Everything's Tuesday

Well it's been another busy day here. It kicked off with a visit to the College. As I've said before, I'm learning to used 'Dreamweaver' and as part of my course, I'm revamping one of my websites. Now that I'm getting the hang of it (slowly), the web site is starting to take shape, although a couple of things aren't going right yet, but as they said in that famous 70s TV show, "We can re-build it!"

I came back and started sorting some more Northern Soul tunes to put on my disco computer. I'm slowly building up my collection of Northern Soul tunes and I've got just under 1000 - however I'm still learning what I've got so I'm not yet an expert.

Then earlier this evening I posted this last week's 'Pure Grooves radio show. I'm having a few problems uploading to Podomatic at the moment so I've had to use another site for the moment. Anyway, here's the show link.

Here's the playlist:
1 Maze ft Frankie Beverly - Silky Soul
2 Soul II Soul - Time
3 Terry Ronald - What The Child Needs
4 Cameo - Back & Forth
5 Central Line - Nature Boy
6 Seawind - What Cha Doin'
7 Peter Brown - Do Ya Wanna Get Funky With Me
8 Linda Clifford - Runaway Love
9 Double Exposure - Everyman
10 Fat Larry's Band - Center City
11 CJ & Co - Devil's Gun
12 Aquarian Dream - Phoenix
13 Dennis Coffey - Scorpio
14 Undisputed Truth - Smiling Faces Sometimes
15 Stevie Wonder - Higher Ground
16 TS Monk - Bon Bon Vie
17 Dynasty - Here I Am
18 Chemise - She Can't Love You
19 Barbara Pennington - Spend A Little Time With Me
20 Brief Encounter - What About Love
21 Jean Carn - Bet She Won't Love You Like I Do
22 Grupo X Ft Lisa Millett - Brand New Love
23 Blaze - Breathe (Hardsouls Latin Direction Treatment)
To hear my recent shows, go to http://www.jamesmurphy.podomatic.com

While I was out today I was thinking that it's about time I approached a few venues with regard to Friday Night events. At the moment I'm only regularly working on the first Friday of the month, so it would be nice to fill the other three Fridays.

So after putting the show online, I decided to design a new brochure to show to venue managers. That is now done, so I've made a viewable one that you can go and have a look at. I would appreciate any feedback you have on it.

You can see it by clicking here. It is password protected, so you'll need to type in the password which is: letmein - nice and easy to remember lol.

The only other thing I have to do tonight is sort out my play list for this week's Pure Grooves radio show, which I will record in the morning.

It's all go...

John Barry, Pure Grooves and the beginning of another week

Well it's Monday, and the circle turns once again. I got up around 6.30 this morning and doing my usual and checking in on facebook, I saw the news that legendary composer John Barry had passed away. This man has had in integral part of our lives over the years, whether we realised it or not.

Films like 'Zulu', 'Midnight Cowboy', 'Born Free' and the James Bond movies, through to TV themes like 'The Persuaders' - and of course his own hits as the John Barry 7, his music has permeated our lives. I love what he wrote on his own website, as it's so true,

"In a song you can invite perfect strangers into places words alone can never reveal and in those moments we can all be connected, even if it is just until the last chord fades, somehow the magic has changed the listener no matter howsmall ... forever ... and in those moments I believe we find ourselves again, it's partly tragic but amazing, just like life!"

R.I.P John Barry.

As always, this morning was taken up with getting the Pure Grooves web mag online - it's hard to believe, but we're up to issue 24 already. Filled with lots of good stuff once again and as always, FREE to read.

Here's the link to get it.

There's no relief when one issue's done, as we start straight away on the next one, and today has been spent adding new bits and bobs into the magazine for this week. We're already on the hunt for what will fill this week's web mag. We've decided on who the featured artist is going to be this week, we've started looking around for snippets of info to go into the magazine and we've got some features in the pipeline as well.

This afternoon, I recorded this week's Flashback show, so that's another thing done. Some great tunes in this week's show. As always there's 20 songs to listen to, including a few requests and some shout outs, and of course the 'Birthday Files' have been opened for two of our listeners.

