French jazz and Prog...Tonight! (Episode #446)

 Tonight we listen to the marvelous Jean-Luc Ponty from his album, "Imaginary Voyage", plus a bit of his work with prog master vocalist Jon Anderson! 

We broadcast live each Sunday night at 7PM ET on www.wbkm.org...Burlington's Kinda Music

As always, the podcast is available Here by about 10PM ET Sunday. Thank you, Baruch!
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Thanks for listening! Your servant of the music, Tony Gallucci, Founder, Ahmet's House

Yes, again...A Conversation with Jon Anderson, and some newly mixed Yes music! (Episode #429)

 We dig out an interview Tony did in 2017 with the brilliant Jon Anderson, and incorporate some newly mixed Steven Wilson tracks from Fragile, which just arrived two days ago! The event was seeing Jon and the Band Geeks last weekend, outside of Boston. Brilliant! We add in a great new track by Jon and the Band Geeks too! Please enjoy this treat, dedicated to those loyal fans who were in attendance at the show! I connected with so many, as music always does that! Love Yes fans, all of you! 

We broadcast live each Sunday night at 7PM ET on www.wbkm.org...Burlington's Kinda Music


As always, the podcast is available Here by about 10PM ET Sunday. Thank you, Baruch!
You can also listen in via iTunes (free subscription!) at http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ahmets-house/id555391588

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Thanks for listening! Your servant of the music, Tony Gallucci, Founder, Ahmet's House

A Look at Atlantic 50 Years Ago

Tonight our journey is to look at just a few of the great "50 Year Albums".  Due to the slowdown worldwide, that means two years are getting our attention tonight, in brief: 1970 and 1971. A look at the song list will tell us of the magnitude of those years! Enjoy! 

One of the great ones at 50! No names were necessary...

Song List: 

Velvet Underground--Rock and Roll

Lil Green--Every Time

Aretha Franklin--You're Taking Up Another Man's Space

Graham Nash and Stephen Stills--Our House (Early Demo)

Derek and the Dominos--Bell Bottom Blues

Emerson, Lake and Palmer--The Old Castle

Yes--Heart of the Sunrise

Led Zeppelin--When the Levee Breaks

Duke Ellington--Blues for New Orleans

We broadcast live each Sunday night at 7PM ET on www.wbkm.org...Burlington's Kinda Music

As always, the podcast is available Here by about 10PM ET Sunday.  Thank you, Baruch! 

You can also listen in via iTunes (free subscription!) at http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ahmets-house/id555391588

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Thanks for listening! Your servant of the music, Tony Gallucci, Founder, Ahmet's House 

An Album Retrospective and More...90125!

A great album tonight from YES! Plus bonus cuts, and a great bit of our conversation with Jon about Ahmet from 2012. Enjoy!

At the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Ceremony

As always, the podcast is available Here by about 10PM ET Sunday.  Thank you, Baruch! 

You can also listen in via iTunes (free subscription!) at http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ahmets-house/id555391588

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Thanks for listening! Your servant of the music, Tony Gallucci

PREMIERE! Jon Anderson: 1,000 Hands

What a joy and privilege, as tonight we share for one of the first times on THE PLANET the brand new album by the voice of Yes, Jon Anderson!  27 years in the making! Yes, truly. Enjoy.

1,000 Hands, Chapter One

Song List:
All Songs by Jon Anderson

1.	"Now"	1:15
2.	"Ramalama"	3:52
3.	"First Born Leaders"	5:21
4.	"Activate"	9:24
5.	"Makes Me Happy"	3:54
6.	"Now Variations"	1:10
7.	"I Found Myself"	5:08
8.	"Twice in a Lifetime"	5:27
9.	"WDMCF"	3:42
10.	"1000 Hands (Come Up)"	9:24
11.	"Now and Again"	3:38

As always, the podcast is available Here by about 10PM ET Sunday.  Thank you, Baruch! 

You can also listen in via iTunes (free subscription!) at http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ahmets-house/id555391588

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Thanks for listening! Your servant of the music, Tony Gallucci

Lyrical Ballads Tonight in Ahmet's House

The words sung via Atlantic Records, like its music, are the words of lifetimes, and of deepest feelings. Journey with us tonight to listen to some of the best. Thank you.

