Sunday 27 September 2009 Extended Playlist

The Surfaris: Wipeout
Album: Wipe Out, Surfer Joe & Other Great Hits
1973 Compilation (out of print) Reissued 2005: Magic

Ben Waters: Hurricane
Album: Hurricane
2008: Hypertension

Simply Red: Stars
Album: Stars
1999: Warner

Daniel Merriweather featuring Adele: Water and a flame
Album: Love and War
2009: Sony Music

Van Morrison: Have I told you lately
Album: Avalon Sunset
1999: Polydor

Tony Bennett: Fly me to the moon
Album: The Essential Tony Bennett
2006: Sony BMG

Tommy Dorsey Orchestra: So rare
Album: The Ultimate Big Band
2000: Going for a Song


Duke Ellington: Ain't misbehavin'
Album: The Ultimate Big Band
2000 : Going for a Song

Billie Holiday: Good morning heartache
Album: Theme Time Radio Hour with Bob Dylan
2008: Ace Records

Memphis Slim: Mother earth
Album: Theme Time Radio Hour with Bob Dylan
2008: Ace Records

Mary Gaultier: I drink
Album: Theme Time Radio Hour with Bob Dylan
2008: Ace Records

Herbie Hancock: Watermelon man
Album: The Golden Age of American Popular Music - The Jazz Hits
2008: Ace

The White Stripes: Seven nation army
Album: Elephant
2003: Pid

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young: Woodstock
Album: Deja Vu
2007: WEA

Iron & Wine: Freedom hangs like heaven
EP: Woman King
2005: Sub Pop

Imelda May: Falling in love with you again
Album: Love Tattoo
2008: UCJ

Robert Plant & Alison Krauss: Fortune teller
Album: Raising Sand
2007: Decca

Peter Grant: Traditional (Chuck Norman remix)
Album: Traditional
2007: Globe Records / Universal

Grandpa Jones: Turn your radio on
Album: Theme Time Radio Hour with Bob Dylan
2008: Ace Records

Sister Rosetta Tharpe with the Sam Price Trio: Don't take everybody to be your friend
Album: Theme Time Radio Hour with Bob Dylan
2008: Ace Records


Josh Groban: You are loved (Don't give up)
Album: Awake
2007: Warner

George Michael: Secret love
Album: Songs from the Last Century
1999: Virgin/Aegean

Stevie Nicks with Tom Petty: Stop draggin' my heart around
Album: Bella Donna
1989: EMI

Tom Waits: Tell it to me
Album: Orphans
2006: Anti

Dirty Dozen Brass Band: My feet can't fail me now
Album: Our New Orleans
2005: Nonesuch

Sunday 6 September 2009 Extended Playlist

The Surfaris: Wipeout
Album: Wipe Out, Surfer Joe & Other Great Hits
1973 Compilation (out of print) Reissued 2005: Magic

The Third Degree: Mercy
Album: Uncovered
2009: Ministry of Sound UK

The Cadillacs: Speedo
Album: Goodfellas: Original Soundtrack
1990: WEA

The Rolling Stones: Gimme shelter
Album: Let it Bleed
2006: Decca - Pop

Gurrumul: Galiku
Album: Gurrumul
2009: Dramatico / Skinnyfish

Dusty Springfield: I only want to be with you
Album: Stay Awhile - I Only Want to be With You/Dusty
2005: Taragon

The Olympics: Western movies
Album: Something Old Something New
2006: Kent Dance

Scott Joplin: The ragtime dance
Album: The Entertainer - The Very Best of Scott Joplin
1997: Nonesuch

FEATURED ALBUM:
Louisiana Red & Little Victor's Juke Joint - Back to the Black Bayou
2009: Ruf / Bluestown

I'm Louisiana Red
Alabama train
Crime in motion
Don't miss that train























Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings: Let them knock
Album 100 Days, 100 Nights
2008: Daptone

Van Morrison: Stop drinking
Album: What's Wrong With This Picture?
2003: Blue Note

Ornette Coleman: Ramblin'
Album: Change of the Century
2002: Warner Jazz

Conor Oberst & Gillian Welch: Lua
Album: Dark was the Night
2009: 4AD

The Silhouettes: Get a job
Album: Lights! Camera! Doo Wop!
2009: Giant Step Records

