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Don't s*** on my sand, Jimmy.

Adam they found your bucket.

Get away from it all? The other side of town will do for me.

Taxi /

Another bit of classic soul ignored by UK radio. If you like James Carr Henri have a listen to this guy.

"This is no ordinary sand. This is sand which is washed dried and graded Silica sand of consistent bulk density complying with BS 1377"

Don't forget your shovel...

THURSDAY

'Up the 'Pool' - Jethro Tull

Bryan! Here's that song about Blackpool you were looking for!

No matter, Bryan, no need for an apology - many 12" versions add little to the original and are no more than additional noodling about before launching into the single, so a 12" theme would probably be a disaster. Maybe I'm wrong.

The 12" of Say Hello Wave Goodbye is, however, a complete reworking and vast improvement on the original - with a particularly outstanding oboe or clarinet solo (maybe its a synth)in the middle - even classical fans, like my elder brother, love this version. However, it has to be conceded its a bit longer than GIO normally play, so to have heard it would have been a bit of a bonus - but worth playing, the nation deserve to hear it..

regardez vous

henri

"Guess where we buried Jordan"

Dignity - Deacon Blue
Sunshine On Leith - The Proclaimers
Fat Bottomed Girls - Queen
Hanging On The Telephone - Blondie
Sweet Dreams - The Eurythmics

Any of these instantly make me want to travel far from the radio.

THURSDAY

Fairy Tale Lullaby - John Martyn

Love in Common - The Fabulous Thunderbirds

Always reminds of when I was working in Saudi Arabia in the late 80's. At least it was warm.

My two "I'm off on holiday" songs are:

Alan Jackson - It's Five O'clock Somewhere

and

Jimmy Buffet - Margharitaville

would not listen to them any other time.....but magic at holiday time!

This sand is your sand
This sand is my sand .....

Parisienne Walkways - Gary Moore

You missed 'I'm on my way'!

#15 #9! I need a holiday!!

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That must be the fastest moderation ever. Never even got time to read it

Tonight's newly discovered thematic tracks are

Ashley - Escape The Fate if you like bands like We Are Scientists, you'll like this

Shark In The Water - V V Brown -from Travelling like the Light

A Picture of Doris Travelling With Boris - est

Travelling Song -Pentangle

All of which I commend to the blogotariat and our masters in Pacific Quay

and - From the henripod

Wish I - Jem

Travellin' Light - Cliff Richard (one of only three Cliff records I like)

Traveller - Talvin Singh ( Kid Loco Remix)

Travelin In The Dark - Mountain

and of course - Chariots - Transglobal Underground go on Bryan, give us some cosmopolitan,

Meeting In Africa - Jimmy Cliff

Set The Tigers Free - Villagers

Dead American Writers - Tired Pony - from 'The Place We Ran From'

Hate It Here - Wilco

Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You - Bob Dylan

The Goodbye Look - Donald Fagan

A Place In the Sun - Stevie Wonder

Ramblin Man - Allman Brothers band

Ramblin Man - Lemon Jelly

If I Had A Boat - Lyle Lovett

Break Away - The Beach Boys

That'll Do.

regardez youse

henri

Glenn tried a rhyme about bucket
At blog #17 he tried to tuck it
He laid it on thick,
His great limerick
And then the moderators spoiled the last line

oh and...upon reflection, Say Hello Wave Goodbye - Soft Cell 12" does fit tonight's theme.

It is a song about a great escape: about distance travalled, about moving on.

regardez youse

henri

'Summerteeth' by Wilco. Not at all for it's lyrics but for the overall sound of the track. It makes me want to take some time out to find a beach...or riverside spot for a picnic. BTW...many moons ago, this was one of the songs on my Summer mixtape whi I was lucky enough to have featured. Unfortunately...the wrong Wilco track was played and they've never played the correct one since!!! You owe me one GIO!

Aw Man, if ever there wuz a Friday theme this is it... Okay, okay I know its been done on a Friday before but I'm awa wie the an I'll need company whilst driving after work!
On reflection I never get my travel song Raise a glass: The haggis!



B.T.W. Mind yon crabs!

#13 - PP - thanks for the inspiration: This land is your land - Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings.

Also:
Weekend in New England - Barry Manilow
Southbound train - Nanci Griffith
Boulder to Birminham - Emmylou Harris
Holiday - Joan as Policewoman
Manhattan - Ella Fitzgerald
Lake Charles - Lucinda Williams
The road to Ensenada - Lyle Lovett
J'ai deux amours - Madeleine Peyroux
So long St Christopher - Goldheart Assembly
Si e spento il sole - Vinicio Capossela
Mon amant de St Jean - Luceienne Delyle

Joe
Linlithgow

#21
Cry, cry, cry to the end of

#24 Southbound Train would be great Joe!

#22 SHAME ON YOU BRYAN, GET IT SORTED!

I've never been to Mexico but this one makes a good case for it...

Goin to Acapulco - Dylan & The Band

#20


The Cellardyke laureate DC
Pens limericks effortlessly
On seaward vacatia
He catches crustacea
And boils them in pots for his tea

chance for some Punk Miss B ....

