Next week's themes...

Monday

Human Cannonball - Webb Wilder

Tuesday

Look Out There's A Monster Coming - The Bonzos

Wednesday

Detox Mansion - Warren Zevon

Thursday

N. Korean national anthem - You ate nothin' but a hound dog.

Hi all...

Mon..
Sammy Davis Jr........................ Mr Bojangles

Tues..
Jim Diamond .................... Should've known better

Wed..
Mario Lanza or Dean Martin ............ Arrividerci Roma ( i shall return again and again and again)

Thurs..
Hold him by the Ears! ................... Simply Red

Monday
Dancing fool - Frank Zappa

Tuesday
Long Distance Daddy - Maclean and Maclean

Wednesday

Wild Women of Wongo - The Tubes (Raucus party in Saltcoats c1969.)

MONDAY:

Bryan Ferry 'Limbo'

J.O'B.

MONDAY

'The Actor' - The Moody Blues

'Kansas City Star' - Roger Miller

Tuesday's theme could run until September.

I can feel a list coming on................

Tuesday
If I Could Do It All Over Again I'd Do It All Over You - Caravan
Couldn't Get It Right - Climax Blues Band
No Regrets - The Everly Brothers
Who Put The LSD in Mrs Melly's Tea - George Melly

Tuesday
Yesterday Has Gone - Cupids Inspiration

Monday

The Last Carnival - Springsteen

Carnival - Natalie Merchant

Circus Games - The skids

Circis Girl - Rod Picott with Alison Krauss

Monday:

"One Man Band" - Leo Sayer

Just back from my weeks sailing trip which went well until the propellor shaft coupling came apart and we had to be towed into Port Edgar by the South London Sea Cadets (what a great bunch of guys they are! Please give them a shout!) All fixed aboard the yacht and made it back to Cellardyke just in time to start dreaming of next years trip away.....

DC

Oh another couple

Black aka Colin Vearncombe has a great track "Comedy"

Roy Orbison - The Comedians, I think it is superior to Elvis Costello's own version and is a brilliant track. Must be in with a shout as show closer!

#3

Was it a Toga party?

>8-D

TUESDAY

The Ladies

'Handbags and Gladrags' - Mary Coughlan

'England 2 Colombia 0' - Kirsty MacColl

'God May Forgive You (But I Won't)' - Iris DeMent

'Don't Push Your Foot On The Heartbrake' - Kate Bush


The Laddies

'God Will' - Lyle Lovett

'Sam Stone' - John Prine

'Gaye' - Clifford T. Ward

'Ulysees' - Jake Thackray

'Farm on the Freeway' - Jethro Tull

'Was I Right Or Wrong?' - Lynyrd Skynyrd

'She Got the Goldmine (I Got the Shaft)' - Jerry Reed


The Duets

'Getting Over You' - Willie Nelson and Bonnie Raitt

'Angel from Montgomery' - John Prine and Bonnie Raitt

'You Don't Bring Me Flowers' - Neil Diamond and Barbra Streisand

BRING ME THE TALKING HEADS OF ALFREDO GARCIA AND ALAN BENNETT!

Re: Thursday

Is it just me, or does anyone else wince when they hear;

"We're gonna roll this Truckin' convoy across the U.S.A." ?

>8-D

Scotch - how come you are up this late? Or is it early? :-)

That was late. This is early.

>8-D

MONDAY:

The Decemberists - 'I was Meant For The Stage'.

McGuinn,Clark and Hillman - 'Backstage Pass'.

and one I've heard in a Fringe production:
Victor and Barry - 'Kelvinside Man'

Thursday

Kelvinside Love - Cilla Black

Tuesday

Del Amitri's finest:

Be My Downfall

#15,

"Hey Sod Buster, listen
You wanna put that microbus in behind the suicide jockey?"

"Yeah, he's haulin dynamite
He needs all the help he Scotch- git".......

:-)

DC

#20. That's such a good song Norrie.

Thanks Julie - good one for the theme I think? It's my favourite Del Amitri track.

Great list by the indefatigable Scotch Git at #13

Thursday - Happy Enchilada anyone?

And wasn't that a great maxwell tapes advert with into the valley by the Skids?

