Playlist: Where The Action Is – Thu 29 Sep 2011

Once more into the breach dear friends as we crash headlong into another edition of Where The Action Is. We have the best music you’ve never heard from the late 50s through to the early 70s – including mod, soul, freakbeat, girl groups, baroque pop, folk and beat groups – we’ll have all of our regular features. We’ll play a round of the Connect 3 puzzle (can you guess the link between the three tracks?), have a Birthday track for a singer born on this day, the Half-Time Instrumental, a Foreign Language track (which country will we visit this week?), the Under the Influence choice and this week’s Two of a Kind as well as our weekly visit to the Death Disco.

Nick Garrie-Hamilton – Close Your Eyes (Disc AV 1968)
Tony Newman – Let The Good Times Roll (Decca 1968) (Show Theme)
The Monkees – The Girl I Knew Somewhere (alternate mix) (Colgems 1967)
Simon Dupree and The Big Sound – Reservations (Parlophone 1967)
The Beatstalkers – You Better Get a Better Hold On (Decca 1966) 
October Country – Cowboys and Indians (Epic 1968)
The Poets – Miss Queen Bee (Demo 1963-1964) (Connect 3)
The Hollies – Fifi the Flea (EMI 1966) (Connect 3)
Marmalade – Butterfly (CBS 1969) (Connect 3)
Dawn – Sandy (Laurie 1968)
The Outsiders – You Mistreat Me (Muziek Express 1965)
Boyce and Hart – I’m Digging You Digging Me (A&M 1968) (Birthday: 29/9/43 Tommy Boyce)
Kiki Dee – Miracles (Fontana 1964)
Jimmy Winston & His Reflections – Sorry She’s Mine (Decca 1966)
Tom Cats – Tom Tom Cat (Starlite 1961) (Half-Time Instrumental)
Eddie Holland – Leaving Here (Motown 1963)
Alma Cogan – Itte Kudes (Tell Him) (Unknown 1963) (Foreign Language)
Outer Limits – Just Help Me Please (Deram 1967)
Tracy Rogers – Baby (Polydor 1966)
Estelle – The Year 2000 (Laurie 1968) (Death Disco)
The Velvelettes – Lonely, Lonely Girl Am I (Motown 1965)
BMX Bandits – I Wanna Fall in Love (version 2) (Unreleased 1996) (Under The Influence)
Danielle – I’m Gonna Marry The Boy (Philips 1966)
Blue Stars – I Can Take It (Decca 1965)
The Knickerbockers – One Track Mind (Challenge 1966) (Two of a Kind)
The Knickerbockers – They Ran For Their Lives (Challenge 1968) (Two of a Kind)
The Supremes – Run Run Run (Motown 1964)
Tony Rich – Save Your Love (Pye 1966)
Emitt Rhodes – You Should Be Ashamed (Dunhill 1970)
The Creation – Life Is Just Beginning (Polydor 1967)

Thanks, as ever, to everyone who tuned in. No technical problems this week! I’ll be back next week with more pop-tastic tunes. Your contributions are always appreciated and very much welcomed. Tonight’s show included requests for David Paul (Edinburgh), Joe Haining (Milan), Simon Goddard (London), John Turnbull (Edinburgh), Sheila Godfrey (East Kilbride), Phil Jordan (Seattle), Virgina Henning Mill (Indianapolis), Gary Durkin (Edinburgh),  Sue McGookin, Martyn Rollo (Kirkcaldy), Alison Crow (Linlithgow) and Michael Pedersen (Edinburgh).

You can tune in every Thursday night between 8.30pm and 10pm on 98.8 FM in and around Edinburgh and online via www.leithfm.co.uk or using TuneIn Web Tuner.You can also join in the chat during the show on the “Where The Action Is (Radio Show)” Facebook page. If you’re listening in the USA the show starts at approximately 1230 (PST), 1330 (MST), 1430 (CST) and 1530 (EST).

