Cafe Vinyl, Las Vegas, NV (2026)

08/30/2026

☕ Cafe Vinyl — Post-Show Recap
Sunday, August 30, 2026

This morning, Cafe Vinyl celebrated the craft of the album track and paused to remember Dolly Parton — a songwriter, storyteller and one-of-a-kind light whose music and generosity reached far beyond country. We closed the show with “Jolene” and a special flight of songs about angels.

🎵 Boston — “Something About You”
📀 Original album: Boston (1976)
💡 “Something About You” was one of the six demos that finally won Boston a record deal. Tom Scholz built the band’s enormous sound largely in his home studio, playing most of the instruments while Brad Delp stacked those unmistakable vocals.

🎵 The Alan Parsons Project — “Games People Play”
📀 Original album: The Turn of a Friendly Card (1980)
💡 Lenny Zakatek sings lead. A repeating tape loop was used to control the tempo — and became part of the finished mix — on an album built around gambling, risk and chance.

🎵 John Mellencamp, then billed as Johnny Cougar — “I Need a Lover”
📀 Original album: A Biography (1978)
💡 First released outside the U.S., the song became Mellencamp’s Australian breakthrough before reappearing on 1979’s John Cougar for American listeners. Pat Benatar soon recorded a fiery version of her own.

🎵 Genesis — “Paperlate”
📀 Original release: 3×3 EP (1982); U.S. album appearance: Three Sides Live (1982)
💡 An outtake from the Abacab sessions, “Paperlate” took its title from a line in “Dancing with the Moonlit Knight.” The Phenix Horns of Earth, Wind & Fire add the brass punch.

🎵 The Police — “Walking in Your Footsteps”
📀 Original album: Synchronicity (1983)
💡 Sting uses the extinction of the dinosaurs as a warning about humanity’s own future, setting the idea against a spare, hypnotic, world-music-influenced groove.

🎵 Peter Gabriel — “Shock the Monkey”
📀 Original album: Peter Gabriel 4, known in the U.S. as Security (1982)
💡 Despite the title and famous video, Gabriel has explained that the song is about jealousy, not animal rights. It became his first U.S. Top 30 hit.

🎵 Yes — “Changes”
📀 Original album: 90125 (1983)
💡 The song began with Trevor Rabin before the Cinema project became a revived Yes. Jon Anderson and drummer Alan White helped shape the finished track, including its striking rhythmic opening.

🎵 R.E.M. — “Radio Song”
📀 Original album: Out of Time (1991)
💡 KRS-One guests on the album opener, giving R.E.M.’s complaint about predictable radio an unexpected meeting point between college rock and hip-hop.

🎵 U2 — “Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah”
📀 Original release: Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah — Single (2026)
💡 Released Friday, August 28, this is U2’s cover of the Pogues’ 1988 song. It will appear on 20th Century Paddy: The Songs of Shane MacGowan, with at least half of the artists’ royalties supporting Dublin Simon Community.

🎵 Led Zeppelin — “The Immigrant Song”
📀 Original album: Led Zeppelin III (1970)
💡 Its Norse imagery was inspired by the band’s June 1970 visit to Reykjavík, Iceland — the spark for one of rock’s most instantly recognizable opening cries.

🎵 Jackson Browne — “For a Rocker”
📀 Original album: Lawyers in Love (1983)
💡 Browne wrote this jubilant album closer as a tribute to Pretenders guitarist James Honeyman-Scott, who died in 1982 at just 25.

🎵 Nirvana — “Lithium”
📀 Original album: Nevermind (1991)
💡 Producer Butch Vig has said it was the only Nevermind track recorded to a click track; locking the tempo helped the band capture the song’s famous quiet-loud swing.

🪽 Dolly Parton Tribute & Songs About Angels

🎵 Dolly Parton — “Jolene”
📀 Original album: Jolene (1974)
💡 Dolly drew the story from a bank teller who paid too much attention to her husband, Carl Dean, while the unforgettable name came from a young red-haired fan she met after a show. The single arrived in late 1973 before the album followed in 1974.

🎵 Willie Nelson — “Angel Flying Too Close to the Ground” (Live from Austin, 1979)
📀 Original album: Honeysuckle Rose (1980)
💡 This remarkable performance was captured for Austin City Limits on October 1, 1979, before the studio recording appeared in Honeysuckle Rose and became a No. 1 country hit.

