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Jimmy Webb chooses the Tracks of My Years

Jimmy Webb chooses the Tracks of My Years and Ken reveals two of the tracks hoping to represent the UK at the Eurovision Song Contest 2018.

Jimmy Webb, American songwriter, composer and singer, chooses the Tracks of My Years with music from David Bowie and Glen Campbell. Jimmy has written numerous platinum-selling songs, including "Up, Up and Away", "By the Time I Get to Phoenix", "Wichita Lineman", "Galveston", "The Worst That Could Happen", "All I Know", and "MacArthur Park". He has had successful collaborations with Glen Campbell, Michael Feinstein, Linda Ronstadt, The 5th Dimension, Art Garfunkel, and Richard Harris.

The award-winning musician was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1986 and the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1990. He received the National Academy of Songwriters Lifetime Achievement Award in 1993, the Songwriters Hall of Fame Johnny Mercer Award in 2003, the ASCAP "Voice of Music" Award in 2006, and the Ivor Novello Special International Award in 2012. According to BMI, his song "By the Time I Get to Phoenix" was the third most performed song in the fifty years between 1940 and 1990.

Ken also reveals two of the artists hoping to represent the UK at the Eurovision Song Contest 2018 and plays their songs in full as part of Eurovision: You Decide. He also has the love song, record and album of the week plus PopMaster. If you'd like to get in touch with the show email Ken.Bruce@bbc.co.uk.

2 hours, 30 minutes

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Wed 24 Jan 2018 09:30
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Music Played

  • Blue Γ–yster Cult

    (Don't Fear) The Reaper

    • Chart Show Ultimate Rock - Various.
    • Hit.

  • Moon Taxi

    Two High

    • (CD Single).
    • RCA.

  • Gary Barlow

    Face To Face (feat. Elton John)

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.
    • 001.

  • Clean Bandit

    Rockabye (feat. Sean Paul & ΄‘²Τ²Τ±π‐M²Ή°ωΎ±±π)

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • Sheila & B. Devotion

    Spacer

    • Best Disco Album In The World...Ever!.
    • Virgin.

  • Bruno Mars

    Finesse (Remix) (feat. Cardi B)

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • King

    Love & Pride

    • The Ultimate Eighties (Various).
    • Hit Records.

  • Belinda Carlisle

    Heaven Is A Place On Earth

    • A Place On Earth - Greatest Hits.
    • Virgin.

  • Tom Speight

    Waiting

    • (CD Single).
    • Kobalt.
    • 001.

  • Eurovision: You Decide

    • Goldstone

      I Feel The Love

  • DNCE

    Cake By The Ocean

    • (CD Single).
    • Republic.
    • 1.

  • Berlin

    Take My Breath Away

    • The All Time Greatest Movie Songs.
    • Columbia/Sony Tv.

  • Record of the Week

    • Toto

      Spanish Sea

      • 40 Trips Around The Sun.
      • Sony Legacy.

  • Kursaal Flyers

    Little Does She Know

    • Fantastic 70's (Various Artists).
    • Sony Tv/Columbia.

  • Blossoms

    Charlemagne

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin EMI.

  • Elkie Brooks

    Running To The Future

    • Finding Your Feet O.S.T. (Various Artists).
    • Virgin EMI.

  • Tavares

    Heaven Must Be Missing An Angel

    • 20 Songs Of Love From The 70's (Vario.
    • MFP.

  • Rudimental

    These Days (feat. Jess Glynne, Macklemore & Dan Caplen)

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • Robbie Williams

    Feel

    • (CD Single).
    • Chrysalis.

  • Eurovision: You Decide

    • Asanda

      Legends

  • Beth Hart & Joe Bonamassa

    Damn Your Eyes

    • Black Coffee.
    • Provogue Records.

  • Michael BublΓ©

    Haven't Met You Yet

    • Crazy Love.
    • Reprise.
    • 1.

  • Hoseah Partsch

    Paper Planes

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin/EMI.

  • Tracks of My Years

    • Glen Campbell

      Wichita Lineman

      • Country Moods (Various Artists).
      • Polygram Tv.

    • David Bowie

      Life On Mars?

  • Imelda May & Jack Savoretti

    Call Me

    • (CD Single).
    • Decca.
    • 001.

  • James Brown

    Living in America

    • 40th Anniversary Collection.
    • Polydor.
    • 4.

Broadcast

  • Wed 24 Jan 2018 09:30
    ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 2