Next week's themes...
Thanks again for another busy week on the show. In particular thanks to all the new people who have joined up to our Facebook page. It seems we have built up a real community of music lovers. If you haven't visited yet then don't be shy - and of course it would be great to get your suggestions along with the ones already up there.
I hope you enjoy this week's themes and if you've got a theme we've never done then get on the email and let me know...
Monday
As BBC Radio Scotland kicks off a season on our relationship with alcohol, we'll be asking you to come up with an exciting alcohol free musical cocktail. Take a couple of unusual ingredients like Rob Thomas and Santana and combine them in an irresistible musical mix. Into that cocktail could go Prince and Sheena Easton...or maybe Debbie harry and Iggy pop? ( Ok it's a duets show but work with me here!)
Tuesday
After last week's songs for your ex, the life long lovers get their turn in the spotlight as the theme is everlasting love. I'll say forever my love? Endless Love or perhaps Forever and Ever? You decide...
Wednesday
Richard Wilson and Raymie in Consett have both suggested unusual words in songs as tonight's theme. Haversack is not a word you find in many hit records but somehow The Pet Shop Boys managed. And then there 's Faith Hill's amazing grasp of Newtonian mechanics when she sings quite convincingly about centrifugal motion. Get out the dictionary and start looking up pop's most unusual words...
Thursday
As part of the BBC's Headroom campaign, it's two hours of stress busting music as chosen by you. The songs that make you smile is tonight's theme. From comedy classics to out and out cheeriness, just don't worry, be happy and tune in tonight for the show guaranteed not to give you the blues...
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Monday:
Bryn Terfel and Ronan Keating's version of "Danny Boy" makes the hair on the back of my neck stand every time I hear it
DC
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Monday:
Scarlett Johansson and David Bowie - Falling Down, could be Bowie's last studio recording!
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Wed:
The Joker - "Some people call me the pompitus of love."
Steve Miller Band or, I prefer the excellent k d lang version. There does not seem to be a proper definition for pompitus, I think Steve Miller made it up but I suppose we get the idea!
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Monday
Loads of good ones to choose from for tonight. On my own is probably my fav duet but it was played onthurs so how about
This is not real love / George Michael & Mutya Buena
How Do You Keep The Music Playing / James Ingram & Patti Austin
Private Number /Judy Clay & William Bell
Back Together / Roberta Flack & Donnie Hathaway
Tramp / Otis redding & Carla Thomas Emotion / Samantha Sang & Bee Gees
Reservations For two / Dionne Warwick & Kashif
The Best is yet to come / Tony Bennett & Diana Krall
Amigos Para Siempre / Sarah Brightman & Jose Carreras
and through the wonders of technology
Unforgettable / Nat King Cole & Natalie Cole
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Think wed should be good as long as it doesn't turn into a proclaimersfest. As for thursday, it's only October and we've already this year had a songs that make you laugh night and an uplifting night and here we go again. Funnily enough the music that busts my stress is
of the calming sort and exactly the opposite of what's being suggested in the theme.
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MONDAY
Has tonight's show got anything at all to do with alcohol? 'Twould appear not. So why mention it? Does the BBC want us to stop drinking? Does the BBC want us to start drinking? Is this not-so-subtle subliminal social engineering? We should be telt!
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There was some chat about doing themes on vices / addictions and Barbara said she would not do it. I di not really understand that but anyway it means that they cannot really plug into the alcohol season I suppose. I am looking forwrad to that season of programmes should be interesting.
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#7 ?!?
Haven't those themes been done already?
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BRING ME THE SAIR HEID OF ALFREDO GARCIA!
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#8 Dont know but that is what I am sure they said a wee while back. In was in relation to the track Last Cigarette but I could be totally wrong though!
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Monday
If You Were Me - Elton John and Chris Rea
#8 - Yup.
#5 - Calm down Paolo. Maybe the team just need more input for new themes. Maybe some of the many Facebookers can come up with a few. Maybe we could use that as a theme. Songs about faces and books!
(Though books/literature as a theme is probably second only to Space).
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THURSDAY
Tell ye what would bust my stress right now, a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty!
Let's hope the Irish do the right thing! (again)
Between Monday's alcohol deprivation and Thursday's 'Headroom campaign' I'm beginning to feel like a character in an Ira Levin novel.
(No, Adam. Not 'The Boys from Brazil')
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BRING ME THE HEADROOM CAMPAIGN OF ALFREDO GARCIA!
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AFR - you're treading a fine line with the facebook comments. The Head Boy will be on soon giving you a dressing down.
Freddie and Monserrat for the duet theme.
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#14 the shape of things to come?
DC
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#5 I agree Paolo. I normally select loud tunes to play on the way home from work. I find they're the best stress-busting type.
At the moment, Metallica's version of "Whiskey in the Jar", Slade's "Runaway" and Primal Scream's "Country Girl" feature on my de-stress programme drivetime playlists. Any (or all) of these for Thursday please
DC in Cellardyke
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Talk about stress. The nerves are jangling here in Rio as we await the Olympic vote.
Might nip down to Copacabana at lunchtime if we make the final vote.
Party time this weekend if we win it.
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That would be great for you. Hope it goes well - will it be a good boost to Brazil ecomomy and all that stuff. Maybe GIO team could go and broadcast from your estate.
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A coathanger in the mouth works wonders.
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You would not think of Matthew Sweet and Susannah Hoffs - but their duets albums really work.
Sweet / Hoffs - All The Young Dudes or Hello It's Me.
