04-01-1967

KMPX Radio

San Francisco, California

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This is one of the coolest thing out there in that it is a free form radio program with Jerry and Phil as the guests. It is all part of Tom “Big Daddy” Donahue’s progressive radio program on KMPX, which was the birthplace of underground radio back in the 60s. Jerry, Phil, and Tom spend about two hours playing their favorite tunes and talking, both earnestly and humorously, about music and all sorts of other things. Not only are Phil and Jerry hysterical, but you also get such an incredible insight into both the time period and Phil and Jerry’s sense of music. It is also so neat to hear the two of them get so pumped because they had a gig out in New York City. But, really, there are dozens of other nuggets like that in the recording. This is absolutely not to be missed!

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gd67-04-xx.prefm.vernon.9261.sbeok.shnf

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Note 1/20/2006: the files will not derive into MP3/Ogg’s – there’s something wrong with the original wave files preventing this, so this show cannot be streamed in the current condition. Sorry! THE CELESTIAL JUKEBOX (Special Radio Flashback Edition “The Phil ‘n’ Jerry Show” April 1967) A long, long time ago — before many of you were born — there was a wondrous thing called “progressive” or “free-form” radio. These were the days when rock radio stations were programmed by people who actually knew and loved music, rather than the accountants and marketing analysts who now control the airwaves. During this time it was possible to hear, in a single program, music by artists as diverse as the Beatles, Ravi Shankar and Miles Davis, to name but a few, picked and played by DJs who spoke to, rather than at, their audience. One of the pioneering stations in this adventurous era of radio was KMPX-FM in San Francisco, which was instrumental in letting the world know about the explosion of great music in the Bay Area in the late 60s. One fine April evening in 1967, the station’s co-founder, the legendary Tom “Big Daddy” Donahue, invited Phil Lesh and Jerry Garcia to play guest DJ on his nightly KMPX show. Phil and Jerry discussed the Grateful Dead’s then-brand-new debut album (they promised the next one would be much better!), as well as such arcane topics as a top-secret military project to develop a “sound gun” that could kill or maim everyone for miles around with super-low-frequencies. Best of all, they brought along some of their favorite records to play on the air. As you might expect, it was a most unpredictable batch of tunes indeed. The following is a playlist from Phil and Jerry’s guest DJ shift, as broadcast on KMPX-FM in San Francisco, sometime during the last week of April, 1967.

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talk interspersed with the following studio records:
SWAN SILVERTONES – (Song title unannounced) [missing from circulation]
CHARLES MINGUS – Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting
BLIND WILLIE JOHNSON – Lord I Can’t Keep From Crying Sometimes
RAY CHARLES – I Don’t Need No Doctor
JAMES BROWN – It’s A Man’s Man’s Man’s World
JAMES BROWN – Ain’t That A Groove
BOB DYLAN – Maggie’s Farm
ENSEMBLE OF THE BULGARIAN REPUBLIC – The Moon Shines
CHARLES LLOYD QUARTET -Dream Weaver
(Station Ads – Avalon Ballroom)
JUNIOR WELLS – Ships On The Ocean
LEOPOLD STOKOWSKI/AMERICAN SYMPHONY ORCH. – Charles Ives: Symphony # 4 (2nd Movement)
IAN & SYLVIA – Jealous Lover
IAN & SYLVIA Four Rode By
SKIP JAMES – Hard Time Killin’ Floor Blues
ARETHA FRANKLIN – I Never Loved A Man (The Way I Love You)
RIGHTEOUS BROTHERS – You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’
IKE & TINA TURNER – River Deep, Mountain High
LOU RAWLS – Trouble Down Here Below
ROLLING STONES – Gotta Get Away
OTIS REDDING – Day Tripper
GRATEFUL DEAD – Cold Rain And Snow
GRATEFUL DEAD – New, New Minglewood Blues

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Pre-FM-MR > R > DAT > CDR > EAC (secure) > Cool Edit (remove gaps) > CD Wave (retrack) > mkwACT > SHN (seekable)

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