Eastside 89.7 FM

The Hairpin Turn

22.02.26

Aired on Sunday 22nd February 2026, 12:30AM

The Hairpin Turn is an eclectic mix of the finest music across a variety of years, genres, styles, moods and fragrances. Keep your dancing shoes handy for the fast stuff, a box of tissues ready for the sentimental stuff, and a fresh pot of ginger and lemon tea for the singalong stuff. There's bound to be a song you know. Maybe there's a song you'll fall in love with at first listen.Each performance of The Hairpin Turn is in two movements:La DansetteA mini-party. Music at a fixed BPM for dancing, singing, carousing, marching upon castles, etc.; however the witching hour pleases you.Deeper into MusicMusic following a theme. Past subjects of the week: contrafacts, psychogeography, Billy Strayhorn, Tom Waits.If you have comments, questions or playlist suggestions, please email Mathew at thehairpinturn@eastsidefm.org

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Tracklist

  1. 01

    Meat Beat Manifesto

    Radio Babylon (version galore)

  2. 7:00

    Sister Sledge

    Got to Love Somebody [Dimitri from Paris remix]

  3. 15:00

    Gladys Knight And The Pips

    Just Walk in My Shoes

  4. 17:00

    Silver Apples

    Oscillations

  5. 20:00

    The Isley Brothers

    Fight the Power

  6. 25:00

    Bryan Ferry

    Seven Deadly Sins

  7. 32:00

    Delay 45

    Hubris

  8. 38:00

    Stevie Wonder

    He's Misstra Know-it-All

  9. 43:00

    Procul Harum

    Conquistador

  10. 48:00

    (If You Think You're) Groovy

    P.P. Arnold

  11. 53:00

    Kid Creole and the Coconuts

    I'm a Wonderful Thing, Baby

  12. 58:00

    Money Killed Johnny

    Gullible

  13. 1:02:00

    Jean Knight

    Mr. Big Stuff

  14. 1:07:00

    West Australian Symphony Orchestra cond. Benjamin Northey

    Bernstein: The Great Lover Displays Himself (from 'On The Town: Three Dance Episodes')

  15. 13:00

    Johnny Cash

    God's Gonna Cut You Down

  16. 1:16:00

    Louis Jordan and his Tympany Five

    You Run Your Mouth (and I'll Run My Business)

  17. 1:18:00

    David Bowie

    Somebody Up There Likes Me

  18. 1:25:00

    Skyhooks

    Ego Is Not a Dirty Word

  19. 1:30:00

    Margaret Dumont, Groucho Marx and Chorus

    Hymn to Fredonia (Just Wait 'Til I Get Though with It) (from 'Duck Soup')

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