Freddie Valentine Show on Scarborough Radio

14/11/2021

14/02/2021

28/08/2020

Album Recommendation:

12/08/2020

Freddie’s Album Recommendations #12.

Blast Off by Usha Uthup

This 1984 album by a Bollywood legend is bonkers - and brilliant!

20/06/2020

Coming up on this Sunday’s show...all these and many more... see you there!

07/06/2020

https://www.facebook.com/263882217058692/posts/2945736718873215/?d=n

Jean, Norris and Edie are ready for Freddie Valentine Show on Scarborough Radio tonight at 6pm.

Are you?

25/05/2020

This Sunday at 6pm on Radio Scarborough enjoy these and many other delights

19/05/2020

In this Sunday’s show... all these and many more!

15/05/2020

https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/review-sparks-album-entertaining-career-highlight-70679410

Sparks, that most European of American bands, have released one of their best albums nearly 50 years after their debut

14/05/2020

https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=share&v=Mh8sTVziNHE

Alan Tew Orchestra and Chorus - Let's Fly. Gorgeous stuff from Our Alan. - uploaded via http://www.mp32u.net/

28/04/2020

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Introduction Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4    

28/04/2020

Freddie’s Album Recommendations #9:

“
Cecil Homes "Black Motion Picture Experience". How appropriate...a blaxploitation exploitation record! Unlike other cover records of the day, this one is way cool- with wicked wah wah, Fender Rhodes and nice selection of tunes ("Shaft" "Superfly" "Freddie's dead" etc.) Tracks are: Super Fly, Shaft, Trouble Man/T Stands For Trouble, Slaughter, Freddie's Dead, Across 110th Street, Love Theme From Lady Sings The Blues, Ben, 2001”

27/04/2020

Freddie’s Album Recommendations #8:

“By this time the band had changed their name to "The Bonzo Dog Band", dropping out the "Doo-Dah". The group's sound had also expanded beyond their music hall and jazz roots, drawing inspiration from the blues and psychedelic rock movements that had grown in popularity at the time. The phrase "the doughnut in granny's greenhouse" is obscure British slang for the lavatory. The band first heard it when Michael Palin told them a joke featuring it.

The chorus of "We Are Normal" features the lyric "We are normal and we want our freedom", a reference to a line from the 1963 play The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade or Marat/Sade a line also quoted in "The Red Telephone", a song by the American band Love from their 1967 album Forever Changes.

The track 11 Moustachioed Daughters is a darkly comic evocation of the traditional Witches' Sabbath and features lyrics referencing the mythical hallucinogenic flying ointment prepared from Atropa belladonna (and other Solanaceous plants). More matter-of-factly, the track is also a heartfelt homage to the original 1963 recording "The Feast Of The Mau-Mau", by one of Vivian Stanshall's favourite musical artists Screamin' Jay Hawkins ("Feast Of The Mau Mau" is a number which Hawkins himself would later re-release in a more widely known 'live' version on his 1969 LP "...What That Is!").

In 2007 the U.K. version of "Doughnut" was re-issued by EMI on CD with 5 bonus rare and/or unreleased tracks.”

25/04/2020

Freddie’s Recommendations #7:

“In 1971, Harvey Lisberg signed Ramases to Vertigo Records, and recorded the album Space Hymns at Strawberry Studios in Stockport, backed by Eric Stewart, Graham Gouldman, Kevin Godley and Lol Creme, who would shortly after form the band 10cc. Space Hymns has the most expansive artwork Roger Dean was ever allowed to produce, with a 6-panel fold out cover depicting a church steeple (St George's Church, Stockport) lifting off into the cosmos. On the other side in infrared colour Ramases and Sel are shown holding aloft strands of wheat in a Demeter-like pose from the Eleusinian Mysteries. The lyrics deliver the same confident message. (Note: many sources erroneously report that Ramases' real name was Martin Raphael, who was actually only the sitar player on Space Hymns.)”

