For more information on the music,please e-mail me at
rodney@isles.fm or rodney.collins@offshoremusicradio.com
Featured tracks in last weeks’ programmes:
Paper Roses/Kaye Sisters (Philips, 1960)
Tower of Strength/Frankie Vaughan (Philips, 1962)
If I Ruled the World/Harry secombe (Philips, 1963)
Bye Bye Baby/Anna King & Bobby Byrd (Philips, 1964 - SEE CD LIST BELOW)
Iko Iko/Dixie Cups (Red Bird, 1965)
Change is Gonna Come/Otis Redding (Atlantic 1965 - SEE CD LIST BELOW)
His Girl/Guess Who (King, 1965)
Like a Baby/Len Barry (Brunswick, 1966)
Elusive Butterfly/Bob Lind (Fontana, 1966)
Guantanamera/Sandpipers (Pye Int, 1966)
I’ll be Your Baby Tonight/Bobby Darin (Motown, 1969)
Family Man/John Howard (CBS, 1975 - SEE CD LIST BELOW)
Wild Side of Life/Status Quo (Vertigo, 1976)
By the Lights of Cyrian/David McWilliams (EMI, 1977)
Chasing Rainbows/Steve Larkman (Forever Records - SEE CD LIST BELOW)
Our 2-4-1 looked at two versions ‘That’s When Heartaches Are Made’ from the mid-60’s by Julie Grant and Dusty Springfield. Our Top 3 selling UK hits came from Bobby Vee - SEE CD LIST BELOW
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Current featured CD’s:
Petula Clark’s Universal CD is getting a lot of promotion right now, but equally as good is her ‘Don’t Cry For Me Argentina - the CBS Years Volume 2′. We regularly play tracks from this release as it represents some of her finest but lesser-known recordings. Go to www.zonerecordsltd.com and you can also follow the link there to find out more about the new double CD from Rod McKuen, recorded in London in the early 70’s.
Go to www.cherryred.co.uk and look for a new Eric Burdon and the Animals release on the Revola label. The album dates from the band’s MGM days and includes the hit ‘San Franciscan Nights’ and other great tracks like ‘Good Times’ and ‘Anything’. Really good packaging as well. We’re featuring a track this week.
Take time out to listen to John Howard. We’ve played his ‘Family Man’ track from the ‘Kid in a Big World’ album, released by CBS in the mid-70’s. He’s now issued a new CD ‘Barefoot With Angels’. For more on John go to www.myspace.com/kidinabigworld.
Remember the 1950’s - that’s when Johnny Cash first started his run of hits in the US and next month there’s a unique release coming of 6 vinyl singles in their original artwork. Watch this page for more information in a week or so.
Go to www.shoutrecords.co.uk where you will find details of a newly released CD by Solomon Burke called ‘This is It - the Origins of Soul’. The tracks all come from his Apollo days in the US, some years before the Atlantic world-wide hits. The same label has an excellent release from Anna King, on our playlist right now.
‘Love, Hope and Glory’ is a new album by Steve Larkman - see http://www.foreverrecords.co.uk for more information and listen out for his ad campaign on OMR.
‘Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul’ was a classic album from the mid-60’s. It charted in the US and UK but has sold consistently year after year since its initial release. Now, Rhino have a Collectors Edition double CD with bonus tracks. You have the original album in both mono and stereo versions and live performances from the US and Europe, some recorded shortly before his death. Brilliant packaging with liner notes by Otis Redding’s wife Zelma. Really good value at £14.99 for the two CD’s - see http://www.rhino.co.uk/ for more and listen out for tracks in all programmes from the end of the month.
Take a look at a new P J Proby CD - ‘The EMI Years 1961-1972′. This is far more than a greatest hits selection, as it includes a couple of tracks never released the first time around, like his 1968 original version of Les Reed’s Delilah, which became a big hit for Tom Jones. Listen out for tracks in the coming weeks. Also from EMI is the ‘Very Best of Bobby Vee’ containing all the big UK hits like ‘Rubber Ball’ and ‘Run to Him’. All EMI releases are available from the major stores or online at www.amazon.co.uk
There’s a top CD from Isles FM, the local station based in Stornoway. ‘And The Accordions Played’ includes tracks from bands such as Wolfstone, the Vatersay Boys and Donald Black & Malcolm Jones - listen out for tracks in our programmes throughout July and early August.
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
ALL times BST
Rodney Collins has worked in the media since the mid 1960’s, including management posts at ATV, Pye Records, Billboard inc, BBC Radios 1 & 2, Radio Luxembourg and 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 see www.theradcliffeguesthouse.co.uk ) while continuing to broadcast and produce music CD’s.
Published Monday July 07 2008
Published Wed, 09 Apr 2008 17:47:42 +0000
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