According to, "Buckeye Randy," a source on the Ian Hunter site who was at the show this is the 1980.10.20, IH/Rundgen, Agora, Akron OH show; I had assumed it was the 1980.10.19 gig with IH/Rundgen, Agora, Cleveland OH since on YouTube the poster stated it was "Cleveland 1980." This was an audience recording.
Screenshot from the YouTube video:
1980, Ian with Stephen Dees
1980, Ian with Todd Rundgren, and Stephen Dees
1980, Tommy Mandel (Dire Straits), Michael Shrieve (Santana, Novo Combo), Ian, Todd Rundgren, Stephen Dees (Novo Combo, Bandees), Mick Ronson
1. Do Ya
2. Black and White
3. Love Of The Common Man
4. Once Bitten Twice Shy
5. All The Way From Memphis
6. Needles And Pins (Jack Nitzsche and Sonny Bono)
7. Cathy's Clown
8. Eight Days A Week
9. Black Maria
10. One World
11. Bastard
12. The Last Ride
13. All The Young Dudes
Side 2
1. Just Another Night
2. Couldn't I Just Tell You
3. Let's Get On With It
4. Just One Victory
5. Cleveland Rocks
Anti-Reagan rap during this John Anderson Benefit Concert
6. The Last Ride
7. Eight Days A Week
8. There Goes My Inspiration
9. Love Of The Common Man
10. If I Didn't Try
11. Tiny Demons
12. It Wouldn't Have Made Any Difference
13. Style
14. Blue Orpheus
There is no hard evidence from the concert but the ticket stub depicted is the closest available.
John Anderson Presidential Campaign Poster
Todd Rundgren & Ian Hunter & Mick Ronson - Live The Agora 1980 (Full Bootleg with Bonus tracks)
'Election 1980' single, 2:15
'ELECTION 1980' single was released in late 1980 in time for the presidential election between Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter and independent candidate John Anderson. The recording itself is a comedic cut and paste piece that was popular on the nationally syndicated radio program, The Dr. Demento Show
In the recording, the artist, Dickie Goodman, is heard interviewing Reagan, Carter and Anderson on the eve of the election and each of the candidates responds back through recorded lines from the Top 40 hits of that time.
This record is worth noting here as two tracks from Xanadu were used for this single, Magic and Xanadu.
Goodman has made a career out of these types of novelty records, going far back to 1956 as part of 'Buchanan & Goodman' with their first hit, The Flying Saucer Pt. 1 & 2. This first single had space men invading Earth while Goodman asks questions to them and authorities with small excepts of hits from that same year were used for answers.
Goodman continued to issue similar records that comedicly mirrored the times: Mr. Jaws* (for the popular movie), Energy Crisis 74, Watergrate (Nixon and Watergate), Kong (for the 1977 remake), Superfly Meets Shaft, On Campus (1969), Hey E. T.!, Buchanan & Goodman On Trial (1956 single responding to the lawsuits from the their first single) and so on.
Dickie died in 1989 and his son had written his father's biography, King Of Novelty for Libris Books in 2002. 'Election 80' was out-of-print for years until in 1998 when a second CD collection of Goodman's works was released, entitled 'Greatest Fables Vol. 2', which is believed to be still in print.
*For you more anal-retentive fans, especially the ONJ ones, Goodman used a part of the chorus from 'Please Mr. Please' in the original 1974 Mr. Jaws single. Be sure to look for the original version as sequent versions replaced ONJ cut with a different singer.
PS: the Casey Kasem "bit" at the end is NOT part of the single.
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