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For One Night Only

9 Nov 2022

Robert King – Writer, Poet, Teacher, Out Proud JOY Presenter – Part 2

Music, Society & Culture

Robert King – Writer, Poet, Teacher, Out Proud JOY Presenter – Part 2

In Part 2 of this episode of For One Night Only (FONO), Pete Holmes continues talking to his very special guest co-host, Robert King about the mixtape and story of his life so far. Robert is a long-time out, proud presenter on JOY. In July he and his co-hosts celebrated the 10th anniversary of  Yesterday Once More and that show is also about his love of 50s, 60s, 70s, and 80s music. You can check it out at https://joy.org.au/yesterdayoncemore/  He has been a teacher and uni lecturer and is a poet and writer with three books to his name. He plays serious senior table tennis as well.  His mixtape covers 40 years of music and includes Al Martino, Pat Boone, Nat King Cole, Sheb Wooley, Bee Gees, Axiom, Kate Bush, Minnie Riperton, John Farnham, Henry Mancini, The Platters., The Whitlam’s and many, many more.

Here’s the list of Robert’s songs but you’ll have to listen to find out more about each song:

Song Title Song Artist
Here In My Heart Al Martino
April Love Pat Boone
That’ll Be The Day The Crickets
Send For Me Nat King Cole
Secretly Jimmie Rodgers
The Purple People Eater Sheb Wooley
I Saw Her Standing There The Beatles
I Got You Babe Sonny & Cher
America Simon & Garfunkel
How Can You Mend A Broken Heart Bee Gees
A Little Ray Of Sunshine Axiom
Wuthering Heights Kate Bush
Close To Me The Cure
Troy Sinead O’Connor
In These Shoes Kirsty MacColl
I Am What I Am Gloria Gaynor
Loving You Minnie Riperton
Winter In America Doug Ashdown
Help John Farnham
Gethsemane (from Jesus Christ Superstar) Ian Gollan
Love theme from ‘Romeo And Juliet’ Henry Mancini
My Prayer The Platters
Shrimp Boats Jo Stafford
Is That All There Is? Peggy Lee
No Aphrodisiac The Whitlams

For One Night Only is a late-night show on JOY 94.9 and a podcast where people from our rainbow communities get to talk through the mixtape of their lives so far.

Note: This podcast is only available to our Australian listeners due to music copyright requirements.

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