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The Whole Nine Yards Series 2 Ep 8 21.3.21 Passport to La-La Land with Roy Stannard on Burgess Hill Radio 103.8FM

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The Whole Nine Yards Sunday 21.3.21 3-5pm

broadcast on www.burgesshillradio.co.uk Show 8
with

Roy Stannard

Passport to #LaLaLand

Right now, we all want a ticket to La-la Land. In fact we all want a ticket to just about anywhere. The expression La-La land seems to date back to 1979 when people used it to mean a mystical, whimsical place inspired by la la refrains used in songs.

It then became shorthand for Los Angeles and the dream world created by the magic of celluloid there before becoming the name of a blockbuster movie in 2016. Jazz pianist Ryan Gosling and aspiring actress Emma Stone realise their dreams of stardom in La La Land.

The rest of us secretly wish that we had a place like that where we can forget our worries, dream of better days and join in the chorus of la las. Blue skies and clandy floss skies. This is your passport to a paradise lost..

Hour One

Underworld – Caliban’s Dream (Isles Of Wonder: Music for the Opening Ceremony of the London 2012 2012)

La Ragazza 77(Ambra Borelli) – Il Paradiso Della Vito (Single 1968)

Amen Corner – (If Paradise Is) Half As Nice (Farewell to the Real Magnificent Seven 1969)

The Rokes – Piangi Con Me (Single 1966)

The Grassroots – Let’s Live for Today (Let’s Live for Today 1967)

Blue Öyster Cult – (Don’t Fear) the Reaper (Agents of Fortune 1976)

Simple Minds – Don’t You (Forget About Me) – The Breakfast Club Soundtrack 1985)

Tears for Fears – Head Over Heels (Songs from the Big Chair 1985)

Jason Mraz – Everything is Sound (La la la) (Love is a Four Letter Word 2012)

Michael Kiwanuka – You Ain’t the Problem (Kiwanuka 2019)

The Fugees – Killing Me Softly with His Song (The Score 1996)

Stevie Nicks – Stand Back (Disco Purrfection Version The Wild Heart 1983)

Hour Two

Van Morrison – Brown Eyed Girl (Blowin’ Your Mind! 1967)

Snoop Lion – La la la (Reincarnated 2012)

Naughty Boy ft Sam Smith – La la la (Hotel Cabana 2013)

The Carpenters – Yesterday Once More (Now and Then 1973)

Stevie Wonder – My Cherie Amour (My Cherie Amour 1969)

Kandace Springs – Killing me Softly with his Song (The Women who Raised Me 2020)

Haley Heynderickx – Oom Sha La La (I Need to Start a Garden 2017)

Myles Kennedy – Love Can Only Head (Eye of the Tiger 2018)

Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway – Killing Me Softly with His Song (Killing Me Softly 1973)

Minnie Riperton – Lovin’ You (Perfect Angel 1974)

Cat Stevens – Lady D’Arbanville (Mona Bone Jakon 1970)

Tears for Fears – Suffer the Children (The Hurting 1981)

Echo & The Bunnymen – The Killing Moon (Ocean Rain 1984) (Orchestral Version 2013) — Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/roy-stannard/message

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Lost Immortals Ep 386 16.8.26 with Roy Stannard & Matt Staples on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

Lost Immortals Ep 386

Sunday 16 August 2026 5-7pm

on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

with Roy Stannard and Matthew Staples

www.midsussexradio.co.uk/listen

Sword from the stone

Dedicated to the latest quixotic politician attempting to pull the sword from a stony Westminster.

“I can’t do it on my own

And I’ve tried and I can’t pull the sword from the stone”

A musical round table where every track has a role to play.

You are invited.

