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Thirteen comedy tracks from the late American monologist, "Eddie Lawrence - The Old Philosopher."
Eddie's real name is Lawrence Eisler. Eisler took the stage name of "Eddie Lawrence" in the late-1950's when presenting his "Old Philosopher" persona.
Eisler passed in 2014, at the age of 95.
[Uploaded by Steve Ludwig of the Classic Pop Culture website, PlanetLudwig.com.]
Please enjoy!

1. The OId Philosopher
2. At the Opera
3. The Big Town
4. The Good Old Days (Rock & Roll)
5. The D.J.'s Philosopher
6. Frankenshteiner Polka
7. King Arthur's Mines
8. Loco Baseball
9. The Football Philosopher
10. Respecta
11. Gay Paree
12. Old, Old Vienna
13. The New Philosopher 

Covering all the songs from The Beatles' A HARD DAY'S NIGHT album are:

1. A Hard Day's Night - Majority One
2. I Should Have Known Better - Gianna Porfano
3. If I Fell - Oli Blake White
4. I'm Happy Just To Dance With You - Caroline Lucius
5. And I Love Her - Robbie Ellington
6. Tell Me Why - Paul Moody
7. Can't Buy Me Love - The Punkles
8. Anytime At All - Blue Ash
9. I'll Cry Instead - Joe Cocker (1964)
10. Things We Said Today - Howlin' Jaws
11. When I Get Home - Nvernous
12. You Can't Do That - Love, Robot
13. I'll Be Back - Mona Lisa Twins
14. Ringo's Theme (This Boy) - Surf Dawgs

ENJOY!

It's FIVE episodes from the horror/supernatural American radio show, LIGHTS OUT.
LIGHTS OUT ran, at various times, from 1934 to 1947, and it predated the future radio horror programs, SUSPENSE and INNER SANCTUM.
Here is the first part of more LIGHTS OUT episodes to come to the Classic Pop Culture website, PlanetLudwig.com.
1) THE DARK (0:00 - 7:22) - Fun fact: The Simpsons' "Treehouse of Horror V" episode was based on this broadcast. A doctor and a police investigator are called to an abandoned house -- with horrific results! [Original broadcast date: 12/29/37]
2) CHICKEN HEART (7:24 - 15:00) - A chicken heart begins to grow, & there's no end in sight.
[Original broadcast date: 3/10/37]
3) METEOR MAN (15:01 - 38:24) - A couple finds a meteorite...and  encounter the horror inside it...  [Original broadcast date: 6/16/37]
4) THE DREAM (with Boris Karloff) (38:26 - 1:08:21) - A professor keeps having a nightmare that urges him to kill. [Original broadcast date: 3/23/38]
5) THE WORD (1:08:24 - 1:34:16) - A newleywed couple in New York City suddenly find themselves the last two peopl on Earth. [Original broadcast date: 9/14/43]

Uploaded by PlanetLudwig.com  ~  ENJOY!

Three segments of music by the sometimes brilliant, sometimes tragic, always interesting, SLY STONE (and THE FAMILY STONE).

Our first segment is an album from 2011: SLY STONE: I'M BACK! FAMILY & FRIENDS (Cleopatra Records). It's an interesting mix of brand new versions of Sly's classics - some featuring rock giants collaborating with Sly:

1. Dance to the Music (featuring RAY MANZAREK of THE DOORS)
2. Everyday People (featuring ANN WILSON of HEART)
3. Family Affair
4. Stand! (featuring CARMINE APPICE & ERNIE WATTS)
5. Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin) (featuring JOHNNY WINTER)
6. (I Want To Take You) Higher (featuring JEFF BECK)
7. Hot Fun in the Summertime (featuring BOOTSIE COLLINS)
8. Dance to the Music (Extended Mix)
9. Plain Jane (original song to this album)
10. His Eye Is On the Sparrow (original song to this album)
11. Get Away (original song to this album)
12. Dance to the Music (Club Mix)
13. Family Affair (Dubstep Mix)
14. Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin) (Electro Club Mix)

