Randy Newman
Quiet Knight, Chicago, IL
April 1972
WXRT-FM
02 Randy Newman - Young Girl
03 Randy Newman - Lucinda
04 Randy Newman - Living Without You
05 Randy Newman - You Can Leave Your Hat On
06 Randy Newman - Yellow Man
07 Randy Newman - Cowboy
08 Randy Newman - Simon Smith and the Amazing Dancing Bear
09 Randy Newman - Tickle Me
10 Randy Newman - Suzanne
11 Randy Newman - Old Kentucky Home
12 Randy Newman - Political Science
13 Announcer - WXRT-FM Break
14 Randy Newman - God's Song
15 Randy Newman - Last Night I Had A Dream
16 Randy Newman - Burn On
17 Randy Newman - Intro to Sail Away
18 Randy Newman - Sail Away
19 Randy Newman - I Think It's Going To Rain Today
20 Randy Newman - Lonely At The Top
21 Randy Newman - Love Story
22 Randy Newman - Davey The Fat Boy
23 Announcer - WXRT-FM Outro
You get: flac files of .wavs, plus a newspaper review, and three entertainment listings.
Here's another tape I got in trade. It's of unknown generation. This one I got from a trader in the Chicago area. As it's from a WXRT-FM rebroadcast in the 1980s, it's likely my copy is a first generation. There's some hiss but it's pretty minimal.
As to the date of the rebroadcast, the WXRT Intro mentions Newman's soundtrack to the The Natural, so it's after the May 1984 release date of the movie. It leaves Newman as being without a recording contract, which puts it before the release of Land of Dreams in September 1988.
There's no venue mentioned, and the date announced is just "1972."
A search on Newspapers.com turns up a review and some entertainment listings from 1972. Newman played the Quiet Knight in Chicago on April 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 (Wednesday through Sunday), with three shows on Friday and Saturday, and two shows on Sunday. It is likely he played two shows a night on Wednesday and Thursday, too, but there were no individual listings for those nights, so that's guess. David Bromberg was the opening act.
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Tickets were a $3.00 cover with a two-drink minimum.
The Quiet Knight was at 953 W. Belmont Avenue. It looks like the building is still there and it's now "Blaze of Pizza."
The KSAN-FM Boarding House tape from two months later (June 11) is similar, and far better known. It's been pressed up on CD several times.
I'm surprised the Chicago concert is less well known. This has 19 songs, one more than the KSAN show. Chicago has Young Girl, Cowboy, Simon Smith and the Amazing Dancing Bear, and Tickle Me, and San Francisco swaps those for Lover's Prayer, Dayton Ohio 1903, The Beehive State, Linda, and Memo To My Son.
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