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New York City Serenade - Bruce Springsteen, yet another side of the Boss

Broadway - The Clash, I remember the Clash opening with this track at the Apollo on the Sandinista Tour. Intense moment as Joe stared out the punks and forced them to listen to the track. Brilliant.

Wednesday

Across 110th Street - Bobby Womack
America - Simon & Garfunkel
Harlem Shuffle - Bob & Earl
14th Street - Laura Cantrell
New York Groove - Ace Frehley
New York Tendaberry - Lara Nyro
Whizz Kid - Mott The Hoople
6th Avenue Heartache - The Wallflowers

O is for Orchestration

Records using additional instrumentation from the French horn on The Beatles' For No One to the symphony orchestra on A Day In The Life

Have the GIOproducers suddenly discovered Photoshop??

Or is it a blatant waste of post it's on the pacific Quay windae?

New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most of it unsolved.
- Johnny Carson

King of the New York Streets - Dion.
Downtown Train - Tom Waits.
Boy From New York City - Darts.
The Man From Harlem - Cab Calloway.
Take The A Train - Duke Ellington W/ Ella Fitzgerald.

Great theme and Glen beat me to Bobby womacks Across 110th st. I doubt there'll be a better song all night so big seconds.

Could go for the Manhattans Henri but I'll go for a non soul one tonight
Ellis Island / Mary Black.

Superb.

N = New York

Staten Island Groove - Down to the Bone
too long I suppose,at a bit over 6' but if this is jazz I could easily be converted - love it

or
Staten Island - Dave Swarbrick or Gaberlunzie
which in contrast, is very short!

Central Park N' West - Ian Hunter

Balham to Brooklyn - Turin Brakes

Macy's Day Parade - Green Day

O = Old Testament

N fur New York,New York.....


Steely Dan --- Brooklyn Owes The Charmer


Ella Fitzgerald --- Manhattan

Meet up in Embra..

Hope to see a few of you there

New York

Watching the Wheels - John Lennon

one of a few great songs written and recorded by John after he moved to New York in 1972/73.There are a couple of others:

Tight As - John Lennonfrom Mind Games

You Can't Catch Me - John Lennon

this is delightful, from the 'Rock n Roll' album - John covers the Chuck Berry classic which he slowed down and turned into 'Come Together' and recorded this to save a lawsuit for plagiarism.....listen carefully for ' here come old flattop he come groovin up with me'

Warming to the theme now... more to follow,

regardez - youse

henri

Native New Yorker / Odyssey
New Amsterdam / Elvis Costello
New New York / Cranberries
We're A Happy Family / T. Ramones
Modern Bummer / Bill Hicks

New York... Madonna's favourite place!!!!

Grace Jones The Apple Stretching
Apparently all about the New York experience. Never been there. I just like the song.
Pet Shop Boys New York City Boy
Sting Englishman In New York
Quentinssentially English.
Gerard Kenny New York, New York
I love it.
Patsy Gallant (who?) From New York To LA

Did I say I enjoy a bit of camp? well, the guy lines don't stretch to the New York Dolls. Tight trousers and gender quirks don't quite do it if the songs are pish. Cheap Stones rip offs who thought they were punk, but glam, too.

Great theme. Happy to second FiD's Manhattan suggestion(#9 ).

Also:
New York, New York - Ryan Adams
New York state of mind - Billy Joel (duet with Tony Bennett)
Good night, New York - Nanci Griffith
Downtown train - Rod Stewart
NYC or City of immigrants - Steve Earle
My city of ruins - Springsteen
Angel of Harlem - U2
Boy from New York City - Darts
Nights on Broadway - Candi Staton

Joe
Linlithgow

#11 my favourite Lennon song by miles Henri. Great great song.

I would also love to hear Mary D's suggestion of Apple Stretching reminds me of a wonderful morning in New York.....

