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Paul presents tracks from this week's US charts and hits from the last six decades. Featuring Queen, Little Richard, George Michael, Jill Scott and many more.

Paul Gambaccini presents tracks from this week's US charts and hits from the last six decades.

In this week's show, Paul looks forward to Johnnie Walker's bank holiday interview with Queen's Roger Taylor and Brian May, as the band celebrate their 40th year in the music industry (Monday at 6pm). In the feature Baby What a Big Surprise (They Really Were Number One Albums) we hear Queen's US chart-topping single Another One Bites the Dust from The Game.

The other surprising number one album features actors turned singers, such as Meryl Streep, on the soundtrack album Mamma Mia! In regular feature The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face, songs are featured from the debut hit LPs by the Kinks(You Really Got Me) and Natalie Merchant (Tigerlily); while It's Not the Same Old Song highlights The Show Must Go On by Three Dog Night and a different song with the same title by Queen.

In A Matter of Life and Death, Paul celebrates the birth of Mario in 1986 and pays tribute to the recently deceased Billy Grammer by playing Gotta Travel On - the first hit for Monument Records. Tutti Frutti by Little Richard and Twist and Shout by the Isley Brothers are featured in the weekly presentation of two songs from the Grammy Hall of Fame of Singles.

Our R'n'B Number Ones are a 1968 duet from Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell, You're All I Need to Get By; and current hit So in Love by Jill Scott and Anthony Hamilton. We hear Country Number Ones from 1961 and now by George Jones and The Band Perry. This week's past and present Rock Number Ones are by Cage the Elephant and Red Hot Chili Peppers. On the singles side, Moves Like Jagger by Maroon 5, featuring Christina Aguilera, is Number One.

1 hour, 57 minutes

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Sat 27 Aug 2011 20:00
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Queen

    One Vision

    This day in 1928: The US and 14 other countries signed the Kellogg-Briand Pact banning war

  • Adele

    Someone Like You

    Top Forty

  • Gym Class Heroes

    STEREO HEARTS (featuring Adam Levine)

    Top Twenty

  • Meryl Streep

    Slipping Through My Fingers

    Baby What A Big Surprise [they really were Number One albums] Mamma Mia! film soundtrack album - (2008)

  • Foster the People - Pumped Up Kicks

    Top Three

  • Mario

    Let Me Love You

    Born 1986: Mario

  • Billy Grammer

    Gotta Travel On

    Billy Grammer - born 28th August 1925; died 10th August 2011

  • Lady A

    Just A Kiss

    Number One Country Airplay hit

  • Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell

    You're All I Need To Get By

    R&B Number One this date in 1968 (a tribute to songwriter Nickolas Ashford – born 4th May, 1941; died 22nd August 2011)

  • Jill Scott

    SO IN LOVE (featuring Anthony Hamilton)

    Adult R&B Number One: ninth week

  • Three Dog Night

    The Show Must Go On

    It’s Not The Same Old Song: Number Four in 1974

  • Queen

    The Show Must Go On

    It’s Not The Same Old Song: from the album Innuendo

  • David Guetta

    Titanium (feat. Sia)

    Top Forty

  • The Kinks

    You Really Got Me

    The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face (debut hit albums) You Really Got Me - The Kinks (12 December 1964)

  • Bruno Mars

    The Lazy Song

    Top Three Album: Now 39

  • Little Richard

    Tutti Frutti

    Grammy Hall Of Fame Single: Number Two R&B & Number Seventeen Pop in 1956

  • The Isley Brothers

    Twist And Shout

    Grammy Hall Of Fame Single: Number Two R&B & Number Seventeen Pop in 1962

  • Awolnation - Sail

    Top Five Rock hit

  • Queen

    Another One Bites The Dust

    Baby What A Big Surprise [they really were Number One albums] The Game - Queen (1980)

  • Train

    Save Me, San Francisco

    Adult Top Ten

  • George Jones

    Tender Years

    Country Number One this date in 1961

  • The Band Perry

    If I Die Young

    Current Country Number One - sixth week (previous week - 8th January)

  • Luke Bryan

    Drunk On You

    Number Two in the Album Chart: Tailgates and Tanlines & new in Singles chart

  • Cage the Elephant

    In One Ear

    Rock Number One this date in 2010

  • Natalie Merchant

    Carnival

    The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face (debut hit albums) Tigerlily - Natalie Merchant (8 July 1995)

  • Red Hot Chili Peppers

    The Adventures Of Rain Dance Maggie

    Current Rock Number One - second week

  • The Supremes

    Where Did Our Love Go

    Number One this date in 1964

  • The Click Five

    Just The Girl

    Number One this date in 2005

  • Maroon 5

    Moves Like Jagger (feat. Christina Aguilera)

    Current Number One: NEW

Broadcast

  • Sat 27 Aug 2011 20:00
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 2