Monday - Performing Arts:
She Said She Was A Dancer - Jethro Tull
Acting This Way - The Robert Cray Band
Understudy - China Crisis
High Wire - Men At Work
Human Statue - Dogs On Catwalk
My Body Is A Painting - Alison Weeces
Anyone Can Play Guitar - Radiohead
Performance - Japan
She Never Told Me She Was A Mime - Weird Al Yankovic
The Yodelling Ranger - Jimmie Rogers

Tuesday - Mistakes & Regrets:
This Guitar Says Sorry - Billy Bragg
Sorry - Karine Polwart
What Becomes Of The Broken Hearted - Colin Blunstone or Paul Young
Once In A Lifetime - Talking Heads
Regret - New Order
Never Going Back Again - Fleetwood Mac
Make No Mistake - John Martyn
Slip Of The Tongue - Whitesnake
Where Did It All Go Wrong? - U2
You Got It All... Wrong - The Hives
Mistaken Identity - Delta Goodrem

Wednesday - Best Place Song:
Barcelona - Freddie Mercury & Montserrat Caballe
(reminds me very much of several great holidays and it's also where I was on 9/11 - literally arrived at the hotel, set down my bags and my phone went - my wife telling me to GET THE TELLY ON FAST!)

Thursday - Misheard Lyrics:

I Try - Macy Gray
In the chorus it sounds like she is singing
"though I try to hide it, it's clear
my world gobbles when you are not there"

Labour Of Love - Hue & Cry
In the chorus it sounds like Pat is singing
"lipgloss my navel with love" :-)

Dancing Queen - Abba
"feel the beat from the tangerine - oh yeah"

Purple Haze - Jimi Hendrix
"scuse me while I kiss this guy"

#12
Naw, an Orgy.

#10

"Home is the Sailor, home from sea......"

Robert Louis Stevenson


#21

Home to his Rubber Duck!

>8-D

#3, #29

Ah, hence the reference to Senator Incitatus!

Thursday -

I'm well known (in my house anyway) for mishearing lyrics. Most recently, I kept hearing a song on the radio where the singer seemed to state that "this time" she was going to be "Babe Ruth"...it turned out to be 'Bulletproof' by La Roux!!!

My ears hear The Kooks sing "tie some paper jeans" in 'She moves in her own way'.

#23

Norrie,

Thank you for the kind words, but I can take credit only for my self-restraint.
This theme is an open goal!

Julie, a band you have requested previously, Burlesque Family is it? Wouldn't Monday night be a good chance of them being played? They fit the theme.

Ooh! ooh!...thanks Jan...that would be perfect for The Famous Spiegeltent (or rather, since it's not here this year, the Old Pulteney Spiegeltent...residing at North Berwick for Fringe By the Sea).

#30

It wasn't until I checked the lyrics of "Convoy" this morning that I realised that Rubber Duck is speaking to PIG PEN and not BIG BEN !!!!!

(Home is the sailor, home from)

DC


:-0

#2 good luck with SDJ which has been asked for more than once but not as much as Burlesque which I was gobsmacked at Julie having to be reminded of!

Monday
My first pick would be a soul hit from mid 70's we don't hear too much of these days but perfect for tonight
High Wire / Linda Carr & the Love Squad

Alternatives

The Show Must Go On / Three dog Night (better than Leo Sayer's original)

Wonderful Remark / Van Morrison (from the closing sequence of the De Niro film King Of Comedy)

Turn the Page / Bob Seger about life as a performer on the road)

Oh and whisper it...I am a clown wasn't the worst song David Cassidy ever done.

Monday

Being For The Benefit Of Mr Kite - Billy Connolly and George Martin. Best version of this I have heard.

Give My Regards To Broadway - Al Jolson
Putting On The Ritz - Fred Astaire
Singing In The Rain - Gene Kelly

Thank You For The Music - ABBA
Private Dancer - Tina Turner

Few oldies there, feeling a bit nostalgic this weekend as it would have been my mums birthday on Sat 8th...

Don't know if thge hoover's Mr Trampoline man is for monday or thu but re some other misheards..... although I'm sure this is what's REALLY sung

You picked a fine time to leave me Lucille
Four hundred children and a crap in the field

In Money's too tight to mention Mick Hucknall sings
'we're talking bout Reganomics oh oh down in the cornflakes!'

And on a tour of the Western Isles Foreigner spent a week camping in a field in Uist. When the farmer asked what they were doing there they sang
'I've been waiting for a gaelic ewe to come into my life'

MONDAY

'Don't Cry Out Loud' - Elkie Brooks

Baby cried the day the circus came to town
'Cause she didn't want parades just passing by her.
So she painted on a smile and took up with some clown
And danced without a net upon the wire...............

