Marky B

Every day,Monday to Friday,on the Ken Bruce Show on BBC Radio 2,he invites different guests from the music world to select their "Tracks Of My Years". This week it is Andy Fairweather Low from Amen Corner. They are normally songs which have some milestone experience in their lives.
They are normally ten songs (two per day),but on here the length is to your discretion. BTW,it doesn't have to be songs,orchestral music can be too.

You've Lost That Loving Feeling - The Righteous Brothers (my all time favourite single)
Bridge Over Troubled Water - Simon & Garfunkle (sublime song,which is used as words of comfort to someone in need of it - came second to Yesterday,in BBC2 Songs Of The Century - there have been many versions,but none can match the tones of Art Garfunkel)
When I Fall In Love - Nat King Cole (the song which introduced to the greatest singer of the 20th Century)
I Want To Know What Love Is - Foreigner (this came out when I was breaking up with a much missed girlfriend)
Hotel California - Eagles (no reason other than being a classic country rock that eggs on my ambition to drive on country roads in the USA in a pick up truck wearing a cowboy hat)
Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd (a great song about the effects of drug taking,with a magnificent climax by Dave Gilmour on guitar)
The Lark Ascending - Tasmin Little (it was this or the Thomas Tallis theme,Greensleeves,but whatever,a beautiful tune based on a poem by George Meredith:
The Lark Ascending by George Meredith. Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. 1895. A Victorian Anthology, 1837-1895

which has been voted twice to be the favourite classical music for the last two year.. It has also been selected by Damon Albarn when he guested on "Tracks Of My Years"
Ruby - Kaiser Chiefs (a great,raucous song of last year,which with I Predict A Riot,will put the boys on a firm footing for a good future)
Going Back - Dusty Springfield (such gems to choose from,but this a beautiful,reflective song written by Carole King,who had tears when she heard Dusty's version - can understand why)
What A Wonderful World - Louis Armstrong (yes,there was the Alison Moyet version,and as much as I regard Alison as one of our finest singers,she had a job to compete against Louis' seminal version. When life is crap and God is giving you a smacking,put this on and life becomes good).

There are more,but there is a starter from me.
Ta Ta
MArky B

I once shot an elephant in my pyjamas - how he got in my pyjamas,I'll never know

dremble wedge

All good but this is a current favourite of mine, it's never off my phone

Marky B

I think it could be re-released in the charts now and get a decent height!
Ta Ta
Marky B

I once shot an elephant in my pyjamas - how he got in my pyjamas,I'll never know

Briant

It might fly higher than The Byrds version

Marky B

I hope it was a lot better than the dreary version brought out by the Beach Boys - a group I normally like (especially God only Knows )
Ta Ta
Marky B

I once shot an elephant in my pyjamas - how he got in my pyjamas,I'll never know

bhowells

I am familiar with the name of poet George Meredith, Midlands based singer songwrtier Harvey Andrews set one of his poems to music, "Youth In Age."

I come across some anthologies of George Merediths poems in a second hand book shop in Southsea some years ago I should have bought them.

Marky B

Thanks for that!
Ta Ta
Marky B

I once shot an elephant in my pyjamas - how he got in my pyjamas,I'll never know