Six Degrees of Separation : Dr Feelgood to Joan Armatrading

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1. The Dr Feelgood track "Keep It Out of Sight", like the best tunes on their 1975 debut Down By The Jetty, is engineered by Dave Charles.

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2. Dave Charles was also a drummer with pub rockers Help Yourself. He played on Ernie Graham's  classic 1971 self-titled album with members of Brinsley Schwarz.

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  3. The Brinsleys' last album, 1974's New Favourites, was produced by Dave Edmunds.

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4. In 1975, Dave Edmunds released Subtle as a Flying Mallet which featured drummer Picque "Pick"  Withers.

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5. Pick Withers was the original drummer of Dire Straits. He played on the first four albums, including the 1978 debut which was recorded at Chris Blackwell's Basing Street Studios in Notting Hill, London.

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6. In 1974 Joan Armatrading recorded her second album, Back to the Night,  at Basing Street Studios, with future Police drummer Andy Summers among other musicians.

40 Year Itch : Left of the Dial, May 1973

Rick Paddor of WTUL-FM in the 1970's

Low on wattage but high ...in more ways than one, college radio stations offered a progressive alternative to what was going on to the right off them on the FM dials. By 1973, many were reporting their playlists to Billboard Magazine. Here's a sample beginning with my old station -- a decade before I ever spun a record there.

WTUL FM, TULANE UNIVERSITY

1. The Faces Ooh La La

2. Fairport Convention Rosie

3. Stardrive Intergalactic Trot

WTGR FM, MEMPHIS STATE now WUMR

  

1. Help Yourself Beware the Shadow
2. Babe Ruth Wells Fargo
3. Wet Willie Drippin' Wet

WRVU-FM, VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY 

1. Climax Blues Band Rich Man
2. Ellie Greenwich Let It Be Written, Let It be Sung
3. Gallery The Wind That Shakes the Barley


"Shake Your Love" by Climax Blues Band