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Monday Oct 17, 2022
Monday Oct 17, 2022
Sleep Drink & then Play your next Bright Lights Big City episode right now featuring artists I know little about and some even less.
1. Every Which a Kinda Way / Earl Connelly King
2. Sleep Drink & Play / Earl Burton
3. The Back Room Romp / Rex Stewart & the 52nd Street Stompers
4, Cairo Blues / Henry Spaulding
5. Call Me / Emitt Long
6. Operator / Brenda Holloway
7. Cheerleader / Omi
8. Baby Don't You Weep No More / Wilson Pickett
9. Under The Moon / 070 Shake
10. Lebanon / Ondara
11. Coconut Rock / The Skatalites
12. Darlin' / The Persuasions
13. Come On Back / The Brothers Of Soul
theme tune: Bright Lights Big City / Jimmy Reed
" I won't harp on about record details and bore some of you"...exactly who would want to do that.
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Sunday Sep 25, 2022
Sunday Sep 25, 2022
It's late September let's shim sham shimmy with some old soul, new soul, old blues, RnB,
gospel and reggae. The usual stuff.
1. Shim, Sham, Shimmy / Champion Jack Dupree
2. Don't Start Crying Now / Slim Harpo
3. Crying In The Chapel / The Staple Singers
4. Your Good Thing / Mable John
5, Denomination Blues Pt 2 78rpm version / Washington Phillips
6. Beale Street On A Saturday Night / Scatman Crothers
7. There's A Break In The Road / Betty Harris
8. Miserable / Shekhina
9. With You / Khareign & Malandro
10. Just Like You Used To / Jalen N'Gonda
11. Sentimental Fool / Lee Fields
12. Lady Love / Thee Sacred Souls
13. I Can't Stand These Lonely Nights / Bob & Gene (feat The Inversions & Ticklah)
14. It's Gonna Be Always / Blinky
theme tune: Bright Lights Big City / Jimmy Reed
"and don't go to the window thinking it's the ice cream man."
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Monday Aug 22, 2022
Monday Aug 22, 2022
There's a thrill upon the hill so let's go and spend a happy hour from Biloxi to Bridlington.
1. Let's Go, Let's Go, Let's Go / Hank Ballard & The Midnighters
2. Papa (I Don't Treat That Little Girl Mean) / Scatman Crothers
3. Heaven Bound Train / Jackson Gospel Singers
4. Poor And Clean / Gregory Isaacs
5. Fortune Teller / Lamont Dozier
6. It's Too Late / The Meters
7. That's The Way I Feel About 'Cha / O.V. Wright
8. Cry Baby / Cee Lo Green
9. Envy / Ogi
10. Slow / Pip Millett
11. Empty Arms / Robert Finley
12. Happy Hour / Ted Hawkins
13. Baby I Need Your Loving / Lamont Dozier & Lee Ann Womack
14. Deep Dark Secret / Dee Dee Sharp
theme tune: Bright Lights Big City / jimmy Reed
"you can probably pick it up from Clapham Junction, you can get most trains from there."
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Thursday Jul 21, 2022
Thursday Jul 21, 2022
If we don't have a meeting we're gonna have some kinda fight because Bright Lights Big City is breaking up the house with killer tunes, a new theme of 'crying' songs and a fantastic CD to giveaway
1. Breaking Up The House / Tiny Bradshaw
2. My Name Ain't Annie / Linda Hayes
3. Little Annie / Anna Belle Caesar
4. Smokey Places / The Corsairs
5. K.C. Loving / Little Willie Littlefield
6. Cry, Cry, Cry, / Bobby Bland
7. Young Hearts Run Free / Debbie
8. (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love & Understanding / Candi Staton
9. Fade Into You / Arlene Naphtali
10. Easier Said Than Done / Thee Sacred Souls
11. Front Door / Arlene Naphtali
12. Honky Tonk (Pt 2) / Bill Doggett
13. Show Me The Way / Martha Reeves & The Vandellas
theme tune: Bright Lights Big City / Jimmy Reed
" but this next group I can tell you all about because they're family...it's The Corsairs."
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Thursday Jun 30, 2022
Thursday Jun 30, 2022
Back from his hols, there's work to be done for our Johnny. If you're on a Debbie Downer tune in and your day should get brighter.
