Tag: Tom Petty

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Wednesday 8pm: Feature LP: Tom Petty – Into The Great Wide Open (1991)

Into the Great Wide Open is the eighth studio album by American rock band Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, first released in 1991. The album was the band’s last with MCA Records. The album was the second Petty produced with Jeff Lynne after the success of Full Moon Fever.

The first single, “Learning to Fly”, became the band’s joint longest-running No. 1 single (along with “The Waiting” from 1981’s Hard Promises) on Billboard’s Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, spending six weeks at the top spot. The second single, “Out in the Cold”, also made No. 1 on the Mainstream Rock chart, albeit for two weeks.

The music video for the title song starred Johnny Depp, who had moved to Los Angeles as a teenager to seek rock stardom, along with Gabrielle Anwar, Faye Dunaway, Matt LeBlanc, Terence Trent D’Arby and Chynna Phillips.

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Feature LP

Tuesday 9:20pm: Feature LP: Tom Petty – Southern Accents (1985)

Southern Accents is the sixth album by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, released on March 26, 1985, through MCA Records.

The album’s lead single, “Don’t Come Around Here No More”, co-written by Dave Stewart of Eurythmics, peaked at #13 on the Billboard Hot 100. Its music video featured Alice in Wonderland imagery. “Southern Accents” was later covered by Johnny Cash for his Unchained album in 1996, on which members of the Heartbreakers play.

The recording sessions saw some tension between the band members, as each had a different vision for the album. Originally conceived as a concept album, the theme of “Southern Accents” became somewhat murky with the inclusion of three songs co-written by Stewart, and three other songs originally planned for the album left off. Songs cut from the track list include “Trailer”, “Big Boss Man”, “Crackin’ Up”, “The Image of Me” and “The Apartment Song”. These can be found on Playback, a box set released 10 years later that included familiar songs with outtakes, B-sides and other rarities. “Trailer” was released in May 2016 by another band led by Petty, Mudcrutch, on their album 2.

While mixing the opening track “Rebels” Petty became frustrated and punched a wall, severely breaking his left hand. Subsequent surgery on his hand left him with several pins, wires and screws to hold his hand together.

The album cover features an 1865 painting by Winslow Homer titled The Veteran in a New Field.

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In Memoriam

In Memoriam: Tom Petty (1950 – 2017)

Thomas Earl Petty(October 20, 1950 – October 2, 2017) was an American musician, singer, songwriter, multi instrumentalist and record producer. He was best known as the lead singer of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, but was also a member and co-founder of the late 1980s supergroup the Traveling Wilburys, and his early band Mudcrutch.

Petty recorded a number of hit singles with the Heartbreakers and as a solo artist, many of which are mainstays on adult contemporary and classic rock radio. His music has been classified as rock and roll, heartland rock and stoner rock. His music has become popular among younger generations. In his career, Petty sold more than 80 million records worldwide, making him one of the best-selling music artists of all time. In 2002, Petty was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Petty entered cardiac arrest early in the morning of October 2, 2017, and died later that night at a hospital in Santa Monica, California. – Wikipedia

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Monday 9am: Labor Day Live Tracks

LaborDay2016Today Labor Day 2016 we feature Live tracks all day from great artists all day then a special Vinyl Resting Place Labor Day at 5pm with Willie B.  Today you will hear Live tracks from Joni Mitchell, Kelly Clarkson, Cyndi Lauper, Journey, Bob Seger, Elton John, Steve Miller Band, Genesis, Billy Joel, Paul McCartney, Kiss, Nils Lofgren, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Madonna, Vixen, Tom Petty, Lisa Marie Presley, John Fogerty and many more.

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Time Sweep with Dominic Forbes 12pm ET @radiomax @softrockjock #timesweep

time-fliesThis week on Time Sweep with Dominic Forbes

  • California Tunes
  • Hero Tunes
  • Look at 1970 Tunes
  • Review of Tom Petty
  • Teacher Tunes
  • This Week In Rock History
  • Story Behind Fleetwood Mac’s “Go Your Own Way”
  • Look at 1984 Rock

 

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Feature LP: Stevie Nicks – Bella Donna 2pm ET

 

Bella Donna is the debut studio album by American singer-songwriter and Fleetwood Mac vocalist Stevie Nicks. Released on July 27, 1981, the album hit #1 on the U.S. Billboard charts in September of that year with sales of 297,000 copies, remaining there for one week. Bella Donna was awarded Platinum status by the RIAA on October 7, 1981, less than three months after its release, and has since been certified quadruple-platinum.

The album spawned four substantial hit singles during 1981 and 1982: the Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers-penned duet “Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around” (#3), the Don Henley duet “Leather and Lace” (#6), the iconic “Edge of Seventeen” (#11), and country-tinged “After the Glitter Fades” (#32).

No. Title Length
1. “Bella Donna” 5:21
2. “Kind of Woman” (Nicks, Benmont Tench) 3:12
3. “Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around” (Tom Petty, Mike Campbell, performed by Stevie Nicks and Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers) 4:04
4. “Think About It” (Nicks, Roy Bittan) 3:35
5. “After the Glitter Fades” 3:31
6. “Edge of Seventeen“ 5:28
7. “How Still My Love” 3:54
8. “Leather and Lace” (performed by Stevie Nicks and Don Henley) 3:44
9. “Outside the Rain” 4:18
10. “The Highwayman” 4:48

 

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Rock Show Special 4 Hour 6pm ET

All new edition of the Rock Show programmed by http://www.radiomaxrock.com PD Rikki Traina.  Sample the NEW station coming soon.  This week:  Papa Roach, Tom Petty, Black Stone Cherry, Theory of a Deadman, Linkin Park, Collective Soul, Deftones, AC/DC and more!