I have started to create some playlists on Spotify. I made a list of groups I liked from the 60s and 70s, and set up two playlists on my new Samsung 9 phone. They are good to play in the bath. I looked through my old copy of the book British Hit Singles for ideas.
Recently we watched a BBC4 feature about the old TV program The Old Grey Whistle Test, which brought back some memories. Now I keep singing 'I am the One and Only' by Chesney Hawkes. There are often old live music recordings and retrospectives played on BBC 4 on Saturday evenings. My nephew Joe is a fan. He's a very good guitarist.
I also tried creating a jazz playlist but that wasn't so successful. My favourite artist of all time is Ella Fitzgerald and I have lots of her CDs but I didn't find many of her songs on Spotify. It also has the annoying habit of interrupting with ads in German. I'm not paying a subscription for it. But here's Ella singing Cole Porter's Night and Day - what a great combination. To go straight to the song, click on the link. Ignore the ad.
Whenever there's a question about pop music on Pointless (essential viewing for us), we don't know any songs or bands from the 1990s and 2000s, when we moved to Switzerland. We don't listen to the radio here as it's full of annoying jingles in Swiss German. And now we tend to listen to more classical music and go to orchestral concerts in Zurich.
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