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MONDAY

'Jackie's Train' - Mary Gauthier

You're up early this week BB. The week just gone has been the best week of themes for a while with some good suggestions of which Jan's Like a Virgin for history night surely rated a mention. Pity we didn't get Waltzing Matilda as promised and pity we get the proclaimers every time they fit a theme. Overall though a top week. Very enjoyable.

MONDAY

'Locomotive Breath' - Jethro Tull

'Farther Down The Line' - Lyle Lovett




'I Walk The Line' - Man With Red Flag

'Tracks of My Tears' - Smokey Stack

'Stephenson's Rocket, Man' - Chief N. Jineer

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BRING ME THE RAILHEAD OF ALFREDO GARCIA!

For clarity 90's RetroKid!! Good themes.

#5

We are thinking along parallel lines. Going out trainspotting at the weekend, if I don't get sidetracked.

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'Underneath the Arches' - Bud Flanagan

My thinking cap is on, but one song is top of my list for Monday: Long train runnin' by the Doobie Brothers - a classic.

Joe
Linlithgow

Monday:

Trains to Brazil - Guillemots
When the train comes - Sutherland Brothers & Quiver
Rock n Roll train - AC/DC
Crazy Train - Ozzy Osbourne
Downtown train - Rod Stewart
Jumping someone else's train - The Cure
Last train to Clarksville - Monkees
This train doesn't stop there anymore - Reg Dwight
City of New Orleans - Arlo Guthrie
The man in the station - John Martyn



But the track I'd really like to be played is:

Hobo's Lullaby - Arlo Guthrie

DC in Cellardyke

Great list DC, but a wee swap of Rod Stewart for Tom Waits for me.

Joe - k - Brown has been beaten to

Steve Earle - 'train a coming

and

Elvis - Mystery Train is an absolute must. The birth of rock n roll.

I remember the last time we had "Trains" as a theme, it was before blogs and 2 hour programs. Not sure if it was in the historical or modern studies era!
Anyway the thing is, at the time I thought it was the best GIO I'd ever heard. Recently the New York theme came pretty close in my estimation. It'll be interesting to see how the quality stands up to the longer time slot. Judging by the stuff suggested so far it's looking pretty good.

#10 Why thank you...I do believe I suggested it...purely so I could hear 'City Of New Orleans'...which I did :0)

Good morning, Midlothian. How are you?

# 11, Your welcome Julie, I should have known! That is a great track and HAS to feature again this time and I see it's already been suggested.

I'm going to go for....

MONDAY TRAINS

Midnight Train to Georgia - Gladys Knight & the Pips

Ooops! Forgot the Orange Blossom Special!

:-)

DC

DC - can you help me out here? I don't think David Gilmour played on any of Kate Bush's first album. I am sure I saw an interview with him about this he recommended her to EMI and did a bit of production duties but no playing.

#15, Norrie, go to



Wiki claims that Gilmour only assisted with the executive production of the "Man with the child in his eyes".

However, if you look at



you'll see the quote: "The guitar solo at the end of the song is played by Ian Bairnson, best known for his work with Alan Parsons. It is often mistakenly said that David Gilmour played the solo. It is placed rather unobtrusively in the mix, something engineer Jon Kelly now regrets."

Worth also reading:



I have a copy on vinyl bought in 1979 in a box in the garret (along with another 250 LP's still waiting on a record deck purchase.....)so I'll take a look over the weekend to see what it says on the sleeve

DC

Interesting Dc thanks for that.

Anyway

Train In Vain - The Clash
Slow Train Coming - Bob Dylan
This Train Dont Stope Here - Eltonm (on Dc's list,one of Elton's finest)
Bullet The Blue Sky - U2
Engine Driver - the Decemberists
Subway Train - New York Dolls

and Trains to Josh Ritter are like cars to Springsteen, loads of references to them in his work, and he has a great song which has the lines:

"On a Saturday night in a town like this I forget all my songs about trains"


Josh Ritter - Me and Jiggs

Monday:

Runaway Train - Soul Asylum (A must, must, must...)
Love Train - The O Jays

has to be iron maiden 2 minutes to midnight

Mon
Not very original but i have asked for it before

Drops of jupiter / Train

if ever there was a theme....

failing that
waiting on a Train / Flash and the Pan

Did you know Kate Bush only wrote Wuthering Heights cos emily bronte had, and they shared the same birthday. A day either way and we might never have had the pleasure.

