My Generation of Sun. 01 & Tue. 03 April: Martin Luther King, John Lee Hooker tribute, British Invasion All-Stars [Ed’s Show 2018-13]

NEW SHOW: Martin Luther King, John Lee Hooker tribute, British Invasion All-Stars ***  Repeated: Simon Dupree & The Big Sound, Johnny Copeland, Manfred Mann *** Ed’s Show, 2018-13, Sunday 01 April, 12 noon till 12 midnight CET Brussels & repeated  Tuesday 03 April., 12:00 till 20:00 hrs CET Brussels  *** RADIO 68: all the sounds and all the voices that shaped the sixties ***

THE PLAYLISTS

1 MY GENERATION (NEW)
SPECIAL: BRITISH INVASION ALL-STARS
STARTER: BRIAN POOLE & TREMELOES: I Can Dance + MARTIN LUTHER KING: Excerpt of ‘Mountain Top Speech’, last speech given 03 April 1968 at the eve of his assassination *** FORGOTTEN & OVERLOOKED: GANDALF: Golden Earring  (single, US, 1069) + THE GOLDEN EARRINGS: Please GO (no. 20, Holland, 1965) + JACQUELINE TAIEB: 7h du matin (1967) *** SPECIAL:  BRITISH INVASION ALL-STARS: cd UNITED,  feat.  Eddie Phillips of The Creation, Ray Phillips of The Nashville Teens, Matthew Fisher of Procol Harum, Keith Grant and Don Craine of The Downliners Sect, Phil May and Dick Taylor of The Pretty Things, Jim McCarty of The Yardbirds *** LONGPLAYTIME: LONGPLAYTIME  WAYNE FONTANA: Internal Circle (< Wayne One, 1966) + PEARLS BEFORE SWINE feat. Tom Rapp:  Drop Out (< One Nation Underground, 1967) + THE BLUES MAGOOS: I’ll Go Crazy (< Psychedelic Lollipop) *** WORD : THE MURDER OF MARTIN LUTHER KING:  SCAFFOLD: 10:15 Thursday Morning + CHAMPION JACK DUPREE: Death of Martin Luther King (1968) + MARTIN LUTHER KING: Excerpt of ‘Mountain Top Speech’, last speech given 03 April 1968 at the eve of his assassination

2 BLUESIDE (NEW)
SPECIAL: JOHN LEE HOOKER TRIBUTE: FROM CLARKSDALE TO HEAVEN  
STARTER: WILSON PICKETT: Don’t Fight It *** THE ORIGINATORS  & INSPIRATORS : IRMA THOMAS: Sit Down and Cry (< The Way I Feel,  1988, thanks to Airplay Direct) + PERCY SLEDGE: Bring It On Home (live, thanks to Airplay Direct) *** SPECIAL JOHN LEE HOOKER TRIBUTE: cd “FROM CLARKSDALE TO HEAVEN. Remembering John Lee Hooker”:  JOHN LEE HOOKER with Booker T & Randy California, JEFF BECK & The Kingston Choir, MICK TAYLOR with Max Middleton, GARY BROOKER and ANDY FAIRWEATHER-LOW, GARY MOORE and JACK BRUCE, T.S. McPHEE, CLEM CLEMSON, DICK HECKSTALL-SMITH *** WORD1 Otis Spann pays tribute to Martin Luther King, assassinated 4 April 1968 + SLY & THE FAMILY STONE: Don’t Burn Baby (reply to ‘Burn, Baby, Burn’ ,  LP ‘Dance to the Music’, 1968

 3 MY GENERATION (repeated) 
SPECIAL:  SIMON DUPREE AND THE BIG SOUND:  STARTER: JOHNNY WINTER:  *** FORGOTTEN & OVERLOOKED:  THE SHAMROCKS: Cadillac + THE RENEGADES: Everybody + THE LORDS: Tobacco Road (in German) *** SPECIAL  SIMON DUPREE AND THE BIG SOUND: I See the Light (first single, 1966), Reservations (2nd single, 1967), Day Time Night Time (by Mike Hugg, 3rd single), Kites / Like the sun, Like  the Fire (hit single, 1967), We Are The Moles, pts. 1 & 2 (single, as The Moles, 1968) + GENTLE GIANT (< Gentle Giant, first LP) + MANFRED MANN: 5-4-3-2-1 (Canadian album version) *** LONGPLAYTIME  MANFRED MANN: Bare Hugg (by Mike Hugg, LP Soul of Mann, 1967), Each Other’s Company (by Mike Hugg, < LP ‘As Is’, 1966) *** WORD: JIM HIGHTOWER, America’s no. 1 populist: www.jimhightower.com

