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Grrat themes

Ghost of Tom Joad - Springsteen
1984 - Bowie

MONDAY

'Quite Ugly One Morning' - Warren Zevon ~ Book written by Christopher Brookmyre.

TUESDAY

'Seduced' - Mary Coughlan

'There is a Bed' - Mary Coughlan

'Magdalen Laundry' - Mary Coughlan

'You're Such a Good Looking Woman' - Joe Dolan

Dear God,

Please don't let Norrie or any other fan of he whose name we don't mention look at the books in the wee picture.

Amen.

Monday

Magic Carpet Ride - Steppenwolf
Hello Mary Lou - New Riders of the Purple Sage

From Russia with Love - Matt Monro
Goldfinger - Shirley Bassey
Thunderball - Tom Jones
You Only Live Twice - Nancy Sinatra
Diamonds Are Forever - Shirley Bassey
Live and Let Die - Paul McCartney & Wings
The Man with the Golden Gun - Lulu
Moonraker - Shirley Bassey
For Your Eyes Only - Sheena Easton

Tuesday/Wednesday

Neither is of much interest.

Thursday

Guess Who Batman - Lily Allen - This is what we have come to.

A year in the what?

Monday:

"The Country Girl" - Clifford Odets

Country Girl - Primal Scream





DC

Monday
Dr. Mabuse ~ Propaganda 3rd time of asking

#8

that's nothing, mad mac.

#9

Guess so for that particular shout over the years.

Come to that, Amazon tried to stock a book called "Dark Moon, Fat Old Sun - A History of Pink Floyd" but the production team withdrew it.

Funny coincidence!




;-)

#4 What's that supposed to mean? (feigns outrage)

Initial thoughts for the coming week:

Monday - songs which namecheck books
Don't stand so close to me - Police
Samson - Regina Spektor
Romeo and Juliet - Dire Straits

Tuesday - singers who sing!
Diana Ross - Touch me in the morning
Dionne Warwick - Walk on by
Dorothy Moore - Misty Blue
Faith Hill - Piece of my heart
Sinatra - Strangers in the night
Gladys Knight - Baby don't change your mind
Linda Ronstadt - Desperado
Trisha Yearwood - On a bus to St Cloud
Tony Bennett - Don't get around much anymore
Whitney Houston - I wanna dance with somebody (who loves me)

Wednesday - writers who write but don't sing!
Jimmy Webb - By the time I get to Phoenix (Glen Campbell or Maria McKee)
Diane Warren - How do I live (Trisha Yearwood)
Gerry Goffin - Will you love me tomorrow (Shirelles or Amy Winehouse)
Holland/Dozier/Holland - Heatwave (Linda Ronstadt) or Stop! In the name of love (The Supremes)
Marcus Hummon - Bless the broken road (Rascal Flatts)

Thursday - to follow

Joe
Linlithgow

#5, Glen you forgot "Nobody Does it Better" by Carly Simon which "name-checks" the film (hence book) "The Spy Who Loved Me" by Ian Fleming.

ALSO

Keep the Customer Satisfied - Simon & Garfunkel, which mentions that reasonably well selling work known as the Bible.

"Breakaway" - a novel by Cassandra Kresnov


Breakaway - a song by Gallagher and Lyle





DC

MONDAY
another chance to ask for a great song:
Ship of Fools - Bob Seger
Ship of Fools by Katherine Anne Porter

Robinson Crusoe in New York - the Silencers
Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe
Dorian Gray - the Mustard Seeds
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
Tales of Brave Ulysses - Cream
Ulysses - James Joyce
Amsterdam - David Bowie
Amsterdam by Ian McEwan
Money - Pink Floyd
Money by Martin Amis
Sunset Song - Skyward
Sunset Song - Lewis Grassic Gibbon

Can I change my Bowie request.

David Bowie - Absolute Beginners

(Colin McInnes - Absolute Beginners)

great song, great video and for the Prog Rockers - Rick Wakeman on piano.

