Greatest Hits Revisited - From Lamma Bada to Oro, Se Do Bheatha Bhaile

Old friends. The kind you want to visit now and then. You don’t get tired of them because they’re true of heart and always have good things to share. Talking about this week’s playlist, of course, and the last time you heard these tunes on RadioactivaTX.org was in March, 2022. You’ve probably forgotten them all by now. So, alongside the more obscure sounds from the wide, wide world of music you’ll be pulled out of your reverie by the Rolling Stones’ “Mercy Mercy” Nino Rota’s “Arrivaderci Roma” and maybe Gill Scott-Heron singing” Me and the Devil.” Perhaps the Pogues’ “Sea Shanty” will ring a bell and – if you’re Irish - Sinéad O‘Connor’s version of the Irish Republican anthem “Oro, Se Do Bheatha Bhaile.” The remainder consists of sterling examples of the best of the rest you’ve never heard of. So, sip a cool one and drop what you’re doing. You’ve got visitors. JH

Al compás del mundo - programa #134, “greatest hits” from programs #17-20
First broadcast 6-27-24

01 Radio Tarifa - Lamma Bada (Spain)

02 Getachew Mekurya - Yegenet Muziqa (Ethiopia)

03 Foday Musa Suso - Suso's Song (from The Screens) (Gambia)

04 Rolling Stones - Mercy Mercy (England)

05 Gil Scott-Heron - Me and The Devil (USA)

06 Darondo - Legs (USA)

07 The Dave Pike Set - I Got the Feelin' (USA)

08 Nino Rota - La Arrivederci Roma (suite) (Italy)

09 Fedwa Obeid (Lebanon-USA)

10 Ahmed al-Mustapha y Sabah - Rahmak ya malak (Sudan and Lebanon)

11 Jump to Addis - Belomi Benna (Ethiopia)

12 Pogues - Sea Shanty (Ireland)

13 The Chieftains - St. Stephens Day Murders featuring Elvis Costello (Ireland)

14 The Chieftains - Fionnghuala (Ireland)

15 Sinéad O‘Connor - Oro, Se Do Bheatha Bhaile (Ireland)

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