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.
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Led Zeppelin |
Misty Mountain Hop |
Rock, Classic |
Atlantic, 1971 |
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The Song Remains the Same |
Atlantic, 1973 |
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Rain Song |
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In My Time of Dying |
Atlantic, 1975 |
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Issac Hayes |
Hyperbolicsyllabicsesquesalymistic |
R&B, Soul, Classic |
Stax, 1969 |
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Curtis Mayfield |
Superfly |
Curtom, 1972 |
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Al Green |
Let's Stay Together |
Hi/Capitol, 1971 |
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Jerome Kern, Otto Harbach |
The Platters |
Smoke Gets In Your Eyes |
R&B, Do Wop |
1959 |
Both of these songs appear to have been first issued in 1959, but I'm having trouble nailing down the original record company (and the year, in the case of the Platters). |
Al Dubin, Harry Warren |
The Flamingos |
I Only Have Eyes For You |
1959 |
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Josquin DesPrez |
The Hilliard Ensemble |
Veni sancte spiritus |
Classical, Rennaisance |
Virgin/EMI, 1994 |
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De profundis clamavi |
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Joy Division |
She's Lost Control |
Rock, Post-punk, New Wave |
Qwest/Factory, 1979 |
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Dead Souls |
Qwest/Factory, 1981 |
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Love Will Tear Us Apart |
Qwest/Factory, 1980 |
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Jimmy Webb |
Issac Hayes |
By The Time I Get to Phoenix |
R&B, Soul, classic |
Stax, 1969 |
by request |
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The Doors |
Universal Mind |
Rock, classic, psychedelic |
Elektra, 1996 |
recorded live, between 1969 and 1970; Celebration of the Lizard has to be one of the finest examples of the Doors at their best, and a fine sampling of the power of this band, the way they melded poetry and music. | |
Petition The Lord With Prayer |
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Dead Cats, Dead Rats/Break On Through |
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Celebration of the Lizard: Lions In The Street; Wake Up; A Little Game; The Hill Dwellers; Not To Touch The Earth; Names Of The Kingdom; The Palace of Exile |
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Soul Kitchen |
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Capercaillie |
Medley: Dr. Macphail's Reel/Cape Breton Song |
Folk music, Celtic, Scottish, contemporary, "Celtic Fusion" |
Survival, 2002 |
Recorded live, 1/25/2002; Celtic music gets funky! haha | |
The Weasel Set: Granny Hold The Candle While I Shave the Chicken's Lip II/The Weasel In the Dyke/Macleod's Farewell |
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Inexile |
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Iain Ghlinn Cuaich |
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Bonaparte |
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The Bad Brains |
I |
Rock, Punk, Hardcore, Reggae |
Caroline, 1987 |
Recorded live at the Paradiso, Amsterdam, 1987 | |
Rock For Light |
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Right Brigade |
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House of Suffering |
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Lennon/McCartney, Jagger/Richards |
The Bad Brains |
Day Tripper/She's A Rainbow |
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Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark |
Messages |
Rock, New Wave, Techno |
Dindisc/Virgin, 1980 |
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New Stone Age |
Dindisc/Virgin, 1981 |
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Electricity |
Dindisc/Virgin, 1980 |
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International |
Dindisc/Virgin, 1983 |
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As I Lay Dying |
I Never Wanted |
Rock, Metal, "Metalcore" |
Metal Blade, 2007 |
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Within Destruction |
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Killswitch Engage |
Rose of Sharyn |
Roadrunner, 2004 |
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Shadows Fall |
Venomous |
Atlantic, 2007 |
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