The Whole Nine Yards Ep 38 21.10.21 Wishing on a Star – Songs of Searching with Roy Stannard on Burgess Hill Radio 103.8FM

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The Whole Nine Yards Sunday Ep 38 17th October 2021 3-5pm with Roy Stannard on Burgess Hill Community Radio 103.8FM www.burgesshillradio.co.uk/listenlive

Wishing on a Star – Songs of Searching

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Some may say that wishing is a waste of time. But at least it does take you a step closer to where you want to be. With all the chaos around us, it’s easy to find oneself yearning to turn back time, connect with others, undo mistakes, or just to leave a legacy. Whatever you wish for it’s probably been captured in a song.

This week we are playing some of the best songs ever written about hopes, dreams, searching and yearning.

Get ready to wish upon a star and fly over the rainbow.

Hour One

Billie Rae Calvin – Wishing on a Star (Single 1977)

The Moody Blues – I Know You’re Out There Somewhere (Sur La Mer 1988)

U2 – I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For (The Joshua Tree 1987)

Simple Minds – Sense of Discovery (Walk Between Worlds 2018)

Hope of the States – This is a Question (Left 2006)

Manic Street Preachers Jackie Collins Existential Question Time (Journal for Plague Lovers 2009)

Maximo Park – Questing, not Coasting (Quicken The Heart 2009)T

om Grennan – Found What I’m Looking For (Lighting Matches 2018)

The Drums – Searching For Heaven (Portamento 2011)

Speech Debelle – Searching (Speech Therapy 2009)

Usher ft Luke Steele – Looking 4 Myself (Looking 4 Myself 2012)

Roy Ayers – Searching (Vibrations 1976)

Carolina Liar – Show Me What I’m Looking for (Coming to Terms 2008)

Hour Two

Rose Royce – Wishing on a Star (Rose Royce II – In Full Bloom 1977)

Craig Finn – Maggie, I’ve been searching for our Son (Faith in the Future 2015)

Paolo Nutini – Searching for Something (Caustic Love 2014)

Jackson Browne – Still Looking for Something (Downhill from Everywhere 2021)

Tom Waits – (Looking For) The Heart Of Saturday Night (The Heart of Saturday Night 1974)

Swing Out Sister – I Wish I Knew (Almost Persuaded 2018)

Lana Del Ray – Looking for America (Single 2019)

Carter USM – The Impossible Dream (1992 – The Love Album)

Françoise Hardy– Brûlure (If You Listen 1971 – remastered 2016)

Fresh 4 ft Lizz E. – Wishing on a Star (Single 1989)

Eva Cassidy – Over the Rainbow (The Other Side 1992)

The Album Leaf – Wishful Thinking (Into the Blue Again 2006)

Published by Roy Stannard

I'm someone who doesn't like parameters, barriers or fences. I'll try and climb over them, burrow under them or just pretend they don't exist - until they don't. Sometimes I'll write about the mind in a poetic way, or poetry with neural undertones, or I'll proselytise endlessly about my favourite new band - or one of the old ones. My Blog will give you the keys to the kingdom. A kingdom with no borders, no expectations and, therefore, no failure.. Because I am endlessly empathetic with people, their motivation, their behaviour,their problems and their quest for knowledge, I work with the pioneering Brighton-based homeless, vulnerable women and disempowered school students charity Off The Fence Trust that has tried to redress the equality deficit for over two decades. I produce, host and promote two radio shows a week: The Whole Nine Yards Sundays 3-5pm on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM (www.midsussexradio.co.uk/listen) - and Lost Immortals on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM on Sundays 5-7pm.

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