Not sure if i want my licence fee paying for all the extra moderators for thursday chat up lines. Yet to find the song that asks how you like your eggs in the morning....fried or fertilised. And Led Zep missed a trick by not asking if that was a ladder in your tights or just a stairway to heaven.

However one that must be played on thursday is

Oh Lori / Alessi

as it's full of chat up lines. The best starts verse two.

I'd like to ride my bicycle with you on the handlebars...

Guaranteed to have you on top of each other by the first corner!

Monday.
Runaway Train - The Gutter Brothers.
The Mallard - Michael Chapman.
Last of the Steam Powered Trains - The Kinks.
Train To Nowhere - Savoy Brown.
Little Red Caboose - Brett Marvin and the Thunderbolts.
Canadian Railroad Trilogy - Gordon Lightfoot.
Casey Jones - Johnny Cash.
Engine No 9 - Roger Miller.
Railroad Steel - Georgia Satellites.
Trans Europe Express - Kraftwerk.
Two Trains Running - Little Feat.
Poor Poor Pitiful Me - Warren Zevon.
Rock Island Line - Huddy Ledbetter.
She Caught the Katie - Taj Mahal.
Southern Pacific - Neil Young.

#21 Not strictly true Paulo, the song originates somewhere on the banks of the River Clyde, where a young woman loses her job because of disagreements with the boss.

The original lyrics are given below. (Gilmour was not allowed to play on the track because the subject of the song has an aversion to Pink Floyd)

I believe the correct title is "Withering Babs"


Out on the wiley, Pacific Quay
We'd rolls and cups of tea
You had a temper, like my jealousy
Too hot, too greedy
How could you sack me?
When I needed to possess you?
I hated you, I loved you too

Bad dreams in the night
They told me I was going to lose the right
To produce on Get It On, Get It On
Get It On nights

Bryan B, its me, Babs-ee, come on!
I'm so cold, let me in to your show

When it gets dark, it must be lonely
On the other side from me
They blog a lot? I find the lot!
T鈥檞ould fall through without me
I'm going home now, cruel Bryan B
This weekend, to cook my lobster

Too long I鈥檇 roam after tea
I'm coming back to his side to the 大象传媒
So listen in to Get It On, Get It On
Get It On nights


Oh let me have it, let me grab your Tull away
Oh let me have it, let me grab your Floyd away
You know it's me, Babs-ee


:-)

DC

You've made my weekend! Never has anyone written about me in song before! I don't care whether it's good or bad, it's the thought that counts.
Just for info tho - no lobster this weekend. Curry for a girls night which I'm sure we'll wash down with a wee shandy and some Tull and Floyd playing in the background!

Oh nearly forgot a Boss Classic!

But lets go for a great cover

Raul Malo - Downbound Train

#21

Is Kate really that old?

Thoughts for the week ahead.....

Monday
Happy to endorse Norrie's Steve Earle suggestion, and suggest:

Long train runnin' - Doobies
Midnight train to Georgia - Gladys Knight and the Pips
Southbound train - Nanci Griffiths
Downbound train - Springsteen (much better than the Mavericks' version)
Morning Town Ride - the Seekers
Last train to Clarksville - the Monkees
Runaway train - Kasey Chambers
Long black train - Allison Moorer
Long black train - Josh Turner

Tuesday

I read a Herald article by Tom Morton many years ago which basically said country was the new rock, and that Steve Earle's El Corazon was the best album of the year. I had not previously heard any Steve Earle material but I bought the album, loved it, and now have many more in my collection. It would be good to hear anything from El Corazon - although Telephone Road was one my sons used to sing along to in the car when they were small, and Here I am is a favourite of mine.

