Ep. 022: Big Apple
This city tells me what it’s like to live.
Performer | Track | Album | Original Release Year | New | Show Notes |
Jackie Gleason | Dream a Little Dream of Me | Jackie Gleason Presents the Torch with the Blue Flame | 1958 | Gleason was actually very knowledgeable about music. | |
Cat Power | New York | Jukebox | 2008 | ||
Rosie Thomas | All the Way to New York City | These Friends of Mine | 2007 | ||
Suzanne Vega | New York is My Destination | An Evening of New York Songs and Stories | 2020 | Too many New York songs to choose from Vega | |
Billie Holliday | Autumn of New York | Recital | 1956 | ||
Your DJ Speaks | |||||
Illinois Jacquet | Harlem Nocturne | Swing's the Thing | 1957 | ||
Donovan | Museum | Mellow Yellow | 1967 | ||
Ariana De Bose & cast of West Side Story | America | West Side Story (2021) (Original Music Soundtrack) | 2021 | ||
Candi Staton | Nights on Broadway | Music Speaks Louder than Words | 1977 | ||
Simon & Garfunkel | Bleecker Street | Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M. | 1964 | ||
10cc | Wall Street Shuffle | Sheet Music | 1974 | ||
Your DJ Speaks | |||||
Luscious Jackson | Citysong | Natural Ingredients | 1994 | ||
Digable Planets | Pacifics (Sdtrk "N.Y. Is Red Hot") | Reachin' (A New Refutation of Time and Space) | 1993 | ||
Anais Mitchell | Brooklyn Bridge | Anais Mitchell | 2022 | * | |
MARVIN | Brooklyn Brownstones | Avenues | 2021 | ||
Lou Reed | Coney Island Baby | Perfect Night Live in London | 1998 | ||
Your DJ Speaks | |||||
Billy Joel w/ Tony Bennett | New York State of Mind | Live at Shea Stadium | 2011 (Recorded in July 2008) | Trivia: Same groundskeeper drove the Beatles in 1965 and then Paul McCartney in 2008 | |
Your DJ Signs Off |