Folk-Rock with strong jazz flavors: Saturday Music Club on Thursday

Fairport Convention: Bouton Rouge, Live Broadcast, April 27 1968 (my father's 31st birthday...TM)

01-Morning Glory. 02-Time Will Show The Wiser.. 03-Reno Nevada. Line-Up: Judy Dyble - Vocals/Recorder Iain Matthews - Vocals. Simon Nicol - Rhythm Guitar/Vocals. Ashley "Tyger" Hutchings - Bass Guitar. Richard Thompson - Lead Guitar/Vocals. Martin Lamble - Drums

Pentangle: Live on Norwegian Television 1968

vocal: Jacqui McShee guitars: John Renbourn & Bert Jansch bass: Danny Thompson drums: Terry Cox

Fotheringay: Live at The Beat Club 1970

1 Nothing More 00:00 2 Gypsy Davey 04:52 3 John The Gun 08:42 4 Too Much Of Nothing 13:34

Eclection: "Mark Time"

Eclection: "Please"

Eclection: "St. Georg and the Dragon (Up the Night)"


Joni Mitchell Band: Shadows and Light

Joni Mitchell: 1970 UK television (The Old Grey Whistle Test production unit?)
Chelsea Morning 0:00 (from Clouds, 1969) Cactus Tree 3:15 (from Song to a Seagull, 1968) My Old Man 7:56 (from Blue, 1971) For Free 11:35 (from Ladies of the Canyon, 1970) California intro 16:25 music 18:15 (from Blue, 1971) Big Yellow Taxi 22:21 (from Ladies of the Canyon, 1970) Both Sides Now 25:46 (from Clouds, 1969)

The Byrds: "I See You"

The Byrds: Monterey Pop 1967 set with stage chatter edited out

The Byrds: "Eight Miles High" (1970 at Fillmore East)

Gene Clark and Roger McGuinn: "Eight Miles High" (Capitol Theatre, 4 March 1978)

Some further folk rock and adjacent: Saturday Music Club

Eclection: "In Her Mind"


Fanny: "You've Got a Home" 

The Rose Garden: "Here's Today"


Trees: "Murdoch"


The Byrds: "Full Circle"


The Turtles: "Somewhere Friday Night"

Love: "A House is Not a Motel"


Pentangle: "Let No Man Steal Your Thyme"


The Springfields (UK 1960s): "One Note Samba"; "Island of Dreams"


The Springfields (US 1980s):  "Sunflower"


Susanna Hoffs and Matthew Sweet: "Who Knows Where the Time Goes?"


The Dentists (1980s): "I Had an Excellent Dream"

Richard Thompson, Judith Owen, Debra Dobkin: 1000 Years of Popular Music

onstage playlist:
"Sumer Is Icumen In" (trad., arr. by Thompson) "King Henry" (trad., arr. by Thompson) "So Ben Mi Ca Bon Tempo" (Orazio Vecchi, arr. by Thompson) "Bonnie St. Johnstone" (trad., arr. by Thompson) "O Sleep Fond Fancy" (Thomas Morley) "Remember O Thou Man" (Thomas Ravenscroft) "Shenandoah" (trad., arr. by Thompson) "Blackleg Miner" (trad., arr. by Thompson) "I Live in Trafalgar Square" (C.W. Murphy) "There Is Beauty in the Bellow of the Blast" (from The Mikado) (W.S. Gilbert/Arthur Sullivan, arr. by Thompson) "Java Jive" (Ben Oakland/Milton Drake) "Night and Day" (Cole Porter) "Orange-Coloured Sky" (Milton DeLugg/William Stein) "Drinking Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee" (Granville "Stick" McGhee/J. Mayo Williams) "A-11" (Hank Cochran) "See My Friends" (Ray Davies) "Friday on My Mind" (George Young/Harry Vanda) "Tempted" (Chris Difford/Glenn Tilbrook) "Oops!… I Did It Again" (Max Martin/Rami Yacoub) "Cry Me A River" (Arthur Hamilton) "1985" (Jaret Reddick/John Allen/Mitchell Scherr) "Sam Hall" (trad., arr. by Thompson)

reBeatling: Saturday Music Club

More covers.

Please also see:
Some Beatling
Skinning the Ticket
Some Cover Versions
Acoustic, with a Beatles outbreak



An RAI (Italian television) documentary segment on Apple Corp. from 1968





Miriam Makeba: "In My Life" 

The Pretenders: "In My Life"

The B-52s: "Paperback Writer" (courtesy Eric Gary Anderson)


Blues Beatles: "Ticket to Ride"

"Yesterday"

The Paragons and Rosalyn Sweat: "Blackbird"


Alison Kraus: "I Will"


Roseanne Cash "I Don't Want to Spoil the Party"
 

Johnny Cash: "In My Life"

Brasil '66: "Day Tripper"

Wes Montgomery: "A Day in the Life"
Enoch Light and the Light Brigade: "Eight Days a Week"

