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What a talent, just imagine. K. Hack AZ.

This is a real gem, when Dan was on the cusp of making it big. The folks at this concert have quite a memory to last a lifetime .

Never knew that Looking for a Lady and To the Morning were such early songs of his. So glad I found this recording! What a treat to hear his younger voice. He has always been a favorite songwriter of mine!

Loved his music !!

wow - what a great show - thanks to WZZQ for broadcasting it

Im so glad i was there

What a treat. Saw him live in the 70's in Honolulu. Once at the HIC and once at the Waikiki Shell in 1978. Carol King was sitting behind us, very cool.

February 22, 1974. I was only 10, but I listened to WZZQ.

Love you Dan I will always be grateful to you my friend forever for your heavenly songs .

Excellent post, Wendy!

Found this recoding in a very haphazard manner, but what a treat. I was living in Jackson during my teenage years and the shows that came to MS in those days were a dream list. I was not at this one because I was only 12 yo, but in the coming years would be following most of the acts that came to Jackson back in those days. Thanks Beebop productions, WZZQ etc, it was a grand time!!

Was there. He was uniquely a music man and storyteller.

zzq was the best rock station ever until it turned into mis103 country crap

*The Civic Auditorium in Jackson had a seating capacity of 2,500 people, but 10,000 fans claimed they were there!*

Holy Jesus! What a rare moment in time!! Is his encore perform anywhere accessible?

I cannot believe I found this after all this time. If you listen closely between sets, you will not hear a lot of extraneous noise from the audience. We were one of the most respectful audiences, very quiet while he was playing and singing. We were all totally enthralled. He was so engaging, and we seemed in awe to have him performing in Jackson. I do not remember how I managed to get tickets, but this concert is one of the best memories of my youth.

Why would they put that on youtube like that with it dragging? That is a crying shame. I'm going to try and fix it. Somebody doesn't think very much of him to do that. Shame on you...

Bruce deserves a gold star ⭐️ for sharing this!

He sounds so young. I was just 16 and was already a fan. Just like people in Jackson, here in Colorado we thought Dan was BIG everywhere. EVER ON

Priceless...........

thanks for this

Early Radio Broadcast before Dan got quite famous. Youth and Innocence on full display here.

Surprised I never ran into this before. I saw Dan many times going back to when he toured with Fools Gold. Love the early stuff.

always loved this song, it took on special meaning for me, after the death of my beautiful daughter Deja, to brain cancer age 35, she was raised on Dan's music. I realized there is no way to say no to the morning

Where are you in 2018! My European Parents were sent to Springfield Illinois! Migrated to Racine WI. I'm still here... My photo is a few months ago ... Any words of advice for this 60 year young Lady, who is being Stalked by Louis Farrakhan? Please Stand Up...

Thank you for the memories. ZZQ was how I discovered a lot of great rock and roll. Thanks for posting. It was a time when Jackson was a great city

I moved to Jackson in the fall of 1973 as a freshman at Belhaven College ( now Belhaven University) . I was astonished at the quality of WZZQ's DJs and programming. They introduced me to an enormous range of music that had never played on any radio station in my home town of Birmingham. What an amazing time to be alive and exposed to music. I still have my Brian Augur album "Straight Ahead" which I first heard on WZZQ in 1974. Somewhere I have cassette tapes I made of some of the music I heard on that wonderful station.

A few tears right now..grew up with ZZQ, dave,Perez all the dudes, remember riding around the rez on Sunday morning smoking dope and jamming with my best friends God, such good times and memories!

I was raised on ZZQ! Commercial free... whole albums... great music. Real FM!

I wish I could of been a better fan when he was alive. I wish I could of seeing him live <3 <3 <3

Good stuff Bruce. Thanks brother.

ZZQ 102!!! Awesome! I miss this station..

I was there! LOVE the audio, wish someone had thought to video record this concert. Oh the days of Fogelberg!

here is another copy of the show....2 hours and no wobble archive.org/details/FogelbergConcert

14.07 wow best of my love.... <3

Thank you...thank you...thank you... I miss this man so very much. What a gift this recording is.

THANK YOU SO MUCH for posting. I was there. We had a fantastic radio station in Jackson back then. They would play entire album sides and go for an hour with no ads or talking. One of the DJs discovered Fogelberg's first album - Home Free - and they started playing it. Everyone in Jackson loved his music. This was probably five years before he became famous nationwide. Funny thing - we didn't know that he wasn't big outside of Jackson.

the freakin' memories....

We need some of these early-Dan live shows cleaned up (the audio, not the patter) and put out on CD. Some alternate takes and demos would be nice too! With all due respect, Dan's choice of songs on the live recordings released during his lifetime was very hit-and-miss.

A wonderful gem here!

...sharing,,,,thanks guys

On a laid back Sunday after noon in Walnut Grove mississippi listening to Dan on zzq believe 77

I love all your music Dan, you are truly missed.

This is an incredible recording. Thank you for posting.

Wonderful, thank you. Yeah back when Dan's voice had those high notes singing so strong, love "To The Morning", and "Best Of My Love" wow, , , the first time I saw Dan was around '77 when he opened up for the Eagles in Mobile, he came out after his set and played piano and sang on it that night.

I don't think this was the first concert he played in Jackson, it had to be one of the later ones. I was there at the first one on row 6. I still have my ticket stub. He ended the concert with a new yet to be released song called "There's a place in the world for a Gambler". This one ended with "The River". If any of you guys recall Micheal G. Brown opened the original show. Do you remember his piano falling down on him and scaring the crap out of us. What a great night that was. I remember WZZQ pushing his Home Free album and the whole town falling in love with it. We drove from South Jackson to the Jackson Mall to buy tickets and managed to get some before the show sold out. A few years before he passed my wife and I managed to see him perform at the Beau Rivage in Biloxi. Before the show we actually sat next to him in the buffet and I got to say hello. It was also a great show, one I lucky to see as I think it was about his last tour. What a loss for all of us.

Brilliant.

I found it fascinating that he did "Best Of My Love" here before the Eagles released it. Fascinating.

Wow, 3 never published songs. I knew he had written Love Me Through and Through, but only had heard it on the Fools Gold album. Nice to hear Dan perform it. Thanks for posting!

It was likely that his voice was giving out in this concert due to tonsillitis and that is why he could only perform one show. He had them taken out at some time in the 70's which cost him much of his range. He also had to learn to sing with his new pipes! I think he did a great job with his new voice.