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CAMBRIDGE BREAKFAST HOSTS JULIAN CLOVER & LUCY MILAZZO LOOK AT HOW THEY SELECT THE MUSIC THEY PLAY AND WHAT GIVES A RADIO STATION ITS OWN SOUND MUSIC WAS MY FIRST LOVE RADIO GAGA
playing Champagne & Caviar , a song recorded by locally based Irish singer, Jess Young. Taking inspiration from The Eagles and The Corrs, she’s supporting Louise Redknapp when the singer appears at Cambridge Junction on 25 March. Julian’s favourite station hit is a song by another Irish singer, David McWilliams. The Days of Pearly Spencer was released on Major Minor Records in 1967. The original was played all the time on the old Radio Caroline, hardly surprising as the singer was backed by Caroline’s founder, Ronan O’Rahilly. Pearly Spencer is still played today – helped by a reworking by Mark Almond in 1992. Almond’s version made it to number four. The original failed to chart. Julian Clover and Lucy Milazzo present Cambridge Breakfast on Cambridge 105 Radio, weekday mornings from 7am.
ahead of release. But within that we need to make sure the listener isn’t surprised by what they might hear. A song needs to sound familiar, even if it’s the first time it’s being played. Blossoms are a very contemporary band, but throw away today’s production skills and you can hear their influences: The Beatles, ABBA and the more recent Arctic Monkeys and Kasabian. All of those bands might appeal to our audience, so Blossoms are on the list. But you might not play all the songs by a band. Disturbed did an excellent cover of Simon & Garfunkel’s Sound of Silence , but the nu-metal group’s back catalogue might cause something of a shock. The concept of a station hit – where a song is rated by listeners and presenters alike – can throw up some excellent choices. In recent weeks, we’ve been
ere’s a thing. One of the most popular bands on British radio is Blossoms. We’ve been playing their new release The Keeper
regularly on Cambridge 105 Radio, and the track can be heard on stations up and down the land. Yet Blossoms, from Stockport, Greater Manchester, have never had a single inside the UK Top 75. However, the group have held the number one album slot twice and their debut album was one of only eight albums to spend more than one week at the summit in 2016. When listeners tune in to Cambridge 105 Radio during the day, they’re not doing so because we’ll be playing the latest chart hits but, rather like the readers of Cambridge Edition , they want to find out what’s happening around them. While we may not be the first station to break the hits, we do get many new songs
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