My Music, page 2

Last Edited: 29-Jan-2017 A Global British Comedy Collaborative document. Edited by John Lucas
Broadcast source is BBC Radio Four unless otherwise indicated. Recording quality is considered good unless otherwise indicated.
NOTE: This edition has been compiled and written by Eric Langford and Charlie Rooke. The 2008 edition was edited by Sandy Finlayson. Earlier versions were compiled and edited by John Lucas. Special thanks for research and recordings are due to Keith Wickham, Martin Hood and Alexander Lucas.

Series 1 through 10
Series 11 through 16
Series 17 through 23
Series 24 through 28, TV, Miscellany

On this page: Series 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16
Series 11-16
Broadcast
Date
Series-
Episode
Contents
Cast
Parameters
06 Jan 1976
11-1
#168
TS163
139960
  • Lives: R. Strauss/Ein Heldenleben, (Petruchio) The Life That Late I Led/
    Kiss Me Kate, Glinka/A Life for the Tsar, J. Strauss/An Artist’s Life
  • Harry Jones, Damn Yankees, Verdi/The Bandits (I masnadieri),
    Shostakovich/The Age of Gold
  • Instruments: clarinet, oboe mouthpiece, col legno, contrabassoon
  • Turandot: Joan Sutherland, Nessun dorma, Eva Turner, Toscanini
    paused before the finale
  • Final Songs: Up a Lazy River, Sea Fever, When I’m Cleaning
    Windows, Skye Boat Song

This episode marks the first use of the second My Music signature tune in
the BBC TS version. The Radio 4 broadcasts began using the second
signature tune at the start of the twelfth series. The Radio 4 version
states that it is the first of the series

Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
TS Disc
27:06, 25407, S
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BBC R4
27:22, 25716, S
[slight hiss]
13 Jan 1976
11-2
#169
TS164
  • Female Voices: Moira Kerr, Dinah Washington, Leontyne Price,
    Tiny Tim
  • Missing: Credo, Alan Price, Tailleferre, Gene Krupa
  • Piano Medleys
  • Music in hospitals: Dying Swan/We’ll Meet Again, It’s Impossible/
    Last Goodbye, Fumbling Around, Sinking
  • Surprising Lines: The Sorcerer, I’m Gonna Sit Right Down and Write
    Myself a Letter, Menotti/The Medium, Girls Were Made to Love and
    Kiss/Richard Tauber
  • Final Songs: Elmer’s Tune, The Last Rose of Summer, Cecilia, C’est
    magnifique
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
TS Disc
27:07, 25427, S
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BBC R4
27:23, 25736, S
[slight hiss]
20 Jan 1976
11-3
#170
TS165
  • Reznicek/Donna Diana Overture, Artie Shaw/Concerto for Clarinet,
    Respighi/Feste Romane, Offenbach
  • Broadway Musicals: Oklahoma!, Harold Arlen, Oscar Hammerstein,
    Birth of the Blues
  • Tapped Rhythms: Mendelssohn/Symphony No. 1, Holiday for
    Strings, Beethoven/Appassionata Sonata, The Third Man Theme
  • Film Stars: Pola Negri, Binnie Barnes, Jack Hulbert, Conrad Veidt
  • Good Names for Musicians: Twang Dynasty, Barbara Seville,
    Robert Keys, Colora Durer
  • Geographical Songs: I’m Going Back to Himazas, Brigg Fair, Meet
    Me in St. Louis, In Summertime on Bredon
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
TS Disc
27:08, 25443, S
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BBC R4
27:28, 25820, S
[slight hiss]
27 Jan 1976
11-4
#171
TS166
  • Prokofiev/Piano Concerto No. 1, Hubert Bath/Cornish Rhapsody,
    Jean Francaix/Concertino for Piano and Orchestra, Gershwin/
    Concerto in F
  • Song Titles: A Woman Is Only a Woman, I Used to Love Her in
    the Moonlight, Who Takes Care of the Caretaker’s Daughter,
    Why Build a Wall ’round the Graveyard
  • Piano Medleys
  • Boris Godunov, Kremlin crowd on its knees, crowd is happy and
    czar is sad, Pushkin
  • Final Songs: The Stein Song, The Prize Song, The Cobbler’s Song,
    The Policemen’s Song
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
TS Disc
27:09, 25451 ,S
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BBC R4
27:21, 25701, S
[slight hiss]
03 Feb 1976
11-5
#172
TS167
  • Tchaikovsky: Serenade for Strings, Sleeping Beauty, Beethoven/
    Symphony No. 9, Romeo and Juliet by Prokofiev and by
    Tchaikovsky
  • Titles for Steve’s Music: Where My Gondola Has Grounded,
    Scamper through the Leaves, My Trouble and Strife, Farmer
    Roasted Peanuts
  • Miscellany: Siegfried in his pirouettes, re and mi, The Man I Love,
    four naked virgins were outstanding
  • Schubert sung by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau: Die schöne Müllerin/
    Jealousy and Pride (Eifersucht und Stolz), Winterreise/”I have a
    carrier pigeon” (Die Taubenpost)
  • Final Songs: Broken-Hearted Clown, Mendelssohn/Midsummer
    Night’s Dream Air, I’m Twenty-One Today, The Sunshine of
    Your Smile
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
TS Disc
27:10, 25469, S
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BBC R4
27:30, 25838, S
[slight hiss]
10 Feb 1976
11-6
#173
TS168
Commonwealth Institute, London
  • Massenet/Castillane (Le Cid); Ben Hur; Massenet/Aragonaise (Le
    Cid); Leroy Anderson/Plink, Plank, Plunk
  • Articles of Apparel: Nanny’s Dressing Gown, Alice Blue Gown,
    Paper Doll, Button Up Your Overcoat
  • Piano Medleys
  • Music of Spike Jones and the City Slickers
  • Composers’ Names and Letters of the Alphabet
  • Final Songs: Pretty as A Picture, Night and Day, He Had to Get
    Out and Get Under, Wi’ a Hundred Pipers
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
TS Disc
27:13, 25509, S
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BBC R4
27:29, 25827, S
[slight hiss]
17 Feb 1976
11-7
#174
TS169
  • Beethoven/Violin Concerto; Ti Do; Janáček/Sinfonietta; Drink,
    Drink,Drink, · Sevens: The Dwarves, Deadly Sins
  • Violin Music: Saint Saëns/Rondo capriccioso, The Entertainer/
    Tuning a Violin GDAE = Gloomy Danes Aggravates Elsinore,
    Ravel/Tzigane, Bizet/Habanera (Carmen)
  • Doctors: Dr Miracle, Dr Dolittle/Sammy Davis Jr, Busoni/Dr Faust,
    Debussy/Children’s Corner Suite
  • Final Songs: That Song Again, Song of Songs, Whiffenpoof
    Song, Song of the Dawn
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
TS Disc
27:09, 25451, S
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BBC R4
27:23, 25737, S
[slight hiss]
24 Feb 1976
11-8
#175
TS170
  • Malcolm Arnold/Tam O’Shanter Overture, The Wells Fargo
    Wagon from The Music Man (River City, Iowa), Delius/Sonata
    in B, Tchaikovsky/Violin Concerto
  • Piano Medleys
  • Theme Songs for Housewives: Baskets, Babies, and Feeds;
    I’ve got those super market…I did it his way blues; Purcell/
    What can we poor females do OR Pox on You for a Fop;
    Cleaning up the Plates…
  • Vocal Oddities: Tony Curtis, Marnie Nixon, Cathy Berberian,
    Jayne Mansfield
  • Final Songs: There Ought to Be a Moonlight Saving Time, Dicky
    Bird Hop, Who’s Your Lady Friend, Two Little Girls in Blue
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
TS Disc
27:02, 25348, S
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BBC R4
27:09, 25514, S
[slight hiss]
02 Mar 1976
11-9
#176
TS171
  • Lords and Ladies: Lord Beginner, Lady Day (Billie Holiday), Lord
    Berners (Gerald Tyrwhitt), Lady Penelope from the Thunderbirds
  • Gold Disks: Diane/The Bachelors, Diana/Paul Anka, Tchaikovsky/
    Van Cliburn, Sidesaddle/Russ Conway
  • Borrowing from Birds: Victoria de los Ángeles/The Lover and the
    Nightingale, Ronnie Ronalde/Delia Murphy, Handel/The Cuckoo
    and the Nightingale, Porky Pig/Woody Woodpecker
  • Questions on Verdi/Rigoletto
  • Final Songs (Special Requests from Listeners): Who’s Taking
    You Home Tonight?, I Wonder As I Wander, Amy, Wonderful
    Amy, A More Humane Mikado
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
TS Disc
27:05, 25448, S
09 Mar 1976
11-10
#177
TS172
From The Commonwealth Institute, Kensington.
  • Frederick Delius/Sea Drift based on Walt Whitman/Out of the
    Cradle Endlessly Rocking, Hubert Parry/Blest Pair of Sirens
    based on Milton/At a Solemn Musick
  • Piano Medleys
  • Promenade Concerts which began in August 10th 1895: first
    overture by Wagner, Friday Beethoven Nights; On August
    7th 1974, Patrick McCarthy, an audience member,
    substituted for Tom Allen in Carmina Burana; Albert Hall Organ
  • Haydn Symphonies: Salomon, Surprise, The Miracle, The Bear
  • Final Songs: Back in Your Own Backyard, Summertime,
    Honeysuckle, Moon River
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
TS Disc
27:07, 25424, S
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BBC R4
27:28, 25819, S
[slight hiss]
16 Mar 1976
11-11
#178
TS173
From The Commonwealth Institute, Kensington.
  • Caroll Gibbons, Joseph M. White/The Silver Masked Tenor,
    Verdi/Luigini/Ballet Égyptian, La Mer
  • Beginnings and Endings: Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring; Teddy
    Powell’s Orchestra – Boogie; Well-Tempered Clavier; Pictures
    at an Exhibition
  • Dates of Musicals and Operettas: Lilac Domino (1918), Our
    Nell (1922), The Cradle Will Rock (1938), The Beggar’s Opera (1730)
  • Songs of Owen Brannigan: The Trumpet Shall Sound, Are you
    going to Scarborough Fair, Noye’s Fludde, Blaydon Races
  • Final Songs: Steamboat Bill, Passing By, Paddlin’ Madeline Home,
    Eriskay Love Lilt
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
TS Disc
27:10, 25517, S
23 Mar 1976
Recorded
29 Jan 1976
11-12
#179
TS174
139971
From The Commonwealth Institute, Kensington.
  • Sibelius/Karelia Suite, Carnival of the Animals/The Swan, Harold
    Dark/Gladsome Light, Elgar/Nimrod
  • Timed Round: Four Jazz Clarinetists, Four Vincent Youmans
    Songs, Four Operetta Libretti, Four Vivian Ellis Songs
  • Piano Medleys
  • Musical Cats: Ravel, T. S. Elliot, R. Vaughan Williams, Rossini
  • Final Songs: Pardon Me Pretty Baby, Cherry Ripe, Vera, Get Me
    to the Church On Time

