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Hi, everyone!

Sorry I’ve been quiet for a while but I have been very poorly since Xmas and am only now feeling better. Horrid virus thingy…missed my Christmas dinner for the first time in my life!

So. With things being the way they are, I’ve changed the generic names to the shows.

Sunday style programme, consisting of half hour upbeat tunes….followed by 3 hours of ‘chillout tracks’ will be called The French Roast.

All other shows will be called The French Connection….and I’m working on preparing another show. So we’re busy, busy, busy.

Thanks to all of you who texted/called me regarding the Pink Floyd special on the Dark Side Of The Moon album. It was my pleasure preparing and editing it.

I will do another one when I have the time…maybe Mike Oldfield’s Tubular Bells?!

See ya soon!

Love & Respect,

Robbie.xx

Hi Folks,

New show name, same Robbie, same quality tracks. Here’s the MP3 sampler for this week’s show:

And here’s the full playlist for your listening pleasure:

311 - Love Song (50 First Dates Soundtrack)
Aimee Mann - Calling It Quits
Air Supply - Im All Out of Love
Andrea True Connection - More More More
Avenged Sevenfold - Afterlife
Bacharach + Costello - In The Darkest Place
Barbra Streisand - Why Did I Choose You
Barry Mcguire - Eve of Destruction
Clem Snide - I’ll Be Your Mirror
Colbie Caillat & Jason Reeves - Droplets
Craig Armstrong feat. Elizabeth Fraser - This Love
Crowded House - Better Be Home Soon
Dave Matthews Band - Crash Into Me
David Bentley - In a Broken Dream
David Cassidy - My First Night Alone Without You
David Gray - I Think It’s Going To Rain Today
Deacon Blue - Dignity
Dead Can Dance - The Carnival Is Over
Deep Forest - Deep Forest
Delta Goodrem - Lost Without You
Deniece Williams - One Kiss
Dennis Edwards ft. Siedah Garrett - Don’t Look Any Further
Foreigner - I Want To Know What Love Is
Jackson Browne - These Days
Joanna Newsom - Cosmia
John Farnham - Love’s In Need Of Love Today
John Williams - Cinema Paradiso - Love Theme
Joni Mitchell - You’re So Square
KD Lang - I Wish I Didn’t Love You So
Keith Whitley - When You Say Nothing At All
Maxine Brown - Oh No Not My Baby
Melody Gardot - Baby I’m A Fool
Melody Gardot - Cry Wolf
Men At Work - Down By The Sea
Michael Buble - I’ll Be Seeing You
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Quincy Jones - Tell me a bedtime story
Red Hurley - How Great Thou Art
The Beatles - The Fool On The Hill
The Cure - Burn (The Crow)
Yes - Give Love Each Day
Ziggy Marley - Drive

As always, hope you enjoy the show, and I’d love to hear from you - just click on Contact Robbie at the top of this page and drop me a line.

Robbie x

Hi Folks,

we got some great feedback last week about the MP3 Sampler, so here it is again:

As usual, we’ve done our best to find as many tracks on MP3 as we can, but some slip through the cracks. Do have a click on the thing, though - it’s quite cool being able to sample the tracks from the show.

If you would rather we put links up to the actual CD Albums, let us know.

Meanwhile, here’s the low-tech version of this weeks playlist:

