Episode 141: Sound Chaser 309

The show this time is devoted mostly to that ill-defined category “related music.” In particular, I am taking a long, nostalgic retrospection of the music I was listening to or interested in before I discovered progressive rock or while I was discovering progressive rock. These are songs playing on the radio, performed on TV, and otherwise in the general atmosphere of life in Southern California around a half century ago. The music comes from 1966 to 1978, and prog listeners consider many of these songs to closely tied to progressive rock. I also have an In Memoriam feature for two musicians recently departed. Let’s take a trip back on Sound Chaser.

Playlist

1. Kansas - Point of Know Return
IN MEMORIAM
2. Passport [Klaus Doldinger] - Nexus
3. Al Di Meola [Anthony Jackson] - Flight over Rio
END IN MEMORIAM
4. America - Ventura Highway
5. Joni Mitchell - Big Yellow Taxi
6. Supertramp - Give a Little Bit
7. Electric Light Orchestra - Turn to Stone
8. Steve Miller Band - Fly Like an Eagle
9. Gary Wright - Dream Weaver
10. Jethro Tull - Locomotive Breath
11. The Doobie Brothers - Black Water
12. Santana - Oye Como Va
13. Jefferson Airplane - Somebody to Love
14. The Beatles - Taxman
15. The Monkees - Randy Scouse Git
16. Led Zeppelin - Communication Breakdown
17. The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Purple Haze
18. Heart - Barracuda
19. Boz Scaggs - Lowdown
20. Stevie Wonder - Superstition
21. Average White Band - Pick up the Pieces
22. Aerosmith - Sweet Emotion
23. Edgar Winter Group - Frankenstein
24. ZZ Top - La Grange
25. Randy Newman - Short People
26. Styx - Blue Collar Man (Long Nights)
27. Boston - Don't Look Back
THE QUASI-SYMPHONIC ZONE
28. Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
29. The Sweet - Love Is Like Oxygen
30. Crosby, Stills & Nash - Suite: Judy Blue Eyes
31. Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Lucky Man
32. Blue Öyster Cult - (Don't Fear) The Reaper
33. Paul & Linda McCartney - Uncle Albert / Admiral Halsey
34. Derek and the Dominoes - Layla
35. Elton John - Levon
36. The Moody Blues - The Night: Nights in White Satin
LEAVING THE QUASI-SYMPHONIC ZONE
37. Manfred Mann's Earth Band - Spirits in the Night
38. Gerry Rafferty - Baker Street
39. Chicago - 25 or 6 to 4
40. Carly Simon - You're So Vain
41. The Who - Magic Bus
42. The Doors - People Are Strange
43. Traffic - John Barleycorn (Must Die)
44. David Bowie - Space Oddity
46. The Eagles - Hotel California
47. Cream - White Room
48. The Beach Boys - Good Vibrations
49. Procol Harum - A Whiter Shade of Pale
50. Jim Croce - Operator (That's Not the Way It Feels)
51. 10cc - I'm Not in Love
52. Genesis - Follow You, Follow Me
53. Earth, Wind & Fire - Fantasy
54. Al Stewart - Time Passages
55. Steely Dan - Deacon Blues
56. Chuck Mangione - Feels So Good