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Paul Gambaccini presents tracks from this week's US charts and hits from the last six decades. The featured artists include Dorothy Shay, Jennifer Hudson, Bee Gees and Tina Turner.

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

In the feature Baby What A Big Surprise [they really were Number One albums] we hear Feudin' And Fightin' by Dorothy Shay (The Park Avenue Hillbilly) from her 1947 album Dorothy Shay Sings. We also hear And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going by Jennifer Hudson from the 2007 soundtrack album Dream Girls. The original Broadway cast album failed to reach the top ten when it was released in 1982.

In the regular feature The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face, songs are featured from LPs by Sonny & Cher and Mary-Chapin Carpenter. It's Not The Same Old Song highlights Holiday by the Bee Gees and a different song with the same title by Madonna.

In A Matter Of Life And Death Paul celebrates the birth on this date in 1939 of Tina Turner. We also hear The Fugitive by Merle Haggard as a tribute to the recently deceased songwriter and chart star Liz Anderson. What A Wonderful World by Louis Armstrong and What Kind Of Fool Am I? by Sammy Davis Jr. are this week's featured songs from the Grammy Hall Of Fame Singles list.

R&B Number Ones are from 1965 - Ain't That Peculiar by Marvin Gaye - and this week - Stay by Tyrese. We hear Country Number Ones from 1973 and now by Charlie Rich and Taylor Swift. This week's past and present Rock Number Ones are by U2 and Bush. On the singles side, We Found Love by Rihanna and Calvin Harris is still Number One.

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Sat 26 Nov 2011 20:00
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 2

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Music Played

  • The Isley Brothers

    Harvest For The World

    This day in 1789 was the first Thanksgiving Day; in 1863 President Lincoln decreed that henceforth Thanksgiving would be celebrated on the fourth Thursday in November

  • Taylor Swift

    Ours

    New Entry in the Top Five

  • Romeo Santos

    PROMISE (featuring Usher)

    New Entry in the Top Ten of the Album Chart: Formula, Volume 1

  • Dorothy Shay

    Feudin' And Fightin'

    Baby What A Big Surprise [they really were Number One albums] Dorothy Shay Sings - Dorothy Shay (The Park Avenue Hillbilly)(1947)

  • Foster the People - Pumped Up Kicks

    On a Top Three Album: Now 40 & Top Ten single

  • Tina Turner

    The Best

    Born 1939: Tina Turner

  • Merle Haggard

    THE FUGITIVE (I'm A Lonesome Fugitive)

    Liz Anderson (songwriter) - born 13th March 1930; died 31st October 2011

  • Matt Nathanson

    RUN (featuring Sugarland)

    Top Thirty

  • Marvin Gaye

    Ain't That Peculiar

    R&B Number One this date in 1965

  • Tyrese

    Stay

    Adult R&B Number One: NEW

  • The Vee Gees

    Holiday

    It’s Not The Same Old Song: Number Sixteen in 1967

  • Madonna

    Holiday

    It’s Not The Same Old Song: released in 1983 - reached Number Sixteen

  • Disturbed

    Living After Midnight

    New Entry in the Top Twenty of the Album Chart: The Lost Children

  • Sonny & Cher

    I Got You Babe

    The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face (debut hit albums) Look At Us - Sonny & Cher (21 August 1965)

  • LMFAO

    Sexy And I Know It

    Number Two

  • Louis Armstrong

    What A Wonderful World

    Grammy Hall Of Fame Single: released in 1968 (A US hit in 1988 when included in Good Morning, Vietnam)

  • Sammy Davis Jr.

    What Kind Of Fool Am I?

    Grammy Hall Of Fame Single: Number Seventeen in 1962

  • The Joy Formidable

    Endtapes

    British Talent in the Top Five of the Album Chart: Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1

  • Jennifer Hudson

    And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going

    Baby What A Big Surprise [they really were Number One albums] Dream Girls soundtrack album - Various Artists (2007) [25 years before this release, the Broadway cast album had fallen short of the top ten]

  • Jonathan Coulton

    NOW I AM AN ARSONIST (featuring Suzanne Vega)

    Top Ten in the Internet Album Chart: Artificial Heart

  • Charlie Rich

    The Most Beautiful Girl

    Country Number One this date in 1973

  • Taylor Swift

    If This Was A Movie

    Current Country Number One - NEW

  • U2

    Mysterious Ways

    Rock Number One this date in 1991

  • Bush

    The Sound Of Winter

    Current Rock Number One - fifth week

  • Mary Chapin Carpenter

    This Shirt

    The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face (debut hit albums) State Of The Heart - Mary-Chapin Carpenter (15 April 1989)

  • Michael BublΓ©

    Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas

    Current Number Two in the Album Chart: Christmas

  • Phil Harris

    The Thing

    Number One this date in 1950

  • Donna Summer & Barbra Streisand

    No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)

    Number One this date in 1979

  • Rihanna

    We Found Love (feat. Calvin Harris)

    Current Number One: fourth week

Broadcast

  • Sat 26 Nov 2011 20:00
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 2