The Paragons: Diamonds & pearls
Album: Golden Oldies
2007: Essential Media Group

The Crests: Step by step
Album: The Very Best of The Crests
2009: Burning Fire

The Pentagons: Silly dilly
Private collection

John Dummer Blues Band: When you got a good friend
Album: Cabal
1999: See For Miles

Blind Roosevelt Graves & Brother: I'll be rested
Private collection

Johnny Cash: The highwayman
Album: Man in Black - The Very Best of Johnny Cash
2002: Columbia

John Kirkpatrick: Blaze away
Album: Three in a Row
1999: Fledgling

Richard Thompson: Tear stained letter
Album: Hand of Kindness
2006: Ryko / Rhino

Loudon Wainwright III: I am the way (New York town)
Album: Attempted Moustache
1998: Unknown Label

Fats Domino: I'm ready
Album: The Best of Fats Domino
1998: Liberty

Sunday 16 August 2009 Extended Playlist

The Surfaris: Wipeout
Album: Wipe Out, Surfer Joe & Other Great Hits
1973 Compilation (out of print) Reissued 2005: Magic










Lou Rawls: People get ready
Album: Gospel: 44 Cotton Pickin' Gospel Greats
2005: Dove

Bob Cheevers: Coleen
Album: Gettysburg to Graceland
1997: Spiritual City Music

Burt Kaempfert: Swingin' safari
Album: A Swingin' Safari / Safari Swings Again
2007: Polydor

Dean Martin: Memories are made of this
Album: The Essential Dean Martin
2004: EMI

Boo Boo Davis: Don't bother my shoes
Album: The Snake
2007: Black & Tan

Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong: Dream a little dream of me
Album: Pennies From Heaven
2009: UCJ

Jack Johnson: Constellations
Album: In Between Dreams
2005: Universal / Island

Melody Gardot: If the stars were mine
Album: My One and Only Thrill
2009: UCJ / Verve

The Halos: Nag
Album: Nag
1996: Gotham

Helen Humes: Dirty mistreater blues
Album: The Ladies Sing Jazz
1996: Emporio

Count Basie: One o'clock jump
Album: The Ultimate Big Band
2000: Going for a Song

Clare Teal: Paradisi carousel
Album: Paradisi Carousel
2007: Sony / BMG

Anthony Newley: Personality
Album: The Very Best of Anthony Newley
1997: Commercial Marketing

The Temptations: Ball of confusion (That's what the world is today)
Album: Greatest Hits Vol 2
1990: Motown

Eric Clapton: Someday after a while
Album: From the Cradle
1994: Warner

John Lee Hooker: Think twice before you go
Album: The Best of John Lee Hooker
2001: Commercial Marketing

Featured artist: Gurrumul
Album: Gurrumul by Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu
2009: Dramatico / Skinnyfish

Marwurrumburr
Gathu Mawula
Wirrpangu

From The Full Monty OMPS:
1997: RCA Victor / BMG

Joe Loss & his Orchestra: The stripper
Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel: Make me smile (Come up and see me)

From The Blues Brothers OMPS:
1980 (remastered): Atlantic

She caught the Katy
James Brown with Rev James Cleveland Choir: The old landmark


From The Commitments OMPS:
1991: Universal / Island

Mustang Sally
Mr Pitiful

Sunday 26 July 2009 Playlist

Wipeout: The Surfaris
Ray Charles: Hit the road Jack
Pat Boone: A wonderful time up there
Peggy Lee: Fever
The Specials: Gangster
George Benson: Here comes the sun
Shirley Bassey: Get this party started
Harry James: Blues on a count
Ben Kweller: Fight
The Walker Brothers: No regrets
Madeleine Peyroux: Careless love
The Isley Brothers: Harvest for the world
Roberta Gambarini: On the sunny side of the street
Elbow: Grounds for divorce
Daniel Merriweather: Red
Sarah Vaughan: But not for me
Gurrumul: Wiyathul
Luciano Pavarotti: Questa o quella
Bruce Springsteen: The wrestler
Harry Connick Jnr: Someday you'll be sorry

Show theme: The Best of Bob Dylan's Theme Time Radio Hour Volume 2
Little Richard: Get rich quick
The Clovers: One mint julep
Buddy Johnson: Did you see Jackie Robinson hit that ball
Ella Mae Morse: Forty cups of coffee







