This week Jarvis saw burlesque cabaret La Soirée and discovered some new old music from a back copy of The Wire. He decides how to pronounce 2011 and thinks about foreign-language versions of familiar songs. Scott Walker discusses Jacques Brel and Frank Sinatra. Jarvis then announces what record he'll play throughout the year: one listener suggested Frank Sinatra conducting tone poems of colour, another Norrie Paramor's Zodiac Suite, but Jarvis chooses Zodiac by The Cosmic Sounds. On This Day, Ivan the Terrible (or Awesome) was made Czar of Russia; Don Quixote was first published, so we hear an extract from a children's radio adaptation; and Buckminster Fuller won an architecture award and we hear him musing on evolution. Birthdays: Nick Valensi, Jim Stafford, Barbara Lynn, Cliff Thorburn, André Michelin, Susan Sontag, Paul 'Rustin' Man' Webb, Maxine Jones, Kate Moss, Damo Suzuki and Richard Hawley. Valete: Trish Keenan.
Pérez Prado - Patricia
The Strokes - Under Control
Wyatt, Atzmon, Stephen - What a Wonderful World
Kevin Ayers - May I?
Barbara Lynn - I'm a Good Woman
Jim Stafford - My Girl Bill
The Beach Boys - Good Vibrations
Starsky et Hutch (French TV Theme)
Scott Walker - Funeral Tango
Frank Sinatra - Only the Lonely
Frank Sinatra Conducts Tone Poems of Color - Purple
Norrie Paramor - Capricious Capricorn
The Zodiac: Cosmic Sounds - Capricorn, the Uncapricious Climber
Junior Parker - Tomorrow Never Knows
The Electric Prunes - Onie
Beth Gibbons and Rustin' Man - Mysteries
En Vogue - Don't Let Go (Love)
Al Green - Belle
CAN - Bring Me Coffee Or Tea
John Carpenter - Halloween Theme (Main Title)
Black Sabbath - Planet Caravan
Sergei Prokofiev - Ivan the Terrible
Elvis Presley - The Impossible Dream (Live)
Quix*O*Tic - Anonymous Face
Add N to (X) - Buckminster Fuller
Broadcast - Echo's Answer
