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This week's show includes an archive interview with Lionel Bart and the featured songs include Fings Ain't Wot They Used T'be and Rock With The Caveman.

Desmond Carrington hosts a second series of Icons of the 50s, celebrating some of his favourite artists from that decade.

Each programme includes words and music from a star personality of the 50s, first heard on Radio Luxembourg and the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Light Programme. This series, Desmond shares the presentation with the veteran singer and broadcaster Sir Jimmy Young, who also contributes one of his own records to each programme.

This week includes an archive interview with the British composer Lionel Bart and the featured songs include Fings Ain't Wot They Used T'be and Rock With The Caveman.

57 minutes

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Wed 14 Mar 2012 22:00
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 2

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Music Played

  • The Sauter–Finegan Orchestra

    Doodletown Fifers

    • Inside The Sound.
    • JASMINE: JASCD459.

  • Bing Crosby & Grace Kelly

    True Love

    • High Society.
    • CAPITOL: 0777 7 93787.

  • Billy Cotton & His Band

    Friends And Neighbours

    • Billy's Your Uncle.
    • VOCALION:C DLK 4237.

  • Jimmy Young

    Unchained Melody

    • 1955 British Hit Parade.
    • ACROBAT: ACTRCD 9008.

  • Jeri Southern

    Fire Down Below

    • Music Of The Year 1957.
    • SPECTRUM: 544 148.

  • David Whitfield

    Answer Me

    • Greatest Love Songs Of The Fifties.
    • MARKS AND SPENCER: MS 2002.

  • Tommy Steele

    Rock With The Caveman

    • Best Of Tommy Steele.
    • SPECTRUM: 544 172.

Broadcast

  • Wed 14 Mar 2012 22:00
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 2