Requests are welcome for the show, including the features, and I’ll try and accommodate them all, although it may take a couple of weeks to slot them all in.

That’s it for this week. Until next time, it’s good day and good health.

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Playlist: Where The Action Is – Thu 22 Sep 2011 LEITH FM

Welcome to another fun-filled, feast of frippery that is Where The Action Is. On tonight’s musical menu we have the best music you’ve never heard from the late 50s through to the early 70s – including mod, soul, freakbeat, girl groups, baroque pop, folk and beat groups – we’ll have all of our regular features. We’ll play a round of the Connect 3 puzzle (can you guess the link between the three tracks?), have a Birthday track for a singer born on this day, the Half-Time Instrumental, a Foreign Language track (which country will we visit this week?), the Under the Influence choice and this week’s Two of a Kind as well as our weekly visit to the Death Disco.

The Kinks – She’s Got Everything (Pye 1968)
Tony Newman – Let The Good Times Roll (Decca 1968) (Show Theme)
October Country – October Country (Epic 1968)
The Majority – One Third (Decca 1966)
Al Casey & The KC-Ettes – Guitars Guitars Guitars (Stacy 1963) 
Judy Carne – Sock It To Me (Reprise 1969)
Gary Usher – Sacramento (Capitol 1964) (Connect 3)
Jan and Dean – Honolulu Lulu (Liberty 1963) (Connect 3)
Nancy Sinatra – Jackson (Reprise 1967) (Connect 3)
The Bystanders – My Way of Thinking (Unreleased Year Unknown)
Glenda Collins – It’s Hard to Believe It (Pye 1966)
Toni Basil – I’m 28 (A&M 1966) (Birthday: 22/9/43 Toni Basil)
Cher – Come To Your Window (Imperial 1965)
The Small Faces – Understanding (Decca 1966)
David Ede & The Go Man Go Men – Bootnik (Pye 1961) (Half-Time Instrumental)
Peanut – Thank Goodness for the Rain (Pye 1965)
The Searchers – C’est de Notre Age (Vogue 1965) (Foreign Language)
The Flies – (I’m Not Your) Steppin’ Stone (Decca 1966)
Beverley Warren – Let Me Get Close To You (Rust 1965)
Ray Peterson – Tell Laura I Love Her (RCA 1960) (Death Disco)
The Wildcats – What Are We Gonna Do in ’64? (Reprise 1963)
The Spongetones – (My Girl) Maryanne (Ripete 1984) (Under The Influence)
Fanny – Ain’t That Peculiar (Reprise 1971)
Lesley Gore – Brink of Disaster (Mercury 1967)
Isley Brothers – This Old Heart of Mine (Is Weak for You) (Motown 1966) (Two of a Kind)
Isley Brothers – I Guess I’ll Always Love You (Motown 1962) (Two of a Kind)
Gayle Harris – They Never Taught That in School (Carlton 1963)
The Creation – Life Is Just Beginning (Polydor 1967)

Thanks, as ever, to everyone who tuned in and apologies for the technical problems, which I blame on (a) the new playout system and (b) a couple of mislabelled CDs. I’ll be back next week with more pop-tastic tunes. Your contributions are always appreciated and very much welcomed. Tonight’s show included requests for Lenny Helsing, David Paul (Edinburgh), @MarriedtotheMoz (Julie, London on Twitter), Mrs Cat (Dunfermline), Claire Kinnaird (Kinross), Simon Goddard (London), John Turnbull (Edinburgh), Sheila Godfrey (East Kilbride), Jim Selfridge (Bonnyrigg), Peter Finan, Joe Haining (Milan), Martyn Rollo (Kirkcaldy), Gary Durkin (Edinburgh), Cally-Marie Baldwin (Glenrothes), Chloe Newton (Glenrothes) and John Cavanagh (Glasgow).

