Next week's themes...

Oh...first up this week...here goes

Mon
Paul Simon...Still crazy after all these years......The Sax gives me goosebumps every time..

Tue
Blur......Boys and Girls

Wed
Beatles.....Fool on the Hill

Thur
Squeeze...Another NAIL in my Heart

Have a good weekend

Frank I D

MON
I don't know if Santa ever got Clarence his new saxapone but I'll leave the Brucie choice to DC or Norrie. Started with a list of 2764 and narrowed it down after 4 hours to 2763.

So in hoping the rest appear on other peoples lists I'll go for two that have sax all through rather than a solo or a break.

I Don't know why I Love You But I do / Clarence Frogman Henry

What does it Take / Junior Walker & the Allstars

TUES
Girls / Moments and Whautnauts
This Boy / Tom Baxter
Danny Boy / Eva Cassidy

Wed
Fool / Al Matthews (won this from the local paper when I was 13, three weeks before it charted)
Fools in Love / Joe Jackson
The Flame / Cheap Trick
Your latest Trick / Dire Straits

Thu
If I were a Carpenter / Four Tops
Closer / Nine Inch Nails
I SAW the light / Todd Rundgren

It will be interesting to see how many times David Sanborn and Jerry Douglas get nominated.

I will start with the following suggestions:

Ian Hunter - all American Alien Boy, fantastic band including Jaco Pastorius and of course David Sanborn who was fresh from the Young Americans sessions and his trademark sound. What a fantastic musician and if you get the chance check out his discography. It is more likely that his solo on Young Americans will get the nod.

Jerry Douglas played with an amazing array of people on fabulous songs

https://www.rockhall.com/inductee/steve-douglas

but I will go with the tremendous Dylan track

Bob Dylan - Baby Stop Crying from the shockingly underrated Street Legal, great song great sax solo at the end!

and I cannot resist:

Bowie - Sorrow not his strongest point his sax playing, but instantly recogniseable.

It would also be good to hear something with Bob Seger and The Silver Bullet Band, preferaby live with Alto Reed playing alto and tenor at the same time!

MOnday

Urgent - Foreigner - Jr. Walker hits the high note and holds on

Tuesday

Affection - The Lost Boys - Little Steven from the second Sopranos album

Wednesday

Dancing Fool - Frank Zappa - Have I offended someone?


Thursday

Hey Jude - The Beatles - Gaun yersel' Julian

Glen that Lost Boys track is a great suggestion, wonder why they never released the album?

Boys Keep Swinging is a track I love but Bowie's original has been played recently, Susannah Hoffs did a cover version - so that might be fun.

Or The Associates version....

#8

As far as I know that's the only track they did, though there's obviously other Little Steven stuff.

Here it is in the unlikely event of its not being selected for the show.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUXL31oqXXY

#6 Norrie you are an unsung hero on this blog. Brilliant.

Monday

Dancing in the Moonlight - but the version on Live and Dangerous with John Earle on the horn. (Best live album ever, remember).

Tuesday

Girls in Their Summer Clothes - Bruce
American Girl -Tom

Not Fat Bottomed Girls again!! You tell them Julie!

Wednesday

Fool For Your Loving - Whitesnake (One of the best rock songs ever!)

Thursday

Hate when people split their choices but I`m away for a weekend`s golf so have to do it.......

DIY

Chuck Key`s In Love - Rickie Lee Jones

Chuck Key!!

AFR that was a kind remark!

Enjoy the golf, in the sunshine with little wind no doubt on plush manicured courses.

And Jerry Douglas will be flattered by your comments about his sax playing.

MONDAY

'Long Gone' - George Thorogood & The Destroyers

Hank Carter played sax on almost all of the recordings.

Buddy Leach took over a few years ago and is, I think, still with the band.

Check 'em out at the Armadillo, May 29th.





P.S. Danielle, Rich, et alii.
Our clocks go forward this weekend.

Glen - I was trying so hard not to do that! Just wait till dobro night, Steve is the man!

Sorry Steve Douglas - Sax, not Jerry Douglas.

#2 or #1 ?!?

Paolo,

That's illegal. Consider yourself yellow-carded. >8-D

WEDNESDAY

"The boy says, right, Ah'll dae it
But Ah'll need tae play it crafty
So that naebody'll suspect me
Ah'll kid on that Ah'm a dafty"


'Hamlet' - Adam McNaughton



If this doesn't get played, I demand a Shakespeare theme night.

