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.