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Paolo,

Set the alarm for Sunday, listen to the show where Ricky chooses the music!

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Kain! Ain't the producer who's evil.......

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NIGHTMARE ON PACIFIC QUAY!


Welcome to the show where YOU choose the eighties music!



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Looks like the guy to the left has already succumbed to the soporific sounds of the smiffs....

Good show, Janice. Well, that's Radio Oldfirm about to kick off. Time to tune out.

The way to stop this nonsence is stop listening to it.

Altogether now,

All we hear
Is Radio Oldfirm....

there go the boys, talking about football again.

here's how the lengths flew by in the pool today:

"Shall I tell you about my life? Oh well, alright. Papa was a rolling stone but Mom and I lived in Sweet Home Alabama. Our house was a very, very, very fine house, with two cats in the yard. My best friend was Julio and you could always find me and Julio down by the schoolyard. But the years passed, I started to look for teenage kicks and got into bad company where I met a boy named Happy Jack. 'We gotta get outta this place,' he'd say, 'we don't need no education.' 'But we ain't got no money,' I sighed. 'No, but we gotta whole lotta love'. 'Alright,' I said, 'let's hit the road, Jack. Let's go to San Francisco.' How happy I am I thought, but it didn't last. Jack was a bad, bad boy. One day he came home and said ' I shot the sheriff' I knew it was all over now and I packed my bags, I was ready to go. Good riddance, Jack. You can sing Folsome Prison Blues, I'm catching the City of New Orleans out of here. When the train left the staayy-shon, I sat back and thought, don't look back in anger, it's time for learning to fly. After 500 miles I got off at Gainesville. And it was there, when I was working in a cocktail bar that I met a handsome blond-haired Southern man. 'Hey, pretty woman,' said he, 'What's your name?' 'Gaye' I answered. 'Hey, Gaye, do you wanna walk on the wild side? We can take a trip to Pirate's Cove.' 'Some good, good lovin's all I need, Tom' I said, and we walked off into the Lousiana rain. "

credits run to soundtrack of

I'm a Dreamer - Sandy Denny

Night swimming for Gaie please. She needs to get out more

can't disagree with that, DC!

#8

Epic. Why can't we have this kind of imagination on the Radio... now that Radio Oldfirm has closed down for the day its back to Radio Dreich... mind numbing heerdrum hoderum, quasi-religious affairs, news review with the same old Scottsh hacks, business affairs on a Sunday morning and stultifying repeats for the next 24 hours.... but then, unsurprisingly, no one's listening anyway... but..hey..who cares.. I'm off to the Aerials Up gig in King Tuts.

regardez youse

henri

#11 @ ya hh

you could always interact with the 'contact us' box on the beeb website and gie them a right piece o' yer mind.
i just interact with the dial and surf the airwaves. i really dont think there is one radio station you could listen to all day but there are plenty that you could listen to for various parts of the day which is what i've done over the years, so here is the ultimate 'radio station day'.
its called funnily enough 'dale_kelvin fm am'

6.00 am .......bbc radio scotland for an early morning news hit with the quadruple espresso

7.30 am..... i enjoy playing with the speed dial....so it could be the genius of 'bowie at breakfast'....or the no talking but plenty of fine celtic offerings on 'celticmusicradio.net'

9.00 am ......steve wright's love songs..........for the nostalgia of remembering when steve was a sort of cheeky chappy in the afternoons

11.00 am.........gerry mckenzie....remember him?....ah wiz in his club

12 noon.............family favourites for all those bfpo requests that mirrored a time of social regeneration in the uk

2.00pm............... (early kick-off)radio fitba' as it used tae be and not that rabble you get in the afternoons now.


4.00pm..........the evesong from some posh english cathedral on radio 3

5.00pm............johnny walker.....braw

6.00pm........the dong dong of big ben ....it always sounds like churchill is about to make a statement........

6.10 yoos choose the music

8.00pm...........the one and only mr robbie sheppard........who knows the meaning of comfort zone but in a nice way. ahm tellin' ye, thats exactly what you need when it sounds like yer big stone walls are caving in due tae the breeze.

9.00 pm.....radio noord zee.........for great ooro-pop

11.00 pm.......bbc radio 2 used to have two of the funniest dj's ever in the history of rock and roll...........adrian finneghan and martin kelner and why they were ditched i'll never know.

