LNL: Midnight Mixtape: Sunshine

Midnight Mixtape: Sunshine

On the midnight mixtape, Tony Livesey was joined by Paul McNamee to look at listener selections (06/03/2025) with Songs that reference sunshine! This to commemorate the American jazz-producer, Roy Ayers who passed away on Tuesday and noted for "Everybody loves the sunshine"

Songs in contention

• Lorde - Solar Power
• Roy Ayers - Everybody loves the sunshine
• Johnny Nash - I can see clearly now
• Proclaimers - Sunshine on Leith
• Stevie Wonder - You're the sunshine of my life
• Misundersood - Children of the sun
• Magnetic Fields - I don't believe in the sun
• Nik Kershaw - I won't let the sun go down
• Soundgarden - Black hole sun
• Morecambe & Wise - Bring me sunshine
• Sex Pistols - Holidays in the sun
• Rotary Connection - I am the black gold of the sun
• Rammstein - Sonne
• Tom Waits - San Diego Serenade
• Gabrielle - Sunshine
• Pink Floyd - Set the controls of the heart of the sun
• Teenage Fanclub - Ain't that enough
• Eagles - Tequila Sunrise
• Buddy Holly - Raining in my heart
• Corrs - Summer Sunshine
• Polyphonic Spree - It's the sun
• Frankie Valli - Sunny
• Bill Withers - Ain't no sunshine
• Velvet Underground - Who loves the sun
• Dario G - Sunchyme
• Primal Scream - Higher the sun
• Beatles - Good day sunshine
• Velvet Underground - Riding to the sun
• Katrina & Waves - Walking on sunshine
• Arctic Monkeys - When the sun goes down
• Nirvana/Vaselines - Jesus doesn't want me for a sunbeam
• Kinks - Waterloo Sunset
• Oasis - Cigarettes & Alcohol
• Super Furry Animals - Hello Sun
• Beach boys - Soulful old man sunshine
• John Denver - Sunshine on my shoulders
• Len - Steal my sunshine
• Cream - Sunshine of your love
• Johnny Cash - I see a darkness
• Central Line - Walking into the sunshine
• Animals - House of the rising sun
• Fifth Dimension - Aquarius

Final Mixtape

Here's the final mixtape!

[Side 1]
1. Morecambe & Wise - Bring me sunshine
2. Frankie Valli - Sunny
3. Oasis - Cigarettes & Alcohol
4. Katrina & Waves - Walking on sunshine
5. Rotary Connection - I am the black gold of the sun
6. Rammstein - Sonne
[Side 2]
7. Sex Pistols - Holidays in the sun
8. Bill Withers - Ain't no sunshine
9. Kinks - Waterloo Sunset
10. Dario G - Sunchyme
11. Cream - Sunshine of your love
12. Proclaimers - Sunshine on Leith
Hidden: Buddy Holly - Raining in my heart

Previous Appearances

From the original midnight mixtapes, 3 acts had never been on before, Cream, Dario G, Rotary Connection. Bill Withers makes it back-to-back mixtapes.

• 9: Oasis (8+1)
• 6: Kinks
• 4: Proclaimers
• 3: Bill Withers (2+1)
• 2: Buddy Holly
• 1: Frankie Valli, Morecambe & Wise, Katrina & Waves, Rammstein, Sex Pistols