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Birthday Boys: Tom Waits & Louis Prima

Guy Garvey brings his own unique taste to 6 Music, and wishes happy birthday to two greats - Tom Waits and the late Louis Prima.

Guy Garvey brings his own unique taste to 6 Music, and wishes happy birthday to two greats - Tom Waits and the late Louis Prima.

Plus, new music from the likes of Eliza, some old favourites including The Flaming Lips and Joan As Police Woman, and a celebration of Dorothy Dandridge in the Beckapedia.

Produced in Salford by BBC Audio for BBC Radio 6 Music.

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Mon 8 Dec 202500:00
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Music Played

  • George Martin & Peter Sellers

    A Hard Day's Night

    • Parlophone UK.

  • Eliza

    Anyone Else

    • Log Off Records.

  • Tom Waits

    Cold Cold Ground

    • Island Records.

  • Louis Prima

    Just a Gigolo / I Ain't Got Nobody

    • CGH Ventures Inc..

  • Jonathan Wilson

    Desert Raven

    • Bella Union.

  • Led Zeppelin

    Over The Hills And Far Away

    • Atlantic Records.

  • Vince Guaraldi Trio

    Skating

  • Tom Waits

    Clap Hands

    • Island Records.

  • Murray Head

    When I'm Yours

    • Island.

  • Joan As Police Woman

    Anyone

    • Reveal Records.

  • The Bothy Band

    Music In The Glen

    • Mulligan Records.

  • The Flaming Lips

    All We Have Is Now

    • Warner Bros.

  • Tom Waits

    What's He Building?

    • Chromedreams.

  • Department of Eagles

    Floating On The Lehigh

    • 4AD.

  • Al Green

    Love and Happiness

    • Beechwood.

  • PJ Harvey

    The Glorious Land

    • Island.

  • The Smashing Pumpkins

    Obscured

    • EMI.

  • Cream

    I Feel Free

    • POLYDOR.

  • Cat Stevens

    Into White

    • Universal Music TV.

  • Tom Waits

    Walking Spanish

    • Island Records.

  • Louis Prima

    Oh Marie

    • Capitol Records.

  • Kings of Convenience

    Riot On An Empty Street

    • PIAS.

  • Gravenhurst

    Trust

    • Warp.

  • Bon Iver

    Re: Stacks

    • Jagjaguwar.

  • Cat Stevens

    Wild World

    • Island.

  • This Is the Kit

    Earthquake

    • Dreamboat Records.

  • Tom Waits

    Grapefruit Moon

    • Asylum.

  • Dorothy Dandridge

    The Nearness Of You

    • The Verve Music Group.

  • London Symphony Orchestra

    Cavalleria Rusticana: Intermezzo

    • Beach Road Music.

  • Robyn

    Dopamine

    • Young.

  • Say She She

    Cut and Rewind (6Music Session, 18th November, 2025)

  • A Tribe Called Quest

    Electric Relaxation

    • The Anthology.
    • Jive.
    • 8.

  • Nostalgia 77 & Beth Rowley

    Quiet Dawn

  • Massive Attack

    Splitting the Atom

    • Virgin.

  • Duke Ellington & Louis Armstrong

    It Don't Mean A Thing (If it Ain't Got That Swing)

    • EMI.

  • Louis Prima, Phil Harris & Bruce Reitherman

    I Wan'na Be Like You (The Monkey Song)

    • BMG.

  • Tom Waits

    Jockey Full Of Bourbon

    • Island Records.

  • Savourna Stevenson

    An Buachaille

    • Cooking Vinyl.

  • Five Stairsteps

    O-o-h Child

    • Sony Music Entertainment UK Ltd.

  • The Beatles

    A Hard Day's Night

    • Parlophone.

  • Tom Waits

    Picture In A Frame

    • Epitaph.

Broadcasts

  • Sun 7 Dec 202513:00
    BBC Radio 6 Music
  • Mon 8 Dec 202500:00
    BBC Radio 6 Music