TIME IS MEASURED FROM MIDNIGHT, NOT DAYLIGHT!

MIDNIGHT DREAD began as a reggae radio show with its first regular airing on September 30th, 1979 on KTIM FM in San Rafael, California. It ran continuously from 1979 to 1985 on KTIM and then KQAK, 'The Quake' in San Francisco starting on March 4th, 1984. Here are the next set of playlists from The Quake era for May 20th thru April 1st, 1984:

Midnight Dread Program #226 aired May 20th, 1984 on KQAK:
(A)
Musical Youth "She's Trouble" 12" remix
Bob Marley & The Wailers "So Much Trouble"
Tetrack "Trouble"
Meditations "Woman Is Like A Shadow Dub"
Lee Perry "Woman's Dub"
Paragons "Indiana Jones"
Black Sheep "Pick It Up"
Barbara Paige "Babylon Must Fall"
Steel Pulse "Wild Goose Chase"
Big Youth "Wild Goose Chase" 7"
Sly & Robbie "Billie Jean" 12"
Carlos Malcolm "Bonanza Ska" 7"
The Specials "Guns Of Navarone" 7" live '81
Ska-talites "Timothy" 7"
Madness "Madness"
Prince Buster "Madness"
Smiley Culture "Cockney Translation" 12"
Sister Carol "Reggae Gone International"
(B)
Sugar Minott "Rub A Dub Sound" 12"
Rupie Edwards "Tempo Dub"
Augustus Pablo "Barb Wire Disaster"
Scientist "Dance Of The Vampires"
Steel Pulse "Riot", "Chant A Pslam" & "Ravers" live 6/10/82 Santa Cruz
THE REGGAE BATTLE OF THE SEXES:
Martha Velez "There You Are (Hurting Inside)"
Bob Marley & The Wailers "Pimpers Paradise"
Lady Anne & Santana "Lovelife" 7"
Michigan & Smiley "Diseases"
Genie & Tasha "Ladies Answer To Diseases" 7"
Prince Buster "Ten Commandments (From Man To Woman)"
Princess Buster "Ten Commandments (From A Woman To A Man)" 7"
Dennis Alcapone & U-lette "The Answer To My Commandment" 7"
Ringo "Two Lesbians Hitch" 7"
Ranking Ann "A Wa Do Men"
Lovindeer "Man Shortage" 12"
(C)
Delroy Wilson "Wedding Day" 12"
Lady Anne & The Ringcrafts "Husband & Wife" 7"
Yellowman "I'm Getting Divorced"
Judy Mowatt "Only A Woman"
Home T 4 "Respection" 7"
Yellowman "Girls Can't Do What The Guys Do"

Midnight Dread Program #225 aired May 13th, 1984 on KQAK:
(A)
Leroy Sibble "Let Jah Music Ride"
Audley Rollens "Sound Called Killers" 10"
Wild Bunch "Stylish" 12"
Peter Metro & Lady Anne "Bossa Nova" 7"
Dennis Bovell & The Dub Band "Hong Kong T'ing" 7"
Michael Palmer & Aswad "Me Nah Run" 12"
Sister Orli "Dj Queen" 12"
Sugar Minott & Yellowman "Uptown Girl" 12"
Mikey Dread "Paradise" 12"
Cultural Roots "Hell A Go Pop" 12"
Junior Delahaye "Workin' Hard For The Rent Man" 12"
Linton Kwesi Johnson "Di Eagle & Di Bear" 12"
Yellowman "Strong Mi Strong" 12"
Steel Pulse "Stepping Out" 12"
(B)
Natural Beauty "Nice Up Dancee" 12"
Papa Phillip Levi "Mi God Mi King" 12"
Bob Marley & The Wailers "One Love/People Get Ready" 12"
Rebel Rockers "Bubbling"
Whispering Lion "Don't Blame Your Pain On Me" 12"
African Headcharge "Family Doctoring"
Creation Rebel "Starship Africa" segment
Prince Fari & The Arabs "Abderrahmane" cass.
Big Youth "Ten Against One" live '82 Sunsplash
Black Uhuru "What Is Life"
Sister Breeze "Aid Travels With A Bomb"
High Times Players "Aids"
Ini Kamoze "General"
Dr. Pablo "North Of The River Thames"
The Meditations "Ram Jam Session"
(C)
Yellowman "Keep On Moving"
Gregory Isaacs "Top Ten"
Eek-A-Mouse "Peeni Walli"
Prince Fari "Survival"
Linton Kwesi Johnson "Making History"
Steel Pulse "Earth Crisis"

