Perhaps Thing Fish is already here. Seems strange he still has access. Maybe he was a fifth columnist all along. Possibly we could take him by surprise.... That's it! - Hold him, Scotch. Bring that rope, Norrie. Now bring the headphones and that Cerys Matthews album and we'll show him how we treat infiltrators on this blog....(Sounds of screaming)
Ha I stuck in a cheeky wee plug for the blog wake and fairplay BB read it out and wished us all the best. He even played my tongue in cheek wee tune. Call me a scab.
i'm no great fan of 50's crooners type music, however
(a) the blog had quite a few played tonight and it still has an influence on the input....there are a few political parallels for what seems a simple concept, so here goes......take 'the left' as an example....at one end you have the revolutionary road sliding through to becoming a member of the SDP and holding your meetings in a disused telephone kiosk. in between these two extremes there are the parliamentary road,the anarchist adventurers,the revisionism of the trotskyites, the entryism if the militant tendency, lbj's tent theory, or you have wilsonism that great post war philosophy of student grants and the brains behind the open university, usually known as 'guardian readers' and thats a philosophy that comes out loud and clear (explicitly) on the programme...so yes, its much more than a request show....there is something much deeper going on and the trick to getting your song played is to try and tap that psyche...and suggest a decent tune.
(b) there was a lot of stuff played that i hadn't heard in years...and it was ok....also many of the songs acted as triggers and thats another strength of the programme...the tales behind the songs are sometimes quite powerful.
i really don't understand the negativity underlying the disparaging remark 'usual suspects'.....aren't they bone fide listeners entitled to ask for a song of their choice?
so i've put you into the box 'anarchist adventurer'
However, we did end up with a stray homeless blogger back at ours. We left him sleeping with a cat on the settee. He was gone by daylight. No mean feat since we are a mile from the nearest town with no sunday morning transport links and he probably didn't know where he was when he woke up.
No wonder norrie's getting 500 hits a day here, it takes me that many to find which thread we're on. So here's my comment transplanted from oh cannae remember, somewhere else:
thanks, Paolo for getting us together again - was a great evening. Only one complaint: we were no sooner started than it seemed to be time to go home. When's the day out to Millport?
I see Thing Fish managed to get on the old Blog again. How does he (or she) do it??
Did you see this on Fbook?
"We've got a bit of weekend homework for you! Do you have a friend or colleague who deserves a bit of recognition? Tell Bryan why and ask for a song just for them - and we'll play one each night next week on the show. You can email us getiton@bbc.co.uk or leave your message here. We look forward to hearing your stories Miss B"
I have no idea how Thing-Fish or Henri get in. Henri said he did it via a yahoo address I think, but I've tried that. So are we all going to make up stories about each other and send them in?
In my parallel broadcasting universe, this evening the presenter will say, '1977, silver jubilee year and year of release of 'Full House' from our very own Frankie Miller. Hard to choose just one track, but while 'Be Good to Yourself' was a hit single which most of you will have heard, we're going to go for something that gives Frankie's outstanding voice a chance to shine - 'This Love of Mine', co-written with Robin Trower.'
and then a bit later the presenter will say
'in spite of budget cuts we have been able to download a few tracks this evening especially for our loyal listeners and so our Bob Seger library expands to 4 songs with 'Ship of Fools', from the wonderful 'Night Moves' album, also released in 1977'
and just after the 7.00pm news, , 'we are so often asked for songs by Sandy Denny that tonight in celebration of the jubilee we have decided to go ahead and play one. 'I'm a Dreamer' from 'Rendezvous' released in - you've got it - 1977 is simply and utterly stunning. I can't think why we've not played it before.'
"I'd like to nominate my friend Bryan. He deserves recognition for providing work experience for people who have various challenging conditions. Like the woman who laughs inappropriately and uncontrollably, which, of course, has rendered her unable to cope with most social situations and left her otherwise unemployable. I think he would like to hear Stand By Your Man by Tommy Whynot."
Well, it was quite poor in comparison with Hampden a couple of years ago - though I think they got bounced into changing the set because things were running behind and the Queen had to go - never known them to finish with Ob la De. The singing voice is getting really shaky now.
