The Console Drive- Show #11 - 12/28/2010

Final show for 2010. .

Captain Beefheart - My Head Is My Only House Unless It Rains
The Crusaders - Serenity
Hall and Oates - One On One
Bob Seger - Ramblin' Gamblin Man
The James Last Orchestra - Andanca
Climax - Precious And Few
Rod Stewart - Reason To Believe
Steve Miller - Wild Mountain Honey
Human League - Human
Supertramp - Lord Is It Mine
AJ Marshall - There's Alot Of Lovin' In This Old Boy Yet
Ferrante And Teicher - Live For Life
Cloud Cult - Lucky Today
The Eagles - Journey Of The Sorcerer

That F&T song reminds of a time as a kid, sitting in a local KFC waiting with Mom to get a bucket of chicken and the in house Muzak system playing along, muffled as it were, with beautiful music. Sort of odd to hear this sort of thing in a KFC, but keep in mind this was in 1980 and sitting in KFC waiting for your order to come up was a typical thing.

Sort of like waiting in Captain D's for a family pack. Sometimes it would take 20 to 25 minutes for the order to be ready. And you wait, with the Muzak blaring ahead with a chintzy cover of 'If' done by the James Last Orchestra (or something to that effect)

Or sitting in the car in the parking lot of what was then one of two Kroger stores in the area, listening to WZEZ EZ 93 (now WJXA 'Mix 92.9') and marveling how stereophonic 'Close To You' by The Carpenters was (still is, of course).

Or hanging with an old college buddy at his apartment, which was located across from a nursing home and tuning into it's Part 15 FM station which relayed a music service called 'Potpourri', again playing beautiful instrumentals with an unobtrusive announcer saying, "This is Potpourri" every two or three songs.

With the passage of the Local Community Radio Act, there may be a chance to apply for a LPFM frequency in my town. If this ever came to fruition, I'd love to run EZ/BI music 24/7 on this station.

Probably not all too practical, eh?

Maybe 23/7?

The Console Drive - Show #10 - 12/20/2010

Playlist for today's show

Bert Kaempfert - Midnight In Moscow
Carole King - (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman
J.J. Cale - River Runs Deep
The Robert Cray Band - Sonny
Percy Faith - Fool On The Hill
Buck Owens - Who's Gonna Mow Your Grass
Goblin - Zombi (The Dead's Voices)
Goblin - La Caccia
Skitch Henderson - Those Were The Days
Heart - Dog And Butterfly
Charlie Hayden and Pat Metheny - Spiritual
The Dream Academy - Please Please Let Me Get What I Want
Phil Collins - Another Day In Paradise
The Steve Miller Band - Wild Mountain Honey (portion)

Almost didn't make it in there for today's show, but we did it. . hooray. .

The Console Drive - Show #9 - 12/13/2010

Playlist for today's show. .

Heart Strings - And I Love Her
The Crusaders - Feeling Funky
The James Last Orchestra - Ballad Of Easy Rider
Boz Skaggs - Look What You've Done To Me
It's A Beautiful Day - White Bird
Pink Floyd - Learning To Fly
The Alan Parsons Project - Time
Ace - How Long
Don Williams - Maggie's Dream
Bread - Diary
Yes - I've Seen All Good People
Christopher Cross - Minstrel Gigolo
Fabio Frizzi - Theme from 'Zombi 2'.

The Console Drive - Show #8 - 12/06/2010

Playlist for today. .

Tina Turner - Better Be Good To Me
Lulu - Take Your Mama For A Ride
The Selector - On The Radio
Smokey Robinson - Crusin'
Air - Ce Matin La
Eric Clapton - Another Ticket
Chicago - Beginnings
Stereolab - Miss Modular
The High Llamas - Glide Time
The Jaggerz - The Rapper
Jethro Tull - Christmas Song
Dan Fogelberg - Same Old Lang Syne
The Alan Parsons Project - I Wouldn't Want To Be Like You (yes, I know, not again!)
Rod Stewart - Reason To Believe