1. Work To Be Done / Paul Perryman
2. Screaming Please / Buddy Ace
3. Calendar Hanging On The Wall / Morris Bailey & The Thomas Boys
4. I'm Going To Cincinatti / Walter Coleman
5. Yes I Know / Linda Hayes
6. I'm Not The One / Kenny Carter
7. Surprise, Surprise (Acoustic) / Bobby Womack
8. Letter To Ur Ex / Mahalia
9. ghosting / Cat Burns
10. Reputation / The Four Shells
11. My Back Hurts (from Picking Up The Pieces) / Chris Lujan feat: Andre Cruz
12. One and Only / Gabriels
13. Harry Hippie / Cornell Campbell
theme song: Bright Lights Big City / Jimmy Reed
" he played Russian Roulette with a gun...and lost."
Contact me at johnnycorsair9@gmail.com
tune into the wonderful smalltowntalk podcast hosted by pete jones
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Tuesday May 31, 2022
Tuesday May 31, 2022
The start of a 'revolution? Koffee with that Sugar Pie? A knighthood in the offing? All this and a birthday request - the new Simon Bates.
1. Do Unto Others / Pee Wee Crayton
2. Soon You'll Be Gone / Blues Busters
3. Slip-In Mules / Sugar Pie DeSanto
4. You Must Be Born Again / The Sacred Four
5. Santa Fe / Baby Boy Warren
6. I Get Lifted / George McCrae
7. Ordinary Lives / Lee Fields
8. The Real Thing (feat Andre Cruz) Chris Lujan
9. Is This Real Love? / Debbie
10. Give Me A Reason / Rachel Chinouriri
11. Three Little Birds / Bob Marley & The Wailers
12. Lonely / Koffee
13. Everyday Will Be Like a Holiday / William Bell
14. Since You've Been Gone / Four Tops
15. I Was There (At The Coronation) / Young Tiger
theme song: Bright Lights Big City / Jimmy Reed
" I've always wondered what 'discovered' means...it's like she was in a cupboard or something."
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Saturday Apr 30, 2022
Saturday Apr 30, 2022
How one man cleaned up a 'motherf****r', three themes, an ex-Slit, a tribute to a Funk Brother and more on Show 13 ...what could possibly go wrong?
1. Six to Eight / Sticks McGhee
2. Drinkin' Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee / Taj Mahal & Ry Cooder
3. I Found Out / The Du Droppers
4. I Can't Even Enjoy My Home / Big Charley & The Domans
5. What Is This I See? / Hank Ballard & The Midnighters
6. Mean Old 'Frisco / Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup
7. Trade Of Hearts / Thee Sacred Souls
8. That's How Heartaches Are Made / Baby Washington
9. Sober (Acoustic) / Mahalia
10. Don't Leave Your Girl / Kirby
11. Full Moon Baby / Hollie Cook
12. Chained / Marvin Gaye
13. Ain't Too Proud To Beg / The Temptations
theme song: Bright Lights Big City / Jimmy Reed
"apologies for the start ...the wind blew my ariel"
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for Epidode 25 and there's 24 just as good before it.
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Thursday Mar 24, 2022
Thursday Mar 24, 2022
11 singers, 2 instrumentals, the greatest 'B' side ever? and the offer of a bit of brassica - all this and the chance to win a CD.
1. This Little Girl's Gone Rockin' / Ruth Brown
2. Stranded In The Jungle / The Cadets
3. Earth Angel (Will You Be Mine) / The Penguins
4. I've Got Nothing Working Now / Ann Cole
5. Anybody Here Want To Try My Cabbage? / Maggie Jones
6. New York Song / The Century Band (feat: Bobby Harden)
7. Look No Further / Soul Revivers (feat: Ms Maurice)
8. What It Is / Amber Mark
9. Think About You / Tiana Major9
10. He Is the Boy / Little Eva
11. Come See About Me / Choker Campbell's Big Band
12. Heart Of Stone / the Estimations
13. Could It Be You / Four Tops
theme song: Bright Lights Big City / Jimmy Reed
" you probably don't need telling it's nothing about cabbage."
Reach me at: johnnycorsair9@gmail.com
Prefer some decent music and presenter then head to:
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to hear pete jones and the wonderful 'smalltown talk podcast
thanks to Ace records for the prize CD - www.acerecords.com