I’m going on holiday next week and it involves a 6 hour drive (London to just past Newcastle!) so I’m making CD’s, that will please me and my mother. This is harder than you think, especially in light of Mum’s request that “it’s something I like not the stuff that you listen to”, so no Foo Fighters then!

So today a selection of music that your mother might enjoy:

Gloria Jones – Tainted Love

The Flirtations – Nothing but a Heartache

The Velvettes – Needle in a Haystack

And finally

Martha Reeves and The Vandellas – Third Finger, Left Hand (and proud feminist that I am, I’m not keen. Ma is just an example of how confusing growing up in the 50’s and 60’s was!)

Well that’s the soul stuff