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TUESDAY

Alliteration? Again? An apparent anaphoric assonance Ah assume!

so says Scotch.

But seriously, folks...


Not sure about Wednesday, the rest are repeats. I said the rest are repeats.

There must be something new in yon theme book.

Double header. Monday/ Wednesday

Dance Anthems/ Geekiness - they don't get any geekier than Jarvis Cocker. Too tall, too thin, too speccy, too earnest. But the voice of Ordinary People everywhere. And with an appeal for women that plenty of more conventionally attractive and macho men could only dream of. Plus, a song that would get even the gauchest dancer happy to take their chances on a crowded dancefloor.
Disco 2000 Pulp

Where it says Ordinary, read Common. Then read Ordinary.

#3 - My first blog request was for Monday's theme. Brown Sugar - Rolling Stones

Bryan played it for me on Wednesday the 13th of January.

Better ask for something else for Monday.

#3 three in a row, time to go... if they want any new themes, how about "gone, but not forgotten"? A night to celebrate the artists (or band members) who made some memorable music, but sadly aren't here anymore? A bit morbid, but there are plenty worthy of celebration. John Lennon, Elvis, Buddy Holly, Marc Bolan, Eva Cassidy, Marvin Gaye, ....... Billy McKenzie. Probably been done.

MONDAY

'Whole Wide World' - Proclaimers

TUESDAY

'Whole Wide World' - Craig & Charlie

WEDNESDAY

'Whole Wide World' - Proclaimers

According to Julie, at least one of them still takes the bus. She's just not sure which one...

THURSDAY

'Whole Wide World' - Proclaimers

...and if Julie's confused, whit aboot their bairns?

>8-D

Ye may titter

#4 I've just googled Jarvis Cocker and he didn't like it one bit, but I wanted to see that mysterious appeal.

Hmmmm, it clear passes me by.

Much like the Proclaimers.


On the dancefloor, in my dreams, jiving the rest off the floor

Eddie Cochrane - Summertime Blues

Little Richard - Tutti Frutti

Maybelline - Chuck Berry

Chuck Berry - Maybelline

Update forecast Gaie:

Looks fine! Wind dropping & no rain. Take plenty sun cream!

DC

#13 Ach - he'd have loved it, secretly! He's just a bit shy (he's really a tormented geeky wee soul) And it's only my opinion - I don't for one minute think anyone else has to agree with it. But in order to make my case for playing that song sound more convincing, it's worth throwing in a couple of wild statements.
Oh, well. I back Scotch's Proclaimers bids instead. Is that better?

#8, #9, #10, #11, #16

It's a wind-up.

Keep it under your Hagar the Horrible Horned Helmet!

#16
Steady M.D. an' be careful what you wish

#17

i.e. Hat, Hen.

>8-D

#17 I didn't say anything.... shh! - don't go attracting even more attention to it! ;o)

if anyone's bored - here's a nice way to while away the time if the footie's not your thing. have an artist in mind, answer the questions - see if they get it right. Very satisfying when they do. Spooky. When they don't, you have the added gratification of feeling smug. Win-Win. not something the world cup can measure up to.

#15 - thanks, DC. Looking forward to the trip very much.

#16 help ma boab, The Proclaimers' mysterious appeal clean passes me by.

On the other hand I'm happy for you to like Jarvis the geek and

I've no objection to the music, both of the songs I know.

just light-hearted banter, mary-doll, please don't take it seriously

Now I'm off for an early night before setting sail for Dogger Fisher and German Bight.

#20

Yon link's mental, BTW!

Does Father's Day include

#21 Gaie - you're a star! Don't mistake my banter for something else - nobody takes anything I say seriously, least of all me - I'm on your wavelength, just very clumsy in communicating it. Gets me into all sorts of embarrassing situations. Hope you have a wonderful trip at the weekend, BTW!

#22 now you're opening a Pandora's can of worms. and you've thrown Desperate Dan into it, too. how to follow that? Best sociowhatnot drama ever. And it's coming around again. Time for a bath before I have to beg (and be turned down) for another "please delete my embarrassing comment" scenario.

