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Van Morrison - in The Days Before Rock n Roll

Are these enough in one song?

Fats Domino, Muddy Waters, ElvisPresley,Sonny Boy Williamson, Lightning Hopkins, Lester Piggott,Ray Charles, Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard

No?

add in radio stations?

Luxembourg, Athlone, Budapest, AFN, Hilversum, Helvetia, AFM stars of Jazz??

no???

Oh well

Sparks - Lighten Up Morrissey

'Endless Art' by A House...more famous names than you can shake a stick at! Good video too.

'I saw Mr Presley Tiptoeing Thru the Tulips' ~ Tiny Tim
(honest)

THURSDAY


'A Secret Commonwealth O' Elvis Fans' - Saint Andrew ~ It's a secret.

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

#2. I'll beat Norrie to the trivia...'Endless Art' was produced by Edwyn Collins

I fear Thing-Fish is correct. It'll be the same playlist we always get whenever this theme comes around.

Ingrid Bergman' or 'Joe DiMaggio Done it Again' ~ Billy Bragg & Wilco (from 'Mermaid Avenue')

Jimmy Dean ('Rock On' ~ David Essex)

Anita Baker, Robin Givens, Stevie Wonder ('Green Light' ~ John Legend featuring André 3000')

Mantovani ('Paradise Place' ~ Siouxsie & the Banshees')

'Thunder On The Mountain'...Bob namechecks Alicia Keys but Wanda changed it to Jerry Lee

Me and Del were singin'
Little Runaway

Running Down a Dream - Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers

When You Go Out With Artists - Crash Test Dummies (David Byrne)

To the King of Country...

Johnny Cash ~The Night Hank Williams Came to Town
Moe Bandy ~ Hank Williams, You Wrote My Life
Arthur Smith ~ In Memory of Hank Williams
Johnnie & Jack ~ Hank Williams Will Live Forever
Jimmie Logsdon ~ Hank Williams Sings the Blues No More
Riley Crabtree ~ When Hank Williams Met Jimmie Rodgers
Waylon Jennings ~ Are You Sure Hank Done it This Way
Johnny Paycheck ~ Hank (You Tried To Tell Me)
Stoney Edwards ~ Hank and Lefty Raised My Country Soul
Ernest Tubb ~ Hank, It Will Never Be the Same Without You

Dar Williams - I Won't Be Your Yoko Ono

Hunky Dory "Song for Bob Dylan" ~ David Bowie

The Prince ~ Madness

Buddy Holly ~ Weezer

Smells Like Nirvana ~ "Weird Al" Yankovic

Why has no one suggested Robert DeNiros waiting??

Oops

First Time I Heard Johnny Cash (Sing I Walk the Line) - Rodney Crowell
There's a Guy Works Down the Chip Shop - Kirsty McCall
Best and Marsh - New Order
Nelson Mandela - The Special AKA

Lou Reed & John Cale - Hello It's Me (ANDY Warhol)

N.B. This is not a list of requests. I shall be somewhat miffed if given credit for any of them.

This is an attempt to beat Glen Miller's record. (7)


'Pinball' - Brian Protheroe

'All the Young Dudes' - Mott the Hoople

'Bette Davis Eyes' - Kim Carnes

'We Didn't Start the Fire' - Billy Joel

'Life is a Rock' - Reunion

'Robert De Niro's Waiting' - Bananarama

'Abraham, Martin and John' - Marvin Gaye

'Walking in Memphis' - Marc Cohn or Cher

'John Wayne is Big Leggy' - Haysi Fantayzee

'Lighten Up, Morrissey' - Sparks

'Man on the Moon' - R.E.M.

'Home Thoughts from Abroad' - Clifford T. Ward

'Gary Gilmore's Eyes' - The Adverts

It was played a wee while ago, so we might be spared this one.


'Werewolves of London' - Warren Zevon

One of the two Warren Zevon songs in the GIO database.


'Romeo and Juliet' - Dire Straits

It doesn't matter that they never existed. Someone on the Dark Side will ask for it.

