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PLAYLIST FROM OCTOBER 13
Rock It/Rockin Brothers (RnB-US, 1954)
Alone/Kaye Sisters (Philips,1957)
It's nice to get Trav'ling/Frank Sinatra (Capitol, 1960)
Girl of my best Friend/Elvis Presley (RCA, 1960 a hit single much later)
SHOW TUNE: What kind of fool am I/Anthony Newley((Decca,1961 from 'Stop The World I Want To Get Off')
Tower of Strength/Gene McDaniels (London,1961)
I'll never dance Again/Bobby Rydell (Cameo-US, 1962)
March of the Siamese Children/Kenny Ball (Pye Jazz Today, 1962)
Mo'Onions/Booker T & Mgs (Stax-US,1962)
Peppermint Twist/Joey Dee & Starlighters (Columbia,1962)
Just like Eddie/Heinz (Decca,1963)
Vaya con Dios/Julie London (Capitol, 1963)
Only heartbreaks for Me/Jimmy Justice (Pye,1965)
I've got five Dollars/Gene Pitney & George Jones (Musicor-US,1965)
Take me for what I'm Worth/Searchers (Pye,1965)
Canadian Sunset/Symbols (President, 1966)
Funny how time slips Away/Georgie Fame (Columbia,1966)
Elusive Butterfly/Bob Lind (Fontana, 1966)
Night of the long Grass/Troggs (Page One, 1967)
TV THEME: Please Sir/Sam Fonteyn (ITV)
It'll never happen Again/Cilla Black (Parlophone, 1969 from 'Surround Yourself With Cilla')
Joanne/Michael Nesmith (RCA, 1970)
Reach out and Touch/Aretha Franklin (Atlantic-US,1971)
Gonna make you a Star/David Essex (CBS, 1974)
Right back when we started From/Maxine Nightingale (UA, 1975)
Old before my Time/Impressions (Curtom-US, 1975 from 'First Impressions')
All out of Love/Air Supply (Arista, 1980)
She fights that lovin Feeling/Pat Boone (Bulldog, 1986 from 'Golden Collection')
HAVE YOU HEARD THIS ONE: Breaking up is hard to Do/Eydie Gorme (President,1986 60's hit for Neil Sedaka)
Lonely Place/Allan James (But!,2015 from the CD 'Doors To Somewhere')
Still searching for that heart of Gold/Terence Blacker (see http://www.terenceblacker.com/
Out on the Western Fen/Chuck Cash & The Fenland Cowboys (more information at http://www.chuck-cash.co.uk/)

opening theme is Bondage ; closing theme is Man of Mystery by Steve Stannard (Embassy Records)




Are you a Gene Pitney fan? - he's in the show most weeks but we have a weekly one-hour programme 'Gene Pitney And Friends' on twelve radio stations(ten in the UK). We started this month on a local station in Gene's home-state of Connecticut - see details below and since then two further stations have joined us - West Norfolk Radio and Serenity Sound Radio. A Facebook page has been set up to support the programme, take requests and for information on the artist you won't find published elsewhere. It's a closed group so you need to apply to join The Gene Pitney Show. 

From a new label to me, SFE, comes a clutch of Cilla Black releases. I think the best of the bunch offers Cilla's 1969 'Surround Yourself With Cilla' LP and the mid-70's release 'It Makes Me Feel Good'. The liner notes include a 2009 interview with Cilla, too. And watch out for the Cilla release in November, too, featuring Cliff Richard and others. 

Jasmine Records have a great new Jimmy Justice CD. Although he only had a handful of UK hits he made some great singles over a four year period for Pye...most of them collected here together with really good album tracks from the day. Really popular on the programme, we feature one of his later tracks this week. 

Really good set from the Monkees issued by Rhino. All nine albums from 'Meet The Monkees' through to 'Changes' in 1970 - plays started this month - all CD's in the original sleeves, too. And there's a bonus CD, too, with later recordings. We feature a Mike Nesmith solo track this week. 








Between 1959 and 1964 Nina Simone recorded for Colpix Records in the States and now Stateside Records - part of Warner Music Group - issue a double CD of her singles for the label. My favourite track is the stunning 'Solitaire; recorded in 1959, often on our playlist.


A while back, ZONE RECORDS issued a double CD of a classic Rod McKuen London concert and now there is a second release containing tracks from his BBC-TV series in the early 1970's. The liner notes tell the story behind the TV specials. This is a superb collection.

