´óÏó´«Ã½

"For My Lady" by the Moody Blues.

DC in Cellardyke

Tuesday:

Has to be Buddha of Suburbia by David Bowie, but the best song from the series was his original version of Strangers When We Meet.

The from MASH - Manic Street Preachers version.

Not strictly on theme but CSI - The Who, Who Are You.

Wed:

Adam and The Ants - Kings of The Wild Frontier
Peter Gabriel - Biko or No Self Control
Glad All OVer - Dave Clark Five

Thursday:

Del Amitri - When I Want You
Fleetwood Mac - I Don't Want To Know
Nanci Griffith - I Don't Want To To Talk About Love
Elton John - I Want Love (one of his best songs, not a huge fan but this is a fantastic song)

Enjoy the rest of your weekend everybody, and if you get the chance......enjoy the Boss at Glastonbury.

For Tuesday...

Mari Wilson .. singing 'Cry Me A River' from the 90's John Hannah forensic series..McCallum spine tingling!!



For Wednesday

As a drummer this should be a great night for me..... Problem is i have tooo many to list!! but a song that brings back a great memory is Sparks 'Number one song in Heaven'.... i played it as an audition for my first band... i pretended i was going to buy a kit from Roadshow Music in Bridge of Allan ... so i asked the owner if he could put a track on i could play along to...he put on the Sparks track..it was one of my favourite songs at the time and i played it perfect....the 3 guys checking me out just said "you'll dae" I still love playing along to this song...see if you can stay still while its on!!



Frank I D

TUESDAY

'The World Is What You Make It' - Paul Brady

From the sitcom 'Faith in the Future' starring the utterly gorgeous Lynda Bellingham.









Ah'm aw excited noo! Must go an' calm doon............

#3 Frank - brilliant track! My favourite Sparks song. Sorry to jump in but a good bit of trivia is that the Drummer (Keith Forsey) wrote Don't You Forget About Me - and played on all the Boney M stuff including the strangely excellent Nighflight To Venus!

The Boss on Radio 6 at the moment, very good he is too!

# 1 is for Monday by the way.

Not a good choon to drum along to....

DC

Phew!!
When I opened the Blog I thought we were in for another Human League night.

#5 Norrie i didn't know that....well here's a bit trivia for you....the guy who owned that music store went on to have a no 1 with 'Knockin on Heavens Door' (it was a charity single for the Dunblane kids)

#5, just switched off the Boss on ´óÏó´«Ã½2. If that's the cut-short version of what Hampden is gonnae be, it's goin tae be some night!!!!!

Absolutely fantastic

DC

Neil Young's Day In The Life and CSN's Ruby Tuesday made it a good year for cover bands.

Monday

Take Me With You (When You Go) - The Jayhawks - From the Def American compilation Til Def Do Us Part II

Tuesday

The Castle - Love - From The Holiday Programme

Wednesday

Wipe Out - The Surfaris - We've all tapped table tops to this one

Thursday

I Want a Girl (Just Like The Girl That Married Dear Old Dad) - Al Jolson - It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye

I might be stating the obvious about Wednesday (and it pains me to post about a theme so far away...) but Status Quo could fill the entire evening here.

"What you're proposin" is perhaps the best of the drummin bunch

However, I have a tendency to play air drums to "Come on Eileen" when dragged onto the dance floor....

Status Quo seems better in the circumstances perhaps

:-)

DC in Cellardyke

Monday:

The Hawaiian Wedding Song - Elis Presley (a sweet wee song with vows in the lyrics)

Tuesday Themes:

Excellent - another excuse to get the wonderful Kate Rusby on (and her version of Village Green Preservation Society which was the theme to a sit-com about the WI)

#2
Could go for Baba O'Riley too, as they semi-use it as a theme on House.
Manics' version of MASH is great

More inspiration to follow, with luck

#13 Jam and Jerusalem

#4 Tht's a good one SG...and not an obvious choice...glad the advancing years haven't dimmed your memory ;0)

#15

Julie,

I hear that Lynda is a regular on a lunchtime TV magazine thingy.

