Amazing Songs & Other Delights #93 – And The Circus Came & Left Town edition on Yé Yé Radio Monday 16 & 23

Elvis Presley

My radio show Amazing Songs & Other Delights # 93 – And The Circus Came & Left Town edition is broadcasted Monday February 16 & 23, 3-4pm (London time) on Yé Yé Radio: yeyeradio.com (or on the app).

Monday February 14 is Carnival Day. Amazing Songs & Other Delights # 93 – And The Circus Came & Left Town edition combines carnival, fair, fetes, rodeo songs, or songs that mention those things with the circus, the carny, arriving and leaving.

The programme titles comes from Bert Jansch’s When the Circus Comes to Town and Kyuss’ … And The Circus Leaves Town. Interestingly, both albums were released in 1995.

There’s a fair deal of my beloved Elvis, three songs, enough Chico Buarque and Bert Jansch, two songs each.

Bert is essentially the starting point of this show. I’ve only recently found Jackson C. Frank, through the book Dazzling Stranger: Bert Jansch and the British Folk and Blues Revival, and marvelled.

I came up with another of mine apparently implausible to make sense of such diverse type of songs and genres. Feira Popular, Chic, The Magnetic Fields, Kyuss, The Smiths and others keep company to Elvis, Bert, Chico, Jackson C. in a lively, but with sorrow here and there under an upbeat tune, programme.

Also featured is Gary Lucas’ – Live Score for The Chase Scene of Tod Browning’s 1932 film Freaks. And David Bowie’s Ashes To Ashes, for Ash Wednesday.

Tracklist:
01: Bert Jansch – When the Circus Comes to Town
02: Jackson C. Frank – (My Name is) Carnival (2021 remaster)
03: David Bowie – Ashes To Ashes
04: Chic – Le Freak
05: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – The Carny
06: Chico Buarque – Quando o Carnaval Chega
07: Feira Popular – Carrossel feat. Femme Falafel
08: Elvis Presley – It’s Carnival Time
09: Rufus Wainwright – Going To A Town
10: Gary Lucas – Live Score Tod Browning’s Freaks 1932 The Chase Scene
11: Elvis Presley – Take Me to the Fair
12: The Magnetic Fields – Papa Was a Rodeo
13: The Smiths – Rusholme Ruffians (2011 Remaster)
14: Bert Jansch – (My Name is) Carnival
15: Chico Buarque – Sonho de um Carnaval
16: Kyuss – El Rodeo
17: Elvis Presley – The Fair’s Moving On

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Amazing Songs & Other Delights #92 – The Planets, The Stars and The Universe edition @ mixcloud

My radio show Amazing Songs & Other Delights # 92 – The Planets, The Stars and The Universe edition is now available on mixcloud.

Tracklist:
01: Teenage Fanclub – Planets
02: Sturgill Simpson – Mercury in Retrograde
03: Kate Fenner – Transit of Venus
04: The Parlor – Underneath the Universe
05: The Vampires – Sun Gazers (ft. Chris Abrahams)
06: Frank Sinatra – Fly Me To The Moon (ft. Count Basie And His Orchestra)
07: Damien Jurado – Metallic Cloud
08: Dehd – Stars
09: David Bowie – Starman
10: Coldplay – Jupiter
11: Roisin Murphy & DJ Koze – The Universe
12: Raveloe – Clouds Are Release
13: R.E.M. – Saturn Return
14: Hands On Approach – My Wonder Moon

Amazing Songs & Other Delights is broadcasted the first and third Monday of the month 3-4pm (London time) , respective repeats second and fourth Monday of the month on Yé Yé Radio: yeyeradio.com (or on the app).

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Amazing Songs & Other Delights #92 – The Planets, The Stars and The Universe edition on Yé Yé Radio Monday 2 & 9

Kate Fenner

My radio show Amazing Songs & Other Delights # 92 – The Planets, The Stars and The Universe edition Monday February 2 & 9, 3-4pm (London time) on Yé Yé Radio: yeyeradio.com (or on the app).

