大象传媒

Rock n roll I gave you the best years of my life / Kevin Johnson

Bruce Springsteen - Highway Patrolman

Inspired the Sean Penn film Indian Runner.

Bruce Springsteen - Thunder Road, The River.....there are lots by him that would fit the bill.

Too Many Parties, Too Many Pals ~ Hank Williams Snr

A coming of age drama featuring four young men called Ralph, Charles, Paul and Larry. With their own ideas on how a girl should be you can follow their hilarious adventures in their race to reach Loveland. Watch as Ralph who likes a woman of freedom hooks up with a Hippie chick hell bent on going via San Francisco. Marvel at Charles whose quiet girl knocks him off course when she turns into Miss Universe.
Enthrall at Paul whose progress is slowed by trying to take too many women with him and finally poor Larry who ends up not just liking women but men and animals too.

Will they ever make it to Loveland?

Take my hand and join in on the ride of a lifetime with the new movie by GIO productions.

FLOAT ON!






A shoo in






(again)

charles quiet miss universe
paul all women of the world
larry everything and everybody

Next time remind me to remove my notes from the bottom

Two suggestions:

Leonard Cohen (or Jenbnifer Warnes) - Famous Blue Raincoat

Big Country - Chance

I think these would make great films.

Gotta be Bobby Goldsboro Summer (The First Time)
I'm sure there is some handsome young boys on Glee or some such show I never watch but surely Kim Cattrall for the female lead!

Norrie - easy on the Bruce!!!

THURSDAY


- Rascal Flatts


I have a vague notion of a Redneck "Back to the Future"

Yeeha.

#7

Maria! Howzitgaun? Didn't Anne Bancroft star in yon fillum?

>8-D

#7 A young boy from glee and a howling gym mistress?

Red dirt girls - Emmylou Harris
Ellis Unit One - Steve Earle
Martha - Tom Waits
Racing in the street - Spingsteen
Pulling Mussels (from the shell) - Squeeze
Johnny and Mary - Robert Palmer
Scenes from an Italian Restaurant - Billy Joel
When I am through with you - the VLA
China Grove - the Doobie Brothers
Soldier of fortune - Deep Purple
Stay - Sugarland
Jailbreak - Thin Lizzy
Waitin' around to die - the Lemonheads
This is us - Knopfler/Harris
Desperado - the Eagles
Midnight train to Georgia - Gladys Knight and the Pips
Misguided angel - Cowboy Junkies
Substitute - the Who
Independence Day - Carrie Underwood
.........and a song about a film: They shoot horses don't they - Racing Cars

Joe
Linlithgow

#5

E = mc^2

"Next time show your working, Albert."

'EMI' ~~ The Sex Pistols

... unlimited edition with an unlimited supply

Bill McCai - The Coral

Dust Bowl Dance - Mumford & Sons

Powderfinger - Neil Young


Paul from Ayr

struggling with this - is it just me or are most lyrics just nonsense to fit the the rhythm - Keith Richards certainly said theirs were



Ground for Divorce - Elbow B & W 60s kitchen sink drama

Ballad of Lucy Jordan - Dr Hook a bit of padding out needed, but some arty filming might do the trick

- Foo Fighters maybe doesn't meet the guidelines, but the story would surely make a film?

This Shirt: Mary Chapin Carpenter

A series of life-affirming memories told with the writers 'shirt' as the common thread (excuse the pun)... high-school dances, student travels, loves won and lost, broken hearts...

a masterclass in lyric writing.... listen and learn!

#15

Music is for dancing and making you feel good. If you want a story buy a book.

#17 see previous #93. Is this the correct answer? That just leaves me 8 Down and 19 Across

It's mid-summer and a young school student faces the choice of going back to the classroom or staying with his new girlfriend. She is a bit older than him. The film focuses on their relationship and how she provided an alternative education.

This experience, however, troubles the young man. One September morning, after a sleepless night, he decided to confront his partner, possibly to end the relationship once and for all.


Maggie May - Rod Stewart




DC

#18

Of course it's right. You're too good for me.

Yellow fruit (6)

La Bamba - Richie Valens

A young Mexican struggles with his speech impediment.

'ode to billy joe'......................bobbie gentry


intrigue and mystery on the tallahatchie bridge.

cheers frae the dale

a northern trilogy................