Not that I would ever be caught watching daytime TV...............

>8-D









P.S. My favourite is the Swedish chef.

MONDAY

A shoo-in for this theme. Bryan would be bitterly disappointed had no-one requested

'The Ceremony' - George Jones and Tammy Wynette



Keep it Country!

And why not The Wedding by Julie Rogers?

And why did Bruce repeatedly try to make his escape into the crowd? Is he performing under duress? Was he trying to give Silvio the slip?

#16

PORK PORK PORK!

Tuesday - please please please - the theme from Cagney and Lacey is just wonderful. Q: How hot is Sharon Gless? A: Positively glowin'

Tuesday:

The theme from 'Scrubs', "Superman" by Lazlo Bane is a must!

"Run" from Pink Floyd's 'The Wall' used to be the theme tune to Sportscene many years ago but we've nae chance of gettin that played....

DC

Monday - Wedding Vows:
The Moon's A Harsh Mistress - Jimmy Webb (NOT Glen Campbell!)
Baby Obey Me - Kim Wilde
High Noon (Do Not Forsake Me) - Frankie Lane
Broken Promise - New Order
Till Death Do Us Part - Motley Crue

Tuesday - TV Theme Tunes:
Blake's 7
Space 1999
A Man Called Ironside
Peter Gunn Theme (The Blues Brothers)
Hawaii Five-O
The A Team
Mission Impossible
Top Cat
Doctor Who
The Tomorrow People

Wednesday - Drumming Night:
In The Air Tonight - Phil Collins (surely a must play!)
Ant Music - Adam & The Ants
Don't Bring Me Down - ELO
White Room - Cream
Born To Run - Bruce Springsteen

Thursday - Want/Don't Want:
Cecil, The Unwanted French Fry - The Soulsetters
All I Want Is You - U2
I Want You To Want Me - Cheap Trick
I Want To Give It All - Air Supply
All I Want - Joni Mitchell
Don't Want To Know - John Martyn
Desire - Yello
I Don't Want To Cry - Sam Cooke

Typical.
Just when your about to comment on the absence of JFE posts on this threed and three come along at once.

oops
|)
nearly forgot..

Monday
Capt R - How many times have we had TV as a theme then?

Still, it gives me one more try at getting the theme from

The Persuaders

played.

Sorry, meant Tuesday, obviously.

AFR no doubt the theme will change to any song that happened to get played on the telly - so pretty much anything will have a chance of getting played hence squeezing out your theme from the Persuaders.

It should be tv themes or songs specifically written for TV shows, but it wont be.

#3
Frank what's the name of your band Shine's songs that are on You Yube again. Shine is impossible to find on it's own

Do you mean ju ju or jube jubes?

Be careful when you re-type Shine.

Monday
Broken Vow / Josh Groban

Tue
Gotcha - Theme from Starsky & Hutch
(Iconic piece of Jazz funk)
Chi mai / Ennio Morrecone
(from Life & Times of LLoyd George
Theme From Cheers / Gary portnoy
(Full Version please)
On the Inside / Lynn Hamilton
(Only cos it always woke me up after a half hour
nap when I came in from the pub)

Wed
This is a Riot please stay seated / Hercules Mandarin
(Cos my son's the drummer and you have got it cos janice Forsyth has played it)
Dance With the Devil / Cozy Powell
My Country / Roger Taylor
Radar Love / Golden earring
Black Betty / Ram Jam

Thu
I Want You / Elvis Costello (Intense or what)
Indiana Wants Me / R Dean taylor
I Want to Spend the Night / Bill Withers
You Want It You Got It / Detroit Emeralds
What do you want from me / Monaco
I Want You / marvin Gaye

TV THEMES:

'Short Skirt, Long Jacket' - Cake ('Chuck')

'I Don't Wanna Be' - Gavin DeGraw ('One Tree Hill')

'Superhero' - Jane's Addiction ('Entourage')

'How Does It Feel' - Slade ('The Grimleys'...end credits)

TUESDAY:

Not the most amusing but a fair feat nevertheless:

MONDAY VOWS

Are You Sure - The Allisons

It's a bit before my time but I first heard it on a 50s/60s compilation during a fit of nostalgia in my teens. It's got some good harmonies and a nice melody.

