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07:00 am Tue 17 Mar 26

The Long Play: How Wales Echoed Across the World — and Into Australia

Program Page: The Fill In

Duration: 30min

The Long Play explores music, memory, and migration. In this episode, we journey to Wales — the Land of Song — tracing its powerful voices, avant-garde innovators, and Cool Cymru hits. From Shirley Bassey to John Cale, and Welsh influences in Australia, discover how Welsh music travelled across oceans and generations.

Playlist:

Let There Be Drums by Sandy Nelson (int)

Those Were the Days by Mary Hopkin (int)

Release: Post Card

It's Not Unusual by Tom Jones (int)

Release: Along Came Jones

Help Yourself by Tom Jones (int)

Release: Help Yourself

I'm a Man Album: by The Spencer Davis Group (int)

Release: I'm a Man (UK EP)

Goldfinger by Shirley Bassey (int)

Release: Goldfinger Album: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Year: 1964

Big Spender by Shirley Bassey (int)

Release: Big Spender (live 1970)

Sunday Morning by The Velvet Underground (int)

Release: Live at Max's Kansas City (1972)

'm a Man Album by The Spencer Davis Group (int)

Release: I'm a Man (UK EP)

Green Door by Shakin' Stevens (int)

Release: This Ole House Year

Girls Talk by Dave Edmunds (int)

Release: Repeat When Necessary Year: 1979

We Can Get Together by Flowers (later known as Icehouse) (loc)

Release: Icehouse (originally released as Flowers) Year: 1980

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