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Apologies for the number of song suggestions. …..but,

Summer
Personal reminders of great summers, rather than songs about or released in summer…

Gulf of Mexico - Alabama
Mont amant de St-Jean - Lucienne Delyle

Infidelity
Killing him - Amy Lavere
Lyin’ Eyes - the Eagles
Me and Mrs Jones - Billy Paul
You Know I'm No Good, or the better "Love is a losing game" - Amy Winehouse,
Heard It Through The Grapevine - Marvin Gaye
Lately - Stevie Wonder -
Run to You - Bryan Adams
Ruby Don't Take Your Love To Town - Kenny Rodgers
Take that look off your face - Marti Webb
Whose Bed Have Your Boots Been Under? or "Is there life after love?" - Shania Twain
I honestly love you – Olivia Newton John
In another’s eyes - Trisha Yearwood
Seeing Other People - Belle and Sebastian
She's Not There by The Zombies/Santana
Jolene - Dolly Parton (or is this fidelity too?)
Jilted John - Jilted John
Delilah - Alex Harvey

Fidelity
If I should fall behind - Springsteen
This is us - Emmylou Harris and Mark Knopfler
In spite of ourselves - Iris de Ment and John Prine
Back to me - Kathleen Edwards
The hard way - Mary Chapin Carpenter
Have a little faith in me – Jewel
Substitute – Clout
Always - Atlantic Star
Hi-fidelity - Kids from fame
Endless love - Diana ross
Bless The Broken Road - Rascall Flatts
Always and forever–Heatwave
To make you feel my love - Trisha Yearwood
Just the way you are - Billy Joel
Every River or Straight as the Crow Flies - Kim Richey
Follow you, follow me - Genesis


Harmony
Peaceful easy feeling - Eagles
After the love has gone .- Earth Wind and Fire
California Girls - Beach boys

Change
Goodbye - Steve Earle or Emmylou Harris
Good Year For The Roses - Elvis Costello
Only a dream - Mary Chapin Carpenter
Freebird - Lynyrd Skynyrd
Turn!Turn!Turn!(To Everything There Is a Season) The Byrds
Won't Get Fooled Again The Who
Allentown - Billy Joel
Bittersweet Symphony - the Verve
Live like you were dyin’ - Tim McGraw
You can sleep while I drive - Trish Yearwood
Substitute - the Who
Take that - Patience
Midnight train to georgia - Gladys Knight and the Pips
I will survive - Gloria Gaynor
Isn't she lovely - Steveie Wonder
Downbound train - Springsteen
Adios - Linda Ronstadt

Looking forward to another great week on get it on.

Joe
Linlithgow

Hi Bryan and Co

Infidelity

Two classics of the genre come to mind:

Walk On By - Leroy Van Dyke
Not the Bacharach song, but the one with the chorus "I love you but we're strangers when we meet"

Go Home Girl - Arthur Alexander, and covered by Ry Cooder
Great lyric and tune about the emotional turmoil of a guy in love with his best mate's girlfriend - which one will he let down?

Fidelity

So many to choose from, but IMHO it's hard to beat early-period Beatles for this genre eg:

PS I Love You
And I love Her
Eight Days A Week
Things We Said Today
All My Loving

Keep on Getting It On!

Martin,

Buckie

Monday
You’re So Good To Me – The Beach Boys
Baby You’re A Rich Man – The Beatles
Both value for money B-sides which transport the listener to the summers of 66 and 67
Tuesday
Fidelity - Old Shep – Elvis – If dogs have a heaven......
Two Little Boys – Rolf Harris – not a dry seat in the house
Infidelity – How Much I’ve Lied – Elvis Costello – Steve Nieve transforms this Gram Parsons song into The Attractions’ best performance.
Wednesday
God Only Knows - The Beach Boys – Only three voices but leaves the rest for dead. OK, strictly this is counterpoint, so shoot me.
Thursday
Change of Heart – Tom Petty – Obvious but good
A Change is Gonna Come – Sam Cooke – a smooth voice with a bitter finish

Brilliant suggestions on the posts above - absolutely fantastic.

