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The "Alabama Song" (also known as "Whisky Bar" or "Moon over Alabama" or "Moon of Alabama") was originally published in Bertolt Brecht's Hauspostille (1927). It was set to music by Kurt Weill for the 1927 "Songspiel" Mahagonny and used again in Weill's and Brecht's 1930 opera Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny.

The Doors please!

'The Ballad of Mackie Messer' from the Brecht/Weil 'Threepenny Opera', and sung by the incomparable Loote Lenya ... culture indeed!

'I Was Meant For The Stage' - The Decemberists

'Streetcar Named Desire' - Pete Molinari

Hey Kene, whit's Bowie's version done to you? LOL.

Every play needs a CAST - 'Finetime'

Magritte - John Cale

Rococo - Arcade Fire

TS Eliot - The Beards

Candlelight Sonata in F major - Frankie Miller

#5

Baal's

Dead American Writers - Tired Pony
'Amateur Hour' - Sparks (a talent show...ok it's lowbrow but good song)

#2 Kene - love that song, but they couldn't find it last time it was requested.

Art:
Nat King Cole Mona Lisa

Dance:
Orleans Dance With Me
(was tempted by Abba and Elton, but they get their fair share of plays)

Literature:
Peter Gabriel The Book Of Love

Theatre:
Neil Diamond Play Me
Lovely. (I overuse that word. It's down to a lack of vocabulary as well as imagination.)

Opera:
Andrea Bocelli Con Te Partiro (AKA Time To Say Goodby, but please not that version with Sarah B. That's not opera - it's operatics.

I like opera marginally more than I like (which, to borrow a catchphrase, is not a lot)
Lieder:
However, there is one that is incredible:
Jessye Norman singing Schubert's Der Erlkönig

Blood, Ice and Ashes - The Burns Unit

Playhouse - Van Morrison

What Difference Does it Make? - The Poets

American writer and thinker Gertrude Stein, Roseability ~ Idlewild

#7 For one second I thought I read Maigret there. Just reminded me of a great writer (if you like French crime novels) and a really infectious theme to the televised reworkings of his novels:
Joe Loss The Maigret Theme
The highlight of Norwegian television on a Friday night in my younger days when I spent the summer holidays with my dad was usually some foreign crime series with a really great theme tune. This was one. Van Der Valk was another, but I can't remember who composed it.

No, I'm not suggesting TV programmes as a form of culture. But then again - I'm not a snob.

Okay, lets have another go.

Things of cultural significance often begin with the words 'The National'... gallery etc

Sorrow - The National

wee touch of 'take my breath away' on this one, so it will appeal to the proletariat...and particularly those among them who drive around in elderly Peugeot motor cars, none of which ever took anyone's breath away.'

regardez youse

henri

Missed
Philosophy:
Monty Python The Philosopher's Song
Nice wee p**s take. See what I did there.

THURSDAY

'Fifteen Minutes' - Kirsty MacColl ~ a damning indictment of Celebrity Culture.

#16

I was gonna suggest some more, but I've decided to put all my chips on Kirsty.

Often requested though never played, this is well worth hearing.

Go on, do your audience a favour!

#15

Is philosophy 'culture'?

these are the questions we need to think about:

Reds In My Bed - 10CC

#13

I'm not a snob either:

'Crossroads Theme - Paul Mccartney & Wings

and although two of my requests got played tonight without acknowledgement let's try

Shakespeare's Sister - the Smiths there, that'll do it

Picasso's Last Words - Paul MacCartney & Wings

and more to follow...must be some Joni somewhere that fits tonight..

regardez youse

henri

#18

Henri,

Yes, in the sense of common values and/or belief system.

remembered: the Hissing Of Summer Lawns.

not that'll get played but

The Jungle Line - Joni Mitchell references Henri Rousseau, the artist that my mother, the Ayatollah, named me after.

regardez youse

henri

A Lover's Concerto - The Toys

Picture This - Blondie

Paul from Ayr

Van Morrison - Tore Down A la Rimbaud

Van looks to the the influential Frech poet for some inspiration

also suggesting:

10,000 Maniacs - Hey Jack Kerouac

Bowie - Absolute Beginers

and for the lyrical refernces including Mailer,

Lloyd Cole and the Commotions - Are You Ready To Be Heartbroken

#18 eh??
# I thought your name was Robert. But we could still tie in TV themes, seeing as neither of us are snobs.
Vladimir Cosma David's Theme
The theme from the Kidnapped (written by Robert Louis Stevenson) TV adaptation.
Sounds a bit at the start like a favoured Metallica song.......

Revisiting literature. Again, it's French.
Serge Gainsbourg Baudelaire

Toyah - The Marionette.

Granted fairly low brow culture on all counts but she was in Derek Jarmans film version of the Tempest....

I seem to have strayed into Pseud's Corner

Roll Over Beethoven - Chuck Berry

Damn. That mysterious reference was to post number 20. Blame the distractions.
Manny's just got in, full o' the cold, with tomorrow another day ahead o' kids and school shows that mean he doesn't get home till 10.30. It's a right cushy number being a teacher who bothers to do the extra-curricular stuff. Hot bath and cold cure administered, think I might follow suit. Apart from the cold cure. Don't need it. Yet.

I like an occasional cultural disagreement between artistes such as... an enthusiastic lead singer and a bongo-playing beatnik who "don't dig loud noises" and had the catchphrase "You're too loud, man". When he hears the lyric about the "deadly black taranch-la" [actually the highly venomous Brazilian wandering spider] the beatnik protests, "Don't sing about spiders, man! Like, I don't dig spiders".

#25 I can assure you - no need to worry. You fit in very nicely.

#14 oh, well spotted, Henri. I'll second that!