🎵 Jimi Hendrix — “Angel”
📀 Original album: The Cry of Love (1971)
💡 Hendrix worked on versions of the song for years and recorded the foundation of the finished track in July 1970. It was released posthumously on The Cry of Love.

🎵 Aerosmith — “Angel”
📀 Original album: Permanent Vacation (1987)
💡 Co-written by Steven Tyler and Desmond Child, the power ballad climbed to No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 — Aerosmith’s highest position until “I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing.”

🎵 The Gregg Allman Band — “I’m No Angel”
📀 Original album: I’m No Angel (1987)
💡 The swaggering title track led a major comeback for Gregg Allman after years away from the studio and became one of his biggest solo successes.

🎵 Free — “Seven Angels”
📀 Original album: Heartbreaker (1973)
💡 “Seven Angels” closes Free’s sixth and final studio album. Despite errors in the original sleeve credits, guitarist Paul Kossoff plays on this last track.

🎵 Susan Tedeschi — “Angel from Montgomery”
📀 Original album: Just Won’t Burn (1998)
💡 Tedeschi made John Prine’s 1971 classic a centerpiece of her breakthrough album, bringing a blues-rock edge to one of Americana’s most enduring character songs.

🎵 The Jeff Healey Band — “Angel Eyes”
📀 Original album: See the Light (1988)
💡 Written by John Hiatt and Fred Koller, the ballad became a U.S. Top 5 hit and remains the best-known showcase for Healey’s warm voice and distinctive lap-style guitar playing.

🎵 Faith No More — “Easy”
📀 Original release: “I’m Easy” single (1992); album: Angel Dust, 1993 reissue
💡 Faith No More played the Commodores favorite surprisingly straight, omitting the original’s second verse. Their version reached No. 1 in Australia and No. 3 in the U.K.

☕ Thank you for spending your Sunday morning with Cafe Vinyl — and for helping us celebrate the songs, stories and luminous legacy of Dolly Parton.

📻 Cafe Vinyl — Deep Dive Classic Album Tracks
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08/30/2026

☕🎶 This morning on Cafe Vinyl, expect deep album tracks and stories from Dolly Parton, Led Zeppelin, Peter Gabriel, Aerosmith, Susan Tedeschi and Faith No More... plus Fresh Vinyl from U2.

Settle in with your Sunday-morning coffee and join us for two hours of music, memories and discovery.

📻 Cafe Vinyl — Deep Dive Classic Album Tracks
🗓 Sunday, August 30, 2026
⏰ 9–11 AM
📍 97.1 The Point — Classic Rock for Vegas
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Grab a coffee. Drop the needle. Remember Dolly.

08/23/2026

☕🎶 Thanks for spending your Sunday morning with Cafe Vinyl!

Here is the complete 21-track playlist from the August 23, 2026 show—two hours of deep cuts, landmark albums, unexpected covers and the stories behind the music.

SEGMENT 1

🎵 The Allman Brothers Band – “Dreams”
📀 The Allman Brothers Band (1969)
💡 The track grew from a jam on the theme from 2001: A Space Odyssey, with drummer Jaimoe later likening its feel to John Coltrane’s “My Favorite Things” with lyrics.

🎵 Jefferson Starship – “With Your Love”
📀 Spitfire (1976)
💡 Co-written by Marty Balin, Joey Covington and Vic Smith, it was released as the lead single from Spitfire.

🎵 Steely Dan – “Kid Charlemagne”
📀 The Royal Scam (1976)
💡 Larry Carlton’s celebrated guitar solo became one of Steely Dan’s signature studio moments; the song opens The Royal Scam.

🎵 Styx – “Snowblind”
📀 Paradise Theatre (1981)
💡 A song about the cycle of co***ne addiction, it became the center of a baseless 1980s backmasking controversy that Styx publicly rejected.

SEGMENT 2

🎵 Toto – “99”
📀 Hydra (1979)
💡 David Paich wrote the song as a tribute to George Lucas’s dystopian film THX 1138, where people are identified by numbers.

🎵 Toto – “Girl Goodbye”
📀 Toto (1978)
💡 This progressive-leaning cut from Toto’s self-titled debut quickly became a live favorite for the band.

🎵 John Parr – “Naughty Naughty”
📀 John Parr (1984)
💡 Parr’s debut single became his first U.S. Top 40 hit, reaching No. 23 on the Billboard Hot 100.

🎵 The Highwomen – “The Chain”
📀 The Kitchen (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (2019)
💡 The country supergroup recorded this Fleetwood Mac cover for The Kitchen; Dave Cobb produced the performance.