'Endless Vacation' ... The Ramones (what we all wish for at times, if not always)
'New York' ... Sex Pistols (quite probably the most dynamic city on the globe)

'Casanova at the Weekend' ... Mull Historical Society (you can't beat a spot of tranquility now 'n again)

'A Polish Lullaby' ... Justin Tranter (for memories of Warsaw, and a chance to enter the GIO record books at 18 seconds 'long')

'One Million Rainy Days' ... The Jesus & Mary Chain (memories of 14 days of the stuff at a rain-sodden BB camp in 1974 (well, it seemed like that at the time). Didn' put the midges off mind you!

'No Place Like Home' ... Devo

coz sometimes your mood for travel is to get the *ell out of the holiday destination you've just arrived in!

"...think i'll go out to Alberta..."
"....green fields and rolling hills...."
"...sunny skies are aqua blue...."
"...say if I climb to the mountain..."
"...it took me 4 days to hitch hike..."
"...we moved from one land to the next..."
"...i'm tired of travelling, I want to be somewhere.."

story of a holiday? by seven artists!

"The weather's warm but we'll play it cool"

Tiki Torches At Twilight - El Rayo-X
The Hula Hula Boys - Warren Zevon

#27

Oh Glenn you are but a one
For giving the blog lots of fun
But there, you're a poet!
(And probably didn't know it)
Until that ditty was done!

Re caption :

"We wanted Sandie Shaw not Sandy Shore..........."

"I'm sorry, the Toulouse-Lautrec auditions were yesterday."

Damien Hirst yesterday expressed astonishment that his latest living sculpture ''two men on a beach with seashell'' had so far failed to attract any visitors.

Holiday - Fran Healy

Isle of Eigg - the McCalmans (cos if I'm where my heart is, on Rum or Skye I'll be looking at Eigg)

Look at the Mountains - Jimmy Cliff

The Real McCoy - the Silencers ( the cheeriest 'day-off today' song I know)

Feelin' Good - Joe Bonamassa

wishing it were

Month of May - Arcade Fire

and for the umpteenth time

The Ocean Road - Runrig


and big second for Tiki Torches at Twilight

He had struggled long and hard with his song which was a melancholy meditation on thwarted plans, the first verse featuring a relationship, the second the death of an Indian boy before battle, and the third a disabled girl who prepares for suicide, only to see a "golden winged ship" passing her way, which causes her to jump in her wheelchair and say, "Look, a golden-winged ship is passing my way.

When suddenly Jimi Hendrix had it "I'll call my song Castles Made of Sand" he exclaimed...

And it was so...

Heaven - Do ~ (Candlelight mix)


I first heard this song last year when I was driving home from England after a bank holiday weekend. Everyone who drives through the Borders knows how erratic the radio signals can be. I hit the random search option and it locked on to a local station somewhere in Dumfries & Galloway. I recognized the song right away. It's a cover of the Bryan Adams song. It was so lovely it almost made me cry. Not good when you're on the unlit section of the M74 driving in the dark!


Please, please, please!ÌýDon't play the disco version by DJ Sammy & Yanou which is awful!

The version I like is the Unplugged version. For some reason they call it the Candlelight mix.

Thank you!

:o)

#41 Was it the song that made you cry? Or was that the weekend that Henri abandoned you at Southwaite Service station to head back for the blog swally.........

The team were very pleased to have successfully extracted the lobster from where their co-presenter had sat on it... but was the sick bucket going to be neccessary or not!

For a great driving/travelling track check out "Baltimore' from (the much underated) Mark Erelli

The Stranglers-Always The Sun. (Having been stranded in freezing New York during the blizzard before getting to Florida)
The Beatles-Good Day Sunshine
Joni Mitchell-Free Man In Paris
The Silencers-Wild Mountain Thyme
The Divine Comedy-National Express.(great gig at the Oran Mor last year)

One Summer Dream / ELO

And if Norrie wants to get away from it all
Nightflight to Venus / Boney M
which as he correctly points out is a cover of Cozy Powell's Dance with the Devil under a different name.

Hothouse Flowers - 'I Can See Clearly Now'

#45 Now that's a great shout paolo!

NO ESCAPE from LIVE AT THE WILD WESTERN ROOM – LONDON by BILLY CHILDISH AND HIS FAMOUS HEADCOATES

#45

Both of these use the drum pattern from on 1968's Bookends by Simon and Garfunkel.

I had put together a list but realised I'd misread the theme as "the great escape" (rather than travel-specific).

Damn. Another time?

#6 - #42 - #50

Will you please stop banging on about bloody Blackpool!!!

;o)

BORN TO BE WILD from STEPPENWOLF by STEPPENWOLF

A desperate attempt is made to cover Shergars ears....

I'm hoping for fair winds and blue skies this summer. Having bought a new yacht last year (the old MacWester 27, which is in excellent condition is currently awaiting an offer), I'm planning on visiting a number of previously unvisited parts of the east coast over the coming months.

New Horizons - Moody Blues

DC

CAPTION CORNER ...

"ok you lot, a joke's a joke ... let Jordan out now ...

