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Last broadcast on Sun, 19 Feb 2012, 22:00 on BBC Radio 6 Music.
Synopsis
All round to Garvey's house to ransack his record collection.
Inspired by the title of Paul McCartney's latest Guy digs out his favourite songs about letters and letterwriting, and reveals his favourite lyric of all time. Plus there's a classic Beckapedia and Lou Reed meets a fate worse than death in "It was Mioider".
Music played
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Julie London
— Love Letters -
Led Zeppelin
— Black Dog -
John Lee Hooker
— Boom Boom -
Oscar Peterson
— Noreen’s Nocturne -
Lost in the Trees — Red
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Siouxsie and the Banshees
— Peek-a-Boo -
Adventures in Stereo — There Was a Time
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Steve Mason — the Letter
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Danny Kaye
— Inchworm -
Art of Noise
— Island -
David Bowie
— Letter to Hermoine -
Fats Waller
— I’m Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter -
The Stranglers
— Golden Brown -
Liz Green — Bad Medicine
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Jamie J. Morgan — Walk On the wild Side
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Lou Reed
— Walk on the Wild Side -
Les Paul & Mary Ford — How Deep is the Ocean
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Paul McCartney
— Ram On -
Chris Thomas King — Hard Times Killing Floor
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Talk Talk
— Inheritance -
John Lee Hooker
— Turn Over A New Leaf
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Leonard Cohen
— Famous Blue Raincoat -
Nick Cave
— Love Letter -
The Blue Nile
— Let’s Go Out tonight -
Ray Charles
— Midnight
Broadcast
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Sun 19 Feb 201222:00
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