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"Feliz Navidad" - El Vez


STG!

Wednesday....

Surely that's why there were three wise men though? The task of finding three wise women was deemed to be impossible?

Anyway, one of them would have run the baby Jesus over as they backed the donkey out of the stable












Scotch Git

Monday

Corazón Espinado - Santana - A broken heart for Carlos
Bounce In Your Buggy - Sha Na Na - Surprisingly a samba

Tuesday

If You Feel - Jefferson Airplane

Wednesday

Life'll Kill Ya - Warren Zevon

Would Paolo be the best person to back a donkey?

Que Bueno Baila Usted - Ibrahim Ferrer

Monday:

Spanish is the loving tongue - Bob Dylan

Not one of your "normal" Dylan songs (is there such a thing?) but definitely worth a listen to. Alison will be Rumba-ing across the studio floor tae this track.

DC

Kiss - Art of Noise & Tom Jones

Crazy Legs - Jeff Beck

Guantanamera - The Sandpipers

For those of you who don't know Spanish, I have taken the trouble to provide a translation of the beautiful words of Guantanamera.


I am an honest human
From where the underside of hand tree grows
And before extinguishing I want
To share the reverses of my alcohol.

My reverse is an unoccupied green
And it is arsonist scarlet
My reverse is that of a broken Bambi
Who seeks safety in the golf clubs

I cultivate a colourless awakening
In July as in January
For the waxless companion
Who gives me his simple mitten

And for the grumpy one who would tear out
the circulatory system with which I live
I cultivate not nettles nor thistles
I cultivate the plain flour


With the poor people of the earth
I wish not to join their number
The fire injury of the high lands
Entreats me more than the look

Monday...Willy DeVille's version of 'Hey Joe' is quite a different version of the song.

#8 bizarre! do your talents know no bounds Glen?

#9 Yes Julie, it would be good to hear a version of that great song by a latin type, and Mr DeVille is just the man to deliver it!

#2

I think you'll find that we need them a whole lot more than they need us.



#4

*snigger*




#8

Jeezo...

#8

U an age ratman!

MONDAY

Again the auditory attributes of the adorable Alison assert authority on the attention of her audience.

I salute your audibility!


23 years ago the album 'Canciones de mi Padre' (Songs of my Father) was released. It remains the biggest selling non-English language album in the history of the U.S. record industry.

Paolo! You should be writing this stuff down!

Any track from this album would be good to hear. My choice would be

'La Charreada'(The Rodeo) - Linda Ronstadt

A big thank you to my Californian son-in-law.



It is almost exactly 10 years since Kirsty was tragically killed.

'My Affair' - Kirsty MacColl

'In These Shoes?' - Bette Midler

The historical background to latin america is provided here....

Cortez the Killer - Neil Young

It is a bit long but would provide a welcome opportunity for the presenter (who shall be nameless) to talk over the intro......:-)

A man rang!

A Ute?

Ute?

An anagram?

#2 no wonder there's so few women in this place. Random "ho, ho, ho - aren't women handless" comments ..... forget it. I guess you're being so socially inept because you can't get out on your boat as much as you'd like. ;0)

#3 Santana - excellent shout Glen. I will have to add in my own very unseasonal request, but. Smooth

or - Rosemary Clooney Sway
deliberately avoiding any male versions of this song just to give the girls a chance.

TUESDAY

- Ivor Cutler

Especially for Gaie...

#18 rolling around on the floor LAUGHING hasn't done much for the sore back, but thank you indeed for the best fun I've had all day!!!

Can we ignore Morricone on a night like this?
For A Few Dollars More
Man With A Harmonica

Probably. Don't fancy my chances against Clint, though.

Senorita - the Low Anthem

No Me Importa Nada - Luz Casal

Love is Strange - Mickey & Sylvia

Ry Cooder is one of my favourites and his Chavez Ravine album is one of his best with several Latin American guests and songs from the 50's

Ry Cooder - Onda Callejera, featuring Little Willie G.

An album I have always really liked is Giorgio Moroders soundtrack to Scarface, very much the Moroder sound but with a cuban/latin feel:

Maria Conchita and Giorgio Moroder - Vamos a Bailar

Ah a new week after three and a half blank ones.

Carnaval/Let the Children Play ...Santana
Brazilian Love affair / George Duke
Masochism Tango / Amateur Transplants


#4 Frequently!

Edmundo Ros and his Rumba Orchestra --

He turned 100 last week and is still going strong



#previous thread -- Norrie dont worry about me I'm just fine.. now I'm just away out for a wee while..

Are they huskies ready hen?......