I liked Grace Jones, Robbie Williams doing Mack The Knife and Jessie J, who's a good singer... suspect much more fun being there though - live broadcasts are always somehow a disappointment because you can hear faults otherwise obscured by amplification.
Here Paolo, have you been attending the Julie/Maclean School of Sook? Anything to get something other than Lido Shuffle on, eh? Though I've always thought Boz sounds like one of the Muppets for the first few lines of "We're All Alone".
Nobody I suspect.
ReplyDeleteLooks like another really busy night.
ReplyDeleteI believe Hamish in Echlefechan is having a nice bullfrog risotto tonight.
ReplyDelete
ReplyDeleteJeremiah was a bullfrog.
Hoyt Axton said it, so it must be true.
Tonight the songs that shocked back then but are a storm in a teacup now.
ReplyDeleteFirst up
Two tribes..........eh?
Second up
Another brick in the wall .....eh? eh?
We're getting loads of requests mainly for songs we couldn't play then and we certainly can't play mow
eh?
What did they say was shocking about Tribes and Wall?
DeleteDo you think they got mixed up with Relax and Arnold Layne?
They didn't. I only heard the first two songs the bit afterwards and that was it.
DeleteCan't see what was wrong with "Went To Mow A Meadow" either. We used to sing it on Sunday school trips
Delete
DeleteI prefer Connolly's weedgie version.
for Senga...
And her big black greyhound dug called Bob
DeleteMeanwhile, earlier on Facebook... Eric manages to shoehorn Radio Gaga by his beloved Queen into the theme.
ReplyDeleteMy Ding-a-Ling is real shocker!
ReplyDelete... is a real shocker! D'oh
DeleteI'm quite prepared to take your word for it.
DeleteHenri stated on Farcebook we'd have excelled at this repeated theme!
ReplyDeletemisplaced delusion
DeleteDid Bryan make a request for C Moon?
ReplyDeleteI see the Fish managed to get on the old Blog again. We need to find a way of getting him the address of this Blog.
ReplyDelete
DeleteGet Henri to guide Thing-Fish to #75 on the final thread, where, if he takes the bait, he'll find a link to here.
Good. I didnt realise that the link was still there.
DeleteGet yer waders on Henri.
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ReplyDeleteAnd quite right too.
DeletePerhaps Thing Fish is already here. Seems strange he still has access. Maybe he was a fifth columnist all along. Possibly we could take him by surprise.... That's it! - Hold him, Scotch. Bring that rope, Norrie. Now bring the headphones and that Cerys Matthews album and we'll show him how we treat infiltrators on this blog....(Sounds of screaming)
ReplyDeleteWaterboard him!!
DeleteHmmmm, I guess not......
Ha I stuck in a cheeky wee plug for the blog wake and fairplay BB read it out and wished us all the best. He even played my tongue in cheek wee tune. Call me a scab.
ReplyDeleteTalk is cheap Paolo!
DeleteI think this blog meet up is a thinly disguised veil for a joobilee street perty
DeleteCue songs fae 1977 re "garden parties and yer silver joobilees, WEMBULEEEEE...."
I will be sailing......................
Enjoy DC... I'd love to crew someday.
DeleteLet me know if you (or any other blogger) is this way abouts. We'll have a wee hurl if the weather's OK!
Deleteit wiz quite a big night for the blog.
ReplyDeleteit was a great show too.
cheers frae the dale
How's that like Dale? I'm just in fae a curry night so catchin up
DeleteDC
i'm no great fan of 50's crooners type music, however
Delete(a) the blog had quite a few played tonight and it still has an influence on the input....there are a few political parallels for what seems a simple concept, so here goes......take 'the left' as an example....at one end you have the revolutionary road sliding through to becoming a member of the SDP and holding your meetings in a disused telephone kiosk. in between these two extremes there are the parliamentary road,the anarchist adventurers,the revisionism of the trotskyites, the entryism if the militant tendency, lbj's tent theory, or you have wilsonism that great post war philosophy of student grants and the brains behind the open university, usually known as 'guardian readers' and thats a philosophy that comes out loud and clear (explicitly) on the programme...so yes, its much more than a request show....there is something much deeper going on and the trick to getting your song played is to try and tap that psyche...and suggest a decent tune.
