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Nice example. But knowing my luck, a horde of Timberlake fans will oust Julie's superlative rendition of a timeless song that really didn't need to be namechecked for the sake of some celeb romance gone wrong scenario.
Whatever next - Jordan sings some Stock, Aitken and Waterman song called "Mad About The Boy"?
(Not sure what happened there. I appear to have got access to the computer again. Might not be a good thing)

Power of Love

The Huey Lewis version please, not the Jennifer Rush or the Frankie goes tae Hollywood tracks





DC

Good one, DC. I like all of them but would prefer the HL version, just to be sociable.

Not many triples, I bet!

DC

Hello Bryan!
Good pic of U2....my fav as you can see:

Soldier of Love - Donny Osmond or Sade
Heartland - George Strait or U2
Silver and Gold - Dolly Parton or U2
Mercy - Duffy or U2
Please - Toni Braxton or U2

Have a good one!

Going Home - Dire Straits (from Local Hero)
Going Home - Ten Years After (Alvin lee does funny faces at Woodstock)
Going Home - Runrig (from Once in a Lifetime, not Highland Connection)
Going Home - Bruce Guthro (not the Runrig song)
Going Home - The Blues Band
Going Home - The Saw Doctors
Going Home - Bert Jansch
Going Home - Peter Frampton
Going Home - the Hazey Janes

and others way too numerous to mention, from Aaron Neville to Zenobia

The Bert Jansch would be very nice or Runrig would be good but if and only if you can find the Live Once In a Lifetime version.

that's us, then

#4
Not many triples? The last time we did this theme I came up with 13 for Angel. I`ve got 15 now.

Angel

Rod Stewart (Jimi Hendrix)
Aretha Franklin
Madonna
Aerosmith
Eurythmics
Jon Secada
A-Ha
Goldie
Massive Attack
Tina Cousins
Ralph Fridge
Lionel Richtea (Is it tea your looking for?)
Shaggy
Sarah McLauchlan
The Corrs

I fully expect Paolo to top this though.

Adam, last time I looked, 15 wisnae a triple. If it is where you stay, I'll let you buy the roond

DC

'Go West' ... The Cult or The Village People
'Heroes' ... Bowie or Camel
'Waking Up' ... Elastica or Funeral for a Friend


... either or

Just seen playlist for tonight.

Ring of Fire again??

Johnny Cash was a great bloke but he does seem to get an inordinate amount of play time on a show such as this.

Just had alison again. Seems the blog didnae get much of a mention

Hardly surprising I suppose

Learning to fly

Choose between the Pink Floyd and the Tom Petty version. Which ever you go for will be the right one








Best theme in ages by the way




DC

Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?













You ought to be used to it by now.













Some have been accused of having BB's ear LOL.

And there's Julia - Chris Rea and The Beatles

Either or both would do




DC

I used to have a computer with a sticky return key too

Have we really had this theme before?

Roadrunner - The Pretty Things
Roadrunner - Jonathon Richman


Songbird - Fleetwood Mac
Songbird - Crash Test Dummies
Songbird - Carly Simon


Forever - Ben Harper
Forever - Kiss
Forever - Chris Brown

'Would I Lie To You?' - Eurythmics or Charles+Eddie. I like them both.

'You Do Something To Me' - Paul Weller or Ella Fitzgerald (or Doris Day, Frank Sinatra etc etc singing the Cole Porter song).

Zizi would like me to say a big thank you for his shout last night - I missed most of the second half, but he's now so famous that someone asked if my cat had been on the radio again, he hadn't heard my name only Zizi's. A bigger cat-flap now called for to accommodate his head.

Born to run - Springsteen or Emmylou Harris
The river - Springsteen or Audra Mae
Trouble - Elvis or Pink or Ray La Montagne
Only you - Yazoo or the Platters or Matthew Perryman Jones
Mary - Kings of Leon or Patty Griffin
Home - Broken Records or Daughtry (but not Michael Buble)
Stay - Sugarland or Jackson Browne or Shakespeare's Sister
Substitute - the Who or Clout

More to follow


Joe
Linlithgow

Stand - Sly & the Family Stone


Stand - R.E.M.
Stand - Rascal Flatts
Stand - Jewel
Stand - Poison

Multiple use of a title does not make it a good song

"I think it could end up being great fun ..."