Great list Gaie. If I have time I'll try and drop off some Bob Seger stuff to them cos they've only got three tracks :-)

From previous thread...yes Scotch I got my hands on her balloons in the back of the taxi home. In fact I could hardly breathe. I was smothered in them. They were huge. Don't know how the driver was able to concentrate for fear of a big bang. Great party though and thanks Bryan for her request on friday.

Which oxfam shop did you take the photo in Bryan!

#18

Paulo, I always find it's best not to blow them too hard in case there is an accident.

#18 cheers, Paolo! Nearly followed your Friday list and backed Black Apalachi yesterday - but as a win only so I'd have lost anyway (a fiver on Snowy Morning, last of the big spenders me). But what a finish.

#18, #19
Innuendo - Queen
(Innuendo - RD Zimmerman)

#20
Third year in a row I backed it. Fell last twice. Told everyone it only had to stay on it's feet to win but backed it each way (confidence or what) Ah well second but good run for my dough and still a wee healthy each way profit. How could you back snowy morning on the hottest day of the year.

#20
Anyway what you on about Innuendo. it was a huge 4 and a huge 9. Plain and simple :-)

#22 bet you can't wait for 2030



;-)

Have to hurry and get my ideas in afore someone else suggests them all. I've already lost
- (Tales of Brave) Ulysses to Gaie #16
and
- Absolute Beginners to Norrie #17

others then for
MONDAY;

Tom Sawyer - Rush (M Twain)
Brave New World - Styx (A Huxley)
Winter - Teenage Fanclub (L Deighton)
(The) Warriors - Thin Lizzy (S Yurick)
Dazzle - Siouxsie and the Banshees (J Krantz)
Bluebeard - Cocteau Twins (K Vonnegut)

and another go for

Metropolis - Motorhead (E Gaffney)

#4 Scotch, It willnae take much for Morrisettes on the blog and Bryan, to come up wi a few ideas for Monday night Smiths tunes.
I found -
The Hand That Rocks The Cradle - Tine
Hand In Glove - Marsh
This Charming Man - Keyes
and
Suffer Little Children - Van Greenaway

And that's just off one album. None of them particularly famous I don't think, but hey. Better chance of Morrisey getting on on Monday night than Black Appalachi had of winning the 'National
;)

For tomorrow also
Animal Farm ~ T. Kinks
Sing it back ~ Moloko
(We don't need this) Fascist Groove Thang ~ Heaven 17
Chinese Way ~ Level 42
"Suppers Ready" ~ Genesis

Monday


/Bob Seger
/ Bob Seger
/Hercules Mandarin
/Dobie Gray
/Otis Redding
/Van Morrison

Tuesday
Tell it Like it is / Aaron Neville
Warm and tender love / Percy Sledge
Danny Boy / Eva Cassidy

Wednesday

The best song Chinn /Chapman ever wrote

If you think you know how to love me / Smokey

who changed their name to Smokie to avoid confusion with Bill Robinson.

Thursday
I'll go for Alice Cooper cos

a) he wants to be elected
b) he's fed up with the Mr Nice Guys
c) He wonders How you gonna see him now

Mind you, I don't know how his cutbacks in education will go down with no more pencils no more rulers and no more teachers.

But it's a good excuse to request his finest song.

Only Women Bleed!

#30

My poor nose earlier today! :-S

The River: Audra Mae (novel by Gary Paulsen)

Last Of The Hobo Kings: Mary Gauthier (Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck)
(The last free men are hoboes
Steinbeck said, and he paid cash
And the stories that he bought from them
Helped write the Grapes of Wrath)

The Man In The Iron Mask: Billy Bragg (Novel by Alexandre Dumas)

The Boy With The Arab Strap: Belle and Sebastian (B&S by C茅cile Aubry)

River Man: Nick Drake (The Riverman by Stewart Edward White)

Monday - Book References:
Honey Be Good - The Bible (the great Boo Hewerdine!)
Land Of Confusion - Genesis (a book in the bible)
Matthew & Son (Matthew a book in the bible) - Cat Stevens
When Will I Be Famous? - Bros (brother Luke named after a book in the bible)
Jilted John - Jilted John (John another biblical book)

WeeHeavy 鈥� thanks tor the tip off about the Fraser Centre last week. BRIGIT ST JOHN and MICHAEL CHAPMAN were really good. Both are excellent guitarists.