'matchstalk men and matchstalk cats and dogs'..............brian and michael

'she's leaving home'................beatles

'ferry 'cross the mersey'..........gerry & the pacemakers


cheers frae the dale

A GIO production set in both San francisco and Birmingham simultaneously featuring the lives and loves of the Cities cab drivers. Contrast the different styles of the mean and moody Frisco driver as he collects a former lover and screws her for her change with the wimpy Brum driver who point blank refuses to pick up his ex.
Was there an injunction against him. Was he just a wooss. What happened when they swapped cabs cities and roles. Coming to a cinema near you

Driver 67 does San Francisco.



Taxi / Harry Chapin
Car 67 / Driver 67

#20
Lemmon

I'm sure I saw one in The Odd Couple

dale_kelvin - Only a man would believe she was going to play bingo.

;o)



Lucille - Kenny Rogers


They've made films from Coward Of The County and The Gambler so why not?

;o)

#26 @ ya senga........

there are, apparently, better bingo halls in birkenhead compared to those around the penny lane area.
you can't fault the lass for wanting to better her life chances.
its grim up north.

cheers frae the dale

you really could make a movie out of most country songs but I would make a movie out of the following songs, they are not in my opinion good songs but my nose is bothering me and would like a bit of back ground into them

"Ive been to paradise but ive never been to me" just think of the locations! It would be shot as an old lady looking back wistfully on her life from a care home locked in her demented state whilst rather rough wumen carers chatter around her discussing with each other her lack of family and visitors thinking she cannot hear or understand but she is transported in her mind to life as a carefree somewhat selfish beautiful woman sipping champagne on a yacht ....did she ever 'get to me?' Ideas for a leading lady?

And the other song that bugged me was 'all I want to do is make love to you' this woman stalker drives about in the rain and preys on a young man with the sole purpose of creating a child that her poor husband has no idea of! the film would take you through the emotional turmoil of the childless woman and the happy family life she creates whilst all the time in the back of her mind only she know the truth and then the lengths she goes to to stop the secret coming out when she accidently bumps into the father some years later would make a good film I think? or at least an episode of the Jeremy Kyle show ok back to doing some work thank goodness I pay myself .

Baby, It's Cold Outside - Cerys Matthews & Tom Jones

An ill-matched couple conspire to murder a popular old-timer.

#6
Chance could be the same movie (or the first act of the same movie) as
* Billy Bragg - Levi Stubb's Tears

Tonight has to be a Braggster night though - there are so many of his songs that give you a glimpse into a much bigger story:

* Tank Park Salute
* The Saturday Boy
* The Fourteenth of February
* A Lover Sings
and of course
* St Swithin's Day was the (explicitly credited) inspiration for David Nicolls' novel , which .

#21 brilliant

#20

M.Oaten

#27 - dale_kelvin failed miserably at the Spot the deliberate mistake competition so no goodies in the post this week.


Ruby, Don't Take Your Love To Town - Kenny Rogers & The First Edition


It wasn't him who started that old crazy Asian war, but if he could move he'd get his gun and put her in the ground. My kind of film!

;o)

Well, I suppose this is kinda obvious but it has some cinematic/story references:

If You Could Read My Mind - Gordon Lightfoot......

And then there is ....(be brave, henri).... the most cinematic of songs: slightly ambiguous, but to me, all too real.

This Woman's Work - Kate Bush

There are so many ways the script can go - what is going on here? I think I know - but open your mind, and there is your own personal film.

I truly believe it to be a work of genius. By coincidence, it was the soundtrack to a personal tragedy, making it all the more poignant, if such a thing were possible.

regardez youse

henri

Yet another theme where the facebook suggestions are :

a) more

b) better

#36.....i'm just gonna check that, if it's true then my BEST suggestion goes on FB.......as an experiment........

#28 Cracking suggestions, jinkk!

My own will have to be
Squeeze Labeled With Love
or........
Barry Manilow Copacabana

Further to Joe鈥檚 suggestion of鈥�
Jailbreak 鈥� Thin Lizzy,
While in town on business, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call: that night there was going to be a jailbreak, somewhere in the town, but nobody knew where.
Not one to turn down the chance of solving an enigmatic riddle, Langdon immediately sets about trying to find a trail of clues which will lead him to where the mysterious jailbreak will happen.
Many hours later after much to-ing and fro-ing, long winded explanations and no toilet break, Langdon stumbles across a Yellow Pages and in it, under 鈥淧鈥�, he discovers the town only has one prison, therefore the only place the jailbreak could take place!!
Arriving too late the prisoners had long made good their escape, among them a group of gypsies. These men had been imprisoned the previous summer for operating dodgy Waltzers and rigging the bingo on the pier of a small seaside town. So, almost a year later, they return for their revenge and proceed to wreak havoc in the local eatery, Dino鈥檚 Bar & Grill in the sequel 鈥淭he Boys Are Back In Town鈥�.

