Episode 92 - Spirit In The Sky (For Bill)
4:00pm, 6-12-2023
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This week marks three years since Billy (aka Father Two Shakes) went to the great gig in the sky, leaving behind a massive, bowtie-shaped void.
Today on Mating Calls, we will be airing a Broadcast to Bill, playing songs and poetry he loved, as well as songs and poetry that helped us better make sense of his death and the cycle of life that preceded it. Naturally, this playlist is Beatles-heavy with notes of Dylan, Cash, Frost, and (Arthur) Lee, but it spans time, texture, and color just like Bill’s spirit.
- 4:01pm Spirit In The Sky by Norman Greenbaum on Spirit In The Sky (Craft Recordings)
- 4:04pm Ballad of Sir Frankie Crisp by George Harrison on All things must pass (Apple)
- 4:08pm Blues Run The Game - Studio Outtake - 1965 by Simon & Garfunkel on Old Friends (Sony)
- 4:11pm I Love The Passing Light by Wendell Berry on Celebrating Wendell Berry In Music (Tantara)
- 4:11pm Dayton Ohio 1903 by Harry Nilsson on Nilsson Sings Newman (RCA)
- 4:13pm I'll Be There by Bedlam's Offspring on Train To Nowhere! Unissued Sixties Garage Acetates, Volume Three (Norton)
- 4:17pm Strawberry Fields Forever - Demo Sequence/Anthology by The Beatles on Anthology 2 (Apple)
- 4:18pm Because - Take 1/Instrumental by The Beatles on Abbey Road (Super Deluxe) (Apple)
- 4:22pm Little Bird (Demo) by Lee Hazlewood on Requiem for an Almost Lady (Light In The Attic)
- 4:24pm The Breaking Hands by The Gun Club on Mother Juno (Sympathy For The Record Industry)
- 4:28pm Wild Geese by Mary Oliver on On Being with Krista Tippett (On Being Studios)
- 4:29pm Always See Your Face by Love on Four Sail (Elektra Entertainment)
- 4:33pm Moonlight on the River by Mac DeMarco on This Old Dog (Captured Tracks)
- 4:39pm Summer Wind by Frank Sinatra on Nothing But The Best (Frank Sinatra Enterprises)
- 4:42pm The Great Gig In The Sky by Pink Floyd on Dark Side of the Moon (Harvest)
- 4:47pm Just Another Spectre by Blancmange on Irene & Mavis (Minimal Wave)
- 4:50pm Boots of Spanish Leather by Bob Dylan on The Witmark Demos: 1962-1964 (The Bootleg Series Vol. 9) (Sony)
- 4:55pm I Go To Sleep by The Kinks on Kinda Kinks (Sanctuary Records )
- 4:58pm Rainzow by STRFKR on Ambien (Polyvinyl)
- 5:01pm Cry, Cry, Cry by Johnny Cash on Johnny Cash at Sun (Sony)
- 5:03pm I Shall Be Released by The Flying Burrito Brothers on Farther Along: The Best Of The Flying Burrito Brothers (UMG)
- 5:04pm Cry Baby Cry by The Beatles on The Beatles (Apple)
- 5:07pm Ram On by Paul McCartney, Linda McCartney on RAM (MPL)
- 5:09pm With Tomorrow by Gene Clark on White Light (A&M)
- 5:12pm Stopping by Woods On A Snowy Evening by Robert Frost on Christmas Poetry and Prose (Musical Concepts)
- 5:12pm Little Bird by The Beach Boys on Friends (Capitol)
- 5:14pm Vittorio E. by Spoon on Kill the Moonlight (Matador)
- 5:18pm Man Of Oil by Animal Collective on Meeting Of The Waters (Domino)
- 5:23pm Ballad of Faye by Kevin Morby on Oh My God (Dead Oceans)
- 5:26pm God Only Knows by The Langley Schools Music Project on Innocence and Despair (Bar/None)
- 5:28pm Jesus Is Waiting by Al Green on Call Me (Hi Records)
- 5:34pm On Some Faraway Beach by Brian Eno on Here Come The Warm Jets (Virgin)
- 5:39pm Curtains by Elton John on Captain Fantastic And The Brown Dirt Cowboy (Mercury)
- 5:45pm I'll Keep It With Mine by Nico on Chelsea Girl (Polydor Records)
- 5:48pm Too Hot To Dry by Dadamah on This Is Not a Dream (Majora)
- 5:57pm Spirit In The Sky by Bauhaus on Singles (Beggars Banquet)