Updated ESP Disc Sun Ra radio tribute details
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Updated ESP Disc Sun Ra radio tribute details
Here is the revised, corrected lineup for the ESP special. I'm still=20 delving into the many treasures here--the standout for me so far is=20 definitely "Intergalactic Research" from 1971. "Darn That Dream" is=20 pretty darn cool, too! Many thanks to everyone who sent in corrections,=20 esp. Robert C., Len P. , and Stephen A. Note to Len: on my download,=20 "Discipline 27" from 1971 is only 7 min. long, not 15. Am I missing=20 some? Note to Robert C.: I don't think he mentions that there's any more=20 from the Pershing Ballroom, but I should listen to it all again to be=20 sure. Also, still don't know what Disc5, track 7 is. But it sure is nice!
Thanks again to the Good Doctor for some knock-out material! Highly=20 recommended.
Saturnally, Sam
Sun Ra ESP Tribute notes rev.
Disc 1 (79:28) (file 1, part 1)
- Introduction by the Good Doctor [Michael Anderson] (:09)
- Message to Earthman -- Yochannan with Sun Ra & His Arkestra (master=20 take, no spoken intro) (2:16)
- The Good Doctor (:21)
- =93This is my day, a sunny day=94 (Sun Ra studio recitation over=20 pre-recorded music: live Discipline 27) (4:38)
- Sun Ra speaking (early history) (7:34)
- The Good Doctor (intro to Wynonie Harris) (:14)
- Dig This Boogie -- Wynonie Harris (released 19460414) [RLC has March=20 1946] (Ra: p) (2:27)
- Lightnin' Struck the Poorhouse -- Wynonie Harris (released 19460414)=20 [RLC has March 1946] (Ra: p) (2:39)
- My Baby's Barrelhouse -- Wynonie Harris (released 19460414) [RLC has=20 March 1946] (Ra: p) (2:47)
- Drinking By Myself -- Wynonie Harris (released 19460414) [RLC has=20 March 1946] (Ra: p) (2:35)
- The Good Doctor (intro to vocal groups) (1:25)
- He's Got Her and Gone -- Andrew Tibbs [not in RLC; RLC: Ra not=20 present] (3:12)
- Holidays Are Over -- Sax Mallard's Combo [not in RLC; RLC: Ra not=20 present] (3:00)
- Big Time Baby -- The Dozier Boys & Eugene Wright [attr. on label to=20 Sax Mallard; GD claims this is a Ra composition] (Ra, p., arr.) (2:16)
- In a Travelin' Mood -- Andrew Tibbs with the Dozier Boys (Ra, p.) (2:55)
- In Every Man's Life -- Andrew Tibbs with the Dozier Boys (Ra, p.) (3:27)
- The Good Doctor (2:27)
- Deep Purple -- Sun Ra & Stuff Smith [from Evidence =93Sound Sun=20 Pleasure!!=94] (3:56)
- Yesterdays [inc.] Sun Ra, p. and solovox & poss. Bill Coleman, tp.=20 (same day as =93Deep Purple,=94 between Nov. 1948 and mid-1949) (1:01)
- Darn That Dream -- Sun Ra, p. and solovox (same day as =93Deep=20 Purple,=94 between Nov. 1948 and mid-1949) (5:07)
- The Good Doctor (2:36)
- Stop Pretty Baby Stop -- Red Saunders w/Joe Williams, voc. 19510420=20 (Ra, arr. only) (2:46)
- Boot 'Em Up -- Red Saunders 19510824 (Ra, arr. only) (2:52)
- Sugar Bounce -- Red Saunders w/Joe Williams, voc. 19510824 (Ra, arr.=20 only) (2:28)
- The Good Doctor (1:16)
- Hambone (1st version) -- Red Saunders 19520118 (Ra, arr. only) (2:32)
- Zeke'l Zeke'l -- Red Saunders 19520403 (Ra, arr. only) (2:20)
