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Saturday November 2nd, 2024 with Heavy Friends
Biodiverse sounds every Saturday needs listener support

Please donate to Heavy Friends to keep diverse sounds on the air! https://www.canadahelps.org/en/charities/CKCU/p2p/fundingdrive2024/page/heavy-friends Happening Thurs Nov. 7th at Ten Toes at Somerset & Rochester, a CKCU benefit DJ night with DJs from Heavy Friends, First Crush, Chance Meeting & more!! 7pm - 11pm! Stop by, say hi and support CKCU's Funding Drive in person! (to embiggen the show icon, right-click and choose "Open image in new tab") image credit https://biologicalrecording.co.uk/
Let's begin by marking the birthday of Blue Note recording engineer Rudy Van Gelder (b.1924, d.2016)
... then a special request that led to an uncovered gem
Ain't It Funky
Grant Green [orig. James Brown] - Green Is Beautiful - Blue Note - 1970
The Twelfth Of Never
Johnny Mathis with Ray Conniff & His Orchestra - (single) - Fontana - 1958
It's Alright to Love Me
Johnny Mathis with Nile Rogers and Bernard Edwards of Chic - I Love My Lady - Columbia - 2018 (rec. 1980-81)
Just A Little While Longer
Tyrone Ashley's Funky Music Machine - Let Me Be Your Man - Truth & Soul
I'm Bugged
XTC - White Music - Virgin - 1978
Now Jas plays a few Halloween/ Day of the Dead set of 45s.....
Stranger Things Theme
The Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band - (single) - Big Crown Records - 2023
La Araña de Chocolate
Los Jalogüines - (single) - Discos Más - 2017
Trick of the Witch
Poly Styrene - (single) - Awesome Records - 1986
The Witch Queen Of New Orleans
Redbone - (single) - Epic - 1971
Where Evil Grows
The Poppy Family - (single) - London - 1971
Lady d'Arbanville
Cat Stevens - (single) - Island 1970
Second Hand News
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours - Warner Bros. Records (1977)
Seconds
The Human League - Dare - Virgin (1981)
Second Still
Modern Eon - Fiction Tales - Dindisc (1981)
Second Chance
Gregory Isaacs - Second Chance - Pipper Records (1990)
~November 2 birthdays~
Happy 63rd birthday k.d. lang!
Marking Keith Emerson's birthday (b.1944, d.2016)
Happy 83rd birthday Bruce Welch! (guitar player in The Shadows)
Happy 77th birthday Dave Pegg! (bass player for Nick Drake, Fairport Convention, John Martyn, Sandy Denny, Richard & Linda Thompson, Jethro Tull)
Marking Phil Woods' birthday (b.1931, d.2015)
Stop, Look And Listen
k.d. lang and the reclines [orig. Patsy Cline] - A Truly Western Experience - Bumstead - 1984 Canadian
Tarkus: Eruption
Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Tarkus - Island, Cotillion - 1971
The Rumble
The Shadows - Out Of The Shadows - Atlantic - 1962
At The Chime Of A City Clock
Nick Drake - Bryter Layter - Antilles - 1971
The Last Page/Sans Melodie
Phil Woods And His European Rhythm Machine - Phil Woods And His European Rhythm Machine - Les Disques Pierre Cardin - 1970
Strange Ships
Fox - Tails Of Illusion - GTO - 1975
Talk About Run
Clint Eastwood & General Saint - Two Bad DJ - Greensleeves - 1981
Fast Car
Androids Of Mu - Blood Robots - Water Wing - 1980
Mit Dir. (extended version)
Robert Gorl - 12" - Mute - 1983
Ghost Story
Bonnie Doon - Dooner Nooner - Record Centre Records - 2016 Canadian
Inzombia
Slant 6 - Inzombia - Dischord - 1995
Interactive CKCU
Chris Ikonomopoulos (host)
Hey all welcome to Heavy Friends

8:13 PM, November 2nd, 2024
Wally
Hi Chris and all the heavy friends and thank you for all you do, bringing us the music!

8:21 PM, November 2nd, 2024
Heavy Ben
Thanks Wally, nice to see you

8:35 PM, November 2nd, 2024
Chris Ikonomopoulos (host)
Wally, thank you for all your support, year after year as a donor, as a guest and as a label owner! Check out Wally's label The Beautiful Music https://thebeautifulmusic.com/

8:36 PM, November 2nd, 2024
Eddy
Groundhog Saturday evening, hey heavies, hey Wally, Big Al says hi !

8:38 PM, November 2nd, 2024
Heavy Lina
Thanks all the heavies who donated so far! Keep it coming however big or small! We appreciate it!

8:40 PM, November 2nd, 2024
Wally
Thanks Chris and you're most welcome, always happy to support the wonderful CKCU.

8:41 PM, November 2nd, 2024
Wally
Hey Eddy, great to see you here and please give my greetings to Big Al 🖐😊

8:42 PM, November 2nd, 2024
Wally
Saw XTC when they played here in Ottawa in the early 1980’s - they were great 👍 👌

8:43 PM, November 2nd, 2024
Chris Ikonomopoulos (host)
Hey Eddy, thanks for tuning in and for your donation!

8:47 PM, November 2nd, 2024
Eddy
Chris, is that the original version of where evil grows.

8:57 PM, November 2nd, 2024
Chris Ikonomopoulos (host)
Eddy, Poppy Family and Terry Jacks recoded it at least three times and pretty sure they wrote it.

9:02 PM, November 2nd, 2024
Jas Nasty
Hey everyone thanks for tuning in and thank you everyone has donated!!

9:08 PM, November 2nd, 2024
Wally
Great to hear Modern Eon who never really got the attention they deserved - Child's Play, Euthenics & Mechanic were such great songs

9:13 PM, November 2nd, 2024
Leege
Leo (a 6 year old listener) says that he likes the show tonight! Hope you guys raise billions! On the road, will stream later 😀

9:23 PM, November 2nd, 2024
Jas Nasty
Thanks Leege & Leo!!!

9:24 PM, November 2nd, 2024
Chris Ikonomopoulos (host)
Fully agree Wally. Such a great album that flies under many radars!

9:25 PM, November 2nd, 2024
Heavy Lina
Thanks Wally ! I'm glad you liked Modern Eon track. Will check out those other tracks you listed.

9:28 PM, November 2nd, 2024
Heavy Ben
Hi Leege, good to know we are grooming young Leo

9:28 PM, November 2nd, 2024
Wally
Thanks Heavy Lina, I think you will enjoy them. It was very cool to get to meet You, Ben and Chris

9:37 PM, November 2nd, 2024