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I'd like to suggest to all the regulars on the blog (and everybody else too!) that we don't just make a donation for tracks playes on Monday and Friday, but on every night next week. It's a great cause and the 大象传媒 always put on an amazing show on the night. I think it's worth a few extra quid to get it on!

So get your debit and credit cards ready, people!

You're probably a little late for the New Year Honours list but I'll keep an eye out for Queen's Birthday.

Jim - spot on! I am going to follow your lead on this.

I don't care when it is played, this week, next week, whenever. But if it hasn't been on the show before 2009 I want a refund.
;-)


'Mountain Men' - Jethro Tull

The shekels have been paid up front, as witnessed by;

Bryan 'Marathon Man' Burnett
(don't mention toothache)

Tuesday:

(Let me be) your Teddy Bear - Elvis Presley

Wednesday:

'Mother of Mine' Neill Reid
I wish it could be Christmas every day (When the kids start singing and the band begins to play) - Wizard and school choir.

Thurs
Give it 2 me - Madonna
Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth) - George Harrison
Give It All - Rise Against

Tam

PS do you take Provi ?

MONDAY or FRIDAY

'Burlesque' - Family

For reasons which are beyond my understanding, no-one plays this on the radio. It's fab. It's instantly recognisable. It's a complete mystery.

THURSDAY

'Lend a Helpin' Hand' - Lynyrd Skynyrd

TUESDAY

'The Bare Necesseties' - was it Phil Harris?

TUESDAY

'Barefoot' - kd lang

Julie will go on and on until you play this. Anyway, isn't there a kd lang rule? i.e. if someone named Julie requests one of kd's songs you have to play it?

I'll stop digging now.

Every success with this weeks fund raising efforts


Monday

May pop into Asda in passing...

Tuesday

The Black Bear - Pipes & Drums 1st Battallion Blackwatch
Nookie鈥檚 song 鈥� Roger De Courcey
Close The Door - Teddy Pendergrass
Paddington Bear 鈥� Bernard Cribbins

Wednesday

Inbetweenies 鈥� The Goodies (a must for teenagers of a certain age)

Child of the Universe - Barclay James Harvest
Do It for the Kids - Velvet Revolver
The Portree Kid - The Corries
Saturdays Kids 鈥� T. Jam
Baby, its cold outside 鈥� Joyce Blair and Oliver Reed

Thursday

Help Me Make It Through The Night - John Holt
I Can't Help It (If I'm Still In Love with You) - Hank Williams


Friday
???

Scotch is it true that you've pledged 50p for Tull???

Monday - Pound A Play

I Hope That I Don't Fall In Love With You - Tom Waits

I'm willing to donate for all days as long as you'll take my Canadian money (nice thought Jim).
1 British pound = 1.85969371 Canadian dollars

EC - you can now add currency exchange to your list of subjects posted on the blog

Tuesday - Bears

Two Weeks - Grizzly Bear
Comfy In Nautica - Panda Bear
Corduroy (bear) - The Wedding Present (before The Wedding Present, David Gedge's band was the Lost Pandas)
Polar (bear) Opposites - Modest Mouse
King of the Road - Teddy (bear) Thompson and Rufus Wainwright (Brokeback Mountain Soundtrack)

Wednesday - Kids/Children

I'm Not Going To Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance With You - Black Kids
Young Folks - Peter Bjorn and John
Where Do The Children Play - Cat Stevens
The Kids Are Alright - The Who
Children of the Revolution - T.Rex

Thursday - Giving

Got To Give It Up - Marvin Gaye
Give Up The Funk - Parliament
The Gift That Keeps On Giving - Super Furry Animals
Something's Got To Give - The Beastie Boys

Madmac,
Actually, it's 0.9298468 Canadian dollars.

Guys - just make sure you get the money in - OK? It's important! :-)

Jim - I'm in!

Good to be back on the blog, and setting out a list for the week ahead.....