Only living boy in New York, Simon & Garfunkel
New York Minute, Don Henley
No sleep til Brooklyn, The Beastie Boys
Baba O'Riley, The Who (theme to 'CSI New York')

#3

Thought I'd seen that hairstyle

Simon and Garfunkel-59th street Bridge Song
Loud Reed-(Take a Walk on the) Wild Side
Seconding Kirstie for Only Living Boy in New York as well as New York Minute.
Would anything by Manhattan Transfer count?

re previous comment-it really could be "Loud" Reed but of course I meant the inestimable Lou

WEDNESDAY

Francis Albert? Nah! Let's hear the original...


'New York, New York' - Liza Minnelli

THURSDAY

ORGANISED CRIME

Smuggling - Bootlegging - Lawyers - Guns - Money - Arrest - Trial - Prison - An unilluminated Xmas tree, owing to a complete absence of electricity.

WEDNESDAY - NEW YORK

The last time we did New York it was my favourite ever prog., judging by the suggestions so far it should be a belter....

Walking Down Madison - Kirsty McColl

Paul from Ayr

#10
is it still as per Julie's instructions on lastfm?

O is for outrageous. The stars that shocked! I'm sure Vic could get away with it!

Robinson Crusoe in New York - The Silencers

The person you are calling is on the phone at present...

New York Telephone Conversation "Lou Reed" in case you hadn't guessed.

Wonder what the actual percentage of repeated / repackaged daily themes this monotonous idea is actually generating?

All this user's posts have been removed.Why?

NY

Got to have some Simon and Garfunkel tonight Vic.... lots to choose from;

Only Living Boy In New York
America
Homeward Bound
59th Steet Bridge Song
A Heart In New York

But I would urge you to take a punt on a little played but brilliant track BLEECKER STREET from their first album 'Wednesday Morning 3AM',

Repeat of post made on previous thread (this thread wasn't available at the time I thought of the song)

New York Groove - Hello

A growly "great" way to kick off the show Vic!





Scotch, shame I missed your post!

DC

#28 I'll back Hello, since I once saw them in Rothesay Pavilion as I've no doubt told you umpteen times before.

New York

Some great stuff already above, not least Sting, Don Henley, Lennon (I'd have gone for Mother myself, iirc there's a recording from the Madison Square Garden gig), Tom Waits and Springsteen - City of Ruins is essential.

My suggestions though are
* The Pogues - Thousands are Sailing
which namechecks half of Manhattan.
* Bob Dylan - - not all NYC immigrants come from overseas. This is from the time when he was sitting in Greenwich Village, not getting the gigs.
* Matthew's Southern Comfort - Woodstock
as that was in New York State. Which also opens the door for .

Also:
* The Nice - America - great Prog treatment of the classic musical number

WEDNESDAY

One for saltspringsherri


'New York City' -


Uncle Vic, if you can't find the Cub original, 'They Might Be Giants' did a cover version.

#29

It's not been pulled yet. Under further consideration.

Can't imagine why; it's perfectly innocent.......

All this user's posts have been removed.Why?

NEWSFLASH!

On 'Magic' night Glen Miller had 7 of his requests played.

A new course record!

When asked to choose a theme for the letter O, Glen responded;

"OMG, out of this world, overjoyed, overcome, outrageously off the scale!"









This reporter suggests obsequious!

#33 "This comment was removed because the moderators found it broke the House Rules." is what it says on my computer. You're going to have to mail a confession I think!

DC

When the cat's away, the mice should play. My suggestion for Thursday is Off limits for GiO.

This is an opportunity for Uncle Vic to devote an entire show to Tull / Bragg / Gilmour / Stones / Floyd etc without getting the thumbs down before the show even starts.

Come on Vic, let's educate the masses!

DC

O theme

Completely agreeing with Glen for O is for Orchestration.

I can think of a full show's worth off the top of my head, starting with
Fiction Factory - Life in a Northern Town
and carrying on with Strawberry Switchblade (and their Sibelius steal), Modern Romance, The Beatles (multiple options there), Blur etc etc.

# 36

It must be certain words that trigger some moderators and not others.

On reflection,I was quite surprised when one of my posts on the K theme stayed up longer than 30 seconds.

#37

Hah - great idea. Switching support from Glen to you!

