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Tom Waits - In The Neighbourhood

Willie Nelosn - Angel Flying Too Close To The Ground

Vinegar Joe - Proud To Be A Honky Woman (feat Elkie Brooks)

Maggie Bell has the perfect non-perfect voice

Sunset Cowboy - Stone the Crows

DC

Shane MacGowan --- Dirty Old Town

'Casey's Last Ride' - Kris Kristofferson

'Sweet Sue, Just You' - Louis Armstrong

MONDAY

- Sam Baker


Sam's story is extraordinary. Due to injuries sustained when a terrorist bomb exploded in his train carriage whilst travelling in Peru, Sam had to learn to play guitar left-handed. You can read about it

Coincidentally, Sam is playing Glasgow on Thursday as part of a British tour. Fallen Angels Club, Saint Andrews in the Square. Tickets still available at the outlet under the Hielanders' umbrella.

Suggestions for the early part of the coming week:

Monday:-
Born to run - Springsteen
If you see her say hello - Dylan
Martha - Tom Waits
Downbound train - Rod Stewart
Greenville - Lucinda Williams
Way down in the hole - Blind Boys of Alabama
Stainsby girls - Chris Rea

Tuesday:-
If I should fall behind - Springsteen (live in NY version)
The wedding samba - Edmundo Ros

Joe
Linlithgow

#5

I think the bomb was planted by a music lover.

Baby's Liquored Up - The Beat Farmers - Step up Country Dick Montana

Does this mean they're going to play all the blog favourites? I'm so excited! Eat your heart out, Etalinmaryhill.

Don't Come Around Here No More - Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers

El Rayo-X - David Lindley

Let the Candlelight Shine - Frankie Miller

Solstice - The Unwinding Hours (Craig B)

Don't Want to Sleep Tonight - Malcolm Middleton

Here I Stand before Me - Crash Test Dummies

Another
Tom Waits Going Out West

and another
Maggie Bell with BA Robertson Hold Me

Billie Holiday Lover Man

Good shout for the (feat Elkie Brookes), norrie! She would qualify in her own right, too

Elkie Brookes Lilac Wine

Yes, my Dad used to say she sounded like an auld yowe caught in the briars.

Cowgirl In The Sand - Neil Young - from the album 'Four Way Street' by Crosby Stills Nash & Young

If we weren't accustomed to Neil Young's voice we would think his 'falsetto' rather bizarre for a 'rock' artist - and it is.

But, childlike when singing softly (close your eyes and you could be listening to Kermit the Frog's young cousin, Robin, on acid)Young is at his most powerful.

The contrast between the childlike innocent falsetto and the intensity of the subject matter often makes that voice all the louder somehow and conveys great emotional intensity - on songs like 'Birds' from 'After The Goldrush'.

This acoustic live version of 'Cowgirl In The Sand' demonstrates this completely, taking the audience by surprise and holding them in the palm of his hand with touching simplicity - the falsetto makes the song come alive in a way the 'rock' version never has.

well worth a listen imho....but, is it in the library?

regardez youse

henri.

EMI Unlimited Edition... no explanation necessary!

#13

Atlantic?

Let's stick with the Canadians for a moment..

The Captain - Leonard Cohen

This really is great fun, a cheery C&W number from 'Laughing Lenny' - usually something of an 'intense' artist.Beautiful voice and a quiet,understated sense of humour. Fantastic lyrics on this.

regardez youse

henri

In My Own Time - Family - (Roger Chapman)

Known affectionately in the Hannah residence as 'The Singing Sheep', this track is a great demonstration of Roger's harmonic bleating style, at once charming and raucous - it always raises a smile.It's very difficult to get Family played on GIO, which considering it's a family show is surprising but Julie says Miss Babs hates them, apparently.

