The Galaxy Playlist

September 21, 2009

You knew it was coming.. you just had to....

Premiering some remastered Beatles.....

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
The Beatles
Good Morning Good Morning ('87 master)
Rock, pop, classic rock
Capitol, 1967
 
Good Morning Good Morning (2009 remaster)
 
Dear Prudence
Capitol, 1968
 
Octopus's Garden
Capitol, 1969
 
Glass Onion
Capitol, 1968
 
Something
Capitol, 1969
 
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Capitol, 1968
 
Yer Blues
 
I Want You (She's So Heavy)
Capitol, 1969
 
Happiness is a Warm Gun
Capitol, 1968
 
Mother Nature's Son
 
Sun King
Capitol, 1969
A medley of uncompleted songs that closed out Abbey Road
Mean Mr. Mustard
Polyethyne Pam
She Came In Through the Bathroom Window
Golden Slumbers
Carry That Weight
The End
Birthday
Capitol, 1968
Celebrating a birthday....
When I'm Sixty-four
Capitol, 1967
W.A. Mozart
Hans Fagius, pipe organ
Fantasia in F Minor ("Piece for an organ in a clock")
Classical, classical era, pipe organ music
Grammofon, 1994
One of several pieces Mozart was commissioned to write in 1790 for a set of mechanical organs located in a Vienna museum. Although not originally written for the full pipe organ, the piece has become a notable part of organ literature.
John Coltrane (ts), -w- Booker Little (t), Britt Woodman (tr), Julian Priester, Carl Bowman (euphonium), Donald Corrado, Bob Northern, Robert Swisshelm (french horn), Bill Barber (tuba), Eric Dolphy (as, bass clarinet), Pat Patrick (bari sax), Art Davis, Reggie Workman (bass), McCoy Tyner (p), Elvin Jones
Africa
Jazz, post-bop
Impulse!, 1961
An interesting group of players - Booker Little frequently worked with Mingus, Bill Barber played on the Birth of the Cool sessions, Pat Patrick played with Sun Ra. Freddie Hubbard was also at the session but did not play on this piece. Of course, you also have Eric Dolphy, in one of his rare studio appearances with Coltrane.
Electric Light Orchestra
Sweet Talkin' Woman
Rock, pop, classic, progressive
Jet, 1977
 
Can't Get It Out Of My Head
Jet, 1974
 
Turn To Stone
Jet, 1977
 
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
She's Leaving
Rock, pop, new wave, techno
Virgin, 1981
 
Mystereality
Virgin/Dindisc, 1979
 
Silent Running
Virgin, 1982
 

 

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