Held in Archives

Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
TS Disc
27:09, 25447, S
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BBC R4
27:23, 25731, S
[slight hiss]
30 Mar 1976
11-13
#180
TS175
139994
From The Commonwealth Institute, Kensington.
  • Wolf-Ferrari/Jewels of the Madonna, Grainger/Mock Morris,
    Gershwin/Cuban Overture, Lanchbery/Mouse Waltz
  • Scenes from a word: Don Giovanni, Porgy and Bess,
    Belshazzar’s Feast, Sammy Davis, Jr
  • Philosophical Advice from Songs: Try a Little Tenderness,
    Making the Best of Each Day, Spread a Little Happiness, Be
    Like the Kettle and Sing
  • Songs from the Comic Opera Donizetti/Don Pasquale
  • Final Songs: Oh, Joseph; The Water Is Wide; On Mother
    Kelly’s Doorstep; Oh, Can You Sew Cushions
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
TS Disc
27:19, 25678, S
06 Apr 1976
11-14
#181
TS176
  • Brass Band Music: Radetzky March, The Dam Busters March,
    Padstow Lifeboat March, The Stars and Stripes Forever
  • Musical Dons from Mozart, Donald O’Connor, Don Quixote,
    Rossini
  • Piano Medleys
  • Unexpected Music: Bill Haley, Joni Mitchell, Stan Getz,
    Baroque Jazz Ensemble
  • Final Songs: Moonlight Cocktail, Father O’Flynn, Around the
    Marble Arch, Gypsy Love Song (Slumber On)
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
TS Disc
27:15, 2525614, S
13 Apr 1976
11-15
#182
TS177
  • Delibes/Le Roi s'amuse, Aretha Franklin, Delibes/Le Roi
    s'amuse, Judy Garland
  • Ballet Questions: Margot Fontaine, Noël Coward, Chabrier,
    Origin of the word “tutu”
  • Ravel/Daybreak (from Daphnis et Chloé), Rachmaninov/Piano
    Concerto No. 2, Britten/Peter Grimes, Tchaikovsky/Cygnets’
    Dance (from Swan Lake)
  • Signature Tunes for Gardeners
  • Joan Cross singing: duet with Peter Pears, Britten/ Peter Grimes
    based on poem by George Crabbe, Wagner/Lohengrin, Smetana/
    The Bartered Bride
  • Final Songs: Button Up Your Overcoat, A Gift to Be Simple,
    Don’t Fence Me In, When Dull Care
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
BBC R4
27:28, 15822, S
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TS Disc
27:11, 25485, S
20 Apr 1976
11-16
#183
TS178
From The Commonwealth Institute, Kensington.
  • Strauss Waltzes: Champagne Charlie, Blue Danube, Music of
    the Spheres (or Heavens), Emperor’s Jubilee dedication
  • First Names: Rimsky-Korsakov, DeSilva, Liadov, Carmichael
  • Piano Medleys
  • Ladies of Doubtful Repute: Jenny, Mae West, Strauss/Salome,
    Lydia the Tattooed Lady
  • Miscellany: Waltzing Matilda (not a waltz!), Rimsky-Korsakov/
    May Night, Beethoven/Kreutzer Sonata, Song Cycles
  • Final Songs: It’s Foolish, Six Dukes Went a-Fishing, Boiled
    Beef and Carrots, A Silver Churn (Magnet)
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
TS Disc
27:14, 25599, S
27 Apr 1976
11-17
#184
TS179
  • Mozart: Champagne Aria (from Don Giovanni); Sleigh Ride;
    Symphony No. 40, in G Minor; Rondo from the Horn Concerto No. 4
  • Music and Food: The Sorcerer, Apple Pie and Stew, Simon the
    Cellarer, I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly
  • Original Names of: Julie Andrews, Jeannie Carson, Eddie Cantor,
    Ted Ray
  • HMS Pinafore: The Overtures, The Captain, The First Lord, The Finale
  • Names in Common: Lexicographers, Singing Boxers, Musical Copyright
    Companies, American Band Leaders
  • Final Songs: I’m a Ding Dong Daddy from Dumas, Londonderry Air,
    Let’s All Go Down the Strand, Down in the Glen
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
TS Disc
27:08, 25498, S
04 May 1976
11-18
#185
TS180
  • MacDowell/Piano Concerto No. 2, Cliff Richard, Shostakovich/
    Piano Concerto No. 2, Peter Sellers
  • Miscellaneous Musical Information: Victoria and Her Hussar;
    One Touch of Venus; Thomas Beecham; Bewitched, Bothered,
    and Bewildered
  • Piano Medleys
  • Music Played on the Violin: Bach/Air on the G-String (Air from
    the Orchestral Suite No. 3, in D, BWV1068), Grieg’s Last Spring,
    Fritz Kreisler’s pastiches, Svendsen’s Romance (arr. Mosley)
  • Final Songs: Deep Purple, Love’s Last Word, In the Twilight,
    The Ash Grove
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
TS Disc
27:14, 25603, S
11 May 1976
11-19
#186
TS181
  • Spike Hughes/Arabesque, Jim Webb/By the Time I Get to Phoenix,
    R. Strauss/Fanfare, Helen Reddy
  • Medieval Music: Countertenor, recorder, and lute; Crumhorn
    (became the oboe) and sackbut (became the trombone);
    harpsichord; I Am a Jolly Foster (Steve asks: What is a foster?)
  • The Names the Same: Pianists called Menuhin, Bandleaders
    named Ellington, Conductor-Cellist-Composer-Pianist Harrison,
    Two Singers called Smith
  • Song titles Beginning with “And”: And Her Mother Came Too,
    And Roses and Roses, And Tomorrow, And This is My Beloved, etc.
  • Final Songs: Gal in Calico, Theme from A Room with a View, That’s
    What She’s Done to Me, Barbara Allen
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
TS Disc
27:12, 25568, S
18 May 1976
11-20
#187
TS182
  • Music of Pomp, Pageantry, and Popularity: Zadok the Priest, Pomp
    and Circumstance March No. 1, Old 100th, 1812 Overture
  • Odd Musical Words: Tenor Curtal, Giraffe, Quint, Fidula
  • Piano Medleys
  • Songs sung by Lawrence Tibbett
  • Final Songs: I Don’t Know Why, If Music Be the Food of Love,
    Gilbert the Filbert, I Can’t Do My Bally Bottom Button Up
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
US NPR
27:12, 25565, S
25 May 1976
11-21
#188
TS183
  • Jumping Music: Harry Belafonte/Jump in the Line, Harry James/
    Two o’Clock Jump, Fats Waller/The Joint Is Jumpin’, Bucalossi/
    Grasshopper’s Dance
  • General Musical Questions: Schubert Symphonies; Robin and
    Ranger; Wagner/ Five Songs, the first being Der Engel;
    Handel/Largo (aka Ombra mai fu)
  • Tapped Rhythms: Tchaikovsky/Symphony No. 5, Ronald Binge/
    Elizabethan Serenade, Franck/The Accursed Huntsman,
    J. Strauss I/Radetzky March
  • Songs for Lawyers: Sweet Sue, Summonstime (Summertime),
    The punishment fit the crime (A More Humane Mikado),
    Brief Encounter
  • Baroque Music: Telemann, Origin of Continuo, Sammartini,
    Musical Teapot
  • Final Songs: Sleepy Time Gal, I Saw Your Image, With Her Head
    Tucked underneath Her Arm, The Lost Chord
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
TS Disc
27:09, 25459, S
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BBC R4
27:32, 25874, S
[slight hiss]
01 Jun 1976
11-22
#189
TS184
  • Dances: Tchaikovsky/Csárdás, Miriam Makeba/Umquokozo,
    Mussorgsky/Dance of the Persian Slaves (from Khovanshchina),
    Lynsey de Paul/Dancing on a Saturday Night
  • Operatic Settings: Così fan tutte, Lohengrin, Un ballo in
    maschera
  • Piano Medleys
  • Widor/Toccata, Musicians who use their feet, Liszt/Prelude and
    Fugue on B-A-C-H, Musical names transposed into music (as
    Liszt did)
  • Final Songs: Getting to Be a Habit with Me, This Eager Heart of
    Mine, Baby Doll, Dicky Bird
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
US NPR
27:15. 25612, S
08 Jun 1976
11-23
#190
TS185
  • Bach/St Matthew Passion, Jane Powell and Vic Damone, Janet
    Baker, Brahms/Piano Concerto No. 2
  • Random Musical Matters. Organ Composers, Irving Berlin,
    Joseph Holbrooke, Marie Lloyd
  • Hoagy Carmichael, Mitchell Parish/Stardust, Reginald De Koven,
    Ray Charles
  • Painting and Music: Vincent van Gogh/L'Arlésienne, Whistler’s
    Mother, The Raft of the Medusa, Moulin Rouge
  • Final Songs: Accentuate the Positive, In the Homestead,
    When My Sugar Goes Down the Street, I Got Plenty o' Nuttin'
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
TS Disc
27:10, 25468, S
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BBC R4
27:34, 25916, S
[slight hiss]
15 Jun 1976
11-24
#191
TS186
  • Thomas Arne/Rule, Britannia; It’s a Long, Long Way to
    Tipperary; Alfred Hill; Senor Caruso
  • Piano Medleys
  • Questions about an Opera: Composer’s Date of Birth/1911,
    Plausible Plot x 2,Title/Wuthering Heights
  • Dancing Lessons: The Rake’s Progress, Johnny Mercer, Gilbert
    & Sullivan/The Gondoliers, The Eagle Rock
  • Final Songs: Gotta Get a Girl, Mein Liebchen, Girl in a Gilded
    Cage, The Ladies of Spain
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
TS Disc
27:08, 25435, S
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BBC R4
27:23, 25729, S
[slight hiss]
22 Jun 1976
11-25
#192
TS187
  • String Music: Elgar/Introduction and Allegro for Strings, Joe
    Venuti/Cheese and Crackers, Paganini/Violin Concerto,
    Maria Callas
  • Identifications from Starting Notes: Kreisler/Schön Rosmarin,
    Oh Mein Papa,Bizet/L’Arlésienne Suite, Prokofiev/The Love
    for Three Oranges
  • Mood Music With Commentary
  • Songs Sung by Tony Bennett: Baby Dream Your Dream, Crazy
    Rhythm/Broadway, They Can’t Take That Away From Me/
    Flugelhorn, My Ship/Ira Gershwin (lyrics) and Kurt Weill (music)
  • Final Songs: In the Heart of a Fool, Your Tiny Hand Is Frozen,
    Fairies Over Forty, The Yeomen of England
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
TS Disc
27:05, 25399, S
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BBC R4
27:18, 25658, S
[slight hiss]
29 Jun 1976
11-26
#193
TS188
140007
  • Liszt/Piano Concerto, Don McLean, Schubert/Octet, Simon &
    Garfunkel
  • Who and When: True Love/Bing Crosby 1955, There I’ve Said It
    Again/Vaughn Monroe 1945, Tales of the Vienna Woods/
    Philadelphia Orchestra 1939, Petite Fleur/Monty Sunshine 1959
  • Piano Medleys
  • Beginnings and Endings: The Wedding March, Now Is the Hour/
    Chopin/A♭ Nocturne
  • Composers Paying Homage: Khachaturian/Ode to Lenin, Modern
    Jazz Quartet/Django, Delius/Warlock Serenade, Debussy/
    Hommage à S. Pickwick, Esq P.P.M.P.C.
  • Final Duets: I Want to Go to Idaho (Frank and Denis), Au fond
    du temple saint, from Bizet/The Pearl Fishers (Ian and John)
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
TS Disc
27:10, 25465,, S
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BBC R4
27:08, 25508, S
[slight hiss]
04 Jan 1977
Recorded
05 Jul 1976
12-1
#194
TS194
142345
Recorded before a Live Audience at the Cheltenham
International Festival of Music
  • Walton/The Wise Virgins, Strauss/Don Quixote, Orff/Carmina
    Burana, Webber/Joseph and His Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat
  • St Cecilia’s Day, W. H. Auden, Alexander Pope/Purcell, Raphael’s
    portrait/organ
  • Paintings and Music: Poulenc/L’Embarquement pour Cythère after
    Watteau’s painting of the same name, Francis Barraud/His
    Master’s Voice, Stravinsky/The Rake’s Progress after Hogarth/
    A Rake’s Progress, Kellette/I’m Forever Blowing Bubbles after Sir
    John Millais/Bubbles
  • Britten/Prince of the Pagodas, The Prince is in the guise of a
    salamander, Tchaikovsky/Rose Adagio from Sleeping Beauty
  • Final Songs: Bliss/The Olympians, Don’t Have Any More Mrs
    Moore, Music! Music! Music!, Linden Lea
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
KWAX
27:09, 25511, S
11 Jan 1977
Recorded
05 Jul 1976
12-2
#195
TS195
142346
Recorded before a Live Audience at the Cheltenham
International Festival of Music
  • Malcolm Arnold/Variations on Happy Birthday, Beethoven/Symphony
    No. 5, Mozart/Symphony No. 39 (K543), Johnny Keating/Lost Patrol
    (written by Robert Maxwell)
  • Eccentrics in Musical History: Angelica Catalani; Lead Belly (Huddie
    Ledbetter)/Goodnight, Irene; Farinelli; Gene Autry
  • Piano Medleys
  • Final Songs: What You Cannot Say Has Been Revealed (Quello che
    tacete from Puccini/La fanciulla del West); Row, Row, Row; When
    My Little Pomeranian Met Your Little Pekinese; Holst/I Vow to
    Thee My Country
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
KWAX
27:22, 25718, S
18 Jan 1977
12-3
#196
TS190
142341
  • Berlioz/Le Corsaire Overture, Vivaldi/Autumn from The Four Seasons,
    La Fille mal gardée, I’ve Found a New Baby
  • Steven Oliver Operas, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling; Comic
    Opera Tom Jones/Edward German 1907; Tom Jones’s first million
    seller, It’s Not Unusual, 1965
  • Puccini: Madam Butterfly, Butterfly’s Servants, Milk Punch or
    Whisky, Butterfly and Birds
  • Answers in Song Lyrics: Frankie and Johnny, Over the Rainbow,
    Good King Wenceslas, Home on the Range
  • Musical Themes: New My Music Theme (Instrumentation:
    Trumpets, Bass Guitar, Conga Drum, Electric Guitar, Cabassa), My
    Word! Theme (Vivian Ellis/Alpine Pastures), Original My Music
    Theme (Instrumentation: Mellotron), Take It From Here Theme
    (Johnny Johnston (composer), Frank Muir and Denis Norden (lyrics))
  • Final Songs: She’s Like the Swallow, Skylark, The Preacher and the
    Bear, The White Horse Inn
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
KWAX
27:16, 25628, S
25 Jan 1977
12-4
#197
TS191
142342
  • Wagner/Tannhäuser Overture, Yma Sumac, Paul Robeson,
    Dionne Warwick
  • Animals in Music: Carnival of the Animals; Unforget a Bull; I’m
    Alone Big Horse I Love You; Anything You Gnu; Gorilla My Dreams;
    Pekinese Up Mother Brown etc.
  • Piano Medleys
  • Titles and Numbers: Brandenburg Concertos, Maid of the
    Mountains, Schubert Symphonies, Route 66
  • Mood Music with Commentary
  • Final Songs: Mozart/Voi che sapete; Oh, Mr Porter; Keeping Out
    of Mischief; She Moved through the Fair
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
KWAX
27:15, 25605, S
01 Feb 1977
12-5
#198
TS192
142343
  • Glazunov/The Seasons (ballet), Debussy/En Bateau, Fauré/
    Overture to Masques et bergamasques, Barry White
  • Music Hall Song Titles and Payoff Lines: Why Build a Wall ’round
    a Graveyard/When nobody wants to get in; She Cost Me
    Seven-and-Sixpence/I wish I’d bought a dog; You Can’t Keep a
    Horse in a Lighthouse/Neigh, Neigh, Neigh; I acted so tragic
    the house rose like magic … ‘There’s another war coming if you
    don’t stop humming’/The night I appeared as Macbeth
  • What Comes Next?: Tannhäuser, Gracie Fields/Our Avenue, Jon
    Pertwee/My Motto, The Beatles/It’s Been a Hard Day’s Night
  • Places to Listen to Music
  • Final Songs: She Is Far from the Land, I Want to Be Happy,
    Dapper Dan the Pullman Porter Man, Welcome Home
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
KWAX
27:15, 25612, S
08 Feb 1977
12-6
#199
TS193
142344
  • Strauss/Horn Concerto No. 1, Vikki Carr, Rossini/Semiramide,
    Beethoven/Leonore Overture #3
  • Symphonic Music: Unfinished Symphonies (Amis, Schubert,
    Borodin, Mahler) Fixed Do
  • Musical History: Sydney Opera House, Popular Songs
  • Piano Medleys
  • Answers in the Words of a Song: Katie, Off to Louisiana,
    The Stately Homes of England, Hot Cross Buns
  • Musical Curiosities: Accompaniment Records, Carmen Theme,
    Beethoven/Violin Concerto, Cole Porter
  • Final Songs: John whistles Schubert/Piano Trio No. 2 (D929),
    in E♭ major, op. 100; Beer, Glorious Beer; Any Place Where I
    Make Money Is Home Sweet Home to Me; A Gordon for Me
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
TS Disc
27:12, 25496, S
15 Feb 1977
Recorded
13 Jan 1977
12-7
#200
TS196

200th
episode
  • Rachmaninov/Piano Concerto No. 2, Eric Carmen, ’Til there
    Was You, The Storm Compositions and their titles: The
    Seasons, Rossini/Sins of My Old Age, Berlioz/Béatrice et
    Bénédict, Holst/The Perfect Fool
  • Intermittent Music: Verdi/Otello, Holloway/With Her Head
    Tucked underneath Her Arm, Richard Tauber/Girls Were
    Made to Love and Kiss, Alan Price/Simon Smith and His
    Amazing Dancing Bear
  • Who or What: von Weber, Gilbert & Sullivan, Telemann, 49th
    Parallel
  • Answers in the Words of a Song: Clementine, Home in
    Liveland, Camptown Steve Races, Easter Parade
  • Grieg/First Kiss/Anderson, Frank Loesser, Sir Henry Bishop,
    Stay in My Arms Cinderella
  • Final Songs: The Bonny Earl o’ Moray, Polly Wolly Doodle,
    Rose of Washington Square, When a Maiden Takes Your
    Fancy (Mozart/Wer Ein Liebchen Hat Geunden (From Die
    Entführung aus dem Serail)
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
KWAX
27:17, 25649, S
22 Feb 1977
12-8
#201
TS197
  • Pergolesi/Stravinsky/Pulcinella, How to Play the Harp, Mozart
    Horn Concerto No. 4, Tuxedo Junction
  • Questions on Handel: And the Glory of the Lord, Blindness, Death
    Where Is Thy Sting, Love in Bath
  • Piano Medleys
  • Famous Voices: Elizabeth Schumann, Nellie Lutcher, Nellie Melba,
    Jerry Colonna
  • Final Songs: Eriskay Love Lilt, Oliver Cromwell, Shake Down the
    Stars, Look for the Silver Lining
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
KWAX
27:15, 25615, S
01 Mar 1977
12-9
#202
TS198
  • Haydn/Symphony No. 60 in C/Il distratto, The King’s Singers,
    Háry János, Alec Wilder/Song historian
  • Brass Band Music: New World Symphony, Viva Birkinshaw,
    Euphonium, Horn Trio
  • Grammatical Problems in Music
  • The Barber of Seville, Arietta, Dr Bartolo, Figaro
  • The “Hopper” on a Piano, Steve Race/Unutterable Rubbish,
    Homophone, Pedals on a Piano
  • Final Songs: Amor ti Vieta/Fedora, A Little Bit Off the Top,
    What I Like About the South, Come to the Fair
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
KWAX
27:23, 25738, S
08 Mar 1977
12-10
#203
TS199
  • George Enescu, Short’nin’ Bread, Beethoven/Piano Concerto
    No. 5 (“Emperor”), The Nutcracker Suite arranged by Spike Jones
  • Musical Instruments: A Broken Consort, Musicians in a Cake, the
    psaltery, Bass racket
  • Piano Medleys
  • Condensed Opera Plots: Der Freischütz, Kiss Me Kate, The
    Pirates of Penzance, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
  • Final Songs: A Young Maiden Milking; Don’t Put Your Daughter
    on the Stage, Mrs Worthington; Second Hand Rose; Bonnie
    Mary of Argyle
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
KWAX
27:18, 25659, S
15 Mar 1977
12-11
#204
TS200
  • Music based on books: Camelot, Rape upon Rape, Arms and the
    Man, Porgy and Bess
  • Composers in Alphabetical Order
  • Questions about Gustav Holst
  • How Many Beats in the Bar? Identifying Greek Instruments and
    Greek Dances
  • Violin Music
  • Final Songs: Oft in the Stilly Night, When the Midnight Choo
    Choo Leaves for Alabam, Sentimental Gentleman from Georgia,
    Love’s Garden of Roses
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
KWAX
27:15, 25607, S
22 Mar 1977
12-12
#205
TS201
  • Kodály/Missa Brevis, Isherwood/Cabaret, Elgar/Enigma
    Variations, Tex Beneke
  • Splendor on Snowy Summits; Hands, Knees and Bumps a
    Daisy; I’ll Walk Beside You; Buckle Down Winsocki
  • Piano Medleys
  • Musical Introductions: Tony Bennett, Fiddler on the Roof/
    Jerry Bock, Johnny Mercer
  • Verdi/Falstaff, Merry Wives of Windsor/Henry IV/As You Like
    It, Nanetta, Wine
  • Final Songs: Now Oh Now I Needs Must Part, Give My
    Regards to Broadway, Crossing to Dover, Old Father Thames
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
KWAX
27:14, 25598, S
29 Mar 1977
12-13
#206
TS202
  • Vaughan Williams/Homage to Henry Hall, Fritz Wunderlich/
    Martini, Caper/Concerto for Double Bass, Slam Stewart
  • Musical History: Invention of the Key System for the
    Flute, St. Dunstan/The Æolian Harp, Bird Music, Druid’s Crot
  • Popular Piano Music: Grieg/Wedding Day, Clair de lune, Ace
    of Hearts, Sid Phillips/Hors d'oeuvres
  • Themes: Rachmaninov/Symphony No. 2, Dana, Rubinstein
    Romance/If You Are But a Dream, Yesterday
  • Answer in the Words of a Song: Jiminy Cricket, Saying Yes
    to Mr Brown, Gigi, You Are My Everything
  • Final Songs: Celia, Sally, Louisa, Westering Home
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
US NPR
27:04, 25437, S
05 Apr 1977
12-14
#207
TS203
  • Irish Connections: John Field Suite/Hamilton Harty, John
    McCormick, Sea Fever/John Ireland, Dear Old Donegal
  • Tangos: William Walton/Façade; Webber/Don’t Cry for Me,
    Argentina; My Tango; La Cumparsita
  • Piano Medleys
  • Silence: John Cage/4:33, Simon & Garfunkel/Sounds of
    Silence, Handel/Ptolemy/Silent Worship, My Silent Love
  • Final Songs: Verdi/Aida, I’m Shy, The Caretaker’s Daughter,
    Oh Wally, Wally
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
KWAX
27:13, 25582, S
12 Apr 1977
12-15
#208
TS204
  • Bruckner/Symphony No. 4, Peter Sellers Sings George
    Gershwin, Balham Gateway to the South, Arthur Riscoe
  • B. B. Composers and Performers: Bela Bartók, Brigitte
    Bardot, Bix Beiderbecke, Bunny Berrigan
  • Musical Technicalities: Bar, Shake, Listesso, MM numbers
  • Musical Animals: Cats, Tortoise, Hippopotamuses, Cats
  • Musical Names: Finnish Composers, Brass Bands, Welsh
    Choirs, Trombone-playing band leaders
  • Final Songs: Watercress, Garden of Your Heart, Be My Little
    Bumblebee, Lilac Time
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
KWAX
27:24, 25759, S
19 Apr 1977
12-16
#209
TS205
  • Jazz Music: Eddie Lang; J. C. Higginbotham; Swing Low,
    Sweet Chariot on the Bagpipes; Dirty Rag
  • Musical Miscellany: Distance from New York to London,
    Polytonality, Distance from Amsterdam to Leipzig, Plus Sign
    in Musical Notation
  • Piano Medleys
  • Questions on Verdi/Aida: Composer, Lady’s Dilemma, Thebes,
    Connection with Lord Beaconsfield
  • Final Songs: Rachmaninov/To the Children, Hold Your Hand
    Out You Naughty Boy, My Canary, Leanin’
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
KWAX
27:16, 25632, S
26 Apr 1977
12-17
#210
TS206
  • Clichés and Proverbs: No Place Like Home/Bishop/Patti,
    Love Will Find a Way/Maid of the Mountains, Strauss, Into
    Each Life Some Rain Must Fall
  • Early Musical Instruments: Monochord, Stump, Fipple,
    Rommel Pot
  • Tapped Rhythms: Rio Grande, Woodpecker, Lord High
    Executioner, Air on the G string
  • Composers names made up of three letter words
  • Capital Cities and Composers: Paris/Mozart/Duke,
    Portsmouth/Walton, Oldfield
  • Final Songs: Gentle Maiden, Mary’s a Grand Old Name,
    Ramble Along, Without a Song
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
KWAX
27:19, 25672, S
03 May 1977
12-18
#211
TS207
  • Elgar/Violin Concerto, Ingres/French Painter/Violinist,
    Wagner/Siegfried’s Rhine Journey, Tommy Martin
  • Musical Kings: Shiminovsky, Oliver, Stephen, Creole
  • Piano Medleys
  • Made up Song Titles Using Composers’ Names
  • Names Chosen by Composers: Sanders/Homage to
    Scarlatti, Eagles/Strange Feeling, Toman/Toddler’s March,
    Williams/Romantic Piano Feature
  • Final Songs: Maria, Down the Road, Old Shanty Town, I
    Love a Lassie
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
KWAX
27:16, 25630, S
10 May 1977
12-19
#212
TS208
  • Weber/Overture to Der Freischütz, Elgar/Pomp and
    Circumstance No. 1 (found title in Shakespeare/Othello),
    Puccini/Madama Butterfly, Poor Butterfly
  • Musical Relations: Tortellier Family, Frank and Nancy
    Sinatra, Mills Brothers, Jonathan and Darlene Edwards
  • Song Titles Beginning with Letters of the Alphabet:
  • Answers in the Words of a Song: Blow Him Up with
    Dynamite/Timbuktu; Constantinople; When It’s Night Time
    in Italy It’s Wednesday over Here; cottons, silks, winkles,
    and whelks/The Barrows in the Walworth Road
  • Final Songs: Se il mio nome (from The Barber of Seville),
    Just Like the Ivy, White to Rosy Red, Goin’ Home
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
KWAX
27:11, 25543, S
17 May 1977
12-20
#213
TS209
  • Vivaldi/Violin Concerto in D Major (unknown RV number);
    Origin of Vivaldi’s name “The Red Priest”; Schubert/C
    Major Quintet; Rodrigo/Concierto de Aranjuez
  • Numerical Questions: Darius Milhaud String Quartets; 76
    Trombones; Cigarettes, Whiskey, and Wild, Wild Women/
    Baubles, Bangles, and Beads/Oysters, Cockles, and
    Mussels; A Chorus Line
  • Accentuate the Negative: No, No Nanette; Ludwig Koch
    Collection of Natural History Recordings/Serval (cat
    family); Soviet Army Ensemble; Gloria Grahame singing I
    Cain’t Say No from Oklahoma!
  • Piano Medleys
  • Translated Names: Ernie Slipper/Ernest Chausson, John
    S. Brook/J. S. Bach, Dickie Ostrich/Richard Strauss,
    Claude Greenhill/Claudio Monteverdi
  • Final Songs: Charade, Bill Bailey, Glow Worm, Edelweiss
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
KWAX
27:13, 25630, S
24 May 1977
12-21
#214
TS210
#214
  • Stockhausen, Paderewski, Rostropovich, Francis Albert
    Sinatra and Antônio Carlos Jobim
  • Miscellaneous Questions: Master of the Queen’s Music;
    Kolokol/King of Bells; Composers all born in Lincoln
    (Lincolnshire); Oklahoma!
  • Questions about Accompanists: Volti subito; Where’er
    You Walk; Hark, Hark the Lark; Barcarolle
  • Hinge and Bracket: Noël Coward, Poor Wandering One,
    Gangway
  • Final Songs: Horkstow Grange, Underneath the Arches,
    Missing New Orleans, Limehouse Reach
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
KWAX
26:28, 24883, S
31 May 1977
Recorded
07 Apr 1977
special
#215
TS189
Special Edition in Honour of the Silver Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II
  • Parry: I Was Glad, Prince Albert, Mozart/Coronation Mass,
    Herbert Howells/Music for a Prince, Bullock/Fanfare for the
    Coronation of Elizabeth II, Zadok the Priest, Tippett/Suite
    for the Birthday of Prince Charles, Henry VIII
  • Piano Medleys
  • How Much is that Doggie in the Window, Naughty Lady of
    Shady Lane, Harry Davis Band, Petula Clark
  • Final Songs: Sunset Hymn; There’s Something about a
    Soldier; If I Only Had Wings; My Love Is Like a Red, Red Rose