Wed:

Queen of The Supermarket - Bruce Springsteen

Lost In The Supermarket - The Clash

Thursday

Bruce Springsteen - My Fathers House, we have had this conversation. I don't intend to have it again. It is a great song.

Re picture:

Frank - slosh or alleycat?

Wonder if 'enri's in his tent yet or still stottin aboot a field

Hope it is as nice over East for the sailors!

Monday

Rock Your Baby - George McCrae - Irresistible

Tuesday

Things To Do In Denver When You're Dead - Warren Zevon - So good they based a film on it

Wednesday

Down In The Mall - Warren Zevon - I'm realise I'm ploughing a lonely furrow here but David Lindley is great on this

Thursday

Somewhere In America There's A Street Named After My Dad - Was (Not Was) - For my father who would've been 104 if he'd taken better care of himself

MONDAY

In Gweedore, Co. Donegal, this is a guaranteed floor filler;

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


Soccer? No-one mentioned soccer...

>8-D

#27

hmmmn let me see....


I'm thinking Alleycat

My Dad's called Fabio Capello.
Can I Have American Idiot by GREEN Day :-)

Another Lazy Theme Week, three out of four repeats.

Hope it's a good week for you Graeme but you might find the blog a bit indifferent to the repeats.

Wednesday...ordinariness
If i were a Carpenter / Bob Seger
Ain't Got no Money / Frankie Miller
Dirty old Town / Pogues
An oLd Raincoat won't ever let you down / Rod Stewart
Wild Mountain Thyme / Emma Geekie
Geek Love / Nerina Pallot

Oh and one more for Wednesday
Cleaning Windows / Van Morrison

#33 excellent........................











DC (now awaiting referral to the moderators)

great trip to Isle of May yesterday. Hunners of photies of puffins in flight, not a one of them remotely sharp. But it was grand.

themes - here, to save the team any unnecessary overtime on a Sunday, is a compilation of themes suggested on the blog over the past few weeks. Apologies if I've missed anyone out.

Glen Miller

unusual instruments eg

Mr. Kite - Beatles - Bass harmonica
Join Together - The Who - Jew's Harp
Lady Jane - Rolling Stones - Dulcimer
Wild Thing - Troggs - Ocarina, fairy dust
Pandora's Box - Procol Harum - Marimba
Cry Like A Baby - Box Tops - Electric sitar
Stop Stop Stop- The Hollies - Electric banjo
Sloop John B - Beach Boys - Glockenspiel, baritone sax
Beds Are Burning - Midnight Oil - Trombone (unusual in this context)
Painter Man - The Creation - Bowed guitar

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Juliefrom edinburgh
Herbs + Spices
Myths and Legends

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MikeinShropshire

How about a colour week:
Monday (Red or all things red), Tuesday (blue or all things blue) Wednesday (Green or all things green)
Thursday (Black and White)... I think you get the picture...
Cover songs that were much bigger hits than the lesser know originals (has this been done?)

5 minutes something:
Tracks between 5 and 6 minutes in length....

World records in music:
Most albums, Longest at number 1, Biggest gig attendance etc..

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gaiebrown

drummers
session musicians
'if only' or 'what if'
great lyrics
fairgrounds and circuses
'in the style of' - not the stolen riffs theme, but songs
that are clearly influenced by an earlier style - maybe
even acknowledged by the artists recognise this theme anyone?
the messages - well we've done dairy, bakery - just
throw in the butcher's and the fish-shop

****
Paolopablo

Songs / artists with numbers in them greater than 20


Talking of Meatloaf a wee theme suggestion.
Great opening album tracks.

We've had a lot of repeat themes recently and it
would appear to me that in order to get the mix right,
the programme is digging up old ideas and sorting them into
a dead easy theme guaranteed to 'ensure a busy one tonight',

a touchy-feely one where anything can be suggested
but it's the story behind the song that makes the show,

a semi challenging theme for Miss Faliraki's night off

and

a general one to do with something topical, or song structure, or the like.