Wednesday

Wrecking Ball - Emmylou Harris, features Neil Young
Tragedy - Emmylou Harris, features Patti Scialfa & Bruce Springsteen
Glenn Campbell played guitar on "Strangers in the Night" by Frank Sinatra, "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'" by The Righteous Brothers, and "I'm a Believer" by The Monkees.
Whitney Houston sang background vocals on Chaka Khan's "I'm Every Woman",
Oh My Sweet Carolina - Ryan Adams, with Emmylou on backing vocals
Ryan Adams sings and plays on Trinity Revisited by the Cowboy Junkies 鈥� please play Misguided Angel

Thursday - to follow

Joe
Linlithgow

More for Monday:

Anything by Boxcar Willie
Long twin silver line - Bob Seger
Ghost Train - Bee Gees
Rocket Man - Reg Dwight
Freight train - Peter, Paul & Mary
Chicken Train - Ozark Mountain Daredevils
Waitin for a train - Jim Reeves
Trans Europe Express - Kraftwerk
Train in vain - The Rolling Stones
Up the junction - Squeeze
Signal fire - Snow Patrol

I still just want to hear Hobo's Lullaby by Arlo Guthrie though........

DC

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A great song which is rarely heard anywhere.

Sorry, of course that should be "Knopfler"!!

#8 & #29 Yer gettin awfy listy DC. No like ye.

Don't forget you've still got all the trains in Thomas the Tank Engine to tap into.

With "The Railway Children" in mind, what about:

Jump and Down Wave Your Knickers in the Air - St Cecila (or is JK banned by the Beeb these days?)

Monday:

'Come On Train' - Don Thomas (Ian Parton Remix)...it's the Northern Soul song from the Visa advert...the one with the guy on crutches dancing along the street.

'Gone Dead Train' - Nazareth

Still gotta decide on my favourite Johnny Cash train song.

Monday:-
Johnny Cash - Folsom Prison Blues (I see that train a coming etc)
Bruce Springsteen - Downbound Train
Tom Waits - Downtown Train
Simon & Garfunkel - Homeward Bound

Tuesday:-
Please play either Johnny Cash - Ring of Fire or Neil Daimond - Cherry Cherry. I have got into both artists through my parents and Neil Diamond more recently through watching his live shows with them on the tv in the last year or two like Hot August Night NYC and Glastonbury 2008 performance.

Wednesday:-
Aimee Mann & Michael Penn - Two of Us
Loretta Lynn & Jack White - Portland Oregon

Thursday:-
The White Stripes - You're pretty good Looking

TUESDAY:

Really like this theme...somehow the rosy-glow themes seem to be among the best to my mind.

When I was a teenager, I was inclined to say my Dad's taste in music was a bit lame but, time has taught me otherwise, and I will eternally be grateful for inheriting his liking for country music. There were some of his records I wasn't ever embarrassed to admit liking; Tom T Hall, Glen Campbell, Hillbilly Jazz and Western Swing LPs...among my very favourites was a RUSTY AND DOUG KERSHAW LP and I would love to hear something like 'HEY MAE' or the superb 'NEVER HAD THE BLUES (TILL I MET YOU)'. They're like Cajun early Elvis and The Everley Brothers. I've given you plenty time to conduct a search for a track :0)

Hello everyone...
Good week for me this week 3 shouts!!

For Mon...

People Get Ready........... loads of artists have sung this but my favourite version is by Eva Cassidy

#32, you been readin my (e)mail?

GORDON Lightfoot - Daylight Katy
FATs domino - Blueberry Hill
Tommy JAMES & the shondells - Mony Mony
Steelye Span - THOMAS the rhyder
Tom Waits - Poor EDWARD

and of course, anything by RINGO STARR

;-)

DC

More to add to #33

'Destination Anywhere' - Marvelettes

'5:15' - The Who

'What Am I Doing Hanging Round (I should be on that train and gone)' - The Monkees. A Mike Nesmith song I think.