Keeping it brief as its a bit sad posting on my holiday but hey ho.....

Monday

Girls in Their Summer CLothes Bruce Springsteen

All that heaven will allow - Bruce Springsteen

Summertime Blues - The Who or Eddie Cochrane

Norrie temporarily in the States

Tuesday:
Fidelity: "If You Ever Have Forever In Mind" - Vince Gill (or play it on Wednesday for the backing harmonies - just the right side of cheesy).

Infidelity: "Ernie (The fastest Milkman In The West)". Never a great Benny Hill fan but, even after all these years, the words "Two-Ton Ted from Teddington" still make me chuckle.


Wednesday, Harmonies:

The (unaccompanied) harmony singing on Prelude's version of Neil Young's "After The Goldrush" is beautiful.

I love the London Community Gospel Choir's backing on "Tender" by Blur.

The Doo-Wop genre is perfect for songs for this theme..."Get a Job" - The Silhouettes, "I Wonder Why" - Dion and the Belmonts.

Barbershop? Definitely harmony singing there...afraid I don't know any groups except Homer Simpson's group The Be-Sharps!

My suggestions for the Infidelity theme is soul classic At the Dark End of the Street. Loads of artists have covered it but I first heard the Otis Reading version and he sang it beautifully. Just a lovely love song about people sneaking around!

Sarah from Glasgow

Harmonies: How could I have forgotten The Ditty Bops, who are so good at close-harmony singing. I love "Wishful Thinking" - lovely clear voices and quirky lyrics.

A couple of suggestions for Tuesday...

Infidelity - "I Want You Now", "Halo" "One Caress" "Mercy In You" or "Policy of Truth" all from Depeche Mode

Fidelity - "Hard to Beat" - Hard-Fi, "Run Wild" - New Order

And a couple for Thursday, how about "Change" from The Lightning Seeds, (ok it asks the protaganist not to change.)

G Rhino, Paisley

Hello.

For Tuesday's show...


Fidelity...

'Me And My Arrow' by Nilsson.
This song was never released as a single in the UK (but a hit in the States) and may have been the b-side of 'Without You'. Perhaps someone knows? Not your usual song about fidelity but a really charming track nonetheless.


Infidelity...

'Some Fools Mess' by Gallon Drunk.
A single from 1991. Straight to the point when it comes to infidelity but thankfully no rude words. A good one to dance madly around the room to. Singer James Johnston went on to join Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds.


Cheers.

Raymie in Consett.

I tried to resist adding to my earlier blog, but the train journey to work always seems to help me identify "obvious" titles I had somehow overlooked. Apologies - I will seek help!

Infidelity - A soft place to fall by Allison Moorer
She's Gone - Hall and Oates

Fidelity -
I'll work for your love - Springsteen
Till we ain't strangers anymore by Bon Jovi
"I will dream" or "I had my heart set on you" by Emmylou Harris (both are about one-sided fidelity despite a partner's infidelity)
She's no lady (she's my wife) - Lyle Lovett

Harmony - Long train running by the Doobie Brothers

Change - Baby don't change your mind by Gladys Knight and the Pips

Finally can I second Norrie's long-distance request for Girls in Their Summer Clothes by Springsteen.

Joe
Linlithgow

Thu, Change:

"The Passing Show" - Ian Dury with typically great Blockeads backing. A looking back at life song. We've changed, but do we regret it?

"Till There Was You" - Peggy Lee (or The Beatles)

"I Couldn't Believe It" - Eddie Kendrick and David Ruffin (woman swears undying love then changes her mind)

"Sure Was Better Back Then" - Steve Forbert

"Different Drum" - Mike Nesmith (about a guy who's decided he won't change so his partner's better off finding someone else more compatible)

"Wake Up" - The Ditty Bops (a "what-if", how would you act if things changed song)

Tuesday
Top of the Hit Parade for suffering at the hands of an unfaithful wife has to be Rupert Holmes (probably closely followed by Jim Reeves). He should have sensed that she wasn't Miss Right when he started all that business with the small ads. Talk about rotten luck when he gets to the rendevous only to find his boring missus waiting for him! To make matters worse, despite discovering shared interests in exotic cocktails, champagne and getting drookit in the rain - shortly afterwards he discovers that she's having an affair with Him! And gallous with it. Leaving his fags lying around the place. Mind you, it hard to feel sorry for Rupert, as in spite of the evidence he is still willing to stay with her if she decides to give Him up. Dearame!

