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New Faces - The Rolling Stones



Written by one of the most influential teams ever: Jagger & Richards



DC

Sycophants.

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Psycho Stan

FRIDAY


Alone - Heart

True Colors - Cyndi Lauper

I Drove All Night - Roy Orbison

Sex as a Weapon - Pat Benatar


Just a few of the songs written by Tom Kelly & Billy Steinberg.


:o)

#4 - SG - happy to second "Alone"

Joe
Linlithgow

#5

Joe,

They also wrote Like a Virgin but keep it to yourself. Bryan might play it just to be thrawn...


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Pathos synch

shan't copy

poncy stash

To Stony Chap

Ooops that should be

O Stony Chap

Hoy can post



An exciting blog tonight

Pride of the Summer - Runrig - Calum & Rory Macdonald

Gamble and Huff
Strummer/Jones
Ulvaeus/Andersson
Mann & Weil
King & Goffin

Can't be arsed suggesting a song!

Erm previously on the blog
In the last thread, three of my short list of short songs were played in the first 5 on GIO.

Do I have to don my flak jacket and leave the blog?

#14
I'll suggest a gamble / huff composition for you MM.

Year of decision / Three Degrees
The perfect pop song.

None of us would have noticed if you'd not felt the need to show-off, paolopablo. Away and get your jacket on. You can come back after I've had a shout.

In the meantime, here's one for eric;

Your Song - Elton John/Bernie Taupin

#15 no need Paolo, for the next few days just restrict your suggestions to numbers by Joe Dolce or Dana ;-)

Strummer / Jones - White Man (In Hammersmith Palais)

Chips Moman and Dann Penn:

James C arr or Gram Parson - Dark End Of The Street

Aretha or Willie Nelson- Do Right Woman, Do Right Man

#15
Did you get a plug for each one??

#16

Tennant and Lowe

West End Girls - Pet Shop Boys

THE perfect pop song

hmm good theme and potential for some great songs although so sad that we loose such talented people makes the music world a less bright place.

In keeping with the theme and who it is we are thinking off how about some of the following.

Stand by Me - Ben E. King and written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller
Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing - Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell written by Nickolas Ashford & Valerie Simpson

Perhaps the most apt title as well considering there really is nothing like the real thing as far as these partnerships go!

Some others as well

Tiny Dancer - Elton John (Elton/Taupin)
Let It Be - Beatles (Lennon & McCartney)
Reelin' In The Years - Steely Dan (Becker-Fagen)
If You Don't Know Me By Now - Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes (Gamble/Huff)

Iain in Inverness

#21 No

You still here?????

- The Yayhoos - Bj枚rn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson
I'm Your Puppet - James & Bobby Purify - Dan Penn and Spooner Oldham
Cry for a Shadow - The Beatles - John Lennon and George Harrison (with perhaps a nod to Jerry Lordan)
Crossroads - Paul McCartney - Tony Hatch and Jackie Trent

Justin Currie / Iain Harvie wrote some crackers (though mosts of Del Amitri or at least a good % is just Justin)

Del Amitri - Here and Now

Del Amitri - Move Away Jimmy Blue


and the sperb Jobson / Adamson

Skids - Circus Games (great Friday night radio track)
Skids - Arena (great album track less likely to be played but worth checking out)

#16 Thanks, think you're correct a decision is now called for!

Shelley & Devoto ~ Boredom

Tides - Martin & James - Martin Kelly and James O鈥橬eill

#27 thank goodness for that, that leaves Goffin & King then...

One Fine Day - Chiffons
Oh No Not My Baby - Dusty Springfield
Pleasant Valley Sunday - Monkees


Paul from Ayr

#29

Paul, don't sweat it... anyhow, #27 hasn't got a snowball in hell chance on T.S.W.Y.C.T.M Radio!