Well said, Neil! Well Said! 

Song List:

Words---Neil Young
Swlabr---Cream
The Trees---Rush (live)
Perpetual Change---Yes
Helplessly Hoping---Crosby, Stills and Nash
Woodstock---Joni Mitchell
Loving Cup---The Rolling Stones
For What It's Worth---Buffalo Springfield
I Can't Quit You Baby---Led Zeppelin
The Nearness of You---Willie Nelson
Words---The Bee Gees

As always, the podcast is available Here by about 10PM ET Sunday.  Thank you, Baruch!

You can also listen in via iTunes (free subscription!) at http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ahmets-house/id555391588

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Thanks for listening! Your servant of the music, Tony Gallucci

Something’s Coming! Ahmet’s House returns Tonight

This night, this very special night we begin anew, with a brand new episode of great Atlantic Records music. Sorry it took so long but good things take time and this we hope will be a very good thing. Thanks for listening! And thank you Ahmet!

Song List:

Something's Coming---Yes (Live)
After the Rain---John Coltrane
Claudine---The Rolling Stones
Key to the Highway---Derek and the Dominos (with Intro by Bobby Whitlock)
So Begins the Task---Stephen Stills
Right Now---Manassas
If---Joni Mitchell
I Can't See New York---Tori Amos
Intro by BBC into Sweetness---Yes (Live)

As always, the podcast is available Here by about 10PM ET Sunday.  Thank you, Baruch!

You can also listen in via iTunes (free subscription!) at http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ahmets-house/id555391588

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Thanks for listening! Your servant of the music, Tony Gallucci

All Good People...in Ahmet's House

Yes...Yes indeed! What a great night to celebrate the music of Atlantic Records. Let's look at just some of the great inductees that are honored in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Forty three of the two hundred and fifteen artists...a pretty sizable proportion...are Atlantic! Let's celebrate...Aretha to Zeppelin tonight.

Jon Anderson up front with Rick Wakeman, Trevor Rabin and Bill Bruford...Yes! 

Song List:

Until You Come Back to Me---Aretha Franklin
Ain't Wasting Time No More---The Allman Brothers Band
Long Way to the Top---AC/DC
Green Onions---Booker T and the MG's
Cherry Red---Big Joe Turner
Beautiful Morning---The Rascals
Taking it All Too Hard---Genesis
Charlie Brown---Coasters
I Can't Go For That---Hall and Oates
For Free---Joni Mitchell
Tales of Brave Ulysses---Cream
Dock of the Bay---Otis Redding
Here We Go Again---Ray Charles
Jim Dandy---LaVern Baker
Bron-Y-Aur---Led Zeppelin
Clear Days---Yes


As always, the podcast is available Here by about 10PM ET Sunday.  Thank you, Baruch!

NOTE: Only the second half of tonights show will be available due to a recording error...very sorry! 

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Thanks for listening! Your servant of the music, Tony Gallucci

Another Night...With You! Ahmet's House for February 19, 2017

Another Night...With You! It's time to dive deep into this great collection of music, in honor of those who lived it, who created it!  It's Ahmet's House, something special that we do together. Enjoy!

Ahmet and Neil Young, on tour with CSNY in 1974

Song List:

Groovin' (On a Sunday Afternoon)---The Rascals
Shake!---Otis Redding
Dreaming of Snakes---Stephen Stills
Since I've Been Loving You---Page and Plant (live)
Leave My Blues at Home---The Allman Brothers Band
Drown in My Own Tears---Ray Charles (live)
Second Thoughts---Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers
Almost Cut My Hair---Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young
South Side of the Sky---Jon Anderson and Rick Wakeman (Live)


As always, the podcast is available Here by about 10PM ET Sunday.  Thank you, Baruch!

You can also listen in via iTunes (free subscription!) at http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ahmets-house/id555391588

Stitcher and TuneIn have also picked us up...as have others...welcome!

