Your Hundred Best Tunes Your Hundred Best Tunes Your Hundred Best Tunes was a BBC radio music programme, always broadcast on Sunday evenings, which presented popular works which were mostly classical excerpts, choral works, opera and ballads. The hundred tunes which made up the playlist were initially selected by the creator and presenter, Alan Keith. Subsequently, tunes were suggested by requests and polls of listeners. It was first broadcast on 15 November 1959 on the BBC Light Programme under the title "The Hundred Best Tunes in the World" which it used until 7 February 1960, when Alan Keith's personal list of one hundred had
Alan Dell Dell mostly presented programmes of music from the dance band and swing eras, he was also an early presenter of "Pick of the Pops" in 1956 and, in his later years, of "Sounds Easy", a Sunday afternoon programme on Radio 2 which was notable for its attention to the recordings of Frank Sinatra and Peggy Lee (both of whom he pre-deceased)and Henry Mancini with the "Mancini moment". He won a 1983 Grammy Award in the Best Historical Album category for "The Tommy Dorsey/Frank Sinatra Sessions - Vols. 1, 2 & 3. In the 1980s, with the onset of digital technology,