Or a Danish Royalty theme night.

Or................................

#6
Norrie I was very close to nominating Seger's The Famous Final scene for the last song but at over 5 mins I didn't think there 'd be much chance

#20
Oops poor Frank. We must have posted at same time and turned them upside down.

On the subject of Sax i've got a 20 track bits n pieces of sax solos which I tried to get on you tube for you all to have a go but it infringed somthing or other. Maybe Facebook will take it. I'll let you know.

Ok hope this works. 20 sax bits n pieces. Artist and title of song. Can anyone get them all without cheating?

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paolo need to sign up - will do that in the morning!

#15 Adam, I have it on good authority that Joe Dumps is smiling down from that great metalwork room in the sky....

DC

Just in case the GiO team have a weekend off and don't look at last week's 'Next week's themes',....

Monday's sax night:

'Jungleland' - Bruce Springsteen,
'Born to Run' - Bruce Spr... ach you know what's there...

and

'Tunnel of Love' - Dire Straits from the 'Alchemy' album.

Speaking of which, the end of 'Tunnel of Love' is one of those Air Piano moments. On the way to Dundee for a conference today, I listened to 'Country Girl' by Primal Scream and had an Air Drumming session all the way through St. Andrews. What about 'Air Instruments' as a theme? I'm sure that our resourceful bloggers will recount instances of Air Harmonica ( eg Bob Dylan) or Air Electric Drums (Come on Eileen) etc.

This has to be a GiO theme

DC in Cellardyke

a somewhat rubicund saxophonist... well almost!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgfZVNv6w2E

TUESDAY

'Like a Tall Thin Girl' - Jethro Tull

WEDNESDAY

'Thick as a Brick' - Jethro Tull

'Two Short Planks' - Jethro Tull

THURSDAY

'Only Solitaire' - Jethro Tull

Wednesday: 'Fool Tull you think it's over'.....

My thoughts for the week ahead

Monday - sax classics

With lots of other I'd like to hear: Born to run or Jungleland - Springsteen

Alternatively, it would be good to hear:
Just the way you are - Billy Joel

Also, does any one know if "Dance with me" by Orleans has an alto sax solo?

Tuesday - boys and girls

Girls talk - Dave Edmunds or Linda Ronstadt
The boys are back in town - Thin Lizzy
Uptown girl - Billy Joel
Stainsby Girls- Chris Rea
Jersey Girl - Springsteen
Galway girl - Steve Earle
Red dirt girl - Emmylou Harris
Downtown Train - Tom Waits (The downtown trains are full with all of those Brooklyn girls ...)

Also, happy to endorse AFR: Girls in their summer clothes

Wednesday - Fools and Jokers

What a fool believes - Doobie Brothers
Fool if you think it's over - Chris Rea
Fools rush in - Elvis
Fool #1 - Mavericks
Fool to cry - Rolling Stones
That kind of fool - Cado Belle

Happy to endorse AFR: Fool for your lovin'

Thursday - DIY

Ragged wood - Fleet Foxes
Jacob's ladder - Springsteen
If I had a hammer - Nanci Griffiths
Slow screw against the wall - Rufus

Song titles which best describes my DIY experiences:
I fall to pieces (Trisha Yearwood & Aaaron Neville)
Shattered - Linda Ronstadt

Have a good weekend

Joe
Linlithgow

THURSDAY

'BRING ME THE SHED OF ALFREDO GARCIA!'

Monday...

Oh bondage, Up yours! ~ X-Ray Specs

Hey! (Rise of the Robots) ~ The Stranglers feat. Laura Logic of X-Ray Specs on Sax.

The Beat feat. Papa Saxa ~ Tears of A Clown or the under-rated Save it for Later

For a friend ~ T. Communards

Young Americans ~ David Bowie

What a waste ~ Ian Dury & the Blockheads

Walk on the Wild Side ~ Lou Reed

Lastly, and not looking to steal ROXY JOHN'S thunder there will have to be some Andy MacKay on Monday... how's about Strictly Confidential or Grey Lagoons from the best ever Roxy LP 'For Your Pleasure'

MONDAY:

The Skatalites - 'Guns Of Navarone',

Men At Work - 'Who Can It Be Now'

Ian Dury and the Blockheads - 'The Passing Show'

James Brown - 'Living in America'

Skatalites... good call Julie!