Held in Archives

Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
KWAX
27:13, 25580, S
07 Jun 1977
12-22
#216
TS211
#216
  • Kodály/Dances from Galante, Three Little Maids, Pineapple
    Poll, Elvis Presley
  • Beginnings and Endings: Schumann/Kinderszenen, op. 25;
    Gounod/Faust; Iolanthe; Sondheim/Pacific Overtures
  • Piano Medleys
  • Silly Songs: Straight Banana, Big Head, Burlington Bertie,
    Nice Habits
  • Composers : Les Six, Honegger/Pacific 231, Moulin Rouge
  • Final Songs: Federico’s Lament (excerpt) from Cilea/
    L’arlesiana, Joshu-ah, Ain’t We Got Fun, Roses of Picardy
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
KWAX
27:15, 25614, S
14 Jun 1977
12-23
#217
TS212
  • Smetana/Bartered Bride, Scottish Clans, Mingulay Boat
    Song (Steve asks: where is Mingulay?), Northern Lights
    of Aberdeen
  • Dating Quotations: Tchaikovsky/1878, Evening/1674,
    Mozart/1764, Evans/1876
  • Piano Medleys
  • Operas: Operas Based on Sir Walter Scott Novels, Ravel/
    The Child and the Household Gods, Joan Sutherland, Berlioz
  • Final Songs: Comin’ through the Rye, Put Me among the
    Girls, There’s Yes! Yes! in Your Eyes, We Parted on the Shore
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
KWAX
27:20, 25691, S
21 Jun 1977
12-24
#218
TS213
  • Massenet/Élégie, Faust/Soldiers’ Chorus, Verdi/Il trovatore,
    Puccini/Madama Butterfly
  • Song Titles: I’m Going to See You Today, We’re Going to
    Hang Out the Washing on the Siegfried Line, I Know Where
    I’m Going, I Know That You Know
  • Random Musical Matters: Lost Stravinsky Funeral Song,
    Donizetti Operas, Friml/Donkey Serenade, Spanish Song
  • Piano Medleys
  • Numbers: 83 Haydn String Quartets, Pennsylvania 6-5000,
    330 miles from Venice to Naples, Inch Worm
  • Final Songs: Oh, Wondrous Beauty (Dies Bildnis ist
    bezaubernd schön) from The Magic Flute, Cecilia,
    Whippoorwill, In Cellar Cool
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
KWAX
27:13, 25582, S
28 Jun 1977
12-25
#219
TS214
  • Flanders/The Sloth (sung by Ian), Have some Madeira,
    m’dear; Delius/A Late Lark (sung by John), On the Road to
    Mandalay (music by Speaks, words from Kipling/Mandalay)
  • Musical People: Diabelli, Czerny, Vaughan Williams
    (attended Charterhouse School), Charles Ives
  • Middle Bits: Honeysuckle Rose; A Lovely Way
    to Spend an Evening; Believe It, Beloved; The Song Is You
  • Miscellaneous Musical Questions: Handel, From the Censer,
    Merry Widow, World of Our Own
  • Glazunov/Borodin/Symphony No. 3, Ravel/Bolero, Michael
    Haydn/Mozart/Symphony No. 25/37 in G Major, Jonson/Opera
  • Final Songs: Flashing Tapers, A Bird in a Gilded Cage,
    Josephine, The Gay Highway
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
TS Disc
27:09, 25447, S
05 Jul 1977
12-26
#230
TS215
142366
From the Commonwealth Institute, London
  • Heroes and heroines: Sibelius/Pélleas and Mélisande, Victor
    Borge, “Because” by Guy d’Hardelot, Vanessa
  • Songs of summer: Constant Lambert/Summer’s Last Will
    and Testament, A Summer Place (Percy Faith), Coates/
    Summer Days, Here Comes Summer (Jerry Keller)
  • Mostly Collaborations: Britten and Bridge (Britten/Variations
    on a Theme by Frank Bridge); Bliss and Blow (Bliss/
    Meditations on a Theme by John Blow); Müller-Einigen,
    Blumenthal, Kadelburg, Gilbert, Benatzky, and Stolz (White
    Horse Inn); How did Molnár’s Liliom become Bigelow’s Julie?
  • Hymn composers’ humour
  • Piano Medleys
  • Technicalities: The 48/18 Choral Preludes, mean part, false
    relation, retrograde canon
  • Final Songs: O By and By, Take Me Back to Old Blighty,
    Boulevards of New York, Will Ye No Come Back Again?
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
KWAX
27:13, 25583, S
04 Jan 1978
Recorded
21 May 1977
13-1
#221
TS216
144245
Recorded before an invited audience at the University of London
Convocation’s Annual Conversazione
  • Poulenc/Concerto Champêtre for Harpsichord, Korholt/Concerto,
    Schubert/Trout Quintet, Over the Rainbow
  • Rimsky-Korsakov on Pelléas et Mélisande, Gide on Pastoral
    Symphony, Vincent Wallace/Maritana, Call Me Madam
  • Middle Bits: I’m Always Chasing Rainbows, Scatterbrain, My
    One and Only Highland Fling, We’ll Be Together Again
  • Names and Nicknames: Igor (Stravinsky) wrote Ebony
    Concerto for Woody (Herman); Muggsy (Spanier), Sharkey
    (Bonano), and Wingy (Manone) all played trumpet; eden
    ahbez; Josh (White) claimed to have acted as guide to
    (Blind) Lemon (Jefferson)
  • Final Songs: Poacher Bold, Now I Have to Call Him Father,
    College Rhythm, Little Brown Bird Singing
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
KWAX
27:18, 25651, S
11 Jan 1978
Recorded
21 May 1977
13-2
#222
TS217
Recorded before an invited audience at the University of London
Convocation’s Annual Conversazione
  • Vaughan Williams and Ravel, Florrie Forde, Tchaikovsky/Waltz
    of the Flowers, Ibert/Divertissement (Ibert received the Légion
    d’honneur for courage)
  • Musical People and Things: Heckel and Strauss/Salome (uses
    Heckelphone), Salome and Sebastian Melmoth (Oscar Wilde),
    Gusli (Zither) and Gusle (Lute), Making an Olifant from an elephant
  • Piano Medleys
  • Miscellaneous Questions: Mute Opera Roles, Tamborlane and
    Handel/Tamerlano, Greensleeves, The violinist Tomasini was a
    valet, LSO Founded in 1904, Orff/Lament by a Roasted Swan,
    Bach/The Musical Offering BWV1079, Bartók/Diary of a Fly
  • Final Songs: Dalla sua pace (from Mozart/Don Giovanni), Here
    We Are Again, Who Walks In When I Walk Out, On the Road
    to Mandalay
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
KWAX
26:59, 25360, S
18 Jan 1978
13-3
#223
TS218
  • Weber/Abu Hassan Overture, The King and I/Deborah Kerr,
    Saint- Saëns/The Dying Swan, Jack Teagarden
  • Song Titles Starting with… A to Z
  • Middle Bits: Elgar/Cockaigne Overture, op. 40 (In London
    Town); Garland/In Between; Trot Here, Trot There;
    Broadway Rhythm
  • Questions about Mahler: Music based on Cavalleria
    rusticana by Pietro Mascagni, Der Freischütz, by Carl Maria
    von Weber, Words on Mahler’s Tombstone, Mahler at
    Niagara Falls
  • Final Songs: Michael from Mountains, Kitty, Donna Clara, Annie Laurie
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
KWAX
27:17, 25650, S
25 Jan 1978
13-4
#224
TS219
  • Gardens: De Falla/Nights in the Gardens of Spain, Coates/Covent
    Garden, Delius/In a Summer Garden, English Country Garden
    sung by Jimmie Rodgers
  • Words from songs: Bechstein Grand/The Stately Homes of England,
    Webster’s Dictionary/Too Marvelous for Words and Morocco Bound,
    Woolworths/I Found a Million Dollar Baby (in a Five and Ten Cents
    Store), words added to Rodgers and Hart/Manhattan referring to
    South Pacific
  • Piano Medleys
  • Facts About: Erik Satie, Vera Lynn, John Christie, Scott Joplin
  • Questions Answered with a Number: Mozart K525, 76 Trombones,
    Four Cheers/HMS Pinafore, 24 Robbers
  • Composers and Their Wives: Messiaen; Schumann; Mozart;
    Brahms, Britten, and Beethoven (all unmarried)
  • Final Songs: If Your Songs Had Wings, Knocked ’Em in the Old
    Kent Road, I Think I Can, Bold William Taylor
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
KWAX
27:01, 25392, S
01 Feb 1978
13-5
#225
TS220
  • Spelling Bee: Conductor/Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt; Song/Funiculi,
    Funicula; Fighter/Muhammad Ali; Guitarist/Django Reinhardt
  • Next Lines from Songs: If I’d Known You Were Coming/I’d Have
    Baked a Cake; The Next Horse I Ride On/I’m Goin’ to Be Tied On;
    Where Did Robinson Crusoe Go/With Friday on Saturday Night;
    Just Like Washington Crossed the Delaware/General Pershing Will
    Cross the Rhine
  • Made Up Musical Titles for unknown music (actually Alwyn/The
    Magic Island)
  • Musical Sums Using Numbers in Songs: 8 +
    10,010 + 4 + 300 + 30 + 4,700,891 = 4,711,243
  • Carmen first heard 1875; Arnold Bennett Comment on Carmen;
    Theme from Tchaikovsky/Symphony No. 6 (“Pathétique”);
    Bennett and Williams played “phonofiddles”
  • Final Songs: Art Thou Weeping?, Happy Talk, You’ve Gotta Keep
    On Trying, Count Your Blessings
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
KUOW2
26:59, 25355, S
08 Feb 1978
13-6
#226
TS221
  • Ten String Guitar, I Am the Bandolero/P. G. Wodehouse, The
    Magic Flute, Lee Marvin
  • Who Questions: J. S. Bach said of Krebs, Greatest Immigrant/
    Handel, Name Changes/Humperdinck and Jones, Judy Garland
  • Food Questions: Cakes and Ale, The Spaniard That Blighted
    My Life, Sausage for Tea, Losing My Sugar
  • What sort of people are they?: Job’s Comforters, Folks Who
    Live on the Hill, People Walking in Darkness, Upper Classes
  • First Names of Musicians: Stefan Askenase, Marcel Mule,
    Maggie Teyte and Phyllis Tate, Reginald Goss-Custard
  • Final Songs: John whistles the Schubert/Piano Trio No. 2
    (D929), in E♭ major, op. 100; The Party’s Over Now; Down
    and Out Blues; Simon the Cellarer
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
KWAX
27:17, 25647, S
15 Feb 1978
13-7
#227
TS222
  • Berwald/Symphony No. 4, Race/Far Away Music, German/
    Dances from Henry VIII, God Bless You Mr Chamberlain
  • Wishful Thinking: If I Had My Way, If I Had a Hammer, If I
    Had a Talking Picture of You, If I Had You
  • Music in a Major or Minor Key
  • Technical Terms: Sabot/Harp disk, Flea Dance/Ukulele,
    Roulade/Rapid Vocal Run, The German Type
  • Middle Bits: Emperor Waltz/I’m in Love with Vienna, You Will
    Remember Vienna, Autumn Leaves, Lullaby of the Leaves
  • Made Up Musical Title
  • Final Songs: Lord Melbourne, Eton Boating Song, Bally Bally,
    Father O’Flynn
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
KWAX
27:01, 25395, S
22 Feb 1978
13-8
#228
TS223
  • Bliss/Cello Concerto, Acker Bilk, Glory to the Men of Old,
    Three Coins in the Fountain
  • Musical Birthdays: Berlioz 1803, Father of the Mills
    Brothers, Vaughan Williams 1872, Ringo Star 1940
  • Lullabies: Poulenc/Babar the Elephant, Transatlantic Lullaby,
    Debussy/Jumbo’s Lullaby, Melancholy Baby/Della Reese
  • Piano Medley
  • Signature Tune for Undertakers, Funeral Directors, and Embalmers
  • Final Songs: Scotch Rhapsody, Manhattan, New Orleans, Song
    of the Clyde
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
KUOW2
26:55, 25298, S
01 Mar 1978
13-9
#229
TS224
From the Commonwealth Institute in London
  • Musical Tour of London: Farnaby/Tower Hill, Paddington Green
    (where there is a statue of Sarah Siddons), Coates/Langham
    Place, Fats Waller/Piccadilly
  • Parlor Piano Favorites: Raff/Cavatina, Boccherini/Minuet,
    Godard/Angels Guard Thee, Marks/Entr’acte Elfin Revels
  • Horn Music: Wagner/Tristan und Isolde, Theme from The
    Virginians, Beethoven/Symphony No. 3, Spanish Harlem
  • Anagrams of Popular Songs: Silly Bead/Daisy Bell, Fi/If,
    Summit Mere/Summer Time, Sixty-One Nots/Sixteen Tons
  • Final Songs: If I Am Dreaming, Little Gray Home in the
    West, Little Grass Shack, Down to the Seas
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
KWAX
27:07, 25490, S
08 Mar 1978
13-10
#230
TS225
  • Donizetti/The Daughter of the Regiment, Mozart/Rondo
    from Horn Concerto No. 4 (what is a rondo?); name three
    characters singing in You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown;
    Charles King/Broadway Melody
  • Odd Man Out: Armida, Duke Ellington Song Book, L’Enfant
    et les sortilèges, Donatello
  • Piano Medley
  • Theme Music from a Filmed Novel: Lost Horizon
  • What’s his Other Name?: Ludwig Spohr, Donovan Leitch,
    Gaetano Donizetti, A. P. Mantovani
  • Songs about Bells: Owen Brannigan, Bell at the Old
    Bailey, Chime at Westminster, Bells Are Ringing
  • Final Songs: Little Rose by the Wayside, London Pride,
    The Blue Mountains of Virginia, I Will Give My Love an Apple
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
KWAX
27:00, 25373, S
15 Mar 1978
13-11
#231
TS226
  • Honegger/Rugby, A Toccata of Galuppi’s (poem of
    Browning’s), Widor/Toccata from Organ Symphony No. 5,
    Paradisi/Toccata played on a harpsichord (how are sounds
    produced on a harpsichord?)
  • Musical Technicalities: Hum and Strike Notes, Supertonic,
    Cylindrichord, Ottavino
  • Middle Bits: Laughing Song from Die Fledermaus;
    Moonlight Becomes You; Chopin/Polonaise, Op. 40 No. 1
    (“Military”); Garden in the Rain
  • Blue Round: Blue Third, Origin of to have the blues, I’ve
    Gotta Right to Sing the Blues/Teagarden, Nancy Wilson
  • Dreams: Elgar/Dream of Gerontius, You Stepped Out of a
    Dream/Tony Martin, Balfe/I Dreamt I Dwelt in Marble
    Halls, Two Dreams Met from Down Argentina Way
  • Final Songs: Mattinata, Wouldn’t it Be Loverly, When I
    Pretend I’m Gay, The Old Shako
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
KOUW2
27:01, 25386, S
22 Mar 1978
13-12
#232
TS227
  • Musical Rivers: Elgar/Severn Suite for Brass Band, op. 87,
    Wagner/Rhine River, Smetana/ Vltava, Aznavour/Venice Blue
  • Various Musical Matters: Nicholas Maw, Giuoco Piano,
    Birthdate of Bach and Handel/1685, Highland Mod
  • Musical Oceans: Vaughan Williams/Sinfonia Antartica,
    Crosby/How Deep Is the Ocean, Rodgers/Victory at Sea,
    American Servicemen Saw the Sea
  • Personal Choice of music to evoke your homeland
  • Piano Medley: M-A-S-S-E-N-E-T
  • Answers In the Words of a Song: Rose Marie, Mad Dogs
    and Englishmen, Red Shadow, Me and My Dog
  • Final Songs: She Is Far from the Land, Desert Song,
    Idaho, Green Hills of Somerset
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
KWAX
27:08, 25497, S
29 Mar 1978
13-13
#233
TS228
  • Tippett/Fanfare, Gossec/Tambourin, Sullivan/HMS Pinafore,
    Tchaikovsky/1812 Overture
  • Musical People and Their Works: Alkan/Symphony and
    Concerto for Piano, The Lost Chord, Red Sea Passage,
    Rita Hayworth’s Grandmother/Cover Girl
  • Recordings from the 1920s: Rudy Vallee, Connecticut
    Yankee, Sophie Tucker and Ted Shapiro, Nola
  • Musical Technicalities: First performance of Beethoven/
    B♭ Piano Concerto was played in B♮, Ravel/Bolero
    Rhythmic Pattern repeated 169 times, Bitonality, 440 Cycles
  • Answers In the Words of a Song: Village Blacksmith, I Feel
    Pretty, The Income Tax Collector, I Remember It Well
  • Final Songs: Where’er You Walk, Following in Father’s
    Footsteps, Fancy Our Meeting, Some Enchanted Evening
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
KOUW2
27:00, 25376, S
28 Jun 1978
13-14
#234
TS229
  • Artists with initials BG: Benny Goodman playing Mozart/
    Clarinet Concerto K622, Bobbie Gentry, Beniamino Gigli,
    Buddy Greco
  • Who or What: Paganini’s Death, John Brown’s order to
    the Band, Delius’s comment on his own songs, Cole Porter/
    Old-Fashioned Garden
  • Piano Medley
  • Orchestral Scores. Order of the Score: Wind, Brass,
    Percussion, Strings; Fag = Bassoon, Corni = Horns; Origin
    of “corny” = Corn fed (= Hayseed)
  • Answers In the Words of a Song: John Peel’s grey coat,
    The Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Throw your gun
    away, The rich Maharajah of Magador
  • Final Songs: It Ain’t Necessarily So, Let the Rest of the
    World Go By, It Always Starts to Rain, Just a Song at Twilight
Designated as a continuation of S13 to accord with numbering of
subsequent series as listed in the BBC Archives.
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
KWAX
27:22, 25719, S
05 Jul 1978
13-15
#235
TS230
From The Commonwealth Institute, London
  • Beethoven/String Quartet No. 16, op.135; Prokofiev/Peter
    and the Wolf; Vaughan Williams/Songs of Travel; Beethoven
    String Quartet No. 16, op.135 (again!)
  • Spelling: Schumann/Schuman, Kyung Wha Chung,
    Ashkenazy/Askenase, Nilsson
  • Whistling and Singing Rule, Britannia: Panel take one note
    each, then one syllable each
  • Piano Middle Bits: Sibelius/Valse triste, Every Time We Say
    Goodbye, Grieg/Peer Gynt, I Like to Recognize the Tune
  • Mixed Questions: Composer Berwald, Hailstone Chorus,
    Difference between Kilmore and Kilbeck (bagpipe music),
    Pachelbel/Canon
  • Names translated into English: Weber/Weaver, Schnabel/
    Beak, Tauber/Cockpigeon, Smetana/Cream, Hummel/Bumblebee
  • Final Songs: Master Kilby; I’m Henery the Eighth, I Am; Ukulele
    Lady; Macushla
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
KOUW2
26:56, 25312, S
12 Jul 1978
13-16
#236
TS231
  • Thomson/The Mother of Us All, Paderewski, Vivaldi/Sonata in C,
    op. 35/Hurdy-Gurdy, One Piano Four Hands
  • Piano Medley themed on John Amis
  • Royal Music: Prince Esterhazy/Haydn, Theorbo, Breve, Flute
    Playing Chair
  • Mozart: Mozart’s letter to his father about concertos, Theme
    from Elvira Madigan, Key of C minor, Mozart/Hunt Quartet
    (one of Mozart’s “Haydn Quartets”)
  • Songs for Swinging Fishmongers
  • Final Songs: Una furtiva lagrima (from Donizetti/L’elisir
    d’amore), Flash Bang Wallop, Here Am I Broken-Hearted,
    Down Below
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
KOUW2
26:59, 25365, S
19 Jul 1978
13-17
#237
TS232
  • Pan Pipes, Vilia, Tchaikovsky/Waltz, Gheorghe Zamfir
  • Which Composer… Murdered his wife/Gesualdo, wrote a book
    “How to Enjoy Your Operation”/Vivian Ellis, Was a chemist
    who was the illegitimate son of a Prince/Borodin, Was the
    son of the President’s butler/Duke Ellington
  • Piano Medley
  • What have they in common?: Schubert songs, Choir
    directors, Operatic librettists, Harmonica players
  • Songs about kissing: George Robey, Max Miller, Marie
    Kendall, Billy Danvers
  • Made up Musical Title
  • Final Songs: Oh Mistress Mine, I Was a Good Little Boy,
    Girl in the Little Green Hat, Pale Hands I Loved
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
KOUW2
27:00, 25373, S
26 Jul 1978
13-18
#238
TS233
  • Vaughan Williams/Suite for Pipes, Melina  Mercouri, Bagpipe
    music played at the wrong speed, Whispering Jack Smith
  • Operatic Overtures: Verdi/The Force of Destiny, Handel,
    Mozart/The Marriage of Figaro, Wagner/Prelude to Act 3
    of Lohengrin
  • Train Whistle Music
  • Questions about Janáček: The Cunning Little Vixen (2),
    Glagolitic Mass, Simon Rattle Conductor
  • Scat Singing: Oliver Cromwell, Strawberry Fair, Iolanthe, Putti Putti
  • Answers in the words of song: Cully/The Arcadians, Papa Piccolino,
    Robin Hood, Pass That Peace Pipe
  • Final Songs: The Youth of the Heart, When You and I Were
    Seventeen, In My Little Red School House, Two Bright Eyes
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
KOUW2
26:59, 25361, S
02 Aug 1978
13-19
#239
TS234
  • Gabriel Fauré/Sicilienne, Brahms/Gaudeamus Igitur/University of
    Breslau, Beethoven/Piano Concerto No. 2, Coffee and Cream-
    Ellingtons senior and Junior
  • Questions on Keats: Holst/Choral Symphony based on Keats’s
    poems, Keats’s letter to sister in 1819, Muzio Clementi, Hearing
    the Nightingale
  • Artists known by one name: Tetrazzini, Twiggy, Liberace, Fabian
  • Endings: On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring, If I Were a Bell,
    Sheep May Safely Graze, In the Mood
  • General Musical Questions: Cook finished Mahler’s Symphony
    No. 10, Beethoven/The Ghost Trio, Delius/Fennimore and Gerda,
    Stedman/Change Ringing
  • Final Songs: Im Chambre séparée, Cuddle Up a Little Closer,
    Ever So Goosey, On the Road to Anywhere
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
KWAX
26:54, 25287, S
09 Aug 1978
13-20
#240
TS235
  • Bartók/The Miraculous Mandarin, Mussorgsky/Night on Bald
    Mountain, Rimsky-Korsakov/Russian Easter Festival Overture,
    Ruth Etting/Button Up Your Overcoat
  • Names of People or of Things: Schubart/Schubert, Broadside,
    Leopold Stokowski, Sergei Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto
    dedicated to his psychiatrist
  • Piano Medley
  • Stories about Collecting Gramophone Records
  • Tribute to the Dance: De Falla/The Three-Cornered Hat, The
    Hop Scotch Polka, The Locomotion, The Slue Foot
  • Answer in the words of a song: The Bay of Biscay, The trees
    don’t hear me, Love’s Tender Words, Too Long in One Place
  • Final Songs: Silent Worship, Our Lodger, Scatterbrain, A
    Beautiful Day
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
KWAX
27:01, 25393, S
16 Aug 1978
13-21
#241
TS236
  • 20th Century Orchestral Music: Ottorino Respighi/Pines of
    Rome, Arthur Bliss/The Shape of Things to Come, Jaromir
    Weinberger/Schwanda the Bagpiper Polka, Ravel/Bolero
  • Miscellaneous Musical Questions: Stravinsky/Petrushka/Drop
    the tambourine, Ridotto:18th Century Musical Evening,
    Wagner/Tristan und Isolde, Stride Piano
  • Piano Medley themed on O-K-L-A-H-O-M-A
  • What is it from? Ocean, Thou Mighty Monster/Weber/
    Oberon; Many a New Day/Oklahoma!; Glou! glou! glou!/
    Offenbach/Tales of Hoffmann, Happy Days Are Here
    Again/Chasing Rainbows
  • Movie studio themes: Warner Brothers, MGM, 20th
    Century-Fox, Universal Pictures
  • Horn Playing
  • Final Songs: Prickly Bush; Pretty Baby; Whistling in the
    Dark; Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
KOUW2
26:57, 25329, S
23 Aug 1978
13-22
#242
TS237
  • Identifying International Music: Turkey, Java, India, Mexico
  • Song Lyrics: I Dreamt I Dwelt in Marble Halls, Let’s Put Out
    the Lights …, London Pride, Limehouse Kid
  • Sons and Daughters: John, son of Walter Huston; George,
    son of George Formby; Patricia, daughter of Marie Burke;
    Juliet, daughter of John Mills
  • Reading Phoenix Choir: Ernest John Moeran, John Gardner/
    William Blake, Gustav Holst, Spiritual
  • What Should This Be Called? Weber/The Ruler of the Spirits
  • Final Songs: The Foggy, Foggy Dew; Waiting at the Church;
    I Raised My Hat; The Garden Where the Praties Grow
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
KWAX
27:13, 25585, S
30 Aug 1978
13-23
#243
TS238
  • Darius Milhaud/The Creation of the World, Michael Bentine,
    Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire, Cole Porter/See America First
  • Musical Quotations: Jacques Ibert/Ports of Call, The
    Ogopogo, Verdi/I Lombardi, High Noon
  • Organs: Little Organ of St Andrew by the Wardrobe, Max
    Reger, Kinds of Organs/Choir/Great/Swell/Solo, Stops on the Organ
  • Film Stars: Pola Negri, Walter Pidgeon, Ben Lyon and Bebe Daniels,
    Adolphe Menjou
  • Miscellaneous Questions: W. F. E. Bach/Piano Trio, Richard
    Rodgers/My Heart Stood Still, Swans/Lohengrin and Parsifal,
    Ira Gershwin
  • Final Songs: Walton/Façade Polka, Yip-i-addy-i-ay, Would You
    Like to Take a Walk, Somewhere a Voice Is Calling
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
KOUW2
26:58, 25344, S
06 Sep 1978
13-24
#244
TS239
  • Vivaldi/Winter from the Four Seasons recorded in Japan, Bing
    Crosby/Lullaby, Sir Geraint Evans/Lord God of Abraham,
    Demis Roussos
  • Opera plots
  • Piano medley
  • Musical improvisations based on “There Were Three Ravens”
  • Fodens Motor Works Brass Band: Formation, Triple Tonguing,
    March of the Bowmen/Robin Hood Suite, Thunderbirds
  • Final Songs: Massenet/Élégie, Darling je vous aime beaucoup,
    Rock and Roll, Carousel
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
KWAX
27:03, 25433, S
13 Sep 1978
13-25
#245
TS240
  • Bach/Badinerie BWV1067, Meaning of BWV, Ian Wallace
    Singing Gilbert & Sullivan, Wurlitzer Cinema Organ
  • What Have They in Common?: Britten/Opera Characters,
    Rimsky-Korsakov Operas, First Operas, Vernon Duke’s Music
  • Familiar Music: Braga/La Serenata, Armstrong-Gibbs/Dusk,
    King/Song of Paradise, Czibulka/Stephanie Gavotte
  • Identifications from Record Excerpts: Teresa Berganza, The
    Beatles, Harry Secombe, Fred Astaire
  • Musical Dates: Caruso 1903, Andrews Sisters 1937, Ernest
    Lough 1927, Elvis Presley 1955
  • Final Songs: This Is My Lovely Day, The Stately Homes of
    England, Butterflies in the Rain, In an English Garden
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
KWAX
27:00, 25380, S
20 Sep 1978
13-26
#246
TS241
144270
  • Vulgaris, Keats/La Belle Dame sans merci
  • Miscellaneous Questions: Oboe d’amore, Haydn/Military
    Symphony, Boult’s Second Violins, Messager/The Two Pigeons
  • Questions about Frank Sinatra: Witchcraft, Billy Sunday,
    Rubber Tree Plant, Sammy Kahn (lyric writer)
  • Words for Beethoven’s String Quartet No. 16, op. 135
    (Beethoven’s were “Muß es sein? Es muß sein!)
  • Good Names for Bands or Groups
  • Final Songs: Bushes and Briars, She's Funny That Way, Love
    Is Just around the Corner, Wanting You
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
KOUW2
26:59, 25356, S
27 Dec 1978
Recorded
14 Jul 1978
14-1
#247
TS242
Recorded before an invited audience at the Cheltenham
International Festival of Music
  • Music and Painting: Respighi/Prelude to The Birds, Primavera
    (Spring), Adoration of the Magi, Birth of Venus (all by Botticelli)
  • Miscellaneous questions: Scordatura, Celtic Fringe, Busoni/The
    Soul of the Piano, Those who laugh, are glad and are terrible/The
    Immortal Hour
  • Choir music: A King to His Resting Is Come, Uist Tramping Song,
    Kerry/Sally, National Anthem of the Isle of Man
  • Piano Medley
  • Operatic questions: Puccini/Il tabarro; What is under the
    cloak?; Britten/Turn of the Screw, op. 54; Film: The Innocents
  • Final Songs: Sally in Our Alley; Oh, It’s a Lovely War; Dreaming;
    Going Home

Held in Archives

Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
KOUW2
27:00, 25383, S
03 Jan 1979
Recorded
14 Jul 1978
14-2
#248
TS243
Recorded before an invited audience at the Cheltenham
International Festival of Music
  • March Music: Gounod/Funeral March of a Marionette, Marching
    through Georgia, Wagner/Wedding March, Ricketts/Colonel Bogey
  • Opera Identifications: Gluck/Armide, Gilbert & Sullivan/Iolanthe,
    Donizetti/L'elisir d'amore, Rossini/William Tell
  • Three Choirs Festival: Elgar/Symphony No. 2, Founded in 1715-
    1724, Arrangements of Kipling, Handel/Love in Bath, On the
    Road to Mandalay
  • Questions in Music: Schumann/Warum? (aka Pourquoi?), What’s
    the Use of Wondering? Oh, Who Will All the Downs So Free?
    Aren’t You Glad You’re You?
  • Music first performed at the Cheltenham International Festival
    of Music: Made up titles
  • Final Songs: None but the Lonely Heart, Transatlantic Lullaby,
    I Taught Her How to Play, My Love She’s But a Lassie Yet

Held in Archives

Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
TS Disc
27:06, 25405, S
10 Jan 1979
Recorded
12 Dec 1978
14-3
#249
TS244

Commonwealth Institute, London
  • Marches and Waltzes: Berlioz/March from Symphonie
    fantastique, op. 14; Tchaikovsky/Symphony No. 6; Berlioz/
    Waltz from Symphonie fantastique; Rodgers/March of the
    Siamese Children (from The King and I)
  • Facts about Broadway: Composer Kurt Weill, Lyric Writer
    Larry Hart, Number of theatres on Broadway = 0, Rodgers
    and Hart/Jumbo
  • Beginnings and endings: Debussy/Pelléas et Mélisande, The
    Beatles/Sergeant Pepper, Schubert/Lilac Time, Singing in the Rain
  • Piano medley
  • First and last lines: Mendelssohn/Elijah, Lady Be Good, Promise
    Me You’ll Sing Mud!, A Foggy Day in London Town
  • Final Songs: The Oak and the Ash, I Was Never Kissed Before,
    A Little Cozy Corner, Ol’ Man River

Held in Archives

Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
KUOW2
26:59, 25365, S
17 Jan 1979
Recorded
12 Dec 1978
14-4
#250
TS245
Commonwealth Institute, London
  • Variations: Delius/Brigg Fair - An English Rhapsody, Lloyd
    Webber/Paganini, Rachmaninov/Paganini, Dankworth/Three
    Blind Mice
  • The name’s the same: Rousseau, Brown, Bellini, Loewe
  • Unusual songs: Mock Mozart/The Magic Trombone, Kenneth
    Williams, Morecambe and Wise, Wisdom and Grenfell
  • Middle Bits: Puccini/Tosca, Anderson/Plink Plank Plunk,
    Leoncavallo/Vesti la giubba, Canadian Capers
  • Made up titles for sound effects music
  • Good plays made into good operas: Pizzetti/Murder in the
    Cathedral (T.S. Eliot), Oscar Straus/Chocolate Soldier (Bernard
    Shaw/Arms and the Man)
  • Final Songs: Rigoletto/Quartet, I Don’t Care, Maggie, The Very
    Thought of You

