Yesterday Once More

Life Cycle For this program, Life Cycle, we have identified six stages of human development: Infant/Child/Teenager/Young Adult/Mature Adult/Senior Adult. For each stage we have selected two songs. Starting in the womb with Paul Anka and Odia Coates singing You’re Having My Baby,  the birth of a baby in Axiom’s  A Little Ray of Sunshine  and finishing with comedian Jimmy Durante’s poignant version...

  Beginnings & Endings   In this program Rob is joined by guest presenter Rachel, as they engage in the theme of Beginnings And Endings. Rachel begins with a very apt opening song by the Fifth Dimension  Age of Aquarius/Let The Sunshine In. Rob presents three strong singers in Joan Baez:  I Never Dreamed You’d Leave In Summer,  Robin Gibb’s impressive performance of  I Started A Joke  and...

Longer Songs In this program we feature songs that rarely get played simply because they are too long. Karen and Richard Carpenter departed from their usual style to produce/perform their magnum opus  Calling Occupants Of Interplanetary Craft.  Michael Jackson’s  Don’t Stop Till You Get Enough  and the Eagle’s  Hotel California  are two longer classics. Th highlight of the program is the entire el...

Conditions of the Heart Past civilizations have associated the heart with love as they believed it was (among other things) the centre of emotions. The core of this week’s show  CONDITIONS OF THE   HEART  introduces emotive songs that relate to love and the connection with the heart. Some songs make reference to the beating heart  Herman Hermits,  heart aches the  Eagles  and broken hearts from th...

Apparel This program centres around all kinds of clothing. There are songs about boots and shoes – Nancy Sinatra’s  These Boots Are Made For Walking,  Traffic’s Hole In My Shoe  and KC and the Sunshine band with  Boogie Shoes.  Plus there is a nod to previous fashion trends such as  Short Shorts  from The Royal Teens and Gerry Granahan’s complaint about the sack dress on  No Chemise Please. ...

Kiss Whether it is in the form of a greeting, a farewell, a sign of comfort or a sign of love and affection the topic of kissing has been and still is a fertile garden of ideas for lyricists. This week’s show  KISS  includes singing luminaries the Everly Brothers, Shirley Bassey, Petula Clark and Elton John, heart throb Crash Craddock and early Australian rock ‘n roller  Warren Williams. PLA...

Comings and Goings The program starts with English pop band The Moody Blues and their first hit  Go Now.  The catchy  Come On Eileen  by Dexy’s Midnight Runners is followed by the darling of JOY listeners, the wonderful Dusty with the poignant  Goin’ Back.  As usual there is a Beatle’s contribution  Here Comes The Sun.  Two legends, Dean Martin ( Return to Me)  and Elvis Presley ( Return to Sender...

Movement or Action This week’s theme encompasses songs that refer to some form of  MOVEMENT o r  ACTION.  Included are a few tunes from movies,  Everybody’s Talking at Me  (1969) from “Midnight Cowboy”,  Let’s Go Slummin’  from the 1937 film “On the Avenue” and “ You’ll Never Walk Alone ” from the 1956 film “Carousel”. One of our listeners Pam highlighted the show by saying “what a moving day it h...

Occasional Duets There’s a feast of talent in this program as big stars join together to produce great songs. Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder combine with their plea for racial equality with  Ebony And Ivory.  Fifties stars Bing Crosby and Grace Kelly combine with their million seller  True Love  and in the same era Jazz great Dinah Washington teams up with Brook Benton with the jaunty  You’ve Go...

Aspects of Love Love seems to be a series of complicated emotions and feelings that are manifest through a range of actions and language. For years song writers have harnessed the topic of love, cultivating their creativity to produce a plethora of love related refrains. This week we present some fabulous love songs  wrapping them around the theme of  ASPECTS of LOVE.  If You Love Me Let Me Know –...

Directions This week we take you on all different kinds of Directions. First we travel to New Orleans with Freddy Cannon ( Way Down Yonder In New Orleans).  Then we go north to Alaska with Johnny Horton  (North To Alaska)  and west to Virginia with Neil Sedaka ( Wheeling West Virginia). Female singers Toni Fisher ( West Of The Wall),  Joan Baez ( The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down)  and Patti Pag...

During the 60’s and 70’s there was a strong migration of great musicians from our neighbour over the Tasman. Many of these New Zealanders made their mark on the Australian charts playing a focal part in the Australian Music Industry. This week under the theme of ANTIPODEANS  we highlight some of that talent from “across the ditch”. PLAYLIST I Got You – Split Enz How Can I Be Sure – Lana Cant...

