

ĐR̃äⒻṬëŕṽöï digitized 2026 as part of the work of the Collective For Live Music.

Setlist.fm says Greg Kihn played the Arlington Theatre on "March 20, 1983" and adds "Broadcast for the King Biscuit Flower Hour on 3/27/1983; approximate date of performance."  

The date is "approximate," but let's apply some logic: Recorded 3/20.  Broadcast on 3/27.  Seven days to master the recording, press the LPs, and distribute the vinyl discs to radio stations nationwide by the U.S. Postal Service.  That can't be right.

So, it's off to Newspapers.com to see what I can find...and lucky us, there's a review in the Ventura County Star Free Press of Thursday March 3, 1983 that says the show was held on the prior Friday, which makes it February 25, 1983.  Further exploration in February finds not one but TWO ads for the show, confirming the date.

The vinyl on this was so minty I could have made a mojito out of it.

This one was not available in streaming audio on Concert Vault. Why they had some shows and not others is a mystery to me. 

Flac files of wavs. Includes all the commercials but tracked so you can delete them easily.  The test tone is included but I've numbered is "OO" as I'm pretty sure you're not going to listen to it. 
With these syndicated shows, they usually put the "promo" ad spots at the end of the show. This one has them at the end of Side A, which breaks up the show if you're listening straight through.  At one time I would have moved 'em to the end to make it more listenable but these days I'm taking an archival approach, documenting it as exactly as close to the record as possible.  If the past was stupid, well, that's just the way it was.  

You get 300 dpi scans of the cue sheet, promo sheet, all four disc labels, and a copy of the concert review from the aforementioned newspaper.

"Keep On Walkin'" does not appear to have been released.

https://mega.nz/file/SYoWAZiS#6iWM-d0FJahlBLpwMZ1NNSYOXLXJx3DfbInmpLUdyZs

WW1 Superstar Concert - Men At Work, Akron Agora, Nov. 15, 1982

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

Brought to you by the Collective For Live Music
ĐR̃äⒻṬëŕṽöï digitized March 2026

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!

https://mega.nz/file/qIZi2LaL#KJr6wIUWp131IxWZ_ZYyaaSIGTRJjAVr1FDztYpVkrM

I am hoping that our friend AussieRock
of the most excellent  Rock On Vinyl  blog
can explain if the plumbing works differently Down Under...

BBC College Concert #3 - Spandau Ballet / A Flock of Seagulls

BBC College Concert #3
Spandau Ballet / A Flock of Seagulls
air date September 26, 1982

Spandau Ballet
Recorded at:
Winter Gardens
Bournemouth
April 10, 1982

A Flock of Seagulls
Recorded at:
Paris Theatre
London
January 13, 1982

Side One:
01 Pete Larkin, Richard Skinner - BBC College Concert 3 Intro
02 Spandau Ballet - The Freeze
03 Spandau Ballet - She Loved Like Diamond
04 Spandau Ballet - To Cut A Long Story Short
05 Spandau Ballet - Paint Me Down
06 Spandau Ballet - Instinction, Chant No. 1 (I Don't Need This Pressure On)
07 Pete Larkin - BBC College Concert 3 Break
Side Two:
01 Pete Larkin - BBC College Concert 3 Intro 2
02 A Flock Of Seagulls - Modern Love Is Automatic
03 A Flock Of Seagulls - Standing In The Doorway
04 A Flock Of Seagulls - Telecommunication
05 A Flock Of Seagulls - Man Made
06 A Flock Of Seagulls - I Ran (So Far Away)
07 A Flock Of Seagulls - (It's Not Me) Talking
08 Pete Larkin, Richard Skinner - BBC College Concert 3 Outro

Runout grooves:
BBC College Concert - 9/26/82 - Δ
BBC College Concert - 9/26/82 - B

I've split the show into two folders so you can file each band separately if you wish.

I don't have the cue sheet, but I've included a terrible, off-center low resolution scan I found on Discogs.  It's truly awful.

The Spandau Ballet tracks are also on BBC Transcription Services CN 04033/S In Concert 282 (with one additional track ("Glow").  The show is split with The Jam).

