Next Week's themes....

Taking up DC's idea for poetic requests...

"On Wednesday, I would be ever so miffed,
not to hear 'Sunset Hymn' by Emily Smiff"

On Monday I think it would be really neat
If the show commenced with Head Hands and Feet

Monday

Warming Up The Band - Heads Hands and Feet - Albert Lee - an unsung hero
The Good's Gone - The Who - Not often heard but atmospheric

Tuesday

Old Rocking Chair's Got Me - Richard Thompson - He's already got the beret
Silver Threads (Among The Gold) - Jerry Lee Lewis - Old rockers never die

Wednesday

On An Island - Dave Gilmour - A warm summer night captured in a song
St. Louis Blues - Flamin' Groovies - Some way from New Orleans for this classic

Thursday

I Dunno - Georgia Satellites - A familial hit
All Shook Up - Elvis Presley - I remember bobble hats moving in time in the rear view mirror

Further to #1...Wednesday:

If to hear 'Sunset Hymn' is just not to be,
please play 'Every Night' by Sir Paul McCart-ney,
Not his version though,
I'd prefer Phoebe Snow.

Monday:

A record request for Paulopablo:

To mind him of his stay in Dunbar
In 75 they didnae go far
in a caravan with his maw & paw
the high point was Sky High by Jigsaw

(see LastFM)

I see that yon Morrissey's work's highly rated
His lyrics surpassing all others - it's stated
But this charming man's whimsy and camp innuendo
In blank verse send Scotch and me right round the bendo.

"Look - that mouse is MASSIVE!"

JFE you may scoff but that is one of the iconic 7" single sleeves and with lyrics to match. Great choice Bryan.

I wasn't scoffing - just a wee joke! I like that record.

MONDAY

'On Again! On Again!'

A wee request for Jake Thackray
It's pure dead brilliant, by the way!

MONDAY

'Wond'ring Aloud'

Wull y'ull play us a wee song fae Tull?
At only two minutes, it's no' long at ull.
Great Britain is askin', fae Hull up tae Mull,
"When wull ye play us some Jeth-e-ro Tull?"

Thurr's nae flute in this song, so that's no' an excuse.
Furr months noo we've taken aw' sortsay abuse.
Dae the right thing, Loon; yir finger oot pull,
And geezaw a blast ay yon Jeth-e-ro Tull

It's a lovely wee song, it's evocative lyrics
Will leave your producer, Miss Babs, in hysterics!
Don't let them say 'Get It On' can be dull
'Cos therr's ne'er a performance o' Jeth-e-ro Tull

Here! This is braw, ah have to say,
What's been goin on while ah'm away
Fae mah desk (ye hae tae see...
Ah'v haen a run up tae Dundee!
This has been an efternain o' footir,
But ah'v bocht a new computer!)

Ah'm glad to see that life's no' dull
We hae a request for Jethro Tull.
Julie will wonder if she will see
Or hear of Jake Thackerey.
But I'm no worried caws us loons
Will defer ower to iChoons
If Bryan doesn'tgive Jools her way
And play some Jake Thackeray.

I think that I will have to tak
A look on this new Aipple Mac
At this guy Jake Thackeree,
(For I don't know him, who is he???)
Hey Julie I mean you no offence,
It must be me, I can be dense!

But I still come back to this one,
Please play Dave Gilmour's 'Fat Old Sun'
Against this song there is no measure,
Caws it gives me so much pleasure
Come on Babs, you can't avoid,
this great guitarist from Pink Floyd
To hear this song, I would like........

Cheers (fae DC in Cellardyke)

I know I've mentioned Jakey T,
But 'twas far, far more for Scotch than me.

There's a track that on the playlist I'd love to see,
Babs's fave...'Burlesque' by Famil-ee.

A mood has been growing (I'll give it a voice)
Of much disillusion at persistent choice
Of artistes whose music appeals to the many,
While Jethro and Thackray - well there's hardly any.

The policy's ingrained, appealing's in vain
It's T Rex and Queen till it's numbing the brain.
A radical remedy - ask Jeff if he'll
Just scrap Get It On and play archived John Peel.

Or maybe Morrisse
or Bowie
Springsteen is the Boss
Play what you want I dont give
A cross word its all without
Doubt
For a request in ryhme
My points they are nout!

MONDAY

"There was a young girl from Nantucket,









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MONDAY #13

Forget musical genres, we all know there are only two kinds of music. Good music and the other kind. We all have our favourites, but we share this fundamental truth.

