Pictures and music have been a natural combination since sound was first added to moving images in 1927. Whether a film is a tear-jerking drama, an action-packed thriller, a side-splitting comedy or a roaring romance, the right soundtrack at the right moment impacts a scene.
I love story telling, especially the back stories to movies, actors, producers, composers, painters, authors and more. Digging deep into the research you find such great gems of interest that you may never had heard of before.
Today’s Program – Cate Blanchett
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May It Be – Enya
I’ll Build A Stairway To Paradise – Rufus Wainwright
Dizzy – Siousie and the Banchees
Just Like A Woman – Bob Dylan
Wake Up Little Susie – Everly Brothers
My Prayer – The Platters
A Good Man Is Hard To Find – Lizzie Miles
You Always Hurt The One You Love – The Mills Brothers
Kiss Of Fire – Georgia Gibbs
A Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Makes – Lilly James
These Boots Are Made For Walking – Nancy Sinatra
Time After Time – Cyndi Lauper
I Am Australian – John Foreman
Have You Met Miss Jones – Robbie Williams
Jai Ho – Nicole Scherzinger
Yes To You – Alice Faye
Simon & Garfunkle – Homeward Bound
I Like It Like That – Peter Rodriguez
Never Give Up – Sia
I’m Every Woman – Chaka Khan
This Is Me – Keala Settle
In Your Eyes – Charlotte Day Wilson
Dreaming Of You – Selena
I’ve Got You Babe – Sonny & Cher
Resolution – Mae West
Holly Holy – Neil Diamond
Can’t Find My Way Home – Julia Stone and George Mason
A Minute To Breathe – Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross
The End Of The World – Billie Eilish
Everybody Knows – Rufus Wainright
In The Year 2525 – Zager & Evans
Music to be Murdered By – Alfred Hitchcock
Slice of Heaven – Dave Dobbyn
Single All The Way – Dan Finnerty
Feliz Navidad – Jose Feliciano
Wrapped in Red – Kelly Clarkson
Santa Baby – Ertha Kitt
Christmas Is All Around – Bill Nighy
Polar Express – Tom Hanks
Rockin Around the Christmas Tree – Brenda Lee
Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas – James Taylor
Santa’s Wish – The Tenors
Do You Hear What I Hear – Johnni Mathis
Christmas Vacation – Mavis Staples
Christmas Photo – John Williamson
I yam what I yam – Robin Williams
There will never be another you – Nat King Cole
I Feel Good – James Brown
A Friend Like Me – Robin Williams
Walk Like A Man – Four Seasons
She Works Hard For Her Money – Donna Summers
Let It Rain – Eric Clapton
Then You Look At Me – Celine Dion
September – Earth Wind & Fire
You’ve been A Friend To Me – Bryan Adams
My Way – Robin Williams
jump In The Line – Harry Belafonte
With These Hands – Tom Jones
Face to Face – Siouxsie & the Banshees
Man of The Hour – Pearl Jam
Strange Love – Karen O
Big Eyes – Lana Del Rey
Story Of My Life – One Direction
Vincent – Ellie Goulding
You’re The Top – Hal Kemp
Kookie Kookie Lend Me Your Comb – Edd Byrns
Never Forget – Michelle Pfiffer
Losing My Mind – Stephen Sondheim
Stand By Me – The Stapple Sisters
The Dreame – Jane Eagle
Queen Bee – Johnny Flynn
Quietly Yours – Birdy
Paperback Writer – The Beatles
Story of My Life – One Direction
May It Be – Enya
I’ll Build A Stairway to Paradise – Rufus Wainwright
Dizzy – Banchees
Just Like A Woman – Bob Dylan
Wake Up Little Suzie – Everly Brothers
My Prayer – Platters
Hanna – Chemical Brothers
A Good Man Is Hard To Find – Lizzie Miles
You Always Hurt The One You Love – The Mills Brothers
Kiss of Fire – Georgia Gibbs
A Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Makes – Lilly James
These Boots Are Made For Walking – Nancy Sinatra
Time After Time – Cyndi Lauper
Blowing In the WInd – Bob Dylan
The Popcorn Sack – Spike Jones
