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Did anyone catch this radio 2 programme about Sandy Denny last week? Someone just told me it had been on, but there's only 3 hours left to listen again

Yes it was great Gaie. I did not know much about get but loved the Mark Olson song Sandy Denny so listened in.

#1 Anything that gives Fats Waller a play is fine by me. Listening as I type. Thanks for that tip!

Now I understand it - obviously, the new teeth were fitted between last night and tonight.

And something else that finally dawned on me tonight is that the reason so many of our contributors tell us what they're having for tea is because all their taste is in their mouths.

Still, good to know Big Al in Maryport is alive:

I'll let someone chomping their tea tomorrow evening request 'Weather With You'.

I'm tempted to go for Hurricane Smith.

#4 That chomper could very well be me. But I'm resisting.
My request is even more predictable, but it does have some personal meaning. The first song I "danced" to with my husband. Neither of us could/can dance but it didn't matter. All my Christmases came at once that school disco night many moons ago.
The Weather Girls It's Raining Men

#1 Still a brilliant link. Showing my ignorance, I've heard her sing but didn't know much about her. She had a wonderful folk voice.

10,000 Maniacs - Just Like The Weather

Marianne Faithfull - Strange Weather

Duke & The King - Summer Morning Rain

Der Boss - Waiting On A Sunny Day

Paul Weller - Early Morning Rain (great cover of I think Gordon Lightfoot?)

Ryan Adams - Carolina Rain

Toni Childs - Let The Rain Come Down (remember her??)

I commend these tunes to the House.

Ella Fitzgerald Stormy Weather - if anyone else likes this, I'm happy to go with their artist of choice seeing as it's been recorded by umpteen fantastic singers. But I am very keen on Ella.
she also did a very nice version of Cream's
Sunshine of Your Love

I think we need a jazz night.

Ok - last one...tonight. I've commented too much already. But it's a good one. Promise.

Bill Withers Ain't No Sunshine

Wind Up - Jethro Tull

No Gaie - it's not a wind up.....

Blinded By Rainbows - Rolling Stones
Like A Hurricane - Roxy Music
Rain - Status Quo
I Love A Rainy Night - Eddie Rabbit
Snowblind - Black Sabbath

Jeez oh etc. Adam that Roxy cover pulled out of nowhere. Was that not from the Apollo recorded by the Clyde 1 mobile?

Really great suggestion.

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cheers FinD ... top man!

Blah Blah Blah ... Iggy Pop

I do I do I do I do I do ... ABBA

'The West ain't what it used to be' ... Carson Robinson & his Pioneers ... yeehah!

'I shall not be moved' ... Devil in a Woodpile

Just back fae Auld Reekie. Emdy thinkin of takin in a show should consider the News Revue at The Pleasance. Brill.

Having read the intro above, I hadn't a clue what the W decision was. I take it from the blogs posted that it's the weather?

If so, Fog on the Tyne is my suggestion. The Lindisfarne version please.....

DC

Has anyone checked Tracy from Glasgow is ok?

'Wild Is The Wind' - David Bowie
'Wild As The Wind' - Steve Forbert

#9 LOL!

THURSDAY

One for Gaie. Tull don't do many covers. Here's one of T-Bone Walker's;

'Stormy Monday' - Jethro Tull


And one for Mary-Doll;

'Cold Wind to Valhalla' - Jethro Tull

:-)

#19
she's fine Norrie and the hanging baskets dangling from her ankles are in full bloom

Oops!

Make that 'Stormy Monday Blues'
















silly git

'Randy Scouse Git' ... The Monkees
'Nine million rainy days' ... The Jesus & Mary Chain
'I hope your happy now' ... Elvis & the Attractions
'Fiona slag' ... Joe Lima
'She's unreal!' ... Meat Beat Manifesto

MONDAY

XENOPHILIA

Let's celebrate the cultural influences of our multi-cultural utopia!

MONDAY

XENOPHOBIA

Let's not!

