The Tubes - The Completion Backwards Principle

The Tubes - The Completion Backwards Principle.  How did this record get it's name?  My guess - but it has to be this.  Before the music starts on Talk To Ya Later (side one, song one), a very serious announcer comes on in a '50's style radio voice and says this: "As I mentioned near the close of the last record, this record is another example of the Completion Backwards Pinciple.  If you can possibly manage the time, please play both sides at one meeting."   Wow - I saw on the album that the great Steve Lukather has a writing credit on Talk To Ya Later.  More on him in a post on Toto or Boz Scagss.  Have a great Labor Day holiday weekend!

Moving Right Along...Urban Cowboy Soundtrack

Urban Cowboy - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack.  Lots of good songs on this double record.  By performers such as, Bob Seger (Nine Tonight), Joe Walsh (All Night Long), Michael Martin Murphy, Glenn Fry, Charlie Daniels (The Devil Went Down to Georgia), J.D. Souther, Dan Fogelberg, Mickey Gilley, Johnny Lee (Cherokee Fiddle and the great Lookin' for Love), Boz Scaggs (Look What You've Done to Me), Bonnie Raitt (Darlin'), Kenny Rogers (Love the World Away), and the Eagles (Lyin' Eyes).

Labor Day - Radio Debut - on WSLR with my pal Radio Dave: Songs about Work on Wed. Sept. 1st

 

Alabama - 40 Hour Week.  Good thing I love this album.  I am making my live radio debut on Wed. Sept. 1st.  Yes - real broadcast radio.  I will be on FM 97.1, WSLR FM, Sarasota.  You can listen in live streaming on your computer at http://wslr.org/   The weekly radio show is called Liner Notes.  I will be talking with show host and good pal Radio Dave.  He's featuring songs about work and jobs - as we approach the Labor Day Weekend.  Labor Day is always on the first Monday of September.  Sadly too, the unofficial end of summer.  The first one in the US was celebrated on September 5, 1882 in New York City.  Back to 40 Hour Week.  We are playing, of course, the title track.  And what an awesome record!  I also like Can't Keep a Good Man Down.  Alabama does one of my favorite holiday songs: Thistle Hair the Christmas Bear.  Wiki says they are a "band that wrote and performed their own songs."  For me - that is the benchmark of greatness.  Their 6th studio record, out in 1985, 40 Hour Week may have been the zenith for this dominant, non-fake country group.  I wish I would have seen them play live in their heyday.