89.7 Eastside FM » ECLECTIQUE

Eclectique 09:10:10

tonyroma — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 07:37:30 +0000

After two weeks away in Japan, it was good to see The Sheik back in the cockpit in Studio A. While an overnight flight left him a little shy on sleep, he wasn’t being shy behind the mic “I don’t know what I’ll say, but I do know what I’ll play”. And so he went on….. and on about his time in Japan, including an admission of “whale tasting”, then “protest throwing up”.

The biggest admission of the night was announced early too…… and repeated several times after, that being that tonight’s show was the second last Eclectique show…. ever! So The Sheik delved into some old faves, and promised more faves saved for next weeks show….his last. Hope you can tune in then.

Here’s the full playlist-

Style Council- ‘Micks Blessing’

Roger Miller- ‘Do Wack A Do’

Johhny Duncan- ‘Atlanta Georgia Stray’

Bruce Barry- ‘There’s a Man Who Ain’t got Nothing’

Charlie Rich- ‘Behind Closed Doors’

Terry Briton- ‘Age of Consent’

Honeycomb- ‘Have I the Right’

Dixie Flyers- ‘Nashville Skyline Rag’

Ben Rumson- ‘Best Things’

Beach Boys- ‘Darlin’

Dusty Springfield- ‘When the Lovelight Starts Shining Through His Eyes’

Unit 4 + 2- ‘Concrete and Clay’

The Troggs- ‘With a Girl Like You’

The Dice- ‘Chayla’

The Ritz- ‘In By Ten’

UB40- ’12 Bar’

England World Cup Squad 1982- ‘This Time’

Sweet People- ‘Ballade Pour Tsi-Co Tsi-Co

The Korgis- ‘Everybody’s Gotta Learn Sometime’

Judie Tzutke- ‘Ladies Night’

Shona Laing- ‘Glad I’m Not a Kennedy’

The Brothers Johnson- ‘Strawberry Letter 23′

The Ojays- ‘For the Love of Money’

Soul Finders- ‘Going Out of My Head’

The Visitors- ‘The Other Side’

Arthur Fiedler- ‘Disco Inferno’

Tom Waits- ‘Rosie’

Little Feat- ‘Willin’

Eclectique 11:09:10

tonyroma — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 00:37:02 +0000

Just the 18 different sports finals to contend with for potential listeners to this weeks show, but most games were finished with right on the buzzer that brought in the Eclectique show. The Sheik managed to produce a show of ‘Finals’ quality, even though he claimed he had “no eyesight for the first 30 mins” having used it up in the two hours previous. As usual, there were winners and losers, and “as usual the Kiwis won and we lost” but it wasn’t that loss that hurt most, “The Sheik ran out of puff at the Port Macquarie horse races on Friday, after leading most of the way”. “But like the good lord may or may have not said, it’s better to have hit the front and lost, than to never have hit the front at all”

Amen

Here’s the full playlist-

Steve Forbett- ‘Song For Katrina’

Roger Miller- ‘Ruby, Don’t take you guns to town’

Danny O’Keefe- ‘The Valentines Pieces’

Ry Cooder- ‘Dark is the Night’

J J Cale- ‘Okie’

John Martyn- ‘Back to Stay’

Leon Redbone- ‘Te Na Na’

Randy Newman- ‘I Love L.A’

Gary U.S. Bands- ‘This Little Girl’

Gary Puckett- ‘To Love Somebody’

Charlie Rich- ‘Lady Love’

Van Morrison- ‘Wavelength’

Exile- ‘I Won’t to Kiss you all Over’

Leo Sayer- ‘Thunder in my Night’

Blood Sweat and Tears- ‘I Can’t move no Mountains’

Keith Herman- ‘Good News Day’

Brendo- ‘Gimme Some’

Tina Turner- ‘Under my Thumb’

King Curtis- ‘Memphis Soul Stew’

The Chi Lites- ‘When Temptation Comes’

Joe Walsh- ‘I’ll tell the World About You’

Andrew Sisters- ‘Rum and Coca Cola’

Mamas & Papas- ‘Go Where You Wanna Go’