The A Flock of Seagulls set of six songs were also on BBC Transcription Services CN 4039/S (paired with Classix Nouveaux) with a broadcast date of August 15, 1982.  All six tracks were issued officially as part of the 2023 reissue of A Flock Of Seagulls as a 3-cd set, along with b-sides, single edits, and other BBC sessions (John Peel, Richard Skinner, Kid Jensen, and Janice Long).  Obviously, it's better sound quality than my rip of the vinyl, so go buy it if you like this digitization. This isn't intended to replace the superior official release, but to document as many of the BBC College Concert series as I can find.

https://mega.nz/file/CNpQFAJJ#8PVb_v3tuKC1M_-nSUdnvTBe3aTMC9hI7fgoBRYF2PE

BBC Rock Hour #219 - Krokus - Uptown Theatre, K.C., Mo Apr 13, 1981

Krokus

BBC Rock Hour #219
Broadcast week of May 10, 1981

Recorded at:
The Uptown Theater
Kansas City, MO
April 13, 1981

01 Pete Larkin - BBC Rock Hour 219 Intro
02 Krokus - Come On
03 Krokus - No Way
04 Krokus - Burning Bones
05 Krokus - Rock City
06 Krokus - Winning Man
07 Commercial - Dannon Yogurt
08 Krokus - Bedside Radio
09 Krokus - Easy Rocker
10 Commercial - Scotch Recording Tape
11 Krokus - Heatstrokes
12 Krokus - Bye Bye Baby
13 Commercial - Scotch Recording Tape
14 Commercial - Dannon Yogurt
15 Krokus - Mad Racket
16 Krokus - Mr. 69

17 Pete Larkin - BBC Rock Hour 219 Outro
17 Pete Larkin - BBC Rock Hour 219 Outro

From the Sam Eliot's Mustache Collection
Courtesy of the Collective For Live Music

The date of the show was confirmed in the Kansas City Star and the Kansas City Times.
Disc labels are low resolution and taken from Discogs. Cue sheet is at 300 dpi. 

https://mega.nz/file/3ZBTjbiT#dPzxX_ItM5S_3ECoPY6KHTYh7eBHA3ycfUWxZftu5fQ

Rush / Kiel Auditorium, St. Louis NBC The Source 1980 (recorded Feb 1980)

 Rush
NBC The Source
FOR BROADCAST: March 28, 29, 30, 1980
Recorded at:
Kiel Auditorium
St. Louis, MO
February 11-13, 1980

01 Rush - 2112
02 Rush - The Spirit of Radio
03 Rush - Natural Science
04 Rush - Beneath, Between & Behind
05 Rush - By-Tor & The Snow Dog
06 Rush - Xanadu
07 Rush - Working Man
08 Rush - Anthem
09 Rush - Bastille Day
10 Rush - In The Mood
11 Rush - Drum Solo
12 Rush - La Villa Strangiato
13 Announcer - Outro

Brought to you by the Collective For Live Music
From the Sam Eliot's Mustache Collection.

I've included low resolution scans from Discogs.  Yes, they're just awful, but what do you want for free?  To make up for my supplying you with fuzzy scans, I included print ads and a concert review from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

Notes from DISCOGS:
"Recorded in front of 30,000 people on 3(three) consecutive nights at Kiel Auditorium in St. Louis, MO, USA on February 11-13, 1980 during RUSH's Permanent Waves Tour.

This is the only ORIGINAL one time famous "St. Louis" Concert Broadcast in USA by The Source and found the way to many Bootlegs in numerous names but is NOT a COMPLETE CONCERT.

There is 1(one) extra song, Jacob's Ladder, from the same performances included in a "Permanent Waves" 40th Anniversary Deluxe 2CD Edition (2020).

Matrix/Runout : Etched number "46859" incorrectly shown as "48659" on Side One.
Matrix / Runout (Side One, Etched): A ch CM V 48659-1 | 03060
Matrix / Runout (Side Two, Etched): A ch CM V 46859-2 | 03060
Matrix / Runout (Side Three, Etched): A ch CM V 46859-3 | 03060
Matrix / Runout (Side Four, Etched): A ch CM V 46859-4 | 03060"

https://mega.nz/file/PVx32ZyT#7xBVVmachE8eZV2QAAzIEjxm7LB4j3__ZnZyU1LkCUY

BBC Rock Hour 503 Version "A" - Heaven, Country Club, L.A., Dec. 17, 1983

Heaven
BBC Rock Hour 503 Version "A"
LW's Scheduled Broadcast week of January 15, 1984