(b) there was a lot of stuff played that i hadn't heard in years...and it was ok....also many of the songs acted as triggers and thats another strength of the programme...the tales behind the songs are sometimes quite powerful.
cheers frae the dale
You really sure about that... I thought it dull and a round up of all the usual suspects!
DeleteCan sense the drift of some craving former notoriety ;-0
i really don't understand the negativity underlying the disparaging remark 'usual suspects'.....aren't they bone fide listeners entitled to ask for a song of their choice?
Deleteso i've put you into the box 'anarchist adventurer'
cheers frae the dale
I think 'usual suspects' refers to songs, not listeners (bona fide or otherwise)
DeleteExactly but I like "alternative" handle 8-)
DeleteWasn't BBC4 just the best tonight?
ReplyDeleteSaw ghr tv smith bit
ReplyDeleteHave a great night tonight at the Blog Jubilee Do!
ReplyDelete
DeleteJulie lobbed......o.g.!
Where's Fing Thish when you need him?
Deletelost in the (last)post and only Henri can rescue him
DeleteWell that was good. And willie bartke the genius showed up at 66/1
ReplyDelete
DeleteIndeed! And there was £18.22 left in the kitty when we vacated the premises.
I shall open a high-interest account next time I'm in Zurich.
Come on then, give us the details! Who was there, what was the gossip etc
Delete
DeleteSenga was a no-show. The 66/1 shot was heartbroken.
What happens on the counting house stays in the counting house
ReplyDeleteAgreed & apologies for my no show. I offer no excuses.
ReplyDeleteGlad you appear to have had a good one.
However, we did end up with a stray homeless blogger back at ours. We left him sleeping with a cat on the settee. He was gone by daylight. No mean feat since we are a mile from the nearest town with no sunday morning transport links and he probably didn't know where he was when he woke up.
ReplyDeleteUnless of course the cat ate him.
Was it he who claimed the kitty?
DeleteCome on, we need tae be telt!
Oh and whoever was last out the pub, did you see any stray clothing? Imelda lost her little black shrug cardigan.
ReplyDeleteNo wonder norrie's getting 500 hits a day here, it takes me that many to find which thread we're on. So here's my comment transplanted from oh cannae remember, somewhere else:
ReplyDeletethanks, Paolo for getting us together again - was a great evening. Only one complaint: we were no sooner started than it seemed to be time to go home. When's the day out to Millport?
You said last night you were organising that one
ReplyDeleteDid you toast our queen?
ReplyDeleteas bloggers we've sworn never to mention Queen.
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ReplyDeleteI see Thursday is scots place names again. Do you think someone should put that list we compiled ontae feckkbook? That'll keep them amused
ReplyDeleteReckon "like the jotter" you'll get nothing more than lip service but If you do... just make sure the copyright is visible ;-)
ReplyDeleteNo new thread Norrie on todays theme of the best albums from the 50s 69s and 70s.
ReplyDeleteWhat on opporchancity misded for a right good fight er discussion.
the white album wouldave been good if it didnae hae that rubbish 'number 9' on it.whoever thought that was a good idea......self indulgent cynicism.
ReplyDeleteDo you think it will be album tracks rather than singles?
ReplyDeleteAlways used to have fun "making that assumption" when a theme about albums came up.
I see Thing Fish managed to get on the old Blog again.
ReplyDeleteHow does he (or she) do it??
Did you see this on Fbook?
"We've got a bit of weekend homework for you! Do you have a friend or colleague who deserves a bit of recognition? Tell Bryan why and ask for a song just for them - and we'll play one each night next week on the show. You can email us getiton@bbc.co.uk or leave your message here. We look forward to hearing your stories Miss B"
I have no idea how Thing-Fish or Henri get in. Henri said he did it via a yahoo address I think, but I've tried that.
ReplyDeleteSo are we all going to make up stories about each other and send them in?