Fredonia is going to war – Marx Brothers
Trail of the Lonesome Pine – Laurel and Hardy
Shake Your Tail Feather – Ray Charles
Holiday Road – Matt Pond
I Can Take Anything – Steve Martin and John Candy
Luck Be a Lady – Frank Sinatra
Love Will Keep Us Together – Captain and Tenille
The Look Of Love – Susanna Hoffs
I Started A Joke – The Wallflowers
Best Day Of My Life – American Authors
Look On The Bright Side Of Life – Monty Python
Ghostbusters – Ray Parker Jr
Mrs Brown – Herman and the Hermits
I Don’t Want To Set The World On Fire – Ink Spots
I Knew Her – Phillip Glass
Panis Angelicos – Andrea Boccelli
Donna Non Vidi My – Pavaroti
Days Like This – Van Morrison
Skyfall – Adele
Send In The Clowns – Judy Dench
Under the Greenwood Tree – Patrick Doyle
In Pace – Placido Domingo
Sitting On Top Of the World – Al Jolson
Blood – Jed Kerzel
Pardon Godesss of the Night – David Snell & Patrick Doyle
Oh Mistress Mine – Nigel Ness
Victorious Titus – Elliott Goldenthall
My Mother’s Eyes – Franki Valli
Big Girls Don’t Cry – Four Seasons
Walk Like A Man – Four Seasons
Dawn – Four Seasons
Betrayed – Four Seasons
Bye Bye Baby – Four Seasons
Let’s Hang On – Four Seasons
Working My Way Back – Four Seasons
Candy Girl – Four Seasons
Rag Doll – Four Seasons
December in 1963 – Four Seasons
Can’t Take My Eyes Off You – Four Seasons
Pick A Bale of Cotton – Sony Terry
Dentist – Steve Martin
The 3 Amigos – Martin, Chase, Short
I Can take Anything – Martin and Candy
I’m Walkin – Fats Domino
Soulouis Qui’ s’en va – Marie Myriam
I Love to See You Smile – Randy Newman
Doo Wah Diddy – Manfred Man
Today I Met The Boy I’m Going To Marry – Darlene Love
Mama Said – The Shirelles
Pitkin County Turnaround – Steve Martin
Heroes – Scala and The Kolasny Brothers
Caroline – Steve Martin
You Gotta Be – Choir of Hard Knocks
Where have all the flowers gone/Imagine – Choir of Hard Knocks
Bridge Over Troubled Water – Roberta Flack
Love Changes Everything – Choir or Hard Knocks
Far from any road – Handsome Family
Satellite Moments – Charlie Fink & Luke Treadaway
On The Road Again – Willie Nelson
Climb every mountain/Somewhere – Choir of Hard Knocks
Under The Mango Tree – Monty Norman
Gold Finger – Shirley Bassey
We have all the time in the world – Louis Armstrong
Live and Let Die – Paul McCartney
Nobody does it better – Carly Simon
A View To Kill – Duran Duran
The Living Daylights – A Ha
License To Kill – Gladys Knight
Golden Eye – Tina Turner
Die Another Day – Madonna
Skyfall – Adele
No Time To Die – Billie Elish
Diamonds are forever – Shirley Bassey
Kiss – Marilyn Monroe
Two Little Girls from Little Rock – Monroe and Russell
Diamonds Are A Girl’s Best Friend – Marilyn Monroe
New York – Alfred Newman
Bus Stop – Four Lads
I Wanna Be Loved By You – Marilyn Monroe
My Heart Belongs to Daddy – Marilyn Monroe
Happy Birthday Mr President – Marilyn Monroe
Something’s Gotta Give – Fred Astair
Bye Bye Baby – Marilyn Monroe
Goodbye Norma Jean – Elton John
The Climb – Miley Cyrus
Simon and Garfunkel – Sound of Silence
Don’t you Forget About Me – Simple Minds
Teach Your Children Well – Crosby Stills Nash & Young
Panis Angelicos – Andre Bocelli
Napole – Pavarotti
The Danish Girl – Roses Of Picardy
Wake Me Up – Avicci
Night Of The Long Knives – David Hirshfelder
The Divinity Theme – A. R. Rahman, Craig Armstrong
If Ye Love Me – Max Richter
The Duchess – Rachel Portman
Trio Sonata – Allegro 3 – Vivaldi
Skyline Pigeon – Elton John
Only You – Sinead O’Connor
Donna Non Vidi My – Pavaroti
Candle In The Wind – Elton John
Heaven Must Be Missing An Angel – Worlds Apart
Dreaming of the Queen – Pet Shop Boys
The Morning After – Maureen McGovern
Twisted – Stevie Nicks
Come Josephine in my flying machine – James Horner