Midnight Dread Program #224 aired May 6th, 1984 on KQAK:
(A)
The Paragons "Riding High"
Eric Donaldson "Keep On Dubbing" & "Keep On Riding" 7"
Bob Marley & The Wailers "Keep On Moving" 12" remake
Lion Youth "Rat A Cut Bottle" 12"
Eek-A-Mouse "The Mouse & The Man"
Lee Perry "Clint Eastwood"
Don Drummond "Ali Pang"
Soul Vendors "Love & Unity (Fat Fish)"
Toots & The Maytals "Pee Pee Cluck Cluck"
Dr. Alimantado "Best Dressed Chicken In Town"
Sugar Minott & Yellowman "Uptown Girl" 12"
Alton Ellis "Jamaican Rock" 12"
Peter Metro & Lady Ann "Bossa Nova" 7"
Yellowman "Reggae Calypso"
Mighty Lover (Lovindeer) "In Grenada"
(B)
Linton Kwesi Johnson "Reggae Fi Radni"
Junior Delahaye "Workin' Hard For The Rent Man" 12"
Don Carlos "Mr. Big Man" 12"
Wild Bunch "Mr. President Man" 12"
The Heptones "Mr. President"
Lion Youth "Frustration"
Eek-A-Mouse "Crime"
UPSOLUTE UPSETTER'S CRAZIEST RECORDS:
Lee Perry "People Funny Boy" 7"
Lee Perry "The Thanks We Get" 7"
Lee Perry "Bathroom Skank" 7"
Lee Perry "Jungle Lion" 7"
Upsetters "Freak Out Skank" 7"
Lee 'Scratch' Perry "Blackboard Jungle Dub Version 1"
Lee 'Scratch' Perry "Rubba Rubba Words"
David Isaacs "Barbara" 7"
Horsemouth Wallace "Herb Vendor" 7"
Upsetters "Grumbling Dub" 7"
Glen Da Costa "Magic Touch" 7"
Earl 'Chinna' Smith "Bingo Kid" 7"
Jah Lion "Police & Soldier" 7"
Junior Murvin "Philistines On the Land" 7"
(C)
Lee Perry "Dub The Blackhand Rhythm"
interview segment with Lee Perry at Black Ark 1/82
Lee 'Scratch' Perry "Huzza A Hana"
Lee 'Scratch' Perry "Bafflin' Smoke Signal" 12"
Eek-A-Mouse "Daily News, Star & Gleaner"
Lion Youth "I've Got To Go" 12"

Midnight Dread Program #223 aired April 29th, 1984 on KQAK:
(A)
Natural Beauty "Nice Up Dancee" 12"
Millie Small "My Boy Lollipop" 7"
Desmond Dekker & the Aces "Israelites"
Bob Marley & The Wailers "I Shot The Sheriff"
Linton Kwesi Johnson "We Want Fi Go Rave"
Winston Edwards & Dennis Bovell "Kensington Palace Confusion"
Black Uhuru "Somebody's Watching You"
interviews with Don Carlos & Gold
Don Carlos "Late Night Blues" 12"
Don Carlos & Gold "Natty Dread Have Credential"
Prince Fari "Survival"
Ini Kamoze "General"
Thoroughbred "The Bomb" 7"
(B)
Linton Kwesi Johnson "Street 66"
interview with Linton Kwesi Johnson & Dennis Bovell begins
Matumbi "Wipe Dem Out"
Dennis Bovell & The Dub Band "Hong Kong T'ing" 7"
Monyaka "Go Deh Yaka" 12"
Linton Kwesi Johnson "Di Eagle & Di Bear"
Linton Kwesi Johnson "Fite Dem Back"
Linton Kwesi Johnson "Reality Poem"
Poet & the Roots "All Wi Doin Is Defendin" 12"
Poet & The Roots "Five Nights Of Bleedin" 12"
Poet & the Roots "Man Free (For Darcus Howe)"
Poet & the Roots "It Dread Inna Inglan (For George Lindo)"
Linton Kwesi Johnson "Independent Intavenshan"
(C)
Prince Buster "Ghost Dance"
Bunny Wailer "Boderation" 12"
Linton Kwesi Johnson "Making History"
Heptones "Crying Over You Dub" 12"
interview with Leroy Sibbles
Heptones "Equal Rights"
Heptones "Book Of Rules"
Leroy Sibbles "Garden Of Life" 12"
Leroy Sibbles "Let Jah Music Ride"

