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Billy Sloan: 20/08/2016

20/08/2016

BBC Radio Scotland - Billy Sloan, 20/08/2016

Billy Sloan plays tracks written by Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman.

Billy Sloan plays tracks written by Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman, plus he has the first part of an interview with Dexys frontman Kevin Rowland.

Billy Sloan plays the very best in pop and rock music from Scotland's greats as well as the rest of the world with regular features Spin The Globe and Early Morning Soul, plus Part 1 of Billy's interview with Dexys frontman Kevin Rowland. In this weekend's Musical Chairs feature Billy highlights the career of multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and producer Todd Rundgren - solo career and member of the band Utopia and worked with numerous artists including New York Dolls, Robert Palmer, The Tubes, Patti Smith, Bette Midler, Cheap Trick, Badfinger, Sparks, Groove Armada, Ian Hunter, Meatloaf and XTC. The Live and Dangerous tracks are from The Zombies album 'Odessey and Oracle (Revisited), The 40th Anniversary Concert'. In Movie Moment Billy's playing 'Midnight Cowboy Theme' by John Barry and in Classic Songwriters, there's tracks from the pens of Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman, one of the most important rock and roll writing teams of the late-50s and early-60s.

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