Philadelphia Sounds
Follow American Routes this week to the City of Brotherly Love, as we hang out on the musical street corners with some of Philadelphia’s finest, including the late bobby-soxer idol Bobby Rydell, hip-hop drummer and city champion ?uestlove of the Roots, and the city’s former mayor, Michael Nutter, who can also claim fame as a disco DJ. We’ll visit a famous operatic cafe and sit in with a neighborhood jazz organ trio. Plus catch a choir rehearsal at one of the city’s historic churches and a conversation with a mother-daughter klezmer duo. And musical postcards from artists who call Philly their hometown.
***CONTENT WARNING: The interview with Solomon Burke in hour 2 of this program uses the offensive term "midget," which is considered a derogatory slur to refer to people with Dwarfism. Little People of America, the world’s oldest and largest dwarfism support organization, advocates to abolish the use of the word. To read more about this, click here: https://bit.ly/4bW5Bjl ***
HOUR ONE
Open Bed: The Sermon Jimmy Smith
Talkin' Verve: Roots of Acid Jazz, Verve
Up Above My Head I Hear Music in the Air Sister Rosetta Tharpe
The Original Soul Sister, Proper
Love Train The O'Jays
Total Soul Classics: Back Stabbers, Proper
Expressway to Your Heart The Soul Survivors
Flick Hits Take 2: Classic R&B Hits, The Right Stuff
SEGMENT: Mayor Michael Nutter
SEGMENT: ?uestlove of the Roots
Instrumental: Out of This World John Coltrane
Coltrane, Impulse!
CLIP: McCoy Tyner
Bessie's Blues John Coltrane Quartet
Crescent, Impulse!
Please Hurry Home Patti LaBelle & the Blue Belles
The Early Years, Ace UK
SEGMENT: Budesa Brothers & Lucky Thompson
SEGMENT: Elaine Hoffman Watts and Susan Watts
Pink Elephants Joe Venuti & Eddie Lang
Wild Cats, ASV
Can't Get to Heaven on the Frankford El The American Dream
The American Dream, Ampex
SEGMENT: Mummers Parade
Instrumental: Raggin' the Scale Joe Venuti & Eddie Lang
Wild Cats, ASV
SEGMENT: Victor Cafe
Deep River Marian Anderson
Spirituals, BMG
Black is the Color of My True Love's Hair Nina Simone
Anthology: The Colpix Years, Rhino
End Bed: Dear Lord John Coltrane
A John Coltrane Retrospective - The Impulse Years, Impulse
HOUR TWO
Open Bed: Detective in the Rain Heath Allen
Life of Leisure
Fall in Philadelphia Daryl Hall & John Oates
Whole Oats, Atlantic
Storm Warning The Volcanos
Storm Warning: Philly Original Soul Classics, Vol. 1, Jamie/ Guyden
SEGMENT: Marshall Allen
Ship of the Future Edison Electric Band
Bless You, Dr. Woodward, Water Music
Do You Wanna Touch Me (Oh Yeah) Joan Jett & the Blackhearts
Greatest Hits, Blackheart
Instrumental: TNT Jimmy Smith
Talkin' Verve: Roots of Acid Jazz, Verve
SEGMENT: R&M Deli
SEGMENT: Bobby Rydell
Dancin' the Strand Maureen Gray
Philly Doo-Wop Classics, Jamie/ Guyden
Slow Twistin' Chubby Checker and Dee Dee Sharp
The Best of Chubby Checker: Cameo-Parkway, 1959-1963, Abkco
Ain't Nothing But a Houseparty The Showstoppers
The Northern Soul Generation: Keep the Faith, Castle Music
SEGMENT: Jerry Blavat
Instrumental: Bandstand Boogie Les Elgart and His Orchestra
Television Themes: 16 Most Requested Songs, Columbia/ Legacy
Be Thankful For What You've Got William DeVaughn
The Best of the Philly Sound, GNP
I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free John Legend and the Roots
Wake Up, G.O.O.D./ Columbia
SEGMENT: Solomon Burke
SEGMENT: Monumental Baptist Church