FAB 80’s with Mark Watkins 

Mark Watkins Music Show/EXTENDED PLAY   – Saturday 12 December 2009




featuring an interview with Scottish singer/songwriter Maggie Reilly from noon.

http://www.maggiereilly.co.uk/

http://www.maggiereillyfansite.nl/

http://www.myspace.com/maggiereillyrr

Hour one:
1 ALBUM: Laura Veirs - July Flame, from "July Flame" (2010) release date 12/1/10 
2 ALBUM: Tara Jane O'Neil - Drowning, from "A Ways Away" (2009)
3 ALBUM: Liz Isenberg - May 1, from "Indifferent & Imaginery" (2009)
4 ALBUM: Generationals - Nobody Could Change Your Mind, from "Con Law" (2009)
5 Katsen - German Film Star, from "It Hertz!" (2009)
6 CHART: No.63 Shakira - She Wolf (2009)
7 Jona Lewie - Stop The Cavalry (1980)
8 ALBUM: Jonah Smith - Can't Find My Way Home, from "Lights On" (2009)
9 Jon and Vangellis - I'll Find My Way Home (1981) vinyl
10 Orange Juice - Rip It Up (1982)
11 Elvis Costello - Oliver's Army (1978) 
12 CHART: No.35 Whitney Houston - Million Dollar Note (2009)
13 Low - Just Like Christmas (1999) Christmas ep    
14 ALBUM: Josh Rouse - Winter In The Hamptons, from "Nashville" (2004)
15 Smokey Robinson and the Miracles - You've Really Got A Hold On Me (1962) 

Hour two:
1 ALBUM: Madison Viloet - Baby In The Black & White, from "No Fool For Trying" (2009) 
2 ALBUM: Allison Williams - Love In The Election Year, from "Give Me The Roses" (2008)   
3 ALBUM: Nanci Griffith - Across America, from "The Loving Kind" (2009) 
4 Jimi Jamison - It Wouldn't Feel Like Christmas (2009) mp3
5 Charlotte Gainsbourg feat. Beck  - Heaven Can Wait (2009) 
6 ALBUM: The Rolling Stones - Everything Is Turning To Gold, from "Sucking In The Seventies" (1981) also b-side of the 1978 single Shattered 
7 The Who - The Seeker (1970) 
8 The Inmates - The Walk (1979) vinyl
9 CHART: No.41 Lady Gaga - Telephone (2009) 
10 The Mission - Tower Of Strength (1988)   
11 ALBUM: Alberta Cross - City Walls, from "Broken Side Of Time" (2009) 
12 ALBUM: Ana Egge - Storm Comin', from "Road To My Love" (2009)
13 ALBUM: Kimmie Rhodes - Last Seven Seconds, from "Walls Fall Down" (2009)
14 ALBUM: Whitesnake - You 'N' Me, from "Lovehunter" (1979) 

Hour three:
1 ALBUM: Leddra Chapman - Story, from "Telling Tales" (2009)   
2 ALBUM: Mascott - 4th Of July, from "Art Project" (2008)    
3 CHART: No.12 Pixie Lott - Cry Me Out(2009)
4 ALBUM: Kate Rusby - The Holly And The Ivy, from "Sweet Bells" (2009)
5 Jethro Tull - Ring Out Soltice Bells (1976)  
6 Fiddler's Dram - Day Trip To Bangor (1979) vinyl
7 Squeeze - Pulling Mussles (From The Shell)  (1980)
8 The Hollies - On A Carousel (1967)  vinyl
9 The Hives and Cyndi Lauper - A Christmas Duel (2008)
10 The Tourists - I Only Want To Be With You (1979) vinyl
11 10cc - I'm Not In Love (1976) 
12 The Cars - Drive (1984)
13 Johnny Crawford - Cindy's Birthday (1962)
14 Donny & Marie Osmond - I'm Leaving It All Up To You (1974)
15 Wizzard - I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday (1973, re-issued 1981 & 1984)  