Midnight Dread Program #222 aired April 22nd, 1984 on KQAK:
(A)
Prince Fari "GD Magick"
Hugh Mundell "Hey Good Looking" 12"
Bob Marley & The Wailers "Could You Be Loved" 12"
Barbara Paige "Doin' The Night Right"
The (English) Beat "Stand Down Margaret Dub" 7"
UB40 "Neon Haze"
Frankie Jones "Bad Boy"
Bunny Wailer "Crucial" 12"
Linton Kwesi Johnson "Reggae Fi Radni"
Matumbi "Brother Louie"
Yellowman "If You Should Lose Me, You'll Lose A Good Thing"
The Gladiators "Can't Stop Righteousness"
Scientist "Round One"
Peter Chemist "Solomon The Great"
Jimmy Cliff "Treat The Youths Right" 12" (radio mix)
Musical Youth "Mash It Youthman Mash It"
(B)
Malachi Smith "Blood Shout"
Leroy Sibbles "The System"
Michigan & Smiley "The System"
Prince Lincoln Thompson & Royal Rasses "Mechanical Devices"
Jah Shaka "H.I.M."
Mad Professor "Creation Dub"
Black Uhuru "What Is Life"
Michael Palmer & Aswad "Do Good"
Linton Kwesi Johnson "Down De Road", "Sonny's Lettah", "Inglan Is A Bitch", "Bitch Dub", & "Di Eagle & Di Bear (12")"
Dennis Bovell "Bettah" 12"
Blackbeard "Rebel Chase"
Ini Kamoze "World Of Music"
Pablo Moses "The Slayer"
Lee Perry "Original Dub"
(C)
King Tubby "Dub Roots"
Linton Kwesi Johnson "All We Doin' Is Defending", "Independent Intravenshen", & "Reggae Fi Peach" live 10/27/81 on BBC
Groucho & Black Uhuru "Apocalypse"
Creation Rebel "Starship Africa" segment
Jackie Statement "Watch Me" 7"
Peter Tosh "Rock With Me" 7"
Josey Wales "Sea Cruise"
Ranking Ann "Something Fishy Going On"

Midnight Dread Program #221 aired April 15th, 1984 on KQAK:
(A)
The Toyes "Smoke Two Joints"
Culture "International Herb"
Wailing Souls "Feel the Spirit" & "Version" 7" (radio mix)
Phillip Levi "Mi God, Mi King" 12"
Bob Marley & The Wailers "One Love" 12"
The Viceroys "Brethren & Sistren"
Eek A Mouse "Star, Daily News & Gleaner"
Well Pleased & Satisfied "News Carrier"
Doctor Pablo "North Of The River Thames"
Shani Benjamin "Look After Your Structure" 12"
Meditations "Rasta Shall Conquer"
Culture / I Roy "Calling Rasta For I / River Jordan" 12"
Culture "Two Sevens Clash" & "Get Ready To Ride The Lion To Zion"
(B)
Culture "Natty Never Get Weary"
Leroy Sibbles "Rock Steady Party"
Alton Ellis "Get Ready Rock Steady"
Ken Boothe "You Keep Me Hanging On"
The Paragons "The Tide Is High"
The Melodians "Rivers Of Babylon"
The Paragons "Only A Smile" 12"
UB40 "Sweet Sensation"
Blue Riddim "Sho Be Do"
Pablo Moses "Revolutionary Step" 12"
Cultural Roots "Execute (Corrupters)"
Papa Finnigan & Junior Ranking "Put The Heathen Back Pon The Wall"
Steel Pulse "Tightrope"
Linton Kwesi Johnson "New Craas Massahkah"
Lady Ann "Informer" 7"
Horace Andy "Spying Glass"
(C)
Mikey Dread "Paradise" 12"
Don Carlos "Them Say" & "Version" 7"
Yellowman "Nobody Move, Nobody Get Hurt" 12"
Bob Marley & The Wailers "Keep On Moving" 12"
Bunny Wailer "Arab Oil Weapon"

