PMB007: First Lady of the Hammond, Ethel Smith (21/11/2010)

On the show this week we celebrate the imminent 100th anniversary of birth of the First Lady of the Hammond Organ, Ethel Smith. We also have some fabulous retro-futuristic radiophonic pop from the Monroeville Music Center as well as a couple from a new compilation of spaced-out disco from across the gamut of European library music labels - and some nerdcore.

In addition to the music, MC Zirconium may or may not be telling us about talking plants, UFOs landing in Brazil and the Colonel's secret recipe.

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The Music

1.	John Fiddy & Sammy Burdson: Robotory from Cosmic Future Groove Vol. 1
2.	XoC: The Long Lonely Journey from Compendium of Knowledge
3.	Monroeville Music Center: B002 from Generic Product
4.	Ethel Smith: Cuban Cutie (With The Bando Carioca) from Shes Got Rhythm!
5.	Johnny Dankworth: Down a Tone from Let's Slip Away - Film and TV 1960-1973
6.	Disasterpeace: Let's Fix This Ship! from Astral Puzzle Meltdown (Soundtrack)
7.	Sam Sklair & Gus Calbraith: Computer Talk from Cosmic Future Groove Vol. 1
8.	Monroeville Music Center: A002 from Generic Product
9.	Pierre Arvay: Merry Ocarina from Music While You Watch
10.	Ethel Smith: Poinciana (Song Of The Tree) from First Lady Of The Hammond Organ
11.	Jean Jacques Perrey/Dana Countryman: Tico Tico from The Happy Electropop Music Machine
12.	Matt Berry: One Track Lover (Down A Two Way Lane) from Darkplace

The Disinformation

• Sir Clive announces the X1 battery-powered bike
• Dick van Dyke rescued by porpoises
• Arizonan boffin recreates the conditions of 300 million years ago in order to grow giant insects

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Playlist, 12 April 2009

The Show On tonight's show: Easter Bunnies, tracks from the new Holden album, something from Mike Batt(!), ukulele, organ, Moog and a couple of tracks from the still-to-be-released new album from The Emperor Machine. The Music We started this Easter show with a brace of bunnies: 1. Metrophonics - Close Up (Charles Wilp: Michelangelo In Space - The Bunny Remixes, 2000) 2. Tipsy - Bunny Kick (Uh-Oh!, 2001) Next up a track from the brand new album by Holden: 3. Holden - Mia (Fantomatisme, 2009) Followed by another piece of French pop - complete with ukulele: 4. Mareva Galanter - C'est Bon (UkuYéyé, 2006) @Mike_Batt started following me on Twitter so to mark this auspicious event we played this next track. Shortly afterwards, he stopped following me on Twitter. I'm not sure if the two are related: 5. Synthesonic Sounds - Superfly (The Easy Project - 20 Loungecore Favourites, 1973) As a certain car manufacturer has decided to use a song by The Free Design to promote their latest vehicle we felt it was time play a song by this wonderful band: 6. The Free Design - Canada In Springtime (There Is A Song, 1972) 7. The Bran Flakes - Dance Of The Sugarsnap Fairy (I Have Hands, 2008) Following the news of the "surprise" premiere of the new Star Trek movie (see below) we played possibly the only guitar version of the theme tune: 8. The Ventures - Star Trek (Batman Theme & TV Themes) 9. The Emperor Machine - The Frontist (Space Beyond The Egg, 2009) 10. Bill Bockey - Berk (45 single) 11. Tony Hatch & The Satin Brass - Codename (Sounds Of The 70s, 1970) We meant to play this next track on last week's show - oops! 12. Jack Parnell - Cha Cha Rock (Trip to Mars, 1958) 13. Bert Kaempfert - Cha Cha Brasilia (That Latin Feeling, 1964) Then we returned to the new Holden album: 14. Holden - Longue Est Ma Descente - Fantomatisme - 2009 Followed by a track which we meant to play on last week's show marking what would have been Joe Meek's 80th birthday: 15. The Sharades - Dumb Head (Let's Go! Joe Meek's Girls, 1995) Our roaming charity shop digger, Fuz, sent us a truly extraordinary version of the theme to the Godfather: 16. Harold Smart - Love Theme from the Godfather (Love Sensations) And we closed the show with another master of the organ: 17. Dick Hyman - The Third Man Theme (The Man From O.R.G.A.N., 1965) The News

• An Easter Egg that is also a sound investment
• Gadget of the week: A Diamond Tester
• 100 years of toast
• Dungeons & Dragons Co-Creater Passes Away and here
• Honda is going dog friendly with the Element
• This week in idiotic transport #1 - Project P.U.M.A
• This week in idiotic transport #2 - The Chariot
• NASA astronaut goes Tweet Tweet
• Swedish parishioners unveil Lego statue of Jesus - AP
• What would Jesus tweet?
• Scientists create no calories chocolate whiff
• Polish politician fumes over "gay" elephant in zoo
• Court fines mother for phoning son too much
• Leonard Nimoy springs surprise on trekkies in Texas by showing them the new movie and here