Yesterday I was emailed by some artist management in the USA and sent a song by an artist. And I'll tell you this, if you like a bit of Modern Soul, it's going to be right up your street. Remember Bobby Jonz? Well he's returned under the name Bobby Jones, and he has a new album out in February. If the track I've got is anything to go by, it's going to be great. I'm going to play it in either this week's Pure Grooves or Sunday Shake Up. So keep your ears open for that!

It's now coming toward 7pm and I've been on the go since 7am with the Magazine and shows, so I think it's time for me to take a break. Speak soon.....

Last Night At Danceland

Well what can I say? This time last year I hadn't been a soul event. Now, I've been to loads, and I have to say Cambridge is absolutely cracking for Soul Events. And last night was no exception. Cambridge Soul Collective celebrated their 4th anniversary with a night at Fulbourn, and when they told me that there were two legends of the soul scene playing, I was looking forward to hearing them, but at the same time apprehensive that perhaps they weren't as good as everyone said.

I shouldn't have worried. Last night, a packed venue was treated to music from across the board of the Soul spectrum. I caught Max Rees, David Hayden, Tony Dellar and Soul Sam's sets and they were excellent.

As most people know, I am pretty new to the Northern Soul scene, and Tony Dellar's set introduced me to a whole heap of records that I didn't know. Moving to Cambridge has been like opening a whole new world of music to me. And I love it. Soul Sam was everything people had told me - I loved his complete set from remixes of songs I have already to newer tunes and through the classics.

I didn't appear to be the only one who liked it. The dance floor was jumping with people from the time I got there until the end.

The longer I've been in Cambridge the more people I've met, and I have to say they are some of the friendliest people I've ever come across. From day 1 the people have made me very welcome here and I really appreciate their support.

I got to meet more people last night that I've chatted to on facebook and it's amazing that people from all walks of life can become great friends because of this music we love.

If you ever see a Cambridge Soul Collective night advertised, and you can get there, do it! You'll be glad that you did.

This morning, I was up with the lark for this week's Sunday Shake Up - and as usual it was full of the best that the soul genre can offer. Of course, you do have to put up with my inane drivel in between the songs, but I try to keep it short and sweet, and get as much music into my 2 hours as I can.

Here's this week's show:

Click here to get the show
and here's the playlist:
1 MFSB ft Three Degrees - Love Is The Message
2 Sly & The Family Stone - If You Want Me To Stay
3 Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway - Where Is The Love
4 Crusaders - Carnival Of The Night
5 Maysa ft Najee & Nick Colionne - Higher Love
6 Seawind - He Loves You
7 Anita Baker - Caught Up In The Rapture
8 Regina Belle - Show Me The Way
9 William De Vaughn - Creme De Creme
10 James & Bobby Purify - I'm Your Puppet
11 James Carr - Dark End Of The Street
12 Intruders - Cowboys To Girls (1968) Philadelphia International
13 Al Green - There Is Love
14 Deniece Williams - Free
15 Manhattans - Hurt
16 Bill Withers - Use Me
17 Ohio Players - Fire
18 Mary Jane Girls - All Night Long
19 Earth Wind & Fire - Shining Star
20 Mass Production - Shante
21 Alicia Myers - You Get The Best From Me (Say Say Say)
22 High Fashion - Feeling Lucky Lately
23 Cliff Dawson - I Can Love You Better
24 Lainer & Co - Dancing In The Night
25 Maxine Singleton - Don't You Love It
26 Armenta - I Wanna Be With You
27 Night School - Do You Speak French
28 LTD - Holding On
To hear my recent shows, go to htp://www.jamesmurphy.podomatic.com

Well, that's it for now - cya soon!

It's the weekend!!!

Well, it's Saturday - and I'm not working tonight, but I am going out - I'll be at the the Cambridge Soul Collective's 4th Anniversary night tonight at Fulbourn. Looking forward to that as I'll get my first opportunity to see the legend that is Soul Sam play his tunes. I enjoy the Fulbourn nights as they always attract a good crowd.

But before that, I've got to record tomorrow's Sunday Shake Up show. I sorted the play list out yesterday so it's just a matter of doing the show now.