Held in Archives

Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
KWAX
27:10, 25528, S
24 Jan 1979
Recorded
18 Jan 1979
14-5
#251
TS246
  • Beginnings and endings: Beethoven Symphony No. 3, in
    E♭ major, op. 55 ("Eroica"); Pink Panther Theme; Gilbert &
    Sullivan/Trial by Jury; Mame
  • Miscellaneous Questions: Concert organized by Hector Berlioz,
    Lavatory in a Stately Home, Nina from Argentina, First Symphonies
  • Piano Medley
  • Bird Songs: Chaffinch, Cormorant, Robin, Magpie
  • Words of Popular Songs: Greensleeves, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes,
    My Funny Valentine, Old-Fashioned Girl
  • Final Songs: An Alluring Eye, Would You?, I Don’t Care a Lot for
    a Lot of It, No Rose in All the World

Held in Archives

Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
KOUW2
26:59, 25366, S
31 Jan 1979
Recorded
18 Jan 1979
14-6
#252
TS247
  • Intruders - Odd Men Out: Anton Bruckner/Symphony No. 4, in
    E♭ major, WAB 104 ("Romantic"); Brass Band names; Made up
    Opera; Made up Musical Group/Manchester Philharmonic
  • Opera Questions: Menotti/The Consul, Puccini/Madama Butterfly,
    Wagner/Parsifal, Wagner/Tristan und Isolde
  • Musical Instruments A-Z
  • Piano Music: Variations on a Nursery Theme, Pentatonic Tune,
    Arrangements of Chopsticks, Music With Crossed Hands
  • Mozart Operas: Osmin and Pedrillo, Origin of overture, Figaro,
    Cherubino
  • Final Songs: Flow Gently, Sweet Afton; Everything Stops for
    Tea; On the Good Ship Yacki Hicki Doo-La; Married to a Mermaid

Held in Archives

Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
KOUW2
27:02, 25401, S
07 Feb 1979
Recorded
25 Jan 1979
14-7
#253
TS248
  • Loud Music: Verdi/Grand March from Aida, Stravinsky/Rite of
    Spring, Debussy/La Mer, Kenton/The Peanut Vendor
  • Questions and Stories about Sir Thomas Beecham: Opinion of
    Sargent, View of Mozart, Beecham’s first action on stage/
    bowing to the audience
  • Piano Medley
  • Tchaikovsky/”Manfred” Symphony, in B minor, op. 58, Russ
    Conway piano music, Rachmaninov/Vocalise, Carmichael/Stardust
  • Final Songs: Siegmund’s Spring Song, Spread a Little Happiness,
    The Liar Song, The Rhinoceros

Held in Archives

Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Took
Race/Race
Shryane
KOUW2
27:00, 25372, S
14 Feb 1979
Recorded
25 Jan 1979
14-8
#254
TS249
  • The King’s Singers, Duke Ellington’s Band, The Holy City, Joe Venuti
  • How many performers are involved? 40 Part Motet, 7 Brothers,
    Sextet from Lucia di Lammermoor, Quartet
  • The Most Beautiful Sound in All Music: Silence at the end of a
    work, The Wedding March, La Bohème, Purcell/What Shall I Do?,
    Allegri/Miserere sung by Roy Goodman
  • Piano Introductions: Leonore Overture No. 1, in C major, op. 138;
    Bill from Show Boat; The Wedding March; Cherokee
  • Musicals: My Fair Lady, Guys and Dolls, Kiss Me Kate, On a Clear
    Day You Can See Forever
  • Final Songs: Im wunderschönen Monat Mai (Dichterliebe, op. 48,
    No. 1), We Said We’d Never Look Back, Grace Darling,
    Lewis Bridal Song
Held in Archives
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Took
Race/Race
Shryane
KOUW2
26:59, 25361, S
21 Feb 1979
Recorded
01 Feb 1979
14-9
#255
TS250
  • Berg/Lyric Suite for String Quartet, Oscar Peterson, Steve Race,
    Don McLean
  • Musical and Literary History: Emily Brontë/Gimmerton Band, The
    Russians Shall Not Have Constantinople, Arne/Love in a Village,
    Samuel Pepys
  • Novelty Piano Solos: Joplin/The Entertainer, Wedding of the
    Painted Doll, Marigold, Flapperette
  • Musical Numbers Medley
  • Finishing a Children’s Song
  • Last Lines from Operas: I Pagliacci, Susannah’s Secret, Louise,
    Girl of the Golden West
  • Final Songs: Aria from Don Pasquale, Sweet Sixteen, Ain’t It
    Nice, The Sweetest Sound
Held in Archives
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
KWAX
27:22, 25725, S
28 Feb 1979
Recorded
01 Feb 1979
14-10
#256
TS251
  • Nicolai Gedda, J. C. Higginbotham and his Six Hicks, Rossini/
    Overture to Semiramide, Close Encounters of the Third Kind
  • Nursery Rhymes: Little Nut Tree, She shall have music where
    ever she goes, Jack fell down and broke his crown, Little gun
  • Middle Bits: Donkey Serenade, Flamingo, Deep in My Heart,
    I’ll Take Romance
  • Characters in Gilbert & Sullivan Operettas, Sir Joseph Porter,
    Nanki-Poo, Duke of Plaza Toro, Major-General Stanley
  • Musical Duos: Ethel Bartlett and Rae Robertson, Patience and
    Prudence, Mozart and Salieri, Phil Ohman and Victor Arden
  • Final Songs: Flight of the Earl, The Bird on Nelly’s Hat, Have
    You Ever Been Lonely, I Passed By Your Window
Held in Archives
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
KWAX
27:15, 25612, S
07 Mar 1979
Recorded
08 Feb 1979
14-11
#257
TS252
From the Commonwealth Institute, London
  • Music Performed by a Famous British Musician -- Julian Bream:
    Paganini/Sonata in A, Kemp’s Jig, Mendelssohn, Bachelor’s Delight
  • Distinctive Music: Also sprach Zarathustra - op. 30 recorded in
    USA, Jonathan Edwards/Piano, Paul Robeson parody
    written by Ian Wallace, Salad Days
  • Piano Medley
  • Music and Painting: Plaisir d’amour arranged by Berlioz, 15th
    Century instruments, Satie/Gymnopédie No. 1, Marriage
  • Final Songs: Shepherd’s Farewell, Operatic Weather Forecast,
    Jealous, Deep River
Held in Archives
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
KOUW2
27:00, 25372, S
14 Mar 1979
Recorded
08 Feb 1979
14-12
#258
TS253
  • Bach/Anna Magdalena (pop version), Cilla Black, Haydn/The
    Creation, Toy Symphony
  • Musical Technicalities: kit, riff, hair pin, al coda
  • Identification of singers at Henry Wood Jubilee Concert in 1938
  • Inappropriate Music for Romancing: Wagner/The Ring; Oh No
    John; Tell Me the Old, Old Story; National Anthem
  • Middle Bits: Calling All Workers, Hallelujah, Come to the Ball,
    Holiday for Strings
  • Miscellaneous Questions: De Falla/Master Peter's Puppet Show,
    Discovery of Uranus, Slava/Rostropovich, 1978 Eurovision Song
    Contest
  • Final Songs: Come Beloved; All Down Piccadilly; Ooh la la, oui,
    oui; Oi Marie
Held in Archives
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
KWAX
27:04, 25435, S
21 Mar 1979
Recorded
15 Feb 1979
14-13
#259
TS254
  • Beethoven/Piano Sonata No. 23, in F minor, op. 57
    (“Appassionata”); Caruso/Over There; Smetana/Má vlast;
    Neil Diamond
  • Miscellaneous Questions: Malcolm Williamson, George Crabbe,
    Clavier and Dulcimer, Silence while playing
  • Rag Music: Benjamin/Matty Rag, Bugle Call Rag, The King’s
    Singers, Gershwin
  • Signature Tunes for Lawyers:
  • Songs Played on Ambulance Sirens: Mozart/Symphony No. 39;
    Onward, Christian Soldiers; The Lost Chord; Yes, Sir, That’s
    My Baby
  • Final Songs: I Give My Heart, Who Were You with Last
    Night?, The Prune Song, The
    Coat Song
Held in Archives
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
TS Disc
27:03, 25348, S
28 Mar 1979
Recorded
15 Feb 1979
14-14
#260
TS255
  • Richard Strauss/Der Rosenkavalier, Dame Clara Butt, Maids of
    Cadiz, Every Good Boy Deserves Favor
  • Unmistakable Singers: Ian Wallace, Judy Garland, Louis
    Armstrong, Billie Holiday
  • Songs About Girls: La Fille mal gardée, My Little Girl, Maids of
    Cadiz, Gather Lip Rouge While You May
  • Composers and their works: “Op. 100 Works”; Samuel Taylor
    Coleridge and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor; Ivor Novello; Jesus
    Christ, Superstar
  • Mood Music: Ode to Spode, Table for One, Coconut Girl,
    Alone in a Crowd
  • Words of Songs: Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind; Say It Isn’t
    So; Tell Me Tonight; Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries
  • Final Songs: Sprig of Thyme, She’s My Lovely, S’art Noon,
    September Song

