THE WEEKEND SHOW WITH RODNEY COLLINS
Passing
Strangers/Sarah Vaughan and Billy Eckstine (Mercury, 1957)
I remember
You/Frank Ifield (Columbia, 1962)
Diamonds/Jet
Harris & Tony Meehan (Decca, 1963 – not Sine FM or Isles FM)
Juliet/The
Four Pennies (Philips, 1964)
Sound of
Silence/Simon and Garfunkel (Columbia-US, 1964)
Sitting in
the Park/Georgie Fame (Columbia, 1966)
More than
Love/Ken Dodd (Columbia, 1966)
Even the bad
times are Good/Tremeloes (CBS, 1967)
Twin Spin –
Des O’Connor: Danny Boy & 1-2-3 O’leary (Columbia 1967/69)
Waterloo
Sunset/The Kinks (Pye, 1967)
When will the
good apples Fall/The Seekers (Columbia, 1967)
Round
Round/Jonathan King (Decca, 1967)
With pen in
Hand/Vikki Carr (Liberty, 1968)
Spooky/Classics
IV (Imperial-US, 1968)
Didn’t I blow
your mind this Time/Delfonics (Bell, 1969)
Bringing on
back the good Times/Love Affair (CBS, 1969)
Way of
Life/Family Dogg (Bell, 1969)
Man of
Action/Les Reed Orchestra (Chapter One, 1970)
Follow your
Heart/Joe Farrell (CTI, 1970)
All I ever
need is You/Ray Charles (Probe, 1971)
MacArthur
Park/Buddy Greco (Pye, 1972)
Disney Girls/Cass
Elliot (RCA, 1972)
My girl
Bill/Jim Stafford (MGM, 1974)
Take good
care of yourself/Three Degrees (Philly Int’l, 1975)
Love really
hurts without You/Billy Ocean (GTO, 1976)
Sultans of
Swing/Dire Straits (Vertigo, 1978)
Dancing in
the Street/Mick Jagger & David Bowie (EMI America, 1985 – Sine FM &
Isles FM only)
Just the
lonely talking Again/Whitney Houston (Arista, 1987)
Don’t
Worry/Kim Appleby (Parlophone, 1991)
I started a
Joke/Faith No More (Slash, 1995)
Farewell/Don
McLean (NMC, 2002)
Opportunity
to Cry/Tom Jones (Virgin, 2019 NEW)
SINE FM – SATURDAY 0700-0900 https://www.sinefm.com/ Please note this programme is available all week on the station's listen again feature; now also on DAB
ABC OLDIES SATURDAY 0800-1000 http://www.abcoldies.com/
ISLES FM SATURDAY 1100-1300 www.islesfm.com
ABC OLDIES SUNDAY 1200-1400 http://www.abcoldies.com/
WEST NORFOLK RADIO SUNDAY 1600-1800 http://www.westnorfolkradio.co.uk/
COUNTYWIDE RADIO SUNDAY 1600-1800 https://countywideradio.com/
ISLANDS FM SUNDAY 1900-2100 https://www.mnbpresentations.co.uk/
SUNSHINE RADIO ONLINE SUNDAY 1900-2100 https://sunshineradioonline.co.uk/
(only stations receivable in the UK are listed above)
RODNEY ON THE RADIO
True Love/Elvis Presley (Sun, 1957)
At Last/Etta
James (Argo-US, 1960)
Big beat
Boogie/Bert Weedon (Top Rank, 1960)
TWIN SPIN – Gene
McDaniels: A Tear & Portrait of my Love (Liberty-Capitol, 1961)
When my little
girl is Smiling/Craig Douglas (Top Rank, 1962)
Stranger in my
Arms/The Cookies (Dimension-US, 1962)
Hit Record/Tommy
Steele (Decca, 1962)
TWIN SPIN –
Eydie Gorme: Blame it on the Bossa Nova & Round Midnight/(Columbia-US, 1963/Applause-US,
1984)
Glad all
Over/Dave Clark Five (Columbia, 1963)
Here I go
Again/Hollies (Parlophone, 1964)
Hello
Dolly/Frankie Vaughan (Philips, 1964)
Dionne Warwick
feature – Walk on By-Always something there to remind Me-Do you know the way to
San Jose (Scepter-US (1964/68)
Better use your
Head/Mel Torme (Columbia-US, 1966)
Flowers in the
Rain/The Move (Regal Zonophone, 1967)
Eloise/Barry
Ryan (MGM, 1968)
Gotta get a
message to You/Bee Gees (Polydor, 1968)
Black
Pearl/Sonny Charles and Checkmates (A&M, 1969)
Stand by your
Man/Candi Staton (Capitol-Germany, 1971)
Any dream will
Do/Max Bygraves (Pye, 1971)
Ain’t no
mountain high Enough/Vikki Carr (CBS, 1971)
Could it be I’m
falling in Love/Detroit Spinners (Atlantic, 1972)
Just don’t want
to be Lonely/Marlena Shaw (Blue Note-US, 1973)
Something ‘but
you baby I Like/Tom Jones (Decca, 1974)
Best thing that
ever happened to Me/Gladys Knight & The Pips (Buddah, 1974)