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#3
Listen to The Letter by The Medallions.
#18
I thought he had a hatchback
Facebook
I think the problem is members tend to be younger and therefore poorly educated with a musical heritage stretching all the way back to Lady Gaga.
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#21 re Steve Miller - thanks for that Glen!
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#18 & #21
Estate? In a state mair like.....
DC
(oops!, forgot the ;-) again!)
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Duets for Monday - obviously some classics -
Queen and David Bowie with Under Pressure
Pogues and Kirsty McCall with Fairy Tale of New York
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I know it's not with the 'official' duets theme, but wouldn't it be pure fantastic to open Monday's show with
Spike Jones - Cocktails for Two?
Who could resist a track with a whole stop-chorus of hiccups?!
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Copacobana!
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Mon...
Scarlett Johansson & Pete Yorn .................... Relator
Can Scarlet sing?....... you decide
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRtydnIycCY
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We won!!
#18 How did you know??
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Adam will have to adapt his training schedule. Is golf an Olympic sport?
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AFR
Mike Nesmith's 'RIO'for Thursday has got to be a certainty.
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For Monday how about the following odd pairing
Ry Cooder with Harry Dean Stanton - Across The Borderline a wonderful song and a great vocal from Harry.
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#27 Frank how are us Bowie fans going to feel if his last ever studio performance is with her? She is lovely though.
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The blog's busy this week.... and here are my initial thoughts:
Monday - musical cocktail
This is us - Emmylou Harris/Mark Knopfler (could be played as the very last song to connect to Tuesday’s theme)
Portland Oregon - Loretta Lynn/Jack White
I fall to pieces - Trisha Yearwood/Aaron Neville
Something stupid - Tisha Yearwood/Raul Malo
Sometimes Love Just Ain’t Enough - Don Henley/Patty Smyth
Who says you can't go home - Bon Jovi/Jennifer Nettles
New York State of Mind - Billy Joel/Tony Bennet
Mockingbird - James Taylor/Carly Simon
You are everything - Diana Ross/Marvin Gaye
Sleep - Texas (with Paul Buchanan)
You don't bring me flowers - Neil Diamond/Barbara Striesand
If I need you - Emmylou Harris/Don Williams
Tuesday - Everlasting love.
This is us - Emmylou Harris/Mark Knopfler,
In spite of ourselves - John Prine and Iris Dement (great song - is it radio-friendly?)
Happy together - the Turtles,
When you are old - Gretchen Peters,
The hard way - Mary Chapin Carpenter ,
You’re still the one/Forever and for always - Shania Twain,
Don’t give up - Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush,
You're my home - Billy Joel
The Wonder of you by Elvis
Perfect love - Trisha Yearwood
Wednesday - unusual words in songs
Walking On The Chinese Wall - Philip Bailey - makes references to the I Ching ("Book of Changes")
Sledgehammer - Peter Gabriel – “fruitcage”
Solisbury Hill – Peter Gabriel – “pirouette”
Heaven is a HALFPIPE - OPM
Allentown - Billy Joel (restlessness; chromium steel)
Blackhawk - Emmylou Harris
(Well I work the double shift
In a bookstore on St. Clair
While he pushed the burning ingots
In Dofasco stinking air) Dofasco is a Canadian-owned steel company
Racing in the street - Springsteen (Fuelie heads and a Hurst on the floor)
Thursday - songs that make you smile
A Swinging Safari - Bert Kaempfert
In spite of ourselves - John Prine and Iris Dement
Boogie Wonderland - Earth Wind and Fire
All I want to do or Steve Earle - Sugarland
Have a good weekend all
Joe
Linlithgow
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Two more for Tuesday, for Jane
Grow old with me - Mary Chapin Carpenter
A love that will never grow old - Emmylou Harris
Joe
Linlithgow
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Joe - superb as usual. Did not know Jennifer did anything with Bon Jovi - need to check that out.
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Wednesday
Hit Somebody - Warren Zevon - Features 'Canuck', 'coldcocked' and the refreshingly honest David Letterman
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For Wed...
Strange word 'GOIL' very strange!
Lets put it in context
The city's clamour can never spoil
The dreams of a boy and goil
We'll turn Manhattan
Into an isle of joy.
Ella Fitzgerald............ Manhattan
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Found a pic of Adam in Rio today....can just see his Speedos though ;o)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/gallery/2009/oct/02/olympic-games-2016?picture=353761551
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And the distinctive shape of his Tag Heuer
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Those spray-on bikinis are quite effective these days.
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#39, I happen to know he's a happily married man
DC
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#15
What a belter of a song that was.
#38
Ah i see him now. Only took me two and a half hours to spot him.
Another one for monday
Paradise by the dashboard light / Meatloaf and Ellen Foley
Come to think of it, it would also do Tues Wed and Thurs
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oh and another wee Steinman duet
Loving you's a dirty job but someome has got to do it/ Bonnie Tyler & Todd rundgren
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#42, there's a "him" there?
We need to be..
ach, who's bothered!
:-0
DC
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MONDAY - DUETS:
'Do I Ever Cross Your Mind?' - Ray Charles and Bonnie Raitt (wonderful song - well worth the effort of seeking it out).
'Mockingbird' - James Taylor and Carly Simon.
'Ron Sexsmith with Chris Martin - 'Gold In Them Hills' (you've ignored this suggestion for a few suggestions - give it a chance)
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Tuesday:
Only one song for us:
Moody Blues "For My Lady"
Same song I would have chosen for each of the 34 years we've been together by the way
If I have to explain it, more than likely you wouldn't understand.........................