Held in Archives

Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
TS Disc
27:04, 25368, S
04 Apr 1979
Recorded
22 Feb 1979
14-15
#261
TS256
  • Beginnings and Endings: Beethoven/Piano Concertos, Mozart/
    Symphony No. 40, Tchaikovsky/Symphony No. 6, Tenement
    Symphony
  • Spotting Through an LP: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Cleo Laine,
    Frederick Harvey, Denis Norden
  • Miscellaneous Questions: Grondahl Concerto, Fermata, Words
    for Haydn/The Creation/Milton and Genesis, Song Recorded
    by Sarah Churchill
  • Railroad Songs: Santa Fe Time Table, The Atchison, Topeka,
    and the Santa Fe/The Harvey Girls, Kansas City Here I Come,
    Mercer and Warren
  • Collective Nouns: A Twang of Hawaiian Guitars, A Quiver of
    Virginals, Cadenza of Countertenors, Scrap Yard of Moog
    Synthesizers
  • Clothing Questions: Christopher Robin’s Nanny’s Dressing
    Gown, Alice Blue Gown, Tulips and Red Roses, High Starched
    Collar and High Top Shoes
  • Final Songs: Hornpipe from Façade, See Me Dance the Polka,
    Dinner at Eight, Lord of the Dance
Held in Archives
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
KALW
27:12, 25561, S
11 Apr 1979
Recorded
22 Feb 1979
14-16
#262
TS257
  • Meyerbeer/Les Patineurs, Roger Whittaker, Elgar/Starlight
    Express, Walter Donaldson
  • Piano Medley
  • Opera: Flower Duet/Flower Song, Flowers in an English
    Country Garden, The Letter Duet, Birds in and English
    Country Garden
  • Composers used for Popular Song: Tchaikovsky, Made-up
    Song Words
  • Words of Songs: Present Laughter, Veranda, Table d'hôte, TNT
  • Final Songs: Oft in the Stilly Night, Give Me the Moonlight, Give
    Me the Girl, Isabel, When All Night Long a Chap Remains
Held in Archives
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
KALW
27:19, 25673, S
18 Apr 1979
Recorded
15 Mar 1979
14-17
#263
TS258
  • Haydn/Emperor Quartet, op. 76, no. 3, Klenovsky Arrangement
    of Bach, Elgar/Wild Bear/Wand of Youth, Maple Leaf Rag/
    Swingles Version
  • Miscellaneous Questions: Diary reference to Poulenc, Change
    Ringing/Round, Charles Lamb and Wagner comment on vibrato,
    First instance of vibrato
  • Gold Records: Tiger Rag/1930, Sentimental Journey/1945,
    Puppet on a String/1967, My Old Man’s a Dustman/1960
  • Dr Greenhouse ALLT
  • Miscellaneous Questions: Champagne Aria from Don Giovanni,
    Batz Organ, Words of Ave Maria/Walter Scott, Le nozze di Figaro
  • Final Songs: Never Weather-Beaten Sail, I Wanna Go Back to
    the Farm, Thanks for the Buggy Ride, Matelot
Held in Archives
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
KWAX
27:00, 25378, S
25 Apr 1979
Recorded
15 Mar 1979
14-18
#264
TS259
  • Joan Sutherland/Bellini/La sonnambula, My Secret Heart, John
    McCormack, Jack Wild in Oliver
  • “DG”=: Don Gillis, David Garrick x 2, Don Gibson
  • Piano Medley
  • Words from Songs: Jolly Miller of Dee, Sometimes I’m Happy,
    Umbrella Man, With a Little Bit of Luck
  • Opera Questions: Birth dates of Verdi and Wagner, Dido and
    Aeneas, Die Fledermaus, Carmen
  • Musical Dates: First Production of Nabucco 1842, Walton/
    Spitfire Fugue 1942, Ireland’s Overlanders 1947, Vaughan
    Williams/Coastal Command 1942
  • Final Songs: We Are in Love with You; Who Stole My Heart
    Away; I Had You, I Lost You, I Found You; Drink to Me Only
    with Thine Eyes
Held in Archives
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
KWAX
27:21, 25706, S
02 May 1979
Recorded
22 Mar 1979
14-19
#265
TS260
  • Husbands and Wives: Schumann/Frauenliebe und Leben,
    When I Am Married from The Belle of New York, Maid of the
    Mountains, Wives and Lovers/Jack Jones
  • Berlioz comment on Saint-Saëns, Sir Richard Steele’s
    Comment on Italian Singer, Debussy/Scottish March, Tokyo Rose
  • Painting and Music: Connection between Turner and Handel/
    Pastoral Symphony, Vivaldi, Goodbye, Origin of countertenor
  • What the Princess of Cyprus did for only two nights in Vienna
  • Simultaneous singing of Annie Laurie and Swanee River and
    Humoresque
  • Final Songs: Tom Bowling; Aida the Joy of Our Home; Oh,
    Charlie; Bonnie Jean
Held in Archives
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
KWAX
27:17, 25639, S
09 May 1979
Recorded
22 Mar 1979
14-20
#266
TS261
  • Smetana/Overture to The Bartered Bride, John Betjeman, Spike
    Milligan, John Donne
  • Pizzicato Music: Paganini, Strauss, Tchaikovsky, Carousel
  • Piano Medleys
  • Questions about Greatness: Frederick the Great, Great Gate of
    Kiev, Schubert/Great C Major Symphony, Youmans/Great Day
  • Middle Bits: When the Lights Go Up in London, When I’m Cleaning
    Windows, Rhymes, The Sun Has Got His Hat On
  • Final Songs: He’s Gone Away; I Cannot Sing the Old Songs; He
    Was More Like a Friend than a Husband; There’s a Long,
    Long Trail a-Winding
Held in Archives
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
KOUW2
26:59, 25366, S
16 May 1979
Recorded
29 Mar 1979
14-21
#267
TS262
  • Musical Sportsmen: Uffa Fox, Smokin’ [Steve incorrectly says
    Steaming] Joe Frazier, Jack Doyle, Tony Jacklin
  • Opera: Lily Pons, Knot Garden, Linda di Chamounix, Janissary music
  • Middle Bits: As Time Goes By, If I Ruled the World, Her Name Is
    Mary, Imagination
  • Rossini Questions: Overtures: Overtures in Order, Rossini Libretto/
    Beaumarchais, Prayer from Moses in Egypt, Plot of The Thieving Magpie
  • Memorable Moments from Songs: A tree whose hungry mouth is
    prest/Against the sweet earth's flowing breast x 2, Umbrella
    Man’s Tool, I Fondle The Hand at Hand
  • Final Songs: Plaisir d’amour, I Wonder Who’s Kissing Her Now, What
    is the Use of Loving a Girl If the Girl Don’t Love You?, Just a
    Wearyin’ for You
Held in Archives
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
KWAX
27:09, 25517, S
23 May 1979
Recorded
29 Mar 1979
14-22
#268
TS263
  • Beethoven/Symphony No. 7, Allegri/Miserere/Choir of King’s College
    Cambridge, La traviata, André Previn
  • Piano Medley
  • Music to put you to sleep
  • Sea Music: Phantom Vessel, Burl Ives, Stanford’s Songs of the Sea,
    Walt Whitman/Vaughan Williams/A Sea Symphony
  • Final Sings: All the Things You Are, How Ya Gonna Keep ’Em Down
    on the Farm?, You’d Be Surprised, For You Alone
Held in Archives (dated 25 May)
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
KWAX
27:00, 25372, S
30 May 1979
Recorded
05 Apr 1979
14-23
#269
TS264
  • Bach/Brandenberg Concerto No. 3, Queen of Bohemia’s Dumpe,
    Franck/Panis Angelicus, Star Wars Theme
  • Miscellaneous Musical Questions: The Lady and the Fool, Sydney
    Smith on oratorios, Unfinished Operas, Music on a Nail Violin
  • Middle Bits: The Rain In Spain, I Cover the Waterfront, By the
    Sleepy Lagoon, I Took My Heart to a Party
  • Elemental Questions: Music for Earth Air Fire and Water, The Four
    Elemental Spirits, Date Birth order for Mahler, Debussy, Ravel
    and Warlock, Magic Fire Music
  • Final Sings: Flowers of the Forest, Got a Date with an Angel, Every
    Saturday Night, Friend o’ Mine
Held in Archives
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
KWAX
27:12, 25569, S
06 Jun 1979
Recorded
05 Apr 1979
14-24
#270
TS265
  • Liszt/Liebesträume for Piano, S541: No. 3, O Lieb, so lang, Kathleen
    Ferrier/O Waly, Waly Elgar/Introduction and Allegro, Joan Armatrading
  • Miscellaneous Musical Questions: Giuseppe Tartini, Catherine Parr’s
    Consort of Viols, Wagner’s Early Operas, Cobbler Poet
  • Piano Medley
  • Musical Connections: Steinberg’s teacher and son-in-law, Why and
    wherefore, Suk and Dvořák, The Yellow Brick Road and
    The Wizard of Oz
  • Final Songs: I Loved You Once, I Want a Girl, Goodbye Sally,
    Dusty Shoes
Held in Archives
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
KWAX
27:01, 25387, S
13 Jun 1979
Recorded
12 Apr 1979
14-25
#271
TS266
  • Berlioz/The Damnation of Faust, Orpheus Male Choir of Rhos/Invictus
    – W. E. Henley, Moira Anderson/My Ain Hoose, Me and Jane in a Plane
  • Hoboken/Haydn Thematic Catalogue, The Spirit and Personification of
    Youth/Deanna Durbin, Farley and Riley/Notes on a B♭ trumpet/The
    Music Goes Round and Round, Julie Stein
  • Middle Bits: Ravel/La Valse, Gershwin/I’m Bidin’ My Time, Love Is
    Where You Find It, Never in a Million Years
  • Bruckner romantic piece, Bruckner’s baggy trousers, Bruckner/
    Symphony No. 7/Wagner tubas, Johann Strauss II/birth and death
  • Final Songs: When You and I Were Young Maggie, You Made Me
    Love You, I'm Tickled to Death I'm Single, A Paradise for Two
Held in Archives
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
TS Disc
27:07, 25417, S
20 Jun 1979
Recorded
12 Apr 1979
14-26
#272
TS267
  • Tchaikovsky/November from The Seasons, Shostakovich/Overture
    Christopher Columbus, Sherrill Milnes, Identifying musical instruments:
    drums, saxophones, trumpets, trombones, electric organ and guitar
  • Piano Medley
  • Musical Autobiography Titles: Berlioz/Memoir, Ellington/Music My
    Mistress, Franklin/Basso Cantante, Ellis/I’m on a Seesaw
  • Miscellaneous Questions: Opera Set in British India/Lakmé, Debussy
    comment on Grieg, Pictures owned by Chabrier and Delius,
    Dowson/Gone with the Wind
  • Final Songs: Three Fishers Went Sailing, Oh What a Beautiful
    Morning, The Wild Wild Women, The Cobbler’s Song
Held in Archives
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
KOUW2
27:00, 25377, S
26 Dec 1979
Recorded
21 Aug 1979
special
#273
TS268
Recorded at the Queen’s Hall in Edinburgh before an invited audience as
part of the 1979 Edinburgh International Festival
  • Mozart/Violin Concerto No. 5, K 219 (the Turkish), Chopin/Waltz
    from Les Sylphides, Flanders & Swann/Guide to Britten, Turgenev/
    On the Eve
  • Ciphering, The Forty-Eight/The Well-Tempered Clavier/Bach, Ivor
    Novello (b. David Ivor Davies) and Edward German Jones, Beyond
    the Fringe
  • Piano Medley
  • Composer that has given the most pleasure
  • Brahms/Symphony No. 4, Brahms/Symphony No. 2, Vaughan
    Williams/Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis, Elgar/The Music
    Makers
  • Final Songs: The Bonnie Earl of Moray, Knocked ’Em in the Old
    Kent Road, My Pal Harry, The Elephant Song
Held in Archives
Designated a special because Archives lists 05 Mar 1980 as E09 with later
episodes listed accordingly
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
-Jaye
KWAX
27:18, 25685, S
02 Jan 1980
Recorded
21 Aug 1979
special
#274
TS269
Recorded at the Queen’s Hall in Edinburgh before an invited audience as
part of the 1979 Edinburgh International Festival
  • Walton/Richard III, James Galway/James Kreisler, Peter Dawson/
    Vaughan Williams, Joplin/Elite Syncopations
  • Miscellaneous Questions: Arthur Somervell, Janáček/Glagolitic
    Mass, We Come to the River, Popularity of Verdi
  • Questions about Gershwin: Sir Adrian Boult Conducting Gershwin;
    Oh, Lady Be Good; Ethel Merman; How Long Has This Been
    Going On?
  • Miscellaneous questions Pentatonic Scale
    Identification, Smollett/The Expedition of Humphry Clinker, The
    three highest mountain peaks in Scotland, Jack Buchanan
  • Final Songs: Tango from Child of Our Times, If Those Lips Could
    Only Speak, Looking at the World through Rose
    Coloured Glasses, O Gin I Were a Baron's Heir
Held in Archives
Designated a special because Archives lists 05 Mar 1980
as E09 with later episodes listed accordingly
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
-Jaye
KWAX
27:15, 25612, S
09 Jan 1980
Recorded
06 Dec 1979
15-1
#275
TS270
From the Commonwealth Institute, London
  • Beethoven/Grosse Fuge for String Quartet, in B♭ major, op. 133,
    Camelot, Beethoven/Violin Concerto, Best Foot Forward
  • French Music: Death of Louis Durey, Stravinsky’s comment on
    Hollywood, Members of Les Six, Theme from Moulin Rouge
  • Piano Medley
  • Bach/Ich habe genug, BWV82, The Oboe, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau,
    Violin/Viola/Basses
  • Final Songs: The Flower Song from Carmen, Peg o' My Heart, Six
    Lessons from Madame Lazonga, Pretty Polly Perkins of Paddington
    Green
Held in Archives
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
-Jaye
KWAX
27:00, 25739, S
16 Jan 1980
Recorded
06 Dec 1979
15-2
#276
TS271
From the Commonwealth Institute, London
  • Rimsky-Korsakov/Golden Cockerel: Suite, Tea for Two, Puccini/
    La Bohème, Mimi’s Hand
  • Popular and Traditional Songs: Streets of Cairo etc., Sons of Toil
    and Danger, Song Writer/Fred Weatherly, Waltzing Matilda
  • Middle Bits: Vaughan Williams/Serenade to Music, You are My
    Honeysuckle, They Call Me Mimi, I’m Stepping Out with a Memory
  • Completing Music Hall Songs: A Wee Deoch an Doris; Oh, Oh
    Antonio; I Want to Sing in Opera; A Little of What You Fancy
    Does You Good
  • Ian Wallace’s Song that Broke the Glass
  • Final Songs: Searching for Lambs, I’m Happy When I’m Hiking,
    Paddlin' Madeline Home, Come Let’s Be Merry
Held in Archives
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
-Jaye
KOUW2
26:59, 25367, S
23 Jan 1980
Recorded
10 Jan 1980
15-3
#277
TS272
From the Commonwealth Institute, London
  • Mahler/Symphony No. 6/Third hammer blow, Rossini/William Tell,
    Sibelius/Karelia Suite/Alla marcia, Mahalia Jackson
  • Quotes from songs: Our poor deluded Bach/The Bay of Biscay,
    Knee deep/Tip Toe through the Tulips, If your plea to entry
    fails/The Changing of the Guard, Onehanded catch/Something’s
    Coming.
  • Four songs at once: Swanee River, Annie Laurie, K-K-K-Katy,
    Humoresque
  • Big bands: Count Basie, Artie Shaw, Steve Race, Ziggy Elman
  • Eponyms: Molotov’s uncle/Scriabin, Big Ben, The devil has the
    best tunes/Rev Roland Hill, Wheatstone invented the concertina
  • Final songs: Elgar/Sea Pictures, A Room with a View, Where the
    Blackeyed Susans Grow, My Ain Folk
Held in Archives
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
-Jaye
TS Disc
27:04, 25376, S
30 Jan 1980
Recorded
10 Jan 1980
15-4
#278
TS273
From the Commonwealth Institute, London
  • Walton/Façade, Yma Sumac, Geraint Evans, Magnificent Seven
  • Sex in Music: Purcell/Fairy Queen, Learn toCroon, Trial by Jury, Please
  • What did Schubert do four or five times?
  • Piano Medley
  • Opera Questions: Lorenzo Da Ponte, Bulwer-Lytton, Gilbert &
    Sullivan/The Sorcerer,Bel canto
  • Final Songs: Cuban Love Song, Near You, All I Do Is Dream of You,
    This Nearly Was Mine
Held in Archives
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
-Jaye
KWAX
27:00, 25373, S
06 Feb 1980
Recorded
17 Jan 1980
15-5
#279
TS274
From the Commonwealth Institute, London
  • Gershwin/Stéphane Grappelli and Yehudi Menuhin, Barbra Streisand,
    Flotow/Martha, Connie Boswell
  • Characters from Operas: Berg/Lulu, Humperdinck/Hänsel und Gretel,
    Sullivan/Princess Ida, Saint-Saëns/Samson et Dalila
  • Piano Medley
  • Nominations for the most evocative sound
  • Identification from one chord: Mussorgsky/Pictures at an Exhibition;
    Rule, Britannia; Shine through My Dreams; Frank Sinatra
    (Spring Is Here)
  • Musical Terms: Callando, Sprechgesang, Scotch Snap, Vis-à-Vis
  • Final Songs: How Sweet, Can’t We Talk It Over? Ain’t It Grand to
    be Bloomin’ Well Dead? Can I Forget You?
Held in Archives
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
-Jaye
WHRO
27:00, 25382, S
13 Feb 1980
Recorded
17 Jan 1980
15-6
#280
TS275
From the Commonwealth Institute, London
  • Beethoven/Fidelio, Rubinstein/Melody in F, Schumann/If My Darling,
    Stanley Myers/Cavatina (Theme from The Deer Hunter)
  • General Musical Knowledge: Paradiddle, Wagner Political Comment,
    Vaccai Exercises, Blondell,
  • Five Note Tunes: Beethoven/Symphony No. 9, Grand Old Duke of
    York, Oranges and Lemons, When the Saints Go Marching In
  • Charles Ives, Burl Ives, Bill Ives, I’ve got a feeling
  • Comic Song Album: Dates/1834-41, Characters in Going Out
    a-Shooting, Like a Fine Old English Gentlemen, Wanted a Sweetheart
  • Songs from the Shows or Operas: Where’er You Walk, Long Ago and
    Far Away, Embroidery in Childhood, South America Take It Away
