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The Who: Baba O’Riley.

“Jethro Tull: Life is a Long Song.

Rob’s doing his own version of the Eurovision this week… but with far less “naff songs” as he puts it.

This week’s tunes are all about the cash, moola, wonga, dinero, spondoolicks and greenbacks. Rob’s talking Money!

Barrett Strong: Money (That’s What I Want). Stevie Wonder: Living for the City. Marvin Gaye: Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler). Kendrick Lamar: How Much a Dollar Cost. Soweto Kinch – Paris Heights. 10cc: The Wall Street Shuffle. Argent: It’s Only Money. Pink Floyd: Money. Joni Mitchell: For Free. Todd Rundgren: Bag Lady. Ry Cooder: The Very Thing That Makes You Rich Makes Me Poor. Bob Dylan: I Pity the Poor Immigrant. Ry Cooder: How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live. Aloe Blacc: I Need a Dollar. Ry Cooder: One Meatball. Randy Newman: It’s Money That I Love. Lowell George: Easy Money. Rory Gallagher: Loanshark Blues. Beatles: Taxman. Beatles: You Never Give Me Your Money. Warren Zevon: Lawyers, Guns and Money. Hall & Oates: Rich Girl. Jessie J: Price Tag. Lily Allen: The Fear. Van Morrison: If In Money We Trust.

For St. Patrick’s Weekend, Rob is going exclusively Irish with his picks today.

Donal Lunny & Friends – April the 3rd. Tommy Hayes: Paddy Fahy’s Jig. Rita Connolly & Iarla O’Lionaird – The Quiet Land of Erin. Clannad: Caislean Oir. Declan Sinnott – Orbit. Sean O’Se: Valley of Knockanure. Annemarie O’Riordan: Bantry Girl’s Lament. Brian Casey: Oh Now (Live). The Adventures – Broken Land. Wallis Bird – Counting to Sleep. The Cranberries: I Still Do. The 4 of Us: Silver and Gold. Sinead O’Connor: On Raglan Road. Syd Barrett: Golden Hair. Kate Bush: The Sensual World. Derek Bell: Carolan’s Farewell to Music. Harvest Ministers: A River Wedding. Leslie Dowdall: Secret Garden. Freddie White: Close To You. Mary Black: The Urge for Going. Dubliners & Pogues: Mountain Dew. Dubliners: The Sick Note. Dropkick Murphys: Fields of Athenry. Damien Dempsey: Sing All Our Cares Away. Mundy: Life’s a Cinch. Frames: Fake. Van Morrison: Out in the Cold Again.

This week it is 2 hours of the best Road Music

Little-known fact about Rob Armstrong: he has so many trophies for dancing that he’s actually had to build a 2-storey extension on to his house just to store them all. Today he gives us a listen to tunes that get him in the mood to bust out some of those award-winning moves.

David Bowie: Let’s Dance. Yvonne Elliman: If I Can’t Have You. Bee Gees: Wind of Change. Rare Earth: Warm Ride. Chic: Le Freak. Sister Sledge: Lost in Music. Sheila & B Devotion: Spacer. Diana Ross: Upside Down. Change: Change of Heart. Shalamar: A Night to Remember. Rufus: Ain’t Nobody. Chaka Khan: Eye to Eye. Chaka Khan: This is My Night. Marvin Gaye: Sexual Healing. Stevie Wonder: Superstition. Wilton Felder & Bobby Womack: Inherit the Wind. Idris Muhammad: Could Heaven Ever Be Like This. Steely Dan: Josie. Hall & Oates: I Can’t Go For That. Aretha Franklin: Who’s Zoomin Who. M83: Go!. Pet Shop Boys: Heart. Chic: Good Times.

We all know that 1968 was the year that King Baudouin of Belgium played hurling with Éamon de Valera and Jack Lynch on the grounds of Áras an Uachtaráin, but Rob Armstrong insists that 50 years ago, there was some mighty fine music going on too. In this episode he sets out to prove that.

Beatles: Back in the USSR & Dear Prudence. Simon and Garfunkel: America. Simon & Garfunkel: Old Friends-Bookends. Dusty Springfield: I Think It’s Going to Rain Today. Beach Boys: Little Bird. Doors: Spanish Caravan. Jose Feliciano: Light My Fire. Kinks: Days. Don Partridge: Rosie. John Martyn: Dusty. Jethro Tull: A Song for Jeffrey. Family: The Breeze. Julie Driscoll & the Brian Augur Trinity: This Wheel’s on Fire. Barry Ryan: Eloise. Move: Blackberry Way. Small Faces: Rene. Small Faces: Lazy Sunday Afternoon. Moody Blues: Departure. Moody Blues: Ride My See-Saw. Moody Blues: Om. Dr John: I Walk On Guilded Splinters. Rolling Stones: Sympathy for the Devil. Cream: White Room. Cream: Badge. Steppenwolf: The Pusher. Van Morrison: Madame George

Rob Armstrong brings us some REAL classics this week.

Sergei Prokofiev: Dance of the Knights (from Romeo & Juliet). Carl Orff: O Fortuna (from Carmina Burana). Carl Orff: Fortune Plango Vulnera (from Carmina Burana). Henry Purcell: Funeral March for Queen Mary (The Baroque Brass of London). Henryk Gorecki: Second Movement (from The Symphony of Sorrowful Songs). J S Bach: Largo (from The Double Violin Concerto – with Daniel Barenboim). Edward Elgar: Cello Concerto (Jacqueline Du Pre). Georges Bizet: Au Fond du Temple Saint (Bjorling & Merrill). Anton Dvorak: Song To The Moon (Upshaw). Ralph Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending. Giacomo Puccini: Che Gelida Manina (Pavarotti). Giacomo Puccini: One Fine Day (Callas). Giacomo Puccini: E Lucevan le Stelle (Pavarotti). Erik Satie: Gymnopedies No 1. Erik Satie: Gymnopedies No 2. Erik Satie: Gymnopedies No 3. Maurice Ravel: Pavane (Joe Walsh). Claude Debussy: Reverie (Isao Tomita). Joseph Canteloube: Bailero (from Chants d’Auvergne). Gilbert & Sullivan: When I Was a Lad. Gilbert & Sullivan: When I Good Friends. Peter Tchaikovsky: 1812 Overture (Finale)

It’s getting close to Valentine’s Day, and Rob is getting all loved up on this week’s In Search of the Lost Chord.

Paul Buchanan, Craig Armstrong: Let’s Go Out Tonight. Beach Boys: God Only Knows. Beach Boys: Don’t Talk (Put Your Head). Turtles: Happy Together. Steve Miller Band: Love’s Riddle. Bread: Games of Magic. Dennis Wilson: Forever. 10cc: I’m Not in Love. Randy Newman: Something Special. Declan O’Rourke: Galileo. Damien Dempsey: Hold Me. Phil Everly: God Bless Older Ladies. Todd Rundgren: Torch Song. Warren Zevon: The Heartache. Stevie Wonder: All in Love is Fair. Michael McDonald: You Are Everything. Roberta Flack: The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face. Donny Hathaway: I Love You More Than You’ll Ever Know. Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway: The Closer I Get To You. Joni Mitchell: Court and Spark. Judie Tzuke: For You. Marc Cohn: True Companion. Sam Brown: Kissing Gates. Lone Justice: I Found Love. Boy Meets Girl: Waiting For A Star To Fall. Gerry Rafferty: Right Down The Line. Jimmy Webb: All I Know. Van Morrison: Have I Told You Lately.