Monday

On The Robert E. Lee - Neil Diamond
Witchita Lineman - Glenn Campbell
Last Train To London - ELO
Spanish Train - Chris De Burgh
Lush Train - Iggy Pop / Monkees Mash Up
Last Train To Skaville - The Ethiopians
or
Its 'Training' Men - The Weather Girls

Like Adam, I think Tuesday is difficult (unless you include Calum Kennedy..., I think not..)

Getting my WEDNESDAY suggestion in early (prior to a list),

"While my guitar gently weeps" by the Beatles must feature. George Harrison, a grayyyyttt guitar player in his own right, wrote this song and did not feel he had enough skill to play the weeping guitar solo on a Beatles album.

He therefore invited his pal ERIC CLAPTON to do the masterpiece for him.

The rest is history. Or modern studies, (depending upon your frame of reference from last week.....)

:-)

DC in Cellardyke

Monday - Railroad Songs:
City To City - Gerry Rafferty
Train - Goldfrapp
Zoo Station - U2
Trains And Boats And Planes - Burt Bacharach
Morningtown Ride - The Seekers
Poor Paddy On The Railway - The Pogues
Timetable Blues - Mike Seeger
Rock Island Line - Lonnie Donegan
It Takes A Long Long Train With A Red Caboose - Peggy Lee
Ticket To Nowhere - Kenny Rogers
Stop This Train (Again Doing It) - Kevin Ayers
My Coo-Ca-Choo-Choo - Alvin Stardust ;-)

Thursday - Chat Up Lines In Song:
Get Down - Gene Chandler
Where Have You Been All My Life? - Gerry & The Pacemakers
Would You Like To Dance? - Joan Armatrading
Are You Experienced? - Jimi Hendrix Experience
Would You Like To Take A Walk? - Ella Fitzgerald
Do You Want To Dance? - Bobby Freeman
Get Your Coat - Prettygood
Are You Gonna Be My Girl? - Jet
You Are So Beautiful - Joe Cocker
Are You Passionate? - Neil Young
Gotta Make Love To You - Tony Wilson
Crush On You - Roxette
Lady Marmalade (Voulez-vous Coucher Avec Moi?) - The Magic Time Travellers
Don't Give Up - Jesse Rae (Darlin, I can be the stars in your sky...)

like tick follows tock....

Joe K Browns list for Wed #28 is simply superb. I'm going to second each of those selections if I may. Especially Tragedy and misguided Angel.

#43

Regular movement is a good thing.

JFE - your first chat up line!!! Steady on!

#46

I'm only quoting the great Gene Chandler! ;-)

Anyway - that's usually my SECOND chat up line...

Why are you three UP so late, you need to GET DOWN ! LOL
night all

Forgot about

David Bowie - Station to Station

even opens with train sound effects, great track.

Mon again...

Down in the Tube Station at Midnight ................ The Jam

I know some will say nope on a technicality point.... but Paul told me this was written about a station on the Metropolitan Line, of which, only 9 of the 34 stations it serves are under ground !! .... Well, no, he didn't tell me that .... but the fact remains... among many other things... its a train song. >80)

When my Rachael and me were courting we would baby-sit for her elder sister, Leah, and her husband Johnnie.
Actually, Rachael would baby-sit. I ate their food and listened to Johnnie's records.
His favourite was Jimi Hendrix, a world away from the Radio1 Top of the Pops rubbish I was listening to.
The one which fascinated me was a double-album called Living In The Past which I played every time I was round at Johnnie and Leah's.
Except side 3, which was recorded live at the Carnegie Hall in New York City. I refuse to believe that anybody listened to side 3 more than once.
I have the album playing as I type. It's ages since I heard it, but it evokes memories of a more innocent time. My wife Rachael is even lovelier now than she was then, and we are looking forward to being grandparents. So, for both of us,

Mon. LOCOMOTIVE BREATH - Jethro Tull

Tues. LIFE IS A LONG SONG - Jethro Tull

Paulo has good taste, I back up the suggestion about Train - Drops of Jupiter. This is Ailsa (DC's son's girlfriend) on DC's computer, This is my favorite song of all time. I have just come back home from America, I was working in a summer camp for 3 months and this song always made me think of home! Please play this song for me (not DC!) Thanks!! :)

A few thoughts for Thursday, which is proving to be a challenging theme:

I thought you should know - Steve Earle:
I've been watchin鈥� you watchin鈥� me
I could feel your eyes from way across the room

Gasoline and matches - Buddy and Julie Miller:
You pull my pin and you trip my wire
You come in and set my heart on fire
You knock me out, you rock me off my axis
You and me are gasoline and matches

Got to get you into my life - Earth Wind and Fire

# 44 - thanks Norrie, much appreciated.

Joe
Linlithgow

For Thursday...