Hour One

1. Westside Cowboy – Dobro (It Goes On 21st August 2026 via Island Records)

2. The Misfits – Cough/Cool (7″ Single, 1977)

3. Teenage Fanclub – The Cabbage (Thirteen, 1993)

4. Iggy Pop and the Stooges – I Got a Right (More Power, 2009)

5. The Mynah Birds – I’ll Wait Forever (recorded 1966, released Motown Unreleased, 2016)

6. The Lumineers – Ophelia (Brightside, 2022)

7. Rare Earth – Warm Ride (Band Together 1978)

8. Vlads – Mars (Mars Single 2024)

9. The 4 of Us – Mary (Songs for the Tempted 1989)

10. Los Lunáticos – Los de Abajo (LDA V The Lunatics, 2015)

11. The Differences – Five Minutes (Single, 1971)

12. Tom Waits – 16 Shells From A Thirty-Ought Six (Swordfishtrombones, 1983)

Hour Two

1. Travis ft Josephine Oniyama – Idelwild (Everything at Once 2016)

2. Josephine Oniyama – Electrically You (Human EP / Kindred 2022)

3. Amos Lee – Won’t Let me Go (Last Days At The Lodge, 2008)

4. Samantha Crain – Joey (A Small Death 2020)

5. Kate & Anna McGarrigle – Goin’ back to Harlan (Aka Appalachian Dream) (Matapedia, 1996)

6. Lera Lynn – Are You Listening? (On My Own, 2020)

7. Kim Richey – Joy Rider (Joy Rider 2024)

8. Glen Hansard – High Hope (Rhythm and Repose, 2012)

9. Luke Sital-Singh – Me and God (Strange Weather 2022)

10. Passenger – Sword from the Stone (Songs for the Drunk & Broken Hearted 2021)

11. Maisie Peters – Nothing Like Being in Love (Florescence 2026)

The Whole Nine Yards Ep 290 16.8.26 Shamrock & Roll with Roy Stannard on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

The Whole Nine Yards Ep 290 

With Roy Stannard

On Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

Sunday 16 August 2026  3-5pm

www.midsussexradio.co.uk/listen

Shamrock and Roll

Ireland has always had a way of bottling weather, sunlight, heartbreak, rebellion, and mischief – and turning it into songs. From The Walls blazing into To The Bright & Shining Sun, Power of Dreams sharpening the edges, The Frank and Walters colouring the sky, and In Tua Nua, The Stunning, and The Golden Horde combining poetry with songs that punch hard.

In the second hour we have the modern folk gravity of Lankum, the emotional heft of Dermot Kennedy, the poetic fire of Grian Chatten and Kae Tempest, and the raw ache of Junior Brother and For Those I Love. From Shane MacGowan’s haunted beauty to Kodaline’s widescreen heartbreak, the music will be like walking through Dublin at midnight: voices rising from doorways, old ghosts humming in the alleys, and music that drifts into the night.

Hour One

The Walls – To The Bright & Shining Sun (New Dawn Breaking 2005)

Power of Dreams – 100 Ways to Kill a Love (Immigrants, Emigrants and Me 1990)

The Frank and Walters – Colours (Grand Parade 1997)

In Tua Nua – Don’t Fear Me Now (The Long Acre 1988)

The Stunning – Brewing Up a Storm (Paradise in the Picture House 1988)

The Golden Horde – 100 Boys (The Golden Horde 1991)

The Fountainhead – Someone Like You (Voice of Reason 1988)

Something Happens –  Room 29 (Stuck Together with God’s Glue

The Devlins – All The Days (All The Days 2024)

The Coronas – Light Me Up (True Love Waits 2020)

Catchers – Beauty #3 (Mute 1994)

New Dad – Safe (Safe EP 2025)

Just Mustard – We Were Just Here (We Were Just Here 2025)

Hour Two

The Fat Lady Sings – Drunkyard Logic (Johnson 1993)

Lankum –  On a Monday Morning (False Lankum 2023)

Dermot Kennedy – Funeral (The Weight of the Woods 2026)

Farah Elle – Teardrop (Degrees of Light, Experiments in Love 2017)

Damon Albarn, Griann Chatten & Kae Tempest – Flags (Help 2 2026)

Fontaines D.C. –  Black Boys on Mopeds  (Help 2 2026)

Junior Brother – Take Guilt (The End 2025)

Dove Ellis – Love Is (Blizzard 2025)

Kodaline – Without You (We Were Only Young 2026)

Shane MacGowan & The Popes with Sinead O’Connor – Haunted (Two If by Sea/Stolen Hearts OST 1995)