Monday - No theme

This old heart of mine - Isley Brothers
Goodbye - Steve Earle or Emmylou Harris
When the stars go blue - Ryan Adams
Swinging Safari - Bert Kampfert
100 days, 100 nights - Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings
I鈥檒l work for your love - Springsteen
Thunder Road - Springsteen

Tuesday - Bears

Black - Wonderful Life by Black or Back to Black by Amy Winehouse
Brown - I got you (I feel good) by James Brown
Polar - anything form the Snow Patrol album 鈥淪ongs for Polar Bears鈥�
Teddy - Change of Heart by Teddy Thomson or If you don鈥檛 know me by now - sung by Teddy Pendergrass (while lead singer of Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes)

Wednesday - Children/Kids

God bless the child - Shania Twain
The man with the child in his eyes - Kate Bush
The kids are alright - The Who
I鈥檓 just a kid (don鈥檛 make me feel like a man) - Hall and Oates
Teenage Dirtbag - Wheatus
The boys are back in town - Thin Lizzy
Tears in heaven - Eric Clapton
Tell me there鈥檚 a heaven - Chris Rhea

Thursday - Help and support

Help me make it through the night - Gladys Knight and the Pips
Giving it all away - Leo Sayer
Give a little bit - Supertramp
SOS - Abba
Fix you - Coldplay
Thank you for being a friend - Andrew Gold
The price you pay - Springsteen
If I needed you - Lyle Lovett

Friday - No theme

Any of the songs listed above


Joe
Linlithgow

Good to see you back Joe K!

I am going to raise your Boss suggestions over the course of the week, though I doubt being able to top Thunder Road or The Price You Pay, but as an interim measure may I suggest the following track for bear night

Bruce Springsteen - County Fair

great family/kid orientated track with the following lyric

"County fair, county fair,
Everybody in town'll be there
So come on, hey we're goin' down there
(hey) Little girl with the long blond hair
Come win your daddy one of them stuffed bears
Baby, down at the country fair"

If stuffed bears are good enough for Bruce........

Bruce will soon be stuffing a turkey........

Glenmiller,
Monday, 21:00, 大象传媒4 TV

Monday.(or any time soon) John Prine-Jesus The Missing Years.Slightly irreverent but harmlessly funny.

Tue. Bear With Me Baby- Dawn Shipley And The Sharpshooters.This'll get BB up twistin'.

Wed.Me And My Imaginery Friend-Colin Hay.
Thurs. Cherry Ghost-People Help The People.

Might nip down to Pacific Quay on Friday night and put some faces to names.
Let's hope loads of cash rolls in.

S G

Your name came up in The Caretaker. You treated that tramp very badly.

Glenmiller,
I have been traduced by Pinter. The tramp was asking for it.

Hi Bryan,

As with most weeks some tough ones and some not so tough, but on a wet Sunday afternoon here goes:

Monday: If you play Devo Be Stiff I'll give a crisp tenner to Children in Need

Tuesday - The Stranglers - Bear Cage

Wednesday (a bit of a list)

Angelic Upstarts - Kids on the Street

Chelsea - Urban Kids

The Jam - The Dreams of Children

Pretenders - Kid

Sham 69 - Tell the Children

Stiff Little Fingers - Bits of Kids

Teardrop Explodes - Tiny Children

Thursday - how about the Damneds version of Help or the Stranglers Something Better Change

Friday - If you play The Damned Fun Factory I'll add another tenner to the appeal

Cheers

No wonder they call him Mad Mac.

For Monday I am going to stick with just two or three selections, I'll try and keep to that all week!

For my donation either of:

Thunder Road - Bruce Springsteen (the best opening and closing lines ever, it's a fact trust me)

Good Man - Josh Ritter (love Josh I think he is going from strength to strength, check him out if you can)

Arena - The Skids (just because its an all time favourite).

Keeping Gene Clark for Friday!!!