So with that in mind here's a week full of theme

suggestions

Mon
Mr and Mrs

Tue
The song you most regret dancing to whilst drunk and why

Wed
Songs that namecheck films
eg Breakfast at Tiffany's / Deep blue Something
Fame / Bowie
Carrie / Rich Clifford
Stand By Me / Ben E King
etc etc

Thu
Story Songs (which was one of the best shows we had and we won't get through a whole week without a repeat)



norriemaclean

going with the above suggestion:

Mon: Colours or Household Objects

Tues: The High School Dance, what are your memories of the end of year school dances, and more importantly what songs were played.

Wed: I'll have that back! What songs did artists give away and then go back and record themselves. As an example Van gave Tom Jones Carrying a Torch and then recorded his own version.

Thurs: It's the date of the Queens Coronation. So Kings, Queens and Royalty in music. From Queen Latifah to Prince and all stops in between...

But here is a wee theme idea - get yourself over to the blog night. Join up, make your pitch for that one track that not only should GIO play but that Scotland should hear. It could be a Friday night summer special. Could be a classic you have loved or a new track you are bursting to hear.

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Kene Gelly

he (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)
Memorable backing singer moments (I just can't help believing ... Elvis)
Killer intros (Pretty Vacant ... Pistols)
One-hit wonders (My Sharona ... The Knack)
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)

Sounds like a great trip Gaie.

Myths and Legends gets my vote....

#38

Myth Faliraki.

Do you know she'th a pole danther?

>8-D

#39
I knew her daughter cherry Blothom. She wath Polith too.

If we must have repeats let them be crackers.

Norrie's 'Producers' theme produced what was arguably the best show ever.

And that without a contribution from Don Was! (The Producer).

Again I implore the team to produce a tracklist of the previous outing of repeat themes. If the Producer is unwilling or unable to do so, then he/she can delegate and/or liaise with the technical guys/gals to produce the aforesaid tracklist from the dark and distant past. Or even from 5 months ago! (see #6)

Now I'm gonna go shave/shower. About time I did something productive.....

>8-D



#40

Thort out that thpeech impediment, Thonny!

#40 Her thithter wath Myfanwy Hilton who wath of Welth eckthtrackthion

I sink

We've no' had thpathe for a while.......

#37

Well done, Gaie, you're obviously a seasoned researcher.

I was listening to Fee Glover's programme yesterday morning and there's a ´óÏó´«Ã½ web cam on a nesting Puffin and they are all waiting for this egg to hatch ... think it's under BBc nature or something.. might be worth checking out.

Themes .. I had this idea which I texted in a few weeks ago and BB said he quite liked it: I had just presumed it has been done before, but maybe not.

Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue:

The first two are self evident: Something Borrowed could be a cover version or plaigerism and something Blue could be a blues track or something blue in the title or artist designation.

The tracks would follow in rotation.

#28 Decent of you to think of me,Mad Mac,but since we heard they were cracking down on old men getting out of it we abandoned our Rockness trip and will await the legalisation of everything (as an inventive way to clear the national debt and cut the cost of crime)before taking a chance in a dance tent again.

regardez youse

henri

Kinks - Come Dancing

McCartney - Ballroom Dancing

Am I on the right track??

Everytime a world cup match comes on I think there's a swarm of bees in the hoose

Its bursting ma heid!!

THEMES

Some of the best shows have the simplest themes, e.g. Antonyms.

Hot - Cold

High - Low

Fast - Slow

Dead - Alive

Rich - Poor

Genius - Numpty

Spotless - Mockit

Fragrant - Mingin'



#46

For a moment I thought you meant the lucky English bees.......

#37

An impressive piece of work.

Just back from the ´óÏó´«Ã½ SSO 75th Anniversary (Friday's was excellent as well - on now). In Bartok's Miraculous Mandarin, guess what? A muted bass tuba. Memory must have played tricks.