DC
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So, 2016 to be a good PRS year for Duran Duran, then :-)
Well done Rio - the right city won.
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Power Ballad for Tuesday night. Jennifer Rush - Power of Love. (Was given the album from my wife's auntie as a first christmas present in 1985, so has sentimental value)
This will be the last post from ECtheNorthSea, so one less in the "Grumpy Mob" (all will be revealed)
Good luck and best wishes to you all. Hope to cross paths with some of you in the future.
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So long, EC. Orrabest!
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MONDAY
'Don't Give Up' - Willie Nelson & Sinead O'Connor
Had you never heard the original you would assume that this was Willie's song. Superb performance.
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TUESDAY
'Paradise By the Dashboard Light' - Meat Loaf
As Paolo so astutely observes, it would work for all this week's themes.
I'm asking for it on Tuesday as an antidote to all the sugary girly songs with which Bryan and the team will be inundated.
Especially for the line;
I swore that I would love you to the End of Time,
So now I'm praying for the End of Time to hurry up and arrive.......
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Ellen Foley with the Clash - Hitsville UK, odd combination even though she was going out with Mick Jones, again one that has been asked for a few times.
Loretta Lynn and Jack White - Portland, Oregon slightly odd combination but great track from the Van Lear Rose album
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Monday - Unusual Duets:
The Spirit Of Man (2007 single) - Jeff Wayne (Julie Covington & Phil Lynott)
Every Breath You Take - Tammy Wynette with Sting
Another Way To Die - Jack White & Alicia Keys (QOS Bond song)
Darling Annie - Peggy Seeger & Billy Bragg
Crying In The Rain - Art Garfunkel with James Taylor
Stan - Eminem with Elton John
Let It Rain - Jon Bob Jovi & Pavarotti
Because Of You - Tony Bennett with K.D. Lang
She's A Lady - Paul Anka with Tom Jones
One Step Too Far - Faithless with Dido
(How Much Is) That Doggy In The Window - Pinky & Perky (pure class)
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Wednesday - Songs With Unusual Words:
Onomatopoeia - Todd Rundgren
Hurdy Gurdy Man - Donovan
Man In The Mirror - Michael Jackson (what does 'shamoah' mean?)
Buffalo Stance - Neneh Cherry
Gertcha - Chas & Dave
The Lone Ranger - Quantum Jump
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious - Julie Andrews, Dick Van Dyke
I Am A Cider Drinker - The Wurzels (ooh arr ooh arr ay!)
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The Who - Quadrophenia
Pete Townsend - Stardom In Acton (want omnipotence)
Pete Townsend - O Parvardigar (omnipotent, omnipresent)
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On a dark desert highway, cool wind in my hair
Warm smell of colitas, rising up through the air
Don't think colitas feature in any other track, so "Hotel California" by the Eagles please on Wednesday
# 48 shame you're going EC. I thought your witty comments added to this blog. Perhaps you're just too clever for some
:-)
DC
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Better than the warm smell of colitis
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#56 like DC I am sorry to see EC decide to leave the blog.
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Don't leave me with these obsessives and computer nerds EC.
Mon
When Will I Be Loved - John Fogerty and Bruce Springsteen
Sailing To Philadelphia - Mark Knopfler and James Taylor
The Hockey Song - Warren Zevon and David Letterman
Tue
Sixty Minutes Of Your Love - Dr. Feelgood
Love Story - Jethro Tull
Everlasting Love - Love Affair
Wed
The Letter - The Medallions - Sweet words of dismatality and pulpitude
Mr. Bad Example - Warren Zevon - Naugahyde and cummerbund
Thur
The Sound Of Music - Bonzos
Boredom - Procol Harum
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Thursday.
Jello Biafra - Let's Go Burn Ole Nashville Down.
Billy Briggs - Chew Tobbaco Rag.
Udo Lindenberg - Germans.
The Beat Farmers - Baby's Liquored Up.
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#30 - Could be, Joe.
#38 - Thats no me in the budgie smugglers, Frank!!
Another for Monday
Before he had us all jigging to `You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)`, Sylvester had a big hit with T.Pie - `I Tawt I Taw a Puddy Tat`.
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Wednesday
Heart Beat - Buddy Holly (for Piddle dee pat)
Stand and Deliver - Adam Ant (for Da diddley qa qa)
Metal Guru - T Rex - what is a Metal Guru? Do you know Norrie? I used to think it was someone like our old metal work teacher at school, Joe Dumps.
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TUESDAY:
'LOVE ME FOREVER' by CARLTON AND THE SHOES. What a great name for a band? Fabulous bit of Rock Steady.
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#5, #16
I don't think Bryan has thought this through. My stress-busting music tends to be insrumental. If I want a laugh it's Jake Thackray or PDQ Bach.
Some clarity, please?
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#62, Joe Dumps sounds like he was THE Metal Guru. Irreplacable I would reckon
Wooops! Off music topic again! Sorreeeee.....
;-)
DC
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#64,
Insrumental? You been at the scotch Scotch? We should be shtelt!
DC
:-) btw....
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#64. Going by the way BB described the stress-busting theme, don't think he could say Jake Thackray was ineligible, because he asked for the songs that make you smile. On second thoughts...he might have a problem saying ineligible ;0)
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Oops!
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For a moment I thought you had written shtetl!
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#48, #59
Agree with GM.
