LIght of Day 13-Paramount Theatre Asbury Park NJ

Garland Jeffreys

Darlene Love

Jesse Malin & Brian Fallon

 The Light of Day Concert series in Asbury Park once again had it center piece show at the Paramount Theatre on Saturday January 19. The history of these concerts appears in previous years posts.
  The marathon concert started at 6:30 and went until 1:30 in the morning on Sunday the 20th. As usual, a lot of great music for great cause;Parkinson's research.
   As usual, many of the artists on the bill have appeared in previous years and also in Light of Day concerts elsewhere. Comedian Mike Marino helped MC and told a few jokes. The format followed the same structure as previous years. A main stage act was followed with a acoustic performance while the next band set up. Darlene Love was not able to stick around for the encore, as she mentioned she was leaving early in the morning on a flight to Colorado.
   I have tried to include as many of the correct song titles, but where I am not sure, I will follow the title with question marks(??).
   Here is the full line up and setlist.

     Rock n Roll Chorus

       Animal(Neon Trees)
       Summer of 69(Bryan Adams)
       I Saw Her Standing There(The Beatles)
       Who Love You(Four Seasons)
       Thank You(Boyz II Men)
       Home Sweet Home(Motley Crue)
       Seperate Ways(Journey)

    Rob Dye & Pat Guadagno

       First Set of Wheels
       Don't Let Us Get Sick(Warren Zevon cover) Pat Guadagno Lead Vocal
       Cars, Trucks & Buses

    Christine Martucci

       Working Man
        Lay Your Money Down
        Moving On
        Ocean Avenue

    Peter Elkas

        Fall Apart Again
        Good Bye to Dublin

    James Maddock

        Chance
        Wake Up in a Dream
        My Old Neighborhood
        Beautiful Now w/Garland Jeffreys
        When the Suns Out

     Bruce Tunkel

         Blame it on the Chance You Took??????
         Breakaway

      Joe D'Urso & Stone Caravan

         Let It Go
         Hanging Out in Tucson
         Come Down Tonight(Asbury Park) w/Lorenzo Semprini
         It's Been a Long Time(Southside Johnny cover) w/Vini Lopez,Tony Pallagrossi,Peter Elkas,Boccigalupe
         Noisy Guitars/I Wanna be Sedated w/Lorenzo Semprini

      Garland Jeffreys

          Coney Island Winter
          R*O*C*K
          til' John Lee Hooker Calls Me
          We the People
          96 Tears
          Hail Hail Rock n Roll

       John Easdale & Peter Wood of Dramarama

          Try
          Incredible
          Train Going Backward

       Willie Nile

           House of 1000 Guitars
           Heaven Help the Lonely
           Give Me Tomorrow
           People Who Died(Jim Carroll cover)
           One Guitar w/James Maddock, Joe D'Urso

       Greg Trooper

           2 song set including Time for Love

        Darlene Love

           Fine Fine Boy
           Wait til My Bobby Gets Home
           Da Do Ron Ron
           Ain't No Mountain
           What's Going On
           Killing Me Softly
           You're My Soul & Inspiration
           Zip a Dee Doo Dah
           He's a Rebel
           River Deep Mountain High

       Glen Burtnick

            ?????????????????
            Replace My Face/Lucille/Highway '61 Revisited/Follow You
            Sometimes Love Just Ain't Enough

Jesse Malin & Brian Fallon

       Jesse Malin & St. Marks Social

            Burning the Bowery
            Burn the Bridge
            Mona Lisa
            TKO w/Brian Fallon
            Cigarettes & Violets
            All the Way From Moscow
            Black Haired Girl
            Winter(Rolling Stones cover) w/Brian Fallon

       Joel Plaskett w/Peter Elkas

            Nowhere With You
            Wishful Thinking

       Joe Grushecky & The Houserockers

            Have a Good Time ...But Get Out Alive
            Never Be Enough Time
            Dark & Bloody Ground
            Chain Smoking
            East Carson Street
            Swimming With the Sharks/Boom Boom w/Danny Clinch
           
       All Artists(Minus Darlene Love)

             Light of Day
             The Weight
             Thunder Road
           

Finale

   

Light of Day Kids-McLoones Supper Club 1/19/2013

    The second Light of Day Kids show was presented yesterday at McLoone's Supper Club in Asbury Park, as part if the Light of Day concerts.
     Last years show featured Dawnie(Dawne Allyne) and Mr. Ray(Ray Andersen). This years show was expanded to feature 5 performers, which managed to increase the number of attendees.
     This year, Miss Melissa's Aardvarks featuring Melissa Chill, Miss Sherri's Little Animal Band, Dawnie, Yosi and Mr. Ray all performed. Miss Melissa performed several song including Taxi, Miss Sherri's set included Go Go Green, Rockin' Choo Choo & Send Them Up. Dawnie then took the stage and performed a few songs including Little Caterpillar, Silly Willy Freeze and Great Big Castle. Yosi then performed a solo set which included Five Little Monkey's and B-E-A-C-H where he included a snippet of the Tommy Tutone song Jenny(867-5309). Finally, Mr Ray performed with 3 young back up singers. His set included Roy G Biv, Music is a Language along with This Land is Your Land. For the finale, Mr. Ray, Dawnie and Yosi performed the Beatles classic Here Comes the Sun.
       Another fun show and hopefully an annual tradition as long as it's needed.