(Although I was wowwed last night by She's Got A New Spell (and kicking myself for not having thought of it))

Great suggestion by Joe though it is quite interesting that My City of Ruins by Springsteen is not about New York. It is about Asbury Park and was played live by him a year before the 911 attacks.

That said it is a great song and most people will rightly assocaite it with New York. Wonder if there is a theme idea in there songs which have become linked with events...Cars and Drive being an obvious example.

#37

Or to put it another way, the suggestions that Bryan declares will only be played

"OVER MY DEAD BODY!"

>8-D

Slaughter on 10th Avenue - Mick Ronson

#37, #40 and #42

and if that doesn't work then

P = Please can we hear the songs that never get played
Q = Quite out of then ordinary - the songs that never get played
R = Revolutionary - the songs etc
S = Songs that etc
T = Time for something different - the etc
U = Unusual songs that etc
V = Vic's choice, the songs that Bryan won't play
W = Well I never heard that one on GIO before
X = the unknown, songs that listeners to GIO have never heard on the prog before
Z = Zat's amazing! Fancy Vic playig all those songs that etc

Bet none of them make it. Babs isn't away....

#34, #35

Over the Moon!

#44 etc

big 2nd for all of those: starting tomorrow night (Atomic Rooster) with massive endorsement for O = 'Over My Dead Body'

Most of the other suggestions I would have made in addition to my John Lennon ones have been made - so it should be a good night.

Pleased that no one here has put up Alicia Keys, though one f***book friend has - mind you, the vox pop texters have still to get going.

God, if there is one song that drives me plain round the twist at the moment, it's that one.I don't even dislike Alicia Keys, just find that
Noooo yok..... Noooo Yok... thing insufferable.I hate the sentiment too. Even Madonna's tribute to New York is quite listenable, but not that.

Vic, do the decent thing - and spare us Empire State of Mind.

"O" for Over-the-top,as in prog rock from the 70's...there really were some good tines, perhaps one or two might have been a smidge overblown...no names,no pack drill.

Must learn to proofread posts.By the way, NO Rick Wakeman, please-there's overblown and then there's insane.

O for Outrageous (or so it seemed at the time) from the hips of Elvis to the Sex Pistols to Lady Gaga..........outrageous behaviour, music and costumes.

New York..

Anything by the Beastie Boys
American English by Idlewild (Idlewild was of course the previous name for JFK Airport)
A Punk by Vampire Weekend- mentions the Hudson River among other places

Anything by the Strokes or They Might Be Giants would be good as well. And some Twisted Sister too thanks!

O is for outsiders, the Ostracised. Songs about face not fitting, being different. Stuff like that.

Another blinding show tonight, Vic. Apart from the current track.... but, hey. Someone somewhere asked for it! ;o)

Is it too early for a "Vic for GIO" campaign?

Yes

R is for Racoons

Yippee it's Outer Space yet again!!!

P is for Peripatetic

Q is for Quiet - a show with no songs

R is for...
I meant S is for Silence, or Showstoppers. Or Strippers.

T is for Tonight's the Night.

Got a PC to fix.

#59

How do we know he's not cheating by playing John Cage's 4'33" on repeat?

PC not fixed. Leave it for another day

#62 You just spotted the flaw in the concept. Someone would be bound to notice and there'd be outrage at why he only ever played Cage or something. Best stick to something safe. Like Space. ;o)
BTW - I think Vic's doing a great job. A good mix of stuff getting played. And he's got the patter - can't remember who it was that filled in a while back - he didn't seem at all comfortable with reading out comments or creating a flow or ambience, he just announced the songs.

I think the last guy's speciality was commerce. His knowledge of the Beatles would not have covered a postage stamp.

Hmmmm

Space









See you next week

;0)

The final front ear.

Even if his knowledge of the Beatles was patchy, it could have been made up for by sounding like he was engaging with the listeners and enjoying the process. That's another reason I listen in - I don't always enjoy every song, but the banter and feeling of being part of something where everybody has a shot at a shout makes it for me. That other guy didn't do it. (His final front ear must be burning)
Now I sound a bit needy. Have we done N already? ;o)