- The Good Doctor (:56)
- Daddy's Gonna Tell You No Lie -- the Cosmic Rays [from =93The=20 Singles=94] (2:58)
- Spaceship Lullabye -- Nu Sounds (1954 or '55) [from =93Spaceship=20 Lullabye=94] (2:15)
- =93Are you afraid of spacehips? Earth is a spaceship=94 (Sun Ra studio= =20 recitation over pre-recorded music: =93Neptune=94) (1:15) [also on disc 2, =
track 11, but a bit longer there] 32. The Good Doctor (:31)
Disc 2 (76:51) (file 1, part 2/file 2, part 1)
- The Good Doctor (:15)
- Sun Ra speaking (=93the most neglected artist in the world=94) (2:55)
- Hot Skillet Mama -- Yochannan [=93The Singles=94] (3:10)
- The Good Doctor (1:43)
- Just You Just Me -- jam session, Pershing Ballroom, Chicago, poss.=20
- Personnel includes Ra, p; Pat Patrick, bs; Gene Ammons, ts;=20 J.J. Johnson, tb (off-mic) (11:27)
- The Good Doctor (:59)
- Bernard Stollman speaking (7:02)
- Heliocentric [from =93Heliocentric=94 vol. 1] (4:12)
- =93There's music everywhere=94 (Sun Ra studio recitation over=20 pre-recorded music) (:43)
- Outer Nothingness [from =93Heliocentric=94 vol. 1] (7:36)
- =93Are you afraid of spacehips? Earth is a spaceship=94 (Sun Ra studi= o=20 recitation over pre-recorded music: =93Neptune=94) (1:40) [same track as=20 disc 1, track 31, but longer] (1:40)
- Other Worlds [from =93Heliocentric=94 vol. 1] (4:26)
- The Cosmos [from =93Heliocentric=94 vol. 1] (7:27)
- =93The time has come, the walrus said=94 (Sun Ra studio recitation over= =20 pre-recorded music: =93Space is the Place=94) (1:16)
- Of Heavenly Things [from =93Heliocentric=94 vol. 1] (5:42)
- Sun Ra speaking (=93This music has been tested all kinds of ways=94) (6= :13)
- Nebulae [from =93Heliocentric=94 vol. 1] (3:16)
- Dancing in the Sun [from =93Heliocentric=94 vol. 1] (1:51)
- The Good Doctor (1:10)
- Pharaoh Sanders speaking (1:56)
- Sun Ra speaking about meeting John Coltrane (1:02)
- Bernard Stollman speaking on =93Heliocentric vol. 2=94 (:38)
Disc 3 (76:06) (file 2, part 3)
- The Sun Myth [from =93Heliocentric=94 vol. 2] (18:10)
- =93If you want to land on other planets=94 (Sun Ra studio recitation ove= r=20 pre-recorded music: tp) (:09)
- A House of Beauty [from =93Heliocentric=94 vol. 2] (4:50)
- Sun Ra speaking (=93The planet's getting crowded=94) (6:52)
- Cosmic Chaos [from =93Heliocentric=94 vol. 2] (15:09)
- Bernard Stollman speaking on =93Heliocentric vol. 3=94 (:11)
- =93Earth is no longer in the realm of simplicities=94 (Sun Ra studio=20 recitation over pre-recorded music) (1:03)
- The Good Doctor (:30)
- =93If you see no future on Earth you must leave here=94 (Sun Ra studio=20 recitation over pre-recorded music: Blue Thumb =93Space is the Place=94) (:= 25)
- Bernard Stollman speaking on =93Heliocentric vol. 3=94 [says vol. 3 was= =20 recorded same date as vol. 2, 19651116] (:54)
- Mythology Metamorphosis [from =93Heliocentric=94 vol. 3] (4:09)
- Sun Ra speaking (1:27)
- Heliocentric Worlds [from =93Heliocentric=94 vol. 3] (4:03)
- Sun Ra speaking, with =93Space is the Place=94 in background; speaks=20 about his band [mentions Tyrone Hill, Ronnie Brown, Samarai] (5:30)
