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That's the very picture of Kaye Adams I have on my bedside table. *sigh*

Wake up Everybody / Harold Melvin and the Bluenotes
Just Once / James Ingram
Long Tall Sally / Little Richard
Come What May / Vikki Leandros
Don't Look any Further / Dennis Edwards
Georgia on my mind / Ray Charles
Journey / Duncan Browne



And of course
The Streak / Ray Stevens....Don't look Ethelred

That's the picture of Bryan I've got on mine.

Thursday

Let Your Head Go - Victoria Beckham

Monday

L is for La La La

If Paradise Is Half As Nice - Amen Corner
You're So Good To Me - Beach Boys
You Won't See Me - The Beatles
Nowhere Man - The Beatles
My Boyfriend's Back - The Angels
Death of a Clown - Dave Davies

Let's go L for leather

This isn't really a theme since you could have anyone from Albert to Zog.

From Ahab to Tiglath-Pileser III

THURSDAY

The Ocean Road - Runrig (Malcolm Jones)
Beauty Within - Robert Plant
Mercury Blues - David Lindley
I'm Ready - George Thorogood
Hey Renee - James Grant
Amazed - Duncan James

Interesting you should mention it, Bryan, it's been on my mind that we haven't heard the Cocteau Twins.

Bluebeard - the Cocteau Twins (Elizabeth Fraser)

I've requested this many times with zilch success.. it was heading for Pigs Might Fly but you've stepped in and rescued the situation. Well Done, Bryan! Really interesting record from their seminal 'Four Calendar Cafe' album... Elizabeth's voice comes out of the ether, other worldly.... I feel certain the listening audience will be transfixed'. Very accessible and radio friendly which isn't true of all the band's work.

regardez youse

henri

THURSDAY


A perfect excuse to ask for this again;


'Cleopatra, Queen of Denial' -


Go on, Bryan. This'll have you dancing in the studio! Turn it up LOUD!!!










Keep it Country!

'Not one bit ashamed' ... King Creosote

Will do pleasurable battle with your subconscious for days!

#5 Might be fun, if they avoid Posh.

Too many to mention, so going for some foreign ones. Apart from Sonia.

A couple of Italian royal family names - if counts
That would have been topical a few nights go. Damn.
GIORGIO Moroder Call Me
(soundtrack from American Gigolo, he composed it, Blondie sang it)
GIBERTO 'SULLIVAN Matrimony

Maybe that last one would make a good theme suggestion for M night? Maybe not... ;o)

THURSDAY - THREE KINGS

Why I Sing the Blues - B.B. King

Born Under a Bad Sign - Albert King

Same Old Blues - Freddie King

#12 Great suggestions!
Freddie, King - doing my best not to ask for the other one to get the gender balance up!
Or - why not? Klaxons all round. Probably not going to get a look in though because it isn't their most upbeat. No matter - it's one of my favourites of theirs.
QUEEN Show Must Go On

Sheik Some Action - Roi Loney

'Knee-tremblers' - music that was playing at the time.

Upon reflection, this would have been more fun(than the Kings & Queen's theme.)

Listening to the stories ("I had a knee trembler with my ex against her Mini Clubman in 1975: Cockney Rebel were on the Stereo - could you play "Make Me Smile" cause it always does. I'll be eating spicy pasta with jellied eels etc etc") would have been an amusement whilst we chomped on our spicy pasta and jellied eels..

regardez youse

henri

Pre 1707...

Malcolm McLaren ~ Double Dutch

Macbeth ~ Das Boot

Kenneth McKellar ~ Song of the Clyde

Donald Fagan ~ I.G.Y.

Edgar Winter ~ Frankenstein

Craig David ~ Walking Away

Alexander Brothers ~ Nobody's Child

Mary J. Blige ~ Family Affair

Anne Murray ~ You Needed Me

Queen Mary (Chapin Carpenter) - Dancing In The Dark

Queen Victoria (Williams) - Opelousas

King Malcolm (Middleton) - One of Us (great version of the Joan Osborne track) or Red Travelling Socks

