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The Police
Retro Rock RR 82-51, RR 82-52

For Broadcast 12/13 and 12/20, 1982

I've included scans of the record labels at 300 dpi.  No cue sheet.  The vinyl on this was a bit noisy but I spent a couple of weeks cleaning it up, and it now sounds pretty good.

Sides One and Two:
01.  Retro Rock RR-82-51 Intro and Interview
02.  Can't Stand Losing You (live)
03.  Interview - Sting
04.  Commercial - Budweiser
05.  Commercial - Jensen Sound System
06.  Commercial - Ms. Lee Jeans
07.  Next To You (live, Bottom Line New York City April 1979)
08.  Fallout (single)
09.  Interview
10.  Roxanne (live Bottom Line April 1979 - note: the circulating version mastered by David Hussey has a break in the song that he patched with a section from the My Father's Place show.  This is version doesn't have the break, or the patch, but is the full version from the Bottom Line show.)
11.  Retro Rock Promo 1
12.  Retro Rock Promo 2
13.  Retro Rock Promo 3
14.  So Lonely (live, unknown venue, Sting mentions NYC at 5:37 (but it's not from the "Hussey" Bottom Line show or the other NYC shows I've heard, Hotel Diplomat, Palladium, MSG 81...)
15.  Commercial - Budweiser - George Thorogood
16.  Commercial - Lee Jeans
17.  Interview - Stewart Copeland, Andy Summers
18.  Message In A Bottle (live)
19.  International success
20.  Man In A Suitcase (studio)
21.  Retro Rock RR-82-51 Break
22.  Commercial - Budweiser
23.  Commercial - Sperti Sun Lamp
24.  Interview - Sting
25.  Don't Stand So Close To Me (studio)

Sides Three and Four:
01.  Retro Rock RR-82-52 Intro
02.  De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da (English, Spanish, and Japanese)
03.  Driven To Tears (live)
04.  Interview - Andy Summers
05.  Canary In A Coal Mine (studio)
06.  Retro Rock RR-82-52 Break
07.  Commercial - Budweiser - Leon Redbone
08.  Commercial - Jensen Car Stereo
09.  Commercial - Ms. Lee Jeans
10.  Interview - Martin Lewis
11.  I Shall Be Released (Secret Policeman's Other Ball)
12.  Interview - Sting
13.  Too Much Information (studio)
14.  Interview - Stewart Copeland
15.  Invisible Sun (studio)
16.  Interview - Sting
17.  Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic (studio)
18.  Retro Rock RR-82-52 Break
19.  Commercial - Budweiser (in the style of Pat Benatar)
20.  Commercial - Lee Stretch Jeans
21.  Interview - Andy Summers - Solo LP - I Advance Masked
22.  Omegaman
23.  Interview - Stewart Copeland - Klark Kent
24.  Spirits In The Material World (studio)
25.  Commercial - Budweiser
26.  Commercial - Sperti Sun Lamps
27.  Interview - Sting - Movie Roles
28.  Spread A Little Happiness (studio)
29.  Interview - Sting
30.  Retro Rock RR-82-52 Outro

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Retro Rock was produced by the Clayton Webster Corporation out of St. Louis.  The show format was rebroadcasts of live concerts and artist profile/interview specials.  Occasionally they blended the formats and mixed unreleased live songs with studio cuts and interviews.  That's the format for this two part special by the Police.

The first hour is almost all unreleased live music from different concerts.  I managed to identify two of the songs as from the Bottom Line show of April 1979.  The version I have of the Bottom Line show was mastered by Mr. David Hussey and has a patched version of "Roxanne."  This Retro Rock show has a complete version of the song, without the break or the patch.

The second hour shifts to more studio material, but has one song that should be of note to Police completists.  In 1980, the Police released a single of "De Doo Doo Doo, De Da Da Da" with a Spanish version on one side and Japanese on the flip. Each side was the full version of the song with three verses and choruses in the respective language.  This rare single was left off "Message in a Box: The Complete Recordings" (which is, of course, not "complete").

