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Hi Folks - here’s the playlist from Robbie France’s My World of Music from Costa Calida Radio for Sunday 30th November 2008.

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.

Here are today’s songs:

Alan O’Day - Undercover Angel
Alexander O’Neal - Cherish
Alicia Keys - Prelude To A Kiss
Alison Krauss - Baby Mine
Alison Moyet - The Man In The Wings
Allison Moorer - Orphan Train
Andrea Bocelli - Io Ci Saro (Lang Lang on Piano)
Angie Stone - Life Goes On
Bonnie Raitt - Too Soon To Tell
Boz Scaggs - Save Your Love For Me (Live)
Brand New Heavies - Dream On Dreamer
Camille Saint Saens - Aquarium (Carnival Of The Animals)
Chet Baker - Time After Time
Chris Botti - Silent Night (December)
Chris Rea - Nothing To Fear CHECK
Christina Aguilera - Pero Me Acuerdo De TÌ
Christmas Three Tenors - Susani
Clannad - What Will I Do
Colbie Caillat - The Little Things
Coldplay - Poppyfields (Prospekts March)
Colin Hay - Waiting For My Real Life to Begin (Scrubs Soundtrack -)
Connor Reeves - My Father’s Son
Elton John - Philadelphia Freedom
Enya - Christmas Secrets
Eric Clapton - Goodfellas Theme
Falco - Rock Me Amadeus
Harry Manx - The Thrill Is Gone
Herbie Hancock - I Do It For Your Love
Holding back
Jim White - Heaven Of My Heart
Joni Mitchell - Night Of The Iguana
KD Lang- Theme From The Valley Of The Dolls
KatherineJenkins & Rhys Meirion - Vide Cor Meum
Keely Smith - Someone to Watch Over Me
Keke - Superstore
Kirk Whalum - Any Love - Forever, for Always, for Luther
Lara Fabian - Sola Otra Vez
Lili Haydn - Come here - (Anywhere But Here Soundtrack)
Linda Eder - I Don’t Know How To Say Goodbye(It’s Time)
Luther Vandross - So amazing
Lutricia McNeal - Stranded
Mary Chapin Carpenter - On & On It Goes
Matt Bianco - More Than I Can Bear
Michael McDonald - Soul Speak
Nena - 99 Luftballoons
Nick Drake - Day Is Done
Peter Gabriel - Father Son YT
Roberta Gambarini - All The Things You Are
Scott Walker - What are You Doing the Rest of Your Life
Sigur Ros - Vanilla Sky Soundtrack
Sonique - It Feels So Good
Will Martin - Cinema Paradiso

Enjoy!

Robbie x

Hi Folks - here’s the playlist from Robbie France’s My World of Music from Costa Calida Radio for Sunday 23rd November 2008:

All Angels - Delibes (The Flowers Duet)
Boz Scaggs - Look What You’ve Done To Me
Bryan Ferry - To Make You Feel My Love
Camille Saint Saens - Aquarium (Carnival Of The Animals)
Carole King - It Might As Well Rain Until September
Cliff Bennett & The Rebel Rousers - Got To Get You Into My Life
Clifford T Ward - For Emily
Clive Griffin Ill Be Waiting
Cocteau Twins - Alice
Colbie Caillat - Older
Damien Rice - 9 Crimes
Doug Parkinson - I’ll Be Around
Eagles - Long Road Out of Eden
Elvis Costello - A Good Year For The Roses
Eurythmics- Its Alright Baby’s Coming Back
Evanescence - Bring Me To Life
Everything But The Girl - Missing (accapella)
Frou Frou - Breathe In
Gabriel Yared - The English Patient - Main Title
George Benson - The World Is A Ghetto
Gregorian - Masters Of Chant III - 07 - Ordinary World
Herbie Hancock - River The Joni Letters - 08 - AmelÖ?(feat. Luciana Souza)
Jeff Beck - ‘Cause We’ve Ended as Lovers
Jennifer Hudson - And Im Telling You
Jennifer Paige - Sober
Joe Cocker - Delta Lady
John Barrowman - She’s Always A Woman
John Kongos - He’s Gonna Step On You Again (1971)
John Legend - Each Day Gets Better
Kirk Whalum & Bob James - The Prayer
Luther Vandross - Superstar - Until You Come Back To Me
Mary Black - Donegal Breeze
Maurice Jarre - Ghost (Theme from the movie)
Metallica - Turn the page
Michael Bolton - Lean On Me
Patrick Cassidy - Vide Cor Meum - Hannibal Opera
Peter Broderick - Below It
Pietro Mascagni - Intermezzo from Cavalleria Rusticana
Reba Macentire & Linda Davis - Does He Love You
Sarah McLachlan - Don’t Give Up On Us
Seal - Free (Soul)
Seal - It’s A Man’s World
Shangri Las - Leader Of The Pack
Tim Buckley - Dolphins
U2 - Bono & Clannad - In A Lifetime
Vetiver - Been So Long
Will Martin - Going Home

