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Les Humphries 10.08.1940 -  26.12.2007

Incl. later famous singers incl.: Jueren Drews amm

The music presented here is mostly NOT available on CD or streaming !

It's a well kept secret that

in the years Les Humpries, an English serving the Army, studying the piano in Hamburg; looking for a job - in Hamburg - at this this time there were James Last, Robert Last and Bert Kaempfert !

Les used the Robert Last sound of Robert Last for demos for THE LES HUMPHRIES SINGERS...

The rhythm section was by James Last 

Les Humphries was born John Leslie Humphreys on 10 August 1940 in Croydon, Surrey, England. He served in the Royal Navy, where he was a member of the naval band and attained the rank of band sergeant major. In 1969, inspired by the success of the Edwin Hawkins Singers gospel group, he formed Les Humphries Singers in Hamburg, where he had relocated. The original line-up included Humphries, Jimmy Bilsbury, and Malcolm Magaron as lead vocals, supported by Jürgen Drews, Judy Archer, En David, Myrna David, Peggy Evers, Dornee Edwards, Henner Hoier, Heike Kloen, Liz Mitchell, Victor Scott and Tina Werner.

Additional members included Mitchell, later frontwoman with Boney M., and Lawton, who also sang for the German progressive/hard rock band Lucifer's Friend and would go on front Uriah Heep.

The Les Humphries Singers performed a mix of pop and gospel covers and had some success in Europe with this approach. Like the contemporary disco act Boney M., their music focused on rhythm and blues, gospel, and disco, but often with psychedelic phasing or flanger effects on solos and bridges, and, much like James Last, larger background choruses in the studio to emulate a live atmosphere.The Les Humphries Singers at the time brought something from the flair of the hippie movement into contemporary German-produced (but English-sung) pop music, especially due to their mixed ethnic background and unusual fashion sense.

Two of their earliest and best known hits were "Mexico" (1972) which was based on the 1957 Jimmy Driftwood country hit "The Battle of New Orleans", and "Mama Loo" (1973), based on "Barbara Ann" by The Beach Boys. On later albums they released "Mexico" with different lyrics, most

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Based on a show recorded in 2018, this is a re-edit

Incl. Music by

The Pet Shop Boys: Its's a Sin

Jethro Tull: Locomotive Breath

Santana: She's Not Yhere

Robert Farrham: You Are The Voice

Tina Turner: We Don't Need AnotherHero

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all transferred from vinyl to digital by Popmundial; means the source is an LP !

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It's a long time, I wanted to present music from the Nederlands, our EUROPEAN neighbour. Here we GO!

IF YOU UNDERSTAND A LITTLE BIT OF ENGLISH AND GERMAN? THIS IS NOT A PROBLEM TO UNDERESTAND THE LYRICS !

PERSONAL NOTE BY YOURS TRUELY:

Background to my personal passion to music from the NL: 

Why music from the Netherlands?

PERSONAL NOTE BY YOURS TRUELY:

Background to my personal passion to music from the NL: 

First I had a mentor Ad Roland of Sky Radio, based at Hilversum, NL. That was 1984 at Nuremberg....

Later:
On my years commuting Vienna to London,  I many times passed Amsterdam airport. And there is a fab record shop....

This show

IIncludes

De Dijk: Mag Het Licht Uit

Guus Meeuwis: Het is een Nacht, Ik Wil met je Lachen, De Waarheid

Marco Borsato: Vreemde Handen, Road, Hoe Het Danst, Wat Is Mijn Hart

Fluitsama & Van Tijan: 15 Miljon Mensen

Frederique Spigt: Rotterdam

Clousseau: Onvergetelijke Nacht

Van Dik Hout: Stap voor stap

Bloef: Aan de Kust

Acda en de Munnik: De Stad Amsterdam

Nico Haak & de Paniekzaaiers: Foxie Foxtrot

I promised, this only Vol.1

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That's our new radio (format 2025) !

listen to our live radio stream, live here:

https://s11.citrus3.com:2020/public/popmundialradio

This podcast was revised due to a technical error in the begining, one day later;

I welcomed to play some of my favourites:

incl.:

Gotye - Somebody That I Used to Know

De Kast - Moern Sil De Sinne Skine

Bily Paul - Your Song (by Elton John)

Billy Paul - Let 'Em In

Tina Turner - Goldeneye

Cher - Dancing Queen

Sergio Mendes & Black Eyed Peas - Mas Que Nada

Billie Eillish - Bad Guy

Sergio Mendes & Brazil 66 - Pais Tropical

Billy Kerr - California to you

Taylor Swift - The Last great American Synasty

Pierre Sibille - Black Magic Woman

Jessye Norman - When the Saints

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This is an episode zero, a pilot show of the future sound of Popmundial Radio !