Bryan and his team understand this better than we, the difference being the responsibility they have to all of their listeners.

Glen does, IMO, make a valid point. But I do not envy the team this balancing act they have to perform four times a week.









P.S. If Iain Anderson can play Ian Anderson, why can't GIO?



P.P.S. This whiskey is very smooth. In fact, I'm gonna pour me another.

I don't like days that ain't got a theme
But here's one for the GIO team
I meant to ask for it last wednesday
But it's not a song by Jake Thackray.....(you're right Scotch silly me)
It would have been good for the theme of AM
But I obviously wasn't on top of my game
But now that I am on the ball
Play me this song from Declan's Moll
It's Narrow daylight by Diana Krall
And it gives me shivers and goosebumps 'n' all

Scotch for my wednesday request I need something to rhyme with Marimba.

#4
To reciprocate the request

Play a song from Adam from Rio
Anything By Ronnie James Dio
I don't know if he likes him or not
But it rhymes so that's gonna be his lot :-)

Each and every weekend, on I log
with a list compiled for the GIO blog.
Today, however, was like no other time.
For all requests were set in rhyme.
Even although I don't know why
I thought I should also try
to adopt this poetic style.....
but only for a little while.
For if there was a couplet for every song
my poem would be unacceptably long
and my verse would grow increasingly weak.

So here are my thoughts for coming week.

First, a Springsteen list for each day:

M - Janey don't lose your heart
T - Walk like a man
W - Dancing in the dark
T - Born to run

Monday

Stronger than Jesus - A Camp
C'mon, c'mon - Von Bondies
Have a little faith in me - Jewel
Believe me baby, I lied - Trisha Yearwood
La cienga just smiled - Ryan Adams
Every River - Kim Richey
Hurry on now - Alice Russell
Blessed - Brett Anderson
Back to me - kathleen edwards

Tuesday

Grow old with me - Mary Chapin Carpenter
When you are old - Gretchen Peters
My Generation - The Who
Martha - Tom Waits
It was a very good year - Sinatra
Alove that will never grow old - Emmylou Harris
Cat's in the cradle - Harry Chapin
My old school or Reelin' in the years - Steely Dan



Wednesday

Until the night - Billy Joel
Because the night - Patti Smith
Back in the night - Dr Feelgood
Boogie Nights - Heatwave
Strangers in the night - Sinatra
Heartache tonight - The Eagles
December 1963 (oh what a night) - The Four Seasons
Hollywood night - Bob Seger

Thursday - to follow


Joe
Linlithgow

#18 Marimba, shmarimba...

Paolo,

I guess I asked for it. (sigh)

'Simba', meaning lion, is the only one which springs to mind. Also, words that end with er or re would suffice if only you would quit rolling your rrrrrrs.
e.g. timber/timbre

>8-D

#2
Mmm Head,Hands & Feet, surely a treat
to hear them would be a result
but to finish the show
and leave a nice glow
it must be the Blue Oyster Cult (not the Reaper)

My thanks to you Buck. That's the right note you've struck
You sound like you're my kind of guy
Let me reciprocate. The Cult's output's all great
But I hanker to hear ETI.

#23 Voila... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAi1mIHb2FU

Check out his Vegas Vulcan

https://www.jchluthier.com/vegas_vulcan.htm

Where are you Miss Babs
you've been quiet for some time
Are you at work in your labs
Trying to make up a rhyme :-)

Tues Ageing
Play it again Dooley.

As Time Goes By

or

Old and Wise / Alan Parsons Project
with Colin Bluntstone on vocals and a wee sax solo to finish.


Oh and lest we forget
Growing Old is Better than the Alternative

Guys - are we all agreed that nobody will request Old Shep on Tuesday? :-S

Depends who has that sheepish look...

DC

It's said John Noakes left Blue Peter under a bit of a cloud when it turned out that the Beeb refused to let him keep Shep because the Border Collie was techhnically owned bt the Licence-Payer...

There was an old dog called shep
who really did want to be kept
By his master John Noakes
but he just couldn't coax
the Beeb to forget the red tape

R.Cole, The Endrick Shepherd

Wed The Night

Moonlight Feels right / Starbuck
A real finger tapper whilst stuck in those jams and a great 30 second marimba solo in the middle.