Probably not.

ABC - Show Me
Dexy Midnight Runners - Show Me
Pretenders - Show Me

all excellent tracks, no prefrence.


and for Henri

Deacon Blue - Dignity
Bob Dylan - Dignity

However here are two absolute crackers, both of which should be played

Kirsty Mccoll - Dear John (or the Edi Reader cover)

Ryan Adams and the Cardinals feat Nora Jones - Dear John

Breakaway - Gallagher and Lyle or Kelly Clarkson
Desire - Ryan Adams or U2
New York, New York - Ryan Adams or Sinatra
Independence Day - Springsteen or Martina McBride

More may follow

Joe
Linlithgow

#24

Ah fear the wurst.


MONDAY

'Dear Abby' - John Prine

'Dear Abbie' - Kinky Friedman

Fox On The Run - Sweet

Fox On The Run - Manfred Mann

:o)

I want you ~ Inspiral Carpets V's I want you ~ Bob Dylan
Sweet Dreams ~ Yes V's Sweet Dreams ~ Eurythmics
Call Me ~ Aretha Franklin V's Call Me ~ Ìý Blondie
Ghosts ~ Japan V's Ghosts ~ T. Jam
Life on Mars ~ Dexter Wansell ~ Life on Mars? ~ David Bowie

Modern love - Peter Gabriel or The Last Town Chorus

Joe
Linlithgow

Do What You Gotta Do - Nina Simone

Do What You Gotta Do - Garth Brooks


I like them both but the Jimmy Webb song would be best for the show imho.

:o)

#27

Apart from Gaie's Going Home it's mainly mince.

Steven Lindsay - 'Kite'
Kate Bush - 'Kite'
U2 - 'Kite'

Lesley Duncan - 'Love Song' - The Damned

CSNY - 'Our House' - Madness

BRING ME THE RED PUDDING OF ALFREDO GARCIA!

Promises ~ T. Cranberries V's Promises ~ T. BuzzcocksÌý
Need you tonite ~ Mylo V's Need you tonight ~ Inxs
Moving ~ Supergrass V's Moving ~ Kate Bush
More than this ~ Peter Gabriel V's More than this ~ Roxy Music

Sorrow - David Bowie/Dave Berry? or

Sorrow - The National

it would be good to hear Sorrow by The National from High Violet, one of my albums of last year - this is a good radio friendly track which borrows more than a little from Berlin's Take My Breath Away, but hey -ho - it's great anyway.

regardez youse

henri

BRING ME THE EXCESSIVELY FAVOURABLE OPINIONS IN ONE'S OWN ABILITIES OF SAID ALFREDO GARCIA!

WEDNESDAY


Seconds for Warren Zevon!

ah ken MM !

#40

Mean Dartin,

You do? Perhaps you can enlighten me.

















slow git

That's Life - Sinatra etc

That's Life - Richie Spice

From the compilation Solid 1 - those who like Reggae will find this worth checking on Spotify

regardez youse

henri

#40
BRING ME THE BELLIGERENT TONE OF ALFREDO GARCIA!

Maybes Alfredo Garcia didn't go further west than the Kingston Brig?

;-)

kiss me..............sixpence none the richer/happiness

dreams.............cranberries/fleetwood mac

it must be love.............madness/enrique iglesias


cheers frae the dale

#44

That would be because he was killed in a car crash on the Kingston Bridge?

BRING ME THE HEAD-ON COLLISION OF ALFREDO GARCIA!

CAPTION COMP..............

'I fell in
to a a burning ring o.......' (too funny, ed)


ok, where do you collect the prize?


cheers frae the dale

Bono, just before the water balloon struck

I'm a Good Man - Robert Cray

I'm a Good Man - The Fabulous Thunderbirds

She Loves You - The Beatles
Sheila's View - Men At Work

Caption

"Edge, shmedge. Oi'm burstin' for a Slash!"