C`mon EC, don`t let the prefects get tae you.
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Mon. ROSETTA - Georgie Fame & Alan Price
Tues. My woman has decided she wants to pick this one. Rachael spent ages yesterday on the computer listening to different versions of this song. This one is her favourite.
MY LOVE IS LIKE A RED RED ROSE - Kenneth McKellar
Wed. PSYCHOMODO - Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel - QUASIMODO
A private joke. In our house if someone says "Quasimodo" we roll on the floor helpless with laughter. Don't ask.
Thurs. WOND'RING ALOUD - Jethro Tull - Brings back memories of being young and madly in love. If that doesn't make you smile you're already dead. A very short song. Less than 2 minutes if you can crowbar it in somewhere.
FOG ON THE TYNE - Lindisfarne - When I'm home it's a local anthem. When I'm away it reminds me of home.
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#69
Wed
Wooden Heart - Elvis - Staedtele - He was never the same after the army
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#71
That joke rings a bell
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#61
Sorry AFR....
Is that you holding the flag? ;0)
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#74
With this new-found prosperity he'll be able to afford the bottom set.
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Here's a question
what is the most downloaded song from i tunes not to have been released in the 21sh century? It only reached no.62 in uk singles charts in 1981
but over the years has popped up in various tv programmes and films. It has been used as an anthem for several American sports teams and has one of the famous keyboard intros in rock. It sounds great in the car after a heavy day and for that reason will be my pick for stressbusting night on thursday. Any guesses?
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#76
Don't Stop Believing - Journey
It's popped up a lot on US TV and was mentioned in an article I read about how successful iTunes had become.
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#76
Making Your Mind Up - Bucks Fizz
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#76
Is it Walk Tall by Val Doonican?
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#71, no private jokes on this blog! (we have been telt)
#76 Bruce Hornsby? (one hit wonder but great train sets)
DC
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#76
Famous keyboard intro., gotta be 'Locomotive Breath' by Hornsby 0-0 gauge.
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Monday Musical Cocktails
Kinky Boots - Honor Blackman / Patrick MacNee
Crying In The Rain - Art Garfunkel / James Taylor to 2nd JFE
Wedding Day - Seal / Heidi Klum
New Moon Over Jamaica - Johnny Cash, Paul & Linda McCarntey, June Carter, Tom T.Hall.
Perfect Day - Various. A massive cocktail of artistes
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Sorry to hear about EC in NS, hopin maybe he's movin hoose and we can look forward tae posts from EC in Pentland Firth or likewise in the future.
Workin Monday Tuesday so it'll be i-player for me and I'll bung in a couple of suggestions the now.
Monday;
John Lydon & Afrika Bambatta - World Destruction
Stereophonics & Tom Jones - Mama Told Me Not To Come
and maybe not very seasonally appropriate but very odd pair & very lovely
David Bowie & Bing Crosby - The Little Drummer Boy
Tuesday;
The Last Beat of My Heart - Souixsie & the Banshees, got to be top of my list or
Endless Love - Dianna Ross & Lionel Ritchie
First Last Everything - Barry White (for Val)
Wednesday;
Aikea Guinea - The Cocteau Twins
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Monday
* Spike Jones - Cocktails for Two (as the opening, slightly off-theme, track)
* Groove Armada & Status Quo - Purple Haze
* Richard Thompson And Mary Black - The Dimming of the Day
* Oysterband - Love will Tear Us Apart Again (with a guest duetting vocal from June Tabor)
Most of the Moulin Rouge soundtrack works, but particularly:
* Nicole Kidman & Ewan McGregor - Elephant Love Medley
* Ewan McGregor & Jose Feliciano - El Tango Del Roxanne
* David Bowie & Massive Attack - Nature Boy
And finally, there are several remarkable duets/trios on The Imagined Village collaboration, including:
* Cold, Hailey, Rainy Night - Chris Wood, Eliza Carthy (vocal duet, with The Young Copper Family & Trans-Global Underground)
* John Barleycorn - Eliza Carthy, Martin Carthy & Paul Weller
* The Hard Times of Old England Retold - Billy Bragg, Eliza Carthy (vocal duet, with Simon Emmerson & The Young Copper Family)
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Hello.
For Monday's show, can I suggest Ciao by Lush. This track features a duet between Miki Berenyi and Jarvis Cocker. It's on Lush's 1996 album Lovelife. Whatever happened to Lush?
For what it's worth, a front runner for most embarrasing duet of all time has to be David Bowie and Bing Crosby's Little Drummer Boy. Or did I secretly like it?
Cheers.
LLIM.
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#77 78 79 80 81
One of you is right. Can you guess which one?
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I see we've lost a contributer to the blog. Just when it was picking up again. There's one or two on last FM that haven't got involved in the blog. Perhaps they could be signed up as a replacement. Sorry to see you go EC but please don't leave us with Jennifer rush :-)
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#83
Tom & Cerys' duet from that same album would also be great now the nights are fair drawin' in.
Also, what about the many duets on Swing When You're Winning? Whether it be with Rupert Everett on They Can't Take That Away from Me, or the original Sinatra recording on It Was a Very Good Year.
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Number one choice (from a great album) is:
Tom Waits and Bette Midler - I Never Talk to Strangers
Other possibilities:
kd lang and Roy Orbison - Crying
Emmylou Harris and Roy Orbison - That Loving You Feeling Again
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#86
If it's not the Square Window it must be Rolf Harris.
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#88
Are there any duets on Ford Kiernan's 'Swing When You're Mingin' ?