The second segment takes us back to 3:00 AM (3:00 AM!!), August 17, 1969 at the Woodstock Music and Art Fair (in neighboring town, Bethel, NY). Taking the stage (3:00 AM) are Sly & the Family Stone:

1. M'Lady
2. Stand!
3. Sing A Simple Song
4. You Can Make It If You Try
5. Everyday People (incomplete by a few seconds...Our apologies)
6. Dance to the Music (once again, incomplete by a few seconds...and again, sorry!)
7. Music Lover/Higher

Our final (but not least) segment presents the 1979 album (or albumS, depending on which album edition you bought) titled, TEN YEARS TOO SOON. It was Sly's record label, EPIC RECORDS, hoping to cash in on the (by 1979) already dwindling first wave of disco. They remixed some of Sly & the Family Stone's biggest hits, in the hope that it would appeal to the disco/dance crowd:

     1. Dance to the Music
     2. Sing A Simple Song
     3. I Get High On You
     4. Everyday People
     5. You Can Make It If You Try
     6. Stand!
     7. This Is Love
RIP:  SYLVESTER STEWART (SLY STONE) [3/15/43 - 6/9/25] Age 82
         CYNTHIA ROBINSON [1/12/44 - 11/23/15] Age 71

Playlists uploaded by Steve Ludwig of the Classic Pop Culture website: PlanetLudwig.com .
Thank for listening!

The greater-than-great record producer, George Martin (Beatles, America...), led quite an orchestra with The George Martin Orchestra. Here are 22 tracks - a wonderful & creative variety of tunes. (60 mins.)

1. Winchester Cathedral
2. A Whiter Shade of Pale
3. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
4. To Sir With Love
5. Alfie
6. Theme One
7. Hole in My Shoe
8. I Am the Walrus
9. Itchycoo Park
10. Elephants & Castles
11. Kings Road Raspberry Parade
12. Time Beat
13. Waltz in Orbit
14. Music from the film, Ferry 'Cross the Mersey (1965)
15. I've Been Wrong Before (Cilla Black with The George Martin Orchestra)
16. All Quiet on the Mersey Front (mono single version)
17. Out of the Picture (mono single version)
18. The Niagara Them (mono single version)
19. I Feel Fine (mono single version)
20. Bahama Sound (U.S. stereo single version)
21. Love in the Open Air (U.S. single version)
22. Theme One (single edit)

Please enjoy!

Robert Altman's 1980 film, POPEYE, featuring the music of Grammy winner Harry Nilsson, starred Robin Williams & Shelley Duvall. Harry Nilsson's demos are wonderful; he wrote and sings them all. My personal fave among this superb collection of demos is Nilsson's duet demo with Shelley Duvall.
Included are previously unreleased tracks from the film score, by Thomas Pierson.
PLUS the original Popeye theme AND the original 1930 Popeye vocal track.
Enjoy!

1. Sweethaven
2. Swee' Pea's Lullabye ("Dear Swee' Pea")
3. Blow Me Down
4. Everything Is Food
5. He Needs Me
6. Everybody's Got To Eat
7. Sail With Me
8. I Yam What I Yam
9. It's Not Easy Being Me
10. Kids
11. I'm Popeye the Sailor Man (music & lyrics by Sammy Lerner)
12. I'm Mean
13. He Needs Me (Harry & Shelley Duvall duet, with Paul L. Smith providing the whistling )"bomp-bomps."
14. Din' We (home demo)
15. Sailin' (home demo)
16. Popeye the Sailor Man Main Theme
17. Popeye the Sailor Man (1930's vocal version)

From the previously unreleased soundtrack by Thomas Pierson:
    18. Skeleton Cave
    19. Now Listen Kid / To The Rescue / Mr. Eye Is Trapped / Back Into Action
    20. Saved / Still At It / The Treasure / What? More Fighting / Pap's Boy / Olive & the Octopus / What's Up Pop / Popeye Triumphant
    21. End Title Medley

RARE ~ Electric Light Orchestra's FOUR 12" Remixes of their songs found on the XANADU Soundtrack (but not found in the movie itself). Plus a B-side of ELO's "I'm Alive" Xanadu single, also not found on the Soundtrack album. Add to those five ELO songs, we also have TWO 12" versions of the ELO/Olivia Newton-John duet from XANADU, "Xanadu."