I've spent this morning listening to a new Radio Station that I'm doing a show on. Classic Soul Radio is run by a friend and fellow presenter Mike Howard and I logged on to hear his breakfast show this morning. I've always enjoyed Mike's shows as he had an amazing music collection and he always plays tunes I like, and today was no exception. He played some great tunes that were new to me by George Duke and Brian Culbertson. Seems I'll have to go on the hunt again!

I've just been trying to think what I've been up to since Wednesday. It's funny, I always seem to be busy, but I have problems trying to remember what I've done. Must be my age. I know I've been working on the magazine and there are still a few pages to get finished before we put it out on Monday. Now we have the magazine to a fairly decent quality level, the hardest thing is keeping it up there and improving on it.

As someone who doesn't really have an inroad to be on all the mailing lists, I have to go on the hunt for information that's out there, and it really adds time to the task of putting the magazine together.

I'm at College a couple of days each week doing a computer course, and at the moment I'm learning to use Dreamweaver to create a web site. I already have three that I've designed myself using Frontpage, but I'm told that Dreamweaver is a top end piece of kit, so hopefully I can learn from there and improve on my websites. I really want to rebuild the 'On The Radio' website as I feel that it now looks a bit garish. When I first built it, I liked the bright fresh look it had, but over time I've come to dislike it, so once I've learnt enough to use Dreamweaver to build a site, I'll revamp it.

Right I suppose I'd better get on. Things to do and all that.........

Pure Grooves show (22-01-11)

Here's last week's Pure Grooves show - I know it's a bit late but if you read my last blog, you'll know why

Here's the link

 Here's the play list:
1 Foxy - Madamoiselle
2 Faze O - Riding High
3 Latimore - Sweet Vibrations
4 Ronnie Laws - Always There
5 Kool & The Gang - Hollywood Swingin'
6 Positive Force - We Got The Funk
7 Lynden David Hall - Sexy Cinderella
8 Lutricia McNeal - Ain't That Just The Way
9 Bobby Brown & Whitney Houston - Something In Common
10 Lonnie Liston Smith - Space Princess
11 Touchdown - Ease Your Mind
12 Beggar & Co - (Somebody) Help Me Out
13 Quincy Jones - Ai No Corrida
14 Melba Moore - Love Me Right
15 Aretha Franklin - Jump To It
16 Hardsoul ft Ron Carroll - Back Together
17 Moony - Dove
18 Kirk Franklin - Looking For You
19 Stix Hooper - Cordon Bleu
20 Charles Earland - Muriley
21 Blackbyrds - Rock Creek Park
22 O'Jays - 992 Arguments
23 Harold Melvin & The Bluenotes - Satisfaction Guaranteed
24 MFSB - K-Jee
25 Len Boone - Love Won't Be Denied
26 Musique - Keep On Jumpin'

and click here to catch some of my other recent shows.


I'll be back later with the link to this week's Flashback show....

Mid-week catch up.

Well, I can't believe it's taken me almost three days to get over being annoyed with myself for the speed camera thing on Saturday night! But finally I'm getting back to normal (for me anyway).

So what have I been up to this week. Well, Monday's are mostly about getting the Pure Grooves magazine online.

Had he still been alive, Sam Cooke would have been 80 this week, so we featured him as our featured artist and also there was a piece on him in the magazine as well. Most people will know I'm a big Sam Cooke fan, so there shouldn't be any surprise that he was featured. We're into the second week with the new look of the magazine and whilst it's looking better than ever, it's taking so much more time to do. We used to be able to put the magazine together in 10-15 hours, but it's now taking nearly double the time. We just hope the readers think it's worth the extra effort. It's hard to believe that in just under a fortnight, we'll have been doing the magazine for 6 months!

Once we got that out of the way, it was time to look toward this week's 'Flashback' show. I sorted out the play list in the afternoon, and recorded the show in the evening. As you'll know it goes out this evening on various radio stations and also as a link on facebook and on my sites.

Yesterday, I was back at College. I've started a course there and as part of that I'm learning to use Dreameaver to create web sites. I've always used 'Frontpage', so this will be a challenge, and also give me the impetus to change my ontheradio website, as I think it needs a new look.