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#87
'You Don't Know What You've Got (Until It's Gone)'
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Monday:
Another shout for Billy Bragg and Natalie Merchant dueting Woody Guthry's: Way Over Yonder in the Minor Key.
M
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#91,
The last track: Huey an Bert do a good rendition of "Never again".....
:-)
DC
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Could we rule out duets with the dead?
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A couple for each night and I don't think any have been mentioned yet:
Monday - Duets or Cocktails
Eric Clapton with Sting on "It's Probably Me".
Carly Simon & James Taylor with "Mockingbird".
Tuesday - everlasting love
Randy Travis with "Forever and Ever Amen".
Annie Lennox and "Love Song for a Vampire" - how much longer can you get?
Wednesday - unusual words
Paul Simon and "Kodachrome"
Genesis "I Know What I Like (in your wardrobe)"
I thought the word had to be in the title - oh well!
Thursday - 2 of my happiest songs
Jim Croce with "Bad Bad Leroy Brown" &
The Divine Comedy with the divine "National Express".
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for monday:
Kylie with James Dean Bradfield - Some Kind of Bliss, wholly unlikely collaboration, brilliant single, my last cassingle!
I quite like Robbie Williams. His attempt at It Was a Very good Year was a shocker. However....
Nancy Sinatra and morrissey - Let Me Kiss You is excellent.
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MONDAY COCKTAILS
Something's Gotten Hold of My Heart - Gene Pitney / Marc Almond
I'm old enough (sadly) to remember the original, but I think this is equal to, if not better than, the one by Gene on his own.
Covers versions of this nature could be a theme worth revisiting.
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#50
Willie/Sinead's version of Don't Give Up is blimmin' brilliant. Great shout.
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Monday
Mama told me not to come, Stereophonics and Tom Jones
Justified and Ancient, Tammy Wynette and KLF
Stan, Eminem and Dido
Where the wild roses grow, Kylie and Nick Cave
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Really enjoyed that wee snippet of Some Kind Of Bliss on the intro tonight.
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Tuesday Everlastingness:
* John Lennon - Grow Old With Me
(actually, most of the John songs from Milk and Honey)
* Billy Bragg - The Fourteenth of February
That's a wonderful song about a long term love, trying to remember back to the start of it when you didn't know what it would grow into, and so didn't make the extra effort to remember everything.
* Christy Moore - The Voyage
Definitely an 'our tune' for Mrs Ramius and myself - I definitely remember singing this in company the night before our wedding.
* Sting - The Secret Marriage
From the excellent 4 Weddings & a Funeral soundtrack. Cos not everyone does the traditional church/meringue dress thing. We did, but it's not for everyone.
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Tuesday - Everlasting Love:
Fade Away - Todd Rundgren (love that literally lasts until the end of time)
Viva Forever - Spice Girls (come on now, it's a great track!)
Forever - Goldfrapp
My Love = Paul McCartney & Wings
You're The First, The Last, My Everything - Barry White
Still Loving You Tonight - Jethro Tull
Yah Mo Be There - James Ingram with Michael McDonald
If You Leave Me Now - Chicago
Never Leave Me Baby - The Isley Brothers
Everlasting Love - Howard Jones
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Thursday - Songs That Make You Smile:
These songs all make me smile for different reasons - some because they are funny and others because of their extreme 'feelgood factor'. Other times the simply bizarre works it's magic...
Fish Heads - Barnes & Barnes
Kissing Willie - Jethro Tull
I Can't Believe That You Would Fall For All The **** In This Song - Sparks
Turn To Stone - ELO
All Right Now - Free
Rocking All Over The World - Status Quo
I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing - The New Seekers
On Horseback - Mike Oldfield
Smile - The Jayhawks
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"I swore I would love you till the end of time,
Now I'm praying for the end of time,
It's all that I can do,
So I can end my time with you"
Praying For The End Of Time - Meatlosf
....or is that me still being bitter & Twisted
LOL
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#105
Why do you say "Bitter & Twisted" as if it's a bad thing?
(see #51)
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Hello.
How about I'm Bored by Iggy Pop for Tuesday's show?
I know my other half won't be listening tonight(!) so I can just about get away with this.
This has to go down as one of the great lost singles. It was released at the height of punk fever and lost it's way a wee bit.
LLIM.
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Tuesday
I'll Always Love My Mama (She's my favourite girl) / The Intruders
the band whose sound inspired Gamble & Huff to launch Philadelphia international records.
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#102
The Voyage. Best song suggested so far.
#51 and #106
It should really be played despite it's length cos every couple in the country would be singing their respective bits. Perhaps if tonights the night for another wee behind the scenes video we might even see Bryan and Babs giving it laldy to each other.
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Smiley Thursday:
Have to agree with JFE on:
* Mike Oldfield - On Horseback
and add:
* The Rutles - Doubleback Alley
* Bill Bailey - Unisex Chipshop
* Noah and the Whale - 5 Years Time
* Leonard Nimoy - The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins
* Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band - The Intro and the Outro
* The Humpff Family - Love Death Divorce Prison Alcohol Rivers and Trains
and in the same vein:
* Dave Allen Coe - You Never Called Me By My Name
Some of which are out and out comedy; some plain silly and some just happy.
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#107
Tonight, for one night only,
ladylucanismissing
>8-D
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#109
No' the way the Captain sings it. Arrrrrrrrrrrr!
>8-D
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#112
You must have the pirate copy then
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#113
FOTCL
Paolo, that was brilliant! You've made my day!!