Hope everyone had a great weekend.

THURSDAY

'You Can't Rollerskate In A Buffalo Herd' - Roger Miller

This song contains some of the best advice a child could hope to receive.

Guys I am in need of a bit of help from all you musos out there! Apparently there is a song called 'Pudsey Surprise' by John Butcher and Gino Robair.

Anybody help me track it down? If it's suitable for playing it would be a total must for this week!

A warning to those outside Bearsden not to travel to ASDA tomorrow, as news has just been leaked of a two for one Spam offer.

Scratch that! I found it - it's an experimental avant-garde noise! :-(

Is Cerys Matthews on it?

Sounded like it...

Monday - No Theme:
Baker Street - Gerry Rafferty
Mr Blue Sky - Electric Light Orchestra
Moonlight Shadow - Mike Oldfield with Maggie Reilly
Bodyrock - Moby
Addicted To Love - Robert Palmer


Tuesday - Bears Theme:
Teddy Bear - Elvis Presley
Dancing Bear - The Mamas And The Papas
Bi-Polar Bear - Stone Temple Pilots
Talkin' Bear Mountain Picnic Massacre Blues - Bob Dylan


Wednesday - Kids Theme:
All The Children Sing - Todd Rundgren
Kids Wanna Rock - Bryan Adams
Kids In America - Kim Wilde
All The Young (People Of Today) - Eurythmics
The Night Is Still Young - Billy Joel


Thursday - Help and Giving Theme:
Money, Money, Money - ABBA
Brother Can You Spare A Dime - George Michael
Help! - The Beatles
Come To My Aid - Simply Red
Giving You The Best That I Got - Anita Baker
You Never Give Me Your Money - The Beatles


Friday - Partaaaaay Theme:
Get The Party Started - Pink
Celebration - Kool and The Gang
Shining Happy People - R.E.M.
If It Makes You Happy - Sheryl Crow
I'm Happy Just To Dance With You - The Beatles

I'll donate a tenner for a Springsteen free week...contraversial?!

Glenmiller - enough Cerys bashing, surely there must be a thousand other singers you can move onto?!

Wednesday - Kid by Pretenders, a must?

Maria :-)

Mariah! A Springsteen free week! I think there have been a few ;o)

Kid is a definite I agree, great track.

Monday:

"Old Town" - The Corrs
"Let's Groove" - Earth Wind and Fire

Tue - "Barefoot" - k d lang (because Scotch really really wants to hear it)

So would I Julie - clever one for the theme!

Glenn, re No.23

can ask if you are calling me a tramp?

MM

Far from it.

As I am sure you know, the tramp in The Caretaker (abused by Scotch Git) is called Mac Davies - not to be confused with In The Ghetto composer Mac Davis.

Apologies, too, about Cerys Matthews - I'm sure she's doing her best.

Yes she is, bless her...

Julie,
I knew you wouldn't mind my hitching a ride on your wagon.
When the song gets played you can find the 1.85969371 Canadian Dollars.

How much would a Morrissey-free week cost?

As the Miners' Welfare MC said, "You've got to clap the bad turns as well as the good ones."

Pinter and profundity.

Assiduity and alliteration

Conceptual concatenation.

Trusty thesaurus.

Not buying that Glenn...

Both Aston and Mick were as cruel as each other to poor old Mac I seem to recall.

r u the blog's woolly bully?

If Scotch, Norrie and I don't get "Barefoot" by k d lang played, I would like to hear "Barefootin'" by Wilson Picket instead.

MONDAY or FRIDAY

'The Price of Love' - Bryan Ferry

Just 'cos it's brilliant.

Scotch #7 - I would really like to hear "Burlesque" too. I think I have that as a single...unfortunately, when I cleared out the cupboard under the stairs yesterday, I just left the case of singles stuck right at the furthest back corner because I have no turntable to play them on. I've put all the junk back in now so am not going to check. Sure if I hear it again I'll remember - I have a vague feeling that you're right and it is indeed fab.