Jon Hendricks- ‘Lil Darlin’

Yehudi Menuhin & Stepane Grappeli- ‘These Foolish Things’

Joe Cocker- ‘Guilty’

Joan Armatrading- ‘Love and Affection’

Persuaders- ‘Thin Line Between Love and Hate’

Tavares- ‘Penny for Your Thoughts’

Clarence Carter- ‘Patches’

Burt Bacharach- ‘Make it Easy on Yourself’

Magic Guitar- ‘People Need Love’

The Chi Lites- ‘It’s Time for Love’

Eclectique 04:09:10

tonyroma — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 00:52:57 +0000

“There’s something about Spring that makes me feel, I don’t know, different” says The Sheik. Well there’s plenty of reasons Sheik, it’s finals time in the footy, your beloved horse racing hits peak season and not to mention the weather heats up. “yeah there’s all that, but the other day I picked some flowers off a tree and whacked them in a vase”. Yeah that’s not very ‘you’ Sheik, but need I remind you, that is a form of pilfering “and that is very ‘me’.

Here’s the full playlist-

The Shotgun Express- ‘Funny Cause Neither Could I’

The Grass Roots- ‘Sooner or later’

The Persuasions- ‘La La La La La La’

American Breed- ‘Bend Me Shake Me’

Rolley Polley- ‘Shifty’

Lenny Dee- ‘Sweet Caroline’

Midnight String Quartet- ‘Summer Samba’

Dusty Springfield- ‘Sea and Sky’

Jimmy Cliff- ‘Reggae Night’

Ruud Gullit- ‘Not the Dancing Kind’

Roberta Flack- ‘Knowing that We’re Made for Each other’

Greg Kihn- ‘Dedication’

Eddie Money- ‘You’re Really got a Hold on me’

Tom Petty- ‘American Girl’

Jo Jo Zep- ‘Tighten Up’

Inxs- ‘What Would You Do’

Spy V Spy- ‘Go to Work’

Alphaville- ‘Forever Young’

George McRae- ‘Rock Your Baby’

Silver Convention- ‘San Francisco Hustle’

Van Mc Coy- ‘The Hustle’

Richard Simmons- ‘Don’t Tell Me’

Elvis Presley- ‘Never Been to Spain’

Aretha Franklin- ‘Will You Come Back To Me’

Ronnie Aldrich- ‘The Entertainer’

Enoch Light- ‘Mi Adorado’

Van Morrison- ‘Carrickfergus’

Billy Bragg- ‘Greetings to the New Brunette’

Duanne Eddy- ‘Rebel’

Paper Lace- ‘The Night Chicago Died’

The Banshees- ‘Big Buildin’

The Stylistics- ‘You Make me Feel Brand New’

Eclectique 21:08:2010

tonyroma — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 07:03:36 +0000

“I’m all for a party” says The Sheik “but really, an Election Party! Where’s the fun in that?” but people do have them, and others turn up. Guests hang around the TV and chat, it’s not that hard to do Sheik, “Yeah, well I tried watching the coverage, but it was too much to bear, and did they really need to take over ‘Funniest Home Videos’ time slot? That’s what hurt the most”

So the parties went on, and The Sheik played his usual mixed bag, and maybe, just maybe, at one of these election parties around town, they had the TV on, the sound down, and the radio tuned to 89.7 fm, that way maybe, just maybe, The Sheik did turn up.

Now that’s liberal thinking.

Here’s the full playlist

Burl Ives- ‘Gentle on my Mind’

Chet Atkins- ‘Harper Valley PTA’

Lionel Rose- ‘Pick me up on Your Way Down’

Perry Como- ‘Sunshine Wine’

Jackie De Shannon- ‘Always Together’

Ringo Starr- ‘It Don’t Come Easy’

Joe South- ‘Birds of a Feather’

Nathan Livingstone- ‘Give a Little Love’

Eddy Grant- ‘I Love You, Yes I Love You’

The Sports- ‘Little Girl’

Slade- ‘When The Lights Go Out’

They Might Be Giants- ‘Don’t Let Start’

T Bone Burnett- ‘The Killer Moon’