Featured album: The Leisure Society - The Sleeper
The last of the melting snow
A short weekend begins with longing
Save it for someone who cares

Sunday 5 July 2009 Playlist: Listener Favourites

The Surfaris: Wipeout
Jools Holland & his RBO with Ruby Turner: The informer
Van Morrison: Into the mystic
Mollie Johnson: Streets of Philadelphia
Chet Baker: My funny valentine
Ray Charles: Mess around
Nina Simone: My baby just cares for me
Count Basie: Black and tan fantasy
The Blind Boys of Alabama: Jesus gonna be here
Herbie Hancock feat. Joni Mitchell: The river
Elsie & Doris Waters: Coronation girls
Fred Astaire: Let yourself go
Soggy Bottom Boys feat. Dan Tyminski: I am a man of constant sorrow
Peggy Lee: Lover
George Michael: Where or when
Dusty Springfield: I close my eyes and count to ten
Sonny Boy Williamson: Bring it on home
Freddie King: Woke up this morning
Ruby Murray: Softly, softly
Michael Buble: The best is yet to come
Blossom Dearie: Touch the hand of love
Louis Armstong: C'est si bon
James Brown: I feel good
The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain: Hard to handle

Sunday 28 June 2009 Playlist

The Surfaris: Wipeout
Harry James: Two o'clock jump
Michael Jackson: Man in the mirror
Etta James: You've changed
Bruce Springsteen: Outlaw Pete
Oscar's Chicago Swingers: I wonder who's boogiein' my woogie now
Blue Harlem: He may be yours
Memphis Slim: Dedication to Pete Johnson
Frank Sinatra: A lovely way to spend an evening
Billie Holiday: I loves you Porgy
Christopher Cross: Arthur's Theme (Best that you can do)
Josh Groban: Caruso
Melody Gardot: If the stars were mine
John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers with Peter Green: The stumble
James Cotton & Charlie Haden Quartet: Dealin' with the devil
Bob Dylan: I feel a change comin' on
Eddie Cochran: Summertime blues

Show theme: The Best of Bob Dylan's Theme Time Radio Hour
Leroy Carr & Scrapper Blackwell: Papa's on the housetop
Louis Armstrong: When it's sleepy time down south
Blind Willie Johnson: John the Revelator
Percy Mayfield: Louisiana

Featured album: Miles Davis - The Prince of Darkness
Four
Moose the mooch
A night in Tunisia




Featured artist: Chuck Berry
No money down
Brown eyed handsome man
Memphis, Tennessee

Sunday 24 May 2009 Playlist

The Surfaris: Wipeout
The Five Du-Tones: Shake a tail feather
Woody Herman: The good earth
Barbra Streisand & Ray Charles: Cryin' time
Elbow: One day like this
Helen Merrill: People will say we're in love
John Montague: He'll have to go
Martha Reeves & the Vandellas: Dancing in the street
Eddie Cochran: Summertime blues
The Impressions: People get ready
Melody Gardot: Deep within the corners of my mind
Gene Pitney: Town without pity
Diana Krall: Willow weep for me
Yehudi Menuhin & Stephane Grappelli: Isn't this a lovely day
Buddy Guy: I can't be satisfied

Featured artist: Fats Domino
Blue Monday
I'm in love again
Walking to New Orleans






Show theme: The Best of Bob Dylan's Theme Time Radio Hour
Ruth Brown: (Mama) He treats your daughter mean
Big Joe Turner: Married woman
Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown: Midnight hour
Carl Perkins: Blue suede shoes
Jimmie Revard & his Oklahoma Playboys: Lose your blues & laugh at life
Tampa Red & Big Maceo: Let me play with your poodle
Buddy & Ella Johnson: Alright, okay, you win
Roy Montrell: (Everytime I hear) That mellow saxophone
Dinah Washington: Richest guy in the graveyard