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#113
I be outed. Yarr.
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EVERLASTING LOVE - TUESDAY
12th of Never (and that's a long long time!) - Nina Simone, Johnny Mathis, Cliff, Donny or whoever
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WEDNESDAY - UNUSUAL WORDS:
B-52s - 'Dance This Mess Around' (Limburger (a particularly pungent variety of cheese!), Shu-ga-lu, Shy Tuna, Camel Walk, Hip-O-Crit).
Bette Midler - 'Stuff Like That There' ("I used to think that love was just a lot of RUBBISH, a mess of CABBAGE, a mess of cabbage").
Alan Price - 'In Times Like These' ("and when the money doesn't go far, we end up drinking out of JAM JARS").
The Monkees - 'Alternate Title' (the seats in NAUGAHIDE (a kind of plastic-coated fabric)). The American title of this song - 'Randy Scouse Git'- is strange enough in its own right.
Kate Bush - 'Mrs Bartolozzi (washing machine, hall carpet, mop and bucket, traipsed, slooshy sloshy).
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RoxyJohn is a bit quiet these days - some of these themes are good for Mr Ferry and the boys....
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Tue
All I Want Is You - Roxy Music - Toujours l'amour toujours
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#117
See #59
Naugahyde has become a cliche
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#120. Blimey Glen...hadn't realised that was one of yours too...who'd have thunk it.
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#117
Heard an interview with a Monkee recently (can't remember which one) who said that they had got the idea for Randy Scouse Git after hearing Alf Garnet use it on the BBC. Unfortunately it's title got it on the BBC banned list which is why they had to rename it 'Alternate Title' for the UK market. Ironic or what!
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And the epithet was applied to Tony Blair's father-in-law.
Where are we meeting before the Cliff Richard concert?
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The Jake Thackray song you mentioned (La-Di-Dah) is great...brilliant words...and Scotch Git would probably love you both forever if you play it :0)
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#123
In the country
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We'd better move it then.
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I'm travellin light
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That's enough to Carrie
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Some people they tease one another with their telekinetics
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Wednesday words
Shablam idi shablam ida
State of Independence / Jon & Vangelis or Donna Summer
day-o day-0 mombajee ai-0
Don't look any further / Dennis Edwards
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Bryan, Rachael wants to join your fan club. She has cried her way through a box of tissues you have made her so happy.
The Kenneth McKellar song was magnificent. Thanks, Bryan. Yas a star!
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Hi there folks,just signed up to the blog. Listen to the show a lot. Hard one for tomorrow's theme. Will try and think of unusual word in songs.
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WEDNESDAY
"a posteriori"
Not many songwriters would include a Latin pun in the lyrics of a song.
'On Again! On Again!' - Jake Thackray
Despite his irreverence, Jake was a devout Catholic. Other words in the song include Misogynist, Rosary, Perfunctory, Fart, Syllable and Pious.
'Oor Hamlet' - Adam McNaughton
Pick a line, any line. Scottish humour at its best.
'Ananinginaneana' - Saint Andrew
Nuff said.
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#132
'It's Not Unusual' - Tom Jones
>8-D
Welcome aboard, Phil!
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#124
Julie,
Glad to see you espousing the cause in my absence!
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#135
It's a pleasure...as is that song :0)
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Much as I dearly love Tom Waits, Martha, wasn't it more appropriate for the exes show last week?
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Wednesday:
Now I hate to flog the Billy Bragg thing to death, but when you look at this list....
DOGMA: Days Like These
JUMBLE SALES: Waiting For The Great Leap Forwards
WIFE-BEATER: The Home Front
MOBILE-HOME: Levi Stubbs Tears
BODY-BAGS: Help Save The Youth of America
HOOVER: The Short Answer
HYPHEN: Take Down The Union Jack
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WEDNESDAY:
Pick any Bowie, but what about
Bibberty-Bobbity hat: Queen Bitch
Cesspool: Cygnet Committee
Porcupine: Cracked Actor
Opera house, electric irons: Five Years
Funky thigh collector: Hang onto Yourself
Saccharin, moonboys, corinthian: Bewlay Brothers
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Could I second the plea for Todd Rundgren's "Onomatopeia"? I seem to recall it didn't get played when the theme was onomatopeic words, strangely enough...
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#140
Aye, it's a great fun track - you DON'T need to be a Rundgren fan to appreciate it and it WHOLLY fits tonight's theme!
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Is it okay to have two goes for tonight's show?
Now here's a bizarre one and a word I've never heard in my life. Is it real? Sacroiliac on Rapture by Blondie. I'll bet you a fiver though it's appeared somewhere else. Sacroiliac is probably the 3rd most used word America or something.
Also. Cities in Dust by Siouxsie and the Banshees. The word nostrils turns up in this one. Is there another song that uses the word nostrils? I doubt it.
LLIM.
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#142
Yes - I'M SO CUTE from YOU CAN'T DO THAT ON STAGE ANYMORE VOLUME 6 by FRANK ZAPPA
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UNUSUAL WORDS - WEDNESDAY
BANQUET, Tangled Up In Blue - Bob Dylan
ASPHALT, Thrasher - Neil Young
PNEUMONIA, What Do You Get If You Fall In Love - Dusty Springfield ?
Not sure about the artist on the last one but it formed a nice rhyme with "phone ya" !