10cc - I’m Not In Love
AR Rahman - Swades - Yeh Jo Des Hai Tera
Across the Universe - I Want To Hold Your Hand
Alex Gaudino feat Shena - Watch Out
Andrea Bocelli & Zucchero - Miserere
Andrew Gold - A Cozy Place
Anthony & The Johnsons - Epilepsy Is Dancing
Barbra Streisand - Never Said Goodbye (Sunset Boulvd)
Berthold Brecht - Original Mack TK. 3 Groshen Opera
Bette Midler - Shiver Me Timbers
Bobby Womack - I Wish He Didn’t Trust Me So Much
Bon Iver - For Emma
Bruce Springsteen - Queen Of The Supermarket
Celine Dion - Its All Coming Back To Me Now
Chris Botti - Shades Of Soul f Jeff Lorber w Gaspacho
Chris Rea - And You My Love
Dire Straits - Telegraph Road
Don McLean - Empty Chairs
Don Williams - You’re My Best Friend
Doobie Brothers - It Keeps You Running
Doris Day - Secret Love
Dream Academy - Life In A Northern Town
Drever McCusker & Woomble - The Poorest Company
Elvis Costello - God Give Me Strength
Emerson Lake and Palmer - Lucky Man
Emmylou Harris - Here There And Everywhere
Ennio Morricone - The Mission Soundtrack - Gabriel’s Oboe
Enya - Lord of the Rings - May it Be
Eva Cassidy - Oh Danny Boy
Five for Fighting - The Beautiful
George Michael - Brother Can You Spare A Dime( Performed by Pavarotti And Friends)
Grace Potter - Falling Or Flying
Gretchen Peters - When You Are Old
Hed Kandi - Disco Kandi - Roger Sanchez - I Never Knew (ReMix) dance
Jem - Its Amazing
Joanna Newsom - The Sprout & The Bean
Jon Allen - Going Home
Joyce Sims - Come Into My Life
Kasey Chambers - Million Tears (Barricades and Brickwalls)
Larry Adler & Kate Bush - The Man I Love
Laura Fygi - The Summer Knows
Laura Izibor - mmm
Mary J. Blige - Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest
Plain White T’s - 1234
Willie Nelson & Ray Charles - Seven Spanish Angels
Within Temptation - Stand My Ground

Enjoy!

Robbie x

Hi Folks.

We’re trying something new here. I regularly get asked about the music I play on the show - who it is, what a track’s called, what album it’s on, that kind of thing. So we started posting the playlists here on Robbie on the Radio.

Anyway, as you may know, I get a lot of my stuff from Amazon in the UK (yes, they will ship to Spain!), and Amazon have recently started selling MP3 tracks individually for you to download and play on your PC or MP3 player (iPod and the like).

I think this is great given the current economic climate, because if you like a track now you can get it without having to buy the whole album, and the tracks are less than a Euro/Pound each.

So, take a look at what Dom the Techno-Guru has come up with for you:

Hopefully you can see it (let us know if you can’t). Basically, it’s a list of as many of the tracks from the show that we could find, all in a handy preview tool. Click on the thing to show a list of the tracks, click on a track to hear a preview, and if you like a track and you want to buy it from Amazon, just click Buy and follow the instructions.

It takes a fair bit of effort for Dom to sort this out each week, so please let us know what you think, and if it’s useful.

Love and Respect.

Robbie x

Hello again! It’s Sunday, and time for My World of Music.

Here’s the playlist for today’s show:

A R Rahman - Dreams On Fire
Anthony & The Johnsons - Her Eyes Are Underneath The Ground
Ben Harper - Morning Yearning
Bettye Swann - Then You Can Tell Me
Bobby Darin - If I Were A Carpenter
Bobby Womack - T.K.O
Bon Iver - Stacks
Bonnie Raitt - My First Night Alone Without You
Boyz 2 Men - Got To Be There
Boz Scaggs - The Night Of Van Gogh
Bruce Springsteen - Outlaw Pete
Carly Simon - Coming Around Again/Itsy Bitsy Spider
Chris Botti - Paula Cole - How Love Should Be
Counting Crows - Round Here
Del Amitri - Driving with the brakes on
Diana Ross, The Supremes and The Temptations - The Rhythm of Life
Dierks Bentley - I Wanna Make You Close Your Eyes
Durutti Column - Requiem Again
Elvis Presley - Pocketful Of Rainbows
Evanescense - My Last Breath
George Michael - I Remember You
Gia Farrell - Hit Me Up
Hayley Westenra - One Fine Day
Ingrid Michaelson - Keep Breathing
John Williams - Cavatina (Theme From The Deer Hunter)
Joni Mitchell & The Chieftans - The Magdalene Laundries
Josh Ritter - Girl In The War
Joshua Radin - Closer
Julia Fordham-Girlfriend
Karima Francis - Use Somebody
Kathy Mattea - 18 Wheels And A Dozen Roses
Katie Melua - 9 Million Bicycles
Laura Izibor - mmm
Luciano Pavarotti - Caruso
Racing Cars - They Shoot Horses Don’t They
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - Rich Woman
Rolling Stones - Bitch
Shania Twain - When
Steve Earle - Galway Girl
Teddy Pendergrass and Whitney Houston - Hold Me In Your Arms
Terence Trent D’Arby - I’ll Never Turn My Back on You
The Memory Band - Why
Tim McGraw - My Little Girl
Tyler Hilton - Missing You
Vangelis -Blade Runner (Love Theme)
Weather Report - A Remark You Made
Whispers - And the beat goes on
Yes - Wonderous Stories

Enjoy!

Robbie x

Hi Folks!

Here’s the playlist for this weeks My World of Music on Costa Calida Radio:

Patti Labelle - You Are My Friend
10CC - Good Morning Judge
30 Seconds To Mars - A Beautiful Lie
A Fine Frenzy - Almost Lover
A Fine Frenzy - Come On, Come Out
A Perfect Circle - 3 Libras
Aaliyah - Back and Forth
Alanis Morissette - King Of Pain
Alphaville - Victory Of Love
Bruce Springsteen - Outlaw Pete
Celine Dion - If You Asked Me To
Chris Botti - My Romance
Cowboy Junkies - Brand New World
Dave & Ansell Collins - Double Barrel
Donald Fagen- H Gang- Morph The Cat
Ella & Louis - dream A Little Dream Of Me
Empire of the Sun - Walking on a Dream
Evanesence - Hello
Florence & The Machine (Florence Welch) - Dog Days
Frank Sinatra - All By Myself
Frank Sinatra - How Do You Keep The Music Playing
George Michael & Aretha Franklin - I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)
Gino Vanelli - Brother to Brother
Grace - Sink Like A Stone
Hall and Oates - You Make My Dreams Come True
Hayley Westenra - Let Me Lie(Treasure)
Hed Kandi - Put em high
Johnny Mathis & Yolanda Adams - You Make Me Feel Brand New
Kenny Rogers - Buy Me A Rose (with Alison Krauss and Billy Dean)
Lizz Wright - Stop
Lyle Lovett - Nobody Knows Me
Mary Chapin Carpenter - On & On It Goes
Matt Munro - More
Mavis Staples - On My Way
Micheal Jackson - Butterflies
Midnight Oil - Beds Are Burning
Mint Condition - After The Love Has Gone
Mozez(ft Zero 7) - Beautiful Day
Mysteria - Closer to Heaven
Neil Diamond - Heartlight
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Into My Arms
Paul Anka & Michael Buble - You Are My Destiny
Paul Carrack - Dedicated
Rick Braun - Club Harlem
Russell Watson - La Califfa
Sarah Bareilles - Gravity
Shelby Lynne - The Look Of Love
Sia - Academia
Simple Minds - In The City Of Light - Book Of Brilliant Things
Simply Red - Money’s Too Tight To Mention
Sinead O’Connor & The Chieftains - She moved through the fair
The Script - If You See Kay
The Waterboys - She Tried To Hold Me
Van Morrison - Vanlose Stairway(Beautiful Vision)
Westlife - Have You Ever Been Loved

Enjoy!

Robbie x

Hi Folks!