#41 and #25
Nice shouts for Elkie Brooks and Robert Cray

#10
fav song from a fav place for DC and his broken coupling
Come on over to my place / The Drifters

#37. It's an age thing ;0)

43# Its not an age thing, you just too busy relaxing,away from The Fringe :-)

Tuesday

Nae Regrets - Martyn Bennett
Diary (beautiful but sad) or You Left Me Just When I Needed You Most - Bread
Come Live With Me - Heaven 17
You Made Me Love You - Al Jolson
What Becomes Of The Broken Hearted - Jimmy Ruffin or Colin Blunstone

Wed

It would be nice if Spanish Stroll by Mink DeVille was played for the recently departed Willy DeVille

Have you heard something about an afterlife?

Sorry....?

We are still waiting for Burlesque. Playing records for those who can't hear them will only occasion further delay.

#42

There's always the theme tune to "The Odd Couple"...

#49 He he! Of course stupid boy that I am. Maybe it should be played in memory of him even though he is most unlikely to either be aware of or appreciate the gesture, would have been a good Sat night song.

Don't tell him, Pike!

MONDAY PERFORMERS

Mama used to dance for the money...

Gypsies,Tramps & Thieves - Cher
Jazzman - Carole King
Pearls a Singer - Elkie Brooks
Sultans of Swing - Dire Straits

There must be some Shakespeare going on at the fringe:

True Love Never Runs Smooth - Gene Pitney
Romeo Is Bleeding - Tom Waits
Milkman Of Human Kindness - Billy Bragg
Something Wicked (This Way Comes) - Siouxsie & The Banshees
Hubble Bubble (Toil & Trouble) - Manfred Mann
All That Glitters Isn't Gold - Martha & The Vandellas
When In Disgrace With Fortune And Men's Eyes - Rufus Wainwright

and for RJ

Shall I Compare Thee To a Summer's Day - Bryan Ferry

Jim, Re: 'you'

A poster on another BBC blog suggests that if you "set your tools to block cookies" your username will appear above your comments, but if you "accept all cookies" you get the 'you'.

Q. What is a cookie?

Q. Should I/we be blocking or accepting them?

(Please explain as you would to a 5 year-old).

#46
And while you're listening to Mink de Ville you could have a cornetto in honour of the late great Renato Pagliari

Scotch, try

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cookie_Bear

:-)

DC

Jim, P.S.

While you're here, tell DC to stop acting skeich.

(Please explain as you would to a 5 year-old).

>8-D

Tuesday
Mistakes wrongdoing regrets and generally making an a**e of it

Should've Never Let You Go / Neil Sedaka (duet with his daughter Dara)
Payin for it now / Robert Cray Band
Like a Rock / Bob Seger
If Loving You is Wrong I don't wanna be right / Millie Jackson
Right place wrong time / Dr John
Can't do right for doin wrong / Erin Rocha

Hehehehehehe.......

DC

Don't suppose tonight's going to be the night when we get Marillion: Script for a Jester's Tear?

Monday - Minstrel's song by the Moody Blues

DC

Monday:

* Incredible String Band: The Hedgehog's Song
* Yardbirds: Ha Ha Said the Clown
* Erasure: The Circus
* Ultravox: We Came to Dance
* The Kinks: Lola
* Sugarloaf: Don't Call Us, We'll Call You
* The Passions: I'm in Love With a German Film Star (the Foo Fighters cover is good too)
* Marillion: Freaks
* The Jam: That's Entertainment

Also loving the idea of For the Benefit of Mr Kite and Milkman of Human Kindness

Might Max B Gold enquire as to whether Johnny Cash - Burning Ring of Fire would qualify for Monday?

Please reply soonest

Regards XX

MONDAY:

Any songs about fey teenage thespian types, obviously from the cast of a Fringe production, who wander round the supermarket singing just loudly enough to grab everyone's attention? Witnessed that today...just after negotiating my way round some of the Soweto Gospel Choir laden down with their shopping bags, waiting for a taxi...then I walked round the corner and nearly bumped into JK Rowling! Yup...it's festival time again.

#65

Julie,

Are you familiar with Christopher Brookmyre's short story set during the Edinburgh festival? I heard it on Radio 3's 'The Wire' many moons ago, and thought it one of the funniest radio dramas ever!

The dialogue could be described as uncompromising, although I'm sure the author would argue that it is accurate. It's titled 'Bampot Central'

Enjoy!

#66. Ha Ha! I like his T-Shirt idea (although I am trying to be less grumpy around this time of year).

Rolling and tumbling ain't done me no harm

I can see the Tull fans eyes lit up.....there's hope yet for you lot

Really good show tonight...

