Sunday Night is Motown Night
Trevor Nelson celebrates 60 years of the Motown sound at Hackney Empire with the Â鶹ÊÓƵAV Concert Orchestra and guest singers Tommy Blaize, Tony Momrelle, and Heather Small.
In a concert recorded as part of Radio 2's 2019 Motown season, Trevor Nelson celebrates 60 years of the Motown sound at Hackney Empire with the Â鶹ÊÓƵAV Concert Orchestra led by arranger Malcolm Edmonstone and featuring guest singers Tommy Blaize, Tony Momrelle, and Heather Small.
Together they perform many of Motown's greatest hits, including 'igned Sealed Delivered, Being With You, Isn't She Lovely, You Can't Hurry Love, Dancing in the Street, Trouble Man, What's Going On, and Ain't No Mountain High Enough.
During the interval, Beverley Knight uncovers the strange tale of the Electronium, an almost forgotten chapter in the story of Motown Records. This was the brainchild of inventor Raymond Scott and was the futuristic composing machine that he secretly developed throughout the 1970s with the support of Motown supremo Berry Gordy as they attempted to redefine the term 'hit factory' in a way that few could have imagined.
First broadcast in 2019.
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Â鶹ÊÓƵAV Concert Orchestra
Get Ready
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Tommy Blaize & Â鶹ÊÓƵAV Concert Orchestra
Signed, Sealed, Delivered
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Tommy Blaize & Â鶹ÊÓƵAV Concert Orchestra
Tuesday Heartbreak
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Tommy Blaize & Â鶹ÊÓƵAV Concert Orchestra
All In Love Is Fair
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Tommy Blaize & Â鶹ÊÓƵAV Concert Orchestra
Being With You
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Tommy Blaize & Â鶹ÊÓƵAV Concert Orchestra
Isn't She Lovely
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Tommy Blaize & Â鶹ÊÓƵAV Concert Orchestra
I Believe When I Fall In Love
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Heather Small & Â鶹ÊÓƵAV Concert Orchestra
You Can't Hurry Love
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Heather Small & Â鶹ÊÓƵAV Concert Orchestra
Don't Leave Me This Way
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Heather Small & Â鶹ÊÓƵAV Concert Orchestra
My Girl
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Heather Small, Tommy Blaize & Â鶹ÊÓƵAV Concert Orchestra
Dancing In The Street
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Four Tops
I Can't Help Myself
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Stevie Wonder
You've Got It Bad Girl
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The Supremes
Baby Love
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- Tamla Motown.
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Raymond Scott
1st Class Electronium Part 1
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Raymond Scott Quintette
Toy Trumpet
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Raymond Scott Quintette
Powerhouse
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Raymond Scott Quintette
Dinner Music For A Pack Of Hungry Cannibals
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Raymond Scott
Carribea
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Raymond Scott
Baltimore Gas & Electric Co.
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Raymond Scott
Bufferin
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Raymond Scott
Three Motown Electronium Adaptations
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Raymond Scott
Toy Funk
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Marvin Gaye
Stubborn Kind Of Fellow
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Raymond Scott
Electronium Movie Score
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Yuri Suzuki
Space #3
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The Evolution Control Committee
Powerhouse
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Â鶹ÊÓƵAV Concert Orchestra
Don't You Worry 'Bout A Thing
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Â鶹ÊÓƵAV Concert Orchestra
T Stands For Trouble
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Tony Momrelle & Â鶹ÊÓƵAV Concert Orchestra
Trouble Man
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Â鶹ÊÓƵAV Concert Orchestra
Theme From Trouble Man
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Tony Momrelle & Â鶹ÊÓƵAV Concert Orchestra
I Heard It Through The Grapevine
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Tony Momrelle & Â鶹ÊÓƵAV Concert Orchestra
I Want You
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Tony Momrelle & Â鶹ÊÓƵAV Concert Orchestra
You Are Everything
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Tony Momrelle & Â鶹ÊÓƵAV Concert Orchestra
Sir Duke
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Tony Momrelle & Â鶹ÊÓƵAV Concert Orchestra
Ain't No Mountain High Enough
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Tony Momrelle, Tommy Blaize & Â鶹ÊÓƵAV Concert Orchestra
What's Going On
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Tommy Blaize, Tony Momrelle, Heather Small & Â鶹ÊÓƵAV Concert Orchestra
Ease On Down The Road
Berry Gordy: Hitsville USA
Raymond Scott
Broadcasts
- Fri 23 Aug 2019 20:00Â鶹ÊÓƵAV Radio 2
- Sun 12 Jul 2020 19:00Â鶹ÊÓƵAV Radio 2
- Sun 24 Oct 2021 19:00Â鶹ÊÓƵAV Radio 2
- Sun 27 Nov 2022 20:00Â鶹ÊÓƵAV Radio 2
- Sun 3 Sep 2023 20:00Â鶹ÊÓƵAV Radio 2
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