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April 12, 2010

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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
Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey
Rock
Capitol, 1968
Your inside is out and your outside is in....
I Want You (She's So Heavy
Capitol, 1969
She's so.... heavy.....
I Want To Tell You
Capitol, 1966
All my words, they seem to slip away....
Yer Blues
Capitol, 1968
I am of the universe.....
Rush
Bastille Day
Rock
Atlantic, 1998
Recorded live, 2/20/1978
By-Tor and the Snow Dog
Xanadu
Charlie Parker, -w- Kenny Dorham (tr), Al Haig (p), Tommy Potter (b), Max Roach (d)
Oop Bop Sh'bam
Jazz, be-bop
Savoy, 1998
Recorded live at the Royal Roost, 1/22/1949. Parker, as was his style, begins his solo with a distinctive rendition of the old Teddy Roosevelt theme song, (There'll Be A) Hot Time In The Old Town Tonight
Scrapple from the Apple
Salt Peanuts
The Cure
Dressing Up
Rock, post-punk, new wave, goth
Sire, 1984
Going under slowly, it never seems too late....
Bauhaus
She's In Parties
Beggars Banquet, 1983
 
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
The Romance of the Telescope
Rock, New Wave, Techno
Virgin, 1982
Its happened before... I just pretended...
U2
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Rock, Pop, post-punk
Island, 1983
We can be as one tonight...
Sun Ra (featuring Pharoh Sanders (tenor sax) and Black Harold (otherwise known as Harold Murray, flute)
The Now Tomorrow
Jazz, avant garde, free jazz
ESP-Disk
 
Metallica
Master of Puppets
Metal, thrash
Elektra, 1986
An anti-drug song
Fade to Black
Elektra, 1984
 
One
Elektra, 1988
 

 

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