New To 2 and Mavis Staples
Mavis Staples selects her top tracks with Ken in an interview first broadcast in 2018. There's the daily love song and another round of PopMaster.
Mavis Staples, American rhythm and blues and gospel singer, chooses the Tracks of My Years with music from Bob Dylan and Bill Withers. The interview was first broadcast in January 2018 at the time Mavis released her sixteenth studio album 'If All I Was Was Black'. It was written and produced by Jeff Tweedy who features on the fourth track 'Ain't No Doubt About it'. At the time Mavis said her new album "...brings us all together as a people. That's what I hope to do. You can't stop me. You can't break me. I'm too loving. These songs are going to change the world."
Born on the 10th July 1939 in Chicago, Illinois, Mavis began singing with her family, The Staple Singers, at local Chicago churches before signing with the gospel label Vee-Jay Records in 1953. The family put on a concert in Montgomery, Alabama, which Martin Luther King Jr. was attending. The group later had a number of soul hits and a No. 1 pop song with "Let's Do It Again," from the film soundtrack of the same name. Mavis has also established a successful solo career while working with a range of artists, from Prince to Natalie Merchant. She was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1999 and the Blues Hall of Fame in 2017.
Ken also has the daily 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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The Jacksons
Can You Feel It
- Fantastic 80's Go For It! - Various.
- Parlophone.
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Jason Derulo
Take You Dancing
- (CD Single).
- Atlantic.
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Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds
AKA... What A Life!
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Whitney Houston
I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)
- Whitney Houston - Whitney.
- Arista.
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The Kingdom Choir
Real Love
- (CD Single).
- InterTalent Recordings.
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Level 42
Something About You
- The Complete Polydor Years: Volume 2 (1985-1989).
- Cherry Red Records.
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Fleetwood Mac
Go Your Own Way
- 50 Years - Don't Stop.
- Warner Bros.
- 006.
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Record of the Week
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The Pretenders
Maybe Love Is In NYC
- Hate For Sale.
- BMG Rights Management (UK).
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Keane
Everybody's Changing
- (CD Single).
- Transcopic Records.
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Leo Sayer
When I Need You
- Leo Sayer -The Definitive Hits Collec.
- Polygram Tv.
- 7.
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Lola Lennox
Back At Wrong
- (CD Single).
- LaLennoxa.
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David Grant & Jaki Graham
Could It Be I'm Falling In Love
- Jaki Graham: 35th Anniversary Collection.
- Cherry Pop.
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Electric Light Orchestra
Wild West Hero
- Light Years - The Very Best Of ELO.
- Epic.
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RAYE
Natalie Don't
- (CD Single).
- Polydor.
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Judy Clay & William Bell
Private Number
- Heartbeat: Love Me Tender (Various).
- Global Television.
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Blondie
Call Me
- Atomic: The Very Best Of Blondie.
- EMI.
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Miley Cyrus
Midnight Sky
- Plastic Hearts.
- RCA.
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Glenn Frey
You Belong To The City
- Above The Clouds: The Very Best Of.
- Universal.
- 5.
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Anthony Ramos
Stop
- CD Single.
- Virgin / EMI.
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Album of the Week
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The Killers
Dying Breed
- CD Single.
- Virgin/ EMI.
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Diana Ross
My Old Piano
- Diana Ross & The Supremes - 40 Motown.
- Polygram Tv.
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Billy Ocean
We Gotta Find Love
- One World.
- Sony Music.
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Tracks of My Years
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Bill Withers
Grandma's Hands
- Sampled (Various Artists).
- Virgin.
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Bob Dylan
Tangled Up In Blue
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Gregory Porter
Concorde
- All Rise.
- Decca Records Jazz France.
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Maria Vidal
Body Rock
- A Time To Remember: 1985 (Various).
- EMI.
Broadcast
- Wed 26 Aug 2020 09:30大象传媒 Radio 2