Well just to prove. You. Cry. I cry. I cry. Cry. Been. Julie London and cry me a river before let in pocket and wonderful blues it hurts I want to song conscious ever actually just examine the brains of blokes when the guitar music is playing is funny because my wife is a great really big music fan she finds guitar solos pointless noodling. She says strikes strikes at the heart of a bloke I mean reading an article many years ago I think this may have been something that is now longer no longer true but things it didn't the genders didn't understand about one another one was women crying at the late film and women not understanding 10 pints of lager on the Saturday night but in one thing the middle changed all that much what we do next we have so much music and I love it this. This is it's camp it's magnificent it's Barry Manilow. That's a back story isn't it Barry Manilow and Copa Cabana right. We are playing Christmas music next week's program with also before the big day so be all Christopher using all the way through including all Christmas requests by the way so get a load of those if you can I'll tell you before we done how to do that by they just too did. Bang on about the i Player the B.B.C. Sounds apps therefore you can actually hear the whole thing the stuff that you've missed so far this evening and other shows so where we going to go down I think we go back to 50 that she shall wait for another Christmas song this is also going to say. And he's funny jumpers and dig that crazy Santa Claus. Sack. And his honey jumpers and dig that crazy Santa Claus back to request vital part little component was a word that I used in the program is true actually lives or dies by your request by the way lots of choose to play few but I'd like to hear some of the 2 you would like me to play you. Is a request from Robert who sent me an e-mail a great long list. And he says playing this one. Fits very neatly the South he was doing last week because I was playing a track by one of my favorite harmonica player the list sadly late Norton Buffalo I played a track with him and Roy Rogers. Last week on the program and said that he was a long time Seidman Norbit but old Norton Buffalo rather of Steve Miller and and Robert says Why no how about you play Swingtown the Steve Miller Band Oh yes it was a great privilege about 1011 years ago I was on holiday I was in New York and Radio City Music Hall had the Steve Miller Band on the brilliant albeit a go see Buffalo it was true and you know it was even better because the support act was none other than Joe Cocker it was a fantastic evening and as Steve Miller took the stage he said his opening words were and I quote welcome to Swingtown. Was. Request to. Request Steve Miller Band and. He sent me a great long list of songs. On this list alone this 50 of which is just tremendous We could keep going on this with ages which is just perfect that's marvelous you know I'd request played Do tell me what you'd like to hear can't promise you everything we've got quite a lot in all our home as well so Alex dot Lestat B.B.C. Dot co dot U.K. That is my address my email address. At Alex dog Lord has my Twitter and if you like Facebook page Alex Lester the best on the day show and by post after all long as the message gets said matter how it gets there in it's beyond snail mail delighted to hear from me by post as well or instead if you know all computed up on his Alex Lester the B.B.C. At the mail box in Birmingham it'll find me that way so I think about some songs you like here and let me know and I'll see if I can dig them out for you. Say clue. It's wonderfully evocative isn't it. Had a salty dog for you now. Over the years I've come to appreciate live albums a bit more there's a couple of ones which obviously the Who Live at Leeds and I think it's full House J. Geils Band 2 particular favorites of mine but very often you find the live albums maybe early in the Apache back in the 70s it says there's some of the recordings are a bit muddy so it wasn't really very good today you could hear everything in the county you can't now and also sometimes it did too for there were some rather poor performances by artists now this is a tremendous tremendous live track and it's a wonderful song anyway what is it like you can read a concert love is the way the audience reacts when they suddenly realize what the song is. Going to. Well is that exciting go well that's brilliant that sort of 2 CD set Brad Paisley hates alive and he's 10 studio recordings then so tracks so 14 studio records as well and then 10 live tracks including that one American session which you just get such a wonderful idea and the premise for a song get quite emotional about music and just who was president all the right buttons which was odd because now we play new truck new tracks every week on the program one that's the plan and also as we get close to the big day we start to look at Christmas music try this this is Rita what kids on each day Rita walk. Version of. A guess. As a cracking version of It's the most wonderful time of the year do you think it was associate that with Andy Williams No it doesn't have to reflect what kids are. From her new album that Christmas feeling which came out actually 44 losses right and the blurb that came with it Tennessee worship leader recording artist and vocal stylist Rita walk in this releases innovative new holiday album that Chris was leading It's a whole big band thing going on they love jazz rage was the mildest the fun of just looking at the sleeve No that's why I love cd's and violets after you get the sleeve notes with them what do you think of. When you see all those Christmas T.V. Shows and things like that you think yourself there's no following as I wonder when they recorded it and looking at this this is done in various stages the brass and woodwinds recorded in February. Last year the rhythm section recorded event bridge $26.00 days take a bit of wildcard of religion is and the vocals recorded it May 27th here we all got here in the end and she's restrained shelves in the States last year but you don't like coming over here but I just love the idea of you know Sun is cracking the pavement and you're seeing you know the snow is falling. Well there is another example. Of what I hear you cry yes the Moody Blues and the voice that's especially for Pete who want to that particular track eat good song also set a great list and now that you've retired Pete you have more time to send me more lists and certainly never any excuse for missing any of the shows if you do if