Featuring music from the 50's through to the 80's.
A look at interesting aspects of the songs and the artists; their place in the social, cultural and political contexts of the day and the changes which took place in music during these times.
Some songwriters have a yen for writing songs about villains and about people languishing in prisons. In this week’s program we have a serial killer (‘Mack The Knife’ by Bobby Darin), a geriatric criminal (‘Ma […]
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Birds of a feather tend to flock together, however a variety of birds have nested in this week’s theme. Flying through the hour are blackbirds, doves, seagulls, flamingos and a few novelty tunes relating to chickens […]
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This week’s challenging theme is Air And Breathing. It features some great songs from The Hollies (The Air That I Breathe), Thunderclap Newman (Something In The Air) and a modern Aussie classic – John Paul Young’s […]
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A variety of items ranging from a small pen to huge structures to dolls and toys complement this week’s theme of ‘Inanimate Objects‘. Included in the line-up are three Australian solo artists, a Eurovision Song […]
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Or ‘The First Words Of The Song Are Also The Title Of The Song‘ is the self’explanatory theme for this week. Of note this week are the many ‘big’ names in the music industry, past […]
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With a plethora of songs with ‘you’ in the title it was fun selecting twelve that would complete the repertoire for this week’s theme, “All About You“. The selection comprises songs about missing, dancing with, […]
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This is our tenth program of Featured Artists. This week we present Aussie super group ‘The Masters Apprentices‘ and popular sixties female group ‘The Shirelles‘. The Masters Apprentices sing what is now an all time […]
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When English speaking singers sing, most of them sing in a neutral accent. However, sometimes accents are deliberately used for novelty or to give a song more authenticity. Three novelty songs with different accents are: […]
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This week’s theme is “Rain” featuring some songs that address rain as a metaphor for sadness while other songs relate to the happiness that rain brings when either walking through or listening to it. The Aussie […]
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Like Melbourne’s weather today’s program varies between hot, cold and warm. There are three outstanding Aussie tracks. Mondo Rock’s early 80s hit ‘Cool World’ and the classic Aussie song ‘WInter In America’ (Doug Ashdown) are […]
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