#10 ... Fear not MaryD ... the original cast recording is easily available as a download from all the usual sources. Nae 5th amendment allowed!

'The Ballad of Mackie Messr' ... Lotte Lenya. ... Danke!

"'Dulce et Decorum Est (Pro Patria Mori)'" Ìý~ The Skids or should it be Wilfred Owen

#5 ... You old hair-splitter u! Bette Midler's is mighty fine too ...

Happy to second M-D, and Orleans #10.

Also,
Inspired by Shakespeare: Tragedy - Bee Gees or If I were a boy - Beyonce or (the more predictable) Romeo and Juliet - Dure Straits
It's still rock'n'roll to me - Billy Joel
Mona Lisa - Nat King Cole
Michaelangelo - Emmylou Harris
Nutrocker - ELP

Joe
Linlithgow

'Hang on to each other' ... Three Silver Mount Zion Memorial Orchestra and Tra La La Band

immerse yourselves ...

Aria / Acker Bilk


or


Haven't we Been here Before / Styx (from Paradise Theatre)

#27

If you like that you'll love Boom Oo Yatta Ta Ta by Morecambe and Wise

#31 Horace.

#37 Ode, LOL!

The Fall --- Edinburgh Man.


(The city for all your cultural needs )

Artists Only - Talking Heads
When I Paint My Masterpiece - Bob Dylan / The Band
Pictures of Home - Deep Purple

Paul from Ayr

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When Don Estelle and Windsor Davies brought out Whispering Grass, I found I could no longer listen to Sandy Denny’s beautiful version without envisioning these two clowns. After several years and some intense therapy I was able once again to enjoy it. Last night was a major set back for me. Was that version really the GIO audience’s preference?

#42 ah kain

#37 Crivvens!!!

DC

#42

At the expense of The Congregation - another of your favourites.

Listen to the

#42

To my aboslute horror, my Dad loved that record, not because it was a novelty record, but because Don Estelle has a really great singing voice.

Of course, to make matters worse he bought the album and we aere all subjected to it. And much as I hated just everything about it, I had to concede that Don Estelle did indeed have a great voice - some of the other numbers on the album were really well done.

Windsor Davis on the other hand....

regardez youse

henri

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Paint Them A Picture Jane - The Bob Seger System


Bryan - The track is on the Noah album. This is your chance to prove Paolo wrong! Get It On!!!

:o)

#47

Much better thanks, though still quite sore.

It's hard not think that us regular bloggers must just be a nuisence though - I accidentally batter my napper off the car door and don't get so much as my requests acknowledged when they are played.

Someone texts in to say they've dropped a pyrex bowl and it's a national catastrophe.

Or is my sore heid deranged with unshakable delusions of persecution...

regardez vous

henri

#50 - That was my favourite bowl you big bully!

You want persecution? It can be arranged you know!!!

;o)

The Art Of Parties ~ Japan

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Art, theatre, opera and the rest: ~

ARABESQUE from TIME IS THE KEY by PIERRE MOERLEN’S GONG - art

SIAMESE ALMEIDA from DRINK ME by QUEENADREENA – theatre

MADAME BUTTERFLY from DIAMOND JACK AND THE QUEEN OF PAIN by KEVIN AYERS – opera

NOW BE THANKFUL from THE CROPREDY BOX by FAIRPORT CONVENTION – the rest

'Ghosts' by Japan from the album 'Tin Drum' (the novel (no, not nuvvill) 'The Tin Drum' by Gunter Grass)

# 55. ...or the Ibsen play

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Urge you to take a punt on a Kate Rusby number for tonight:

CURTAINS was written by Kate for the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio Ballads a couple of years back. One of the most sublime, haunting things I have ever heard.

Or how about CELLO SONG from Nick Drake.

Bob Seger - The Famous Final Scene

Both 'Prospect Street' and 'Christina's World' are paintings that inspired these two songs by The Big Dish




Re-think/Re-entry by Derek Boshier is a painting that inspired the Roxy Music title 'Re-make/Re-model'



J.O'B.

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#20,Looks like we've had our Joni fix this week, Henri though a "companion piece"to the superb "Jungle Line"is her "Turbulent Indigo"(a kind of Post Impressionist Blue!)about Van Gogh.More cultural goodies could be the great Quincy Jones"Ai No Corrida"based on the notorious Arthouse Japanese bonkfest movie of the same name.Natalie Merchant must be a right little culture vulture what with "Hey Jack Kerouac"namedropping all of the Beat Poets, the absolutely lovely"Verdi Cries"does the same for Joe Green!So either "Verdi Cries" or "Ai No Corrida",Bryan, would be cool.Speaking of Joni,she is 67 on Sunday.Perhaps a Jonifest night would work!Cheers,Willie Bartke

'Nijinsky Heart' - Marc Almond

Classical Gas - Mason Williams

Ship of Fools was written in the 15th century by Sebastian Brant. It inspired Hieronymous Borsch to paint ship of fools in the 16th century and it has since become a figure of speech in western literature and art to depict passengers aboard a vessel ignorant of which direction they are supposed to be taking. At the helm of this vessel tonight is Bryan Burnett. You'll find it on the Night Moves Album :-)

Ship of Fools / Bob Seger


(but only if you can't find Senga or Norries Seger suggestions)

#66

I presume your reference is not to beetroot soup.

Michael Connelly uses the name for his LA cop hero.

#66 "Senga or Norries" Seger suggestions:

Sarri, na Seger on

#67
Na it's a reference to an artist I'd never heard of until I looked up wiki to see who wrote the book. However now that i know who he is I can use it to impress my self.

His descendants make washing machines.

Is that not what Sean Comnnery called M

I thought there was a vast improvement in the quality of the music after the
7 o'clock news.








































Thank God for Bob Harris...