My radio show Amazing Songs & Other Delights #94 – Of Art & Image edition is broadcasted Monday, 2nd and 9th, 3-4pm (London time) on Yé Yé Radio: yeyeradio.com (or on the app).
Of Art & Image edition has 15 songs that refer to art, artists, mostly painters, and image, both still and motion. You read more about the programme here.
Tracklist 01: Don McLean – Vincent 02: Manic Street Preachers – Interiors (Song for Willem de Kooning) 03: Death Cab for Cutie – Photobooth 04: The Passions – I’m in Love With a German Film Star 05: John Cale – Magritte 06: Modern Lovers – Pablo Picasso 07: David Bowie – Andy Warhol 08: Bauhaus – Bela Lugosi’s Dead 09: Duran Duran – Girls On Film 10: The Kinks – Picture Book 11: Spoon – I Turn My Camera On 12: Paul Simon – Kodachrome 13: Dire Straits – In the Gallery 14: John Mayer – 3×5 15: Manic Street Preachers – Kevin Carter
My radio show Amazing Songs & Other Delights #94 – Of Art & Image edition is broadcasted Monday, 2nd and 9th, 3-4pm (London time) on Yé Yé Radio: yeyeradio.com (or on the app).
Of Art & Image edition has 15 songs that refer to art, artists, mostly painters, and image, both still and motion. The Manic Street Preachers have two songs, from Everything Must Go, their fourth album. One for painting, Interiors (Song for Willem de Kooning), and one for photography, Kevin Carter.
Don McLean’s Vincent is based on Vincent Van Gogh’s The Starry Night, while Dire Straits’ In the Gallery is a tribute to sculptor Harry Braun.
Bauhaus and their Bela Lugosi’s Dead are a double reference. The band’s name to the German arts, design, architecture, crafts school, and to Hungarian-American actor Bela Lugosi.
Tracklist 01: Don McLean – Vincent 02: Manic Street Preachers – Interiors (Song for Willem de Kooning) 03: Death Cab for Cutie – Photobooth 04: The Passions – I’m in Love With a German Film Star 05: John Cale – Magritte 06: Modern Lovers – Pablo Picasso 07: David Bowie – Andy Warhol 08: Bauhaus – Bela Lugosi’s Dead 09: Duran Duran – Girls On Film 10: The Kinks – Picture Book 11: Spoon – I Turn My Camera On 12: Paul Simon – Kodachrome 13: Dire Straits – In the Gallery 14: John Mayer – 3×5 15: Manic Street Preachers – Kevin Carter
My radio show Amazing Songs & Other Delights # 93 – And The Circus Came & Left Town edition is now available on mixcloud.
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. You can read more about the programme here.
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 Chegar 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
Amazing Songs & Other Delights has new editions every first and third Monday of the month, respective repeats second and third Monday of the Month on Yé Yé Radio: yeyeradio.com (or on the app).
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
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).
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.
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
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)
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)
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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