Hey Good Lookin' ................ Hank Williams (Although Ray Charles' version is a belter)

Not so much a chat up line... more a chat up song

WEDNESDAY:

STEWART COPELAND played drums on 'BIG TIME' by PETER GABRIEL'

Don't know if session musicanship counts, but there must be so much for this category from recordings from the Muscle Shoals studios...JOE SOUTH played guitar on ARETHA FRANKLIN'S 'CHAIN OF FOOLS'.

Stax is the same...ISAAC HAYES and STEVE CROPPER played on 'RESPECT' by OTIS REDDING.

My favourite bass guitarist - NORMAN WATT ROY of THE BLOCKHEADS created the bassline for 'Frankie Goes To Hollywood's 'Relax', played on lots of other musician's music (the Blockheads were pretty much Stiff Records' in-house band). I'd most like to hear him playing on 'MAGNIFICENT SEVEN' by THE CLASH (other Blockheads - Mickey Gallagher and Davey Payne - were also among the guest musicians on Sandanista.

A young lady named Carol with whom I got together in Estartit, (the bampot from London some of you may recall from a comment posted back in June), turned me on to Little Feat. When we returned to Britain, we spent so much time and money on telephone calls and journeys between London and Glasgow that this became 'Our Tune' (cue Simon Bates)

TUESDAY

'Long Distance Love' - Little Feat



For the best girlfriend ever. Too good by far for this git...

For Monday and railroads /trains, and trying to avoid previous requests, but seconding Bruce Springsteen, Tom Waits;

Morningtown Ride - The Seekers (always makes me smile)
Night Time in the Switching Yard - Warren Zevon (should lways be soem Warren Zevon)
It Takes a Lot to Laugh It takes a Train to Cry - Bob Dylan
The Letter - Box Tops (do we need an excuse to play this?)
White Freightliner Blues - Townes Van Zandt (ditto Zevon comment)
Rude Boy Train - Desmond Dekker

#24
Your poetry in the past has been somewhat questionable but hats off this was genius and good shouts for Seger and Ozarks.

#52
Tell me did you sail across the sun. Did you make it to the milky way to see the lights all faded and that heaven is overrated.

#56
I thought the one that took you to see Sparks was the best

Wed
Reg Dwight played piano on the Hollies He Ain't Heavy and Billy Joel claims to have played on the Shangri Las Leader of the Pack. John Peel ''played'' mandolin on Top of the Pops to Maggie May and Madonna sang Backing Vocals on Patrick Hernandez 'Born to Be Alive'. ''Jennifer Holiday of 'And I'm telling you I'm not going' fame sang backing vocals on Foreigners 'I want to know what love is' and Rod Stewart played Harmonica on My boy Lollipop.

I'm not sure if vocalists is really the theme but if so howsabout

Still in love with you / Thin Lizzy
with the superb vocals of Frankie Miller

or

Jole Blon / Gary US Bonds
with a certain Bossman on backing vocals.

And of course Mick Jagger sang backing vocals on You're so vain. As for Luther Vandross doing backing vocals...

Is it celebrity guests Miss babs or strictly musicians in which case guest vocalists could be a different theme.

WEDNESDAY:

Wendy Richards said 'Cockerney' things like "give over" and "shove it" on 'Come Outside' by Mike Sarne.

61# Julie, that track is on my chat up lines for Thursday LOL

Thursday - chat up lines or maybe not! LOL

Je Suis Un Rock Star - Bill Wyman
Light My Fire - The Doors
Lady Marmalade (Voulez-vous Couchez Avec Moi?) - The Magic Time Travellers
Do You Think I'm Sexy - Rod Stewart
Come Outside - Mike Sarne / Wendy Richards

#62, #63. He must've been a charmer right enough cos she relented in the end.