>8-D

Up All Night (Frankie Miller Goes to Hollywood) - Counting Crows

bet that's not on the List

Do we get Don McLean tonight?
To be honest, there are some klaxons a lot of us don't mind rehearing.
Like Vincent and American Pie (which, if it has to be spelled out, gives a mention to that fateful plane crash that took Buddy, Bopper and Ritchie out of the scene, not forgetting the pilot).

Stevie Wonder namechecks more Jazz legends than you could shake a shakey stick at on Sir Duke . Ella's even in there, too!! ;o)

Maybe this is the sort of thing the musical snobs on the blog are anticipating with disdain. Tough if it is. Tough if it isn't. There's a bar there, raised in readiness for your superior offerings. ;o) ;o) ;o)

#18 have we had this theme before?

#18 Boy am I glad neither of my suggestions were on your list. I would have to dislike you then.

#22

Mary-Doll,

Surely you mean Oh Boy! am I glad etc.

>8-D

#21

Norrie,

Are you saying that themes are repeated?
















shocked and stunned git

Come on and show me say the bells of Old Bowie
When I am fitter say the bells of Gary Glitter
No one but you and I say the bells of Prince Far-I


The Clash - Clash City Rockers

Steve Earle - Sugarland
Listen to the radio - Nanci Griffith
Nightshift - the Commodores
Sweet home alabams - Lynyrd Skynyrd
I feel lucky - Mary Chapin carpenter

..........more to follow

Joe
Linlithgow

Springsteen - Thunder Road (Roy Orbison)

Nils Lofgren - Keith Don't Go (Keith Richards)

there's quite a few names on this one

'we didn't start the fire'................billy joel

i didn't know any of them personally but i did have a davey crockett hat.

i think a signed fotae of BB and B should go to the first to txt all the names before the end of the programme.

cheers frae the dale

WE WANT FRANK ZAPPA MENTIONED

















(again)

#25

The Right Profile...

....even Richard Nixon has got soul....

The Campaigner - Neil Young

Paul from Ayr

'man on the moon'..........rem................because not only does elvis get a mention but michael stipe does a sensational imitation of him as well...........listen carefully , it could almost be 'the king' himself.......classic.


cheers frae the dale

#30 Car Jamming.....

'On and On' - Stephen Bishop ("Puts on Sinatra and starts to cry")

'you were right'............badly drawn boy

'general grant's visit to dundee'.................michael marra

'ringo fire'..............dunno the singer

and surely there is a song out there that actually mentions the singer himself/herself (without irony)............(check bono first off)


cheers frae the dale

The Beloved - 'Hello'

All together now: "Zippy, Bungle,Jeffrey Archer" ☺

#33

You're An Original ~ Sheryl Crow ;-)

Did I misunderstand the theme again??? And what was wrong with Dr. Hook? I love that song!!!


Supporting joe-k-brown. And that £90,000,000 will soon be mine! HAHAHA!!!

I Feel Lucky - Mary Chapin Carpenter

;o)

#38 - Dwight Yoakam & Lyle Lovett. But you already know that.

:o)

OMGCD - The Low Anthem (Charles Darwin - from Oh My God, Charlie Darwin but not the song we had before)

Going to see them next month at Òran Mòr I hope.

#18
Great post SG.

Fair dos to some Bloggers though, for coming up with some originals.

The Rebel Jesus - Jackson Browne
Sigourney Weaver - John Grant
Tuff Enuff - the Fabulous Thunderbirds (Mohammed Ali)

If you're looking for the unusual, there is a fantastic Chris Wood (yep, that loon again) track "The Grand Correction" where he namechecks 'Old Fatty Ray Mears'.

Che Guevara T-Shirt: Richard Shindell

or there' the same old, same old (who said safe?)

