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August 27, 2025 • 58 mins
From ther Acme Studios in Mayville, Wisconsin. Just in time for Labor Day Weekend, we present the Hardest Working Albums of the 1970's. Featuring deep tracks of Vintage Rock from Led Zeppelin, Paul McCartney and Wings, The Eagles, Peter Frampton and more.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
The following program is brought to you in living color.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
God to the barrow.

Speaker 3 (00:10):
It sounds.

Speaker 4 (00:16):
Please sons, So.

Speaker 5 (00:20):
This God, it's God.

Speaker 3 (00:23):
I see God.

Speaker 4 (00:25):
We will provide the grand design.

Speaker 6 (00:29):
We didn't say it'd be good.

Speaker 7 (00:33):
It's one hour of radio anarchy broadcasting for the ACNE
Studios in Mayville, Wisconsin.

Speaker 8 (00:41):
Where the hell is Mayville?

Speaker 7 (00:43):
Then it rocked. It's been bottled up way too long.
Welcome to Don's basement.

Speaker 9 (01:19):
Don't say you mavocado feels told in the market day
and new all days.

Speaker 2 (01:26):
But God, I don't.

Speaker 3 (01:27):
Say I know it's doing all already.

Speaker 10 (01:30):
He went away and tossed around midnight.

Speaker 7 (01:37):
Should up.

Speaker 3 (01:38):
I'm gonna take so good.

Speaker 11 (01:40):
A should up, just like anch loud, don't seen golding
is bros Hound lay.

Speaker 12 (02:01):
I'm that funny.

Speaker 1 (02:02):
Ways gonna stop?

Speaker 2 (02:04):
Don't know s.

Speaker 12 (02:05):
That's two an hour writing.

Speaker 10 (02:07):
You shouldst around men, nice, should.

Speaker 11 (02:16):
Start? Got shut.

Speaker 2 (03:17):
Sweet st.

Speaker 12 (03:19):
School.

Speaker 6 (04:35):
There are some tales that do need to be told.
The names don't have to be mentioned, but the tale,
yes needs to be passed along. I'm at a station
playing that song one afternoon. One of the girls at
work there comes walking by and she's like, oh my God,
I love that song, turn it up, and I'm like,
really knowing the way she was really you know, do
you know the lyrics to this song? And she's like no,
I said, why don't you go google it and then

(04:57):
come back and let me know how much you love
this song? And she comes back in eyes are all
bugged out. She's like, oh my god, I didn't know
that's what it was about. Now you know the stones
and browned sugar and hello there, how are you Welcome
back in? I'm Don Clark. Thanks so much for coming
down and hanging out once again down here in Don's basement.
These are the hardest working albums just in time for
Labor Day weekend of the nineteen seventies albums that went

(05:20):
all the way to number one, including this one from Crosby, Stills,
Nash and Young title cut from Deja Vu Welcome to
Don's Basement, just about to do don't you.

Speaker 2 (05:46):
Another time?

Speaker 1 (05:47):
Robel? I would probably just down to deal with.

Speaker 2 (05:51):
All of you, and see.

Speaker 12 (06:08):
That got.

Speaker 8 (06:10):
Ill before, that got ill before, and you know, it
makes me wonder.

Speaker 5 (06:34):
What's going on.

Speaker 13 (06:48):
The ground?

Speaker 2 (06:57):
Do you know?

Speaker 1 (07:01):
Don't you wonder what's going on?

Speaker 12 (07:14):
Dada?

Speaker 1 (07:15):
Don't you.

Speaker 14 (08:07):
Have all been hear every boll and I love be everybody.

(08:29):
I'm love be anyone, ill everybody, and I love.

Speaker 12 (08:52):
Be everybe and I love.

Speaker 7 (09:04):
Dropping the needle on the artist. You remember the songs
you forgot? Welcome to Don's Basement.

Speaker 2 (09:10):
Oh please believe me? Never do you no how? Believe me? Man,
I tell you never do you no how? Oh d

(09:48):
if you leave me.

