LIST 06 - 01/04/09 (in memory of the Annie Nightingale Request Show, part one)

Quite by accident the other day, I read on Wikipedia that the eternally wonderful Annie Nightingale was born on April 1st.

It's not a landmark birthday for her this year, but that was still all the excuse I needed to knock up a list of some of my (and your?) favourite tunes from her long-discontinued and sadly-missed Sunday evening request show on Radio 1 (1982-1994).

In the event I found enough material from the usual sources to fill two hour-long lists rather than the one usual "CD length" one, so here's part one for you. There's nothing newer than the early 90s on here, for obvious reasons, and as such there are fewer working videos accompanying the music than is usually the case. The songs themselves are all present and correct, though, and what a joy it's been to hear them again.

Yes, even "Fish Heads"!



TERRY, BLAIR & ANOUCHKA – Ultra Modern Nursery Rhyme (1990)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiiLQH_2fjY

THE JAM – Butterfly Collector (1979)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2vue_-cW0s

SENSATIONAL ALEX HARVEY BAND – Swampsnake (1975)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrZ9lcXskrg

GANGWAY – My Girl and Me (1988)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjALLCRCn6U

BARNES & BARNES – Fish Heads (1979)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTpUVAcvWfU

ALTERN8 – Frequency (1992)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UxDOuz570s

THE MOTORS – Love & Loneliness (1980)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWJnH2fKZGA

STUMP – Buffalo (1986)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-PmQ3dFQvs

THE DAVE HOWARD SINGERS – Yon Yonson (1987)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwCHi3KbsMQ

PASSIONS – I’m in Love with a German Filmstar (1981)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nasn-49uk4A

ERSTE ALLGEMEINE VERUNSICHERUNG – Ba-Ba-Bankrobbery (1986)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JXmzPr6bkA

POP WILL EAT ITSELF – There’s a Psycopath in my Soup (1986)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icVaVeaaUC0

MESSIAH – There Is No Law (1991)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgqeZeKcj_k

ROBYN HITCHCOCK & THE EGYPTIANS – Brenda’s Iron Sledge (1985)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckpRHX880Po

THE CURE – A Forest (1980)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HY7wuV_C1oI