Bee Gees- ‘It Doesn’t Matter Much To Me’

Slim Whitman- ‘Indian Love Call’

Jane Clifton- ‘Baby Wasn’t it You’

The Stylistics- ‘$7000 and you’

Chris Bruhn und sein orcheser- ‘Little Arrows’

The Real Thing- ‘Whenever You Want My Love’

Billy Crystal- ‘You Look Marvelous’

Cameo- ‘Word Up’

The Smurfs- ‘The Smurf Song’

Stevie Wonder- ‘Never had a Dream Come True’

Rod Stewart- ‘Drift Away’

Janis Joplin- ‘Cry Baby’

Leonard Cohen- ‘Love Calls You by Your Name’

John Martyn- ‘Go Easy’

Jim Croce- ‘What the Hell’

Bill Anderson- ‘Quits’

The Tattoos- Limon Limonero’

Dean Martin and Nancy Sinatra- ‘Things’

Nancy Wilson- ‘Watch What Happens’

Eclectique 07:08:10

tonyroma — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 09:12:04 +0000

The Sheik received an interesting email during the week from a fan by the name of Jake, from Carss Park.

It read- “Dear Sheik, I love your show, so much so that I went to the Eastside website and printed out a poster sized print of your picture from your homepage. Be sure to watch Packed to the Rafters on Tuesday night 8.30 on Channel 7 so you can see how it looks. All the best, Jake”

The Sheik is always happy to hear from the fans “especially from ones like James (from Bondi Junction), who tipped me into a horse called ‘The Sheik’ that got the chocolates at Port Macquarie a couple of weeks ago”

Here’s the playlist for this week.

Hank Williams- ‘Hey Good Lookin’

Flatt & Scruggs- ‘Cripple Creek’

Tony Joe White- ‘Aspen Colorado’

Charlie Rich- ‘Sunday Kind of Woman’

The Cowsills- ‘Indian lake’

The Doobie Brothers- ‘It won’t be Right’

Phoebe Snow- ‘Every Night’

Nona Hendryx- ‘Soft Targets’

Miss linda George- ‘Mam’s Little Girl’

Silver Convention- ‘You’ve Turned me on’

Fox- ‘Silk Milk’

Bert Kaempfert- ‘Rose Engeitada’

Dusty Springfield- ‘Wishin & Hopin’

Bobby Rydell- ‘Tomorrow is Today’

The Blow Monkeys- ‘Heaven is a Place I’m Moving To’

Daid Bowie- ‘Up Hill Backwards’

Morrissey- ‘Our Frank’

Jimmy & the Boys- ‘Brave New World’

Suzi Quatro- ‘Daytona Demon’

Story- ‘Come Here & Join Me Baby’

Kim Wilde- ‘Chequered Love’

Rachel Sweet- ‘Then He Kissed Me’

Wilson Pickett- ‘Time Is On My Side’

Jackie Wilson- ‘You Brought About a Change in Me’

Alvin Stardust- ‘Jealous Mind’

Johnny Cash- ‘Don’t Take Your Guns to Town’

Kiki Dee- ‘Amourese’

Leonard Wayne- ‘That’s All I Want From You’

Kenny Nolan- ‘Time Ain’t Time Enough’

Quincy Jones- ‘Roots Medley’

Carole King- ‘Way Over Yonder’

Eclectique 31:07:10

tonyroma — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 01:59:45 +0000

“I’m not sure what the request was” says The sheik, “I didn’t quite hear it properly”, so it’s hard to confirm which Eurovision song was the one called in and requested by a dear listener on Saturday Night. “It wasn’t even a request as such, it was more of a ‘I would’ve played (insert name) after that last song”.

After some internet research, going off a couple of vowels The Sheik may or may of have heard properly, the song we think it was is ‘Prima Donna’s, Love Enough For Two’. “And I tell you what, the bloke was right, I should’ve played it too!”

Here’s the full playlist.

