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Val Doonican remains one of the nations' favourite entertainers, with his warm, friendly and relaxed delivery, as seen during his Saturday night prime time TV show, The Val Doonican Show, which had a long and successful run on BBC Television for more than 20 years. He easily blended a cocktail of traditional Irish songs, with his arrangements on pop music and covering easy listening and novelty songs, Val scored a dozen Top 40 hit singles, including five Top 10 hits - 'Walk Tall', 'The Special Years', 'Elusive Butterfly', 'What Would I Be' and 'If The Whole World Stopped Loving' - over a ten year period. He also reached the Top 40 Albums Chart on twelve occasions over a 44-year period, including five successive Top 10 albums in the 1960s. This new 60-track retrospective, "The Gold Collection", showcases all of these facets that make this heart-warming collection a 'must have' album.

At last week's meeting, who got heard? Was it you? If not, you need to listen to this program. The most important book on language since Deborah Tannen's You Just Don't Understand, Power Talk uses the reality of today's business world to show how each of us becomes captive to the way we talk, and why all of us need a little linguistic cross training.

Earl St. Clair a name you should know if you’re a fan of R&B. For that matter, actually, you should know his name if you flat out love great music. While he is classified mainly as an R&B artist, his music is soul through and through, peppered with roots and even perhaps a hint of bluegrass influences. St. Clair is making wholesome old school music sound new on his latest album My Name Is Earl. Spanning seven tracks, the production is a strong, upbeat compilation of effective, pure lyrics and throaty, powerful vocals.

"These ten originals show why fans continue to follow and support Great Lakes. Crum writes songs delivered with unique sincerity." - babysue

A show rather than a group, Celtic Thunder was conceived by Sharon Browne and written and arranged by Phil Coulter and designed as a contemporary exploration of Celtic music, which means it falls to the pop-dance side of the spectrum more than it does to the traditional side. The show was staged, recorded, and filmed in Dublin in August of 2007 and featured five male vocalists, Damian McGinty (only 14 years old when the show was recorded), Keith Harkin, Paul Byrom, Ryan Kelly, and George Donaldson, rotating leads through a set of traditional and contemporary songs, several of them written by Coulter.