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.