SEGMENT 3

🎵 Guns N’ Roses – “Don’t Cry”
📀 Use Your Illusion I (1991)
💡 Two versions arrived at once: the original lyrics on Use Your Illusion I and alternate lyrics on Use Your Illusion II.

🎵 Billy Joel – “Sometimes a Fantasy”
📀 Glass Houses (1980)
💡 The U.S. and Canadian 45 used a longer, different mix than the album version, with the guitars placed differently in the stereo field.

SEGMENT 4

🎵 Led Zeppelin – “When the Levee Breaks”
📀 Led Zeppelin IV (1971)
💡 Zeppelin transformed the 1929 Memphis Minnie and Kansas Joe McCoy blues; John Bonham’s monumental drums were captured in the Headley Grange stairwell.

🎵 Robert Plant & Alison Krauss – “Can’t Let Go”
📀 Raise the Roof (2021)
💡 Their version revisits Randy Weeks’s song, best known through Lucinda Williams, on the duo’s long-awaited second album together.

🎵 The Georgia Satellites – “Hippy Hippy Shake”
📀 Cocktail (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (1988)
💡 The Satellites cut their rowdy version of Chan Romero’s rock-and-roll standard specifically for the movie Cocktail.

🎵 Cheap Trick – “California Man”
📀 Heaven Tonight (1978)
💡 Cheap Trick’s cover of The Move song adds an instrumental break built from the riff of another Move track, “Brontosaurus.”

🎵 Queen – “Hammer to Fall”
📀 The Works (1984)
💡 Written by Brian May, it became a concert staple and was the third song in Queen’s celebrated Live Aid set in 1985.

SEGMENT 5

🎵 Fiona Apple – “Shadowboxer”
📀 Tidal (1996)
💡 Released as Apple’s debut single, it introduced her months before Tidal’s later breakthrough with “Criminal.”

🎵 Thin Lizzy – “Dancing in the Moonlight (It’s Caught Me in Its Spotlight)”
📀 Bad Reputation (1977)
💡 That distinctive saxophone is played by Supertramp’s John Helliwell, adding an unusual color to Thin Lizzy’s twin-guitar sound.

🎵 Aerosmith – “Heart’s Done Time”
📀 Permanent Vacation (1987)
💡 Steven Tyler, Joe Perry and outside hitmaker Desmond Child co-wrote the track; Child contributed to three songs on Permanent Vacation.

🎵 The Who – “Trick of the Light”
📀 Who Are You (1978)
💡 The guitar-like roar is actually John Entwistle’s heavily distorted eight-string Alembic bass, a sound Pete Townshend compared to a musical Mack truck.

🎵 Tom Petty – “It’s Good to Be King”
📀 Wildflowers (1994)
💡 It became the second official single from Wildflowers, the landmark solo album Petty made with producer Rick Rubin.

SEGMENT 6

🎵 Kim Mitchell – “Go for Soda”
📀 Akimbo Alogo (1984)
💡 Mitchell wrote the music and Pye Dubois the lyrics; the song later found a second life as an anti-drunk-driving anthem.

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08/22/2026

🎶 This Sunday on Cafe Vinyl, the needle drops on two hours of classic-rock deep cuts, album favorites and a few inspired detours.

We’ll dig into the grooves with The Allman Brothers Band, Steely Dan, Toto, Guns N’ Roses, Led Zeppelin, Queen and Fiona Apple—plus plenty more waiting in the stacks.

If you love discovering the songs beyond the biggest hits, make Cafe Vinyl part of your Sunday morning.

📻 Cafe Vinyl – Deep Dive Classic Album Tracks
🗓 Sunday, August 23, 2026
⏰ 9–11 AM
📍 97.1 The Point – Classic Rock for Vegas
🌐 Listen live at point97.com

Grab a coffee. Drop the needle. Love the album.

08/16/2026

☕🎰 Cafe Vinyl — Viva Las Vegas
Sunday, August 16, 2026

This morning, Cafe Vinyl rolled the dice on two hours of Sin City songs, lucky breaks, card-table characters, gamblers, winners, losers, and one last ride out of Las Vegas. Here is the complete playlist.

🎵 The Ramsey Lewis Trio — “The 'In' Crowd”
📀 The In Crowd (1965)
💡 Recorded live at Washington, D.C.’s Bohemian Caverns, the trio’s electrifying performance became a crossover smash, reaching No. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100.