Up all night (Frankie Miller Goes To Hollywood) / Counting Crows
Great title and great song

Piano in the dark / Brenda Russell

We Belong to the Night / Ellen Foley

Dark Shadows / Hercules Mandarin

Pat Macaulay, the Irish shepherd.

BRING ME THE HERD OF ALFREDO GARCIA!

TUESDAY

'Nick of Time' - Bonnie Raitt

'Old Folks Boogie' - Little Feat

'Angel from Montgomery' - Bonnie Raitt and/or John Prine


John Prine, he so fine.....

Little Feat, really neat, made lots of music with.............

..........Bonnie Raitt. Bonnie's great!

WEDNESDAY

'Honky Tonk Night-Time Man' - Lynyrd Skynyrd



I don't think Haggard done it this way.................................

Have you heard? Poor Lynyrd Skynyrd
He got ptomaine poisoning last night after dinner.

#16

Note to self:- Whilst inebriated; DO NOT drive. DO NOT operate heavy machinery. DO NOT go on-line.









tired and emotional git

#37

Note to Glen:- Avoid DEATH.

>8-D

Just the two of us for over twelve hours.

Have you looked out of the window Scotch.....?

It's been a fine day out here.....

DC

Monday - Themeless:
A difficult one, this 'themeless' thing! I've basically just gone for a list of tracks off the top of my head that I would like to hear - if I keep thinking about it the list will only grow, so I'm stopping now!

China Girl - David Bowie
The Unwelcome Guest - Billy Bragg
Lonely Boy - Andrew Gold
Anthems For The Blind - Steve Hillage
Hold Me Close - David Essex
Embers - Just Jack
Cross Eyed Mary - Jethro Tull
You're My Best Friend - Queen
Ride On A Pony - Free
Smoke On The Water - Deep Purple
On Horseback - Mike Oldfield
Shouting In A Bucket Blues - Kevin Ayers

Tuesday - Ageing:
Who's Grown Up Now? - John Martyn
A Lady Of A Certain Age - The Divine Comedy
The Pensioner - Cash Mattock and Butch Barnette
All Grown Up - Elvis Costello & The Attractions
End Of Our Days - Howie Day
Hope I'm Around - Todd Rundgren
File It Under Fun From The Past - Marianne Faithful
Growing Old Is Getting Old - Silversun Pickups
All Grown Up - Johnny Horton
Living In The Past - Jethro Tull

and for a wee bit of fun, check this out...
Grandma Ruth's False Teeth - Awele Makeba :-)

Tuesday - Ageing
The Colorectal Surgeon - Bowser and Blue

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_43f9RzAqMM

Monday

Hassle in El Paso - Kinky Friedman

You Can't Sit Down - Phil Upchurch Combo - A great record

#44

Bucky, you've got guts.

#45 FOTCL

"I don't think Haggard done it this way.............."

#37 & #40
We were all away lookin for Jeffrey Hardy

this time last week there were 150 posts. Wonder what the difference is?

#47 Thanks Jim..Got away with it ... again.

#50

99

Julie is keeping a low profile. We can expect an epic poem when she emerges from the library.

#52
do you want a flake in that luv?

maybe if we had a theme on monday there may have been one or two more

#52

Scotch - Ironically it was 98 as soon as you posted that.

#55

Yup - I find it much easier to think of tunes when there is a theme. Not having a theme means basically asking for tunes you like... That could be any one of thousands of tunes for me! So for Monday I just did a quick list and left it at that. I immediately came up with more but I am sure others will choose great stuff so hopefully in the end it will be a great show anyway.

#56

This from a man who cannae be bothered to compose a wee poem for Monday.
While I'm up on this high horse, shouldn't 'Cross-Eyed Mary' be on Tuesday's list?

>8-D

#58

Possibly, but I went for Living In The Past instead - and of course I am therefore asking for TWO Tull tracks! :-)

Tuesday
When you and I were young - Jerry Douglas & Peter Rowan
Skeleton Crew - Webb Wilder
Lights out - The Pirates
I'm still here - Kevin Coyne
Sixty Sixty - Faust
Senor Blues - Taj Mahal
Grown so ugly - Captain Beefheart
Good Patient Woman - Green on Red
Shootin' Straight - Dan Hicks
She ain't got no hair - Professor Longhair
Old man going - The Pretty Things
Look at Granny run run - Ry Cooder
Slow Death - Flamin' Groovies

58,

That comment Scotch was quite terse,
Do you really expect a verse
He is not a poet,
He likes music don't you know it?)
He' the famous Jim frae Ers (kine)

:-)

#61

DC - I understood that! I speak the lingo... :-)

MONDAY:

A few I've (unsuccessfully) requested before:

'Burlesque' - Family
'Don't Point Your Finger' - Nine Below Zero
'Wishful Thinking' - The Ditty Bops
'Local Girls' - Graham Parker and the Rumour
'Gold In Them Hills' - Ron Sexsmith and Chris Martin
'Diner' - Martin Sexton
'River Deep Mountain High' - the Harry Nilsson version

#53. Ach Scotch, ah canny be bothered now.

