Tim in de Avond

09/06/2025

Een eigenzinnige mix van soul, funk,disco, pop, gitaren en nog veel meer wat er ter meng - en draaitafel komt. Na 21.00 uur kan je je favoriete platen aanvragen op de voicemail van 010 744 9102 of de website van i-turn Radio! Dit allemaal op de maandagavond bij Tim in de Avond van 20.00 tot 22.00 uur via:

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02/06/2025

Een eigenzinnige mix van soul, funk, disco, pop, gitaren en nog veel meer wat er ter meng - en draaitafel komt. Na 21.00 uur kan je je favoriete platen aanvragen op de voicemail van 010 744 9102 of de website van i-turn Radio! Dit allemaal op de maandagavond van 20.00 tot 22.00 uur via:

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29/05/2025

On this day in 1982, the Alan Parsons Project LP “Eye In The Sky” debuted on the UK Albums Chart at #68 (May 29)

“Eye in the Sky” contains the title track, the Project's biggest hit, with lead vocals by Eric Woolfson, which is usually played in tandem with the instrumental piece "Sirius", which has become a staple of many college and professional sporting arenas throughout the world.

It is best known for its use by the Chicago Bulls to introduce its starting line-up during its championship years of the 1990s and is still used to this day…

The album went to #1 in Austria and Germany, #2 in Italy, #3 in Canada, New Zealand, and Norway, #4 in Australia and the Netherlands, #7 in the US, #8 in Sweden, and #27 in the UK.

At the 25th Annual Grammy Awards in 1983, Eye in the Sky was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album.

In 2019, the album won the Grammy Award for Best Immersive Audio Album at the 61st Annual Grammy Awards.

Click on the link below to watch the title track:

https://youtu.be/jdyto5rf0HU

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22/05/2025

On this day in 1977, the Stevie Wonder single “Sir Duke” went to #1 on the US Billboard Hot 100 (May 21)

The song from his acclaimed 1976 album “Songs in the Key of Life” went all the way to #1 in both the US and Canada, #2 in the UK, #4 in Switzerland, and #10 in Germany.

Stevie Wonder wrote this song as a tribute to music, specifically to one of his major influences Duke Ellington, who had passed away in 1974.

"I knew the title from the beginning but wanted it to be about the musicians who did something for us," Stevie said. "So soon they are forgotten. I wanted to show my appreciation. They gave us something that is supposed to be forever. That's the basic idea of what we do and how we hook it up."

Wonder references music greats “Satchmo" Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basie and Sodarisa Miller in the song.

Click on the link below to watch:

https://youtu.be/hmKshpLXnxE

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22/05/2025

On this day in 1977, the Fleetwood Mac LP “Rumours” went to #1 on the US Billboard 200 Album Chart (May 21)

This wonderful, eclectic, emotional musical rollercoaster was famously born out of the band’s relationship turmoil, and is arguably one of the best albums of all time.

“Dreams”, “Don’t Stop”, “Never Going Back Again”, “Go Your Own Way”, “The Chain”, “Songbird”, “Gold Dust Woman”, “I Don’t Want To Know”, “You Make Loving Fun”.....just a classic piece of vinyl.

“Rumours” was an instant commercial success, selling over 10 million copies worldwide within just a month of its release, and becoming the band's first #1 album on the UK Albums Chart, also topping the US Billboard 200.

It was also #1 in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the Netherlands, and South Africa.

The record has received a Diamond Award from the Recording Industry Association of America for a 20× platinum certification or 20 million copies shipped, making it, as of 2021, tied for the eleventh highest certified album in US history.

In 2003, it was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.

In 2018, it was selected for preservation in the National Recording Registry, being deemed "culturally, historically, or artistically significant" by the Library of Congress.

In 2020, Rumours was rated the seventh-greatest album of all time in Rolling Stone's list of the "500 Greatest Albums of All Time".

Mick Fleetwood has called “Rumours” “the most important album we ever made", because its success allowed the group to continue recording for years to come.

Click on the link below to watch Fleetwood Mac play “The Chain” live:

https://youtu.be/dGykwC0fdJ4

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21/05/2025

This week in 1979, the John Stewart song “Gold” debuted on the US Billboard Hot 100 at #78 (May 19)

It was the lead single and biggest hit among three Top 40 singles released from his LP “Bombs Away Dream Babies”, on which Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks, both appeared.

