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It's 'One Of A Kind' Special!

Two hours filled with unusual, one-off quirky songs that invaded the chart in the '70s.

It's exactly 50 years since 'Ernie' by Benny Hill was no.1, so it's the perfect excuse!

Two hours filled with unusual, one-off quirky songs that invaded the chart in the '70s.

It's exactly 50 years since 'Ernie' by Benny Hill was no.1, so it's the perfect excuse!

For months you've been sending your suggestions into the show, and we'll be playing the best of those this week, plus Johnnie will add in a few of his own personal favourites that haven't cropped up yet, but fit the criteria for being 'One Of A Kind'.

They're often bizarre records that seemed to arrive from nowhere, and sounded like nothing else that was around at the time. But somehow they got stuck in our heads, we bought them, and they became a sort of guilty pleasure to us all. Think one-hit wonders, strange career diversions from well-respected and long-established stars, daft novelty songs, and even incredible debuts that stopped you in your tracks when they first burst out of the radio.

It's a celebration of the pop mavericks who tried something different from the norm.

It didn't always work, but we loved them for trying!

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1 hour, 55 minutes

Last on

Boxing Day 2021 15:00

Music Played

  • Plastic Bertrand

    Ca Plane Pour Moi

    • Single - Sire 6078 616.
  • Benny Hill

    Ernie (The Fastest Milkman In The West)

    • Single - Columbia DB 8833.
  • Lieutenant Pigeon

    Mouldy Old Dough

    • Single - Decca DF 13278.
  • David Bowie

    The Laughing Gnome

    • Single - Deram DM 123.
  • The Floaters

    Float On

    • Single - ABC 4187.
  • The RAH Band

    The Crunch

    • Single - Good Earth GD 7.
  • Tubeway Army

    Are 'Friends' Electric?

    • Single - Beggars Banquet BEG 18.
  • Kraftwerk

    Autobahn

    • Single - Vertigo 6147 012.
  • C.W. McCall

    Convoy

    • Single - MGM 2006 560.
  • Driver 67

    Car 67

    • Single - Logo GO 336.
  • Althea & Donna

    Uptown Top Ranking

    • Single - Lightning LIG 506.
  • Pluto Shervington

    Dat

    • Single - Opal Pal 5.
  • Carl Douglas

    Kung Fu Fighting

    • Single - Pye 45377.
  • Laurel & Hardy

    The Trail Of The Lonesome Pine

    • Single - United Artists UP 36026.
  • John Otway & Wild Willy Barrett

    Really Free

    • Single - Polydor 2058 951.
  • Focus

    Hocus Pocus

    • Single - Polydor 2001 211.
  • Hot Butter

    Popcorn

    • Single - Pye International 7N 25583.
  • Kate Bush

    Wuthering Heights

    • The Kick Inside.
  • Blue Swede

    Hooked On A Feeling

    • Single - EMI 2129.
  • Guy Marks

    Loving You Has Made Me Bananas

    • Single - ABC 4211.
  • Yellow Dog

    Just One More Night

    • Single - Virgin VS 195.
  • The Sugarhill Gang

    Rapper's Delight

    • Single - Sugar Hill SHL 101.
  • Hank Mizell

    Jungle Rock

    • Single - Charly CS 1005.
  • Reunion

    Life Is A Rock (But The Radio Rolled Me)

    • Single - RCA PB 10056.
  • Carpenters

    Calling Occupants Of Interplanetary Craft

    • Passage.

Broadcast

  • Boxing Day 2021 15:00