You can tune in every Thursday night between 8.30pm and 10pm on 98.8 FM in and around Edinburgh and online via www.leithfm.co.uk or using TuneIn Web Tuner.You can also join in the chat during the show on the “Where The Action Is (Radio Show)” Facebook page. If you’re listening in the USA the show starts at approximately 1230 (PST), 1330 (MST), 1430 (CST) and 1530 (EST).

Requests are welcome for the show, including the features, and I’ll try and accommodate them all, although it may take a couple of weeks to slot them all in.

That’s it for this week. Until next time, it’s good day and good health.

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Playlist: Where The Action Is – Thu 15 Sept 2011 LEITH FM

It’s Thursday, it’s 8.30pm and it’s Where The Action Is. As well as the best music you’ve never heard from the late 50s through to the early 70s – including mod, soul, freakbeat, girl groups, baroque pop, folk and beat groups – we’ll have all of our regular features. We’ll play a round of the Connect 3 puzzle (can you guess the link between the three tracks?), have a Birthday track for a singer born on this day, the Half-Time Instrumental, a Foreign Language track (which country will we visit this week?), the Under the Influence choice and this week’s Two of a Kind as well as our weekly visit to the Death Disco.

The Raspberries – Overnight Sensation (Hit Record) (Capitol 1974)
Tony Newman – Let The Good Times Roll (Decca 1968) (Show Theme)
The Chiffons – Three Dips of Ice Cream (Laurie 1969)
The Action – Land of 1000 Dances (Parlophone 1965)
Diane Renay – The Company You Keep (New Voice 1965) 
Las Dilly Sisters – Sometimes Good Guys Don’t Wear White (Gordo 1968)
Stacy Cane – Funny Face (Jubilee 1965) (Connect 3)
The Ivy League – Funny How Love Can Be (Piccadilly 1965) (Connect 3)
Billie Davis – It’s So Funny I Could Cry (Unreleased 1963) (Connect 3)
Shel Naylor – One Fine Day (Decca 1964)
Petula Clark – Round Every Corner (Pye 1965)
Jefferson Airplane – It’s No Secret (RCA 1966) (Birthday: 15/9/41 Signe Anderson)
The Syn – Grounded (Decca 1967)
Francoise Hardy – This Little Heart (Ce Petit Coeur) (Vogue 1966)
The Tune Rockers – The Green Mosquito (United Artists 1958) (Half-Time Instrumental)
The Beas – International Girl (Chattahoochee 1965)
Marie Laforêt – A Demain My Darling (Festival 1965) (Foreign Language)
The Knickerbockers – I Must Be Doing Something Right (Challenge 1966)
Nick Garrie – Wheel of Fortune (Disc AZ 1969)
Dickey Lee – Patches (Smash 1962) (Death Disco)
The Hollies – When The Light’s Turned On (Parlophone 1967)
The Barracudas – We’re Living in Violent Times (EMI 1981) (Under The Influence)
Fanny – Come on and Hold Me (Reprise 1970)
The Human Instinct – Pink Dawn (Deram 1967)
Smokey Robinson and the Miracles – Mickey’s Monkey (Tamla 1963) (Two of a Kind)
Smokey Robinson and the Miracles – (Come ‘Round Here) I’m The One You Need (Tamla 1966) (Two of a Kind)
Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood – Lady Bird (Reprise 1967)
Gene Vincent – Temptation Baby (Unreleased 1963)
Tony Newman – Let The Good Times Roll (Decca 1968)

Thanks, as ever, to everyone who tuned in. I’ll be back next week with more pop-tastic tunes. Your contributions are always appreciated and very much welcomed. Tonight’s show included requests for Catriona Vernal (Edinburgh), Jose Maldonado (Los Angeles), Julie Cruickshank (Edinburgh), Gary Durkin (Edinbugrh), John Cavanagh (Glasgow), Joe Haining (Milan), Simon Goddard (London).