'Hail Hail Rock n Roll' - Chuck Berry

Given the sad passing of Bobby Hebb how about Sunny?

Paolo will know more about him than me....

This is not the Mozz track....

#21 thank you Scotch! Superb!

Breezin / George Benson
Against the wind / Bob Seger.
Thunder road / Loose Windscreen (you know which version)
Matchstalk men and matchstalk cats and dogs / Brian and Michael
Tender falls the Rain / Randy Crawford
Dust in the Wind / Kansas
Snowflake Boogie / Jools Holland and Edwin Starr
Full force Gale / Van the Man



Only kidding about cats and dogs...not a requeat. Just an observation!

ach, got it now ... weather .... !

'Pissin' ... Todd Rundgren

#28
A classic Norrie. RIP!

#32
I was just about to say I'll have some of what you're on!

'Foot Of The Mountain' - a har

Kene - just in case you're getting a bit jaded, if the blog's no longer doing it for you - don't forget
Aha The Sun Always Shines On TV
Cheers.

Thunder Road
I always ask for BS songs.

Reggae Tune - Andy Fairweather-Low

Stormy Weather - Etta James

Nice Weather For Ducks - Lemon Jelly

Weather Storm - Massive Attack

Storm Comin' - Gnarls Barkley

I Can't Stand The rain - Ann Peebles

What Have They Done To The Rain - The Searchers

Meet Me On The Corner - Lindisfarne - (from Fog On The Tyne)

Chocolate - Snow Patrol

Your Hands - Sunscreem

Arabesque No 1 - Isao Tomita ( from 'Snowflakes are Falling')

Sunshine Of Your Love - Cream vs The Hoxtons

Any of these would be fantastic to hear, the highlighted ones are especially worth hearing, in my humble opinion.

reagrdez youse

henri

#36 you too? Thets you, joe and I! they really should start playing him.

Bruce Springsteen - Dry Lightning.

CCR - Have You Ever Seen The Rain?

Kene Gelly was just making a hash of things again (#13)

Norrie, you've gone all Kelvinsaide

No More Cloudy Days / Eagles

X is for wrong

Songs about wrong stuff

there's hunners!

Oh my Gaie I'm just paying for the banter!

Getting these lists down to a manageable number consumes more time than compiling the lists.

I salute my manageability!

THURSDAY

'Weathercock' - Jethro Tull

'Rainbow Blues' - Jethro Tull

'Storm Warning' - Bonnie Raitt

'Ancient Rain' - Mary Coughlan

'Against the Wind' - M谩ire Brennan

'The Sky is Crying' - George Thorogood & The Destroyers

#43 you'll be calling it repartee in a minute



Before the Deluge - Jackson Browne

Louisiana Rain - Tom Petty

Smokestack Lightnin' - Howlin' Wolf

Riders on the Storm - the Doors

Dancing in the Rain - Sensational Alex Harvey Band


and seconds for Bonnie Rait, George Thorogood and Bob Seger, who made at LEAST 4 records,

X - give us a Kiss..............

Before The Deluge.....too classy for GIO i'm afraid.

More than happy to endorse Thunder Road. Also,
Boogie nights - Heatwave
Heatwave/Cry like a rainstorm - Linda Ronstadt
Hot in the city - Billy Idol
Morning sunshine - Cerys Matthews
Misty blue - Dorothy Moore
The sun ain't gonna shine anymore -Walker Brothers
Raining on our love - Shania Twain
The rain - the Swell Season
Come rain or come shine - Ray Charles
Ride like the wind - Christopher Cross

Joe
Linlithgow

#44 'Against the Wind' - M谩ire Brennan
Yes, yes, yes. Brilliant.

#12
Norrie, I know His Royal Roxyness, John, could answer this better than me but I`ll try.
I know the song from the early 80`s when I think it was on the Jealous Guy single or EP. Its definitely on Heart Still Beating which is a live album released in 90 (I think) but contains recordings from shows in Paris in the early 80s. Its a great album and has Song For Europe on it which RJ and I often request for appropriate themes.

