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Matt D.'s Collection

Doobie Brothers   05/31/1973

Ultra Sonic Studios, West Hempstead, NY
Source WLIR FM 92.7 Garden City, NY
Media CDR   1 disc
Notes Doobie Brothers
05/31/73
Ultrasonic Studios
West Hempstead, NY
WLIR FM 92.7 Garden City, NY


01 South City Midnight Lady
02 Tuning => Intro to Clear as the Driven Snow
03 Clear as the Driven Snow
04 Long Train Running
05 Listen to the Music
06 China Grove
07 Rockin' Down the Highway
08 Tuning
09 Disciple =>
10 Jesus Is Just Alright => Disciple
11 Tuning => Intro to Without You
12 Without You

Bonus track:

13 Natural Thing, live on the Midnight Special
(introduced by Paul Anka)
Tech Notes All
J-Card Comment Doobie Brothers
05/31/73
Ultrasonic Studios
West Hempstead, NY
WLIR FM 92.7 Garden City, NY


01 South City Midnight Lady
02 Tuning => Intro to Clear as the Driven Snow
03 Clear as the Driven Snow
04 Long Train Running
05 Listen to the Music
06 China Grove
07 Rockin' Down the Highway
08 Tuning
09 Disciple =>
10 Jesus Is Just Alright => Disciple
11 Tuning => Intro to Without You
12 Without You

Bonus track:

13 Natural Thing, live on the Midnight Special
(introduced by Paul Anka)

Lou's Notes: "This was recorded just as their third album, "The Captain & Me", had been released in March 1973. I fixed most dropouts although not 100% in some cases, took out some digital artifacts, raised the volume a bit on all tracks (especially on Natural Thing) and equalized the left and right channels. On the source cassette, "Without You" was cut off, so I added a fadeout." Show was retracked using CD Wave and then run through Shntool. The sound on Natural Thing sounds more generational and a bit more muddled than the rest of the disc, but listenable.

I made separate "tuning" tracks when they went over a minute long. Seems the band had to tune up a lot!

Kickass show in front of a small captive audience covering one of my favorite Doobie periods. Other than the KSAN 1972 Pacific High Recorders show I previously posted, I haven't seen any live Doobies from this period or before the Memphis and SNACK Benefit 1975 shows. The 1970 Pacifc Recording Studios show listed on the etree setlists is actually their demo album which was rejected by their record company, not a live show.

If some are out there, let's get them posted!

Although there are no dj comments or station id's (probably edited out), I'm fairly confident WLIR 92.7 did all the Ultrasonic shows as I recall from my youth.


01 South City Midnight Lady.flac:11f46aa2b76c4ba9780218ed41c57204
02 Tuning_Intro to Clear as the Driven Snow.flac:1d82859dd541a497acabb66fff89903f
03 Clear as the Driven Snow.flac:c2873b7dbeacb91f7be5d448d2787f22
04 Long Train Running.flac:e7bd10c809e00ef6c6135a70dd85b015
05 Listen to the Music.flac:4f0b2595083b5333d9e668d0c1d9bc40
06 China Grove.flac:26c4df5aa56cf35f6dad9d3cb61e23c9
07 Rockin' Down the Highway.flac:04ba5b4ed575fdca4f2c6656ce59ecd4
08 Tuning.flac:5232d6fbfcc07233242094ef6f5f5d91
09 Disciple.flac:d99bbb0e2e9d2c45f312ed1d5a22476a
10 Jesus Is Just Alright_Disciple.flac:f72a9bf099b06d2624e5efe79e71de00
11 Tuning_Intro to Without You.flac:de2fabd597a25ae917b2e55e2c8f2622
12 Without You.flac:a05bcc8eadba63f9ca69ea9e285716fb
13 Natural Thing.flac:0a937c16911cfd4e9f1ab88415c8854d
Trades Allowed Yes
Ratings Sound: A
Reference / Generation 0004822496
Owned by Matt D. · Last Updated May 23, 2023