You can tune in every Thursday night between 8.30pm and 10pm on 98.8 FM in and around Edinburgh and online via www.leithfm.co.uk or using TuneIn Web Tuner.You can also join in the chat during the show on the “Where The Action Is (Radio Show)” Facebook page. If you’re listening in the USA the show starts at 1230 (PST), 1330 (MST), 1430 (CST) and 1530 (EST).

Requests are welcome for the show, including the features, and I’ll try and accommodate them all, although it may take a couple of weeks to slot them all in.

That’s it for this week. Until next time, it’s good day and good health.

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Playlist: Where The Action Is – Thu 8 Sep 2011 LEITH FM

Hey groovy cats, it’s time for another edition of Where The Action Is. As well as the best music you’ve never heard from the late 50s through to the early 70s – including mod, soul, freakbeat, girl groups, baroque pop, folk and beat groups – we’ll have all of our regular features. We’ll play a round of the Connect 3 puzzle (can you guess the link between the three tracks?), have a Birthday track for a singer born on this day, the Half-Time Instrumental, a Foreign Language track (which country will we visit this week?), the Under the Influence choice and this week’s Two of a Kind as well as our weekly visit to the Death Disco.

Brenda Holloway – Starting The Hurt All Over Again (Tamla 1967)
Tony Newman – Let The Good Times Roll (Decca 1968) (Show Theme)
The Love Affair – A Day Without Love (CBS 1968)
The Who – I’m a Boy (original version) (Reaction 1965)
The Hollies – I’ve Got a Way of My Own (Parlophone 1965) 
Val McKenna – Now That You’ve Made Up Your Mind (Piccadilly 1965)
The Honeys – He’s a Doll (Warners 1964) (Connect 3) For Rory Aston Langham
The Paper Dolls – Someday (Pye 1968) (Connect 3)
Mike Berry & The Outlaws – My Baby Doll (Decca 1961) (Connect 3)
The Score – Please Please Me (Decca 1966)
Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell – Good Lovin’ Ain’t Easy To Come By (Motown 1969)
The Beau Brummels – Two Days ‘ Til Tomorrow (Warners 1967) (Birthday: 8/9/42 Sal Valentino)
Marc Bolan – Third Degree (Decca 1966)
Nick Garrie – Stephanie City (Disc AZ 1969)
Dave Pike – Sweet Tater Pie (Atlantic 1966) (Half-Time Instrumental)
Platform Six – Girl Down Town (Piccadilly 1965)
Les Gam’s avec Annie Markan – Impatiente (D’être Seule Pour Pleurer) (Mercury 1964) (Foreign Language)
Fanny – One Step at a Time (Reprise 1970)
The Mark Four – I’m Leaving (Decca 1965)
Betty Barnes – Requiem (For a Girl Born of the Wrong Times) (Kapp 1968) (Death Disco)
The Beach Boys – I Do (Unreleased 1963)
The Orchids – The Way That You Move (Pebble 2011) (Under The Influence)
Dusty Springfield – I Can’t Give Back The Love I Feel for You (1998 remix) (Philips 1968)
Sea-ders – Thanks a Lot (Decca 1967)
Billie Davis – Wasn’t It You (Decca 1967) (Two of a Kind)
Billie Davis – Say Nothin’ Don’t Tell (Columbia 1964) (Two of a Kind)
The Yum Yums – Looky Looky (What I Got) (ABC-Paramount 1965)
Tony Newman – Let The Good Times Roll (Decca 1968)

Thanks, as ever, to everyone who tuned in. I’ll be back next week with more pop-tastic gems. Your contributions are always appreciated and very much welcomed. Tonight’s show included requests for George (Liverpool), Catriona Vernal (Edinburgh), Gary Durkin (Edinburgh), Joe Haining (Milan), Simon Goddard (London) and Chris (Edinburgh).

You can tune in every Thursday night between 8.30pm and 10pm on 98.8 FM in and around Edinburgh and online via www.leithfm.co.uk or using TuneIn Web Tuner.You can also join in the chat during the show on the “Where The Action Is (Radio Show)” Facebook page. If you’re listening in the USA the show starts at 1230 (PST), 1330 (MST), 1430 (CST) and 1530 (EST).