Hour four:
1 Kate Bush - December Will Be Magic Again (1980)  vinyl 
2 ALBUM: Shawn Colvin - Love Came Down At Christmas, from "Holiday Songs And Lullabies (1998) 
3 CHART: No.47 Journey - Don't Stop Believin' (2009)
4 Rainbow - Since You Been Gone (1979)
5 You Me At Six - The Consequence (2009) mp3
6 ALBUM: Hennessy Keane - Now She's Gone, from "Nowhere Fast" (2010)  released 1/2/10
7 ALBUM: The Band - Jemima Surrender, from "The Band" (1969)  vinyl
8 Kings Of Leon - Mollys Chambers (2003) 
9 ALBUM: Deer Tick - Friday XIII, from "Born On Flag Day" (2009)  
10 ALBUM: Rosie Flores - Dark Enough At Midnight, from "Girl Of The Century" (2009) 
11 ALBUM: Jackson Browne - Your Bright Baby Blues, from "The Pretender" (1976)  vinyl
12 ALBUM: Joni Mitchell - Hunter, from "Amchitka 1970" (2009)
Tracks from a double cd of the first Greenpeace concert  
13 The Jam - Start! (1980) 
14 PJ Harvey & John Parish - Black Hearted Love (2009)

Hour five: interview with Maggie Reilly (recorded by phone 16/11/09)
Tracks played around the interview:-
1 Mike Oldfield - Five Miles Out (1982)
2 Mike Oldfield - Family Man (1982)
3 Mike Oldfield - Moonlight Shadow (1983)
4 ALBUM: Mike Oldfield - Arrival, from "QE2" (1980)   
5 ALBUM: Maggie Reilly - Heartsong, from "Rowan" (2007)
6 ALBUM: Maggie Reilly - Trees They Do Grow High, from "Rowan" (2007)
7 ALBUM: Maggie Reilly - Cam Ye O'er Frae France, from "Rowan" (2007)
8 Mike Oldfield - To France (1984) vinyl
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9 Mike Oldfield - In Dulce Jublio (1975)

Info. section:
UK/USA Charts provided by Official Charts Co. & Billboard
News service provided by Sky
 

FAB 80’s with Mark Watkins 

Mark Watkins Music Show  –  Saturday 5 December 2009

feat. my phone interview with Toni Arthur - Hay. Talking with Toni about her folk singing days & broadcasting career (Play School/Play Away/GMTV & Woman's Hour) plus her current role as an analyst, plus playing some of her favourite music.

http://www.toniarthur-hay.com/home.html 

Hour one:
1 One Eskimo - Kandi (2008, re-issued 2009)  
2 ALBUM: Dala - Levi Blues (AM Transistor Remix) from "Everyone Is Someone" (2009) 
3 CHART: No.16 Pixie Lott - Cry Me Out (2009)
4 CHART: No.9 Susan Boyle - Wild Horses (2009)
5 ALBUM: Daddy - Love In A Bottle, from "For A Second Time" (2009)   
6 ALBUM: Hennessy Keane - Every Road, from "Nowhere Fast" (2010) released 1/2/10
7 Jefferson Airplane - Volunteers (1969) 
8 Barry McGuire - Eve Of Destruction (1965) 
9 The Beatles - Yesterday (1976) 
10 ALBUM: Pat Benatar - Wuthering Heights, from "Crimes Of Passion" (1980) 
11 ALBUM: Andrew Vincent - Hounds Of Love, from "Rotten Pear" (2010) released 1/2/10
12 CHART: No.21 Westlife - What About Now (2009)
13 The Beach Boys - Surf's Up, from "Surf's Up" (1971) 

