"Blimey. I can hardly hear myself bleed!"
iPM is investigating why music is played at some blood banks - HERE.
It's serious. And bloggers have sent in some suggestions for the play list. If you missed them, here's a sample...
- Papa don't leech
- Bleeder of the pack
- All you needle is blood
- I gave it through the drip line
- 50 ways to bleed your liver.
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Blood on the Tracks?
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Blood, blood, glorious blood,
Nothing quite like it for cooling the mud.
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And then of course there's:
"What's The Bleeding Time?"
James Robertson Justice: A Biography, by James Hogg (assisted by Retro's regular columnist and author Robert Sellers, and also Howard Watson) ...Long-time friend of the Royal family, Justice saw action in both the Spanish Civil War and WWWII. He was a racing driver, a professional ice hockey player, and was elected Rector of Edinburgh University twice! However, it is his screen performances that we all remember and associate him with; those where he played a commanding figure in high authority, like the head of a college, or surgeon general of a hospital, especially that of Sir Lancelot Spratt in the famed British comedy `Doctor' series..." "Cinema Retro Magazine, March 2008"
A wonderful book about a man who was GREAT in all senses of the word.
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How about "Blood River"?
I was going to apologies for my irreverent title "amendment" to both the late Johnny Mercer (lyrics) and Henry Mancini (music). And, of course to Andy Williams. In 1961, "Moon River" won that year's Academy Award for Best Original Song. Sung in the movie Breakfast at Tiffany's. Anyway I thought I'd let them cry. Which as we now know, is far better for all of us...
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Ironically, I see there is a new show about to be recorded called 'Don't forget the lyrics'.
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Nice to see Frank Thornton behind the flowers.
It may be just a smear to you, mate, but it's life or death to some poor wretch. Anyway, I've had enough. I'll have my tea and biscuits.
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Vyle (5) - And surely June Whitfield as the nurse at the desk.
He told her why he had decided to give blood - "It was either that or join the Young Conservatives". I wonder if that is still an either/or?
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Coagulations, and sanguinations...
Another One Bites The Neck
Plasma Release Me, Let Me Go...
Vyle (6):
What about the wine gums?
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I remember way back when I was at middle school, for reasons I can't quite fathom, we were once shown a clip from Hancock's Half Hour.
In it, the protagonist parts with a pint, so to speak, and feels very good about it.
However, later on, while chopping food for dinner, he cuts himself quite severely and ends up being admitted to hospital.
Once there, it is discovered that he needs a transfusion, but has a very rare blood type, and very conveniently they happen to have one pint in stock... :)
-oOo-
As for the songs:
99 red blood cells (99 red balloons)
There are 9 million blood cells... (9m bicycles)
Indirectly related: Goodness, Gracious, Me! (My heart goes boom butty boom etc.)
Another One Bites The Dust (anthem for cytotoxic T cells)
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Funniest television ever by a country mile!
Maybe they play loud music to raise the blood pressure of golden oldies like me, thus making the blood flow more quickly, and getting us out of the door sooner.
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"Papas got a brand new blood-bag"
"I left my heart in rhesus negative"
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Unphlebottable
Nothing's gonna clot us now
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...and then there's that classic album by the Who, 'Haemophilia'
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Don't clot 'til you get enough
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... and courtesy of my work colleague Julie:
What's blood got to do with it
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Don't Clot Me Now, by Queen
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Or, Fearless, how about:
We will we will Clot You!
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Okay, prepare yourselves for the complete Queen Blood Donor Songbook:
Funny how Blood is
Prick of the Wrist
Tie your Donor Down
You Take my Blood Away
Some Body to Blood
Get down Give blood
If you can't bleed them
Need your blooding tonight
Crazy little thing called blood
Who wants to bleed forever?
I want it all
The flow must go on
Too much blood will kill you
Hijack my blood
My blood has been saved
not to mention
Death on Two Legs.
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I heard a lovely variant of the 'ancock joke, a couple of years ago.
At my then local swimming pool.
An erstwhile regular, a real expert, relatively speaking, had gone AWOL for a few months, but now was back, somewhat rotund.
The rest of us as usual were doing our 5, 10 lengths, whatever, and then, honour satisfied, off to recuperate in the hot showers.
Instead of reeling off the usual fifty, he struggled to ten or so before stopping and hanging on for dear life at the deep end.
'Blimey' he said, as I finished my third, 'I shall be glad when I've had enough'
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*There's something funny going on with the 'Previous' button - I keep ending up here form the Glass Box!
(*Not a suggested song title...)
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linnhelass (10) You are probably right about the music.
I'm sorry; I've been misinformed. I'll do something else. I'll be a traffic warden.
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Knights in white blood cells
Two pints of plasma and a pack o' corpuscles please
There's a guy works down the blood bank swears he's Elvis
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Love Like Blood would be good - well, it is good.
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