#5

Mind yer sandwiches

Where did the other two in the picture suddenly appear from

#49 never noticed that before

Previously...on the Blog

#71 What did I do Paolo?? (Something on last night`s show? Listening to it now)

#74 No visa required SG. (Oh dear, have a notion now as to what might have happened)

* It's Immaterial - Driving Away From Home (Jim's Tune)
* The Saw Doctors - The Green and Red of Mayo
* The Saw Doctors -
* Billy Bragg -
A very, very fine alternative to Route 66.

#59 At least he has not been complaining he gets nothing played recently.....

Its a holiday here today and its a sunny 38C.
I`ve got the budgie smugglers on and looking across the bay to the Sugar Loaf. Few yachts down there but don`t see DC`s.

If there`s a song that drives me to the beach its

On the Beach - Chris Rea

Caption
Look what DC has just dropped off!

Just heard it Scotch.
You see, its when you dont try you get on.

For you

#42/51

I think that would be right enough,Paulo, the blog swaly was the September weekend?

regardez youse

henri

Coney Island -- Van Morisson

´óÏó´«Ã½ travel correspondents bravely hide their disappointment on being told "you mis heard.The programme is being shot from Toys R Us not the Bosphorus"

I was lucky enough to have a Summer Mix of my choice two years back on the GTO show and my choice included Joni's "Hissing of Summer Lawns"and Laura Nyro's "Stoned Soul Picnic"Both in their own way evocative of warm summer days.Either of these would brighten up this chilly winters day.I already asked for the great Billy Stewart earlier this week but it would be cool(!) to hear his amazing cover of "Summertime"if only for the incredible "bbbrrrr"introduction, Cheers Willie Bartke

Roam, B52s
Into the great wide open, Tom Petty

Three Goofs and a Soprano

Yet again Kene excels...

Let's hear one of his shouts, preference for Devo's recent offering please.

RAMBLIN’ MAN from BROTHERS AND SISTERS by THE ALLMAN BROTHERS

MY RAMBLING BOY from THE ORIGINAL SANDY DENNY by SANDY DENNY

RAMBLE ON from LED ZEPPLIN II by LED ZEPPELIN

MORNINGTOWN RIDE from THE BEST OF THE SEEKERS by THE SEEKERS

Another couple:

The Moon and St Christopher - Mary - Chapin Carpenter

Wunderlust - Paul McCartney The Tug Of War version is best

both fabby

regardez youse

henri

and

Never Tell Your Mother She's Out Of Tune - Jack Bruce

it's about a train journey..."when I hear that big black whistle they blow.. I fell inside its time for me to be going"

I was having a long conversation with a musician on Sunday evening who had played with Jimmy MacCullough and said Jimmy's song 'Wino Junko' on 'Wings At The Speed Of Sound' was written about Jack Bruce...

regardez youse

henri

PACHECO from AMERICAN STONEHENGE by ROBIN WILLIAMSON

Four young folk went to the seaside. One of them caught crabs

Fly Me Away - Goldfrapp

Trip to Pirate's Cove -Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers

I Am Arrows - 'Green Grass'

"You ran away to the sun in California.
I'll stay the same
under gray skies I'll come undone,
And I know on holiday,
The grass so green"

WHEN I GET TO THE BORDER from I WANT TO SEE THE BRIGHT LIGHTS TONIGHT by RICHARD (& LINDA) THOMPSON OBE who is appearing at The Royal Concert Hall on Tuesday night

"Did you know the worst job Peter sellers ever had was extracting lobsters from Jayne Mansfield's

Blur - 'Girls and Boys'

Marine Girls - 'A Place In The Sun'

Just a pop-in - complications.
Glen Frey - The Boys of Summer
I know it's more to do with "after the holidays are over" nostalgia, but it makes me look forward to them.

"Oh the shark has pretty teeth, dear; and he shows them pearly white..."

#52 second your Moody Blues, DC. And good luck with the boat sale.
#62 second your Chris Rea, Adam. Must be the speedos effect.
#65 second that one, too, Frank.

niteall

Mary-Doll has popped out.

again.......

#83

I think that was Don Henley, hen.

Glen Frey did Adam's favourite, 'Budgie Smuggler's Blues'

>8-D

Is that a stick of rock in your pocket?

#88 well it makes a change from his itsybitsyteenyweeny yellowpolkadot mankini

#86 I hope that's not a caption attempt

DC

I'm confused - songs about holidays? What happened to the "The Great Escape" theme? I was expecting something by KT Tun-Stalag, or "The P.O.W of Luft", from Jennifer Rush, anything by Cooler and the Gang, Sheryl Crow's "Steve McQueen", "Motorbiking" by Chris Spedding, "Caravan", by Barbed-wire Dickson, anything by John Leyton, or David McCallum, who both starred in the film., "Needles and Prisoners", by the Searchlights, or Elmer Bernstein's classic score. Or, related, there's always Tom Jones and Cerys Matthews, with "Baby, Colditz Outside

or
Pleasance Valley Sunday / The Monkees

Digging in the Dirt / Peter Gabriel

Tunnel of Love - Dire Straits

Wooden horse - Elvis

Paul Simon - Stir Crazy After All These Years