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.
Over the years pop groups have been created formally and informally with families and siblings often comprising the set. This week’s music focuses on songs presented by SIBLINGS, including the Moir Sisters (Australian), the McGuire Sisters, brother […]
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In this week’s program we travel back to the year 1966. It is a countdown of the year’s twelve top songs for that year. The Beatles still dominated the charts – they have both the […]
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Happy Father’s Day!!! Appropriately this week’s theme pays tribute to the paternal parent. The score includes some lovely songs with beautiful lyrics revering fathers. The Dixiebelles enjoy themselves at Papa Joe’s, Tommy Leonetti and Kimberly Beck […]
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One of the most popular themes in pop music is using male and female first names as titles. This is our fourth program on this theme. It includes legends: Buddy Holly (Peggy Sue Got Married), […]
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This week’s theme of CLIMATE (which is the assessment of weather over long periods of time) includes artists singing about different aspects of weather. Cleo Laine‘s beautiful voice resonates throughout “On a Clear Day” and […]
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This program is about all things ‘beautiful‘. Legends Roy Orbison (Beautiful Dreamer) and Bobby Darin (You Must Have Been A Beautiful Baby) revive two old songs this week. Other highlights include Dr Hook (When You’re […]
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Over the years calendars have been used as a system of organising time into periods such as years, months, weeks and days and over the years many a song has been written in reference to these […]
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This week is the S and M show. While there isn’t a specific theme, guest co-host Simon presents songs with a title that reflect his concern for the environment and its sustainability. Mossy ‘s selection […]
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This week’s theme illustrates the various ways in which lyricists depict and incorporate the word ‘Help’ to produce some wonderful songs which focus on helping yourself and/or others. A variety of genres include Pop, Motown […]
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This week heralds the celebration of six JOYous years of Yesterday Once More. We, Rob and Mossy, wish to THANK our listeners and support personnel from the JOY family. As there isn’t a definitive theme […]
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