Enjoy!

Robbie x

Hi, gang!

I had some interesting and frank calls and texts to the show yesterday… Got me thinking… a rare achievement I know, but they did!

I was berated for not playing my weekly Chris Botti and Lara Fabian.

Years ago when I started MWOM, it was my privelege to introduce you to artists and bands not normally heard here in Spain. Fact is, I have always listened to different styles of music… thanks to my upbringing and environment. I’ll explain.

My dad was a Frank Sinatra man, my mum loved Shirley Bassey, my big brother loved the Beatles, my middle brother loved John Mayall, our next door neighbour (Mr. McNish), was a Jamaican who relished Caribbean music… you get the picture. It was a household binded together by, you guessed it… MUSIC.

I remember touring with Black Sabbath, (with Diamond Head), in the 80s when Lita Ford’s drummer swung by whilst I was warming up to play our set and grabbed my headphones to listen to the music I was warming up to…. what was it? Led Zeppelin? Deep Purple? Surely it must be some heavy metal band!

It was ‘Physical’ by Olivia Newton John! There ya go… my secret’s out! I love the track, ‘Physical’. I love the guitar solo. I love the way the track moves…and I can’t help it!

Same tour… Black Sabbath through europe… It didn’t matter what time of day, I always had to be there for Sab’s sound check. Why? To listen to Paul Simon’s ‘Still Crazy After All These Years’. I was addicted to that track for the entirety of the tour. Played over the P.A. of a zillion watts, has that track sounded sweeter since? No way. It was a glorious avalanche of chords and groove and wonder. I’ll never forget that track and what it meant to me.

So when I hear you ask…’where’s Lara” or ‘where’s Chris?’ I can totally understand. You expect to hear certain artists on a Sunday and it’s my job to give you ya fix! Me! A dealer at my age! I thought I was too old and ugly!!

One of the other artists who seems to grab your attention is Yasmin Levy. I’ve a friend, Margot. Scottish. Normal. No preconditions. With M. What you see is what ya get. But a lover of Yasmin Levy? I thought NO WAY! She’s totally besotted with her! As I and millions of others are. Can’t get enough of her.

It just goes to show. With music, it’s beauty walks across party lines, across cultural barriers, haunts the soul…and if not heard on a regular basis? You get withdrawal symptoms!!!!!

See ya tomorrow. Off to the Monday Club… I’ll explain later.

Love ya!

Robbie. xx

It’s that time again - here’s the playlist from Robbie France’s My World of Music from Costa Calida Radio for Sunday 16th November 2008:

Alexander O’Neal - Babe
Alexis Billington - Tell The Truth
Allison Moorer - Where Is My Love
Blue Cafe - My Road
Carole King - It Might As Well Rain Until September
Chris Botti - Cinema Paradiso
Curtis Stigers - I Wonder Why
Damien Rice -9 Crimes
Donna Summer - State Of Independence
Hed Kandi - Morcheba
Il Divo - Isabel - Ancora
Imogen Heap - Just For Now
Jeff Becker - ‘Cause We’ve Ended as Lovers
Jeff Buckley - Everybody Here Wants You
Jeff Healy Band - RoadHouse Blues
Jeffrey Gaines - Hero In Me
Jennifer Hudson - I Am Changing
John Barrowman - All By Myself
John Martyn - Angeline
John Mayall & Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton - They Call It Stormy Monday
Jon Anderson & Vangelis - I Hear You Now
Joni Mitchell - - Chinese Cafe - (Travelogue)
Kirk Whalum & Bob James - The Prayer
Lara Fabian - Adagio
Little River Band - It’s A Long Way There
Living Color - Cult of Personality
Liza Minnelli - Rent (Results)
Loleatta holloway - love sensation 06
Lulu - The Prayer
Luther Vandross - Superstar-Until You Come Back To Me
Luz - Sumisa
Madeleine Peyroux - In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning
Magic Numbers - Tonight
Mary Black - Donegal Breeze
Patrick Cassidy - Vide Cor Meum
Peter Broderick - Below It
Sarah McLachlan - Don’t Give Up On Us
Seal - It’s A Man’s World
Shangri Las - Leader Of The Pack
Shelby Lynne - I Only Want To Be With You
Tpau - China In Your Hands
Tracey Chapman - The Promise
U2 - Bono & Clannad - In A Lifetime
Vetiver - Been So Long
Will Martin - Going Home
Womack & Womack - Teardrops (Footsteps on the Dancefloor)
Wycleff Jean - Gone Til November
XTC - Senses Working Overtime
Yasmin Levy - Naci En Alamo (Vengo)
Yvonne Fair - It Should Have Been Me

