Richie Havens

Philadelphia, PA

07-May-1967

Venue: WHAT-FM Studio (Gene Shay's Folklore show)

Tracklist:

01. GS 2015 Intro
02. Interview Part1
03. San Fransico Bay Blues
04. Interview Part2
05. Adam
06. Interview Part3
07. Hampstead Incident
08. Interview Part4 + Signoff

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Notes:

Richie is interviewed by host Gene Shay and plays 2 songs from his brand new Verve Forecast LP plus 1 never-recorded cover (Track 07) of a song from Donovan's brand new album "Mellow Yellow"!

Original broadcast date determined as follows:

Gene mentions Janis Ian to be on Ed Sciaky' Broadside show on WRTI "on Saturday".

From http://www.broadcastpioneers.com/bp3/sciaky-ian.html

On Saturday, May 13, 1967, Janis Ian traveled from her home in New York City to Philadelphia to appear on a college radio station. At that time, the broadcast outlet was completely student run. This visit was just after the release of Janis' single, Society's Child" on the Forecast label, part of Verve. She appeared on a Saturday evening four hour broadcast (8 pm to 12 midnight) called "Broadside." Actually, that night the station signed off a little later, because the program ran long.

(page includes a picture of 19 year-old Ed Sciaky and 16 year-old Janis Ian in the basement hallway of WRTI-FM Saturday, May 13, 1967)

Gene also mentions the upcoming Unbirthday Party at Independence Square on the 14th - "that's Sunday".

http://digital.library.temple.edu/cdm/search/searchterm/attach%C3%A9s lists a photo from the Unbirthday Party from the 15-May-1967 Evening Bulletin.

("Photo shows a young man attaching a balloon to the statue of Commodore John Barry located in the park behind Independence Hall. Crowd gathered to celebrate an 'unbirthday party'.")

Since Gene's show was on Sunday night, these make it fairly certain that the date of the original broadcast was 7 May 1967.