King (Robert) Bruce (Springsteen) - Queen of The Supermarket

Queen (Thin) Lizzy - The Rocker

King James (Osterberg) - China Girl

Biblical

Esther Phillips ~ What A Difference A Day Makes

Solomon Burke ~ Cry To Me

David Soul ~ Silver Lady

The Duke & The King - If I Ever Get Famous

Elizabeth I or II: I find your love - Beth Nielsen Chapman
King William I - IV: Passing strangers - Billy Eckstine and Sarah Vaughan; You're my home - Billy Joel; Red light spells danger - Billy Ocean
(Robert 1 of Scotland, the Bruce): Night Moves - Bob Seger
Charles I - II - :La mer - Charles Trenet
King Christopher of Bavaria:Stainsby girls - Chris Rea; Say you'll be mine - Christopher Cross
King David - Girls talk - Dave Edmunds; Sugfragette City - Bowie; Lately - David Grey
Queen Edith of Wessex - La vie en rose - Edith Piaf
Queen Eleanor of Provence - Shame on the moon - Eleanor McEvoy
King Eric IX of Sweden - Change the world - Erc Clapton

Joe
Linlithgow

King Ivan George (Morrison) - Queen of the Slipstream (sublime)

King Webb XIII of Bohemia - Hitting Where It Hurts - Webb Wilder
Princess Grace of Monaco - Lawman - Grace Slick
King Jorma IV of the Faroes - Will There Be Any Stars In My Crown? - Jorma Kaukonen
King Umberto II of Savoy - All Burned Out - Savoy Brown
King Priam of Troy - This Time - Troy Shondell
King Link III of Latvia - Rumble - Link Wray
No King - Anarchy in the UK - Sex Pistols
King Withmejesus of Slovenia - Are You Drin Kingwithmejesus? - Mojo Nixon

L = Liverpool - Bands and singers from Liverpool (can you think of any?) and songs about Liverpool. To celebrate Stephen Gerrard staying with the Reds.

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#24

Is he the bass player?

King Sadim - The Hollies

KING KONG from RETURN OF THE SON OF…. by DWEEZIL ZAPPA

ZPZ@GRCH 26/07/2010 yipeee!!!

MONDAY

LUCK


Lucky Stars.

Lucky Lips.

Lucky F _ _ _ _ _ ellow.

I should be so lucky.......





















...lucky lucky lucky.

A marked lack of queens on the blog, Scotch. Any ideas to swell their contribution?

Greggary! Good to see you back.

Queens:

Walking on Broken Glass- Annie Lennox

After Midnight - Maggie Bell

Perm lotion... Plays havoc with your hair!

Brother Louie, Modern Talking
Lets get ready to rhumble, PJ & Duncan

and the nealry heirs -
Take me out, (Archduke) Franz Ferdinand
Left outside alone, Anastcia (Grand Duchess of Russia)

#27

I see the drummer played with . You'll get Girls On Film as an encore.

It was the same when Brian Bennett played with Georgie Fame. They used to shout out for Foot Tapper.

#27 YIPPEE!!

THURSDAY

WHISPERING GRASS from LIKE AN OLD FASHIONED WALTZ by Alexandra(SANDY)DENNY

seconds for King Creosote and Malcolm Middleton

L = Lyrics - the best ones, not the loony ones

L = Local Heroes - the bands/singers with a connection to your home town
(bit like Janice Forsyth's Rock & Roll map of Scotland)

L = Long songs - 5-6 mins (someone else suggested this way back, I'm just seconding it)

#8

I have a very, very dim memory of Pearly Dewdrops Drops being played once upon a time.

However, that's not stopped me requesting Donimo regularly, nor the team from knocking me back every time.

On a retourné de la belle France, où il faisait du soleil et plus de 30C tous les jours depuis 2 semaines. Qu'est-ce que ce genre de choses humides tombant du ciel?

It's rain Capn.

#36. Pearly Dewdrops etc been played a few times.

Go With The Flow - Queens of the Stone Age.
Little Queenie - Flamin' Groovies.
Dancing Queen - Dan Baird & The Sofa Kings.

L is for Louche.

#37

Ah, right. One way to wash the bugs off the windscreen then.

Yep, keep the bugs off your glass and the bears off your ass.

#40 Use brake fluid Capn it will work a treat at getting the bugs off the paintwork etc.

But don't drink it like you do with the anti-freeze.

#42 Norrie, put brake fluid on your paintwork and you'll be looking at a re-spray.

The Capn' ran off with Norrie's wife, WH.

Yeah but the bugs would be gone!

L is for Loss of Lustre

L is for Lost. (Needn't just be maudlin stuff)
Getting in an early one for P is for Plot. (Songs with a beginning, middle and end)
Not a reflection on tonight's show.

I think we've lost the plot. King Ike? Queen Tina?

When is Queen Pam of Pam Springs gonna get played?

#49 Aye - ah ken. It's a stoater. But King Edwyn - BRILLIANT!

MONDAY

'The Jolly Captain' - Jake Thackray ~ for Norrie (see #45)

>8-D

#51 more duplicity on the blog. Who'd have thunk it?