In my parallel broadcasting universe, this evening the presenter will say,
'1977, silver jubilee year and year of release of 'Full House' from our very own Frankie Miller. Hard to choose just one track, but while 'Be Good to Yourself' was a hit single which most of you will have heard, we're going to go for something that gives Frankie's outstanding voice a chance to shine - 'This Love of Mine', co-written with Robin Trower.'
and then a bit later the presenter will say
'in spite of budget cuts we have been able to download a few tracks this evening especially for our loyal listeners and so our Bob Seger library expands to 4 songs with 'Ship of Fools', from the wonderful 'Night Moves' album, also released in 1977'
and just after the 7.00pm news,
,
'we are so often asked for songs by Sandy Denny that tonight in celebration of the jubilee we have decided to go ahead and play one. 'I'm a Dreamer' from 'Rendezvous' released in - you've got it - 1977 is simply and utterly stunning. I can't think why we've not played it before.'
I'll have some of whatever Gaie's on
ReplyDeleteI think she watches too much "Fringe".
ReplyDeletenow you know why I don't bother with the drink much. Who needs it when good Greenock fresh air does the same for you?
ReplyDelete"I'd like to nominate my friend Bryan. He deserves recognition for providing work experience for people who have various challenging conditions. Like the woman who laughs inappropriately and uncontrollably, which, of course, has rendered her unable to cope with most social situations and left her otherwise unemployable. I think he would like to hear Stand By Your Man by Tommy Whynot."
ReplyDelete@ AfR 14:18
ReplyDeleteDoes LTW know about what they're doing?
When does Cilla get wheeled our... Surprise, Surprise!
Sorry y'all, LWT!
ReplyDeleteIs it time Macca chucked it?
ReplyDeleteA Union Jack on a German bass? No stranger than BMW making Minis, I suppose.
Well, it was quite poor in comparison with Hampden a couple of years ago - though I think they got bounced into changing the set because things were running behind and the Queen had to go - never known them to finish with Ob la De.
DeleteThe singing voice is getting really shaky now.
I liked Grace Jones, Robbie Williams doing Mack The Knife and Jessie J, who's a good singer... suspect much more fun being there though - live broadcasts are always somehow a disappointment because you can hear faults otherwise obscured by amplification.
regardez vous
henri
I liked Madness and I've never been a fan.
DeleteI thought the sound was poor. Many times you couldn't hear the backing - silent cellos.
Stevie Wonder's band are great - it seemed to be all keyboards.
Was GIO 2/3 70s tonight, then??
ReplyDeleteDunno, was it? Hit the off switch when I heard who was producing... Gets all the overtime going that one!
ReplyDeleteMacca is 70 next birthday >8-0
ReplyDelete...and his voice will be 90
DeleteI think Norrie has set this up to see who gets the first NotThe goal
ReplyDeleteHe's pwayin a bwinder
I heard he woke up in Shanghai with a beard.
DeleteWho? Norrie or Fergie?
DeleteWe need to be telt
Hey Adam you'd proud... they've gone and censored me again on Farcebook LOL!
ReplyDeleteAin't freedom of speech something worth fighting for!
I didnt think they could censor Fcebook? Ive seen sweary wourds and everything on there!
DeleteWhit did ye say???
Just had a look. You're still on there. As is your mate Harry.
DeletePreviously on GIO....
ReplyDeleteHere Paolo, have you been attending the Julie/Maclean School of Sook?
Anything to get something other than Lido Shuffle on, eh?
Though I've always thought Boz sounds like one of the Muppets for the first few lines of "We're All Alone".
The school has been shut down. Austerity measures.
DeleteWell done Henri! You did it again. Lets see if the Fish gets the message.
ReplyDeleteGlen sounds quite fishy
DeleteWhat? No goal attempt?
ReplyDeleteAh kain
ReplyDeleteMind you, there's just me an you about Allez.....
ReplyDeleteMebbes aye, but mebbes naw anaw
ReplyDeleteYep, I'm here tae
ReplyDeleteOk, pass the baw
ReplyDeleteAye, come on R Che, dinnae be greedy
ReplyDeleteQuick! Before Paolo sees us!
ReplyDeleteIt'll cause a stramash
ReplyDeleteDC! Get isnae the penalty box!
ReplyDeleteGoaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaallllllllllllllllllllll
ReplyDeleteGuerilla sidesteps one, nutmegs the next, runs to the byline, looks up and hits a perfect cross......
ReplyDeleteoops saved ...rebound...yesssss
ReplyDeleteB****rd
ReplyDelete