Next week's themes...

Ulitmate Monday disco track. Bee Gees - Night Fever

You had a good holiday i trust?

Mon

Aint no Stoppin' us Now....................McFadden and Whitehead

Tuesday

Midnight at the Lost and Found ...................... Meat Loaf

Wed

Changing Man ..... Paul Weller ------ E.L.O. ........... 10538 Overture

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5q5vXV5iwE

I am surprised at the normally litigation-averse BBC inviting allegations of plagiarism.

If your legal advisers allow this programme to to go ahead I believe those more musically aware than I may detect similarities between Teddy Thomson's In My Arms and the so-called Boss's Working On A Dream.

One Fine Day??! wonder why they sued over He's So Fine instead?

Monday

Rock Your Baby - George McCrae

Tuesday

Look What I've Found - Paul Williams

Wednesday

You Can't Catch Me - Chuck Berry
Come Together - The Beatles
Safe to play since Chuck placated by royalties from JL's Rock'n'Roll Album

Just beat me to George McCrae, Glen, the first disco no.1
It's only in subsequent years that i've realised what great musicianship and production went into some of these records. So for monday

You don't have to go / Chi-lites
Machine Gun / Commodores
That Lady / Isley Brothers
Give me the night / George Benson
Fantasy / Earth Wind & Fire
One Nation Under a Groove / Funkadelic
Backstabbers / O'Jays
Shame / Evelyn Champagne King
Movin / Brass Construction

And absolutely anything from the genius of Nile Rogers and Bernie Edwards.

Lookin forward to the Northern Soul theme whenever that may be

Tuesday Lost and Found
I found Lovin / The Fatback band
Finders Keepers / Chairmen of the board
Rikki don't lose that number / Steely Dan
Lost in Love / Air Supply (probably the naffest of all my guilty pleasures)


Wednesday stealy thieves
I want a new drug /Huey Lewis and the News
Ray parker Jnr stole the riff for ghostbusters and had his ass sued by Lewis. Unfortunately Lewis then broke a confidentiality agreement on the settlement and was countersued by Parker.

Also I've always thought that Jeff Lynn must have heard the tune for ELO's 'Showdown' through the grapevine.

And finally....Always loved Paul Weller's answer as to whether he stole taxman for 'Start'
''yeah, of course I did and I daresay if McCartney needs the money he'll sue me''. He never did.

He's The Greatest Dancer - Sister Paolo..sorry I mean Sister Sledge

#7

To say nothing of A Town Like Malice and Martha and the V's Ready For Love.

... or Stevie Wonder's Uptight and Spencer Davis's Keep On Running.

you're on a roll here Glen

As long as no one sues.

The Glimmer Twins are watching..........

#13

There's a difference between lifting a riff (like Joe South's quotation from A Day In The Life in Hush)to lifting a whole song. Robert Johnson became "Trad. Arr. by" on a number of records by the GTs and other bands of the time. They, in turn, were swindled by their managers and record companies who were, in turn, cheated by a generation of downloaders.

The Old Man Down the Road Ran Through the Jungle.

I smell a riff.......

(wisnae me)

DC

#16

The wan that smelt it delt it.

I presume your father ran out of funds for the Swiss finishing school.

'DIGNITAS SWISS FINISHING SCHOOL'

Everyone Graduates!

100% Success Rate. Guaranteed!

You're dead - right?

It puts a few stolen notes into perspective.

'Terminal' - Rupert Holmes

'Return to Sender' - Elvis

'Coughin' Coffin' - Rompeprop

'...and it's all done in the best possible taste!' - Cupid Stunt

Short list this weekend (long story):

MONDAY

Boogie Nights - Heatwave
I feel love - Donna Summer
Boogie Wonderland - Earth Wind and Fire
Instant Replay - Dan Hartman
Strawberry Letter #23 - Brothers Johnson (may be more funk than disco)
Ooh La La - Goldfrapp

and of course you have to play something from the Bee Gees and Saturday Night Fever. I suggest Stayin' Alive

LOST & FOUND

You're missing - Springsteen
I found a letter - Allison Moorer
Baby, now that I've found you - Alison Krauss
Forever Lost - Magic Numbers
you've lost that lovin' feelin' - Righteous Brothers
I still haven't found what I'm looking for - U2


WEDNESDAY

All rather obvious.......

