Playlist: Where The Action Is – Thursday 24 November 2011 LEITH FM

Welcome to another extended edition of Where The Action Is. We’ll have more of the usual mixbag of music from the late 50s to the early 70s including mod, soul, freakbeat, sunshine pop, girl groups, baroque pop, folk and beat groups, as well as 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 singing guitarist 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 Beatle-ettes – Only Seventeen (Jubilee 1964)
Tony Newman – Let The Good Times Roll (Decca 1968) (Show Theme)
The Flirtations – Nothing But a Heartache (Deram 1968)
The Quik – I Can’t Sleep (Decca 1967)
The Dickens – One of a Kind Woman (Format 1966) 
Sandra Barry – Stop! Thief (Pye 1966)
Heinz & The Wild Boys – Diggin’ My Potatoes (Columbia 1965) (Connect 3)
Butterwick – My Sweet Potato (MAM 1972) (Connect 3)
The Undertakers – (Do The) Mashed Potatoes (Pye 1963) (Connect 3)
Burnside – I Need No Help From You (United Artists 1968)
The Belles – Come Back (Tiara 1966)
The Association – Enter The Young (Valiant 1968) (Birthday: 24/11/39 Jim Yester)
Marmalade – Reflections of My Life (Decca 1969)
Davie Jones & The King Bees – Liza Jane (Vocalion 1964)
The Angels – Get Away From Me (Unreleased 1964)
Fanny – Solid Gold (Reprise 1973)
Dave Clark Five – At The Scene (Epic 1966)
Marcie Blaine – Bobby’s Girl (Seville 1962)
Zoot Money – Zoot’s Suit (Decca 1964) (Half-Time Instrumental)
John Christian Dee – Take Me Along (Pye 1968)
Jacqueine Taeib – 7 Heures du Matin (Impact 1967) (Foreign Language)
George Baker Selection – Little Green Bag (Penny Farthing 1970)
Little Caesar & The Ark Angels – The Ghost of Mary Meade Part 1 (Jack Bee 1960) (Death Disco)
The Love Affair – Rainbow Valley (CBS 1968)
Button Up – Someday (Button Up 2011) (Under The Influence)
Questions – We Got Love (Decca 1968)
The Shirelles – Tonight’s The Night (Scepter 1960)
The Walker Brothers – Deadlier Than The Male (Fontana 1966) (Two of a Kind)
The Walker Brothers – Walking In The Rain (Philips 1967) (Two of a Kind)
Del Shannon – Led Along (Mono) (Liberty 1967)
The Arbors – I Can’t Quit Her (Date 1968)
The Velvelettes – Stop Beating Around The Bush (Unreleased 1964)
Ben E King – I Can’t Break The News To Myself (Atco 1965)
Bobby Fuller Four – Never To Be Forgotten (Mustang 1965)
Dee Dee Dorety – If The World OnlyKnew (Era 1966)
Tony Newman – Let The Good Times Roll (Decca 1968) (Show Theme)

Thanks to everyone who tuned in. Your contributions and feedback are always welcomed. I’ll be back next week with a Jocknroll special to celebrate St. Andrew’s Day with two hours of Scottish bands. Tonight’s show included requests for Kevin Rowan-Drewett (Blackpool), Mrs Cat (Dunfermline), Sheila Godfrey (East Kilbride), Fay Gray, Phil Jordan (Seattle), Catriona Vernal (Edinburgh), Kevin McGachy (Port Glasgow), John Turnbull (Edinburgh), Joe Haining (Milan), Scott Hastie (Glenrothes), Cally-Marie Baldwin (Glenrothes), Colin Mason (Kinghorn), Julie Cruickshank (Leith), Philip Stout (Edinburgh) and Scott Basham (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 – Thursday 17 November 2011 LEITH FM

