AMERICAN REVOLUTION
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June 25 SHOW
SHOW PLAYLIST
Don’t Take It So Hard - Paul Revere & the Raiders
Do’s
Who Do You Love - Bo Diddley
Do You Wanna Dance - Bobby Freeman
Go Where You Wanna Go - Mamas & Papas
Do Something To Me - Tommy James
Don’ts
Don’t Lie To Me - Big Star
Walk Don’t Run - Ventures
I Don’t Understand - Chesterfield Kings
Don’t Worry Baby - Beach Boys
What She Don’t Know - Guitar Shorty
Spanish Castle
Spanish Castle Magic - Jimi Hendrix
Tall Cool One - Wailers
Locomotion - Little Eva
Dead Man’s Curve - Jan & Dean
Be Bop-A-Lula - Gene Vincent
Sound City
Hair - Cowsills
You Better Run - Pat Benatar
Refugee - Tom Petty
California Man - Cheap Trick
California
California Sun - Joe Jones
California (Hustle and Flow) - Social Distortion
California Girls - Beach Boys
We Never Should Have Moved to L.A. - Ryan Hamilton & the Traitors
Alternative Transportation
Born To Be Wild - Steppenwolf
Little Honda - Hondells
Ride Your Pony - Paul Revere & the Raiders
Born to Run - Bruce Springsteen
I’m Walkin’ - Fats Domino
Class of 1986
I Got You (I Feel Good) - James Brown
No Particular Place to Go - Chuck Berry
Rave On - Buddy Holly
Lucille - Little Richard
Twistin’ the Night Away - Sam Cooke
Up and Down
Upside Down - Kurt Baker Combo
See Saw - Don Covay
I’m Down - Aerosmith
Live - The Merry-Go-Round
Ups and Downs Unreleased First Version - Paul Revere & the Raiders
Don’t Take It So Hard - Paul Revere & the Raiders
Do’s
Who Do You Love - Bo Diddley
Do You Wanna Dance - Bobby Freeman
Go Where You Wanna Go - Mamas & Papas
Do Something To Me - Tommy James
Don’ts
Don’t Lie To Me - Big Star
Walk Don’t Run - Ventures
I Don’t Understand - Chesterfield Kings
Don’t Worry Baby - Beach Boys
What She Don’t Know - Guitar Shorty
Spanish Castle
Spanish Castle Magic - Jimi Hendrix
Tall Cool One - Wailers
Locomotion - Little Eva
Dead Man’s Curve - Jan & Dean
Be Bop-A-Lula - Gene Vincent
Sound City
Hair - Cowsills
You Better Run - Pat Benatar
Refugee - Tom Petty
California Man - Cheap Trick
California
California Sun - Joe Jones
California (Hustle and Flow) - Social Distortion
California Girls - Beach Boys
We Never Should Have Moved to L.A. - Ryan Hamilton & the Traitors
Alternative Transportation
Born To Be Wild - Steppenwolf
Little Honda - Hondells
Ride Your Pony - Paul Revere & the Raiders
Born to Run - Bruce Springsteen
I’m Walkin’ - Fats Domino
Class of 1986
I Got You (I Feel Good) - James Brown
No Particular Place to Go - Chuck Berry
Rave On - Buddy Holly
Lucille - Little Richard
Twistin’ the Night Away - Sam Cooke
Up and Down
Upside Down - Kurt Baker Combo
See Saw - Don Covay
I’m Down - Aerosmith
Live - The Merry-Go-Round
Ups and Downs Unreleased First Version - Paul Revere & the Raiders
This Week's
"DEEP DIVE"
Mark and the Raiders performing Don't Take it So Hard on Happening '68
SPANISH CASTLE - The Raiders played here many times, and Mark remembers seeing Hendrix up front in the sea of the crowd.
There's some excellent history of the place on the PNW Bands website, as well as in promoter/deejay Pat O'Day's autobiography, "It Was All Just Rock and Roll", available HERE. It's a great read about Jimi's early beginnings, as well as how concert promotion developed in the 60s.
TOMMY JAMES - Mark really enjoyed Tommy's autobiography, "Me, the Mob, and the Music" - a very enlightening tale about what can go wrong - very wrong - in the music business. Unlike some autobiographies with a co-author, Tommy's "voice" comes through loud and clear. The Audible version is also excellent, and although Tommy doesn't narrate it, the narrator nails it. You can read more about it HERE.
SOUND CITY - Kent Hartman's excellent book chronicles the wild world of Los Angeles recording studios, and if you liked the "Cowsill eats master tape" story Mark told on today's show, you can read more about it in the book. Kent also wrote the definitive book on the Wrecking Crew. More info HERE on Kent's book.
The story of Sound City is also streaming on Amazon Prime and is available on DVD as well. You can find out more HERE
UPS & DOWNS - You heard the ORIGINAL version on Mark's show today.
Tensions had been simmering between Terry and Paul Revere since the release of the single prior to Ups & Downs, which was Good Thing. Terry convinced Mark that he should only give writing credit to Paul on songs he actually participated in writing, and Paul wasn't happy with Terry for instigating the change. So when Terry produced the next single with horn parts that would be impossible/expensive to reproduce in live performances in those pre-synthesiser days, Paul went to the suits at CBS and demanded that the song be stripped down. Terry was NOT happy, and Mark was heartbroken since he didn't feel he could match that first magical vocal, but the stripped-down version of Ups & downs came out and made it to #22, and lower than Terry and Mark felt the original version would have charted.
But, today you got to hear, for the very first time, the original version of Ups & Downs, complete with lead vocal, on American Revolution in Little Steven's Underground Garage.
Tensions had been simmering between Terry and Paul Revere since the release of the single prior to Ups & Downs, which was Good Thing. Terry convinced Mark that he should only give writing credit to Paul on songs he actually participated in writing, and Paul wasn't happy with Terry for instigating the change. So when Terry produced the next single with horn parts that would be impossible/expensive to reproduce in live performances in those pre-synthesiser days, Paul went to the suits at CBS and demanded that the song be stripped down. Terry was NOT happy, and Mark was heartbroken since he didn't feel he could match that first magical vocal, but the stripped-down version of Ups & downs came out and made it to #22, and lower than Terry and Mark felt the original version would have charted.
But, today you got to hear, for the very first time, the original version of Ups & Downs, complete with lead vocal, on American Revolution in Little Steven's Underground Garage.
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