The Whole Nine Yards Ep 67 8.5.22 ‘We Need a Miracle’ with Roy Stannard on Burgess Hill Radio 103.8FM

The Whole Nine Yards 8.5.22 with Roy Stannard on Burgess Hill Community Radio 103.8FM

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We Need a Miracle

Two hours of songs that explore the meaning of miracles and why they manifest themselves in music.

It starts with Walt Whitman pairing up with Coco Star on ‘I need a miracle’

and just keeps getting better.

“I need a miracle

..I promised you a miracle

Belief is a beauty thing

Promises, promises

As golden days break wondering..”

Simple Minds 1982.

Music and words written about the miracles we don’t recognise around us

Hour One

Walt Whitman – Miracles (Leaves of Grass 1856) with Coco Star – I need a miracle (Single 12” remix 2008)

Simple Minds – I Promised you a Miracle (New Gold Dream 1982)

Coldplay – Miracles (The Unbroken OST 2014)

Colin Blunstone – I Don’t Believe In Miracles (Ennismore 1972)

Delirious? – Miracle Maker (The Mission Bell 2006)

Eurythmics – Miracle of Love (Revenge 1986)

Hurts – Miracle (Exile 2013)

Gary Peters – Miracles (Miracles 2012)

Jamie Lawson – Miracle Of Love (live) (The Years in Between 2019)

Insane Clown Posse – Miracles (Clean Radio Version) (Bang! Pow! Boom! 2009)

Mike & The Mechanics – All I Need Is A Miracle (Mike & The Mechanics 1999)

Hour Two

Audio Adrenaline – Miracle (Worldwide 2003)

Pet Shop Boys – Miracle (PopArt 2003)

U2 – The Miracle (Of Joey Ramone) (Songs of Innocence 2014)

Julianna Barwick – Healing Is A Miracle (Healing is a Miracle 2020)

Philip Selway – By Some Miracle (Familial 2010)

Ordinary Miracles by Erica Jong

Spring, rainbows,

ordinary miracles

about which

nothing new can be said.

The stars on a clear night

of a New England winter;

the soft air of the islands

along the old

Spanish Main;

pirate gold shining

in the palm;

the odor of roses

to the lover’s nose. . .

There is no more poetry

to be written

of these things.

The rainbow’s sudden revelation–

behold!

The cliché is true!

What can one say

but that?

So too

with you, little heart,

little miracle,

but you are

no less miracle

for being ordinary.

Sarah McLachlan – Ordinary Miracle (Charlotte’s Web Soundtrack 2008)

Sophie Zelmani – Only A Miracle (Radio Edit) (Sunrise 2019)

Tom Baxter – Miracle (Skybound 2007)

The Dø – Miracles (Back In Time) (Shake, Shook, Shaken 2015)

Whitney Houston – Miracle (I’m Your Baby Tonight 1990)

Whitney Houston & Mariah Carey – When You Believe (Prince of Egypt OST 1998)

Kutless – What Faith Can Do (All is Well 2009)

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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