The Midnight Special, May 23, 2020

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Playlist

(1)

Lead Belly: The Midnight Special

Last Sessions

Smithsonian Folkways 40068/71

(2)

Michael Johnson: Here Comes the Sun

The Early Albums

MJ Blue 99001

(3)

Kelly Hunt: Sunshine Is Long Overdue

Even the Sparrow

Rare Bird 88295-80054

(4)

The Early Risers (Putnam Smith & Ashley Storrow): Red Bird

Making Life Sweet

Itchy Sabot 009

(5)

Steve Goodman: Red, Red Robin

Artistic Hair

Omnivore 336

(6)

Jan Krist & Jim Bizer: Some Sunny Day

Influence

Yellow Room 011

(7)

Spoon River Antholgy (Cates-Aidman production – Betty Garrett): Lucinda Matlock

Columbia 88985-34234-2

(8)

Naming the Twins (Robbie Smith & Kath Glauser): Oh Life!

Sweet Transitions

Duet Right 001

(9)

Callaghan: Crazy Beautiful Life

Acoustic Coffee House

self 00261-44015

(10)

Chicks with Dip: What a Wonderful World

(Weiss/Thiele) private recording

(11)

Anya Turner & Robert Grusecki: A Party

self 02742-51042

(12)

Steve Goodman: Let’s Give a Party

Live at the Earl of Town

Red Pajamas 017

(13)

Scott Cook: Kitchen Dance Party On

Further Down the Line

self 91061-22085

(14)

Noel Coward: I Went to a Marvelous Party

The Noel Coward Album

Columbia 47253

(15)

Half A Sixpence (orig.cast Tommy Steele): The Party’s on the House

Half A Sixpence

(David Heneker) RCA 09026-63691-2

(16)

Tom Paxton: Wasn’t That a Party

New Songs For Old Friends

Morello 44

(17)

My Fair Lady (orig.cast – Julie Andrews): I Could Have Danced All Night

My Fair Lady

Columbia 60539

(18)

Betty Comden & Adolph Green: The Party’s Over

Bells Are Ringing

Legacy 89545

(19)

Hal Holbrook as Mark Twain: How to Be Seventy (Samuel Clemens)

The Best of Hal Holbrook in Mark Twain Tonight!

Legacy 86228

(20)

John Gorka: People My Age

The Company You Keep

Red House 151

(21)

Win Stracke: I Have Led a Good Life

(Carl Sandburg) (Hull House benefit 9/8/1974) WFMT recording

(22)

Terri Allard: Happy Endings

Makes No Sense

Reckless Abandon 62902

(23)

Electric Bonsai Band: Happy Endings (Romeo & Juliet)

Lounging in the Belly of the Beast

Yellow Tail 10009

(24)

Eric Taylor: Happy Endings

Scuffletown

Eminent 26001-2

(25)

Cherish the Ladies: Crowley’s Reels / Tom Ward’s Downfall

New Day Dawning

Green Linnet 1175

(26)

Sons of the Never Wrong: Over There

King Fisher King

Waterbug 107

(27)

The Pines: There in Spirit

Above the Prairie

Red House 291

(28)

We’re About 9: The Hardest Thing to Prove

Future Pilot

self 00261-39744

(29)

Cardboard Ox (Tracie Potochnik & Steve Allain): Face to Face

Cardboard Ox

(Tracie Potochnik & Steve Allain):Face to Face (S.Allain)

(30)

Atwater-Donnelly: The Spanish Lady

The World Is Old Tonight

Rabbit Island 1013-2

(31)

Ernest Troost: Switchblade Heart

Live at McCabes

Travelin’ Shoes 1003

(32)

Amy White: Tinderbox Heart

Didn’t We Waltz

Fairewood 053

(33)

Jenny Ritter: You Are Also Them

Raised by Wolves

Fiddlehead 008

(34)

Elaine Romanelli: Forty Back

The Hour Before

self 88295-24554

(35)

Red Tail Ring: Fall Away Blues

Earthwork 8504

(36)

Lori Lieberman: Stand For You

Ready for the Storm

Drive On 11511-214

(37)

Paul Sachs: The Best Hope Can Do

Love Is Love

self 00261-44393

(38)

Joseph Sobol: The Road Not Taken

Citternity

Kiltartan Road 1010

(39)

Geoff Bartley: Let Falling Stars. . .

One Kind Word

Waterbug 0036

(40)

The Lucky Sisters: All That Is

So Lucky

Patio Records 0012

(41)

Alice Peacock: In All Things

Live From Space

self 53089-10022

(42)

Mt. Thelonious (Ian Lubar-Alyssa Avery-Mark Wallace): The Prayer

A Little More Time

self 00385-25942

(43)

Spoon River Antholgy (Cates-Aidman production – Charles Aidman): Naomi Caryl Hirschhorn & Hal Lynch – song: Spoon River

(Edgar Lee Masters) Columbia 88985-34234-2

(44)

Phil Ochs: Rehearsals for Retirement

Farewells & Fantasies

Elektra-Rhino 73518

(45)

Ian McKellen: Prospero’s closing speech from “The Tempest”

BBC Audio

(46)

Kim & Reggie Harris and Magpie: When I’m Gone (close)

Spoken in Love

Long Tail 003-2

Performer is composer unless otherwise noted. Song is album title unless otherwise noted. Album titles are in italics, composers in parentheses