@christianccummins.bsky.social I can't tell you how much fun it is exploring old records for @fm4.orf.at's #sunnysideup. Both I and the late, great Peter Rapp. We both understood the joy of a Brighton-based crooner turning the world's most legendary boxing match into #Eurodisco joy!
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@christianccummins.bsky.socialI hope you have as much fun listening to this #sunnysideup story as I had producing it, a perm-haired, moustachioed crooner from the UK seaside town Brighton took inspiration from a boxing match in then Zaire - and turned it into Eurodisco: Johnny Wakelin in @fm4.orf.at
@christianccummins.bsky.socialAli, Foreman, a Brighton cabaret singer and a Bollywood rip-off: today’s #SunnySideUp has a story to tell. Plus sweetness from Jamaica, 80s cassette space-vibes from Istanbul, a gorgeous song from Luanda, and fresh sounds from Austria's Sladek and MaVibe. today 10–13 on @fm4.orf.at ☀️ fm4.orf.at
@christianccummins.bsky.social49 years after Peter Rapp led the way on the ORF, I will be very happy tomorrow on @fm4.orf.at's #sunnysideup to be celebrating an entertaining piece of Eurodisco from a boxing fan from Brighton! www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcb7...
@christianccummins.bsky.socialJoin me for #sunnysideup from 10 am CET on @fm4.orf.at . Bob Marley live in Paris, Timi Yuro, cosmic disco from Asha Puthli, new music from Leon Bridges, and the Wax Wreckaz back in action. Italian vibes from rossvanboss & Bakkerstrakkers and gorgeous music from Aze . ☕ fm4.orf.at
@christianccummins.bsky.socialInca princess or Brooklyn housewife? Yma Sumac's five-octave Gopher Mambo stars in today's @fm4.orf.at #SunnySideUp, alongside Ringo, Judy Mowatt, grammy nominated Tamara Flores, Takeshi's Cashew and AVEC
Oh and my favourite (and very romantic) song from Benjamin Biolay
Today 10 to 1 on FM4 ☀️
@christianccummins.bsky.socialThe singer from #Peru who learned from song birds and dazzled Hollywood (and the Soviet Union) More of this sort of magic on @fm4.orf.at #sunnysideup today on fm4.orf.at/beitrag/3215...
@christianccummins.bsky.socialAfrica’s recorded music history from this era is littered with records like this one: pressed in small runs, sold locally, played out, & then simply left behind as tastes moved on & copies wore thin or vanished.
This time somebody went looking.
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@christianccummins.bsky.socialOn @fm4.orf.at's #sunnysideup today: Les Ya Toupas du Zaire's 1976 Congo-to-Grand-Theft-Auto epic played full length, a French-Egyptian song about a wadi, home-grown gems from Clara Luzia, Cari Cari, PRESSYES, plus new music from Bonobo, Ezra Collective and much more. fm4.orf.at
@todayinnerdhistory.bsky.socialRemembering Jackie Cooper, born September 15, 1922, and passed away May 3 2011
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#TodayInNerdHistory #September15 #jackiecooper #superman #TheTwilightZone #ourgang #thelittlerascals #mash #ShadowOnTheLand #MovietoneFollies #SunnySideUp #perrywhite #birthday
@christianccummins.bsky.socialThis week's @fm4.orf.at #SunnySideUp: Vienna's Louie Austen turns 80 🎂, our featured soul pick Esther Phillips and her raw Gil Scott-Heron cover, a French psych band singing in Occitan, plus new Kay Slice and Kutiman. 🎧 #FM4
10am fm4.orf.at
@pantsrevolution.bsky.socialLittle Witch in the Woods hits Nintendo Switch on September 16
South Korean developer Sunny Side Up is finally bringing its cozy potion-crafting RPG to the Switch after a four-year journey from Early Access.
#Retro #LittleWitchintheWoods #NintendoSwitch #SunnySideUp #PixelArtRPG
@christianccummins.bsky.socialOn @fm4.orf.at's #SunnySideUp today we: the have the story of the most sampled woman in music, Lyn Collins, plus new Teenage Fanclub and poet-musician Saul Williams going amapiano. Also the sound of 70s Nairobi, and calypso-inspired Jamaican joy from Derrick Harriott
join me at 10am! fm4.orf.at