Russians - Sting
If I had words - Scott Fitzgerald and Yvonne Keeley
turn on me - The Shins
Bohemian like you - Dandy Warhols


Have a good weekend


Joe
Linlithgow

Joe you seem to have interrupted their chat with some music suggestions.......

Monday - Disco Favourites:

Tried to come at this from a slightly less-than-obvious angle but with a few old faves thrown in for good measure...

Acceptable In The 80's - Calvin Harris
I Was Made For Dancin' - Leif Garrett
Around The World - Daft Punk
I Want Your Love - Chic
Last Dance - Ce Ce Peniston
Hot Stuff - Donna Summer
No More Tears (Enough Is Enough) - Barbra Streisand, Donna Summer
Disco Lies - Moby

Tuesday - Lost And Found:
I'll Find My Way Home - Jon & Vangelis
The Lovers Are Losing - Keane
I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For - U2
Discovery - Lau
Serendipity - John Martyn
Lost In The Supermarket - The Clash
Lost Cause - Beck
Discovered - Four Tops

What's the difference between samples and stolen (sorry mr legal eagle, I mean similar sounding) riffs. Are samples always credited to the original writers?

Samples are taken and credited from those with enough clout to employ lawyers. Other music is stolen.

Monday:

I think the best ever disco track is 'You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)' by Sylvester.

Also very fond of 'I Love to Love' by Tina Charles who looked like someone's sensible older sister but sang a really catchy disco tune.

'Love Machine' by The Miracles from around the same time is also very good.

Monday - Disco:

#32, Three top tracks Julie, one of these must get played!

I'm goin for a selection containing a few that I'm not actually sure qualify as "Disco" but I think they're all pretty danceable so her goes:

Rock with You - Michael Jackson
Thinking of You - Sister Sledge
Modern Love - David Bowie
Love Shack - B52's

MONDAY

'Knock Three Times' - Tony Orlando & Dawn

For Frank in Denny, who is too shy to ask for it himself. (I prefer the Slosh, but Frank is a black belt at the Alley Cat)

Did anyone else spot the deliberate mistake on Thursday's playlist?

>8-D

Since I didn't start shaving till I was 34 my ''youthful'' looks meant i had difficulty gettin into pubs and clubs before the legal age. However I remember gettin past a blind doorman into Jives Disco in Airdrie at the age of 17 and three quarters. It was my first ever disco in a 'proper' nightclub and I remember the DJ playing T Connection 'Do what you gotta do' which was the first 12 inch single I had ever seen (in Boots a few days earlier) and Patrick Juvet's 'I Love America'.
I also remember seeing a gorgeous girl and eventually plucked up the courage to ask her to dance. She looked me up and down and said. 'Phhhh you shouldn't even be in here'. I never ever asked anyone again. Just did what the rest did. Tap on the shoulder and hope for the best!

#35
It wasn't a mistake Scotch. This Charming Man really was played twice in 5 days. Sat 25th and thu 30th. Can you believe that? You can? Really?

#37

No.


#36

Can you really remember that far back? Or did you refer to your diary?

>8-D

Got it in one. The Diary of Paolopablo aged 17 and 3/4

TUESDAY

'Amazing Grace' - Elvis

A drummer, a pianist, a Gospel Choir and the King. (No, not Jesus).

King L - Lost and Found and Lost Again.

#36

Yon doorman at Jives Disco was blind. But now he C's.

Disco King - Carrara

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRLOtavjM7s

Think we can keep this up? :-)

BRING ME THE HEAD DOORMAN OF ALFREDO GARSEEA!

#43

I haven't been asked that question since my honeymoon...

BRING ME THE BIG HEAD OF ALFREDO GARCIA!

Who came up with the themes this week? Nobody seems to get credited anymore.

Monday:
Beaten to George McCrae so I'm going for the great KC and The Sunshine Band:
"Queen of Clubs" or "(Shake, Shake, Shake) Shake your Booty"

Monday - the wee lassie frae Paisley - Kelly Marie - Feels Like I'm in Love

or

Diana Ross - Inside Out from about the same time. That is all.