Miss Babs - try doing what I did with the Smiths - concentrate on listening to 'The Band' and not 'The Singer' - I've done this with quite a few artists I didn't immediately take to (like Snow Patrol) and come to love them. And Family are a very very good band, stunning musicianship. Moreover, 'In My Own Time' was a hit single!

regardez youse

henri

I'm always surprised by my "likes and dislikes"...! Ok....Family. I don't think I've ever expressed a dislike....maybe we overlooked Burlesque on a few occasions, but to be honest I have neither a "like or dislike" of the band.
There is, however, no denying Mr Chapman's voice is a little rough - but what it lacks in refinement, makes up for in sheer emotion so it's bang on theme.
That said, I'm not on duty on Monday!

Eartha Kitt Old Fashioned Millionaire

Nowadays, sticking a quid on the lottery is probably a safer bet.

#16 Mrs Wallace could we have more Morrissey, Springsteen and Gene Clark. Thank you.

well, that's me telt. Here's some more... you can tell it's a quiet Saturday night before tomorrows 10K.

Hunting Tigers Out In Indiah - The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band (Vivian Stanshall)

Highly original voice from a highly original mind, a gem.Although he had a difficult relationship with a father possessed of 'colonial' values, much of the Bonzo's material harks back to songs that would definitely have appealed to his father - it's hard to tell whether he's seeking approval or ridiculing his aspirational upbringing. Either way we have inherited a fabulous collection of Edwardian ditties.Great Fun.It's also difficult to overestimate how influential Vivian was on those around him, not least Lennon & Mccartney

regardez youse

henri

OK, I know that my Sunset Cowboy request isn't going to make it.

What about Rab Noakes - Don't keep passing me by from the album River Sessions

I can't recall Rab ever having been played on GiO. A brilliant artist who didn't quite get the recognition he deserved. I remember being in an audience of no more than 50 when Rab played at Aberdeen Uni in the mid seventies. He got the only chair in the hall and we sat around & listened to three hours of magic.

Go on Bryan, give it an airing & educate the masses. Miss Babs, please ignore that sook Maclean. His suggestions are always played. Give Rab Noakes a listen instead.

DC in Cellardyke

#15...all I'll say is Burlesque was described as 'bizarre'!!! It has however been played twice since...the second time as a Pigs Might Fly track???!!!

A Girl Like You - Edwyn Collins

I've never been entirely sure if Edwyn can sing or not, sometimes he sounds like he might become Scott Walker, but doesn't quite and at others he just sounds like someone mimicking someone who can sing. Anyway, it all works fine on this

regardez youse

henri

I was going to suggest a Plan B track The Recluse but checking it again just now realise it contains, almost unnoticed the word s*** - which is a pity, because it's a great track, imho.

Anyway, did anyone hear 'Off The Ball' today?

I remain perplexed by the double standards that apply to 'family' programmes and those that apply to the differing audiences.

Viewed from here 'Off The Ball' would never get past the moderator, and my Plan B track has no chance of being played... why does the ´óÏó´«Ã½ treat music lovers like a protected species, whilst reserving the right to allow football fans to engage in locker room humour on air?

I don't get it.

regardez-youse

henri

Looks like I'd better "listen again" to Off the ball. Henri!

#19 you have a peculiar talent for turning reasonable comment into perceived criticism. Actually, it's not peculiar to you - I suffer from it myself, so am possibly in no position to comment. But I will, just because I can. Plus I'm bored. Lethal combinaion.
ProducerBabs wasn't "telling" you - just stating her case. She didn't need to engage with you at all. That she even bothered to - she hears you and is taking you seriously, not taking a pop at you. She's got a right to reply, too, though. Would you prefer no response at all?

Off the Ball - a brilliantly un-PC listen. Highly recommended listening - it's funny. Nobody's safe. Including the presenters.

Oft fab hell...

fab lloft, eh?

#25

Nope,actually,I was thrilled Miss Babs was sharing her thoughts on a Saturday night. It was getting lonely in here. I didn't take it as criticism at all, the phrase 'that's me telt' is commonly used on this blog as casual acceptance of the other person's position (or it is by me)and which I totally accept.I wouldn't want there to be any misunderstanding, it was merely an acknowledgment.

#24/26

I like the fact it's quite surreal more than I find it amusing. I think the 'punter speak' can sometimes sound a tad patronising.