24/04/2020

Freddie’s Album Recommendations # 6:

“This album is the first in a planned series that will explore the world of some of the most exciting mood music ever recorded. Mostly originating from EMI's flagship 'Studio Two' label, augmented by offerings from the United Artists label and the KPM Recorded Music Library, 'The Sound Gallery' features tracks from albums recorded over an eight year period from 1969 to 1976.”

20/04/2020

Freddie’s Recommendations # 5:

“August "Augie" Borero Colon was an American musician known for his work as a percussionist in the exotica genre. He came to national fame as a member of Martin Denny's band in the 1950s and was the voice behind the bird calls and jungle sounds of the hit single "Quiet Village". He also recorded two solo albums, Sophisticated Savage and Chant of the Jungle. In the early 1960s, Colon left Denny's group and toured with his own band known as The Tropicales.
Colon was born in Honolulu in 1927 and died in that city in 2004.”

20/04/2020

Freddie’s Album Recommendations #4:

“A Certain Smile, A Certain Sadness is an album by Astrud Gilberto and Walter Wanderley, recorded in September 1966. It was released by Verve Records at the height of the Bossa Nova craze in the United States, and featured the two most popular Bossa Nova musicians at the time: vocalist Astrud Gilberto and organist Walter Wanderley. A 1998 CD reissue added two songs recorded during the same sessions that yielded the album.”

19/04/2020

Freddie’s Album Recommendations #3:

“Quirk Out is the debut mini album by Anglo-Irish experimental rock band Stump. After building up a following with their unique sound and live performances, Stump recorded Quirk Out as their second release with producer Hugh Jones at Rockfield Studios in July 1986, following the release of the Mud on a Colon EP earlier in the year. The band's aim for Quirk Out was to capture the band's energy as a live band on studio recordings. The record blends genres such as avant-garde, funk rock with indie rock sensibilities. The best known song from the album, "Buffalo", had already been released on the NME compilation C86, an influential cassette compilation containing newly recorded music from different bands of the British independent music scene.”

19/04/2020

The show is on Radio Scarborough right now until 8pm.
We have been experiencing technical difficulties the past week so if there is a glitch at 7pm let us know.

18/04/2020

Freddie’s Album Recommendations #2:

“Colors is a "word jazz" album by voice-over and recording artist Ken Nordine. It was commissioned by the Fuller Paint Company to write radio advertisement spots, but after a few commercials became popular, it evolved to become an album of 34 songs. Each track personifies a different color or hue.”

17/04/2020

Freddie’s album recommendations #1.

“Oceans of Fantasy is the fourth studio album by Euro-Caribbean group Boney M. Released in September 1979, Oceans Of Fantasy became the second Boney M. album to top the UK charts and features the hits "El Lute / Gotta Go Home" and "I'm Born Again / Bahama Mama"”

03/04/2020

Tune in this Sunday at 6pm on Radio Scarborough to hear these and other exotic delights.

21/03/2020

Come and isolate with me and my record collection at 6pm, Sunday 22nd March on Radio Scarborough!

The show is recorded in advance and is safe from any virus that may be circulating. Come and quarantine!

Here is a selection of some of this weeks delights:

11/03/2020

Join me on Radio Scarborough at 6pm this Sunday (15th March) for two hours of groovy sounds including these beauties:

07/03/2020

Tomorrow night at 6pm on Radio Scarborough, join me for rare and swingin’ sounds including these...

26/02/2020

Some of the sounds you will hear this Sunday on the show

06/02/2020

Starting this Sunday we have three of the wildest shows ever!

At 6pm on the 9th February on Radio Scarborough you will hear Christian yodellers dressed as Native Americans, oddball aerobics records, Mormon singalongs, how to find hidden satanic messages in rock records, weird advertising recordings, singing hypnotists, animals performing tunes, sleazy 1960s dating advice, Anthony Newley goes psychedelic and tons more!

02/02/2020

As it’s a leap year, from February 9th we will have three of the craziest shows ever with some of the weirdest things committed to vinyl! Tune in and see for yourself..