Several unwrapped Springsteen Official denture cases vanished around the same time. It's been a source of bitterness.

Much wailing and gnashing of teeth.......

It is King Sham 69 I'm struggling to find on google.....

I'm not here to bolster anyone's ego other than my own (LOL!! see, I can laugh at myself, eh?), but Glen and Scotch - you two deserve an invite to the Queen's Garden Party next year for that. She's a bit fussy but. Takes them back at the touch of a "this won't be too good for our PR" button. I would take my hat off to her and fancy your chances. Even if the whole royalty thing makes no sense to me.

Baby take your teeth out, There ain't nothin' left to smile about.

#57

just as an aside, I think Bryan looks in need of a holiday in that picture. He's not a teacher by day is he?

Wasn't Beth Nielsen Chapman excellent tonight?

Just seen that photie of Bryan..and i thought i looked like a muppet in the 80s

#62

Fell headfirst into that and no mistake....

#60 best show in ages I thought apart from the execrable version of Proud Mary. Worked out that John Fogarty must be the excuse then bamboozled by Queen Tina.

Annie Lennox was a complete afterthought only prompted by Glen looking for some queens. 2 bars into the song my son says Oh I beep beep love that song. Well whatd'ya know.

Anyway, today's top tip: since perm lotion's ruinous to the hair, perhaps brake fluid would be a suitable alternative?

#64

The Skids left their mark...

Indeed, though I'm told perm lotion's good for removing them

Thats the last time I take his washing in....

#59

He's not a teacher but he's proud of his 11+

So what's L then. Missed the end of the show after nearly crashing the car when Bryan revealed that he blew George Benson.

80's floorfillers

The 80's was when I started playing Dave Doubledecks in the days when mobile discos meant dashing home from work, fighting through the kids toy cupboard to get the twelve boxes of records at the back of the cupboard and then off to play some function or other before coming home knackered and have to put all the record boxes back at the back of the cupboard again. I mean where's the fun now of carrying 18 zillion songs around on a wee chip.

The beginning of the decade saw many student roller discos. We used to play musical chairs on roller skates in those days before health and safety and hadanaccidentnotyourfault had been invented.

Let it all blow / Dazz Band
Round and Round / Jaki Graham
Let the Music Play / Shannon
Ain't Nobody / Rufus & Chaka Khan
Hold Me Tighter in the rain / Billy Griffin
I Found Lovin / Fatback Band
Treat her Like a lady / Temptations
When she was my girl / Four Tops
Funkin For Jamaica / Tom Browne
Rockit / Herbie Hancock





and for those needing a bit of exercise
Oops upside your head / Gap Band

#69

Paolo,

It's Lust & Loathing, courtesy of joe-k-brown.

Oh that's the theme! I thought that was them discussing the contributions of Glen to the blog...

#64 Yup know what mean!
Had my suspicions that the theme criteria would slip... See Facebook & like I said "anything goes"

Personally, just disappointed to have missed suggesting more longshots... I.E. Boris Gardiner's Elizabethan Reggae!

#71
Ah excellent. Lust and Loathing. I don't remember ever hearing Atlantic Soulsters The Persuaders on the show before. They recorded the original versions of the likes of Gladys Knights 'Best Thing that Ever Happened to me' and Palmer's Some Guys Have all the Luck. They also did the original of what might well be the Klaxon song for Monday but their version is brilliant.

Thin Line between Love and Hate / The Persuaders

Their platinum album is a must for any soul fans.

80s...

'I gave It Up (When I Fell In Love)' - Luther Vandross
'She's A Bad Mama Jama' - Carl Carlton
'Da-a-a-ance' - The Lambrettas
'Wild Is The Wind' - David Bowie
'A Solid Bond In Your Heart' - Style Council




'Classical Muddley' - Portsmouth Sinfonia (maybe just for the montage)

Great Bowie track Julie.

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Here are some of the things I was listening to in the eighties - The Stranglers were absolutely glued to my cassette player for a long while, and I pounced on every new Robert Cray album. There was also Robert Johnson, John Lee Hooker, B.B King etc etc - but you don't want to know about them

I watched bits of the Live Aid DVD recently and remembered how knocked out I was that night by George Thorogood. Actually he was probably among the last of the artists I can remember at all from that concert since I was knocked out again soon after due to intoxication.
It had been a long day.

