LOVE THIS TRACK.
I bought the single in the 80s and have never heard it other than in my home.  Now that I now its been reissued other than the 12" single I will look into getting it again. Yes I still have the original 12" dance mix and plan to play it soon.

This is just cool...  love it...

 

'Within You Without You'  (Beatles) a little bit faster...

This was actually the original version of the song, sung by Sheila Chandra when she was lead singer of the group Monsoon. The English version was a bit of a hit in the UK. She later went on to a solo career, and redid the song in the (to me, having grown up with the original), soporific and boring version most people know. I didn't know there was a Hindi version, kind of miss the original English one. 

I was SHOCKED!!  
Here I thought I was about to hear the same song twice on the same day on RP. (7:40 am - Sheila Chandra - Ever So Lonely / Ocean)   But true to form it's a cover.  Or maybe the other is a cover of this.  Does it still count as a cover if it is sung in a different language?  
Anyway kudos Bill.

It is always played on RP right after "Tomorrow Never Knows" from The Beatles. I don't know if it's on purpose or not  but it results in a great transition. Actually I thought it was still the same song, until the vocals came in (and I checked the playlist)..

Hey thanks for the flashback on WHFS Indy Radio in good ol Maryland! I interviewed the girl DJ when I was at UofM and she was so foxy!
I wonder what/where Weasel and Damien is today?

Weasel! Damien! Oh yes! ;-)

Did it again...sitar/tabla of Tomorrow Never Knows to Ever So Lonely.

I used to listen to HFS in college (I went to college on the Eastern Shore.) It was fantastic; great music and real DJs. The only thing that comes close that I can tolerate is RadioParadise.

Oh man.  One of the slyest segues of all time...

...back before they went corporate.  I miss the 'HFS of the 70's and 80's.  When they were still on FM102.3, broadcasting from Cordell Ave. in Bethesda, and had Damien getting stoned on the air nightly they were the best radio station on the planet.

I'm with you there.

Lot's of HFS'ers around these here parts.

 Kdubba wrote: 

I miss WHFS

Yes...just logged into to applaud that lovely segue - you're awesome Bill!

SMOOTH segue from the Beatles there Bill.

If this whole set is made with a person using medicinal cannabis in mind this evening, I would say that it is 100% correct.

Transition from "Tomorrow Never Knows" was a marvel — couldn't tell where one song ended and the next began.  Great job, Bill, of making this connection.

Transition from "Tomorrow Never Knows" was a marvel — couldn't tell where one song ended and the next began.  Great job, Bill, of making this connection.

Great segue from Tomorrow Never Knows!!

Great segue from Tomorrow Never Knows!!

Awesome! It keeps getting better. Monsoon - Ever So Lonely (Hindi Version) Beatles - Tomorrow Never Knows Kula Shaker - Tattva

I miss WHFS

I miss WHFS

I miss WHFS

I miss WHFS

Oh my! This is a miserable redition of the haunting song from the 1999 Moonsung CD. The original is LIGHT YEARS better. Icch!

I miss WHFS

One of the most unusual and successful singers of the '80s and '90s that has attempted to fuse the music of non-Western cultures with Western pop, Sheila Chandra began recording as a teenager in Monsoon. Of Indian ancestry, but born and raised in Britain, Chandra took lead vocals in the band, which pursued a sort of new wave-tinged raga-rock along the lines of George Harrison's explorations on Beatles tracks like "Love You To." The combination yielded an album and an unexpected British hit single, "Ever So Lonely," in the early '80s. Chandra, however, felt limited by the label's pressures for more commercial product, and signed to a small indie label, Indipop, which she felt would offer more freedom for her explorations as a solo artist. In the mid-'80s, Chandra was astonishingly prolific, releasing five solo albums over a period of about two or three years that drifted away from the Asian dance-pop of Monsoon into a more personal sort of world fusion. Chandra also began to write much of her own material, usually in collaboration with producer and husband Steve Coe; Coe had also helped produce, write, and perform the music in Monsoon with Martin Smith, who also assisted on Chandra's early solo records. Indian instruments were still usually employed, and electronic rhythm tracks still sometimes used to guarantee some measure of danceability and pop-rock appeal. But with increasing frequency, Chandra was pushing herself beyond the parameters of pop-rock with wordless pieces of both melismatic singing and percussive mouth noises, ambitious song cycles, interwoven overdubbed vocal tracks, and a 27-minute track based around a raga. (Her mid-'80s Indipop albums have been reissued in the U.S. by Caroline.) Chandra truly matured as an artist, however, with her '90s albums for Peter Gabriel's Real World label (distributed in the U.S., again, by Caroline). As proof that adulthood doesn't have to mean tamer and more mainstream product, these found Chandra achieving a true world fusion that drew from Indian ragas, elements of British folk, Middle Eastern chants, sophisticated studio overdubs, and more vocal percussion compositions, the last of which bordered on the downright experimental. Chandra and Coe were now almost solely responsible for the music (Martin Smith no longer being an active participant), constructing drone-like instrumental textures to suitably complement Chandra's oft-wordless singing. Pop and rock were hardly factors anymore; Chandra was primarily interested in extending the limits of vocal expression, whether applied to Indian, Spanish, or Islamic forms, or the kind of material that could find a suitable home in the repertoire of June Tabor or Laurie Anderson. These recent works have firmly established Chandra as one of the principal boundary jumpers of contemporary music, but she's not a dilettante, and she imbues her music with a haunting, spiritual grace.

I miss WHFS

Yeah, Segue-Man does it again!

Oh yes. Wondrous transition from Beatles Within You Without You/Tomorrow Never Knows...

Ah, so reminiscent of WHFS in B-Town MD.

You just have to embrace the pain. Ascetic practice. Very indian.

I respectfully disagree -- at least on 4+ hour trips.

I am enjoying the Indian seg here. Makes me long for a poolside gin tonic at the Oberoi .

This is good - not standard Hindi Pop at all, though standard Hindi Pop is to be loved, too, even through warped Indian bus speakers.