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Model railway obsessive Rod Stewart has gone through many guises in his career from the blues to that dodgy disco phase to the inevitable music royalty status of today.

But when he was good, he was very good.

Chill time.

O Sapientia (O Wisdom) is one of the seven Great Advent Antiphons sung in Christian churches dating back to the sixth century. In fact we are a little early as O Sapientia, the first of the seven, is usually sung on 17th December.

You know how it is, everything you do and see and hear puts a song in your head. Or maybe it's just a few of us. Maybe it needs a name. Maybe it already has one. Anyway, your Song of the Week Editor does a lot of running.

Keep on running Tami.

The Mills Brothers were four brothers from Piqua, Ohio who were hugely successful in the pre and post Second World War years. They were also the first black artists to have their own show on national network radio in the USA.

This song (they performed the original) has their distinctive crooner vocals and then their trademark guitar sound and vocal harmonies as it speeds up. And eternal lyrics. Enjoy.

One of the last things Buddy recorded with just him and his guitar, Peggy Sue Got Married and its predecessor Peggy Sue were written about Peggy Sue Gerron who Holly had known for many years and who had married his band's drummer Jerry Allison. The marriage was unhappy and this song, so wistful yet written by a 22 year old Holly, was about that marriage.

Brazil's Queen of Samba, a pioneer for female Samba singers and composers, danced to the age of 96. She also spent a long and influential career in occupational therapy and psychiatry in her homeland.

Sea Song is the first track on the album Rock Bottom which Robert Wyatt released after becoming paraplegic following an accidental fall from a window. He has said that the accident saved him because he had become an alcoholic and was heading for disaster.

The Cure are back, looking much as they did in 1979 when they produced this post-punk masterpiece. Lyrics and song meshing to perfection. It's what music is about.

Known as the 'James Bond one' by aficionados, this is one of hundreds of obscure, small label soul tracks from sixties America that were adopted by the Northern Soul scene in the UK, many of them absolute bangers.

Yvonne's voice on the chorus...

Are you dancing?