Are you doing the 10k for Kittiwakes?

i make no apologies for returning to this topic.
a great songwriting duo...batt/melua have written some nice songs together but none so controversial as the one about the preferred mode of transport in a wee toon in china.
the debate and gathering of data has still to be completed as no sooner have the numbers been subject to peer analysis, scrutiny and learned correspondence in the quality press - when someone reports that a family has been seen entering and leaving the local halfords with few new wans.

'9,000,000 bicycles '.................katie melua

cheers frae the dale

In order to ingratiate myself and join the ericinelgin henri hanna dc bandwagon, I would like to request anything by M*rrissey and M*rr please!

#32 @ ya T-F...............

'the revisionist'...................the lawrence arms (kelly/mccaughan)

cheers frae the dale

#22 Let It Be is credited Lennon -McCartney but only for contractual reasons - it is an entirely McCartney composition and comes form the band's swansong period, relations were not good. It would be as inappropriate as 'Yesterday', which used to drive John bonkers when he would go places and people would play it, believing it was something to do with him.

In fact, Lennon - McCartney compositions are largely restricted to the early Beatles and it was pretty much the case that whoever was singing was primarily responsible for the writing, with occasional contributions from the other. It is also approximately the truth that the spirit of the songs can be divided as Lennon (negative) McCartney (positive).

Where the 'collaborations' are most obvious is where two quite different but unfinished compositions by each of them are welded together to make a unified whole.

The most obvious example of this is 'A Day In The Life' where a bit of a McCartney song idea is stuck in the middle of Lennon's song.

Another example of two songs welded into one is 'We Can Work It Out' McCartney sings the positive and hopeful part leading to the claim that 'We Can Work It Out' while Lennon chips in with the quite different and negative refrain 'life is very short and there's no time'.

A Day In The Life has been played quite often on GIO so it would be good to hear something else from the enormous canon of work. 'We Can Work It Out' certainly fits the bill though there is another example of exactly this type of collaboration which is often overlooked and is a stoater, imho, and was probably their last collaborative effort.

I've Got A Feeling - The Beatles ( Lennon- McCartney) is also from Let It Be, however, that album was ruined by being handed to Phil Spector who made an unpromising project worse - the later 'Let It Be - naked' captures the spirit of what McCartney had in mind when they set off down that road after the White Album.

We Can Work It Out - The Beatles

or

I've Got A Feeling - The Beatles from Let It Be ...naked.

regardez - youse

henri

It Might As Well Be Spring - Dick Haymes Rogers & Hammerstein.

regardez - youse

henri

Oh and..

Let's Call the Whole Thing Off - 'Either' Sam Cooke / 'Eyether' Sarah Vaughan

(George and Ira Gershwin)

PS the Sam Cooke version of this is the least obvious, but it's definitely the best, imho.

regardez- youse

henri

#34

"...there's no time for fussing and fighting." What's negative about that?

You're distorting the data to fit your conclusion. No Nobel Prize for you.

'Georgia On My Mind' - Hoagy Carmichael with lyrics by his college friend Stuart Gorrell...who went on to become a banker and never wrote another song in his life...what a song to have written though!

Ray Charles - 'Georgia On My Mind'

#32.... Bandwagon????? Morrizzzzzzzey???? Ingratiate?????


Looks like ThingFish has taken the bait

#37

There was no prospect of me getting a Nobel Prize at all - agreed, the message is positive, but the delivery is quite downbeat - perhaps the point I'm trying to get to is that what made the collaborations work was Lennon's sarcastic wit pitched against McCartney's saccharin sensibilities. i.e. McCartney: 'It's Getting Better' Lennon: 'It Couldn't Get Much Worse'.

To be fair, John wrote the most positive song ever recorded, imho, but post Beatles, in my view,neither of them attained the heights they achieved together - in fact, with rare exceptions, John's solo work was rather dull and self indulgent, I thought.

It almost heresy to say this, so far from getting a Nobel Prize, it'll be ex-communication for me.

regardez - vous

henri

Rogers and Hart...'Where or When'...Dave Edmunds version from his very fine album 'Get It'.