I Broke That Promise - Mink De Ville

I always liked this track from their Return to Magenta album. Tried to find the lyrics on google but to no avail, what the heck I'm pretty sure it's about wedding vows.

#29. Will Monday's show only feature songs that relate to wedding vows or will it expand into another general wedding theme?

Monday has to be the Proclaimers - Let's get married or Life with you.
Julie Rodgers - The Wedding
Tuesday - the Hair bear bunch! but not the Friends theme as have to hear it every night! Life on Mars - Bowie. The theme from Little House on the Prairie or The Waltons
Wednesday - I am the Beat by the Look, My Sharona - the Knack. Ultravox - All stood still
Thursday - If she knew what she wanted - Bangles
- Say what you want - Texas

#38
I'm sure we had a general wedding theme recently so hope this ones kept to the vows (or broken vows a la Josh groban). Enjoyed that clip #36 Julie. The guy's got other talents other than a good voice obviously. His is the only version of You Raise Me Up that I can listen to.

#30 Paolo

Here's a couple of inks

#39

Would you not prefer Cerys Matthews to Julie Rogers?

Tuesday

Dragnet - Ray Anthony - We just want the facts ma'am.

Staccato's Theme - Elmer Bernstein - John Cassavetes still personifies cool for me.

#41

be better clicking on LINKS

#18

Many moons ago, while the 'Troubles' were still raging in the six counties, a very posh, very English lady phoned the lunchtime request show on Classic FM.
She asked that her request be dedicated to "the people of Northern Ireland, in the hope that they move towards peace and reconciliation."

Her request? Ave Maria.

In my mind's eye I could see Republicans rolling on the floor, heehawing and giggling, whilst Orangemen hurled radios from windows, often without first opening said windows.

Sciolism at its best.

At the risk of opening the lists debate again, reading some of the posts above is like looking at the radio times. Surely anybody can make a list of programmes? It's not that difficult,is it?

Selecting your FAVOURITE theme tune is much more difficult and obviously requires a bit of thought..

Little imagination being shown by some

DC

PS :-)

#45. Well, if you insist DC...My real favourites are probably:
The theme tune to 'The High Life' by Alan Cumming and Forbes Masson again...followed by Billy Connolly's 'Supergran' and Denis Waterman's 'I could Be So Good For You', the theme to 'The Water Margin; then the theme from 'Top Of The Form' ('Marching Strings' by Ray Martin and his Concert Orchestra)...but...the first 3 have been played before and I just fancied asking for the ones I requested at post #35 because they're mainly a bit different from my usual requests and I like the songs...The Daughter in particular loves the Gavin DeGraw one.

Can you get have the same song for both monday and tuesday?

In sickness and in health, was the theme tune for the follow up series to til death us do part. It fits both nights. trouble is it's by Chas and Dave, so not much chance of getting played then.

#45

That's what I did - and do; I list tunes from the thousands that I have (and remember) and put them up as the stuff that I would like to hear. I have done massive lists in the past because it is fun - but that's fine as well! It's another way to enjoy participating in the show.

