Jimmy Webb chooses the Tracks of My Years
Jimmy Webb chooses the Tracks of My Years and Ken reveals two of the tracks hoping to represent the UK at the Eurovision Song Contest 2018.
Jimmy Webb, American songwriter, composer and singer, chooses the Tracks of My Years with music from David Bowie and Glen Campbell. 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 reveals two of the artists hoping to represent the UK at the Eurovision Song Contest 2018 and plays their songs in full as part of Eurovision: You Decide. He 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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Blue 脰yster Cult
(Don't Fear) The Reaper
- Chart Show Ultimate Rock - Various.
- Hit.
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Moon Taxi
Two High
- (CD Single).
- RCA.
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Gary Barlow
Face To Face (feat. Elton John)
- (CD Single).
- Polydor.
- 001.
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Clean Bandit
Rockabye (feat. Sean Paul & Anne-Marie)
- (CD Single).
- Atlantic.
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Sheila & B. Devotion
Spacer
- Best Disco Album In The World...Ever!.
- Virgin.
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Bruno Mars
Finesse (Remix) (feat. Cardi B)
- (CD Single).
- Atlantic.
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King
Love & Pride
- The Ultimate Eighties (Various).
- Hit Records.
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Belinda Carlisle
Heaven Is A Place On Earth
- A Place On Earth - Greatest Hits.
- Virgin.
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Tom Speight
Waiting
- (CD Single).
- Kobalt.
- 001.
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Eurovision: You Decide
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Goldstone
I Feel The Love
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DNCE
Cake By The Ocean
- (CD Single).
- Republic.
- 1.
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Berlin
Take My Breath Away
- The All Time Greatest Movie Songs.
- Columbia/Sony Tv.
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Record of the Week
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Toto
Spanish Sea
- 40 Trips Around The Sun.
- Sony Legacy.
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Kursaal Flyers
Little Does She Know
- Fantastic 70's (Various Artists).
- Sony Tv/Columbia.
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Blossoms
Charlemagne
- (CD Single).
- Virgin EMI.
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Elkie Brooks
Running To The Future
- Finding Your Feet O.S.T. (Various Artists).
- Virgin EMI.
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Tavares
Heaven Must Be Missing An Angel
- 20 Songs Of Love From The 70's (Vario.
- MFP.
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Rudimental
These Days (feat. Jess Glynne, Macklemore & Dan Caplen)
- (CD Single).
- Atlantic.
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Robbie Williams
Feel
- (CD Single).
- Chrysalis.
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Eurovision: You Decide
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Asanda
Legends
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Beth Hart & Joe Bonamassa
Damn Your Eyes
- Black Coffee.
- Provogue Records.
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Michael Bubl茅
Haven't Met You Yet
- Crazy Love.
- Reprise.
- 1.
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Hoseah Partsch
Paper Planes
- (CD Single).
- Virgin/EMI.
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Tracks of My Years
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Glen Campbell
Wichita Lineman
- Country Moods (Various Artists).
- Polygram Tv.
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David Bowie
Life On Mars?
- David Bowie - Best Of Bowie.
- EMI.
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Imelda May & Jack Savoretti
Call Me
- (CD Single).
- Decca.
- 001.
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James Brown
Living in America
- 40th Anniversary Collection.
- Polydor.
- 4.
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- Wed 24 Jan 2018 09:30成人快手 Radio 2