But today they had a completely surreal discussion about the colour of Sir Trevor MacDonald's willie (it's white, apparently).

I've since checked my own (my mother, the Ayatollah, is an Indian, as you know.)

Not that I have a problem with anything on 'Off The Ball', but it's hardly fair that GIO is unreasonably censored.

regardez youse

henri

You checked the colour of your own willie????


We've nae need tae be telt BTW

#29 "that's me telt, too"
We're not so different after all, then!
Fair play, henri - but you do sometimes come across a bit more demanding than you need to. Just sayin'.

t' fat bell hoof

It seemed a reasonable thing to do in the circumstances.

I mean, I didn't make big deal of it or any special effort in this regard.

I just wondered. I'd never considered it's colour before I thought about Sir Trevor MacDonald.

At the toff boll

To the ball, toff?

#15 #17

Eartha Kitt is Roger Chapman

#12

I used to like Neil Young

In you, Glen

#38

I stopped paying attention after 'Harvest'. I'm not well up on it, but I think it's pretty patchy thereafter.

#14 A&M, l.o.l!

#16 Better yer feet slip than yer tongue!

#39

Dyslexia rules KO

#40

Ragged Glory is very good. Did you work for Melody Maker in the 70s?

Surly Alex dies, OK?

This flight tonight - Dan McCafferty & Nazareth

Turn this crazy bird around......

Late Call...

Having just listened to Friday's show on i-player...

Are the blog and its subscribers dispensable?

Can’t help but suspect that the recent incidence of repeated themes is dumbing Get It On down!

This show once had a clear and direct philosophy... it played music that commercial stations often over-looked!

Information as at 5th August from RAJAR support increases in all areas of radio listening and its respective platforms, Quarter 2, 2010.

At GIO a form of symbiotic relationship currently exists between the entities... supported via telephone, e-mail, Blog & Face-book, which are all mutually beneficial to the participants.

However, in order to increase market share I suspect simpler themes make for greater, more spontaneous participation via some of the more immediate methods of communication!

We and absent friends on the blog have supported Radio Scotland in its perpetual tussle with UK licensed commercial stations, a success story ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio Scotland currently continues to enjoy!

Thus there is a positive-sum gain from cooperation but for how long?

#7

If it doesn't get played on Monday I'll ask for it again on Thursday, for the benefit of those who can't make it to the gig. You do realise I could have asked for Cerys?

>8-D



MONDAY

'God Will' - Lyle Lovett

'Long Tall Texan' - Lyle Lovett

'Fish and Whistle' - John Prine

'Western Union Wire' - Kinky Friedman

'Beefhearts and Bones' - Michael Marra


'Different Kind of Gone' - Mary Gauthier

'Eh Umna Therefore Eh Um' - Saint Andrew

'That's Right (You're Not From Texas)' - Lyle Lovett

'Mac Rebennack's Visit to Blairgowrie' - Michael Marra

MONDAY

'On Again! On Again!' - Jake Thackray

DC you called me a sook by mistake - I think you meant "valued contributor". ;o)

Van can be a good singer but can also growl a bit. Paul Durcan is no singer:

Van Morrison - In the days before Rock n Roll

#45

'the streets were never really mine' as Joni Mitchell put it. Friday is different.

I think I remember that Mary-Doll got one of hers played.Cream vs The Hoxtons didn't get played (again) but got mentioned.

I suppose if you are running a Friday teatime radio show it must be very tempting to take the commercials stations head on with that 'ready for the weekend' thinking (hence Cream vs The Hoxtons)but I think it's a strategic error because of the genre specific nature of what follows.If anything, Vic should be on next and then Rikki.I can't believe they've reinstated Travelling Folk - Mary does half that stuff anyway.

It's no surprise to me that radio audiences are up. It remains true that, despite crystal clear clear visual technology, the pictures remain better on radio, as Spike Milligan (another surrealist with a 'colonial' upbringing) put it.

I agree, though,that the recent past has produced un-challenging themes, though I don't think there's anything strategic in that.Just back holidays, getting back into it etc.