12.43 am .............the shipping forecast....quite simply the best programme ever.

even later am........i've never seen the merits o' 'the world service' maself.....its ok when this guy in london joshes wi' a pal in new york but then you've got tae listen tae hours and hours of how putin is tryin' tae strike up better relations wi' the grain producers on a farm in the ukraine zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

i've just had a thought ......what a brilliant film all that would make......dale_kelvin listenin' tae the radio for a day.........the title would be 'a day in the life o' dale_kelvin's radio'.
but you couch

#12 kerry oan like caller.........................

.........but you couch potato freudians would probably call it 'a life in the day o' dale_kelvin's radio'...................... a bit of this a bit of that a helping of fun with an amount of compromise, looking back and always forward searching for something new, a bit like life itself.i wouldn't have the soothing 'sailing by' as the closing credits but a related song which metaphors the meanderings of life itself....................

'roll river roll'.........................richard hawley

cheers frae the dale

Dale, sounds good! The shipping forecast is special tae folk like me but, I have tae say, I tend to google it these days. Mebbes mr google should do the Sailing By song with the Internet connection?

Come tae think about it, my request for Monday:

Sailing By - Ronald Binge

DC

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Naebody even mentioned Abdelbaset al-Megrahi...

#15 He's no up yet.


The norriemaclean bio-pic will probably go straight to TV, but will have a very good track over the closing titles. It is of course the title to my TV-Movie:

The Smiths - This Charming Man

#15, #16

Henri has not yet emerged from the pit. Or maybe he is attending a House of Worship.


MONDAY


The news from Los Angeles this morning is a stark reminder of how delicate and temporary is life. Once you get beyond the fear and despair this can be strangely comforting.

As I have heard many times, "Ye die if ye worry. Ye die if ye don't."


Dust in the Wind -
























cheery git

#1 did i miss it? Been a busy weekend and this hangover isnae helpin much.
She's done a duet with Paul McCartney. I'll race Henri to find the link.

As for Ms Houston wonder how long it will be before her Biopic is out. Will they have a reality show to see who plays her. Bit of a tragic story.

Must say though although i was never a fan she must have been influential in her sphere as technically gifted diva with no emotion after technically gifted diva with no emotion all got signed up by record companies. Not to mention all the women in their mid 20s runnin aboot Glasgow called Whitney.

#15 Soon as i heard the news the first thing I thought of was Megrahi. How sad is that. Henri you've a lot to answer for ya bampot.

#19 me too!

#15/16/17/19

I've heard a number of commentators, superstars of music and screen, freinds and family and millions of fans worldwide, expressing total shock that Megrahi has outlived Whitney Houston.The deaths go on.

I was up early but was summoned to return to the boudoir and thus missed the news.

When I did emerge it was to be met by a blizzard of messages from family and friends at this sad moment, all anxious to express their feelings: " Well that's another one outlived by Megrahi" from my son Steven, is a fairly typical." How can this be?" they ask, perplexed. "Either way" I tell them " drugs is the answer". Even my blogging peers have been quick to react to this most shocking news.

Spookily enough, this is exactly what happened the day the people's princess copped it - which makes it difficult to ascertain whether it's Megrahi or being summoned to the boudoir (when one should be listening to Rikki interviewing prominent members of the Kirk) that causes these mega high profile deaths to be confirmed on a Sunday morning.

Sunday morning is indeed a time for reflection and one casts one's mind back to Whitney, in her heyday: the world was going through a difficult time then too. Everything changes, everything stays the same.

One lives with hope and optimism for the future though; every generation throws a hero up the pop charts:so, for the record, the night Whitney Houston died, I was in King Tut's watching Aerials Up (more to follow).

"I'm an optimist" said Churchill, " I don't see the point in being anything else".

Me too.


Enjoy yourself ( it's later than you think) The Specials :-))


regardez youse

henri

Did somebody break the blog?

Soundtrack to my life?
Well like all the bloggers my passion has been music from an early age. Through every up and down, high and low there has always been the music. To the great songwriters, performers and musicians that have pleasured me over the years, I salute your pleasurability. My kids have all been brought up with music to the extent that they are pretty knowledgeable across a whole range of genres. And now as the boy heads for London after a great gig last night, to play showcases for Sony and Island, there is renewed excitement in the family that they might actually 'make it'.

