The Whole Nine Yards Episode 273     

With Roy Stannard

On Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

Sunday 19 April 26  3-5pm

www.midsussexradio.co.uk/listen

My Favourite Squeezes

The accordion is an instrument you might think you already know. Think again. The squeezebox has travelled through centuries, across borders, through cafés, carnivals, protest marches and back‑street bars, and yet it still plays on.

You’ll hear it lift indie anthems, ground folk ballads, and weave through electronic textures where it simply shouldn’t sound this good. It adds breath to circuit boards, adventure to minimalism, and an old voice to machine-made music. It reminds us that music is still made by air moving through reeds.

Hour One

Peter Sarstedt – Where do you go to my lovely? (Peter Sarstedt 1969)

The Beach Boys – God Only Knows (1966)

The Young Rascals – How Can I Be Sure (Groovin’ 1967)

The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band – Mr Bojangles (Uncle Charlie & His Dog Teddy 1970)        

Nilsson – Gotta Get Up (Nilsson Schmilsson

Cole Gallagher – Chatting Through Steel (The Confluence 2021)

Bruce Springsteen – 4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy) (The Wild, The Innocent & The E Street Shuffle

1973)

Arcade Fire – Neighbourhood 2 (Laika) (Funeral 2004)

Ceili Rain – Love Travels (Say KAY-lee 1997)

Steve Earle – Burnin’ It Down (The Low Highway 2013)

Los Lobos – La Bamba (La Bamba Soundtrack 1987)

Dire Straits – Romeo & Juliet (Making Movies 1980)

Hour Two

Flogging Molly – Drunken Lullabies (Drunken Lullabies 2002)

They Might Be Giants – Istanbul (Not Constantinople)  (Flood 1990)

Split Enz – Six Months In A Leaky Boat (Time And Tide 1982)

Billy Joel – Piano Man (Piano Man 1973)

First Aid Kit – King Of The World (The Lion’s Roar 2012)

The Pogues – A Pair of Brown Eyes (Rum Sodomy & the Lash 1985)

Siouxsie and the Banshees – The Last Beat of My Heart (Peepshow 1988)

Fontaines D.C. – The Couple Across The Way (Skinty Fia 2022)

Rufus Wainwright – Dinner At Eight (Want One 2003)

Styx – Boat on the River (Cornerstone 1979)

The Rolling Stones – Back Street Girl   (Between The Buttons Remastered 1967)

ELP – C’Est La Vie (Works Vol. 1 1977)