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Wailing Rudy Jah Fire Weighty Eighties Midnight Dread #51 with Row Jah...
“Love We A Deal With” sing The Rastafarians featuring Haile Maskel, Vision Walker (of the original Wailers), Herb Daly et al as the Santa Cruz based roots masters fire up this radio program answering...
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Midnight Dread Pops Design Not Style January 4th-5th, 1981 KTIM Love Warmer...
Midnight Ravers at midnight with Ras Michael live has a certain ring to it for the New Year. It’s the best of the rest of 1980 plus new 1981 releases from Hugh Mundell, Augustus Pablo and others....
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Time Tough, Music Tougher Midnight Dread KTIM FM CA USA January 11th-12th, 1981
Toots & The Maytals start this scorcher radio program live in London from the previous September in this vital vintage Midnight Dread encored here for the first time since its original broadcast...
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Rasta, Lollipops, & Psychedelic Rockers Midnight Dread KTIM California Part...
The night “Rockers Arena” bats lead, Bunny Sings The Wailers debuts, Derrick’s lengthy “Lollipop Girl” unreels, Robbie & Mao “Hold Me Tight” like nobody’s business, Rockers get traces, and...
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Midnight Dread Conquers California Radio Years Ahead January 25th-26th, 1981
Listen up “Now everywhere is War!” “It’s up to you to not heed the Call Up!” “Come on all Rude Boys unite Stop That Train because every morning you meet at the Bus Stop but you know not where you’re...
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Screwface Midnight Vampires Attack Midnight Dread KTIM San Rafael CA Part One...
“Duppy can’t frighten duppy!” The more you live is the more you learn. Rude boy ska. Coming in from the cold dub. Keep on moving. Mash it down material world. Old broom. Do good. The tide is high....
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Jah Send Raining Rockers, Midnight Dread #57 takes shelter February 8th-9th...
Storm clouds are over my head It’s going to rain, rain Storm clouds are over my head Rains gonna fall again Storm clouds storm cloud Politicians fighting for power Storm clouds storm cloud Demolition...
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Reality Strikes Midnight Dread Hypocrites & Harmonies KTIM February 15-16th,...
Toots and The Maytals kick this killer radio program into gear with their own “Get Up Stand Up” composition. Bunny sings “Crucial”. Bob echoes “Dubbin’ In”. Lloyd Charmers provides “Sweet Harmony”....
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Two Bad Duppies Want Blood as Ghetto-ology Dreams of New Civilization...
Listen up The disastrous end to 1980 lingers. Duppies Maggie & Ronnie are busy jump starting their new era of state-help for the rich, self-help for the poor, the privatization of profits, the...
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Rare Live Reggae from Peter Simon Archive on Midnight Dread KTIM FM San...
Roger Steffens joins Doug Wendt to play some killer from Peter Simon’s collection The lions roar alive and dread. A sparkling Bob Marley & The Wailers Pittsburgh Stanley Theatre September 1980 tape...
View ArticleBerkeley Sunblast Wrap MD #94 Pt 1 Oct 25-26 1981 KTIM 1st Major US Reggae...
The day after North America’s 1st reggae festival Midnight Dread celebrates its success by highlighting the show’s amazing line-up: The Wailers with Judy Mowatt & Marcia Griffiths + The Light Of...
View ArticleHalloween Uprising Midnight Dread #95 Nov 1-2 1981 KTIM Duppy Conquer
1st in series of Night of the Living Dread Halloween reggae radio specials mixed live by Doug Wendt with duppies, vampires, Babylonian monstrosities, & mind parasites under counter attack. Dub...
View ArticleListener’s Top Fives MD #96 Nov 8-9 1981 KTIM Postcards
San Quentin Prison’s only a couple of miles from KTIM. One of its inmates sent in a list that gets played in this audience picked All-Time Best Five Reggae Songs special radio show where great listener...
View ArticleSufferers Time MD #99 Nov 15-16 1981 KTIM Heptones!
Special Sibbles salute as Leroy makes NorCal debuts + new music from Bunny Wailer, Jimmy Cliff, Sugar Minott, Aswad, Dennis Brown, Alton Ellis, Edi Fitzroy, & The Jayes. Heptones sing “400 years of...
View ArticleLeroy Sibbles on MD #100 Nov 22-23 1981 KTIM ReggaeNomics, Sunblast tapes
Live tapes of Wailers, Marcia, Judy, Light of Love at Berkeley Reggae Sunblast the month before. Heptones’ Leroy Sibbles music & live interview. At Midnight ReggaeNomics Meets NaiveConNomics at the...
View ArticleJoe Higgs on MD #101 November 29-30th 1981 KTIM Proverbs Extractions
Joe Higgs, the Father of Trenchtown Music, with his 2nd live on air interview this year on Midnight Dread along with his greatest music & reggae’s best. Another listener Top 5 Reggae Songs of All...
View ArticleWailing Souls on MD #102 December 6-7th, 1981 KTIM Kingdom Rise
Wailing Souls’ Pipe, Bread, Buddy, & Garth live Midnight Dread interview introduced & interspersed with top ranking heartfelt music 6 weeks after their world debut outside Jamaica at Berkeley...
View ArticleAll Request Top 5s MD #103 Dec 13-14 ’81 Pt 1 KTIM Listener Postcards
Listen up to The Listeners’ Best! Here’s their individual picks for the Top Five Reggae Songs Of All Time plus the first inkling of the ranking of their collective All Time Top Fives as the Midnight...
View ArticleRoger Steffens on MD #104 Dec 20th-21st 1981 KTIM Pt 1 The Year’s Best
with co-host Roger Steffens for Doug’s 3rd annual year’s end Midnight Dread special in 1981. Roger talks about the song Marley set for release upon his passing. After a few seasonal tunes it’s all...
View Article1981 Reggae Wrap Up MD #105 with Roger Steffens December 27th-28th ’81 KTIM...
Intensified! 2015 Ralph Gleason Award honoree Wendt winds up a year of mastering thanks to the Rex Foundation with this great program featuring guest Roger Steffens for Part II of their 3rd annual...
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