Miss Melissa's Aardvarks

Miss Sherri's Little Animal Band

Dawnie

Yosi

Mr. Ray

Dawnie, Yosi & Mr Ray

    

4th Annual Rainforest Foundation Benefit-Carnegie Hall 3-2-1993

              From 1991 until 1997 I was lucky enough to go to the annual Rainforest Foundation Benefits at Carnegie Hall. Each year there were a number of different artists included, from various music genres. Sting is the one performer who was the mainstay for all the shows, since it was the charity he is most associated with.
The first year I went was in 1991 when the show was billed as An Evening With Sting and Jobim and....
That year Elton John also appeared along with Brazilian greats Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil. The format was very straightforward. Sting performed a short set which included Someone to Watch Over Me, Mad About You, Message in a Bottle, Fragile and a few others. Elton John then performed two solo songs, Sacrifice and Your Song and then was joined by Sting for Come Down in Time. Chief Raoni then gave a very long speech about the devastating effects of the Rainforest being stripped.
          The second half of the show brought Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil together to perform a song, and then each performed 2 solo songs. Brazilian legend Antonio Carlos Jobim then performed the final set. Sting joined him for How Insensitive and then all the artists joined for Girl From Ipanema. It was a very good show, but it was not until the next year when an evening of classic standards was performed that produced a format they would pretty much use from then on.
            The Third Annual Benefit, the second at Carnegie Hall, once again featured Sting and Elton John, along with Don Henley, James Taylor and Natalie Cole, with a surprise appearance by Whoopi Goldberg. The first half had the guys performing classic songs such as Something's Coming from West Side Story performed by Sting, Getting to Know You from the King and I performed by James Taylor, and a reggae inspired version of Sit Down You're Rocking the Boat from Guys and Dolls performed by Don Henley. The second half had Natalie Cole performing with a full orchestra, and then each of the artists performing one song with the orchestra, and then the finale by all the artists of Cole Porter's Well Did You Evah.
            The next year was a truly great show which featured Sting, Bryan Adams, James Taylor, Herb Alpert, Dustin Hoffman, Ian McKellan, George Michael, Tom Jones and Tina Turner. Ian Mckellan did a very funny reading about the different levels of weather and Herb Alpert threw a bar of Spanish Flea into This Guys in Love with You. Tom Jones and George Michael were backed by Sting and his band  Here is the setlist from that show.

               Englishman in New York - Sting
               Copperline - James Taylor
               (Everything I Do) I Do it For You - Bryan Adams
               Waiting For That Day/You Can't Always Get What You Want - George Michael
               Slap Leather - James Taylor
               Fields of Gold - Sting
               Run to You - Bryan Adams
               Frozen Man - James Taylor
               Freedom(Wham song) - George Michael
               Reading by Dustin Hoffman
               Fragile - Sting & Herb Alpert
               Speech by Larry Cox
               Speech by Trudie Styler
               The Water is Wide - James Taylor
               Reading by Ian McKellan

                                Intermission

               Penny Lane - Sting w/George Michael on Background vocals
               Blackbird - Sting
               A Day in the Life - Sting
               Crying in the Rain - James Taylor & Sting
               Memphis Tennessee - James Taylor
               All in the Game - James Taylor
               This Guys in Love with You - Herb Alpert
               The Wanderer - Bryan Adams
               C'Mon Everybody - Bryan Adams
               You Can't Judge a Book by the Cover - Bryan Adams
               We Can Work it Out - George Michael & Sting
               Every Breath You Take - George Michael & Sting
               Shoot the Breeze - Sting w/Dustin Hoffman on piano(who also wrote the song)
               It's Not Unusual - Tom Jones
               Dock of the Bay - Tom Jones
               Take Me to the River - Tom Jones
               Try a Little Tenderness - Tom Jones
               It's Only Love - Bryan Adams & Tina Turner
               River Deep Mountain High - Tina Turner
 
                              FINALE

                River Deep Mountain High - All artists
                         
              
         
         

2013 Academy Award Nominations

 On Thursday January 10, the nominations for the 2013 Academy Awards will be announced. Here are my predictions as to which films will be nominated. Bet I'm wrong.

  Amour
  Argo
  Beast of the Southern Wild
  Django Unchained
  Les Miserables
  Life of Pi
  Lincoln
  Silver Linings Playbook
  Zero Dark Thirty