Bruce Barry- ‘Red Leaves & Gold’

Grady Martin- ‘Tennessee Waltz’

Isaac Hayes- ‘Walk on By’

The Association- ‘Windy’

Bernard King- ‘Instant Coffee, Instant Tea’

Miguel Ramos- ‘Popcorn’

Bill Wyman- ‘Come Back Suzanne’

The Flying Lizards- ‘Money’

Chas & Dave- ‘Ain’t No Pleasing You’

Journey- ‘Who’s Crying Now’

Rough Trade- ‘All Touch’

Time Bandits- ‘Endless Road’

Dionne Warwick- ‘Heartbreaker’

Andy Gibb- ‘Flowing Rivers’

Rufus and Chaka Khan- ‘Try a Little Understanding’

Kool and the Gang- ‘Joanna’

Honey Cone- ‘One monkey Don’t Stop no Show’

Detroit Wheels- ‘Linda Sue Dixon’

The Platters- ‘With This Ring’

Lesley Gore- ‘You Don’t Own Me’

Tony Hatch- ‘Downtown’

Burt Bacharach- ‘House is not a Home’

War- ‘The Cisco Kid’

Chad Allen & the Guss Who- ‘Shakin All Over’

Major Lance- ‘The Monkey Time’

American Breed- ‘Bend Me Shape Me’

The Supremes- ‘Love is Here and Now You’re Gone’

Santana- ‘Batuka’

Telex- ‘Rock Around the Clock’

Eclectique 24:07:10

tonyroma — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 10:33:43 +0000

Picture a time, 70 years from now, the world will be going through the ’80′s again. By then everyone will have gone through their own ‘Sixties’ and ‘Seventies’. Right now we don’t have to clarify that a song was from the 1980′s and not the 1880′s. But in 2080 they may have to do just that.

“I sure hope they play ‘The Monitors, Singing in the 80′s’. Then they’ll get the opportunity to say “this little gem is from a hundred years ago, but it still rings true” says The Sheik “and thank god I won’t be around to hear that kind of crap!” he adds.

Here’s the full playlist-

The Kingston Trio- ‘Marcelle Wahine’

The Shadows- ‘A Place in the Sun’

Nancy & Lee- ‘Some Velvet Morning’

John Prince- ‘A Good Time’

Odetta- ‘Baby I’m in the Mood for love’

Fame + Price- ‘Rosetta’

Graham Parker- ‘(Time to get) Sweet on You’

Gallagher and Lyle- ‘Stay With You’

Exile- ‘There’s Been a Change’

Shalamar- ‘Beautiful Night’

Barry White- ‘Satin Soul’

Village People- ‘My Roommate’

Devo- ‘Gates of Steel’

The Monitors- ‘Singing in the 80′s’ Please note, the 1980′s

Argent- ‘Hold Your Head Up’

Nick Lowe- ‘Cruel to be Kind’

Marmalade- ‘Oh Susie’

Ronnie Dyson- ‘When you get Right Down to it’

Charles Fox- ‘Dors Lee’s Fantasy’

Stelvio Cipriani- ‘Rory’s Theme’

Little Steven- ‘Checkpoint Charlie’

The Korgis- ‘Everybody’d Gotta Learn Sometime’

Bread- ‘Baby I’m a Want You’

Nat Stuckey- ‘Rainy Night in Georgia’

Johnny Cash- ‘Life Goes On’

Jaime Brockett- ‘Dulcimer Dimension Duet’

Amazing Rhythm Aces- ‘My Tears Still Flow’

Hurricane Smith- ‘Oh Babe What Would You Say’

Donny Hathaway & Roberta Flack- ‘Baby I Love You’

Al Hibbler- ‘It Don’t Mean a Thing’

Eclectique 17:07:10

tonyroma — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 07:30:35 +0000

After a couple of weeks stuck in other parts of the country, it was ‘welcome back’ to the big chair at Studio A for The Sheik. And what a welcome back it was indeed. New presenters from 8-10 p.m. (hello “Liquorice Pizza”) and a brand new (old) mixer (thing) for the turntables. It was enough, or even too much, for The Sheik who went straight into the first song rather than present himself after the intro. “I’d lost my mojo, and I was suffering from ‘not from heat sweating” said The Sheik, “it’s rare for me to get flustered, well we don’t get new gear that often!”.