Yesterday was a very rare day for me as I struggled totally to do anything once I'd got back from college. I really didn't feel like doing anything. I worked on the magazine for about an hour, but got bored, so I watched a couple of films instead. I watched 'The Terminator' and 'Maid In Manhattan'. Two totally different films I know , but hey.......

Afterwards, I worked on the play list for this week's Pure Grooves show and finally after I couldn't think of anything else to do, I went to bed.

The problem with going to bed early for me is that I always wake up at stupid o'clock. So by 6am this morning I was up. And by 6.30, I was recording this week's Pure Grooves show. I think it's a great show this week, with some proper good records in it.

Halfway through the show though, I realised I hadn't posted last week's show for people to listen again to - I normally do it on a Tuesday night, but with my malaise, I totally forgot, so I posted it earlier.

And that's about it for now - I'll be posting Flashback later, and I'll put both shows on here later..

Till then......

Great night DJing then it went a bit pear-shaped....

Last night, I was one of three DJs playing at George Knox's 50th birthday party, and what a cracking night it was. Lots of people who knew how to party, and I had the chance to dig out some great tunes that I don't often get chance to play when I'm out.

Shaun Owen started the evening off with a mix of great tunes to get people in the mood, then Max Rees came on the decks and played a solidly classics set to get the floor moving and after an hour of top tunes and with people up and dancing he passed it over to myself for the rest of the evening.

I've been in Cambridge almost a year now, and last night was my best night since I've been here. It gave a lot of people the opportunity to see me play for the first time and hopefully they liked it. The floor had people on it, throwing some wicked moves, so i think it went well. For me personally, I felt 'in the zone' and was lovin' what I played.

So what did get played? Unfortunately, Shaun was using CDs so I don't have a list of what he played, but Max and myself used my system, so I am able to put our play lists on.

Max Rees' set:
1 Heatwave - Groove Line
2 George Benson - Give Me The Night
3 Brothers Johnson - Stomp
4 Marvin Gaye - Got To Give It Up
5 Jackson 5 - I Want You Back
6 Jr Walker & The All Stars - How Sweet It Is
7 Barry White - You're The First The Last My Everything
8 Detroit Spinners - It's A Shame
9 Gwen McCrae - Keep The Fire Burning
10 Curtis Hairston - I Want You
11 Cool Million ft Eugene Wilde - Back For More
12 Joyce Sims - Come Into My Life
13 Grace Jones - Pull Up To The Bumper
14 A Taste Of Honey - Boogie Oogie Oogie
15 GQ - Make My Dreams A Reality
16 Keni Burke - Let Somebody Love You

James Murphy's Set
17 Tomorrow's Edition - U Turn Me On
18 Mystic Merlin - Mr Magician
19 Seawind - What Cha Doin'
20 Sun - Sun Is Here
21 Banbarra - Shack Up
22 War - Me & Baby Brother
23 Jackson Sisters - I Believe In Miracles
24 Coffee - Casanova
25 Phyllis Hyman - You Know How To Love Me
26 Tobi Legend - Time Will Pass You By
27 Epitome Of Sound - You Don't Love Me
28 Fatback Band - I Found Lovin'
29 Maze ft Frankie Beverly - Joy & Pain
30 Chi-Lites - Hot On A Thing
31 Khemistry - I Can't Lose With The Stuff I Use
32 Rick James - Big Time
33 Teena Marie - Behind The Groove
34 Terence Trent D'arby - Dance Little Sister
35 Teddy Pendergrass - Only You
36 Roy Ayers - Get On Up Get On Down
37 Manu Dibango - Big Blow
38 Jazzy Dee - Get On Up
39 Jenny Burton - Bad Habits
40 New Jersey Connection - Love Dont Come Easy
41 Kleeer - Keep Your Body Workin'
42 Trussel - Love Injection
43 Karen Young - Hot Shot
44 Blackbyrds - Rock Creek Park
45 Paulinho Da Costa - Deja Vu
46 Bo Kirkland & Ruth Davis - You're Gonna Get Next To Me
47 McFadden & Whitehead - Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now
48 Herbie Hancock - You Bet Your Love
49 Gary's Gang - Keep On Dancin'
50 Finis Henderson - Skip To My Lou
51 Glenn Jones - I Am Somebody
52 Drizabone - Pressure
53 Luther Vandross - Till My Baby Comes Home
54 Teddy Pendergrass - More I Get The More I Want
55 Carrie Lucas - Dance With You
56 Cameo - Find My Way
57 Originals - Down To Love Town
58 Sweet Thunder - Everybody's Singin' Love Songs
59 Jean Carn - If You Wanna Go Back
60 Al Matthews - Fool
61 Garfield Fleming - Don't Send Me Away
62 Sherrick - Just Call
63 Leroy Hutson - They Got Love
64 Luther Vandross - Never Too Much

All in all it was a great evening.