Hour two:
1 ALBUM: Dan Fogelberg - Longer (1980) 
2 ALBUM: Jackson Browne - Jamaica Say You Will, from "Saturate Before Using" (1972) 
3 James Taylor - Fire And Rain (1970)
4 CHART: No.24 Robbie Williams - You Know Me (2009) 
5 CHART: No.40 Snow Patrol - Just Say Yes (2009)
6 ALBUM: Shawn Colvin - Tennessee, from "Fat City" (1992)
7 ALBUM: Sheryl Crow - Mississippi, from "The Globe Sessions" (1998)     
8 Marvin Gaye - (Sexual) Healing (1982) 
9 ALBUM: Bill Withers - Soul Shadows, from "Greatest Hits" (1981) 
10 JLS - Umbrella (2008) 
11 Harry Belafonte - Mary's Boy Child (1957) 
12 Dolly Parton - Coat Of Many Colours (1971)
13 Lighthouse Family - Lifted (1995)
14 ALBUM: Neko Case - Deep Red Bells, from "Black Listed" (2002)

Hour three:
1 ALBUM: Bob Dylan - Sad Eyed Lady Of The Lowlands, from "Blonde On Blonde" (1966)
2 CHART: No.17 Black Eyed Peas - I Gotta Feeling (2009)
3 U2 - The Unforgettable Fire (1985)
4 Clannad - Theme From Harry's Game (1982)
5 Lionel Morton - Play Away (1975) vinyl

Hour three (remaining)/Hour four: with Toni Arthur-Hay & her music choices
1 Joe Cocker - With A Little Help From My Friends (1968)
2 ALBUM: Big Brother & The Holding Company - Piece Of My Heart, from "Cheap Thrills" (1968) feat. Janis Joplin
3 Tina Turner - Private Dancer (1984)
4 ALBUM: Cat Stevens - Pop Star, from "Mona Bone Jakon" (1970) 
5 Ritchie Blackmore's Night - Praetorius Consort 
6 Hidegarde - Monday Tuesday I Love You 
7 Miles Davis - Summertime
8 Chopin - Nocturne
9 Mozart - Magic Flute
10 Shakespeare Sonnet 18 (read by David Parsonson)

Info. section:
UK/USA Charts provided by Official Charts Co. & Billboard
News service provided by Sky
 


 

Mark Watkins Music Show/EXTRA  – Friday 4 December 2009

Hour one:
1 ALBUM: Dala - Levi Blues, from "Everyone Is Someone" (2009)  
2 ALBUM: Dave Rawlings Machine - Bells Of Harlem, from "A Friend Of A Friend" (2009)  
3 David Gray - Fugitive (2009)
4 Jackson Browne - Here (2009) 
5 ALBUM: Hilary York - Baltimore, from "In The Dark" (2009)  
6 ALBUM: Mary Chapin Carpenter - Once In Royal David's City, from "Come Darkness, Come Light : Twelve Songs Of Christmas" (2008)  
7 CHART: No.6 Rihanna - Russian Roulette (2009)
8 CHART: No.48 Shakira - She Wolf (2009)
9 ALBUM: Eilen Jewell - Shakin' All Over, from "Sea Of Tears" (2009) 
10 ALBUM: Melissa McClelland - A Girl Can Dream, from "Victoria Day" (2009)   
11 New Rhodes - Quando Quando Quando (2009)   
12 Richard Hawley - Tonight The Streets Are Ours (2007)  
13 ALBUM: Catie Curtis - Tuesday's Dead, from "Hello, Stranger" (2009) 
14 ALBUM: Caroline Herring - True Colors, from "Golden Apples Of The Sun" (2009)
15 ALBUM: Carlene Carter - Why Be Blue, from "Stronger" (2007)

Hour two:
1 ALBUM: Sea Wolf - You're A Wolf, from "Leaves In The River" (2007)  
2 ALBUM: Josh Ritter - Wolves, from "The Animal Years" (2006)  
3 CHART: No.19 Mariah Carey - I Want To Know What Love Is (2009)
4 CHART: No.24 Robbie Williams - She Wolf (2009)
5 George Harrison - My Sweet Lord (1971, re-issued 2002)  
6 Greg Lake - I Believe In Father Christmas (1975) 
7 CHART: No.30 Lady Gaga - Telephone (2009) 
8 ALBUM: Lucy Kaplansky - More Than This, from "Over The Hills" (2007) 
9 Stonebolt - I Will Still Love You (1978) vinyl
10 The Police - So Lonely (1980)  
11 The Undertones - Get Over You (1979) 
12 ALBUM: Jubal Lee Young - Animal Farm, from "The Last Free Place In America" (2009)
13 ALBUM: Kristin Connell - I Saw Elvis, from "Dance Of Love" (2009) 
14 ALBUM: The Silver Seas - The Country Life, from "High Society" (2006, re-issed 2007) 

