A lovely couple of days sitting in for Robert Elms on BBC Radio London. You can listen to whole shows again here.
But here’s the list of the tracks I played:
Monday
- Cha Cha: Mulatu Astatke and The Heliocentrics
- Frosty The Snowman: The Ronettes
- There Goes My First Love: The Drifters
- On Broadway: Lou Rawls
- Christmas Time in the City: Jarrod Dickenson
- Fever: Horace Andy
- Do Right Woman, Do Right: Etta James
- All The Love in the World: Dionne Warwick
- Mother and Child Reunion: Paul Simon
- On An Evening in Roma: Ray Gelato
- Is Santa Claus Real: Ray Gelato Live
- Brother Ray: Ray Gelato Live
- Ventura Highway: America
Tuesday
- Cantaloupe Woman: Grant Green
- Hangin on a String: Loose Ends
- Stop in the Name of Love: The Supremes
- Baby It’s Cold Outside: Ray Charles and Betty Carter
- Grace: Rag n Bone Man
- La Isla Bonita: Madonna
- I Can Help: Billy Swann
- Santa Claus Is Comin’ To Town: Bruce Springsteen
- All I Wanna Do: Sheryl Crow
- You Got The Look: Prince
- If You Wanna Go Back: Jean Carne
- Up The Junction: Squeeze
- Glitter: Laura Oakes
- Nashville Stole My Girl: Laura Oakes (Live)
- We Can Work It Out: Stevie Wonder