🎵 The Rolling Stones — “Tumbling Dice”
📀 Exile on Main St. (1972)
💡 The song evolved from an earlier track called “Good Time Women” during the sprawling Exile sessions and became one of the album’s signature grooves.

🎵 ZZ Top — “Viva Las Vegas”
📀 Greatest Hits (1992)
💡 ZZ Top’s Elvis cover was one of two new recordings added to the band’s 1992 Greatest Hits collection.

🎵 Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers — “You Got Lucky”
📀 Long After Dark (1982)
💡 Its cinematic, post-apocalyptic video helped make the song an early MTV favorite and one of the Heartbreakers’ most visually memorable singles.

🎵 April W**e — “Roller”
📀 First Glance (1978)
💡 This hard-driving single helped break the Canadian band internationally and gave April W**e its first U.S. Top 40 hit.

🎵 Frank Sinatra — “Luck Be a Lady”
📀 Reprise Musical Repertory Theatre Presents Guys and Dolls (1963)
💡 Sinatra made the song his own in 1963—even though Marlon Brando, not Sinatra, sang it in the 1955 film version of Guys and Dolls.

🎵 Steely Dan — “Do It Again”
📀 Can't Buy a Thrill (1972)
💡 The band’s first major hit features Denny Dias on electric sitar, giving the track its distinctive, hypnotic solo.

🎵 Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band — “Ramblin' Gamblin' Man”
📀 'Live' Bullet (1976)
💡 This blazing version was recorded at Detroit’s Cobo Hall in September 1975. Released on the double album 'Live' Bullet the following April, it helped propel Seger to national prominence.

🎵 Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band — “Still the Same”
📀 Stranger in Town (1978)
💡 Seger’s cool-eyed portrait of an unchanging high-stakes player reached No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100.

🎵 Little River Band — “Lonesome Loser”
📀 First Under the Wire (1979)
💡 Released as the album’s first single, the close-harmony rocker became another U.S. Top 10 success for the Australian band.

🎵 Kenny Rogers — “The Gambler”
📀 The Gambler (1978)
💡 Don Schlitz wrote the story-song, and Rogers’ definitive recording earned the Grammy for Best Male Country Vocal Performance.

🎵 The Animals — “House of the Rising Sun”
📀 The Animals — U.S. album (1964)
💡 The band captured its dramatic arrangement in a single take, built around Alan Price’s instantly recognizable organ arpeggio.

🎵 AC/DC — “Sin City”
📀 Powerage (1978)
💡 Bon Scott turns Las Vegas temptation into a warning shot, while Angus and Malcolm Young lock into one of Powerage’s heaviest riffs.

🎵 AC/DC — “The Jack”
📀 T.N.T. (1975)
💡 Bon Scott disguised the song’s risqué subject as an extended card-game metaphor, making the title’s “jack” one very loaded playing card.

🎵 Blood, Sweat & Tears — “Go Down Gamblin'”
📀 B, S & T; 4 (1971)
💡 The horn-powered David Clayton-Thomas composition opened the album and reached the U.S. Top 40.

🎵 Rush — “Roll the Bones”
📀 Roll the Bones (1991)
💡 Rush leaned into the album’s theme of chance with an unexpected spoken-word rap section voiced by Geddy Lee and altered in the studio.

🎵 Bruce Springsteen — “Viva Las Vegas”
📀 The Last Temptation of Elvis (1990)
💡 Springsteen recorded this Elvis favorite for a U.K.-only charity tribute album benefiting Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy.

🎵 Aerosmith — “Deuces Are Wild”
📀 The Beavis and Butt-Head Experience (1993)
💡 Written during the late-’80s Pump era, the song finally surfaced on the 1993 compilation and later topped Billboard’s Album Rock Tracks chart.

🎵 Billy Idol — “Eyes Without a Face”
📀 Rebel Yell (1983)
💡 The title nods to the 1960 French horror film Les yeux sans visage, while Perri Lister sings the haunting French backing refrain.

🎵 Mick Jagger — “Lucky in Love”
📀 She's the Boss (1985)
💡 One of the key singles from Jagger’s first solo album, it carried his swagger onto the U.S. Top 40 outside the Rolling Stones.

🎵 Ray Charles — “Blackjack”
📀 Yes Indeed!! (1958)
💡 Charles first issued “Blackjack” as an Atlantic single in 1955; it was later gathered onto the 1958 album Yes Indeed!!.

🎵 Sheryl Crow — “Leaving Las Vegas”
📀 Tuesday Night Music Club (1993)
💡 The song’s title came from John O’Brien’s 1990 novel and was developed by the collaborative group behind Crow’s debut album.