Mann & Weil...

Come On Over To My Place ~ T. Drifters

#39 Thank you DC 鈥� you responded! #2 also refers.

There are two types of listeners for this show.

1) Those who like to hear their name mentioned and get their choice on the radio by picking artists and songs that BB will obviously play. These are obvious because they are played all the time on the show.

2) Those who, perhaps forlornly, hope that the fact that the music is allegedly picked by listeners and not the 大象传媒, will hear something interesting and new to them 鈥� not the stuff heard on radio all the time.

Henri previously confessed to being the first type. I am the second type. I might even be a minority of one but I don鈥檛 think so. I am trying to make this programme more eclectic. I am trying to create a stooshie on the blog. Am I wasting my time?

Kill ugly radio: Frank Zappa

the book is open as to which lennon/mccartney song gets an airing.
betfred is offering great odds on............

'i'm happy just to dance with you'.........................

everybody goes out on a friday to the dancing is the reason for the short odds.others will be boiling an egg(previously on the blog....no names).

#43 @ ya T-F too late. yer doon as a revisionist. that's not a good thing.

btw the #43 used tae go from ruchill tae cathcart. fers please.

cheers frae the dale

#44 Explain

#43

Relax, you'll never make this show truly eclectic but due continue with the good fight.

B.T.W. one Producer apparently has world radio domination in their sights and canvasses鈥� for GIO across the Americas whilst on annual leave, what a professional!

J.Z. to P.A.

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#43

I dont think you can divide listeners (or requesters) into just two types, T-F. Of your two extremes, I think there are a fair few categories in between.

#43
yip TF ... new = fresh / predictable = stale

Gamble & Huff (The pioneers of Philidelphia Soul)
'Cowboys to Girls' ~~ The Intruders

Holland - Dozier - Holland
'You Keep Me Hanging On' ~~ Vanilla Fudge

Boyce & Hart
'Last Train to Clarksville' ~~ The Monkees

Sherman Brothers
'Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious' ~~ Julie Andrews & Dick Van Dyke

Rodgers & Hart
'Blue Moon' ~~ Beady Eye


All deserving candidates ...

#40

I agree with you. On his own, and apart from bits of Imagine, Lennon was a serious underachiever.

Chaz Jankel + Ian Dury...from the album 'Mr Love Pants...

'The Passing Show' - Ian Dury and the Blockheads. Asked for it loads, never played, it's good!

There's a lovely little film called "Grace of my Heart" loosely based on the early career of Carole King and centres around the famous Brill Building and the songwriting teams like Goffin/King who wrote some of the greatest pop hits ever in that pre Beatle golden age.New songs were written for the film but in the style of those 60s gems.The "centrepiece"song was written by Burt Bacharach and Elvis Costello and is an absolute classic.If only Dusty had recorded "God Give Me Strength"that would have been something else but Elvis Costello's veinbursting perfomance is brilliant anyway and the lyrics are uncannily like Hal David's sophisticated style,Genius,Cheers,Willie Bartke

Speaking of the Brill Building I was saddened to hear of the death last year at only 68 of the great Ellie Greenwich who along with Jeff Barrie penned absolute classics including my (and Brian Wilson's)favourite pop song ever"Be My Baby" by the Ronettes. They also wrote "Da doo Ron,Ron"Leader of the Pack" and "Chapel of Love"and many others.Truly great pop songwriting,Cheers Willie Bartke

#51 it's a really good film and that song is one of my favourites...made me like Elvis Costello again!