Recorded at:
Chuck Landis' Country Club
Los Angeles, CA
December 17, 1983

01 Phil Harvey - BBC Rock Hour 503 A Intro
02 Heaven - High Road
03 Heaven - Suck City
04 Heaven - Scream
05 Commercial - Maxell
06 Commercial - Bubblicious
07 Commercial - Taylor California Cellars
08 Heaven - Don't Mean Nothin'
09 Heaven - Sleeping Dogs
10 Heaven - Hard Life
11 Heaven - Where Angels Fear To Tread
12 Heaven - Love Child
13 Commercial - Maxell
14 Commercial - Taylor California Cellars
15 Commercial - Bubblicious
16 Heaven - In The Beginning
17 Heaven - Madness
18 Heaven - Rock School
19 Phil Harvey - BBC Rock Hour 503 A Outro

Run out grooves:
BBC Rock Hr #503 - "A" - Side 1
BBC Rock Hr #503 - "A" - Side 2

Flac files of wavs, digitized November 2025, 300 dpi scans of the cue sheet and disc labels.
This is Version A; there's a Version B with a different set of commercials.

Brought to you by the Collective For Live Music.

The date of the show is confirmed by two print ads from the Los Angeles Times.

From Adelaide by way of Sydney, this Australian band moved to Los Angeles in the early 80s.

The Chuck Landis' Country Club was located in the Reseda neighborhood in the City of Los Angeles, and had previously been known as Rissmiller's, and Wolf & Rissmiller's Country Club. 

https://mega.nz/file/SIwhmLBA#QK4DxhqJtEIdn8GxpmEkuyxxPEXlOBptiJ3vDTnXA7k

Captured Live! Ronnie James Dio - Santa Monica Civic Oct. 7, 1983

Captured Live!
Ronnie James Dio
For broadcast: wk. of 2/13/84

Recorded at:
Santa Monica Civic
Santa Monica, CA
October 7, 1983

00 NO ARTIST - 1 kHz Tone
01 Jim Ladd - CL 384 Intro
02 Dio - Stand Up And Shout
03 Dio - Straight Through The Heart
04 Dio - Shame On The Night
05 Jim Ladd - CL 384 Break
06 Jim Ladd - CL 384 Segment Intro
07 Dio - Stargazer
08 Dio - Heaven and Hell
09 Jim Ladd - CL 384 Break
10 Jim Ladd - CL 384 Segment Intro
11 Dio - Holy Diver
12 Dio - Rainbow In The Dark
13 Jim Ladd - CL 384 Break
14 Jim Ladd - CL 384 Segment Intro
15 Dio - Man On The Silver Mountain
16 Jim Ladd - CL 384 Outro

Runout Grooves:
I383-A AU♂
I383-B AU♂
I383-C AU♂
I383-D AU♂

AU♂ in the run out etchings is for Rick Goldman, pressing/plating engineer at KM Records Inc.

Brought to you by the Collective For Live Music

ĐR̃åⒻṬëŕṽøï digitized February 2026

You get 300 dpi scans of all four disc labels and the cue sheets.

We've got the script, even though this is the hosted version and is therefore superfluous.  Somewhere there's an unhosted version that needs this script!

I tossed in the ads from the Los Angeles Times, and an LA Weekly interview from a month before the show, and a concert review that didn't think much of the show, but did credit Mr. Dio as a "charged up screamer with lungs forceful enough to blow out a forest fire."

https://mega.nz/file/XcgnmKJZ#xA72OFSPLtcZnGIJHCXNsvo8To7iksvABT6-Y-vsrHg

Mello Yello Presents Rod Stewart - Wembly Dec. 5, 1981

Mello Yello Presents
Rod Stewart
Air date: 5/2/81

Recorded at:
Wembley Arena
London, England
December 5, 1980

01 Tony Pigg - Intro
02 Commercial - Mello Yello
03 Rod Stewart - Hot Legs
04 Rod Stewart - Sweet Little Rock 'n' Roller
05 Rod Stewart - Tonight's the Night (Gonna Be Alright)
06 Rod Stewart - You're In My Heart (The Final Acclaim)
07 Tony Pigg - Break
08 Commercial - Mello Yello
09 Rod Stewart - (If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don't Want to Be Right
10 Rod Stewart - She Won't Dance With Me
11 Rod Stewart - Passion
12 Tony Pigg - Break
13 Commercial - Mello Yello
14 Commercial - Mello Yello
15 Rod Stewart - Maggie May
16 Rod Stewart - Sailing
17 Rod Stewart - I Don't Want To Talk About It
18 Tony Pigg - Break
19 Commercial - Mello Yello
20 Rod Stewart - Carol
21 Rod Stewart - Do Ya Think I'm Sexy
22 Rod Stewart - You Wear It Well
23 Tony Pigg - Break
24 Commercial - Mello Yello
25 Commercial - Mello Yello
26 Rod Stewart - I Was Only Joking
27 Rod Stewart - This Old Heart Of Mine
28 Rod Stewart - Get Back
29 Tony Pigg - Break
30 Commercial - Mello Yello
31 Rod Stewart - The Killing of Georgie (Part I and II)
32 Rod Stewart - Stay With Me
33 Tony Pigg - Break
34 Commercial - Mello Yello
35 Commercial - Mello Yello
66 Tony Pigg - Outro

Example of the 5 LP version
with the withdrawn disc.

