or more information on the music, please e-mail me at rodney@isles.fm or rodney.collins@offshoremusicradio.com or fax me on 08716619278. You can also send a text or voicemail message to 02031372667 (outside UK - +442031372667)

Playlist w/c February 07 (UK labels where available)

Gotta Have Something in the Bank Frank/Frankie Vaughan and the Kaye Sisters (Philips, 1957)

Walk Don’t Run/Ventures (Top Rank, 1960)

True Love Ways/Buddy Holly (Coral, 1960 now part of Universal’s boxed set ‘Not Fade Away’ – see CD list below)

Yes my Darling Daughter/Eydie Gorme (CBS, 1962)

Dont Talk To Him/Cliff Richard & the Shadows (Columbia, 1963)

You’ve Got Your Troubles/Fortunes (Decca, 1965)

Sun Aint Gonna Shine Anymore/Walker Brothers (Philips, 1966)

Let the Heartaches Begin/Long John Baldry (Pye, 1967)

There’s a Kind of Hush/Herman’s Hermits (Columbia, 1967)

Crystal Ball/Twice as Much (Immediate, 1967)

Morning Please Don’t Come/Dusty & Tom Springfield (Decca, from the 1969 LP ‘Love’s Philosophy’)

Rainbow Chaser/Nirvana (Island, 1968)

(If Paradise was) Half as Nice/Amen Corner (Immediate, 1969)

In a Broken Dream/Python Lee Jackson (Young Blood, 1972 but recorded two years earlier, featuring Rod Stewart on lead vocals)

Mary in the Morning/P J Proby (Ember, 1973 from the LP ‘I’m Yours’ now available again on Fantastic Voyage – see CD list below)

Finders Keepers/Soul Children (Epic, 1975 now part of a Shout CD ‘There’s Always The Soul Children’ – see our CD list below)

Rockestra Theme/Duane Eddy & Paul McCartney (Capitol, 1987)

HAVE YOU HEARD THIS ONE: Only Sixteen/Al Saxon (Fontana, 1959)

Check out these CD’s & books:

A new Sinatra release is now with us from Reprise with a collection of ‘live’ performances over several decades…our plays started last week. The 4-CD and DVD set includes excerpts from live concerts in New York from the 50’s to the early 90’s, never issued before. He was never better than in front of a live audience as this set shows. This isn’t cheap (over £60) but worth it. And Cherry Red Records have Randy Edelman’s classic ‘Farewell Fairbanks’ album released on CD. We’re featuring a track this week - the CD features the 70’s hits ‘Concrete & Clay’, ‘Uptown Uptempo Woman’ and ‘Fresh Outa Love’. It includes new liner notes from the man himself. We’ve received a lot of enquiries about Lhasa’s album from Warners who have given us the very sad news that Lhasa has died after a 21-month battle against cancer.  Lhasa and an earlier album are available from Warner Classics & Jazz.

EMI Gold have the finest collection yet for Cilla Black. It includes all the hits, some that should have been and weren’t, plus album tracks and a DVD as well. Well-packaged and with a note from Sir George Martin who was reponsible for producing nearly all of Cilla’s successes in the 60’s and 70’s. And from Reprise a mention for the Very Best of Fleetwood Mac. It’s already sold well, charting for weeks, with tracks like ‘Dont Stop’, ‘Go Your Own Way’ and ‘Rhiannon’. We’re featuring tracks this month.

Go to Zone Records’s home page where you will find the Richard Harris CD ‘My Boy’. ‘MacArthur Park’ may have been his best single - but this Zone CD (originally issued on Probe in the UK) was certainly his best album. It’s worth it for the title track alone. Order this and other Zone releases from artists like Petula Clark, Jackie Trent and Rod McKuen from http://www.zonerecordsltd.com/ and look for the Doris Day double-CD below that we feature on air regularly. Superb radio cuts from the peak of her career and plenty of information about the original recordings as well. You can order product direct from: P O Box 203, Cobham, Surrey KT11 2UG.

Two original Epic albums from the 70’s Soul Children are combined onto one Shout Records CD. ‘Finders Keepers’ and ‘Where Is Your Woman Tonight’ feature some great tracks - mid 70’s soul at its best. It’s on our playlist this week. Check out this and Shout’s other releases at www.shoutrecords.co.uk

Also, worth seeking out is a Matt Monro CD from Night Owl Music. It’s distributed by RSK and available from outlets such as Amazon, HMV etc and it features one of Sinatra’s favourite singers at his very best. There’s a lot of interest in Matt’s music right now - Michelle, his daughter, appeared on BBC TV recently to promote a new book. He really was one of the UK’s finest singers.

Now for details of an autobiography, written by Jeffrey Kruger, whose career has spanned six decades as a concert promoter, club owner, record company chief executive and film distributor. His book ‘ Angels and Assholes - My Life With The Stars’ is available now. In the book, Jeffrey Kruger gives you a fascinating insight into names like Sinatra, Julio Iglesias, Noel Coward, Billie Holiday, Jimi Hendrix, Chuck Berry, Johnny Cash, Jack Benny and dozens more. Available in lavish hardback, the book will cost £35 (to include secure recorded delivery). Make your cheque out to: MOVIE GEMS LTD and mail it to PO BOX 130, HOVE, EAST SUSSEX BN36QU.

Back to the CD’s and from Fantastic Voyage comes ‘Looking Towards The Sky’ which is the latest in the collection of Ember re-issues. This one features progressive, phsychedelic and folk rock tracks, some of them unavailable for years, including Blonde on Blonde and 9.30 Fly. The same label, by the way, offers the P J Proby re-issue ‘I’m Yours’ which is on our playlist this week.

And lastly a mention for the Buddy Holly 6-CD set ‘Not Fade Away - The Complete Studio Recordings And More’ from Universal. We play tracks this week and like most of these boxed sets, this doesn’t come cheap. But it is very comprehensive, offering different versions of songs taken from original sessions as well as versions issued on singles or LP’s. Unfortunately, I’ve been working from advance copies that don’t give you all of the track information - for that you have to buy the set!

Our weekly regular programmes are broadcast over OMR:- Sundays 1200 - 1320 Wednesdays 1300 - 1420 Thursdays 2000 - 2120 Saturdays 0800 - 0920 Isles FM to the Highlands and Islands of Scotland:- Mondays 1005 - 1130 Wednesdays 1400 - 1520 Thursdays 0000 - 0130 and you can now tune into Isles FM on the web - go to www.isles.fm Our programmes are also broadcast at www.replayradio.net on Sundays 1400 - 1520 ALL times are GMT Rodney Collins has worked in the media since the mid 1960’s and was responsible for Record Mirror’s coverage of the pirate radio stations for Billboard inc until 1970 when he joined the management at ATV, Stoll Moss Theatres and Pye Records. He later moved to BBC Radios 1 & 2 as Publicity and Presentation Officer then onto Radio Luxembourg as Director of News Programming. At RTL he did the first Eurovision television interview with Margaret Thatcher, shown throughout Europe. He’s also worked as Managing Director of several local radio stations in the British Isles. See http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/1790935.stm and http://www.bridlingtonfreepress.co.uk/news/Broadcasting-to-the-world-.3702707.jp Since 2000, he has operated small hotels with his wife and daughter (currently Radcliffe House in Bridlington) while continuing to broadcast and produce music CD’s. If you are interested in staying with the Collins family, see www.theradcliffeguesthouse.co.uk and, if they can’t fix you up, they will suggest other B&B’s or hotels nearby! And if you are planning meetings or conferences, contact us via our web-page and see how they can help.

Published Saturday, February 06, 2010

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