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Pete Rugolo & Mel Torme

Graham's special guests this week are Pete Rugolo and Mel Torme.

More swinging performances from across the years and around the world featuring the finest crooners, songbirds, small groups, big bands, orchestras and instrumentalists.

Also, we’ll hear from two more witnesses to musical history from Graham’s archive of interviews. In part one, American Arranger, Composer and Conductor Pete Rugolo who was born on December the 25th, 1915.

And in part two, Mel Torme remembers writing one of the most famous of all songs about the Festive Season, ’The Christmas Song. And Graham’s musical theme this week is Winter!

2 hours

Last on

Sun 18 Dec 201622:00
BBC Radio Gloucestershire, BBC Radio Somerset, BBC Radio Bristol & BBC Radio Wiltshire

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Music Played

  • Artie Shaw

    Let’s Walk

  • Sammy Davis Jr.

    The Goin’s Great

  • Lena Horne

    A Fine Romance

  • Frank Sinatra

    Come Rain Or Come Shine

  • Eydie Gormé

    Winter Night

  • Antônio Carlos Jobim

    Looks Like December

  • Pete Rugolo

    Early Stan

  • June Christy & Stan Kenton

    He’s Funny That Way

  • Shelly Manne

    I Could Have Danced All Night

  • Bobby Darin

    Don’t Rain On My Parade

  • Julie London

    Warm December

  • Buddy Greco

    Like Young

  • Benny Goodman

    Winter Weather

  • The Manhattan Transfer

    Let It Snow

  • Benny Carter

    Roses In December

  • Ella Fitzgerald

    Lover Come Back To Me

  • Tommy Dorsey

    On The Atchison, Topeka And The Santa Fe

  • Harry Connick, Jr.

    The Happy Elf

  • Chet Baker

    Look For The Silver Lining

  • Sérgio Mendes

    Cinnamon And Clove

  • Nat King Cole

    The Christmas Song

  • Mel Tormé

    I Got Plenty Of Nothin’

  • George Melachrino

    Winter Sunshine

  • Diana Krall

    Santa Claus Is Coming To Town

  • Stan Freberg

    Green Christmas

  • Keely Smith

    When Your Lover Has Gone

  • The Four Freshmen

    Oh Lonely Winter

  • Benny Goodman

    Down South Camp Meeting

Broadcasts

  • Sun 18 Dec 201615:00
    BBC Radio Gloucestershire, BBC Radio Somerset, BBC Radio Bristol & BBC Radio Wiltshire
  • Sun 18 Dec 201620:00
    BBC Radio Devon, BBC Radio Jersey, BBC Radio Guernsey & BBC Radio Cornwall
  • Sun 18 Dec 201622:00
    BBC Radio Gloucestershire, BBC Radio Somerset, BBC Radio Bristol & BBC Radio Wiltshire