Frankinnarnia

Frank in narnia! :oD

Evening All,

Monday

Peligro - the Gotan Project

Argentinian tango from the masters of the form,but how many people have noticed that Gotan is an anagram of tango?

Tuesday

Yes, Dreadzone's moment comes around once more: John Peel included Dreadzone's '2nd Light' as one his top ten albums of all time.He was a complete champion for the band thus, the following could hardly be more appropriate

Zion Youth (Radio Edit) - Dreadzone from 2nd light or

American Dread - Dreadzone

Wednesday

Wisest people in pop? Well, MacCartney has to be in there: clever, multi -talented, good business brain but apart from all that, probably the thing that makes him 'the wisest' is that all that success, adulation and material wealth has produced someone so seemingly normal it's almost spooky..

Here's one of his more reflective, personal and better lyrics:

Somedays - Paul MacCartney

regardez youse

henri

#25 A huge second for Edmundo Ros. Also

Yo canto - Los Lobos
Slave labor - Mariachi el Bronx
Spanish moon - Little Feat
Mas es amar - Enrique Inglesias
Mons apart - Maria del Mar Bonet
Adonde Voy - Linda Ronstadt
Boots of Spanish leather - Nanci Griffith

Joe
Linlithgow

#13 soooooooook


#17 ah kain......


:-)

BRING ME LA CHARREADA OF ALFREDO GARCIA!

Hear Lada car

I know I am like a dug wi' a rabbit here... but if ever there was a theme for playing Richard Shindell and Che Guevara T-Shirt, then this is it. (Buenos Aires, La Cruz del Sur, Venezuela, Luna, luna, luna llena, Cuba etc...)

or a couple of others that come to mind...

They Dance Alone (Cueca Solo): Sting
Victor Jara: Christy Moore

#2 - DC - Do you actually know anything about women?


(_8^(|) Duh! Caveman!!!

;o)

Livin' La Vida Loca - Ricky Martin


Welcome back, Alison Craig!

:o)

#33

I forgot that they'd no sense of humour and so I apologise unreservedly for any offence taken by my controversial remark.

I have now been telt twice

DC

As the Blog's rep in Latin America (sunny 37C at the moment) I'd better put another request in, so if the Mexican Elvis (#1) doesnt please Senhora Alison then how about:

"Mas Que Nada" - Sergio Mendes & Black Eyed Peas

#35 - DC - Accepted! Now run along and play like a good boy.

;o)

#36 - Adam - 37°? It's only 34° in Glasgow. Fahrenheit.

;o)

#35 now you've offended me with such generalisations.

that's you been telt thrice.

#39 see #37. Perhaps you need to discuss?

I'll arrange for a garden fence to be delivered





Adam in Rio

Surely an opportunity tonight for that old Mexican favourite:

Aztec Two-Step - Lew Stules & The Jettisoned Jockeys

Surprised no-one has requested Speedy Gonzalez - Pat Boone



Then again, maybe I'm not surprised



DC

#42

Excellent!

You're in enough trouble with the sisterhood that we won't be hearing that.

Besides, by modern standards Speedy Gonzalez must fail all tests of political correctness - it's not exactly a latin - american record:-)?

regardez vous

henri

What about some Latin spirit - Tequila!
Used to have it as a ring tone much to the irritation of everyone else!
So just for my colleagues and friends please play the whole tune and get them going!

Forget Spanish,Portuguese is the loving tongue!Ever since I heard "The Girl from Ipanema"I have loved Brasilian music.About ten years ago was lucky enough to catch Brasilian legend Flora Purim and the incredible pecussionist Airto Moriera live.Sensational, so would be cool to hear "Dindi"or "Butterfly Dreams"Even better is Sergio Mendes riveting "Fanfarra(Cabua le-le)"from his amazing "Brasiliero"album which has 100 samba school percussionists thundering away.You've got to hear this!All the best tonight ,Allison.Cheers,Willie Bartke

Air today gone Tomoriera

HAHA!Willie B.

Although I think Clarence Carter's almost unknown version of Light My Fire is the best ever, many people, including Adam, are fans of the Astrud gilberto version, which is still better than the others (including The Doors).

Light My Fire - Astrud Gilberto

#42 Alison played speedy Gonzales last time she was on. Dunno how I remembered that!


Clever bit of marketing by mr cowell. If you are gonna ruin the years finest song then change the title so the heathen don't inadvertently stumble on the truly wonderful original when downloading

#44 #49

Come quick Anita Pleanita - down in the cantina they're giving green stamps with tequila. Unfortunately they stopped redeeming them 30 years ago.

