Session #10 – 26 May 2017 – 1977 Playlist

As I said TWO weeks ago, today is all songs from 1977.

What a decade the 70’s were?! Remember… oh yeah, I was only 8 years old in ’77… I don’t remember any music. In fact, most of the music I am playing today I heard on the radio many many years later. Thanks Dad!

Let’s jump straight into it…

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A few weeks ago just before I was going to air I heard on the radio that Chris Cornell of Soundgarden had unfortunately committed suicide. So I have had these two songs ready to play for him…

• Black Hole Sun – Sound Garden
• Only the Good Die Young – Billy Joel

Station Intro
Reminder that nearly all the songs today were first released in 1977.

• Walk this Way – Aerosmith
• Sheena is a Punk Rocker – The Ramones
• Just Like Fire Wood – The Saints
  • I told you this was 1977 to see who was listening. After it played, I told my listeners it was actually released in 1986.
• Solsbury Hill – Peter Gabriel
• The Boys are Back in Town – Thin Lizzy

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• Cold as Ice – Foreigner
• Knowing Me, Knowing You – ABBA
• The Passenger – Iggy Pop

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• White Rabbit – Jefferson Airplane
• My Mistake – Split Enz
• I’m Blown Away – Joan Baez
• The Sounds of Silence – Simon and Garfunkel
• Hold Onto The Night – Starz
• You Really Got Me – The Kinks
• I’m Blown Away – Joan Baez
  • Yes, I may have played this a second time! Did anyone notice?
• Mr Blue Sky – ELO

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• All By Myself – Eric Carmen
• Dancing Queen – ABBA
• Love and Other Bruises – Air Supply
• Free Bird – Lynyrd Skynyrd

List of our Last Four Songs
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• Wish You Were Here – Pink Floyd
• Roll with the Changes – REO Speedwagon

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• She’s Not There – Santana

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• Bridge Over Troubled Water – Simon & Garfunkel
• The Blues had a Baby and called it Rock & Roll – Muddy Waters

List of our Last Four Songs
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• Give a Little Bit – Supertramp
• Heroes – David Bowie
• Cum on Feel the Noize – Slade
• Am I Ever gonna See Your Face Again? – The Angels
• Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood – The Animals
• Nights in White Satin – Moody Blues

List of our Last Six Songs
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• We Gotta Get Out of this Place – The Animals
• Get a Grip on Yourself – The Stranglers
• When I Need You – Leo Sayer
• Big Yellow Taxi – Joni Mitchell
• House of the Rising Sun – The Animals
• End of the Line – Traveling Wilburies

... and about 7 more songs were played – but that short list must have fallen from my pocket on the way home. Drat.

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I asked for another hour!  Because, it’s true, I am enjoying myself. I’ve gotten the hang of it all. There’s still more to learn, but I am truly enjoying myself.

You’re all enjoying it too. Right?

Keep listening to me on 5KIxFM Radio, Kingscote Kangaroo Island, every Friday morning, 10am till 1pm, three hours of PopRock to WakeUp everyone!

Thanks Gethin and Mike for believing in me!

PS: I am not being egotistical, not at all, I am just truly happy to be given this opportunity. When I saw it advertised as a volunteer job, I was truly amazed nobody else taking it. Any skill learnt is a skill gained, plus another job on my CV and my Bucket List.

Session #9 – at Radio 5KIxFM KI – 12.May.2017

This week was meant to be my 1977 playlist, but an unfortunate relocation of my music-storage-flashdrive has delayed that till next Friday. (Good news: The flash-drive was found, but too late!)

So here is the playlist I collected as I went along:

• I Heard It Through the Grapevine – Marvin Gaye
• Sitting on the Dock of the Bay – Otis Reading
• Love Shack – B52’s
• Walk Like an Egyptian – The Bangles

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• Englishman in New York – Sting
• All You Need is Love – The Beatles
• Eye of the Tiger – Survivor
• Living on a Prayer – Bon Jovi
• The Flame – Cheap Trick
• Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds – The Beatles
• My Sharona – The Knack

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The LAST FEW songs were: (AS ABOVE)

• It’s Not Unusual – Tom Jones
• Wild Thing – The Troggs
• Lady in Red – Chris Isaac
• We Built This City on Rock’n’Roll – Starship (STOPPED)