1. "The Fall" (12" version) - Starts at 0:00
2. "I'm Alive" (12" Dance Mix version) - Starts at 5:37
3. "Don't Walk Away" (12" version) - Starts at 11:14
4. "All Over the World" (12" Mix version) - Starts at 18:10
5. "Drum Dreams" (B-side of "I'm Alive") - Starts at 25:15
6. "Xanadu (feat. Olivia Newton-John)" (Dirk Vox Club mix) - Starts at 28:10
7. "Xanadu" (feat., once again, "Our Livvie") (12" Disco mix) - Starts at 33:30

Here's a 2-hour, 15-minute LIVE compilation of FLO & EDDIE ~ aka THE TURTLES ~ shows from the legendary, but unfortunately, now-defunct New York City nightclub, The Bottom Line, from the years 1979-1994. The compilation is comprised from two main sources: "The Turtles Featuring Flo & Eddie Captured Live" and "New York 'Times' Live at The Bottom Line featuring Flo & Eddie." The "New York 'Times'" performances were recorded, with microphones literally hanging from the ceiling of The Bottom Line. Thus, the audio is not always 100%, but certainly worth hearing because it's a tremendous example of Flo & Eddie's fun, chaotic insanity ever-present during their live shows. (Quite a back-up band, as well!).
Flo & Eddie are actually Mark Volman & Howard Kaylan. 
We sadly lost Mark Volman on September 5, 2025, so we respectfully dedicate this recording to Mark's memory.

1. Flo & Eddie Theme Song
2. Happy Together
3. You Baby
4. Elvis Medley a) Girls Girls Girls b) Rock-A Hula c) Harum Holiday
5. Nikki Hoi
6. Girls Girls Girls Reprise
7. Nikki Hoi Reprise
8. The Doors
9. 9. She's My Girl
10. Marmendy Hill
11. Prison Song
12. Keep It Warm
13. Let Me
14. Tibetan Memory Trick
15. The Pied Piper
16. Agita
17. MTM
18. It Ain't Me Babe
19. Saturday in the Park (with KAZOOS!)
20. Bruce
21. Rebecca
22. Frank Zappa Medley (note: Flo & Eddie were members of Zappa's Mothers of Invention for a period of time after The Turtles demise): a) Who Need the Peace Corps b)Concentration Moon c) The Ugliest Part of Your Body d) Absolutely Free e) Peaches en Regalia f) Magic Fingers
23. You Showed Me
24. Misty
25. The Night
26. The Duke
27. Escape From New York
28. The Debarkation
29. Goodbye Surprise
30. Tidy Bowl
31. I Lost My Heart at the Drive-In Movie
32. New York Medley: a) I Happen To Like New York b) Gershwin c) Bald Mountain d)Everyone's Coming To New York
33. Horror Movies
34. Steven
35. Steven Attacks
36. She'd Rather Be With Me
37. Boogie
38. Moving Targets
39. Letterman (intro of the band)
40. The Who
41. Elenore
42. Happy Together
43. Made It To The Top (I placed this song last in the playlist, although it appears earlier in the show, because I felt it encapsulated Flo & Eddie's career)

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SYD BARRETT RARITIES - PINK FLOYD YEARS 1966-1968
Here are 38 rare PINK FLOYD tracks, concentrating on Syd Barrett, with a few Nick Mason & Roger Waters interviews mixed in from '66 to '68, for good measure. Please enjoy!

