7 All the powerful tools in it when you've probably forgotten if you have a certain age the Mojo's and everything's all right said be able to think that enough Mojo's on the radio these days you know they really have that many hits back in the day I think that was just the one well it got snow but 9 if my memory serves me correct I can actually put my hand on heart has a you know what I wasn't really around to notice of that when I was a lawyer but I wasn't actually around to notice what was in the charts that time too busy well. Just big girdling I think was the thing as needing changing every 10 minutes right lets get your requests a vital part of the program and love to hear from you and we're thinking about Christmas tunes as well that maybe a few with the program between now I want to clock this is an email I got from Luke Evans is any chance you play play God by Sam fender to celebrate his Brits Critics' Choice Award the other week an incredible new artist breaking through and play God was his amazing Deb you single from early 2017 I'm sure listeners would appreciate it. Yeah I was a prosper not heard that before thank you was a day Luke Evans through emails suggesting that 1st question the program some fender play a God I promise you the beginning of the program there will be some seasonal tunes on the show and I like your requests for next week's program particularly for Christmas type songs and there's a whole load out there there's a novelty ones that come out year after year there's a very famous ones that come out year after year and they're that more subtle ones that maybe you don't hear quite so often and that's one of the jobs of this program who play the the big hits if you like with the ones that you just as valuable in their own way make a change for the ones that keep being churned out every year without fail try this from the French pop dream. That goal just because it was a yet Silver Bells Christmas time in the city that's when the French pop dream featuring beautiful vocals and Bruges yeah course it's a cliche but it really does a bit has to have an accordion on there and it was recorded in Paris I think to myself the last time I went to Paris or some years ago now on the Metro system I didn't see a single busking accordionist I was like disappoint lots of people with those sort of catch up high in kid bands with the pan pipes and things like that but not a single accordionist in sight perhaps if you'd been more recently you actually had the joy of seeing and hearing an accordionist on the Paris metro now what we do on the program each week we like to play guess the guitarist and I think you probably realize who's going to be on this this is from a solo album that Steve Winwood put out called 9 Lives and think back Steve Winwood who's been in bands it wasn't him blind faith with oh yes Eric. The. Yeah you guessed Eric Clapton all the Steve Winwood album 9 Lives Not Track dirty city would band together. But album came out about 10 years ago 2008 the album came out remember the sort of radio shows I was doing at the time and I couldn't actually play the track Trawick their role too long a bit of a show still it took a long time it took 10 years but it's been rectified right now which is good something shorter something FAR older now. Was. Say more or. No or. Oh. Mary God. All. He is. Waiting for what. They know. Or how. Far. Away you know. When. I heard that was all. The one I. Meet. With. The. Thing known. All over. The world. Where you. Type of hardware our. Eyes. Watching. With the one child. Was. To me. With. Her. Not one of the songs we normally associate with Billie Holiday but I was actually fantastic I cover the waterfront right I try and play the new tracks as well each week on the program the idea is one in each and it's that time of year when the festive new release come out this is a guy I champion for ages now is a pretty good letter for the Philly show he's like can you please leave me alone it's not really my record sales but I think he does seem obvious goggle Rojo this is a song called Christmas ghost. Was no fun. This Christmas Eve. Oh yeah. We still feel. Interesting stuff is what I would describe as a net growth. There's a number of those that care about the fifty's the early sixty's were Ebony eyes as well by the Everly Brothers Johnny remember me who on that track by George you will recall Let's get back to requests shall we vitally important on the program we always love hearing from you so if you don't you maybe this could be I know it's not even Christmas yet because your resolution for 2900 or thinking about it if you're with the family the family I have a Christmas and New Year and that I would already have a new self to a standstill in the Queen to be able to television what you do then is either get out the board games what's the Eastenders Christmas special which I have a theory is actually the same one each year there's people in tears with tinsel in their hair shrieking at one another 2 inches from each other's noses or you can get a piece of paper out think of some of the songs you'd like to hear in 2019 on this program on a Saturday night on the B.B.C. Across the West Midlands fact we global that really with the Internet and stuff and . So I got this Andy from Netherton Dudley says this is an ideal track I think he's eventually got Brick City there but look no we're going to be a bricks it for us. You don't go down only one side of these just to think that brick England by the Pet Shop Boys that is your Michelle's yaar. There you go picture boys enjoy Michelle's yacht when I think that your labor with the Pet Shop Boys and especially for Andrew never to Dudley and to break England being the target of that so he'd like to request of the program sincerely hope to get on well or you should do Alex dot Lestat B.B.C. Dot co dot U.K. It is my email address as one way to do it Twitter add to Alex the dog. Board and also Facebook Alex Lester the best time of day