Playlist: Where The Action Is – Thu 16 Feb LEITH FM

This week sees the second of three consecutive ‘special’ editions of Where The Action Is. This week, following our first in October, we have another special show celebrating the songs and music of John Carter. We’ll still have most of our regular features such as two rounds of Connect 3, a Foreign Language track (which country will we visit this week?) and this week’s Two of a Kind. There’s also a Death Disco track and a trip to the Land of 1000 Dances. Double Rubble, Under The Influence and the Half-Time Instrumental are taking a week off.

The Tots – Please Yourself (Philips 1974)
The Beatstalkers – Base Line (Decca 1966) (Show Theme)
Kentucky Freeway – Take-Off (Penny Farthing 1971)
Ohio Express – Cowboy Convention (Buddah 1970)
Goldie and the Gingerbreads – Can’t You Hear My Heartbeat (Decca 1965) 
Shirley Abicair – Am I Losing You? (Piccadilly 1967)
The First Class – Sunday Child (Unreleased 1977) (Connect 3)
Ministry of Sound – Sunday In The Park (Sunny 1966) (Connect 3)
John Carter – Sunday For Tea (Unreleased 1967) (Connect 3)
Manfred Mann – Semi-Detached Suburban Mr James (Fontana 1966)
Brenda Lee – Is It True? (Brunswick 1964)
The Rockin’ Berries – Let’s Try Again (Piccadilly 1965) (Birthday: 16/2/42 Clive Lea)
Fat Man’s Music Festival – Highway of Our Dreams (Specter 1969)
Californians – The Cooks of Cake and Kindness (Fontana 1969)
The Ivy League – Friday (Piccadilly 1966)
John Carter – When I Dance With You (Unreleased 1966)
Nashville Teens – Too Much (London 1964)
Episode Six – Time and Motion Man (Unreleased 66-68)
London Boys – Eyes of Kazan (BASF 1969)
The Ivy League – Dance To The Locomotion (Piccadilly 1965) (Land of 1000 Dances)
Kincade – Get a Proper Job (Global 1980)
Kincade – Jenny Jenny (Penny Farthing 1975) (Foreign Language)
John Carter – She Won’t Show Up Tonight (Unreleased 1965?)
John Carter – Mad (Unreleased 1966?) (Death Disco)
Butterwick – The Thought of Losing You (MAM 1972)
Frogg – Halleuja Roller (Spark 1972)
Running Jumping Standing Still Band – Aye-O (Liberty 1969) (Under The Influence)
South Wheels – Sidewalk Johnny (Epic 1976) (Connect 3)
The Ministry of Sound – Mary, Mary (Sunny 1966) (Connect 3)
The First Class – Bobby Dazzler (UK 1974) (Connect 3)
Tony Jackson and the Vibrations – That’s What I Want (Pye 1965)
The Troggs – Hip Hip Hooray (Page One 1968)
The Flower Pot Men – You Can Never Go Wrong (Deram 1968) (Two of a Kind)
The Flower Pot Men – Say Goodbye to Yesterday (Unreleased 1970) (Two of a Kind)

Thanks, as always, to everyone who tuned in and to those who also joined in on the Facebook page. A very special mention to Maggie, who proposed via my show to John, who, in turn, accepted when he phoned the show. Your contributions and feedback are always welcomed and if there’s something you want to hear on the show then by all means let me know.

Tonight’s show included requests for Joe Haining (Milan), Luigi Theodossiou (Milan), Carol-Anne Welch (Glasgow) and Virginia Mills (Indianapolis) amongst others.

You can now tune in every Thursday night between 9pm and 11pm 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 1300 (PST), 1400 (MST), 1500 (CST) and 1600 (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.

Coming soon:

Thu 23 Feb: Academy Awards – A movie-themed special
Thu 1 Mar: Normal show
Thu 8 Mar: Normal show

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

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Playlist: Where The Action Is – Thu 20 Oct 2011 LEITH FM (John Carter special)

Welcome to a very special edition of Where The Action Is, dedicated to the work of legendary singer, songwriter and producer John Carter, who celebrated his birthday today. We’ll play a round of the Connect 3 puzzle (can you guess the link between the three John Carter tracks?), have a Birthday track for the man himself, the Half-Time Instrumental, a Foreign Language track (which country will we visit this week?) and this week’s Two of a Kind as well as our weekly visit to the Death Disco.

First Class – Beach Baby (UK 1974)
Tony Newman – Let The Good Times Roll (Decca 1968) (Show Theme)
The Ivy League – Tossing and Turning (Piccadilly 1965)
Music Explosion – Little Bit O Soul (Stateside 1967)
Sagittarius – My World Fell Down (Columbia 1967)) 
John Carter – Rowntree’s Jelly Tots advert
Britt – You Really Have Started Something (Piccadily 1965)
John Carter – Winchester Cathedral (Demo 1966) (Connect 3)
First Class – Coney Island (Unreleased 1972) (Connect 3)
Carter-Lewis – Birmingham Brass Band (Demo 1968) (Connect 3)
Lesley Duncan/Val McKenna – Something’s Coming Along (Unreleased 1967)
Mike Sarne/Billie Davis – Will I What? (Parlophone 1962)
John Carter/Terry Kenendy – It’s Your Turn to Cry (Piccadilly 1966) (Birthday: 20/10/42 John Carter)
The Ministry of Sound – White Collar Worker (Decca 1966)
John Carter – British Caledonian advert
Carter Shaw Keen – Time and Motion Man (Demo 1966)
Viv Prince – Light of the Charge Brigade (Decca 1966) (Half-Time Instrumental)
John Carter – Brown and Porter’s (Meat Exporters) Lorry (Demo 1966)
Richard Anthony – Il Faut Croire aux Etoiles (Columbia 1967) (Foreign Language)
John Carter – Bird’s Dream Topping advert
The Flower Pot Men – A Walk in the Sky (Deram 1967)
John Carter – Head to Toe (Demo 1966) (Death Disco)
Dana Gillespie – Thank You Baby (Pye 1965)
The First Class – Life Is Whatever You Want It To Be (UK 1975)
John Carter – Vauxhall Chevette advert
The Hotrods – I Don’t Love Her No More (Columbia 1965)
The McKinleys – Sweet and Tender Romance (Columbia 1964) (Two of a Kind)
The McKinleys – Someone Cares For Me (Columbia 1964) (Two of a Kind)
Tony Newman – Let The Good Times Roll (Decca 1968) (Show Theme)

Thanks to everyone who tuned in for this celebration of a very special man. Your contributions and feedback are always welcomed. I’ll be back next week with another special edition, this time with a Hallowe’en theme. Tonight’s show included requests for Catriona Vernal (Edinburgh), Gary Durkin (Edinburgh), John Cavanagh (Glasgow) and, the great man himself, John Carter.

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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