Hour three:
1 ALBUM: Deer Tick - Friday XIII, from "Born On Flag Day" (2009)  
2 Dawn Landes - Young Girl (2009)
3 ALBUM: Jenny Owen Youngs - Led To The Sea, from "Transmitter Failure" (2009) 
4 Target - It's Only Love (1977)  vinyl
5 Steeleye Span - The First Nowell, from "Winter" (2004)  
6 Billy Boy On Poison - Happy Valentine's Day (2009)   
7 CHART: No.16 Pixie Lott - Cry Me Out (2009)
8 ALBUM: Brandi Carlile - Dying Day, from "Give Up The Ghost" (2009) 
9 ALBUM: The Pretenders The English Roses, from "Pretenders 2" (1981) 
10 Milltown Brothers - Apple Green (1991) 
11 ALBUM: Chas Hodges - Last Kiss, from "Chas Hodges" (2009)  
12 Suzi Quatro - Too Big (1974)  
13 High Society - Got To Get Out Of This Rut (1981)  
14 ALBUM: Loreena McKennitt - Coventry Carol, from "A Midwinter Night's Dream" (2008)
15 Brian Protheroe - Pinball (1974) 

Hour four:
1 Snow Patrol - Take Back the City (2008)  
2 ALBUM: Emily Maguire - Brave New World, from "Believer" (2009)  
3 Depeche Mode - Fragile (2009) new double-A sided single, paired with Hole To Feed      
4 Amy's Ghost - Lullaby (2009)
5 ALBUM: John Doe - The Golden State, from "A Year In The Wilderness" (2007)
6 Paul McCartney - Young Boy (1997)  
7 T-Rex - Truck On (Tyke)  (1973)  
8 ALBUM: Phil Ochs - Chords Of Fame, from " Amchitka 1970" (2009)  
Tracks from a double cd of the first Greenpeace concert  
9 ALBUM: Carrie Elkin - Gospel Song, from "The Jeopardy Of Circumstance" (2009)  
10 ALBUM: Dar Williams - Holly Tree, from "Promised Land" (2008)   
11 Starbuck - I Got To Know (1976) vinyl
12 ALBUM: Kimmie Rhodes - West Texas Heaven, from "Ten Summers" (2005, re-issued 2009)  
13 ALBUM: Heather Bristow - Seasons, from "Hope On The Vine" (2009)
14 Shivers - This Old Heart Of Mine (1977) vinyl

Info. section:
UK/USA Charts provided by Official Charts Co. & Billboard
News service provided by Sky

FAB 80’s with Mark Watkins 

Mark Watkins Music Show  –  Saturday 28 November 2009 

featuring my interview with Barbara Arthur, lead singer of Southport band Fag Ash Lil. Former lead singer of Thin End Of The Wedge @ 10.40am

http://www.fagashlil.com/

and


with studio guest and Vanessa Turner from 11am. Vanessa is 
a professionally qualified Cognitive Hypnotherapist, a Master NLP Practitioner and a Certified EFT Practitioner and HypnoFertility and HypnoBirthing Practitioner, based in Reading.