I've said before that GIO has run its course. Given some of the interesting music which is never selected, a better idea might be a half hour show with one person's choice of music with some brief amplification of the reasons. We could call it Castaway Records.

#50

Marooned Music; Songs of the Shipwrecked

TUESDAY

Geezaw a Giggle;

'Lah-di-Dah' - Jake Thackray

'Rob Roy McGregor' - Matt McGinn

'Poisoning Pigeons in the Park' - Tom Lehrer

#50 Ditties of the Doomed; Dirges of the Drowned

hey, it's that nearly Monday morning feeling once again.

Henri, Glen, I hope you'll give me a reference when I'm looking for work come September.

Oh and in return, Glen, I'll back your Warren Zevon choices - they sound good to me and I've two pals who are big fans of his

yep! that'll be me! Unless of course on the strength of my impressive research display I'm offered a job on GIO. Come on folks, let's be having your Zappas, your Gilmours, your Millers, your Ayers, your anything from Bob Seger that hasn't been played before, your El Rayo X. We'll be playing them all.
Carols for the Capsized; Songs for the Submerged

I have always really loved

maddonna - ray of light, great track

I need to check my JCB line dancing stunt team CD but from memory

Alan Jackson - Its 5 o'clock somewhere

and from my tango classes

David lindley - El Rayo X

Gaie if you get a job on GIO the Capn and Jimfraeerskine will not be happy bunnies........

#57

Mad Donna?!?

>8-D

Yup.

MONDAY:

'Now That We've Found Love' - Third World

'Groovy Train' - The Farm

'Superfly' - Curtis Mayfield

'You're The First, My Last, My Everything' - Barry White

'Good Stuff' - B-52s (I know Love Shack is probably the best song to dance to...ever...but this is by way of a wee change)

'Ska Ska Ska (Jamaican Ska) - Byron Lee + The Dragonaires (it even gives you directions of how to do the dance in the song)

#57. That's a grrrrreat Madonna track.

Paul McCartney at the Isle of Wight. Time to call it a day? The vuvuzelas sound better.

#57 You've been tangoed?

Step aside Frank, There's a new kid in town!

CAPTION:

Richard Hammond has a Blue Peter badge? That guy just has his bread buttered on both sides now doesn't he?

Monday - Och Ya Wee Dancer!:

Don't You (Forget About Me) - Simple Minds
- wee quiet bit in the middle for chatting up ra burds!

Scatman (ski-ba-bop-ba-dop-bop) - Scatman John
Contact - Edwin Starr
Sunny - Boney M
I Was Made For Dancin' - Leif Garrett
Pump Up The Volume - M.,A.R.S.
Mt Feet Keep Dancing - Chic
It's My Life - Talk Talk

Hopping Down In Kent - Albion Dance Band
- it's folkin' great!

And finally, a real smoocher for the last dance:
Everybody's Got To Learn Sometime - The Korgis

or for a wee larf...
Last Chance Dance - The Goodies

Going to change my Chic selection to:
My Feet Keep Dancing - Chic
- It's a better mix. And it's not pants. And it's spelled correctly.

Thanks for compiling the themes list for us Gaie, I'll make sure they go to the next themes meeting with me. I'm sorry you are not feeling quite so inspired this week folks, we really try hard to strike a balance each week as I think I've explained before. And of course we do revisit themes - not every one of our listeners is as dedicated as our bloggers, we've increased our audience and have to take into consideration that even if a theme was featured say a year ago a proportion of our audience will be enjoying it for a first time. And Glen, I'm sorry you feel for you the show has run it's course - I'd hope most weeks we find a couple of surprises and new tracks to you.
I hope you'll get behind the themes tho this week and give Graham a week of great music to pick from.
Happy Monday bloggers, Miss B

...better read the rest of the blog then... Not like Glen to be negative or anything.

