The Midnight Special Playlist

Lead Belly: The Midnight Special Last Sessions SMITHSONIAN FOLKWAYS SFCD-40068/71

1994 Broadway Revival Cast: June Is Bustin' Out All Over (Rodgers/Hammerstein) Carousel Angel CDQ 72435551992

James Baskett: Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah! (Gilbert/Wrubel) Billboard Top Movie Hits - 1940s RHINO R2 72420

Suzanne McDermott: Great Day Ephemera Continental CSCCD 1006

Chuck Suchy: June Fields Same Road Home (701-663-7682) Little Bluestem LBR101

Original Cast: When the Red, Red Robin Comes Bob, Bob Bobbin' Along (Harry Woods) I'll Cry Tomorrow Stet DS 25001

NRBQ: Get That Gasoline (T.Adams/C.Craig) 45 rpm

National Lampoon: Monolithic Oil That's Not Funny, That's Sick Label 21 IMP-2001

Tom McFarland: Gasoline Blues Travelin' with the Blues ARHOOLIE1079

Robert Klein: On the Bayou New Teeth EPIC PE 33535

Bill Morrissey: Oil Money Bill Morrissey PHILOCDPH 1105

Lucinda Williams: I Asked For Water (He Gave Me Gasoline) (Chester Burnett) > I Asked For Water (He Gave Me Gasoline) Koch KOC-CD-8005

Martin Mull: Living Above My Station Martin Mull Capricorn CP 0106

Tom Lehrer: Pollution The Remains of Tom Lehrer RHINO R2 79831

Andy Breckman: Pollution Is a Bad Thing Proud Dad GADFLY 201

Original Cast: Air (MacDermot/Ragni-Rado) Hair RCA Victor 1150-2-RC

Pat & Victoria Garvey: Elephant Smog Songs: 1965-1971 Mud 01

Julie Gold: Every Living Thing Try Love GADFLY 263 (888-9GADFLY)

Suzanne McDermott: Golden Needles The Roswell Incident Rosema Red RRR 416 (800-600-7679, x1249)

Don McLean: Tapestry Tapestry United Artists UAS-8522

Les Crapaudes: Mort qu'en vie (Death Within Life) Demo

Jacques Brel: La Chanson des Vieux Amants (the song of old lovers) (Brel/J.Jouannest) Le Formbidable Jacques Brel VANGUARD VSD-79265

Tom Lehrer: When You Are Old and Gray The Remains of Tom Lehrer RHINO R2 79831

Sophia Loren: To Keep My Love Alive (Sellers) A Celebration of Sellers EMI 7243 8 27781 2

Crucial Smith: Please, Please Me (Lennon/McCartney) Morning Light ReQuest 21500 (615-794-8285)

Peter Sellers: She Loves You (Cockney version) (Lennon/McCartney) A Celebration of Sellers EMI 7243 8 27781 2

Xaviera Hollander: Michelle (Lennon/McCartney) Golden Thoats 4: Celebrities Butcher Songs of the Beatles RHINO R2 72593

Bugs & Friends: She Loves You (Lennon/McCartney) Bugs & Friends Sing the Beatles RHINO R2 71769

Jean Redpath: Simmer's a pleasant time (Robt.Burns) Songs of Robert Burns Jean Redpath JR-104

Lori B: Summers Day Hurricane Child Paradox Arts 1 (415-487-6292)

The Minnesota Klezmer Band: Summertime (G&I Gershwin) Gershwin the Klezmer no label

Dervish: Midsummer's Night (various composers) Midsummer's Night Whirling WHRL005

Danielle Martineau: La porte d'en arriere Rockabayou BROS-2001-2

Mark Graham: Moby Dick Inner Life (202-722-1972) no label

Lord Buckley: Jonah and The Whale His Royal Hipness Discovery 71001

Bob Franke: Waiting For Nineveh To Burn The Heart of the Flower DARING CD3016

Randy Pease: Call Me Ishmael Call Me Ishmael Binky 1019

Steve Goodman: Moby Book (D.Amram/Goodman) Jessie's Jig Red Pajamas RPJ-010CD (800-521-2112)

Debby McClatchy: Call Me The Whale (trad/Paul Kaplan) Off To California Wildebeest WB006

The Tinker's Own: The Bergen (Jez Lowe) Bending the Banshee's Ear Riverrun 8N2CD

Pete Morton: The Rose In June (trad/arr.Morton) Trespass HARBOURTOWN HARCD 037

Judy Collins: Amazing Grace (trad/arr.J.Collins) Whales & Nightingales ELEKTRA 75010-2

Phil Callery & Marie Doyle Kennedy: In This Heart (trad) From The Edge Of Memory (email)

Eric Bibb: Singing In My Heart (Bibb/Lee Ostrow) Home To Me EARTHBEAT! R2 79793

Neil Young: Silver and Gold Silver and Gold REPRISE 9 47305-2

Michael Johnson: Troubled For You (Ted Sherman) For All You Mad Musicians Sanskrit SR-0751

Small Potatoes: Old Devil Time (Pete Seeger) Waltz of the Wallflowers WIND RIVER WR4010CD (877-365-5372)

Anita Silvert: All Roads Converge Midwest Girl Balancing Act BAM-003 P.O. Box 512, Yardley, PA 19067 (215-369-0220) or email

Performer is composer unless otherwise noted. Song is album title unless otherwise noted. Album titles are in italics, composers in parens ( ).

RICH'S PICKS:

Julie Gold, Dervish, Mark Graham, Phil Callery, Eric Bibb, Neil Young, Small Potatoes

These concerts were mentioned on the program:

Suzanne McDermott at the Two Way Street Coffee House, 1047Curtiss, Downers Grove, Friday, June 30 at 8:45. 630-969-9720

Downers Grove Heritage Folk Festival, Saturday, June 24 from 11AM to 5:30 PM, Fishel Park on Grove Street, featuring Cooper, Nelson & Early, James Gordon, Robert Jennings, Jones Family, Peg Lehman, Leonardo, Michael J. Miles, Kevin Mulvenna, Sons of the Never Wrong 630-434-5555