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East At Easter ~ Simple Minds ;-)

Good...like this sort of theme.

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Q. Who gets to choose the first song?


A. Scotch Git.



FRIDAY


You Talk Too Much - George Thorogood & The Destroyers


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Happy Easter! Happy Passover! Happy Birthday, Dear Imelda...!

Missed the show so don't know if she said but...formerly on the blog, in response to Paolo's comment...

LouiseJuliefromEdinburgh'spal saw Queen support Mott The Hoople. Caley Picture House, Edinburgh, nineteen-oatcake...she still has the ticket...cost something like 75p! She also saw George Thorogood as support to (I think) the Rolling Stones!

I danced in the morning...

meets Les

#2

Just remember that they all have to be Top 40 hits. Is Radio Scotland alone in having listeners who have a better music collection than the station?

What is the theme, I'm confused

From
'Bryan looks for your great musical connections, from The Beatles' Twist and Shout to Lulu's Shout, who knows where we'll go next.'

to

'suggest a song after you have heard the previous one'

Sounds like a night off to me.

Happy Easter weekend bloggers,
Al

#8

Al,

You can look forward to a night off on Monday as well. Some more repeat themes for your perusal.

Well, that's Jim Marshall away....

Tuesday the 10th is no better... will we ever get to hear Synth / Moog pioneer Wendy Carlos played on the show where you choose the music!

On the plus side... Barbara & the blogotariat can expect more Blancmange shouts, ditch the prejudice & widen your horizon 8-)

#10 Sorry Henri but not another morbidly fatalistic post.

Do you get off on that kind of thing.. it was yesterday's news after all!

#3 Thank you Scotch Git. Today I get to sing my favourite song.

Happy Birthday two Shoes
happy Birthday two shoes
Happy birthday two sho ooes
Happy Birthday two shoes

I would print the other verses but too many lyrics sometimes gets moderated.

#12

Nope - it depends on how you see it - in some cultures death is not a time for grieving, but for the celebration of a life that has graduated to something better than this mortal coil.

I kinda hope that is true. To me, the miraculous idea that you could be born twice or recurrently is less extraordinary than the miracle that you were born at all, but who knows? That this should have come up at Easter is coincidental, so it's maybe on people's minds.

It has been the habit of this blog to record the passing of musical folks since before I first posted, though I started to record them after GIO turned the show upside down because Malcolm McLaren died, as though it was a national disaster, whilst unlikndly ignoring many other passing artists, like Lesley Duncan and more recently Bert Janch. I think if they are going to do that, it should at least be consistent.

So, that's where I come from.

Happy Easter,

regardez youse

henri

#3 wrong, it's the News team. I'm looking forward to the programme - for some reason I thought it didn't start till 7 and I'd miss all of it. Not so.

Al, seen today's Herald?

#10 Joe's tribute -

um, not so sure about the hat, though, Joe.....

#15 thanks gaie, I'd heard she had been asked to play with him again but hadn't seen the Herald.

Nice to see young talent getting encouragement from the big guys, she's a talented player.
Think we'll hearing from her in the future.

That's JB's new bunnet, he was in Glesga so he had to get a bunnet didn't he?

Al.

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...and now he's doing a season at Blackpool! Mibbe Henri and Senga will go see him.

Dunno aboot the bunnet, but he has grayyyyyyyyyyt taste in jaikets!

#15

The NEWS TEAM?!?



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Jeezo.......

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#3 is looking even more appropriate...

#14

I'm a wee bit wary of religions that tell you everything will be fine after you're deid.

#17 just so, my Dad had one just like it.

#9
Not the mum and dad theme again?
Think i will have a wee night off the synth pop.

#14 & you, Happy Easter.

A good Heart to Heart is always welcome.
I reckon a family somewhere is grieving today and their pain shouldn't be flicked to one side in order to feed some point still as yet to be made re Abdelbaset al-Megrahi!
I apologise if this isn't your intention.

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The opening track will be Oblivious - Aztec Camera


Sumb'dy called "Graham" has ordained that it should be so.

2 Musical Connection suggestions :

1. From aztec Camera & roddy Frame you could play "freezeFrame" by j. geils band

2. From Oblivious you could play "how long (has this been going on) by ace or they Dont Know by kirsty mcccoll or tracey ullman (2 songs about being oblivious)

wishing you all a very "Happy Easter"

Speedy Gonzales was from mexico as were the aztecs

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Please, not Radio Gaga


PLLLLLEEEEEEEAAAAAAAASSSSSSSSEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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I do hope it improves. Not terribly optimistic...

please not fat bottom girls
PLLLLEEEEEEEAAAAAAASSSSSSSSEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Gotta be text, methinks. If Richard is flirting with the Dark Side and Bryan is pandering to the tweetie pies ain't no-one gonna be readin' no blog!

Stand by me / Ben E King

from the levi advert




other blue jeans are available

Ha that's us oot the windae

still oot the windae on Monday too. Let's take the weekend off.

#23

many thanks MM, and definately not my intention - i've had more than my share, not something I'd be cavalier about.

regardez youse

henri

#28, #32, #33


Yeah, I'm not enamoured with this format. Leave it to the kids and return on Wednesday. Or Thursday...

We could always do our own playlist over the weekend with the most inventive links. What was the last song tonight? Never heatd the end.

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I could just tell you. Or I could refer you to the playlist.

