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Phil O'Brien and Simon Morris present an afternoon of alleged music and dubious entertainment. 

Simon Morris and Phil O'Brien

Simon Morris and Phil O'Brien Photo: RNZ

Playlist: "2016, You're Fired"

12:30 - 1 p.m.

12:37
Artist: Beans on Toast
Title: 2016
Composer: Jay McAllister
Album: Spanner in the Works
Label: Xtra Mile

12:42
Artist: Motorhead
Title: Ace of Spades
Composer: Kilmister
Album: Ace of Spades
Label: Bronze

12:47
Artist: Lonnie Mack
Title: Why
Composer: Lonnie Mack
Album: The Wham of That Memphis Man!
Label: Fraternity

12:54
Artist: Zsa Zsa Gabor
Title: Hi-Heel Sneakers
Composer: Tommy Tucker
Album: (N/A - Appearance on Shazam, 1960)
Label: (None)

12:55
Artist: Bobby Vee
Title: Stayin' In
Composer: John D. Loudermilk
Album: The Most of Bobby Vee
Label: EMI

12:58
Artist: Scotty Moore
Title: Have Guitar, Will Travel
Composer: Moore, Black
Album: Various - Loose Ends
Label: Union Pacific
 

1 - 2 p.m.

1:08
Artist: Sia
Title: Alive
Composer: Furler, Adkins, Jesso
Album: This is Acting
Label: Inertia / RCA

1:11
Artist: Daddy Cool
Title: The Boogie Man
Composer: Ross Wilson
Album: The Daddy Cool Collection
Label: Wizard

1:18
Artist: Godley & Creme
Title: H.E.A.V.E.N. / A Little Piece of Heaven
Composer: Godley, Creme
Album: Goodby Blue Sky
Label: Polydor

1:23
Artist: Joe Cocker
Title: With a Little Help from My Friends
Composer: Lennon, McCartney
Album: Joe Cocker - Live at Woodstock
Label: A&M

1:31
Artist: Billy Paul
Title: Only the Strong Survive
Composer: Gamble, Huff, Butler
Album: Only the Strong Survive
Label: Philadelphia International

1:36
Artist: The Beatles
Title: In My Life
Composer: Lennon, McCartney
Album: Revolver
Label: Parlophone

1:44
Artist: Bunny Walters
Title: The Nearest Thing to Heaven
Composer: Sulsh, Leathwood, Macaulay
Album: (Single)
Label: Impact

1:48
Artist: Icehouse
Title: Nothing Too Serious
Composer: Iva Davies
Album: Man of Colours
Label: Chrysalis

1:53
Artist: Georgie Fame and the Last Blue Flames
Title: Mose Knows
Composer: Georgie Fame
Album: Swan Songs
Label: Three Line Whip Ltd.
 

2 - 3 p.m.

2:04
Artist: Asleep at the Wheel ft. Merle Haggard
Title: St. Louis Blues
Composer: W.C. Handy
Album: Ride with Bob
Label: DreamWorks

2:11
Artist: Michael Flanders & Donald Swann
Title: A Song of Patriotic Prejudice
Composer: Flanders, Swann
Album: At the Drop of Another Hat
Label: Parlophone

2:15
Artist: Annie Whittle
Title: When You Walk in the Room
Composer: Jackie De Shannon
Album: Annie
Label: EMI

2:20
Artist: Stan Rogers
Title: The Idiot
Composer: Stan Rogers
Album: Northwest Passage
Label: Fogarty's Cove

2:25
Artist: Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings
Title: Stranger to My Happiness
Composer: Bosco Mann
Album: Give the People What They Want
Label: Daptone

2:30
Artist: Black
Title: Wonderful Life
Composer: Colin Vearncombe
Album: Wonderful Life
Label: A&M

2:37
Artist: Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks
Title: You Gotta Believe
Composer: Dan Hicks
Album: Striking It Rich
Label: Geffen

2:42
Artist: Booker T & The M.G.'s
Title: Green Onions
Composer: Booker T & The M.G.'s
Album: Green Onions
Label: Stax

2:46
Artist: Guy Clark
Title: Some Days You Write the Song
Composer: Clark, Nicholson, Randall
Album: Somedays the Song Writes You
Label: Dualtone

2:51
Artist: Status Quo
Title: Mystery Song
Composer: Parfitt, Young
Album: Blue for You
Label: Vertigo

2:56
Artist: Glenn Frey
Title: The Smuggler's Blues
Composer: Glenn Frey
Album: The Allnighter
Label: MCA


3 p.m. Feature - Jackson Browne Interview

3:27
Artist: Jackson Browne
Title: Looking East
Composer: Jackson Browne
Album: Looking East
Label: Elektra

3:34
Artist: The Lemon Twigs
Title: These Words
Composer: D'Addario, D'Addario
Album: Do Hollywood
Label: 4AD

3:43
Artist: Mose Allison
Title: You Call It Joggin' (But I Call It Runnin' Around)
Composer: Mose Allison
Album: The Mose Allison Anthology
Label: Rhino

3:48
Artist: Angel Olsen
Title: Intern
Composer: Angel Olsen
Album: My Woman
Label: Jagjaguwar

3:52
Artist: The Johnson Brothers
Title: Stomp!
Composer: Rod Temperton, Johnson, Johnson, Johnson
Album: Light Up the Night
Label: A&M

3:56
Artist: The Puppini Sisters
Title: Sisters
Composer: Irving Berlin
Album: Betcha Bottom Dollar
Label: Verve


4 - 5 p.m.

4:04
Artist: Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Title: Hoedown
Composer: Aaron Copland, arr. Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Album: Trilogy
Label: Island

4:11
Artist: Emile Ford & The Checkmates
Title: What do You Want to make Those Eyes at Me For?
Composer: Monaco, McCarthy, Johnson
Album: Hot Diggity - It's the Fabulous 50s
Label: Castle

4:15
Artist: Prince
Title: Around the World in a Day
Composer: Prince Rogers Nelson
Album: Around the World in a Day
Label: Warner Bros.

4:18
Artist: Brave Combo
Title: I Can See for Miles and Miles
Composer: Pete Townshend
Album: Polka's Revenge
Label: DenTone

4:22
Artist: Ralph Stanley
Title: O Death
Composer: Trad.
Album: O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Label: Lost Highway

4:27
Artist: Lonnie Mack
Title: Chicken Pickin'
Composer: Lonnie mack
Album: The Wham of That Memphis Man
Label: Collectables

4:30
Artist: The Hollywood Argyles
Title: Alley-Oop
Composer: Dallas Frazier
Album: Alley-Oop - The Very Best of The Hollywood Argyles
Label: Master Classics

4:33
Artist: The Leningrad Cowboys ft. The Alexandrov Red Army Ensemble
Title: Stairway to Heaven
Composer: Page, Plant
Album: Happy Together
Label: Plutonium

4:43
Artist: Dead or Alive
Title: You Spin Me Round (Like a Record
Composer: Burns, Coy, Hussey, Lever, Percy
Album: Youthquake
Label: Epic

4:47
Artist: Joe Jackson ft. Iggy Pop
Title: It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing Thing)
Composer: Duke Ellington
Album: The Duke
Label: Razor & Tie

4:54
Artist: Tito Puente and His Latin Ensemble
Title: Take Five
Composer: Paul Desmond
Album: Mambo Diable
Label: Concord Jazz Picante