Steve Goodman

May 21, 1984 (27 years ago)

Parody Hall
Kansas City, MO

Aud recording

Tape one:

01) Steve Martin opening - 2:33
02) City of New Orleans - 4:07
03) Hot Tub Refugee - 3:27
04) How Much Tequila (did I drink last night) - 3:41
05) Vegematic - 4:40
06) Watching Joey Glow - 4:50
07) You Better Get It While You Can - 5:25
(The Ballad Of Carl Martin)
08) Fourteen Days - 6:22
09) Banana Republics - 3:31
10) A Dying Cub Fans Last Request - 8:24
11) Elvis Imitators - 2:41
12) Sdrawkcab Klat (Talk Backwards) - 3:29
13) Queen Of The Road - 3:44
14) California Promises - 5:29
15) The Tale of William Kemp - 2:41
16) The Ballad Of Penny Evans - 4:00
17) Video Tape - 4:33
18) You Never Even Call Me by My Name - tape ends - 3:30

Tape two:

19) The One That Got Away - 4:44
20) Your Monkey's Ball's in My Beer/If Jethro Were Here - 6:07
21) Big Rock Candy Mountain (Burl Ives) - 2:45

Total time: 1:30:52

Recording note: This is a first generation tape. 27 years ago I brought my Sony recorder to the show and was sitting on the first row with the recorder under my chair (check out the size of this recorder (boom box). You can hear the my chair creeking and people walking on the wood floors. You can also tell the crowd is behind me so there is very little crowd noise.

Techinal stuff:

Maxell UDII 90 tape -> Nakamichi BX-125 2 head tape deck (no dolby) -> XONAR D1 PCI 7.1 audio card -> Audacity -> Adobe Audition 3.0 - Wav file -> Flac Frontend - Level 5

Steve Goodman (July 25, 1948 – September 20, 1984) was an American folk music singer-songwriter from Chicago, Illinois. The writer of "City of New Orleans", made popular by Arlo Guthrie, Goodman won two Grammy Awards.


Steve Goodman was a man of many nicknames. His lack of height gave him the nickname of "Chicago Shorty". Another nickname was "The Little Prince," which Steve earned for both his diminutive stature and his generosity of soul. However, Steve is on record as prefering a nickname that related to the disease that killed him "cool hand leuk".


Goodman performed at Parody Hall in Kansas City on May 21, 1984, a mere four months before his death.

Clay Eals first chapter is about this concert:
http://www.clayeals.com/
Check out Clays book "Facing the Music"

The sun — the world’s unforgiving timekeeper — is setting on the day’s 82- degree swelter. Dozens of thirty-somethings eat the last bites of their restaurant dinners in the bustling, historic Westport district, climb into their cars and drive 10 blocks west to join scores of others from all over Kansas City for an 8 o’clock show.

Cruising through mostly residential Midtown, along the West 39th thoroughfare, less than a block past the busy, six-lane Southwest Trafficway, they pass the Nichols Lunch truck stop, a corner liquor store, a 24-hour escort service and the Stooges Three bar. They pull into an insurance-company parking lot on the north side of 39th, across the street from a dilapidated, 1930s-era building. Once a movie theater, the edifice sports a second floor that has evolved from a ballroom to a dinner theater and, finally, to a music club named Parody Hall.

http://clayeals.com/readchapterone.asp

Tape note:
UD-XLII: Started to become Maxells most popular and versatile tape. A great compromise between performance and cost.