Sunday April 6th
The competition centred around three bits of music ranging from ‘Underneath the Mango Tree’ from Dr. No. through some 70’s ‘Sand Between our Toes’ to ‘The Air that I Breathe’. This got you to the news stories about the air quality over the UK this week including atmospheric sand from the Sahara. The past week also saw the death of Frankie Knuckles and the 20th birthday of Britpop, so I played some Blur. The rest of the Playlist was like this
Whitney Houston – Million Dollar Bill (Frankie Knuckles Mix)
Imagine Dragons – Radioactive
Paul Thomas Saunders – A Lunar Veteran’s Guide to Re-Ent
On This Day
The Bay City Rollers – Bye Bye Baby No 1 1975 today
Estelle – American Boy (feat. Kanye West) No 1 2008 today
Mari Wilson – Just What I Always Wanted
Foster the people – Life On the Nickel
Owl City – Fireflies
Elvis Presley – In My Way (From _Wild In the Country)
David Castle – Ten To Eight
Take That – What Do You Want From Me
Blur – Charmless Man
Lily Allen – Smile (Radio Edit)
Danny Kaye – Little white duck
Kaiser Chiefs – Coming Home
Glenn Medeiros – She Ain’t Worth It (feat. Bobby Brown)
From this weeks Uk Official Top 40
Christina Perri Human
Faul & Wad Ad & Pnau Changes (Radio Mix)
5 Seconds of Summer She Looks So Perfect Number 1
The Del Vikings – Come Go With Me
Ronan Keating – Life Is A Rollercoaster
The Pierces – Believe In Me
Then the Golden Year brought these gems
Ten City – Devotion (Edit)
T’Pau – Only the Lonely
Kon Kan – I Beg Your Pardon
Holly Johnson – Americanos
Young Rebel Set – Tuned Transmission
Lookalikes – Can I Take You Home Tonight
Iglu & Hartly – In This City
The Beatles – Hard Day’s Night
Caro Emerald – One Day
Lindisfarne – Run For Home
And then it was time for Andrew, oh and by the way the Golden Year was 1989
A week later it was
April 13th
This weeks competition had the Teletubbies, Top Gear and Doctor Who themes, or bits of them getting you to a story in the news on which BBC programmes may be considered suitable for watching in North Korea by the regime there. Apparently watching non approved programmes is a shooting offence! Bearing that in mind our approved playlist for this week was
Pet Shop Boys & Dusty Springfield – What Have I Done to Deserve This 1
Christina Perri – Human
Aswad – Don’t Turn Around
On This Day
Andrew Gold – Lonely Boy New Entry 1977
Dusty Springfield -You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me 1965
OMD – Locomotion New Entry 1984
Elvis – The Wonder Of You
Sara Bareilles – Brave
Peter Sellars – I Haven’t Told Her, She Hasn’t Told Me
Super Furry Animals – Juxtapozed With U 1
5 Seconds Of Summer – She Looks So Perfect
Gotye – Somebody That I Used to Know (feat Kimbra)
The Four Tops – Loco In Acapulco
Sister Sledge – All American Girls
The Newbeats – Run Baby Run (Back Into My Arms)
Sophie Ellis-Bextor – Runaway Daydreamer
China Crisis – Black Man Ray
From the Official UK Top 40
John Martin – Anywhere For You
Route 94 – My Love (feat. Jess Glynne)
Aloe Blacc – The Man Number 1
Stevie Wonder – A Place in the Sun 1
Olly Murs – Heart Skips a Beat (feat. Rizzle 1
Noisettes – Never Forget You
The Golden Year
Blazin Squad – Crossroads
George Harrison – My Sweet Lord
Stereophonics – Handbags And Gladrags
Blue – One Love
Enrique Iglesias – Hero
The Dooleys – Honey I’m Lost 1
The Wanted – All Time Low
The Beatles – With A Little Help From My Friend 1
Beach Boys – Wouldn’t It Be Nice 1
Gary Barlow – Since I Saw You Last
The Diamonds – Little Darlin 1
Ironik – Tiny Dancer (Hold Me Closer)
And so the Golden Year was 2002 and that was it ’til next time.
