The Midnight Special, May 16, 2020
Playlist
(1)
Lead Belly: The Midnight Special
Last Sessions
(2)
Ellis Delaney: Happy Life
Ordinary Love
(3)
Candide (1989 cast-Jerry Hadley, June Anderson, et.al.): Life Is Happiness Indeed
Candide
(4)
Andrew Kerr: Happy Life
Ain’t It Strange
(5)
The John Herald Band: Happy Sunny Side of Life
John Herald and The John Herald Band
(6)
Cosy Sheridan: Happiness Is Waiting
Eros
(7)
The Special Consensus: Looking Out My Back Door
Chicago Barn Dance
(8)
FY5 (Mike Finders, Aaron & Erin Youngberg: Back Door
Eat the Moon
(9)
Brownie McGhee: Back Door Stranger
Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee 1938-41 – Getting Started
(10)
Bob Newhart: Nobody Will Ever Play Baseball
The Button Down Mind of Bob Newhart
(11)
Terry Cashman: Talkin’ Baseball (special Cubs version)
(12)
Chuck Brodsky: The Ballad of Eddie Klepp
Letters in the Dirt
(13)
The Mammals: Radio Signal
Nonet
(14)
Indigo Girls (Amy Ray & Emily Saliers): Country Radio
Look Long
(15)
Nick Nace: Back on the Radio
Wrestling with the Mystery
(16)
Harry Chapin: W*O*L*D*
Story of a Life
(17)
Joe Hickerson: WOAD
With a Gathering of Friends
(18)
Molly Tuttle: Helpless
(19)
Vance Gilbert: Helpless Man
Old White Men
(20)
The Raisin Pickers: I’m Helpless
Drivin’
(21)
Jerry Stiller & Anne Meara: Hershey Horowitz Meets Mary Elizabeth Doyle
Laugh When You Like
(22)
The King and I (50th anniversary cast – Barbara Cook): Hello Young Lovers
The King and I
(23)
Rachel Garlin: Capture Me
Modengreens
(24)
Jean Shepherd: My First Blind Date
Will Failure Spoil Jean Shepherd?
(25)
Company (orig.B’way cast): Have I Got a Girl for You
Company
(26)
Matt Watroba: Is It Love?
The Far Si
(27)
The Beatles: All You Need Is Love
1
(28)
John McCutcheon: John Prine
(29)
David Roth: John Prine’s Sonic Boom
(30)
John Prine: Boundless Love
The Tree of Forgiveness
(31)
Nell & Jim Band: By Stars and Sunrise
Western Sun
(32)
John Doyle: The Path of Stones
(33)
Pete Morton: The Farmer’s Boy
A Golden Thread
(34)
Gretchen Peters: Heaven Help the Child
The Night You Wrote That Song – The Songs of Mickey Newbury
(35)
Siobhan Quinn & Michael Bowers: God Bless the Child
One Day
(36)
Lui Collins: God Bless the Children
Moondancer
(37)
Sons of the Never Wrong: Set All God’s Children Free
3 Good Reasons
(38)
John Prine: I Have Met My Love Today
The Tree of Forgiveness
(39)
Judy Collins: In My Life
Forever – an Anthology
(40)
Jesse Palidofsky: Water the Seeds of Joy
Dancing Toward the Light
(41)
Richard Ruane: Joy That Carries Me
Things That Strangers Say
(42)
Garnet Rogers: The Joy of Living
At a High Window
(43)
Kim & Reggie Harris and Magpie: When I’m Gone (close)
Spoken in Love
Performer is composer unless otherwise noted. Song is album title unless otherwise noted. Album titles are in italics, composers in parentheses