1. Interstellar Overdrive (San Francisco 10/31/66)
2. Interstellar Overdrive with Interview (12/66)
3. Let's Roll Another One (1/22/67)
4. Matilda's Mother - Live at UFO Club (1/27/67)
5. Interstellar Overdrive - Live at UFO Club (1/27/67)
6. Candy & a Currant Bun - Alternate Lyrics Acetate (1/29/67)
7. Arnold Layne - BBC (1/29/67)
8. Candy & a Currant Bun - Multitrack BBC (1/29/67)
9. Nick Mason Interview (Stockholm 3/67)
10. K4 Discoteque Jam - Live in Brighton (4/5/67)
11. Chapter 24 - Early Mix (5/1/67)
12. See Emily Play - Alternate Mix Acetate (5/21/67)
13. See Emily Play - Alternate Mix Acetate with Ending (5/21/67)
14. See Emily Play - Piano Bit (5/21/67)
15. In the Beechwoods - Nick Mason Interview (8/67)
16. Vegetable Man - Nick Mason Interview (8/67)
17. Vegetable Man - Backing Track; Nick Mason Interview (8/19/67)
18. Scream Thy Last Name (1974 Mix of 8/1/67)
19. Scream Thy Last Name  (1987 Mix of 8/1/67)
20. Reaction in G - Beat Club (8/15/67)
21. No Title - Studio Session (9/4/67)
22. Roger Waters Interview - Stockholm Radio (9/10/67)
23. Matilda Mother - BBC (9/25/67)
24. The Gnome - BBC (9/25/67)
25. The Scarecrow - BBC (9/25/67)
26. Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun - BBC (9/25/67)
27. Reaction in G - BBC (9/25/67)
28. Flaming - BBC (9/25/67)
29. Vegetable Man - 1974 Mix of 10/11/67
30. Vegetable Man - 1887 Mix of 10/11/67
31. Early Morning Henry - William "Billy" Butler Acetate (10/23/67)
32. Jugband Blues - Video Mix of [possibly?] a Cancelled Single (12/67)
33. Green Onion - Instrumental Cover - Tommy's World (12/12/67)
34. Vegetable Man - BBC (12/20/67)
35. Scream Thy Last Scream - BBC (12/20/67)
36. Pow R Toc H - BBC (12/20/67)
37. Jugband Blues - BBC (12/20/67)
38. Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun - Belgian TV (2/28/68)

"I'm not anything that you think I am, anyway." ~ Syd Barrett

Thanks for listening!

THE LOST LENNON TAPES was a series of John Lennon demos, plus never-before released songs, John Lennon in the studio, et al.
The Best of THE LOST LENNON TAPES COLLECTION #2 of 5 (2 hours)

1. Bless You
2. Many Rivers to Cross
3. My Life
4. I Watch Your Face
5. Serve Yourself
6. The Worst Is Over (early Starting Over)
7. Watching the Wheels
8. Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)
9. I'm the Greatest (Written for Ringo)
10. Bring on the Lucie (Freeda Peeple)
11. No. 9 Dream (earliest demo)
12. People (demo for the song, "Angela")
13. Luck of the Irish (unfinished lyrics)
14. Only People
15. Mind Games promo
16. Forgive Me (My Little Flower Princess)
17. Tower Records spot
18. I Don't Want to Be a Soldier
19. How Do You Sleep (segments)
20. Well (Baby Please Don't Go)
21. Tomorrow Never Knows (backwards talk test - vocals up front - rough mix
22. Flying (Aerial Tour Instrumental)
23. On the Road to Rishikesh (later to become "Jealous Guy")
24. Child of Nature (demo)
25. I'm So Tired (demo)
26. Power to the People (early alternate take, Jan '71)
27. Mannish Boy
28. 'Twas a Night Like Ethel Merman 1978
29. Beyond the Sea/Blue Moon/ Young Love
30. Cleanup Time (alternate mix, Fall 1980)
31. Good Morning, Good Morning (early home demo, Jan/Feb '67)
32. Everyone Had a Hard Year
33. Brown-Eyed Handsome Man
34. Lord, Take This Makeup Off of Me
35. The News of the Day (from Reuters)
36. John on drugs and alcohol
37. Move Over Ms. L
38. Don't Let Me Down
39. Oh My Love
40. Jealous Guy