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Wednesday Wordiness:
May I humbly offer the following for your consideration:
* Runrig - Edge of the World (for "Adrenaline Infrastructure")
* Billy Bragg - Walk Away Renee (for "I'm the most illegible bachelor in town")
* Marillion - Incommunicado (for the title word)
* They Might Be Giants - Particle Man (for Particle and Speck)
* Sting - Russians (for ideology and precedent)
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#142
LLIM, I seem to recall a 10CC track about the sacroilliac. What indeed is / are sacroilliac?
While I'm asking questions, who was the class swot in Oor Wullie? Was it Specky Simpson? (I need to be telt!)
Sorry for going off-topic!
DC
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#146
Joints in the lower back.
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David Bowie - TVC15
David Bowie - Yassasin
But hats off to the great list at #139!
Repeating my request for k d lang - the joker (pompitus of love)
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WEDNESDAY - UNUSUAL WORDS:
My Little Kookenhaken - Jonathan Richman
I Palindrome I - TMBG
All My Ex's Live In Texas - George Strait
"by transcendental meditation...."
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The Kinks 'Autumn Almanac' not only has the word 'almanac' in it but also has 'rheumatic back'!
'You're So Vain' by Carly Simon must be the only song with 'strategically' in the lyrics.
Kirsty McColl singing Billy Bragg's 'New England' with 'satellites'
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#142 I'll 2nd any Souxsie suggestion that isnae Dear Prudence and add another track of hers - Dazzle - it includes the word "index", surely that's no used much in song.
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#146
i think you might be correct but i have posted question here
http://www.funtrivia.com/ask.cfm
btw do you know what his girlfriends name was?
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I have been declared offside by the self styled pompitus of pop trivia!!!
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TOTO...what a load of old tosh...what on earth is "solitary company"? :0)
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Digging for KRYPTONITE on a one way street
from Superman by Five For fighting
the song written from Superman's perspective and how he doesn't like being who he is
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#152 followed the link - that's hilarious (d'you think he posted that reply himself?).
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He's showing dangerous signs of a sense of humour
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Whilst doing a bit of research for his Lordship's query on nostrils (#142), I came across another one for tonight:
"Shakespearoes" on No More Heroes - The Stranglers (I was following up an ice pick up the nose hunch at the time).
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What a way to end your holiday in Mexico
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Did Al Stewart not have a song about Nostril Damus
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#152
Primrose?
I'll hae tae check out my old annuals.
(Still laughing btw)
:-)
DC
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And more than a passing resemblance to Max B Gold
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and of course White Lines By Grandmaster Flash might not use nostrils in the lyrics but must be the only song that uses sniffing nostrils for percussion or is that a different theme
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#161
one point only
Dear contestant
the full answer is "Primrose Paterson"
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#152
Answer posted by BOSS 1964.
Anything you want to tell us Norrie? :-)
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Don't tell him, Pike
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#160
Who nose.
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#152 Crivvens! Oor Wullie 26/02/67 has Specky Spence, the "blawbag"!
Nae class swot yet though...
DC
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I think I just heard a sweary in the second last song! :-)
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An unusual word from Belle and Sebastian
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Another day in June, we’ll pick eleven for football
We’re playing in the rain the weather man gives us Rockall
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The dog was misbehaving that day.
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At least with Cliff you don't get obscenities
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The only time Get It On approaches edgy and alternative is when they play an inadvertent swear word
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Re: 'You're So Vain'
When Bryan said gavotte I heard gevalt!
I don't, I don't, I don't wanna be a... (repeat as necessary)
>8-D
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THURSDAY
If at first you don't succeed,
'Ananinginaneana' - Saint Andrew
'Oor Hamlet' - Adam McNaughton
'On Again! On Again!' - Jake Thackray
'Lah-di-dah' - Jake Thackray - for Julie, espouser extraordinaire.
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#165 - My thoughts exactly.
Though whats the 1964 connection I wonder?
Anyway it looks like Horace fae the Broons has got the swot vote.
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#177
You obviously got the "News of the World" in your hoose...
DC
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Songs for tomorrow's theme,my choices would be:
Elbow - One Day Like This,as it was used in our wedding video,even if hadn't would still pick it.
The Cure - Friday I'm In Love.
Barenaked Ladies - If I Had A Million Dollars,Lyrics are just great!
And the last one The Killers - " Smile Like You Mean It",only because the title has "smile" in it.
Looking forward to show.
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Lest we forget, tonight's theme is part of the MAX HEADROOM campaign.
>8-D
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#177
1964 is the number of times we've heard Springsteen on GIO
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Really as many as that? I don't think he gets played enough.....
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THURSDAY:
I like a snappy, witty lyric and this one is sung in such an easy style that it's perfect to lift a mood...'Don't Forget To say "No" Baby' sung by Hoagy Carmichael - it's a "be faithful" message to a soldier's girlfriend..."While I'm out to train, don't you entertain, remember you're not the USO..." . Really good piano on it.
Keeping in a jazz vein...and I know you can find this one cos Stephen Duffy's played it before...'I'm Hip' by Blossom Dearie is another witty, snappy one...even her name makes me smile.
A pity you've not yet managed to play any of the Jake Thackray songs SG has suggested - the one he mentioned for Tuesday...'La-Di-Dah' is an unusual love song with irreverent, witty lyrics. If you can see past phrases like 'scabby cat' it's really very touching.
If all else fails, play 'It's In His Kiss' by Linda lewis. Know i've had it played before but hearing it is a failsafe way of lifting a bad mood.