Sunday 10 May 2009 Playlist

The Surfaris: Wipeout
Bob Dylan: Jolene
Leroy Carr & Scrapper Blackwell: Papa's on the housetop
Lucinda Williams: Can't let go
Lead Belly: Big fat woman
Jools Holland & his RBO with Ruby Turner: The informer
Melody Gardot: Baby I'm a fool
Sharon Shannon & Mundy: Galway girl
Joe Bonamassa: From the valley
Mamma Mia! MST recording: Dancing queen
The Streets: Dry your eyes
Linda Rondstadt & James Ingram: Somewhere out there
Imelda May: Smotherin' me
Dinah Washington: Big long slidin' thing
Bruce Springsteen: The last carnival
Seasick Steve: St Louis Slim
La Vie en Rose OST recording: La vie en rose (accordion)
Judy Garland: Stompin' at the Savoy

Featured album: Etta James - Mystery Lady, songs of Billie Holiday
Don't explain
The very thought of you
How deep is the ocean




Show theme: Mitch's 2008/2009 Albums of the Year
Ben Waters - Hurricane
Male Artist Album of the Year: Hurricane
Catherine Russell - Sentimental Streak
Female Artist Album of the Year: So little time; I'm lazy, that's all
Dr John & the Lower 911 - City that Care Forgot
Tribute Album of the Year: Time for a change
BB King - One Kind Favour
Album of the Year: Sitting on top of the world; Blues before sunrise

Sunday 19 April 2009 Playlist

The Surfaris: Wipeout
Bette Midler: Boogie woogie bugle boy
Gordon Lightfoot: If you could read my mind
The Waifs: Sundirtwater
Jools Holland & his RBO: Fat Fred
The Blind Boys of Alabama: Good religion
Sharon Shannon & Mundy: Galway girl
Fred Astaire: Top hat, white tie and tails
Tommy Dorsey & his Orchestra: So rare
Bruce Springsteen: Queen of the supermarket
Ray Charles with Natalie Cole: Fever
Ike Turner: Rockin' blues
Nilsson: Me and my Arrow
Oleta Adams: Circle of one
Tom Scott, Terence Blanchard & George Duke: Country preacher
Dr John & the Lower 911: Keep on goin'
William Galison & Madelaine Peyroux: Jealous guy

Featured album: Madeleine Peyroux - Bare Bones
Instead
Our lady of Pigalle
You can't do me

Show theme: Approaches to Gershwin Chet Baker: Long ago and far away
Sinead O'Connor featuring Larry Adler: My man's gone now
Courtney Pine featuring Larry Adler: Summertime
Lena Horne: The man I love

Sunday 12 April 2009 Playlist

The Surfaris: Wipeout
Duke Ellington: Indiana
Aretha Franklin & Mary J Blige: Never gonna break my faith
Michael Buble: The best is yet to come
Amanda McBroom: Errol Flynn
Tom Scott, Terence Blanchard & George Duke: Mercy, mercy, mercy
Jools Holland RBO & Shane MacGowan: Just to be home with you
Marlene Dietrich: The boys in the back room
Belle & Sebastian: I'm a cuckoo
Troy (Trombone Shorty) Andrews: Hey Troy, your mama's calling you
Willie Nelson & Johnny Cash: Mamas don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys
Tom Jones: You can leave your hat on
Sarah Brightman: Time to say goodbye (Con te partiro)
Randy Newman: Laugh and be happy
Ella Fitzgerald & Chick Webb: Oh Johnny, oh Johnny, oh!
Kate Rusby: The Village Green Preservation Society
Thelonious Monk: I surrender, dear
Eartha Kitt: Just an old fashioned girl

Featured (free) album: Noel Gallagher - The Dreams we have as Children
Married with children
Paul Weller: All you need is love
Half the world away








Show theme: In the French style
Louis Armstrong: C'est si bon
Madeleine Peyroux: J'ai deux amours
Molly Johnson: Tristes souvenirs
Charles Trenet: La mer
Edith Piaf: L'hymne a l'amour

Sunday 11 January 2009 Playlist

The Surfaris: Wipeout
Jools Holland with Ruby Turner & the RBO: The informer
The Blind Boys of Alabama with the Hot 8 Brass band: Make a better world
Dr John & the Lower 911 featuring Willie Nelson: Promises, promises
Adele: Chasing pavements
Kirsty McColl and The Pogues: Miss Otis regrets / Just one of those things
Flanders & Swann: The hippopotamus song
Yo Yo Ma, Diana Krall & John Clayton: You couldn't be cuter
Leonard Cohen: Hallelujah
Louis Armstrong: The song is ended (the melody lingers on)
Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich: Hold tight

