Stevie Wright, Easy Beats and Vanda and Young

I've had a lot of fun presenting "A Mixed Bag with Chris B" over the last two weeks.  I love the music of the Easybeats and Stevie Wright so I thought it would be great to do a Stevie Wright and The Easybeats theme.

Last Tuesday night our theme on a Mixed Bag was just that, and I was even lucky enough to have been able to have a chat with Stevie Wright by phone.  I found Stevie extremely warm and friendly, and he had some great stories to tell.  He's had a hard life, which has been very well documented, so I decided to concentrate more on the great music that Stevie Wright and The Easybeats had provided for us over the years.

Here is a link to the interview I did with Stevie Wright.  My thanks to Scott McRae, who is touring his "rockumentary" called Stevie:The Life and Music of Stevie Wright and the Easybeats.  The Stevie Wright interview was aired on 93.7 Edge FM in the Bega Valley on 19 March 2013.

https://soundcloud.com/chris-b2/interview-with-stevie-wright

Here is a link to information about Scott McRae's "Live Rockumentary"

STEVIE: THE LIFE AND MUSIC OF STEVIE WRIGHT AND THE EASYBEATS

http://www.stevieshow.com.au/

Track List for last week's show:-
For my woman, Say that you're mine, She's so fine, The old oak tree (all Easybeats songs), Step back (Johnny Young); Women, Come and see her, Coke ad to the tune of Come and see her) (Easybeats); Love machine by Rodge Martin; Friday on my mind (Easybeats plus the David Bowie cover); songs from the EasyFever EP; Simon Zealotes from Jesus Christ Superstar (Stevie Wright and Trevor White); River deep, mountain high (Easybeats), Spend the night (Cheetah) and of course, the classic Evie, parts 1,2 and 3 sung by Stevie Wright.
On tonight's show we explored the music of Harry Vanda and George Young, so we played music that was either written by Vanda and Young, or produced by Vanda and Young, including Easybeats and Stevie Wright songs, music from AC/DC, Rose Tattoo, John Paul Young, and Flash and the Pan.
Love the Easybeats so it was lots of fun!
Next week on a Mixed Bag with Chris B on 93.7 Edge FM in the Bega Valley, the theme will be "the kind of music they used to play on Countdown".

Melancholy Ladies

Tonight on a Mixed Bag on 93.7 Edge FM in the Bega Valley, our theme was "Melancholy Ladies".  We started off with some Petula Clark and Dusty Springfield, a song from Duffy from The Boat that Rocked soundtrack, some Emmylou Harris, and of course, the queen of melancholy tunes, Linda Rondstadt.

Kris Kristofferson accidentally got thrown into the mix, when the wrong cd was played, but Janis Joplin's version of Me and Bobby McGee came to the rescue!!  No men allowed on tonight's "Melancholy Ladies" theme!

We heard from Nicolette Larson, Kate Bush, Fleetwood Mac (Stevie Nicks); and a singer I haven't heard a lot of (but definitely fitted nicely into our theme tonight).  Her name is Lainie Kazan, and she seems like a mixture of Cleo Laine, Eartha Kitt and Shirley Bassey all rolled into one melancholy lady!!

We finished with a couple of songs from Adele.  Adele does a lovely cover of Bob Dylan's song, "Make You Feel My Love" - we played that song from her album 19, and finished the show with her big hit from her 21 album, "Someone Like You".

If you've had enough of the melancholy stuff, and you'd prefer something a bit more rock, tune into 93.7 Edge FM next Tuesday night between 6.00 pm and 8.00 pm and we'll explore the music of the Easybeats & Stevie Wright (I had a chat with Stevie Wright by telephone recently, so you will here our conversation as part of the show).  Really hope you can tune in if you live in the Bega Valley.  93.7 Edge FM!

International Women's Day - "woman" theme

Tonight on a Mixed Bag with Chris B on 93.7 Edge FM our theme was "women" or "woman" because International Women's Day is coming up on 8/3/2013.  Tonight we talked about some inspirational women and played songs with the word woman in the title including Helen Reddy's "I am Woman", The Guess Who and their song "American Woman", Billy Joel's "Always a Woman", the fabulous Etta James and "Woman", Bob Dylan's "Just like a Woman", the Rolling Stones with "Honky Tonk Woman" just to name a few.
Hope you have a great IWD on March 8th!