Adam in Rio

Adam...you need help :-)

Wednesday:- You can't exclude Maggie,
Terre and Suzzy.
' Mr. Sellack ' would be my
1st choice, but anything by
the wonderful, fabulous
Roches would be great.
Thank you!

In / Fidelity night -
JoeKBrown - The Kids from Fame, Hi-Fidelity is an excellent call.
Julie - Ernie makes me laugh too.
Get it On Bryan!

If not these, then what about 'Learning to do without me', George Jones or Gary Clark. It might work on changes night too, as she's changing her mind about him.

Also Love at the Five and Dime, Nancy Griffiths
The wrong man was convicted, Barenaked Ladies

Harmonies -
Let it be me, the Everly Brothers
Make my heart fly, The Proclaimers
Only you, The Flying Pickets

Changes -
Girl, you'll be a woman soon, Neil ' just a wee bit creepy' Diamond
The day before you came, ABBA

If we're going all Junior Choicey this week (Ernie, Two Little Boys etc), then you've got to play Mike Reid's Ugly Duckling on Thursday. The greatest song about change ever! Wal-lop.

Julie, I think its Mr Holmes that needs help. Do you think it's because he's called Rupert? Or maybe he's got ginger hair...

Adam in Rio

MaxBGold thanks Bryan for The Prince.

MaxBGold is on holiday today and a few sherberts have been taken.

This has led to moonstopming in the kitchen as he was making the dinner.

Hi Bryan and Barbara/Mandy, bloggers
Great show tonight for final songs of summer...when the summer happened we just don't know...
Anyhow, suggestions for the Tuesdays fidelity/infidelity;

Human by Human League
Babooshka by Kate Bush
Your Cheatin Heart by Ted Hawkins
Dark End of The Street by Otis - ditto Sarah from Glasgow, classic for this show
Where did You Sleep Last Night? - Nirvana
Slipping Around - Detroit Cobras

So great to have your unique wit and humour back on the blog AdaminRio :-)

Maria and Donald in Stirling

Infidelity

Speed of Sound of Lonlieness - any version John Prine, Nanci Griffith or how about tye stunning Kim Carnes and Lyle Lovett Version?

Evidence - Boo Hewerdine and Darden Smith

Brilliant Disguise - Springsteen

Be My Downfall - Del Amitri

Fidelity

You are the Light - Lone Justice

My problem is You - Jackson Browne


Norrie cant get logged on to listen again or live its the football so dont know how Adam et al do it!!

Norrie - there was a technical problem tonight with internet streaming.

Joe
Linlithgow

Adam: OK, I take it back. It is Rupert who needs the help. Not because of the name, or the hair colour (brown...possibly grey nowadays) but because he looks like a cross between Roger Whittaker and Steve Wright (off the radio).

Yup Norrie, I'm afraid Joe's right.
Not even I can get it tonight. Best you take a couple of asprins and lie down. Think happy thoughts. I'm sure Bryan's boffins will have it all fixed in the morning. At the very worst they'll post the playlist and the significant inbetween comments, so you'll be alright.
In the meantime, as I'm closest to you right now, feel free to blog if you cant get to sleep. I'll be here for you.

Adam down the road in Rio

Thanks Joe and Adam down the Road! I am a bit technically challenged at the best of times so that I assumed it was me! Bad enough watching out for those ampersands!

While I'm here might as well add one in I fordgot about and its Justin Currie from his brilliant solo album and Where Did I Go, fantastic track from a truly exceptional album. Virtually all that lp fits!

