The Whole Nine Yards Ep 96 27.11.22 After the end of the road with Roy Stannard on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

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The Whole Nine Yards Episode 96

With Roy Stannard

On Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

Sunday November 27th 2022 3-5pm

http://www.midsussexradio.co.uk/listen

After the end of the road

This year two of my music heroes passed on to the next sound stage. Gary Brooker on the 22nd February and Wilko Johnson on the 21st of this month. Both were from my home town of Southend and both made music that was unique and eternal. Albeit in different ways.

Both had versions of the 1000 yard stare, although in Brooker’s case this mellowed to around 500 yards as he got older.

Like faith, music never dies and songs morph and take different shape years after being written. Route 66 is one of those. Written by Bob Troup in the mid forties, it went from a jazz foot tapper with Nat King Cole to a Lee Brilleaux snarl with Doctor Feelgood. A Whiter Shade of Pale, with its Matthew Fisher composed echoes of JS Bach, was a worldwide No 1 in 1967 but it changed shape and form over the years –  forever being sculpted by its writer Gary Brooker. It seems right to play a version recorded in New York’s Cathedral of St. John the Divine in 2016.

Also featuring the world radio radio debut of Scarlett Chapman and her charity single ‘Home’ in aid of Off The Fence homeless charity.

What happens after the end of the road? Answer: The next road..

Hour One

Dr Feelgood – (Get your Kicks on) Route 66 (live) (Down by the Jetty 1975)

Billy Bragg – A13 Trunk Route to the Sea (John Peel Sessions 1985)

Jay Farrar & Benjamin Gibbard – Roads Don’t Move (One Fast Move or I’m Gone – Music from Jack Kerouac’s Big Sur 2009)

Big Star – Watch the Sunrise (#1 Record 1972)

Gary Brooker – Whiter Shade of Pale (Winter Solstice Celebration at New York’s Cathedral of St. John the Divine with the Paul Winter Consort 2016)

Portishead – Roads (Dummy 1994) vs Massive Attack – Teardrop (Mezzanine 1998)

Kate Bush ft Elton John – Snowed in at Wheeler Street (50 Words for Snow 2011)

Kate Bush – Rocket Man (Two Rooms 1991)

Elton John ft Dua Lipa – Cold Heart (Pnau Remix) (The Lockdown Sessions 2021)

Oleta Adams – Don’t Let Sun Go Down on Me (Two Rooms 1991)

Hour Two

Donovan – Get Thy Bearings (The Hurdy Gurdy Man 1968)

PM Dawn – Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) (The Bliss Album…? (Vibrations of Love and Anger and the Ponderance of Life and Existence 1993)

Real Lies – Dream On (Lad Ash 2022)

The Big Dish – Prospect Street (Swimmer 1986)

Lloyd Cole and the Commotions – Charlotte Street (Rattlesnakes 1984)

World Party – Love Street (Goodbye Jumbo 1990)

Love and Money – Jocelyn Square (Strange Kind of Love 1988)

The Go-Betweens – Streets of your Town (24 Lovers Lane 1988)

Múm – Green, Grass of Tunnel (Finally We are No-one 2002)

Glenn Frey – Route 66 (After Hours 2012)

The Eagles ft Linda Ronstadt – Desperado (live) 1984

Scarlett Chapman – Home (Home Single 2022)

Emily Linge – Time Goes By (Single 2021) — Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/roy-stannard/message

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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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