Books: ~

McBETH from MUSIC FOR McBETH by ROBIN WILLIAMSON

why does the main radio scotland page now only have a headline link to the Radio Scotland blog rather than all the blogs.

Books ~

MAIN TITLE THEME (BILLY) from PAT GARRETT & BILLY THE KID by BOB DYLAN
Novel by MARK L GARDNER

GIRL IN A SWING from JOY OF A TOY by KEVIN AYERS
Novel by RICHARD ADAMS

LADY RACHEL from WHATEVERSHEBRINGSWESING by KEVIN AYERS
Novel by LOIS SCHWORER

LILLI MARLENE from STILL LIFE WITH GUITAR by KEVIN AYERS
Novel by LIEL LEIBOVITZ & MATTHEW MILLER

Hey Bryan has dyed his hair!

/radioscotland/zones/

There is actually a band called "Trout Fishing In America" , but not really my kind of music.
However....
My Chemical Romance got their name from the Irvine welsh book "Ecstasy: Three Tales of Chemical Romance"
Would love to hear I'm Not Okay

I'm still hoping that Bryan tries to explain Steely Dan...!

THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS from HOOPLE by MOTT THE HOOPLE

Double Whammy - LEWIS CARROLL and WILLARD MANUS

Monday Books:
* Waterboys: The Stolen Child (Yeats)
* Van Morrison: Before the World was Made (Yeats)
* Badly Drawn Boy: Something to Talk About (Hornby)
* The Cure: Killing an Arab (Camus - l'Etranger)
* Generation X: Valley of the Dolls (Jacqueline Susann)
* Jefferson Airplane: White Rabbit (Carroll)

And nearly forgot:
Leonard Nimoy -

There's a too; hilariously of its time, but it's recorded off the TV, so the sound is rubbish

Wednesday:

You must must must play:

* Billy Bragg:

for mentioning all the Motown greats: & (who co-wrote Heard it Through the Grapevine) and who wrote for the Supremes, Martha & The Vandellas, The Four Tops, Marvin Gaye (and more).

And because it's a heartbreaking, superb song.

Monday Books
The time is now, Moloko
Temptation, Heaven 17
Both bands have names taken from A Clockwork Orange.

Less than zero, Elvis Costello
The first novel by Bret Easton Ellis was named after the song. Does that count?.

Scotch - full respect for getting moderated on a Beechgove Garden blog....some going. Wait till Glen takes up gardening then they will know all about it......

Arsenal!

#46 refers to #37.

Sting is rubbish these days. He needs to give up that tantric lark.

A Year In The Smudge. Love that book.

So Bryan can use the word 'keich' on air but we get all steamed up with the word 'merde' in a blog photo? No wonder the answer is 42.

Here Jim is there a blog boycott on and no one told us?

Nobody here but us chickens...

What was that about 'giving head' we just heard on air? And 'merde' is a bad word?

Well anyway for Tuesday:

Elvis Presley - Follow That Dream
Trisha Yearwood - Sad Eyes or How Do I Live

#48 well, if it was a more engaging theme, we'd be listening to something else. I just can't be bothered with this tonight. Actually, I'm still fed up that after weeks of asking for a request on a Friday for my increasingly frail old mum, they just won't do it.

I'm with Glen, none of this weeks themes are of much appeal. Thursday's is potentially exciting, but since the music will once again feature the Proclaimers and lots of washed up 80's acts, what's the point - you can't get John Lennon played on 'eccentrics' night, they are hardly likely to play him on Thursday.

