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Radio: Sunday Bandstand

Chris Helme has plenty of great music to listen to this week.

Chris Helme
 

Sunday Bandstand:

Broadcast on Phoenix FM 96.7 community radio in the Halifax area of West Yorkshire. This programme is also available via www.phoenixfm.co.uk Every Sunday afternoon from 2pm to 3pm

Produced and presented by Chris Helme or further information please see: www.chrishelme-brighouse.org.uk

It is also available via Podcast from the Radio Phoenix website.
I am always pleased to receive requests – you might want to hear a piece from your own early days in banding, recordings that have long since joined the record deletions list and difficult to find.

Or perhaps you have a burning nostalgia question about the world of brass bands, if you have then please contact me via e-mail: bandstand@chrishelme.org.uk

Sunday 10th June:

Rhythm and Blues
Philip Sparke
Opening for weekly show
Fodens Band
MD: Michael Fowles — 2010

Honest Toil – March
William Rimmer
Black Dyke Mills Band
MD: Geoffrey Brand — 1968

Die Fledermaus (The Bat)
Johann Strauss Arr: Aubrey winter
Fodens Band
MD: James Scott — 1978

All I Ask of You
Andrew Lloyd Webber Arr: Greenwood
Alan Wycherley (Soprano) & Mike Kilroy (Euphonium)
Leyland DAF Band
MD: Richard Evans -1989

Beautiful World
Kenneth Downie
Yorkshire Building Society
MD: David King — 2002

French Comedy Overture
Kela Bela Arr: Dennis Wright
Ferodo Works Band
MD: George Hespe — 1958

Thingumybob
Paul McCartney Arr: Geoffrey Brand
Black Dyke Mills Band
MD: Geoffrey Brand — 1968

Spartacus
Arr: Howard Snell
Scottish Co-op Band
MD: Ray Tennant — 2004

Triptych
Philip Sparke
JJB Sports Leyland Band
MD: Richard Evans — 1998

Triumph from Day of the Dragon
Peter Graham
Cory Band
MD: Dr. Robert Childs — 2004

Rhythm and Blues
Philip Sparke
Ending for weekly show
Fodens Band
MD: Michael Fowles – 2010

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