Since almost no one in pop/rock has had classical voice training,for example, just about everyone who ever existed since the 1950's is eligible for Monday's show, because everyone's voice is, at least, unique - apart from the guy in The Gaslight Anthem, who inherited Springstein's.

Narrowing it down to the simply quirky my list runs from Andy Fairweather-Low to the guy in Vampire Weekend and just about everyone in between, some of them are mentioned above,not by myself.

I could also happily nominate Billy Bragg, Beck,Paul Buchanan,Shaun Rider,Clarence Carter,Colin Blunstone, Donald Fagan,Lol Creme,Ian Brown,Ian Dury, Isobel Campbell, Jack Bruce,James Grant, Jem,Kate Bush, Lissie,Lulu,Marc Almond, Maria Muldaur,Mark Hollis, Peter Gabriel, Richard Hawley,.....I think you could get an interesting show out of that lot... hopefully someone will.

#42

I was a 'Sounds' man.

regardez youse

henri

#20 I'll second Rab Noakes - I also saw him in the seventies, in the East Neuk. He was excellent.

#45 I think the instant access/dumbing down assessment is right. I do realize that listener numbers are important and if there are loads of people texting, phoning etc as the show is on air, they're going to get priority simply by being HERE and NOW whereas the blog is done and dusted by the time the show goes out. The immediacy of people informing where they are, what they're doing and so on is I daresay irresistable, and there's no doubt the sense of community is large part of the attraction of GIO. But let's keep the music to the forefront and for goodness sake, let's not be timid about playing less well-known songs - it is, after all, an insult to assume that most people won't be able to appreciate music that they've not heard before. Just because they haven't a library of songs at their fingertips, be it in their heads, on Spotify or whatever, or haven't time to think of anything beyond the obvious doesn't mean they're not open to persuasion. And I think the balance has tipped over to pleasing the What I'm Having for Tea Tonight crowd at the expense of the people who have taken a bit of time over their suggestions and who have valuable musical knowledge. I most definitely don't include myself in the last, but I'm hugely appreciative of what I've gained from listening to other bloggers' suggestions. There are bloggers who've not had a shout since who knows when - how does that make any sense when there are other folks who get name-checked every night? Yes, yes, clearly the show succeeds on many ways - why else would it have gone from one hour to two, from four nights to five? But given that extra time, let's readjust the balance a wee bit, eh?

How about doing the experiment - try one programme where most of the music is less well-known. But then we tried to get that theme on at least twenty six times this summer already, didn't we?

Thanks Gaie, couldn't agree more.

For Monday - Two for the price of one!

Sometimes We Cry - Tom Jones & Van Morrison

:o)

Iggy Pop...on 'Aisha' by Death In Vegas...wonderful!

We all know the programme's duff. The blog used to raise the occasional laugh but recently it's been as funny as toothache.

Monday

A couple of the usual suspects from me...

Days Like These: Billy Bragg
Thousands Are Sailing: The Pogues (Shane McGowan)

But if you fancy a punt, how about a bit of Chris Wood? Would be a first on the show I think... 'A Cottagers Reply' being a great example of Chris' vocal style.

M

Antony and The Johnsons - 'Kiss My Name' (bit of an acquired taste)

Frankie and The Heartstrings - 'Tender' (not a great singer but a good wee single).

Great theme Paolo, this is what popular music is really about, people who write & sing from the heart whether they're blessed with a good sounding voice or not.
#12, #38, #40, as a long time Neil Young fan I have to say I love the rock version of "Cowgirl in the Sand". Henri, if you like "Harvest", as the saying goes, you might like "Comes a Time", gentle, melodic with more of a country feel. Very easy to listen to.

#54

Well, that's us all telt, Faither. Okay, folks, lighten up, Faither has spoken.

#57

I'll go into rediscovery mode and try that and Ragged Glory, as DC suggests. It's not that the rock version is deficient, just that the 4 Way Street version is truly awesome.

