Episode #120: More Than I Can Stand

This week's Star Time Summer Special takes up both hours (or "both 54-minute segments" if you want to be difficult about timekeeping), and covers a theme I've wanted to do for a while: classic live performances. I think this lineup sets a Star Time record for least songs in a single show at 21. That's because there's no cutting the lengthy but brilliant monologues by Lou Rawls and Bobby Womack, and when Philip Bailey wants to ad-lib during the coda to EWF's "Reasons" you just close the off-ramp and set up detour signs like any decent person would.

Artist	Song	Year	Label
Set 1
Sam Cooke	Somebody Have Mercy (Live)	1963	RCA
Ray Charles	Swanee River Rock (Talkin' 'Bout That River) (Live)	1973	Atlantic
Jackie Wilson	Lonely Teardrops (Live)	1962	Brunswick
James Brown	Intro/I'll Go Crazy (Live)	1962	King
Lou Rawls	Street Corner Hustler's Blues/World Of Trouble (Live)	1966	Capitol
Set 2
Eddie Floyd	Knock on Wood (Live)	1967	Stax
Otis Redding	I've Been Loving You Too Long (Live)	1970	Reprise
Nina Simone	Ain't Got No/I Got Life (Live)	1970	RCA Victor
Ike & Tina Turner	Ooh Poo Pah Doo (Live)	1971	United Artists
Etta James	Seven Day Fool (Live)	1963	Chess
Set 3
Aretha Franklin	Don't Play That Song (Live)	1971	Atlantic
Curtis Mayfield	Check Out Your Mind (Live)	1971	Curtom
Donny Hathaway	Jealous Guy (Live)	1972	Atlantic
Bill Withers	Ain't No Sunshine (Live)	1973	Sussex
Commodores	Come Inside (Live)	1977	Motown
Earth, Wind & Fire	Reasons (Live)	1975	Columbia
Set 4/Outro
Isaac Hayes	Type Thang (Live)	1973	Enterprise
Millie Jackson	All The Way Lover (Live)	1979	unknown
Marvin Gaye	Distant Lover (Live)	1974	Tamla
Al Green	All-n-All (Live)	1981	Motown
Bobby Womack	The Preacher/More Than I Can Stand (Live)	1970	Liberty