The Musical Spotlight with Jerry Short Unknown
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The Musical Spotlight is written and presented by Jerry Short, produced by Daniel Botei.
Once a week, we’ll shine our musical spotlight on an artist from the world of soul, funk, reggae and jazz.
It’s a huge spotlight like the ones on the 20th Century Fox logo, so bright enough to pick out all the juicy details about incredible artists from "Al Green to Ziggy Marley", and play clips from their best tracks.
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Amy Winehouse under the spotlight (23.07.2021)
This #MusicalSpotlight we are shinning on to "Amy Winehouse", who was everything you’d expect "a superstar singer, incredibly talented, with a rock’n’roll lifestyle and a sensational voice"Sadly, passed away 10years ago, on 23rd of July 2011.---written and presented by Jerry Short. Sound edit & produced by Daniel Botei
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Desmond Dekker under the spotlight (25.01.2021)
Desmond Dekker was one of the 1st truly international Jamaican stars. His falsetto voice and singing in patois were thought to be a commercial risk by his record company, yet Israelites reached no1 in the UK and no9 in the USA. He passed away in 2006 but his recordings are more loved now, than they have ever been ----#MusicalSpotlight Written & Presented by Jerry Short. Produced by Daniel Botei
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Halloween Special 2020
Our Halloween #MusicalSpotlight is finished & ready. There are some incredible tracks, many of them chosen by you, but we deliberately left out the obvious ones like Thriller & Monster Mash. We did pack in some scary amazing facts and Halloween world records. 13mins of compleat audio bliss. It is family safe, too, so sit back and listen with every ear on your face.----Written & Presented by Jerry Short. Produced by Daniel Botei
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"Lockdown Special"
This special edition of the #MusicalSpotlight looks at the songs people chose to get them through Corona (COVID-19) Lockdown which started on 23rd March. We’ve had the Stone Age & Iron Age. The last 4 months have been a Home Age and this is your essential soundtrack to it. -----Written & presented by Jerry ShortRecorded and Produced by Daniel Botei
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Listen to this over XMAS Dinner (24.12.19)
We've finished this year's Musical Spotlight Xmas Podcast and it's perfect to listen to whilst eating your turkey or nut roast. We asked Facebook for your favourite Xmas songs so these have been nominated by you, featuring artists such as John & Yoko, Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, Bowie and the Darkness to name but a few, plus the most amazing facts about the festive break that we could find. Have a great one y'all.-----Written & presented by Jerry ShortRecorded and Produced by Daniel Botei
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Songs you could simply not live without. (11.05.2019)
Many of us cannot live without headphones these days. They pump delicious sounds straight to our eardrums, touching our hearts but which songs are the soundtrack of your life? Which songs are your favourites? Which tracks would you not want to go anywhere without ?This is one of our special #MusicalSpotlight episode.-----First time broadcasted: May the 11th on BCFM Radio (93,2) - www.bcfmradio.com-----Written & presented by Jerry ShortRecorded, Sound Edit and Produced by Daniel Botei