Show 126
07-02-2025
Baked beans - on toast
Need You Tonight - INXS, from 1987, the first single off their sixth album, Kick.
Bang Go the Bongos - Bananagun, from their album The True Story of Bananagun, which came out in 2020.
Sally and the Preacher - the Audreys, from 2008, it was on their album After the Flood.
Oops -we were wrong
When we played Diamonds, by Robert Forster, off his new album Strawberries, and said he was in the band The Church, well no, Robert Forster isn't in the Church, his band was the Go-Betweens. It sounded like this:
Spring Rain - from their album Liberty Belle and the Black Diamond Express, which came out in 1986.
Love Is A Sign - from the album 16 Lovers Lane, a 1988 release.
Love Goes On! - also from 16 Lovers Lane, but written and sung by Grant McLennon. Forster and McLennon had sort of a Lennon-McCartney vibe.
With love via Africa
Yombo Yombo - the Senagambian Jazz Band, featuring Amadou Suso, a West African musician living and working in Melbourne. The album was recorded in Melbourne in 2017.
Let Me Be Great - Sampa The Great. Sampa Tembo, born in Zambia, raised in Botswana, came to Australia in 2013. She recorded this song in 2022 for her album As Above So Below.
Summertime Again - Miriam Lieberman, a Sydney-based musician who has immersed herself in the music of West Africa. From her album Birds Of the Moon, a 2014 release.
An Ashley Naylor.set
Donovan Dreams - a single he put out in October 2024.
Easy - Ash playing with the Ronson Hangup on their 2023 album Centaurus.
Cinnamon Girl - from 2009, a clip from the Aussie TV show RocKwiz, doing the Neil Young song, Paul Kelly leading the vocals and Ash Naylor supplying lead guitar.
A Mother Goose tale
Baked Beans - Mother Goose, a single from their 1977 album Stuffed.
Waiting For the World - the Angels, from their album Face To Face, a 1978 release.
Touching The Untouchables - Men At Work, from their 1982 debut album Business As Usual.
Mother Goose started in New Zealand, moved to Australia, and were so successful they often had up-and-coming future headlining bands such as the Angels and Men At Work opening their live shows. They moved to the US in 1978 and spent a year trying to make it there, before returning home Down Under.
Intro: Roulette - Dom Mariani and the Majestic Kelp, Underwater Casino, 2003.
Exit and extra: Pacific Heights - Baby Langston from their acclaimed 1998 album.