12/10/2013
Paul Gambaccini blends digital tracks from this week's US charts of songs, albums, R&B, country and rock hits with LP and singles classics from the last six decades.
Paul Gambaccini presents tracks from this week's US charts and hits from the last six decades.
In the feature Headline News, we hear tracks from two number one albums released on noteworthy days. In the regular feature The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face, songs are featured from the debut chart LPs by two artists. While It's Not The Same Old Song highlights two different songs with the same title.
In A Matter Of Life And Death Paul celebrates the birth of a musician born on this date. We also hear a track played in tribute to a recently deceased artist.
In the feature called 'Both Sides Now' Paul plays a single by an American artist that was a hit in the UK but not in the US plus an American hit by a British artist that was not a hit in the UK.
There are R&B, country and rock number ones from this date in history, which are played alongside the current number ones in those genres. Then there's a track from the top of the US album charts and the week's best-selling single concludes Paul's survey of America's Greatest Hits.
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Lonnie Donegan
DOES YOUR CHEWING GUM LOSE ITS FLAVOUR (On The Bedpost Overnight)
This day in 1901: President Theodore Roosevelt renamed the Executive Mansion ‘The White House’
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Lorde
Team
New Hit
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Elton John
The Diving Board
New Entry in the Top Five of the Album Chart: Diving Board
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Beastie Boys
(You Gotta) Fight For Your Right (To Party)
The Rock And Roll Hall of Fame: The Beastie Boys (Best-selling album: Licensed To Ill - 9 million sales)
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Cher
I Hope You Find It
New Entry in the Top Three of the Album Chart: Closer To The Truth
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Sam & Dave
When Something Is Wrong With My Baby
Born 1935: Sam Moore
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Marvin Rainwater
Gonna Find Me A Bluebird
Marvin Rainwater - born 2nd July 1925; died 17th September 2013
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Justin Moore
Old Back In The New School
Last week’s Number Two in the Album Chart - still Top Ten: Off The Beaten Path
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Phil Phillips & The Twilights
Sea Of Love
R&B Number One this date in 1959
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Robin Thicke
BLURRED LINES (featuring Pharrell)
Adult R&B Number One: eighth week
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Katy Perry
Walking On Air
New Hit
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Earth, Wind & Fire
Shining Star
It’s Not The Same Old Song: Number One in 1975
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The Manhattans
Shining Star
It’s Not The Same Old Song: Number Five in 1980
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Kings of Leon
Wait For Me
New Entry at Number Two in the Album Chart: Mechanical Bull
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Dinah Washington
What A Diff'rence A Day Made
The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face (debut hit albums) What A Diff’rence A Day Makes! - Dinah Washington (1st February 1960)
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Sting
WHAT HAVE WE GOT? (featuring Jimmy Nail)
New Entry in the Top Twenty of the Album Chart: The Last Ship
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Dean Martin
Gentle On My Mind
Both Sides Now: not a hit in the US; Number Two in the UK in 1969
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Supertramp
Take The Long Way Â鶹ԼÅÄ
Both Sides Now: not a hit in the UK; Number Ten in the US in 1979
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Jack Johnson
I Got You
Last week’s Number One Album: From Here To Now To You
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The Beatles
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
The Rock And Roll Hall of Fame: The Beatles (Best selling album: The Beatles - 19 million sales)
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Ernie Ashworth
Talk Back Trembling Lips
Country Number One this date in 1963
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Luke Bryan
That's My Kind Of Night
Current Country Sales Number One: seventh week
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Muse
Uprising
Rock Number One this date in 2009
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Capital Cities
Safe And Sound
Current Rock Number Three [‘Royals’ by Lorde is Rock number one for a seventh week]
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Dwight Yoakam
Guitars, Cadillacs
The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face (debut hit albums) Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc. - Dwight Yoakam (19th April 1986)
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Drake
Hold On, We're Going Â鶹ԼÅÄ (feat. Majid Jordan)
New Entry at Number One in the Album Chart: Nothing Was The Same
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Ready for the World
Oh Sheila
Number One this date in 1985
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George Michael
Praying For Time
Number One this date in 1990
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Lorde
Royals
Current Number One: second week
Broadcast
- Sat 12 Oct 2013 20:00Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 2