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The LAST FOUR songs were: (AS ABOVE)

• Georgie Girl – The Seekers
• Break me Shake Me – Savage Garden
• Give Peaces a Chance – John Lennon
• Sadie the Cleaning Lady – John Farnham

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The LAST FOUR songs were: (AS ABOVE)

• Mustang Sally – The Commitments
• Joey – Concrete Blonde
• American Woman – Lenny Kravitz
• Walk on the Wildside – Lou Reed

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The LAST FOUR songs were: (AS ABOVE)

• My Generation – The Who
• Great Balls of Fire – Jerry Lee Lewis
• Big Yellow Taxi – Counting Crows
• House of the Rising Sun – Cream

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The LAST FOUR songs were: (AS ABOVE)

• Running Up That Hill – Kate Bush

Message re Last Song!

• My Last Home – Christine Anu

… and I thanked you all for listening.

Next week, 1977 it will be!

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Session #8 – at Radio 5KIxFM KI – 5.May.2017

This was my pre-written script for this morning. I didn’t say it word-for-word, but I did try. Never a good idea.

Good morning to everyone on Kangaroo Island, in Adelaide, and around the world!

The 1960’s, as some may remember, had a lot of newcomer’s putting amazing vocals, guitar-riffs and diverse lyrics into their music. Yet SO many of these people were producing hit tunes that told us what the decade was going through, and how they hoped it all worked out.

Today I have collected music for only one year that decade – 1967. Two years before I was born, 1967 was the year many amazing songs were released. Baby-boomers (my parents generation!) would have had many of them on vinyl records and in their staple radio diet.

Enjoy my playlist. May it bring back memories of your youth, or make you want to sing along, or strum along on your air-guitar!

• The Young Rascals – Groovin‘
• Lulu – To Sir With Love
• The Box Tops – The Letter
• The Association – Windy
• The Doors – Light My Fire
• The Turtles – Happy Together

Happy now? Did that selection light your fire? Or was it too windy? Did you see what I did there? Maybe not. The FIRST SIX songs today were: (AS ABOVE). Now do you see what I did there. Never mind.

<station advert>. Let’s get groovy…

• The Music Explosion – Little Bit O’ Soul
• Tommy James & The Shondells – I Think We’re Alone Now
  NOTE: Recognise that tune? Yes, Tiffany did an interesting rendition way back in 1987. I’ll save it for that collection!
• Stevie Wonder – I Was Made To Love Her (Extended Version)
  NOTE: Stevie was 16 when he recorded this. MoTown signed him when he was 11 years old!

The LAST FOUR songs were: (AS ABOVE).
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• Arthur Conley – Sweet Soul Music
• The Soul Survivors – Expressway To Your Heart
• The Rolling Stones – Ruby Tuesday
• Buffalo Springfield – For What It’s Worth

The LAST FOUR songs were: (AS ABOVE).
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Like listening to these hippy 60’s tunes? Then follow us on Facebook, leave a comment, and tell us where you are in the world. Because we all need…

• Jefferson Airplane – Somebody To Love
• Van Morrison – Brown Eyed Girl
• The Happenings – I Got Rhythm
  FYI: I asked on Facebook if anyone knew this 1977 version. Appeared not. But one friend got the tune stuck in her head for the rest of the day!)
  
• Procol Harum – A Whiter Shade Of Pale
  NOTE: “We skipped the light fandango, turned cartwheels ‘cross the floor” … Lyrics like this come once in a lifetime. Oh, The band name ‘Procol Harum’ was named after a breed of cat.
• The Hollies – On A Carousel
• The 5th Dimension – Up, Up And Away
  Q: Who can remember which Australian airline used this song in their television advertising?
  A: TAA, a long gone Australian airline that I remember flying on in my youth. Listen here

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The LAST SIX songs were: (AS ABOVE).
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• The Cowsills – The Rain, The Park & Other Things
• The Buckinghams – Mercy, Mercy, Mercy
• The Seekers – Georgy Girl
• The Monkees – A Little Bit Me, a Little Bit You
• The Spencer Davis Group – Gimme Some Lovin’

Wow, you know we are getting old when Georgy Girl is now fifty years old!
The LAST FOUR songs were: (AS ABOVE).
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• The Grass Roots – Let’s Live For Today
• Booker T & The MG’s – Groovin’
  NOTE: Recognise the tune? Yep, this was the first song in my playlist today, by The Young Rascals. Sounds a lot different without any lyrics!
• Wilson Pickett – Funky Broadway
• Jefferson Airplane – White Rabbit

The LAST FOUR songs were: (AS ABOVE).
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• Sonny and Cher – The Beat Goes On
• Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell – Ain’t No Mountain High Enough
• Peter Paul & Mary — I Dig Rock And Roll Music
• The Five Americans – Western Union

I had no more songs in my playlist after this, my timing was out by 10minutes. No matter, I winged it from here … and it worked out perfectly!

