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JOHN COOPER CLARKE SITS IN FOR IGGY POP - 6 MUSIC 06.04.25 (320kbs-m4a/260mb/1hr53mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 6th April 2025
John Cooper Clarke returns with another set of jukebox jams to soundtrack your Sunday afternoon.
This week he's got The Cramps, Louis Prima, Nervous Norvus, Link Wray and two from the Chairman of the bored himself, Mr Iggy Pop.
The Rascals - Groovin' [Rhino Atlantic]
Iggy Pop - The Passenger [Virgin]
Tom Waits & Keith Richards - Shenandoah [Anti/Epitaph]
Elmore James - Dust My Broom [H&H Music Ltd]
Robert Gordon & Link Wray - Red Cadillac And A Black Moustache [RCA/Legacy]
The Clash - Janie Jones [Sony Music UK]
Eydie Gormé & Steve Lawrence - I Want To Stay Here [CBS]
The Velvet Underground - All Tomorrow's Parties (Mono Single) [Polydor]
Elvis Presley - One Night With You [Memory Lane]
Sheriff And The Ravels - Shombalor [Treasure Goldies]
The Cramps - Goo Goo Muck [Capitol Catalog Mkt (C92)]
Louis Jordan - Junco Partner [PirosMAYdigital]
Sam Cooke & The Soul Stirrers - Touch The Hem Of His Garment [Specialty]
Bunny Berigan - I Can't Get Started [Music Today]
Chet Baker - You Don't Know What Love Is [Not Now Music]
Kenny Ball & His Jazzmen - The Music Goes Round And Round [Castle Communications]
Louis Prima - Angelina / Zooma Zooma
Dion - Donna The Prima Donna (Italian Version) [Columbia/Legacy]
Dean Martin - Rio Bravo [AudioSonic Music]
Dean Martin & Ricky Nelson - My Rifle, My Pony And Me [Capitol]
Frank Sinatra - Love's Been Good To Me [Reprise]
Nervous Norvus - Transfusion [Geffen]
Johnny O'Keefe - The Wild One [WM Australia]
Iggy Pop - Caesar [Virgin]
Link Wray - Honest, I Swear Somebody Lied [Ace]
Shocking Blue - Venus [Rhino]
David Johansen - Cool Metro [Legacy Recordings]
George Jones - She Thinks I Still Care [Pegasus Entertainment]
Richard Hawley - The Ocean [Parlophone UK]
The Del‐Vikings - Down In Bermuda [CW Music/EMG]
Alan Vega - Video Babe [Rhino/Elektra]
Lee Dorsey - Ride Your Pony [Arista/Legacy]
Elvis Presley & The Joe Guercio Orchestra - Early Morning Rain [RCA/Legacy]
Wayne Newton - Danke Schoen [Capitol]
JOHN COOPER CLARKE SITS IN FOR IGGY POP - 6 MUSIC 23.03.25 (320kbs-m4a/260mb/1hr53mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 23rd March 2025
John Cooper Clarke heads directly to the source with two hours of Jukebox Jams. There's the Sabbath Special, the compulsory Elvis number and a nod to Iggy via Clarke's Compilation Corner.
The Rascals - Groovin' [Rhino Atlantic]
Kitty, Daisy & Lewis - I've Been Everywhere [Sunday Best Recordings]
The Heartbreakers - Pirate Love [Jungle]
The Clash - Bankrobber [CBS]
Dr. Alimantado - Born For A Purpose
Hollie Cook - Body Beat [Mr Bongo]
Jerry Lee Lewis - Whole Lot Of Shakin' Going On [Trax]
? And The Mysterians - 96 Tears [Cherry Red]
The Pogues - Do You Believe In Magic?
The Lovin' Spoonful - You Didn't Have To Be So Nice [Castle Communications]
Bo Diddley - Sixteen Tons [Music Club Deluxe]
Tennessee Ernie Ford - Mule Train [DiscMedi S.A.]
The Everly Brothers - I Wonder If I Care As Much [Acrobat]
Ersel Hickey - Goin' Down That Road [Playtime]
Iggy And The Stooges - I Got A Right [Cherry Red]
Ronnie Spector - You Can't Put Your Arms Around A Memory [Legacy Recordings]
David Johansen - Frenchette [Legacy Recordings]
Sex Pistols - Did You No Wrong [UMC (Universal Music Catalogue)]
Don Lang & His Frantic Five - Witch Doctor [Future Noise Music Ltd.]