Since the recent 'high' of 'Fish Heads' and Zappa and Zepplin on the one night, I think the show has totally nosedived....predictable squared.....thinking of wrapping this up and heading back to Radio 4.

Mad Mac is rewarded for 'perseverance' with 3 attempts... you couldn't make it up... but guess what, Propaganda are an 80's band. This obsession with music from when Bryan was a yoof is beginning to do my nut in.

#55

Mon dieu! C'est me*de, totallement!

Been taking a rest and come back to find everyone seemingly p####d off. Calm, the weather has improved, the football season is nearly over and we can all start hoping that next season our team will start playing like Barcelona, and beat all the others, in close fought thrilling matches, who will be playing like Bayern, Real Madrid, Arsenal, Man U etc. And who knows, we might even get a good Government in at the election - though I can't see how that is possible given the contenders, more chance of the football hope coming true. As for Tuesday I am seconding Misty Blue by Dorothy Moore, an all time classic, and BB could also play a couple of my previous requests that he was impressed with eg

Dark End of the Street - James Carr
This Old House - Bette Midler

Now have to go and walk the dog!

Great sailing weather just now. Been out twice over the weekend. Heard Norrie get a mention on Tom Morton show today. I would have replied but a) was doing 4 knots in beautiful weather and didn't have a signal on the moby and b) was doing 4 knots in beautiful weather and didn't have a signal on the moby

Was the show any good tonight?

Tuesday:

Jim Reeves: I won't forget you

DC

#58

You should designate a communications area on-board. Call it, say, the moby deck. And decorate it. Bunting the moby deck will be a whale of a time.

Well let's have some fresh theme suggestions if you're all so jaded.

TUESDAY
I'd not have been seen dead saying I liked Tom Jones, which I didn't anyway, back in the day, nor even in the fairly recent past and as for spending money to go to a concert and throw my knickers away - well really. In fact I think my ears sort of closed up when the likes of him and Engelbert came on TOTPs. Songs for the parents. Hope Jimi's on next. However, have to admit that after having a song of Tom's played on GIO, (one of my Dad's favourites), he has a truly fantastic voice .

(It Looks Like) I'll Never fall in Love Again - Tom Jones
Some of Your lovin' - Dusty Springfield
(You make me feel Like a) Natural Woman - Aretha Franklin


(brackets in the title) theme suggestion? I know, it's quite inspired isn't it?

oh, and and second Dark End of the Street - remember hearing it first time around on GIO and liking it a lot

#58 Moby got several mentions tonight since he's related to Herman Melville and also my son met him in New York.

I thought the show was good, but that's just my opinion of course. :0)

It was a good show. Furthermore, the GIO team have gone to some lengths to keep all of us happy with the variation of themes of late and the inclusion of a wider variety of genres from time to time. We might not always get the tracks we want played but I'm willing to bet some of the folks at the 大象传媒 are wondering just WHAT WILL make us grumpy lot happy anyway! :-)

#58
As usual when you`re no listening, they played Pink Floyd.
And not a track you hear very often when one of theirs is played on the radio.




No it wasnt the one wi aw the knocks, nor the teachers one.....the other one.

#63

I hear the Beechgrove Garden Blog has an opening Jim.


:)

Who is grumpy? Not me.

TUESDAY:

Art Garfunkel...not the songwriting talent in the partnership.
From his solo album 'Scissors Cut':

'A Heart In New York'(written by Gallagher + Lyle)
'So Easy To Begin'
'Up In The World' (written by Clifford T Ward)...a real pin-drop song.
'In Cars' (a Jimmy Webb song)

#63
Just finished listening to tonight`s show and it was pretty good.
A good mix.

#68

BOOM! Peace, out.