Tuesday - If my tenuously - linked "bare" records don't get a play - I'd also like to her "Lover's Concerto" by The Toys!

Julie,

Just to prove I am not all bad..

Norrie, Thank you!

Alas, the speakers on this laptop are not great. I must invest in a pair of decent headphones. Any recommendations?

As opposed to a pair of indecent headphones.
My grammar is deplorable.

I'll give a teener to CIN if you play anything by Matthew Sweet or our own Geoff Martyn (Jupiter and Teardrop's Moonshine would be perfect!)

Tuesday

Jimmy Pudsey and Sham 69 - If the kids are United
(could also fit Wednesdays theme!)

Wednesday

The Proclaimers - Your Childhood

(brings a tear to my eye every time!)

More to follow and I'll give apound for every one played during the whole week.

Bobby

Norrie - will have to wait till I get home as they block youtube etc here or we'd do even less work! If It's Burlesque - I'll hang-on to hear if they play it tonight first.

Hello

I'm also more than happy to cough up for anything played all week long. Have a good week!

Monday/Friday

Oh Very Young By Cat Stevens
Johnny and Mary by Robert Palmer
Chinese Translation by M Ward
It's Only Rock'n Roll (But I Like It) by the Stones
Be my Wife by David Bowie

Tuesday

Jesusland by Ben Folds (as in Gentle Ben)
Monkey and Bear by Joanna Newsome

Wednesday

Teach Your Children by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
Babies by Pulp

Thursday

Help me Rhonda by The Beach Boys
If I Needed You by Townes Van Zandt


Regards
Mr Chops, The Dwarf

No sign of the Choplet yet Mr Chops?

No, not yet - it's not due for another couple of weeks, but I am on standy by mode. It's totally hyper, I think it's going to be a dancer!

WED:Kids / Child singers:

"Wean" Fontana - Game of Love

Angelic Upstarts - "Teenage Warning"

Neneh Cherry - "Manchild"

Rich Kids - "Rich Kids" (which is probably rubbish but sounded OK in 79 or whenever)

Leanne Rhimes - "Blue"

Tanya Tucker - "Delta Dawn"

How about for Monday:

The Clash - Lost In The Supermarket

The Clash - anything from the Cost of Living e.p preferably Groovy Times.

Be My Wife is a great Bowie track Mr Chops!

Tuesday
As a kid (a very young one!) I remember a bear used to come wandering on set on The Andy Williams Show asking for cookies, to which Andy's reply was always "No cookies!" This happened every week and always got a laugh. (It probably inspired Paul Whitehouse in later years).
So I'll go for Andy's "Can't Get Used To Losing You" (One of three top 5 hits he had beginning with "Can't, the other two being????).

I'll pledge 3.36510 Brazilian Reais.

Can't remember who asked for them earlier, but I'll back up John Holt - "Help Me Make through The Night" for Thursday and Chris Rea "Tell Me Theres A Heaven" for Wednesday.

How much for a Proclaimer's free year?

Norrie - I think so, glad you agree. "Low" and "Hunky Dory" are my favourite 70's Bowie albums.

AFR - The other song being "Can't take my eyes off of you"...?

Wait that's only one. "Can't help falling in Love"....?

Excellent idea from JimFraeErskine re donations - I'll donate 拢25 on Friday no matter how many suggestions get played this week.

I'll only suggest one for Monday - I've put it up several times now but it's, sadly, been ignored consistently:

RAY WYLIE HUBBARD - Snake Farm.

Always puts a smile on my face and gets the wife and I dancing al la Gregory's Girl in bed! (And for those who don't understand that - it is not smutty!)

Well done MC Dwarf! No mining duty for you this afternoon.

Another great shout for Friday's show would be Brass In Pocket by The Pretenders!

