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Albums and All That, Starting with the letter A as in Alpha, and some that begin with the letter B as in Bravo From At Home with Their Hits (The Partridge Family) to Barry Lyndon (Music from the soundtrack to) The Partridge Family [01:12] "I Think I Love You" At Home with Their Greatest Hits Bell 1107 1972 Whoops. Don't know how this one slipped through the cracks, but I'm glad I caught it. Be-Bop Deluxe [04:05] "Adventures in a Yorkshire Landscape" Axe Victim Harvest 11689 1974 From the debut Be-Bop Deluxe. Very Bowie derived, but cool things throughout. The B-52's [07:40] "Downtown" The B-52's Warner Bros. BSK 3355 1979 Reached number 59 on the Top 200. Wonderful pop junk, to borrow a phrase from Robert Christgau, here with the band borrowing from Petula Clark. Lunachicks [10:35] "Cookie Core" Babysitters on Acid Blast First BFFP 52 1990 I mean really, who doesn't love cookies? I always loved seeing them live (https://youtu.be/20G3XW03ofY) back in my NYC days. One of the best was when they played with L7 at CBGBs shortly after my 22nd birthday. Camarata conducting the Kingsway Symphony Orchestra and Chorus [13:56] "Toccata and Fugue in D Minor" Bach Spectacular London Records SPC 21078 1972 In Phase 4 Stereo! Quadrophonic, you ask? Nope... just using 10 channels, and eventually 20 channels, with "extreme" stereo mixing. Saar Chamber Orchestra [23:22] "Contrapunctus 14 - Harpsichord" Bach: Art of the Fugue Musical Heritage Society MHS 657/658 Budget Bach from the Musical Heritage Society. Arthur Loesser [26:55] "No. 1: Prelude and Fugue in C Major, BWV 846" Well-Tempered Clavier, Books I a II The Cleveland Institute of Music CRC 2001 Turns out Cleveland does more than rock. AC/DC [31:09] "Shoot to Thrill" Back in Black Atlantic SD 16018 1980 Got this album for my 12th birthday. I was told many times by my mother to turn it down. Mission accomplished. Presumably a 25x Platinum album. Shift those units! The O'Jays [36:28] "Love Train" Back Stabbers Philadelphia International Records KZ 31712 Gotta go with this hit in these times. Gong Kebyar, Sebatu [39:32] "Gilak" Bali: Gamelan Music from Sebatu Archiv Produktion 2533 130 1972 According to the liner notes, this is an ancient ritual temple dance performed by warriors before a fight. John Coltrane Quartet [47:05] "You Don't Know What Love Is" Ballads Impulse! A-32 1963 (1974 reissue) A classic from the American songbook, written for an Abbott and Costello flick "Keep Em Flying" from 1941. Of course, it took Miles Davis to make it a jazz standard, and Coltrane and co to take it to the next level. The Three O'Clock [52:19] "Sorry" Baroque Hoedown Frontier FLP 1010 1982 From the frontlines of the Paisley Underground, we'll go with The Three O'Clock's cover of The Easy Beats "Sorry", because of course Angus and Malcolm Young's older brother George co-wrote "Sorry" (https://youtu.be/1o4k9nC3CL0). How's that for a callback. The Munich Bach-Orchestra [54:41] "Concerto for Two Harpsichords and Orchestra in C-Minor" Music from the soundtrack of Barry Lyndon Warner Bros. K56189 1975 One of the finest films to be shot by candlelight. And hey, another call back: Bach + Harpsichord. We're killing it! Music behind the DJ: "Inspector Clouseau's Theme" by Henry Mancini