You can read about Amazing Songs & Other Delights #92 – The Planets, The Stars and The Universe edition and see it’s songs choices here.

Amazing Songs & Other Delights #92 – The Planets, The Stars and The Universe edition on Yé Yé Radio Monday 2 & 9

Teenage Fanclub

My radio show Amazing Songs & Other Delights # 92 – The Planets, The Stars and The Universe edition Monday February 2 & 9, 3-4pm (London time) on Yé Yé Radio: yeyeradio.com (or on the app).

It’s a popish, elegant,gentle edition with thirteen songs and one instrumental refering the universe, the stars, some plants and the moon, sometimes not literally. It mixes astronomy and astrology in joyful sixty minutes of music.

From Teenage Fanclub’s Planets to Hands On Approach’s My Wonder Moon though songs by Frank Sinatra, Dehd, Roisin Murphy & DJ Koze and more, and an instrumental by The Vampires.

01: Teenage Fanclub – Planets
02: Sturgill Simpson – Mercury in Retrograde
03: Kate Fenner – Transit of Venus
04: The Parlor – Underneath the Universe
05: The Vampires – Sun Gazers (ft. Chris Abrahams)
06: Frank Sinatra – Fly Me To The Moon (ft. Count Basie And His Orchestra)
07: Damien Jurado – Metallic Cloud
08: Dehd – Stars
09: David Bowie – Starman
10: Coldplay – Jupiter
11: Roisin Murphy & DJ Koze – The Universe
12: Raveloe – Clouds Are Release
13: R.E.M. – Saturn Return
14: Hands On Approach – My Wonder Moon

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Amazing Songs & Other Delights #91 – The Covers edition by Raquel Pinheiro now on mixcloud

Tim Hardin

My radio show Amazing Songs & Other Delights # 91 – The Covers edition is broadcasted Monday January 19 & 26, 3-4pm (London time) on Yé Yé Radio: yeyeradio.com and in now available on mixcloud. You can read about the programme here.

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 (The 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 (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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Amazing Songs & Other Delights # 91 – The Covers edition repeat Monday January 26 on Yé Yé Radio

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

My radio show Amazing Songs & Other Delights # 91 – The Covers 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. More about the programme: here.

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 (The 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 (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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Amazing Songs & Other Delights # 91 – The Covers edition by Raquel Pinheiro Monday 19 & 26 on Yé Yé Radio

Tim Hardin

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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Amazing Songs & Other Delights # 90 – The Turning Light: To The Solstice edition by Raquel Pinheiro now at mixcloud

The Stone Roses

My radio show Amazing Songs & Other Delights # 90 – The Turning Light: To The Solstice edition is now available on mixcloud.

In the Northern Hemisphere we’re on the pathway to Winter Solstice, the beginning of the return of the light. We’re also in Hanukkah – the festival of lights – season (sundown of Sunday December 14 to nightfall of Monday December 22). And, of course Yule that coincides with Winter Solstice and Christmas. You can read more about the programme here.

Tracklist:
01: The Zombies – This Will Be Our Year
02: The Altons – Your Light
03: Todd Rundgren – I Saw The Light (2015 remaster)
04: The Offline – La belle en lumière
05: Damh the Bard – On Midwinter’s Day
06: Popol Vuh – Aguirre I (L’Acrime di Rei)
07: The Sound – Winning
08: Tom Hiddleston – I Saw The Light live in the Wittertainment studio (Hank Williams cover)
09: Nick Drake – River Man
10: The Smiths – There Is a Light That Never Goes Out (2011 Remaster)
11: Aztec Camera – Wall Out To Winter (extended version)
12: Wilco – Sky Blue Sky
13: Love & Money – Winter
14: The Stone Roses – I Am The Resurrection

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Amazing Songs & Other Delights # 90 – The Turning Light: To The Solstice edition by Raquel Pinheiro @ Yé Yé Radio Monday 15 & 22

The Stone Roses

My radio show Amazing Songs & Other Delights # 90 – The Turning Light: To The Solstice edition is broadcasted Monday 15 December, 3-4pm (London time), repeating Monday December 22 – my birthday – same hour on Yé Yé Radio: yeyeradio.com (or on the app).

