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Tom Waits - In The Neighbourhood

A classic.

Brooooce - My Hometown

A classic

Iris DeMent - Our Town

A classic

Paolo heard this one?

Jimmy Hughes ~ Neighbor, Neighbor

MONDAY


A wee song that mentions various Dundee housing schemes.

- Saint Andrew and the Woollen Mill

#2 nope but will check it out

Here's a wee story about a nice friendly neighbourhood
Across 110th street / Bobby Womack



In fact if this was just a ghetto night it could be one he'll of a show

The Blog awaits the return of a refreshed radical and innovative free thinking drive time presenter...

Monkey Rag ~ T. Asylum Street Spankers

Peasant In The Big Shitty ~ T. Stranglers

#5 Speak for yourself......................... I have no issues with them trying to bridge the gap between bloggers and everybody else who contributes. Even if the only folk who appear to perceive it as an issue are bloggers.........eh?

#3 @ ya sg

nearly second for that but a seriously flawed song that doean't mention the capital o' the 'dee.

so i'll go for the great...................

'auchmithie'.............jim reid

cheers frae the dale

#5 yes indeed.

The Graveyard Near the House -

Can't Hear the Neighbours - the Twilight Sad

Another chance to hear the greatest soul singer of all time

The Dark End Of The Street - James Carr

regardez youse

henri

2' 23" secs of your week that wont be a waste of your time ...

'In the City' ~~ The Jam

memo to bb and the producers.

maybe not everyone has lived in such a neighbourhood but maybe everyone knows of such a place...........gio

'gortatagort'.....................christy moore

cheers frae the dale

#6 hope everything went as well as can be expected MD in the last few days

'The Suburbs' ~~ Arcade Fire
'Dirty Boulevard' ~~ Lou Reed
'Silent Community' ~~ Penetration
'Vandals' ~~ (we are) Performance

powerful stuff ...

Tenderness On The Block - Warren Zevon - I don't think I've exposed this one to inevitable rejection yet,

Joey's on the streets again - The Boomtown Rats

Often requested, never played




DC

#8

Of course, I spoke only for myself you understand ;-)

#13 Think some want the blog to be a Silent Community LOL.

Tommy Edwards -' MORNING SIDE of the mountain' is the nearest I can get to my neighbourhood. It's the original of a song Donny + Marie sang...this is better though (doesn't take much).

Cant believe we`re nearly 20 in and nobody has asked for...


Knock Three Times - Dawn


Klaxon on Luka please.

It can't be all sweetness not even in the GIO neighbourhood:

Bob Dylan - Neighbourhood Bully

Iggy Pop - Neighbourhood Threat , Bowie also covered this but his cover is not particularly great.

Shangri La - The Kinks - TV and radio for seven shillings a week. We'd never had it so good.

Anyone seen Paul Handley? First the chasing women and now out bevvying in Edinburgh all night.

No wonder I cant sleep....

Previously on the Blog....

Madmac - Fit and handsome is it? Pretty men don't push my buttons. Maybe if you were ruggedly handsome." And single! LOL!

Adam - Brush up on your Karaoke skills. We'll be singing Guilty

You can be Barry.

;o)


Bridgeton - Frankie Miller

:o)

The ghetto / Donnie Hathaway 6'54
Let's clean up the ghetto / Philadelphia allstars 8'36
Woman of the ghetto / Marlena shaw 10'08

what's my chances....ah well never mind
these are a bit shorter

Children of the ghetto / courtney Pine
Inner City blues / Grover washington Jnr (instrumental classic)
The world is a ghetto / war
Girl in the ghetto / Cry Before Dawn
Ghetto Heaven / The Family Stand

Senga, I was merely attempting to avoid "generalisations and stereotypes" from 'enri's statement LOL!

Now where's my post shave moisturiser?

#24 - Madmac - Balm for a Bam? (I'm sorry! I was powerless to resist! LOL!)

;o)

Aye, that too!

Ah, bliss....

Janice on the radio & Liz Earle on QVC 8-)

'The Other Side Of Town' - The Marvelettes (talks about this side of town too).

Looking out of my lounge window,

I can see for miles - The Who

It would make a change from the dieter's anthem:

Won't Get Food Again

#22

White jump suit with the broken zip already in the case Senga. Along with that slightly soiled mankini that someone won once. Can onybiddy remember who?

Paolo, you`re a big fan, I`m surprised you haven`t gone for

We Are Neighbors - The Chi-Lites

worth it for the intro alone

#31

Don't remember who, but they're handy for retaining your pony tail if you wear them upside down.