But slowly things started taking shape, and the show fell back into it’s regular groove, “if that’s what you call it”, and Eclectique was back on track, and The Sheik stayed in the saddle, “yeah, that’s what I call it”

Here’s the full playlist

Kinky Friedman- ‘Popeye the Sailor Man’

Kris Kristoferson- ‘Loving Her Was Easier’

Sissy Spacek- ‘Hanging Up My Heart’

The Band- ‘Jawbone’

Sonny and Cher- ‘We’ll Sing in the Sunshine’

P J Ruby- ‘Hold Me’

The Groop- ‘Woman You’re Breaking Me’

THe B52′s- ‘Summer Of Love’

Arthur Fiedler- ‘Disco Inferno’ from his album ‘Saturday Night Fiedler” ……Brilliant!

Piper- ‘Who’s Your Boyfriend’

David Dundas- ‘When I Saw You Today’

Greg Khin Band- ‘Jeopardy’

John Schroeder- ‘You Can’t Hurry Love’

The Chi Lites- ‘I’m Gonna Make You Love Me’

Bow Wow Wow- ‘I Want Candy’

Patti Austin- ‘Do You Love Me’

The Time- ‘Gigilo’s Get Lonely Too’

The Four Tops- ‘One Woman Man’

Etta James- ‘Come a Little Bit Closer’

Lucille Star- ‘The French Song’

Philip Lynott- ‘Dear Miss Lonely Heart’

Galeforce- ‘Rosie’

Eurythmics- ‘Ministry Of Love’

Pat Metheny Group- ‘As Falls Wichita……So Falls Witchita Falls’

Scott Joplin- ‘Solace’

Gordon Langford- ‘Music to Watch Girls Go By’

Good God- ‘King Kong’

Eclectique 05:06:10

tonyroma — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 08:42:54 +0000

In Van Morrison’s song “It Stoned Me” he sings the lyrics “stoned me just like Jelly Roll”.

Is the reference to ‘Jelly Roll’ a reference to the great Pianist Jelly Roll Morton?

Or a type of pastry with Jam in it?

or is he referring to a mans genitalia?

The questions was posed via regular caller John (from Leichardt) and there was little The Sheik could say, except for “I’m sure Van Morrison was talking about the pianist, not a penis…… or the pianist’s penis”.

Either way, listeners got to sample only one of the three options during the show “but what they do in there own homes is their own business”

Here’s the full playlist-

Gallagher and Lyle- ‘Backstage’

Brian Ferry- ‘Heart on my Sleeve’

Blood Sweat & Tears- ‘Velvet’

Steely Dan- ‘Dallas’

Daniel Boone- ‘In Ohio’

Emitt Rhodes- ‘Tame the Lion’

The Reels- ‘Bad Moon Rising’

Joe Walsh- ‘I’ll tell the World About You’

Richard O’Brien- ‘Science Fiction’

Roger Miller- ‘Tom Green County Fair’

The Tubes- ‘Love will keep us Together’

Graham Bonnet- ‘Tired of Being Alone’

Joan Armitrading- ‘I’m Lucky’

The Pointer Sisters- ‘Fairytale’

Jelly Roll Morton- ‘King Porter Stomp’

Jimmy Wisner- ‘Manhattan Safari’

OMD- ‘Live and Die’

The Dugites- ‘Who Loves You More’

The Smiths- ‘The Boy with the Thorn in his Side’

Shona Laing- ‘Glad I’m not a Kennedy’

Junior Walker- ‘Take Me Girl I’m Ready’

Lorne Greene- ‘The Same Old Me’

Jon Hendricks- ‘Lil Darlin’

Hank Snow- ‘One More Ride’

Peter Appleyard- ‘Witchcraft’

Liberace- ‘Moon River’

Tavares- ‘Penny For Your Thoughts’

Candi Staton- ‘Summer time with you’

Ohio Players- ‘I Want to be Free’

Amii Stewart- ‘Closest thing to Heaven’

Jennifer Holliday- ‘Hard Time for Lovers’

Clarence Carter- ‘Dr CC’