I don't think there's a problem with repeating themes - I for one can't remember half the ones we've done already, but I can't remember what I had for breakfast anyway. However, the main problem I think is repeating the songs that were played first (or second) time around. The playlists would be very helpful - and yes, I also see that of course you must include the new participants whose suggestions are likely to be the more obvious ones. But - and I tread warily here as I've had so many shouts myself - there is still a tendency to pick the obvious song from a list of interesting suggestions and possibly a slight imbalance in the name-checks? As I say I tread carefully as there was a fortnight when my own name turned up 4 days out of five. Surely, surely though, there will be a take-home message from last Wednesday and Thursday - people are open to things they've not heard before. I've had a whole new world of music opened to me by GIO and that's the strength of the show for me, as well as the sense of community.

so go for it this evening - let's hear El Rayo X, which is an instantly accessible tune, will get your feet tapping and will enable Norrie and me to look for something else to 'bang on about'!

#58 they don't like me?

I have a Blue Peter badge, that's two good reasons now for me to get the job.

For Thursday I should really select something my Dad would llike.

Jimmy Shand - The Linton Ploughman

of course this would fit tonight too....

#68 I think Glen has momentarily forgotten that brilliant Lissie track I got played last week.....and Miriam Makeba....

You would think he would be forgetting what themes there were before, but perhaps as a silver surfer he has compiled a themes list....

#68

GIO has proved not to be the medium for the type of music requested here regularly with the dogged persistence of the slow learner, but even within its own mainstream ethos the programme has become repetitive in both themes and content. Perhaps a new team would invigorate the show.

THURSDAY:

OK guys, hankies at the ready...

My late Father was widowed in 1970, at only 49, when I was 7. Despite all the difficulties, I think he did a cracking job of bringing up 3 girls at a time when there wasn't much help available for people in our circumstance. He liked gentle, easy-listening, music and there are a few songs that instantly remind me of him:

'A Little Love and Understanding' - Gilbert Becaud
'Southern Nights' - Glen Campbell
'May The Wind Be Always At Your Back' - George Hamilton IV
'Running Wild' - Tom T Hall
'Greasy Grit Gravy' - Bobby Bare

Possibly most apt for Father's Day would be Don Williams - 'You're My Best Friend' which reminded him of Mum. I was a real Daddy's girl...and he was a great friend.

TUESDAY:

'Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap' - AC/DC

#65 which would mean that Lesley Judd's about 4'2" then!!!

My father had to leave school at 14 to support his widowed mother, brother and two sisters. He worked constantly, well into his seventies, to provide for us and would have to do overtime for those unexpected treats, like bail. Although troubled by poor health, he would struggle out on winter nights to give his beloved dog Rex some exercise. He never really recovered when Rex died attempting to save a troop of Girl Guides from a mineshaft. In the twilight of his years he would often sit staring at the lead hanging by the door......

Thursday

Walking The Dog - Rufus Thomas

#78 Aw Glen, if you're mocking my Father's Day post, I'm afraid I find that a bit unkind. And to think that, up till now, I'd been agreeing with your gloriously grumpy gibes!!!

This comment was removed because the moderators found it broke the house rules. Explain.

#78 - #79 - Julie - I'm sure Glen's not having a pop at you. Although he can count himself fortunate that Rex and Rufus were mentioned before my post at #80 appeared.

;o)

Are you people insane???

It was a joke!!!

I can't believe I have to do this again. It's my lunch hour!!!

For Monday - Dancing Queen - Abba

For Tuesday - Voulez-Vous - Abba

UNREAL!!!

#83 I read you forst post and could not spot anything amiss. That is quite bizarre....

Sorry first post....

MONDAY

Eddie Cochrane - Summertime Blues

Little Richard - Tutti Frutti

Maybelline - Chuck Berry

Get Ready - Temptations

To dance to has to be Pressure Drop and depending on my mood Toots and the Maytals, or the jumpier Specials version. Then at the end of the night, when it's time to get up close and personal Misty Blue by Dorothy Moore. Or, as a reminder of simpler times, and when I was fitter and more flecible how about Gap Band and Oops Upside Your Head.

