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After you've enjoyed Come By The Hills with Sara Hillis, tomorrow afternoon from 02:00 to 05:00, don't touch that dial, device, PC, Mac or smart speaker and join me for The Early Years, where and when you'll hear the best music from Rock and Roll's Golden Age (its first quarter century) with an occasional nod to other decades and genres.

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From this Saturday at 12am Eastern, that’s 6pm Saturday in NZ, 4pm in Sydney and 5am in the UK, and repeated every four hours throughout the day, it’s the described movies West Side Story from 1961, and Jailhouse Rock from 1957.
West Side Story is a 1961 American musical romantic drama film directed by Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins.

The Juke In The Back” focuses on the “soul that came before rock n’ roll,” the records that inspired Elvis, Buddy Holly, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and countless others.
Cobra Records left quite a bite, even though this little West Side Chicago label was only in existence for three short years.

This has been a very busy week for me, and I have not had a chance to get in front of a microphone. So we reach back in the vault to August last year and enjoy the excellent lyrics and musicianship of Billy Joel. We learn that she's got a way, hear about moving out, and got into a New York state of mind.

The Juke In The Back” focuses on the “soul that came before rock n’ roll,” the records that inspired Elvis, Buddy Holly, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and countless others.
The “Juke In The Back” highlights the often ignored early career of Big Maybelle, one of the great female blues shouters.

Well, we're mere hours away from this week's episode of Come by the Hills, in which we hear about a plethora of women named Polly, some soldiers, including one sung about in Gaelic by Mary Chapin Carpenter, and a demo recording from Joni Mitchell's archives that I don't think I've ever played on the show before. We'll also have a battle of the Belle Dames, in which we pit my setting of Keats's poem "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" against that done by Loreena McKennitt, as well as the usual three hours of great Folk and Celtic music! It'll be a fun show as always, so I hope you'll join me!

After you've enjoyed Come By The Hills with Sara Hillis, tomorrow afternoon from 02:00 to 05:00, don't touch that dial, device, PC, Mac or smart speaker and join me for The Early Years, where and when you'll hear the best music from Rock and Roll's Golden Age (its first quarter century) with an occasional nod to other decades and genres.
Last week, I played the songs that were #1 on my birthday from 1949-71. As I play the best music from the first quarter-century of rock, I'll finish the survey from 1972-79 this week.

Thanks to the many people who have contacted me since the first broadcast of Mosen at the Museum to say how much they enjoyed it. I appreciate that. There’s one more chance to hear it.

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From this Saturday at 12am Eastern, that’s 5pm Saturday in NZ, 3pm in Sydney and 4am in the UK, and repeated every four hours throughout the day, it’s
The described movies National Velvet from 1944, and Bedknobs and Broomsticks from 1971.
National Velvet is a 1944 American Technicolor sports film directed by Clarence Brown and based on the 1935 novel of the same name by Enid Bagnold.

In September, while in the UK to attend the ABBA Voyage concert, I realised a long-held dream to visit the ABBA Museum in Stockholm, Sweden. As a blind person, what interested me most was the aural experience. Sporting my digital recorder, I was able to leave the museum with some extraordinary audio. I have compiled this into a three-hour documentary and celebration of ABBA, called Mosen at the Museum. All four band members talk about their early lives, how they met each other, when Benny and Anni-Frid fell in love and when Agnetha and Björn became a couple.