Enjoy!

Robbie x

Here you go folks - here’s the playlist from Robbie France’s My World of Music from Costa Calida Radio for Sunday 9th November 2008:

Alison Krauss - Get Me Through December
Angela Ghiorgiu - O Mio Babbino Caro(Gianni Schicchi) Puccini
Angelis - Pie Jesu
Billy Ward and the Dominos-Stardust - Goodfellas Soundtrack
C&C Music Factory - Things That Make You Go Hmmm
Chaka Khan & Michael McDonald - You Belong To Me
Charlotte Church - Panus Angellicus
Craig Armstrong & Evan Dando - Wake Up In New York
Dave Grusin Dave Grusin and the N.Y._ L.A. Dream Band Shuffle City
Dulce Pontes - A Ilha Do Meu Fado
Gilbert O’Sullivan - One Door Closes
JP Den Ten - Looking For Rosie
Japan - Ghosts
Jeff Buckley - Lover You Should’ve Come Over
John Barrowman - You’re So Vain
Josh Ritter - Girl In The War
Keith Urban - Making Memories Of Us
Landon Pigg - Coffee Shop
Luciana Souza - Were You Blind That Day
Madeline Peyroux - You’re Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go
Manuel Barrueco & Steve Morse - Cavatina (The Deer Hunter)
Nicolette Larson - Mexican Divorce (Bacharach)
Patrick Cassidy - Hannibal Opera
Patti Austin & Sadao Watanabe - Any Other Fool
Paul McCartney - Put It There
Peter Broderick - Not At Home
Placido Domingo - Che Galida Manina(La Boheme)
Rick Braun - Feel Like Making Love
Rostal & Schaefer - Michelle
Sade - Jezebel
Seals & Crofts - Closer to You, Closer to Me
Secret Garden - Nocturne
Shabba Ranks - Mr. Loverman
Shelby Lynne - You Don’t Have To Say You Love Me
Sia - I Go To Sleep
The Bench Connection - All Strings Attached
The Bird And The Bee - How Deep Is Your Love
The Hollies - Just One Look
Toots Thielemans & Shirley Horn - Corcovado
Vetiver - Been So Long
The waterboys - You In The Sky

Hope you enjoyed the show!

Robbie xx

Here you go folks - here’s the playlist from Robbie France’s My World of Music from Costa Calida Radio for Sunday 2nd November 2008:

Andrea Bocelli - Incanto Preview
Barbra Streisand - With One More Look At You{A Star Is Born}
Billy Joel - New York State of Mind
Bjork - Hyperballad
Black - Sweetest Smile
Bliss - Kissing (worldmusic act from Denmark)
Blood sweat and tears - you make me so very happy
Blue Nile-Chris Botti - Midnight Without You
Bob & Earl - Harlem Shuffle (original)
Bob Dylan - One More Cup of Coffee(Emmylou Harris)
Bobby Darin - Abraham, Martin & John
Bon Iver - Stacks(For Emma Forever Ago)
Christina Aguilera - Beautiful(Acapella)
Creed - Higher
Daniel Bedingfield - If You’re Not The One
Dave Grusin & The NYLA Dream Band - Countdown
Declan O’Rourke - Sarah (Last Night In A Dream)
Donald Fagen - The Nightfly
Emerson Lake and Palmer - Lucky Man
Everything But The Girl - Missing
James Taylor & Luciana Souza - Never Die Young
Jennifer Hudson - If This Isn’t Love
John Cale-My Maria - My Maria
KD Lang - Hush Sweet Lover
Linda Ronstadt - Heatwave
Michael Buble - Song For You (Feat. Chris Botti)
Michael McDonald - Real Love (Live Arsenio Hall ‘92)
Molly Johnson - melody
Rick Braun - Notorious
Run DMC vs Jason Nevins - It’s Like That (Extended Mix)
Sade - Is It A Crime
Tina Arena - Whistle Down The Wind
Toots Tielemans - The Shadow of Your Smile
Will Martin - Cinema Paradiso
Van Morrison - When Will I Ever Learn to Live in God