MONDAY

'Simple Man' - Lynyrd Skynyrd

'Simple Man' - Charlie Daniels Band



Keep it Country!

41

less of the slow

Come Together - The Beatles
Come Together - Primal Scream
Come Together - Spiritualized
Come Together - Peter Tosh

Peter Tosh would be a nice change

regardez youse

henri

Let's Get Together - Hayley Mills - Mother of some of Kula Shaker
Let's Get Together - The Youngbloods - 60s anthem
Let's Get Together - KC and the Sunshine Band
Let's Get Together - Alexander O'Neal

There are other more obscure ones.

#54

Mean Dartin,

If I describe myself as slow, why do you feel the need to disagree?

Have you been talking to my ex?

>8-D

#57

Maybe Mean Dartin is your ex?

She's Gome / Robert Cray
Sge's Gone / Black Sabbath
She's Gone / Hall and Oates

excuse my spelling. My Scottish is quite good. It was a key error on my board

Your Scottish is improving but you need more spelling errors.

Wishing Well - Free
Wishing Well - Terence Trent d'Arby
Wishing Well - Inxs
Wishing Well - Black Sabbath
Wishing Well - The Shangri Las

Thank - you - Dido

Thank - you - Led Zeppelin

regardez youse

henri

#32
another two shots this week for Bert Jansch, Glen, Tuesday and Thursday. Especially exciting now that we know they don't mind playing the same song twice in one week.

If Not For You - George Jones

If Not For You - Olivia Newton - John

among dozens of versions of the Dylan classic, Olivia's remains my firm favourite, with the possible exception of Bob's original

regardez youse

henri

Jolene - Dolly Parton or Ray La Montagne

Joe
Linlithgow

#65

I suspect it will be more Cash than Kottke.

#53 Scotch you could have tripled it up with the Bad Company track, which is a really good one, keep it rock ;-)

Sail Away - Neil Young

Sail Away - David Gray

Keep it quality!

Paul from Ayr

The River: Audra Mae
The River: Bruce Springsteen
The River: The Killers
Audra Mae please.

Which Side Are You On?: Billy Bragg
Which Side Are You On?: Natalie Merchant

America: Simon and Garfunkel
Amerika V 6.0 (The Best We Can Do): Steve Earle
America: Killing Joke
America: Neil Diamond
America: Prince
America: Razorlight
America: from West Side Story
America: Tracy Chapman
America: Waylon Jennings
America: Santana
Steve Earle maybe?

#69

Paul, you could have tripled it with the Randy Newman track. The title has disturbing echoes of Enya.

I see there are 23 entries for Sail Away on Wikipaedia - enough for a programme and, with Kenny Rogers, Peter Frampton, Deep Purple and John Fogerty, probably at least as good as the one we're going to get.

#68 Greenock library has a Leo Kottke CD in a music section that though small, combines 'popular tonight' with a fair number of unexpected delights.


Hold On - Tom Waits
Hold On - Lou Reed

as well as

Emmylou Harris
Michael Buble
Steve Winwood
Green Day
Santana
Yes
Pearl Jam
Chris de Burgh

A veritable cornucopia

Forget "Dreams"by Cranberries or snoozy Fleetwood Mac.You got to hear Grace Slick's(bless her pointed little head!)demented pomprock magnum opus of the same name.This makes "Total Eclipse ot the Heart"look like a model of restraint.The kitchen sink may be in there somewhere too but Slick's incredible vocals make it work.Amazing!Check out great youtube clip.Other doublers worth a play
Wings My Love
Petula Clark My Love
Beachboys Darlin'
Frankie Miller Darlin'
Rolling Stones Stupid Girl
Garbage Stupid Girl
Jimi Hendrix Angel
Aretha Franklin Angel
Cheers Willie Bartke

#75 - Willie Bartke The Genius - You forgot Cheers - Rihanna

;o)

#8 Songs called Angel

Adam, you've missed

Kevin McDermott Orchestra
Matt Nathanson
My Life Story

off your list. All of which I would say were better songs than ones by the 15 artists you mentioned...

