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Jimmy Webb chooses the Tracks of My Years

Jimmy Webb chooses the Tracks of My Years with music from The Beatles and The Righteous Brothers. There's the daily love song, record and album of the week plus PopMaster.

Jimmy Webb, American songwriter, composer and singer, chooses the Tracks of My Years with music from The Beatles and The Righteous Brothers. Jimmy has written numerous platinum-selling songs, including "Up, Up and Away", "By the Time I Get to Phoenix", "Wichita Lineman", "Galveston", "The Worst That Could Happen", "All I Know", and "MacArthur Park". He has had successful collaborations with Glen Campbell, Michael Feinstein, Linda Ronstadt, The 5th Dimension, Art Garfunkel, and Richard Harris.

The award-winning musician was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1986 and the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1990. He received the National Academy of Songwriters Lifetime Achievement Award in 1993, the Songwriters Hall of Fame Johnny Mercer Award in 2003, the ASCAP "Voice of Music" Award in 2006, and the Ivor Novello Special International Award in 2012. According to BMI, his song "By the Time I Get to Phoenix" was the third most performed song in the fifty years between 1940 and 1990.

Ken also has the love song, record and album of the week plus PopMaster. If you'd like to get in touch with the show email Ken.Bruce@bbc.co.uk.

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Mon 22 Jan 2018 09:30
成人快手 Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Eurythmics & Aretha Franklin

    Sisters Are Doin' It For Themselves

    • Duets - 36 Of The World's Greatest Ev.
    • Telstar.

  • Bruno Mars

    Finesse (Remix) (feat. Cardi B)

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • James Ingram & Michael McDonald

    Yah Mo B There

    • Duets - 36 Of The World's Greatest Ev.
    • Telstar.

  • Whitney Houston & George Michael

    If I Told You That

    • (CD Single).
    • Arista.

  • Moon Taxi

    Two High

    • (CD Single).
    • RCA.

  • Average White Band

    Pick Up The Pieces

    • The Best Of The Average White Band.
    • Hit Label.

  • Stevie Wonder

    Do I Do

    • Stevie Wonder - The Definitive Collec.
    • Universal.

  • Rudimental

    These Days (feat. Jess Glynne, Macklemore & Dan Caplen)

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • The Chainsmokers & Coldplay

    Something Just Like This

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.

  • Liverpool Express

    You Are My Love

    • 25 Years Of Rock 'n'Roll Vol.2 (Vario.
    • Connoisseur.

  • Record of the Week

    • Toto

      Spanish Sea

      • 40 Trips Around The Sun.
      • Sony Legacy.

  • Thin Lizzy

    Dancing in the Moonlight (It's Caught Me In Its Spotlight)

    • The Greatest Hits Of 1977 (Various).
    • Premier.

  • Donald Fagen

    I.G.Y. (What a Beautiful World)

    • The Nightfly.
    • Warner Bros.

  • Hoseah Partsch

    Paper Planes

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin/EMI.

  • Meghan Trainor

    All About That Bass

    • (CD Single).
    • Epic.
    • 1.

  • Bee Gees

    Spirits (Having Flown)

    • Spirits Having Flown.
    • Polydor.
    • 5.

  • Tom Walker

    Leave A Light On

    • (CD Single).
    • Relentless.

  • The Alan Parsons Project

    Eye in the Sky

    • Top Hits: 1982 (Various Artists).
    • Rhino.

  • Semisonic

    Chemistry

    • (CD Single).
    • MCA.

  • Album of the Week

    • Beth Hart & Joe Bonamassa

      Why Don't You Do Right

      • Black Coffee.
      • Provogue Records.

  • Madison Avenue

    Don't Call Me Baby (Motez Vicious21 Remix)

    Remix Artist: Motez.
    • Holiday Hits: Non Stop Euro Pop (Var).
    • Virgin.

  • Tom Speight

    Waiting

    • (CD Single).
    • Kobalt.
    • 001.

  • Tracks of My Years

    • The Righteous Brothers

      You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'

      • Fifty Number Ones Of The 60's (Variou.
      • Global Television.

    • The Beatles

      Yesterday

      • The Beatles - 1.
      • Apple.
      • 011.

  • Magnum

    Without Love

    • Lost On The Road To Eternity.
    • Steamhammer.

  • Climie Fisher

    Love Changes (Everything)

    • Now That's What I Call Music! 12 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

Broadcast

  • Mon 22 Jan 2018 09:30
    成人快手 Radio 2