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05/11/2010

Start the weekend here on The Best Time of the Day Show. Hilarious conversation and brilliant music to entertain you through the small hours. Album & Record of the Week included.

Let Alex kickstart your weekend with Feelgood Friday on The Best Time of the Day Show. This morning, more suggestions on how to modernise the Jack-in-a-Box (Jack Duckworth-in-a-box, anyone?), more hilarious suggestions on what celebs' autobiographies should really be called, plus more updates on the 2010/2011 Truck-Writing Season. Wallops ahoy! Becky Silver provides more Pause for Thought at 3.20, plus the last chance this week to enter the 4.15 One-Off Canteen.
From Lester's Library there are tracks from Randy Newman and UB40, while your Listener's Library suggestion is by Third Eye Blind. You can also hear Record of the Week by Annie Lennox again, and a final track from Album of the Week by Neil Diamond.
Expect the unexpected with Alex, and you will still be in for a surprise.

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Music Played

  • Candi Staton

    Young Hearts Run Free

    • Disco Fever (Various Artists).
    • Global Television.

  • Madness

    Our House

    • Now 1983 - The Millennium Series.
    • EMI.

  • Take That

    The Flood

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.
    • 16.

  • Whitesnake

    Here I Go Again (Remix)

    • Driving Rock (Various Artists).
    • Global Records & Tapes.

  • Lesley Gore

    It's My Party

    • Rediscover The 50's - Here Comes Summ.
    • Old Gold.

  • Brandon Flowers

    Only The Young

    • Flamingo.
    • Vertigo.
    • 1.

  • Fleetwood Mac

    Say You Love Me

    • 50 Years - Don't Stop.
    • Warner Bros.
    • 004.

  • James Brown

    It's a Man's Man's Man's World

    • Soul (Various Artists).
    • Polygram Tv.

  • RECORD OF THE WEEK from the forthcoming CD, "A CHRISTMAS CORNOCOPIA" (Island) out on 15th November

    • Annie Lennox

      Universal Child

      • (CD Single).
      • Island.
      • 1.

  • Pilot

    Magic

    • 25 Years Of Rock'n'Roll Vol.2 (1974).
    • Connoisseur Collection.

  • LESTER'S LIBRARY from the CD, "LITTLE CRIMINALS" (Warner)

    • Randy Newman

      Rider in the Rain

  • Gwen McCrae

    All This Love That I'm Giving

    • Melody Of Life.
    • BBR.
    • 8.

  • Bon Jovi

    What Do You Got?

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.
    • 1.

  • Norah Jones

    Chasing Pirates

    • (CD Single).
    • Blue Note.
    • 1.

  • Diana Ross

    Chain Reaction

    • Now That's What I Call Music '86.
    • Now.

  • Boz Scaggs

    Lido Shuffle

    • The Greatest Hits Of 1977 (Various).
    • Premier.

  • James Blunt

    Stay The Night

    • Some Kind Of Trouble.
    • Atlantic.
    • 1.

  • Kate Bush

    Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)

    • Remastered Part I.
    • Fish People.

  • The Fray

    How To Save A Life

    • (CD Single).
    • RCA.

  • Hurts

    Stay

    • (CD Single).
    • Major Records.
    • 1.

  • The Crusaders

    Street Life

    • The Very Best Of Randy Crawford.
    • Dino.

  • Led Zeppelin

    Houses Of The Holy

    • Led Zeppelin - Latter Days.
    • Atlantic.

  • Bill Haley and His Comets

    Shake, Rattle And Roll

    • Bill Haley And The Comets.
    • Bulldog.

  • LISTENER'S LIBRARY from the CD, "THIRD EYE BLIND" (Elektra) suggested by Damian from North-Wales

    • Third Eye Blind

      Semi-Charmed Life

  • Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell

    Two Can Have A Party

    • United.
    • Tamla Motown.
    • 1.

  • The Kane Gang

    Closest Thing To Heaven

    • Bad And Lowdown World Of The Kane Gan.
    • Kitchenware.

  • Pete Lawrie

    In The End

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.
    • 1.

  • The Emotions

    Best Of My Love

    • Mellow Madness (Various Artists).
    • Epic.

  • Go West

    King Of Wishful Thinking

    • Pretty Woman - Soundtrack.
    • EMI.

  • Bruce Springsteen

    Save My Love

  • Shaggy

    Oh Carolina

    • Shaggy - The Best Of Shaggy Part 1.
    • Virgin.

  • Mark Ronson

    Valerie (feat. Amy Winehouse)

    • (CD Single).
    • Sony BMG.

  • Boston

    More Than A Feeling

    • Rock Of America (Various Artists).
    • Trax Label.

  • ALBUM OF THE WEEK from the CD, "DREAMS" (Columbia)

    • Neil Diamond

      Midnight Train To Georgia

      • Dreams.
      • Columbia.
      • 1.

  • ZZ Top

    Sharp Dressed Man

    • (Single).
    • Warner Bros.

  • Sam Cooke

    (What A) Wonderful World

    • Sam Cooke - The Man & His Music.
    • RCA.

  • Paloma Faith

    Smoke & Mirrors

    • Do You Want The Truth Or Something Beautiful?.
    • Epic.
    • 1.

  • LESTER'S LIBRARY from the CD, "SIGNING OFF - DELUXE EDITION" (Virgin) Out Now

    • UB40

      I Think It's Going to Rain Today

  • Michael BublΓ©

    Hollywood

    • (CD Single).
    • Reprise.
    • 1.

  • Sarah Brightman & Hot Gossip

    I Lost My Heart To A Starship Trooper

    • Fantastic 70's (Various Artists).
    • Sony Tv/Columbia.

Broadcast

  • Fri 5 Nov 2010 02:00
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