Virtually all the tracks that spring to mind are the infidelity our ones.....mmmmm!

Posting on a blog where evryones asleep and I cant get to hear....I should worry about myself!!

Cheers

Norrie

ps Adam - I'm on holiday so the asprins are most needed in the morning!

Norrie - are you one of those people who can't stay away from a computer even though you're supposed to be relaxing on holiday?

You certainly should worry about yourself. The world will keep turning and BB will be available on Listen Again.

TUESDAY INFIDELITY

In Roxy Music's DANCE AWAY Bryan Ferry wrote about his fiance Jerry Hall when she ran off with Mick Jagger:

"It's funny how, I could never cry
Until tonight, when you pass by
Hand in hand with another guy
You're dressed to kill, And guess who's dying?"

A mate of mine thought the line you're dressed to kill was your breasts do thrill

Ferry also wrote in reply to a chapter in her biography TALL TALES the single KISS AND TELL.

FIDELITY
Bryan Ferry Let's Stick Together

Tuesday Infidelity

Millie Jackson - If Loving You Is Wrong (I Don't Wanna Be Right), and then probably just leave the whole of the Unchained album on, dealing as it does with a web of relationships

Fidelity - if glenmiller's going to mention Old Shep, then surely Half Man Half Biscuit's version of Old Tighe should take precedence. Not only is it from the Peel Session vaults, and therefore guaranteed to be a class piece of work, the band manages to stumble through the song until almost the last minute before collapsing in tears of laughter at the sheer improbability of the ghost dog saves young master returning from the war scenario. Country and western never smelt so bad!

MaxBGold would like to suggest "I'm the man who loves you" by Wilco for the fidelity hour.

MaxBGold agrees that RoxyJohn has made a good call with Bryan Ferry's - Let's stick together.

I really only wanted to check last night's playlist as I missed 30 minutes, but the temptation is too strong....


In/fidelity:Still the one - Orleans

Joe
Linlithgow

Tempted - Squeeze
Hey Joe - Jimi hendrix
Your Cheatin Heart - Hank Williams

Oh I forgot - anything by the Proclaimers for Adam in Rio.

He loves them really and was just playing hard to get the other night.

How are you holding up Norrie?
It appears that rogue footballing island in the streaming has really screwed up the space time continuum of Get It On. Still no sign of last night's show. Just hang on in there though.
You picked a great time to go on holiday right enough.

C'way Bryan what's going on? We've got a blogger stuck in some hotel, motel, Holiday Inn bedroom and he needs his fix. He's spending a fortune on room service fast food waiting for the last summer mix. We dont want Norrie doing an Elvis impersonation you know.

Adam in Rio

hi everyone

suggestions for harmonies;

Caravan of Love - Housemartins (always reminds me of Christmas but in a good way)
Tears In The Morning or Deirdre - Beach Boys (Bryan I feel tonight will be difficult for anyone that doesn't like the Beach Boys won't it?!!)

Great show last night for fidelity/non fidelity. Well done team!

Maria in Stirling

WEDNESDAY HARMONIES

Bryan Ferry does some great harmonies with himself on the country tinged Roxy Music song "End Of The Line" and also on the Roxy top 5 hit "Oh Yeah"

for THURSDAY CHANGES

Of course Bowie's "Changes" is an obvious starter.
Is this my chance to have Roxy Music's opener on their debut album "Re-make/Re-model" played?

Bryan Ferry's version of "The Times They Are-A Changin" or his version of the Crickets song "Don't Ever Change"

Oops, I think I meant Millie Jackson's "Hung Up" album, but never mind it was terrific to hear it on radio.

Harmonies

Buzzcocks "Harmony in my Head"
CSNY "Judy Blue Eyes Suite" kind of sets the benchmark
The Poozies' version of XTC's "Love on a Farm Boy's Wages" should also satisfy your Kate Rusby craving for this week, Bryan?

MaxBGold is today thinking that Eldorado by ELO has some interesting harmonies that could be shared on air.

oops, MaxBGold forgot to mention "And Your Bird Can Sing" by The Beatles.