Wow, what an eclectic mix of music I have played for you today! The LAST FOUR songs today were: (AS ABOVE).

As it is Friday, the last few songs are apt – yet not from 1977. I am sure you can pick them…

• The Chiffons – One Fine Day
• The EasyBeats – Friday on My Mind
• Stevie Wright – Friday on My Mind
• Wendy Matthews – Friday’s Child

SESSION OUTRO and station advert:
Thanks for listening to Radio 5KIX, FM 90.7, Kangaroo Island Community Radio this Friday morning from wherever you are in the world.

See you next Friday, 10.00am till midday – playing songs from 1977!

Session #7 at Radio 5KIxFM KI – 28.April.2017

This was my intro, playlist, and outro today. I was a lot more organised thanks to mentors and family giving me sound advice since last Friday.

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Good morning Kingscote, Good Morning Adelaide, Good Morning to Everyone Listening from around the World! This is Stephen Mitchell, at Radio Station 5 KIX FM, Kangaroo Island Community Radio, 10 AM till Midday.

This morning I am giving you a WHOLE HOST OF AMAZING songs. As I said on Facebook last night, I am playing an ENTIRE album from one particular artist whose album was produced in 1957. Wow!

What I need you to do is tell me who the Artist is … But I am not making it that easy for you!

I’ll still be playing a LOT of songs from the last SIXTY years of Pop Rock! All of them aimed at keeping you awake, on your toes and working hard, wherever you are.

When you think you know WHO the artist is, leave a message …
~ on our Facebook Page ( https://www.facebook.com/5KIxFM90.7 )
~ or on your own Facebook page, and hashtag it with #5KIXFM90.7

This is just for fun, and to find out who is awake!

So… Kangaroo Island… Adelaide… and ALL my online friends around the Planet … Are you Ready? Let’s do this!

• TubThumping – Chumbawaba (1997)
• Beautiful Girl – INXS (1992)
• Freedom – Noiseworks (1990)
• Baby Face – Little Richard (1957)
• Better Days – Robbie Williams (1997)
• Come On Eileen – Dexy’s Midnight Runners (1982)
• Prisoner of Society – The Living End (1997)
• Good Golly Miss Molly – Little Richard (1957)

Wow, another interesting line-up of Artists. Yep, music for every generation to bop along to. Just don’t let the boss catch you singing of those lyrics!

• Forgotten Years – Midnight Oil (1990)
• Eagle Rock – Daddy Cool (1971; 1981)
• Truly Madly Deeply – Savage Garden (1997)
• Tutti Frutti – Little Richard (1957)
• Celebration – Dragon (1987) (Cover, Originally by Kook and the Gang)
• One Summer – Daryl Braithwaite (1989)
• Down Under – Men at Work (1980)
• Lucille – Little Richard (1957)
• Better – Screaming Jets (1991)
• Don’t Bring Me Down – Electric Light Orchestra (1979)
• To The Moon and Back– Savage Garden (1996)
• Slippin’ and Sliding – Little Richard (1957)

Listening in? Figured out who the mystery Artist is from 1957?
Again, leave a comment on our Facebook page if you are sure you know!

• Howzat – Sherbert (Spent 2 weeks at #1 in Australia in 1976) (1976)
• Power and the Passion – Midnight Oil (1983)
• Jumpin’ Jack Flash – The Rolling Stones (1968)
• Rip It Up – Little Richard (1957)

I am mixing up the years again, giving a whole heap from the last 60 years! Surely someone has worked it out … I will tell you soon … or will you tell me?

• Old Before I Die – Robbie Williams (1997)
• Mystify Me – INXS (1987)
• Break Me Shake Me – Savage Garden (1997)
• Talkin’ About Soul – Little Richard (1957)

Wow, that was a MASSIVE list of Artists across 60 years of Rock and Roll – but we are not finished yet. Maybe 1 or 2 more songs by Little … ha, nearly got me!