Yours Forever – James Horner
Won’t Let You Fall – Fergie
If I Rise – Dido
Follow Me – Muse
Weather with you – Crowded House
Up on the Hollow Hill – Robert Plant
Flying Home – Christian Jacob
Take Me Down – Gary Clark Jr
Help is On Its Way – Little River Band
Catch The Wind – Donovan
Maggie McKenna – Why Can’t That Be Me
Something To Talk About – Badly Drawn Boy
Stuck In A Moment You Can’t Get Out Of – U2
Super Freak – Rick James
When We Get There – Josh Pyke
What We Leave Behind – Labrinth
Both Sides Now – Judy Collins
Fire In My Heart – Super Fury Animals
A Thousand Bees – Sara Love
I Started A Joke – Bee Gees
Beautiful Awkward Pictures – Toni Collette
Midnight Train To Georgia – Gladys Knight & The Pips
I Had A Farm – John Barry
Young At Heart – Frank Sinatra
Tres Tres Chic – Ocean Walker
Mamma Mia – Meryl Streep
Save Room – John Legend
A Bushel and a Peck – Doris Day
I Whistle A Happy Tune – Marni Nixon & Rex Thompson
Adels Laughing Song – Meryl Streep
Love For Sale – Astrud Gilberto
Raining On The Rock – John Williamson
The Day Before You Came – Meryl Streep
Benediction & Dreams – Lila Downs
Yo soy Mexicano – Placido Domingo
Paloma Negra – Chavela Vargas
La Rondalla – Placido Domingo
Burn It Blue – Caetano Veloso & Lila Downs
La Bruja – Salma Hayek & Los Vega
I won’t dance – Sarah McKenzie
Little Suzie – Ritchie Valens
Come On Let’s Go – Ritchie Valens
Donna – Ritchie Valens
Malagena – Ritchie Valens
La Bamba – Ritchie Valens
American Pie – Don McLean
Very Good Advice – Kathryn Beaumont
Maybe God Is Trying To Tell You Something – Tartar Vaga
Isn’t This The World – Janelle Monae
The Game Of Cards – Maddy Prior and June Tabor
She Gave Me The Keys – The Dip
Under The Milky Way – The Church
The Secret Garden – Aurora
Wise Up – Amee Main
Stand By Me – The Staple Singers
Before I Ever Met You – Banks
Carolina – Taylor Swift
Body Of Mine – Liz Brasher
Book Of Love – Peter Gabriel
A Hard Day’s Night – Goldie Horn
A Day In The Life – Jeff Beck
Here There & Everywhere – Celine Dion
I am a Walrus – Jim Carey
Being for the Benefit of Mr Kite – Jim Connolly
In My Life – Sean Connery
Pepperland Suite – George Martin
Come Together – Robin Williams
Because – Vanessa Mae
Golden Slumbers/Carry that Weight/The End – Phil Collins
Teach Your Children Well – Crosby Still Nash
When I Grow Up – Shirley Temple
Over The Rainbow – Judy Garland
Good Morning – Mickey Rooney
Cruella – Geek Music
Fairground – Nigel Westlake
That’ll Do Pig – Nigel Westlake
Original – Sia
Pi’s Lullaby – Michael Danna and Bombay Jayashri
Stand By Me – Ben E King
Rise – Eddie Vedder
Little Pretty One – Thurston Harris
The Animal Song – Savage Garden
Space Oddity – David Bowie
Spirit in the Sky – Norman Greenbaum
I can see you for miles – The Who
Talking To The Moon – Bruno Mars
Night Train – James Brown
Darkside of the Moon – James Horner
Blue Moon – The Mavericks
Rocket Man – Elton John
Walking On The Moon – Sting
Everyone’s Gone To The Moon – Jonathan King
Ngankarrparni – Peter Gabriel
Night Blindness – David Gray
Bran Nue Dae – Jimmy Chi
Everybody’s Talking – Frank Yamma
Whose Loving You – Jessica Mauboy, Deborah Mailman, Miranda Tapsell
Nurra Burra Ferra – Jessica Mauboy
Down To The River To Pray – Alison Krauss
Albert Namatjira – Ted Egan
I was born blind – Gurrumul
Treaty – Yothu Yindi
I am Australian – The Seekers
Jaws – John Williams
The Dialogue – John Williams
Parade of the Slave Children – John Williams
Exsultate Justi – John Williams
Flight to Neverland – John Williams
Schindlers List – Itzhak Perlman
Hedwigs Theme – John Williams
Hymn To The Fallen – John Williams
Teardrop – Massive Attack
The Midnight Special – Creedance Clearwater Revival
