Matinee Idle for Friday 25 April 2014

3.04pm Pixie Williams and Blue Smoke

Jim Sullivan tells the story of the making of the first fully recorded and processed New Zealand gramophone recording, TANZA-1 (a label launched "To Assist New Zealand Artists"). Jim Talks to Pixie Williams, Stan Dallas, a recording engineer for the Radio Corporation of New Zealand, Peter Edwards of the National Museum of Audio Visual Arts & Sciences in Foxton and Smoky Hannah of Dunedin about the project. This programme was first broadcast 1st January 1995.

Music played in this show

Time:12:19
Artist: Unit 4 + 2
Song: "Concrete and Clay"
Composer: Tommy Moeller/Brian Parker
Album: Concrete And Clay
Label: Decca

Time: 12:22
Artist: LL Cool  J
Song: "I'm That Type Of Guy"
Composer: James Todd Smith/Dwayne Simon/Steve Ett
Album: Walking with Panthers
Label: Def Jam

Time: 12:30
Artist: Les Paul/Buddy Guy/Keith Richards
Song: "Good Morning Little School Girl"
Composer: Sonny Boy Williamson III
Album: Les Paul and Friends; American Made Well Played
Label: Capital

Time: 12:38
Artist: The Blue Nile
Song: "Stay"
Composer: Robert "Kool" Bell/Paul Buchanan
Album: A Walk Across the Rooftops
Label:Linn Records

Time: 12:43
Artist: Ricky Scaggs
Song: "Rawhide"
Composer: Bill Munroe
Album: Bluegrass Rules!
Label: Rounder

Time:12:49
Artist:Ray Wylie Hubbard
Song: "Mother Blues"
Composer: Ray Wylie Hubbard
Album: The Grifter's Hymnal
Label: Bordello Records

Time: 12:57
Artist: Lee Rocker
Song: "One Way or Another"
Composer: Debbie Harry/Nigel Harrison
Album: No Cats
Label:

Time: 1:07
Artist: Mountain
Song: "Mississippi Queen"
Composer: Laing/Pappalardi/Rea/West
Album: Climbing!
Label: Beat Goes On

Time: 1:15
Artist: Patrick Watson
Song: "Into Giants"
Composer: Watson/Stein
Album: Adventures In Your Own Backyard
Label: Secret City Records

Time: 1:23
Artist: Frankie Miller
Song: "Shoo-rah"
Composer: Allen Toussaint
Album: Frankie Miller's High Life
Label: Chrysalis
 

Time: 1:27
Artist: The Chambers Brothers
Song: "Time Has Come Today"
Composer: J Chambers/W Chambers
Album: Time Has Come; The Best of The Chambers Brothers
Label: Columbia

Time: 1:36
Artist: The Tokens
Song: "The Lion Sleeps Tonight"
Composer: Linda/Peretti/Creatore/Weiss/Stanton
Album: The Lion Sleeps Tonight
Label: RCA Records

Time: 1:40
Artist: The Zombies
Song: "The Way I Feel Inside"
Composer: Rod Argent
Album: Zombie Heaven
Label: Big Beat

Time: 1:44
Artist: Ian Dury and the Blockheads
Song: "Profoundly In Love With Pandora"
Composer: Ian Dury
Album: Reasons to Be Cheerful: The Best of Ian Dury & the Blockheads
Label: Repertoire

Time: 1:49
Artist: The Beatles
Song: "You Can't Do That"
Composer: Lennon/McCartney
Album: A Hard Day's Night
Label: EMI

Time: 1:54
Artist: Buddy Knox
Song: "Hula Love"
Composer: Buddy Knox
Album: Parrty Doll
Label: Rhino

Time: 1:56
Artist: Jimi Hendrix
Song: "Stone Free"
Composer: Hendrix
Album: Are you Experienced?
Label: Track

Time: 2:07
Artist: Blue Oyster Cult
Song: "Don't Fear the Reaper"
Composer: Donald Roeser
Album: Don't Fear the Reaper
Label: Sony

Time: 2:14
Artist: DD Smash
Song: "Open Up"
Composer: Dave Dobbyn
Album: The Optimist
Label: Mushroom

Time: 2:18
Artist: Jack Scott
Song: "Midge"
Composer:
Album:
Label:

