Yesterday Once More

Still in the swing of summertime, this week’s theme imports more songs relating to Summer Activities. A number of them are water focused with John Fogarty (Creedence Clearwater Revival) presenting an interesting version of ‘Sea Cruise’, Bobby Darin is looking ‘Beyond the Sea’ and the Cowsill family is suggesting ‘you can swim in the cove or rent a canoe’ at ‘Indian Lake’. Helen Reddy proposes ‘We’ll Sing in The Sunshine’ while Cliff Richard is ‘On the Beach’ with Australian of the week, Jimmy Hannan playing ‘Beach Ball’.

PLAYLIST

* Indian Lake – Cowsills

* School Is Out – Gary US Bonds

* Walking On Sunshine – Katrina and the Waves

* We’ll Sing in the Sunshine – Helen Reddy

* Sea Cruise – John Fogarty

* Sunny Afternoon – The Kinks

* Beyond the Sea – Bobby Darin

* Surf City – Jan and Dean

* Sitting on the Dock of the Bay – Otis Redding

* On the Beach – Cliff Richard

* Beach Ball – Jimmy Hannan

* C’mon Swim – Ray Columbus & The Invaders

Still in the summer mood this week’s theme reflects the various modes of (transport) Summer Travels entailed when heading towards your summer destination. Billy J Kramer and the Dakotas are taking you on ‘Trains and Boats and Planes’, Susan Raye is at the ‘LA International Airport’, Frank Sinatra is suggesting ‘Come Fly With Me’ while the Beatles‘ ‘Drive My Car’ and Johnny Chester‘s ‘Midnight Bus’ are on the roads. ‘Dear Prudence’ by Doug Parkinson in Focus was included as the Australian highlight and in recognition of Mossy’s co-host Prudence.

PLAYLIST

* Long Train Running – Doobie Brothers

* Trains and Boats and Planes – Billy J Kramer and the Dakotas

* Dear Prudence – Doug Parkinson

* Come Fly With Me – Frank Sinatra

* Dreadlock Holiday – 10 CC

* LA International Airport – Susan Raye

* Sailing – Christopher Cross

* Last Train To Clarksville – Monkees

* Marrakesh Express – Crosby, Stills and Nash

* Come on Down To My Boat Baby – Every Mother’s Son

* Midnight Bus – Johnny Chester

* Drive My Car – Beatles

While maintaining the focus on our summer theme, this week’s playlist embraces songs that relate to GETAWAY destinations. Various parts of the globe are visited including the Beach Boys ‘Kokomo’ (the Caribbean) and Murray Head‘s ‘One Night in Bangkok’. Fleetwood Mac refer to the ‘Seven Wonders’ while Australia’s Jade Hurley is ‘Down in the Riverina’. Billy Thorpe is the featured Australian artist.

PLAYLIST

* Echo Beach – Martha and the Muffins

* Caribbean – Mitchell Torok

* Most People I know Think That I’m Crazy – Billy Thorpe

* One Night In Bangkok – Murray Head

* Midnight at the Oasis – Maria Muldour

* Highway 31 – Johnny Chester

* Seven Wonders – Fleetwood Mac

* Kokomo – Beach Boys

* Let’s Go Slumming – Genevieve Waite

* Old Cape Cod – Patti Page

* Surfin’ Safari – Beach Boys

* Down in the Riverina – Jade Hurley

Continuing the Summer theme this week we present songs celebrating different Summer activities. From cycling (Les Bicyclettes Des Lelsize) to surfing (Hangin’ Five) and sailing (Sailing). Walking is prominent with Nancy Sinatra‘s signature song (These Boots Are Made For Walkin’), The Diamonds (Walking Along) and in interesting rendition of ‘Walkin’ In The Sand’ by Aussie trio, MPD Limited. Canned Heat‘s ‘Going Up The Country’ and The Young Rascal’s ‘Groovin’ provide fresh sounds of Summer. Connie Francis sums up the exuberance of school holidays with ‘Vacation’.

