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SUMMER - MICKEY HART
It’s Sum…Sum…Sum…Sum…Sum…Sum…Summertime…. Hot and cool sounds in sync with the Solstice. Summer in the city, country and all routes in between with drummer for the Grateful Dead, Mickey Hart. Plus music by Nat King Cole, Jonathan Richman, Mose Allison, and Sly & the Family Stone.
HOUR ONE
- Open Bed: Those Lazy-Hazy-Crazy Days of Summer Nat King Cole
Nat King Cole's Greatest Hits, Capitol - Summer Breeze Jackie Mittoo
Tribute to Jackie Mittoo, Heartbeat - In the Summertime Buckwheat Zydeco
100% Fortified Zydeco, Black Top - In the Summertime Bob Dylan
Shot of Love, Columbia - Instrumental: Summerland Sierra Winds
Get On Board - Music of William Grant Still, Cambria - Summertime Miles Davis
Porgy and Bess, Columbia/Legacy - In the Heat of the Night Nancy Wilson
Welcome to My Love, Capitol Jazz - Long Hot Summer Nights Jimi Hendrix
Electric Ladyland, MCA - That Summer Feeling Jonathan Richman
I, Jonathan, Rounder - Summertime Blues Eddie Cochran
Hot Rod Rebels, The Right Stuff - Summer Fun in a Beat up Datsun Cornershop
Hold On It Hurts, Merge - Keys to the Highway Little Walter
His Best, Chess/MCA - Instrumental: Some Summer Day John Fahey
Return of the Repressed: the John Fahey Anthology, Rhino - INTERVIEW: Mickey Hart
- Uncle John's Band Grateful Dead
Workingman's Dead, Warner Brothers - Trenches Rhythm Devils
The Apocalypse Now Sessions, Ryko - Anthem of the Sun Grateful Dead
Anthem of the Sun, Warner Brothers - Ripple Grateful Dead
American Beauty, Warner Brothers - Summertime Janis Joplin
Big Brother and the Holding Company - Cheap Thrills, Columbia
HOUR two
- Summer Dream King Curtis
The Best of King Curtis, Capitol Jazz - Your Mind is on Vacation Mose Allison
Atlantic Jazz Classics, Atlantic - Vacation from Myself Jason Eklund
Jason Eklund, Flying Fish - It's All Over Now The Dirty Dozen Brass Band with Dr. John
This is Jazz 30, Columbia/Legacy - Solid Potato Salad Ella Mae Morse
Jumpin' Like Mad, Capitol Blues - Struttin' With Some Barbecue Lee Konitz & Marshall Brown
The Lee Konitz Duets, Milestone - Summertime Billy Stewart
Bar-B-Que Soul-a-Bration, Rhino - Instrumental: In the Good Ole Summertime
From Salons to Saloons, IBRC - Hissing of Summer Lawns Joni Mitchell
Hissing of Summer Lawns, Asylum - Green Leaves of Summer Wes Montgomery
Road Song, A & M) - 12-Inch 3-Speed Oscillating Fan Red Meat
Meet Red Meat, Ranchero - Sittin' on Top of the World Bob Wills
Hall of Fame, United Artists - Instrumental: Steel Guitar Rag (Going Bass Fishing) Big Jack Johnson
The Oil Man, Earwig - Dave's Holiday Patty Larkin & friends
Buy Me, Bring Me, Take Me, Don't Mess My Hair - Life According to Four Bitchin' Babes, Rounder - Theme From A Summer Place Ventures
Hawaii Five-O, One Way - Ice Man Memphis Minnie
Blue Ladies, Fat Boy - Ice Cream Man John Brim
The Chess Blues-Rock Songbook - The Classic Originals, Chess/MCA - Southern Nights Allen Toussaint and Chet Atkins
Rhythm Country & Blues, MCA - Hot Fun in the Summertime Sly & the Family Stone
Greatest Hits, Epic - End Bed: Summer In the City Buddy Morrow
Ultra Lounge: On the Rocks, Part Two, Capitol