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Well after all the talk of being strict!! I thought it was " unusual words" but there were words that weren't that uncommon in there usage and couplets/phrases allowed, that could've been a separate theme in fact. Another sub theme that appeared within tonights show, alongside the food thing BB mentioned, was medical terms - coagulation, pnuemothorax, sacroilliac etc.
Anyway, someone suggested "Banana Splits" earlier, I'd like to suggest it for tomorrows songs that make you smile.
Another two for tomorrow
Sunshine on Leith - Proclaimers and
There There My Dear - Dexy's Midnight Runners
I can't hear the latter without a huge smile spreading over my face and into my head.
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Yes, the only blip on the interest meter was when the terribly twee Belle and Sebastian swore.
Most of the chosen words would only be unusual to a Facebook member.
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THURSDAY - SMILES
I Could Be Happy - Altered Images, dunno if it's Clare's baby voice or cute face but it always works for me!
Clothes Line Saga - Bob Dylan, Wry humour in ordinary conversation from the Master.
Happy Heart - Andy Williams, just an uplifting love song until it was played over the twist at the end of "Shallow Grave", always makes me smile about the outcome to the film.
Urban Spaceman - The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band, just funny in every respect.
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Hmmm broad theme or what...anything goes really. Think I'll stay away from 'comedy records' and pick something feelgood that'll make me smile
Don't Stop believin / Journey
Always loved it and was surprised to find out it is i tunes most downloaded song ever from the 20th century. Noone would know that I thought but Jim proved me wrong.
Would second Julie's Linda Lewis suggestion or indeed any Northern Soul.
How about
Do I Love You / Frank Wilson
which recently set a world record auction price for a vinyl single (only two are known to exist although it's widely available in digital format).
http://www.thisoldsoul.net/fw.html
Failing that any regular repeated blog requests which haven't yet been played would probably bring a wry smile to my coupon should they get an airing.
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#186 graaayyyytttt suggestion for the Bonzos Paul
I'd like to suggest Laurel & Hardy's "Trail of the lonesome pine" for tonight's show.
I will be working and unable to listen in, so I'll have a good laugh if this is played
:-0
DC
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A song that never fails to make me smile is Poisoning Pigeons in the Park by Tom Lehrer. Don't know if this one is too old for the show (1959), but it makes me laugh anyway. Surely the only song that rhymes try n' hide with cyanide. Or maybe not?
Does anyone remember TV Stars by The Skids? Staying on last night's theme, it must be the only song that namechecks Albert Tatlock. Really funny track. Does it tickle the fancy of the GIO jury though?
LLIM.
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Elvis cracking up in the "laughing" version of Are You Lonesome Tonight with Cissy Houston screeching on as if nothing had happened.
The hidden track at the end of MCC's Time, Sex, love cd
The Boss - TV Move - does he see his own future maybe? Funny song.
and one that makes me smile is
Maria McKee - You Gotta Sin To Get Saved.
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#'189 Lord Lucan - they would need to be sharp with the fade at the end of TV Stars!
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#189
Best I can do is GONNA SLIDE rhyming with CYANIDE which, coincidently, is from I'M SO CUTE by FRANK ZAPPA but this time from the SHEIK YERBOUTI version and ALBERT HALL PIPE ORGAN namechecked in LOUIE LOUIE from UNCLE MEAT by FRANK ZAPPA.
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#188, Cheers DC, and if you can't lahf at Laurel & Hardy something's wrong!
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#187 So Pablito, Making Your Mind Up - Bucks Fizz doesnt do it for you then? Doesn't make you put the pedal to the metal?
Bring a smile to your face(book)? Got to be "Agadoo" tonight.
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BTW Scotch Git, Johnnie Walker was talking to Ian Anderson and Kate Bush on last Sunday's show. Did you catch it?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00n2v1m/Johnnie_Walkers_Sounds_of_the_70s_04_10_2009/
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Most of the tracks on Paolo Nutini's 'Sunny Side Up' make me smile but especially 10/10 and Pencilfull of Lead - both such happy tunes.
Leonard Cohen isn't known as a bundle of laughs but 'Tower of Song' has that great line - I ache in the places where I used to play - always brings a wry smile because I know how he feels!
Kirsty MacColl's 'There's a Guy ...Elvis' - totally unique and mad pianist makes me smile.
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This is a hard one...songs that make me smile...so many...
Blondie...Hangin' on the Telephone...makes me think of nights at Alves youth club in late 70's and early 80's
Rolling Stones....Wild Horses.....first public performance I heard my son Jamie play...16 at school concert
oh just so many...
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LAUREL & HARDY!!! Inspired DC. Also kickin mysel i never thought about Happy Heart #186.
Oh well another good week, lookin forward tae the weekend then.
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Was it played then?
Typical. The night I can't listen in, I get a mention.....
Oooops! That's me moaning again! I'll just have to listen again on iPlayer
;-)
DC
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Dinnae worry, it wasnae on. Just wanted ye tae know i was likin yer thinkin (even if BB wasnae, oops should i have said that last bit) ;)
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Hope you all had a fun filled night....... i lost 2 hours of my week watching that awful new Ricky Gervais movie....... it wasn't even as good as awful!!
and it cost a bliddy fortune and the popcorn was rotten and.... so you get the picture of my evening then?
anyway was it a good show?
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#195
Adam,
Caught the chat with Ian Anderson. I had no idea Kate was on the show.
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DC, Frank,
Dinnae fret. Ye never missed much.
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#194
I could easily take offence at bucksfizz :-)
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