Radio Cardiff's vintage music show celebrating all time greats from the 'golden age' of popular music. Featuring tracks from the 1930s through to the 1960s - presented by Rachel Lewis (who plays some of them on the piano) and Jeremy Rees.
In this edition... classic recordings from James Carr; Dean Martin; Brook Benton; Nancy Wilson; Dionne Warwick;
Nat King Cole; Vera Lynn; Lauri Peters & Brian Davies; Jack Jones and Timi Yuro
All that plus our Shirley Bassey bonus! (we are playing all of her single releases of the 50s & 60s week-by-week in honour of her 80th birthday year). This week we feature her 4th, and the first one to get into the charts - The Banana Boat Song - recorded in 1957 when she was 20 (pictured).
Sweet Company is broadcast every Sunday night at 10pm on Radio Cardiff 98.7FM , this edition was first heard on Sunday 22nd January 2017
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Interesting hearing Lauri Peters on this version of 16 going on 17 - she later co-starred with cliff Richard in Summer Holiday - although her singing in that film was redone on the soundtrack by Grazina Frame!
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