  • Final Songs: I Love You, You Stepped Out of a Dream, Ida, Sylvia
Held in Archives
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
-Jaye
KALW
27:02, 25416, S
20 Feb 1980
Recorded
24 Jan 1980
15-7
#281
TS276
  • Unusual Instruments: Viola Pomposa, Sitar, Pianists (Saint-Saëns/
    Carnival of the Animals), Jawbone
  • Songs About Times: It’s Three o’Clock in the Morning, At Half-Past
    Eleven, One for My Baby, About a Quarter to Nine
  • Miscellaneous Questions: First name of Telemann, Singer at the
     Paradise in 1906, Most successful composer of all time, Film people
    Named Amis, Muir, Norden, and Wallace
  • The Numbers Game
  • The Answer in the Words of a Song: Chestnuts, Yellow Ribbon,
    April in Paris, Poinciana
  • Greatest Musical Compliments Paid to the Panel
  • Final Songs: Silver Threads among the Gold, Peggy O’Neil,
    Whispering, Macushla
Held in Archives
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
-Jaye
WHRO
27:00, 25374, S
27 Feb 1980
Recorded
24 Jan 1980
15-8
#282
TS277
From the Commonwealth Institute, London
  • Britten/Suite for Harp, Hymn to St Cecilia recorded at King’s
    College Chapel, Borodin/String Quartet, Stinelli’s Hornchestra
  • Middle bits: Puccini/La Bohème, Let’s Put Out the Lights and Go
    to Sleep, Two Sleepy People, We Just Couldn’t Say Goodbye
  • Piano Medley
  • Music That Starts with Three Bangs: Piano Duet by Mozart, Any
    song by the Andrews Sisters, The Force of Destiny, Trolley Song
  • Opera Questions: Dr Bartolo, Iolanthe, Call Me Ishmael, Moby
    Dick Names
  • Final Songs: Exerpt from Massenet/Werther; It’s a Great Big
    Shame; When It’s Night Time in Italy, It’s Wednesday over Here;
    The Diver
Held in Archives
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
-Jaye
WHRO
27:00, 25384, S
05 Mar 1980
Recorded
31 Jan 1980
15-9
#283
TS278
From the Commonwealth Institute, London
  • Debussy/Gigue triste, Weber/Invitation to the Dance, Papageno
    and Pamina in The Magic Flute, Villa-Lobos/Harmonica Concerto
    (followed by harmonica question)
  • Names from Song Titles: Wheezy Anna, Fred Fanakapan, Betty
    Garrette, Skin-A-Ma-Link the Sergeant, Jubilation T. Cornpone
  • Memorable Phrases from Songs: Over There, Let There Be Love,
    Strange Music (from Song of Norway), Moonlight in Vermont
  • Piano Medley
  • Music by the Cambridge Buskers: Praetorius/La Bouree
    (questions abour bourrées), Laurel & Hardy, Dinicu/Hora
    Staccato, Cambridge Buskers’ Instruments (accordion and
    flute/piccolo)
  • Verdi’s Greatest Achievement
  • Final Songs: The Power of Love, Our Love Affair, She Pushed
    Me into the Parlor, When a Maiden Takes Your Fancy
Held in Archives (listed as E09)
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
-Jaye
WHRO
27:01, 25385, S
12 Mar 1980
Recorded
31 Jan 1980
15-10
#284
TS279
From the Commonwealth Institute, London
  • Where was Handel Born? How Old Was Mozart? Webster Booth,
    Tom Ewell
  • What is Happening Here? Talking on the telephone, Madness in
    Lucia di Lammermoor, Music stands being struck by bows,
    Making Love
  • What is missing?: Excerpt from Rigoletto, Excerpt from the Trout,
    Another excerpt from Rigoletto, Excerpt from Grieg/Piano Concerto
  • Birth Dates: Frank Martin born 1890, Dean Martin born 1917,
    Richard Rodgers born 1902, Ginger Rogers born 1911
  • Signature Tunes: Hail to the Chief, The Wombles, Ambrose, Alice Faye
  • Final Songs: Only a Rose, Don’t Bring Lulu, Ragtime Cowboy Joe,
    The Rose of Tralee
Held in Archives (listed as E10)
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
-Jaye
WHRO
27:00, 25380, S
19 Mar 1980
Recorded
21 Feb 1980
15-11
#285
TS280
From the Commonwealth Institute, London
  • Prokofiev/Piano Concerto No. 1, in D♭, Elgar/Muir, Handel/Joshua,
    Judy Holliday, Jubal
  • 19th Century Questions: Writers of Home Sweet Home, Sherlock
    Holmes and Sarasate, Queen Victoria’s comment on Mozart,
    Verdi Palindrome
  • Popular Songs about Children: Eddie Cantor, The Brotherhood of
    Man, Dean Martin, Billie Holiday
  • Musical Discoveries: Liadov, Matt Monro, Peggy Wood, Ella Fitzgerald
  • Answers in the Words of A Song: I’ve Got the World on a String, GI
    Jive, Zoom Zoom, On a Clear Day
  • Final Songs: Flow My Tears, A Bird in a Gilded Cage, Turned Up,
    The End of a Perfect Day
Held in Archives
(listed as E11)
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
-Jaye
WHRO
27:00, 25374, S
26 Mar 1980
Recorded
21 Feb 1980
15-12
#286
TS281
From the Commonwealth Institute, London
  • Haydn/Symphonies A and B, Harpsichord, First Performance of the
    1812 Overture, Peter Ripper and the London Saxophone Quartet
  • Final Moments from Opera: Fedora, Merry England, I Puritani,
    Madam Butterfly
  • French Singers: Jean Sablon, Charles Trenet, Charles Aznavour,
    Stan Freberg
  • Signature Tunes for Income Tax Collectors: Everything I have Is
    Yours, All I Want is a Little Bit Off the Top, I’m Putting All Your
    Eggs in My Basket, They’ll Never Believe Me, They Can’t Take
    That Away from Me
  • Piano Medley
  • Words from Songs: Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Piccolo Pete,
    Romance, Small World
  • Final Songs: Excerpt from the Masked Ball, Ma, He’s Making Eyes at
    Me, Heart of My Heart, Get Me to the Church on Time
Held in Archives (listed as E12)
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
-Jaye
WHRO
27:00, 25370, S
02 Apr 1980
Recorded
28 Feb 1980
15-13
#287
TS282
From the Commonwealth Institute, London
  • Berlioz/Harold in Italy, Rossini/Fantastic Toyshop, Funiculi Funicula,
    Les Paul & Mary Ford/John Bonner/multi-tracking
  • Musical Quotations: Brahms, Flute quotation by Aristotle,
    Schumann, Arnold Bennett
  • Instrumental Identifications: Bass Saxophone, Bass Trombone,
    Temple Blocks, Plunger Mutes
  • Musical Terms: schmetternd, epithalamium, slentando, perdendosi
  • Words of Songs: It Ain't Necessarily So, Tippy Tippy Tin, Totem
    Tom-Tom, Mystified by Five
  • Final Songs: Liebestraum, You Were Meant For Me, I Met My Love
    in Avalon, The Nightingale
Held in Archives. Archive description of S15E13 matches TS282
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
-Jaye
TS Disc
27:11, 25488, S
--------------
BBC R4
28:03, 26357, S
[no credits; weak
right channel]
09 Apr 1980
Recorded
28 Feb 1980
15-14
#288
TS283
From the Commonwealth Institute, London
  • Bach/Easter Oratorio BWV249, Violin Techniques, Excerpt from Un
    ballo in maschera, Prokofiev/Romeo and Juliet
  • Musical Quotations: Wagner, Wagner, Steve Race, Wagner
  • Special Days: June 23rd or 24th, February 14th, June 2nd 1953,
    March 19th
  • Film Titles: I Cover the Waterfront, Gone with the Wind, Singin' in
    the Rain, Bonnie and Clyde
  • Organ Stops, Keys and Pistons on an Organ, The Sanctuary of the
    Heart, Monti/Czárdás
  • Final Songs: Whispering Hope, I’ll See You Again, Pardon Me Pretty
    Baby, If the Heart of a Man Is Depressed with Cares
Held in Archives (listed as E14)
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
-Jaye
WHRO
27:00, 25379, S
--------------
BBC R4
28:38, 26903, S
16 Apr 1980
Recorded
06 Mar 1980
15-15
#289
TS284
From the Commonwealth Institute, London
  • Beethoven/Piano Concerto No. 3, op. 37, Rimsky-Korsakov/
    Scheherazade, Variations on Rossini/La Cenerentola, Your Feet's
    Too Big
  • Music on the Stage: Musical Dragons, Kathleen Nesbit, Mrs Cripps
    in HMS Pinafore, Finian’s Rainbow
  • Italian Terms: Alla danza tedesca, Ritardando, Da capo, Glissando
  • Opera Plots: La sonnambula, The Beggar’s Opera, Ivanhoe,
    Samson et Dalila
  • Middle Bits: Chopin/Polonaise in A♭ major, Salut d’amour, Rhapsody
    in Blue, Temptation Rag
  • Final Songs: Serenade from the Fair Maid of Perth, Who’s Taking
    You Home Tonight?, The Cloisters, Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal
Held in Archives
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
-Jaye
WWFM
27:03, 25429, S
23 Apr 1980
Recorded
06 Mar 1980
15-16
#290
TS285
From the Commonwealth Institute, London
  • Enjoyable Books: Berlioz and Benvenuto Cellini, Sir Thomas
    Beecham on von Karajan, Leporello in Don Giovanni, Gershwin Lyrics
  • Nostalgia: Douglas Byng, Billy Bennett, Layton and Johnson, Norah
    Blaney and Gwen Farrar
  • Piano Medley
  • Walter Odington, Song of the Cuckoo/Harpsichord Pedal, Music from
    Henry V (1944) adapted by William Walton, Westminster Chimes
  • The effect of place of birth on your voice
  • Final Songs: Bolero, Oliver Cromwell, Home in Pasadena, Loch Lomond
Held in Archives (listed as E16)
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
-Jaye
WWFM
27:01, 25398, S
30 Apr 1980
Recorded
13 Mar 1980
15-17
#291
TS286
From the Commonwealth Institute, London
  • Monteverdi/Coronation of Poppea, Pelléas et Mélisande, La
    Cenerentola, John Amis in Thames Pageant
  • Musical Technicalities: Musical Themes, Trem., Longest Encore,
    Ostinato
  • Music starting with BDB: St. Louis Blues, Bonnie and Clyde,
    Symphonie, After Tonight
  • Ferocious Music: Messiaen/Quartet for the End of Time,
    Instrumentation/Piano, Clarinet, Violin, Cello, ’Til the End of Time/
    Chopin/Polonaise, in A♭, I Left My Heart in San Francisco
  • Musical People: Sibelius, Samuel Butler, Paganini, Shearer and Gibbons
  • Final Songs: Indian Love Call; I’m Henery the Eighth, I Am; I Live in
    Trafalgar Square; Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
Held in Archives
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
-Jaye
KWAX
27:17, 25650, S
07 May 1980
Recorded
13 Mar 1980
15-18
#292
TS287
From the Commonwealth Institute, London
  • Rubbra/Symphonic Tribute to Vaughan Williams, Kathy Babarian,
    Ian Wallace, Tony Martin
  • Middle Bits: Little Gypsy Sweetheart, Friend o’ Mine, The Dancing
    Lesson, Stars Fell on Alabama
  • Mostly Opera Questions: Granados Benefit Concert, Schubert/The
    Little Mushroom, Glinka, The Archers/First Known American Opera
  • Women’s Voices: Birgit Nilsson, Birgit Nilsson, Hilde Gueden and
    Elisabeth Söderström, The Valkyries
  • Signature Tunes for Greengrocers
  • Final Songs: A Fairy Went a-Marketing, The Flies Crawled Up the
    Window, Lydia the Tattooed Lady, When Dull Care
Held in Archives. Archive description of S15E18 matches TS287
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
-Jaye
KWAX
27:20, 25692, S
14 May 1980
15-19
#293
TS288
  • Holst/Mars from the Planets, I Don’t Want to Set the World on
    Fire, Loudly Awakes My Heart, That’s for Me
  • Musical People and events: Franz Liszt, Jack Hilton, Rawicz and
    Landauer, Over the Rainbow
  • Teachers and Pupils: Franck, d’Indy, Nin, Lecuona
  • Identifications from a few notes: Carmen, Tritsch-Tratsch-Polka,
    Chopin/Polonaise in A Major, An American In Paris
  • This and That: Strauss/Weber, Old King Cole/Mona Lisa, Haydn/
    Symphony No. 100 (“London”), Nan Wynn
  • Final Songs: Merry King, He’d Have to Get Under…, Swinging Down
    the Lane, Linden Lee
Not listed in Archives
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
-Jaye
WHRO
27:00, 25383, S
21 May 1980
Recorded
20 Mar 1980
15-20
#294
TS289
From the Commonwealth Institute, London
  • Millers: Verdi/Luisa Miller, The Arcadians/Gertie Miller, The Miller’s
    Dance from the Three-Cornered Hat, Glenn Miller
  • Words from Songs: Honeysuckle Rose, Chinese Laundry Blues,
    When I Marry Mr Snow, A Journey to a Star
  • Piano Medley
  • Songs from Shakespearian Plays: Taming of the Shrew, Robin in
    The Merry Wives of Windsor, Othello, Twelfth Night
  • Words for the First Four Notes of Beethoven/Fifth Symphony
  • Answers in Hyphenated Names: Ippolitov-Ivanov,
    Hely-Hutchinson, Villa-Lobos, Parr-Davis
  • Final Songs: Ah Moon of My Delight, The Sun Has Got His Hat On,
    Heaven Can Wait, Far Away and o’er the Moor
Held in Archives
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
-Jaye
WHRO
27:00, 25383, S
28 May 1980
15-21
#295
TS290
  • Boccherini/Minuet from the Quintet in C, Handel/Hallelujah Chorus
    played on a Polyphon music-box, Excerpt from La traviata played
    on a Polyphon music-box, Blossom Seeley and Blossom Dearie
  • Musical Technicalities: Bust of Handel, Antiphonal, Action of a
    Piano, Portamento
  • Middle bits: Serenade from the Student Prince, Stout-Hearted Men,
    The Roofs of Paris, Robins and Roses
  • Putting things in Order: Opera Titles, Broadway Productions, Gilbert
    & Sullivan Operettas, Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich
  • Duettists: Ludwig and Schwarzkopf, Ferrier and Baillie, Marietta and
    Vernon Midgley, Steve and Eydie
  • Final Songs: Der Gang zum Liebchen, Says My Heart, I Was a Good
    Little Girl, A Spanish Lady
Held in Archives
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
-Jaye
WHRO
27:00, 25375, S
04 Jun 1980
15-22
#296
TS291
  • Saint- Saëns/Symphony No. 3, Carlo Curley, Elgar/Chanson de
    matin, William Right
  • Musical Quotations: Artur Schnabel, G. K. Chesterton, Sir Thomas
    Beecham, Jerry Goldsmith
  • Piano Medley
  • Male Voice Choirs: David of the White Rock, Sosban Fach, Counting
    the Coats, Grandfather’s Clock
  • Hellish Music
  • Final Songs: The Burning Fiery Furnace, Any Old Iron, East of the
    Sun, Lady Anne Bothwell’s Lullaby
Held in Archives
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
-Jaye
WHRO
27:00, 25383, S
11 Jun 1980
15-23
#297
TS292
  • Verdi/Il forza del destino, Eugene Stratton, George Robey, Someone
    to Watch over Me
  • Miscellaneous Questions: Kurt Atterberg/Symphony No. 6, Mozart
    as Papal Knight, Don Giovanni’s Guests, Saturday Night Fever
  • Piano Medley
  • First Names: Bohuslav Martinů, Zoltán Kodály, Dmitri Shostakovich,
    Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
  • Love Songs: Duet from The Magic Flute, Where Is Love?, Silas
    Born in Devon, What is This Thing Called Love?/Mel Tormé
  • Final Songs: Laude Dominum, Once in a While, He Was More Like
    a Friend than a Husband, Mountains of Mourne
Held in Archives
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
-Jaye
KWAX
27:19, 25677, S
18 Jun 1980
Recorded
03 Apr 1980
15-24
#298
TS293
From the Commonwealth Institute, London
  • Songs by Girl Singers: Jill Gomez (Berlioz/L’Origine de la harpe) –
    how is a harp tuned, Who wrote the first song – Thomas Moore,
    Lizabeth Webb, Julie London (Hushabye Mountain)
  • Various people; Goethe: Schubert/Erlkönig, Liszt/Tasso, Lehár/
    Frederica, Handel and King George II – Royal Fireworks, Borodin,
    Keats writing about Jane Cox
  • Middle Bits; Gold and Silver Waltz, Climb Every Mountain, Foolish
    but It’s Fun, I’ll String Along with You
  • Composers: André Previn/Johnny Mercer, Sandy Wilson, Harry Parr
    Davies, Kander and Ebb
  • Beginnings and Endings: Scapino, Sondheim/Side by Side,
    Rigoletto, A Couple of Song and Dance Men (LP)
  • Final Songs: The Trees They Grow So High, You’re Getting to Be a
    Habit with Me, Sleepy Valley, Lazin’
Held in Archives (listed as E24)
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
-Jaye
TS Disc
27:14, 25594, S
25 Jun 1980
15-25
#299
TS294
Recorded before an invited audience at the annual conference of the
Incorporated Society of Musicians at Peebles Hydro
  • Lalo/Kenneth McKellar, Sir Harry Lauder/Breakfast in Your Bed on
    Sunday Morning, Adele in Die Fledermaus, German
  • This and That: Elgar Howarth and Colliery Band, The Philadelphians,
    Richard Strauss and the human voice, ratio of 9/13 black/white keys
  • Middle Bits: I Dreamt I Dwelt in Marble Halls, Marigold, Excelsior,
    Star Eyes
  • Name the Year: Hindemith/Suite for Piano (1922), October 25th 1415
    (Agincourt), Noël Coward/Pacific 1860 (1946), The 1812 Overture
    (1880)
  • Schubert Songs: Der Strom, The Trout (Die Forelle), Upon the Bridge
    (Auf der Bruck), Serenade
  • Final Songs: Meyerbeer/O Paradise, That Old Feeling, Old Times,
    Titwillow
Held in Archives (listed as E25)
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
-Jaye
WHRO
27:00, 25379, S
02 Jul 1980
Recorded
08 Apr 1980
15-26
#300
TS295