Speaker 14 (09:54):
Never l.

Speaker 2 (09:56):
Hello, believe me?

Speaker 12 (10:02):
I thank you. John, leave me Hello.

Speaker 2 (10:16):
When you're jo.

Speaker 12 (10:20):
Your name? When you know alcome, when you're tying.

Speaker 2 (10:39):
Him?

Speaker 12 (10:41):
Were not?

Speaker 2 (10:49):
Oh John?

Speaker 12 (10:54):
You leave me mack din You mean when.

Speaker 2 (11:08):
I tell you the Jo.

Speaker 15 (11:15):
No remade me.

Speaker 2 (11:27):
Name?

Speaker 16 (11:31):
You well know I let down and not anymore.

Speaker 17 (11:47):
I know, Oh John, geez been Livelive, Believe.

Speaker 12 (12:15):
To.

Speaker 6 (12:30):
John Lennon had reached out to George Martin and said,
would you please produce another album for us? And he said,
if you ask nicely, I will, And Abbey Road was
born and Paul McCartney and Oh Darland. These are the
hardest working albums of the nineteen seventies. Albums that went
straight to number one. From Santana three This is Everybody's

(12:52):
Everything Santana in don.

Speaker 18 (12:54):
See I have a Brother's waiting for the new tacks, tumbleround,
when mother day women James Weaver saw suns.

Speaker 3 (13:17):
About singing around forever one.

Speaker 19 (13:22):
You can rumble stand in the freest and say, let
your spending towns, brothers everywhere. Lets your number three turn
the wisdom tree my then not turning, see.

Speaker 12 (13:35):
Your lucky goop be there, South been.

Speaker 4 (13:39):
Around, round around, hold something on the back there.

Speaker 18 (13:47):
Now, don't your mother made room go not my side
this whole town, father.

Speaker 20 (14:00):
Have for you to all get down? Yeah, so around

(14:35):
and round and road. Who don't all stand never thinks?
So sir, that's all spill in town's brothers everything.

Speaker 4 (14:46):
Let's y'all happen, trouble wisdom m not a.

Speaker 12 (14:50):
Ready simple nothing s.

Speaker 5 (14:55):
I'm trough for you all get down. Yeah, for you

(15:44):
to hall get down.

Speaker 7 (16:06):
Out of all the shows on the radio, we're one
of them. Welcome to down space.

Speaker 2 (16:12):
Man, I'm going on the face with James.

Speaker 12 (16:57):
From BEGT. It would be a thousand miles, gonna be
so many ways just to know is going why I'm
helping with things. So if you want to go to
I too, and you can see exactly want to do
raise time.

Speaker 10 (17:15):
I have to say a man, I got me understand
by a thousand people bother me by that sids.

Speaker 12 (17:30):
Got to make you see it about the person. There's
fin Stopt saying I'm just an't wondering dot my brace

(17:50):
of this gun feature so bad?

Speaker 21 (17:53):
Do what.

Speaker 12 (17:55):
I want? Trying to buy some hour about I could
come out.

Speaker 10 (18:01):
The things I don't say on Others say I got

(18:41):
this time by people at the Suns saying about the beasts.
Time by the Stay.

Speaker 12 (19:10):
Says the thin Stay say.

Speaker 13 (19:27):
The thing.

Speaker 6 (20:15):
John Lodge said that he wrote that song because people
kept coming up to him and other members of the
band saying, we've been listening to your lyrics, man, and
they are It's the key to happiness. How do you
know what I'm thinking? And he just looked at him, said, Christ, Look,
I'm just a singer in a rock and roll band, right.
Moody Blues from the Seventh Sojourn in Don Clark and
Don Spaceman. If you took a time machine back to

(20:36):
nineteen seventy six and walked into anybody's house into their
record collection, chances are pretty good you'd find this double
set of vinyl from Frampton Comes Alive. This is Peter
Frampton and shine On and Don's baseman.