#43 "

Try again

#43 "get their choice on the radio by picking artists and songs that BB will obviously play"

I'm not in the first category hence my repeat requests. It took eight attempts to get Rab Noakes 'Don't keep passing me by' and 14 attempts to have anything by Gilmour played. I seem to recall a major campaign to get Oi Va Voi aired

Sycophants? Sick o' tryin mair like

#53,Same here Julie and bravo to him for taking on Burt's famously difficult to sing melodies with those really tricky key changes that Bacharach/David's muse, Dionne Warwicke tackled with consumate ease.Much as I admire Bacharach,why is he feted so much and Hal David who wrote those wonderful lyrics hardly mentioned?Cheers ,Willie Bartke

Siouxsie Sioux & Steve Severin:

Siouxsie & The Banshees - Christine

#43

Steady, Thing-Fish :-)) When did I say that?

I am the kind of listener who requests music that I like. I think that is the point of a musical request show. I have never requested a piece of music or song that I don't like or requested a track simply because it was 'on theme'

According to Captain Ramius's stats, The Beatles are the most played artist on the show. I like The Beatles and their songs fit quite a lot of themes, tonight being one of them - but I don't endlessly bang on about the Beatles any more than anyone else bangs on about their favoured artists.

There's a guy on here who has been banging on about Jack Bruce's solo work for two years with no result, but you can't keep everyone happy.

Popular music gets selected because it's popular - and there is a lot of popular music that I like. Perhaps my taste is in my mouth, but when I look back over the requests I have made, I think they are quite varied.

I don't agree that an endless list of obscurities is eclectic - that's just different and potentially, narrow minded and elitist - the opposite, in practice, of an eclectic broad based programme.

Perhaps you're confusing me with Jim frae Erskine who used to argue against my carping that it was unfair that Greggary Peccary's requests for Zappa were routinely ignored.

The only listener I have a problem with is the one who requests things they would not have played at home.

And, it was DC's campaigning about ' Live In Gdansk' that originated 'Pigs Might Fly' on the original theme - less Friday show.

I'm not sure what you're trying to say, except that they should play things you've requested, which is fair enough. Of course they should.I've always thought it odd that democracy should be thought to have something to do with musical appreciation, but on the night, in the studio I suppose the team are drawn to what's popular, what's known and what's safe - that way, everyone keeps their job. This is live radio remember - news broadcasters aren't expected to have news stories flung at them randomly - they are well briefed and rehearsed long before going on air - so to deal with the plethora of info coming in across various media and remain ordered, calm, focused and coherent must be quite hard going.

If anything, I think Bryan tries to search out the interesting where and when he can, and although we all imagine he is obsessed with 80's, Scottish Bands of the 80's and Country, the playlists don't bear this out.In fact, this week's 'juke box jury' show produced some really duff reasoning and choices which is a small demonstration of how difficult it must be why a camel is a horse designed by a committee, unless it's designed by a committee of bloggers, of course:-))

Besides, I heard a Thing-Fish shout being played a couple of weeks ago?

regardez youse

henri

Felice and Boudleaux Bryant:

Everly Brothers - All I Have To Do Is Dream

Buddy Holly - Raining in my Heart

I'm on a roll tonight.Totally love all those Brill Building classics.Must be all those"Mad Men"dvds I'm watching!Goffin and King were just great especially there songs about New York like "On Broadway"and the brilliant "Up on The Roof"wcich brings me to... ahem..Laura Nyro the great songwriter whose only US hit was ironically "Up on The Roof" beautiful produced by Arif Mardin,its the best ever version.Please get it on ,Bryan,Cheers ,Willie Bartke

when all is said and done its a great show.
hot from betfred................
late lennon and mccartney runner............

'ps i love you'.....................a tenner each way sees a drink sitting on the bar

cheers frae the dale

in at the death......i'm frynin' chicken southern style but you can smell it in this great song.........

'sunday mornin' comin' down'..........krisstofferson/cash

cheers frae the dale

#58 Well said, Henri.

It's not an exact science, what gets played. If we choose to assume there is some murky malevolence out there, trying to skupper better shouts, naturally, we will feel disenfranchised, somehow. There's no accounting for summat............... But why choose to go down that road????

New posting, always a better plug whatnot. toodles.