PMB017 John Barry: Mr Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

On this special bumper edition of the show we'll be celebrating the astonishing, iconic work of the greatest film soundtrack composer of the 20th century, John Barry, who sadly left us last weekend. His music was known - and loved - by literally millions of people. In fact it's hard to imagine anyone in the Western world who isn't at least aware of the great man's music. Honorary Moon Lord John Barry will be greatly missed.

For our own humble celebration of the great man's work, every tune on this week's show is a Barry composition. Some are played by the man himself but mostly they're played in a selection of weird and wonderful ways by some of our favourite artists.

In addition to all the John Barry, MC Zirconium will also be asking us to contemplate the handsome dining room of the Hotel Wessex with its gilded plaster shields and the mural depicting the green mountains.

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The Music

1.	Ray Barretto: Mister Kiss Kiss Bang Bang from Señor 007
2.	Oranj Symphonette: Beat Girl from The Oranj Album
3.	John Barry: Florida Fantasy (also theme to Wildtrack) from Midnight Cowboy (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
4.	Edmundo Ros & His Orchestra: From Russia With Love from Latin Boss - The Centenary Collection
5.	Hugo Montenegro & His Orchestra: Goldfinger from The Best Of Hugo Montenegro
6.	Laika & The Cosmonauts: The Ipcress File from The Amazing Colossal Band
7.	Killer Watts: The Persuaders from Golden Instrumental Hits
8.	Ferrante & Teicher (and Vinnie Bell): Midnight Cowboy from All Time Great Movie Themes
9.	John Barry & His Orchestra: Theme from the film "Seance On A Wet Afternoon" from John Barry: The EMI Years: Volume Three: 1962-1964
10.	John Barry Seven & Orchestra: Fancy Dance (from The Newcomers) from John Barry Revisited (Part 4): The Ember Singles Plus
11.	Lenny Dee: Born Free from Moving On
12.	Dick Hyman: Thunderball from The Man From O.R.G.A.N.
13.	John Barry: Sail The Summer Winds from Lounge Legends

The Unnecessary News

• 7 Year old boy, buys £70,000 fighter jet on eBay
• Clean up the ocean by breeding vast herds of sea cucumbers, then eating them
• Giant net to sweep up space junk?
• Drunk scientists pour wine on superconductors and make an incredible discovery
• Cabin crew reveal oddest requests from travellers
• 'Jenius' shows off his misspelt tattoo in mugshot

Playlist, 29/06/08

The Show On this week's show we celebrated two centenaries: firstly today marks the centenary of the king of orchestral "pops" music, Leroy Anderson. And coming up on Tuesday will be the centenary of the virtuoso slide guitar player and electronics pioneer Alvino Rey. The Music First of all we welcomed back our roving news correspondent MC Zirconium from Paris with a couple of French-flavoured lovelies: 1. Screamin' Jay Hawkins - I Love Paris (Cow Fingers and Mosquito Pie, 1991) 2. Pizzicato Five - tokyo mon amour DISCOTIQUE 96 MIX (combinasion SPACIALE ep, 1996) Neil Diamond played the "tea-time" slot at Glastonbury earlier today so we played a version of one of his more famous compositions: 3. Quincy Jones - I'm a Believer (Cactus Flower OST, 1969) 4. Ray Davies - Hadrian's Wall (Benny & the Duke, 1973) 5. Ajo Y Su Organo Oriental - Black Is Black (Easy Melodías) Next up were the first couple of tracks in our Leroy Anderson feature: 6. Terry Snyder & The All Stars - Blue Tango (Persuasive Percussion, 1960) 7. Hot Butter - Syncopated Clock (Popcorn, 1973) Then another track from the great new compilation by Vickie Bennett aka People Like Us: 8. Komar & Melamid And Dave Soldier - The Most Unwanted Song (Edit) (Smiling Through My Teeth, 2008) Next it was time for today's other featured artist: 9. Alvino Rey - Mama Blues (excerpt) (1961) 10. Alvino Rey - The Peanut Vendor (Ping Pong!, 1960) 11. Ira Ironstrings (Alvino Rey) - Blacksmith Blues And then some lovely exotica from a jazz giant: 12. Yusef Lateef - Taboo (Other Sounds, 1957) We played a track from this new album last week which featured dialogue from the movie Tron. Well, here's another track, this time taking its inspiration from that John Carpenter classic Dark Star: 13. Disrupt - Bomb 20 (Foundation Bit, 2008) We've been featuring various tracks from the DC Recordings label in the last couple of shows and the kind fellows have sent us some more great music so here's a track from the brand new compilation Death Before Distemper 2: 14. Kelpe - Shipwreck Glue (Death Before Distemper 2, 2008) And then it was time to close our two features, firstly by playing a Moog-ed up version of what we think of as Leroy Anderson's most famous tune: 15. Jean Jacques Perrey/Dana Countryman - The Typewriter (The Happy Electropop Music Machine, 2006) Our other featured artist, Alvino Rey, had a nice side-line going on in the 1960s as one of many virtuoso players in Esquivel's band and you can hear his slide guitar playing on many tracks including: 16. Esquivel - Baia (Infinity in Sound Vol 2, 1961) The Ian Fleming centenary finally reaches Edinburgh with a new exhibition at the City Art Centre. We used this as an excuse to play some more Bond: 17. Matt Berry/Peter Serafinowicz - Goldfingo (Peter Serafinowicz's Album) 18. James Bond & His Sextet - James Bond Theme (Shaken Not Stirred, 1965) And we closed the show with a couple of belters starting with another amazing version of show favourite Caravan: 19. Bernard Pretty Purdie - Caravan 20. Phil Clinton - She's Born Loser (A Trip? Just A Little Beat, 2008) The News

• Tiny Shetland island declares independence
• CERN declares Large Hadron Collider perfectly safe
• Record-breaking toaster
• Electricity generating brassiere
• Dance energy charger
• Ray Gun channel changer
• Mathmos Graphite Space Project Light
• Mmmm Space asparagus
• Lawn-mower Boy
• Bad Pigeons
• John Oates’ Moustache Cartoon