Thanks for all the support and kind comments I’ve received over the past weeks while I’ve been recovering. Just to show you things are truly back on track, here’s the playlist for this weeks My World of Music:

Act Of Faith - Release Yourself
Alison Krauss - Get Me Through December
Alucidnation - Everybody’s Gotta Learn Sometimes
Andrea Bocelli - Romanza
Barbra Streisand - What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life
Boyz 2 Men - I was Made To Love Her
Cheryl Lynn ft Luther Vandross - If This World Were Mine
Des’Ree & Ladysmith Black Mambazo - Ain’t No Sunshine
Desmond Dekker - Israelites
Diana Krall - You Go To My Head
Diana Ross & The Supremes - Up The Ladder To The Roof
Dougie McLean - Ready For The Storm
Eva Cassidy - Songbird
Evanesence - Hello
Everything But The Girl - Apron Strings
Go West - Trax Of My Tears
Gwynne Guthrie - Nothin’ Goin On But The Rent
Jimmy Durante - as Time Goes By
John Farnham - Heading In The Right Direction
John Legend - Another Again
John Martyn - Save Some(For Me)
Kee Kessack & Susan Egan - The Look Of Love
Luz - Tu Silencio
Lykke Li - Little bit(Good)
Lyle Lovett - Nobody Knows Me
Mae McKenna - Sayonara
Matt Monroe - Theres A Place For Us
Mint Condition - After The Love Has Gone
Mysteria - Closer to Heaven
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Into My Arms
Nick Drake - River Man
Paul Anka - Both Sides Now
Peter Cincotti - Sway
Peter Cox - If You Walk Away
Rick Braun - Daughters(Ft Jeff Golub)
Russell Watson Ft Alexander O’Neal - To All The Girls I’ve Loved Before
Scott Matthews - Dream Song (Passing Stranger)
Shelly Lynne - Just A Little Lovin’
Silver Convention - Fly Robin Fly
Simply Red - Lady
Sinead O’Connor,The Chieftains-She moved through the fair
Siobhan Donaghy - There’s A Place
Snow Patrol - If There’s A Rocket Tie Me To It
Stevie Nicks - Landslide (live with The Melbourne Symphony)
Tasmin Little - Schindler’s List Theme
The MacDonald Brothers - I’m Not In Love
The Waterboys - She Tried To Hold Me
Turin Brakes - Last Chance
Van Morrison - Dweller On The Threshold
Westlife - Have You Ever

Enjoy!

Rx

Well, Folks, it’s time for my Christmas Special already. Doesn’t time fly?

There lots of everyone’s favourites in this show, so I hope you stay with me all the way through.

Here’s the playlist:

Amy Grant - Hark The Herald Angels Sing
Andrea Bocelli - Silent Night
Anne Murray - It came upon a midnight clear
Anne Murray - Joy To The World
Bon Jovi - Please Come Home For Christmas
Brenda Lee - Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree
Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir- Carol of the Bells
Choir Of Westminster Abbey - Ding Dong Merrily On High
Chris Botti - First Noel
Chris Botti - Silent Night
Chris Rea - Driving Home For Christmas
Coldplay - Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
Dean Martin & Doris Day - Let It Snow
Diana Krall - Jingle Bells
Diana Krall - Sleigh Ride
Donnie Hathaway - This Christmas
Ella & Bing - Rudolph
Enya - Christmas Secrets
Garth Brooks - Silent Night
Greg Lake - I Believe In Father Christmas
Harry Belafonte - Mary’s Boy Child
Hayley Westenra & The Choirboys - Do You Hear What I Hear
Jackson 5 - Give Love On Christmas Day
James Taylor - In The Bleak Midwinter
Jim Reeves - Oh Come All Ye Faithful
Jose Feliciano - Feliz Navidad
Josh Groban & Lili Haydn -Jesu, Joy Of Man’s Desiring
Josh Groban - Oh Holy Night
Josh Groban - The Christmas Song
Judy Garland- Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
Kings College Choir - Sussex Carol(On Christmas night)
Lieutenant Kije, Troika
Lesley Garrett - Ave Maria
Luther Vandross - Please Come Home For Christmas
Michael Ball - When A Child Is Born
Mormon Tabernacle Choir - The First Noel
Mormon Tablernacle Choir - While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks
Nat King Cole - Deck the Halls
Nat King Cole - Joy To The World
Ozzy & Jessica - Winter Wonderland
Perry Como - God Rest ye Merry Gentlemen
Sarah McLaughlin & Barenaked Ladies - God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
Sarah Mclachlan - TheFirstNoel/Mary Mary
Secret Garden - I Know A Rose Tree
St. Georges’ Choir Winnipeg - Once in Royal David’s City
Sting & Luciano Pavaroti - Panis Angelicus
Sting - I Saw Three Ships
The Beach Boys - We Three Kings of Orient Are
The Choirboys - Away In A Manger
The Drifters - Im Dreaming Of A White Christmas
The Moody Blues - December - In the Quiet of Chritmas Morning
Tori Amos - Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas

Enjoy, and Merry Christmas!

Robbie x

Hi Folks - here’s the playlist from Robbie France’s My World of Music from Costa Calida Radio for Sunday 14th December 2008:

Chris Botti - Miami Overnight - Night Sessions
02 - You Take My Breath Away
Indigo Girls & Sarah McLachlan & Jewel & Meredith Brooks - Big Yellow Taxi (Lilith Fair)
B.B. King & Bonnie Raitt - Right Place Wrong Time
Babyface - Nobody Knows It But Me
Boz Scaggs - Harbor Lights
Brian Mcknight - One Last Cry
Carlie Simon - Ive Got To Have You
Carlos Santana - Twisted (Feat. Andy Hamilton)
Celine Dion & Josh Groban - The Prayer
Chicago - Does Anyone Really Know What Time it Is
Chris Botti - Pennies From Heaven (Feat. Renee Olstead)
Classical John Williams - Schindler’s List Theme (violins by itzhak perlman)
Dead Can Dance - The Carnival Is Over (Labrynth)
Def Leopard - Photograph
Diana Krall - Just the way you are
Dirty dancing - havana nights - Salsa Cubana Mix
Dolly Parton - Just When I Needed You Most
Eva Cassidy - Time After Time
Eva Cassidy - True Colours
Frank Sinatra - When I Was Seventeen
Goo Goo Dolls - Better Days
Ive Mendes - Lua
Ive Mendes - Casticais
James Morrison - You Give Me Something
Jeff Buckley - Last Goodbye
Joe Cocker - You Are So Beautiful
Josh Grogan & Lara Fabian - For Always
Josh groban - Remember Me (Troy Soundtrack)
Journey - Who’s Crying Now
KD Lang - A Tribute To Cole Porter - So In Love
KD Lang - Case Of You
Katie Melua - Faraway voice (for Eva Cassidy)
Katie Melua - The Closest Thing To Crazy
Living Color - Cult of Personality
Martin Solveig - Jealousy
Mary J. Blige & Aretha Franklin - Ain’t No Sunshine
Mattafix - Big City Life
Michael Franks - I Don’t Know Why I’m So Happy I’m Sad
Michael MacDonald - It Keeps You Running
Micheal Buble - Song For You (Feat. Chris Botti)
Tony Bennett - The Way You Look Tonight -
Ornella Vanoni - L’Appuntamento - Ocean’s 12 Soundtrack
Paul Anka - Black Hole Sun
Paul Simon - Father and Daughter
Percy Sledge - A Whiter Shade of Pale
Prefab Sprout - Hallelujah
Queen & George Michael - Somebody to Love (Live at Wembley Band aid - Feddy Mercury Tribute)
REM - Man On The Moon
Ricky Martin, Carlos Santana & Jose Feliciano - Light My Fire
Rod Stewart - Handbags And Gladrags
SARAH MACLACHLAN & EMMY LOU HARRIS - Angel (live)
Sarah MacLachlan - Do What You Have To Do
Simple Minds - Belfast Child
Soggy Bottom Boys - Man Of Constant Sorrow
Starsailor - Alcoholic
Steely Dan - Deacon Blues
Stevie Ray Vaughn - Tin Pan Alley
Sting - Stolen Car (Take Me Dancing)
The Corrs & Josh Groban - Canto Alla Vita
The Killers - Mr. Brightside
The Pretenders - I Go To Sleep
Toni Braxton - Another Sad Love Song
U2 & Luciano Pavarotti - Miss Sarajevo
Van Morrison - These Are The Days
Van Morrison - What’s Wrong With This Picture
Youssou N’Dour & Neneh Cherry - Seven Seconds
Gotan project - My Funny Valentine

