Author: DOuG pRATt

White man’s jungle

Another act from the enjoyably eclectic “Bob Harris Saturday Night” playlist is Australian C.W. Stoneking.

I hope Bob Harris has another, similarly mixed show coming up on BBC Radio 2. And I’m looking forward to the possibly probable return to Boston radio this spring of one of my favorite DJ’s, Barnes Newberry. A song that Barnes liked to play on his Highway 61 Revisited radio program is this one, by Leonard Cohen.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZ61su9H5RU

I first heard this on the old WBCN at least 40 years ago, and only its use of my sister Marianne’s name kept me from fully embracing it. Later, I would mentally substitute another, similar sounding, name and that gave it meaning.

More Bob Beeb-bop

I missed the beginning of the Bob Harris Saturday show on BBC Radio 2 last night, so I didn’t hear him saying it would be the final programme in the series. Argh! That’s a real bummer, man. Bob’s playlist can be seen and, for the next week, the show can be heard, at this link.

One of the songs Harris played is by a British band I hadn’t heard before, called The Dials. They capture the great Psychedelic Sound of the 60’s, and it goes like this!

Speaking of it goes like this, here’s The Like, with what I think is one of the best songs ever written by anybody. Then they do one of their own that deals with the same timeless subject…