The Romantics / Nick Heyward
King Biscuit Flower Hour #KB-501
The Romantics: Daddy's, San Antonio, Texas
Nick Heyward: The Paradice, Boston, Massachusetts
For Broadcast December 11, 1983
Pre-FM Recording
Vinyl Rip
Flac Level 8 24bit/96khz
Flac Level 8 16bit/44,1khz
High Quality MP3 320kbps/48khz
Cue Sheet & Label Scans Included
From The Collection Of Sam Elliot's Mustache
Brought To You By The Collective Of Live Music
Digitized From An Original 3 Sided 2 Record Radio Broadcast Set.
Lineage: Pre-FM 2x Vinyl LP Set > 280gram Record Weight > Sony PS-LX300H Belt Driven Turntable @ 33+1/3 RPM/60Hrz (Turntable & Tone Arm Balanced: Needle Tracking & Azimuth Set: Tone Arm Pressure Digitally Dialed In at .84: Anti-Skid set 1.0) > Sony TA-AV561 AV Control Integrated Amplifier (bass/treble +/- zero) > Line In (4ft cables w/gold plated tips) > HP Envy 700 Series > BEATS Audio Realtek High Definition Audio Soundcard (Stereo Field Maximized) > Goldwave v6.83 (recording, editing) > Wave 24bit/96khz > Goldwave v6.83 (LAME) (encoding, tagging) > Flac Level 8 24bit/96khz
Hosted By Bill Minkin
01 King Biscuit Flower Hour #KB-501 Intro & Break - Bill Minkin
02 Commercial - Honda Motorcycles
03 The Romantics Introduction - House MC
04 The Romantics - When I Look In Your Eyes
05 The Romantics - Rock You Up
06 The Romantics - A Night Like This
07 The Romantics - Talking In Your Sleep
08 King Biscuit Flower Hour #KB-501 Break - Bill Minkin
09 Commercial - Levis Corduroys
10 Commercial - Jenson Speakers
11 King Biscuit Flower Hour #KB-501 Intro - Bill Minkin
12 The Romantics - What I Like About You >
13 The Romantics - Little Latin Lupe Lou (The Righteous Brothers)
14 The Romantics - Route 66 (Nat King Cole)
15 King Biscuit Flower Hour #KB-501 Break - Bill Minkin
16 Commercial - Kodak Disc Camera
17 Commercial - Honda Motorcycles
18 King Biscuit Flower Hour #KB-501 Intro - Bill Minkin
19 Nick Heyward - On A Sunday
20 Nick Heyward - Favourite Shirts (Boy Meets Girl) (Haircut 100)
21 Nick Heyward - Atlantic Monday
22 Nick Heyward - Fantastic Day (Haircut 100)
23 King Biscuit Flower Hour #KB-501 Break - Bill Minkin
24 Commercial - Levi's Jeans
25 Commercial - Kodak Disc Camera
26 King Biscuit Flower Hour #KB-501 Wrap Up - Bill Minkin
Total Playing Time: 59mn 18sc
The Romantics:
Wally Palmer lead, harmony & backing vocals; rhythm guitar; harmonica
Mike Skill bass; harmony & backing vocals
Jimmy Marinos lead, harmony & backing vocals; drums; percussion
Coz Canler lead guitar; harmony & backing vocals
The Nick Heyward Band:
Nick Heyward lead vocals, lead guitar
Dave Mattacks drums
Tim Renwick guitar
Morris Pert percussion
Chris White saxophone
Danny Schogger keyboards
Stuart Brook trumpet
Andy Brown bass
Runout Grooves:
Side A: KB-501-A MCR JOE (script)
Side B: KB-501-A MCR JOE (script)
Side C: KB-501-A MCR JOE (script)
Side D: Blank
JustDave's Notes:
- A Big Thank You! to Sam Elliot's Mustache for sending his vinyl for encoding.
- Thank You to my fellow members of The Collective Of Live Music for help and inspiration.
Known Faults:
- Although a beautiful set of vinyl, there are some marks here and there that made some thumps.
- There may be some little spots here and there that could not be cleaned up without acually marring the sound in a different way so they were left alone.
- There is a dimple thump at the beginning of track 01 "King Biscuit Flower Hour #KB-501 Intro & Break" that could not be removed without leaving an "artifact" from the editing that sounds as bad as the thump so it was left alone.
Recording Notes:
- There is a test tone at the beginning of side A for DJs to set levels in the studio before airing the program, it was not encoded
- There was no show promos included in this set.
- There was no "King Biscuit Intro" after commercial number 1, instead the House MC introduces The Romantics.
Editing Notes:
- A Zerostat Positive Ion gun was used on LPs prior to playback.
- A carbon fiber record brush, then a microfiber disc cleaner was used on the records prior to playback.
- Records hand cleaned with Record Research Lab Super Record Wash before playback.
- LP cleaned with the HumminGuru Ultrasonic Vinyl Record Cleaning System using distilled water prior to playback.
- Raw transfer: EQ off, treble and bass levels set at +/- zero for most accurate sound of LP.
- Turntable & tone arm balanced: Needle Tracking & Azimuth set: Needle Pressure & Antiskid digitaly set:
- Computer Soundcard stereo field maximized.
- Goldwave set to record while filtering any DC Offset.
- Recording and all editing done in 24bit/96khz.
- Preservation being key the show is encoded complete with commercials and voiceovers.
- Declicked manually and some noise reduction used depending on what best served the situation.
- Raised the volume of the commercials to match that of the music and voice overs.
- A rumble filter with an initial cut off of 50khz and a static steepness of 2 was used to lessen the needle noise on the commercials due to having to raise the volume to match that of the music and voice overs.
Other Notes:
- The Romantics were the most successful band to emerge from Detroit's initial New Wave/Power Pop/Punk scene releasing 5 National Albums on Nemperor Records spawning 11 National Singles including the Billboard Number 1 "Talking In Your Sleep"
- When The Romantics portion of this show was recorded they were riding on the success of the album In Heat and it's single "Talking In Your Sleep".
- The Romantics could not match the success of In Heat with it's follow up. The band's line up started to fluctuate and their label would lose interest dropping them in 1986 due to poor album and concert ticket sales.
- The Nick Heyward set comes during his debut tour as a solo artist, having been dismissed from Haircut 100 in January 1983.
- Nick Heyward already had recorded some solo tracks already and decided to finish the album and go solo.
- Nick's set is only 4 songs 2 of which are from his album with Haircut 100.
- "Little Latin Lupe Lou", first recorded by The Righteous Brothers, became a Punk Rock staple after The Kingsmen's 1964 single of the song was rediscovered by emerging Punk Rockers of the 1970s. The Romantics have been including the song in their sets since their beginning. They however never recorded it for an album.
- The Romantics live cover of "Route 66 (Nat King Cole)" is only available on this King Biscuit Flower Hour broadcast. It has not been released by the band or on the King Biscuit Records release either, which is long out of print by the way. It's not even on the bootleg version of this recording called One Night In Texas: Live 1983 The Complete San Antonio Broadcast which is a 17 track release of the concert.
Digitized By JustDave For Sam Elliot's Mustache And The Collective Of Live Music.
Project Started: April 22, 2026 Project Finished: April 30, 2026
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