In the Northern Hemisphere we’re on the pathway to Winter Solstice, the beginning of the return of the light. We’re also in Hanukkah – the festival of lights – season (sundown of Sunday December 14 to nightfall of Monday December 22). And, of course Yule that coincides with Winter Solstice and Christmas.

Amazing Songs & Other Delights # 90 – The Turning Light: To The Solstice edition begins with the year’s promise, renewal with The Zombies’ This Will Be Our Year, and concludes with The Stone Roses danceable I Am The Resurrection, a welcoming to the turn, the return of the night, as well as an homage to the recently departed Mani.

There’s sunlit songs, there’s Popol Vuh’ Aguirre I (L’Acrime di Rei) with its somber tone, Aztec Camera’s Wall Out To Winter (extended version) is deliberated. It honors the walk, that Winter is a time of going inwards, not to cut short. The two I See The Light – Todd Rundgren’s and Tom Hiddleston singing Hank Williams’ one – add to the sense of clarity, hope.

Tracklist:
01: The Zombies – This Will Be Our Year
02: The Altons – Your Light
03: Todd Rundgren – I Saw The Light (2015 remaster)
04: The Offline – La belle en lumière
05: Damh the Bard – On Midwinter’s Day
06: Popol Vuh – Aguirre I (L’Acrime di Rei)
07: The Sound – Winning
08: Tom Hiddleston – I Saw The Light live in the Wittertainment studio (Hank Williams cover)
09: Nick Drake – River Man
10: The Smiths – There Is a Light That Never Goes Out (2011 Remaster)
11: Aztec Camera – Wall Out To Winter (extended version)
12: Wilco – Sky Blue Sky
13: Love & Money – Winter
14: Stone Roses – I Am The Resurrection

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Amazing Songs & Other Delights # 89 – Of Mist & Metaphysics edition by Raquel Pinheiro now @ mixcloud

Led Zeppelin

My radio show Amazing Songs & Other Delights # 89 – Of Mist & Metaphysics is now available on mixcloud.

Amazing Songs & Other Delights new editions are broadcasted on Yé Yé Radio: yeyeradio.com (or on the app) first and third Monday of the Month 3-4pm (London time), respective repeats second and fourth Monday of the month.

Amazing Songs & Other Delights # 89 – Of Mist & Metaphysics edition title comes from a series of coincidences, synchronicities. As well as of waking up to thick, misty days. The kind you would think yourself in the Scottish Highlands, or, according to the legend, the foggy day Arthur and D. Sebastião will return. You can read more about the programme here.

Tracklist:
01: Richard Wagner – Parsifal, Act II: Prelude – Die Zeit ist da (excerpt)
02: Led Zeppelin – Stairway To Heaven
03: Paus – Ficamos Por Aqui
04: Roxy Music – Avalon
05: Loreena McKennitt – The Lady of Shalott (Live)
06: Queens Of The Stone Age – In the Fade
07: José Cid – A Lenda D’el Rei D. Sebastião
08: Opeth – In The Mist She Was Standing (excerpt)
09: Paraorchestra – The Killing Moon (with Brett Anderson and Charles Nodier)
10: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Red Right Hand
11: Mcalmont & Butler – Although
12: Dave Gahan & Soulsavers – Kingdoms of Rain (live Mark Lanegan 60th celebration)
13: Crown Lands – Lady Of The Lake
14: Einstürzende Neubauten – Stella Maris
15: Die Among Strangers – Lancelot & Elaine
16: Rowland S. Howard – Autoluminescent

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