Friday 1 January 2010

Radio 2's Great British Songbook - the tracks of the decades



. THE SIXTIES - presented by Cilla Black and Tony Blackburn on Monday 28 December
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. Sandie Shaw — Puppet On A String 

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The Move — Flowers In The Rain 

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The Foundations — Build Me Up Buttercup 

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Petula Clark — Downtown 

. Jackie Trent — Where Are You Now My Love? 

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The Beatles — She Loves You 

. Peter & Gordon — A world Without Love 

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Gerry & The Pacemakers — How Do You Do It 

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The Kinks — All day And All Of The Night 

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Sandie Shaw — Long Live Love 

. 
Cream — I Feel Free 

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Adam Faith — Poor Me 

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The Spencer Davis Group — Gimme Some Loving 

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The Dave Clark Five — Glad All Over 

. 
Tom Jones — It’s Not Unusual 

. Barry Ryan — Eloise 

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Engelbert Humperdinck — The Last Waltz 

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Helen Shapiro — Walking Back To Happiness 

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The Troggs — With A Girl Like You 

. 
Herman's Hermits — There’s A Kind Of Hush 

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Shirley Bassey — Goldfinger 

. 
Donovan — Catch The Wind 

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Lulu — Boom Bang-A-Bang 

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Billy Fury — Once Upon A Dream 

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The Tremeloes — Here Comes My Baby 

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The Yardbirds — For Your Love 

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The Beatles — All You Need Is Love 

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Procol Harum — A Whiter Shade Of Pale 

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The Rolling Stones — (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction 

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Cilla Black — Step Inside Love 

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Small Faces — Lazy sunday 

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Dusty Springfield — I Only Want To Be With You 

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The Moody Blues — Nights in white satin 

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The Who — My Generation 

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The Scaffold — Lily The Pink 

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Cliff Richard & The Shadows — Summer Holiday 

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The Zombies — She’s Not There


THE SEVENTIES - presented by Kiki Dee and Noddy Holder on Tuesday 29 December

. Queen — Don't Stop Now 

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The Undertones — Teenage Kicks 

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Roxy Music — Love Is The Drug 

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T. Rex — Children Of The Revolution 

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Lynsey de Paul — Won’t Somebody Dance With Me 

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Black Sabbath — Paranoid 

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10cc — I’m Not In Love 

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Fleetwood Mac — Don’t Stop 

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Sex Pistols — God Save The Queen 

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David Essex — Rock On 

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Pink Floyd — Money 

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Squeeze — Up The Junction 

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Slade — Cum On Feel The Noize 

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Elvis Costello — Pump It Up 

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Wizzard — See My Baby Jive 

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Led Zeppelin — Stairway To Heaven 

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The Clash — London calling 

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David Bowie — Life On Mars 

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Status Quo — Whatever You Want 

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Sweet — Action 

. Elton John & Kiki Dee — Don’t Go Breaking My Heart 

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Electric Light Orchestra — Mr Blue Sky 

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John Lennon — Whatever Gets You Through The Night 

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Elton John — Rocket Man 

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Joan Armatrading — Love And Affection 

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Rod Stewart — Maggie May 

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Kate Bush — Wuthering Heights 

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Bee Gees — Staying Alive 

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Cat Stevens — Oh Very Young 

. 
Queen — Bohemian Rhapsody



THE EIGHTIES - presented by Nik Kershaw and Chris Tarrant on Wednesday 30 December

. Erasure — A Little Respect 

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Fine Young Cannibals — She Drives Me Crazy 

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Wet Wet Wet — Sweet Little Mystery 

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Phil Collins — In the Air Tonight 

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Kim Wilde — Kids in America 

. Untitled
Go West- We close Our Eyes


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Adam and The Ants — Prince Charming 

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The Smiths — How Soon Is Now 

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Bananarama — Love In The First Degree 

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Rick Astley — Never Gonna Give You Up 

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Yazoo — Don’t Go 

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Dire Straits — Money for Nothing 

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Mike + The Mechanics — The Living Years 