Speaker 3 (21:17):
I didn't hard to see you the god on the
flam your brother sided.

Speaker 22 (21:26):
Won't you realize to talk to dream and not to
him the name for god.

Speaker 3 (21:30):
Me just could beat the one girl.

Speaker 2 (21:39):
You were me my father.

Speaker 12 (21:48):
Time.

Speaker 14 (21:54):
Oh help me at a time.

Speaker 3 (22:05):
Please coming out, tell me what you see. Oh God
must be green coming screen and airs.

Speaker 12 (22:17):
We will see the day. I'm not a day. Thank
you all about the day, my love, not.

Speaker 23 (22:38):
Sid Brian cuts of vintage rocks and selected by the

(24:00):
basement drove down oast. This is John's basement.

Speaker 3 (24:20):
I get up in the morning. Then it's just another
day back of my belone.

Speaker 4 (24:26):
I got the fiddle.

Speaker 3 (24:27):
We jumping through a taxi and the town is getting tight.
I got the beaver move and I gotta sell tonight
en not moving.

Speaker 12 (24:39):
Moving on from town to town, Moving.

Speaker 3 (24:46):
On, baby, never see the turn round I'm taking to
the ticket. There's not help him out of boom. Then
before the boating, getting.

Speaker 24 (24:59):
Out in the pillow, the pains, I'm sitting, No man,
lay listen in my safe.

Speaker 4 (25:07):
I'm taking nap a bat and.

Speaker 13 (25:12):
No the.

Speaker 12 (25:18):
Mousing many and tipped him the broad.

Speaker 14 (25:24):
Whoa whoa, whoa who.

Speaker 12 (25:46):
From til down.

Speaker 3 (25:53):
I can't take them stop.

Speaker 2 (26:38):
At the Moon.

Speaker 12 (26:41):
Can I'm never say the fool now a boom and sun.

Speaker 2 (26:54):
Yes, every day.

Speaker 6 (27:23):
We have equal parts of Free King Crimson and Mata Hoopel.
Mix them all together you get a supergroup. Bad Company's
debut album and moving on. In nineteen seventy two, we
had a brand new album from jethro Toll and if
you had the time, you could listen to the title cut.
That's up next. I'm Don Clark, Welcome to Don's Baseman.

Speaker 21 (27:42):
Jeffro Toe Live, Sit Tip Faith, jethro Te Live, bursting
Out an incredible new double album on Chrysalis Records and
Tapes and live at Madison Square Garden over eighth and
eleventh at eight pm. October ninth at five pm. Tickets

(28:04):
at box Office and ticket truck. Album available at Corvette.

Speaker 7 (28:06):
There's classic rock and mad and Watch pop Boy.

Speaker 13 (28:13):
There's village Rock.

Speaker 1 (28:16):
Stopping again.

Speaker 7 (28:18):
Then there's this Place in your pop Anoid Orry.

Speaker 12 (28:23):
You're a bad man.

Speaker 3 (28:26):
As your nick the boot of Battle for not.

Speaker 6 (28:30):
A Welcome me downce Basement.

Speaker 25 (28:43):
Really don't mind if you sit this one out. My
words but a whisper deafness shouting I may make you
feel a little can't make you think. Yes, beans in

(29:06):
the gutter, he loves in the same.

Speaker 3 (29:12):
So you're right.

Speaker 5 (29:13):
Sails over the fee.

Speaker 4 (29:16):
And you make all your.

Speaker 3 (29:18):
Animals and your white men don't know how would be.

Speaker 21 (29:28):
To be sick as a brick.

Speaker 4 (29:38):
And the sand castle.

Speaker 3 (29:39):
The shoes are all swept away.

Speaker 25 (29:45):
In the tidal destruction.

Speaker 4 (29:48):
The morrow must lay.

Speaker 25 (29:53):
The elastic retreat strings, the closes of play.

Speaker 3 (30:00):
That's the last wave uncovers.