The 4 of Us – Sunlight (Heaven & Earth 2004)

Lost Immortals Ep 385 9.8.26 with Roy Stannard & Matt Staples on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

THE LOST IMMORTALS – EXPANDING YOUR MUSICAL HORIZONS

Ep 385 Sunday 9th Aug 2026 5-7pm

with Roy Stannard & Matthew Staples

on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

www.midsussexradio.co.uk/listen

Homo Sapien Symphony

When the first 3 tracks are by The Charlatans, Sonic Youth and Spizzenergi you know you’re in for a wild ride. When the subsequent tracks include Alabama Shakes, Department S and a glorious version of Wichita Lineman by James Taylor, introduced to me by our own Dave Purkis (Sundays 10am-1pm), then you know the show is worth the price of admission (free).

Hour One

1. The Charlatans – Sproston Green (remastered) (Some Friendly 1990)

2. Sonic Youth – The Diamond Sea (Washing Machine, 1995)

3. Spizzenergi – Where’s Captain Kirk (Single, 1979)

4. Alabama Shakes – Hold On (Boys & Girls, 2012)

5. Department S – Going Left Right (Single, 1981)

6. The Head and the Heart – Lost in My Mind (The Head and the Heart, 2011)

7. Beluga Lagoon – Homo Sapien Symphony (Single 2026)

8. Kilbey Kennedy – The Formless Realms (Things We Did on Earth 2016)

9. Theatre Royal – If You Could Stand Up (You’d Walk Away) (From rubble rises… , 2010)

10. Nyv – Banlieue (Low Profile 2020)

11. Bebe – Malo (Pafuera Telarañas, 2004)

Hour Two

1. Noumoucounda – Sorra feat. Goundo Cissokho (Griots, 2024)

2. The Crooked Jades – Can’t Stare Down A Mountaineer (World’s on Fire 2006)

3. Niyaz – Beni Beni (Nine Heavens, 2008)

4. It’s A Beautiful Day – Girl with No Eyes (It’s a Beautiful Day 1969)

5. The Scones – White Bird (It’s A Beautiful Day cover) (Single 2017)

6. Leon Russell, Willie Nelson and Ray Charles – A Song For You (live) (Willie Nelson 70th 2003)

7. Amelia Curran – Move a Mile (Watershed 2017)

8. The Irrepressibles – In Your Eyes (Mirror Mirror 2010)

9. James Taylor – Wichita Lineman (Covers, 2008)

10. Aurora – Runway (Orchestral version) (Running with the Wolves EP (2015) and debut album All My Demons Greeting Me as a Friend (2016)

Extended

• L. Shankar – Dead Girls Of London (lead vocs by Van Morrison) (Touch Me There, 1979)

• Nomadi – Mamma Musica (Quando Ci Sarai, 1996)

• Gorillaz – Hong Kong (D-Sides, 2007)

The Whole Nine Yards Ep 289 9.8.26 We’re going down the pub – Shambolic: British Pub Rock 1975-85

The Whole Nine Yards Ep 289 

With Roy Stannard

On Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

Sunday 9 August 2026  3-5pm

www.midsussexradio.co.uk/listen

We’re going down the pub – shambolic British rock

British Pub Rock wasn’t a movement that arrived with a manifesto – it stumbled in from the car park, ordered a pint, plugged straight into the wall socket and started playing. Before punk, before new wave, before the industry realised what was about to hit it, Pub Rock was already there: loud, local, unpretentious, and committed to make Friday night feel like a minor revolution.

This week on The Whole Nine Yards, we’re heading back into that world – sticky carpets, nicotine ceilings, and bands who played like their lives depended on it. The soundtrack comes from the back rooms of pubs across London, Essex, Sussex and beyond, where groups like Dr Feelgood, Eddie & The Hot Rods, The Inmates, The Motors and Sham 69 forged a raw, high‑energy British sound that shaped what came next.

So grab a stool, lean on the bar, and let’s go down the pub.

