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WATCH HERE  LISTEN HERE The Greatest Performers Experience a century of unforgettable music with Record Collecting – Monthly Mix , an audio series inspired by the acclaimed features of Record Collector magazine. In this special edition, we celebrate some of the greatest recorded performances of the 20th Century, spanning an extraordinary musical journey from the pioneering genius of Louis Armstrong to the darkly compelling artistry of Nick Cave. Along the way, you'll hear (and see on YouTube) landmark recordings that defined jazz, blues, rock, soul, punk, and beyond—performances that changed the course of popular music and continue to inspire generations of listeners. Whether they're recorded on film, TV, Live venues or promotional videos, each track has earned its place through exceptional musicianship, emotion, and influence. Join us as Record Collecting – Monthly Mix explores the recordings that helped shape the soundtrack of the 20th Century.  01 Louis Armstrong - He...

One of my favourite programmes of youth was BBC's   Old Grey Whistle Test . A relative late-comer to the programme, I joined at the stage when 'Whispering' Bob Harris was beginning to lose control of, what until that point had been, his own private TV music show. No longer was the programme showing the prog rock dinosaurs of old. The youthful new bands of the mid-seventies were beginning to take a much larger foothold of TV's only real alternative to 'Top Of The Pops'. Although perfectly relaxed with the 'new wave' of music that he now presented, the introduction of excitable Annie Nightingale as co-presenter obviously irked the reserved Harris, quickly forcing him to leave the programme completely. 'Young upstart journalists' David Hepworth and Mark Ellen, and DJs Andy Kershaw and Richard Skinner, alternatively carried on banging in the nails and digging the grave, of this fine TV institution until it lost firstly it's 'Old G...