Bands and musicians originating in Wales will be featured tonight.To the left is the flag of Wales.
| We start with some Welsh pop including a double shot of Tom Jones' robust baritone and some James Bond theme songs,a McCartney protege and Andy Fairweather Low's pop band. |
| Goldfinger Shirley Bassey - The Best of Shirley Bassey(1974) |
| Thunderball Tom Jones - A-tom-ic Jones(1966) |
| Detroit City Tom Jones - Green Green Grass of Home(1967) |
| Those Were The Days Mary Hopkin - Those Were The Days(1968) |
| Scream and Scream Again Amen Corner - as Half As Nice and More Hits(2007) |
| Next up:Welshman Pete Ham led the Iveys and the very successful power pop band Badfinger.He also wrote most of their best songs. |
| Matted Spam Pete Ham - 7 Park Avenue(1997) |
| Think About The Good Times The Iveys - Maybe Tomorrow(1969/1992) |
| No Matter What Badfinger - No Dice(1970) |
| Baby Blue Badfinger - The Best of Badfinger(1995) |
| Some of Welsh born musician,singer,songwriter and producer Dave Edmunds' various projects will be featured next. |
| Sabre Dance Love Sculpture - Dave Edmunds & Love Sculpture:The Classic Tracks(1972) |
| In The Land of The Few Love Sculpture - VA:Nuggets 2-The British Empire and Beyond(1993) |
| I Hear You Knockin' Dave Edmunds - Dave Edmunds & Love Sculpture:The Classic tracks(1972) |
| Shot of Rhythm and Blues Dave Edmunds - Subtle As A Flying Mallet(1975) |
| Girls Talk Dave Edmunds - The Best of Dave Edmunds(1981) |
| If Sugar Was As Sweet As You Rockpile - Seconds of Pleasure(1980) |
| Man was an excellent band that featured Welsh born Deke Leonard on guitar. |
| And In The Beginning... Man - Revelation(1969) |
| In Search of Sarah and Twenty Six Horses Deke Leonard - Kamikaze(1975/1995) |
| Taking The Easy Way Out Again Man - Rhinos,Winos and Lunatics(1974) |
| Next up:John Cale worked with The Velvet Underground before going solo with his excellent debut,a haunting track from mysterious Meic Stevens and the psychedelic Elastic Band featuring Andy Scott(Sweet) |
| Mother Goose Elastic Band - Expansions On Life(1969/92) |
| Ghost Story John Cale - Vintage Violence(1970) |
| Ghost Town Meic Stevens - Outlander(1971) |
| We finish off with a couple of Welsh hard rock bands,Budgie have had a very long run. |
| Ride With Captain Max Blonde On Blonde - Contrasts(1969) |
| Rape of The Locks Budgie - Budgie(1971) |
| Breadfan Budgie - Never Turn Your Back On A Friend(1973) |
| Conversationally Making The Grade Blonde on Blonde - Contrasts(1969) |
| Thank you for listening.Next show broadcasts June 12. |
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today's soundtrack will be accompanied by ice and ibuprofen! My knees acting funny, so Im home today to nurse it back to health. will hopefully be back to work tomorrow
11:04 AM, June 6th, 2014