The Whole Nine Yards Episode 177
With Roy Stannard
On Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM
Sunday 16th June 2024 3-5pm
www.midsussexradio.co.uk/listen
It’s Father’s Day. Generally dads don’t get a good press so I thought I’d compile some songs that underline the wisdom, love and sometimes, yes, the mistakes of dads.
Hour One
The Enemy – Father & Son (Radio 1 Established 1967 Disc 2 2007)
Glasvegas – Daddy’s Gone (Glasvegas 2008)
The Temptations – Papa was a Rolling Stone (Psychedelic Soul 1972)
Emeli Sandé – Daddy (Our Version of Events 2011)
Speech Debelle – Daddy’s Little Girl (Speech Therapy 2009)
Gil Scott-Heron (with Brian Jackson) – Your Daddy Loves You (Winter in America 1974)
The Winstons – Color Him Father (Color Him Father 1969)
Luther Vandross – Dance With My Father (Dance with my Father 2003)
Gladys Knight & The Pips – Daddy Could Swear, I Declare (Neither One of Us 1973)
Sade – Babyfather (Soldier of Love
Keith Urban – Song for Dad (Golden Road 2002)
Hour Two
Reba McEntire – The Greatest Man I Never Knew (For My Broken Heart 1991)
Brandi Carlile – Most Of All (By the Way, I Forgive You 2018)
Neil Young – Here For You (Prairie Wind 2005)
Stevie Wonder – These Three Words (Jungle Fever 1991)
Mike & The Mechanics – The Living Years (The Living Years 1988)
Harry Chapin – Cat’s in the Cradle (Verities and Balderdash 1974)
Pet Shop Boys – A New Bohemia (Nonetheless 2024)
Leon Russell – A Song for You (Leon Russell 1970)
K’s Choice – Dad (Paradise in Me 1996)
Cat Stevens – Father & Son (Teaser and the Firecat 1970)
Musical hieroglyphics and wonders 