☕ Thanks for spending your Sunday morning with Cafe Vinyl!

From the Strip to the card table—and from lucky streaks to lonesome losers—this week’s show celebrated the music, mythology, and irresistible pull of Las Vegas.

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08/15/2026

☕🎰 This Sunday, Cafe Vinyl is going all in on Las Vegas.

Two hours of classic rock, jazz and a blue-eyed standard, plus stories filled with lucky breaks, high-stakes characters, Sin City temptation, and the long ride out of town.

Viva Las Vegas featuring music from:

🎸 The Rolling Stones
🎸 ZZ Top
🎸 Frank Sinatra
🎸 AC/DC
🎸 Rush
🎸 Bruce Springsteen
🎸 Sheryl Crow
…and more.

📻 Cafe Vinyl — Deep Dive Classic Album Tracks
🗓 Sunday, August 16, 2026
⏰ 9–11 AM
📍 97.1 The Point — Classic Rock for Vegas
🌐 Listen live at point97.com

Grab a coffee. Drop the needle. Take a chance.

08/10/2026

That’s a wrap on Café Vinyl for Sunday, August 9, 2026!

This morning’s deep dive moved from late-’70s horn-powered funk and heartland rock to slow-burn blues, soundtrack favorites, swing revival, Southern boogie and one towering slice of Dio-era hard rock. Here’s the complete playlist, with the original album home for each recording:

1. **Chicago — “Street Player”**
*Chicago 13* (1979) — Drummer Danny Seraphine co-wrote the song from memories of growing up in Chicago. Rufus recorded it first, then Chicago stretched its version past nine minutes with a Maynard Ferguson trumpet solo.

2. **Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers — “Here Comes My Girl”**
*Damn the Torpedoes* (1979) — Co-written by Tom Petty and Mike Campbell, it became the third single from the breakthrough album, pairing Petty’s conversational verses with one of the record’s biggest choruses.

3. **John Stewart — “Gold”**
*Bombs Away Dream Babies* (1979) — Fleetwood Mac’s Stevie Nicks sings the unmistakable harmony vocal, while Lindsey Buckingham plays guitar and helped produce the album.

4. **Jackson Browne — “Somebody’s Baby”**
*Fast Times at Ridgemont High: Music from the Motion Picture* (1982) — Browne kept it off his next studio album, but the soundtrack single reached No. 7 and became the highest-charting hit of his career.

5. **Earth, Wind & Fire — “Got to Get You into My Life”**
*Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band: The Original Motion Picture Sound Track* (1978) — Maurice White’s arrangement of the Beatles song earned a Grammy for Best Arrangement Accompanying Vocalists.

6. **Bad Company — “Crazy Circles”**
*Desolation Angels* (1979) — The acoustic-leaning track showed a quieter side of Bad Company. The album took its title from Jack Kerouac’s 1965 novel *Desolation Angels*.

7. **Free — “All Right Now”**
*Fire and Water* (1970) — Andy Fraser and Paul Rodgers wrote the song after a disappointing college gig in Durham, England, when the band realized it needed a stronger set closer.

8. **Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble — “Tin Pan Alley (aka Roughest Place in Town)”**
*Couldn’t Stand the Weather* (1984) — The slow blues, written by Bob Geddins and associated with Jimmy Wilson, was captured while the studio crew was still checking levels.

9. **Alabama Shakes — “Hold On”**
*Boys & Girls* (2012) — The breakout single brought the band a Grammy nomination for Best Rock Performance, and *Rolling Stone* named it the best song of 2012.

10. **Harry Belafonte — “Jump in the Line”**
*Jump Up Calypso* (1961) — Belafonte’s version of the calypso favorite found a whole new audience when Tim Burton used it for the celebratory finale of *Beetlejuice* in 1988.

11. **Phil Collins — “I Don’t Care Anymore”**
*Hello, I Must Be Going!* (1982) — The track earned Collins his first Grammy nomination for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance.

12. **Eric Clapton — “Motherless Children”**
*461 Ocean Boulevard* (1974) — Clapton opened his comeback album with an upbeat slide-guitar arrangement of the traditional blues long associated with Blind Willie Johnson.

13. **Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young — “Teach Your Children”**
*Déjà Vu* (1970) — Jerry Garcia played pedal steel in exchange for CSNY helping the Grateful Dead sharpen the vocal harmonies for *Workingman’s Dead* and *American Beauty*.