But will they play it? A toss up with Roger Chapman? Imagine that.

regardez youse


henri

regardez - youse

henri

#54 Glen Mildrew?

#59 Mel Glendrew?

Meg-Dell Wren

Wandrin Star - Lee Marvin, gruff in keeping with Paolo's intentions
Famous Blue Raincoat - Leonard Cohen, sombre & grim, good story tho
If Not for You - Dylan, tortured angst that wasn't present on Olivia's version
Wow - Kate Bush, self explanatory
Look out for My Love - Neil Young, thin, whiney, but good as always

Paul from Ayr

"Singers who are not exactly classically trained" only rules out Placido Domingo.

Sunshine on Leith - The Proclaimers.

Now pray tell, what's wrong with two hours of gravel and husk?

Three wheels on my wagon / New Christy Minstrels (Barry McGuire)
Amore / Macy Gray and Santana
Steel River / Chris Rea.....love the lazy atmospheric sax on this
Mama you've been on my mind / Rod Stewart
First we Take Manhattan / Joe Cocker ....Best Lenny cover ever
The Future / Lenny himself
Loving you's a dirty job / Bonnie Tyler
Can I Get a Witness / Kim Carnes
Baby Blues / Barry white
Tom Troubadors Blues / Bon Jovi with Tico Torres on vocals (2nd best Tom waits cover)
Jersey Girl / Tom Waits (Broooces live version is the best Waits cover)
Bridgetown / Frankie Miller
Little red Rooster / Howlin Wolf
Hard to Handle / Otis Redding
Blueberry Hill / Louis Armstrong
Star / Nazerath
Family Affair / Sly and the family Stone
If Loving you is wrong / Millie Jackson
More / Sisters of Mercy

A mighty good compilation CD methinks!

Madeleine Peyroux Dance Me To The End Of Love

If anyone prefers Cohen, that's fine. He's a miserable git which doesn't mean he hasn't written some memorable songs. He somehow manages to make life, love and everything else sound utterly depressing, though. Maybe he's right. But sometimes others sing them better. Madeleine has a wonderful jazz voice and, although the song is still extremely bittersweet, gives it a bit more of a positive spin somehow.
A fantastically mellow song.

Otherwise, we had a brilliant µþÂáö°ù°ì song the other night. Is it too soon for another? A cover of a jazz standard.
µþÂáö°ù°ì Gloomy Sunday

Surely there's a place for this one, too:
Yoko Ono Kiss, Kiss, Kiss

#64
Add to that
So Relax / Leon Redbone



and I don't know where the w in Bridgeton came from

#65
You've never seen his Live in London DVD then, full of warmth charm and humour!

#67 You're right - I haven't. Will look it out. I don't want to believe that someone who can write so well doesn't have some spark about him. Warmth, charm and humour sound good to me.

#63

Sorrow, Sorrow
If we hear this yet again
Tomorrow - Tomorrow.....

just in case we don't get The Singing Sheep,

I've been listening to Arcade Fire a lot recently. And the Gorillaz 'Plastic Beach' album. It seems to me the much lampooned prog rock is alive and well.

Therefore I'd like to add to tomorrow nights suggestions:

Stylo - Gorillaz - Plastic Beach - (Damon Albarn/Bobby Womack)

Keep The Car Running - Neon Bible - Arcade Fire -(Win Butler)

and

When I'm Alone - Lissie

Mary Doll asked for Eartha Kitt - I really liked the disco record/s she did in the 90's?, I think. It would be good to hear them/it.

maybe that'll do...

regardez youse


henri

#68

check out 'The Captain' by Laughing Lenny as suggested above - clever, warm and amusing... very cheery too.And then there's that wonderful ghost story..'The Night Comes Down'...his reputation as a miserable git is most undesereved. A few years ago his secretary ran away with all his money while he was in a monastery.He didn't bother moaning about it, just started touring again.