Thanks for listening! Your servant of the music, Tony Gallucci

Ten Years Gone...in Memory of Ahmet Ertegun: 1923-2006

It's been just about ten years...ten long years since we lost "the greatest record man of all time". Many others have fallen since then, as just this week we woke to find that Greg Lake had passed on. So tonight, in memory of Ahmet's passing on December 14, 2006 and in memory of his legacy of music that today is being newly discovered by many around the globe...we look back, we look forward and we say thank you, Mr. Ahmet Ertegun. One dream, so fully lived...

Ahmet at the Lenox Lounge, Harlem. My favorite picture of him.

Song List: 

Ten Years Gone---Led Zeppelin
Just One Man---Jon Anderson, Rick Wakeman
Why Does Love Got to Be So Sad---Derek and the Dominos
C'est La Vie---Emerson, Lake and Palmer
Father Christmas---Emerson, Lake and Palmer
Still...You Turn Me On---Emerson, Lake and Palmer
Epitaph/March For No Reason/Tomorrow and Tomorrow
Guardian Angel---Stills/Young Band
Someone to Watch Over Me---Willie Nelson
Shine a Light---The Rolling Stones

"To the memory of Ahmet Ertegun, and the days when Atlantic Records was the most magnificent record company on the planet..."---Robert Plant, at the O2 Celebration

As always, the podcast is available here Here by about 10PM ET Sunday.  Thank you, Baruch!

You can also listen in via iTunes (free subscription!) at http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ahmets-house/id555391588

Stitcher and TuneIn have also picked us up...as have others...welcome!

Thanks for listening! Your servant of the music, Tony Gallucci

After a Night of Beautiful Music...the Word is Yes!

I had the great opportunity to go to New York's famed Beacon Theater on Tuesday to see some old friends...ARW, namely Jon Anderson, Trevor Rabin and Rick Wakeman...all of course of YES! So tonight in thanks for once again painting a lavish field of color and passion, we devote a large part of this episode to that great music! Thank you Ahmet for hearing what this music was all about in 1969. It's why you were a visionary...

Jon Anderson and Rick Wakeman at the Beacon, 11/1/2016

Song List: 

TBD

As always, the podcast is available here Here by about 10PM ET Sunday.  Thank you, Baruch!

You can also listen in via iTunes (free subscription!) at http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ahmets-house/id555391588

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Thanks for listening! Your servant of the music, Tony Gallucci

TONIGHT! A New Conversation with Jon Anderson!

The times we have together tonight will be focused around the one and only Jon Anderson, as Tony and Jon shared some time together by phone just the other day. Add in some new Anderson/Ponty Band music, and we have a great night to look forward to.

None other than...Jon Anderson

Song List:

All songs tonight are by the Anderson-Ponty Band. The interview is shared in three segments. 

One in the Rhythms of Hope
A is for Aria
Listening With Me
Time and a Word
Infinite Mirage
And You and I
Roundabout
I See You Messamger
New New World

As always, the podcast is available here Here by about 10PM ET Sunday.  Thank you, Baruch!

You can also listen in via iTunes (free subscription!) at http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ahmets-house/id555391588

Stitcher and TuneIn have also picked us up...welcome!

Thanks for listening! Your servant of the music, Tony Gallucci

"Soon...oh soon...the Light": Ahmet's House in a Hurting World

So much to say, and play...a unique shared experience in music, with thoughts of friends around the globe to color our show tonight. So let's explore, and connect...in Ahmet's House tonight!

Jon Anderson and Jean-Luc Ponty

Song List:

Had to Cry Today---Blind Faith
World of Pain---Cream
The Endless Enigma---Emerson, Lake and Palmer
Worried Life Blues---Stephen Stills and Jimmy Rogers
A Love Supreme, Pt. 4:Psalms---John Coltrane
I Can't Quit You Baby----Led Zeppelin
Please Call Home---The Allman Brothers
Miss You---The Rolling Stones
Soon---Yes


As always, the podcast is available here Here by about 10PM ET Sunday.  Thank you, Baruch!

You can also listen in via iTunes (free subscription!) at http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ahmets-house/id555391588

Stitcher and TuneIn have also picked us up...welcome!