Some country harmonies -

Angel Band or Calling my Children Home - Ralph Stanley

I'll Fly Away - Alison Krauss and Gillian Welsh

okay-i will get the hang of this blog thing eventually--posted my last comment in the wrong thread-very embarrassing.
Great "harmony" songs would have to include Crosby Stills etc.Southern Cross
Poco. Rose of Cimarron
Buena Vista Social Club. Amor de Loco Juventud
Eagles. Seven Bridges Road
and an obscure-but-they-shouldn't-be band from Austin called Subdudes with a song called Carved in Stone.
Please--not too much Beach Boys!!!

For the Changes theme, there's Robert Cray's Change of Heart.
For a new theme idea, how about songs with words you wouldn't expect to find in a lyric??(Such as You're so Vain..what other song would have the word ""strategically in it!)

Hi Bryan,

Another great show tonight. Lot's of good choices so far.

How about playing "Diamonds on the Soles of Shoes" by Paul Simon?

Thanks,

Brian, Edinburgh.

Bryan

I am sure that you will get tons tonight for Bowie and Dylan.

So I'll go for:
The Changeling - The Doors
A Change is Gonna Come - Sam Cooke(time for protest songs again?)
Feeling Good - Nina Simone ('a new dawn, a new day, a new life ...)

Or Turning Japanese - Vapours(misunderstood songs?!)

Cheers

Andy

Hi all
I am with Andy, only one song for me tonight and that is Sam Cooke, A Change is Gonna Come.

Maria in Stirling

p.s. what is up with Listen Again, can only seem to get Tuesdays show or Thursday 21st on the iplayer??

I think tonight's theme of 'change' is a stroke of genius. Change is essentially what drives us forward in life, so many of the best songs, poems, movies, plays and so on will be about change. So it should be a really great show - I shall be sending in my list!

BB - gonna have to do something about this listen again issue. There are listeners hanging by their fingertips from the highest buildings in the land cause they can't get their GIO fix.

See if you can get the boffins to Change the set up and get it back online.

Tunes for tonight -
Nina Simone - Feeling Good (everything was good for her)
Pulp - Something changed
The Byrds - Turn, Turn, Turn
The Scorpions - Winds of Change (must have been the sprouts)
Thunderclap Newman - Something in the Air

MaxBGold is off the firm opinion that Sam Cooke's - A Change is Gonna Come should be a nailed on cert for tonights show.

MaxBGold was surely trying to wind certain of us up with his suggestion of El Dorado for last night.

Changes -

Stranglers - Something Better Change
Bernard Butler - A Change of Heart (one of Donna's favourite singers and albums if you want to earn me some brownie points please, Bryan)
Hawkwind - Wind of Change
Devo - Turn Around

Hello.

For Thursday's show.

How about 'Changes' by The Zombies?

From the album 'Odyessey and Oracle' it's a memorable and striking track.


Also for the Changes theme...

'Treason' by The Teardrop Explodes which starts with the memorable line, 'I've been living through changes and I could swing for you'. Once heard never forgotten.

Cheers.

Raymie in Consett.

Nothing rash going on here ProducerMandi but my fingertips are beginning to slide.

I am almost letting go too Mandi! Missed Wednesdays Harmonies show and thats the only one that the player doesn't seem to like....oh no, only heard 3 out 4 shows this week, how will I carry on EC?! It all seemed to run much better when you just clicked on Listen Again without the iplayer being involved...we don't like change!

Maria in Stirling

Mandi

Missed part of last night's show. What is the theme for next week?

Joe
Linlithgow

Aye you just can't beat the wonders of modern technology. But wouldn't you just like to beat the wonders out of the IT boffins who're never happy leaving something that works alone.
Hands up fellow bloggers - who has at one time or another been taken offline due to some well meaning IT soul trying to make things "better".
No listen again for so many of last weeks shows. I can see the window sills filling up now.
Suppose it would be inappropriate to play Van Halen's Jump!!