The Go!! Show was a 1960’s Australian pop music TV show which was delivered before a live audience at channel 10 Melbourne for 1 hour 3 nights a week. It ran from 1964...
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Who doesn’t like birds? Their grace and music inspire us. As they do songwriters. We feature three Aussies in this program. Starting with troubador John Williamson’s homage to our own emu Old...
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A popular term of affection or connection is that of baby or babe and many lyricists have centered or incorporated these words in their songs. Songs with BABY or BABE in the...
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Two words synonymous with the fifties and sixties, Shake And Roll were prominent words to get your feet tapping and your body moving. Epitomised in Bill Haley’s Shake Rattle And Roll turned...
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Some singles are released and never reach the top 40 charts but later become more popular than those that did. Here are some near-hit songs that get a lot of...
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Like all good writers songwriters like to appeal to our senses when penning songs. So on today’s program we are presenting songs that deal with Sight –I Can See Clearly Now from...
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What’s in a name? We all have one, and a popular name across the music world is that of Brian / Bryan which is the focus of this week’s program THE...
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In today’s program we celebrate the talents of gamine looking, fringed, barefoot popular UK singer from the 60s, Sandie Shaw and Lionel Richie, former lead singer of The Commodores and...
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This week’s program centres around songs that relate to water and various activities associated with THE SEA. Endless Sleep, Please Don’t Talk to the Lifeguard, Ocean Boulevard describe events happening at the beach...
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In this week’s program we pay tribute to Jimmy Buffet and play his signature song Margaritaville. The theme is all about being on the road featuring Willie Nelson with the signature song On...
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This week’s playlist focuses mainly on artists who came from either Liverpool or Manchester during the fabulous Merseybeat 60’s era. The Beatles are the most famous group to emerge from Liverpool...
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The program begins with the song that shot Helen Reddy to international fame (I Am Woman). Then follows a number of fairly obscure songs from known bands such as The Town Criers...
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MOTOWN, the American record label founded in Detroit by Berry Gordy Jr, is the focus of this week’s program. Motown and its subsidiaries which included Tamla,VIP and Rare Earth was the...
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In the fifties, sixties and into the seventies INSTRUMENTALS took their place in charts all around the world. Now they have faded into oblivion. Today’s program highlights some of the...
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It’s probably the most important tool we humans have and it’s become more diverse than ever. Songwriters have long written about communication and the lack of it in relarionships. Cliff...
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In this program we farewell legendary singer, Tony Bennett by playing his signature song I Left My Heart In San Francisco. Songwriters have long titillated our taste buds as well as our...
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This week’s show highlights a selection of ICONIC ALBUMS. Australian album Whispering Jack is Australia’s 2nd best seller and INXS’s Kick hit the top of the Australian chart and reached #3 in the US....
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QUESTIONS The question is: what are we celebrating this week? Answer: Our 11th birthday. Many thanks to our loyal listeners and to people who have helped us over the last eleven...
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Carole King and Ricky Nelson are the two celebrated artists that we salute this week in LET’s REMEMBER. Carole King is an American singer-songwriter and musician who has been on the music scene...
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This program is a rock n roll dance fest featuring the big names of early rock n roll. Kicking off is the pioneer of rock n roll, Chuck Berry, with...
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Similes and Metaphors The opening song, Love is Like an Itching in my Heart by the Supremes leads us into this week’s theme of SIMILES and METAPHORS. Both these figures of speech...
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Once again we celebrate great Aussie music. From Icehouse’s classic signature song Great Southern Land to The Go Between’s slow burn classic Cattle And Cane and Australian Crawl’s number one song Reckless the program spans an...
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This week the winner of the Yesterday Once More Radiothon competition, Jack, was our special guest for the VARIETY HOUR. Jack is an ardent supporter of JOY through his volunteering and regular tuning in. With his easy...
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This week we mourn the passing of the ‘Queen Of Rock N Roll’, Tina Turner aged 83, in Switzerland. Our trip around the world starts right here with Peter Allen’s patriotic I Still Call Austraiia...
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This week’s playlist has been trimmed down to make way for 6 great songs that are LONGER than average. Running for 11mins 10 seconds is the wonderful work from Australian, Stevie Wright,...
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I would guess no band in history has spawned as many covers as the Beatles. Some covers are mediocre but there are others which transcend the original. Australia has produced...
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This week we say farewell to Australia’s Broderick Smith of the Dingoes and Broderick Smith’s Big Combo along with American favourite Gordon Lightfoot. Are You an Angel or a Devil? Everyone has at...
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In its 30th year JOY once again asks for support to keep us on air. Yesterday Once More is in its eleventh year and we want to keep on going. All...
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We are heading in various directions this week as we include songs that reference the cardinal COMPASS POINTS North, South, East and West. The show kicks off with Cold Chisel’s Ita from their award-winning East album....
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Many songs fall naturally into the Past, The Present or The Future category. We start off with the present and Aussie super group Men At Work with their debut international...
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AUSTRALIS OUR ISLAND LAND, the focus of this week’s program, comprises a variety of wonderful Australian artists. The 60’s Strangers from Melbourne, the 70’s group the Reels from Dubbo, and...
