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Matinee Idle

with Simon Morris & Phil O'Brien

Wednesday 18 January 2012

12.35pm - 1pm

Title: Roll Away The Stone
Artist: Leon Russell

Title: Earth to Doris
Artist: Was (Not Was)

Title: Honey Don't
Artist: Carl Perkins

Title: Harry Hippy
Artist: Bobby Womack

Title: Ain't Nobody Home
Artist: B.B. King and Daryl Hall

 

1pm - 2pm

Title: Don't Let the Jonses Get You Down
Artist: The Temptations

Title: The One in the Middle
Artist: Manfred Mann

Title: Meet Space Pilot Jones
Artist: Satellite Singers

Title: A Picture of Me Without You
Artist: George Jones

Title: For Your Precious Love
Artist: Linda Jones

Title: Silly Thing
Artist: The Sex Pistols

Title: Doctor Jones
Artist: Aqua

Title: Melting Pot
Artist: Booker T. and the MGs

Title: Basketball Jones
Artist: Cheech and Jones

Title: Casey Jones
Artist: David Lindley and Warren Zevon

Title: This is the Army Mr Jones
Aritst: Irving Berlin

Title: Love is the Drug
Artist: Grace Jones

 

2pm - 3pm

Title: Ghost Riders in the Sky
Artist: The Dixie Chicks

TItle: 21st Century Schizoid Man
Artist: King Crimson

Title: Brain Salad Surgery
Artist: Emerson, Lake and Palmer

Title: The Jones Boy
Artist: The Mills Brothers

Title: Come Up and See Me (Make Me Smile)
Artist: Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel

Title: I Saw Her Standing There
Artist: The Tubes

Title: Right Now and Not Later
Artist: The Shangri-Las

Title: A Message to You, Rudy
Artist: The Specials

Title: I Love You
Artist: People!

Title: Montage
Artist: Team America

 

3pm - 4pm

Feature: Barry Barnes talks to the two remaining active members of Queen: Brian May and Roger Taylor at Trident studios in London, about the ups and downs of their 40 year legacy.

Title: The Blind Boy's Dog
Artist: Hank Snow

Title: Cell-Block Tango
Artist: Cast of Chicago

TItle: Oh Boy
Artist: She & Him

Title: Shadow on the Wall
Artist: Roger Chapman

Title: Never Did No Wandering
Artist: The Might Wind

 

4pm - 5pm

Title: Your Baby Ain't Your Baby Anymore
Artist: Paul DaVinci

Title: Showdon at Big Sky
Artist: Robbie Robertson

Title: Devil's Spoke
Artist: Laura Marling

Title: Tijuana Taxi
Artist: The Westchester Junior High School Concert Band

Title: That's Good
Artist: Devo 

Title: Good Lovin'
Artist: The Olympics

Title: Take TIme to Know Her
Artist: Percy Sledge

Title: Summertime
Artist: Al Jarreau


 

The Team

Presenters:

Production assistant: Rosie Batt

Email: phil@radionz.co.nz

Text: 2101 (texts cost 20c)

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'Matinee Idle is Radio New Zealand's Mufti Day. They let me and Simon "loose in the asylum". We get to be the guys testing the outer limits of listener patience and we benignly abuse this privilege.' says O'Brien. 'They let us play whatever we want! It's every radio presenter's dream.'

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