HOUR 1

Sham 69 – Hurry Up Harry (That’s Life, 1978)

The Faces – Pool Hall Richard (Single, 1973)

Ian Hunter – Once Bitten, Twice Shy (Ian Hunter 1975)

Radio Stars – Johnny Mekon (Songs for Swinging Lovers, 1977)

The Motors – Dancing the Night Away (Approved by the Motors, 1978)

The Sensational Alex Harvey Band – Giddy Up a Ding Dong (The Penthouse Tapes, 1976)

Yachts – Suffice to Say (Yachts, 1979)

The Outsiders – On the Edge (Close Up, 1978)

La Peste – I Don’t Know Right from Wrong (La Peste EP, 1978)

Miss Ludella Black – You Don’t Know Right from Wrong (Single, 1999)

Dave Edmunds – A1 on the Jukebox (Get It, 1977)

The Inmates – (I Thought I Heard a) Heartbeat (First Offence, 1979)

Dirty Looks – Let Go (Turn It Up, 1981)

HOUR 2

Brian Spence – Reputation (Reputation, 1985)

Secret Affair – My World (Soho Dreams, 1980)

999 – English Wipeout (Separates, 1978)

The Romantics – Rock You Up (In Heat, 1983)

Staa Marx – Crazy Weekend (Single, 1979)

The Records – Starry Eyes (Shades in Bed, 1979)

Chris Spedding – Lone Rider (I’m Not Like Everybody Else, 1977)

Rose Tattoo – All the Lessons (Southern Stars, 1984)

The Members – Sally (Uprhythm, Downbeat, 1982)

Department S – I Want (Is Vic There? EP, 1981)

The Ruts – Something That I Said (The Crack, 1979)

Dr Feelgood – Down at the Doctors (Private Practice, 1978)

Eddie & The Hot Rods – Beginning of the End (Life on the Line, 1977)

Lost Immortals Ep 384 2.8.26 with Roy Stannard & Matt Staples on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

THE LOST IMMORTALS – EXPANDING YOUR MUSICAL HORIZONS Ep 384 Sunday 2 August 2026 5-7pm

on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

with Roy Stannard and Matthew Staples

www.midsussexradio.co.uk/listen

A Lost Immortal

One of my all-time favourite artists Glen Hansard died in a motorbike accident on 29th July, aged 56. He was one of around ten musicians who I would listen to whatever he released. This show is wonderful, but it has a black border.Hour One

Sophia – Resisting (As We Make Our Way (Unknown Harbours) EP, 2016)

Star Horse – Slower Now (Single, 2015)

Graham Coxon – Spectacular (Happiness in Magazines 2004)

Camper Van Beethoven – Take the Skinheads Bowling (Telephone Free Landslide Victory

1985)

Cardiacs – Trademark / My Trademark (Toy World, 1981)

Elephant Ears and Shirley Callaghan – Haunting My Shadows (Single, 2026)

The Attack – Any More Than I Do (Double A-side with Hi-Ho Silver Lining, 1967)

The Beths – Not Running (Future Me Hates Me, 2018)

Moby – That’s When I Reach for my Revolver (Animal Rights 2012)

Etiblancko – Love N’ Hope (Collection of Songs, 2024)

Broadcast – Tender Buttons (Tender Buttons 2005)

Hour Two

Barry Can’t Swim – Dance, Dance; Dance (Single 2026)

Issa Bagayogo – Dya Bana (Tassoumakan Voice of Fire , 2004)

The Subdudes – Faraway Girl (Primitive Streak, 1996)

Nick Drake- Free Ride (Pink Moon, 1972)

Lucinda Williams – Lonely Girls (Essence 2001)

Mark Knopfler – What it is (live at La Noche Abiera 2.11.2000 – original Sailing to Philadelphia 2000)

English Teacher – Birds of a Feather (Live from BBC Maida Vale EP 2022)

Mathilde Santing – Close Watch (Breast and Brow, 1989)

Jack – My World versus Your World (The Jazz Age 1998)

Grace Cummins – Fake (Bloodhorse 2026)

The Swell Season – Impossible (Forward/Impossible Single 2026)

The Whole Nine Yards Ep 288 2.8.26: Laura Nyro – a life in 23 songs with Roy Stannard on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