Midnight Dread Program #220 aired April 8th, 1984 on KQAK:
(A)
Max Edwards "Rockers Arena" 12"
The (English) Beat "Psychedelic Rockers" 12"
The Riots "Yeah Yeah"
King Perry "Doctor Dick"
Roland Alphonso "El Pussy Cat"
Bad Manners "Lip Up Fatty"
Desmond Dekker "Workout"
Prince Fari "Survival"
Pablo Moses "Subway Rider"
Michigan & Smiley "Blackness Awareness"
Josey Wales "Bobo Dread"
Yellowman "Society Party"
Eek A Mouse "Wa Do Dem" live '82 Sunsplash
Black Uhuru "Anthem"
Singers & Players "Breaking Down The Pressure"
The Gladiators "A Nuh Everything"
Dub Poets High Times Players "Hide & Find"
Glenville Bryan "Blood Shout"
(B)
Ini Kamoze "General"
Eek A Mouse "Bad Friday"
Steel Pulse "Bodyguard"
Linton Kwesi Johnson "Making History"
Delroy Wilson "Cool Operator"
Lee Perry "Revolution Dub"
Max Romeo "Smile Out Of Style"
Lee Scratch Perry "Dreadlocks In Moonlight"
Chalice "Gi Parson" live '82 Sunsplash
Big Youth "Ten Against One" & "Roll River Jordan" live '82 Sunsplash
Twinkle Brothers "It Dread All Over" live '82 Sunsplash
Roy Shirley "Endlessly" live '82 Sunsplash
Aswad "Not Satisfied" live '82 Nottingham Carnival
Misty In Roots "Oh Wicked Man" live at Euro Vision
Steel Pulse "Rally Round" live in Santa Cruz
(C)
Sister Nancy "Transport Connection"
Culture "Down In Jamaica" 12"
interviews with Freshly & Jerome of Mighty Invaders
Mighty Invaders "Ghetto" & "Rasta Woman"
Gregory Isaacs "Good Morning"

Midnight Dread Program #219 aired April 1st, 1984 on KQAK:
(A)
Steel Pulse "Earth Crisis"
Marvin Gaye "Sexual Healing"
Jimmy Riley "Sexual Healing"
Toots Hibbert "Spiritual Healing"
Apple of Israel Vibration "Be Mine" 12"
Principal "Don't Shoot Me Boss" 7"
Don Carlos "Them Say" 7"
Black Uhuru "Botanical Roots" & "Dub" 7"
Reverand Badoo "Money Money" 7"
Eek A Mouse "Peeni Walli" 7"
Barrington Levy "Mini Bus" 12"
Wailing Souls "They Don't Know Jah" 12"
interview with Farika of the Rastafari Theocracy Assembly on The Maroons & Rastas in Jamaica
(B)
Elders of Golden Spring "Niyabingi Music" live at UC Berkeley cassette
Count Ossie & The Mystic Revelation of Rastafari "Ethiopian Serenade"
Ras Michael & The Sons Of Negus "Mr. Brown"
Farika "Hail Emperor Hailie Selassie I" live poem
Bob Marley "Jah Live"
Natural Ites "Picture On The Wall" 12"
Tetrack "Trouble" 12"
Yellowman "Dub Me Strong" 12"
Steel Pulse "Steppin' Out" (radio mix)
Natural Beauty "Nice Up Dancee" 12"
Linton Kwesi Johnson "Di Eagle & Di Bear" 12"
Phillip Levi "Mi God, Mi King" 12"
(C)
Michigan & Smiley "Reggae Ska" 7"
Mighy Invaders "Hatred"
Mighty Diamonds "Wicked A Fight"
Culture "Love Shines Brighter"
Dennis 'Blackbeard' Bovell "Electrocharge"
Linton Kwesi Johnson "Di Great Insohreckshan"
UB40 "The Earth Dies Screaming"

link for the January - March 1984 KTIM & KQAK playlists