show and also by post Lester at the B.B.C. The mail box in Birmingham on chuckling because last week I put on Twitter I was trying to put a picture and a selection of some of the songs will be featured on the Saturday Night programme on my Twitter and my Facebook feed just before we start mid afternoon early evening on Saturday and I chose a photograph something that someone had sent Me Actually I'd forgotten entirely about me taken some many years ago now in the northeast actually as a part of a small 5 a side football team and yet. The years ago by a I can't say to be perfect as I look exactly the same as I did back in 1983 but still you know I thought I was funny recognize or I could pick myself out of that lineup it seems you had a lot of the heart you couldn't figure out which you always may you know one bloke there is about 6 foot 6 toll and there was me one person suggested I look like Bob Carroll G.'s and spit will leave without spit the dog I'll have you know I'll have you know the last occasion was a 5 a side football team I was out for a match I think we were playing against Radio one. Coming but who won I was the goalkeeper and no less than Kevin Keegan international football us and the manager said to me he was going to be figures got to be on his back or just wear her laughing like a drain said you know you're the only one on that team who actually looks like a footballer I think it must be my legs. 1111111111111111 . 111111111111111111111111111111 . Because we. Oh yes rocket is fine it's a little bit of metal on the program on a Saturday night Def Leppard and Pour Some Sugar On Me and it's less afraid of the stars I never actually met or even interviewed any members of Def Leppard but I have been to the crooks working men's club in Sheffield groups and Jeff and where there's a little plaque on the wall there was last time I looked a few years back because that's where they used to rehearse apparently so there we are unless you knew that already or perhaps I told you that anecdote the last time I played Def Leppard on Saturday night into Sunday morning together here on the B.B.C. Across the West Midlands right that way so we go now. Now I don't know about you but growing up a must appointment to view T.V. Was always the Old Grey Whistle Test in our family it was a bit of a problem to watch it and I'll tell you why after one artist I saw one edition I thought they are rather magnificent and this is the song that she performed but sadly. Troubled by drug and mental health but she didn't stay on this earth for a long time to admit Judy sill Jesus was across Micah. Comedown playing. For nice one. On. Flo. He. 71 Judy still when Jesus was across America so that all the Old Grey Whistle Test that was certainly as I said a just an appointment of you program I learned so much from that show this. Role was was actually getting to watch it because that was the days of say when you were household. No televisions in bedrooms etc So there was a television in the living room. Television the lire. Well for years and years my dad not not even now at 92 not a big T.V. Watcher so keen carpenter so therefore what he did was he built a shelf which was behind his chair fit in the corner behind his chair the living room and for years we had a black and white T.V. On that black and white televisions were generally B.B.C. One in I.T.V. For a while so therefore when B.B.C. 2 came along which had the agressor test on it took a while before we actually caught up for the simple reason that in order to get a T.V. Just color as well we thought we'd go yeah both a double whammy there. They were the size of a house anyway so we had to wait until there was a television which was small enough to fit on the shelf so I think I may have missed out on several years of the ogress will test which division for a good chance to watch it on that T.V. I think that you do still perform so much to see the friends out there think we have a cute color T.V. It to. And it was of years later and even then we got a Sony tribute told we had the postage stamp so it was a bit difficult to see if not we had a big house because just the from the other side of the state of the city. Elder he's tough to get to his paper about is awful bad bad bad but still have happy memories with your head. Oh oh oh. You can. Take a well known Christmas song and approach it a different way it takes on a whole new or a Disney us great version of Sleigh Ride by Fund who actually featured Nate Ruess has appeared on as other peoples of as well yet you have a solo career and now let's get back to your requests to Genesis emailed me and said all this is not a nice piece to it Gary siestas version of I get a kick out of you now listen very carefully to the lyrics is it an abridged version . Of the room. Key. The classic get a get up. Like in the seventy's Gary Sheehan his version I get a kick out of you that was acquitted by Janis but it got a nice pace to it and it wasn't the abridged version I said because some versions. They remove the reference to Kate but not on that one and I'm not to go off on some rant about actually fiddling with the you know the songwriters or the performance artistic vision because it seems that more and more songs having bit snipped out of the big 3 were now taking offense to stuff. I wonder if I'm not entirely sure because of course it being the whole treaty is about Baby It's Cold Outside hasn't there and again that's an interesting one because all sorts of people have covered it over the years and so only recently people said oh it's creepy isn't it but then you can look at all sorts of learned treaties on the Internet about how it was written and who's written for the languages that used at the time of the excuse it was and all this was done but as you pays your money you takes your choice really but still Janet says a great version thank you so much indeed for money is that Australian gracious and yet his version of I get a kick out of you. Was