Hehehe

It's every bit as bad as I remember it - have a butchers at this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rYhdnrzCHo

# 49 - Brilliant MaxB. Great dance routine, you could tell she was enjoying herself, thinking "well at least this is just getting shown in Germany".

Hardly a "wee lassie" though...

It wisnae as bas this wan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqUCutugP0E

For all the great disco and funk music that was about there was always someone wanting to rehash an old song and 'put it to the beat'. oh and does emdy remember Sheila b Devotion doin Singing in the Rain.

#51

It really does take some amount of skill to keep a gerbil perched on your top lip whilst dancing like that - the wee buggers squirm.

Bryan Burnett
Taking a week's holiday to avoid playing Frank Zappa might seem like an extreme thing to do, but I feel it was one of my better moves.

Frank Zappa
A mind is like a parachute. It doesnt work if it's not open.

Is it the fabulous music of all types that i suggest?
Is it my witty stories?
Is it suggesting links to other interesting sites?
Is it my friendly banter with other bloggers?

What is it that i'm remembered for?

THE BLIDDY SLOSH THAT WHAT!!!

Thanks guys :O)

Btw Paolo

When are we getting this weeks installment of life in the big blog house?

THIS IS BB - WOULD PAULO PLEASE COME TO THE DIARY ROOM AND BRING ME THE BLOG OF ALFREDO GARCIA.

Monday DISCO

Roxy Music's 'disco' version of Angel Eyes, the 12" version was a disco dance floor filler in 1979. The original recording of Angel Eyes was very rocky and was only available on early pressings and the picture disc at the time of the albums release. The album release changed to include this version after they released this disco version for a single.

J.O'B.

I have just the one suggestion for TUESDAY

Longpigs - 'Lost Myself'

A brace for Tuesday:

"Now That We've Found Love" - Third World

"Baby, Now That I've Found You" - The Foundations

#55

'Big Brother house' in Geordie slang is 'muckle bairn kip'.



allegedly

"...The problem with people with open minds is that sometimes their minds are so open their brains fall out."

Deborah E. Lipstadt

Letter to Oxford Union
27th Nov. 2007

The Who - The Seeker
Van Morrison - Take It Where You Find It

Ryan Adams - Touch, Feel, Lose

#62 Pushing the boundaries a bit with "Seeker" Norrie!

Not so of course with:- The Seekers - I'll Never Find Another You

Which features Judith Durham as usual in fine voice.

If you can get away with that I'm gonnae suggest another "crowd" from down under;-

Split Enz - Missing Person

Which I'm justifying on the basis of being temporarily lost (or in the initial stages!)

Tuesday:

Could be a wee bit lengthy at 4.53, but how about LOST PATROL from Big Country? That'll take a few of us back to 1983...

#61 Ha ha

Frank Zappa
Who are the brain police?

"You are thought here to be the most senseless and fit man for the constable of the watch, therefore bear you the lantern."

Much Ado About Nothing

William Shakespeare

Tuesday:

"Another Lost Soul On The Run" by Phil Manzanera + Andy Mackay's post Roxy band The Explorers

J.O'B.

Re: #35

Still there. Why should I care?

*sigh*








Zappa fans will be ever so annoyed........

#66
Frank Zappa
So far, ladies and gentlemen, the response from this particular community has not been especially gratifying. Perhaps you're a little bit too intellectual here.

#68
Frank Zappa
A petulant frenzy! This is a petulant Frenzy! I'm petulant, and I'm having a frenzy!

TUESDAY:

Lost Property - Divine Comedy
Missing Words - Selecter
Found A Job - Talking Heads

Day 35 in the BBBBB house

1234pm
The housemates are getting increasingly restless. There has been no access to the diary room for 5 days.