MONDAY


'Short-Haired Police Cadet fae Maryhill' - Billy Connolly

MONDAY


"Get your jaiket and don't be late, murder polis in the Gallowgate..."

'Gallowgate Calypso' - Matt McGinn

MONDAY


'Reynard in Paradise' - Michael Marra

Some Weedgies think Parkheid is Paradise.

~!

#12 - Thanks, paolo. My week hasn't been anywhere near as traumatic as that of her kids, her partner or her other family, and, having met up and spoken with mutual friends, the general feeling is one of complete bewilderment. It hasn't sunk in yet for anyone. The funeral is on Tuesday. It's going to be mobbed - she was always there for a lot of folk.

three songs from an era when neighbourhoods and neighbours had a common thread of class solidarity and a shared half-loaf now sadly gone......will we see the likes again

'shipyard town'..........gerry rafferty

'jeily piece song'.........matt mcginn

'i wish i was in glasgow'..........billy connolly

cheers frae the dale

Smalltown - Lou Reed and John Cale

Strange Town - The Jam

Theme idea (may have been done)?

And The

Tom Petty and the...

Johnny Kidd and the...

etc.

I've just succumbed to the iChoons temptation of topping up albums and have spent a fair bit downloading bits of LP's (f***book doesn't understand such terms) I haven't heard in years.

Original Soundtrack playing as I type.

A (dangerous for the credit card) theme suggestion?






"42, quarante deux, Roux de Saint Jean Jaques...."








I gotta feeling it aint good for business.....

DC

#41

Norrie,

Been done. Surprisingly, Kinky Friedman and the Texas Jewboys didn't get played.


Who would have thunk it?

#1 Big 2nd: R.I.P. Clarence Clemens - 'My Hometown' doesn't have much sax on it though?

regardez vous

henri

#44

or, maybe.....

Love On The Wrong Side Of Town - Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes

or

I Don't Want To Go Home - Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes

would be just as fitting and on theme?

regardez vous

henri

ps paulo, thought you'd have asked for Teddy.

and talking of Springsteen,

The Diamond Church Street Choir - The Gaslight Anthem

Bryan, you've never played this band on GIO before, but this good stuff.

regardez youse

henri

Sad news indeed Henri. RIP Big Man.

Naturally I second any Southside suggestion.

Would Jungleland fit the neighbourhood theme?
Would we agree it was Clarences finest recording?
Would Bryan break the longevity rules for tracks played?
Would there be a more fitting end to the show on Monday Night?

RIP Big Man

... here's a few others that might be just about on theme

On The Border - Al Stewart anytime Al Stewart gets mentioned on GIO it is accompanied by groaning from Bryan and Babs because apparently Mr Babs is an Al Stewart fan.'A Small Fruit Song' once got played. Incredibly, Bryan wasn't impressed. Try this, it's brilliant and very drivetime friendly.

Please Mr Postman - The Beatles harking back to the good old days when the postie was an instantly recognisable member of the community that you would converse with regularly and represented much more than the harbinger of bills and junk marketing.

Downtown - Petula Clark another classic upbeat song about being miserable.

Outskirts of Town - Taj Mahal lovely -from Jools Holland - Small World, Big Band - but this is Blues, so we wont be hearing it.

The Downtown Lights - The Blue Nile There's a more obvious Blue Nile track, but this is warmer.It would be nice for a change - the less obvious Blue Nile track is 'Automobile Noise' which I like but I can't imagine it getting an airing on GIO.

Trenchtown Rock - Bob Marley & the Wailers best track from 'Live' imho, can't understand why it doesn't get more airplay.

Town Feeling - Kevin Ayres since we seem to have misplaced THING FISH and Cynthia, someone has to take up the cudgels for Kevin Ayres - this is easy listening.

Uptown, Uptempo Woman - Randy Edelman this is exactly the kind of 'Friedmanesque' (Dean, not Kinky) American story songwriting our hero delights in playing.So, there's a good chance this will get played but I think the nation should be treated to......

Further On Up The Road - Joe Bonamassa/Eric Clapton from 'Joe Bonamassa Live at the Albert Hall' - epic stuff,but as it's blues, we won't be hearing it.

maybe some more to follow..

regardez youse

henri

MONDAY


'Muswell Hillbilly' - Kinks

Unsurprisingly, my search for folksy songs about Bearsden & Milngavie yielded
absolutely nothing.

