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Brian Matthew selects more classics and rarities from pop's golden decade, with all the facts and figures and stories behind the songs.

Brian's Playing Hard To Get with a 1966 release by Chris Farlowe. The track, Cuttin' In was taken from his third album which featured four songs co written by none other than Mick Jagger and Keith Richards.

Listener requests this week include: Joe Walking Stick, The Packabeats, Irma Thomas, Elvis Presley and The Wilde Flowers. Tune in to see if your request made it to air.

1 hour, 55 minutes

Last on

Sat 2 Nov 2013 08:05

Music Played

  • Tom Jones

    Delilah

    • Delilah - Jukebox 60's Hits.
    • Old Gold.
  • Them

    Baby What Do You Want Me To Do?

    • The Story of Them Ft Van Morrison.
    • Decca.
    • 23.
  • Request

    • The Searchers

      When You Walk In The Room

      • (Single).
      • Prt.
  • Darrow Fletcher

    Infatuation

    • The Pain Gets A Little Deeper.
    • Kent Soul.
    • 8.
  • Both Sides Of The Record

    • Long John Baldry

      Mexico

      • 200 Fab Sixties Favourites.
      • Castle Pulse.
      • 10.
    • Long John Baldry

      We're Together

      • Let The Heartaches Begin – The Pye Anthology.
      • Castle Pulse.
      • 11.
  • Carter Lewis & The Southerners

    Here's Hopin'

    • Samwell. Goddard. Worth, Lennon, McCartney & More.
    • Rock History.
    • 23.
  • Request

    • Plastic Penny

      Everything I Am

      • Two Sides Of A Penny.
      • Page On Records.
      • 1.
  • Fats Domino

    Jambalaya

    • The Best Of Fats Domino.
    • EMI Records.
    • 20.
  • Loose Connections

    • Ben E. King

      Spanish Harlem

      • Very Best Of Ben E.King & The Drifters.
      • Global Television.
    • The Shadows

      Wonderful Land

      • The Shadows - First 20 Years At The T.
      • EMI.
    • Joe Dolan

      Don’t Ever Let That Little Chance Go By

      • Make An Island.
      • Castle.
      • 8.
  • The Beach Boys

    California Girls

    • The Best Of The Beach Boys (CD 1).
    • EMI.
    • 6.
  • Playing Hard To Get

    • Chris Farlowe

      Cuttin' In

      • Sings Handbags & Gladrages & Other Great Hits Of The Sixties.
      • Castle Select.
      • 6.
  • The Beatles

    Help!

    • The Beatles - 1.
    • Apple.
    • 010.
  • Request

    • Joe Walking Stick

      Ain't She Sweet

      • Who Put The Bomp.
      • Castle Music.
      • 30.
  • The Changin' Tymes

    Blue Music Box

    • Feeling High – The Psychedelic Sound of Memphis.
    • Big Beat.
    • 3.
  • Request

    • The Packabeats

      Theme From The Traitors

      • Vampires, Cowboys, Spacemen & Spooks: The Very Best Of Joe Meek’s Instrumentals.
      • Castle Music.
      • 3.
  • Joe Brown

    That's What Love Will Do

    • 25 Years Of Rock'n'Roll 1963 (Vol 2).
    • Connoisseur.
  • Johnny Young

    Craise Finton Kirk

    • Not Given.
    • Polydor.
    • 1.
  • Request

    • Irma Thomas

      Breakaway

      • Time Is On My Side.
      • Kent Soul.
      • 9.
  • With Words Added

    • Richard Chamberlain

      Three Stars Will Shine Tonight

      • Greatest Hits.
      • Edel.
      • 7.
  • The Bobby Fuller Four

    I Fought The Law

  • O.C. Smith

    The Son Of Hickory Holler's Tramp

    • Acuff-Rose Opryland Music: 50th Anniv.
    • Acuff-Rose Opryland.
  • Slim Harpo

    I've Got Love If You Want It

    • Kinks Beginnings 1: Ramrods, Boll- Weevils & Ravens.
    • History of R 'N'B.
    • 23.
  • Request

    • Elvis Presley

      Shoppin' Around

      • G.I. Blues.
      • RCA.
      • 7.
  • Neil Sedaka

    Happy Birthday Sweet Sixteen

    • The Very Best Of Neil Sedaka.
    • Universal Music Tv.
  • Three In A Row

    • Debbie Dean

      A New Girl

      • The Complete Motown Singles Vol. 1 1959 – 1961.
      • Motown.
      • 4.
    • Clinton Ford

      Sounds of Goodbye

      • The Sounds Of Goodbye.
      • Pye.
      • 1.
    • Freddie 'Fingers' Lee

      I’m Gonna Buy Me A Dog

      • The Early Years.
      • Oxford.
      • 7.
  • Sam Cooke

    Twistin' the Night Away

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

    Can't Take My Eyes Off You

    • Not Given.
    • Soul Music Records.
    • 14.
  • The Nashville Teens

    Tobacco Road

    • The Greatest Hits Of 1964.
    • Premier.
  • Request

    • The Wilde Flowers

      Impotence

      • The Wilde Flowers.
      • Blueprint.
      • 1.
  • Cliff Richard & The Shadows

    Don't Talk To Him

    • Cliff Richard - 40 Golden Greats.
    • EMI.
  • Clint Stacy

    Work Song

    • Mod Jazz Forever.
    • Kent Dance.
    • 19.

Broadcast

  • Sat 2 Nov 2013 08:05