WEDNESDAY:

'Propane Nightmares' - Pendulum
'Sing Sing Sing' - Benny Goodman

For tonight:

Going to the Chapel - Dixie Cups
Can't Help Falling in Love - Elvis Presley

and in the spirit of the occasion..
Would I Lie To You - Eurythmics

For better or worse
Better / Tom Baxter
Your own worst enemy / Bruce Springsteen

For Richer or Poorer
Rags to Riches / Tony Bennett

In Sickness or in Health
The Sickbed of Cuchulainn / Pogues
Lust for life / Iggy Pop

Till Death Us Do Part
She's Gone /Black Sabbath
Knockin on Heaven's Door / Randy Crawford

#19

?!? Jim,

I thought his speciality was chicken!
Can I conclude that your favourite Muppet is Miss Piggy?









I salute your confusability!

Looking forward to hearing these, especially Tuesday's suggestions.

Monday : Has to be "Let's Get Married" by The Proclaimers, or "White Wedding" by Billy Idol. Both of those turned up on our discussions before our wedding last year :-) or how about "I would do anything for love (but I won't do that)" by Meatloaf, which almost sounds like a wedding vow, with a prenuptial attached.

Tuesday : Does "Thundercats" count? ;-) Got a great middle-eight that one. Or "Crockett's Theme" from "Miami Vice". But I'd most love Eels - "That's Not Really Funny" which was used as the theme to Monkey Dust on ´óÏó´«Ã½ Three - and I tap along to that one.

Wednesday : "Young Folks" by Peter Bjorn and John, "Jenny was a friend of mine" by The Killers, "All or Nothing" by White Buffalo (but I'll bet you haven't got that ;-) ) or "Idiotheque" by Radiohead.

Thursday : "I want it all" - Queen, "I don't want to go on with you like that" - Elton John, "I want you back" - Jackson 5, "Don't you want me" - Human League

MONDAY: Marriage Vows

Roxy Music 'All I Want Is You' an often overlooked Roxy single.
Roxy Music 'Flesh + Blood'

Please please please no Bryan Ferry 'Let's Stick Together',does the world really need to hear that again?

J.O'B.

RJ - did you see that wee compilation CD in the paper yesterday? Were you involved in putting that together? It was actually quite a good selection I thought.

#55 Yes Norrie I helped choose some of the tracks. There where 17 in total put forward and it was supposed to be the 12" version of Angel Eyes but the used the 7". Others put forward where Ladytron, Beauty Queen, Just Like You, All I Want Is You, Take A Chance With Me.

J.O'B.

Amazona and Out of the Blue were excellent choices and in the sequence Out Of the Blue sounded particularly good. Nice cover - sometimes simple is best!

#52

Nope!

:-)

TUESDAY TV Themes

'Armchair Thriller' written by Andy Mackay
'Hazell' written by Andy Mackay sung by our very own Maggie Bell and reached number 37 on the hit parade.

J.O'B.

#19, #52, #58

Jim,

A popular misconception!
The sketch was a tribute to the Swedish tennis player who regarded the Men's Title at Wimbledon as his personal property. Hence, the warcry;

BORG BORG BORG!

>8-D

I know that - I was messin witcha! ;-)

Well.............. whats` it gonna be guys? Yes or no..............sugar & spice OR vim and vitriol?? could go either way if u ask me. could be a truly touchy theme tonight. Be prepared for the GIO wedding invites AND the divorce citations!.. Good luck........u might just need it.



A few fitting choons for thenights theme.



AD/DC - Highway to Hell. (controversial I`m sure. Nonetheless, I`m sure a few listeners of either gender will empathise!)AND it a blisteringly good choon



Al Green - Lets stay together.



Style Council -You`re the best thing that ever happened.



Danny Wilson - Rubys` Golden Wedding



Kaiser Chiefs -Time honoured tradition.



Weller -Headstart for Happiness. (Acoustic version from the Days of Speed live album... its just the jinkies!)



I shall now retire to the garden, long island iced tea in hand, to await the sonic maelstrom that WILL be tonights` show

Paul

Trying to keep roughly on theme, and I am sorry it's Sprongsteen yet again from me (have tried hard to cut down), but he does have songs which do keep with what the theme is supposed to be:

Before The Vows:

Walk Like A Man - Springsteen describes the morning of his wedding and the akwardness of him with his father, his childhood memories of the church where he was about to be married in.