- World Worlds [from =93Heliocentric=94 vol. 3] (4:59)
- =93I do not fear=94 (Sun Ra studio recitation over pre-recorded music: =
=93Neptune=94 and =93Discipline 99=94?) (2:25) 17. Interplanetary Traveler [from =93Heliocentric=94 vol. 3] (5:01) 18. =93If you came from nowhere here=94 (Sun Ra studio recitation over=20 pre-recorded music) (:09)
Disc 4 (73:57) (file 3, part 1)
- The Good Doctor (:06)
- Intercosmosis [from =93Heliocentric=94 vol. 3] (16:58)
- The Good Doctor (:40)
- =93The tree is wood. Would you like to know?=94 (Sun Ra studio=20 recitation over pre-recorded music) (:54)
- The Good Doctor [says =93Nothing Is=94 was record at St. Laurence=20 University] (:45)
- Bernard Stollman speaking on =93Nothing Is=94 (2:11)
- Sun Ra and His Band From Outer Space [from =93Nothing Is=94] (11:18)
- =93The beauty of music=94 (Sun Ra studio recitation over pre-recorded=20 music) (:08)
- The Shadow World [from =93Nothing Is=94] (4:31)
- Theme of the Stargazers [from =93Nothing Is=94] (1:48)
- Outer Spaceways Incorporated [from =93Nothing Is=94] (:31)
- Next Stop Mars [from =93Nothing Is=94] (:33)
- Sun Ra speaking about John Gilmore (2:32)
- Dancing Shadows [from =93Nothing Is=94] (9:43)
- Imagination [from =93Nothing Is=94] (:43)
- Second Stop is Jupiter [from =93Nothing Is=94] (1:10)
- =93Jupiter is a wonderful planet=94 (Sun Ra studio recitation over=20 pre-recorded music: =93Space is the Place=94 and =93Black Myth=94) (1:31)
- Exotic Forest [from =93Nothing Is=94] (9:43)
- Planes of Nature (Sun Ra recitation of poem) (:43)
- Velvet [from =93Nothing Is=94/bonus track] (7:18)
Disc 5 (60:26) (file 3, part 2/file 4, part 1)
- =93If the truth about truth is a bad truth...=94 (Sun Ra studio=20 recitation over pre-recorded music) [same as disc 9, track 5] (2:38)
- Outer Nothingness [from =93Nothing Is=94/bonus track] (15:43)
- We Travel the Spaceways [from =93Nothing Is=94/bonus track] (1:29)
- Sun Ra speaking about music (5:18)
- The Wind Speaks (Syracuse University, 1966) [from =93Spaceways=94 CD] (9= :02)
- The Good Doctor (:43)
- ?? synth, perc piece [please identify] (4:30)
- The Good Doctor (:08)
- ESP Sampler commercial [note: this was repeated at beginning of file=20 4; not included here] (:53)
- I Am Strange -- Sun Ra, poem recital and piano (3:11)
- I Am an Instrument -- Sun Ra, poem recital and zither (1:37)
- The Good Doctor (1:07)
- Universe in Blue, pt. 1 & pt. 2 (19710817) [from =93Universe in Blue=94= =20 but note: in stereo, and with applause at end] [GD says location=20 possibly Slug's] (14:02)
Disc 6 (69:05) (file 4, part 2)
- Intergalactic Research (ends with Gilmore unacc. solo) (19710817,=20 poss. Slug's, same show as =93Universe in Blue=94) (15:13)
- Discipline 27 (19710817, poss. Slug's, same show as =93Universe in=20 Blue=94) (7:32)
- The Good Doctor (2:01)
- Theme of the Stargazers (19711217, Egypt) [from =93Horizon=94] (2:07)
- Discipline 2 (19711217, Egypt) [from =93Horizon=94] (4:41)