Thanks for listening! Your servant of the music, Tony Gallucci

Make it "Churchy"...Ahmet's House Celebrates it's Better Angels

Sometimes I realize that perhaps Sunday really is the best day possible to air Ahmet's House, as the music of our lives derives from songs of faith, struggle and hope. The Gospel roots, and a spotlight on some of Atlantic's better angels, including a birthday shout out to Jon Anderson! Tonight at 7PM ET only on www.wbkm.org

The One and Only Jon Anderson!

Song List:

Taint Nobody's Business if I Do---Big Joe Turner
Little Church---Miles Davis
I Say a Little Prayer for You---Aretha Franklin
My Prayer---The Platters
Sinner's Prayer---BB King and Ray Charles
Running on Faith---Eric Clapton
Son of a Preacher Man---Dusty Springfield
Turn of the Century---Jon Anderson
Bless This---Jon Anderson and Deborah Anderson
Hearts---Jon Anderson (solo)
Every Little Thing---Yes (live)

As always, the podcast is available here Here by about 10PM ET Sunday.  Thank you, Baruch!

You can also listen in via iTunes (free subscription!) at http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ahmets-house/id555391588

Stitcher and TuneIn have also picked us up...welcome!

Thanks for listening! Your servant of the music, Tony Gallucci

New Music, Old Friends! Tonight in Ahmet's House

New music from old friends...plus jazz, blues and some thoughts on Turkey, Ahmet's homeland, having some difficult days. It's all LIVE tonight at 7PM ET or on the podcast right here. We hope you can join us! Listen live at www.wbkm.org

Jean-Luc Ponty and Jon Anderson!

Songs:

Had to Cry Today---Blind Faith
Some Velvet Morning---Vanilla Fudge
Dead Flowers---The Rolling Stones
Blue Rondo a la Turk
Willie's After Hours---Willie Nelson and Arif Mardin
Infinite Mirage---Anderson/Ponty Band
And You and I---Anderson/Ponty Band
Renaissance of the Sun---Anderson/Ponty Band

As always, the podcast is available here Here by about 10PM ET Sunday.  Thank you, Baruch!

You can also listen in via iTunes (free subscription!) at http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ahmets-house/id555391588

Stitcher and TuneIn have also picked us up...welcome!

Thanks for listening! Your servant of the music, Tony Gallucci

Fusing together...two hosts on Ahmet's House tonight...focus on early Rock

We focus in on a very particular topic tonight...and bring in a special guest to do it. Dave Tomlinson, host of WBKM's "Drinking Gourd" blues show will join me in the studio tonight to talk about one of our mutual favorites: Big Joe Turner, and his influence on the early days of rock and roll...and beyond. And we respectfully dedicate tonight's show to the late great Jack Bruce...thank you Jack, for your part in this fine history...and the very definition of the power trio!

Cream...in 1967 with Jack, front and center

Birthdays: Jon Anderson, Steve Cropper

Song List:

Roll Em Pete---Big Joe Turner
We Baby Blues--Big Joe
Battle of the Blues Pt 1 and 2--Big Joe
Cherry Red---Big Joe
Low Down Dog---Big Joe
Still in the Dark---Big Joe
Chains of Love---Big Joe
Honey Hush
Shake, Rattle and Roll
Drinkin' Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee---Stick McGhee
Think---Aretha Franklin
Flip, Flop and Fly---The Blues Brothers

 As always, the podcast is available here http://media.blubrry.com/ahmetshouse/paradigms.bz/wbkm/AhmetsHouse10262014.mp3 by about 10PM tonight. Thank you Baruch!

You can also listen in iTunes (free subscription!) at http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ahmets-house/id555391588

Also glad to say we have been picked up by Stitcher and TuneIn...so you may listen there as well!  

Thanks for listening! Your servant of the music, Tony Gallucci

Father's Day 2014...Ahmet's House Celebrates the Grand Daddy of the Electric Guitar

A focus tonight on the great guitar based sounds at Atlantic...as this past week we commemorated the birth of an "architect" of modern music...Les Paul. More than innovator, more than musician, Les built and lived the rock standard in guitar sound! From Crosby (Bing, that is) to Page to Howe and beyond his genius gave others a path to find theirs. 

