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12/08/2011

Start the weekend here on the Best Time of the Day Show. Hilarious conversation and brilliant music to entertain you through the small hours. Includes Album and Record of the Week.

It's the best way to start your weekend by tuning in to the Best Time of the Day Show with Alex. Every Friday is a feelgood Friday which means even more great tunes and inspired daftness to keep you happy through the night.

There is a final track from the Album of the Week, another spin of Record of the Week, more unexpected song selections from Lester's and the Listener's Libraries and Pause for Thought.

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Music Played

  • Hour 1

    • The Whispers

      It's A Love Thing

      • The Greatest 80's Soul W/Ender (Va).
      • Warner Strategic Market.

  • Eddie Cochran

    C'Mon Everybody

    • That's Rock'n'Roll (Various Artists).
    • EMI.
    • 3.

  • Nerina Pallot

    Turn Me On Again

    • (CD Single).
    • Geffen.
    • 1.

  • Johnny Nash

    I Can See Clearly Now

    • I Believe.
    • Telstar.

  • Nelly Furtado

    Powerless (Say What You Want)

    • (CD Single).
    • Dreamworks.
    • 5.

  • Radio 2 Record Of The Week

    • Chris Rea

      Dancing The Blues Away

      • Santo Spirito Blues.
      • Rhino.
      • 1.

  • Fountains of Wayne

    Someone To Love

    • Traffic And Weather.
    • Virgin.

  • Susan Cadogan

    Hurt So Good

    • Young Gifted & Black (Various).
    • Trojan.

  • Darius Rucker

    This

    • Charleston, SC, 1966.
    • Wrasse Records.
    • 1.

  • Norman Greenbaum

    Spirit In The Sky

    • Million Sellers Vol.18 - The Seventie.
    • Disky.

  • Lester's Library

    • TD Lind

      Coming Home

  • Corinne Bailey Rae

    Put Your Records On

    • (CD Single).
    • EMI.

  • Bon Jovi

    Bad Medicine

    • (Single).
    • Vertigo.
    • 2.

  • Hour 2

    • Hue and Cry

      Labour Of Love

      • Now 24 (Various Artists).
      • Now.

  • Bill Withers

    Lovely Day

    • It's Cool (Various Artists).
    • Parlophone.

  • The Pierces

    It Will Not Be Forgotten

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.
    • 1.

  • The Jimi Hendrix Experience

    All Along The Watchtower

    • The Jimi Hendrix Collection.
    • Universal.

  • P茅rez Prado

    Guaglione

    • Mundo Latino (Various Artists).
    • Columbia.

  • Dolly Parton

    Together You And I

    • Better Day.
    • Sony.
    • 1.

  • Thunderclap Newman

    Something In The Air

    • Fifty Number Ones Of The 60's (Variou.
    • X-Phonics Records.

  • Alice Gold

    Runaway Love

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.
    • 1.

  • The Del鈥怴ikings

    Come Go With Me

    • New Millennium Doo Wop Party (Various.
    • Rhino.

  • Pretenders

    Brass In Pocket

    • The Female Touch 2 (Various Artists).
    • Global Television.

  • Listener's Library: Peter from the Black Country

    • Raul Malo

      Sinners & Saints

  • Toploader

    Dancing In The Moonlight

    • Onka's Big Moka - Toploader.
    • Sony Soho Square.

  • The Feeling

    A Hundred Sinners

    • (CD Single).
    • Universal Island Records.
    • 1.

  • Hour 3

    • Dave Edmunds

      Girls Talk

      • NOW - Yearbook 1979 (Various Artists).
      • Now.
      • 2.

  • Mariah Carey

    Emotions

    • Mariah #1's - The Best Of Mariah Care.
    • Columbia.

  • Will Young

    Jealousy

    • Echoes.
    • RCA.
    • 1.

  • The Equals

    Baby Come Back

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

  • Change

    A Lover's Holiday

    • (Single).
    • WEA.

  • Sam Brown

    Stop!

    • Woman (Various Artists).
    • Polygram Tv/Sony Tv.

  • Kenny Wayne Shepherd

    Never Lookin' Back

    • (CD Single).
    • Loud & Proud.
    • 1.

  • The Turtles

    Happy Together

    • Heartbeat - The 60's Gold Collection.
    • Global Television.

  • OneRepublic

    Good Life

    • Waking Up.
    • Mosley Music/Interscope Records.
    • 1.

  • Status Quo

    Marguerita Time

    • Whatever You Want - V.Best Of Status.
    • Polygram Tv.

  • Lester's LIbrary

    • The Zombies

      Care Of Cell 44

  • Joss Stone

    Somehow

    • (CD Single).
    • Stoned Records.
    • 1.

  • Gloria Gaynor

    I Am What I Am

    • Gloria Gaynor.
    • Gold Box.

Broadcast

  • Fri 12 Aug 2011 02:00
    大象传媒 Radio 2

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