PLAYLIST

* Going Up The Country – Canned Heat

* Les Bicyclettes Des Belsize – Engelbert Humperdinck

* Groovin’ – The Young Rascals

* Beach Baby – First Class

* Vacation – Connie Francis

* Sailing – Rod Stewart

* Walkin’ In The Sand – MPD Limited

* Don’t Rock The Boat – Hues Corporation

* Walking Along – The Diamonds

* These Boots Were Made ForWalkin’ – Nancy SInatra

* Moonlight Swim – Nick Noble

* Hangin’ Five – The Delltones

What better way to celebrate the end of the year than with a party. This week’s selected songs are those that invoke a sense of celebration such as Sailor’s ‘A Glass of Champagne’, Wanda Jackson‘s’ Let’s Have a Party’ and dancing with David Bowie and Martha and The Vandellas. So to get the party started, the Masters’ Apprentices are asking you to ‘Turn Up Your Radio’.

From Rob and Mossy and the Yesterday Once More support group we wish you a very happy and prosperous 2020.

PLAYLIST

• Turn Up Your Radio – Masters Apprentices

• At The Hop – Danny and The Juniors

• Stayin’ Alive – Bee Gees

• Let’s Dance – David Bowie

• Am I Ever Gonna See Your Face Again -The Angels

• Girls Just Wanna Have Fun – Cindi Lauper

• Don’t Stop Til You Get Enough – Michael Jackson

• Darktown Strutter’s Ball – Ted Mulry Gang

• Glass of Champagne – Sailor

• Let The Little Girl Dance – Grantley Dee

• Dancing in The Street – Martha & The Vandellas

• Let’s Have A Party – Wanda Jackson

Again this year we present an eclectic approach to Christmas. A favourite from last year is the haunting ‘Huron Carol’ from the Canadian Tenors and Paddy Roberts’ irreverent ‘Merry Christmas You Suckers’. This year we’ve included perennial favourites ‘Oh Happy Day’ and ‘The Little Drummer Boy’. John Lennon‘s plea for peace ‘Happy Xmas (War Is Over) has become another standard Xmas song. In Australia we have a dearth of Xmas songs so we’ve included the novelty song ‘Twelve Days Of An Aussie Christmas’. Fittingly we conclude with ‘Christmas Day’ one of a very few Australian carols that capture Christmas in our country – ‘The North wind is tossing the leaves. The red dust is over the town’.

PLAYLIST

* Merry Christmas Everybody – Slade

* The Little Drummer Boy – Harry Simeone Chorale

* The Twelve Days Of An Aussie Christmas – From Yesteryear

* Huron Carol – Canadian Tenors

* Wonderful Christmas Time – Paul McCartney

* Oh Happy Day – Edwin Hawkins Singers

* Last Christmas – Wham

* Happy Xmas (War Is Over) – John Lennon

* The Christmas Song – Nat King Cole

* Merry Xmas You Suckers – Paddy Roberts

* Jingle Bell Rock – Brenda Lee

* Christmas Day – Bucko & The Champs

The JOY of summer is here, that wonderful time of year when we enjoy holidays at the beach, lazing by a pool or getting away to exotic destinations. Apart from our Christmas show on 22nd December we will be focusing on “summer” themes (until the end of February) that include summer activities, getaways and travel. This week the playlist encompasses songs that have “summer” in the title ranging from hits like Nat King Cole‘s ‘Lazy Hazy Crazy Days of Summer’ and Sherbet‘s ‘Summer Love’ to lesser known songs by the Bay City Rollers and Diana Trask.

