with Simon Morris & Phil O'Brien
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
Email: phil@radionz.co.nz
Text: 2101 (texts cost 20c)
Facebook: I (heart) Matinee Idle
'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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