So where did it all go Pete Tong? Well after packing the disco into the van, it went from great to grrrr.........
I started the van up and the exhaust went...... it was like driving a train, so noisy.

So just when you think it was as bad as it could be, I was driving home at 2.30 in the morning, fed up that I had worked, and my exhaust was going to probably going to cost me as much as I'd earned, when I saw two white flashes from a speed camera as I passed it. It's not as though I didn't know the camera was there. I drive past it every week. I was doing around 35 in a 30 mph zone, so yes, it was my fault, but my mind wandered due to my exhaust problem. Easily done.

So from having a great night, I've ended up out of pocket. Sometimes I wonder why I bother. Trouble is, I love it! The buzz I get when I'm playing to a great group of people is a drug I adore. So, next chance I get, I'll be out there doing it all over again.

Then this morning, I was back up at the crack of 8, sorting out my Sunday Shake Up show and getting it online, ready for the stations to play, and for the podcast to be available to download or listen again.

To download or hear the show - Click Here

Here's the playlist:
1 Bobby Womack - Things We Do (When We're Lonely)
2 Ronnie McNeir - Everybody's In A Hurry
3 Kool & The Gang - Too Hot
4 Staples Singers - Stone Soul Picnic
5 Winstons - Color Him Father
6 Jackie Ross - Selfish One
7 Terri Wells - You Make It Heaven
8 Marvin Gaye - My Love Is Waiting
9 Stephanie Mills - What Cha Gonna Do With My Lovin'
10 Otis Redding - My Girl
11 Judy Clay & William Bell - Private Number
12 Aretha Franklin - I Say A Little Prayer For You
13 DJ Rogers - On The Road Again
14 Brothers By Choice - Oh Darlin'
15 Al Green - L-O-V-E (Love)
16 Whitney Houston - You Give Good Love
17 George Benson - Kisses In The Moonlight
18 Glenn Jones - Show Me
19 Stevie Wonder - Masterblaster (Jammin')
20 Booker Newberry III - Love Town
21 Confunkshun - Ms Got The Body
22 Earth Wind & Fire - Evolution Orange
23 Tomorrow's Edition - U Turn Me On
24 Gentlemen Players - Suzi's Booty
25 Verna Francis - Why (Twisted Edit)
26 Eric Benet & Linda Kiraly - Iminluvwichoo
27 Loleatta Holloway - Runaway
28 Brooklyn Dreams - Music Harmony & Rhythm
29 Tata Vega - Get It Up For Love

To hear my recent shows, go to http://www.jamesmurphy.podomatic.com/

I'm also listening to the awesome Bobb Semple on Solar Radio as I'm writing this. Truly, medicine for my mind on a Sunday morning...

All I wanna do........

It's another cold morning in Cambridgeshire - I can't wait till it's summer! So what can I tell you about today? Not a great deal happened yesterday other than me recording this week's Pure Grooves show in the morning and a whole load of other mundane tasks. Fortunately, I was out doing Requestfest last night. So it wasn't all bad.

Once again, we had a mixture of people there. The age range seems to be 20-60 most weeks there. I sometimes wish that the older people in the pub made more requests, as I seem to get most from the younger people. It would be really nice to get a few soul lovers in as well. I like most types of music, but a bit more soul would balance it up. I could certainly do with less charty stuff. There really doesn't seem to be too much of any real quality in what I get requested that's newish.

Anyway, here's the play list.

