You Know Who... Daydreams

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Harry Nilsson
Photo by Tom Hanley
One thing that you would not know about Brett and me (unless you listened to the episode I did with him on my old cloudcast years ago) is that we share a particular fondness for old television shows from  the 70s and their theme songs. That was why I was so excited when I went thrifting for records last week and found an album by Lawrence Hilton Jacobs, better known as Freddie “Boom Boom” Washington from Welcome Back, Kotter. I knew that I had to hip Brett to this. In kind, he pulled out Bob James’ classic theme to Taxi, “Angela,” which is so wonderfully wrought that it transcends sitcoms, eras, and even genres.
 
It had been over a week since the brilliant comic actor Catherine O’Hara passed away suddenly, but we still felt the urge to pay homage. Thanks to her hilarious and touching performance in the folk music parody A Mighty Wind, he found a lovely musical tribute. He also wanted to pay the same respects to the Italian singer, Tony Dallara, who passed in January. I had never heard of him (interestingly, neither had my wife Federica, but she said it sounded like something her mother would have listened to), but Brett said that we went to college with his daughter. I don’t remember, but I’ll take his word for it.
 
There are also some good tunes by some of the usual suspects: Steely Dan, Warren Zevon, Robin Trower, The Police.  And of course, it wouldn’t be a Brett show without a little Harry Nilsson.
 
Click here to check it out:
LICRadio 3/9/2026
 
 
Kazutoki Umezu KIKI BAND
“Squirrelly Dragon”
(Kazutoki Umezu)
Tokuzo, Nagoya, JP, 3/9/07
Studio version released on Dowser  (ZOTT, 2005)
 
 
Lawrence Hilton Jacobs
“Time Machine”
(Barbara Ullman, Lamont Dozier)
From Lawrence Hilton Jacobs  (ABC, 1978)
 
 
Bob James
“Angela (Theme from Taxi)”
(Bob James)
From Touchdown  (Tappan Zee/Columbia, 1978)
 
 
Harry Nilsson
"Early in the Morning"
(Leo Hickman, Louis Jordan, Dallas Bartley)
From Nilsson Schmilsson  (RCA, 1971)
 
 
Tony Dallara
“Julia”
(Alberico Gentile, Edilio Capotosti)
From Julia  (Music, 1959)
 
Mitch and Mickey
(a.k.a. Eugene Levy and Catherine O'Hara)
 Photo by Kevin Winter


Mitch & Mickey
“A Kiss at the End the Rainbow”
(Michael McKean, Annette O'Toole)
From A Mighty Wind: The Album  (Columbia/DMZ/Sony Music Soundtrax, 2003)
 
 
Nine Ince Nails
“March of the Pigs”
(Trent Reznor)
From The Downward Spiral  (Nothing/Interscope, 1994)
 
 
Stephen Stills
“For What It’s Worth”
(Stephen Stills)
Auditorium Theatre, Chicago, IL, 3/9/74
Originally recorded by Buffalo Springfield; released as single A-side (Atco, 1966)
 
 
Deep Purple
“Maybe I’m a Leo”
(Ritchie Blackmore, Ian Gillan, Roger Glover, Jon Lord, Ian Paice)
Paris Theatre, London, UK, 3/9/72
Studio version released on Machine Head  (EMI, Warner/Bros., 1972)
 
 
Steely Dan
Jeff "Skunk" Baxter
Photo by Michael Putland

“My Old School” 
(Walter Becker, Donald Fagen)
The Sopwith Camel, Glendale, CA, 3/9/74
Studio version released on Countdown to Ecstasy  (ABC, 1973)
 
“My Old School” is one of the few verifiably autobiographical Steely Dan songs… Early in the morning on May 15, 1969, a small army of Duchess County sheriff’s deputies rolled up to Bard’s campus, raiding the men’s dormitories and several off-campus houses, including the one Donald lived in. They seized a variety of controlled substances and arrested forty-four people. At the Dutchess County jail a barber administered institutional buzzcuts to anyone flying a freak flag. “Don Fagen” and Walter Becker were both on the list of detainees published in the next edition of the Bard student paper.”
                                                                                -Quantum Criminals
                                                                                 Alex Pappademas
 
 
Warren Zevon
“Poor Poor Pitiful Me”
(Warren Zevon)
The Cellar Door, Washington, DC, 3/9/78 (Early Show)
From Warren Zevon  (Asylum, 1976)
 
 
The Police
“Landlord”
(Sting, Stewart Copeland)
The Palladium, Dallas, TX, 3/9/79
Studio version as single B-side (A&M, 1979)
 
 
Bad Company
“The Stealer”
(Andy Fraser, Paul Rodgers, Paul Kossoff)
Newcastle City Hall, Newcastle, UK, 3/9/74
Originally recorded by Free; released on Highway  (Island, 1970)
 
 
Supertramp
“Bloody Well Right”
(Rick Davies, Roger Hodgson)
Hammersmith Odeon, London, UK, 3/9/75
Studio version released on Crime of the Century  (A&M, 1974)
 
 
Robin Trower

Robin Trower
“Daydream”
(James Dewar, Robin Trower)
From Twice Removed from Yesterday  (Chrysalis, 1973)
 
 
Sylvain Sylvain
“Teenage News”
(Sylvain Sylvain)
My Father's Place, Roslyn, NY, 3/9/80
Studio version released on Sylvain Sylvain  (RCA, 1979)
 
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