#43 I beg to differ Senor Hannah

I quote from my extensive research on this topic:

"Speedy's cartoons have come under fire in recent years for their alleged stereotypical depictions of Mexicans and Mexican life. Mice in the shorts are usually shown as lazy, womanizing and hard-drinking while Speedy wears a huge sombrero and sometimes plays in a mariachi band. It was this criticism that prompted Cartoon Network to largely shelve Speedy's films when it gained exclusive rights to broadcast them in 1999. However, fan campaigns to put Speedy back on the air, as well as lobbying by The League of United Latin American Citizens , who argued that Speedy's cleverness and personality was a positive depiction of Mexicans, turned the tide in his favor, and in 2002, "the fastest mouse in all Mexico" was put back into rotation".

So there you go, both Latin American and New PC..


¡Andale! ¡Andale! ¡Arriba! ¡Arriba! ¡Yii-hah!

The fastest mouse in Mexico because all the others are in the US on sports scholarships.

#51

Well done! You see, the things you learn on this blog!

However, trumphalist exclamations are premature - no point in putting the champers on ice, because you're still persona non grata with our friends in the sisterhood.

So poor Speedy, having overcome one wave of disdain on his own,will not, I suspect, overcome the one he's inherited vicariously:-)

regardez vous

henri

Or because he'd heard that plaintive cry once too often

54 refers to 52

Oh Senor Glen
In our aldea time has stood still - still using green shield stamps - have to go the big city of Stirling to get nectar points!
I'm on my way as soon as I can dig my burro out of the snow drift - save a few shots for me!

Oh Merry Christmas Senor Duck, or as they say in my country Feliz Navidad!

Bette Midler singing "Only in Miami is Cuba so far away" please!

have we moved onto
Tuesday yet? OK.
The John Peel Effect
Jumping the gun, seeing as he's up for the Wise Man night thingy on Wednesday. Would rather keep it a bit more humble, as befits their beginnings.
John Peel helped "discover" Pulp.
She's A Lady is in a different class from some of their other stuff. And their other stuff is mostly fantastic. Just call it stellar instead.
Unless you don't like them. In which case, the field's wide open for other suggestions.

I did listen to Peel from time to time, could only take it in small doses though. Can't honestly think of anything he got me interested in except Liverpool FC, as he was always raving on about Kenny Dalglish.
May have to cheat for this one, or just not bother....

The very first Bowie sessions were played on Peels "Top Gear" programme in 1968, quite a bit before he had any success. The first session from 1968 has a fantastic version of Silly Boy Blue and if you ever get the chance to check out Billy Furys version of this track it is worth a listen.

A later Peel session featured the first public appearnce of Mick Ronson with Bowie and from that session recorded on 5 vFeb 1970:

David Bowie - The Width of A Circle, shows where Bowie was headed.


The Skids were regulars on the John Peel sessions spot doing 4 or 5 sessions for him incluidng some decent cover versions.

The Skids - Out Of Town

I might as well state the obvious ones as well:

Undertones - teenage kicks, his favourite single

Roy Harper - When An Old Cricketer Leaves The Crease, the song he requested to be player at his funeral.

.... still struggling with this one, any chance of moving the goalposts Vic?

Paul, there's a list of all the Peel Sessions if that's any help. It's an odd sort of theme I think, a bit elitist maybe?

Hallo Uncle Vic!

Tuesday
Run Baby Run / Sheryl Crowe

opens with the line
She was born in November 1963 the day Alduous Huxley died

which as Scotch Git pointed out a while back was the same day JFK died.
And who was the young cub reporter for the Liverpool Echo who just happened to be in Dallas at the time and found himself with quite a story....John Peel!


If that's stretching the theme a bit then I'll settle for
Down at the Doctors / Dr Feelgood


And maybe one day Vic 'll be on an advent calendar and we can do his sessions!

Incidentally when Jack Ruby murdered , he killed the whole

Dear Uncle Vic,

it's a joy and delight to have you on GIO again. The boys were all quite starry-eyed over Alison yesterday, but for out-there and happening music I think we all know who to go for. One or two of the lads were a wee bit peeved at you yielding to producer pressure and playing 'Living in the Past' last time, when you could have chosen a more eclectic Tull track; however, I suspect maybe just a touch of over-sensitivity on their part, thinking that you were making a comment on their musical outlook?

Anyway, tonight will be a stonker I'm absolutely sure, and my first song would be one I heard - on your show Vic! - by a band I would also have heard on a John Peel Session if only I'd listened:

The First Big Weekend - Arab Strap

also

Ice Queen - The Stranglers

Too Good to be True - Tom Robinson

#63 & #64

Well, I was quite happy with the original "tangerine" idea, with all attendant fruit of the citrus type thrown in to the basket too. Absolutely no reason to re-jig it for a John Peel theme which I'm sure we've had before.

