LNL Midnight Mixtape: Goodbye

Midnight Mixtape: Goodbye

On the midnight mixtape, Connor Phillips was joined by Paul McNamee to look at listener selections (30/01/2024) with Songs that reference goodbyes with BBC5 Live weeknights producer Niamh leaving the show and Steven Gerrard leaving Al-Ettifaq!

Songs in contention

• N'Sync - Bye bye bye
• Ray Charles - Hit the road Jack
• Beatles - Hello Goodbye
• Verve - History
• Gloria Gaynor - Never can say goodbye
• (Communards - Don't leave me this way)
• Bronski Beat - Small town boy
• Leonard Cohen - So long Marianne
• Marianne Faithfull - (Goodbye) Ruby Tuesday
• Placebo - Song to say goodbye
• Camera Obscura - Big love
• Pogues - Sally MacLennane
• Pogues - Thousands are sailing
• Julie Andrews (Sound of Music) - So long farewell
• Soft Cell - Say hello wave goodbye
• David Gray - Say hello wave goodbye
• Semisonic - Closing time
• Elton John - Goodbye yellow brick road
• Bob Dylan - It's over now baby blue
• Bob Dylan - Don't think twice it's alright
• Andrea Bocelli & Sarah Brightman - Time to say goodbye
• Ella Fitzgerald - Ev'ry time we say goodbye
• Leggy Blondes - Flight of the conchords
• Bay City Rollers - Bye bye baby
• Willie Nelson - Blue eyes crying in the rain
• Jimmy Radcliffe - Long after tonight is all over
• Spiritualised - Broken Heart
• Dubliners - Leaving of Liverpool
• Green day - Good riddance

Final Mixtape

Here's the final mixtape!

Thank you for Leigh created a "spotified playlist.

[Side 1]
1. Beatles - Hello Goodbye
2. Marianne Faithfull - Ruby Tuesday
3. Elton John - Goodbye yellow brick road	
4. Bay City Rollers - Bye bye baby	
5. Sound of Music - So long farewell
6. Ella Fitzgerald - Ev'ry time we say goodbye
[Side 2]
7. Bronski Beat - Small town boy
8. David Gray - Say hello wave goodbye	
9. Green day - Good riddance	
10. Gloria Gaynor - Never can say goodbye
11. Pogues - Sally MacLennane
12. Andrea Bocelli & Sarah Brightman - Time to say goodbye	
Hidden: Ray Charles - Hit the road Jack

Previous Appearances

From the original midnight mixtapes, 2 acts had never been on before David Gray and Marianne Faithfull.

• 16: Beatles (1)
• 7: Pogues (1)
• 6: Elton John (1)
• 5: Green Day (1)
• 4: Ella Fitzgerald
• 3: Ray Charles
• 2: Julie Andrews
• 1: Andrea Bocelli, Bay City Rollers (1), Bronski Beat, Gloria Gaynor