4 track ep from memory......RJ will be along to confirm!

ps have my tickets for the Glasgow show in January so looking forward to that!

Ho hum... Weather, the soft touch!

Rain ~ Bruce Ruffin
Singin' in the rain ~ Kene Gelly
At the first fall on snow ~ Hank Williams
Here comes the flood ~ Peter Gabriel
Misty mountain hop ~ Led Zeppelin

Whining...eh, Way too edgy for Happy Radio!

#52

I was going too but the second mortgage fell through.

Rain - The Beatles - Impeccable
Suzy Lightning - Warren Zevon - She's on strike
Change In The Weather - John Fogerty

X is for Xanadu

Kublai Khan had his summer cottage here - songs about the holidays.

Chuck Berry "No Particular Place to Go" (well, it features the line "Hail hail rock'n'roll?)
John Martyn "Singin' in the Rain"
Beatles or Randy California "Rain"
Hawkwind "Wind of Change"

55 & 27 - sorry, Julie, didn't notice you'd done the pun already :(

#34 #36 #40
P/MD/G ... it's an age thing, which you hopefully know nothing of! Your thoughts are welcomed and re-assuring!

... Frank, any idea how to get a smiley on Apple?


It's got to be 'Singing in the Rain' by Gene Kelly ... been waiting a while for this!

#53
I think he would have been singin somewhere tonight, MM.

#54
I`d thought of Xanadu as theme too but along the lines of the works of Jeff Lynne. A firm favourite on GIO.

(Julie did you know that ONJ did a song with The Tubes in Xanadu)

#53 ... pity it wasn't ... could've had MadMac selections for the entire show otherwise ... cue smiley face!

Weather

Buckets of Rain - Bob Dylan
Four Strong Winds - Neil Young
Let the Sunshine In - 5th Dimension
Misty - Ray Stevens
Snowbird - Ann Murray

Paul from Ayr

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#57 K.G.

i just dae this :o)



Thursday..

Bryan Ferry ------ A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall

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For Thursday - The Thunder Rolls - Garth Brooks

Bryan - If it's possible would you please play the long version from the album Double Live

Thank you!

:o)




Theme suggestion for Monday

I think it was Henri who suggested ringtones or songs for our Exes.

These themes have been too sugary! Give us an outlet for our anger and hatred!!!

;o)

THURSDAY

Raining in my Heart

Sunshine Day - Osibisa

Birdland - Weather Report

and - is this how you say it? - I'll see you Roxy Music and raise you this:

Like a Hurricane -

Jeff Healey joins the list I think,

of

X - the unknown on GIO: all the singers, songs and bands that have never been played.

Remember how popular the classics night was? Music that had most certainly never been played on GIO.
Did the listeners revolt? No.

How about a compromise?

I have to listen to what other folks have for their tea while they have to listen to songs they've never heard before.
Deal.

X = artists / bands with an x in their name.

Jimi Hendrix to El Rayo X

That's given me an idea for Z

X

All those songs / bands which are normally crossed off the GiO playlists






DC

(If this fog lifts it'll never be mist)

#67 how long are you going to keep us guessing what your suggestion for z will be?

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Z is for Zappa and Zeavon.
Yes it鈥檚 a Glen Miller Tribute night.
Bloggers, Texters, Facebookers and Callers, you can all have a night off as that much maligned blogger Glen Miller chooses all the songs for one night only.
GIO is given over to the Rorschach of the blog and he鈥檒l be choosing his favourites Wednesday night.

From the Sin Bin...

Have you ever seen the rain / Creedence Clearwater Revival
Colder Weather (new song) / Zac Brown
Fire & Rain / James Taylor

Keepin it free from a "NOW" compilation!

The 鈥淟ike A Hurricane鈥� exchange and other posts on this threed made me think of this as a possible theme:

X Marks The Spot 鈥� Hidden treasures.