Julie, I too hope that wasn't a pop at your really lovely and personal post for your tune on Thursday. Thank you for sharing your memories with us here on the blog. Thankfully it's not me on production duty on Thursday as I think it has the potential to reduce me to a weeping wreck!

Well said

#88 Thanks Babs. Not to worry though. Rest assured I wouldn't let Glen just being Glen bother me too much. I'm not bothered if anyone thinks I was being overly saccharine, or using a sob story to get something played (which most certainly wasn't the idea) :o)

What are YOUR dance anthems?

DANCE ABOUT THE BAILZIE'S DUBB from LEGACY OF THE SCOTTISH HARPERS VOLUME 2 by ROBIN WILLIAMSON

FLYING TEA DANCE from GLASTONBURY ’89 by GONG

DANCE OF THE PIXIES from 2032 by GONG

No story.

Wednesday Geekness:

Must be a guaranteed spot for Neil Hannon, no? Ideally his recent celebration of geekery:
* The Divine Comedy - At The Indie Disco

But do you get more geeky than:
* They Might Be Giants - Particle Man?

Monday Dance Anthems

Keep On Truckin - Eddie Kendricks
Fever - Sarah Vaughn (Adam Freeland Remix)
Dancehall Opertor - Transglobal Underground
Sunshine of Your Love - Cream vs The Hoxtons (radio edit)
Space Shanty - Leftfield
I'll Be Good To You - The Brothers Johnston
Stay With Me - The Faces
Zion Youth - Dreadzone ( radio Edit)
U Don't Know Me - Basement Jaxx
If I Never See Your Face Again - Maroon 5 (feat Rihannah)
Going To a Go -Go - Smokey Robinson & The Miracles
I'm A Man - Spencer Davis Group
Yu Can't Do That - the Beatles

That'll do,for now.

Thursday's now a problem... as it happens my Dad also left school at 14 to become the man of the house and provide for a widowed mother, two brothers and a sister, one of whom was killed in HMS Exmouth at the start of the war, but I had some Rodgers & Hammerstein played for him a week or so ago (interestingly,I now can't remember the theme) so to avoid the risk of being ridiculed, I'll let it go, I think.

As father to a thousand children, I have no expectations for father's day, myself - that would be a turn up for the books.

For those not familar with it, the Adam Freeland remix of Fever by Sarah Vaughan is truly awesome.

regardez youse

henri

oh, and I almost forgot

Dance of the Pschyadelic Lounge Lizards - The Neutrons.

regardez youse

henri

Monday: Are ye dancin?

The following all get my head a-bobbing and feet a-tapping

* Sawdoctors: Do you want to play my guitar?
* Ram Jam: Black Betty
* Cream: Sunshine of your Love
* Beck: Go It Alone
* Upsetters: Return of Django

Thursday Dad Rock!

For all us weekend Guitar Hero dads:
* Foghat: Slow Ride

and two utterly heartbreaking songs, one from each side of the relationship:
* Lennon - Beautiful Boy
* Bragg - Tank Park Salute
the latter in particular, taking me back to that time in childhood when your dad's still supposed to be an invincible giant.

#80 - #84 - Norrie - Thank you. I received an email telling me I have broken the house rules but not which specific rule. Do they expect you to guess???

I think it would be easier to text or email requests.

MONDAY

BUTTERFLY DANCE from ODD DITTIES by KEVIN AYERS

WALTZ FOR YOU from RAINBOW TAKEAWAY by KEVIN AYERS

DANCIN' FOOL from ANY WAY THE WIND BLOWS by FRANK ZAPPA

For Wednesday - Catch Me If You Can - Brendan Shine

An Irish farmer looking for love. Or lust!


Daddy was never what you would call a great communicator. When drinking he'd be singing or havering. (See above.) When sober he was the strong silent type. This song sums up how I feel.

For Thursday - The Greatest Man I Never Knew - Reba McEntire

Lets Dance!