The Mamas and the Papas: "I Call Your Name"


The Beach Boys (& Co.): "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away"


The Who: "I Saw Her Standing There"

Pat Benatar: "Helter Skelter"

Jackie Lomax, Eric Clapton, Nicky Hopkins, Billy Preston, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Paul McCartney: "Sour Milk Sea"

Dirty Mac: John Lennon, Eric Clapton, Keith Richards, Mitch Mitchell (introduced by Mick Jagger): "Yer Blues"

Saturday Music Club on Thursday: Sinister

The Roches: "Missing"

Annie Humphrey: "They Found Her"


Trusty: "Honey Mustard" (hit this text link to go directly to the song)


X: "Johnny Hit and Run Paulene"


Smart Went Crazy: "Sugar in Your Gas Tank"


Combustible Edison: "Pink Victim"


Billie Holiday: "Gloomy Sunday"


The Staple Singers: "Wish I Had Answered"


The Weavers: "Sinner Man"


The Jaynetts: "Sally Go 'Round the Roses"


Joan Armatrading: "Call Me Names"

"Eight Miles High": Saturday Music Club on Monday

The Byrds: "Eight Miles High" (perhaps their single best recording, a wonderful fusion of their folk, jazz, Indian raga, and other influences) 

The Byrds in 1966:
Gene Clark, primary songwriter, vocals, misc. instruments
Roger "Jim" McGuinn, lead guitar, vocals
David Crosby, rhythm guitar,  vocals
Chris Hillman, bass guitar, vocals
Michael Clarke, drums

Gene Clark:


Acoustic Desert Rose Band:


Hüsker Dü:


Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3: (incomplete)


Maura and Pete Kennedy:


The Ventures:


Rufus Harley Band:


The Soulful Strings:


The Bob Thiele New Happy Times Orchestra with Gabor Szabo:


Index:


Roger McGuinn and Crowded House:


The Byrds at the Fillmore East closure concert, 1970: "Jesus is Just Alright" and "8MH":

(music begins at 2:23)

Saturday Music Club: some more folk rock, with some jazz flavors

Pentangle: "Light Flight"


Judy Henske: "High-Flying Bird" (from Hootenanny) (in the studio)


Fairport Convention: "Chelsea Morning; Sun Shade"


The Byrds: "You Ain't Going Nowhere; This Wheel's on Fire" (from Playboy After Dark)

(blurrier video, but fewer disruptions and perhaps slightly better sound)

Love: "You Set the Scene"


Joni Mitchell and The Band: "Coyote" (from The Last Waltz)


The Roches: "Second Family"


Pentangle: "Hunting Song"


The Byrds: "I See You"



Tune detective:
The Big 3: "The Banjo Song" (which puts new music to Stephen Foster lyrics)

Shocking Blue: "Venus"


Longform:
Joni Mitchell and jazz-musician friends: Shadows and Light

Joni Mitchell - electric guitar, vocals
Pat Metheny - lead guitar
Jaco Pastorius - bass
Don Alias - drums
Lyle Mays - keyboards
Michael Brecker - saxophone
The Persuasions - backing vocals on "Why Do Fools Fall in Love" & "Shadows and Light"

Saturday Music Club: not quite more folk-rockers (but some)

Joni Mitchell: The Way It Is

CBC video of her performing; less good video, but the CBC logo comes up at end.

The Wind in the Willows: Djini Judy (featuring Deborah Harry some years before Blondie)

Blondie in 1974 and 1975 and talking with college students in 1981

Autoclave: Go Far


Helium: Superball


Bangles: I'm In Line (Annette Zilinskas still the bassist)

Decent career retro with Susanna Hoffs

Tanita Tikaram: Good Tradition


Go-Go's: King of Confusion


Bananarama: Hotline to Heaven
I have a friend who grew actively angry with me for suggesting that Bananarama ever recorded anything that wasn't cheerful fluff...but on their second album, particularly, along with some other somber if perhaps overproduced charmers, there was this lovely song about having to separate from someone going into a paranoid schizophrenic spiral...though in the edit used for this video, they cut the lines at the end of the album track:
 (Going up without me, baby/I won't let you drive me crazy)


The Roches: Second Family

Saturday Music Club on Sunday: some more folk rock

The Beefeaters (early recording, 1964, by the band who would almost immediately become the Byrds): "Don't Be Long" (slightly reworked as "It Won't Be Wrong" for the first Byrds album)


The Dillards: "Each Season Changes You"


Blackburn & Snow: "Yes Today"


Gene Clark and the Gosdin Brothers: "Tried So Hard" "I Found You" "If I Hang Around"


Joy of Cooking: "Beginning Tomorrow"


Joy of Cooking: "The War You Left"
Yazoo: "My Mama Told Me"
Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks: "Canned Music" "Philly Rag"


The Chambers Brothers: "The Weight"


Gaelic Storm: "The Devil Down Below"


Sarah Jarosz, Alison Krauss and Jerry Douglas: "Run Away"