As its Vic, its worth recalling that Peel was an early champion of the then unknown Canadian band Brave Belt. BB would later become famous as BTO, so c'mon Vic....

You Aint Seen Nothing Yet - Bachman-Turner Overdrive



Let's Rock.

#65 - Paolo - Are you saying I'm an old git?

#186 - #188 - #189 - #190 - #191

8-0


I never listened to John Peel. Just seen him on the telly now and again.

I'll go away and have a think about tomorrow's wisdom theme.

:o)

#70 not at young and nubile senga I was referring to old decrepit scotch :-)

I loved John Peel's shows. The band I most associate with him is The Fall. Please play either 'Rowche Rumble' or 'How I Wrote "Elastic Man"'...the first two Fall singles I bought...played them to death but haven't heard in ages (turntable's still not been replaced).

I love how I can request a Chas + Dave song one day then The Fall the next...such fun!

#64 Thanks Gaie, that is useful,since you've gone to the bother of making that available i'm gonnae go with....

Opportunity - Joan Armatrading

from the album "show some emotion", also not heard for a while due to turntable issue (#72), dunno if it's working as it's been lying in a heap in the spare room since i moved house (a year ago!)

Paul from Ayr

Oh dear. Scotch's muse played Henri's request but didn't give him the credit.

#68

If we'd had a John Peel theme, I'd have died and gone to heaven[1]. Given that I'm still shuffling around this mortal coil...

Imagine it: Bragg, The Cocteaus, The Ruts, (early) Bowie, Floyd, Capn Beefheart, Loudon Wainwright, Joy Division, and the inevitable record played at the wrong speed. All in the one show.

In fact, let's have .

Tuesday - moved forward form earlier post:

Howdi Vic,

Yes, perhaps Dreadzone's moment comes around at last: John Peel included Dreadzone's 'Second Light' album in his top ten albums of all time.He was a complete champion for the band - thus, the following could hardly be more appropriate

Zion Youth (Radio Edit) - Dreadzone from Second Light or

American Dread - Dreadzone

Overall, like Paul, I've got confused and mixed feelings about John Peel.

And I didn't realise I had any feelings on the subject at all until I read Paul's post.

However since John Peel is a radio god and I want to hear Dreadzone tonight, perhaps I should keep what I think to myself.

regardez youse

henri

#76

I'm sure we had some John Peel link once, but maybe I'm mixing it up with somewhere else. I most certainly wont disagree with the Blog Statto.

:)

#75

Well, not quite Adam, I'd asked for 'Light My Fire' but they did 'The Girl From Ipanema' instead so someone else must have asked for it.

I'll reluctantly confess to not especially enjoying the show last night.You understand how good our hero is at GIO when you hear the guest presenters.The endless inane assurance that I was being 'transported' to a better latin climate when, in fact, I was driving up Maryhill Road started to become tiresome to the point that I almost transported myself to Radio 4.

Vic is better than Peel at championing new music (imho) however and offers the hope of hearing some stuff our hero would baulk at - so it's a chance, Vic, to make up for the patronising blog insult to our Tull community - 'Living In The Past' - the last time you were on.

In fact, far from living in the past - this theme can hardly be anything else - how about playing something I feel certain Peel would have played had he been about now:

Hyper Worm Tamer - Grinderman UNKLE remix

Good luck, Vic...

regardez youse

henri

Back in the early 70s I had an old wireless set complete with valves which meant the thing had to be switched on & allowed to warm up before sound arrived. And yes, the dial was a bit like the lyrics of Van the Man's Days before Rock & roll with Athlone, AFM, Hilversum etc featured. I tended to listen in to Luxembourg but eventually graduated to John Peel sessions after 10pm.

I can quite clearly recall hearing Pink Floyd for the first time, a track from Dark Side of the Moon - Brain Damage and thinking that this was how music should be (not all that shang-a-lang stuff on the main channel)

Please play Floyd Vic, you know it makes sense!

DC

I thought Alison did a lot better than the last time she was in the chair!

#64

I wouldn't say elitist - though possibly ageist. I listened to him from his first broadcasts in 1967 (with Tommy Vance since he wasn't trusted to be on his own). Today you would complain about how middle-of-the-road they were (like Bread) but then it was all new. His spell in America enabled him to introduce us to many subsequently influential musicians at a time of unequalled creativity. I wasn't convinced by his later conversion to punk and his predilection for singles comprising thirty seconds of white noise but his contribution in giving exposure to so many talented people who might have remained unheard is a matter of record.

