1971 KLOL playlist “Music Sheet” June to July






What were the 1971 KLOL playlist songs Houston radio listeners were rocking out to on the legendary radio station?
The 101 KLOL Houston Music Sheet Number 6 from June 15 to July 15, 1971 offers the artists and album playlist of the music the progressive – free-form – underground rock station was playing at that time.
Plus, scroll down below to see who was on the air at the time.
1971 KLOL playlist
Osibisa
Andre Kostelanetz – “And God Created Great Whales”
Mike Heron – “Smiling Men With Bad Reputations”
Gil-Scott Heron – “The New Black Poet”
Melvin Van Peebles – “Natural Death”
Melvin Van Peebles – “Brer Soul”
Congress of Wonders – “Revolting”
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Weather Report
Rod Stewart – “Every Picture Tells a Story”
Howlin Wolf – “Message to the Young”
Ian Matthews – “If You Saw Through My Eyes”
John Baldry – “It Aint Easy”
Pharoah Sanders – “Thembi”
Indian Summer
Leon Russell and the Shelter People
Albert Ayler – “The Last Album”
Hampton Grease Band – “Music to Eat”
Lee Michaels – “5th“
Rascals – “Peaceful World”
The Rill Thing – “Taj Mahal”
Antelope Freeway – “Howard Roberts”
Kenny Gill – “What Was, What Is”
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Lightning Hopkins – “The Blues”
Zawinul
Leo McCann, Eddie Harris – “Second Movement”
Eric Satie – “Through a Looking Glass”
Tim Hardin – “Bird on a Wire”
Paul McCartney – “Ram”
Sunday Funnies
Mike Corbett & Hay Hirsh
Beaver & Krause – “Gandharva”
Lamb – “Cross Between”
Elton John – “11/17/70”
Flying Burrito Bros.
John Mayall – “Back to the Roots”
Peter Kelley – “Dealin Blues”
RELATED
– Crash Collins interview in 1975 about Houston and KLOL
Albert King – “Love Joy”
Charles Lloyd – “Warm Waters”
Herbie Hancock – “The Best of Split”
Ground Hogs – “Split”
Eddie Floyd – “Down to Earth”
Hoyt Axton – “Joy to the World”
Climax Blues Band
The Radha Krsna Temple
Curtis Mayfield – “Live”
Tontos Expanding Headband – “Zero Time”
Airto – “Seeds on the Ground”
The Staple Singers – “Make You Happy”
Graham Nash – “Songs for Beginners”
RELATED
– 101 KLOL Houston radio aircheck September 1978
Program Schedule:
Weekdays Monday – Saturday
12:00 – 6:00 Steve Nagle Music
6:00 – 9:00 Tony Raven Music (Jim Pruett)
9:00 – 12:00 Patrick Joseph Ebeneezer Fant (Pat Fant)
12:00 – 3:00 Chapman Mott Music
3:00 – 7:00 Jefferson S. Nichols Music
7:00 – 12:00 Jack Smack Music
Sunday
MID. – 6:00 Frank Jaubert Greater American Collective Bedpan
6:00 – 6:00 Leonard Liss Music
12:00 – 6:00 Bill Narum Music
6:00 – 12:00 Frank Jaubert Music
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