14. **38 Special — “Teacher, Teacher”**
*Teachers: Original Soundtrack from the Motion Picture* (1984) — Bryan Adams and Jim Vallance wrote it specifically for the film; the single reached No. 25 on the Billboard Hot 100.

15. **Van Halen — “Hot for Teacher”**
*1984* (1984) — Alex Van Halen’s famous double-bass drum opening sounds like an engine roaring to life, and the video cast the band as both adults and school-age students.

16. **Cheap Trick — “Don’t Be Cruel”**
*Lap of Luxury* (1988) — Their turbocharged Elvis Presley cover climbed to No. 4 on the Hot 100 and helped cement the album as a major comeback.

17. **The Honeydrippers — “Rockin’ at Midnight”**
*The Honeydrippers: Volume One* (1984) — Robert Plant’s all-star side project brought in Jeff Beck for lead guitar on this Roy Brown cover.

18. **Stray Cats — “Stray Cat Strut”**
*Stray Cats* (1981) — First released on the trio’s U.K. debut, it later reached No. 3 in the U.S. after being included on *Built for Speed*.

19. **Big Bad Voodoo Daddy — “Minnie the Moocher”**
*Big Bad Voodoo Daddy* (1994) — Cab Calloway’s 1931 signature number was the lone cover among the album’s original swing-revival tunes.

20. **The Blues Brothers — “Everybody Needs Somebody to Love”**
*The Blues Brothers: Original Soundtrack Recording* (1980) — Jake and Elwood turned Solomon Burke’s 1964 soul classic into a showstopper, filmed with the audience at the Hollywood Palladium.

21. **ZZ Top — “Francine”**
*Rio Grande Mud* (1972) — It became the trio’s first Hot 100 hit, peaking at No. 69; one original single paired the English recording with a Spanish-language version on the B-side.

22. **Rainbow — “Man on the Silver Mountain”**
*Ritchie Blackmore’s Rainbow* (1975) — Written by Ritchie Blackmore and Ronnie James Dio, it was Rainbow’s debut single and the opening track on the band’s first album.

Thanks for spending your Sunday morning with us. Café Vinyl returns next Sunday from 9–11 AM on 97.1 The Point. Listen live anywhere at point97.com.

08/02/2026

☕🎶 CAFÉ VINYL — SHOW 339 RECAP
Sunday, August 2, 2026

Thanks for spending your Sunday morning with Café Vinyl! Today’s show moved from restless ’70s album cuts to summertime rock, live performances, punk urgency, soul, funk, and a final late-night glide.

🎵 The Who — “Slip Kid”
📀 Original album: The Who by Numbers (1975)
💡 Pete Townshend wrote the song, Glyn Johns produced it, and the 1976 U.S. single used an edited version of the album track. The album’s hand-drawn cover was designed by John Entwistle.

🎵 Donnie Iris — “Ah! Leah!”
📀 Original album: Back on the Streets (1980)
💡 The song helped launch Iris’s solo career, reaching No. 29 on the Billboard Hot 100. Its dense vocal harmonies became a signature of Donnie Iris and the Cruisers.

🎵 Creedence Clearwater Revival — “I Heard It Through the Grapevine”
📀 Original album: Cosmo’s Factory (1970)
💡 CCR stretched the Motown classic into an intense 11-minute workout—an unusually long performance for a band famous for compact hit singles.

🎵 Kansas — “Play the Game Tonight”
📀 Original album: Vinyl Confessions (1982)
💡 This was the first Kansas album with John Elefante on lead vocals. The song became a major rock-radio comeback and reached No. 4 on Billboard’s Mainstream Rock chart.

🎵 ZZ Top — “I Thank You”
📀 Original album: Degüello (1979)
💡 Billy Gibbons, Dusty Hill, and Frank Beard recast the Isaac Hayes–David Porter song—first made famous by Sam & Dave—as lean Texas blues-rock.

🎵 The Doobie Brothers — “Here to Love You”
📀 Original album: Minute by Minute (1978)
💡 Written by Michael McDonald, this deep cut opens the album that cemented the Doobies’ polished, soulful late-’70s sound.

🎵 Peter Frampton — “Doobie Wah” (live from the 2012 FCA! 35 concert)
📀 Original album: Frampton’s Camel (1973)
💡 The studio version dates to Frampton’s second solo album. Nearly four decades later, he revived it during the tour celebrating the 35th anniversary of Frampton Comes Alive!