Speaker 15 (30:03):
The new vangled way.

Speaker 4 (30:08):
But you make the want.

Speaker 25 (30:12):
And yourself tell the rapid when you want.

Speaker 12 (30:17):
Men don't know.

Speaker 26 (30:19):
I'm to be thick as a break and the love Roffy,

(30:39):
it's so farward.

Speaker 2 (30:43):
I'm a bad dream that.

Speaker 12 (30:45):
I just had your head to take me.

Speaker 3 (30:53):
And you shake your head, he said, it's a shame.
Spin me back down the y.

Speaker 2 (31:08):
And the day on my youth.

Speaker 25 (31:14):
Probably send black curtains and shut out the whole truth.
Spin me down the long ages, let them sing the.

Speaker 6 (31:26):
Song from nineteen seventy two. And the great thing about
buying that album is it came with its own newspapers.
Thick as a brick total cut from jelth Rotel and
Don Clarkey in Don's Basement, celebrating labor Day Weekend in
grand style with the albums that went to number one

(31:49):
in the nineteen seventies. And this is the cut that
put the reps On Band on the run from Paul
McCartney and Wings. This is nineteen hundred and eighty five
in Don's Basement.

Speaker 2 (32:15):
Oh No, one May.

Speaker 22 (32:17):
Nine, ain't hundred five. Believe she made me right, she
made me fight. You made it a little, but you
won't get back because I got you.

Speaker 4 (32:31):
Oh well, I just can't get in love.

Speaker 3 (32:41):
But last sweet stuff, I'll be the lady.

Speaker 15 (32:44):
Get that.

Speaker 27 (32:51):
Chet, you don't break it. Oh my never side, that's young.

Speaker 24 (33:38):
When I was playing that milking, I didn't say I
never dreamed about free while to see.

Speaker 3 (33:48):
You come true?

Speaker 22 (33:51):
Whoa, Oh wow, I'm just getting it in love and
last week stuff.

Speaker 28 (34:03):
A little later gets me hind, I'm the long ever

(34:36):
l I'm landing on.

Speaker 2 (34:38):
The main by rely.

Speaker 24 (34:43):
That she made me light, She make it nice, to
make it a lot, But you won't get back because
I haven't got you. Oh wow, just can't get in love.
The last three stop at Lady that behind.

Speaker 23 (36:53):
I'm gonna say there was some funny stuff going on
down there, but every time we opened the basement door
at the top of the stairs.

Speaker 16 (36:58):
It looked like a new open just been elected.

Speaker 7 (37:01):
Welcome to Dad's basement.

Speaker 2 (38:00):
Go you wanna go?

Speaker 29 (38:02):
Fuck days had It's like telling that most chances is

(38:28):
just fantastic on his real way to Charles Day. And
then we'll last we.

Speaker 2 (38:47):
Call it rid it.

Speaker 12 (39:09):
We just did not time.

Speaker 29 (39:13):
The sound and you're not doing what they went once
is just three seven child, that's sounds just starting to girls.

Speaker 14 (39:52):
And then we'll tell you were calling.

Speaker 12 (39:59):
Joy Other County.

Speaker 6 (41:46):
Now, while you may not know the name, you definitely
know his picture. Ronnie Randell Junior. He was the stuntman
that was set on fire for the Wishy Were Hair
album from Pink Floyd and Ronnie passed away this week
at the age of eighty eight. Is Have a Cigar
doc Parking Don's Basement. These are the best vintage rock
albums of the nineteen seventies. These are the ones that

(42:07):
went to number one and from the Goodbye Yellow Brick
Road album Here Zelton John and all the Girls Love
Alice in Don's Basement.

Speaker 2 (42:16):
Raised a little.

Speaker 30 (42:21):
Down the smole small of Public School on the back
right down a sound of kays of Moment of.

Speaker 2 (42:34):
Love blues.

Speaker 12 (42:40):
Reality saying it's just streams.

