Month: January 2026

My radio show Amazing Songs & Other Delights # 91 –  edition is broadcasted Monday January 19 & 26, 3-4pm (London time) on Yé Yé Radio: yeyeradio.com (or on the app).

I love covers and have long thought of doing a covers show. Here it is. With two songs of my beloved Tim Hardin covered. Reason to Believe by Ron Sexsmith and If I Were A Carpenter by Robert Plant.

Some of these songs were made popular on the voices of Johnny Cash,
Cocaine Blues, a rework by Troy Junius Arnall of the  traditional song Little Sadie. Here played and sung by Keith Richards.

Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman’s (Marie’s The Name) His Latest Flame was first recorded by Del Shannon, then Elvis made it his. It’s the only song on the show that is a medley
By The Smiths platin(Marie’s The Name) His Latest Flame/ Rusholme Ruffians playing it Live in London, 1986. The medley is part of The Smiths live album Rank.

The programme opens with Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds performing Danny Dill and Marijohn Wilkin’s Long Black Veil. There’s also George Micheal covering Roxanne by The Police, Nouvelle Vague going for The Clash’s The Gun’s Of Brixton, Therapy? covering Diane by my adored Hüsker Dü and much more.

Tracklist:
01: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Long Black Veil (Danny Dill and Marijohn Wilkin)
02: Lucinda Williams – While My Guitar Gently Weeps (The Beatles)
03: Ron Sexsmith – Reason to Believe (Tim Hardin)
04: George Michael – Roxanne (The Police)
05: Therapy? – Diane (Hüsker Dü)
06: Billy Bragg – Dolphins (Fred Neil)
07: Kieth Richards – Cocaine Blues (Troy Junius Arnall)
08: Ana Deus, Carlos Zíngaro, Regina Guimarães, Zani Dislexic Band – Venus In Furs (Velvet Underground)
09: John & Lindsey Skeye – Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen)
10: Placebo – 20th Century Boy (T. Rex, from Velvet Goldmine Soundtrack)
11: Suede – Hungry Heart (Bruce Springsteen, live at Jo Whiley’s Sofa Sessions BBC)
12: Nouvelle Vague – The Guns of Brixton (The Clash)
13: Rowland S. Howard & Lydia Lunch – Some Velvet Morning (Lee Hazelwood & Nancy Sinatra)
14: Robert Plant – If I Were A Carpenter (Tim Hardin)
15: The Smiths – (Marie’s The Name) His Latest Flame/ Rusholme Ruffians – Live in London, 1986 (Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman, Morrissey & Marr)

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