Bo Diddley - Who Do You Love [Chess]
The Velvet Underground - Train Round The Bend [Rhino Atlantic]
Big Youth - Train To Rhodesia [Blue Mahoe]
Clancy Eccles - Rod Of Correction [Trojan]
Elvis Presley - Mystery Train [RCA]
The Clash - Rock The Casbah [Epic]
Nico - I'll Keep It With Mine [Polydor]
Freya Beer - Beauty
Them - Here Comes The Night [Deram]
Patti Smith - Gloria [Arista]
Gene Chandler - Duke Of Earl [Disky]
The Bobby Fuller Four - I Fought The Law [Acuff-Rose Opryland]
Guy Clark - Desperados Waiting For A Train [NOW Country Outlaw]
Ruth Copeland - Gimme Shelter [Cherry Red]
Wayne Newton - Danke Schoen [Capitol]
JOHN COOPER CLARKE: THE SUIT - 2. EPISODE 2 (320kbs-m4a/126mb/55mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 3rd February 2022
To complement the 6 Music Arctic Monkeys Artist Collection, another chance to hear their friend, inspiration and collaborator John Cooper Clarke exploring the important part that the suit has played in music.
The bespoke and bespectacled Bard of Salford spins sartorial songs for the switched on generation. John will join his tailoring mate, the Savile Row taught Tom Baker at his Soho establishment to get his inside leg measured and chat about the many intricacies of the modern day suit.
Expect music from Eddie Cochran, the Hives, Nancy Sinatra, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds and Adam Ant.
John Cooper Clarke is an English performance poet who first became famous during the punk era of the late 1970s. He released several albums in the late 1970s and early 1980s and a written anthology of his work entitled Ten Years In An Open Necked Shirt.
At the end of the 1990s, he was included as part of the English GCSE syllabus, which led to a whole new audience discovering his work. This is where Alex Turner of Arctic Monkeys first came across him and it was the championing done by Alex and others that led to John's return to the tour circuit.
First broadcast in 2014.
Nancy Sinatra - Cuff Links And A Tie Clip
Lou Rawls - Street Corner Hustler Blues/World Of Trouble (Live)
David Bowie - Be My Wife
Fats Waller - Got A Bran' New Suit
Wilson Pickett - She's Lookin' Good
Charlie Rich - Mohair Sam
Elvis Presley - Blue Suede Shoes
Clarence Carter - Looking For A Fox
Ricky Shayne - Uno Dei Mods
The Hives - Born To Cry
Dion - Donna The Prima Donna
Dr. Horse - Jack, That Cat Was Clean
JOHN COOPER CLARKE: THE SUIT - 1. EPISODE 1 (320kbs-m4a/134mb/58mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 3rd February 2022
To complement the 6 Music Arctic Monkeys Artist Collection, another chance to hear their friend, inspiration and collaborator John Cooper Clarke exploring the important part the suit has played in music.
The bespoke and bespectacled Bard of Salford spins sartorial songs for the switched on generation. John will join his tailoring mate, the Savile Row taught Tom Baker at his Soho establishment to get his inside leg measured and chat about the many intricacies of the modern day suit.
Expect music from Eddie Cochran, the Hives, Nancy Sinatra, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds and Adam Ant.
John Cooper Clarke is an English performance poet who first became famous during the punk era of the late 1970s. He released several albums in the late 1970s and early 1980s and a written anthology of his work entitled Ten Years In An Open Necked Shirt.
At the end of the 1990s, he was included as part of the English GCSE syllabus, which led to a whole new audience discovering his work. This is where Alex Turner of Arctic Monkeys first came across him and it was the championing done by Alex and others that led to John's return to the tour circuit.
First broadcast in 2014.
Bob Crosby & His Orchestra - A Zoot Suit
Etta James - Mellow Fellow
Frank Sinatra - Sunday
Nick Cave & Shane MacGowan - What A Wonderful World
Gene Vincent - Bluejean Bop
The Beatles - Chains
The Coasters - Shoppin' For Clothes
The Rolling Stones - Brown Sugar
Sex Pistols - Pretty Vacant
Barry Manilow - Copacabana (At The Copa)
Led Zeppelin - Stairway To Heaven
Led Zeppelin - Immigrant Song
James Brown - Out Of Sight
The Horrors - I See You
The Beatles - Baby's In Black
Eddie Cochran - Pink Peg Slacks
Sex Pistols - Anarchy In The UK
Arctic Monkeys - I Wanna Be Yours
The Contours - First I Look At The Purse
DESERT ISLAND DISCS: JOHN COOPER CLARKE (320kbs-m4a/101mb/44mins)
BBC Radio 4 broadcast: 21st July 2019
John Cooper Clarke first achieved fame with his poetry during the punk rock era of the late 1970s. Born in Salford in 1949 to Hilda and George, he suffered from tuberculosis as a child and was sent to recuperate with a relative in Wales. He failed his 11 plus exam and was educated at a secondary modern school which he hated. However the one “rose in a garden of weeds” was his English teacher, Mr Malone, who instilled a love of poetry in John and his classmates.