We do not have the run out grooves.  We've got the cue sheets. I don't have scans of the disc labels, but I was able to find some low resolution scans that show the "Mello Yello" disc labels were yellow labels.

From the Sam Eliot's Mustache collection

Brought to you by the Collective For Live Music

Production of D.I.R. Broadcasting for the ABC Radio Network
Executive Producers: Bob Meyrowitz and Peter Kauff
Produced by Bob Kominsky
Host: Tony Pigg

There was some issue with the first pressing of this show sent to the radio stations. A corrected version of sides B and C was sent out, as those sides were deemed unsuitable for airing by the ABC network. We do not know the reason for the replacement.  It may have been a censorship issue, or something wrong with the pressing.

I've seen two copies of this as a 5 LP set, including the "unsuitable" disc.  This is just from a 3 LP set.  You know how I am, I will make it my life's work to track down that 5-LP version and reveal its horrible secrets to the world.

The Mello Yello series took place in 1981, with three shows in May on three consecutive nights...but targeted to different audience segments.   A combined Christopher Cross/Leo Sayer show was on May 1, Rod Stewart on May 2, and Anne Murray on May 3.  Each of them reached a slightly different segment of the pop-rock marketplace.

The shows were very successful.  Billboard magazine reported, "The May 2 Rod Stewart special, according to an ABC spokesman, had the highest ratings of any national FM radio broadcast since the rebirth of national radio programming in the late 1960s" with approximately nine million listeners.  Later that summer, "Advertising Age gave its Most Creative Use Of Radio award to McDonald & Little for it's Saturday radio rock concert series."

The shows were so successful that they followed up with three consecutive nights in October with the Jefferson Starship, Moody Blues, and Charlie Daniels.

While Mello Yello was the sponsor of other shows in future years, the shows do not appear to be part of this series.  

List of 1981 shows:
Mello Yello Presents Rocks Best Starring Christopher Cross and Leo Sayer air date 05/1/81
Mello Yello Presents Rod Stewart air date of 5/2/81
Mello Yello Presents Country Comfort, An Evening With Anne Murray 5/3/81

Mello Yello Presents Jefferson Starship broadcast date of 10/9/81
Mello Yello Presents the Moody Blues air date 10/10/81
Mello Yello Presents Charlie Daniels air date 10/11/81 

https://mega.nz/file/GVwFiQDb#fXT_KfB5qvu_FACJJGD93aVZqwOJD8-UewTJIBgyrFE

If you play Rod's version of
"Some Guys Have All The Luck" backwards, it says,
"Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn.”

Superstar Concert Series Show 87-E - Steve Winwood, Blossom Music Center 1986-09-17

Steve Winwood
Superstar Concert Series Show 87-E 
for the weekend of November 13-15, 1987

Recorded at:
Blossom Music Center
Cuyahoga Falls, OH ("Cleveland")
September 17, 1986

Sides 1, 2, and 3
01 Steve Downes - Superstar Concert 87-E Intro
02 Commercial - Levi's
03 Commercial - U.S. Army Reserve
04 Steve Winwood - Stage Intro
05 Steve Winwood - The Low Spark Of High Heeled Boys
06 Steve Winwood - Glad
07 Steve Winwood - Take It As It Comes
08 Commercial - Dentyne
11 REO Speedwagon - REO Speedwagon Tour Update
12 Steve Winwood - Freedom Overspill
13 Steve Winwood - The Finer Things
14 Commercial - U.S. Army Reserve
15 Commercial - Levi's (Leon Redbone)
16 Steve Downes - Superstar Concert 87-E Break
17 Steve Winwood - My Love's Leaving
18 Steve Winwood - While You See A Chance
19 Commercial - Dentyne
20 Commercial - U.S. Army Reserve
21 Steve Downes - Superstar Concert 87-E Break