Monday

Move Over Darling - Doris Day
Gypsies Tramps and Thieves - Cher
The Night They Drove Ole Dixie Down - Joan Baez
Love Is The Answer - Todd Rundgren
The Unwelcome Guest - Billy Bragg
Birdhouse In your Soul - They Might Be Giants

Woohoo! That's another shout for The Unwelcome Guest!

At the end of a long trying day
When you're not sure it's Fife that you're fae
When your deacon's gone blue,
When your fighters are fu'
There's always the chance Maggie May.

#63 ?!?

Oor star's bereft of rhyme or reason!
Mind you, it's been a long, hard season.


THE LION

Oh, weep for Mr. and Mrs. Bryan!
He was eaten by a lion:
Following which, the lion's lioness
Up and swallowed Bryan's Bryaness.

OGDEN NASH

Point of order - what holiday Monday. I'm in my office looking at a week of, well a week of whatever it is I do. Anyway since there is no theme:

Long Time Coming - Bruce Springsteen
Positively 4th Street - Bob Dylan

Honest Men have caused a commotion
Cos Super Ayr have gained a promotion
It feels very much like we've just won the cup
So play CURTIS MAYFIELD - MOVE ON UP

#67, been reading too much Dudley D Watkins?

You could get a job with

DC (Thompson)!!!

#67
There was one other guy called Ben
Who walked into the lions den
there was a growl and a yelp
And a shout for help
And i never saw that fellow again

If I ain't gonna get Narrow Daylight by Diana Jrall tonight then another I've unsuccessfully asked for before is Superman by Five For Fighting.
Off to St Andrews for the day. I'll wave to the fifers as I drive through.

#72 or even Diana Krall

#67, #70

You think I composed this, word for word?

My dear DC, the notion's absurd!

Who then, the author, if not me or you?

The name at conclusion might offer a clue.......

>8-D

Now our Scotch has changed his style,
More 'Rupert the Bear', by a mile!
My comment did not refer to Nash,
Read first bit again, have a bash!

DC

I'm making no attempt to rhyme!
But hastily looking at the time...
For the BBC demands that I...
Must work while bankers tend their lawns
Which means Bryan and I can Get it On!

You've all gone nuts this week! I'm impressed by the poetic offerings, (my own not included!!) tho I think it's going to take me most of the afternoon to plough thro it to find what you really want to hear on the show tonight. And yes, Hoppo, it's a normal week for us too! Speak to you all later x

It's good to know that the spirit of McGonagall lives on.

#76

"Must work while bankers tend their lawns" - Spelling mistake? ;-)

I am wearing my black arm band today as Inverness got relegated at the weekend. I could request Bryan Ferry's 'The Name Of The Game' on themeless Monday but it is a terrible song. Maybe his version of It's All Over Now Baby Blue' would be more appropriate.

J.O'B.

#79

Roxy - you could always go for Ferry's Goin' Down or perhaps Roxy Music's While My Heart Is Still Beating as there is always hope for next season!

Producer Babs wrote in at two
That she would have to plough through
The posts on the blog
So that she could log
And know which tracks they could do

Wellll....for the fourth time of tryin',
I appeal to Miss Babs and Bryan,
My request is just one,
Dave Gilmour's 'Fat Old Sun'
If you don't play that I'll be cryin....

So it's a holiday out there (is that right?)
The sun seems to be shining bright
But I'll have to tune in
To listen again
Some of us are still working tonight!

DC in Cellardyke

#80

Yes Jim but Goin' Down is up there with my 'worst of Ferry' list. It sounds like everything a Bryan Ferry record should not sound like. It's pub rock at its worst. It's like a bar band playing some Dire Straits record you haven't heard of.

J.O'B.

#80

Not heard it in years - I think I'd better check it out again now... I have it in my MP3 collection. If it's not as good as I remember and as bad as I remember I might find my finger hovering over the delete button!