There's a unique English/Spanish/Japanese edit of "De Doo Doo Doo, De Da Da Da" on this Retro Rock show.  Presumably they edited the three different versions together from the released versions. The first verse and chorus are in English, followed by Spanish, then Japanese.   I've been unable to track down any evidence that this edit was ever commercially distributed.  Perhaps one of Our Beloved Readers knows if this 3-language version was ever released?

Tom Petty - Paradise, Boston, MA July 16, 1978 Retro Rock show #82-9

I've digitized a Retro Rock rebroadcast of a 1978 Tom Petty live show.  It's well circulated in other versions, and up in streaming audio at Wolfgang's Vault....but I've never seen the Retro Rock version out there, so...here it is.   I've got scans of the disc label, cue sheets, and a pdf file of a newspaper review of the show that I found online.

https://mega.co.nz/#!XFhCXSRS!ZDVaH0gkPtewT8k7p7ml_3bat3R96ULvrx0IzPLnocg

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Paradise, Boston, MA
July 16, 1978
Retro Rock show #82-9 for broadcast the week of 2/22/82

01.  RR 82-9 Intro - Meg Griffin
02.  Anything That's Rock and Roll
03.  RR 82-9 Break - Meg Griffin
04.  Commercial - Budweiser
05.  Fooled Again
06.  Don't Bring Me Down
07.  Commercial - Lee Jeans
08.  Commercial - Budweiser
09.  You're Gonna Get It
10.  Breakdown
11.  Commercial - Lee Jeans
12.  RR 82-9 Promo
13.  Strangered In The Night
14.  I Need To Know
15.  RR 82-9 Break - Meg Griffin
16.  Commercial - Budweiser (Bus Boys)
17.  Shout
18.  I Fought The Law
19.  Route 66
20.  Commercial - Lee Jeans
21.  I'm A King Bee
22.  RR 82-9 Credits - Meg Griffin


This concert is listed as having been originally broadcast by WBCN-FM in Boston.

A year later, the King Biscuit Flower Hour distributed a show with Tom Petty and Steve Forbert for syndicated broadcast on July 15, 1979, which may be part or all of the 1978 show.   The Petty KBFH segment is listed as from the Paradise in Boston.  I couldn't find a track list of the 1979 broadcast for comparison, so I can't confirm that the 1979 KBFH show was sourced from the 1978 Paradise show (although it's very likely.) The 1979 KBFH show was distributed on reel-to-reel tape, so copies are rare.

Retro Rock was a syndicated radio show distributed on vinyl LPs in the early 1980s by the Clayton Webster Corporation.  I've seen shows on EBAY with distribution dates between 1981 and 1984. The formats were rebroadcasts of live concerts, interviews or artist profiles with studio or live cuts, with national commercials.  The concerts were often several years old, hence the "retro" in the show's name.

Retro Rock syndicated the Tom Petty 1978 Paradise show for re-broadcast during the week of February 22, 1982.  The Retro Rock version has eleven out of the thirteen songs originally performed, and is missing "American Girl" and "Too Much Ain't Enough."

The Retro Rock cue sheet inexpicably lists the song "Anything That's Rock and Roll" as "Rock and Roll Spy" on the cue sheet.

Wolfgang's Vault has a version of the Tom Petty 1978 Paradise show posted in streaming audio with twelve tracks (it's missing "Strangered In The Night").

The "Breakdown!" bootleg on Italy's Great Dane Records was released in 1990, and has all thirteen tracks.  It sounds fine...if you have that, you probably don't need this.

There was also a vinyl bootleg in the 1970s on Excitable Recordworks 4510-1 titled "It's Only Rock and Roll" sourced from the 1978 Paradise show with eight tracks.

This Retro Rock version was digitized in June 2014 directly from the Retro Rock syndicated LP.  I cleaned the record and removed most of the clicks, pops, and surface noise in Audacity. As there's some tape hiss audible in the quieter portions, it's likely the show was made from a copy of the WBCN master tape, as opposed to cut directly from the master tape.  I've left in all of the original commercials, but tracked them so they can be removed.