Never Ever Two LGBTIQA+ acts are featured in today’s program, Never Ever. Fifties heart throb Johnny Ray sings one of his biggest hits I’ll Never Fall In Love Again  while ex Bronski Beat lead singer Jimmie Somerville teams up with Richard Coles to form The Communards with their smash hit  Never Can Say Goodbye. Aussie bands are featured also: Cold Chisel performs their melodic Forever Now  while...

This week under the theme of  LET’S ‘REMEMBER  we focus on 2 wonderful and different entertainers, Sarah Vaughan (SV) and David Essex (DE).  Sarah Vaughan affectionately known as the “Divine One” was an American jazz singer who has been described as having one of the most wondrous voices of the 20th century. She was nominated  9 times and won 2 Grammys.  She is remembered a...

Today’s program features songs with Big and Little in the title.  Falsetto afficionado Del Shannon begins with one of his numerous hits Little Town Flirt , Paul McCartney’s group Wings chimes in with With A Little Luck while soul singer O C Smith sings his poignant ballad Little Green Apples .  Freddie Mercury will never die if we keep hearing songs like Queen’s Crazy Little Thin...

This program features performers from Australia and New Zealand. Although all of the NZ performers re-located to Australia. The first band to make it big here was Split Enz with their first big hit My Mistake.  Ex American singer Marcia Hines sings one of her big hits  You.  Two other ex New Zealanders to make it big were Max Merritt and his band the Meteors  (Slipping Away) and mod dresser Dinah...

Over the years we have all been told by parents and/or friends to “do this” or “don’t do that”. With that in mind we decided to present a catalogue of songs featuring  DOS and DON’TS. Manfred Mann’s 1964 version of Do Wah Diddy Diddy introduces the show followed by other Do songs including the Captain and Tennille’s timeless romantic ballad  Do That To Me One More Time , Bobby Freeman’s self-penne...

For this program, Rob and Mossy have chosen two seminal years in their lives. They discuss what happened back then and some of the songs that were trending. 1964 was a huge year for The Beatles. They toured Australia and secured the top six spots in Australia’s yearly chart. I Feel Fine  was one of those songs and they also featured in 1969 with  Get Back.  The opening song for 1964 was the unusua...

The playlist for this episode focusses on pop songs that have been used in movies and songs that were specifically written for a film and consequently became popular after the film’s release. Chuck Berry’s  You Never Can Tell  featured in Pulp Fiction and Stealers Wheel’s  Stuck in the Middle With You  was one of the many ‘70’s songs flowing through Reservoir Dogs and ABBA’s Waterloo was used in a...

It’s a simple theme for this episode – all song titles have one word only. Two falsetto afficionados Dee Clark ( Raindrops)  and Del Shannon  (Runaway)  perform their biggest hits. Legends Peggy Lee and Patsy Cline sing their signature songs  Fever  and  Crazy.  Aussie singers are in the forefront too with our own legends, John Farnham ( One), Olivia Newton-John ( Magic)  and Sherbet ( Howzat).  P...

As September comes to an end (where has the year gone?) we parcel up songs that embody the theme QUESTIONS . Mental as Anything and the Dave Clark 5 pose questions that may be seen as persuasive while Men at Work, Peter Sarstedt and Jack Scott are trying to satisfy their curiosity. Culture Club and Laura Branigan are somewhat emotive and Shirley Bassey wants to know what the future will bring. An...

This program features two internationally acclaimed and popular acts: Pre-eminent female group of the sixties – The Supremes and Artist Of The Decade in the 60s – Marty Robbins. With over 500 songs Marty Robbins is probably remembered best for A White Sport Coat (And A Pink Carnation)  and his signature Western song, now renowned as a genre classic,  El Paso.  With Diana Ross as their wonderful le...

In this episode, we deliver songs with groups who are comprised of BROTHERS . In the playlist there are 10 songs with biological siblings and 2 groups that have been fabricated as ‘music’ brothers. The brothers Osmond and The Jacksons were 5 member groups. The Ames Brothers include 4 members and Barry, Robin and Maurice are the Bee Gees. Groups having 2 familial members are Dire Straits, Gerry and...

There are many songs featuring different royal figures such as kings, queens, princesses, dukes, earls and lords, and ladies. The Royal Guardsmen mined a rich field when they sang about Snoopy, the dog from the famous Peanuts cartoon. Snoopy vs. The Red Baron hit the high spot in the charts in the early sixties. A rare royal is mentioned in Dire Strait’s  Sultans of Swing  while ABBA’s Dancing Que...

This episode is dedicated to the theme of AUSTRALIANA  with a variety   of artists   migrating across the decades. Marcie Jones, Bev Harrell, The Flying Circus, The Delltones and Somebody’s Image reflect the sounds of the 1960’s. Songs from the 1970’s are portrayed by Helen Reddy, Stylus, The Masters Apprentices, Fox and The Dave Miller Set. A couple of exhibits from the 1980’s are presented by Co...