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“Fabulous Flops”!

Geoff is playing a bunch of “Fabulous Flops”. Rock ‘n’ Roll classics which are now so familiar they must have been big hits!

Geoff is playing a bunch of “Fabulous Flops”. Rock ‘n’ Roll classics which are now so familiar they must have been big hits - but which in fact, did NOT make the UK charts! Songs like Buddy Holly & The Crickets “It’s So Easy”, Jerry Lee Lewis’ “Little Queenie” and surely the most inexplicable “flop” of them all - Chuck Berry and his immortal “Johnny B Goode”. Not one a hit - and there are loads more.

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Sat 24 May 201418:00
BBC Radio Jersey, BBC Radio Devon, BBC Radio Guernsey, BBC Radio Somerset, BBC Radio Bristol & 2 more

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Music Played

  • Hour 1

    • The Crickets

      THAT`LL BE THE DAY

    • The Teen Kings

      DOMINO

    • Buddy Knox

      PARTY DOLL

    • Rodney Crowell

      FRANKIE PLEASE

    • Clint Bradley

      I WISH I`D BEEN THERE

    • Imelda May

      GHOST OF LOVE

    • Marty Robbins

      MAYBELLINE

    • Chuck Berry

      COME ON

    • The Stick Shifts

      AUTOMOBILE

  • "Same Title..Different Song"

    • Chris Montez

      LET`S DANCE

    • Del Shannon

      LET`S DANCE

    • Rusty York

      TREMBLIN`

    • Rusty York

      GOODNIGHT CINCINNATI, GOOD MORNING TENNESSEE

    • THE DOWNTOWN DADDYO`S

      C`MON AND DANCE WITH ME

    • The Shadows

      BABY MY HEART

    • Chris Isaak

      BLUE MOON OF KENTUCKY

  • Hour 2 - "Fabulous Flops"

    • Eddie Cochran

      20 FLIGHT ROCK

    • Rick Nelson

      I`M WALKIN`

    • Jerry Lee Lewis

      LITTLE QUEENIE

    • The Silhouettes

      GET A JOB

    • Fats Domino

      I`M READY

    • Chuck Berry

      SWEET LITTLE ROCK N ROLLER

    • The Crickets

      It's So Easy

    • Wilbert Harrison

      KANSAS CITY

    • The Clovers

      LOVE POTION NUMBER NINE

    • Bo Diddley

      ROAD RUNNER

    • Dion & The Belmonts

      I WONDER WHY

    • The Coasters

      I`M A HOG FOR YOU

    • Bobby Lewis

      TOSSIN` & TURNIN`

    • Gene Chandler

      DUKE OF EARL

    • Carl Perkins

      YOUR TRUE LOVE

    • Bobby Freeman

      DO YOU WANNA DANCE

    • Dale Hawkins

      SUSIE-Q

    • Eddie Fontaine

      NOTHIN` SHAKIN`

    • The Jive Five

      WHAT TIME IS IT?

    • Shep & the Limelites

      DADDY`S HOME

Broadcasts

  • Sat 24 May 201418:00
    BBC Radio Jersey, BBC Radio Devon, BBC Radio Guernsey, BBC Radio Somerset, BBC Radio Bristol & 2 more
  • Sat 24 May 201418:05
    BBC Radio Gloucestershire