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This week’s program features two artists; New York’s Melanie and Aussie icon Brian Cadd. Melanie’s biggest hit was Brand New Key. But she also found popularity with other songs like Look What They’ve Done To My Song...
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ACROSS THE SEASONS, this week’s topic, could well have been named the summer show given we included seven Summer themed songs from ABBA, Johnny Rivers, Bobby Goldsboro, Seals & Croft, Sherbet,...
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WORKING FOR THE MONEY It’s surprising how many different occupations have found their way into song. Lonnie Donegan’s vaudevillian (some would say corny) My Old Man’s A Dustman was a huge international...
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This week’s program is about variety and indulgence with the selected songs carrying personal attachments for Rob and Mossy. Some of Mossy’s songs are reminiscent of her Uni days particularly...
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Some songwriters love to indulge in soulful, emotional songs about the endings of relationships. It has resulted in some great melodies. Four legends appear in this week’s program. There is...
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THE ONLY WAY IS UP comprises songs that incorporate ’up’ in their titles. Included are the US groups Creedence Clearwater Revival, KC & The Sunshine Band and the Doo Wop band...
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WANT AND NEED Two words similar in meaning, but often misused. They are but a small example of the intricacies of our English language. Songwriters have gleefully latched onto these...
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This has been a sad week with the loss of the acknowledged, greatest living composer, Burt Bacharach. In respect and a salute to his wonderful talent we commence the show...
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INSECTS They make up approximately 90% of the world’s animal life forms. They are vital to our planet’s ecology, but sometimes they are a pest to Man. One of the...
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This week’s Playlist comprises songs from the soundtrack of AMERICAN GRAFFITI. American Graffiti is a 1973 American coming-of-age comedy-drama film directed by George Lucas, produced by Francis Ford Coppola, starring Richard Dreyfuss, Ron Howard, Harrison Ford and Cindy Williams. The film received widespread...
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On this sad day we pay tribute to our own Aussie soul singer Renee Geyer. Songwriters have a somewhat predilection for writing songs about being truthful and lying or being...
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This week we farewell Lisa Marie Presley, Jeff Beck and Robbie Backman and salute two wonderful singers Dolly Parton and Normie Rowe under the banner LET’S REMEMBER. Dolly Parton is an American...
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Today’s program features songs which utilise the harmonica. The versatile instrument evokes many moods such as the yearning, haunting sound on The Hollies’ He Ain’t Heavy He’s My Brother to the jaunty My...
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Welcome to the new year of 2023 and more enjoyable times with Rob and Mossy’s Yesterday Once More. Working around a non-definitive theme for January 1st we chose songs that are...
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Today’s theme takes a musical look at the word ‘Blue’. What makes ‘blue’ an interesting word is how it has taken on multiple meanings. There’s the colour featured in songs...
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This week is our penultimate show for 2022 and the theme is centred around LIGHT. The selected songs present the use of the word light as either a verb or...
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DREAMS, we all have them; the difference is we can’t always recall them. Freud spent a lifetime trying to interpret them. Songwriters have also been somewhat obsessed with dreams. This...
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Borrowing words from our National Anthem we have titled this week’s theme Girt By Sea. The playlist is an all Australian line-up with the Wild cherries, Betty McQuade, Bobby and Laurie,...
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This week’s theme presents songs about different aspects of the night. Legend, Perry Como starts the program with his Italianate ‘Mandolins In The Moon light‘ followed by the great Joan Baez...
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This week of Let’s Remember we salute the American artist Rosemary Clooney and the English pop group Dave Clark 5. Rosemary Clooney born May 23, 1928 was an American singer...
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This week we said farewell to legendary rocker, Jerry Lee Lewis. The theme is Numbers. Bouncing out at the start of the program is The Proclaimer’s rousing 500 Miles followed by Queen’s...
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This week’s theme follows the inclusion of BUILDING MATERIALS into song titles. The field of songs presents items that are used in the construction of various forms of buildings. Pink Floyd are...
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This week’s theme All About Me is self-explanatory. It features a transcendent version of Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood by the enigmatic Nina Simone. Frank Sinatra makes a rare appearance with the...
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Songs have often been vehicles for expressing views about social and political issues. The sixties was a decade of turbulent social and political upheaval and it’s not surprising that many...
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This week we dip into more great Australian music. Two songs with two strong lead singers are King Harvest‘s Wichita Lineman/By The Time I Get To Phoenix with the wonderful voice of...
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This week under the LET’S REMEMBER theme we salute the following 2 wonderful singers… Morna Anne Murray born June 20th, 1945 is a retired Canadian singer with albums comprising pop, country, and adult contemporary music have sold...
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In today’s program we will feature news and songs from two years: 1963 and 1973. For 1963 Rob has selected songs from the top ten songs in Australia for that...
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This week’s theme has songs titles which focus on DOWN…UNDER. The British are highly represented with Petula Clark’s 1964 Downtown, a duet with Queen and David Bowie Under Pressure, the rock group Status...
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Bandstand was a popular Australian television pop/variety program which screened from 1958 – 1972. Many Australian international stars began on Bandstand such as Helen Reddy (Delta Dawn), Olivia Newton-John (Let’s...
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