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The Carpenters - Can't Smile Without You

5. Theme From A Summer Place

Annie Trousseau * Diamonds of the West is a collection of world vintage love songs

Un Homme et Une Femme

Chet Baker - Estate

Blue Glasses

FR David - Words Don't Come Easy

Recorded at Century II in Wichita, KS for the Southwestern Music Educators Conference. March 1973 under the direction of Ray James.

05 Theme from the Apartment - Charles Williams (Marilee Southworth on piano)

Listen. It's 6:30 pm in Montevideo. The streets are full of traffic, and the radio is on everywhere. Tune into CX22 Radio Universal AM 970 and you can hear Elena Fonseca present Nunca en Domingo (Never on Sunday) her daily women's radio show. Elena is 81 years old, elegant and on fire.  

Sam Robinson, from London, has been interning with The Kitchen Sisters. He heard the tape we brought back from Uruguay and was as taken by Elena as we were. Sam produced this story. 

We began our conversation with Elena with the same question all Kitchen Sisters interviews begin with...

Never on Sunday: The Hidden World of Elena Fonseca

Sympathique, Pink Martini’s wildly popular debut album, was released in 1997. It has gone on to sell 975,000 copies worldwide and has taken the band around the world on tours to the Cannes Film Festival and Europe, Lebanon, Turkey, Japan and Taiwan among other far-flung destinations.

Nominated for “Song of the Year” and “Best New Artist” in France’s Victoires de la Musique Awards, the album is Platinum in France and Gold in Canada, Switzerland, Greece and Turkey.

Never On Sunday

a cover of the classic written by William Weatherspoon, Paul Riser, and James Dean and originally performed by Jimmy Ruffin

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Ayatullah Hussein ElShamy