Wreckless Eric Radio Show #36

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Wreckless Eric Radio Show #36
An easy listening rock 'n' roll bonanza - the shadows of knight, roy loney, alabama shakes, ian hunter, kris kristofferson, linda heck and many more (well, a couple more), plus a wealth of easy listening classics, snatches of king tubby, the mutterings of a man with a faded mind, and sexual ramblings from doctor murray banks.

If I get more organised than I am now there might be a track listing at www.wrecklessericradio.com  In the meantime enjoy it and feel free to pass it round. This is pirate radio!

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Wreckless Eric Radio Show # 35 (click here to tune in)

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Back again (again) after a very long brief hiatus during which time we set sail for America in a metal container with all our belongings, got shipwrecked and ran aground up the Catskill Creek. Or some such rubbish.
Thrill to the vibrations of Chuck Prophet, Ghost Box, Salim Nourallah, Mickey Jupp's Legend and lots more, interspersed with the sound of me chattering over a backing provided by The Ray Conniff Orchestra and some insane German with a large synthesiser and a penchant for The Eagles.

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Wreckless Eric Radio Show #34 (click to tune in)

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music from marmalade, the psychotic pineapple, the alan price set, sex pistols... Plus a jethro tull revelation and the worst record ever played in our house (according to Amy)

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Wreckless Eric Radio Show #33 (click to tune in)

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mott the hoople, ian hunter has my book, kid congo & the pink monkey birds, a tale of semi-senile post-goth stage diving, ben ramble, magnetic fields, blossom toes, the truth behind that easy listening hawaiian facade...

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Wreckless Eric Radio Show #32 (click to tune in)

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Blowing brickdust off the vinyl after months of fixing the house up in order to sell it. An action packed show with tales from a warped childhood plus david bowie, research turtles, kathy kirby, spottiswode & mcmahon, donnie elbert and a host (whatever that is) of others.

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Wreckless Eric Radio Show #31 (click to tune in)

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The penultimate show of the year, or just The Show Of The Year if you like. I only used penultimate because I've just figured out what it means. The ultimate show of the year or The Ultimate Show Of The Year if you like comes later, hopefully before the New Year. In the meantime enjoy Kilburn & The High Roads, Kevin Ayres, Tropics Of Cancer and a host of other delights.

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Wreckless Eric Radio Show #30 (click to tune in)

An annotated stroll through the annals of pop - with Eddie Layton at the mighty Wurlitzer organ, George McCrae, Breakbeat Era, Kenny Rogers & The First Edition, Holly Golightly, The Seal Cub Clubbing Club, The Ruts, The Jesus & Mary Chain, and a lot of bleeps and squeaks off a dodgy moog synthesiser demonstration record - plus a rabbit called Remix and a tale from Butlin's Ocean Hotel.

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Wreckless Eric Radio Show #29 (click to tune in)

Back again with an all-vinyl fiasco - a B side Chuck Berry cover from an unexpected corner, the humiliation of competitions, The Ramsey Lewis Trio, Medicine Head, Diego & The Dissidents, Cornershop, Heads Hands & Feet, Herb Alpert & His Tijuana Brass...

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Wreckless Eric Radio Show #28 (click to tune in)

A box of B sides...

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Wreckless Eric Radio Show #27 (click to tune in)

Alive and well and dossing in an Extended Stay Hotel in Cleveland, Ohio! The Steve Miller Band, Black Sabbath, David Bowie, Silver Apples, The Hi-Risers, McGinty & White, Del Shannon, plus a reading from A Dysfunctional Success, discourse on forming a band and the terror induced by great opening acts.

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Wreckless Eric Radio Show #26 (click to tune in)

WERS (The Wreckless Eric Radio Show) now with its own jingle. Scratchy gramophone recordings of Sly & The Family Stone, The Easybeats, The Pretty Things, Beck, Holly Golightly & The Brokeoffs, Mental As Anything... plus, at the risk of a payola scandal, for the first time ever anywhere a track from Two-Way Family Favourites.

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Wreckless Eric Radio Show #25 (click to tune in)

rambling between dordogneshire and connecticut with chico rodriguez & his tijuana sound, graham day & the gaolers, christine ohlman & rebel montez, holly golightly & the broke-offs, tarka cordell...

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Wreckless Eric Radio Show #24 (click to tune in)

Discombobulated in a room full of electrical junk. Music from Badfinger, The Research Turtles, Lil Band O Gold, McGinty & White. Link Wray, MC Honky, Big Dee Irwin, The Byrds... plus some syrupy background music, The Doctor Kildare Theme, and the ramblings of a man driven half crazy by recording processes and cable management.

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Wreckless Eric Radio Show #23 (click to tune in)

Life after the exploding woodburner. Spinning records and being vigilant with The Tripwires, The Sgt Major III, Donovan, Tarka Cordell, Les Aiglons, Buffalo Daughter, Noel Chiboust et sa Grande Formation, Yo La Tengo, Englebert Humperdink... A show with something to irritate everyone!

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Wreckless Eric Radio Show #22 (click to tune in)

The Best Of The Button-Down Brass featuring The Funky Trumpet of Ray Davies (no not that Ray Davies) and a short diatribe against the use of the word funky. Other tracks from Wilson Pickett, Free, The Bobby Fuller Four, Robert Coyne, Mark Pickerel & His Praying Hands, The Soft Machine and Dave Dee Dozy Beaky Mick & Tich.

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Wreckless Eric Radio Show #21 (click to tune in)

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Last show of the year. Not a round-up of the finest moments of the decade but no less snappy and professional for that. Close the decade and let the new year in with Wussy, Buffy St Marie, The Research Turtles, Miles Davis, Waylon Jennings, Robert Coyne and a preview of the other side of the latest Wreckless Eric & Amy Rigby 45. Plus a seasonal reading from A Dysfunctional Success.

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Wreckless Eric Radio Show #20 (click to tune in)

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Jolly Yuletide show including Bentley Rhythm Ace, Primal Scream, Dump, Kid Congo, The Who, the odious Swingle Singers and A Merry Christmas from the entire family.

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Wreckless Eric Radio Show #19 (click to tune in)

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Back from the Yo La Tengo tour with a payola scandal - the new Wreckless Eric & Amy Rigby 45 rpm short playing record previewed!! Plus The Seekers, The Seekers, The Seekers... also The Young Fresh Fellows, Yo La Tengo, Traffic Sound, Rotifer, Pentangle... and The Seekers.

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Wreckless Eric Radio Show #18 (click to tune in)

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Blame it on the Stones...

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New show next week

Apologies for the hiatus or whatever you call it (actually I thought a hiatus was a hernia that causes one to - never mind, drop it, leave it...) I've been busy producing an album for Gil Rose & Les Hydropathes. Obviously they chose me as a producer because I had the good taste to play one of their records on the show - you remember, back when I was young, about four months ago - it came with an interesting aside concerning the origin of the word denim. Denim: de Nimes, just like Gil Rose & Les Hydropathes who also come from Nimes and have more style than mere denim.
I'll be back next week with a new show brimful of chart-topping toe tappers, witty asides and interesting facts to help you wile away what would otherwise doubtlessly be merely frittered if that's the word for it. And frittered is definitely the mot juste for me at the moment because I've just spent two days recording harmonica overdubs, and in French too.
Rock on etc. And look out for the show later this week. Meanwhile don't touch that dial!
See you later alligator.
In a while crocodile.
Over and out.