I mixed it, and it sounds ok ! For you also ?

Just one Radio - we have changed the server after 16 years to Brighton, UK (thanks to the service at Florida) Gracias Diego !

The industry has changes a lot in the last 16 years; we were pioneers with Diego ! Pioneers also together in pushing the frontiers of technology ! Well done !

We are changing a lot more in the next months; we are inventative !

As we don't have your money coming in... to support us, we had to limit our services !!!

Me and my family invested €600ooo in this project which started 1999...  I want to get a penny back for living, I HAVE NONE !

NEW TRACKLISTING:

Marek & Vacek - Capriccio in Beat (live at Cologne)

Daniel Barenboim, Rodolfo Mederos & Héctor Console- Tzigane Tango

Simply Red -Big Love

Jerry Lee Lewis - Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin

José Felician -|Rain

Eric Clapton - Before You Accuse Me

Fats Domino - I'm Walkin'

Ali Farka Tourà & Ry Cooder - Bonde

Boney M. - Ma Baker

Postmodern Jukebox - Bad Romance

Generation Goldman - Un, deux, trois

Dave Dudley - Six Days On The Road 

Stan Getz & Charlie Byrd - Desafinado 

Gipsy Kings- Tarantas

Münchener Freiheit - Ohne Dich (Schlaf' Ich Heut Nacht Nicht Ein)

Barclay James Harvest - Life Is for Living

Dave Dudley -Six Days On The Road

Stan Getz & Joa Gilberto -Desafinado

Daniel Melingo - Extrano Caso|

Dalida - Come Prima

The Beatles - Lady Madonna

Manu Chao - Welcome to Tijuana

Diana Krall - Yeh Yeh (feat. Georgie Fame, the composer)

Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass - Tijuana Tax

Stephan Eicher - Taxi Europe

Las Mas Famosa De Cuba - Guantanamera

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Ringo Starr, who recently celebrated his 85th birthday, is the first Beatle to reach that milestone, and like his surviving bandmate Paul McCartney, he never retired. In the past months, Starr has released a country album and toured with his All-Starr Band, performing with the springy energy of a man half his age!

And well, Willie Nelson: he sends us every year his tracks of a new album! It's true, year by year the releases are getting better and better... HIHIHI! At 92; no joke: it's an icon of Country Music! We love him !

selected from:

Ringo Starr - Breathless (2025)

Ringo Starr, Molly Tuttle - Look Up (2025)

Ringo Starr - Time on My hands (2025)

Ringo Starr, Morgan Wallen, Tate McRae - Rosetta (2025)

Morgan Wallezn, Tate LcRae - What I Wan

Dasha - Austin (Boots Stop Workin)

Morgan Wallen  - Spin You Around

Beyoncé - Texas Hold'Em

Milet Cyrus - End of the World

Milet Cyrus - Easy Lover

Milet Cyrus, Noami Campbell - Every Girl You've Ever Loved

Billy Ray Cyrus, Lil Nas, Diplo- Old Town Road

Willie Nelson - Oh What a beautiful World (2025)

Willie Nelson- Do You Realize (2025)

Julio Iglesias & Willie Nelson - To All The Girls I've Loved Before

John Farnham, Olivia Newton John - Hit the Road Jack

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Well NO ! You don't them all: i.e. the Playout of Elton John's London stage musical "Billy Elliot" or Chita Rivera (original West Side Story 1956) in her West End Debut with "Kiss Of a Spiderwoman"; there is no Andrew Lloyd Webber today BUT a great song by French "Les Miserables" composer Claude Michel Schoenberg, a former arranger of Percy Faith! Happy listening !

Compositions by Cole Porter, George Gershwin, Galt Mac Dermond, John Williams, Harry Warren, Elton John, Claude Michel Schoenberg amm.

These are the hits you know: Despite the original cast recordings, this includis versions by Peter Gabriel, Selena, Robert Palmer, Meco and Louis Prima with modernise some old fashioned standards.