TUESDAY

'Girls with Guitars' - Wynonna Judd

Mary Chapin sure can write 'em...............

No saxophone show would complete without a rendition of Harlem Nocturne. From the hundreds of versions I would suggest The Viscounts or Boots Randolph.

If it isn't possible, anything would do from Amon Duul II's fourteenth album Sitting On The Third Ring Of Saturn With A Banjo On My Knee (disco mix).

Mon.
Madness 'One Step Beyond'

Tues.
The Cure 'Boys Don't Cry'
Eden Kane 'Boys Cry'

Wed.
Garbage 'Stupid Girl'

Thurs.
Rubettes 'I Can Do It'

Monday:
Sax and Violence from the Muppets
or
Gratuitous Sax from Gratuitous Sax & Senseless Violins by Sparks

Thursday:
If I had a hammer
Hammer to Fall
If I were a Carpenter
Knock on wood (well you would do this if you were hammering in a Nail)
or:
even better: "DIY" by A Band Called Quinn

Not been on here for ages - now you need a sign -in!

Anyway, for the sax night norriemclean at #6 has the brilliant idea of All American Alien Boy by Ian Hunter but there is probably no danger that it will get played.

So how about the wonderful sax playing in the amazing "everything but the kitchen sink" production of Wizzard's 1973 No1 hit "Angel Fingers". Enjoy turning back the clock at:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ddz-rRI16k

Hope you have got your Mott reunion tickets for Hammersmith in October, norrie!

(All The Way From Menstrie)

For DC

Thursday

I Lost My Hand To A Saw In Cupar - Sarah Brightman

#2, #1 eh?

#42
Glen, that made me laugh alot, very good.

DIY night; BUILDING A Bridge to Your Heart by Wax

Not wanting to be a nit picker but isn't the Boys and Girls theme more to do with Battle of The Sexes rather than just songs with boys and girls which has been done loadsa times?

Just saying like...

Happy weekend everyone

Maria

#44

I agree with Maria re boys an' girls

The Undertones did loads of stuff about about such issues and from both perspectives ~ 'Girls don't like it'.

Re: #44 - Maria made me do it..............

TUESDAY

'Get Your Biscuits In The Oven & Your Buns In The Bed' - Kinky Friedman & The Texas Jewboys

#42, as someone who has lost part of my hand in a machine planer, I'm not sure which bit of the dedication is for me....













Awright, it was just a wee bit. Given the speed that DIY is done these days, and sensing a need to tie in the Fife connection, I'll suggest...





Leven on a Jet plane

DC

nickety nackety noo noo noo

Mefful no more.

Possible theme: Scottish towns in a song eg Ayr on a G String

:-)

DC

Heads Tobermory, Tails Auchtermuchty

Midnight Train to Falkirk

Rainy Night in Falkirk










Falkirk On My Mind

By the Time I Get to Falkirk

Scotch, get on to Last fm. You're wasted here (and in Falkirk)

DC

Elie's fine but it ain't home...

Niel Diamond (I Am I Said)

Definite theme here

DC

'Cellardyke Harbour Lights' - Boz Scaggs

#44. That's a great song - had forgotten all about it...I'll enjoy hearing that if it's played.

#53

Wasted ?

I wish.......................................

King Crail, as Elvis sang

DC

#26 DC, your memory is definitely failing,l must be too much vodky. Quite right that 'Tunnel of Love' is a great Air Piano, but the sax song from Alchemy is 'Two Young Lovers' with Mel Collins on saxaphone (and just a wee bit onto 'Tunnel of Love')

DC (by coincidence BTW)

TUESDAY

'Guys Do It All The Time' - Mindy McCready

Tuesday suggestions:

The Who - Real Good Looking Boy, brilliant track and homage to Elvis

Pete Townsend - Rough Boys

Nothing for months and months then two suggestions in a weekend...

Wednesday night should have "What's So Funny About Peace Love & Understanding" on the list. Either the EC & The Attractions version or there is a lovely live acoustic version by writer Nick Lowe on his "Untouched Takeaway" album. You could also go for the Brinsley Schwarz original or even the Steve Earle cover from his "Just An American Boy" live set. I'd even be happy to send you a bootleg I have of the mighty Wilco covering it as an encore - it is that good a song!

