Live Broadcast

Melissa Manchester

Melissa Manchester — KSAN Live at The Record Plant (February 26, 1975)

February 26, 1975 · Record Plant Sausalito

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Melissa Manchester played a live KSAN 95 FM broadcast at the Record Plant in February 1975. A recording survives — links below.

Session

Type: Live Broadcast
Date Recorded: February 26, 1975
Date Broadcast: February 26, 1975

Archive note

KSAN 95 FM broadcast. Tom Donahue series. CENSUS 2026-05-31: Confirmed and verified. KSAN 'Live at the Record Plant' broadcast. Best source: Wolfgang's Vault (URL1, full stream). Institutional preservation reel: ArchiveGrid / Museum of Performance and Design, Reel 360, ~1:00:32, good quality, digitized. Timing: 'Melissa' album Feb 1975, 'Midnight Blue' top ten April 1975 — broadcast caught her at breakthrough. Feb 26, 1975 was a Wednesday. No commercial release located. ARTICLE: see Articles table (Published). ACTION 2026-08-14 (audio-URL policy sweep): Recording URL held https://open.spotify.com/album/0DBLsM8B1Mokmem9VnGQkz, a commercial streaming page rather than a permitted audio host. Moved to the Spotify field and cleared from Recording URL. DISCREPANCY FLAGGED: the 2026-05-31 census note above states Wolfgang's Vault was the source in URL1. That Wolfgang's URL is not present in this record today, so it was overwritten by the Spotify link at some point and the address is not recoverable from this row. Needs re-locating. RESOLVED 2026-08-15: Archive.org item record-plant-sausalito-ca-2-26-1975 written to Recording URL. Content match is conclusive — 14 tracks (Bright Eyes / Midnight Blue / Party Music / talk / This Lady's Not Home Today / talk / Stevie's Wonder / talk / Newton's Ego [instrumental] / We've Got Time / Easy / Just Too Many People / talk / Love Havin' You Around), matching the Wolfgang's listing point for point including the long 8:52 'Love Havin' You Around' closer. More complete than the 12-track Spotify remaster. Collections: roiocollection, folksoundomy. Rock Box embed target: https://archive.org/embed/record-plant-sausalito-ca-2-26-1975 WOLFGANG'S RULING 2026-08-15 (Tom): Wolfgang's is not usable as an audio source — shows are listed but no audio is reachable as a stream or in any other form. The Wolfgang's candidate located for this row (wolfgangs.com/music/melissa-manchester/audio/20052657-4611.html) is therefore NOT written to any URL field. It is recorded here only as a documentation source, and it supplies personnel the census note lacks: Kirk Bruner (drums), Lenny Castro (percussion), James Newton Howard (keyboards), Melissa Manchester (vocals, piano), Cooker Lo Presti (bass), David Wolfert (guitar). James Newton Howard here predates his film-scoring career by roughly a decade — strong article material. Personnel not yet linked to People records; belongs to a Show Packet cleanup run. DEFECT FIXED 2026-08-15: Thumbnail field held a hotlinked panicstream.com image (studio_a.jpg), editorially wrong for a KSAN show with no panicstream connection. Replaced with the archive.org item thumbnail.