'How long is she gonna be in there' asked JFE
'I could have sailed from edinburgh to glasgow the long way round in that time' said DC
'I could have watched the Majestics a hunner times since she's been in there' said Scotch
'I could have listened to the Hoover's entire back catalogue' said Paul
from Ayr
'I could have been to ashbury park and back' said Norrie
Everyone looked at Frank.
'No No No No I wouldn't even have done it once in that time' said Frank.
'I could have moved on my chessboard' said Jan
'I could have walked from edinburgh to glasgow with a copy of Burlesque for BB' said Julie
Glen was still in the sinbin after being moderated in last week's task.
Hoppo was alone with his thoughts and just smiled to himself.
'I could have made you all pies' said kirsty from Killie
'I could still have been browsing instead of gettin dragged in here' said Kirsty from lanark
'Gotta be More Than this' said Roxyjohn, ''we're stranded''

Inside the diary room Miss Babs was in tears.
'Its been 5 days now' said BB 'You have to leave the diary room'
''No I can't , please don't make me, that new housemate GreggaryPeccary is a bully. He savaged me cos I don't like Frank Zappa. I'm a nervous wreck. I'll do anything. I'll play Tull Bragg Rundgren Family anything. i promise. please don't let me have to face him again. All the other blogger housemates are pussycats in comparison, even EC''

The diary room opened.. . . . .

Back from hols (bonjour, tout le monde), and not quite back in gear, but:

Tuesday:

* They Might Be Giants - Lucky Ball & Chain
* Billy Bragg - A Lover Sings
* Proclaimers - Then I Met You
* Jeff Wayne - Forever Autumn

Absolutely seconding hughfromglasgow's shout of
* The Selector - Missing Words

#63 Paul I dont really think that Who track is so far off the theme, certainly the lyrics are ok for the theme. The Rush version is good too.

Why has no one suggested a certain welsh songstress yet?

3 few more for tonight
Lovin on the losin side / Tommy Hunt
Lost Again / Clifford T ward
lost in space / Lighthouse Family

and since sister sledge missed out last night perhaps they will get an airing tonight.

Jon & Vangelis - II'll Find My Home

Great show last night. Did you know that Born to be alive featured an unknown Madonna Ciccione on backing vocals?.

Meanwhile, here's a future theme .for you..songs with very few(less than 10?) words. I give you Get up and Boogie / Silver Convention, Pick up the pieces / Average white band, Mouldy old dough / lieutenant pigeon, Return of the los palmas 7 / Madness (which included the word waiter!). Instrumentals only don't count.

Last nights show also reminded me of a possible theme - B sides which became the hit.

Donna Summer's I Feel Love was a b side.

#71, Sounds like heaven Paolo, I do have a lot of the hoover's stuff but not quite the lot, it's looking like a life's work to collect it!
Thanks again for the entertainment!

#73, Norrie, I never thought about the lyrics, sorry, not up on that so I'll give you the benefit!

#77
Was it? I never knew that. B side of what?

Maggie may is probably the most famous b side of all. Good idea Norrie as long as we don't get Brown girl in the ring.

#76
* The Beatles: Why Don't We Do It In the Road?
Total of 13 words (the title, plus "No-one will be watching us")

* Pink Floyd: One of These Days
12 words


Mind you, Return of the Los Palmas 7 is an instrumental. With a near sound-effect single word added in.

#79 Paolo Can't We Just Sit Down (And Work This Out)?

"It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations."

Winston Churchill

"Well said, that man!"

Me

#82

If he can read he's not uneducated.

#84

Are you seriously suggesting that the Secretary of War who, in 1919, sent 12,000 English troops, with tanks and artillery, to Glasgow in order to break a strike could be wrong? Do you think that the fat Tory (expletive deleted) who ordered the Highland Light Infantry to be confined to Maryhill barracks lest they join the strikers was capable of such a fundamental error?



I'm just glad 'twas he who said it and not I!


>8-D

#85

Before some pedant tells me he was a Liberal, auld Winnie was always a Tory at heart.

He may have redeemed himself fighting the Nazis, but let us not forget his attitude towards us.

Wednesday

When you started playing that Al Jarreau song on Saturday night (`Morning), I thought you were going to play The Girl is Mine by Michael Jackson.

Adam...Loved hearing Third World tonight.

WEDNESDAY:

The daughter would no doubt like to hear some John Mayer on the show. His song 'Waiting for The World To Change' is quite like U2's 'Stuck In A Moment'. Go on, add to the repertoire.

