Part three in the annual Heavy Friends series that pays respects to the departed.
Part one December 30
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Part two January 13
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Pictured: Lou Deprijck (left, R.I.P.). Before there was Milli Vanilli, there was Plastic Bertrand. Deprijck worked at the Régie des Télégraphes et Téléphones de Bruxelles as a performer and producer (Chakachas, Alec Mansion, Viktor Lazlo, Two Man Sound).
Lou Deprijck composed, produced and sung the hit "Ça Plane Pour Moi". It is the same backing track as Elton Motello's "Jet Boy, Jet Girl" that was banned for its homo-erotic lyrics. Roger Jouret, as Plastic Bertrand, was on the album covers and lip-synced the music videos - but Deprijck sang the vocals on the first four albums.
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| Hour one |
| The Wino And I Know Jimmy Buffett (sadly passed) - Living And Dying In 3/4 Time - ABC / Dunhill - 1974 |
| Offering Spooky Tooth / Pierre Henry (Gary Wright sadly passed) - Ceremony: An Electronic Mass - Island / Polydor - 1969 |
| Louella Austella Richard Laviolette (sadly passed) - Taking The Long Way Home - You've Changed Records - 2017 
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| I Will Follow You Dorothy Ashby (Richard Davis sadly passed) - The Fantastic Jazz Harp Of Dorothy Ashby - Atlantic - 1965 |
| Noční modlitba (Nocni Modlitba) Yvonne Přenosilová (Yvonne Prenosilova sadly passed) & Apollobeat - 7" - Supraphon - 1968 |
| Amor Primero Benito Castro (sadly passed) & Kiko Campos - Benito Castro & Kiko Campos - Discos Gas - 1976 |
| Part C [excerpt] Charles Gayle (sadly passed), William Parker, Rashied Ali - Touchin' On Trane - FMP - 1993 |
| Changing Times Ian Carr With Nucleus (John Marshall sadly passed) - Solar Plexus - Vertigo - 1971 |
| Ça Plane Pour Moi (Ca Plane Pour Moi) Plastic Bertrand (Lou Deprijck sadly passed) - 7" - RKM, Vogue - 1977 |
| Don't Mess With Bill The Marvelettes (Katherine Anderson sadly passed) - 7" - Tamla / Motown - 1965 |
| Everything That Touches You The Association (Terry Kirkman sadly passed) - Birthday - Warner Bros. - 1968 |
| The Edge David McCallum (sadly passed) - Music: A Bit More Of Me - Capitol - 1967 |
| Thunder Into Our Hearts Jabula (Julian Bahula sadly passed) - Thunder Into Our Hearts - Caroline - 1976 |
| Fight The Power The Isley Brothers (Rudolph 'Rudy' Isley sadly passed) - The Heat Is On - T-Neck - 1975 |
| Third World Man Third World (Michael 'Ibo' Cooper sadly passed) - 96° In The Shade - Island - 1977 |
| Painted Eyes Hercules & Love Affair (Aérea (Aerea) Negrot sadly passed) - Blue Songs - Moshi Moshi Records - 2011 |
| Aquarella Space Art (Dominique Perrier sadly passed) - Space Art - IF Records, Carrere - 1977 |
| The Ending To The First Side Charlie Haden, Arrangements By Carla Bley (sadly passed) - Liberation Music Orchestra - Impulse! - 1970 |
| Hour two |
| The 900 Number The 45 King (Mark James sadly passed) - Master Of The Game - Tuff City - 1988 |
| Hacia El Abismo Almafuerte (Ricardo Iorio sadly passed) - Del Entorno - DBN - 1996 |
| Woodwind Quintet No. 1: III. Scherzo Satanico, Attacca István Láng & the Hungarian Woodwind Quintet (Istvan Lang sadly passed) - 8th International Music Competition Of Budapest 1965 - Champions Of The Woodwind Competition - Qualiton - 1965 |
| May Dream Guru Guru (Michel Pilz sadly passed) - Globetrotter - Brain - 1977 |
| Get Off The Radio The Sharks (David Baxter aka. "Bax" sadly passed) - No Pedestrians - Chameleon Records - 1980
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| King Size The Trials Of Jayson Hoover (Jayson Hoover sadly passed) - 7" - New Syndrome Records - 1968
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| Colpo Rovente (Alternate Version) Piero Piccioni (Diano Piana sadly passed) - Colpo Rovente (Colonna Sonora Originale Del Film) / Red Hot Shot (OST) - RCA - 1970 |
| Dancin' Junko Ohashi (sadly passed) - Magical - Philips - 1984 |
| Angel Massive Attack (Angelo Bruschini sadly passed) - Mezzanine - Circa, Virgin - 1998 |
| Come Right In Twenty Miles (R.L. Boyce sadly passed) w/Othar Turner and The Rising Star Fife and Drum Band - Twenty Miles - Fat Possum Records, Epitaph - 1997 |
| Les Étoiles Filantes Les Cowboys Fringants (Karl Tremblay sadly passed) - La Grand-Messe - La Tribu - 2004
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| Let The Music Take Your Mind Kool And The Gang (Kool & The Gang) (George "Funky" Brown sadly passed) - Kool And The Gang - De-Lite Records - 1969 |
| I Know What Boys Like The Waitresses (Mars Williams sadly passed) - Wasn't Tomorrow Wonderful? - Polydor - 1982 |
| The Well-Tuned Marimba: For Yamaha Synthesizer, Sine Wave Drone, Live Electronics Catherine Christer Hennix (sadly passed) - Selected Early Keyboard Works - Blank Forms Editions, Empty Editions - 2018 (rec. 1976) |
| Tossin' And Turnin' Chad Allan & The Expressions (Chad Allan sadly passed) - Shakin' All Over - Guess Who? - Quality, Scepter - 1965
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| Mr. Big Stuff Jean Knight (sadly passed) - Mr. Big Stuff - Stax - 1971 |
| The Wait Killing Joke (Geordie Walker sadly passed) - Killing Joke - Editions EG - 1980 |