Speaker 2 (42:46):
Good down us all with the falls on the seats.

Speaker 21 (42:51):
What's up?

Speaker 3 (42:52):
Yes that from check just sixteen and hey, you don't
bother me all beyond girls of Valet.

Speaker 9 (43:13):
Ten, the young alas Stacy, come over and see me,
Come over and please be.

Speaker 3 (43:25):
Alice is my turn to be, All the young girls
of Valet.

Speaker 9 (43:36):
Then young Alastaycy, if I give you.

Speaker 12 (43:43):
My number, w bronst come mere.

Speaker 31 (43:48):
Wait to my herds on the little darling with the
two five over hat.

Speaker 30 (44:09):
It's like getting out of moving when you got the
rock park, get out your care and another girlfriend.

Speaker 3 (44:20):
And if we only left tuesday. Oh the fat in
the subway there.

Speaker 4 (44:32):
And who couldn't you put out hers down?

Speaker 15 (44:34):
Him?

Speaker 2 (44:34):
So cool.

Speaker 4 (44:37):
One not to be letter package in the outer board.

Speaker 3 (44:42):
I got the expect for.

Speaker 9 (44:44):
A sixteen year old you you and the hair hair hair.

Speaker 12 (44:49):
Warm, Oh don't you do?

Speaker 3 (45:00):
The young girls of Valence.

Speaker 2 (45:04):
Ten, young Adis.

Speaker 9 (45:07):
Days say, come over and see me, come bother and
please be.

Speaker 2 (45:16):
Dallis is my tt be.

Speaker 4 (45:22):
All the young girls of Vali.

Speaker 9 (45:27):
Ten, the young alas Day say, if I give you
my number with wrongs to come me wait till now.

Speaker 25 (45:40):
Have not.

Speaker 15 (45:56):
Back.

Speaker 7 (46:22):
The seventies were good to this guy. Welcome to Don's basement.

Speaker 4 (46:27):
I received a message from my friend across the water.

Speaker 12 (46:31):
He said, love him.

Speaker 4 (46:32):
As it ruled the engine side, I said goodbye.

Speaker 28 (46:38):
My friends, and inside of match box because I know
it's time fly.

Speaker 12 (46:48):
Me me.

Speaker 15 (46:50):
Me me man, make him more field.

Speaker 12 (47:15):
Okay, I.

Speaker 25 (47:23):
Just jumped the trap and I'm gonna stop some now sip.

Speaker 2 (47:28):
I finished player on my life.

Speaker 27 (47:33):
Soon pushed the gun and Jim's back and find the fight.

Speaker 4 (47:41):
Oh yeah, being out in the morning, you meet me.

Speaker 12 (47:49):
The answer.

Speaker 14 (47:54):
The morning he's coming whet alway.

Speaker 20 (48:05):
Oh manall my fink it's time I leave m then
you're leader.

Speaker 28 (48:15):
Who what's been till you're looking down them?

Speaker 2 (48:20):
Does?

Speaker 5 (48:21):
It's a bit me.

Speaker 12 (48:24):
B up, break the moy.

Speaker 28 (48:29):
Salads clean, please miss the founder, watch me.

Speaker 4 (48:36):
Offer sell the people they got to fly away from you.

Speaker 28 (48:51):
Oh I was sore a picture the lad with a
bad selling have a paraphimo.

Speaker 13 (48:59):
SMIs just smile.

Speaker 15 (49:02):
We are in the middle of the change.

Speaker 2 (49:05):
Is an estimation.

Speaker 15 (49:06):
When the trains up, I have a millow smile.

Speaker 2 (49:12):
Crawl.

Speaker 28 (49:13):
Now meet me in the morning, won't meaning Milora.

Speaker 12 (49:21):
Shut? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (49:23):
I never run another former time It's.

Speaker 12 (49:25):
Going and Let make Your wanna a feeling life.

Speaker 3 (49:32):
Yeah made me feel.