Requests are welcome for the show, including the features, and I’ll try and accommodate them all, although it may take a couple of weeks to slot them all in.

That’s it for this week. Until next time, it’s good day and good health.

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Playlist: Jocknroll Radio – Sun 4 Sep 2011 LEITH FM

Welcome to a special one-off edition of Jocknroll Radio. I played some of my favourite Scottish artists from the 1960s through to the current day. We also had a number of features, including a round of Connect 3, Something Old Something New, Bus to Bellshill, a Scottish 12″ mix, Nova Scotia, The A to Z of Jocknroll and Twa of a Kind.

Camera Obscura – Honey in the Sun (4AD 2009)
The Beatstalkers – Base Line (Decca 1966) (Show Theme)
Belle and Sebastian – I’m a Cuckoo (Rough Trade 2004)
Roddy Hart – Send a Message (Vertical 2009)
Daniel Wylie – Define Love (Neon Tetra 2007) 
Bis – Action and Drama (Wiiija 1999)
Justin Currie – What Is Love For? (Rykodisc 2007)
Sergeant – Sunshine (Shy Recordings 2009)
The Blue Nile – Because of Toledo (Epstein 2004) (Connect 3)
Green Peppers/Isobel Campbell – Blink of an Eye (Neon Tetra 2007) (Connect 3)
Ivor Cutler – Yellow Fly (Virgin 1975) (Connect 3)
Attic Lights – Never Get Sick of the Sea (Island 2008)
Trashcan Sinatras – Prisons (Lo-Five Records 2009)
The Associates – Party Fears Two (WEA 1982) 12″
The Poets – That’s The Way It’s Got to Be (Decca 1965) (Something Old, Something New)
Ally Kerr – Could Have Been a Contender (Much Obliged 2007) (Something Old, Something New)
BMX Bandits – The Road of Love Is Paved With Banana Skins (Shoeshine 2003) (Bus to…Bellshill)
Teenage Fanclub – Slow Fade (PeMA 2005) (Bus to…Bellshill)
The Bluebells – Wishful Thinking (Will She Always Be Waiting) (London 1984)
Orange Juice – I Can’t Help Myself (Polydor 1982)
Randolph’s Leap – As I Lie In the Mud (Download 2010) (Nova Scotia)
The Reindeer Section – Cartwheels (Bright Star 2002)
Aztec Camera – The Boy Wonders (Rough Trade 1983) (The A to Z of Jocknroll – A)
Aberfeldy – Heliopolis By Night (Rough Trade 2004) (The A to Z of Jocknroll – A)
The Orchids – Thaumaturgy (Sarah 1992) (Twa of a Kind)
The Orchids – The Way That You Move (Pebble 2011) (Twa of a Kind)
Superstar – Superstar (Camp Fabulous 1997)
Big Dish – Miss America (WEA 1990)
The View – Grace (1965 2011)

Thanks, as ever, to everyone who tuned in. I’ll be back on Thursday with my normal show, Where The Action Is. Your contributions are always appreciated and very much welcomed. Tonight’s show included requests for Gaz Sharpe, Philip Stout, Mrs Cat, Rocky and Simon Goddard.

You can tune in every Thursday night between 8.30pm and 10pm on 98.8 FM in and around Edinburgh and online via www.leithfm.co.uk or using TuneIn Web Tuner.You can also join in the chat during the show on the “Where The Action Is (Radio Show)” Facebook page. If you’re listening in the USA the show starts at 1230 (PST), 1330 (MST), 1430 (CST) and 1530 (EST).

Requests are welcome for the show, including the features, and I’ll try and accommodate them all, although it may take a couple of weeks to slot them all in.

That’s it for this week. Until next time, it’s good day and good health.