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The Whole Nine Yards Ep 288 

With Roy Stannard

On Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

Sunday 2 August 2026  3-5pm

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Laura Nyro – A Life in 23 Songs

Laura Nyro (born Laura Nigro, 1947, The Bronx) grew up absorbing jazz, soul, gospel, girl‑group pop, classical music, and poetry — influences she fused into a style so distinctive that the mainstream often struggled to contain it. She wrote her first songs at eight, taught herself piano, and by her early 20s had become one of the most important American songwriters of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Her own albums — Eli and the Thirteenth Confession (1968) and New York Tendaberry (1969) — earned critical acclaim, while other artists turned her compositions into major hits. Her life was marked by bursts of creativity, periods of retreat, fierce independence, and a deep commitment to artistic authenticity.

Below, her story unfolds chronologically through 24 songs that shaped her career and legacy.

Hour One

Laura Nyro – And When I Die (More Than a New Discovery, 1967)

Fifth Dimension – Wedding Bell Blues (Age of Aquarius 1969)

Laura Nyro – Stoney End (More Than a New Discovery, 1967)

Barbra Streisand – Hands off the Man (Flim Flam Man) (Stoney End, 1971)

Three Dog Night – Eli’s Comin’ (Suitable for Framing, 1969)

Fifth Dimension – Stoned Soul Picnic (Stoned Soul Picnic, 1968)

Fifth Dimension ft Frank Sinatra – Sweet Blindness (live) (Frank and Friends TV show 1968)

Laura Nyro – Emmie (Eli and the Thirteenth Confession, 1968)

Renee Fleming, Yo-Yo Ma & Billy Childs – New York Tendaberry (Map to the Treasure: Reimagining Laura Nyro 2014)

Laura Nyro – Beads of Sweat (Christmas and the Beads of Sweat, 1970)

Hour Two

Laura Nyro – Up on the Roof (Christmas and the Beads of Sweat, 1970)

Laura Nyro – Save the Country (New York Tendaberry, 1969)

Laura Nyro & Labelle – I Met Him on a Sunday (Gonna Take a Miracle, 1971)

Laura Nyro – To a Child (Mother’s Spiritual, 1984)

Laura Nyro – Lite a Flame (Walk the Dog and Light the Light, 1993)

Laura Nyro – Broken Rainbow (Walk the Dog and Light the Light, 1993

Becca Stevens & Billy Childs – The Confession (Map to the Treasure: Reimagining Laura Nyro 2014)

Blood, Sweat & Tears – And When I Die (Blood, Sweat & Tears, 1969)

Laura Nyro – Walk on By (live) (Angel in the Dark 2001)

Jane Siberry – When I think of Jane Siberry (Time and Love: The Music of Laura Nyro 1997)

Tennis – Mean Streets (Ritual on Repeat 2014)

Elton John & Brandi Carlile – The Rose of Laura Nyro (Who Believes in Laura Nyro 2025)

Lost Immortals Ep 383 with Roy Stannard & Matt Staples on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

THE LOST IMMORTALS – EXPANDING YOUR MUSICAL HORIZONS

Ep 383⁠ Sun 26.7.26 5-7pm⁠

with Roy Stannard and Matthew Staples

on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM⁠

www.Mid Sussex Radio.co.uk⁠

⁠

Another great show from the brothers in arms.⁠

Come and share.

