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Rock n Roll Birthdays this week for Imelda May, including an exclusive track she recorded for Geoff`s show in 2011`, plus Rock n Roll and R&B legend..Louis Jordan.
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Rock n Roll Birthdays this week for Imelda May, including an exclusive track she recorded for Geoff`s show in 2011`, plus Rock n Roll and R&B legend..Louis Jordan.

And 65 years since Lonnie Donegan and Chris Barber recorded their hugely influential song ` Rock Island Line`. Which is also being celebrated at a big London concert this weekend.

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Sun 7 Jul 201922:00
BBC Radio Bristol, BBC Radio Gloucestershire, BBC Radio Somerset & BBC Radio Wiltshire

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Music Played

  • Chan Romero

    Hippy hippy shake

  • Thurston Harris

    Little bitty pretty one

  • Imelda May

    Johnny got a boom boom

  • Tommy Roe

    Sheila

  • Warren Smith

    Sweet sweet girl

  • Louis Jordan

    Choo choo ch’ boogie

  • Bill Haley and His Comets

    Razzle dazzle

  • Freddie Bell & the Bell Boys

    Teach you to rock

  • The Crickets

    Rock me my baby

  • Matchbox

    Tell me how

  • Ringo Starr, Carl Perkins & Friends

    Honey don’t

  • Elvis Presley

    Heartbreak hotel

  • Imelda May

    Sneaky freak

  • The Drifters (The Shadows)

    Bongo Blues

  • The Strays

    Get out of this town

  • Sandford Clark

    The Fool

  • The Sharps

    Have love will travel

  • Duane Eddy

    Shazam

  • Lonnie Donegan

    Rock Island Line

  • Lonnie Donegan

    John Henry

  • Chan Romero

    My little ruby

  • Eddie Cochran

    Weekend

  • Haney’s Big House

    Three sheets

  • Imelda May & Darrel Higham

    The train kept a rollin

  • Warren Smith

    Red cadillac and a black moustache

  • Billy Lee Riley and His Little Green Men

    Flying saucer rock n roll

  • Hayden Thompson

    Love my baby

  • Bo Diddley

    Bo Diddley’s a lover

  • Thurston Harris

    Be baba leba

  • The Everly Brothers

    Temptation

  • Joe Brown

    Your tender look

  • Imelda May

    Tainted love

  • Junior Brown

    Highway patrol

  • Cliff Richard & The Drifters

    A voice in the wilderness

  • Dion

    Donna

  • The Crickets

    Send me some loving

Broadcasts

  • Sun 7 Jul 201918:00
    BBC Radio Guernsey, BBC Radio Devon, BBC Radio Jersey & BBC Radio Cornwall
  • Sun 7 Jul 201922:00
    BBC Radio Bristol, BBC Radio Gloucestershire, BBC Radio Somerset & BBC Radio Wiltshire