Have you worked out who my artist from 1957 is yet? Call 5KIxFM on ________ to tell me, or leave a comment on our Facebook page and use the hashtag #5KIXfm907

Ok, here are just a few more to liven up your morning. It’s getting close to midday, so my last song will be by my mystery artist!

• Jump In My Car – Ted Mulry Gang (1975)
• You’re The Voice – John Farnham (1986)
• Keep A’Knocking – Little Richard (1957)

So there you have it, 30+ songs from 1957 onwards, 60 years of popular rock’n’roll! Did you work it out? Who was it?

• Artist: Little Richard
• Album: Tutti Frutti

Thanks for listening, wherever you are in the world. You’ve been listening to Stephen Mitchell on Radio Station 5 KIX FM, Kangaroo Island Community Radio, this fine Friday morning, 10 AM till Midday. Have a good Friday!

Session #6 – 21 April 2017

After a two week absence, I went in with a 8GB flash drive loaded with only my last five playlists – yet still managed to play a lot of stuff I hadn’t actually played before. This is because I always included at least 60 songs each week, but only about 40 get used. Handy, because some songs don’t always turn out to be good for radio – as I have discovered a few times!

So here they are, again in order on my playlist. I bet you enjoyed them!

• What you Need – INXS
• We Didn’t Start the Fire – Billy Joel
• Heroes – David Bowie
• Juxebox in Siberia – Skyhooks
• One Way or Another – Blondie
• In My Youth – Noiseworks
• Out of Mind, Out of Sight – The Models
• Run to Paradise – The Choir Boys
• Somebody that I used to Know – Goyte
• UFO – Sneaky Sound System
• Frente – Accidently Kelly Street
• Let the Good Times Roll – The Animals
• Who’ll Stop the Rain – Creedance Clearwater Revival
• You’re So Van – Chocolate Starfish
• Are You Gonna Be My Girl? – Jet
• Blow Up the Pokies – The Whitlams
• Voodoo Child – Rogue Traders
• Rain – Dragon
• Boys in Town – The Divinyls
• Help is on it’s Way – Little River Band
• Chains – Tina Arena
• My Happiness – Powder Finger
• Bow River – Cold Chisel
• Rolling in the Deep – Adele
• Funky Town – Pseudo Echo
• Janie’s Got a Gun – Aerosmith
• Pretty Woman – Roy Orbison
• Stayin’ Alive – Bee Gees
• We Built this City – Star Ship

Session #5 – 7.April.2017

Another great morning with a wide array of hits. This is what you listened to, in order on my playlist:

1. Let’s Get it Started – Black Eyed Peas
2. Crazy Lil Thing Called Love – Queen
3. Better Be Home Soon – Crowded House
4. Funky Town – Pseudo Echo
5. Fun House – Pink
6. The Power of Love – Huey Lewis
7. Small Town – John Mellencamp
8. Beds are Burning – Midnight Oil
9. In My Youth – Noiseworks
10. Mustang Sally – The Commitments
11. Sabotage – Beastie Boys
12. Catch My Disease – Ben Lee
13. Angel of Harlem – U2
14. Can’t Get You Out of My Head – Kylie Minogue
15. People Have the Power – Patti Smith
16. Material Girl – Madonna
17. Man in the Mirror – Micheal Jackson
18. Rolling in the Deep – Adele
19. Black Velvet – Alannah Miles
20. Total Eclipse of the Heart – Bonnie Tyler
21. Sweet Dreams are Made of These – Eurythmics
22. Chains – Tina Arena
23. River Deep Mountain High – Ike and Tina Turner
24. Electric Blue – Icehouse
25. Don’t Go Crazy Tonight – U2
26. Gypsy Girl – Wet Wet Wet
27. Summer of 69 – Bryan Adams
28. Like It Like that – Guy Sebastian
29. My Island Home – Christine Anu

Wow, that was a good mix. I play at least 2 U2 songs every time – as they are still my favourite band in the world! And I like to close off with ‘My Island Home’ by Christine Anu, but only if it’s sunny. Just an egocentric thing, nothing more.

Anyhow, hope you all enjoyed my playlist. Until next time, have a good weekend!