PLAYLIST FROM SEPTEMBER 15
Cumberland
Gap/Lonnie Donegan (Pye Nixa, 1958)
Til
I kissed You/Everly Brothers (London, 1959)
Don't
feel sorry for Me/Jimmy Ruffin (Miracle, 1961)
Speedy
Gonzales/Pat Boone (London, 1962)
Fanlight
Fanny/Clinton Ford (Oriole, 1962)
Looking
out the Window/Cliff Richard & Norrie Paramor Orchestra
(Columbia, 1962)
I'm
a lucky Guy/Mark Wynter (Pye, 1963)
How
did he Look/Lita Roza (Ember, 1963 from 'Love Songs For Night
People')
Hold
Me/ P J Proby (Decca, 1964)
You've
lost that loving Feelin/Righteous Brothers (London, 1964)
Softly
as I leave You/Lena Horne (Liberty, 1965)
Wonderful
World/Otis Redding (Atlantic, 1965 from the album 'Otis Blue')
You've
got your Troubles/Fortunes (Decca, 1965)
Sun
aint gonna shine Anymore/Walker Brothers (Philips, 1966)
Just
say Goodbye/Petula Clark (Pye, 1966)
A
little bit me a little bit You/Monkees (RCA, 1967)
Tiny
Goddess/Nirvana (Island, 1968)
I
close my eyes and count to Ten/Dusty Springfield (Philips, 1968)
This
wheels on Fire/Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger and Trinity
(Marmalade,1968)
Waiting
on the shores to Nowhere/Helen Shapiro (Pye, 1970)
Oh
you pretty Things/Peter Noone (RAK, 1971)
Without
You/Nilsson (RCA, 1971)
Man
who sold the World/Lulu (Chelsea, 1974)
Air
that I Breathe/Hollies (Polydor, 1974)
Barbados/Typically
Tropical (Gull, 1975)
Everybody's
Talkin/George Duke (Sony, 1979)
Saturday
Nite/Earth Wind & Fire (CBS,1977)
Without
You/Three Degrees (Ariola, 1980)
Red
rose Cafe/Fureys (Rritz, 1987)
Lock
keep's Daughter/Neil Cousin (Oilbug Music from the CD 'Dreams of
Animals – http://www.neilcousin.com/
)
Cried out Blues/The Cruisers ( see
http://www.cruiserbluesband.co.uk/
)
(opening
theme is Bondage by Opus 1 ; closing theme is Man of Mystery by Steve
Stannard)
Are you a Gene Pitney fan? - he's in the show most weeks but we have a weekly one-hour programme 'Gene Pitney And Friends' on twelve radio stations(ten in the UK). We started this month on a local station in Gene's home-state of Connecticut - see details below and since then two further stations have joined us - West Norfolk Radio and Serenity Sound Radio. A Facebook page has been set up to support the programme, take requests and for information on the artist you won't find published elsewhere. It's a closed group so you need to apply to join The Gene Pitney Show.
From a new label to me, SFE, comes a clutch of Cilla Black releases. I think the best of the bunch offers Cilla's 1969 'Surround Yourself With Cilla' LP and the mid-70's release 'It Makes Me Feel Good'. The liner notes include a 2009 interview with Cilla, too. And watch out for the Cilla release in November, too, featuring Cliff Richard and others.
Jasmine Records have a great new Jimmy Justice CD. Although he only had a handful of UK hits he made some great singles over a four year period for Pye...most of them collected here together with really good album tracks from the day. Really popular on the programme, we play his tracks regularly.
Really good set from the Monkees issued by Rhino. All nine albums from 'Meet The Monkees' through to 'Changes' in 1970 - plays start this month - all CD's in the original sleeves, too. And there's a bonus CD, too, with later recordings.
From a new label to me, SFE, comes a clutch of Cilla Black releases. I think the best of the bunch offers Cilla's 1969 'Surround Yourself With Cilla' LP and the mid-70's release 'It Makes Me Feel Good'. The liner notes include a 2009 interview with Cilla, too. And watch out for the Cilla release in November, too, featuring Cliff Richard and others.
Jasmine Records have a great new Jimmy Justice CD. Although he only had a handful of UK hits he made some great singles over a four year period for Pye...most of them collected here together with really good album tracks from the day. Really popular on the programme, we play his tracks regularly.
