| 15:02 | Lou Reed - Walk on the Wild Side |
|---|---|
| 15:05 | The Band - Rag Mama Rag |
| 15:08 | John Denver - Back Home Again |
| 15:13 | The Doors - Roadhouse Blues |
| 15:18 | Bruce Springsteen - The E Street Shuffle |
| 15:22 | Wishbone Ash - Throw Down the Sword |
| 15:28 | Bachman–Turner Overdrive - You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet |
| 15:33 | The Captain Matchbox Whoopee Band - Lovesick Blues |
| 15:37 | The Yardbirds - For Your Love |
| 15:41 | Kerrie Biddell - Sing a Simple Song |
| 15:45 | Bruce Springsteen - Rosalita (Come Out Tonight) |
| 15:58 | The Doobie Brothers - China Grove |
| 16:01 | Graham Central Station - Can You Handle It? |
| 16:06 | Dr. John - (Everybody Wanna Get Rich) Rite Away |
| 16:08 | The Ozark Mountain Daredevils - Chicken Train |
| 16:15 | Terry Reid - River |
| 16:18 | Phil Manning - I Wish There Was a Way |
| 16:23 | Portsmouth Sinfonia - William Tell Overture |
| 16:25 | Aretha Franklin - Every Natural Thing |
| 16:28 | Danny O’Keefe - Good Time Charlie’s Got the Blues |
| 16:31 | Lynyrd Skynyrd - Workin’ for MCA |
| 16:36 | Phil Manning - Could Take a Lifetime |
| 16:40 | Hot City Bump Band - Ain’t Nobody |
| 16:44 | Family - Burlesque |
| 16:49 | Randy Newman - Naked Man |
| 16:52 | Phil Manning - Take Your Chances (Or Run Away) |
| 16:56 | Gladys Knight and the Pips - I’ve Got to Use My Imagination |
| 18:04 | Ravi Shankar - I Am Missing You |
| 18:08 | Phil Manning - Song for Kendra / Aborigine Song |
| 18:14 | John Lennon - #9 Dream |
| 18:19 | Lou Reed - Sweet Jane |
| 18:22 | The Band - Mystery Train |
| 18:28 | The Isley Brothers - That Lady (Pt. 1 and 2) |
| 18:31 | Carole King - Corazón |
| 18:35 | Carole King - Believe In Humanity |
| 18:39 | Carole King - Fantasy End |
| 18:41 | Ringo Starr - No No Song |
| 18:44 | Harvey Mandel - The Snake |
| 18:49 | Randy Newman - Simon Smith And The Amazing Dancing Bear |
| 18:51 | The Rolling Stones - Fingerprint File |
| 18:57 | Ann Peebles - I Can’t Stand The Rain |
| 18:59 | Bonnie Raitt - You Told Me Baby |
| 19:05 | Led Zeppelin - Communication Breakdown (1/4/71 Paris Theatre) |
| 19:10 | Led Zeppelin - Going To California (1/4/71 Paris Theatre) |
| 19:15 | Led Zeppelin - Stairway To Heaven (1/4/71 Paris Theatre) |
| 19:25 | Stone The Crows - One Five Eight (Live 1971) |
| 19:32 | Stone The Crows - Keep On Rollin’ (Live 1971) |
| 19:38 | Pink Floyd - Fat Old Sun (Live BBC Radio Session, 30 September 1971) |
| 19:59 | Pink Floyd - One Of These Days (Live BBC Radio Session, 30 September 1971) |
| 20:01 | Deanna Durbin - The Turntable Song (‘Round, An’ ‘Round, An’ 'Round) |
| 20:05 | The Rolling Stones - Let’s Spend The Night Together |
| 20:08 | Janis Ian - Do You Remember? |
| 20:11 | Carole King - We Are All In This Together |
| 20:14 | Gary Shearston - Dingo |
| 20:19 | The Blackbyrds - Reggins |
| 20:22 | Skyhooks - Carlton (Lygon Street Limbo) |
| 20:27 | David Bowie - Sorrow |
| 20:30 | Splinter - Costafine Town |
| 20:33 | The Beach Boys - Surfin’ Safari |
| 20:42 | Carly Simon - Haven’t Got Time For The Pain |
| 20:47 | Michael Omartian - Jeremiah |
| 20:51 | Richard Clapton - Girls on The Avenue |
| 20:55 | Bette Midler - Breaking Up Somebody’s Home |
| 21:00 | Captain Matchbox Whoopee Band - Hernando’s Hideaway |
| 21:04 | Chicago - Just You ‘N’ Me |
| 21:08 | Chicago - Life Saver |
| 21:14 | The Doobie Brothers - Listen To The Music |
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The only stinker they’ve played is the Captain Matchbox Whoopee Band. I turned off around when Cheech and Chong came on- not my cup of tea, and a lot of live stuff seemingly after that.