| Young Ned Of The Hill The Pogues (Shane McGowan sadly passed) - Peace And Love - Pogue Mahone Records - 1989 |
| Kad Bi' Bio Bijelo Dugme Bijelo Dugme (Vlado Pravdić sadly passed) - Kad Bi' Bio Bijelo Dugme - Jugoton - 1974 |
| Hour three
This is the end of the FM broadcast and live-stream. The third hour is bonus content available "on demand" (click LISTEN NOW at the top-left of the page for the full show). |
| I'll Be Late For Tea Blossom Toes (Brian Godding sadly passed) - We Are Ever So Clean - Marmalade - 1967 |
| California Sun The Dictators (Scott Kempner sadly passed) - Go Girl Crazy! - Epic - 1975 |
| Fast Train April Wine (Myles Goodwyn sadly passed) - April Wine - Aquarius Records - 1971
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| The Jeffersons theme song Ja'Net Dubois (singer sadly passed in 2020, Norman Lear producer sadly passed) - - - CBS - 1975 |
| Catherine's Wheel Denny Laine (sadly passed) & The Electric String Band - 7" - Deram - 1968 |
| Welcome New Warmth Michel Sardaby (sadly passed, bassist Richard Davis also passed) - Gail - Disques Debs International - 1975 |
| Η Πρώτη Φορά (The First Time) Τρύπες (Trypes) (Γιώργος Τόλιος Giorgos Tolios sadly passed) - Πάρτυ Στο 13ο Όροφο (Party On The 13th Floor) - Virgin - 1987 |
| Spiral Essra Mohawk (sadly passed) - Primordial Lovers - Reprise - 1970 |
| Ciúme Carlos Lyra (sadly passed) - Bossa Nova - Philips - 1959 |
| Groove Control Dynasty (Nidra Sylvers aka. Nidra Beard sadly passed) - Adventures In The Land Of Music - Solar, RCA Victor - 1980 |
| The Cruel Sea The Dakotas (Mike Maxfield sadly passed) - 7" - Parlophone - 1963 |
| U Amp Fiddler / Sly & Robbie (Joseph Anthony "Amp" Fiddler sadly passed) - Inspiration Information - Strut - 2008 |
| Broken Biscuits The Deviants (Russell Hunter sadly passed) - The Deviants - Transatlantic Records, Sire - 1969 |
| Contestación A Los Sabanales Lisandro Meza (sadly passed) Y Su Conjunto - 7" - Disco Fuentes - 1967 |
| Preparation Tony Oxley (sadly passed) Quintet - The Baptised Traveller - CBS - 1969 |
| Be Loud Leeway – (Michael Gibbons sadly passed) - Born To Expire - Profile - 1988 |
| Mirror Of Your Mind We The People (Tommy Talton sadly passed) - 7" - Challenge - 1966 |
| Red Top Les McCann (sadly passed) Ltd. - Bucket O' Grease - Limelight - 1967 |
| Vol D'Arondes [excerpt] Francis Dhomont (sadly passed) - Jalons - Empreintes DIGITALes - 2003 (orig. 1999)
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| Give Peace A Chance Plastic Ono Band (Tommy Smothers sadly passed) - 7" - Apple - 1969
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| "Give Peace a Chance" is an anti-war song written by John Lennon and recorded in June 1969 with the participation of a small group of friends in a performance with Yoko Ono in a room at The Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal, Quebec. Released as a single by the Plastic Ono Band on Apple Records, it is the first solo single issued by Lennon, released while he was still a member of the Beatles, and became an anthem of the American anti-war movement during the 1970s.
The recording session was attended by dozens of journalists and various celebrities, including Timothy Leary, Rabbi Abraham Feinberg, Joseph Schwartz, Rosemary Woodruff Leary, Petula Clark, Dick Gregory, Allen Ginsberg, Roger Scott, Murray the K and Derek Taylor, many of whom are mentioned in the lyrics. Lennon played acoustic guitar and was joined by Tommy Smothers of the Smothers Brothers, also on acoustic guitar. André Perry, owner of Le Studio in Morin Heights, arrived and used a simple setup of four microphones and a four-track tape recorder he brought with him. Some years later, André Perry recalled the occasion, and spoke about the challenges of getting a good sound out of the recording. Because of the room's poor acoustics, he said, the raw recording could not have been released without help: Originally there were no intentions to have any over-dubs done. But when I left John, he looked at me and I said, 'Well, I'll go back to the studio and listen to this and see what it's like.' And then I decided that the background was a bit too noisy and needed a little 'sweeping.' By this I mean, we kept all the original stuff, we just improved it a bit by adding if you like, some voices. So we called a bunch of people in the studio that night, I did, actually that was my decision. And that's probably why John gave me such a credit on the single. And since it was multi-track I dubbed the original 4-track to an 8-track machine and then used the other 4-tracks to overdub some voices. The next day I went back to John with the mix. They moved everybody out of the room and it was just the three of us, with Yoko, and I played it for him and he thought it was wonderful. Kept it 'as is.' There's a story going around about overdubbing in London, England. Nothing was overdubbed in England. The only thing that was overdubbed, like I said, is some of these people, and the reason why I did it, is I wanted to give him some kind of option. You see the point of the matter, it's not that we wanted to cheat anything, it was a question of like, not usable, the condition was absolutely terrible. We took the original stuff that was there, and added a few voices in a cleaner recording environment. |
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