Hope you enjoyed the show.

Robbie xx

Here you go folks - here’s the playlist from Robbie France’s My World of Music from Costa Calida Radio for Sunday 26th October.

Alesha Dixon - The Boy Does Nothing
Anouk - I Don’t Wanna Hurt No More
Aztec Camera - Jump (Full Version)
Barbra Streisand - With One More Look At You (A Star Is Born)
Bette Midler - The Rose
Billy Paul - Let’s Stay Together
China Crisis - Tragedy & Mystery
Corinne Bailey Rae - Since I’ve Been Loving You
Cover Version - Never Can Say Goodbye
Damien Rice - The Blowers Daughter (Live From Union Chapel)
David Bowie - Massive Attack - Nature Boy
Doobie Brothers - The Doctor
Dwele - That’s The Way Of The World
Edwyn Collins - One Is A Lonely Number
Elbow - Teardrop (Good Mix)
Ellis Beggs & Howard - Homelands
Elvis Costello - Beautiful
Gabriella Cilmi - Sanctuary
Gary Moore - If The Devil Made Whisky
Genesis - Man In The Corner
Gilbert O’Sullivan - One Door Closes
Gregorian - Masters Of Chant III - 07 - Ordinary World
Inner City - Good Life
Isaac Hayes - Never Can Say Goodbye
Japan - Ghosts
Jeff Buckley - Lover You Should’ve Come Over
Jennifer Hudson - If This Isn’t Love
Joan Osborne - Sara Smile (Breakfast in Bed -)
Joe Purdy - Take My Blanket & Go
Josh Groban - Awake - February Song
Josh Ritter - Girl In The War
Julia Fordham - Happy Ever After
KD Lang - Jealous Dog
KD Lang - Shadow Of The Frame
Katie Melua - Two Bare Feet
Keith Urban - Stupid Boy
Kelly Clarkson - Sober
Kindred Spirits - Perfect Day
Laura Cantrell - Love Vigilantes
Leanne Rimes - Strong
Marillion - Lavender
Marvin Gaye - Ain’t No Mountain High Enough (Remember the Titans Soundtrack)
Melanie C - The Moment You Believe
Nancy Wallace - We Don’t Talk Anymore
Natalie Cole - The Man With The Child In His Eyes
Ne-Yo - Mad
Peter White - City of Lights
Phil Collins - Groovy Kind Of Love
Russell Watson - The Summer Wind
Ryuchi Sakamoto & David Sylvian - Forbidden Colours
Scouting For Girls - I Wish I Was James Bond
Seal - A Change Is Gonna Come
Secret Garden - You Raise Me Up
Shelby Lynne - Anyone Who Had A Heart
Shirley Bassey - Slave To The Rythm (glimmer Mix)
Sia - I Go To Sleep
Siobhan Donaghy - There’s A Place
Spencer Davis Group - Keep On Running
Temptations - A Song For You
Tennishero - Midnight Love
The Bench Connection - All Strings Attached
The Script - Breakeven
Tim McGraw - Whiskey & You
Tina Turner - Missing You
Tom Jones - If He Should Ever Leave You
Will Martin - Into The West

Enjoy.

Robbie xx

Hi Folks,

there were a couple of special tracks requested for Sunday’s My World of Music show. As a special treat, Robbie asked me to find some videos of those tracks.

Ellis Beggs and Howard: Big Bubbles No Troubles:

Ellis Beggs and Howard - Homelands:

Enjoy!

Dom

Here you go folks - here’s the playlist from Robbie France’s My World of Music from Costa Calida Radio for Sunday 12th October.

