Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me

It was like, and not to be too woo-woo about this, because I'm not particularly woo-woo, but, you know, a little bit maybe, but Everybody was in sync, including the audience.

And when we started singing Don't Let the Sun Go Down on me, and the sun was going down at the same time, and all the lighters, and back then it was Bic lighters that people lit up instead of iPhone flashlights.

And I mean, I could feel the chills going up on the back of my neck.

And I think everybody felt like, unit and which i know the band did many many nights but but this particular night because i think it was really a magical magical experience and going back to get to your thing in 19 20 19 2021 be sitting in the audience at dodger stadium and i went to two of the three last shows you know, I kept looking around.

Yeah, I think so too.

Well, this is a cover, but Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me by Elton John.

Elton John, straight to heaven? I happen to love Miley's version.

But you wouldn't say The Climb.

And you were singing what song?

It was Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me, Elton John.

Yeah.

Which is a long, sprawling song, and it's got the big moments.

She continued to do session voice work even at the height of their success as a duo.

She is a featured voice on Elton John's hit, Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me.

And she did numerous backing vocals on Pink Floyd's The Wall album.

And another example of why the newsman and the DJ should not share the same microphone.

But it rains in the lobby me

That was the extended version of the first single released by British artist Nick Kershaw, released in 1983 from his Human Racing LP, I Won't Let the Sun Go Down on Me, which is different to Elton John's Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me.

You are listening to Radio Without Pictures.

If there's one thing we remember the 80s for, it's great music.

This is going to be a great playlist because I imagine

there's Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me, there's My Delirium, Rubber Band's going to probably possibly be in there.

I think it's

only since we've been doing Prod Pods, so there's 11 eps of content.

That's one of the greats.

Well done.

Liz, don't let the sun go down on me.

I'm going to play this on the way home.

That's that's how I feel.

And I think Elton, it would have been nice for him to do Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me and Mariah Carey do One More Try.

It just would have been better.

And I think it would have been way more well-received than trying to have these recent artists who probably don't know him from a hole in the wall, you know, sing.

We have a songstress who this year also celebrates a 50th anniversary of her very own, that of winning a Grammy Award for a Neil Sedaka-penned song with her then-husband, Daryl Dragon.

We will hear about her contribution to Elton's songs, like Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me, as well as four Blue Move songs and later Elton collaborations, like Dear God from 21 at 33.

Now, this sweetheart of a siren sang the touching song Don't Forget Me, and we will never do that.

It is our honour to introduce here on Radio Elton John the incomparable singer, actress and pianist, Toni Tennille.

Fantastic.

Now, we're going to be talking a lot about the year 1976 in this show.

But before all of that, I wanted to take you back a couple of years earlier to 1974 and the Elton anthem, Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me.

Now, you provided backing vocals on this hit, right, from the album Caribou, alongside members of the Beach Boys.

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... what did I sing? Uh, Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me.

Yeah, not like that.

But-