Composer's name is listed where notable (i.e. Classical Performance, Jazz Performance).
For more information on any of the rock, pop and Jazz music featured on this program, I frequently utilize AllMusic, an excellent free database holding a huge plethora of information about music and the artists that make it.
| Composer | Performer | Title | Genre | Label | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deep Purple | Space Trucking | Classic Rock, '70s | Warner Bros., 1972 | ||
| Highway Star | |||||
| Smoke On The Water | |||||
| ZZ Top | I Need You Tonight | Classic Rock, '80s | Warner Bros., 1983 | ||
| Dirty Dog | |||||
| Phil Phillips and the Twilights | Sea Of Love | Rock/R&B, Do-Wop, '50s | original label unk., 1959 | Song later redone by Robert Plant (with the Honeydrippers), which rose to #2 on the charts | |
| The Flamingos | I Only Have Eyes For You | End/Rhino, 1959 | The Flamingos may be one of the more influential of the do-wop groups, making several popular songs, and featuring the choreography later emulated by the Temptations | ||
| The Platters | The Great Pretender | Mercury, 1956 | |||
| The Marcels | Blue Moon | Colpix/RCA/Rhino, 1961 | Song is an arrangement of a Rogers/Hart tune from the 30s, a practice commonly done in do-wop (rearrangement of traditional pop standards) | ||
| Cat Stevens | Peace Train | Folk/Pop, Singer-songwriter, '70s | A&M, 1971 | ||
| Father and Son | A&M, 1970 | ||||
| Morning Has Broken | A&M, 1971 | ||||
| Buddy Holly | That'll Be The Day | Rock, '50s | Brunswick/Decca, 1957 | ||
| It's So Easy | Brunswick/Decca, 1958 | ||||
| Oh Boy! | Brunswick/Decca, 1957 | ||||
| Peggy Sue | Brunswick/Coral, 1957 | ||||
| Igor Stravinski (1882 - 1971) |
Alison Wells (soprano), Susan Bickley (mezzo-soprano), Martyn Hill (tenor), Alan Ewing (basso-profundo), Simon Joly Chorale, International Piano Quartet, Tristan Fry Percussion Ensemble, Robert Craft, cond. | Les Noces | Classical, 20th Century, Russian, Ballet music -w- choir (Stravinski subtitled the piece "Russian Choreographic Scenes") | Naxos, 2004 | This work was written to be performed in Russian, but was first recorded in English in 1934 due to the difficulties in finding performers who could adequately sing in the original Russian. Stravinski also attempted two English revisions of the work in 1959 and 1965, but abandoned both because the Russian text was crucial to the overall impact of the piece. This piece is one of only two works that Stravinski wrote in Russian. |
| The Cure | At Night | Rock, '80s, Post-punk, New Wave, Goth | Fiction/Elektra/Rhino, 2005 | At Night and A Forest were recorded live in France in June of 1980, M was recorded in Arnheim in May of 1980, while The Funeral Party was recorded in the summer of 1981, location unknown. Funeral Party was initially released as part the "Curiosity" EP set, but had been out of print for many years, while the others have been unreleased. All these songs were released as part of recent album remaster packages. | |
| A Forest | |||||
| The Funeral Party | |||||
| M | |||||
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