"And alone at the alter I stand
And as I watch my bride coming down the aisle I pray
For the strength to walk like a man"


An alternative vow:

If I Should Fall Behind


"We swore we'd travel darlin' side by side
We'd help each other stay in stride"

it all goes wrong

Brilliant disguise

"Now you play the loving woman, I'll play the faithful man
But just don't look too close, into the palm of my hand
We stood at the alter, the gypsy swore our future was right
But come the wee wee hours, Well maybe baby the gypsy lied
So when you look at me' you better look hard and look twice
Is that me baby, or just a brilliant disguise"



and Stolen car

"Once again we stood on the wedding steps at Victory Hall
And walked arm in arm through the chapel door
I can remember how good I felt inside
When the preacher said "Son you may kiss the bride" "

Sprongsteen? Norrie you need to check your posts before hitting send.

I prefer Bryan Furry

Each to his own....

;-)

DC

#60, #61

What's GREEN GREEN GREEN! and smells like [ the proprieties must be observed, therefore the moderators have removed this wee bit. ] ???

#65

Norrie,

Is Sprongsteen related to Tigger or Zebedee?

>8-D

The comments on Facebook make this blog read like Tolstoy.

Tolstoy makes this blog read like Tolstoy.

PORK PORK PORK! :-)

NAEBODY MENTIONED KERMIT, OR HIS DIGITS!

Michael Jackson makes this blog read like Nabokov.

>8-D

I am in total agreement with Barbara that the David Cassidy song 'Cherish' is wonderful. Was it a double-A side with 'Could It Be Forever'? The photo on the single sleeve was just as wonderful.

Tammy n George.... brilliant S.G.

# 73, at the risk of incurring the wrath of Julie 'n' Babs..... no it's no.

Since we've heard David Cassidy on a number of occasions over recent months, can we now hear some proper music like Gilmour / Floyd / Bragg / Tull on the show?

Only fair!

:-)

DC

Have we (I mean this sincerely folks...genuinely asking). I can only remember three times...the first about 2 years ago...Capn? Oh well, never mind - there's always youtube...here ;0)

Just pullin your leg BTW Julie..!!

DC

#77 ;0)

#75, #76

When I was a teenager the lassies were all in love with David Cassidy or Donny Osmond. Being in love with both of them was not, it seemed, an option. David or Donny, Donny or David.

Lassies are weird. (Present company excepted, of course).

'I Think I Love You' is, IMHO, one of the best singles ever.

#11

While I'm up her on my high horsie, if we must listen to Status Quo, at least make it a guid yin!

WEDNESDAY

'Gerdundula' - Status Quo (In support of DC, who will be buying me beer on July 14th)

Oops!

Please ignore the Freudian slip.









Ah'll get mah coat........

#80, not sure "What you're proposin", but hey, "Whatever you want"! My tune sounded good at half past two yesterday mornin!!!!

Still hoping for a beer, but my better half has hinted that she might not take me up on my offer of her spending some time in the hotel spa whilst I do something boring like "doing the crossword".

# 78, DC a looker in the 70's?

Ah kain....

;-)

DC

#81 Don't be silly now, stay a while longer...


Tuesday
(Theme from Fireball XL5) - Don Spencer

(The Munsters Theme) - T. Escalators "a psychobilly cover" GIO!

(Dad's Army) Who Do You Think You Are Kidding... Mr. Hitler? - Bud Flanagan

(Theme From The Thames TV Series "Van Der Valk") Eye Level - Simon Park Orchestra

"calypso...!!!"

"Dickies cover has it i.m.h.o!"

Batman Theme - T.Jam

#84

Gigantor was cool - but Marine Boy had a better tune!

Wednesday

Twistin the night away - Rod Stewart.

Crackin bit of air drummin about two thirds of the way through.