I see that David Howell Evans (I believe he's known as The Wedge) is building five mansions at Malibu.

Let's get back to simpler days with Brinsley Schwarz.

For Monday,

Wild Weekend - The Rockin' Rebels - Huge enthusiasm and spirit and no pretensions to save the planet while already owning half of it.

Today's clue:

Laudable? Pants! (7,6)

MONDAY:
#35
Skatalites: Fantastic Suggestion.

But we *have* to salute the sax (and songwriting) of Lee Thompson of Madness, a band that had the sax playing deeply embedded within the sound, rather than having the odd highlight riff or solo.

Classic tracks: Embarrassment (for preference) or House of Fun, both which Thompson wrote.

#62 Alan - great suggestion for Peace, Love and Understanding. I bought the Nick Lowe compilation and liked the Brisnley Shwarz original. Amazing that theElvis Costello version was originaly the b side to a Nick Lowe single!

I truly wish I could have afforded the reunion gigs Alan, but I have well and truly exceeded any kind of notional budget for gigs this year. I kept hoping they would play some additional gigs but it does not look likely now.

#63

BRING ME THE WEDGE OF ALFREDO GARCIA!

#66

Bring me the extra nuts and bolts left over after building the Ikea chest of drawers bought by Alfredo Garcia even though I followed the instructions completely.

#67

Inflicts
Knackering
Excessive
Aggravation

TUESDAY (BOYS and GIRLS):

'With a Girl Like You' - The Troggs
'My Kind Of Girl' - Frank Sinatra
'My Girl Josephine' - Fats Domino
'Stranglehold' - UK Subs
'The Word Girl' - Scritti Politti
First Boy In This Town' - Scritti Politti
'I Know What Boys Like' - The Waitresses
'Runaway Boys' - Stray cats

#69 Brilliant! A Stray Cats track! I have one for this week also - will blog later this evening. I want to make sure some of the songs I have chosen are actually as good as I remember them... Quite often they are not!

No Re-Gretsch - Stray Cats

#70 Chance it, it's crazy!

#65

Yup it looks live five nights in London and that's it. I know what you mean re the budget, norrie - so much on and troubled times. But, having never seen them back in the day this was a beg, steal or borrow trip.

I was an extremely excited 14 year old with a ticket to see them at the Apollo in late November 1974 when they were touring with the "new" line-up with Mick Ronson replacing Ariel Bender. However, following a few dates in mainland Europe, Ian Hunter collapsed, was diagnosed with nervous exhaustion and finally did what he had been threatening to do for years and broke up the band. I was one upset teenager but, an incredible thirty five years later, I have the chance to put it right.

#71 Don't fret.

The good times evaporate for tribute band Haud The Poodle.

#41
Wizzard is a great shout for the old sax. Not only was Roy wood an instrumental genius but Wizzard also took TOTP miming to a new art form. Love this old clip where the drummer juggles and Mr Wood even manages to play the Bob Dylan at 2.40

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Duq5QDp6KqE

#49 - Viva Lesmahagow!?

MON (Sax):
'Return of Django' - Lee Perry + the Upsetters
Val Bennett's solo somehow manages to make a tyre squeal sound!? My colleague is still convinced the song is about an elephant called Django but I thought it was named after a Western. Can anyone else shed any light on this?

There is a film called Django, dont know about the elephant though! Only reason I know this is that a scene in it inspired tarrantino in Reservoir Dogs.

Is the elephant Indian or African?

'Sukiyaki Western Django' was recently released on DVD. I think the director is Japanese. So it's an Eastern Western.

Just One Leuchars - The Hollies

KC & the Sunshine Band
Sound That Fun Kinghorn

#77. I'll second that shout - let's hear some Jamaican music in preference (or, to be fair, as well as) Madness :0)

While My Heart is Still Peat Inn - Roxy Music

Re: #63

PALUDAL BASTEN

is there a prize?