John had various odd jobs after leaving school at 15 and by his mid-20s, he was reciting his poetry in clubs around Manchester. His entry into the punk scene was helped, he says, by “already looking like a punk”, and despite some initially hostile receptions from audiences waiting for the Sex Pistols or the Buzzcocks, he acquired a cult status, going on to release five albums of his poetry set to music by former Joy Division producer Martin Hannett.
By early 1980s, he was also in the grip of a heroin addiction which would see him write very little for over a decade. He cleaned up in the early 90s after marrying his second wife, Evie, and having a daughter, Stella. His star began to rise again in 2007 when one of his poems was used in an episode of The Sopranos and others were included on the GCSE syllabus, which led to collaborations with artists like Plan B and Alex Turner of the Arctic Monkeys.
Presenter: Lauren Laverne
Producer: Cathy Drysdale
Garnet Mimms & The Enchanters - A Quiet Place [Collectables]
Jerry Lee Lewis - Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On [London]
Dion & The Belmonts - I Wonder Why [3C]
Ella Fitzgerald - Skylark [Verve]
Nico - I'll Keep It With Mine [Verve]
Frank Sinatra - Moonlight In Vermont [Capitol]
Doris Day - The Black Hills Of Dakota [Sony]
Elvis Presley - How Great Thou Art [RCA]
DR JOHN COOPER CLARKE: HEROES AND VILLAINS (320kbs-m4a/411mb/3hrs)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 7th July 2018
What makes a great hero? Why do some villains get all the best lines? The poet, rock star, broadcaster, comedian and cultural icon Dr John Cooper Clarke returns to BBC Radio 4 Extra to rummage through the archives for a curated selection of radio heroes and villains.
Along the way he will talk us through the heroic characters and the unscrupulous rogues who lit up his own childhood imagination.
Expect good guys and gunslingers, Second World War spy rings and a 'Shadowy figure', with stars including Humphrey Bogart, Orson Welles and Peter O'Toole. Through this surprising mix of hidden radio treasure, Dr John Cooper Clarke will discover whatever happened to all the heroes? And attempt to explain why sometimes good guys don't wear white.
THE BARD OF SALFORD (320kbs-m4a/64mb/28mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 3rd March 2018
Paul Morley traces the life and works of Manchester punk poet John Cooper Clarke.
Paul looks back at the punk movement in the mid 1970s, its DIY ethic and popular appeal and how Cooper Clarke, as the poet of the people, fit into the scene.
Through exclusive new interviews with Cooper Clarke, Paul delves into the most significant moments of his life and career, from his first job as a lab technician at Salford University to touring with some of the world's most famous punk bands, his domestic partnership and shared heroin addiction with Nico, the use of one of his songs in The Sopranos, his signing to the same label as Bob Dylan and his appearance in a Sugar Puffs advert.
Cooper Clarke has continued to tour and write new work for 30 years and despite being exasperated by the 1980s' flamboyant reaction to punk's DIY ethic, his influence today should not be underestimated. Jarvis Cocker, Noel Gallagher, Alex Turner of the Arctic Monkeys, Lily Allen and Kate Nash have all cited Clarke as an influence, as his distinctive style continues to pervade popular music.
Contributors include Mark E Smith, Pete Shelley, Kate Nash, Phill Jupitus and Clarke himself.
An All Out production for BBC Radio 4.
DR JOHN COOPER CLARKE: COMPLETE CONTROL (320kbs-m4a/409mb/3hrs)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 8th July 2017
Made for 4 Extra. The poet and cultural icon Dr John Cooper Clarke has been given Complete Control of Radio 4 Extra to select three hours of his favourite programmes from the BBC Radio Archives.
This Includes;
Stand-up from Bob Hope, recorded at the London Palladium in 1953
A collection of comedy from the golden age of radio variety with Vic Oliver, Al Read and Jimmy 'Wheel 'em in' Wheeler.
Some audio interference from the pioneering DJ Jack Jackson.
An episode of 'The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole 13 ¾'
A creepy reading of Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Black Cat’ by James Stewart (yes, that James Stewart)
Vincent Price and Peter Cushing coming face-to-face in ‘The Price Of Fear’
The classic Western ‘The Shootist’, starring Brian Cox and Michelle Fairley
So enjoy three hours of thrills, chills and laughs, all introduced by the man who is in Complete Control, Dr John Cooper Clarke.