Air - Space Maker (Pocket Symphony)
Al - Jarreau _ My Favourite Things
Alicia Keys - Lesson Learned (As I Am)
Alison Krauss - Whiskey Lullaby (With Brad Paisley from A Hundred Miles More)
Andrea Bocelli - Un Dulce Melodrama
Ane Brun - To Let Myself Go
Angie Stone - Cinderella Ballin’
Barbra Streisand - Evergreen (Live with Il Divo)
Boyz 2 Men - Just My Imagination (Hitsville)
Boz Scaggs - Jojo
Catherine Feeny - Touch Back Down (Hurricane Glass)
Charlie Landsborough - What Colour Is The Wind (The Storyteller)
Chet Baker - Time After Time
Chris Botti & Jonatha Brooke - Forgiven
Cinema Paradiso - Ennio Morricone
Cream - Sunshine Of Your Love
Declan O’Rourke - Galileo (Someone Like You)
Deep Purple - Stormbringer
Diana Krall - S’Wonderful
Everything But The Girl - Tougher Than the Rest
Freddie Mercury & Monserrat Caballe - How can I go on
Frou Frou - Let Go
Genesis - In Too Deep
Gill Scott Heron - Grandma’s Hands
Gino Vanelli - Wheels Of Life
Gretchen Wilson - To Tell You The Truth
Interference - Gold(from the film Once )
Iron & Wine - Naked as We Came
James Taylor - Suzanne
Jeff Buckley - Lilac Wine
Joan Armatrading - Woman In Love
Josh Ritter - Girl In The War
KD Lang - Coming Home
Katherine Jenkins - Music Of The Night
Laura Cantrell - Love Vigilantes
Led Zeppelin - Achilles Last Stand
Loverboy - Working For The Weekend
Luciano Pavarotti - Caruso
Marc Almond - The Days Of Pearly Spencer
PP Arnold - First Cut Is The Deepest
Paolo Conte - Via Con Me (French Kiss Soundtrack)
Pat Metheny - Don’t Know Why- (One Quiet Night)
Paul McCartney & Wings - 1985
Paul McCartney and Wings - Coming Up
Paul Weller - Savages
Reflex -The Politics Of Dancing
Rickie Lee Jones & The Blue Nile - Easter Parade
Robert Plant - If I Were a Carpenter
Rod Stewart - The Very Thought of You
Rufus Wainwright - Beautiful Child
Run DMC vs Jason Nevins - It’s Like That (Extended Mix)
Ryan & Rachel O’Donnell - Theme From Harry’s Game
Santana - Samba Pa Ti
Simon Dupree & The Big Sound - Kites
The Temptations-Ball Of Confusion
Triniti - Fields Of Glod
Yolanda Adams & Gerald Levert - I Believe I Can Fly

Enjoy.

Dom (the IT Guy)

Hi, folks.

Welcome to the first article…the first of many…

Just a quick note to the dozens of people who have asked me over the years to play more of my ‘Sunday music‘ during the ‘Drivetime’ programme. I have to say, I’ve taken all the comments on board and decided to make a bit of a compromise. The thing that makes the sunday prog so cool is that there’s nothing else around that compares with it…so why spoil that individuality by placing tracks, normally reserved for My World Of Music,  in the DT show?

I’m flattered that ‘My World Of Music’ should be so highly ranked amongst yas. As long as you like it…I’ll keep doing it. AND I’ll put a couple of MWOM tracks in the DT programme for good measure. How’s that?

Great to see so many people turn up for the CAFE concert at the Playa Grande on the 4th of October. I know there’s a website featuring posts on their forum slagging the acts off, but overall there was a fabulous atmosphere and we raised €6,511.00 for our trouble. I’ve been fortunate enough to work in the music industry for decades, (4 in all), but nothing comes close to working hard and long for your community, no matter how small. And let’s face it… We live in a small, tightly knit community.

Many thanks to all the artists and bands for donating their time & effort so willingly…we’ll be back next year.

So. Until I get more proficient at this blogging lark, I’ll see if I can get my IT manager Dominic in the UK to arrange a seperate section for you to take a peek at the playlist from last sunday’s MWOM.

Talk to yas soon!

Love & Respect,

Robbie. xx

-= Update - 16.10.08 =-

You can now see the playlist here:

http://robbieontheradio.com/playlist/mwom-playlist-for-12th-october

Dom