Tuesday - Wan Singer Wan Song:
Common People - William Shatner
All The Things She Said - t.A.T.u.
John Barleycorn - Maddy Prior
Wichita Lineman - Glen Campbell
Anyone Who Had A Heart - Cilla Black
Walk On By - Dionne Warwick
What's Another Year - Johnny Logan
Minuetto Allegretto - The Wombles
Grandad - Clive Dunn
Fairytale - Dana
Nessun Dorma - Luciano Pavarotti
The Floral Dance - Matt Monro
The Floral Dance - Terry Wogan (easily the best version)
Happiness - Kenn Dodd
Anything At All - My Wife
Girl You Know It's True - Milli Vanilli

#70 be careful what you ask for....

Gaie - he does actually like all those. I think he also wants us to seek out the one good track in his lists and in this case it is Glen Campbell.

#64 Bawbees?

Jist seen the playlist. Looks good. How can I download this as a podcast to take out for a sail?

Jim, you're bound tae kain

DC

#72

And Maddy!

#74

At the end of the day all a 'podcast' is, is a playable media file you can stick on a portable player and take with you. If it's a programme that's already aired, use something like Freecorder to grab the audio to a file (MP3) and take it with you. If it's just a notional playlist you're talking about that has not been aired on a station then it's up to you to either grab/buy the tunes yourself or use something like Spotify Premium where you can retain a list of tunes to play offline on your iPhone/whatever. Most 大象传媒 Radio Scotland shows don't have podcasts and those that do generate an alternative file with 'clips' only.

Jim Gellatly sticks his podcasts on iTunes where you can grab them easily. I tend not to bother with podcasts so can't steer you towards many others. Sae, ah ken a bitty, nae a muckle.

#72 all of them?
well I think diversity is the key to life right enough...I can always be getting on with my gaelic homework while grandad's on.

#75 nae probs with my own playlists; been doing these from my iChoons for years. It's the programme I want to hear (once only) whilst away from an internet connection.

Does Freecorder work with a Mac?

TUESDAY
Thairis Air a Ghleann - Runrig
written by the MacDonald brothers, glorious vocals by Donnie Munro

For Tuesday - (I Never Promised You A) Rose Garden - Lynn Anderson

#77

Nope, but there are similar tools to capture audio online for most operating systems. Have a wee Google aboot!

Singers: ~

CHRISTINA 鈥淟ICORICE鈥� McKECHNIE sings
BRIDGE SONG from 鈥淯鈥� by THE INCREDIBLE STRING BAND
but does not write.

JOAN 鈥淟A STUPENDA鈥� SUTHERLAND sings
DIE WALK脺RE from THE ART OF JOAN SUTHERLAND
written by RICHARD WAGNER

Possible themes to re-enthuse even the most dissolutioned of GIO disciples? ...

The (original) Monopoly Board (Not even jail ... Interpol)
Onomatopoeia (There's a kind of hush ... Herman's Hermits
Politically incorrect (My Ding-a-ling ... Chuck B)
Best advice songs of all time (You should be dancing ... Bee Gees)
Memorable backing singer moments (I just can't help believing ... Elvis)
Killer intros (Pretty Vacant ... Pistols)
One-hit wonders (My Sharona ... The Knack)
Parenthesis (I can't get no) Satisfaction ... Devo
Children's TV Prog's (We are Detective ... The Thompson Twins)

could also re-visit some former goodies ...

Iconic 1st Lines (Gloria ... Patti Smith)
Glam (Ball-park Incident ... Wizzard)

something to mull over ...

#63 etc

Beg to report,I'm not grumpy either.

But what will make me happy is :

: that when we get 12 - 15 requests for 'White Room' by Cream, it gets played, in line with 'You Choose The Music'.

: that requests have some relation to the theme - 'stage persona' is just dressing up for performance - everyone who perform does that - it does not mean the performer is 'eccentric'. Sparks are a performing pop band. John Lennon was genuinely eccentric.Upon reflection, maybe Paul McCartney is the genuine eccentric, 拢800m in the bank and seemingly normal.

