They Turned Me On - Part Four: Benny Green & Robert Cushman

It's no reflection on the late Benny Green that it's harder for me to recall the specific songs he played on his Sunday lunchtime programme on Radio 2 than it is to bring to mind the content of Hubert Gregg's shows. Green was an important influence in my life, nevertheless, and not only for his radio show:

They Turned Me On - Part Three: Hubert Gregg

Why, during a period of transition and possibility in my life, I should have been so drawn to a radio show featuring fifty-year-old recordings played by a man already in his mid-sixties I can't fully explain, but Hubert Gregg's Thanks for the Memory was the dominant soundtrack to my reincarnation as a university student in the early 1980s: Old Romantic, as it were.