🎵 Heart — “White Lightning & W**e”
📀 Original album: Dreamboat Annie (1975)
💡 A hard-driving early Heart cut from the band’s debut, which first broke in Canada before its 1976 U.S. release turned Ann and Nancy Wilson into rock stars.

🎵 Eric Clapton — “Lay Down Sally”
📀 Original album: Slowhand (1977)
💡 Co-written by Clapton, Marcy Levy, and George Terry, the laid-back shuffle climbed to No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100.

🎵 Johnny Cash — “One Piece at a Time”
📀 Original album: One Piece at a Time (1976)
💡 Wayne Kemp wrote this comic tale of a Detroit auto worker who smuggles out Cadillac parts over many years—with predictably mismatched results.

🎵 The Allman Brothers — “Whipping Post”
📀 Original album: The Allman Brothers Band (1969)
💡 Gregg Allman’s five-minute studio track became one of the group’s greatest concert vehicles, often expanding into a long, improvisational showstopper.

🎵 The Steve Miller Band — “Threshold / Jet Airliner”
📀 Original album: Book of Dreams (1977)
💡 The brief synthesizer instrumental “Threshold” was sequenced to flow directly into “Jet Airliner,” a Paul Pena song that became one of Steve Miller’s signature hits.

🎵 Phil Collins — “I Missed Again”
📀 Original album: Face Value (1981)
💡 Collins reshaped an originally sad lyric into something brighter and punchier. The recording features Earth, Wind & Fire’s Phenix Horns and a sax solo by jazz great Ronnie Scott.

🎵 The Clash — “London Calling”
📀 Original album: London Calling (1979)
💡 The apocalyptic title track announced the Clash’s leap beyond punk. The album cover famously echoes Elvis Presley’s 1956 debut while capturing Paul Simonon smashing his bass.

🎵 Peter Gabriel — “Shock the Monkey”
📀 Original album: Peter Gabriel 4: Security (1982)
💡 The first single from Gabriel’s fourth solo album became his first U.S. Top 40 hit, powered by early sampling technology and an unforgettable, symbolic video.

🎵 Van Halen — “Summer Nights”
📀 Original album: 5150 (1986)
💡 During Sammy Hagar’s first writing session with the band, he improvised the vocal idea while Van Halen played the music; the song reportedly came together in about 20 minutes.

🎵 War — “Summer”
📀 Original album: Greatest Hits (1976)
💡 Recorded as a new track for the compilation, “Summer” reached No. 7 on the Billboard Hot 100 and No. 1 on the Easy Listening chart.

🎵 Kiss — “Hotter Than Hell” (live)
📀 Original album: Hotter Than Hell (1974)
💡 The studio original gave Kiss’s second album its title. The live version on Alive! helped capture the onstage power that turned the band into arena-rock headliners.

🎵 AC/DC — “Get It Hot”
📀 Original album: Highway to Hell (1979)
💡 Produced by Robert John “Mutt” Lange, this compact Bon Scott-era burner came from the album that delivered AC/DC’s international breakthrough.

🎵 The Power Station — “Some Like It Hot”
📀 Original album: The Power Station (1985)
💡 Robert Palmer’s vocal, Tony Thompson’s enormous drums, and Duran Duran’s Andy and John Taylor created a one-off supergroup smash that reached No. 6 in the U.S.

🎵 Robert Plant — “Big Log” (live, recorded in 1985)
📀 Original album: The Principle of Moments (1983)
💡 Robbie Blunt’s fluid guitar gives the song its hypnotic character. Parts of the atmospheric music video were filmed at the old Glass Pool Inn in Las Vegas.

🎵 Lenny Kravitz — “I Belong to You”
📀 Original album: 5 (1998)
💡 The warm, reggae-tinged track became the third single from Kravitz’s fifth album, the same record that also produced “Fly Away.”

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08/01/2026

☕🎶 This Sunday on Café Vinyl, we’re dropping the needle on two hours of deep cuts, iconic albums, live energy, summertime heat, and the stories behind the music.

This week’s show features The Who, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Heart, The Clash, Van Halen, AC/DC, Robert Plant, and Lenny Kravitz—plus plenty more waiting in the grooves. It's gonna be really hot so we have some HOT SUMMER tracks lined up.

Geting a fresh stack of classic album tracks ready for your Sunday morning.

📻 Café Vinyl — Deep Dive Classic Album Tracks
🗓 Sunday, August 2, 2026
⏰ 9–11 AM
📍 97.1 The Point — Classic Rock for Vegas
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Grab a coffee. Drop the needle. Love the album.