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Playlist: Where The Action Is – Thu 1 Sep 2011 LEITH FM

Welcome to another edition of the pop-tastic Where The Action Is. We have the best music you’ve never heard from the late 50s through to the early 70s, including mod, soul, freakbeat, girl groups, baroque pop, folk and beat groups. There’s also our regular features, which include the Connect 3 puzzle (can you guess the link between the three tracks?), the Birthday track, the Half-Time Instrumental, a Foreign Language track (which country will we visit this week?), the Under the Influence choice and this week’s Two of a Kind as well as our weekly visit to the Death Disco.

The Searchers – Love Potion Number 9 (Pye 1963) RIP JERRY LEIBER
Tony Newman – Let The Good Times Roll (Decca 1968) (Show Theme)
The Lollipops – Lies (Polydor 1967)
Jimmy Radcliffe – (There Goes) The Forgotten Man (Musicor 1962)
The Hollies – Pay You Back With Interest (Imperial 1967) 
Betty Everett – Hound Dog (Vee-Jay 1963) RIP JERRY LEIBER
Ginger & The Snaps – Seven Days in September (MGM 1965) (Connect 3)
Paul & Ritchie & The Cryin’ Shames – September in the Rain (Decca 1966) (Connect 3)
Big Star – September Gurls (Ardent 1974) (Connect 3)
Timebox – Poor Little Heartbreaker (Decca 1969)
The Cyrkle – The Visit (She Was Here) (Columbia 1967)
Diane Ray – Please Don’t Talk To the Lifeguard (Mercury 1963) (Birthday: 1/9/42 Diane Ray)
The Shangri-las – Bulldog (Red Bird 1965) RIP JERRY LEIBER
The Attack – Anymore Than I Do (Decca 1967)
The Jeff Rowena Group – Peanut Vendor (Pye 1961) (Half-Time Instrumental)
The Riot Squad – Nevertheless (Pye 1965)
Jackie Lee – Rupert der Bar (Pye 1970) (Foreign Language)
Lulu – I Keep Forgettin’ (Columbia 1969) RIP JERRY LEIBER
Glenda Collins – In The First Place (HMV 1963)
The Everley Brothers – Ebony Eyes (Warner Bros 1961) (Death Disco)
Keith Shields – Hey Gyp (Dig The Slowness) (Decca 1967)
The Smithereens – Behind The Wall of Sleep (Enigma 1987) (Under The Influence)
Nick Garrie – Bungles Tours (AZ 1969)
The Soul Agents – Don’t Break It Up (Pye 1965)
Kim Weston – Helpless (Motown 1966) (Two of a Kind)
Kim Weston – Another Train Coming (Motown 1964) (Two of a Kind)
Tippie & The Clovers – The Bossa Nova (My Heart Said) (Tiger 1962) RIP JERRY LEIBER
The 5th Dimension – Another Day, Another Heartache (Soul City 1967)
Helen Shapiro – It Might As Well Rain Until September (EMI 1964)
Tony Newman – Let The Good Times Roll (Decca 1968)

Thanks, as ever, to everyone who tuned in. I’ll be back next week with more goodies. Your contributions are always appreciated and very much welcomed. Tonight’s show included requests for Joe Haining (Milan), Gary Durkin (Edinburgh), David Paul (Edinburgh), Catriona Vernal (Edinburgh), Jim Selfridge (Bonnyrigg), Steven Birrell (Manchester Airport Departure Lounge!!) and Don McKinzie (Atlanta, Georgia).

You can tune in every Thursday night between 8.30pm and 10pm on 98.8 FM in and around Edinburgh and online via www.leithfm.co.uk or using TuneIn Web Tuner.You can also join in the chat during the show on the “Where The Action Is (Radio Show)” Facebook page. If you’re listening in the USA the show starts at 1230 (PST), 1330 (MST), 1430 (CST) and 1530 (EST).

Requests are welcome for the show, including the features, and I’ll try and accommodate them all, although it may take a couple of weeks to slot them all in.

That’s it for this week. Until next time, it’s good day and good health.

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