There is ,of course, Henry Hannah's 42nd Street Parking Lot - Long John Baldry..... not impressed? Try these:

Nights On Braodway - Candi Staton

Stanley Road - Paul Weller

One way Street - Ann Peebles

Positively 4th Street - Bob Dylan

On The Street Where You Live - Vic Damone

Back Street Luv - Curved Air

Side Street - St Etiennne

Rip This Joint - the Rolling Stones from Exile On Main Street

Lime Street Blues - Procol Harum

Mercy Street - Peter Gabriel

Dancing In the Streets - Martha Reeves & The Vandellas

Umbrella - Manic Street Preachers

The Wall Street Shuffle - 10CC

regardez youse

henri

Fantastic suggestion PP. And without doubt Clarences finest recording.

As an alternative, if the length of Jungleland precludes it:

Here everybody has a neighbor
Everybody has a friend
Everybody has a reason to begin again
My father said "Son, we're lucky in this town
It's a beautiful place to be born
It just wraps its arms around you
Nobody crowds you, nobody goes it alone.
That you know flag flying over the courthouse
Means certain things are set in stone
Who we are, what we'll do and what we won't

A fantastic Springsteen song, and a great Clarence solo:

Bruce Springsteen with Clarence "Big Man" Clemons and the E Street Band - Long Walk Home

Scattergun anybody?

#52@ ya henri......
you live on the wrong side of the neighbourhood.

'cresswell street'...............deacon blue

cheers frae the dale

here's a theory....
two songs
apparently different locations.
but are they?

'baker street'................gerry rafferty

'bleecker street'...........simon and garfunkel

cheers frae the dale

BTW Henri Deacon(s) Blue are not all bad. 15/2 at Ascot. More cash for the cocktail fund!

Row!

#52 @ ya henri (again)................

i always thought this little number was about your neighbourhood...............

'la pastie de la bourgeoisie'.....................belle and sebastian

(back to the steak pie and the attempt at cherry ripe bars)

cheers frae the dale

#54

well, i know, but I really like the tracks.

#58

That's really good, madmac, I like it. I've always thought that someone should give Jack's work a commericial lick over and more poeple would get it - when you listen to other folks try and interprit ( leslie west etc), it's obvious how good Jack is.This version of Smiles and Grins is really charming, though I miss the hammond organ fugue - type bit at the end.

But how could I out miss Harmony Row? Probably my favourite album of all time. It'll never get played, of course,pigs will fly - but how about Post War - Jack Bruce - from Harmony Row Chris Spedding at his finest, I think.

#54 Is that race today, Norrie? It would be remiss of me not to stick a few quid on it.Place bet It think, but if it comes in, who should we be grateful to - Rikki or Donald Fagan?

#59

yep, disappointingly, everyone, including our hero, does.The meaning of communication is the response you get -so the great mundanity of ordinary life here just doesn't come across to the public and chattering classes - we need to set up a Bearsden & Milngavie P R charm offensive to prove we're just ordinary members of the coping classes.

Anyway, I've been invited by the morons for a father's day luch in the west end.It's a strange treat to buy luch for about a dozen people.

regardez - youse

henri

#60 @ ya henri................

hope you're going to that wee place and mibbe be served by adam_from_rio's,
more partick.

and a nice drive to see off the afternoon in this pleasant neighbourhood...............

'a kiss from wishaw cross'..........peter nardini

enjoy

cheers frae the dale

#60 @ ya henri..........

if you go there mibbe you'll get served by adam_fom_rio's.......more partick though.

and a nice drive to this neighbourhood will see off the afternoon...

'a kiss from wishaw cross'.................peter nardini

enjoy

cheers frae the dale

go twice its great

cheers frae the dale

Farewell Clarence after an unenviable working life with an unchanging view of Bruce's butt.

#60

Whilst reading #52 I did think you couldn't see the woods for the trees. Ali is a friend of the family and is no stranger to our neighbourhood ;-)

#21....ha ha neither could I Norrie, dunno whether it was the beers or the chips with salt and sauce!

On a serious note, total agreement on "Jungleland" as suggested by Paolo and all, an exception should be made for this one.

Re: Jungleland

Johnnie Walker said he's gonna close his show with it. His show ends at 17:00 (Today)


Y'all do the math(s)

>8-D

#66. You should've tried them with salt, sauce + vinegar...and if you went to the right chippy, a baby beetroot in with them too...yum! We're getting a bit Weegified' over here these days so you might've been able to plonk a measure of curry sauce on them too! :o)

I find a pinch of minced lark tongue really perks up my stovies

#68

Julie,

That is so last year! The typical Glasgow gourmet is intae chips & cheese noo.