Those songs that are tucked away on EPs, B sides, live albums and movie soundtracks and rarely played. Or artists who are considered one hit wonders but who have another gem or two not usually heard.

#65/68

Gaie/DC big 2nd for X= crossed off from GIO.

During this alphabet there has been a recurring groundswell for a show of denied requests - for artists not normally played on GIO: a PMF show.

It's not without precedent: there have been shows that have been minority exclusive: for new requesters, for classical music and so on.

Anecdotal evidence says these worked well. Being Thursday, this would give everyone the weekend to figure out what they'd like to hear. It would give the team the weekend to consider the early suggestions.

After about a year of regularly listening and blogging and thinking about this - this is is my point: I don't think our denied requests are denied because they don't want to play them - I think they are denied because they are not familiar with them - and - it's too risky.

I was struck by this when Vic was presenting: the show had a different 'feel' and some music was played that I don't think Bryan would have rushed at but a double check at the playlists didn't reveal anything revolutionary.

This means the presenters are picking within a comfort zone and it's hard to blame them: on space night someone requested 'The Intergalactic Laxative' by Donovan, which Vic hadn't heard of (but is an amusing ditty in keeping with the theme but somewhat risque).Had Vic played it, he might have got into hot water and if I understand it correctly, post Ross/Brand, gettng into hot water isn't a good idea at the Beeb.

So, the cautious reluctance is understandable - but is it also reasonable and fair to those who are giving up their time to inter act and participate in such success as the show enjoys to also be marginalised in some important ways.

If I'm remotely in the right ballpark, that some of this is lack of knowledge, should we expect a greater knowledge/research committment from the team?

If we put our requests for such a show in over the weekend they could be more thorughly checked before we get on air.Or does that happen already and our requests for the X list just don't get considered? It would be nice to know.

If they want to constantly improve a great show, it's unlikely to be achieved without some additional graft, if you can call music appreciation graft.

I think it's about time, once in a whole alphabet, that the minority that constitutes the regular bloggers got their wishes fulfilled.Once in an alphbet doesn't seem unreasonable even it it takes a temporary uplift in research.

But since that's not going to happen, I suggest:

X = Xerox: stuff copied or based on something else

regardez youse

henri

* Sawdoctors - Will It Ever Stop Raining?
And then the wind blew my ice-cream onto the sand...
Typical Irish summer weather - pretty similar here too. But served up with a cheeky little Ska groove.

* Dubstar - St Swithin's Day
Very nice cover of the beautifully reflective Bragg song.

#73 really like that as a theme.

Weather: ~

STORMBRINGER from STORMBRINGER by JOHN AND BEVERLEY MARTYN

BLESS THE WEATHER from BLESS THE WEATHER by JOHN MARTYN

CASTLE IN THE CLOUDS from ANGEL鈥橲 EGG (RADIO GNOME INVISIBLE PART 2) by GONG

A SPRINKLING OF CLOUDS from YOU (RADIO GNOME INVISIBLE PART 3) by GONG

RAINDROP TABLAS from SHAPESHIFTER by GONG

SECOND WIND from FAMILY JEWELS by PIERRE MOERLEN鈥橲 GONG

DOWNWIND from DOWNWIND by PIERRE MOERLEN鈥橲 GONG

THE WEATHER from SHE MADE THE WORLD MAGENTA BY MOTHER GONG

LISTEN TO THE WIND from THRIVE by GONGZILLA

GOPEE SNOWPEA from RIDE A COCK HORSE by QUEENADREENA

HURRICANE from DESIRE by BOB DYLAN (has Bryan Ferry murdered this one yet?)

SECOND WIND from SECOND WIND by BRIAN AUGER鈥橲 OBLIVION EXPRESS

OH THE WIND AND RAIN from ALMOST ACOUSTIC by THE JERRY GARCIA ACOUSTIC BAND

STEAL SOFTLY THRU SNOW from TROUT MASK REPLICA by CAPTAIN BEEFHEART AND HIS MAGIC BAND

THE CLOUDS ARE FULL OF WINE (NOT WHISKEY OR RYE) from LICK MY DECALS OFF, BABY by CAPTAIN BEEFHEART AND HIS MAGIC BAND

Another great list from FredTheFish, Bryan.

