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And no doubt those worthy 'winners' will be heavily featured in all of Radio 2's glorious daytime programmes.
Polite cough, nurse ?
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"The Playlist Committee, made up of producers and chaired by Jeff Smith, Head of Music Radio 2, meet each week to decide which new releases will be added to the station's playlist.
The playlist contains about 30 tracks which are divided into three levels: A list, which receive the most plays, about 20 each week; B list 10 plays and the C list around 5 plays.
The Radio 2 playlist is one of the most varied of any* radio station in the UK and can include albums as well as singles.
Before any CD can be considered for inclusion it must be commercially available** "
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Global,
I've just invested heavily in one the winners for a birthday Gift.
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Originally posted by Paul Sherratt View Post"The Playlist Committee, made up of producers and chaired by Jeff Smith, Head of Music Radio 2, meet each week to decide which new releases will be added to the station's playlist.
The playlist contains about 30 tracks which are divided into three levels: A list, which receive the most plays, about 20 each week; B list 10 plays and the C list around 5 plays.
The Radio 2 playlist is one of the most varied of any* radio station in the UK and can include albums as well as singles.
Before any CD can be considered for inclusion it must be commercially available** "
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PS. indeed, as certain people say 'they just don't get it'. That would have worked really well in ,say, 1967....
It's a grower - but not as good as it should be compared to some of their individual solo work, think it's down to the material as the production is to a good standard.. I have great hopes for the future with Eliza C and Florence C...sometime in the next couple of decades I hope.Global,
I've just invested heavily in one the winners for a birthday Gift.
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Thanks. That's ok if it's a 'grower' as the boss keeps cds in her car for several years at a time - in fact the multiplay wotsit has only been changed once in six years - and that was only because it went faulty in no time at all ( Audi, ha! )
Following your news I've sent a note to Boss Bob Shennan asking if any of the lucky winners will get any daytime, weekday spins
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They'll go straight onto the Z list and never be heard in that place....imagine Chris Evans playing Hollow Point for example. And I suspect the r3 funsters will not pick up the baton either.Originally posted by Paul Sherratt View PostFollowing your news I've sent a note to Boss Bob Shennan asking if any of the lucky winners will get any daytime, weekday spins
What do you think the answer, if any, might be ?
btw, and, as usual this is the wrong thread, I had a tweet from iMaxR on my other bee-in-the-bonnet about 'currency', and he reckons there is something upcoming to address that, but it was all a bit enigmatic. Do you know of any developments in that area? A quick Easyjet flight for Kershaw to Tahrir Square?
Here's a picture from that square taken by someone there in the last couple of days. I want to know what music this man is playing. don't you?
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I had to do a run out to pick up my daughter from her pal's house. As I switched on the radio Chris Wood was introduced and started into Hollow Point - utterly magnificent performance - had a tear in my eye by the time I got to the end of the journey. How fantastic that a song like that gets the award - I thought Chris' address afterwards was also most uplifting. Highlights are on the red button on the telly for the next week or so, apparently.Comment
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By the way, I thought Donovan sounded remarkably Woganish!Comment
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Who is 'Don o'van'? Who is 'Woegan'?Originally posted by johncorrigan View Post
I've seen him perform this live a few times - and never heard a pin drop...winning the prize is almost encouraging, but wouldn't it have been even better if he'd never had to write it in the first place - something nice about fluffy clouds and twittering birds.How fantastic that a song like that gets the award
And here's a subject for Chris's next album
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I like folk. Chris Wood deserved to win. The Fisherman's Friends too - they have got great voices. I didn't realise about Norma - very sad.
I saw Donovan singing with Shaun Ryder in a Glastonbury tent. Surreal. I have never listened to the Chris Evans breakfast programme and never will do. Didn't like Wogan either.Comment
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>>I want to know what music this man is playing
It could be Blow Football ?
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Absolutely right Global; it would have been better, but in truth he recorded a tragic event wonderfully - I imagined Woody Guthrie or Bob or Ewan MacColl taking up a song like that in days gone by - that song will be around for a long time to come. I was reminded of that piece that Max played last week of Alan Ginsburg with Don Was (was it?) 'singing' about Chernobyl and Max suggesting that others didn't seem to have written about it, but Ginsburg did.Originally posted by Globaltruth View PostComment
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Totally agree, and, anyway, on that same album, there are a couple of 'gentler' tracks ('Asparagus'/'my darling's downsized'). Aargh - rips anorak offOriginally posted by johncorrigan View PostComment
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There's a grand Ginsberg sequence in this recent broadcast :
And straying again, but as he's just come on the player - any Jackson C. Frank fans out there in folk land ?
I love him when he turns up unannounced.Comment
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I particularly liked when the said Mr Frank turned up unannounced in my spotty inbox Paul.Originally posted by Paul Sherratt View PostThere's a grand Ginsberg sequence in this recent broadcast :
And straying again, but as he's just come on the player - any Jackson C. Frank fans out there in folk land ?
I love him when he turns up unannounced.
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