you missed any of the shows that's why we have the I play a B.B.C. Sounds at stake so you can download them or if you're traveling through the area and to see the 6 we can use thinking this is interesting stuff being played by that there Alex Lester and it starts to crackle of the had seemed to fade into the darkness Well there's old line so next time or if you're on holiday somewhere in the world you think oh you know it's just a time well in that case. You can shoot it via the online they're just going online a space where you call the old computer the stuff. We're running out of time but I thought I want to play you this because I think it's rather following one of the joys of this program not only playing you for a Moody Blues Strat which isn't played very often you know there's other things to go now what's in what is a white satin so I thought I'd play some of this this is an interesting collaboration that came about apparently called the sleeves by just a walk along the state Heath in London and bumping into somebody else getting talking before you know it's a collaboration and talking about guitars called John F. 3 that name is familiar to you he's been around since the year dot pretty nearly and play with nearly everybody even people like U.T. Made you it is definitely Pelley But he's been in soft machine as well as Dave loads and loads solo work and also one of the last album he made is this one he made with a vocalist called a very rough the album's called out of the sky and he's a track from it called detour ahead. But I was. Traveling this. Will stretch. Before you. Break. You food will. In the wrong direction. You. The fog 7. Are done to you on the Romney. You. Come back I want. 7 to see. You are alone. Let's. Move this from. The rug. The father tried. To run out of love oh. Do you want to come out was was. See. Was soft. Sawder. Saw. Was. Back. From. Trough. Smoove. Was. No was. Isn't that just perfect for this time of the morning this absolutely gorgeous Don't you agree and see I pronounce the name correctly as John Etheridge. V Miller Verma lower Oh that's right yeah I said they that I 1st met look at its leaders while walking on Ham city 8th we struck up a conversation talking about music and philosophy a few months later she came to with friends to one of my solo shows Rajouri through the sleeve notes and I invited her up to sing the audience know I would take a straight turn another dimension to the soul range and action of her singing which is a tremendous album by the way and there's quite lengthy tracks on there which is well worth it if you can seek that one out out of the sky Vemma row and join effigies V I M A L A and this program affords the opportunity to play all sorts of stuff like this which you would get to hear anywhere else as I'm rather proud of it as you can probably tell so I'd like you if you would to get in touch and think of some of the songs that you'd like to hear on the program in the future next week as is the final one before Christmas is going to be an all Christmas songs show and so I know there were a quarter of not novelties there are fairly sure but it doesn't matter it's Christmas so you want to hear you want to hear Slade That's fine if you want to hear something slightly more obscure That's fine as well it's in the end it's your show because basically without you listening it's rather pointless when she's quite nice listening to yourself a bit it gives me a chance to think of think of all those songs I would in my collection and other ones that I haven't and Transource and stick them on thinking yeah that would be a good idea to play this or play that one so to get in touch for the final time of asking this week Alex Leicester at B.B.C. Dot co dot U.K. That be my email address Twitter at Alex the dog Lord Facebook Alex Lester the best time of the day show and also by post and it's Leicester the B.B.C. The mail box in Birmingham lots of ways to get in touch and I sincerely hope you will want to bring a friend next time a phone. Listen in or if you've not had a chance a list of the whole program just tooted by accident last 10 minutes or so well that's why we have the B.B.C. Sounds app I'm just getting like. Look when I 1st I 1st started doing this for a living I used to play the occasional 78 as well and jolly fine this and it apart from being a bit crackly So I'm new to this technology you know I was strictly an analog person but we now seem to be all digital these days still if you afford to sit chance to be heard all over the world via B.B.C. Online Well frankly it's worth it if you ask my humble opinion I think we've got time for one more before we are joined our colleagues over at B.B.C. Radio 5 live this Sunday morning so I've been thinking long and hard I don't know where in your collection you look so you've got a Christmas section I know I have which I file and x I alphabetize all my albums in my as well with the garage and a spare bedroom but my wife's study is now the spare bedroom so therefore Mrs Leicester has taken over that so everything is booted to the garage she would leave the car at. But I'll foot ties everything under X. Of course I have a whole selection of Christmas albums and there are certain Christmas albums you know oh yes the filth for sale spectacles was album is legendary but this one came out a couple or 3 years ago and it's a wonderful Christmas album released by Casey Casey Musgraves is called A Very K.C. Christmas as you know phase collaboration's on there including this one I think probably the time the title of the opening line will be a bit of a give away it's called a Willie nice Christmas. Tree . Called. In the. Case of. Trust. Kacey Musgraves and Willie Nelson a Willie dies Christmas rounding off the programme so for me Alex left to enjoy the rest of the weekend to get all Christmas special is coming Saturday at. And indeed with such knowledge stored all colleagues and friends all wrong B.B.C. Radio 5. C.B.C. 5 it's one of. The local radio stations from across the B.B.C. This is up all night I'm Dalton at the bio the main news on 5 live around C. 100 nations agree on how a major climate change agreement should be protein and in sports coverage as is and draw him Sterling health much Esther city reclaim the Premier League top spot and you can listen to this program by downloading the new B.B.C. Selves up for music radio broadcast and make sure you subscribe to the shows so you don't miss the next episode ski's B.B.C. 6 with the B.B.C. . There's Joe. 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