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Compilation of performances from 1970s singer-songwriters including Bobbie Gentry, Kris Kristofferson, Buffy Saint-Marie, Janis Ian, Gordon Lightfoot, John Martyn and Randy Newman.

Compilation which unlocks the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ vaults to explore the burgeoning singer-songwriter genre that exploded at the dawn of the 1970s and became one of the definining styles of that decade.

Featuring classic songs from Bobbie Gentry, Kris Kristofferson, Buffy Saint-Marie, Janis Ian, Gordon Lightfoot, John Martyn, Randy Newman, Linda Lewis, Joni Mitchell, Don McLean, Ralph McTell, Loudon Wainwright III, Don Williams and Paul Brady.

Programme sources include The Old Grey Whistle Test, Top of the Pops, Sounds for Saturday, The Bobbie Gentry Show and One in Ten.

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Sat 26 Jun 2021 02:35
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Music Played

  • Al Stewart

    Year of the Cat

  • Bobbie Gentry

    Ode to Billy Joe

  • Kris Kristofferson

    Lovin' Her Was Easier

  • Joni Mitchell

    From Both Sides Now

  • Gordon Lightfoot

    If You Could Read My Mind

  • John Martyn

    May You Never

  • Buffy Sainte‐Marie

    Until It's Time For You To Go

  • Randy Newman

    I Think It's Going to Rain Today

  • Don McLean

    Vincent

  • Roy Harper

    Commune

  • Linda Lewis

    It's the Frame

  • Eric Carmen

    All By Myself

  • Loudon Wainwright III

    Reciprocity

  • Ralph McTell

    The Streets of London

  • Dory Previn

    Mythical Kings and Iguanas

  • Don Williams

    I Recall a Gypsy Woman

  • Paul Brady

    Crazy Dreams

Credits

Producer Mark Cooper
Producer Alison Howe
Director Janet Fraser Crook

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