The One and Only Les Paul

Song List:

Father to Son---Phil Collins
Bluebird---Buffalo Springfield 
Hey Hey What Can I Do---Hootie and the Blowfish
Bron-Y-Aur Stomp--Led Zeppelin
Rockhouse--Ray Charles (Part I and II)
Equinox---John Coltrane
Awaken---Yes
Cosmic Ray---Ray Charles and Milt Jackson
Yakety-Yak---The Coasters
Lovin' Mamma Blues---Joe Turner and Pete Johnson
Rock On---Kid Rock
Hope So Elmo---Maz Roach
Beyond the Sea---Bobby Darrin
What Am I Living For---Chuck Willis
It Hurts to Love Someone---Guitar Slim
A Lovers Question---Clyde McPhatter
Epitaph---King Crimson
In My Time of Dying---Led Zeppelin


As always, the podcast is available here http://media.blubrry.com/ahmetshouse/paradigms.bz/wbkm/AhmetsHouse06152014.mp3 by about 10PM tonight. Thank you Baruch!

You can also listen in iTunes (free subscription!) at http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ahmets-house/id555391588

Thanks for listening! Your servant of the music, Tony Gallucci

It's a Beautiful Morning...and Night...in Ahmet's House!

The One and Only Ray Charles!

We are in the house tonight...it's time, for Ahmet's House! Only on WBKM, where we honor the greats...jazz, blues, rock and roll! The men, women and the songs of Atlantic Records!


Song List:

Everybody I Love You---Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young
Anyday---Derek and the Dominoes
Bluebird--Buffalo Springfield
April in Paris---Ella and Satchmo
You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby---Dr. John
Baby Don't You Do It---Small Faces
Your Move---Jon Anderson
From the Beginning---Emerson, Lake and Palmer
Brazil---Goldie Hawkins
Bluesology---Modern Jazz Quartet
It's a Beautiful Morning---The Rascals
Dancing Days---Led Zeppelin

As always, the podcast is available here http://media.blubrry.com/ahmetshouse/paradigms.bz/wbkm/AhmetsHouse04282013.mp3  

You can also listen in iTunes (free subscription!) at http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ahmets-house/id555391588

Thanks for listening! Your servant of the music, Tony Gallucci

As the Storms of October Churn Up Above!



Great songs...that is what it was all about...from Aretha to Zeppelin, we are sure to play something to suit you tonight...7PM Sunday night! Weather, Halloween and much more...

Jimi Page, of course!

Birthdays: Jon Anderson

Songs:

Ramble On---Led Zeppelin

Season of the Witch---Vanilla Fudge

Blues #3: Willow Weep for Me---Ray Bryant

Song With No Words---David Crosby/Graham Nash

South Side of the Sky---Yes

I Talk to the Wind---King Crimson

Second Home by the Sea---Genesis

Compared to What?---Eddie Harris

When the Levee Breaks---Led Zeppelin

A podcast of tonight's show is available here http://media.blubrry.com/ahmetshouse/paradigms.bz/wbkm/AhmetsHouse10282012.mp3

As always, you can also listen in iTunes (free subscription) at http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ahmets-house/id555391588



A Very Full Ahmet's House for August 26th, 2012

Can we contain it to an hour? Well, we just can't...so tonight we go 'til 8:30! TONIGHT...a conversation with the frontman and visionary of "Yes", one of rock's most recognizeable voices...by phone from his home in California, Jon Anderson! Goosebumps for sure...Of course, some great Yes music is a must. Then, we could never miss this birthday...celebrating Led Zepp's dynamic vocalist...all tonight on Ahmet's House...Legends! And now, catch us on iTunes right after the show!

Birthdays: Robert Plant, Tori Amos; Guest: Jon Anderson (via phone)

Song List:

Over The Hills and Far Away---Led Zeppelin

A Venture---Yes

A Conversation with Jon Anderson (Part 1)

Awaken---Yes

A Conversation with Jon Anderson (Part 2)

Poor Tom---Led Zeppelin

Big Log---Robert Plant

Kashmir---Led Zeppelin

As always, the show is put together fresh every week and is available here http://media.blubrry.com/ahmetshouse/paradigms.bz/wbkm/AhmetsHouse08262012.mp3

Plus, our iTunes Feed can be accesssed here as well: http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ahmets-house/id555391588

 Many thanks to Baruch for recording and doing all that RSS stuff...