a very good good evening welcome for me tonight once again through Pick choose old different sorts of music but it does you can just treat it as much as we can between now and 1 o'clock tomorrow morning now the idea is to play in a different sort of stuff and also. Date. It doesn't matter if it's good. number 9 if my memory serves me correct I can actually put my hand on heart who say you know what I wasn't really around to notice of that when I was alive but I wasn't actually around to notice what was in the charts that time too busy well just big girdling I think was nothing else needing changing every time it is right let's get to request 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 or 1 o'clock this is an email we got from Luke if it is any chance he will 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 supposed to buy not for that whistle thank you as you did Luke Evans through e-mails suggesting that 1st question the program some fender played 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 this was a yet still a Bells Christmas time in the city that's when the French pop dream featuring the beautiful vocals of an Bruges yeah course it's a cliche but it really does abate has to have an accordion on the end 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 slightly disappointed lots of people with those sort of catch up high in Could 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 have 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. With. Him it 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 any of the tracks ROIC 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. Say more are. Low or. Narrow God. All. He is. Waiting for what. They know. Or how. Far. Away Oh man. I married that was all. For now. Me. Me. Me. Wrong. Thing known. All over. The world. With a man. Type of hardware our. Watching. With the water. Was. To me. Ready 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 family show he's like can you please leave me alone it's not really be 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. No you. Still feel. will Ebony eyes as well by the Everly Brothers Johnny remember me who on that track by John 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 would Christmas the new year and that I would already have a new cell 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 were going to be a brick shit 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. Play play. There you go picture boys and your Michelle's Yarrow I think that's your label is your Michelle jar with the Pet Shop Boys and especially for Andrew in Netherton Dudley and to break England being the target of that so he'd like to request of the program sincerely hope that to get on well all you need to do Alex dot Lester at B.B.C. Dot co dot U.K.'s is my email address as one way to do it Twitter add to Alex the dog Lord and also Facebook Alex Lester the best time of day show and also by post Leicester 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 of football 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 and the manager said to me and he was going to be figures got to be on his back which is where 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. 111-111-1111 extension 1111 . 11. Lives 11111111111111111111 . Clinics 111111 legs. 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 and if 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 then where should 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 problems he didn't stay on this earth for a long time talk about Judy still Jesus was across make up some. Come down. For knees one. Was. Flown. He. Actually 71 that was 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 us in channel was it was actually getting to watch it because that was the days of police I mean you were household. No televisions in bedrooms etc So there was a television in the living room right the television the living room. 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 and fit into the corner behind his chair the living room and for years we had a black and white T.V. On their black and white televisions were generally B.B.C. One in I.T.V. For a while so therefore would B.B.C. 2 came along which had the AGOA so test on it took a while before we actually caught up for the simple reason that in order to get T.V. Just color as well we thought we'd go you know 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 smaller to fit on the shelf so I think I may have missed out on several years of the growth will test receive a show before I got a chance to watch it on that T.V. I think that you do still perform it's about to see the friends out there don't think we have the key to kill a T.V. It. Was of years later and even then we got a Sony Trinitron which had the postage stamp size screen so it was a bit difficult to see if not we had a big house but was just that from the other side I would sit on the settee peer over my shoulder while he started to his paper about this awful bang bang bang music but still have happy memories with the same your Saturday evening with. You. the bell you could take a well known christmas song and approach it a different way it takes on a whole new or a dozen a us a great version of slater i'd buy fund who actually featured to nate ruess north the because a pit on it as are the people's up as well the at she have a solo korea had now let's get back to your requests agenesis he mailed means it all this is got a nice pace to it gary siesta this version of all i get a kick out of you'd now listen very carefully to the lyrics is it at a bridge to version of the whole observes of of the bloom Little boat. So true all the world should be true and. Good it could be. Some good kid prone to. The classic getting an update a conservative 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 can't have been on that one and I'm not to go off on some rant about actually fiddling with the you know the songwriters or the putting of the performance artistic vision because it seems that more and more songs having bit snipped out of the be feeling now taking offense to stuff. I wonder if I'm not entirely sure because of course it be the whole treaties about Baby It's Cold Outside hasn't there. Again that's an interesting one because all sorts of people have covered it over the years and so only recently people said all his big creepy isn't it but then you can look at all sorts of loonies 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 all this was done but as you pays your money you takes your choice really but still Jenny says a great version thank you so much indeed for a body has that Australian Gary you know his version of I get a kick out of you. Was