Single of the week | Jon Kutner

Do you, like me, find it annoying when you go into a restaurant for a quiet meal and find out there is some tribute act coming on who think they can sing like Frank Sinatra, Freddie Mercury or even Amy Winehouse? Why do they bother? It’s quite rare that they actually sound like who they […]

This week’s singer has to be one of the most underrated of the 70s, 80s and 90s. A talented song writer, producer and singer in many different genres, yet UK radio, typically, only seem to play one song, Addicted To Love. Robert Palmer began playing blues and over the next 25 years had included rock, […]

This week’s request came in from Andy Woollard, a Wednesday night regular in the Hot Nuts team, he wrote, “Hi Jon, going through my vinyl singles I came across one from the very early 70s called Sarabande by Beggars Opera. Apart from the fact I love it, can you shed any more light on it. […]

A few weeks ago, I did a round in my quiz where I stripped the music away and left just the acapella vocals and it’s great to really hear the quality of the voices of the artists. Not all are great, but in this round, I featured Karen Carpenter singing Close To You, Linda Perry […]

Johnny Tillotson passed away on 1st April 2025 and, as usual, I paid tribute at my regular quiz nights and promptly played his biggest hit Poetry in Motion. A guy, who wasn’t taking part in the quiz, came up and queried my announcement about Johnny’s death saying, “He died years ago.” I said, no he […]

When Peter Gabriel left Genesis in 1977, many fans claimed it was the end of both his and Genesis’ career. When Phil Collins took over as lead vocalist, there was very mixed reaction, but whichever way you look at it, it was a good career move for both as Genesis became far more commercial and […]

The music business is a cut throat industry with many clandestine goings on and many musicians hate it because of the greed of the record label, executives and managers/agents alike. Many a court case has ensued due to some underhanded deal to make someone rich quick, none more famous than the Sony vs George Michael […]

Whenever the conversation arises about which singers can still sing like they used to, Cliff and Macca are often cited as those who can’t whilst Tom Jones and Roger Daltrey can, but one name that rarely crops on this topic is Van Morrison. Friends who I spoke to last year after they saw him live […]

When I first heard this song in the late seventies, it was as part of a jingle Duncan Johnson used to play on his Saturday afternoon Capital Radio show which he called Afternoon Delight and never realised it was part of a song. When I delved deeper, it riled me because of what I thought […]

A few weeks ago Paul Gambaccini, on his Sunday show, mentioned that he was having a conversation with someone and they were discussing singers who still have their voice many years after their career began and he said, that Tom Jones was probably the only one from the 60s. Well, I disagree, there are a […]