THURSDAY:
'When You're Near Me I Have Difficulty (respirating, concentrating, standing upright etc)' - XTC

'I Wanna Have Your Babies' - Natasha Bedingfield (granted, that's a bit scary but then so is the thought of Andy Partridge falling over and absent-mindedly being unable to breath in your presence).

#56, #58

Edith was the first. Carol was the best. I married a crazy witch. Go figure.

WEDNESDAY

'Romeo' - Dolly Parton

Pam Tillis, Tanya Tucker, Kathy Mattea, Mary Chapin Carpenter and Billy Ray Cyrus as the titular love interest.

Keep it Country!

THURSDAY

'Get Your Buisquits In The Oven and Your Buns In The Bed' - Kinky Friedman



What woman could resist?

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Some great shouts already - of these please go for Locomotive Breath by Tull. City of New Orleans (Arlo Guthrie) and Long Train Running (Doobies) also great. If you are going to play Casey Jones, please go for the Grateful Dead version.

But two great songs that I haven't seen on a list yet are:
Mary Gauthier - Last of the Hobo Kings
Michele Shocked - The L&N Don't Stop Here Any More

Both brilliant story songs based on the railway.

Oh ... or anything from Requiem for Steam by Derbyshire and Sutherland's fantastic Dave Goulder (probably too folky for your programme)- check out his web site www.davegoulder.co.uk/

Ok just to bring the tone down and annoy you Tull/Floyd fans here are my cheesy suggestions!
MONDAY Locomotion by OMD not Kylie
Morning Train by Sheena Easton tho to be honest not my favourite
Love Train by S Club 7 suggested by my daughter
Days for the Driven by Colin Train

TUESDAY As you can probably tell I didn't get a "proper" musical education.I had to teach myself and as a child of the 80's not easy! My dad had the Beatles Sergeant Peppers Album which I played to death and My favourite from that would be She's Leaving Home. My Mum had an ancient Elvis album which was scratched to bits - Jailhouse Rock from that.Boyfriends and husband have introduced me to Bob Dylan and Pink Floyd but I find the best way to listen to them is with earplugs in - sorry!I was introduced to The Jam and used to drag my sister to see them - Ghosts would be good.
WEDNESDAY nothing yet (see above excuse)
THURSDAY I Wanna Dance Wit Choo Disco Tex and the Sex-o-lettes
You Sexy Thing by Hot Chocolate
Common People by Pulp

#69

Great intro to your post srankiebobs! Spot on!!!

:-)

DC

I would have asked for "City of New Orleans", "Station to Station" and "Downtown Train" but those've been done, so for Monday:

"Time Flies by (When You're the Driver of a Train)" Half Man Half Biscuit;
"It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry" Bob Dylan;
"Casey Jones" The Grateful Dead;
"Peace & Justice" Zion Train.

Monday: Trains

I know I suggested this for last Thursdays (brilliant) 'history' show, but it fits well into tonight's themes so I'll try my luck again;

Michelle Shocked version of the Jean Ritchie classic 'The L&N Don't Stop Here Anymore'.

Rock n roll train, AC/DC
Downtown train, Rod Stewart

Gordon Christie,Kirrie

#39 Sorry to disappoint Jan.

Robert E Lee was a paddle steamer no a train.

Keep it in the store for nautical night.

#74 Oops, didnt know that!, thanks EC, will go back into my shell now(a very red one LOL):-)

#74
Talking of all things nautical. Pirate ship robbed in Greenock.



Only in Greenock.....

MONDAY:

Dave Edmunds - Queen of Hearts

#74 - Well spotted EC! I'm surprised the Blog Boffins let that one slip by.

Here's me trying to figure out Jan's Dukes of Hazard / Railway connection too.

78# 75#I should have said I had thrown that track in to confuse you LOL

Does any track from Blondie Parallel Lines qualify for tonight? LOL

Godley & Creme song - 'Under Your Thumb'...he was standing in that station.