All in all though, a great day of listening and it’s not likely to be repeated ever.
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A shame most people only know this band for “Sweet Home Alabama.” They have a really excellent discography.
Besides, that is an excellent playlist. If only the ABC had a place to put a bit more lesser known classic rock out there permanently instead of that irrelevant to most audiences Classic FM.
Not to mention that today would have been a perfect opportunity to convert regional Classic FM services to Double J.
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It’s a pity the ABC chose classical music for its first FM network in 1975 instead of rock, could you just imagine Double J in FM stereo in all capital cities back then! I think the reason was that to protect the existing commercial AM stations’ ratings.
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| 21:18 | Elton John - Luc In The Sky With Diamonds |
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| 21:25 | Barry White - Can’t Get Enough Of Your Love, Babe |
| 21:30 | Carly Simon - You’re So Vain |
| 21:34 | Ringo Starr - No No Song |
| 21:37 | Steely Dan - Rikki Don’t Lose That Number |
| 21:42 | James Taylor - You’ve Got A Friend |
| 21:46 | The Band - Third Man Theme |
| 21:49 | John Lennon - Whatever Gets You Thru The Night |
| 21:53 | The Isley Brothers - Summer Breeze |
| 21:57 | The Beach Boys - Wouldn’t It Be Nice |
| 22:01 | Carl Douglas - Kung Fu Fighting |
| 22:03 | The Zombies - Time Of The Season |
| 22:06 | Eagles - Witchy Woman |
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Probably more that the ABC charter has been to provide a point of difference to commercial broadcasters, not so much to protect them.
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Gee I wish ABC could run a permanent stream of the early years of Double J online and/or DAB.
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Time to break out the Go West.
Wishful thinking aside, it would be interesting to know how much material is down in the dusty dungeons of the ABC archives. How much of it is being digitised before it’s lost for good?
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2BRW Braidwood FM 88.9
The Conga Line with Billy Bob
24 January 2025
1600-1700
Company Of Strangers- Motor City (BILLY BOB’S PERFECT POP SONGS)
Michael Bolton- Fool’s Game (BILLY BOB’S PERFECT POP SONGS)
Alan Parsons Project- Standing On Higher Ground (BILLY BOB’S PERFECT POP SONGS)
Australian Crawl- My Coffee’s Gone Cold (ROCK IN STEREO, Boys Light Up)
Australian Crawl- Hoochie Gucchi Fiorucci Mama (ROCK IN STEREO)
Australian Crawl- Way I’ve Been (ROCK IN STEREO)
Ringo Starr/Molly Tuttle- Look Up (WOLFIE/NEW MUSIC)
Go West- Don’t Look Down
The Postal Service- Such Great Heights (CLASSIC EMO)
Cake- The Distance (9INETY6IX.1 CLASSIC)
Primary- Vicious Precious (JJJ CLASSIC)
The Four Seasons- Dawn (Go Away) (SMOKIN’ OLDIE)
1700-1800
MISSING SIX: Environmental songs
John Williamson- Rip Rip Woodchip
Skyhooks- Tall Timber
Gordon Franklin Wilderness Ensemble aka Goanna- Let The Franklin Flow
Midnight Oil- Blue Sky Mine (BILLY BOB’S PERFECT POP SONGS)
EPA- Do The Right Thing ’94 PSA/Bruce Samazan- Clean Up Australia ’94 PSA(Yucky Poo)
Michael Jackson- Earth Song
Partners In Kryme- Turtle Power (MATT)
The Turtles- Elenore (SMOKIN’ OLDIE/BILLY BOB’S PERFECT POP SONGS)
Flaming Lips- She Don’t Use Jelly (MOOSE)
Black Sabbath- Sweet Leaf (HARD ROQ BLOQ)
Tumbleweed- Daddy Long Legs (HARD ROQ BLOQ)
I’ll be interested to hear what @1323ZM has to say about this log 
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Good log!
So many candidates for the Environmental songs too, if you were prepared to bend it a little.
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Yes indeed. I didn’t want to play the obvious one- ‘Big Yellow Taxi’- as The Conga Line eschews cliche.