http://www.changes4life.co.uk/

Hour one:
1 The Sweet - The Ballroom Blitz (1973) 
2 Suzi Quatro - Daytona Demon (1974)  
3 CHART: No.20 Pixie Lott - Cry Me Out (2009) 
4 CHART: No.16 Florence & The Machine - You Got The Love (2009) 
5 Buzzcocks - Ever Fallen In Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've (1978)   
6 The Ramones - Sheena Is A Punk Rocker (1977)   
7 The Only Ones - Another Girl Another Planet (1978)  
8 Adam Faith - Poor Me (1960)
9 ALBUM/MUSIC FILE: Randy Newman - Mama Told Me Not To Come, from "12 Songs" (1970) his birthday 28/11 (66)
10 ALBUM/MUSIC FILE: Tina Turner  - I Might Have Been Queen, from "Private Dancer" (1984) her birthday 26/11 (69)
11 MUSIC FILE: The Jam - Beat Surrender (1982) UK No.1 this week in 1982
12 MUSIC FILE: Billy Joel - Uptown Girl (1983) UK No.1 this week in 1983
13 CHART: No.34 Shakira - She Wolf (2009) 
14 ALBUM: Helen Jayne McKellar - A Little More Love, from "Give My Life" (2001)
15 Dire Straits - Romeo And Juliet (1980) 
16 ALBUM: Subway Sect - Eastern Europeans, from "1978 Now" (2007) 

Hour two:
1 The Stranglers - Peaches (1977) 
2 ALBUM: The Dacoits - Driving In Your Car, from "The Dacoits" (2009)  
3 CHART: No.22 Robbie Williams - You Know Me (2009) 
4 CHART: No.19 Westlife - What About Now (2009) 
5 ALBUM: Deer Tick - Hell On Earth, from "Born On A Flag Day" (2009)    
6 ALBUM: Brandi Carlile - Looking Out, from "Give Up the Ghost" (2009)     
7 Fleetwood Mac - Dreams (1977)
8  Thin End Of The Wedge -  Lights Are On Green (1981) vinyl
9 phone interview with Barbara Arthur (recorded 10/11)
10 ALBUM: Fag Ash Lil - Snow Queen, from "Not Sorry" (2004) 
11 Bang Bang Machine - Give You Anything (1994)
12 David Gray - Fugitive (2009) 

Hours three/four: Vanessa's music choices

1 LeAnn Rimes – Can’t Fight The Moonlight (2000) 
2 Christina Aguilera – Fighter (2003) 
3 Leona Lewis - Run (2008) 
4 Nickleback - Rockstar (2006) 
5 Wham! – Young Guns (Go For It!) (1982) 
6 Frank Sinatra – That’s Life (1966) 
7 Dolly Parton – 9 to 5 (1982) 
8 Joss Stone – Super Duper Love (2004) 
9 Celine Dion - Immortality (1998) duet with the Bee Gees 
10 Meatloaf – Bat Out Of Hell (1979)
11 Bon Jovi – Livin' On A Prayer (1986) 
12 Texas – I Don’t Want A Lover (1989) 
13 Barry White – You're The First, May Last, My Everything (1974)
14 Jason Mraz – I’m Yours (2008) 
15 Michael Buble - Lost (2007) 

Info. section:
UK/USA Charts provided by Official Charts Co. & Billboard
News service provided by Sky
Music File (Birthday & anniversary music + music news)

 

Mark Watkins Music Show/EXTRA  – Friday 27 November 2009

Hour one:
1 ALBUM: A Camp - My America, from "Colonia" (2009)  
2 ALBUM: Deer Tick - Friday XIII, from "Born On Flag Day" (2009)   
3 CHART: No.3 Jason Derulo - Whatcha Say (2009)
4 CHART: No.4 Leona Lewis - Happy (2009)

5 ALBUM: Nerina Pallot - Everything's Illuminated!, from "The Graduate" (2009)  
6 ALBUM: Dala - Levi Blues (AM Transistor Remix) from "Everyone Is Someone (2009)  
7 Helen Jayne McKellar - Out Here On My Own (2009) free mp3 from
www.myspace.com/helenjayneofficial
8 Regards - After Many A Summer (2009) 