TV thems shas me strugglign and i know that thsi will be a show that I will listen to and go 'of course, so obvious', but struggling, so;

Woke Up This Morning - Alabama 3 (from the amazing and wonderful Sopranos)
Miami Vice - Jan Hammer (get those jacket sleeves rolled, shades on and imagine that piece of junk you're driving is a Ferrari Testarossa)
Suicide is Painless - from MASH, can't remember who sang it

Hmm, apart from the terrible typing in my last post I have also noticed / remembered something. Again I may be wrong, but I recall the series 'Gangsters' in the 70's, set in Birmingham, which was totally different from anything else on TV. I think the theme was sung by Chris Farlowe, though originally it was an instrumental - don't know who by though (this is a crap posting). I might go and google the show and find out more.

morning bloggers.....think the wedding vows theme proved a tough challenge...hoping that there will be some great suggestions tonight. I'm wondering if I can get away with an Osmonds track...they had a TV show, and of course Shang a Lang! And Scotch....I always like to buck the trend and can confirm this "lassie" loved David Cassidy and Donny Osmond in equal amounts. A little bit of good with a little bit naughty!

Miss Babs x

Morning Babs, I must admit David Cassidy did have a couple of good songs, though I wouldn't have dared say so at the time!

BTW I can't think of any good TV themes that haven't already been claimed, could be a last minute one.....

#90 MissBabs, what was the theme to 'The Patridge Family'?

It was a hot afternoon the last day of June
And the sun was a Demon
I told Billy Ray in his red Chevrolet
I've an idea for some themin



How about songs about specific dates of the year
eg
30 june...Summer the first Time / Bobby Goldsboro
First of May....Bee Gees
3rd sept.....Papa was a rolling stone / Temptations



etc etc. There's loads more

#89 Hoppo I salute you! I am quite a big Farlowe fan, and this is a track I have never heard. It is actually by Dave Greenslade who did the music for the series, a single was released with Farlowe on vocals. They later (or amybe at the same time) played in bands called Greenslade and the wonderful Colloseum (which Greenslade had going in the late 60's so this was a Colloseum 2 I suppose, interestingly the title of their first album was For Those About To Die We Salute You which AC/DC of course changed one word for one of their albums). I think they tour now and then but have not seen anything for a long time. Last time I saw Farlowe he looked in dodgy health, sounded amazing and was supporting Van Morrison.


So the producers are looking for a track by Dave Greenslade, I could have said that in one sentence!

#93 4th July, Asbury Park (Sandy)!!!

Tuesday:

Got to be 'The Boy with the Arab Strap': Belle and Sebastian... infact you could say two for the price of one.

TBWTAS was the theme for the TV series 'Teachers' and of course Bella and Sebastian (from which the band took their name) will take a certain generation of listeners back to school Summer holiday morning TV and the black and white, French (dubbed into English) adventures of one boy and his dog in the snowy Alps... or is that just me?

#82

DC,

STEP 1:- Introduce Mrs. C. to Signora Pablo.

STEP 2:- During the subsequent conversation, subtly insinuate the concept of 'Retail Therapy'.

STEP 3:- Point the ladies in the direction of Buchanan Galleries. (Other 'Retail Therapy' outlets are available).

STEP 4:- Go skeich.

>8-D

TV themes :

Oh, it has to be ... The Avengers !
and the last theme they used for the Two Ronnies - that bell in there is just the icing on the cake for a showbiz tune.

Ian in Partick

WEDNESDAY

'Curtains' - Elton John

Taken from 'Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy'

The genius percussionist Ray Cooper made a massive contribution to the success of this album. On this track Ray plays tambourine, bells and conga drum. Nigel Olsson swings the sticks with aplomb.

Hi All
Too many comments to go through. But will pick out some personal faves and seldom heard things. All dedicated to my wife Jill who's poorly today

Tuesday

Bob James - Angela (from Taxi)

Though the theme to White Horses would take me back to somewhere special in a childhood in Aberdeenshire...