Really good set from the Monkees issued by Rhino. All nine albums from 'Meet The Monkees' through to 'Changes' in 1970 - plays start this month - all CD's in the original sleeves, too. And there's a bonus CD, too, with later recordings.
A while back, ZONE RECORDS issued a double CD of a classic Rod McKuen London concert and now there is a second release containing tracks from his BBC-TV series in the early 1970's. The liner notes tell the story behind the TV specials. This is a superb collection.
An interesting release from Millie Jackson featuring her Spring Records sides - 'Exposed'. Now these tracks have been re-mixed but they sound pretty good to us, on the playlist pretty regularly.
I always look forward to the CD compilations from ACE RECORDS as well and they always bring surprises. 'Baby I've Got It - More Motown Girls' contains many tracks being made available for the first time, including Gladys Knight & The Pips, the Marvelettes and Kim Weston.
A new radio station broadcasts our show from October 03, Vulcan Sound Radio - full details will appear here in the coming days. Our show is now broadcast (BST) here on ABC Oldies on Saturdays at 0700, Sundays at Midday, Wednesdays at 1300 and Thursdays at 2000. Then we are on Isles FM - www.isles.fm - on Monday mornings at 1000 and Thursday afternoons and there's a mid-week overnight broadcast as well.You can hear the programme on Miskin Radio - http://www.miskinradio.co.uk/ - each Saturday at 1800. There is then Soul Beat Radio - after 0900 Tuesdays, see http://www.soulbeat-radio.com/ for more about the station. The show is also broadcast on Replay Radio - http://www.replayradio.org Sunday at 0900, Tuesday at 0600, Wednesday at 1600 and Friday at 1300;we also have Replay Radio Plus - a new station for us - on Tuesday at 0800 and Thursday at 2100 - http://replayradiorock.net/ .The programme is also heard on WRFN UK GOLD - go to https://www.ukonlineradio.com/wrfn-uk-gold-radio - at Midday on Mondays and repeated on Sundays at 1600. WRFN broadcast the show on Sundays at 0900, Tuesdays at Midday and overnight Thursdays at Midnight at http:///www,wrfn1025.org . Now to Wigan FM - go to http://wiganfm.com/ - this station broadcasts the programme on Tuesdays and Fridays at 2000, but from September 19 the Tuesday evening broadcast moves to Wednesday at Midday. WNR - West Norfolk Radio play the show on Mondays at 1900 and on Thursdays at 1300. Find them at http://www,westnorfolkradio.co.uk . Then we have Serenity Sound Radio on Sundays at 1000 - http://www.serenitysoundradio.com/ and Bullseye Radio based in Texas, US on Fridays local time at 1900 - http://bullseyeradio.com/tune. This station is licensed in the US by BMI-ASCAP.
The Gene Pitney Show is broadcast (BST) as follows -
www.replayradio.org at Sunday at 0800 and Wednesday at 1800
https://www.perfectunefm.com/ on Saturday 2100 local time in Connecticut **NEW**
https://www.ukonlineradio.com/wrfn-uk-gold-radio on Monday at 0600, Tuesday at 1900 and Thursday at 2000
http://www.abcoldies.com Monday night into Tuesday morning Midnight until 0100
http://www.isles.fm/ at 2100 on Tuesday & 2300 Friday
http://www.serenitysoundradio.com/ on Tuesday at 1800
http://www.westnorfolkradio.co.uk/ on Wednesday at 0100
https://replayradiorock.net/ REPLAY PLUS **NEW* STATION on Tuesday at 1000 and Thursday at 2300
http://wiganfm.com/ on Monday at 2300
https://www.ukonlineradio.com/wrfn-uk-gold-radio with the ARCHIVE SHOW on Saturdays at 2000 and Tuesdays at Midday
I have been in the media business now for 50 years starting out with local newspapers in Surrey and then Record Mirror and Music Week, part of the Billboard group. I then joined Pye Records/ATV and Stoll-Moss Theatres at the end of the 60’s. In 1971 I moved to BBC Radios 1 & 2 in the early 70’s and then worked for Radio Luxembourg/Atlantic 252 in a management capacity and then ran local commercial stations in Glasgow, London and the Isles of Man and Lewis. My programme is currently broadcast by a mix of FM and internet stations and I am a consultant to the Board of two FM radio stations. In 2002 we had a world exclusive on Frank Sinatra on Isles FM - see http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/1790935.stm or http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/sinatras-carousel-song-gets-airplay-after-14-years-671738.html
