Accordion Guy Advent Calendar, Day Six: Tom Robinson’s "The Joy of Christmas"
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and runs from 7:00 p.m. to 9:30 pm UK time (2:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Eastern Standard Time). The music selection is quite good and he often
has great interviews and presentations to boot.
(Those of you around my age may remember Tom’s songs: Power in the Darkness, 2-4-6-8 Motorway, War Baby and Atmospherics. Accordion City residents may remember Atmospherics as Listen to the Radio, which was also covered by odd-but-good band The Pukka Orchestra.)
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"Accordion City residents may remember Atmospherics as Listen to the Radio, which was also covered by odd-but-good band The Pukka Orchestra.)"
That was a Canada-wide hit, as I recall; as was their other hit, "The Cherry Beach Express".
Cheers,
Anonymous Bosch.