Playlist: Listen, my friends! ~ Winter/ Spring 2018

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In the words of Moby Grape… listen, my friends! Yes, it’s the (hopefully) monthly playlist presented by George’s Journal just for you good people.

There may be one or two classics to be found here dotted in among different tunes you’re unfamiliar with or have never heard before – or, of course, you may’ve heard them all before. All the same, why not sit back, listen away and enjoy…

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CLICK on the song titles to hear them

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Carmen Miranda ~ Chica Chica Boom Chic (1941)¹

Frank DeVol ~ The Glory Of Love (1967)²

Blood, Sweat & Tears ~
Variations On A Theme By Erik Satie (1st And 2nd Movements) (1968)

The Association ~ Everything That Touches You (1968)

Barry Gray ~ Opening Titles Theme from UFO (1970)

The New Seekers ~ I’d Like To Teach The World To Sing (Live) (1972)

Frank Zappa ~ Don’t Eat The Yellow Snow (1974)

ABBA ~ Ring Ring (Live) (1974)

Jean-Pierre Sabar ~ Vai Vai (1975)

Blo ~ Get That Groove In (1979)

Jenny Logan ~ Shake ‘n’ Vac (1979)

David Essex ~ Silver Dream Machine (1980)³

Mari Wilson ~ Just What I Always Wanted (1982)

Dudley Moore ~ Beethoven’s Colonel Bogey (1988)⁴

Billy Joel, Marlee Matlin and Oscar The Grouch ~ Just The Way You Are (1990)⁵

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¹ From the soundtrack of the recently crowned Best Picture Oscar winner, The Shape Of Water

² As featured over the opening titles of the classic race-relations-tackling comedy drama Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner (1967)

³ Performed on the 1980 New Year’s Eve edition of ITV’s The Kenny Everett Video Show (‘New Year’s Daze Show’) and from the soundtrack of the Essex-starring 1980 motorcycle-racing film drama Silver Dream Racer

⁴  From a Christmas special of Terry Wogan’s iconic BBC chat show, Terry In Pantoland (broadcast on December 21 1988)

⁵ As shown on the January 31 1990 episode of Sesame Street, which  was sponsored by the letter K and the number 11

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