This week, my big sis delivers an eclectic mix which helps to demonstrate how I got a good start to music when I was in short trousers.

“When your baby brother snaps his musical fingers you jump! Especially if you have an end to keep up. I profess to have taught him everything he knows (about music) but of course this isn’t true. He stopped listening to me in about 1987. There are ties that bind though and The Beach Boys is one of them. I don’t think our tastes have ever drifted that far apart but he might have drawn the line at Dolly! I love a lanky, be-quiffed rockabilly (JD) and I love a hand clap (JH). The video to New Rose is one of the best of all time – I am particularly fond of the cigarette dangling daintily from the lips of Rat Scabies throughout. My guilty pleasure is Hall & Oates and as for Bobby Darin…he’s one of my 6 year old son’s favourites. And I wish I WAS Sugar Pie DeSanto. I still pedal my wares to an audience of small children on my website Hip Auntie and online at Radio Nowhere dot Org. Now I just need to get spotified. Thank you Charlie. X”

Grab the Pet Sounds playlist HERE and check the past playlists HERE.

Hip Auntie’s Pet Sounds – www.hipauntie.com

01 I Cannot Find A True Love – Cliff Richard & The Shadows
02 New Rose – The Damned
03 Help Me, Rhonda – The Beach Boys
04 Trams Of Old London – Robyn Hitchcock
05 Soulful Dress – Sugar Pie DeSanto
06 Blues Run The Game – Neville Skelly
07 Don’t Let Go – Jerry Lee Lewis
08 I Ain’t Never – Webb Pierce
09 North Side Gal – JD McPherson
10 Heart – Nick Lowe
11 Number 9 Train – Tarheel Slim
12 Cherokee Boogie – Johnny Horton
13 Marry Me – Dolly Parton
14 Camellia – Hall & Oates
15 The Ballad Of Cat Ballou – Bobby Darin