Featured artist: Eartha Kitt
Let's do it (let's fall in love)
C'est si bon
If I love ya, then I need ya
Just an old fashioned girl





Featured album: Then & Now - the Definitive Herbie Hancock
Cantaloupe island
With Stevie Wonder: St Louis blues
Featuring Damien Rice & Lisa Hannigan: Don't explain

Show theme: 50 years of Motown
The Temptations: Cloud nine
Diana Ross & The Supremes: Baby love
Smokey Robinson: I second that emotion

Sunday 7 December 2008 Playlist

The Surfaris: Wipeout
The 5, 6, 7, 8s: Woo Hoo
Louis Armstrong: When you're smiling (the whole world smiles with you)
Katie Doherty: (Holding on to) A sunny day (demo)
Randy Newman: Harps & angels
Paul Simon: Take me to the mardi gras
Sarah McLachlan: Angel
The Blind Boys of Alabama: Last month of the year
Dinah Washington: I wanna be loved
Jools Holland & his RBO: Tuxedo junction
Willie Nelson: Please come home for Christmas
Molly Johnson: Whatever Lola wants
Ricky Skaggs: Away in a manger

Featured album: Blue Harlem - Talk to me
Gone walkin'
Bear wallow
Nobody but me
He may be yours

Featured album: BB King - One kind favour
Waiting for your call
Midnight blues
Sitting on top of the world









Show theme: The Grammy shortlist
Pinetop Perkins & Friends: Take it easy baby
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss: Please read the letter
Stacey Kent: Breakfast on the morning tram
BB King: Tomorrow night

Sunday 28 September 2008 Playlist

The Surfaris: Wipeout
Scott Joplin: The entertainer
Dr John & the Jools Holland R&B Orchestra: The hand that changed its mind
Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong: I get a kick out of you
The Blind Boys of Alabama: I shall not walk alone
Woody Herman: At the woodchopper's ball
Peggy Lee: Mr Wonderful
Harry James: You made me love you
Joan Armstrading: Me, myself, I
Dean Martin: Gentle on my mind
Elbow: One day like this
Clare Teal: Paradisi carousel
Oscar Ferrari: Sera una noche
Tracy Chapman: Fast car
Cannonball Adderley: Mercy, mercy, mercy

Featured artist: Josh Groban
You are loved (don't give up)
Per te
You raise me up


Show theme: Music from the movies
The Full Monty: Donna Summer - Hot stuff
The Third Man - Harry Lime theme (Anton Karas)
Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence - main theme (Ryuichi Sakamoto)
The Godfather: Matt Monro - Speak softly, love

Sunday 14 September 2008 Playlist

The Surfaris: Wipeout
Chubby Checker: The twist
Mike: Grace Kelly
Johnny Johnson & the Bandwagon: Breaking down the walls of heartache
Ray Charles & Willie Nelson: It was a very good year
Dinah Washington: You're crying
Noel Coward: I went to a marvellous party
Paul Anka: Smells like teen spirit

Featured album: The Pointer Sisters - Jump
Jump (for my love)
Someday we'll be together
I'm so excited
Slow hand





Show theme: Music from the movies
Mamma Mia!: the cast - Dancing queen
Kill Bill Vol.1: The 5, 6, 7, 8s - Woo Hoo
Mrs Robinson: Simon & Garfunkel - The boxer
High Society: Bing Crosby & Grace Kelly - True love
O Brother Where Art Thou?: The Soggy Bottom Boys featuring Dan Tyminski - I am a man of constant sorrow
A Star is Born: Barbra Streisand & Kris Kristofferson - Lost inside of you
Good Morning Vietnam: Louis Armstrong - What a wonderful world
Dirty Dancing: Michael Lloyd & Le Disc - Johnny's mambo
The Commitments: The Commitments - Mustang Sally
The Blues Brothers: Jake & Elwood - Everybody needs somebody to love
Once: Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova - Falling slowly
The Rose: Bette Midler - The rose
Top Hat: Fred Astaire - Cheek to cheek
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: Marilyn Monroe & Jane Russell - A little girl from Little Rock