Enjoy!

Robbie x

Hi Folks - here’s the playlist from Robbie France’s My World of Music from Costa Calida Radio for Sunday 7th December 2008:

Barbara Streisand - Kiss Me In The Rain
Cheryl Lynn (feat. Luther Vandross) If This World Were Mine
Chris Botti - Ever Since We Met
Dana Winner - Try To Remember
Dandy Livingstone - Suzanne Beware Of The Devil
Danny Elfman - The Little Things (Wanted Soundtrack)
Dave Matthews with Santana - Love Of My Life
Diana Krall - Only The Lonely
Etta James - I’d Rather Go Blind
Frank Sinatra - Sentimental Journey
George Michael - December Song (I Dreamed Of Christmas)
Harry Manx - Death Have Mercy
Henry Rollins Band - Liar
John Barrowman - Please Remember Me
John Martyn - Baby please come Home
John Mayer - Vultures
Johnny Mathis - Theme From Summer of ‘42 (The Summer Knows)
Jon McLaughlin - Beautiful Disaster
Joni Mitchell - Cherokee Louise
Jools Holland & Sting - Seventh Sun
Jose Merce-Lio
Josh Groban - Cinema Paradiso
Julia Fordham - Falling Forward
Keane - Perfect Symmetry
Laura Veirs - Wandering Kind
Leon Jackson - Creative
Maxine Brown - Oh No Not My Baby
Myleen Klass - Rachmaninof - Rhapsody On A Theme By Paganini
Nancy Wilson & Grover Washington Jr - I Can’t Make You Love Me
Neil Young - The Way
Nina Simone - I Put A Spell On You
Paul Anka - Waiting For A Girl Like You
Sarah McLachlan - Wintersong - Silent Night
Scott Matthews - Passing Stranger - Eyes Wider than Before
Screw Coco - Empiezo a Olvidar(I start To Forget)
Social Code - As Good As It Gets
Stereophonics - The First Time I Ever Saw Your Face (Roberta Flack Cover)
Steve Earle - Way Down In The Hole
Stevie Nicks - Rooms On Fire
Stevie Wonder - I Believe When I Fall In Love It Will Be Forever
Suzanne Vega - Gypsy
Sweet - Alexander Graham Bell
Switchfoot- You (A Walk To Remember Soundtrack)
System Of A Down - Toxicity
The Band (With Dr. John) - Such A Night (The Last Waltz)
The Magic Numbers - Tonight
The Singhsons (Indian Simpsons) - 12 Days Of Christmas
Thomas Dybdahl - From Grace
Tracey Chapman - Mountains Of Things
Walter Huston - September Song (1944)
Wang Chung - Wang Chung - Big World
Wyclef Jean and the Fugees - No woman no cry
Yasmin Levy - Perdono
Yes - I’ve Seen All Good People

Don’t forget, I love to hear from all you listeners, and if you drop me a line either through this Web Site (Click on Contact at the top of the page) or at the Radio Station, I’ll dedicate a favourite song to your or someone special live on air.

Enjoy!

Robbie x