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Cyndi Lauper and PopMaster

Cyndi Lauper picks the Tracks of My Years in an interview first broadcast in 2011. There's the daily love song, record and album of the week plus PopMaster.

Cyndi Lauper, American singer songwriter, actress and activist, chooses the Tracks of My Years in an interview first broadcast in 2011. She had just released her tenth studio album 'Memphis Blues' which was voted the seventh best album of 2010 by the New York Post and it went on to become Billboard's biggest selling blues album of 2010. To support the album, Cyndi made her biggest tour ever, the Memphis Blues Tour, which had more than 140 shows and covered every inhabited continent of the world. Cyndi's career has spanned over forty years. Her album 'She's So Unusual' from 1983 was the first debut album by a female artist to achieve four top five hits on the Billboard Hot 100 - 'Girls Just Want To Have Fun', 'Time After Time', 'She Bop' and 'All Through the Night' and earned her the Best New Artist award at the 27th Grammy Awards in 1985. Her success continued with the soundtrack for the motion picture 'The Goonies' and her second album 'True Colors from 1986. The single 'True Colors' went to number one in America and peaked at number 12 in the UK.

Cyndi is known for her distinctive image, featuring a variety of hair colours and eccentric clothing and for her powerful and distinctive four-octave singing range. She has been celebrated for her humanitarian work, particularly as an advocate for LGBT rights in the United States. Her charitable efforts were acknowledged in 2013 when she was invited as a special guest to attend U.S. President Barack Obama's second-term inauguration. Her second two chosen tracks come from Otis Redding and Marvin Gaye.

Ken also has the daily love song, record and album of the week plus another round of the legendary music quiz PopMaster. If you'd like to get in touch with the show email Ken.Bruce@bbc.co.uk.

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Tue 4 Aug 2020 09:30
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Music Played

  • Justin Timberlake

    Can't Stop The Feeling!

  • Dua Lipa

    Hallucinate

  • Laura Branigan

    Self Control

  • Keane

    Bend And Break

  • Record of the Week

    • Keith Urban

      Superman

  • Neil Sedaka

    Laughter In The Rain

  • ΅ώ±π²β΄Η²Τ³¦Γ©

    Crazy In Love

  • Joel Corry

    Head & Heart (feat. MNEK)

  • Travis

    Side

  • Vanessa Williams

    Save The Best For Last

  • Katy Perry

    Smile

  • Supertramp

    Dreamer

  • Elton John

    The One

  • Will Ferrell/My Marianne

    Husavik

  • LEON

    You And I

  • Joe Walsh

    Life's Been Good

    • Driving Rock (Various Artists).
    • Global Records & Tapes.

  • RAYE

    Natalie Don't

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.

  • ²Ήβ€h²Ή

    Foot of the Mountain

    • (CD Single).
    • Universal.
    • 3.

  • McFly

    Happiness

    • Young Dumb Thrills.
    • BMG Rights Management (UK).

  • Album of the Week

    • Deep Purple

      Nothing At All

      • Whoosh!.
      • earMUSIC.

  • Olivia Newton‐John

    Magic

    • Olivia Newton-John - Greatest Hits.
    • EMI.

  • Anne-Marie

    To Be Young (feat. Doja Cat)

    • (CD Single).
    • Major Toms.

  • The Tymes

    Ms Grace

    • 70's Number Ones Vol 3.
    • Old Gold.

  • Tracks of My Years

    • Marvin Gaye

      Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)

      • The Promised Land O.S.T. (Various).
      • Columbia.

    • Otis Redding

      I've Been Loving You Too Long (To Stop Now)

  • Ellie Goulding

    Slow Grenade (feat. Lauv)

    • Brightest Blue.
    • Polydor.

  • Melba Moore

    This Is It

    • 25 Years Of Rock `n' Roll - 1976.
    • Connoisseur.

Broadcast

  • Tue 4 Aug 2020 09:30
    ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 2