Radio Ga Ga is a program which features a different theme each week. Last week we played and discussed the opening track off 22 classic Australian albums. This week we go in search of the novelty track. Yes, those comedic and ‘different’ songs that actually cracked the charts. For those from the 60’s think artists such as Allen Sherman, Rolf
Read moreRadio Ga Ga goes retro Aussie this week as we take a look as well as have a listen to the songs that set the scene for some of the albums that sit comfortably in the top 50 of Australia’s greatest rock/pop albums. The opening track of any album is a key track and so often sets the whole tone
Read moreIn popular music a cover version or cover song, or simply cover, is a new performance or recording of a contemporary or previously recorded, commercially released song or popular song. Aah yes, the next two installments on Radio Ga Ga are going to feature the much maligned, sometimes rightly sometimes wrongly cover version. But its not all bad (or good), think of tunes such as “All along the
Read moreThis weeks Radio Ga Ga takes a different spin as we play the best of the rock/pop instrumentals from 1959 onwards. There will be a few surprises as we hear from ELP, Booker T & The MG’s, Sky, Mason Williams, Love Unlimited Orchestra, Hot Butter, Van Halen, The Ventures, Joe Satriani, The Shadows, Fleetwood Mac, Mike Oldfield and others. Lucy
Read moreA noun is a part of speech typically denoting a person, thing, place or idea. This weeks on Radio Ga Ga we have sought and have found songs with a simple common theme. The names of the songs must be one word and that word must be a noun. Think of songs with titles such as Heaven, Centrefold, Photograph, Legs, Lollipop and Poison and
Read moreIt doesn’t matter if the song came first or the movie came first, they all qualify on Radio Ga Ga this Saturday morning. This weeks edition will be all about songs that had a movie named after them or movies that had the title of the movie immortalised in a song. Think Pretty in Pink, Convoy, Hurricane, The Man On
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