Previously on the Blog....

Adam - Of course I've heard of Brigadoon, just never seen the film. I assumed it was a mythical town, like Camelot or El Dorado or Timbuctoo.

:o)

#77

and

Jack Johnston

Good theme this one...

Deacon Blue - Closing Time - Semisonic
Paul Simon - Graceland - The Bible
Altered Images - Happy Birthday - Stevie Wonder
The Silencers - It's Only Love - Bryan Adams & Tina Turner
Gary Clark - Nancy - Martin Stephenson & the Daintees
Joan Osbourne - One Of Us - ABBA
Tears For Fears - Head Over Heels - ABBA
John O'Kane - Stay - Shakespears Sister
Dina Carroll - This Time - Bryan Adams
Love and Money - Winter - Tori Amos

and a triple
Temptation - Heaven 17 / New Order / Wet Wet Wet

#30

You forgot Bowie there...

#76,Silly Willie!
Goodbye Mary Hopkins
Goodbye Emmylou Harris
Goodbye Willie Bartke :0)

for all the neh neh neneh nehs

Smarter than You - The Undertones

Smarter than You - the Dylans

Talking Heads - 'Heaven' - Psychedelic Furs

All That Jazz
* Liza Minelli
* Echo & the Bunnymen

Hold Me
* The Cardigans
* Fleetwood Mac

Wish You Were Here
* Peggy Lee
* Pink Floyd
* Betty Boo
* Billy Bragg
* Alice Cooper
* Dead or Alive
* Roland Gift

Fly Away
* Lenny Kravitz
* John Denver
* Gillian Welch (ok, that's I'll Fly Away from the O Brother OST)

Walk Away
* Tom Waits
* The Four Tops (Walk Away Renee)
* Billy Bragg (Walk Away Renee, but very adapted from the one above)
* Matt Munro
* Kelly Clarkson

Money
* Pink Floyd
* The Flying Lizards
* Michael Jackson

Time
* Tom Waits
* Pink Floyd
* Ozzy Osbourne

Stepping Out
* Lennon (I'm Stepping Out, technically)
* Joe Jackson
* Kool and the Gang

Love Song
* Simple Minds
* The Damned
* Olivia Newton John
* P!nk
* Elton John
I can do better than tracks with the same name - what about bands with the same name?
I give as a starter:
* Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit
* Nirvana - Rainbow Chaser
As everyone knows the 1st one, howabout the 2nd?

#84

Also
* Fiction Factory (which is (Feels Like) Heaven)
* Bryan Adams
* Simply Red

#86 I know. Simply Red is a poor cover (imho) of the Talking Heads version.

I cannot find another song to match the following:

Sunshine on Leith

Hanging On The Telephone

the show is doomed to failure....

#85 Are you trying to move the goalposts here Capn? Walk Away Renee is hardly the same title as Walk Away. As blog referee give yourself a yellow card.

#89

Yeah, you're right, the show doesn't do that kind of thing ;-)

IMO adding a single word at start/end that doesn't change the thrust of the title, but just adds a little extra detail is just about OK. See also 'Fly Away' above.

But it is my opinion, hence the full declaration

#88 ....again ☺

'I'm Sorry'

Brenda Lee
John Denver
The Platters

Spanish Eyes remind me:

Sad Eyes - Trisha Yearwood, Robert John, Enruiqe Ingleesis, Josh Rouse, Bat For Lashes.

I think Adam From Rio would like the Robert John song but I'd plump for Trisha Yearwood.....

#93
Wow Norrie! I'd forgotten about that Robert John song. Top ten in UK and No1 in the US. Good shout.

#78
..or Cellardyke even. (Its not on any maps)

#94 Oh

#95 Crikey Gaie I looked at your map and I've found treasure!

#95
Fotae Shop!!

:)

oh no it wisnae!!!

Rolls the ball into the corridor of uncertainty.....

#96 well tell you what, we can go halvers on it, since it's my map. What is the treasure, tickets for a TP concert, all expenses paid?