I've decided not to go into a monastery. I don't want to start touring again.I wonder if Sir Trevor MacDonald has ever been in a monastery, he's been on my mind a lot.

regardez youse

henri

I agree with Paolo

#64 lots of good songs on your list, Paolo - strange how you don't see a 3-wheeled wagon for years and years and then two come along at once - I heard this yesterday on another station. It was a favourite of mine when it was being played along with the Ugly Bug Ball and A Windmill in Old Amsterdam and all the others that were on when I was in my pram. Only I never knew till yesterday it was called Three Wheels and not One Wheel.

#72

You were listening to another station?

Nowadays many infants have three wheels on their prams.

Prams which cost more than my first car.

And that had four wheels.

Five if you count the spare.

Six if you count the steering wheel.

>8-D

The wheels on Scotch's car go round & round.....

Higgety haggety, hoggety high!

Run flats on my wagon
So I'm still rollin' along.........

H.M.R.C. are after me...

They want to see
My VAT

'Tom Traubert's Blues' ... Tom Waits

6' 39" ... no chance!

The cherry trees are after me

#73
my first car really stood out from the crowd. A real eyecatcher. It was bright blue with a black front wing. Couldn't miss it.

#64 Wow, you really have been payin' attention... #5!

#64 Bum away, yer bums yer own l.o.l!

'bout a mile 'long the road there's a hidden record shop,
where we can watch these f***bookers......
Go gallopin byyyyyyeeeee....

#45

Having been listening for very nearly 2 years now (crivens, how did that happen? Insert appropriate Pink Floyd track here --> <--), I think you're indulging in a bit of wishful thinking.

Despite the very first track I ever heard on GiO - The Slits' cover of Heard it Through The Grapevine - which got me hooked in the first place, the show's always been more mainstream than a lot of us regular bloggers would have wanted. We're always trying to drag it a bit leftfield.

That tension's not A Bad Thing, although obviously I wish that the leftfield pull were stronger, and the extra time should allow that to happen, as Gaie says.

Hopefully this theme will help, as there's a definite correlation between quirky voices and quirky songs.

Another invisible list from FredTheFish

#88

Yeah, I remember yon horrible noise. Poor Glen was so traumatised he went A.W.O.L. for 10 days.

>8-D

Saluting the gravelly, quirky ones:

No need to suggest Brooooooooooooce, Tom & Rod - well covered above.

I'd like to hear

* Michael Marra - Just Another Rolling Stone
His version of Mother Glasgow is also very fine - much better than the polished Hue & Cry version we normally hear. No' too bad for a Dundonian...

* Johnny Cash - 25 Minutes to Go Folsom Prison version please
Not one of the most often played Cash tracks, but I love this one.

* Billy Bragg - A Lover Sings

If we're going to do Dylan, and Tom Petty, and the distinctiveness of Orbison, then we might as well do
* Traveling Wilburys - Congratulations

* Sinead O'Connor - Stretched Upon Your Grave

* Bob Geldof - The Great Song of Indifference

* The Cure - Close To Me

* Ralph Stanley - O Death
From the most wonderful O Brother Where Art Thou? OST

* They Might Be Giants - Your Racist Friend
Utterly unmistakeable.

Did no-one suggest the Icelandic Pixie yet?

And maybe unexpectedly on this list, but even so:

* The Beatles - Why Don't We Do It In The Road
It's said that Macca warmed up for this by singing Tutti Frutti over and over again until he'd achieved the right amount of vocal destruction

* Lennon - Mother
With a very definite preference for the live version
A highly tortured vocal that completely encapsulates the pain over the subject matter - well covered in the recent and biopics.

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

John Fogerty from credence clearwater revival, something other than bad moon risin, maybe something like Fortunate Son.

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RADIO GNOME INVISIBLE from FLYNG TEAPOT (RADIO GNOME INVISIBLE PART 1) by GONG who are appearing at Glasgow ABC on Thursday night.

Crossfire - Brandon Flowers

For my daughter who gave Michelle McManus a run for her money in yesterday's 10k.

Fabulous show tonight...

Casually walks onto the park in a nonchalant style hands in pocket whistling softly

catches the ball on the end of toe , a quick keepy uppy and lobs the keeper

GOAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!