PMB038 The Detectives: John Gregory, Ray Martin, Sarah Angliss, Chaino, Ikebe Shakedown, Lalo Schifrin, Peter Falk, Alan Tew, Peter Herbolzheimer

We were saddened to hear of the recent passing of the man who played the greatest scruffy detective on TV, Peter Falk. We're great fans of Mr Falk here at the Moonbase and so we thought we'd turn this week's show over to the theme of detective work. As a result, you'll hear lots of our favourite cop show themes, though not necessarily as you may have heard them before.

In addition to all the cop show action, we're also excited to say that we have a bit of an exclusive in the form of an excerpt from a documentary coming up on BBC Radio 4 on Tuesday 5 July at 1:30pm by friend of the show, Sarah Angliss. The documentary is called The Bird Fancyer's Delight and looks at what we used to do for home entertainment before the advent of the Binatone games console and the radiogram, ie: training birds to reproduce popular hits of the day.

Listen now:

Embed this player on your website.

<p><b>Project Moonbase PMB038: The Detectives</b><br/></p><object width="640" height="26" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"><param value="true" name="allowfullscreen"/><param value="always" name="allowscriptaccess"/><param value="high" name="quality"/><param value="true" name="cachebusting"/><param value="#000000" name="bgcolor"/><param name="movie" value="http://www.archive.org/flow/flowplayer.commercial-3.2.1.swf" /><param value="config={'key':'#$aa4baff94a9bdcafce8','playlist':[{'url':'pmb038_the_detectives_2011_07_03.mp3','autoPlay':false}],'clip':{'autoPlay':true,'baseUrl':'http://www.archive.org/download/Pmb038TheDetectivesJohnGregoryRayMartinSarahAnglissChainoMark/'},'canvas':{'backgroundColor':'#000000','backgroundGradient':'none'},'plugins':{'audio':{'url':'http://www.archive.org/flow/flowplayer.audio-3.2.1-dev.swf'},'controls':{'playlist':false,'fullscreen':false,'height':26,'backgroundColor':'#000000','autoHide':{'fullscreenOnly':true},'scrubberHeightRatio':0.6,'timeFontSize':9,'mute':false,'top':0}},'contextMenu':[{},'-','Flowplayer v3.2.1']}" name="flashvars"/><embed src="http://www.archive.org/flow/flowplayer.commercial-3.2.1.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="640" height="26" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" cachebusting="true" bgcolor="#000000" quality="high" flashvars="config={'key':'#$aa4baff94a9bdcafce8','playlist':[{'url':'pmb038_the_detectives_2011_07_03.mp3','autoPlay':false}],'clip':{'autoPlay':true,'baseUrl':'http://www.archive.org/download/Pmb038TheDetectivesJohnGregoryRayMartinSarahAnglissChainoMark/'},'canvas':{'backgroundColor':'#000000','backgroundGradient':'none'},'plugins':{'audio':{'url':'http://www.archive.org/flow/flowplayer.audio-3.2.1-dev.swf'},'controls':{'playlist':false,'fullscreen':false,'height':26,'backgroundColor':'#000000','autoHide':{'fullscreenOnly':true},'scrubberHeightRatio':0.6,'timeFontSize':9,'mute':false,'top':0}},'contextMenu':[{},'-','Flowplayer v3.2.1']}"> </embed></object><p>Visit the <a href="http://www.projectmoonbase.com/" target="_blank">Project Moonbase website</a> to hear more from the recent future</p>

 

Alternatively, download the MP3 directly.

The Music

1.	The Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra: Kojak from 100 Greatest TV Themes
2.	Ray Martin: Ironside from Favourite T.V. Themes Volume 2/Favourite TV Themes
3.	John Gregory & His Orchestra: Columbo from Six Million Dollar TV Themes
4.	Peter Falk: All For One from Robin and the 7 Hoods:
5.	Mark Thornton: Rockford Files from Country Fried TV Tunes
6.	Sarah Angliss: The Bird Fancyers Delight (excerpt)
7.	Chaino: Swingin' Congo Bird from Africana & Beyond
8.	Ikebe Shakedown: The Hold Up from Ikebe Shakedown
9.	Bullet: The Heist (The Big One) from The Hanged Man
10.	Laurie Johnson: Chase That Car! from Girl In A Suitcase (Upgraded)
11.	Lalo Schifrin: Prologue/The Swimming Pool from Dirty Harry OST
12.	Malcolm Lockyer Orchestra: The Sweeney
13.	Woodshed1: The Sweeney
14.	Peter Herbolzheimer: Honkey Tonk Monkey from Soul Puppets - Unreleased Jazz Funk Library 1970-75

The Unnecessary News

• Plymouth council proposes bollards that look like children
• Circus offers treatment for clown-phobia
• Dog Believed to Be Reincarnation of Lawyer Sentenced to Death by Stoning
• Taiwan: Blogger fined $7K, jailed for 30 days over negative noodle review
• AutoWed vending machine concept offers marriage of convenience, nuptials at $1 a pop
• Fifa Women's World Cup 2011: Meet Ophira the successor to Paul the octopus

Playlist, 11 April 2010

The Show
Terrible news reached the Moonbase this week - The Herb is no more!

Yes, that's right, the German trombonist, composer, arranger, big band leader and all-round good egg Peter Herbolzheimer has moved on to lead the great orchestra in the sky. As a result, we celebrated the great man's work even more than usual on the show tonight.

DJ Bongoboy is your musical guide for proceedings. As well as celebrating the life of The Herb, we also had more chip prog, more space disco and more ukulele. And even another Hall and Oates cover - did I really say that?

In addition to the music, MC Zirconium, our chief of disinformation, told us all about sorcery, robots and welcome to the crispocracy.

The Music
1. Klaus Wunderlich: Cherokee from Sound 2000
2. Wout Steenhuis with Leon Young: Tuki Tuki from Hammond in Hawaii
3. Peter Herbolzheimer: That Ol' Bus Smell from Big Band Man
4. The Keith Mansfield Orchestra: Spinning Wheel from All You Need Is Keith Mansfield
5. Paul Mauriat: Love Is Still Blue from Disco Jazz
6. Meco: Theme From The Black Hole from Movie Themes Go Disco!
7. Yakuza Heart Attack: Evil Brain from Yakuza Heart Attack
8. Gannon: The World, It Spins Around from Toy Volcano
9. Horst Jankowski: Baronesse from Jankowskeynotes
10. Bert Kaempfert: Bert's Bossa Nova from That Latin Feeling
11. J Arthur Keenes: Wetherbee
12. The Bird and the Bee: I Can't Go for That from Interpreting the Masters, Vol 1
13. Peter Herbolzheimer: Wild Chick from Big Band Man
14. Gannon: Gravity from Toy Volcano
15. Peter Herbolzheimer: Aquarius/Let The Sunshine from Big Band Man

The Disinformation

• Saudi Arabia government to behead man for practicing witchcraft
• CAUTION! Hookers Crossing!
• USC scientists figure out how to turn t-shirts into body armor
• Crisps top list of dangerous driving foods
• Aliens are living on earth disguised as humans, according to one fifth of adults in a new global survey.
• Crisp packets could pick general election winner
• Robots are taking over Part 1: Turk unwraps doner kebab robot
• Robots are taking over Part 2: the towel-folding robot and here
• 7,500 shoppers unknowingly sold their souls
• Cash-strapped county offers Hollywood chance to blow up decaying bridge
• Driver blames UFO for failure to pay parking fine
• Family accidentally discover church under home