PODCASTS

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The Latest Podcast

Great Big Kiss Podcast #9 - 10/5/12

Listen here - http://www.mixcloud.com/hdif/great-big-kiss-podcast-9/

Still buzzing from seeing the magnificent Dexys show at Shepherd's Bush Empire on Tuesday, we've decided to make this Great Big Kiss podcast a partial Dexys tribute, featuring three songs that the band covered in the 80s. Opener, "Breaking Down The Walls Of Heartache", was covered on the b-side of "Geno"; their version of "The Horse" graced the b-side of "There There My Dear"; and "Seven Days Too Long" was covered on "Searching For The Young Soul Rebels". Elsewhere, there's the usual mixture of northern soul, girl groups and r&b, with a raucous party tune from Link Wray thrown in to stir things up.

The Archive

Great Big Kiss Podcast #1 - 2/9/10

Listen here - http://www.mixcloud.com/hdif/great-big-kiss-podcast-1/

This is an all-music, no-chat mix of the songs that were played between midnight and quarter to one at the club night held on Jan 29th 2010.

(The Dovells/Shirley Ellis/Otis Redding/Nina Simone/Bobby Marchan & The Tick Tocks/Aretha Franklin/Sam Cooke/The Elgins/Johnny Johnson And The Bandwagon/The Breakaways/Jackie Wilson/Clyde McPhatter/The Outsiders/Sugar Pie De Santo/Chris Farlowe/The Supremes/Frank Beverly & The Butlers/Cookie Jackson)

Great Big Kiss Podcast #2 - 31/10/10

Listen here - http://www.mixcloud.com/hdif/great-big-kiss-podcast-2/

This is an all-music, no-chat mix of the songs played during a guest DJ spot at Da Doo Ron Ron in Brighton on Sat Oct 23rd. In keeping with DDRR's music policy, all songs are female-fronted girl group and soul, from the late 50s to early 70s, and played from vinyl only.

(Gladys Knight & The Pips/The Flirtations/The Ikettes/Dusty Springfield/The Supremes/Martha Reeves & The Vandellas/Lulu/Dee Dee Sharp/Shirley Ellis/LaVern Baker/Mamie Galore/The Sweet Things/Ike & Tina Turner/Sugar Pie DeSanto/Felice Taylor/Aretha Franklin/Irma Thomas)

Great Big Kiss Podcast #3 - 5/1/11

Listen here - http://www.mixcloud.com/hdif/great-big-kiss-podcast-3/

This is an all-music, no-chat mix of girl group songs that were included on a CD given away at the How Does It Feel To Be Loved? club night in December 2009.

(Nancy Sinatra/Rita Dacosta/Cindy Scott/The Crystals/Dusty Springfield/Selena Jones/Donna Lynn/The Orlons/Clothilde/Rev-Lons/The Breakaways/The Angels/Aretha Franklin/Chris Clark/The What Four/Dorothy Berry/Adrienne Posta/Little Ann/France Gall/Violet Vector And The Lovely Lovelies/Lavern Baker)

Great Big Kiss Podcast #4 - 6/4/11

Listen here - http://www.mixcloud.com/hdif/great-big-kiss-podcast-4/

Here's an all-music, no-chat mix of some of the songs played at Great Big Kiss over the last six months. Some old favourites, some new friends, all super danceable, plus a fine bit of wisdom at the end from Shirley Ellis.

(Barbara Jean English/Jimmy James & The Vagabonds/Mitty Collier/Stevie Wonder/Maggie Thrett/The Daylighters/Sinner Strong/Garnett Mimms/Mary McCarthy/Howard Tate/Connie Clarke/The Blendells/Lavern Baker/Ray Charles/The Starlets/Lee Charles/Peggy Lee/Darrell Banks/Shirley Ellis)

Great Big Kiss Podcast #5 - 3/6/11

Listen here - http://www.mixcloud.com/hdif/great-big-kiss-podcast-5/

At the start of this week, I won a job lot of fifty northern and 60s soul records on ebay. Some super famous songs, some northern soul classics, some 70s funk cuts, a handful of northern instrumentals and a bunch of songs that I'd been after for ages. This is a collection of 17 of those singles - mostly A-sides, but a few choice B-sides too.

Great Big Kiss Podcast #6 - 6/7/11

Listen here - http://www.mixcloud.com/hdif/great-big-kiss-podcast-6/

We start and end this Great Big Kiss podcast with two songs that share the same backing track. Laura Greene's "Music, Moonlight And You" is probably the better known of the two, but my favourite - mostly for the way the melodramatic spoken intro sets up the song - is Frankie And The Classicals' "What Shall I Do?". Elsewhere, we have my favourite ever northern soul single - "Do It" by Pat Powdrill - and "Luci Baines" by The American Four, who were fronted by a youthful, pre-Love, Arthur Lee (in fact, this song was his debut vocal recording). Plus the usual mix of northern soul, girl groups and rock'n'roll.

Great Big Kiss Podcast #7 - 7/9/11

Listen here - http://www.mixcloud.com/hdif/great-big-kiss-podcast-7/

Another foot-stomping mixture of northern soul and rock'n'roll. Highlights include sublime northern soul from Geno Washington, Joyce Bennett and The Velvet Satins, barn-storming r&b from Etta James, Prentice Moreland and Smiley Lewis, the almost indecently sexy Tame Me Tiger by Violet Vector And The Lovelies, Get Off Of My Cloud in Spanish (!), and the song that closed last month's Great Big Kiss, the glorious Be My Guest by Fats Domino.

Great Big Kiss Podcast #8 - 12/10/11

Listen here - http://www.mixcloud.com/hdif/great-big-kiss-podcast-8/

This month's podcast brings together most of the vinyl bits and pieces that I've picked up from boot fairs, record shops and ebay over the past few months, plus some vinyl treats that were already in my collection. Some have already been aired at Great Big Kiss, some will be played for the first time this Friday. As always, it's a foot-stomping, hip-shaking collection of girl groups, northern soul and rock'n'roll.