EPISODE · Nov 1, 2025 · 4H 53M
Episode 141: Sound Chaser 309
from Sound Chaser Progressive Rock Podcast · host David Layton
The show this time is devoted mostly to that ill-defined category “related music.” In particular, I am taking a long, nostalgic retrospection of the music I was listening to or interested in before I discovered progressive rock or while I was discovering progressive rock. These are songs playing on the radio, performed on TV, and otherwise in the general atmosphere of life in Southern California around a half century ago. The music comes from 1966 to 1978, and prog listeners consider many of these songs to closely tied to progressive rock. I also have an In Memoriam feature for two musicians recently departed. Let’s take a trip back on Sound Chaser. Playlist1. Kansas - Point of Know ReturnIN MEMORIAM2. Passport [Klaus Doldinger] - Nexus3. Al Di Meola [Anthony Jackson] - Flight over RioEND IN MEMORIAM4. America - Ventura Highway5. Joni Mitchell - Big Yellow Taxi6. Supertramp - Give a Little Bit7. Electric Light Orchestra - Turn to Stone8. Steve Miller Band - Fly Like an Eagle9. Gary Wright - Dream Weaver10. Jethro Tull - Locomotive Breath11. The Doobie Brothers - Black Water12. Santana - Oye Como Va13. Jefferson Airplane - Somebody to Love14. The Beatles - Taxman15. The Monkees - Randy Scouse Git16. Led Zeppelin - Communication Breakdown17. The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Purple Haze18. Heart - Barracuda19. Boz Scaggs - Lowdown20. Stevie Wonder - Superstition21. Average White Band - Pick up the Pieces22. Aerosmith - Sweet Emotion23. Edgar Winter Group - Frankenstein24. ZZ Top - La Grange25. Randy Newman - Short People26. Styx - Blue Collar Man (Long Nights)27. Boston - Don't Look BackTHE QUASI-SYMPHONIC ZONE28. Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody29. The Sweet - Love Is Like Oxygen30. Crosby, Stills & Nash - Suite: Judy Blue Eyes31. Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Lucky Man32. Blue Öyster Cult - (Don't Fear) The Reaper33. Paul & Linda McCartney - Uncle Albert / Admiral Halsey34. Derek and the Dominoes - Layla35. Elton John - Levon36. The Moody Blues - The Night: Nights in White SatinLEAVING THE QUASI-SYMPHONIC ZONE37. Manfred Mann's Earth Band - Spirits in the Night38. Gerry Rafferty - Baker Street39. Chicago - 25 or 6 to 440. Carly Simon - You're So Vain41. The Who - Magic Bus42. The Doors - People Are Strange43. Traffic - John Barleycorn (Must Die)44. David Bowie - Space Oddity46. The Eagles - Hotel California47. Cream - White Room48. The Beach Boys - Good Vibrations49. Procol Harum - A Whiter Shade of Pale50. Jim Croce - Operator (That's Not the Way It Feels)51. 10cc - I'm Not in Love52. Genesis - Follow You, Follow Me53. Earth, Wind & Fire - Fantasy54. Al Stewart - Time Passages55. Steely Dan - Deacon Blues56. Chuck Mangione - Feels So Good
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The show this time is devoted mostly to that ill-defined category “related music.” In particular, I am taking a long, nostalgic retrospection of the music I was listening to or interested in before I discovered progressive rock or while I was discovering progressive rock. These are songs playing on the radio, performed on TV, and otherwise in the general atmosphere of life in Southern California around a half century ago. The music comes from 1966 to 1978, and prog listeners consider many of these songs to closely tied to progressive rock. I also have an In Memoriam feature for two musicians recently departed. Let’s take a trip back on Sound Chaser. Playlist1. Kansas - Point of Know ReturnIN MEMORIAM2. Passport [Klaus Doldinger] - Nexus3. Al Di Meola [Anthony Jackson] - Flight over RioEND IN MEMORIAM4. America - Ventura Highway5. Joni Mitchell - Big Yellow Taxi6. Supertramp - Give a Little Bit7. Electric Light Orchestra - Turn to Stone8. Steve Miller Band - Fly Like an Eagle9. Gary Wright - Dream Weaver10. Jethro Tull - Locomotive Breath11. The Doobie Brothers - Black Water12. Santana - Oye Como Va13. Jefferson Airplane - Somebody to Love14. The Beatles - Taxman15. The Monkees - Randy Scouse Git16. Led Zeppelin - Communication Breakdown17. The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Purple Haze18. Heart - Barracuda19. Boz Scaggs - Lowdown20. Stevie Wonder - Superstition21. Average White Band - Pick up the Pieces22. Aerosmith - Sweet Emotion23. Edgar Winter Group - Frankenstein24. ZZ Top - La Grange25. Randy Newman - Short People26. Styx - Blue Collar Man (Long Nights)27. Boston - Don't Look BackTHE QUASI-SYMPHONIC ZONE28. Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody29. The Sweet - Love Is Like Oxygen30. Crosby, Stills & Nash - Suite: Judy Blue Eyes31. Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Lucky Man32. Blue Öyster Cult - (Don't Fear) The Reaper33. Paul & Linda McCartney - Uncle Albert / Admiral Halsey34. Derek and the Dominoes - Layla35. Elton John - Levon36. The Moody Blues - The Night: Nights in White SatinLEAVING THE QUASI-SYMPHONIC ZONE37. Manfred Mann's Earth Band - Spirits in the Night38. Gerry Rafferty - Baker Street39. Chicago - 25 or 6 to 440. Carly Simon - You're So Vain41. The Who - Magic Bus42. The Doors - People Are Strange43. Traffic - John Barleycorn (Must Die)44. David Bowie - Space Oddity46. The Eagles - Hotel California47. Cream - White Room48. The Beach Boys - Good Vibrations49. Procol Harum - A Whiter Shade of Pale50. Jim Croce - Operator (That's Not the Way It Feels)51. 10cc - I'm Not in Love52. Genesis - Follow You, Follow Me53. Earth, Wind & Fire - Fantasy54. Al Stewart - Time Passages55. Steely Dan - Deacon Blues56. Chuck Mangione - Feels So Good
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