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21/09/2012

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.

2 hours, 57 minutes

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Fri 21 Sep 2012 02:00
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Music Played

  • HOUR 1

    • Whitney Houston

      How Will I Know

      • The Best Of.
      • Arista.

  • Mott the Hoople

    Roll Away The Stone

    • Mott The Hoople - Greatest Hits.
    • CBS.

  • The Overtones

    Loving The Sound

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

  • Anita Baker

    Caught Up In The Rapture

    • Anita Baker - Rapture.
    • Elektra.

  • Bee Gees

    I've Gotta Get A Message To You

    • Bee Gees - Their Greatest Hits.
    • Polydor.

  • Beth Hart

    Baddest Blues

    • (CD Single).
    • Provogue.

  • The Lightning Seeds

    Lucky You

    • Lightning Seeds - Jollification.
    • Epic.

  • Odyssey

    Native New Yorker

    • Million Sellers Vol.17 - The Seventie.
    • Disky.

  • RECORD OF THE WEEK from the CD, "ELYSIUM" (Parlophone) out now

    • Pet Shop Boys

      Leaving

      • Elysium.
      • Parlophone.
      • 1.

  • Divinyls

    I Touch Myself

    • Hard 2 Get Hits - Various Artists.
    • Disky.

  • LESTER'S LIBRARY from the CD, "ORIGINAL LOVE" (Ark Recordings/Rubyworks Ltd) out 22nd October

    • Josephine

      Original Love

  • Paul Carrack

    When My Little Girl Is Smiling

    • (CD Single).
    • Carrack-UK Records.
    • 1.

  • HOUR 2

    • Electronic

      Getting Away With It...

  • Enrique Iglesias

    Love to See You Cry

    • (CD Single).
    • Interscope.

  • Nell Bryden

    Sirens

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

  • Ultravox

    Love's Great Adventure

    • The Collection.
    • Chrysalis.
    • 15.

  • Labelle

    Lady Marmalade

    • Soul Chartbusters (Various Artists).
    • Columbia.

  • Keane

    Disconnected

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.

  • Led Zeppelin

    Houses Of The Holy

    • Led Zeppelin - Latter Days.
    • Atlantic.

  • The Dave Clark Five

    Glad All Over

    • Glad All Over Again.
    • EMI.

  • Owl City & Carly Rae Jepsen

    Good Time

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

  • Luther Vandross & Janet Jackson

    The Best Things In Life Are Free

    • (CD Single).
    • DEF JAM.

  • LISTENER'S LIBRARY from the CD, "HEAVY NOVA" (EMI) suggested by Kevin J in Dunfermline

    • Robert Palmer

      Change His Ways

      • EMI-Manhattan.

  • Santana

    Oye Como Va

    • Santana's Greatest Hits.
    • CBS.

  • HOUR 3

    • Erasure

      Sometimes

      • Erasure - Pop!.
      • Mute Records.

  • Martha Reeves and the Vandellas

    I Can't Dance To That Music You're Playing

    • Dancing In The Streets: Motown's Greatest Hits (Various Artists).
    • Motown.

  • MIKA

    颁别濒别产谤补迟别听 (feat. Pharrell Williams)

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

  • David Bowie

    Ashes to Ashes

    • David Bowie - Best Of Bowie.
    • EMI.

  • Faith Hill

    Breathe

    • (CD Single).
    • Warner Bros.

  • Ronan Keating

    Fires

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

  • Bob & Earl

    The Harlem Shuffle

    • Shades Of Soul (Various Artists).
    • Global Television.

  • ALBUM OF THE WEEK from the CD, "BATTLE BORN" (Vertigo) out now

    • The Killers

      Deadlines And Commitments

      • Battle Born.
      • Vertigo.
      • 6.

  • Lady A

    Need You Now

    • Need You Now.
    • Capitol Nashville.
    • 1.

  • The Pioneers

    Let Your Yeah Be Yeah

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

  • Jeff Lynne

    At Last

    • Long Wave.
    • Big Trilby.
    • 1.

  • Belinda Carlisle

    We Want The Same Thing

    • A Place On Earth - Greatest Hits.
    • Virgin.

  • LESTER'S LIBRARY from the CD, "SWING PATROL" (Smarty Mart Music) out now

    • Tape Five

      Fabulous Swing Kid

  • RAMP UP THE CAMP!

    • Helen Shapiro

      Walkin' Back To Happiness

      • The Ivor Novello Winners.
      • EMI.

Broadcast

  • Fri 21 Sep 2012 02:00
    大象传媒 Radio 2

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