- The Shadow World (19711217, Egypt) [from =93Horizon=94] [note: more=20 complete version than LP; edited-out part patched in by GD from=20 cassette] (16:40) 7.Unidentified title (heavy synth) (19711217, Egypt) (4:54)
- Unidentified title [June Tyson, voc., low-volume recording; sound=20 improves at 4:00] (19711217, Egypt) (11:40)
- Unidentified title (19711217, Egypt) [note: GD announces these as=20 =93We'll Wait For You=94 and =93Discipline 8=94 but to my ears they're not]= (4:13)
Disc 7 (78:32) (file 4, part 3)
- Unidentified title [solo bs?] (19711217, Egypt) (1:48)
- The Good Doctor (1:52)
- Outer Spaceways Incorporated [take 1?] (w/long intro) (19720213, alt.=20 take, mono film track from film =93Space is the Place=94) (7:44)
- Outer Spaceways Incorporated [Evidence =93Space is the Place=94=20 soundtrack version] (3:19)
- We'll Wait For You [Evidence soundtrack version but longer; does not=20 fade] -> Strange Worlds -> solo moog (19720213, mono film track from=20 film =93Space is the Place=94) (8:23)
- The Good Doctor (1:02)
- The Good Doctor [note: announces side C of =93Live at Montreux=94 1976, =
but in file, 17 min. of non-Ra =93elevator music=94 appearts instead, as=20 noted in email--not included here] (1:55) 8. Halloween in Harlem (1978?1031, Grendel's Lair, Philadelphia) [not in=20 RLC] personnel includes: Craig Harris, Vincent Chancey, Oscar =93Bobo=94=20 Brown, b. (5:30) 9. The Shadow World (1978?1031, Grendel's Lair, Philadelphia) [not in=20 RLC] (7:31) 10. applause, announcement by Dave Gold (1978?1031, Grendel's Lair,=20 Philadelphia) [not in RLC] (:40) 11. The Good Doctor (2:59) 12. I Cover the Waterfront (feat. Gilmore) (19771213, Bottom Line, NYC)=20 [not in RLC] (9:07) --> 13. Theme of the Stargazers (19771213, Bottom Line, NYC) [not in RLC] (6:41) 14. The Good Doctor (1:30) 15. Untitled improvisation (intro) (19780417, Left Bank Jazz Society)=20 [not in RLC] personnel includes: Robin Eubanks, tb, Dale Williams, eg=20 (4:26) --> 16. Tapestry From an Asteroid (June Tyson, voc.) (19780417, Left Bank=20 Jazz Society) [not in RLC] (8:39) --> 17. Omnipotence (Ra, solo keyboard) (19780417, Left Bank Jazz Society)=20 [not in RLC] (4:01) 18. The Good Doctor (:15) 19. ESP Sampler commerical (1:02)
Disc 8 (76:04) (file 5, part 1)
- The Good Doctor and Announcement (Art Zimmerman for the American=20 Cancer Society) (1:48)
- Untitled improvisation (intro) (19780630, Public Theatre, NYC,=20 Tribute to Fletcher Henderson) [not in RLC] (:49) -->
- (The World Is Waiting) For the Sunrise (19780630, Public Theatre,=20 NYC) [not in RLC] (:42) -->
- Discipline 27 (19780630, Public Theatre, NYC) [not in RLC] (4:01)
- The Good Doctor (1:02)
- 'Round Midnight (19781026, University of Toronto) [not in RLC] (8:15)
- Prelude to a Kiss (19781026, University of Toronto) [not in RLC] (5:09)
- The Good Doctor (:50)
- Black Myth (19781031, Grendel's Lair, Philadelphia) from GD personal=20 cassette [not in RLC] (1:33) -->
- UFO (19781031, Grendel's Lair, Philadelphia) from GD personal=20 cassette [not in RLC] (5:52)
- Door of the Cosmos (19781031, Grendel's Lair, Philadelphia) from GD=20 personal cassette [not in RLC] (3:33)