1 Roy Orbison - I Drove All Night
2 Sheryl Crow - All I Wanna Do
3 John Legend - Ordinary People
4 Coolio - Gangsta's Paradise
5 Pat Benetar - Love Is A Battlefield
6 AC/DC - TNT
7 Willow Smith - Whip My Hair
8 Rihanna ft Drake - What's My Name
9 Simply Red - Money's Too Tight (To Mention)
10 H2O & Platinum - What's It Gonna Be
11 War - Low Rider
12 Drizabone - Pressure
13 Olly Murs - Thinking Of Me
14 Fall Out Boy - Thanks For The Memories
15 Eiffel 65 - Blue (Da Be Dee)
16 Bon Jovi - You Give Love A Bad Name
17 Bob Marley - Jammin'
18 Fleetwood Mac - Little Lies
19 Guns 'n' Roses - Welcome To The Jungle
20 Ian Dury & The Blockheads - Billericay Dickie
21 Kasenetz - Katz Singing Orchestral Chorus - Quick Joey Small (Run Joey Run)
22 Beatles - Penny Lane
23 Blue & Elton John - Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word
24 Judge Dread - Big Six
25 Rob Thomas - Lonely No More
26 Scooter - I'm Raving
27 Bon Jovi - Bad Medicine
28 Talking Heads - Once In A Lifetime
29 Cascada - Truly Madly Deeply
30 Tears For Fears - Shout
31 Terrorvision - Tequila (Mint Royale Shot)
32 Matumbi - Point Of View
33 KD Lang - Constant Craving
34 Transvision Vamp - I Want Your Love
35 Crazy Elephant - Gimme Gimme Good Lovin
36 Gene Chandler - Get Down
37 Kajagoogoo - Too Shy
38 Matthew Wilder - Break My Stride
39 Chuck Berry - Memphis Tennessee
40 Magnetic Man - I Need Air
41 JLS ft Tinie Tempah - Eyes Wide Shut
42 ABC - Look Of Love
43 Dr Dre - Forgot About Dre
44 Nelly - Just A Dream
45 Chris Brown - I Can Transform Ya
46 Isaac Hayes - Shaft
47 Darren Styles - Save Me (Sy & Unknown Remix)
48 David Bowie - China Girl
49 Baby D - Let Me Be Your Fantasy
50 Warren G ft Nate Dogg - Regulate
51 Cee Lo Green - It's OK
52 Heatwave - Boogie Nights
53 Elton John - I'm Still Standing
54 Bon Jovi - You Give Love A Bad Name
55 Ja Rule ft Ashanti - Mesmerize
56 DJ Fresh ft Ce'cile - Gold Dust
57 Example - Kickstarts
58 Pendulum ft Spyda & Tenor Fly - Tarantula
59 Magnetic Man ft Katy B - Perfect Stranger
60 Duck Sauce - Barbra Streisand
61 The Source - You Got The Love
62 Journey - Don't Stop Believing
63 Marvin Gaye - I Heard It Through The Grapevine
I will say though, it was a nice change to hear Ian Dury. I remember when the 'New Boots and Panties' album came out how different it was. I have to say I always liked Ian Dury, so to get 'Billericay Dickie' requested was a nice change.

What is it with child pop stars? Willow Smith, I'm led to believe (I can't be bothered to find out) is Will Smith's 10 year old daughter. I had her single requested last night. It's just awful - to my mind she made Little Jimmy Osmond sound great! And why would anyone over 10 request it?

At the same time, I have to confess that I like Duck Sauce's 'Barbra Streisand'. But for the life of me I don't know why. The whole song is based around a sample of Boney M's 'Gotta Go Home' and they just substituted  one 4 syllable lyric for another. Perhaps I was a closet Boney M fan.

I always seem to get a few 80s pop hits as well. Still, someone's gotta do it!

I even had a request from someone who wasn't there and it was possibly the tune of the night. Before I went last night, a facebook friend of mine asked me to play 'Kasenetz - Katz Singing Orchestral Chorus - Quick Joey Small (Run Joey Run),' so I did. I really hope he enjoyed it.

Right I'm off to College soon to continue with my new college course. Catch you later....

Where does the time go?