PLAYLIST

* Summer Love – Sherbet

* When The Summer Comes Again – Ames Brothers

* The Boys of Summer – Don Henley

* Summer Rain – Johnny Rivers

* Summer Love Sensation – Bay City Rollers

* I Never Dreamed You’d Leave In Summer – Joan Baez

* In The Summer Time – The Mixtures

* The Long Hot Summer – Jimmie Rodgers

* A Summer Song – Chad & Jeremy

* Those Lazy Hazy Crazy Days of Summer – Nat King Cole

* Things We Did Last Summer – Shelley Fabares

* Long Ago Summer – Diana Trask

Feeling sorry for your loss? Wishing things had never happened? Yearning for a lost love? These are bread and butter themes for many pop songs. They are designed to pull on our heart strings and evoke memories. Many of the songs contain the word ‘sorry’. ‘Sorry (Seems To Be The hardest Word) by Elton John, ‘Sorry (I Ran All The Way Home) by the Impalas and ‘Who’s Sorry Now?’ from Connie Francis. Other songs evoke personal memories for our presenters (‘Hard To Say I’m Sorry’) and (‘All Out Of Love’). And there are some classics such as The Everly Bros huge hit ‘Cathy’s Clown’ and prolific C and W singer, Marty Robbins with ‘Just Married’. Rob calls Bobby Vinton‘s ‘Blue On Blue’ a ‘pretty song’.

PLAYLIST

* You Were On My Mind – We Five

* Sorry (Seems To Be The Hardest Word) – Elton John

* Maybe Tomorrow – Normie Rowe

* Baby Come Back – Player

* Cathy’s Clown – Everly Bros

* Hard To Say I’m Sorry – Chicago

* Blue On Blue – Bobby Vinton

* All Out Of Love – Air Supply

* Sorry (I Ran All The Way Home) – Impalas

* I Should Have Known Better – Beatles

* Just Married – Marty Robbins

* Who’s Sorry Now? – Connie Francis

This week’s show Featured Songwriters presents the music of Australian/English group the Bee Gees (BGs) and the wonderful collaboration of Australia’s Vanda and Young (V&Y). The score contains songs that were written for and recorded by various artists with the exception of the Bee Gees’ version of ‘How Can You Mend A Broken Heart’.

PLAYLIST

* BGs Grease – Frankie Valli

* V&Y Life Is Getting Better – Flake

* BGs Islands In The Stream – Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers

* V&Y Spend The Night – Cheetah

* BGs How Can You Mend A Broken Heart-Bee Gees

* V&Y Falling In love Again – Ted Mulry

* BGs Woman In Love – Barbra Streisand

* V&Y Love Is In the Air – John Paul Young

* BGs Emotion -Samantha Sang

* V&Y Friday On My Mind – Easybeats

* BGs If I Can’t Have You – Yvonne Elliman

* V&Y I’m On Fire – Mike Furber

 

There are many songs with seemingly meaningless titles. However, some do have meaning. For example Middle Of The Road‘s ‘Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep’ can be interpreted as a metaphor for childhood abandonment. And The Beatles ‘Ob-Li- Di- Ob- Li – Da’ is apparently a Nigerian phrase meaning ‘life goes on’. There is also Sherbet‘s cleverly named ‘Howzat’. Other songs have titles that are really ‘nonsense’ such as Manfred Mann‘s ‘Do Wah Diddy’ or even Normie Rowe‘s ‘Ooh La La’. Of some interest is the 1959 song by The Diamonds (She Say) which was critically acclaimed for its amazing bass section and an incredible falsetto voice.

 

PLAYLIST

* Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep – Middle Of The Road

* Hi Lili Hi Lo – Alan Price Set

* Dum Dum – Brenda Lee

* Howzat – Sherbet

* Niki Hoeky – P J Proby

* Rockaria – Electric Light Orchestra

* Ooh La La – Normie Rowe

* Ob-Li-Di-Ob- Li- Da – Beatles

* Wang Dang Taffy Apple Tango – Pat Boone

* Do Wah Diddy – Manfred Mann

* She Say – The Diamonds

* Boom Bang A Bang – Lulu