It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry - Bob Dylan
Love Train - O'Jays
Slow Train to Dawn - The The

Surprised no one has mentioned either Trans Europe Express by Kraftwerk or Lasdt Train to Trancentral by the KLF.

Train to Nowhere - Savoy Brown

Tuesday - nice theme.

My Brother was always way ahead of everyone where we lived with his musical tastes and introduced me to loads of music, especially:

Bruce Springsteen - Candy's Room

My pal Michael has an outstanding kowledge and taste in music:

Iris DeMent - Let The Mystery Be

The Bloggers are always suggesting new to me acts and great songs so this is one of many but thanks Julie, AFR and Maria:

Richard Hawley - Tonight The Streets Are Ours

Missed tonight's show so will have to listen again

Tuesday:

Youngest son just started at Glasgow Caley Uni this week. Please wish him luck. He left with my entire collection of Pink Floyd on his MP3 player (can't possibly mention AyePod on the 大象传媒). As a youngster, his favourite was "Money" from Dark Side of the Moon

Please play this for Euan

DC

Good luck to Euan.

I remember when I was at Univ all the record shops had to have the sleeves removed from display as the students stole the lp covers!

Wednesday helping hands:

Kate Bush sang backing vocals for Peter Gabriel twice:
* Games Without Frontiers
* Don't Give Up (where it's more of a duet)

Clapton played the guitar solo on
* The Beatles - While My Guitar Gently Weeps

Bono pops up as a duettist from time to time:
* The Corrs - Summer Wine
* Clannad - In a Lifetime

There's simply fantastic recording of
* Richard Thompson - The Dimming of the Day
with backing vocals from Mary Black (and I think Dolores Keane)

Steve Wickham of the Waterboys plays a brilliant fiddle on
* Sinead O'Connor - Stretched on your Grave

That's Phil Collins drumming on
* Howard Jones - No-one ever is to blame
(although memory tells me that it was only on the single version, not the album one)

Sharon Shannon contributes accordion to
* Steve Earle - Galway Girl

Natalie Merchant provides a guest vocal on
* Billy Bragg & Wilco - Birds and Ship

and finally, you could pretty much play any Stax label track as the house band of Steve Cropper, Duck Dunn (aka the core of the Blues Brothers) played on them all. Oh OK, let's suggest
* Otis Redding -I Can't Turn You Loose
* Sam & Dave - Hold On, I'm Comin'
* Albert King - Born Under a Bad Sign

TUESDAY - HAND ME DOWNS

As a teenager I was jealous of my mates who had older siblings, they seemed to have an endless supply of albums to get in to. One of these was a mellow guy called Ewan who introduced me to John Denver stuff, I particularly liked the track STARWOOD IN ASPEN.
However he shocked me shortly after by lending me Led Zeppelin's fourth album. I'd heard of them but didn't think they'd be much good. First track on the tape was BLACK DOG. I'd never heard anything like it, just completely blew me away with the power and energy.
It was a kind of musical conversion and I never looked back after that, seeking out different styles whwerever possible.
Different tho they are I still love both tracks.

Tuesday:

Can this theme also include "Hand me ups"?

My eldest son has introduced me to many new bands including Feeder, Greenday and the GooGoo Dolls

"Name" by the latter is a particular favourite!

DC

#87
Anything remotely by Stax is ok by me

#89
I'd been thinking along 'hand me up' lines myself. My three kids are all music daft a trait they definitely got from their old man, and although they have been handed down tons of stuff they have also reciprocated by getting me into Green Day, The Script, Train (which I failed to get on again yesterday)Jack Johnson, Damien Rice and Five for Fighting to name but a few. Superman by Five for Fighting would be good to hear on GIO.

A story I've told before on here was when my son was 18 and surfing with his pals in Cornwall when the Live8 concert was on. They'd caught the end of it in the pub and he said he just stood open mouthed when Floyd were on. When one of his pals asked how he knew 'this stuff' he answered 'Did you not have a dad. Were you never educated. Were you not sat down and made to listen to a guy running through your head on Dark Side of The Moon.''

