Does Christmas really start earlier every year? We are only just past the middle of November and Mariah Carey is already back in the UK Top 40 with her evergreen Christmas hit – All I want for Christmas is You
Sitting at No. 38 this week with still over a month to go suggests that the party season has indeed started early! The song has spent 133 weeks on the chart in total and has reached the peak position of No. 1 previously.
But you won’t hear it on Phoenix yet. At least not until 1st December. Well you have to have some standards!
Also on today’s show –
Sir Rod Stewart has said he may have to sell his five beloved sports cars because there are so many potholes on the roads near his home.
The festive season is getting under way again, and so too is the battle of the Christmas adverts.
Birthday – 1947 – Joe Walsh, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor.
Vic Flick, the famed British session musician who picked out the famous jangly guitar riff on the James Bond theme song, has died aged 87.
Song for Daphne – “Someone to Watch Over Me” is a 1926 song composed by George Gershwin with lyrics by Ira Gershwin, assisted by Howard Dietz who penned the title. It was written for the musical Oh, Kay! (1926),
The song was recorded by Frank Sinatra in 1946 for his first album The Voice of Frank Sinatra, and again in 1954 for the film Young At Heart. “Someone to Watch Over Me” was notably covered by Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Barbra Streisand, Ray Charles, Willie Nelson, Sinéad O’Connor, Elton John and Amy Winehouse. Today we heard a fabulous version by Ella Fitzgerald.
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