WEDNESDAY

'Daddy Don't You Walk So Fast' - Wean Newton

Wednesday:

'CowBOY' - KID Rock

Jim,
You're probably the man to ask.
See No. 51

Since there's no escaping, Million Dollars by Bear-naked Ladies would be worth a few quid in my opinion.

Or One Week since it's a week long theme.

Johnny Preston's Running Bear would be really funny too.

Girls Aloud?! I'll give you money never to play them again!!

Come back Cerys - all is forgiven.

I have Sennheiser HD485's and they are great all-rounders. If it's just to plug into a laptop they're great, and last I looked only 40-odd quid. Only issue might be using them in an environment where you need to stay quiet as they are open back and WILL leak a bit of sound, but for me they give a more realistic natural stereo.

Other manufacturers of audio equipment are also available blah blah blah...

DOH! - Should have mentioned that was re #51 above...

..... and there's me thinking Jim was talking about Cerys....

DC in Cellardyke

Well closed back cans effectively render you deaf, which could come in handy...

Re #51, Scotch I use Bose around ear headphones and really think they are fantastic for the money.

As Jin says Other manufacturers of audio equipment are also available blah blah blah...we will pronbably get struck off!

On a similar tangent I wondered wether it was worth the producers setting up a "general chat" thread. Might suit all if my general nonsense could be set to the side...just a thought.

Missed tonights show hope above all loads of cash is raised and I will be sticking to my promise regardless!

Norrie, Scotch #50: Burlesque...I'd completely forgotten I have that single and, yes it is still fab. Was listening to it with my 15 year old daughter and exclaiming my surprise that my musical taste seems to have been quite mature for a ten year old. She reckons she developed her musical sensibilities at half that age since at the age of five she was listening to Bob Marley, AC/DC, Johnny Cash, Blondie and The Ramones so, I suppose it's not so unusual after all.

Did they play it Julie? I missed the show - pesky work getting in the road! Yuo are going to have to get that turntable!!

I loved hearing Girls Aloud on tonight's show - I am unashamed to be a fan and that's one of my favourite singles of theirs.

Norrie - didn't hear all the show but don't think so. I am going to have to get that turntable - then fight my way in again to the back of my cupboard.

:o) quite right too! Cmom Santa this lady desreves a turntable!

DC - I was in Cellardyke the very day they found that dead bird with the flu virus - got stopped by the police to make sure we were not transporting any animals! Lovely wee place - I would go back there in a heartbeat!

Loved the old pan haas with the red tiles on the roofs!

Aye, that was the same day they stopped us getting out! I managed to get Bryan to do a birds theme on the second anniversary of that event. Ride a white swan, as Marc used to sing.

Birthplace of the Fence Collective by the way, King Creosote, KT Tunstall et al.

DC in Cellardyke

Jim, Norrie,
Thanks for the advice, guys. I'm a total ignoramus when it comes to this stuff.
Always ask the people who know!

Julie,
I'm glad 'Burlesque' sounds as good as you remember. Not always the case with songs we haven't heard for a while.

Know what you mean Scottish Git. It was the same with me with "Gimme Some" by Brendan, whichcould have fitted in on Thursday.



Just kidding.

Jim Ers - I'm intrigued as to why you were in Cellardyke that day.

(At the risk of Norrie saying "See! Your jist es bad!)

Adam - I was on holiday and going round aa the wee towns in the area. Ended up in Ferryden by Montrose before heading home. My family come from there - traced the actual house where my great grandparents lived and made creels in the shed oot the back and is still there!

Bryan suggested some time back on the show that I am from Elgin - but that's not quite true... ;-)

Angus in Skye - I am with you! Nae bother giving 拢25 for CIN - it's a great cause and I am sure most people on here can easily afford it. Any other takers? Please sign up now! You know you want to!

Angus / Jim - more than happy with a 25 quid pledge but reserve the right to up it as required to get Gene Clark played on Friday!