Sides 4, 5, and 6
22 Howard Lee - Heart Tour Update
23 Steve Winwood - Valerie
24 Steve Winwood - Split Decision
25 Commercial - Levi's
26 Commercial - Dentyne
27 Steve Downes - Superstar Concert 87-E Break
28 Steve Winwood - band intros I'm A Man
29 Steve Winwood - Higher Love
30 Steve Downes - Superstar Concert 87-E Break
31 Commercial - U.S. Army Reserve
32 Commercial - Dentyne
33 Steve Downes - Superstar Concert 87-E Break
34 Steve Winwood - Back In The High Life Again
35 Steve Winwood - Gimme Some Lovin'
36 Steve Downes - Superstar Concert 87-E Outro
37 Steve Downes - Superstar Concert 87-E Promo

Brought to you by the Collective For Live Music.

Digitized Đ®åⒻṬëŕṽøï 2026 version.

Includes 300 dpi scans of all six disc labels, the cue sheet, plus some press coverage...

There is a mystery over the source date for this show.  It is often attributed to January 18, 1987.  There was a broadcast on that date, supported by a press clipping from the Cleveland Plain Dealer of January 18, 1987 stating, "IN CONCERT, 10 P.M. (WMMS) Steve Winwood at Blossom Music Center."  

So yes, WMMS-FM broadcast something on that date and time, and we have written published proof. I had originally found a story about Winwood's marriage and Grammy nominations from January, intending to write something about what a busy month it was for Winwood... which I'm leaving in the Artwork folder as proof that I'm an idiot, willing to believe things that make no sense. I thought, "Of course this was from January, the Internet told me so.  When has the Internet ever been wrong?"

Here's where I want to talk about how we... that is, all of us... often do not stop to THINK.  

I've never been to Cleveland, but the Blossom Music Center is an OUTDOOR venue.  There's no roof.  No heating system.  We have similar outdoor venues in the San Francisco Bay Area: Shoreline in Mountain View, the Greek Theatre in Berkeley, the Concord Pavilion (or whatever they're calling it now...) in Concord.  ALL OF THESE RUN SHOWS FROM ROUGHLY LATE APRIL THROUGH OCTOBER, AT THE LATEST.

Because weather. Weather matters.

While we only have two seasons in the Bay Area ("Rainy season" and "Dry season"), Rainy season is a problem for outdoor concerts because NO ONE WANTS TO LISTEN TO MUSIC SOAKING WET, and musicians have a safety issue with that "death by stage electrocution" thing.

Which begs the question:  How the HECK do they pull off outdoor concerts, in Ohio, in January?

Are audiences just made of sterner stuff in the Midwest?  Yes, we San Franciscans are weedy weaklings compared to our brawny Midwestern brethren; I blame the palm trees. But are they that much tougher?

What was the weather in Cuyahoga Falls on January 18, 1987?

Well, the Cleveland Plain Dealer says, "TODAY: High 38 (3C), Lake-shore temperature 37, (3C). Low tonight 34 (1C). Normal high: 32. Normal low 18. Slick travel, with snow, sleet and freezing rain this morning, then cloudy this afternoon and tonight with rain, drizzle, and fog.  Lake temperature 35.
Tomorrow: Cloudy with rain that may change back to ice or snow.  High 36 and falling.  Low 26."

Okay... uh... does the January date seem reasonable now?  Were thousands of Steve Winwood fans really sitting in the rain, drizzle and fog in near freezing temperatures in January?  I flat-out don't believe that is true. 

So I dug deeper... and found that Winwood played the Blossom Music Center on September 17, 1986. It's got to be from that date; the newspaper review of the show mentions that the first song ("...Low Spark..") was an abbreviated version, as on this show.

These tracks were released as SS 87-12 (air date Oct 18, 1987), which makes this release a bit odd, as it was slightly less than a month later. While Westwood One regularly repeated content, it was usually the following year, or at the least three or four months later. 

Note the cue sheet says that Track 12 is "Freedom Rider," but it's "Freedom Overspill."  This error was also on the earlier cue for SS 87-12.

Anyway...that's what's on my mind this morning.  The Internet is wonderful, but keep in mind it makes us believe there were outdoor concerts in January in Cleveland, Ohio if we do not pause and stop and THINK.  Vincit omnia veritas!

https://mega.nz/file/yI4SRZRA#rxv7ANauohAmzbp5gkX2m_pUYrbCQz57IJnEqj-N9Ak

Gas music from Jupiter...