Speaker 6 (49:41):
The digging deep into physical graffiti, Zeppelin and Night Flight.

(50:03):
These are the greatest albums of the nineteen seventies, the
albums that went to number one. This one in particular
went to number one four times in nineteen seventy seven,
and Don Henley best described the song as you've heard
how the West was won, This is how the West
was lost from the Hotel California album These are the
Eagles and the Last Resort in Don's basement.

Speaker 32 (50:25):
She came from Providence one in road, where the old
world shadows hanging heavy.

Speaker 15 (50:40):
She packed her.

Speaker 33 (50:42):
Hosts and dreams like a refugee, just as her father
came across to sea.

Speaker 4 (50:58):
She heard about a place people worse man.

Speaker 3 (51:05):
They spoke about the red.

Speaker 4 (51:07):
Man's ways, how they loved land. They came from everywhere
to the great.

Speaker 13 (51:18):
Device, seeking a place to stand.

Speaker 2 (51:24):
Or a place to hide.

Speaker 4 (51:30):
Down in the crowded bars, out for a good time.

Speaker 13 (51:38):
Can't wait to tell you all what it's like up.

Speaker 3 (51:45):
They call it Paradise.

Speaker 2 (51:49):
I don't know why.

Speaker 4 (51:52):
When somebody laid the mountains.

Speaker 2 (51:55):
Load while the town got.

Speaker 4 (52:26):
Then the chimney winds blow down across the.

Speaker 34 (52:31):
Disle through the king Yanza the coast to the male
of where.

Speaker 4 (52:41):
The PoTA people play.

Speaker 3 (52:45):
Hungry for Palva.

Speaker 13 (52:49):
To that there kne on.

Speaker 33 (52:51):
With give them things to do.

Speaker 16 (52:58):
Some which men.

Speaker 4 (52:59):
Came out raped the lamb.

Speaker 35 (53:02):
Nobody called her, put up a bunch of of the boxes,
and Jesus.

Speaker 32 (53:10):
People bought him.

Speaker 35 (53:13):
And they call it Paris the place to be. They
watched the hazy.

Speaker 13 (53:23):
Sound seeking in sea, and.

Speaker 4 (54:38):
You can leave it all behind and sail.

Speaker 17 (54:42):
To the hider.

Speaker 4 (54:45):
It's just like the missionaries did.

Speaker 3 (54:50):
So many years ago. They even brought in the as
Jesus is com.

Speaker 4 (55:01):
Brought the workman's burden down, brought.

Speaker 3 (55:06):
The workman's name.

Speaker 4 (55:09):
We will provide the grand design.

Speaker 2 (55:13):
What is yours and what is money?

Speaker 4 (55:17):
There is no more your fronting.

Speaker 12 (55:21):
We have got to make it.

Speaker 36 (55:24):
We satisfy our endless needs, to justify bloody deeds in
the name of destiny, in the name of God.

Speaker 12 (55:42):
And you can't see them there mons and them on you.

Speaker 2 (55:49):
To stand up, man saying about.

Speaker 3 (55:53):
What it's like.

Speaker 28 (55:54):
Come, we call him downs.

Speaker 12 (56:01):
Don't know why you can't some place now, guys, you
said good by.

Speaker 6 (57:15):
The eagles from the hotel California album and the last
resort putting the wraps on the hardest working albums of
the nineteen seventies just in time for Labor Day weekend.
We want to thank all the radio stations up and
down the dial to take the time to run our
show each week, including our flagship station ninety nine point
nine FMWYML in WYML dot us in Chicago. Thank you,

(57:39):
Joe and Jeff Big. Thanks to the iHeartRadio Network and
Amazon Music for getting the word out about Don Spaceman tapes.
Check out our website when you can Don's Basement Productions
dot com. Thanks to mister Lee Peek, the voice of
Don's Baseman, and thank you for coming down here each
and every week and hanging on the basement. We appreciate it.
I'm Don Clark.

Speaker 4 (57:57):
Peace.
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