The Lion Sleeps Tonight – The Tokens
Kijana Mwana Mwali – Gonda Traditional Entertainers
If I Had Words – Scott Fitzgerald and Yvonne Keeley
That’ll Do – Peter Gabriel
Sven – Robin Williams
Thunderdome – Tina Turner
Who’s that knocking on my door – Genies
Late for the sky – Jackson Brown
Rags to ritches – Tony Bennett
Do right woman, do right man – Aretha Franklin
Marbled halls – Enya
I can’t give you anything but love – Django Reinhardt
Sweet Dreams – Patsy Cline
Bitter earth – Dinah Washington
Have I sinned – Donnie Elbert
Baby count ten – Bell Sisters
Into trouble – Tim Kingsbury
The hands that built NY – U2
I will follow him – Sister Act
She’s A Lady – Tom Jones
Have you met Miss Jones – Robbie Williams
We Can – Leanne Rimmes
All of Me – John Legend
Hold On – Wilson Phillips
Every Woman In The World – Air Supply
Easy – The Commodores
9 to 5 – Dolly Parton
He’s Sure the Boy I Love – Bette Midler
Turn Away – Beck
Think that you might be wrong – Great White Swimmer
Weather With You – Crowded House
I’ve Been Tested – Beth Waugh
Gravity – Tim McGraw
Ain’t No Mountain High Enough – Diana Ross
Rocky Mountain High – John Denver
Climb Every Mountain – The Mother Abess
Chapel of Love – Bette Midler
Ruthless People – Mick Jagger
I Think It’s Going To Rain Today – Bette Midler
Higher Love – Steve Winwood
In My Life – Bette Midler
Hocus Pocus – Bette Midler
You Don’t Own Me – Goldie Hawn, Bette Midler, Diane Keaton
Open Your Heart – Madonna
I’ll say I’m sorry now – Shawn Colvin
Gimme Dat Ding – The Pipkins
Hey Mickey – Tony Basil
Come What May – Nicole Kidman and Ewan McGregor
From Now On – Hugh Jackman
Kiss of Fire – Georgia Gibbs
Now We Are Free – Lisa Gerrard
Waterloo – Abba
I Will Survive – Gloria Gayner
Devil Woman – Cliff Richard
I See You – Leona Lewis
Forever Now – Cold Chisel
Rich Girl – Gwen Stefani
I Can Help – Billy Swan
Downunder – Men at Work
You Made Me Love You – Judy Garland
He’s Good For Me – Mae West
Music Makes Me – Ginger Rogers
Don’t Believe Everything You Read – Eve Arden
Put The Blame On Mame – Rita Hayworth
How Long Will It Last – Joan Crawford
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane – Bette Davis & Debbie Burton
Anything You Can Do – Betty Hutton
Diamonds Are A Girl’s Best Friend – Marilyn Monroe
True Love – Grace Kelly
You’re The Top – Mitzy Gaynor
Woman Of The Year – Laurden Bacall
As Time Goes By – Dooley Wilson
Lili Marlene – Marlene Dietrich
Book Of Love – Sunny Love
Blue Moon – Mavericks
I Can’t Give You Anything But Love – Steve Vaughan
I Can Help – Billy Swan
Kiss of Fire – Georgia Gibbs
Mercy Is – Patti Smith
Nobody Knows The Trouble I’ve Seen – Louis Armstrong
Norma Act 1: Casta Diva – Maria Callas
Never Give Up – Sia
Ave Maria – Aaron Neville
I Can See For Miles – Who
My Heart Will Go On – Celine Dion
Peter Gabriel – Ngankarparni
Flying Home – The Tierney Sutton Group
If I Rise – Dido & A.R. Rahmah
Picture In A Frame – Tom Waites
Every Breath You Take – Police
I Will Survive – Aretha Franklin
Foreign Lands, From Scenes from Childhood – Robert Schumann
The Heart Asks Pleasure First and The Promise – Michael Nyman
My Heart is On Fire – Asia
Do You Realise – Flaming Lips
Ecstasy of Dancing Fleas – Penguin Cafe Orchestra
Recurring Dream – Crowded House
The World Seems Difficult – Mental As Anything
She’s Always A Woman – Billy Joel
Moon River Cha Cha – Henry Mancini
Qui Qu’a Vu Coco – Audrey Tautou & Marie Gillain
Pure – Lightening Seeds
The Night – Frankie Vallie and the Four Seasons
My Foolish Heart – Tony Bennett
Destroy Everything You Touch – Ladytron
Stardust – Nat King Cole
Vogue – Madonna
Bang Bang – Lanie Lane
Dear Sweet Sewing Machine – Adam Kantor & Alexandra Silber