#79

And a Merry Christmas to you, too.

#82 somebody's stole glens password again

#79

I asked for Jose Feliciano - yes, his version of Light My Fire was great before Pop Idol nicked it wholesale for Will Young, but El Tango Del Roxanne from the Moulin Rouge soundtrack is a fantastic duet with our own, our very own, Ewan McGregor.

#81/82

Apologies,I wasn't complaining about Allison - there just seemed to a lack of a 'script' beyond the idea that it's hotter there than it is here - but I suppose that's live radio - I'm not minimising the difficulty of being on the spot - so just cancel out everything I've just said.

#82 That's quite a long diatribe faither. Are you okay? I'm glad someone else feels the same way I do about the later conversion to punk - much of which was truly awful. Of course to suggest punk was anything less than fantastic is almost heresy to the sentimentalists about it which is more than a tad ironic.I also hugely disliked the way music that he had been championing for the previous ten years was suddenly passe and we were told that Tony Blackburn had been correct all along.

I don't necessarily disagree with that, but all revolutions bring a new form of tyranny and he was part of that - it smacked of a new eletism and or jumping on bandwagons (literally) which kind of dented his credibility as far as I was concerned.

Which is why I like Vic, he plays pretty much anything new and interetsing.

Still, John Peel championed Dreadzone (and many others), so just cancel out everything I've just said about him.

regardez youse

henri

#79
Quite right Henri. My mistake.

I also really liked the music yesterday...obvious choices included...I must be getting soft in my old age!

Seem to remember John Peel championing Tyrannosaurus Rex (who I liked then but find virtually unlistenable now).Strange how your taste changes.Have memories of bands like The Fugs,Pete Brown's Battered Ornaments and crazy guys like Wild Man Fisher getting airplay.Where would you get that now?He played the whole side of a Quick Silver Messenger Service lp once!Would love to hear Captain Beefheart's "Yellow Brick Road" or (the first) Nirvana's lovely "Rainbow Chaser"the first time I had heard "phasing".Far out,man!Even Joni Mitchell did a Peel session early in her career.Oh yeah,The Edgar Broughton Band,big hair,big beards did a highly unlikely hybrid of Beefhearts "Drop out Boogie and the Shadows "Apache"!Get it on ,Vic!Now where did I put that smelly old Afghan coat?Good vibes ,Willie Bartke

BTW, was Roxy John on Janice Forsyth Saturday?

No.

Would we have had Billy Bragg without John Peel? OK, probably, you can't subdue talent on that scale!

Of course, the famous story of Billy hearing John Peel mention on-air that he was hungry, and rushing to the ´óÏó´«Ã½ with a mushroom biryani. John subsequently played a track from 'Life's a Riot'... although at the wrong speed (since the 12" LP was cut to play at 45rpm). John insisted he would have played the song even without the biryani, and later played it at the correct speed.

Days Like These: Billy Bragg, please!

I don't think he turned up....was maybe snowed in. Janice said he would be on but then no mention of him on the day.

#92
Pity

Now onto to tonight's show.

* The Delgados - Mr Blue Sky quite revitalises the old ELO fave
* Cocteau Twins - Frosty the Snowman making a change from my normal request of Donimo, but looking at the calendar, why not?
* Bragg - The Milkman of Human Kindness - I will[1] rush to the studio with a mushroom biryani if you play this. At the wrong speed.
* Pink Floyd - BikeCruelly missed off from Bells night
* Fairport - Now Be Thankful

[1] In the same sense as the ´óÏó´«Ã½ running a prize competition

#91

Bah, spoiled my cognoscenti trivia reference :-)
You'll notice which album "Milkman.." is from, no?

There's also a wonderful Ruts track called "John Peel Speak" which is indeed a clip of the main man giving praise to In a Rut.

And I'd love to end with Mitch Benn's rather than Teenage Kicks (again).

#88

Agreed Willie - I haven't heard Rainbow Chaser for decades.

I remember buying the single 'Apache Dropout' - Harvest label -and taking it home and playing it. My folks were getting worried.

I also loved the Vertigo record label and would gawk at it going round on the turntable endlessly.

The album I was listening to was Gasoline Alley by Rod Stewart which i don't have now.

how about: You're My Girl ( I don't Want To Discuss It) Rod Stewart

Though I'd still rather hear Dreadzone.

reagrdez youse

henri

#88/#97

Rainbow Chaser is graaaaaate. Apache Dropout too.

Ok i'll send in the crossball

#95 I bought that when it came out...and all these years I thought it was an EP!