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LEAP DAY: FORGOTTEN TREASURES
It’s a rare Leap Year show with Guilty Pleasures and Forgotten Treasures. As the 29th of February rolls around we take stock of our circles round the sun… just for cosmic fun. With fellow travelers: The Grateful Dead, Johnny Cash, Aretha Franklin, Sun Ra and Our Native Daughters.
HOUR ONE
- Open Bed: Snow Tunnel Sarah and Sean Watkins
Brother Sister, Family Hour - Circle Game Tom Rush
The Circle Game, Elektra - Wintertime Norah Jones
Begin Again, Blue Note - Cold Cold Heart Aretha Franklin
Unforgettable: A Tribute to Dinah Washington, Columbia - Stealin' Jerry Garcia & David Grisman
Shady Grove, Acoustic Disc - Bertha Grateful Dead
Grateful Dead Live at Filmore East, Warner Brothers - Instrumental: Grand Junction Poco
Pickin' Up the Pieces, Epic - One Piece at a Time Johnny Cash
One Piece at a Time, Columbia - Rocket 69 Connie Allen and Todd Rhodes
Risque Blues, King - Sally Go Round the Roses The Jaynetts
Sally Go Round the Roses, Tuff - Be Honest with Me Esther Phillips
The Country Side of Esther Phillips, Atlantic - Instrumental: St. James Infirmary Les McCann
McCanna, Blue Note - Small Town Talk Bobby Charles
Bobby Charles, Bearsville Records - Dock of the Bay Otis Redding
Dock of the Bay, Volt/Atco - That Lucky Old Sun Big Mama Thornton
Stronger Than Dirt, Mercury - Before the Next Teardrop Falls Dolly Parton and David Hildalgo
Treasures, Mercury - Winterlude Joe Ely
To: Kate: A Benefit for Kate's Sake, Western Beat Records - Closing Bed: Visitor from Venus Modern Jazz Quartet
Under the Jasmin Tree/Space, Apple Corps Ltd.
HOUR two
- Open Bed: Space is the Place Sun Ra
Space is the Place, Evidence Records - Jumpin' with Symphony Sid King Pleasure
King Pleasure Signs/Annie Ross Sings, Fantasy - Sadie Hawkins Doomtree
Doomtree, Doomtree Records - Toe-Tappin' Johnny Griffin
Johnny Griffin's Studio Jazz Party, Riverside - Instrumental: Little Sunflower Dorothy Ashby
Afro-Harping, Verve - Don't Let the Sun Catch You Cryin' Gerry and the Pacemakers
The Best of Gerry and the Pacemakers, Main - Don't Let the Sun Catch You Cryin' Louis Jordan and His Tympani Five
Jack, You're Dead: The Essential Blue Archive, BMG - California Dreamin' Bobby Womack
Fly Me to the Moon, Minit - Third Stone from the Sun The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Jimi Hendrix Experience, WEA - Two Trains Running Marquis Knox
Here I Am, APO Records - Instrumental: Flying The Beatles
Magical Mystery Tour, Capitol - Lafayette Watkins Family Hour
Brother Sister, Family Hour Records - I'll Follow the Sun The Beatles
Beatles for Sale, Parlophone - White Bird It's a Beautiful Day
It's a Beautiful Day, CBS - I Knew I Could Fly Our Native Daughters
Songs of Our Native Daughters, Smithsonian Folkways - I'll Fly Away Johnny Cash
My Mother's Hymnbook, American Recordings - Closing Bed: Sing On Dr. Michael White
Crescent City Serenade, Antilles