Some similarity between Lynyrd Skynyrd's 'Tuesday's Gone' and 'Wonderful Tonight' by Eric Clapton. (The Skynyrd track would be good to hear at any rate).

STOLEN WEDNESDAY

There have been so many thefts recently by modern bands but the trouble is I can't remember any of their names. Just gonnae have to go back a bit further in time:-

Girl from the North Country - Bob Dylan
AND
Scarborough Fair - Simon & Garfunkel

Both learned from Martin Carthy, the English folk singer.

Al least Dylan could be said to have borrowed parts of it in a more subtle way and chaged the title, but S&G pretty much nicked the lot!

Even Martin can't claim total credit as it's a traditional English folk song which is apparently based on an even earlier Scottish one called the "Elfin Knight" from 1650.

Is that ancient enough!

Good to know that the top artists owe so much to God's country!

#86

You heap disapprobation on a man who cannot reply.

In his defence, any man who had champagne for breakfast was probably not making sensible decisions by lunchtime and, to my knowledge, he never released a disco single.

Wednesday - Stolen Riffs And Melodies:

Both versions given so take your pick as to which to play!

My Sweet Lord - George Harrison
Remarkably similar to:
He's So Fine - The Chiffons

Stan - Eminem
Famously a straight lift from:
Thank You - Dido

Ice, Ice Baby - Vanilla Ice
Obviously ripped off from:
Under Pressure - David Bowie

S.O.S. - Rihanna
Probably an unconscious copy of the idea in:
Tainted Love - Soft Cell (which was ironically was itself a cover)

Viva La Vida - Coldplay
Utter irony if this is a mistake, but it's very similar to:
Songs I Didn't Write - The Creaky Boards

Pastime Paradise - Stevie Wonder
Straight lift of the main riff in:
Gangsta's Paradise - Coolio

OK I take it back - the Rihanna track WAS a rip off now that I hear it played back! :-)

Nick Lowe - Heart In The City

remarkably similar to

Jonathan Richman - Roadrunner


David Bowie - Queen Bitch

reamarkably similar to

Velvet Underground - Sweet Jane

if it can be allowed under the theme

The Who - Real Good Looking Boy

contains elements of

Elvis - I Can't Help Falling In Love

and the ultimate irony of the Stones lifting a melody and having admit it

Rolling Stones - Has Anybody Seen My Baby

has the melody of

k d Lang - Constant Craving


Should be an excellent show.

The mighty Duran Duran's Girls On Film always reminds me of disco Donna Summer's Love's Unkind.

#91

You can hear someone singing "He's So Fine" at 1m39s in Let It Roll on All Things Must Pass (produced by Hollywood's least popular date P. Spector).

I think My Sweet Lord and All Things Must Pass are fantatsic tracks and Harrison seemed to be limbering up for the guitar sound on My Sweet Lord on his session with Dylan on his If Not For You track. I could be wrong on that one though.

#47 Miss Babs and her kids pick them on their holidays

#81 B sides would be a great theme Norrie. A lot of good album tracks were used as b sides back in the day.

#91 Jim you're confusing me again.(see #30. Were some of these not samples?

The Chi-lites got played tonight. I'll get 'You don't have to go' on yet.
. . . and the Chimes is one of they rare cover versions which I much prefer to the original.

#86, #90

see #12



Re:#35

Yep, still there.

>8-D

Bowie The Jean Genie = The Sweet Blockbuster

The Jean Genie was written recorded and released as a single before the Sweet's song, yet The Sweet kept Bowie off Number 1 with their song!


It strikes me that one of the problems with this theme is how do they prove it without playing both?

#89

And that other bit of thievery (less well credited): Hard Rain is Gonna Fall is an *awful* lot like the traditional ballad Lord Randall.

BTW, Martin C doesn't claim credit for traditional songs except in his performance, but unlike today's litigious climate, traditional music revels in lifting, appropriating and adapting previous music in an evolutionary process. There's a fantastic quote Vaughan Williams cites in National Music: "a genius is the child of tradition and at the same time a rebel against that tradition" which covers it nicely.