9 SixtyFiveMiles - Don't Wish For Something (2010) Finnish Tango e.p

10 Depeche Mode - Fragile Tension (2009) new double-A sided single, paired with Hole To Feed   

11 CHART: No.7 Kesha - Tik Tok (2009) 

12 CHART: No.10 Britney Spears - 3 (2009) 

13 Amy's Ghost - Lullaby (2009) 
14 Mascot Fight - Floodlight Failure (2009) Losers Can't Be Choosers ep

Hour two:
1 Tori Amos - Professional Widow (1997)  

2 U2 - New Year's Day (1983)   

3 Jackson Browne - Here (2009)   

4 David Gray - Fugitive (2009) 
5 ALBUM: Hilary York - I Look For You, from "In The Dark " (2009) 

6 ALBUM: Nicole Atkins - Love Surreal, from "Neptune City" (2007)   
7 Feist - My Moon My Man (2007)  
8 ALBUM: Alexandra Celano - Let The River Flow, from "I'm Overcome" (2009)   
9 ALBUM: Claire Holley - Stars Fell On Alabama, from "Hush" (2008)   

10 ALBUM: Clarence Bucaro - Matters Of The Heart, from "New Orleans" (2009)  

11 Skuffle - Paranoid, from "Skuffle"  (2009)  

12 Music Go Music - Just Me (2009) 

13 Catriona Irving - Sitting On The Shelf Without Shelly (2009) Sitting On The Shelf ep   
14 ALBUM: Brandi Carlile - Caroline, from "Giving Up The Ghost" (2009)
15 Tennessee Ernie Ford - Sixteen Tons (1956)

 
Hour three:
1 ALBUM: Dave Rawlings Machine - Bells Of Harlem, from "A Friend Of A Friend" (2009)   
2 ALBUM: Ryan Adams & The Cardinals - Easy Plateau, from "Cold Roses" (2005)  
3 Rihanna - Russian Roulette (2009)
4 Rod Stewart - It's The Same Old Song (2009) 
5 ALBUM: The Len Price 3 - The Girl Who Became A Machine, from "Pictures" (2010)   
6 ALBUM: Ian Lloyd - Brother Louie, from "O-de-PO (2008)  
7 New Rhodes - Quando Quando Quando (2009) 
8 ALBUM: Jubal Lee Young - Uh, Let's Go, from "The Last Free Place In America" (2009)   

9 Rosanne Cash feat. Bruce Springsteen - Sea Of Love (2009) 

10 Commodores - Still (1979) 

11 The Bravery - Fearless (2005)  

12 Boy Kill Boy - Suzie (2005) 

13 ALBUM: Devon Sproule - You Need A Maria, from "Don't Hurry For Heaven" (2009)
14 Denice Williams - Free (1977)
15 The Casuals - Jesamine (1968)

Hour four:
1 ALBUM: J.D Souther - I'll Be Here At Closing Time, from "If The World Was You" (2008) 
2 ALBUM: Claire Hamill - Geronimo's Caddilac, from "The Minor Fall, The Minor Lift : The Best Of Josephine Claire Hamill" (2007)
3 ALBUM: Danny O'Keefe - When You Come Back Down, from "In Time" (2008)
4 ALBUM: Shiner Twins - Chance For Romance, from "Southern Belles" (2008)
5 ALBUM: Catie Curtis - Tuesday's Dead, from "Hello, Stranger" (2009)
6 ALBUM: Robbie Dupree - Lucky, from "Time And Tide" (2008)
7 ALBUM: George Anderson - Wonder Of U, from "Positivity" (2009) 
8 ALBUM: Cat Stevens - Rubylove, from "Teaser And The Firecat" (1971) vinyl 
9 CHART: No.22 Robbie Williams - You Know Me (2009) 
10 ALBUM: Fleetwood Mac - Gold Dust Woman, from "Rumours" (1977)  vinyl 

11 Goldhawks - Running Away (2009)
12 Fyfe Dangerfield - She Needs Me (2009)
13 ALBUM: Kristin Connell - Choo Choo, from "Dance Of Love" (2009)
14 The Kinks - You Really Got Me (1964)