An interesting release from Millie Jackson featuring her Spring Records sides - 'Exposed'. Now these tracks have been re-mixed but they sound pretty good to us, on the playlist pretty regularly. 

I always look forward to the CD compilations from ACE RECORDS as well and they always bring surprises. 'Baby I've Got It - More Motown Girls' contains many tracks being made available for the first time, including Gladys Knight & The Pips, the Marvelettes and Kim Weston.

                                                            







Our show is now broadcast (BST) here on  ABC Oldies on Saturdays at 0700, Sundays at Midday, Wednesdays at 1300 and Thursdays at 2000. Then we are on Isles FM - www.isles.fm - on Monday mornings at 1000 and Thursday afternoons and there's a mid-week overnight broadcast as well.You can hear the programme on Miskin Radio - http://www.miskinradio.co.uk/ - each Saturday at 1800. There is then Soul Beat Radio - after 0900 Tuesdays, see http://www.soulbeat-radio.com/ for more about the station.  The show is also broadcast on Replay Radio - http://www.replayradio.org Sunday at 0900, Tuesday at 0600, Wednesday at 1600 and Friday at 1300;we also have Replay Radio Plus - a new station for us -  on Tuesday at 0800 and Thursday at 2100 - http://replayradiorock.net/  .The programme is also heard on WRFN UK GOLD  -  go to  http://www.wrfn-uk-gold.uk/ at Midday on Mondays and repeated on Sundays at 1600. WRFN broadcast the show on Sundays at 0900, Tuesdays at Midday and overnight Thursdays at Midnight at http:///www,wrfn1025.org .   Now to  Wigan FM  - go to http://wiganfm.com/ -  this station broadcasts the programme  on Tuesdays and Fridays at 2000, but from September 19 the Tuesday evening broadcast moves to Wednesday at Midday.  WNR - West Norfolk Radio  play the show on Mondays at 1900 and on Thursdays at 1300.  Find them at http://www,westnorfolkradio.co.uk . Then we have Serenity Sound Radio on Sundays at 1000 -  http://www.serenitysoundradio.com/ and Vulcan Sound Radio on Wednesdays at 1900 -http://www.vulcansoundradio.co.uk/.  Bullseye Radio based in Texas, US play the programme on Fridays local time at 1900 - http://bullseyeradio.com/tune. This station is licensed in the US by BMI-ASCAP. 


The Gene Pitney Show is broadcast (BST) as follows - 
www.replayradio.org at Sunday at 0800 and Wednesday at 1800
https://www.perfectunefm.com/ on Saturday 2100 local time in Connecticut **NEW**
http://www.wrfn-uk-gold.uk/  on Monday at 0600, Tuesday at 1900 and Thursday at 2000 
http://www.abcoldies.com Monday night into Tuesday morning Midnight until 0100
http://www.isles.fm/ at 2100 on Tuesday & 2300 Friday
http://www.serenitysoundradio.com/ on Tuesday at 1800
http://www.westnorfolkradio.co.uk/  on Wednesday at 0100
https://replayradiorock.net/ REPLAY PLUS **NEW* STATION on Tuesday at 1000 and Thursday at 2300
http://wiganfm.com/ on Monday at 2300
 http://www.wrfn-uk-gold.uk/ with the ARCHIVE SHOW on Saturdays at 2000 and Tuesdays at Midday


All of these programmes are produced on a free-to-air basis. For more information please contact Radio Services by e-mail - rodneyrs@btinternet.com or send a message to our Radio Services Page on Facebook. Same address please for enquiries about RADIO OUTREACH. For requests for our shows  - rodney.collins@gmail.com

I have been in the media business now for 50 years starting out with local newspapers in Surrey and then Record Mirror and Music Week, part of the Billboard group. I then joined Pye Records/ATV and Stoll-Moss Theatres at the end of the 60’s. In 1971 I moved to BBC Radios 1 & 2 in the early 70’s and then worked for Radio Luxembourg/Atlantic 252 in a management capacity and then ran local commercial stations in Glasgow, London and the Isles of Man and Lewis. My programme is currently broadcast by a mix of FM and internet stations and I am on the Board of Directors of one FM station and a Board consultant to another. In 2002 we had a world exclusive on Frank Sinatra on Isles FM - see http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/1790935.stm or http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/sinatras-carousel-song-gets-airplay-after-14-years-671738.html










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