- We Travel the Spaceways (19781031, Grendel's Lair, Philadelphia)=20 from GD personal cassette [not in RLC] (3:05)
- The Good Doctor (:55)
- The Moors [RLC lists as Unidentified title] [ob; perc; tb;eg]=20 (19790604, Moers Festival) (5:44)
- Announcement (19790604, Moers Festival) (2:06)
- Unidentified title [ens; vib] (19790604, Moers Festival) (3:04) -->
- Strange Worlds (19790604, Moers Festival) (1:44)
- The Good Doctor (1:46)
- Blame Shame (1978, Smucker's, NYC) Rusty Morgan: voc [not in RLC] (7:57)
- Journey to Saturn (1978, Smucker's, NYC) [not in RLC] (3:57) -->
- Space is the Place (1978, Smucker's, NYC) Akh Tal Ebah, voc. [not in=20 RLC] (6:41)
- The Good Doctor (1:30)
- Summertime (19800622, Elaine's, Philadelphia) Ra: org [not in RLC]=20 (3:51)
Disc 9 (46:06) (file 5, part 2/file 6, part 1)
- The Shadow World (19800622, Elaine's, Philadelphia) head played=20 w/out perc. [not in RLC] (12:03)
- The Good Doctor (1:25)
- Fireside Chat with Lucifer (19800912) [from LP =93Fireside Chat with=20 Lucifer=94] (15:16)
- The Good Doctor (9:44)
- =93If the truth about truth is a bad truth...=94 (Sun Ra studio=20 recitation over pre-recorded music) [same as disc 5, track 1] (2:42)
- Sun Ra speaking (older than other speaking tracks?) =93What a great=20 joke God has played on humanity=94 (4:13)
- The Good Doctor (intro to =93proclamations=94) (:41)
Disc 10 (53:24) (file 6, part 2)
- Sax solo intro (19710817, Slug's Saloon, NYC) [not in RLC] (1:10) -->
- I Roam the Cosmos (Discipline 27, incl. Astro Black) (19710817,=20 Slug's Saloon, NYC) not in RLC
- The Good Doctor (:26)
Disc 11 (74:32) (file 6, part 3)
- Blackman (19710817, Slug's Saloon, NYC) [not in RLC] (30:09)
- The Good Doctor (1:13)
- The Sound Mirror/Mayan Temples (19781031, Grendel's Lair,=20 Philadelphia) from GD personal cassette [from LP "The Sound Mirror"]=20 [RLC has Variety Studios, NYC] (13:47)
- The Good Doctor (1:17)
- I Pharaoh/Mayan Temples (1979, Italy) [from LP =93I Pharaoh=94] (27:18)
- The Good Doctor (:46)
Disc 12 (66:48) (file 6, part 4)
- Eulogy (19930605, Bottom Line, NYC, Ra memorial service) Amiri=20 Baraka, recitation (6:55)
- Departure Day [RLC has it as Untitled improvisation] (19930605,=20 Bottom Line, NYC, Ra memorial service) [dr, perc; brass; MR, tp;=20 Gilmore, ts; freakout ens; MA, as; tb & AA,tp] (8:49) -->
- Departure Day [RLC has it as Untitled improvisation] contd.=20 (19930605, Bottom Line, NYC, Ra memorial service) [Inf-d; freakout ens]=20 (1:46)
- Carefree (19930605, Bottom Line, NYC, Ra memorial service) [not in=20 RLC] (21:13)
- Untitled improvisation/Door of the Cosmos (19930605, Bottom Line,=20 NYC, Ra memorial service) [not in RLC] (13:14)
- We Travel the Spaceways (19930605, Bottom Line, NYC, Ra memorial=20 service) [not in RLC] (10:27)
- The Good Doctor (2:42)
- =93It's been nice talking to you=94 (Sun Ra studio recitation over=20 pre-recorded music: =93Images=94) =93Transmolecular Teleportation Vehicles= =94 (1:04)
- Radio spot for Bud's Medical Center (:36)