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PHILADELPHIA SOUNDS
Follow American Routes this week to the City of Brotherly Love, as we hang out on the musical street corners with some of Philadelphia’s finest, including bobby-soxer idol Bobby Rydell, hip hop drummer and city champion ?uestlove of the Roots, and the city’s mayor, Michael Nutter, who can also claim fame as a disco DJ. We’ll visit famous operatic cafes and sit in with a neighborhood jazz organ trio. Plus catch a choir rehearsal at one of the city’s historic churches and a conversation with a mother-daughter klezmer duo. And musical postcards from artists who call Philly their hometown.
HOUR ONE
- Open Bed: The Sermon Jimmy Smith
Talkin' Verve: Roots of Acid Jazz, Verve - Up Above My Head I Hear Music in the Air Sister Rosetta Tharpe
The Original Soul Sister, Proper - Love Train The O' Jays
Total Soul Classics: Back Stabbers, Legacy - Expressway to Your Heart The Soul Survivors
Flick Hits Take 2: Classic R&B Hits, The Right Stuff - SEGMENT: Mayor Michael Nutter
Listen - SEGMENT: ?uestlove of the Roots
Listen - Instrumental: Out of This World John Coltrane
Coltrane, Impulse - CLIP: McCoy Tyner
- Bessie's Blues John Coltrane Quartet
Crescent, Impulse - Please Hurry Home Patti LaBelle and the Blue Belles
The Early Years, Ace UK - SEGMENT: Budesa Brothers and Lucky Thompson
Listen - SEGMENT: Elaine Hoffman and Susan Watts
Listen - Pink Elephants Joe Venuti & Eddie Lang
Wild Cats, ASV - Can't Get to Heaven on the Frankford El The American Dream
The American Dream, Ampex - SEGMENT: Mummers Parade
Listen - Instrumental: Raggin' the Scale Joe Venuti & Eddie Lang
Wild Cats, ASV - SEGMENT: Victor Cafe
Listen - Deep River Marian Anderson
Spirituals, BMG - Black is the Color of My True Love's Hair Nina Simone
Anthology: The Colpix Years, Rhino - End Bed: Dear Lord John Coltrane
A John Coltrane Retrospective - The Impulse Years, Rhino
HOUR two
- Open Bed: Detective in the Rain Heath Allen
Life of Leisure, Self-Released - Fall in Philadelphia Daryl Hall and John Oates
Whole Oats, Atlantic - Storm Warning The Volcanos
Storm Warning: Philly Original Soul Classics, Vol.1, Jamie/Guyden - SEGMENT: Marshall Allen
Listen - Ship of the Future Edison Electric Band
Bless You, Dr. Woodward, Water Music - Do You Want to Touch Me (Oh Yeah) Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
Greatest Hits, Blackheart - Instrumental: TNT Jimmy Smith
Talkin' Verve: Roots of Acid Jazz, Verve - SEGMENT: R&M Deli
Listen - SEGMENT: Bobby Rydell
Listen - Dancin' the Strand Maureen Gray
Philly Doo-Wop Classics , Jamie/Guyden - Slow Twistin' Chubby Checker with Dee Dee Sharp
The Best of Chubby Checker: Cameo-Parkway, 1959-1963, Abkco - Ain't Nothing But a Houseparty The Showstoppers
The Northern Soul Generation: Keep the Faith, Castle Music - SEGMENT: Jerry Blavat
Listen - Instrumental: Bandstand Boogie Les Elgart and His Orchestra
Television Themes: 16 Most Requested Songs, Columbia/ Legacy - Be Thankful For What You've Got William DeVaughn
The Best of the Philly Sound, GNP - I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free John Legend and the Roots
Wake Up, G.O.O.D./ Columbia - SEGMENT: Solomon Burke
Listen - SEGMENT: Monumental Baptist Church
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