Live At The Boarding House – June 11, 1972
Live At The Record Plant – November, 1974
Two excellent KSAN FM radio broadcasts capturing Randy Newman in his prime, promoting two of his finest releases, Sail Away (1972) and Good Old Boys (1974). Both shows are intimate, with just Randy accompanying himself on piano, and both recordings (featuring over 20 songs each) have near perfect sound. You can hear an example from each show below: “God’s Song (That’s Why I Love Mankind)” is from the well known Boarding House ’72 show, while Randy’s touching version of “Dayton, Ohio 1903″ comes from 1974. Many thanks to Kevin who wrote in to correct some information on the 1974 show – which was recorded at The Record Plant (not The Roundhouse) for KSAN. Randy Newman’s site lists the show as taking place on Nov. 1, while Wolfgang’s Vault states it’s from Nov. 10. Either way, it’s a great show.
Live At the Boarding House – June 11, 1972
KSAN Introduction
Lover’s Prayer
You Can Leave Your Hat On
Dayton, Ohio 1903
Yellow Man
Lucinda
Living Without You
The Beehive State
Linda
Old Kentucky Home
Suzanne
Memo To My Son
Political Science
Last Night I Had A Dream
God’s Song (That’s Why I Love Mankind)
Burn On
Sail Away
I Think It’s Going To Rain Today
Lonely At The Top
Davy The Fat Boy
KSAN Outro
Live At The Record Plant – November, 1974
Lucinda
You Can Leave Your Hat
Marie
Lover’s Prayer
Yellow Man
He Gives Us All His Love
Birmingham
Rednecks
Louisianna 1927
A Wedding In Cherokee
Simon Smith and the Amazing Dancing Bear
Dayton, Ohio 1903
Rollin’
Last Night I Had A Dream
Guilty
Political Science
Burn On Big River
Suzanne
Old Kentucky Home
Sail Away
Lonely At The Top
Davy The Fat Boy
I Think It’s Going To Rain
24 Comments
Thanks for sharing these. Can't wait to listen to them. Randy is always great but unfortunately, there isn't a whole lot out there to get. I really enjoy this blog a lot. Thanks for going to the trouble…
A couple of GREAT shows here! Thanks for sharing the love, Willard.
I remember listening to the Boarding House concert and recording it on a mini cassette at the time. I also won a RN T shirt: it was gray, had his face on the front and said "let's drop the big one"……
Out of curiosity, do you have the recording KSAN did of "Uncle Vinty?"
Thanks and Cheers for these!! CM
Thanks for the comments guys. Sorry Coffee, don't have that one. Though… I'd love that shirt.
There's no one anywhere who's quite like Randy, he's a true original. Thanks for putting up the 74 KSAN show, I hadn't ever found that one.
Hey Steven,
Thanks for the comment. Yeah… the 74 show is pretty obscure. I've been sitting on it for quite a while but never had the proper running order for the files. I'd been scouring the web for over 4 or 5 months looking for a track listing and couldn't find it ANYWHERE. Then… just last week, I finally found a source. It was on Randy's own website. They had a poorly recorded, low quality stream of the show there. Couldn't believe it. So, I was able to get the running order there. Don't understand why Randy's own version sounded so bad, though. Can't remember where I scored this one eons ago but it's a great show. Cheers,
W
I remember the 1974 KSAN show, in fact I think I still have it on cassette straight off the radio (a great source of great bootlegs pre-cyber). 1972 show, still wearing green clothes for Uncle Sammy, and not around here…so I missed it. Thanks for the post.
All this Randy Newman, Zappa tribs, and Dead? You're spoiling me! I like when you get on a roll cuz we always make out like fat rats.
Randy is of course a unice artist. I had the thrill to see him live in Athens Greece in the early 8o's and sure he was magic. I've been buying his records for almost more than three decades now and he is as fresh and enjoyable as when i first heard his works.
Long live goog music. And of course long live your excellent blog too.
Thanks SO much for these. There's never enough Randy Newman, but there's a lot more thanks to you. This is a real big treat.
Merely adding to the above displays of gratitude for sharing these fantastic shows. Randy's music just gets better and better (and stands out more and more) as time passes by.
Hey man
You completely rock at blogging. first the Nilsson blog, and now this?! I can't leave a comment at everything i downloaded, but this'll do. Thanks so much man
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Heya Willard,
I have the '74 show listed as The Roundhouse, San Francisco/KSAN broadcast, not the Record Plant as you have it here. Anyone able to clear this up?
I did, too. And originally posted it that way, but received some email about it and finally found a source on Randy's old website that cinched it as a Record Plant recording.
Randy did a concert with the Milwaukee Symphony last year. Excellent concert (of course), mixing his singer-songwriter stuff with some of his symphonic soundtrack work. Always loved his dry sense of humor. When the audience applauded, recognizing the opening chords to "Short People", he stopped to say how gratifying it was to hear that reaction, since at the time of its release it was considered rather "controversial". (By those people deficient in a sense of humor, if not stature…)
Personally, I'm bemused by the continued relevance of "A Few Words In Defense Of Our Country". (A studio version of which – different from the YouTube performance – I purchased at iTunes a couple years ago…)
Cheers, Hazy Dave.
Thanks Dave.
Capt…
I'm often amazed by how our musical wavelengths seem to intersect. Having recently returned to SF, I arrived just in time catch Randy play a free show in Golden Gate Park. Free or otherwise, that's always a treat. Randy that is (although the park is not too bad either). Long story short, I just put the finishing touches on a 2 part Newman compilation which I'd planned to publish in the weeks to come, but you've beaten me to the punch with all of these excellent shares. But maybe I'll go ahead with it anyway. In my estimation, you can never get enough Randy Newman.
Glad we share a few things in common.
Glad you're back at it Miles. Looking forward to it. These are just old files re-upped to create content. Cheers.
I remember the Boarding House broadcast and saw Newman in that time frame at the Berkeley Community Theater, performing solo, with Ry Cooder as the opening act. Man, was I hoping they would play together. They didn't but it was great anyway. Many thanks for these recordings; they help to shore up otherwise rather threadbare memories.
Am I missing something here? How can I actually download these?
I’m a huge fan of Newman’s.
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Reup request, please please.
The links are working fine.
Thank you Capt. Willard.