(I favour Royal Canadian Cheddar masel').

On inverclyde it's chips n cheese n bolognese.
Ask our inverclyde correspondent. She'll know.

Of course the Bearsden & Milgavie PR charm offensive is immediately set back by the local chippy on Milngavie Road having a (rather good) giant painting on it's wall of the traditional fish supper being wrapped up in the Financial Times.

Q. What is pink and hard in the morning?

a pig with a flick knife?

So glad you are back Mr B hope you had a ball x

Patience of Angels from Fairground attraction
Sound of the suburbs
Aztec Camera somewhere in you heart as it mentions the neighbourhood I was brought up in no not Holly wood unfortunately but Westwood in East Kilbride
Luca suzanne Vega
Wordy rappinghood

#2 Bought that Jimmy Hughes track MM. Like it. It can now sit with Steal away the only other one of his I've got.

#32 #46 Adam , henri, I've asked for half a shows worth on this thread alone. I need to leave room for the texters between 7.10 and Jungleland coming on at 7.50.




Missed Johnny Walker Scotch.



See what I did there?

#74

There was rather a neat joke on Radio Scotland this morning, which, had the presenter not been telling the joke to the Dalai Lama might have gone down better.

" The Dalai Lama goes into a pizza shop and says ' Can you make me one with everything'?"

regardez youse

henri

#75

Q. "4 slices or 6?"

A. "Make it 4. Ah couldnae' eat 6."

The Dalai Lama walks into a bar.

Barman says, "What'll it be?"

Your Inverclyde correspondent hasn't a clue what they have on their chips now, having lived for years round the corner from a chippy where the smell of rancid fat clean put her off. However when youse all come to visit in July to see the Tall Ships, youse can report back to GIO, the programme where your tea-time recipes choose the music.

A fish walks into a bar. barman says 'What do you want'
Fish croaks 'water'

a skeleton walks into a bar and asks for a beer and a mop

Dalai lama opens a bar and his first customer buys a pint and hands over a tenner.
'Where's my change' says the customer
To which the Dalai Lama replies






Change must come from within.

#80

...so the Dalai Lama hands over £20 to pay for the drinks. The barman pockets the £20 and commences to serve another customer.

"I think you have forgotten my change." said His Holiness.

The barman looked him straight in the eye, then responded, "Change can only come from within."

I must learn to type with greater celerity.




































slow git

....so the barman says, "We don't get many Dalai Lamas in here!"

"At £20 a pint Ah'm no' surprised!"

So did he go down the bookies Tibet?

Madmac, Paulo, the world is full of small coincidences: Jack Bruce used to play Neighbour, Neighbour when he was with the Graham Bond Organisation in the early sixties and returned to it years later on the Jet Set Jewel album.

Heavier than Jimmy Hughes, but the Jimmy Hughes is the daddy. Worth hearing though.On Spotify, I think.

regardez youse

henri

#78 sure about what??
#88 magic x

#39

Which also suggests Elvis Costello. Tight communities get divided when poverty looms.

Songs about the Miners' Strike anyone?

#50

I'll certainly support Further on up the Road, for all the good that'll do

and I'll also suggest

Tall Ships - Wolfstone,
since will be in my neighbourhood from 9th July, along with Deacon Blue (not yet confirmed if they're sailing down in Dignity); Lulu (in the boat that she'll row) and the Magic Numbers (who being Forever Lost, might not get there at all)

also

I'm a Road Runner - The Fabulous Wanderers
I live just round the corner from Greenock Wanderers rugby club - whether they're fabulous or not I haven't a scooby, but they make plenty of noise about it

and dedicated to Greenock's deer population:

I Never Promised You a Rose Garden - Lynn Anderson -
that's just a wee joke, there's absolutely no need to play it

#78 #90 click on the link jinkk

Been dying to say that since you joined the blog

A song for folk in the East Neuk:

Positively Forth Street - Bobby Zimmerman


Jungleland a graaayyytttt way to end the show

DC

#92. I'll second Tall Ships...a favourite of mine

#93 Paolo thank you, you have just taught me something new x

#78 pretty sure as Roddy Frame grew up around the road from me although he was much older so didn't know him I wish however I had been brought up in Westwood LA

have we stopped

going

for

GOALs?