Approaching Clapton...and Neil...tonight on Ahmet's House!

This has been a big week in our town...with the announcement of the return of Neil Young to Vermont for the first time since 1965! And the next week will be equally exciting, as Eric Clapton comes to New York for two shows to celebrate his 70th birthday! So tonight, it seems time to focus on these two favorites of Ahmet's...and the music will be grand!

Song List:

Badge---Eric Clapton (live)
Taint Nobody's Business if I Do---Big Joe Turner
Soul Serenade---King Curtis
Worried Life Blues---Eric Clapton (live)
If I Don't Be There By Morning---Eric Clapton
Long May You Run---Stephen Stills and Neil Young (live)
The Battle of Evermore---Page and Plant (live)
Breakfast in Bed---Dusty Springfield
Sweetness---Yes
Tales of Brave Ulysses---Cream
Old Love---Eric Clapton (live)
Key to the Highway---Derek and the Dominos
Pretty Girl Why---Buffalo Springfield
Mr. Soul---Buffalo Springfield
Country Girl/Whisky Boot Hill/Down, Down, Down---Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young
Shotgun Willie---Willie Nelson, Kid Rock and Family
Bell Bottom Blues---Derek and the Dominos


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

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

R&B Surrounding Percy tonight, as He Flies...

Tonight in "Ahmet's House", our weekly homage to Atlantic Records iconic founder, we celebrate and surround the late Percy Sledge, with soul and blues. 7PM ET, with your host Tony.

Song List:

Tell Me How Do You Feel---Ray Charles

Try a Little Tenderness---Percy Sledge

Sea of Love---The Honey Drippers

Things About Coming My Way---Ruth Brown

My Girl Sloopy---The Vibrations

Maggie's Farm---Solomon Burke

When a Man Loves a Woman---Percy Sledge

Dear Mr. Fantasy---Graham Nash/Stephen Stills

Soul Man---The Blues Brothers

You Shook Me---Led Zeppelin (live)

Since I Met You Baby---Ivory Joe Hunter

If Loving You is Wrong---Percy Sledge

For What it's Worth---Buffalo Springfield

Rainy Night in Georgia---Brook Benton

Chez Twang's---Dr. John and Arif Mardin

Two Years of Torture---Ray Charles

Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry---Wynton Marlasis

Stand By Me---Ben E. King

Warm and Tender Love---Percy Sledge

Time---Jackie Moore

Mojo Hannah----Esther Philips

Take Time to Know Her---Percy Sledge

Epitaph/March For No Reason---King Crimson 

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

Lost Another One: RIP Percy Sledge, November 25, 1940-April 14, 2015

Sad news to pass on today in Ahmet's House...that our great soul crooner, the legendary Percy Sledge, has finished his story. It is now up to all of us left to make sure history does not forget. We never will...

So just two days before the 49th anniversary of the release of "When a Man Loves a Woman", one of the greatest statements ever sung on the ever mysterious workings of our most intimate feelings, we say goodbye to the talented young man from Alabama...leaving us today at the age of 74.

The One and Only

This Sunday (April 19th) we will celebrate some of Percy's other great songs in "Ahmet's House". 

Running fast into Spring! Music as fresh as ever in Ahmet's House

One of the clear cut differences between mere "oldies" and timeless songs are their enduring ability to sustain us and themselves; to remain fresh and relevant as the coming of the spring season.  And so, as we travel deeper into April, we shower and refresh...with the songs that never tire, never wear out their welcome...tonight in Ahmet's House. Your host, Tony.

Steve Howe of Yes playing a BB King Lucille model Gibson

Song List:

Marakesh Express---Crosby, Stills and Nash
Walking' in Memphis---Marc Cohen
I Feel Free---Second Coming
Time Was---Shorty Rogers and his Giants
His Holy Modal Majesty---Supersessions (Al Kooper, Steve Stills and Mike Bloomfield)
All I Want---Joni Mitchel
Your Imagination---Hall and Oates

You've Lost that Loving Feeling---Hall and Oates
Everything Your Heart Desires---Hall and Oates

I've Been Loving You For So Long---Otis Redding
Beginning of the End---Funky Nassau
Crosscut Saw---Albert King
Whammer Jammer---J. Geils Band (live)
Slow Down Old World---Willie Nelson
Beautiful Morning---The Rascals
My Best Friends Girl is Outta Sight---Sonny and Cher
Talkin' About You!---Ray Charles
Whole Lotta Love---Led Zeppelin
Clap!/Mood for a Day---Steve Howe
Yours is No Disgrace---Yes

As always, the podcast is available here Here by about 10PM ET Sunday. (NOTE: This week's post may be delayed due to travel). 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

Rejoice! Rejoice!

...we have no choice, but to Carry On! Yes Stephen, let us carry on indeed. Tony is traveling in New York today on Ahmet's House business, so we will not get together until next week. Today, as Jews celebrate Passover and Christians celebrate Easter at the same time, let us remember why this great music connected us all, for all the years of Ahmet's time....

"Ahmet...a Muslim who worked with a Jew to bring the gospel music of the blacks to white America." 

Peace and love from Ahmet's House to you and yours, around the globe.... 

In Memoriam: Miriam Bienstock

Tonight's show is dedicated to "the money man" of Atlantic records...who in 1947 was an unusual  woman of business...fierce, tenacious...Miriam Abramson Bienstock. Miriam passed just a few days ago, and for keeping the young company solvent we owe her deeply. Nothing after the first few years would have happened...thank you dear Miriam. We mourn your passing among family and many friends. 

Ahmet, Miriam and Jerry

Song List:

Winter---The Rolling Stones
Ice Man Blues---Big Joe Turner
Spring Will Be a Little Late This Year---Wynton Marsalis
Piano Improvisation into Worried Life Blues---Ray Charles
Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out---Derek and the Dominos (live)
Since I've Been Loving You---Led Zeppelin (live)
A Love Supreme, Pts. I and III---John Coltrane
Ain't No Way---Aretha Franklin
Starship Trooper---Yes
Since You've Been Gone---Aretha Franklin
Move Around---Manassas
The Weight---Aretha Franklin
You Keep Me Hangin' On---Vanilla Fudge
Green Onions---Booker T and the MG's
Candy---The Astors
Some Kind of Wonderful---Soul Brothers Six
I Ain't Got Nobody---Mae Barnes
Brazil---Goldie Hawkins
On the Sunny Side of the Street---Mae Barnes


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

Equinox! Spring 2015 Arrives in Ahmet's House

In the four season regions of the globe, nothing give us hope like the arrival of Spring! So weather you are still waiting for the ice to melt, or have already begun working the garden soil, celebrate with us tonight in Ahmet's House. "I've felt the coldness of my winter, I never thought it would ever go...these are the seasons of emotion and like the winds they rise and fall...this is the mystery of the quotient..."

Coltrane and Equinox!

Song List: 

Back Where it All Began---Allman Brothers Band
Shotgun Willie---Willie Nelson
The Rain Song---Led Zeppelin
Equinox---John Coltrane
I Got a Woman---Ray Charkes
Myths and Legends of King Arthur--Rick Wakeman
Dance of Ranyart---Jon Anderson
Lucky Seven---Chris Squire
Five percent for Nothing---Bill Bruford
Mood for a Day---Steve Howe
Further on up the Road---Eric Clapton
Joe Turners Blues---Eric Clapton and Wynton Marsalis
Why Does Love...---Derek and the Dominos
Angel in my Heart---Mick Jagger
Locked Away---Keith Richards
I Don't Think So---Ronnie Wood
Do You Think I Really Care?---The Rolling Stones
In This Corner---Art Blakey

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