Time: 2:21
Artist: Midge Marsden
Song: "Love Is An Ocean"
Composer: Darren Watson
Album: Back to the Well
Label: SDL Music

Time: 2:32
Artist: Midge Marsden
Song: "Back to the Well"
Composer: Alex Deane
Album: Back to the Well
Label: SDL Music

Time: 2:3
Artist: GG Allin
Song: "Bite It You Scum"
Composer: GG Allin
Album: Hated in the Nation
Label: ROIR

Time: 2:41
Artist: Bobby Goldsborough
Song: "Honey"
Composer: Bobby Russell
Album: Honey
Label: United Artists

Time: 2:46
Artist: Free
Song: "Wishing Well"
Composer: Rodgers/Kirke/Yamauchi/Bundrick/Kossoff
Album: Heartbreaker
Label: Island

Time: 2:52
Artist: Burton Cummings
Song: "Your Backyard"
Composer: Cummings
Album: Burton Cummings/My Own Way to Rock
Label: Sony BMG

Time: 2:55
Artist: Goanna
Song: "Solid Rock"
Composer: Shane Howard
Album: Spirit of Place
Label: Warner Music

Time: 3:28
Artist: Booker T and the MG's
Song: "Soul Limbo"
Composer: Steve Cropper/Donald "Duck" Dunn/Booker T. Jones/Al Jackson, Jr
Album: Soul Limbo
Label: Stax

Time: 3:34
Artist: Steelers Wheel
Song: "Steamboat Row"
Composer: J Egan
Album: Ferguslie Park
Label: Lemon

Time: 3:38
Artist:
Song: "Twistin the New Zealand Way"
Composer:
Album:
Label:

Time: 3:34
Artist: Graham Gouldman
Song: "For Your Love"
Composer: Graham Gouldman
Album: The Graham Gouldman Thing
Label: Rev-Ola

Time: 3:47
Artist: The Marvelettes
Song: "Twistin' Postman"
Composer: Batman/Holland/Stevenson
Album: Playboy/Please Mr Postman
Label: Soul Jam

Time: 3:54
Artist: Ray Charles
Song: "Look What They've Done To My Song"
Composer: Melanie
Album: Genius and Soul: The 50th Anniversary Collection 
Label: Rhino

Time: 3:56
Artist: Fleetwood Mac
Song: "Oh Well" (Part One)
Composer: Peter Green
Album: Then Play On
Label: Reprise

Time: 4:05
Artist: Steve Gibbons Band
Song: "The Chain"
Composer: Steve Gibbons
Album: Maintaining Radio Silence
Label: MSI Music Distribution/Road Goes on Forever

Time: 4:12
Artist: Spike Jones
Song:"Holiday for Strings"
Composer: David Rose
Album: Greatest Hits
Label: RCA Records

Time: 4:18
Artist: Harry Nilsson
Song: "Zippity Doo Da"
Composer:
Album:
Label:

Time: 4:23
Artist: The Move
Song: Ben Crawley Steel Company
Composer: Roy Wood
Album: Message From the Country
Label: Capitol/Parlophone

Time: 4:27
Artist: Moon Mullican
Song: Mona Lisa
Composer: Ray Evans/Jay Livingstone
Album: Moon Mullican Sings His All-Time Hits
Label: Pickwick Group

Time: 4:30
Artist: The Moody Blues
Song: "The Story In Your Eyes"
Composer: Justin Hayward
Album:Every Good Boy Deserves Favour
Label: Threshold
 

Time: 4:35
Artist:Sparks
Song: "Here Comes Bob"
Composer: Ron Mael/Russell Mael
Album: A Woofer in Tweeters Clothing
Label: Rhino

Time: 4:38
Artist: Powderfinger
Song: "My Happiness"
Composer: Fanning
Album: Odyssey Number Five
Label: Universal Music Australia

Time: 4:48
Artist: Devo
Song: Smart Patrol/Mr DNA
Composer: Casale/Mothersbaugh
Album: Greatest Hits
Label: Warner Bros

Time: 4:55
Artist: Mike Nesmith
Song: "One Rose"
Composer: Cochran/Howard
Album: Complete First National Band Recordings
Label: Pacific Arts