For Bear night I did suggest a Springsteen track and honest Maria he hardlt ever gets played and I would also like to follow up one of Joe K suggestions:

Springsteen - County Fair 9for the very child family orientated lyric and aslo includes stuffed bears)

Black aka Colin Vearncombe - Fly Up To The Moon (sung with Sam Brown so two bears for the price of one)

Have a nice day.

I pledge a tenner over and above every other request if you play

'Baby, It's Cold Outside' - Tom Jones and Cerys Matthews


and dedicate it to Glenmiller




I thank you.

SOME BEAR SUGGESTIONS

KRIS KRISTOFFERSON AND RITA COOLIDGE - Dakota (The Dancing Bear)
ALAN PRICE SET - Simon Smith and his Amazing Dancing Bear
From "THE JUNGLE BOOK" - The Bare Necesssities

and .. to second you Jim - THE MAMAS AND THE PAPAS - Dancing Bear, a little known track but worth a listen (it's only a shortie after all).

I must get used to this blogging thingie and put all my suggestions in at once, but that requires organisation.

A few for Wednesday:

ICEHOUSE - Hey Little Girl
STRAYCATS - Runaway Boy
THE WHO - I'm a Boy
TIM MCGRAW - My Little Girl (I challenge all you fathers out there not to listen to this with a lump in the throat!)

Scotch re #89 & see #11

maybe the Joyce Blair and Oliver Reed collaboration could widen Glenn's horizions.

Re Girls Aloud, they have done some great pop songs, I am not a fan at all but whoever writes the tracks has real pop talent!

Their current single is pure pop pleasure and so is the Leon Jackson track.....

If we all liked the same things it would be a very dull place/world/GIO!!

TUESDAY Bears

Roxy Music 'Running Wild'

WEDNESDAY CHILDREN

Bryan Ferry 'Boys And Girls'
Roxy Music 'My Little Girl'

THURSDAY HELP

Bryan Ferry 'Help Me' from the movie 'The Fly' (Co written with Nile Rogers from Chic)
Bryan Ferry 'Help Me Make It Through The Night'

FRIDAY
Roxy Music 'Just Like You' Ferry sounding very Geordie on this one.

Donation sent by the link on this site.

p.s. Scotchgit, if we really want to give glenmiller a Cerys treat then surely it should be I am The Mob?!

Maria ;-)

Maria, the Leon Jackson track was co-written by Bryn Christopher...the guy who stole the show at the Electric Proms Saturday Night Fever night singing "Disco Inferno". I was so taken with that performance that I bought his album on the strength of it - then discovered that he'd sung a couple of songs I really liked but didn't know who they were by. He's worth checking out.

Madmac,
Sorry, man. I didn't realise I was stepping on your toes.

Maria,
I bow to your superior knowledge, but I really like the Tom - Cerys duet.

We should have a theme based on Wales in general, and Cerys in particular.

I commend it to the House.

Thanks Julie, will check out Bryn Christopher stuff.

Re Cerys, I was/am a big fan but not enough to call myself "Catatonia Maria" and measure up to Roxy John's levels ;-)

The only song I keep thinking of for the bear theme is Kate Bush & Rowan Atkinson doing "Do Bears?" - I think it was for Comic Relief one year back in the 80's..

Madmac,
While I remember. I hear Nicky Stewart (ex - McChuill's) is running the Twisted Wheel (formerly Rock Garden) at 73, Queen Street. Nicky always runs a good pub, and it's handy for the station if Julie and Maria are coming through.
Whatcha think?

Madmac, Maria,
You are both wiser than I.

Dear Bryan, Mandi, Babs, please note that I support Joyce Blair and Oliver Reed (No. 11)

I further support Maria's suggestion (No. 95)

Ignore No. 89
We can do that on Wales theme night.
If Glen suffers, the tenner still stands.




(No offence, Glen).