Ice Queen - the Stranglers

She's Gone - Robert Cray

She's Into Something - Robert Cray, Albert COllins, Johnny Copeland

Madison Blues - George Thorogood & the Destroyeers + Albert Collins

Knock on Wood - Eric Clapton

Angels With Dirty Faces - Frankie Miller

Harvest Home - Big Country

then came kids and it all went blurry again for a while

Eighties dance type stuff: ~

MASTER BUILDER (SHAMEN REMIX) from YOU REMIXED by GONG (THE SHAMEN)

M is for MOON and also for MOTHER

1980s...............

1980 - THE ROSE by BETTE MIDLER
1981 - ALL THOSE YEARS AGO by GEORGE HARRISON
1982 - VALLEY GIRL by FRANK & MOON ZAPPA
1983 - ROCK THE CASBAH by THE CLASH
1984 - WONDERIN' by NEIL YOUNG
1985 - MATERIAL GIRL by MADONNA
1986 - TRUE COLORS by CYNDI LAUPER
1987 - TOUCH OF GREY by THE GRATEFUL DEAD
1988 - HANDLE WITH CARE by TRAVELLING WILBURYS
1989 - I MISS YOU LIKE CRAZY by NATALIE COLE

80s floorfillers

While I wasn't so much of a mixmaster as paolopablo, I did run an 80s night for a friend's 40th, so here's a few highlights of the monster 383 track nostalgia heavy playlist I put together for that night, run off double computers accessing a shared music library:

* Dexy's Midnight Runners - Come On Eileen
* Depeche Mode - Just Can't Get Enough
* Billy Joel - Uptown Girl Double points to the Ashes to Ashes crew for their
* Peter Gabriel - Sledgehammer
* The Thompson Twins - Hold Me Now Although Lies was a major floorfiller at the time iirc
* XTC - Sgt Rock (is going to help me)
* Adam and the Ants - Kings of the Wild Frontier
* Dr & the Medics - Spirit in the Sky
* Madness - Baggy Trousers/It Must Be Love/House of Fun
* Matthew Wilder - Break My Stride
* Lloyd Cole - Lost Weekend
* The Passions - I'm In Love With A German Film Star
* Terence Trent D'Arby - Sign Your Name
* Sly Fox - Let's Go All The Way
* Julian Cope - World Shut Your Mouth
* Special AKA - Nelson Mandela
* Transvision Vamp - Baby I Don't Care
* Imagination - Just An Illusion
* The Jam - Going Underground
* Communards - Don't Leave Me This Way
* Heaven 17 - Temptation
* Ultravox - Love's Great Adventure
* Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Two Tribes
* The Cure - Love Cats
* REM - It's The End of the World As We Know It Would have suggested Shiny Happy People but that was '91
* Stone Roses - She Bangs the Drums Yes, it really was over 20yrs ago
* The Housemartins - Happy Hour
* Yazz - The Only Way Is Up Wherein house music discovered Melody & The Hook
* Siousie & the Banshees - Happy House
* Echo & the Bunnymen - Killing Moon For when you need to complain and
* The Psychedelic Furs - Pretty in Pink with hat-tip to perhaps the iconic 80s movie
* The Cult - She Sells Sanctuary
* House of Love - Shine On


And you have to end the night with the last track of the Disco to end all last tracks of the Disco: Careless Whisper. So ubiquitous that it was referenced in a Ben Elton, linked to fun sized Mars Bars.

Fully expecting a few QI klaxons for this lot btw.

Ach you should have gone the whole hog and listed all 383. Presumably it was a very long party.......

Stephanie Mills - Never Knew Love Like This Before

Pointer Sisters - Automatic

OMD - Souvenier


awasy to get the ingredients for my Prawn Cocktail and Scampi Basket Supper, now where did I put that second bottle of Black Tower....

#83 You seem to be thinking of the 1970s (or I suppose the early 80s in most of the country where the 70s lasted until about 1983).

Do you mean the food or the singles or the wine?

If they are not 80's singles I will eat one of my life size Springsteen cardboard cut outs!

Food & Wine.

Aye well took a while for us to catch up in the highlands.

I'm having crispy pancakes...curry flavour. And a bottle of creamola foam to wash it down.

Could we have a bit Of Frankie tonight? Relax.... you're not Mike Reid.

#89 if you have a bottle of Cremola foam don't finish it! Riches will be yours!!!

#91
I had to use a bottle. The tin at the back of the cupboard was rusty with gunge around the lid.

#89, #91, #92. Allegedly, tins of cremola fizz (had to change the name) are to be found at Oxgangs Scotmid in Edinburgh. Not supposed to taste quite the same as the original though. Now...if anyone could find the recipe for Cresta...before they made it less frothy man...