A recent exchange by Darren Mootoo on The Billericay Discussion Page on Facebook led me to pose the question, What are the songs that Billericay people love? The response was overwhelming and went to prove that for the most part, Billericay people have great taste in music!

You can listen to part one of Billericay Loves Music here –

Part two with be this Thursday 21st February from 1pm and available online soon afterwards.

Here is the tracklist from part one (almost in the correct order!)

Daren Mootoo – Everybody Loves the Sunshine” by Roy Ayers.
Daniel Heeney – Hi Ho Silver Lining – Jeff Beck
Steve Ault – KC and the Sunshine ☀️ band – Give it Up
Mick Bryan – There’s a Ghost in my House by R Dean Taylor
Steve Ault – Mental as Anything – Live it Up
Andrew Manning – Real Love – Driza Bone
Kathleen Parsons – Midnight Blue by E L O
Kate Hill – Here Comes the Sun – The Beatles
Joanne Pannell – You ain’t Seen Nothing Yet – Bachman Turner overdrive
Steve Ault – Ini kamoze – Here Come Da Hotstepper
Daren Mootoo – Missing Words – The Selecter
Daren Mootoo – You Are The Music – Mama’s Gun
Daren Mootoo – Man Next Door – Dennis Brown
Nicola Goodwin – The Killers – All These Things That I Have Done.
Janice Cable – Sky High by Jigsaw and Pop Muzik by M
Daren Mootoo – Kansas City Milkman – Level 42
Joanne Willis-Wootton – Matchbox Twenty – Push
Julie Donaldson – Children of the Revolution – T Rex
Daren Mootoo – Space Cowboy – Jamiroquai
Emma Stevens – Hit the Road Jack by Ray Charles.
Daren Mootoo – Evil Vibrations – Mighty Ryeders
Daren Mootoo – Harvest For The World – The Power Station
Tracy Godden – Bohemian Rhapsody – Queen
Joseph LeRoy – Does Your Chewing Gum Lose its Flavour – Lonnie Donegan
Janice Cable – Wake up Little Susie by Everly Bros
Jim Poynter – Buddy Can You Spare a Dime – Al Bowlly
Daniel Heeney – John Leyton – Johnny Remember Me
Paul Chatting – David Ruffin – Walk Away from Love
Joanne Pannell – Heard it Through the Grapevine – Marvin Gaye