Be thankful for
what you’ve Got/William de Vaughn (Roxbury-US, 1974)
Lean on Me/Mud
(Private Stock, 1976)
Jealous Guy/Roxy
Music (Polydor, 1981)
I want to know
what love Is/Foreigner (Atlantic, 1984)
Sacrifice/Elton
John (Rocket, 1989)
Loch-keepers Daughter/Neil Cousin (OilBug, NEW from the CD ‘Dreams Of Animals’)
COUNTYWIDE RADIO SATURDAY 1100-1300 https://countywideradio.com/
ISLES FM MONDAY 1000-1200 www.islesfm.com
WEST NORFOLK RADIO MONDAY 1900-2100 http://www.westnorfolkradio.co.uk/
WEST NORFOLK RADIO TUESDAY 0100-0300 http://www.westnorfolkradio.co.uk/
SOULBEAT RADIO WEDNESDAY 1000-MIDDAY www.soulbeat-radio.live
SOULBEAT RADIO WEDNESDAY 1100 - 1300 LOCAL TIME Vera/Almeria 90FM *****
KCIW, OREGON WEDNESDAY 1200 - 1400 LOCAL TIME 100.7FM https://kciw.org/
ISLANDS FM THURSDAY MIDDAY – 1400 https://www.mnbpresentations.co.uk/
ABC OLDIES WEDNESDAY 1300-1500 http://www.abcoldies.com/
SUNSHINE RADIO WEDNESDAY 1300-1500 https://sunshineradioonline.co.uk/
ABC OLDIES THURSDAY 0200-0400 http://www.abcoldies.com/
SINE FM – THURSDAY 1000-MIDDAY https://www.sinefm.com/ Please note this programme is available all week on the station's listen again feature; now also on DAB
WEST NORFOLK RADIO THURSDAY 1300-1500 http://www.westnorfolkradio.co.uk/
ISLES FM THURSDAY 1400-1600 www.islesfm.com
ABC OLDIES THURSDAY 2000-2200 http://www.abcoldies.com/
***** Not receivable in UK
SOUNDTRACK OF YOUR LIFE - PRESENTED BY COLIN STEVENS
Orange
Skies/Love
Atomic/Blondie
TWIN SPIN: Tom
Jones - Never fall in love Again & It’s not Unusual
She loves You/Beatles
Superstar/Carpenters
Flamingo/Herb
Alpert Tijuana Brass
Sympathy for
the Devil/Rolling Stones
Eleanor/Turtles
It’s my
Life/Animals
Alright/Supergrass
Evry breath you
Take/Police
Money for
Nothing/Dire Straits
America/Neil
Diamond
Don’t bring me
Down/ELO
Then he kissed Her/Beach Boys
1982 |
KCIW OREGON (US LOCAL TIME) SATURDAY 0800 - https://kciw.org/
PERFECTUNE FM (US LOCAL TIME) – SATURDAY 2100 https://www.perfectunefm.com/
PERFECTUNE FM (USA LOCAL TIME) – SUNDAY 0800 https://www.perfectunefm.com/
COUNTYWIDE RADIO SUNDAY 1100 - https://countywideradio.com/
ISLES FM – MONDAY 0600 - www.islesfm.com
ABC OLDIES – MONDAY MIDNIGHT http://www.abcoldies.com/
SINE FM – TUESDAY 1400 - Please note this programme is available all week on the station's listen again feature; now also on DAB https://www.sinefm.com/
SINE FM – TUESDAY 2100 - Please note this programme is available all week on the station's listen again feature; now also on DAB https://www.sinefm.com/
WEST NORFOLK RADIO TUESDAY 1500 http://www.westnorfolkradio.co.uk/
ISLANDS FM TUESDAY 2000 https://www.mnbpresentations.co.uk/
ISLES FM – TUESDAY 2100 - www.islesfm.com
WEST NORFOLK RADIO – WEDNESDAY 0100 http://www.westnorfolkradio.co.uk/
ABC OLDIES – WEDNESDAY 1500 http://www.abcoldies.com/
ABC OLDIES – THURSDAY 1800 http://www.abcoldies.com/
ABC OLDIES – FRIDAY 0300 http://www.abcoldies.com/
ISLANDS FM FRIDAY 1800 https://www.mnbpresentations.co.uk/
Rodney Collins has been in the media business now for more than 58 years starting out with local newspapers in Surrey and then Record Mirror and Music Week, part of the Billboard group. He then joined Pye Records/ATV and Stoll-Moss Theatres at the end of the 60’s. In 1971 he 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. The programmes above are currently broadcast by a mix of FM, DAB and internet stations. Rodney remains Chairman of Isles FM and a Board consultant to another station. In 2002 Radio Services had a world exclusive on Frank Sinatra on Isles FM - see http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/1790935.stm