#83

Meant that to be "not as good as I remember and as bad as you remember!"

There wiz a young fellae fae Mull
Who kept askin' till he wiz dull
He emailed each week
But nary a squeak
Ah c'mon, gaunnae gie's some Tull?

Witches' Promise would do it nicely.

Pops
Tops
Stubbs
Pubs

Pops in Tops and Stubbs in Pubs
Pops in Pubs and Stubbs in Tops

Stubbs in Tops in Pops in Pubs
Stubbs in Pubs on Tops of Pops

Bragg in Tears comes
Bragg with Fears comes
Let's make cheers for Tears for Fears

Here's an easy game to play.
Here's an easy thing to say...
Let's have Bragg
Let's not nag
Bragg nag?
Drag sag.

Bryan brings Bragg's broast
Bragg brews Bryan's brine
Bryan plays Bragg's broast
Bragg plays Bryan's show

Billy Bragg brews Stubbs with sticks
Bryan plays Billy Bragg with Stubbs and sticks
Billy Bragg plays Stubbs with Tears and Fears
Bryan plays Billy Bragg with Levi Stubbs' Tears

(with apologies to Dr Seuss)

#80

OK - I agree!

Max B Gold would like to suggest the following for Monday:

Nine Below Zero - Don't Point Your Finger Or Eleven Plus Eleven

Small Faces - Tin Soldier

The Monkees - Stepping Stone

CAKE - Sheep Go to Heaven OR Love You Madly

The Waterboys - Fisherman's Blues

OK, now out of rhyme energy (hey, I'm at home, off sick), but as tonight's Ashes to Ashes night, can we have something from the following:

* UB40: Food for Thought
* New Order: Temptation
* Bowie: The Man Who Sold the World
* Blondie: Atomic
* The Jam: Funeral Pyre

All of which jems came from last week's episode and are woefully underrepresented in 80s compilations. Was there ever a series (or four counting LoM) that had such a love for the music of the period?

PS BBC: usual fee, brown envelope, and the Telegraph ain't heard nuffink, 'k?

#19 - Paulo, coincidentally wee Ronnie was in Rio just the other week with Heaven and Hell (Black Sabbath).
Didnt go and see them this time, though I was a fan of RJD when he was in Rainbow and thought he did a good job with Sabbath.

Talking about Rainbow we could have a Graham Bonnet double on Wednesday:

Night Games - Graham Bonnet
All Night Long - Rainbow

Come on Babs, stop vetoing all the good stuff

Gilmour / Floyd / Tull, get them on!

DC

#91 - You're supposed to be working DC!!

For Tuesday

A must play......Frank Sinatra.........A Very Good Year - a song chronicling the years, ages, and seasons of a mans life.

Too many Topaz McGonagalls here already so i'l just play it straight.... ;O)

#92 Adam, I was so excited about what Bryan would say about the rhymes we've been busy making up & posting that I took my moby in to work so that I could listen via the headphones. Now there's no signal in my office so I took to wandering around the building for two whole hours, just so's I could hear GiO.

No mention, no namecheck, nothing, other than a dismissive comment about how 'they've changed from Tull to Gilmour on the blog' or something like that.

Pity that the football has finished (actually there's still the wee matter of the Scottish Cup to be decided B&B...) or I might well be tuning in to 810 MW of an evening

DC in the huff, ..........I mean Cellardyke

DC,

I thought Mr. Watkins drew the wee pictures. No?









very easily confused git

He worked for Thomson

Not the 'Twins'

TUESDAY:

Mary J Blige - ' Work In Progress (Growing Pains)'.
John Mellencamp - 'Cherry Bomb' a "remember when" song.
Ian Dury - 'The Passing Show'(another looking-back song).
Ron Sexsmith - 'Hands of Time'.

TUESDAY

Enough, already! I'll leave the rhymes to Tom Lehrer and Shel Silverstein.

'When You are Old And Gray' - Tom Lehrer

'You're Still Gonna Die' - Old Dogs

The Old Dogs were Waylon Jennings, Mel Tillis, Bobby Bare and Jerry Reed.
If you've never heard of them, don't worry. Bryan kens fine weel!

Tuesday

Don't you 'for get about me' - Simple Minds

OOH LA LA - T.Faces

Smithers Jones - T.Jam

We're gettin' closer to the grave each day - Hank Williams