Hour One

1. Morphine – Sharks (Live, 1994)

2. Minibar – New Mexico (Fly Below the Radar 2003)

3. Mary Karlzen – Everybody’s Sleeping (Yelling at Mary, 1995 / 2003 reissue)

4. Rialto – Monday Morning 5.19 (Rialto 1998)

5. The Walkabouts – The Light Will Stay On (Devil’s Road, 1996)

6. Nymphlord – Garden (Shedding Velvet, 2026)

7. Jeanne Bonjour – One way (le mode automatique) (Single, 2022)

8. Nice Biscuit – Fade Away (SOS, 2025)

9. José James – When They See Us (Single, 2019)

10. The Stranglers – Old Codger (B side to Walk On By, 1978)

11. The Vandalias – These Others (Buzzbomb!, 1998)

Hour Two

1. DC Fontana – It Don’t Worry Me (Meshkalina EP, 2011)

2. Richard Orange – All The Way To China (Hole In My Heart) (Big Orange Sun, 2005)

3. CAKE – Never Gonna Give You Up (Fashion Nugget (Deluxe edition), orig.1997 deluxe remaster 2022)

4. The Last Shadow Puppets – My Mistakes Were Made For You (The Age Of The Understatement, 2008)

5. Of Monsters and Men – Dirty Paws (My Head Is An Animal, 2012)

6. Maryam Mursal – Somali Udiida Ceb (Somalia, Don’t Shame Yourself) (The Journey, 1998)

7. Tish Hinojosa – In the Real West (Culture Swing, 1993)

8. Jeffrey Foucault – Ghost Repeater (Ghost Repeater, 2005)

9. Fink – Looking Too Closely (Hard Believer, 2014)

10. Hooverphonic – Mad About You (Live at Koningin Elisabethzaal, 2012)

Extended

1. Demi Marriner – Seize the Day (The Things I Said 2025)

2. L7 – Mr. Integrity (Bricks are Heavy, 1992)

The Whole Nine Yards Ep 287 26.7.26 Catalyst Songs with Roy Stannard on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM 

The Whole Nine Yards Ep 287 26.7.26

Catalyst Songs with Roy Stannard

on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM 

www.midsussexradio.co.uk/listen

Catalyst Tracks

In 2011 I took part in a pilot called Time Tracks in which you pick your nine most influential tracks from childhood to the present day and talk about what they mean to you.

I thought I’d revisit them after my 70th birthday yesterday and add a few that have become pivot points since 2011.

Hour One

The Rolling Stones – I Wanna Be Your Man (Single 1963)

Bob Lind – Remember The Rain (Don’t Be Concerned 1966)

America – A Horse With No Name (America 1971)

Neil Young – Like a Hurricane (American Stars ’n Bars 1977)

Scarlet Party – 101 Dam-Nations (Scarlet Skies 1982)

Horse – Careful (Sasha Dub Mix) (The Same Sky 1990)

Brooklyn Funk Essentials – The Creator has a Masterplan (Cool, Steady & Easy 1995)

Mike Scott – What Do You Want Me To Do (Bring ’Em All In 1995)

Geneva – Tranquillizer (Further 1997)

Tom Baxter – My Declaration (Feather and Stone 2004)

Hour Two

Athlete – Light the Way (Black Swan 2011)

Fleet Foxes – Helplessness Blues (Helplessness Blues 2011)

The Veils – The Tide that left and Never Came Back (The Runway Found 2003)

Marseille – Brightest Star (This Dream of Mine 2023)

Adorable – A to Fade In (Against Perfection 1993)

Shack – Comedy (HMS Fable 1999)

I Am Kloot – Ferris Wheels (Pay Moolah Rouge 2008)

Breton – Closed Category (War Room Stories 2014)Breton

Jungle – Someday, Somewhere (Loving in Stereo, 2021)

Ruti – Flowers (Single 2026)

Lola Young – From Down Here (Single 2026)

RAYE – Who Knows Where the Time Goes (Live at Montreux 2026)

Lost Immortals Ep 386 19.7.26 with Roy Stannard & Matt Staples on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

THE LOST IMMORTALS – EXPANDING YOUR MUSICAL HORIZONS Ep 392 with Roy Stannard and Matthew Staples
on Mid Sussex Radio103.8FM
Sunday 19 July 5-7pm
http://www.midsussexradio.co.uk/listen

Leave My Bones

The Beat, The Baboons, The Ruts, The Rakes, The Big Gigantic, The Tallest Man on Earth; Marcus Foster, Dan White, Simon Knighton. Thanks to #joshhickford for letting me inherit his CD collection. We’ve included the highlights.