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2BRW Braidwood FM 88.9
The Conga Line with Billy Bob
30 January 2025
Conga Line 30 January 2025
1600-1700
Clarence Clemons & Jackson Browne- You’re A Friend Of Mine (2EC CLASSIC)
Rembrandts- I’ll Be There For You (Friends theme)
Nick Howard- Down To The Water (Echo Point theme) (BARN FIND)
Katrina & The Waves- Going Down To Liverpool (B SIDE ONLY)
Gerry & The Pacemakers- Ferry Cross The Mersey (SMOKIN’ OLDIE)
REM- Find The River (RADIO PARADISE CLASSIC)
Sara Bareilles- Love Song (Wolfie)
Amiel- Obsession (I Love You) (NOVA 969 CLASSIC)
Josh Abrahams ft Amiel- Addicted To Bass (9INETY6IX.1 CLASSIC)
Steve Miller Band- Jungle Love
Dave Edmunds- Here Comes The Weekend (FILLER)
The 12th Man- Bruce 2000 (WRONG SONG)
1700-1800
MISSING SIX: Optimistic Songs
Jesus Jones- Right Here, Right Now (SWR FM CLASSIC)
Frente- Accidentally Kelly Street
Deborah Conway- It’s Only The Beginning
Herman’s Hermits- I’m Into Something Good (SIZZLIN’ OLDIE)
Bill Withers- Lovely Day
Fountains Of Wayne- Bright Future In Sales (CRAP FROM THE PAST CLASSIC)
Skid Row- Monkey Business (MATT)
Barenaked Ladies- Another Postcard (KMHS COOS BAY CLASSIC)
Airborne Toxic Event- Somewhere Around Midnight (KMHS/RADIO PARADISE CLASSIC)
Krokus- Long Stick Goes Boom (HARD ROQ BLOQ)
POD- Boom (HARD ROQ BLOQ)
The Descendents- I’m Not A Punk (HARD ROQ BLOQ/FILLER)
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One of my favourite WSFM Gold 101.7 FM tracks!!
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Mine too, though they never played that very often, only occasionally.
I stand corrected wsfm didn’t play it once in the month of Jan. Forever Classic GNFM played it 10 times. 2EC played it twice in Jan.
This is according to Lava. Nothing on Triple M Sydney either, 2UE none either so far. So Sydney commercial stations have not played it. Edit or smooth either 
So it isn’t a WSFM classic its a Forever Classic Classic, I take back my first post
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2BRW Braidwood FM 88.9
The Conga Line with Billy Bob
6 February 2025- Waitangi Day special
1600-1700
Monte Video & The Cassettes- Shoop Shoop… (2VTR MECHIE SHOW CLASSIC/WRONG SONG)
Swingers- Counting The Beat
Split Enz- Shark Attack
Jenny Morris- Break In The Weather (BILLY BOB CASSINGLE/PERFECT POP SONG)
Dragon- Rain
The Chills- Heavenly Pop Hit
Th’Dudes- Walking In Light ( ROCK IN STEREO)
Th’Dudes- Right First Time (ROCK IN STEREO)
Th’Dudes- Bliss (ROCK IN STEREO)
Goodshirt- Sophie
Elemeno P- Urban Getaway
The Feelers- Larger Than Life (NOVA 969 CLASSIC)
Steriogram- Walkie Talkie Man (NOVA 969 CLASSIC)
1700-1800
Ray Columbus & The Invaders- She’s A Mod (SMOKIN’ OLDIE/BILLY BOB’S PERFECT POP SONGS)
Max Merritt & The Meteors- Hey, Western Union Man (SMOKIN’ OLDIE)
Dinah Lee- Don’t You Know Yockomo (SMOKIN’ OLDIE)
Crowded House- Chocolate Cake
The Finn Brothers- Won’t Give In
Bic Runga- Get Some Sleep (BILLY BOB’S PERFECT POP SONGS)
Headless Chickens- Cruise Control (BILLY BOB’S PERFECT POP SONGS)
Supergroove- Can’t Get Enough (2VTR MECHIE SHOW CLASSIC)
Fat Freddy’s Drop- Wandering Eye
Push Push- Beating Up Bullfrogs (MATT/HARD ROQ BLOQ)
Push Push- Trippin’ (HARD ROQ BLOQ)
Shihad- Bullitproof (HARD ROQ BLOQ)
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#2 on Hauraki’s Countdown.
Dave Dobbyn’s piss-take at Australia’s drinking culture. Probably more at home on Jan 26 than Waitangi Day.
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Indeed. Mentions the Coogee Bay Hotel (he sings Cooh-gee not Could-gee) and also Kings Cross. But it is the definition of a Kiwi classic.
Was reading up about Dave Dobbyns career. No hits with Th’Dudes or DD Smash in Australia; only ‘Slice Of Heaven’ brought major success and that was due to Footrot Flats. He had a couple of other very minor hits following Slice Of Heaven but that was it in the West Island.
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I thought ‘Whaling’ and ‘Magic (What She Do)’ were minor hits over here, I remember hearing/reading about them at the time.
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You’re right- yes for ‘Whaling’ but apparently not for ‘Magic’, at least if this is correct:
Though Magic may have got some airplay- I’ve played it before and it also airs on Paul’s Powerzone.
As for Th’Dudes, they basically got tired of the hard graft required to make it in Australia; it didn’t help that they were up against the likes of AC/DC, The Angels, Australian Crawl et. al for pub rock supremacy.
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