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Forgotten songs from the broom cupboard.

Dec 31, 2020

What a strange year its been. Lets forget about it and party. Here to help us is: Jimmy Shand- Blue Bell Polka, Ian Macpherson- My Ain Folk, Kenneth McKellar- Ae Fond Kiss, The Logan Family- A new year's sing song, Tom Wright- McGinty's Meal and Ale(Part 2), and from 1910, P.A Hope with Auld Lang Syne. Here's tae...


Dec 25, 2020

Sort of a Christmas special but not really. Just warm, comforting and fun music. We hear from Fats Domino  La, La, Tommy Dorsey- I'm getting sentimental over you, Harry Parry and his Radio Rhythm Club Sextet- Dim Blues, Nat King Cole- My Flaming Heart, Eartha Kitt- African Lullaby, Perry Como- Magic Moments, Flanagan...


Dec 18, 2020

Three artists whose voices were precursors to Rock and Roll.  Four from old Leather lungs or steel tonsils himself, Frankie Laine. Jealousy, That's my desire,  Tarriers song and Blowing wild.  Laine had a career spanning an astonishing 75 years. He successfully sang in so many genres of music and was a man with a keen...


Dec 11, 2020

Four tracks from Bob Skyles and his Skyrockets- Swinging with the accordion man, I want to live in Loveland and Swing it Mr drummer man. Classic Kendrick Brothers catchy fun from 1938. Donald Peers is a new artist to me. He had a long career and had his own TV show in the 1960s. He sings the lovely- After the sun's...


Nov 27, 2020

Just one record in this wee FS special. Julie London sings S'Wonderful and Cry me a River,  both recorded in 1955. Cry me a River was originally written for Ella Fitzgerald to sing in the film Pete Kelly's Blues. The film was directed by London's husband of the time Jack Webb(Dragnet).  London obviously saw...