You Were Right: Badly Drawn Boy (The Queen, Sinatra, Lennon, Madonna, Buckley, Cobain)

You've Got To Stand For Something: John Mellencamp (Rolling Stones, Johnny Rotten, Bobby Seal, Marlon Brando, Rocky Stallone)

one of the greatest songs about glasgow and its christy moore on top form......namechecking a cuban revolutionary leader and a 'lisbon lion'.....fidel castro and jinky johnstone..... an incredibly deep song very highly emotionally charged.......... talking about real glaswegians history.... or a nite oot at the dancin'.....either way GIO.

barrowlands.........christy moore


cheers frae the dale

MGMT - 'Brian Eno'

Free Fallin' - Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers




crazy 'bout Elvis


No had time to read what's been posted so apologies for any duplication here


DC

Bono wrote a song about Billie Holiday, but her name is never mentioned in the song. However, he does mention Miles and John Coltrane.

Angel of Harlem - U2

The Long Ryders - 'Looking for '

#35 Bob Dylan has at least four songs where he is in the title (Bob Dylan's Dream etc.)

On Coney Island baby, Lou Reed mentions himself and his then wife:

"I'd like to send this one out for Lou and Rachel"

Bryan Ferry 'Cruel' name checks "James Bond, Jackie O, Johnny Ray and Garbo" all in one line.

Roxy Music had song 2HB (to Humphrey Bogart). Madness did a pastiche of this with a song called 4BF (For Bryan Ferry)

J.O'B.
(Hello everyone again I have not been online much lately but texting the show in evenings.)

Celeb fest...

Basement gigs

#18

Although I think we have too many repeat themes (needlessly too, given the existence of the A-Z Jotter!) it doesn’t have to be a bad thing (if the theme is a good one) if we could have a reference to songs chosen previously (a simple link to the relevant play lists would suffice) and asked to avoid them this time round.
The excuse that this might alienate the Darksiders doesn’t really wash as they would just need to refine their Google search a bit.
I know I keep harping on about this but it would cut down on the much gnashing of Bloggers’ molars.
On another matter:
When was the last time we had a post from one of the team? Is Babs still in charge of us?
They used to be on quite regularly.
Mind you , I think that was during the time when He Who Must Not Be Named used to grass us up if we were getting too bolshy.

:)

Met bagginess

Seems not so long ago since I got Joni doing Amelia Earhart.a few for tonight..
Crosby Stills Nash&Young...Ohio (Nixon)
Temptations....Ball of Confusion ("The Beatles new record's a gas!")
Joni Mitchell! Turbulent Indigo (Van Gogh)
The Beatles....Her Majesty...("Madge")lasts about 20 seconds!
Cheers Willie Bartke

#52 there are 79 post on FB already today. That must be a record, and makes it some task choosing what to play - unless of course Thing-Fish and SG are correct - and I wouldn't argue with them - but my point is that there are plenty of lesser-known tracks suggested on FB, so to blame it all on them really doesn't wash. I think there is maybe a tendency to ditch tracks when the texts and phones start clamouring and certain obvious tracks take over.
I do realise that trying to co-ordinate all this live is probably way more difficult than we imagine, but I also think they should have a fixed number of the more unusual suggestions that have come in through the day, and stick to that. And I don't mean one or two. Stop treating the listeners like numpties that can't think beyond the charts from 30 years ago and give them a treat by playing songs they might well like and thank you for as they dash around not having time to do any more than throw in the most obvious theme-related choice.

prediction..............tonite's is going to be a classic.
you can'tbe fairer than that.


cheers frae the dale.

#55 I agree!

thanks, Julie!

#55 Is ovum boost

WOODY GUTHRIE, CISCO HOUSTON, SONNY TERRY and LEADBELLY

SONG TO WOODY from BOB DYLAN by BOB DYLAN

Not on the list? Never mind…….

Your white dog

#59

So, to vim Subo?

This comment was removed because the moderators found it broke the house rules. Explain.

Some good suggestions already so I'd like to second gaies counting crows hit which I read somewhere was inspired by frankie millers brigton. Also julies Stephen bishop. Great song. And throw in van the man's cleaning windows which perhaps thing fish was giving a nod to.

Alas noone has mentioned John Kettley. Ah well.....

Anyway my real suggestion is
Hello / The Beloved
Who doesn't get a mention in here

Oops!

Shurely shum mishtake...

>8-D

#55 Gaie that would just be too orderly and sensible! I suspect the team revel in the chaos ;-)

#18

Delighted to be proven wrong.

:-)