MONDAY



Here's one that has no chance of being played;

Black Satin Dancer - Jethro Tull


>8-D

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Ray Thomas & Ian Anderson play flute on their respective tracks.

(If the Satin link is not enough).

One of The Moody Blues best known albums is Days of Future Passed, which of course is just another way of saying

A New Day Yesterday - Joe Bonamassa

Looks like it wasn't a night for the blog?

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Speaking of brilliant covers, Bonnie Raitt is releasing a new single next Tuesday. (Afternoon?) >8-D

Y'all can listen to it

Picking up on Nights in white satin, I suggest The Rolling Stones with Paint it black (a decorating link).

DC

....,which was used as the theme tune for the TV series Tour of Duty

Goodnight Saigon / Billy Joel

#39

If you Google Joe Bonnamassa + Drink, Drugs or Women you will draw a blank. He is therefore unqualified to be a bluesman.

Moody links...

Red Rocks!
Gloria ~ U2
Both bands played memorable concerts there!

Paulo, Aerials Up were on Janice's show this morning.New Single.

Given that this is live radio interactive, wouldn't Aerials Up be a good way to start.

regardez youse

henri

#44 does that mean he could get played on GIO?

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FOTCL! Superb.

#46

Henri,

A link must be established between Nights in White Satin - The Moody Blues
and the opening track on Monday.

I have to say, we're not making much progress.


>8-D

#47

Yes, if his new single "Slaphead" charts

#49

Well, Moody Blue by Elvis is quite goode..... but the dark side and the vox pop texters will all go for that..

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Mood Indigo - Nina Simone

I've been told (by a woman) that indigo is a shade of blue.


Or, for Thing-Fish, Miss You Nights -


>8-D

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Q. What do you call a guy with a seagull on his head?


- Engelbert Humperdinck


After that brilliant link to the second song, what next?

The White Stripes?

#9

I cant remember GIO ever carrying over a theme. And the other repeat themes during next week? Are we really that short of ideas?

Could start Monday's show with something by Moody Bluegrass, featuring, among others, Alison Krauss.

Hello again Bryan, Blogotariat, etc.....

I really think there is some connection between 'nights in white satin' and 'Spirits in the night' ( the cover version by Manfred MANN's EARTH BAND) because the second almost has the same slow rhythm of the first.
Other suggestions: 'Knights in shining karma' by XTC.... or 'Man in a long black coat' by Joan OSBOURNE

:)

Happy Easter to all.

Blue Monday - Fats Domino

Tonight:

"Misty Blue" - Dorothy Moore

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How very apt!

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*sigh*

#60 refers to #58

#55

This "roll-over" is yet another sign of things to come!Ìý

"Fly on the wall" reported from the last weekly Production meeting...

Much backslapping was observed and conversations surrounding original theme setting were quickly parked for that of the up and coming Easter break.Ìý
The proposal of "Roll-Over" was unanimously agreed as a legitimate path of least resistance, with Ricardo picking up the short straw for Good Friday due to being slowest to submit his annual leave request (the others having lodged theirs well beforehand, in-keeping with the nursery and school timetables).
Under A.O.C.B. the matter on the theme jotter was raised AGAIN! Chairperson dismissed any such calls for it's re-establishment due to current listener numbers and the tried and tested formula of repeating popular theme ideas.Ìý
In closing the "Chair" also noted this was an efficient way to run a request programme with subtle changes to any existing play-lists as being perfectly acceptable to a drive time audience. Reassurance was also given to those there present that on no account was there to be any canvassing for fresh theme ideas on air anymore and that nobody would be deemed to be lacking original thought come their next performance review.

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Along with her nasty habit of closing blogs, Auntie Beeb seems to have lost her grasp of the English language as what she is spoke.

>8-D

#62 VG, MM

I can understand the roll-over as being a way of having some sort of time off on a holiday weekend, but that's no excuse for rest of the week's themes.

#63 she's been losing it for years in various different ways.

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

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Sorry, Thing-Fish, but I had to refer you.

No-one could possibly love Cliff that much!


























It just ain't Christian.......

Looks like the blog is being ignored tonight

So the show is being renamed "Get It Out". Will George Michael feature?

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Little Richard...

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There should be a law against taking perfectly good songs and murdering them.


Scottish bands should not be immune.

#67 Apologies DC, reckon the blame might rest at my door. Who was producing tonight?

#70

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Nothing to apologise for MM, I was commenting on a couple of statements BB came out with during the show!

the blog wasn't being wilfully ignored, it just isn't quick enough to keep up with the instant response needed for that kind of programme.

Dae yez no' pay attention at all?

Kirsten was producing. I intended to turn over to Paul Jones at 7.00pm. found myself enjoying GIO, stayed put. What now? Sent to Coventry by the blog for being a prole?

:0) :0)

Pay attention Gaie. I also listened to most of the show hence my comment #67. I read it as since the blog would be too slow (I don't understand why?), they would not be checking ie the blog would be ignored.

Anyhoo.....

oh Okey dokey, apologies, I thought it was a complaint

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#70, #71, #72, #73


see #30, #34

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Gaie,

This evening we have the delectable Liza Tarbuck on ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio2 (5-7)

I salute her delectability!


Jamie Cullum on ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio2 (7-8) I know, but Curtis Stigers is playing songs from his new album.


Not forgetting Ed Reardon's Week on ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 4 (18:30) or on Alison Again.

I'm very happy for you, SG. I know how fond you are of Liza.

Maybe I'll listenagain to the lovely Paul Jones.