For One Night Only

9 Nov 2022

Robert King – Writer, Poet, Teacher, Out Proud JOY Presenter – Part 1

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Robert King – Writer, Poet, Teacher, Out Proud JOY Presenter – Part 1

In Part 1 of this episode of For One Night Only (FONO), Pete Holmes talks 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.