WTTW Channel 11 - Made in Chicago - "Aliotta-Haynes-Jeremiah / Bill Quateman" (Part 3, 1974)

Here's Part 3 of a local music show, Made in Chicago, on WTTW Channel 11. This program (which was also simulcast on WBBM-FM 96.3) was a predecessor to Soundstage which was also produced by the station and aired nationally over PBS. The guests on this (re-run airing) edition were Aliotta-Haynes-Jeremiah (bassist Mitch Aliotta, guitarist Skip Haynes and pianist John Jeremiah) and Bill Quateman.

Note: As with other things we've found, this is actually quite rare. Until this episode was discovered, there were only two other episodes of Made in Chicago known to exist (on videotape) - episodes featuring Billy Joel and another with Jim Croce. Apparently, neither the producers of the show nor WTTW have any more episodes on video. By the time they got to Soundstage the programs were saved, but unfortunately not for this ground-breaking predecessor.

This part includes:

Bill Quateman, now on the piano, introduces his backing band members, bassist Sidney Sims and drummer Thomas Radtke. He next performs "Rivers Go Rolling Home," followed by "Just Like My Grandfather" and ending his set with "God Bless Everybody." (The first tune was a track from a proposed second album that was ultimately shelved by Columbia and remained unreleased until the early 2000's after Quateman gained the rights to his old recordings; the other two were never released anywhere.)

Note: This was originally broadcast in color, but captured on this early home videotape recording in black and white.

This aired on local Chicago TV on Saturday, August 3rd 1974 during the 9pm to 10pm timeframe. (six days later Nixon resigns the Presidency!) This was the fourth airing of this program, which was originally broadcast on Wednesday, April 11th 1973, and also repeated on Saturday, April 14th 1973 and Saturday, February 9th 1974.

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