For more information on the music, please e-mail me at rodney@isles.fm or rodney.collins@offshoremusicradio.com or fax me on 08716619278.

Playlist w/c August 29 (UK labels where available)

Russian Love Song/The Goons (Parlophone, 1957)

Sweet Nuthings/Brenda Lee (Brunswick, 1960)

Her Royal Majesty/James Darren (Pye International, 1962)

Don’t Make Me Over/Swinging Blue Jeans (HMV, 1965)

You’re Following Me/Peter Gordeno (60’s recording, date unknown)

Love Letters/Elvis Presley (RCA, 1966)

A Fool in Love/Ike & Tina Turner (London, 1966)

Ride on Baby/Chris Farlowe (Immediate, 1966)

Jackie/Scott Walker (Philips, 1967)

Galveston/Glen Campbell (Ember, 1969)

Lola/Kinks (Pye, 1970)

Knockin on Heaven Door/Eric Clapton (RSO, 1975)

Canadian Sunset/Sounds of Sunset (Crystal, 1975)

Words Don’t Say Enough/7^th Wonder (Parachute, 1978)

Baby M’s Bayou Blue/Mark Whitfield (Warners, 1996 from the CD ‘Patrice’)

What Will you Do/Mike & the Mechanics (Virgin, 1999)

The Curtain Falls/Bobby Darin (Capitol, 2005 but recorded live in Las Vegas in 1963 and never released at the time)

The Songs I Sing/Marilyn Powell (Mima Records, recent release see http://www.marilynpowell.co.uk )

Something Good/John Howard (recent release – see http://www.kidinabigworld.co.uk )

Have You Heard This One? My Colouring Book/Sandy Stewart (Colpix-US, 1962 later identified with Dusty Springfield)

A new DVD from Dusty Springfield through Zone Records features the singer in Germany with the country’s entry for the 1970 Montreus TV Festival. Here you have Dusty at her very best with ‘Son Of A Preacher Man’, ‘I Close My Eyes And Count To Ten’ and many other hits. Price is UK: 16.99   Europe: £17.49   Rest of the world: £18.49

All cheques/postal orders etc should be made payable to Dusty Springfield Bulletin and sent to P O Box 203, Cobham, Surrey KT11 2UG.  PayPal payments should be made to dustybulletin@aol.com

And EMI offers a superb CD from the multi-talented Stacey Kent titled ‘Raconte-Moi’. I tell you this is an excellent set, with 12 new recordings - listen for tracks on our programmes.

EMI Gold have ‘Heartbeat’ by Hank Marvin re-issued right now. Cliff Richard helps out on the vocals and the CD includes an excellent version of  ‘Wonderful Land’ with Mark Knopfler. From the same label comes ‘Pennies From Heaven’ with music from the BBC-TV series including a track from Betty Driver, still starring in ITV’s ‘Coronation Street’ at the age of 90! Listen out for tracks soon.  And from Rhino/Warners a mention for Peter Paul and Mary’s CD with the Prague Symphony Orchestra. All the classics are here like ‘Leaving on a Jet Plane’, ‘Where Have All the Flowers Gone’ and ‘Puff the Magic Dragon’ on this album.  This release is a must for fans old and new.

Snapper Records ‘Complete Rock ‘n’ Roll Series’ has some new releases by Brenda Lee, Chuck Berry (on our playlist this week) and Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers. ‘Why Do Fools Fall in Love’ contains the UK and US hits including ‘Baby Baby’. Great value CD’s, these,  with more than 20 tracks a time.

Looking at Shout Records releases, check out Brenda and the Tabulations release, available now. We’re playing tracks this month. And from Cherry Red comes a Dion release that’s out-selling many others right now. When Dion bounced back in 1968 with tracks like ‘Abraham, Martin and John’ for Laurie Records (London in the UK), Columbia in the States dusted off some mid60’s recordings. Cherry Red now re-issues the set as ‘Wonder Where I am Bound’ and it’s worth the price of the CD for his version of Dylan’s ‘It’s All Over Now Baby Blue’. An outstanding release, this!

Florence Halfon at Warners had been working with Charlie Gillett for some years on his ‘Sound of the World’ series when Charlie died this Spring. The latest double-CD has now been released, though, and in many respects it is a doubly-sad event as the release was first to be dedicated to the beautiful Lhasa, who died at the beginning of the year. Still, for all of that, it doesn’t detract from the music and what is a superb release. A must for world music fans, it’s titled ‘Anywhere On This Road’

And lastly a mention for the wonderful Elkie Brooks, celebrating 50 years in the business, with four CD releases. One, a double-CD on Universal is titled ‘Sunshine After The Rain - The Collection’. All the hits are here from the A&M, Island and Decca days such as ‘Pearl’s A Singer’ and ‘Lilac Wine’ - another release from Elkie is a new album ‘Powerless’ released by EMP and this includes top-quality versions of songs like ‘Purple Rain’. Then there are two releases of her early albums, two LPs on each CD on Universal’s Spectrum label.

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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.

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Published Saturday, August 28 2010

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