: that the 'obituary' policy is even handed.Malcom Mclaren dying is no more tragic than Lesley Duncan dying.Neither had recoreded for years.

: that the GIO team's bigotory against certain artists and era's should cease.

: recognition that the regular bloggers go to great lengths to contribute to the show in a way that other contributors really don't - that shouldn't just be taken for granted: if someone is regularly blogging for something in particular, they probably have something worth hearing and sharing.

: and that when I repeatedly request on a Friday for my poor old mum it should be understood, I'm not doing it for fun, that it would make a difference to our Friday evening, in exactly the same way it does to people texting and chomping pizza.

regardez youse

Henri

Henri Hannah 鈥� right on man! :-J

I particularly agree with the last sentence of #55.

It would be good to hear more of the music that鈥檚 not usually played on radio.

Henri, I have to disagree with your post















There's no apostrophe in eras




DC

BRING ME THE PIZZA CRUNCHIE OF ALFREDO GARCIA!

henri
Most of us blog cos we enjoy the blog and the programme. Yeah we all get a bit nippy at times in the same way we all get very witty at times. We all want our stuff played and some stuff just doesn't get on for whatever reason. That in some perverse way actually adds to the siege mentality here sometimes even though there's usually a sprinklin of bloggers featured in each programme. Howeva! Think you might be getting carried away just a wee tad as to the importance of it all. Not all the listeners are the afficianados that some of us are.


Besides some folk like to hear what they're eating getting read out on radio. Just ask Angie fae Galashiels :-)

#83

Nah! Nobody should get ANY kind of priority - the producer's job is to make a good show with the materials we give them in the form of requests. From that THEY decide what's to be played (although obviously we have made the suggestions). I will be quite happy sitting here tonight chomping my pizza sure in the knowledge that Dave Gilmour probably won't get a play! But then again...

#70, #74

BTW, please take the time to check out that Maddy Prior track on Spotify - it's excellent.

#88

It's about balance, not priority.

#87

No real disagreement there.I'm not taking it seriously,really, but it's just as easy to feel passionate about things that are unimportant, as are important.If I didn't love the show, I wouldn't have anything to say about it.I like and admire the people who run the programme, but I think they are unbalanced in their approach to certain things.

I don't see any harm in pointing that out.

regardez youse

Henri

#90

No, not really - in YOUR mind it is, but the reality is that when you make programming content for broadcast it has to be good - and the production team decide how best to do that, not you.

#83 & #90
I got on my high horse when they refused to do Equestrian Doping as a theme, but what made it worse was when they said yes to Farm Animal Rustling! Well, that really got my goat.

#91

No, it doesn't have to be good to get played, it has to be reqested. Lots of stuff that most people would never listen to in any other circumstance gets played because it fits a theme and gets requested, like William Shatner, The Wombles and Clive Dunn.

Consequebntly, 12 - 15 requests for 'White Room' by Cream, whatever the DJ thinks of it, should get played?

That it doesn't is unbalanced, nothing to do with priority.

#93

But here's the thing - YOU'RE not the producer.

BRING ME THE CHEESE OF ALFREDO GARCIA!

#94

Yep, I'm just a license fee payer with a point of view and a choice.I don't profess to be able to judge 'good' and like most people I'm sure my taste is in my mouth, but you don't need taste to recognise imbalance.

I thought the point of all this interactivity and feedback, "putting the listener at the centre of everything we do", presumes the listener has a voice worth hearing. Unless all that's just a con to justify cheap broadcasting.

It's up to the producer, of course, whether to pay any attention to that voice - but as someone famously put it, 'I'm not the only one'.

TUESDAY - SINGERS

Both Sides Now - Judy Collins

Paul from Ayr

#96

Good. So it does what it says on the tin, then.

Go for it, DC - quick! :-)

See me! Ah'm back...

>8-D