Nicks sang backup vocals. Buckingham sang backup vocals, played guitar, and co-produced.

The song was Stewart's first US Top 40 hit, as well as his first chart single in a decade.

The track peaked at #4 in Canada, #5 in the US and Australia, #13 in New Zealand, and #43 in the UK.

Click on the link below to watch:

https://youtu.be/reFlgu1vq3Q

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19/05/2025

This week in 1981, the REO Speedwagon LP “Hi Infidelity” went to #1 again on the US Billboard 200 Albums Chart (May 16)

The album spent 15 non-consecutive weeks at #1 (only 27 albums, and only 7 rock acts, have spent at least 15 weeks at #1).

The band’s ninth studio album went on to become the biggest-selling album of 1981 in the US, and of the four singles released, "Take It on the Run" went to #5 on the Billboard Hot 100, and REO Speedwagon got their first of two #1 hits with "Keep On Loving You".

“Hi Infidelity” also went on to peak at #1 in Canada, #6 in Australia and the UK, #7 in the Netherlands, #17 in Norway, #18 in Germany, and #34 in New Zealand.

Click on the link below to watch a great live version of “Keep On Loving You”:

https://youtu.be/ISYKhc9foUw

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10/05/2025

On this day in 1976, the Cliff Richard single “Devil Woman” debuted on the UK Singles Chart at #41 ( May 8 )

The song written by Terry Britten and Christine Authors from his “I’m Nearly Famous” LP eventually peaked at #9 in the UK, and was Cliff Richard’s biggest hit in the US, climbing to #6 on the Billboard Hot 100.

It also went to #1 in South Africa, #3 in Australia, #4 in Canada, #5 in New Zealand, and was a Top 10 hit in Norway, France, and Ireland.

In fact it was the prolific British singer’s third biggest-selling single worldwide.

The song saw a resurgence in popularity after appearing in the film “I, Tonya” (2017), as the theme for the character of LaVona Golden, played by Allison Janney.

Click on the link below to watch:

https://youtu.be/5-i2yQ4kAOM

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06/05/2025

On this day in 1978, the movie soundtrack to “Saturday Night Fever” was at #1 on the UK Albums Chart (May 6)

A major critical and commercial success, “Saturday Night Fever” had a tremendous effect on popular culture of the late 1970s.

The film helped significantly to popularize disco music, dancing, and nightclubs around the world and made John Travolta, who was already well known from his role on TV's “Welcome Back, Kotter” a household name.

The “Saturday Night Fever Soundtrack” is one of the best-selling albums in history, and remains the second-biggest-selling soundtrack of all time, selling 40 million copies worldwide.

Producer Robert Stigwood commissioned the Bee Gees to create the songs for the film.

As Robin Gibb said:
“We were recording our new album in the north of France. And we'd written about and recorded about four or five songs for the new album when Stigwood rang from LA and said, 'We're putting together this little film, low budget, called Tribal Rites of a Saturday Night. Would you have any songs on hand?', and we said, 'Look, we can't, we haven't any time to sit down and write for a film'. We didn't know what it was about.”

The brothers wrote the songs "virtually in a single weekend".

Barry Gibb remembered the reaction when Stigwood and music supervisor Bill Oakes arrived and listened to the demos:

“They flipped out and said these will be great. We still had no concept of the movie, except some kind of rough script that they'd brought with them ...”

The album went all the way to #1 around the world in countries including the US, the UK, the Netherlands, Australia, Canada, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Germany, New Zealand, Japan, and Norway.

The soundtrack won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year.
It is the only disco album to do so, and one of only three soundtrack albums so honored.

In 2020, the album was ranked #163 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time".

Click on the link below to watch John Travolta’s famous dance sequence to The Bee Gees “You Should Be Dancing”:

https://youtu.be/LUID0jSh2Ic

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28/04/2025

Een eigenzinnige mix van soul, funk, disco, pop, gitaren en nog veel meer wat er ter meng - en draaitafel komt. Na 21.00 uur kan je je favoriete platen aanvragen op de voicemail van 010 744 9102 of de website van i-turn Radio! Dit allemaal op de maandagavond van 20.00 tot 22.00 uur via:

https://i-turnradio.nl/

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