It's hard to believe it's Thursday already. There doesn't seem to be enough hours in the day lately. Yesterday was spent doing my accounts. It's 2011 and I'm doing 2009/10 accounts, and it's hard to remember exactly what was what back in the April of 2009. I'm not usually this late getting the accounts in, but with the move to Cambridge, and starting to try and drum up new business, it's sort of been left to the last minute. I've just got to courier it off to the accountant later today.

Also yesterday, I sorted the play list out for this week's Pure Grooves show. In fact, I'm recording the show as I write this. Who says men can't multi-task? I've had a good hunt this week to find some tunes I've not played for a while and come up with some great stuff by the likes of Lynden David Hall, Lonnie Liston Smith, The O'Jays and many more.

This week's Golden Oldies show, Flashback has been done, and now the link to the listen again is sorted.

So what's in this week's Flashback show?

1 Helen Shapiro - Tell Me What He Said
2 Dandy Livingstone - Suzanne Beware Of The Devil
3 Sam Cooke - I Love You For Sentimental Reasons
4 Sir Douglas Quintet - She's About A Mover
5 Redbone - Witch Queen Of New Orleans
6 Zombies - She's Not There
7 John Fred & The Playboys - Judy In Disguise
8 Pipkins - Gimme Dat Ding
9 Everly Brothers - Claudette
10 Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water
11 Shocking Blue - Venus
12 Fats Domino - The Big Beat
13 Edison Lighthouse - Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)
14 Tommy Steele - Happy Guitar
15 Bobby Hendricks - Itchy Twitchy Feeling
16 Brenda Lee - Dynamite
17 Jet Harris & Tony Meehan - Applejack
18 Steely Dan - Rikki Don't Lose That Number
19 Beatles - I Saw Her Standing There
20 Southlanders - Alone

If you'd like to hear it, Click Here

I'm already working on next week's Pure Grooves web magazine. Yesterday I received Shirley Jone's new CD and Shirley emailed me to make contact. Many of you will remember that Shirley was the lead singer and driving force behind the Jones Girls. We featured the Jones Girls in the Pure Grooves magazine, way back in Issue 2. If you Click Here, you can check the archives and read it.

Have got loads to do after I've finished the show today, and tonight it's Requestfest at the Blue Lion in Fen Ditton, so I'd better get on. Cya!

Lovin' it!

Well, the weekend is over and the new week has started. I have to say, yesterday I had a proper chill day. After I'd sorted out the Sunday Shake Up show, I had a day of watching films. It's not that I watch a lot,but yesterday I watched three films back to back.

So what did I watch, I hear you ask.  I started off with Forrest Gump, moved onto The Devil Wears Prada and finished off with Roadhouse. As you can see I even like chick flicks lol.

After that, I went online and did some googling. I've been hearing and seeing this term 'Popcorn Oldies' a lot lately so I went on the hunt to see what it's all about. Apparently it's come from Belgium where they like 60s soul, only slightly cheesier that what we're used to playing, but chucked in with that you can also find artists like Helen Shapiro & Cliff Richard.

Anyway, I found out I already had a fair few of the songs that fit the genre, so I went on the hunt for more and bought a fair few, so today I was listening and getting them onto my disco computer. I have to say I quite like the genre - but then again, I do like 60s oldies anyway!

Later this afternoon, I sorted out the playlist for this week's 'Flashback' show and once that was done, I recorded it and got it ready to send to the various stations it goes to.

I don't know if I've mentioned it before I do a guest spot on a Canadian Radio show called 'Motown & More' and I play one from the Motown Stable and one from wherever I fancy. I recorded 3 segments tonight to get me in advance over the next few weeks and emailed them off as well.

Right what else have I done today? Oh yeah - I published this week's Pure Grooves magazine this morning. We decided to rejig the format during the week and added a couple more things to the magazine, so hopefully you'll find it a brighter, fresher looking format when you read it. When? Yes I expect you to read it at least once hahaha. After all it's free to read, so there's nowt to lose is there.

Once you've read it, please feel free to leave me some feedback. It takes a lot of work to produce each week's magazine so we'd like to know if it's worth reading. Only you can tell us that.

So where can you get it?

Here.

This is this week's cover.

Now I've updated this and its pushing 8.45pm so I'll wrap it up for today. It's been busy, but such fun!

See you next time.