Rodney Collins.

                                                

PLAYLIST FROM DECEMBER 07

Travelling Home/Vera Lynn (Decca, 1957)

Nice n Easy/Frank Sinatra (Capitol, 1960)

Halfway to Paradise/Billy Fury (Decca, 1961)

FILM THEME: Whistle down the Wind from film soundtrack, 1961)

Wheels/Billy Vaughn (Dot-US, 1961)

Please don't ask about Barbara/Bobby Vee (Liberty-US, 1962)

March of the Siamese Children/Kenny Ball (Pye Jazz, 1962)

Old Rivers/Walter Brennan & Johnny Mann Singers (Liberty, 1962)

Fanlight Fanny/Clinton Ford & George Chisholm Allstars (Oriole, 1962)

It's love that really Counts/Merseybeats (Fontana, 1963)

So many Ways/Julie Grant (Pye, 1963)

Diamonds/Jet Harris &Tony Meehan (Decca, 1963)

I'll keep you Satisfied/Billy J Kramer & Dakotas (Parlophone, 1963)

Don't throw your love Away/Searchers (Pye, 1964)

Maggie's Farm/Bob Dylan (CBS, 1965)

Wake up my Mind/Uglys (Pye, 1965)
Come back when you grow Up/Bobby Vee (Liberty, 1967)

Is this what I get for loving you Baby/Marianne Faithfull (Decca, 1967)
Goin Back/The Byrds (CBS, 1968)

Dirty old Town/Roger Whittaker (Columbia, 1969 from the LP 'This is.....')

SHOW TUNE: My personal Property/Shirley Maclaine (MCA, 1969 from 'Sweet Charity')

When Julie comes Around/CuffLinks (MCA, 1969)
In the Ghetto/Elvis Presley (RCA, 1969)

It's Impossible/Perry Como (RCA,1970)

She lets her hair down (early in the Morning)/Gene Pitney (Pye International, 1971 see below)

Bridge over troubled Water/Aretha Franklin (Atlantic, 1971)

If you could read my Mind/Vikki Carr (CBS, 1971 from the LP 'Love Story')

Nothing Rhymed/Gilbert O'Sullivan (MAM, 1971)

Something old something New/Fantastics (Bell, 1971)

The Baby/The Hollies (Polydor, 1972)

Could it be Forever/David Cassidy (Bell, 1972 from the LP 'Cherish')

HAVE YOU HEARD THIS ONE: Will you still love me Tomorrow/Carol Woods (Ember, 1972 revival of the Shirelles hit - from the LP 'Out Of The Woods' )

Angel Eyes/Alan Price (WB, 1974 from 'Between Today And Yesterday' see below)

Winter/The Fall (from John Peel sessions,1981 now on 'The Fall 1982')

Becoming/John Howard (You Are The Cosmos, 2019 from the CD 'Cut The Wire')

Are you a Gene Pitney fan? - he's in the show this week but we have a weekly one-hour programme 'Gene Pitney And Friends' on twelve radio stations (see the list of the main stations below).  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.

Jasmine Records have issued a Carole King CD (see below). She may have regarded herself as a songwriter in the early years but there were a few hits along the way - including the million-seller 'It Might As Well Rain Until September'. This includes a demo of 'Take Good Care Of My Baby' - a hit for Bobby Vee. Also, from the same label comes a collection of the early hits from Kenny Ball - and there were a lot of them! 'Singles Collection 1960-1962' is out now. See http://www.jasmine-records.co.uk/store/ for more information.
Esoteric Records have re-issued the Alan Price album 'Between Today and Yesterday' - on the playlist this week. First issued in 1974 this includes the excellent 'Jarrow Song' and now features some bonus tracks including the single version of 'In Times Like These'.

Warners have issued on CD the Miles Davis set 'Rubberband' recorded in the 1908s but not released until now. Really good album - we featured a track last week.

A new CD comes from Ace Records - 'LIVE IT UP - BAYSWATER BEAT GIRLS 1964-1967'. The Bayswater reference  is there because this was the HQ for the Philips Records Group in the 60s and this CD celebrates with offerings from Dusty Springfield, Kiki Dee, Susan Maughan, the Caravelles, Marilyn Powell and even Diana Dors. Includes some hard-to-find tracks, too. 

                                                            

Our show is broadcast (GMT) on  ABC Oldies- http://www.abcoldiesradio.uk/ - on Saturdays at 0700, Sundays at Midday, Wednesdays at 1300 and Thursdays at 0200 & 2000. Then we are on Isles FM - http://www.islesfm.com/- 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 - at 0900 Wednesday, see https://soulbeat-radio.com/home     for more about the station.  There are two new stations with us on Sundays; first there is 80's And More - https://80sandmore.net/ . Then there is Kalypso Gold - see https://internetradiouk.com/#kalypso-gold at 1700 Sunday with a repeat on Thursday at 2000. 
Now to  Wigan FM Gold  - go to http://wiganfm.com/ -  you can hear the show on Saturday at 0800 (just after Gene Pitney & Friends),  Monday and Friday at 1600, Tuesday at 2200, Wednesday at 1400 and Thursday at 2300. Then we have  WNR - West Norfolk Radio  play the show on Mondays at 1900, Tuesday at 0100 and on Thursdays at 1300.  Find them at http://www,westnorfolkradio.co.uk and Vulcan Sound Radio on Wednesdays at 1900 - http://www.vulcansoundradio.com/.  Bullseye Radio based in the US play the programme on Saturday at 1900 - https://tunein.com/radio/BullsEye-Radio-s116511/ . This station is licensed by BMI-ASCAP, but the broadcast may not be available in certain territories. 


The Gene Pitney & Friends Show is broadcast as follows - 
https://www.perfectunefm.com/ on Saturday at 2100 (local time Connecticut)  - this broadcast is available world-wide as are all of those listed below. 
http://www.abcoldiesradio.uk/listen-live/ Monday night into Tuesday morning Midnight until 0100 and 0300 Friday
https://internetradiouk.com/#kalypso-gold Tuesdays and Fridays at 2000
http://www.islesfm.com/   at 2100 on Tuesday & 2300 Friday
http://www.westnorfolkradio.co.uk/  on Tuesday at 1500 & Wednesday at 0100  
http://wiganfm.com/ on Monday at Midday and Saturday at 0700. You can also hear GENE PITNEY - 

FROM THE ARCHIVES on Wednesday at Midday and Saturday at 1900 on WIGAM FM and on KALYPSO GOLD on Sunday at 0900 and Thursday at 1900

All of our programmes are produced on a free-to-air basis. The programme information above excludes dozens of other stations that also broadcast our programmes, without any formal agreement. We also broadcast RADIO OUTREACH on many radio stations world-wide and also represent RISE AND SHINE a breakfast show presented by Peter Haynes and produced by Wigan FM for various stations world-wide. For more information please contact Radio Services by e-mail - rodneyrs@btinternet.com or send a message to our Radio Services Page on Facebook. Same address please for enquiries about RADIO OUTREACH. For requests for our shows  - rodney.collins@gmail.com

I have been in the media business now for more than 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 now Chairman of Isles FM and a Board consultant to another. In 2002 we had a world exclusive on Frank Sinatra on Isles FM - see http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/1790935.stm