300th
episode
Recorded before an invited audience at the annual conference of the
Incorporated Society of Musicians at Peebles Hydro
  • Alan Rawsthorne/Denis Matthews, Osian Ellis/Sir Peter Pears, Sir
    David Wilcox, Evelyn Barbirolli
  • 1882: not Trial by Jury, Circus Polka, the aims of the ISM, Annie
    Galway
  • Piano Medleys
  • In the Gloaming, Beggar’s Opera, Danny Deever, I Should Care
  • Beginnings and Endings: Haydn/The Creation, Man of La Mancha,
    Belshazzar’s Feast, Casablanca
  • Final Songs: Caldara/Sebben crudele; Goodbye Little Yellow Bird;
    Bye, Bye, Baby; Will Ye No Come Back Again?
300th edition per Radio Times. Held in Archives. Archive
description of S15E26 matches TS295
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
-Jaye
WHRO
27:00, 25370, S
14 Jan 1981
Recorded
08 Dec 1980
16-1
#301
TS296
  • Saint- Saëns/Wedding Cake Waltz (Valse-Caprice), Yvonne Arnaud,
    Children’s Games. Lonesome Little Doll
  • General Knowledge: Ravi Shankar, Birthplace of Mendelssohn, Don
    Giovanni, Titwillow
  • Four Letter Words from Songs: Cool, Love, Home, Soon, Liza, More
  • Music in the Adam Room
  • Voices: Caruso, Melba, Ancona, Caruso in Court
  • Final Songs: Wonderful One, Tambourin, Back in the Old Routine,
    The Orderly Song
Held in Archives
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
-Jaye
WHRO
25:06, 23591, S
21 Jan 1981
Recorded
08 Dec 1980
16-2
#302
TS297
  • Rossini/Le Comte Ory/Ian Wallace, Frederick the Great, Delibes/
    Coppélia, Chopin/Fantaisie-Impromptu
  • Miscellaneous Questions: Conductor Anatole Fistoulari, The
    Hammer Throw, Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Elaine Stritch
  • Music starting with the same four notes: W. F. Bach/Sonata in F,
    Autumn Leaves, Falling in Love Is Wonderful, Friends and Neighbors
  • Song Lyrics: The Wind and the Rain, The Object of My Affection, I’m
    Forever Blowing Bubbles, I Couldn’t Sleep a Wink Last Night
  • Comments about Musicians
  • Words and Lyrics: Arabie, My Heart Stood Still, Woolworths, Real
    Live Gal
  • Final Songs: Auf Wiederseh’n, Excerpt from Fedora, And Her
    Mother Came Too, All The Things You Are
Held in Archives
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
-Jaye
WHRO
25:12, 23690, S
28 Jan 1981
Recorded
05 Jan 1981
16-3
#303
TS298
  • Mátyás Seiber/The Fountains of Rome/Quartetto Lirico, Mozart/Violin
    Concerto No. 7, in D major, Bach/St John Passion, The Sugar Plum
    Fairy
  • General Knowledge: What Have They in Common?/Misnomers,
    Coventry Patmore, Evelyn Waugh, Edward Lear
  • Piano Medley
  • Tuning Notes of the Guitar: EADGBE: Fret and Sar, Pneumonics
  • Pop Groups: John Williams/Sky, Procol Harum, ABBA, The Beach Boys
  • Song Lyrics: Oklahoma!, The Pink Panther, I Lift Up My Finger and Say
    Tweet Tweet, When My Sugar Walks down the Street
  • Final Songs: In a Shady Nook, Fairest Isle, I Don’t Care What You
    Used to Be, In the Bath
Held in Archives
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
-Jaye
WHRO
25:11, 23673, S
04 Feb 1981
Recorded
05 Jan 1981
16-4
#304
TS299
  • Hunting Horns, Ian Wallace and Maggie Fitzgibbon, a shawm, Theme
    from Buona Sera, Mrs Campbell
  • Musical Oddities: Richard Tauber, Straw in the Street, Don Pasquale,
    These Foolish Things
  • Transposed Tunes: Cherry Ripe, That’s My Baby, Ukulele Lady, How
    Ya Gonna Keep ’Em Down on the Farm?, Bonus: The Hippopotamus
    Song
  • Influential Books on Music: The Perfect Conductor, The Oxford
    Companion to Music, The Unashamed Accompanist, The Facts of
    Life in Popular Songs
  • Bird Songs: Snow Goose, Common Eider, Chiffchaff, Nicola
  • Final Songs: Rio Rita, Sylvia, Sarah Sarah, Juanita
Held in Archives
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
-Jaye
25:05, 23582, S
11 Feb 1981
Recorded
12 Jan 1981
16-5
#305
TS300
  • Alan Rawsthorne/Symphony No. 3, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon in
    Some Like It Hot, Charpentier/Louise, The Three Degrees
  • People in Music: Thomas Moore, Hogarth, Robert Burns, Henry VIII
  • Grieg/Ingrid’s Complaint, What is Ingrid’s Complaint?
  • Rubinstein/Romance, Melody in F, What is Rubinstein’s Romance?
  • Piano Medleys
  • What is an Operatic Face?
  • Song Lyrics: Some Enchanted Evening; Bye, Bye, Baby; Salad Days;
    I Guess I’ll Have to Dream
  • Final Songs: Time on My Hands, Chopin/Tristesse, Too Many Rings
    around Rosie, Tonga
Held in Archives
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
-Jaye
25:02, 23535, S
18 Feb 1981
Recorded
12 Jan 1981
16-6
#306
TS301
  • Marlene Dietrich recordings played at a variety of speeds, Dionne
    Warwick
  • Miscellaneous Questions: A Minim, Dick Minim, Semi-Quavers in a
    Minim, What does a minim look like?
  • Old Records: Peter Dawson, 50’s Music, Carl Brisson, Jo Stafford
  • Scale Music: Tchaikovsky/Serenade for Strings, in C major, Blue
    Room, No Business Like Show Business, Anna
  • Musical Periodicals: Morning Papers Waltz, Get Out Your Radio
    Times, Washington Post March, Harpers Bazaar
  • Nonsense Songs: The Old Song, Mairzy Doats,
    Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo
  • Final Songs: Should I Reveal Exactly How I Feel, Golden Slumbers,
    Say It with Music, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
Held in Archives
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
-Jaye
25:09, 23646, S
25 Feb 1981
16-7
#307
TS302
  • Mozart Mute Opera Performance, George II Handel/Zadok the
    Priest, Cavan O’Connor, Dean Martin/April in Paris
  • Remarks about music: Beaumarchais, John Seldon, Cecil Sharpe,
    Leigh Hunt
  • Song identifications: Will You Remember, Underneath the Spreading
    Chestnut Tree, Crest of a Wave, If Love Were All
  • Whistling for occupations: Archers, Teddy Bears, Beekeepers, Girl
    Watcher
  • Film themes: 49th Parallel, Airport, First of the Few, Big Country
  • Lines from songs: Goodbye; Our Love Affair; Highwayman Love;
    Good, Good, Good
  • Final Songs: Maybe It’s Because I’m a Londoner, Lark in the Clear
    Air, You’re the Kind of a Girl Men Forget, Somewhere a Voice Is Calling
Not listed in Archives
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
-Jaye
BBC7
27:28, 25818, S
---------------
TS Disc
25:09, 23589, S
04 Mar 1981
Recorded
19 Jan 1981
16-8
#308
TS303
  • Mozart/Marriage of Figaro/Contra Dances K492 and K609, Romeo and
    Juliet, Der Freischütz, Beautiful Dreamer sung in Afrikaans by Jim
    Reeves
  • Arnold/Beckus the Dandipratt Overture, The Turk, The Gay White
    Coons, Barney Google
  • Tapped Rhythms: Marche Slave, Parade of the Wooden Soldiers,
    March of the Toys, March of the Siamese Children
  • Music and Pictures: Debussy/Printemps - Botticelli/Primavera, Mrs
    Robinson – Gainsborough/Perdita, Hogarth/A Rake’s Progress,
    Arrangement in Grey and Black
  • Music by the ‘Bournemouth Sympathy Orchestra’
  • Final Songs: The Party’s Over, I Hear You Calling Me, Three Meals
    a Day, Shenandoah
Held in Archives
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Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
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WWFM
25:13, 23702, S
11 Mar 1981
Recorded
26 Jan 1981
16-9
#309
TS304
  • Film Music: Addinsell/Warsaw Concerto, Peyton Place, Adventures
    of Robin Hood, Kings Row
  • The National Anthem: Number of Bars, Weber/Jubal Overture,
    Distance from Glasgow to Greenock, PPMPC
  • Five note theme: Beethoven/Symphony No. 5, The Love of Money
    is the Root of All Evil, Amazing Grace, I Should Have Known You
    Years Ago
  • From the Sound of Music: A Red Deer, The Tawny Black Spotted
    African Tigercat
  • Songs for Liberated Women
  • Nicknames: ‘Satchmo’ Armstrong, ‘Bix’ Beiderbecke, ‘Woody’ Herman,
    ‘Bird’ Parker
  • Final Songs: Have You Ever Been Lonely, I Met in the Garden where
    the Praties Grow, Shepherd of the Hills, C’est magnifique
Held in Archives
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Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
-Jaye
WHRO
25:13, 23714, S
18 Mar 1981
Recorded
26 Jan 1981
16-10
#310
TS305
  • Shostakovich/Christopher Columbus, Types of Nymphs, MacCunn/
    The Land of the Mountain and the Flood, Boys of Harrow
  • Film Stars as Composers: Richard Chamberlain as Tchaikovsky in
    The Music Lovers, Wilfrid Lawson as Handel in The Great Mr Handel,
    Robert Morley and Maurice Evans as Gilbert & Sullivan, Robert
    Walker as Jerome Kern in Till the Clouds Roll By
  • Piano Medley
  • Performance Instructions: Andante spianato, Largo, Andante
    cantabile, Cantabile
  • Poetry Reading
  • Final Songs: What A Difference a Day Made, Excerpt from Britten/
    Ceremony of Carols, I’ll Lend You Anything, White Wings
Held in Archives
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
-Jaye
KOUW2
25:02, 23541, S
25 Mar 1981
Recorded
02 Feb 1981
16-11
#311
TS306
  • Rachmaninov/Piano Concerto No. 1, People Who Can’t Read Music,
    Take Five, Someday My Prince Will Come
  • Piano Medley
  • Parenthetic Words from Songs: Take a Pair of Sparkling Eyes,
    Thoroughly Modern Millie, I Got Plenty o’ Nuttin’, Hey There Congress
  • Bird Songs: Quail, Water Rail, Grouse, Cuckoo
  • Music for Pan Pipes: Rodrigo/Concerto de Aranjuez, Sailing, Amazing
    Grace, Theme from Love Story
  • Final Songs: Perhaps Perhaps Perhaps; None but the Lonely Heart; Poor
    Butterfly; George Robey Music Hall Song
Held in Archives
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
-Jaye
KOUW2
25:08, 23629, S
01 Apr 1981
Recorded
02 Feb 1981
16-12
#312
TS307
  • Poulenc/Piano Concerto and Foster/Swanee River, Dorothy Squires,
    Luciano Pavarotti, Gloomy Sunday
  • Menelaus; First, Second, Third, and Fourth Elves; The Egyptian Helen;
    The Omniscient Seashell (all can be found in R. Strauss/The
    Egyptian Helen (Die ägyptische Helena))
  • Musical Dates: 29th February 1792/Birthday of Rossini, 31st December
    1913/Arrest of Louis Armstrong, Pirate’s Apprentice, 30th December
    1879/Premiere of The Pirates of Penzance
  • Musical Identifications: Gold and Silver Waltz, In the Shadows, Nights
    of Gladness, Grasshopper’s Dance
  • Words from Warlike Songs: Lucifer/Pack Up Your Troubles, take the
    shilling/I’ll Make a Man Out of You, Coal fatigue/When the Sergeant
    Major’s on Parade, patriotic pastime/Strike Up the Band (1927)
  • Film Music: An Ideal Husband, Lady Caroline Lamb, Watership
    Down, Frenzy
  • Final Songs: As Time Goes By, Love Will Find a Way, Liza, The
    Young May Moon
Held in Archives
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Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
-Jaye
WHRO
25:06, 23592, S
08 Apr 1981
Recorded
09 Feb 1981
16-13
#313
TS308
  • Elektra in Mozart and Richard Strauss, Fats Waller, Prelude to
    Tannhäuser arranged for the Piano, Ian Wallace
  • Literary and Musical Questions: Quotation from Remembrance of
    Things Past, Franck/Violin and Piano Sonata, Samuel Butler, Handel
  • Piano Medley
  • A-Z of Opera and Musical Characters
  • Beethoven/Piano Sonata No. 32, in C minor, op. 111: The Second
    Subject, The Second Movement in 12/32 time, Dedication to
    Archduke Rudolph, Syncopation
  • Final Songs: A Pocket Full of Dreams, Selection from Bellini, Little
    White Lies, On a Clear Day
Held in Archives
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Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
-Jaye
WHRO
25:10, 23652, S
15 Apr 1981
Recorded
09 Feb 1981
16-14
#314
TS309
  • Moskowsky, Jean-Féry Revel/Chaos (ca. 1736), Offenbach/The
    Drum Major’s Daughter, What does Schallplattenerstaufnahme mean?
  • Bells and Bell Ringing: Rachmaninov, Fabian Stedman, Combinations
    of Six Bells, Judy Collins
  • Rosalie, All Over the Place, Chopin D♭ Nocturne, Romberg, Gershwin
    and Wodehouse
  • Yodeling: Shepherd on the Rock, Origins of Yodeling, The Scottish
    Soldier, Bing Crosby
  • Songs and Their Words: Who will, if requested, sing in a church or
    at a dance? (The King’s Singers), seems the flame in your heart done
    gone out/Is You Is or Is You Ain’t My Baby? I have sixpence; how do
    I propose to allocate them? (I’ve got tuppence to spend/And
    tuppence to lend/And tuppence to send home to my wife), I heard
    somebody whisper/Blue Moon, book ends/I Could Write a Book
  • Final Songs: Dream Lover, The Hunter and His Career, Lily, A Farewell
Held in Archives
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
-Jaye
KOUW2
25:09, 23645, S
22 Apr 1981
Recorded
16 Feb 1981
16-15
#315
TS310
  • Wagner/Siegfried Idyll, Grieg/Piano Concerto, The Amorous Goldfish,
    Walter Donaldson
  • General Knowledge: Dora Labbette, Karl Marx, Letters to Rossini’s
    Mother, Louis Armstrong
  • Songs: The Nightingale and the Rose, Blues in the Night, Down by
    the Station, Lonesome Polecat
  • Sporting Songs: The Cricketers of Hambleldon; Cricket; Fore, Fore,
    Hark the Caddies Roar; Love in Mayfair (1913)
  • Music Starting with the same four notes: Don Pasquale, I Wouldn’t
    Leave My Little Wooded Hut for You, Sweet Genevieve, Ain’t We
    Got Fun
  • Final Songs: Now I Have to Call Him Father; Oh, Wally Wally; My
    Silver Bell; Edelweiss
Held in Archives
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Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
-Jaye
WHRO
25:12, 23684, S
29 Apr 1981
Recorded
16 Feb 1981
16-16
#316
TS311
From the Commonwealth Institute, London
  • Newcastle Folk Dance/Regal and Mandora, Vidor/Toccata, La donna
    è mobile, You Are My Heart’s Delight
  • Answers in the Stars: Barber/Capricorn Concerto, Star Trek Theme,
    Star of the County Down, Julie Andrews
  • General Knowledge: First televised opera/Pickwick, Pepys played by
    Leslie Henson, Pickwick (Musical), Book, Music, and Lyrics
  • Songs and their Words: Biting the blue finger/The Vagabond (R. L.
    Stevenson, arr. Vaughan Williams), No smell of gasoline/Thanks for
    the Buggy Ride, I don’t believe it was his mother/Act I Finale of
    Iolanthe (sung by The Lord Chancellor), don’t let us throw one/Time
    Waits for No-One (Friend/Tobias)
  • Musical Curiosities: Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring; The Cokey Cokey;
    Elizabethan Serenade; Cry
  • Final Songs: Strawberry Fair, The Plowboy, The Barrows in the
    Walworth Road, I Am a Pirate King
Held in Archives
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
-Jaye
KOUW2
25:09, 23643, S
06 May 1981
Recorded
23 Feb 1981
16-17
#317
TS312
From the Commonwealth Institute, London
  • Strauss/Don Juan, William Lauder’s accident, Beggar’s Opera, A Little
    of What You Fancy (sung by Georgia Brown)
  • Piano Medley
  • Miscellaneous Questions: First Henry Wood Prom Concert, People alive
    in 1895, The Paradise Garden, First two million-selling pop record
  • Harmony Musik, Sight Singing, ¾ Chime of Big Ben, A diminished
    interval
  • Lists of One Word Song Titles
  • Final Songs: Let the Great Big World Keep Turning, Humoresque, I'm
    Going Back to Imazaz, Trottin’ to the Fair
Held in Archives
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
-Jaye
KOUW2
25:10, 23658, S
13 May 1981
Recorded
23 Feb 1981
16-18
#318
TS313
  • Beethoven/Piano Sonata No. 29, in B♭major, op. 106
    (“Hammerklavier”), Carnations on the right, Patience, Linda Ronstadt
  • Miscellaneous: plagal cadence, hipsometer, Wagner’s comment about
    Queen Victoria, Pennies in a Stream (free verse)
  • “My Momma Done Told Me”, American Cities (Memphis, Natchez,
    Mobile, St. Joe), 20th Century Blues (Noël Coward), Kenny Baker
  • Musical Families: Sons of Bach, The Strauss family, Sons of Bach
  • Lines from Songs: I’d sooner be in jail/The Garden Where the Praties
    Grow, nurse says I’m not pretty/And I’m seldom very good/If
    No-One Ever Marries Me, Squab pie/Glorious Devon, A perfumed
    “thank you”/Garden in the Rain
  • Final Songs: Look What You’ve Done to Me, The Perfect English Rose,
    What a Perfect Combination, Make Believe

