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ROCK N ROLL TIMES

LOS ANGELES SONGWRITER TRANSPLANTS

Opening: Bob Dylan’s “Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum” (from Love and theft album on Columbia)  track 1 4:46

Commentary: Our show today is a salute to great los Angeles singer-songwriters—the transplants. By that I mean, songwriters who may not have officially started here, but have lived here long enough to be considered part of our community.
:e started with Bob Dylan’s Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum. Now let’s hear threemore tracks from one of my favorite bob Dylan albums, Love and Theft/
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Block 1
Dylan’s “Summer Days” (same) track 3  4;53
    
Dylan’s “High Water for Charley Patton” ( same)  track 7 4:05
    
Dylan’s “Bye and Bye” (same) track  4 3:16

Commentary: That was Bob Dylan and music from his Love and Theft Album. Now let’s go to another one of my favorite LA transplant songwriters…Joni Mitchell.


Block 2
Mitchell’s “Carey” (from joni Mitchell hits album on reprise)  track 6 3:02
       
Mitchell’s “California”  (same) track 7 3:48
       
Mitchell’s “Both Sides Now” (same) track 15   4:35

Commentary:  And here is music from another of the great  LA songwriters who moved here from across the country in Brooklyn. Neil Diamond.

       
Block 3
Diamond’s “Solitary Man” (from The Greatest Hits album on Columbia)  disc 1 track 1 2:43
Diamond’s “Beautiful Noise” (same)  disc 2 track 5 3:24
       
Diamond’s “If You Know What I Mean” (same)  disc 2 track 6 3:41
     
Commentary:   Now, here’s a Florida native who spent most of his musical life in Los Angeles or more precisely these days, Malibu.

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.


Block 4
Petty’s ‘Refugee” (Greatest Hits on MCA) track 5   3;21
     
Petty’s “Listen to Her Heart” (same)   track 3 3:01
     
Petty’s ”The Waiting” (same)  track 9 4:01

​Commentary: Let’s end the show with music from another member of the great LA songwriting transplants: Stevie Wonder who was born in Saginaw, Michigan.


Block 5
Wonder’s “Higher Ground” (from Higher Ground album)  track 5 3:42
Wonder’s  “Living for the City” (same)  track 3 7:22


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