
My radio show Amazing Songs & Other Delights #96 – The We’re Still In Spring edition is broadcasted Monday 18th and 25th May, 3-4pm (London time) on Yé Yé Radio: yeyeradio.com to (or on the app).
There’s seventeen songs of different genres and time periods. By new bands and longs established ones. Some of the songs aren’t an obvious Spring choice, but they make sense to me in springtime.
The programme goes from a Spring song for children, The Kiboomers – Ladybugs Fly, to fado with Rita Braga’s tropical interpretation of Amália Rodrigues and Don Byas’ Rua do Capelão.
There’s space for indie songs, Again and Again and Again by Silly Boy Blue, Sun It Rises by Fleet Floxes, Stranger Baby by Gifthorse or Whole Again by Saint Sappho. Along Schubert’s Frühlingsglaube sung by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, and Test Department with the South Wales Striking Miners Choir singing Take Me Home.
The heavy weights contingent includes Taylor Swift, The Beatles, The Avett Brothers, and The Kinks.
And that’s not all.
Tracklist:
01: The Kiboomers – Ladybugs Fly
02: Taylor Swift – invisible string
03: The Kind Hills – Dance, Dance, Dance
04: Silly Boy Blue – Again and Again and Again
05: Saint Etienne – Who Do You Think You Are
06: Belle & Sebastian – Seeing Other People
07: The Beach Boys – Spring Vacation
08: Fleet Floxes – Sun It Rises
09: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau sings
Schubert’s Frühlingsglaube, D. 686
10: Gifthorse – Stranger Baby
11: The Beatles – Octopus Garden (Remastered 2009)
12: Dean & Britta – Eyes In My Smoke
13: The Avett Brothers – A Fathers First Spring
14: Saint Sappho – Whole Again
15: Test Department with the South Wales Striking Miners Choir – Take Me Home
16: The Kinks – Sunny Afternoon
17: Rita Braga – Rua do Capelão
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