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Michael Jackson — Thriller 

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George Michael — Faith 

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Ultravox — Dancing With Tears In My Eyes 

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Band Aid — Do They Know It’s Christmas 

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Depeche Mode — Just Can’t Get Enough 

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Joy Division — Love Will Tear Us Apart 

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Labi Siffre — Something Inside So Strong 

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Kirsty MacColl — A New England 

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Queen — A Kind Of Magic 

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Tears for Fears — Shout 

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Prefab Sprout — The King of Rock n Roll 

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Eurythmics — Sweet Dreams 

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Nik Kershaw — Wouldn’t It Be Good 

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Duran Duran — Girls on Film 

. 
Spandau Ballet — Gold 

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Madness — Our House 

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Pet Shop Boys — West End Girls 

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Marillion — Kayleigh 

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The Police — Every Breath You Take 

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The Jam — A Town Called Malice



THE NINETIES - presented by Melanie Chisholm and Zoe Ball on Thursday 31 December

. Supergrass — Alright 

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Babybird — You’re Gorgeous 

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Take That — Back for Good 

. East 17 — Stay Another Day 

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Suede — Animal Nitrate 

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The Beautiful South — A Little Time 

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Travis — Why Does It Always Rain On Me 

. Baddiel, Skinner & The Lightning Seeds — Three Lions 

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Oasis — Live Forever 

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Gabrielle — Dreams 

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The Boo Radleys — Wake Up Boo 

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The Verve — Bittersweet Symphony 

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Underworld — Born Slippy 

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Massive Attack — Unfinished Sympathy 

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Lisa Stansfield — Change 

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Simply Red — Stars 

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Jamiroquai — Virtual Insanity 

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Cornershop — Brimful of Asha 

. EMF — Unbelievable 

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Spice Girls — 2 Become 1 

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Manic Street Preachers — Everything Must Go 

. 
Blur — Girls and Boys 

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Annie Lennox — Walking on Broken Glass 

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The Divine Comedy — National Express 

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Robbie Williams — Angels 

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Radiohead — No Surprises 

. Longpigs — On and On 

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Pulp — Common People



THE NOUGHTIES - presented by Nadine Coyle and Alan Carr on Friday 1 January

. Take That — Shine 

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Amy Winehouse — Back to Black 

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The Feeling — Fill My Little World 

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Leona Lewis — Run 

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Sugababes — Hole in the Head 

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Kaiser Chiefs — I Predict A Riot 

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Elbow — One Day Like This 

. James Morrison — Wonderful World 

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Adele — Hometown Glory 

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Arctic Monkeys — I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor 

. 
Duffy — Mercy 

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Richard Ashcroft — A Song For The Lovers 

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Franz Ferdinand — Take Me Out 

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Paloma Faith — Do You Want The Truth Or Something Beautiful 

. 
Craig David — Fill Me In 

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S Club 7 — Reach 

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All Saints — Pure Shores 

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James Blunt — You're beautiful 

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The Streets — Dry Your Eyes 

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Kylie Minogue — Can't Get You Out Of My Head 

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Basement Jaxx — Do Your Thing 

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Girls Aloud — Sound Of The Underground 

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Robbie Williams — Rock DJ 

. 
Corinne Bailey Rae — Put Your Records On 

. 
Keane — Everybody's Changing 

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Lily Allen — Smile 

. 
Snow Patrol — Set The Fire To The Third Bar 

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Dido — White Flag 

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Muse — Starlight 

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KT Tunstall — Other Side Of The World 

. 
Will Young — Leave Right Now 

. 
Coldplay — Viva La Vida

I've not included the 6 or 7 montage tracks played at the start of the programme, only those played in full (though Reach was sung over dreadfully). Actually I'd put a health warning on the last programme as seldom have two people whose voices so strangulate vowels been put together. It was certainly the most annoying of the five shows and not because of the music.

Anyway, if you want to hear them all in full on iPlayer go here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00q3f6y

But beware the shows start to disappear on Monday as they only last 7 days.

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