Playlist:

The Original Cast Orchestra Of 'Mack & Mabel - Entr'acte

Frank Sinatra & Al di Meola - Night and Day (live)

Tribe - Three-Five-Zero-Zero (Hair)

Siobhan McCarthy - One Of Us (Mamma Mia)

Selena - A Boy Like That (West Side Story)

Robert Palmer - I Got Rhythm

Valarie Pettiford;Jane Lanier;Kim Morgan Greene;Dede LaBarre;Mary Ann Lamb;Shannon Lewis;Mary MacLeod;Dana Moore;Elizabeth Parkinson;Rachelle Rak - Big Spender

John Williams - Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone: Hedwig's Theme

John Williams: Boston Pops Orchestra - Let Me Entertain You medley

42nd Street Cast - Young And Healthy

Tribe - Oh Great God Of Power/Manchester England (Hair)

Louis Prima feat. Phil Harris - I Wan'na Be Like You (The Monkey Song)

Billy Elliot Cast - Finale

Jeffrey Huard;Brent Carver;Anthony Crivello;Chita Rivera - Anything For Him (From 'Kiss of the Spider Woman')

Les Miserables Cast, London 1985 - Look Down

Sunday Drivers - Dancing Queen

John Williams - Star Wars with Meco (charts version)

Isaac Hayes -Shaft

Martine McCutcheon - Maybe This Time (originally from "Cabaret",  "Fosse")

Peter Gabriel - Summertime

recoreded live 28th June 2025, revised in 2 tracks

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Django Reinhardt & Quintet de Hot Club de France - Sweet Georgia Brown

Am Ketenes Swing - Hans che's swing

Titi Demeter Trio - All of Me

Paris Musette - à Matelo

Rocky Gresset - Time on my Hands

Florin Niculescu - Light

Biréli Lagréne - New York City

Zak Rush - Freefall

Florin Niculesco - Light

Frédéric Belinsky - Le Temps du Muguet

Dorado Schmitt - Blue Citron

Biréli Lagrengréne & Gypsy Project - Envie de Toi

Romane - Legende

Selmer #607 - What a Wonderful World 

ZAZ - Dans mon Paris (version manouche)

Thomas Dutronc - Jeune, je ne savais rien

playout: Django Reinhardt & Quintet de Hot Club de France - How High The Moon (Schellack A et B)

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based on an itintial Midnight Special dating 2018, re-edited 2025

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As we do not have donations, we MUST wind down! SORYY !
Popmundial Radio Sounds Easy with elements of music around the world ! The new format ? Respond svp !

Incl.

Martin Taylor - Nuages

Sonny & Cher -All I Ever Need Is You

Matt Bianco -Matt's Mood II

Shaft- (Mucho Mambo) Sway

Shirley Bassey - Going Going Gone

Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - Locomotion

Piero Umiliani - Mah-Na-Mah-Na

Ray Stevens - Bridget the Midget (The Queen of Blues)

Johnny Hates Jazz - Turn the Tide

David Bowie - Right

Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band - I'm The Urban Spaceman

Captain Hollywood - More and More (Karizma Remix)

Mark Knopfler - In The Heartland

John Barry - Born Free

Aṣa - The Way I Feel

The 5th Dimension - Save the Country

Shirley Bassey - Moonrake

Matt Bianco - No No Neve

Johnny Hates Jazz - Me And My Foolish Heart

Archie Fisher - Reynardine

Dean Martin - Return To Me (Ritorna E Me)

James Last - La Mer

Ray Conniff - Theme From New York, New York

Esther Abrami & Louis Philippson - Jasmin

Jo Stafford - Jambalaya

Ricky Martin - La Diosa del Carnaval (Spanish Eyes)

Buena Vista Social Club - La Bayamesa

Battlefield Band - Ton Bale Leon Braz (Big Leon's March) / The People's Jig / Ash City / Blackjack Groove|

Desmond Dekker - If You Really Want Me

This is a trial for our new Poimundial ? Please leave comments !

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with Rotalthis selection comes straight from my heart:

incl.

Goran Bregovic - Gas Gas

In Search of a Rose - The Emald Gossip

Tristan Case - Bubble Modulators

Bruce Springsteen - Erie Canal (live at the Point Theatre Dublin)

Ry Cooder - Too Tighr This Rag of Mine

Reinhard Mey - Man kann nicht immer nur die Wahreheit sagen

Tony Bennett - Make Someone Happy

and

Hugo Strasser 

Franci Cabrrel

Queen

Davor Bojanov

Renan Lucee

Sting & Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (live)

Rosenstolz

The Isley Brothrs

Shirley Bassey

Les Fréres Vincenti

Boys Town Gang

Christopher Otcasek 

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