My parents were into opera. A genre I still struggle to come to terms with.

So Hand me ups
Superman / Five For Fighting
Cannonball / Damien Rice
Warning / Green Day
Drops of Jupoiter / Train

#90, there seems to be a theme emerging here!

I have to say that I have found it difficult to suggest genuine "Hand me downs". As previously mentioned, my dad liked Scottish music eg Kenneth McKellar, Calum Kennedy etc. He once bought me a Dizzy Gillespie album but I couldn't get into that either. This theme seems more appropriate to those who are under the age of forty because their parents are more likely to have musical tastes more akin to their children.

In order to redress this balance, I think we need to have Hand-me-ups as a theme next week!

DC

Tuesday - Artists You Were Introduced To:

I grew up in a very musical household in as much as most of my family (on my mum's side certainly) were either musicians or conductors or whatever, so you can imagine there was always a pretty healthy record collection. It was pretty eclectic, too - everything from Morricone to Mancini to The Dubliners, Jimmy Shand, The Beatles, Gordon Lightfoot, Little Richard... I could go on and on! I have strong memories of my Dad listening to western film scores and my Mum playing just about everything else! And the first songs I ever learned to do with a guitar were taught to me by my Dad - always of course using the only four chords he knew!

Anyway, here is a selection of some of the songs I have the strongest memories of liking from the teetering stack that was our household record collection:

If You Could Read My Mind - Gordon Lightfoot
Dear River Thames - Ralph McTell
Theme From Shaft (Isaac Hayes vocal) - Henri Mancini
Back In The USSR - The Beatles
The Nightingale - Pentangle (Jacqui McShee's Pentangle - new lineup)
All Around My Hat - Steeleye Span
See You Later, Alligator - Bill Haley & His Comets
Black Water Side - Bert Jansch
All Over The World - The Seekers
Wonderful Land - The Shadows

#90

Ye ken it's ower when the fat lassie geezit laldy!


#92

Is your surname Parfitt or Rossi?

>8-D

#93

I've learned two more chords since ;-)

heehee!

WEDNESDAY

"Of all the songs I've sung, this one cuts the deepest. I think it's the one for which I'll probably be most remembered; for that I'm very proud. People wonder how you can sing a song like this night after night and have it still mean something, but that's the gift of something this pure and true. I've been on both sides of this pain and the memory of it comes through differently every night. I will always be grateful to Bruce Hornsby for the exquisite inspiration of his playing on this song."

Bonnie Raitt

'I Can't Make You Love Me'

#89 & #91, But DC, tonight`s theme isnt Hand Me Downs.

`It's those artists and that you learned to love via somebody else.`

That covers your Hand Me Ups too.
Not sure they mean John Peel, Hairy Cornflake and the likes though.

Tuesday: Hand-me-down tracks...

...or inheritance tracks are often the ones you are captive to (ie as a back-seat passenger) as a kid in your impressionable years. Two brothers sandwich a poor younger sister in the rear of a Blue Ford Cortina and unconsciously absorb Simon and Garfunkel via the in-car '8-track' player.

It's not until years later when you visit your siblings as adults and discover they too have all the S&G albums on CD, that you fully realise you've all been brainwashed.

AMERICA: Simon and Garfunkel please... and take me back Bryan....

Tuesday.
this could be a long list but i will keep it short; to my next door neighbour Brendan Sheerin who introduced me to Rory Gallagher-Bullfrog Blues.
My sister Christine for Elton John-Bennie & the Jets;
brother Alan for Lou Reed-Walk on the Wild Side; My mate Davy Juner ( who will be 50 tomorrow) for Sensational Alex Harvey Band- Boston Tea Party.

A few years back whilst the Spice Girls were at their peak which my 10 and 11 year old girls like to hear wherever they were in the house, my dad phoned me. ''Hang on dad'' I said before screaming up the stairs ''Will you turn that racket down''

Back on the phone my dad was wetting himself laughing and told me he never thought he'd hear me say that as long as he lived.

We all turn into our parents eventually.