Hour One

1. Odd Beholder – Like A Chore (Honest Work, 2026)

2. Touch Girl Apple Blossom – Heart-Go (Graceful, 2026)

3. Mary in the Junkyard – Blood (Role Model Hermit, July 2026)

4. The Ruts – Something That I Said (The Crack 1979)

5. The Rakes – Strasbourg (Capture/Release 2005)

6. Singers & Players – African Blood (Staggering Heights 2000)

7. The Beat – Rough Rider (I Just Can’t Stop It, 1980)

8. The Baboons – Drinkin’ Gasoline (Single, 2008)

9. Caroline Rose – Yip Yip Yow (Single, 2026)

10. Simon Knighton – Leave My Bones (Leave My Bones 2011)

11. Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats – A Little More Too (Demo) (South of Here 2025)

12. Big Gigantic ft Angela McCluskey (Kasbo Remix) – The Little Things (Brighter Future 2016)

Hour Two

1. Alabama Shakes – I Feel Hope Coming (I Must Be Dreaming 2026)

2. Laura Nyro – Wedding Bell Blues (More Than A New Discovery, 1967)

3. Bonobo – Fire on the Water (feat. Arooj Aftab) (Distance in Static, Sept 2026)

4. Marcus Foster – I Was Broken (Nameless Path 2011)

5. The Tallest Man on Earth – Kids on the Run (The Wild Hunt 2010)

6. Jesse Colin Young – Love on the Wing (Love on the Wing, 1977)

7. Justin Townes Earle – Frightened by the Sound (The Saint Of Lost Causes, 2019)

8. Dan White – Not Only (Run Ep 2028)

9. Kovacs – Fragile (Child of Sin, 2023)

10. Amie Blu – Trees for the Woods (live) (When it’s all Said and Done 2026)

The Whole Nine Yards Ep 286 19.7.26 Make-overs & Put-overs: Iconic Voices. Suprising Songs with Roy Stannard on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

The Whole Nine Yards Ep 286

With Roy Stannard

On Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

Sunday 19 July 2026 3-5pm

www.midsussexradio.co.uk/listen

Make-overs and Put-overs – Iconic voices. Surprising songs.

Today we’re stepping off the well‑lit path and into the side streets of musical history – the moments when legendary voices slip into surprising outfits and familiar songs get a whole new coat of paint. From torch‑song turns by pop royalty to rock anthems reimagined by soul icons, these are the performances that make you sit up, smile, and rethink everything you thought you knew about an artist. It’s a celebration of risk, reinvention, and the thrill of hearing a familiar voice in an unfamiliar place.

Hour One


Shirley Bassey – Light My Fire (Something 1970)
Johnny Cash – Hurt (American IV: The Man Comes Around, 2002)
Aretha Franklin – Nessun Dorma (Live at the Grammys, 1998)
David Bowie – Volare (Baal EP, 1982)
Elvis Presley – Blue Moon (Elvis Presley, 1956)
Nina Simone – Here Comes the Sun (Here Comes the Sun, 1971)
Bruce Springsteen – We Shall Overcome (The Seeger Sessions, 2006)
Sinead O’Connor – Don’t Cry for Me Argentina (Am I Not Your Girl 1992)
George Michael – Roxanne (Songs from the Last Century, 1999)
Madonna – Love Don’t Live Here Anymore (Like a Virgin, 1984)
Tori Amos – Smells Like Teen Spirit (Crucify EP, 1992)

Hour Two

Annie Lennox – Whiter Shade of Pale (Medusa, 1995)
Björk – You’ve Been Flirting Again (Flirt is a Promise Mix) (Oh So Quiet EP 1995)
Seal – My Funny Valentine (Standards, 2017)
Paul Anka – Smells Like Teen Spirit (Rock Swings, 2005)
Tony Bennett – Eleanor Rigby (Tony Sings the Great Beatles Songbook, 1970)
Michael Bublé – Spider-Man Theme (Spider-Man 2 OST, 2004)
Christina Aguilera – At Last (live @ Masterclass 2022)
Chicane ft Tom Jones – Stoned in Love (12” mix) (Stoned in Love Single 2006)
Dolly Parton – Stairway to Heaven (Halos & Horns, 2002)
Rufus Wainwright – Hallelujah (Shrek OST, 2001)
Annie Lennox – Dido’s Lament (A Christmas Cornucopia 2013)
Susan Boyle – Wild Horses (I Dreamed a Dream 2009)
Shirley Bassey – The Girl From Tiger Bay (The Performance 2009)