Welcome to an extended edition of Where The Action Is. We’ll have more of the usual mixbag of music from the late 50s to the early 70s including mod, soul, freakbeat, sunshine pop, girl groups, baroque pop, folk and beat groups, as well as our regular features and a couple of tracks in tribute to Jackie Leven who passed away on Monday. 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 Love Affair – Everlasting Love (CBS 1968)
Tony Newman – Let The Good Times Roll (Decca 1968) (Show Theme)
Herman’s Hermits – Dream On Dream On (I Gotta Dream On) (EMI 1965)
Del Shannon – Cut and Come Again (Liberty 1967)
John Mayall – Looking Back (Decca 1966) 
Trader Horne – Here Comes The Rain (Dawn 1970)
Gary Lewis & The Playboys – Everybody Loves a Clown (Liberty 1965) (Connect 3)
Carlew Choir – Give a Hand To The Clown (Spark 1969) (Connect 3)
The Merry Go Round – A Clown‘s No Good (A&M 1967) (Connect 3)
The Knack – She Ain’t No Good (Decca 1965)
Nita Rossi – Something To Give (Piccadilly 1966)
Samantha Jones – Go Ahead (Ford 1968) (Birthday: 17/11/43)
The Birds – Leaving Here (Decca 1965)
Annette Funicello – Jo Jo the Dog-Faced Boy (Vista 1959)
Harry’s Group – Under My Umbrella (Rainy Day 1967)
Jackie Leven – Classic Northern Diversions (Cooking Vinyl 2003) RIP JACKIE LEVEN
Ravens Rock Group – The Ghoul Friend (Pye 1961) (Half-Time Instrumental)
The Shirelles – Abracadabra (Scepter 1963)
Francoise Hardy – Je Ne Sais Pas Ce Que Je Veux (Vogue 1968) (Foreign Language)
Julie Grant – Somebody Tell Him (Pye 1962)
Marmalade – Station on 3rd Avenue (CBS 1968)
Elaine Arthur – A Singing Star (Dore 1969) (Death Disco)
The Poets – Now We’re Thru (Decca 1964)
The Store Keys – Daddy Was A Mod in the RAF (Barne Society 2011) (Under The Influence)
Andy Pratt – Low Tide Island (Polydor 1969)
Pete Kelly’s Solution – Midnight Confessions (Decca 1968)
The Vernons Girls – He’ll Never Come Back (Decca 1963) (Two of a Kind)
The Vernons Girls – You Know What I Mean (Decca 1962) (Two of a Kind)
Jackie Leven – In a Shivering Blaze (Cooking Vinyl 2010) RIP JACKIE LEVEN
Fanny – Long Road Home (Reprise 1973)
Paula Parfitt – Love is Wonderful (Beacon 1969)
Dean Ford & The Gaylords – The Name Game (Columbia 1965)
The Byrds – Eight Miles High (Columbia 1966)
Tony Newman – Let The Good Times Roll (Decca 1968) (Show Theme)

Thanks to everyone who tuned in. Your contributions and feedback are always welcomed. I’ll be back next week with more of the same. Tonight’s show included requests for Sheila Godfrey (East Kilbride), June Taylor (Southport), Eve Griffin (Exeter), Fay Gray, Phil Jordan (Seattle), Sandi Richters Moore (Davenport, Iowa), Sue McGookin, Virginia Henning Mills (Indianapolis), Catriona Vernal (Edinburgh), Wanda Moore (Alberta, Canada), Kevin McGachy (Port Glasgow), John Turnbull (Edinburgh), Scott Hastie (Glenrothes), Philip Stout (Edinburgh), Robert Cudmore (Dunfermline), Lauree McArdle (Arlington, Virginia) and Gary Durkin (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 – Thursday 10 November 2011 LEITH FM

Welcome to another pop-tastic edition of Where The Action Is. We’ll play all the usual yummy goodness from the late 50s to the early 70s including mod, soul, freakbeat, sunshine pop, girl groups, baroque pop, folk and beat groups, as well as 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.

Marmalade – Wait for Me, Mary-Anne (CBS 1968)
Tony Newman – Let The Good Times Roll (Decca 1968) (Show Theme)
Petula Clark – Gotta Tell The World (Pye 1965)
Dobie Gray – The “In” Crowd (Charger 1964)
The Shirelles – Putty (In Your Hands) (Scepter 1962) 
The Walker Brothers – Love Her (Fontana 1965)
Fontella Bass – Safe and Sound (Chess 1966) (Connect 3)
Warm Sounds – Nite is a Comin’ (Deram 1968) (Connect 3)
Kate – Don’t Make a Sound (CBS 1968) (Connect 3)
Jackie Lee – Love is a Gamble (Pye 1969)
The Attack – Try It (Decca 1967)
Screamin’ Lord Sutch – I’m a Hog for You, Baby (Decca 1963) (Birthday: 10/11/40 David Sutch)
The Byrds – You Movin’ (Unreleased 1964)
Herman’s Hermits – Sunshine Girl (Columbia 1968)
The Association – Your Own Love (Unreleased 1966) (Half-Time Instrumental)
Alan Dean and His Problems – The Time It Takes (Decca 1964)
Pussy Cat – Ba Ba Ba…Boof (RCA Victor 1966) (Foreign Language)
The Caravelles – The Other Side of Love (Pye 1968)
Argosy – Mr Boyd (DJM 1969)
Ronnie Dante – In The Rain (Musicor 1965) (Death Disco)
Dilys Watling – Have Another Dream On Me (Pye 1969)
The Laynes – We Got Time (Two Cat 2011) (Under The Influence)
The Laynes – What’s Gonna Happen If!! (Unreleased 2011) (Under The Influence)
Unit 4+2 – Baby Never Say Goodbye (Decca 1966)
Barbara Ruskin – You Can’t Blame a Girl For Trying (Piccadilly 1965) (Two of a Kind)
Barbara Ruskin – Euston Station (Parlophone 1967) (Two of a Kind)
The Action – The Cissy (Unreleased 1966)