4 BLUESIDE (repeated)
SPECIAL: JOHNNY COPELAND

STARTER: JAMES BROWN: Think, 1960 *** THE ORIGINATORS  & INSPIRATORS : Gospel Time with MARIE KNIGHT (Twelve Gates to the City, < ‘The Gospel Truth Live’) + MAVIS STAPLES: Devil On the Loose (< ‘Have  A Little Faith’), with Thanks to AIRPLAY DIRECT and Alligator Records *** SPECIAL JOHNNY COPELAND: On Bended Knee, Make My Home, Kasavubu, Claim Jumper  (< Rounder records complation ‘On Bended Knee’, with thanks to Airplay Direct ) + ALBERT COLLINS, ROBERT CRAY & JOHNNY COPELAND: Black Cat Bone, Blackjack  (< ‘Showdown’, 1985) + BECK, BOGERT & APPICE; Black Cat Moan (live ) *** WORD: JOHN BALABAN: Vietnamese Poems + DAVE BALL: Priceless (< Don’t Forget Your Alligator) ***

ACHTERGRONDINFORMATIE ** BACKGROUND

BRITISH INVASION ALL-STARS

“The British Invasion All-Stars are a 21st century band with a ’60s sound, which isn’t surprising because all of its members are veteran rockers who belonged to various ’60s bands (some more prominent than others). (…) ormed in 2001, the British Invasion All-Stars boasts former-Yardbird Jim McCarty on drums and lead vocals, ex-Procol Harum member Matthew Fisher on electric Hammond organ, and Eddie Phillips (formerly of the Creation) on lead guitar. The three other members are Ray Phillips, of the Nashville Teens fame, on lead vocals, and two ex-members of the Downliners Sect: rhythm guitarist Don Craine and bassist Keith Grand (who contributes background vocals and shares the lead vocals with Phillips and McCarty). The British Invasion All-Stars’ self-titled debut album, which was released on the independent Mooreland Street label in 2002, shows no awareness of the alternative rock sounds of the early 2000s; the band is totally unaffected by any of the punk, new wave, post-punk, pop-metal, or alternative rock that came after the ’60s. From covers of well-known songs by the Yardbirds (“Shapes of Things”) and the Who (“Shakin’ All Over”), to new material, everything on the British Invasion All-Stars’ first album is unapologetically ’60s-minded. The CD boasts several guest musicians who have strong ’60s credentials, including bassist Noel Redding (who was one-third of the Jimi Hendrix Experience) and two ex-members of the Pretty Things: Dick Taylor and Phil May”.
Quoted from / all Rights Reserved: Alex Henderson on allmusic.com

JOHN LEE HOOKER: FROM CLARKSDALE TO HEAVEN
“John Lee Hooker passed away June 21, 2001, depriving the blues world of yet another pivotal artist whose influence will persist throughout the 21st century. From Clarksdale to Heaven, a tribute to Hooker, features 13 tracks—12 written by Hooker and one (“May the Circle Be Unbroken) arranged by him—plus an unreleased Hooker number, “Red House,” which he cut in 1989 as a tribute to Jimi Hendrix. Artists who contributed to Clarksdale include Jack Bruce, Jeff Beck, Andy Fairweather-Low, Mick Taylor, Peter Green/Splinter Group, and Hooker’s daughter, Zakiya. Particularly deep performances are delivered by Beck (“Hobo Blues”); Green (“Crawling King Snake”); Zakiya Hooker (“I Want to Hug You”); and Vince Converse, Leo Lyons, and Ric Lee (“Bad Like Jesse James”). This is a righteous tribute to a rare bluesman.”
Quoted from / All Rights Reserved: PVV https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/73530/from-clarksdale-to-heaven-remembering-john-lee-hooker

SIMON DUPREE & THE BIG SOUND

” ‘Simon Dupree’ was vocalist Derek Shulman ans his brothers Ray and Phil  who started out in music as R&B fanatics and first formed a group in 1964 (…).They were signed to EMI’s Parlophone label, and cut a pair of powerful R&B-style songs in 1966, “I See the Light” and “It Is Finished.” Success on the club scene didn’t necessarily result in serious record sales, however, and the group’s debut, as well as its follow-up records, “Reservations” b/w “You Need a Man” and “Day Time, Night Time” b/w “I’ve Seen It All Before,” didn’t make much of an impression. Their debut album, Without Reservations, containing the first fragmentary examples of the group’s original songwriting, was released in August of 1967. (…) Then, in October of 1967, the group’s management and record label decided to try moving the band in the direction of psychedelia. (…) The result was “Kites,” a song recorded in the early fall of 1967 at Abbey Road. Later, the Shulman brothers formed prog outfit Gentle Giant”.
After Bruce Eder, www.allmusic.com, All Rights Reserved.
RADIO 68 plays the first three singles + Gentle Giant + Manfred Mann as Simon Dupree’s single ‘Day Time Night Time’ was written by Mike Hugg of Manfred Mann.

JOHNNY COPELAND

Album “On Bended Knee”, Rounder Records, with thanks to Airplay Direct
“ (…) but the sides chosen do capture them at particular and sometimes poignant and important places in their careers. In the particular case of  Copeland, his Rounder years paved the way for his well-known excellent late-era recordings for Verve, and it can be convincingly argued that despite the smaller recording budget, his sides for Rounder are even better than those he cut later”.
Quoted from / All Rights Reserved: https://www.allmusic.com/album/essential-recordings-down-on-bended-knee-mw0000815052
RADIO 68 plays several tracks from ‘On Bended Knee’