X is for XYLOPHONE including other instruments from the same family e.g. VIBRAPHONE MARIMBA, GLOCKENSPIEL etc.

Could you expand on that, Henri?

#78

Of course, but I've got real work to do, so I've kept it short.

I've written in a similar (though more concise) vein myself. The conclusion is that the programme is not going to change so let's just enjoy contributions like Fred's above. I like the xylophone idea. I can hear Pandora's box opening that show.

Blimey Fred, Well Done!!!! I'll second that list, and add a few more.......................

RAIN(BOW) TAKEAWAY from RAIN(BOW)by KEVIN AYERS

(B)RAIN STORM from THE UNFAIRGROUND by KEVIN AYERS

SWIFT AS THE WIND from HANGMAN'S BEAUTIFUL DAUGHTER by THE INCREDIBLE STRING BAND

NO MORE SAD (REF)RAINS from NO MORE SAD (REF)RAINS by SANDY DENNY

BLOWIN IN THE WIND from THE ESSENTIAL BOB DYLAN

GET OFF OF MY CLOUD from ROLLED GOLD by THE ROLLING STONES

ANY WAY THE WIND BLOWS from CRUISING WITH RUBEN & THE JETS by FRANK ZAPPA

STORMY WEATHER from THE LOVE OF ELLA by ELLA FITZGERALD

#81

BTW the Album Cover should read RAIN(BOW) TAKEAWAY by KEVIN AYERS

BREAK LIKE THE WIND by SPINAL TAP

#83

I've been trying to get Spinal Tap played for near on 2 years...

One for the X show?

You'll have to content yourself with Deacon Blue's Raintown.

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83 tch tch forgot about the caps again

#86

The Roslin Institutes's in Edinburgh isn't it?

88. At 4:15pm on 12 Aug 2010,Henri Hannah wrote:

If we are going to have Sunshine on Leith, vould it be the McIntosh Ross version please.

Regardez Vouz

A leaked copy of tomorrow's playlist


Affection 鈥� The Lost Boys
Accidentally Like A Martyr- Warren Zevon
Fat 鈥� Kantner, Slick and Freiberg
Persuasion 鈥� R & T Thompson
Ride 鈥楨m Jewboy 鈥� Kinky Friedman
Hitting Where It Hurts 鈥揥ebb Wilder
High Hopes 鈥� Pink Floyd
You Tore Me Down 鈥� Flamin鈥� Groovies
Dancing Queen 鈥� The Yayhoos
In Your Mind - Bryan Ferry
How Much I Lied 鈥� Elvis Costello
I Love Everybody 鈥� Johnny Winter
Just Like Tom Thumb鈥檚 Blues 鈥� Bob Dylan
Never Knew Her 鈥� David Lindley
Buck Rogers 鈥� Feeder
Pilgrim鈥檚 Progress 鈥� Procol Harum
In State 鈥� Kathleen Edwards
Desperadoes Under The Eaves 鈥� Warren Zevon
Dancing The Night Away 鈥揟he Motors

#73

Excellent suggestion, to which I lend my support unreservedly!

X Marks the Spot.

Brilliant in its simplicity.

#80 Glen, are you humouring me?

Z - songs that send you to sleep

Please play the entire Morrissszzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...........................

#90
Would that be your pitch for your tribute night Glen?

#91
Thanks for that SG.

Off to have chicken pesto spaghetti for my tea. Can someone tell me when we get to 99. I'm on a hat trick.

Cloud nine if any are played...
Brighter Day - The Tubes
My Head Is My Only House (Unless It Rains) - The Tubes.
Who Names The Hurricanes - The Tubes.

Wrong programme on Listen Live again.

#97
Break out the flaming torches..

#98 I've got mine ready......

Right Paulo on you go...