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Desmond shares good tunes, some unexpected ones and a few you may never have heard before. This week he sorts through his personal record collection of some 250,000 titles for songs and music related to the theme "the song not the singer". It's a composer special.

1 hour

Last on

Fri 10 Dec 2010 19:00

Music Played

  • Russ Morgan

    There Goes That Song Again

    • Music In The Morgan Manner.
    • JASMINE.
    • JASCD 403.
  • Ray Charles

    It Ain't Easy Being Green

    • Renaissance.
    • LONDON.
    • SHU 8485.
  • Julie Felix

    Going To The Zoo

    • First Second And Third.
    • CHERRY RED.
    • RETROD 841.
  • W.G. Snuffy Walden

    You Won't See Me

    • Here There And Everywhere.
    • WYNDHAM HILL.
    • 01934 11251.
  • The Monkees

    Last Train To Clarksville

    • Platinum Collection Vol 2.
    • WARNER.
    • 8122 73338.
  • Julie Andrews

    By The Light Of The Silvery Moon

    • Little Bit In Love.
    • HALLMARK.
    • CHM 687.
  • John Dankworth

    Experiments With Mice

  • Al Martino

    Can't Help Falling In Love

    • I Love You Because.
    • RAZOR AND TIE.
    • 79301 82201.
  • Simon & Garfunkel

    At The Zoo

    • Bookends.
    • COLUMBIA.
    • CD 63101.
  • Louis Prima & Phil Harris - I Wanna Be Like You

  • Sterling Holloway

    Trust In Me

    • Jungle Book.
    • WALT DISNEY.
    • 09463 51034.
  • The Mills Brothers

    Tiger Rag

    • Very Best Of The Mills Brothers.
    • HALF MOON.
    • HMNCD 021.
  • Cilla Black

    Me And The Elephant

    • Cilla In The 70 S.
    • EMI.
    • 09463 37313.
  • Sandpiper Singers / Mitch Miller Orch

    Never Smile At A Crocodile

    • 100 Years Of Peter Pan.
    • SEPIA.
    • SEPIA 1037.
  • The Tokens

    The Lion Sleeps Tonight

    • Both Sides Now.
    • BUDDAH.
    • 2359 007.
  • Michael Flanders and Donald Swann

    Hippopotamus Song

    • At The Drop Of A Hat.
    • PARLOPHONE.
    • CDP 7 974652.
  • Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

    Carnival Of The Animals (Finale)

    • Saint Saens.
    • ABM.
    • ABMMCD 1234.

Broadcast

  • Fri 10 Dec 2010 19:00