Held in Archives

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Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
-Jaye
WHRO
25:16, 23749, S
20 May 1981
Recorded
02 Mar 1981
16-19
#319
TS314
  • Endings: Federico Moreno Torroba/Diálogos, “Segovia would have
    taken it with the cursor far up the metronome” i. e. at a slower
    tempo; Sammartini /Recorder Concerto/Recorders, Robert Stolz,
    Cleo Lane and James Galway
  • Musical Technicalities: Scordatura, Half Close, Portamento,
    Graingerized
  • Words of Songs: It may be for years, and it may be forever/Steve
    says it is from Alice, Where Art Thou, but we believe that it is
    actually from Kathleen Mavourneen; plink-a de plonk/Barcelona,
    I keep wishing I were somewhere else/It Might As Well Be Spring,
    from out the skies above/Lords of the Air
  • Music and Painting: Music by Sackbuts, Continuo, Offenbach,
    Sir Henry Tate
  • Final Songs: Polly Perkins, Shallow Brown, Three Little Sisters,
    Leezie Lindsay
Held in Archives
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
-Jaye
WWFM
25:18, 23783, S
27 May 1981
Recorded
02 Mar 1981
16-20
#320
TS315
  • Beginnings: Die Meistersinger (1868), Christopher Robin, Falling in
    Love Again, Fats Waller/Your Feet’s Too Big
  • Film stars playing composers: Dirk Bogarde played Liszt in Song
    without End; Cary Grant played Cole Porter in Night and Day;
    What is the link between Rhapsody in Blue and M*A*S*H? Answer:
    Robert Alda played Gershwin in Rhapsody in Blue and his son Alan
    Alda starred in M*A*S*H; Horst Buchholz played Johann Strauss II
    in The Great Waltz
  • Piano Medleys
  • Singing: Pavarotti, Rigoletto-The Hunchback of Notre Dame, La
    Favorita, meaning of tenor
  • One Letter alteration (Doris Godunov), Fido and Aeneas, The Cake’s
    Progress; Salami; Milly Mudd; The Frying Dutchman; Così fan Butte;
    The Tay Symphony; The Barber of Saville; People Will Say We’re in
    Hove; Hark, Hark, the Nark; The Moron Tabernacle Choir;
    Gregorian Chat; Mutter in the Cathedral
  • Final Songs: Little Yellow Bird, Lass with the Delicate Air, I’m Tired
    of Playing Second Fiddle, Where E’er You Walk
Held in Archives
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
-Jaye
WWFM
25:11, 23671, S
03 Jun 1981
Recorded
23 Mar 1981
16-21
#321
TS316
  • Musical Bushes: Geoffrey Bush/Yorick Overture, Down at the Old
    Bull and Bush, Bushes and Briars/Alfred Deller, Kate Bush, Duel in
    the Sun by Nevin Bush
  • Quotes about Music: The Kreutzer Sonata by Tolstoy, The Lost
    Progression by Samuel Butler, John Bunyan, Lord Chesterfield
  • Three Trees in Four Mini Piano Medleys
  • Scales: Bach/Suite for Cello No. 3, Beethoven/Emperor Concerto,
    Tchaikovsky/Pas de deux from The Nutcracker, All of a Sudden My
    Heart Sings
  • The Mighty Handful: (five composers); Denis suggests Verdi (The
    Handful Chorus!), but they are actually: Rimsky-Korsakov,
    Glauzounov, César Cui, Balakirev, and Mussorgsky; Rimsky-Korsakov/
    Flight of the Bumblebee from The Tale of Tsar Saltan
  • Final Songs: Moonlight Becomes You, Willow, Willow, Like the Big
    Pots Do, Come My Own One
Held in Archives
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
-Jaye
TS Disc
25:10, 23601, S
10 Jun 1981
Recorded
23 Mar 1981
16-22
#322
TS317
  • Musical Journeys: Beethoven/The Ruins of Athens, Sweeney Todd,
    A British Tar, Russ Columbo, Siegfried’s Rhine Journey, Erin’s
    Isle, Road to the Isles, Route 66 from Chicago to Los Angeles
  • Piano Medleys
  • Wagner to Mrs Wagner on the Thames steamer
  • Music and literary comments: Berlioz on Beethoven/String Quartet
    No. 14, op. 131, La traviata, Osmin in Die Entführung aus
    dem Serail, Rossini/William Tell Overture
  • Bell-like Noises: Clang, clang, clang (went the trolley)/Trolley Song,
    ting-a-ling-a-lingay/ Ma belle Marguerite, a ting-a-ling/All Alone,
    ting-a-ling-a-ling/The Bells of Hell Go Ting-a-ling-a-ling
  • Final Songs: Tondeleyo, Le Chapelier, Huggin’ and Chalkin’,
    One-Eyed Riley
Held in Archives
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
-Jaye
WWFM
25:11, 23671, S
17 Jun 1981
Recorded
30 Mar 1981
16-23
#323
TS318
  • Trumpets: Tchaikovsky/Symphony No. 5, Tchaikovsky/Capriccio
    Italien, Dvořák/Symphony No. 8, Tommy Dorsey
  • Long words in songs: informally/The Stately Homes of England, the
    thermometer/Too Darn Hot, sparrowhawk/When the Sergeant Major’s
    on Parade, predestination/I’ve Got a Crush on You
  • Piano Medleys
  • Have you ever been moved to tears by music?
  • The letter “K”: Emma Kirkby, Bert Kaempfert, Gene Kelly, Gladys Knight
  • Rootin’ Tootin’ Songs: rootin’ tootin’/Ragtime Cowboy Joe; Toot, toot/
    Toot, Toot, Tootsie! Goodbye; rooty toot toot/Frankie and Johnny;
    rooty tootin’/Great Day
  • Final Songs: Young and Healthy, Gay but Wistful, Dearie, Fishermen
    of England
Held in Archives
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Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
-Jaye
WWFM
25:15, 23739, S
24 Jun 1981
Recorded
30 Mar 1981
16-24
#324
TS319
  • Military Marches: On the Quarterdeck, Belgian Parachutists, Highland
    Hoedown, Sports Report, military vs. brass band
  • Reggae, major canticles, una corda, bacchetta di spugna
  • Tonic Sol Fa: Brahms/Symphony No. 2, Three Little Words, Serenata,
    How Ya Gonna Keep ’Em Down on the Farm
  • Personalized Door Chimes
  • Old Violins: Wieniawski, Vicar of Bray, The Old Refrain, Harold Arlen/
    One for the Road and Come Rain or Come Shine
  • Final Songs: The Boy in the Gallery, Tannhäuser’s Song, Cup of
    Coffee, Where My Caravan Has Rested
Held in Archives
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
-Jaye
US NPR
25:09, 23670, S
01 Jul 1981
Recorded
06 Apr 1981
16-25
#325
TS320
  • Walton/Belshazzar’s Feast, Minor Orders, Yul Brynner/The King and I,
    Couperin/Le Grand
  • Literary Questions: Kundry in Parsifal, Walpole on The Funeral of
    George II, Sir Walter Scott, trombone
  • Piano Medleys
  • My Music panelists in the 19th or 18th Centuries
  • Four Operatic Voices: Maria Callas sings Verdi, Plácido Domingo sings
    Handel, Teresa Berganza sings Gluck, Joan Sutherland sings Mozart
  • Final Songs: If You Could Care for Me, It Was on the Fifth of August,
    I’ve Got a Feeling I’m Falling, I’m Falling in Love with Someone
Held in Archives
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
-Jaye
WWFM
25:12, 23694, S
08 Jul 1981
Recorded
06 Apr 1981
16-26
#326
TS321
  • Vaughan Williams/A Sea Symphony, Britten/Peter Grimes, Delius/Sea
    Drift, Stanford/Drake’s Drum
  • Films about Composers: Beethoven, Berlin, Berlioz, Wagner
  • Music Starting with the same four notes: Habañera from Carmen, You
    Are My Sunshine, Just Like the Ivy, The Breeze and I
  • Signature tunes for Barbers
  • Songs by the King’s Singers: The Last Rose of Summer/Martha,
    Rhythm of Life/Sweet Charity, Robert Burns, Summer Song
  • Words from Songs: I’ll sell my noes (Britten/The Ploughboy), these
    and thoses/Shuffle Off to Buffalo (English lyrics), O baw lily loo
    (Britten/O Can Ye Sew Cushions), lollapaloosa/Thou Swell
  • Final Songs: Lovely Lake in London; Serenade from The Fair Maid
    of Perth; Robinson Crusoe; Drake Is Going West, Lad
Held in Archives At the end Steve Race says “our fray’s over for a spell”,
indicating last in series
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
Race/Race
Shryane
-Jaye
KOUW2
25:07, 23617, S
23 Dec 1981
Recorded
18 Nov 1981
special
#327
TS322
Special Christmas Edition
Amis, Muir,
Wallace, Norden
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Shryane
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