Thanks to everyone who tuned in. Your contributions and feedback are always welcomed. I’ll be back next week with more of the same. Tonight’s show included requests for Sheila Godfrey (East Kilbride), June Taylor (Southport), Eve Griffin (Exeter), Fay Gray, Phil Jordan (Seattle), Sandi Richters Moore (Davenport, Iowa), Sue McGookin, Virginia Henning Mills (Indianapolis), Catriona Vernal (Edinburgh), Graeme Barclay (Edinburgh), Jennie Baillie (Perth), John Turnbull (Edinburgh), Scott Hastie (Glenrothes) and Gary Durkin (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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Butcher Boy/Adam Stafford gig – Langside Hall, Glasgow 19 Nov 2011

Butcher Boy, who I am partial to, plus special guest Adam Stafford, who I’m not partial to, play Langside Hall (1 Langside Avenue, Glasgow G41 2QR) on Saturday 19 November 2011.

Why not pop along and enjoy yourself one last time before you get sucked into the festive hell of office parties, Christmas cards to people you don’t really like and hee-haw on the telly?

This gig is a Vinyl Villain production. That’s Vinyl Villain the blogger and not Vinyl Villains the Edinburgh record shop.

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Playlist: Where The Action Is – Thu 3 Nov 2011 LEITH FM

After two special editions, it’s back to a bread and butter edition of Where The Action Is. Loads of the usual great stuff from the late 50s to the early 70s including mod, soul, freakbeat, girl groups, baroque pop, folk and beat groups, as well as 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.

Two of Each – Colour My World (Pye 1970)
Tony Newman – Let The Good Times Roll (Decca 1968) (Show Theme)
Stamford Bridge – Happiness and Rainy Days (Penny Farthing 1970)
The Yardbirds – A Certain Girl (Columbia 1964)
The Settlers – Major to Minor (Pye 1967) 
Microbe – Groovy Baby (CBS 1969)
The Beatstalkers – Silver Treetop School for Boys (CBS 1967) (Connect 3)
Lorraine Silver – Lost Summer Love (Pye 1965) (Connect 3)
The Good Ship Lollipop – Maxwell’s Silver Hammer (Ember 1969) (Connect 3)
Beverly Ann – He’s Coming Home (RCA 1967)
Small Faces – Get Yourself Together (Immediate 1967)
West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band – If You Want This Love (Reprise 1967) (Birthday: 3/11/48 Michael Lloyd)
Marmalade – There Ain’t No Use In Hanging On (CBS 1967)
The Four Tops – Seven Rooms of Gloom (Motown 1967)
The Fireballs – Torquay (Top Rank 1959) (Half-Time Instrumental)
The Impressions – The Yound Mod’s Forgotten Story (Curtom 1969)
Sonia – Aqui En Mi Nube (Belter 1966) (Foreign Language)
Carter-Lewis & The Southerners – Two Timing Baby (Ember 1961)
The Action – Climbing Up the Wall (Unreleased 1967)
Bob Luman – Let’s Think About Livin’ (Warner Bros 1960) (Death Disco)
Annette Funicello – Dream Boy (Vista 1961)
Linden – If I Had Wings (AED Records 2011) (Under The Influence)
The Creation – How Does It Feel (Polydor 1968)
The Ivy League – Wait a Minute (Piccadilly 1964)
The Shirelles – Boys (Scepter 1960) (Two of a Kind)
The Shirelles – Foolish Little Girl (Scepter 1963) (Two of a Kind)
The Palace Guard – All Night Long (Orange-Empire 1965)
Ike & Tina Turner – I Can’t Believe What You Say (Sue 1964)
Stevie Wonder – Hey, Harmonica Man (Stateside 1964)
Julie Rogers – Long After Tonight Is All Over (Pye 1974)

Thanks to everyone who tuned in. Your contributions and feedback are always welcomed. I’ll be back next week with more of the same. Tonight’s show included requests for Sheila Godfrey (East Kilbride), June Taylor (Southport), Eve Griffin (Exeter), Joanna Rudden (Livingston), David Paul (Edinburgh), Phil Jordan (Seattle), Philip Stout (Edinburgh), Ross White (Penicuik), Julie & Nicola (London), Catriona Vernal (Edinburgh), Lauree McArdle (Arlington, VA), Joe Haining  (Milan), Mark Smith (Kirkclady), John Turnbull (Edinburgh), Mrs Cat (Dunfermline) and Gary Durkin (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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