In Part 1 of this episode of For One Night Only (FONO), Pete Holmes talks to his very special guest co-host, Robert King about the mixtape and story of his life so far. Robert is a long-time out, proud presenter on JOY. In July he and his co-hosts celebrated the 10th anniversary of  Yesterday Once More and that show is also about his love of 50s, 60s, 70s, and 80s music. You can check it out at https://joy.org.au/yesterdayoncemore/  He has been a teacher and uni lecturer and is a poet and writer with three books to his name. He plays serious senior table tennis as well.  His mixtape covers 40 years of music and includes Al Martino, Pat Boone, Nat King Cole, Sheb Wooley, Bee Gees, Axiom, Kate Bush, Minnie Riperton, John Farnham, Henry Mancini, The Platters., The Whitlam’s and many, many more.

Here’s the list of Robert’s songs but you’ll have to listen to find out more about each song:

For One Night Only is a late-night show on JOY 94.9 and a podcast where people from our rainbow communities get to talk through the mixtape of their lives so far.

Note: This podcast is only available to our Australian listeners due to music copyright requirements.

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