PLAYLIST FROM NOVEMBER 17
Little bitty pretty One/Bobby Day & Satellites (HMV, 1957)
It's
all in the Game/Tommy Edwards (MGM,1958)
Happy
birthday sweet 16/Neil Sedaka (RCA, 1961)
Moon
River/Andy Williams (Columbia-US,1962)
Hole
in the Ground/Bernard Cribbins (Parlophone,1962)
Pianissimo/Ken
Dodd (Decca, 1962 see below)
Softly
as in a morning Sunrise/Jimmy Justice (Pye, 1962 from the LP 'The Two
Sides Of..' see below)
Green
leaves of Summer/Kenny Ball (Pye, 1962)
Geronimo/The
Shadows (Columbia, 1963)
Too
many Teardrops/Charlie Rich (RCA, 1964)
California
Girls/Beach Boys (Capitol, 1965)
Greenback
Dollar/Barry McGuire (Ember, 1966 but recorded earlier)
98.6/Keith
(Mercury, 1967)
Detroit
City/Tom Jones (Decca, 1967)
Amsterdam/Scott
Walker (Philips, 1967)
Like
an old time Movie/Scott McKenzie (CBS, 1967)
From
the Underworld/Herd (Fontana, 1967)
Jennifer
Juniper/Donovan (Pye, 1968)
Something
in the Air/Thunderclap Newman (Track, 1969)
My
cherie Amour/.Stevie Wonder (Tamla Motown, 1969)
HAVE
YOU HEARD THIS ONE: MacArthur Park/Long John Baldry (Pye, 1969 from
the LP 'Wait For Me' this was a transatlantic hit for Richard Harris)
You
got Soul/Johnny Nash (Major Minor, 1969)
Doin
the best I Can/Paddy Maguire (Ember,1070)
Me
and my Life/Tremeloes (CBS, 1970)
Long
and winding Road/Beatles (Apple, 1970)
Turn
your radio On/Ray Stevens (Barnaby-US, 1971)
Yesterday
when I was Young/Roy Clark (Ember, 1974 see below)
Walkin
in Rhythm/Blackbyrds (Fantasy-US, 1974)
Avalon/Roxy
Music (E'G,1982)
Didn't
we have it All/Whitney Houston (Arista, 1987 from the CD 'Whitney')
Saving
my Heart/Yes (Arista, 1991 from the CD 'Union')
Old
Friend/Lena Horne (Blue Note-US, 1994)
O
Shenandoah/Chris Cleverley (2015 from the CD 'Apparitions' – see
www.chriscleverley.com )
opening
theme is Canadian Sunset by Sounds of Sunset (Crystal Records) ;
closing theme is Man of Mystery by Steve Stannard (Embassy Records); we are sorry to say our programmes are NOT currently running on the Replay Radio network.We would also like to say this week's show was recorded before the sad death this week of the country singer Roy Clark
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.
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 featured one of his tracks this week.
Really good set from the Monkees issued by Rhino. All nine albums from 'Meet The Monkees' through to 'Changes' in 1970 - plays started this month - all CD's in the original sleeves, too. And there's a bonus CD, too, with later recordings.
And just below an imported release from the Crazy World of Arthur Brown - a set of 3CD's and an LP including, of course, their number one - 'Fire'. Expect to pay around £45 for this set.
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 featured one of his tracks this week.
Really good set from the Monkees issued by Rhino. All nine albums from 'Meet The Monkees' through to 'Changes' in 1970 - plays started this month - all CD's in the original sleeves, too. And there's a bonus CD, too, with later recordings.
And just below an imported release from the Crazy World of Arthur Brown - a set of 3CD's and an LP including, of course, their number one - 'Fire'. Expect to pay around £45 for this set.
The early hits from Ken Dodd are featured on a new CD from Jasmine. This contains his Decca releases and some of the early Columbia recordings with Norman Newell. Plays on this release start this week.
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.
Our show is now broadcast (GMT except where shown) 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 http://www.wrfn-uk-gold.uk/ 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 Vulcan Sound Radio on Wednesdays at 1900 -http://www.vulcansoundradio.co.uk/. Bullseye Radio based in Texas, US play the programme 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 (GMT except where shown) 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**
http://www.wrfn-uk-gold.uk/ on Monday at 0600, Tuesday at 1900 and Thursday at 2000. Also, the Archive show is broadcast Saturday at 2000 and Tuesday at Midday
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
www.westnorfolkradio.co.uk on Wednesday at 0100
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
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 on the Board of Directors of one FM station 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 or http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/sinatras-carousel-song-gets-airplay-after-14-years-671738.html