Potentially one of the greatest American Civil War films ever:

Billy don't be a hero - Paper Lace

DC

We need Vic Galloway growl for this intro:

Forget 'Two Smoking Barrels', this film is the real mean Sarf Lunnin story of business rivalry........

A young man works hard to build up his reputation for quality goods in the dairy business. Such efforts do not go un-noticed by Sue, an innocent young lady who stays nearby. Unfortunately for the milkman, Sue's assets are known to the local baker who has ideas of his own.

And so the dispute over Sue's affections begins which culminates in a showdown worthy of Gary Cooper in 'High Noon'.

Ernie - Benny Hill

#28
does the lengths she goes to involve superinjunctions. Are they effective anyway? Discuss!

A truly amazing Bollywood classic - all singing, all dancing - more melodrama than you can possibly imagine....and a magnificent track too...

Emotional Yo -Yo - Transglobal Underground

Of course. we'll never hear it, so you'll never know..

regardez youse

henri

This girl is my own daughter and the case is in your hands...











Kinda like making suggestions to the Get It On team!

Boz

Blue-eyed soul singer terrorises New England beach.

The Big Dish - Miss America

Mark Knopfler & James Taylor - Sailing to Philadelphia

The Lyrics to "Eleanor Rigby"read like a Bronte novel so Kenneth Brannagh directing with wan faced Shirley Henderson as lonely spinster Eleanor and James Macavoy as the repressed Father McKenzie!
With its solitary "role"Space Oddity " is not that far removed from the film "Moon"so David Bowie directed of course by Duncan Jones,son of Bowie.
Behind the cheery facade of Abba's glittering pop gems lies a Nordic melancholy so a portmanteau of "Name of the Game","The Winner Takes it All "and the cold brilliance of "The Day Before You Came",directed, of course by Ingmar Bergman and starring Liv Ullman and Bibi Anderson(tongue firmly in cheek,tonight);0)Cheers Willie Bartke

#19

DC,

Didn't Anne Bancroft star in yon fillum?

>8-D

Three songs by JETHRO TULL that could make great movies- all featuring on the album 'A':
-1: 'Crossfire'- 2 : 'Working John, working Joe'- 3: 'Black Sunday'

Naw. Rod hadn't graduated.

DC

The First Big Weekend - Arab Strap
Into the Great Wide Open - Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
Done With Bonaparte - Mark Knopfler

Ha! I think 'Caroline' by CONCRETE BLONDE could also make a great film....

Oh, that's brilliant! There's a revolving door policy for Fifers, whilst a poor wee Weedgie has been languishing in the wilderness for 15 WEEKS!?!


Pure liberty, by the way...

El Sid

Deceased and untalented punk bassist goes on tour supported by broom handle.

Nancy tickled his fancy...

#54

You should request happening people like Bing Crosby.

Bing sings.

Walt Disney.

#57

I'm more inclined to blame it on the increasingly blatant East Coast bias.

#58

Bamba

Young Mexican grows to adulthood despite speech impediment and mother being victim of drive-by shooting.

#60

In Greenock...

Roxy VII

Burnt out lounge lizard Bryan Ferry reassembles his battle-scarred old band for one final tour and climaxes with a sell-out at Bonkle British Legion.

#54 pure quality.....

Two gold medals in a row


Neh neh ne neh neh

First time on the blog, - I've been e-mailing up till now.

Here's a song for a film script; the song is about a sweet little lady who sings like a songbird, and she sings the opera like you ain't never heard, but she ain't ready (No No No, she ain't ready) and she ain't gonna rock & roll.

According to the lyrics, she is obsessed with operatic composers;

"She's sweet on Wagner,
I think she'd die for Beethoven,
She loves the way Puccini lays down a tune,
And Verdi's always creeping from her room"

So, the singer of the song (Jeff Lynne) wants to show her how to rock and roll. "...meet me at the opera house at quarter to three" but by the end of the song, the twist becomes that the opera singer has proven that she actually can rock 'n' roll with the best of them - and that she has a few tricks to teach to the singer!