Monday - Saxophone:
Wild Saxophone - Stray Cats
Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick - Ian Dury and The Blockheads
The Saxophone Song - Kate Bush
One More Night - Phil Collins
Runnin' - Earth Wind And Fire
Morning Dance - Spyro Gyra
Gratuitous Sax - Sparks
Still In Love - Warren Hill
The Simpsons Theme Tune - Lisa Simpson :-)

Tuesday - Boys And Girls:
A Boy Named Sue - Johnny Cash
Dancing With The Big Boys - David Bowie
Nature Boy - David Bowie (amazing song, from Moulin Rouge)
No Son Of Mine - Genesis
My Best Friend's Girl - The Cars
Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy - Queen
Uptown Girl - Billy Joel
Wild Boys - Duran Duran
Fat Bottomed Girls - Queen
Material Girl - Madonna
American Girl - Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers
Teach Your Children - Crosby, Stills, Nash (Or CSNY)
About A Girl - Nirvana
Rough Boy - ZZ Top
All The Children Sing - Todd Rundgren

Wednesday - Fools And Jokes:
Foolish Love - Rufus Wainwright
Fool To Cry - The Rolling Stones (unusually quiet Stones track)
That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore - The Smiths
The Fool On The Hill - The Beatles
The Riddle - Nick Kershaw
These Foolish Things - Rod Stewart
The Worst Joke Ever - R.E.M.
The Trickster - Radiohead
You Don't Fool Me - Queen

Thursday - DIY:
D.I.Y. - Peter Gabriel
An Architect's Dream - Kate Bush
Another Nail In My Heart - Squeeze
Hammer To Fall - Queen
Pulling Up Shelves - Tartan Amoebas
Assembly Line - Dixie Dregs
Date With Ikea - Pavement
What's He Building? - Tom Waits (won't be played, but check it out!)

'Stornoway' - Del Shannon

#67

Jim,

Isn't following the instructions the final resort?

Monday - Sax

Jealous Guy - Bryan Ferry
Wonderful Life - Black
Baker St - Gerry Rafferty, worthy of more than just the montage,who cannot like this track??
Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick - Ian Dury and The Blockheads
Morning Dance - Spyro Gyra

#85 - Typical. I go away for two days, come back and JFE has requested Fat Bottomed Grils.

Is that yer banker for a mention Jim?

Well I wouldn't use the word banker.

Hey, Adam - fat bottomed girls make the rocking world go round!

As many have already said, must have some Springsteen and the choices are myriad. Apart from that suggest;

Shotgun - Jr Walker
It’s Still Rock and Roll to Me / Scenes from an Italian Restaurant - Billy Joel
Never Tear Us Apart - Isaac Hayes
Bad to the Bone - George Thorogood
Living in America - James Brown

...and while I have nothing against fat bottomed girls, more's the pity, just say no please. Or, if you must play it last and warn meso I can switch off.

Monday

I know it was played recently-ish, but as it's one of the saxiest ever I think we're entitled to another listen to...

Will You - Hazel O' Connor

Hi Bryan

I'm back to full attention again after my winter (skiing) sabbatical. I have heard quite a few shows (and enjoyed) but not found time to request.

Sax:
Lily was Here - Candy Dulfer
Aja - Steely Dan
Mirror in the Bathroom - Beat
Waiting on a Friend (or Brown Sugar) - Stones
Don't Ever Think (Too Much) - Zutons
Lady - Regina Spektor

Or - please play Clarence Clemons more than once (because I know you are going to do some Springsteen), how about You're a Friend of Mine by Jackson Browne - with Clarence Clemons

When I saw Van Morrison being surly and boring in concert, his band included a glamorous, female saxophonist...who would that have been?

That was Candy Dulfer and her best sax playing on his records is:

Van Morrison - Peace of Mind

was he really surly and boring ;o)

#96

He was a right grumpy old bleep...I know...hard to believe isn't it :0)

Thanks Norrie - thought you'd answer that question.

#88
re Baker St. I once saw an edition of Weakest Link where Ms Robinson asked who played Sax on Baker St and then chastised the guy for not knowing it was Bob Holness. I know it's a bit of a dumbed down programme but BBC researchers accepting urban myths as fact?

#94
Waiting on a friend is my fav Stones track. One of the ones I took off my list in the hope someone else would pick it. Hope t gets played

I think we have a great theme in Scottish towns.

'Walking on Dunoon' by the Polis must feature

DC

Why is Bryan's Blog still working in GMT? We need to be telt

DC