Suze Cosmo / Khyber Pass Pub, Philadelphia, PA March 7, 1986 WYSP-FM

Suze Cosmo
Khyber Pass Pub
56 S. Second Street
Philadelphia, PA
Friday, March 7, 1986

01 Mean Ed Green - WYSP Intro
02 Suze Cosmo - Woman Needs A Man
03 Suze Cosmo - Going To A Go Go
04 Suze Cosmo - Collector Of Hearts
05 Suze Cosmo - When He Says Goodbye
06 Suze Cosmo - I Miss You So Much
07 Suze Cosmo - Hands of Time
08 Suze Cosmo - Why Are You Leaving Me
09 Suze Cosmo - Don't Go Please Stay
10 Suze Cosmo - I Don't Read The News
11 Suze Cosmo - Bound By The Chains of Love
12 Suze Cosmo - Nowhere To Run
13 Suze Cosmo - Think
14 Suze Cosmo - You Keep Me Hanging On
15 Suze Cosmo - When A Man Wears Black
16 Suze Cosmo - Land of 1,000 Dances
17 Mean Ed Green & Debbi Calton - Stage Outro, WYSP Outro

Another tape from the Sam Eliot's Mustache collection.  

First of all, I was in Philadelphia once, for an afternoon, back in July of 1971.  So, I don't know diddlysquat about the city. Everything I'm about to type I found on the Internet, and that means it's not reliable. 

According to the Philadelphia Daily News (Feb. 28, 1986)
"WYSP (FM/94 now offers a local shot of talent every Friday afternoon at 5, and airs live bands from the Khyber Pass Fridays at midnight."  This concert is sourced from one of those shows. 

The show is hosted by WYSP-FM's Mean Ed Green, with deejay duties back at the station handled by by Debbi Calton.

The Khyber Pass Pub is still in open.

I've never heard of Suze Cosmo, and there's not much on the Internet about the band. Don't let that put you off... this is pop-rock, with a solid grounding in R&B.  I'd say their primary influence was Motown but the Aretha Franklin and Wilson Pickett covers show they had a couple of Atlantic LPs, too.  

I found lots of listings for the band in 1983 to 1986, but nothing before (or after), so it looks like they had a brief three year long career. They played at clubs like Nardi's, J.C. Dobbs, Khyber Pass, Empire Rock Club, 24 East Cabaret, and John Holmes Restaurant.

It's a lot of fun; they had the talent and enough good self-penned songs that should have gotten a record contract, but it looks like they only managed to put out a self-released 45 and an EP (see below).

But while their discography is thin... I found another listing from June 14, 1985 that mentioned they did another live WYSP midnight broadcast.  So there's more out there.

I didn't find any newspaper listing for this show, but found a few other appearances by the band at the Khyber Pass, so I've included them.  I also found a great two-page center spread from the entertainment section on the local Philadelphia scene.  All that's in the "Artwork" folder.

https://mega.nz/file/Wc5ThRRZ#9smvh723Tj6uaN6lJ1fAfM1l6WWvZeJh0-dHDYwphB8

Discogs says:

Suze Cosmo Band 1983 EP:
Bound By The Chains Of Love
I Don't Read The News
Assets
Questions
Don't Like Russia, Cause She Don't Like Rock

Suze Cosmo 1984 single:
When A Man Wears Black
When He Says Goodbye