"...to hear the opera singer singin' rock & roll so pure"

The song; Electric Light Orchestra ; Rockaria

The soprano part at the start of the song was sung by a proper opera singer, and if you listen very carefully to the album version, the first note is the opera singer coming in too soon, then a short "Ooooops", then she starts again. This was edited out of the single version.

#64

hold_on_tight,

You must submit your credentials. Furryboots ye fae, loon?


>8-D

Oooooops!
As I said, - first time on the blog.
Maybe I should stick to the e-mail.

Ian McRae
Gartcosh

#42 it would seem that super injunctions are a sure fire way to get everyone more interested so I think she probably kidnapped the poor guy and hid him in a log cabin somewhere in deepest south and whacked him on the feet to stop him escaping which could possibly be the sequal!! Or is that too much like Misery? - think I'm going to make a record and then havea super injunction on it, it would be sure to go to number one has the same frankie goes to hollywood effect. Bet ur sorry you asked haha

#64, #65


h.o.t., jist go wi' it. All will be revealed...

Come to think of it, Furryboots ye fae, yirsel

#66

Gartcosh? It's East of Glasgow, therefore you have a reasonable chance of getting your request played. Congratulations, and welcome aboard!

:-)

#69

Alas, I'm being unjustly punished for the heinous crime of residing West of Gartcosh.

woe is me...

Uh oh! Looks like we might have got oursels a Jeff Lynne version of Roxy John.

#66 Welcome Hold-on-tight but beware unknown men asking for details.......

#69, #72

hold_on_tight,

Although Adam resides on the far side of the pond, (which is most definitely West of Gartcosh), his songs get played coz he talks funny. Kain?

#73 yep

But hey, this is the way life's meant to be. You don't have to be a sweet talkin woman, a wild west coast hero, across the border or even from all over the world to be on this twighlight show.

#75
Too many Secret Messages on here tonight.

(I'm getting the hang of this, now!)

#64 sometimes the feeling u get on the blog is its a bit of a exclusive club I'm new too keep the great suggestions coming

Nothin exclusive here jinkk! Get blogging!

Whit chance a madmetrosexual Bankie? "13 weeks sin-binned" tee hee!

Oh good grief... no Bruce!

Jeezo.

#80

Aye. Guess furryboots Norrie's fae?


>8-D

# 78 does that mean I'm "in" even though I'm from south of the clyde

#82

jinkk,

Senga jist got a song played, and she's a Sou-sider. It seems this injustice is being perpetrated upon MadMac and masel'. Punished for residing West of Gartcosh and North of the Clyde.


















paranoid git

Aye, No mean city

I live in Greenock and sometimes get songs played.


I hope this clears things up.

#81

Once in Beauly having finished the "Highland Cross" I mistakenly referred to lads from the Black Isle as East Coasters... boy did they go MAD!

#85

Gaie,

Do you really think Bryan wants to annoy Inverclyde's answer to Sarah Palin? He knows you would paddle up the watter to 大象传媒 HQ at PQ in a wee canoe wi' a big firearm.





poor Bambi...

...and you're South of the Clyde. (see #83)

#83

Aw Mr paranoid Git its the fun of taking part that counts not just the playing of the tune and all the great musical stuff you pick up along the way so maybe its not physically where your from that counts more mentally where your coming from that determines your success rate I'm just happy to be involved no losers on this show :)

#86

MadMac,

Of course they're East Coasters! What other explanation for the vast number of Norrie's requests we're forced to hear could there be?

Ahhh! The naive optimism of the new bod.
Refreshing indeed.

Take heed Waast-by Git

:)

#90

Norrie is also in thick with the Dark Side mind, SG. That'll coont.

#91

Adam,

Aye! And she thinks I'm mentally unbalanced. Do you think jinkk is Julie (another blogger who talks funny) in disguise? With glasses?

#92

Ah kain!

Ye'll need tae dae better nur thon

#90 Ah, dunno but guess he doesnae diss Get It On's theme settin'

#95

How?

(In Glasgow, how means why. Except when it means how.

)

Oh, go on then!

Yir a big wean, so ye are!


>8-D

I'm laughing my head off mr paranoid and no not julie? Not even in disguise