As the titles roll on my lifestory. a bongo drum solo starts up (played by Bill Cosby) followed by the voice of Eddie LeVert , the close harmonies of the rest of the band and the sheriff from Blazing saddles singing get it on get it on get it on.

One of the great Philly songs

I love Music / O'Jays

#22 Sincerely hope they get their break. Best wishes for the future.


P.S. I've previously freeze dried a cookie for this very situation ;-)

As my memoirs are currently being reviewed by the Hollywood scriptwriters for the forthcoming biopic from 'RaFerry' I got to thinking that, perhaps, in the years to come that it may be more suitable that the untold story of the Get It On Blog be brought to the big screen.

Who would direct such an epic?
Spielberg, Scorsese, Mann....

Who would play you?
Brad Pitt would need to make a further visit to Glasgow no doubt.

The real Blue Riband on such a movie however would be the theme song. After all that's what we are all about, the themes.
Elton John perhaps, no I think I'd plump for Madge.

''Paolo Pablo and DC
Scotch Git and Dale Kelvin
Henri hannah, Norriemaclean
On the cover of a magazine

Kene Gelly, KK Bing
Picture of a beauty queen
Julie from Edinburgh, Paul from Ayr
Billy in Alloa dance on air

They had style, they had grace
Adam from Rio, an interesting place
Gaie, Joe-K, MadMac too
Elwe & Thing Fish, we love you

Ladies with an attitude
Fellas that were in the mood
Don't just stand there, let's get to it.
Strike a pose, there's nothing to it.

Vogue, vogue, vogue, vogue''

MADONNA - Vogue

Can see us all on the red carpet now.......
(Sorry for anyone I missed BTW)
Al.

fingers crossed, Paolo.

where is everyone? this theme doesn't seem to have set the heather alight and it's all funeral songs on the other side.

sorry, Al - posted before I saw yours!

#25

Exactly Gaie & apologies to GIO Team but is this not another example of re-working a prior theme?

I'll Never Get Out Of This World Alive ~ Hank Williams









Pessimistic Mac

#26 naeborra gaie

Think everyone on here would find it difficult to get their shortlist down to a hundred song soundtrack let alone one.
Might be one of the reasons the blogs quiet.

Don't think the themes that only ask for one song really work as you can be asked the same question and your answer would never be the same from day to day, and that's why we love music........just my thoughts.

Al.

#24 Good one alfaeraferry!

#24 Thanks! I was born on the same day as Brad Pitt btw. Unfortunately that's all I have in common with him.

#22 Up the Aerials ☺

It has got worse for my TV-Movie! Straight to "Terrible Movies" on cable! And is in the running to pick up all the Golden Raspberry Awards this year. But I have a plan and will do a "Bullock" and bring along a truck load of my DVD's to hand out to the assembled hacks. I will also change the closing credit song to:

Lou Reed - Average Guy

My life story has been full of highs and lows like most folk. Overall I think the best song that would sum up my life is:

The Verve - Lucky Man

Well, given the weekends events I've come to the conclusion that a much better theme would be artists outlived by Megrahi - that would be a right good show.

regardez - youse

henri

wondering how you'd fit your McCartney and Jack Bruce songs into that one, henri....

#28

McCafferty must be in bits, right enough Al.

#24 I hope she's taken note of the new words Alf, it's the only chance I'll get of a play at Murrayfield......

#34

Well, these days Jack looks like the living dead even though his playing is superb as always - the voice is not what it was, which, given he treated his with the same degree of caution as Whitney, is quite an achievement.

´óÏó´«Ã½ 2 9:00PM Artworks Scotland. Jack Bruce Documentary. I commend it to the blogotariat, our hero, Miss Babs and her team.

Still to review the Aerial's Up gig - but it's all good news.

regardez - youse

henri

Sorry Henri, I did try honest I did BUT I just can't take anymore!

Night Jack Boy!

hh,
Absolutely no disrespect meant but I have to a agreee wi MadMac.

Didny watch tonight cos I actually find it difficult to do so

Al.

Has anybody suggested 'Peekaboo' by DEVO? Ha ha ha ha!!!
:)

That's no way to talk about Ginger Baker!