07/26/2026

Another Sunday morning, another journey beyond the hits. Thanks for joining us on 97.1 The Point as we explored some of classic rock’s greatest deep cuts, overlooked gems, and unforgettable album tracks.

Here’s what spun on this week’s show:

🎸 Joe Walsh – “Life’s Been Good”
📀 But Seriously, Folks… (1978)
💡 Walsh poked fun at his own rock star lifestyle, turning the song into one of the funniest—and most enduring—autobiographical classics in rock.

🎸 Aerosmith – “Hangman Jury”
📀 Permanent Vacation (1987)
💡 This swampy blues track showed Aerosmith hadn’t forgotten their gritty roots, even as Permanent Vacation launched their late-’80s comeback.

🎤 Ray LaMontagne – “Trouble”
📀 Trouble (2004)
💡 The title track introduced the world to LaMontagne’s unmistakable raspy voice and remains one of the defining songs of modern Americana.

💰 Eddie Money – “You’ve Really Got a Hold on Me”
📀 Playing for Keeps (1980)
💡 Eddie’s soulful cover of the Smokey Robinson classic demonstrated the versatility that often gets overshadowed by his radio hits.

🎧 Deep Dive Album Side: Pink Floyd – The Wall (1979) – Side 3
From the desperate isolation of “Hey You” to the emotional climax of “Comfortably Numb,” Side 3 contains some of Roger Waters’ most powerful storytelling and David Gilmour’s most celebrated guitar work. Gilmour’s solo on Comfortably Numb is consistently ranked among the greatest guitar solos ever recorded.

🎸 Bob Seger – “Little Jane” (Bonus Track)
📀 Face the Promise (2006 Deluxe Edition)
💡 Originally left off the standard release, this fan favorite finally found its audience as a deluxe-edition bonus track.

🔥 Bad Company – “Rock Steady”
📀 Bad Company (1974)
💡 One of the band’s signature deep cuts, the song became a concert staple despite never being released as a major hit single.

🛣️ Journey – “Walks Like a Lady”
📀 Departure (1980)
💡 Released just before Jonathan Cain joined the band, it captures Journey at the end of one era and on the verge of their biggest commercial success.

💎 Annie Lennox – “Walking on Broken Glass”
📀 Diva (1992)
💡 The elegant music video featured comedy legends John Malkovich and Hugh Laurie, giving the song an unforgettable period-drama twist.

🇦🇺 INXS & Jimmy Barnes – “Good Times”
📀 The Lost Boys: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1987)
💡 Recorded for the cult vampire film The Lost Boys, the Easybeats cover became a hit and perfectly captured the energy of the movie.

⚡ Billy Idol – “Catch My Fall”
📀 Rebel Yell (1983)
💡 Guitarist Steve Stevens’ melodic playing helped make this one of the standout album tracks from Idol’s biggest record.

🐦 The Black Crowes – “Bad Luck Blue Eyes Goodbye”
📀 The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion (1992)
💡 Chris Robinson’s heartfelt lyrics and Rich Robinson’s bluesy guitar work helped cement this album as a fan favorite from start to finish.

⚡ AC/DC – “Ride On”
📀 Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap (1976)
💡 One of the rare AC/DC songs built around a blues ballad feel, showcasing a surprisingly reflective side of Bon Scott.

🎶 Extreme – “Hole Hearted”
📀 Pornograffitti (1990)
💡 The acoustic hit became the band’s second Top 10 single and proved they were much more than just “More Than Words.”

🌃 The Police – “Bring On the Night”
📀 Reggatta de Blanc (1979)
💡 Sting later chose the title for his acclaimed live solo concert film, introducing the song to a new generation.

🤘 Judas Priest – “Metal Gods”
📀 British Steel (1980)
💡 The song helped inspire the phrase “metal gods,” a nickname that has followed Rob Halford throughout his legendary career.

🚀 David Bowie – “Ashes to Ashes”
📀 Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps) (1980)
💡 Bowie revisited Major Tom more than a decade after Space Oddity, creating one of the most groundbreaking songs—and videos—of the MTV era.

🎙️ Thanks for spending part of your Sunday with us as we celebrated the album tracks that deserve every bit as much love as the hits.

📻 Cafe Vinyl airs every Sunday from 9–11 AM on 97.1 The Point, where we take a Deep Dive into Classic Album Tracks.

What was your favorite song from Show #338? Tell us in the comments—we’d love to hear from you! 🎶

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