Tuesday Regrets, Wrongdoing and Mistakes

Del Amitri - Be My Downfall, fantastic track Justin Currie at his finest

Lyle Lovett - Her First Mistake

Iris DeMent - You've Done Nothing Wrong (the version with Iris and the Beautiful South would be good as well)

Cheers Norrie

#70, Agreed, some good "new" stuff (well for me anyway) and excellent alternative versions as well.

#66 I read Chris Brookmyre's " All fun and games until somebody loses an eye" while on holiday recently. I didn't think the words "comedy" and "thriller" went together but they do here. References to the M8, shopping in E.K. and Scottish football in there too!

#55

Scotch - cookies are files maintained on your system by web browsers typically in order to store frequently used information to aid with web site logins and other associated data that would otherwise need to be repeatedly requested. So for example when you go to your favourite weather forecast site it 'remembers' where you are so as to offer you the appropriate forecast without your needing to search for it again. There is nothing wrong with cookies unless they are being abused by dodgy web sites to gather info about where you have browsed to/from etc. Yes you can switch them off but that would mean your browsing experience would become a total pain.

You basically have three choices:
Switch them off totally
Allow them but have an alert notify you each time
Allow them all

If you go for option three, that should be fine as long as you have decent antivirus/antimalware software on your system and do a scan for the wee buggers periodically!

I don't know if any of this would have an effect on the visibility of your screen name on the blog as I suspect it's database-driven anyway and not cookie-based, but I could be wrong, not having given it any thought whatsoever! :-)

#72 re #55....

I think the cookie bear was far more interesting..........

DC

#73

Agreed! And if you hadn't beaten me to it I would have said the same! LOL

Tuesday: a song about a guy who realises he has perhaps adopted the wrong attitude in the past

No more Mr Nice Guy - Alice Cooper

DC in Cellardyke

#72

Thamk you!


#75

"I went to church in Cognito...."

>8-D

#71

Paul,

I like all of his books, but for anyone reading him for the first time I would recommend 'One Fine Day in the Middle of the Night'

Don't read it in public unless you want people to wonder who's the bam giggling uncontrollably.

>8-D

Did I mention that we once rubbed shoulders?

Born to be Wilder

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGssb5YKaNM

TUESDAY:

Robyn Hitchcock - 'I Used To Say I Love You'

Beverley Knight - 'Shoulda Woulda Coulda'

The Platters - 'I'm Sorry (for the things I've done)'

The Last Shadow Puppets - 'My Mistakes Were Made For You'

Tuesday


Get It Right Next Time - Gerry Rafferty

#77 Thanks for the tip Scotch, I'll look out for it.

OOPS - TUESDAY

" I was dumb, I was wrong, I let you down "

About You Now - Sugababes

" I made some mistakes "

Run For Home - Lindisfarne

Sorry adding another in for Tuesday

Maria McKee - You Gotta Sin to Get Saved

basically Maria with the Jayhawks and it is a superb track.

Tuesday: Regrets and wrong-doings

Nobody's Diary: Yazoo
Right Next Door (Because of Me): Robert Cray
Silly Thing: Sex Pistols
Wasted Life Stiff Little Fingers
Why Does It Always Rain on Me: Travis
I Should Have Known Better: The Beatles
Just When I Needed You Most: Randy Van Warmer
A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall: Bob Dylan

Tuesday

So many - but I'd love to hear Lucinda Williams

Over Time - Lucinda Williams (heartbreaking!)

A Letter to Elise - The Cure
I Shot the Sheriff - Bob Marley
So Sorry - Feist
Wrong - Everything But the Girl

Or you could fill your whole programme with Willie Nelson and Johnny Cash (please don't!!). Forgiving You Was Easy (Willie) or Wanted Man (Johnny) would fit.

Tuesday:

* Blues Brothers: Expressway to Your Heart
* Billy Bragg - Levi Stubbs' Tears
* Billy Bragg - St Swithin's Day (OK, we're a month late)
* The Specials - Too Much Too Young (prompted by JFE's suggestion of Bragg's This Guitar Says Sorry)
* Lennon - Mother (possibly the most painful, regretful song I know)
* Pink Floyd - Jugband Blues (Syd's last track with the Floyd)
* Pink Floyd - Welcome to the Machine
* Dylan - Simple Twist of Fate
* Traveling Wilburys - Congratulations

If we're going to have Oops.. then can we have the Richard Thompson version again?

Tuesday additions:

I Should Have Known Better - Jim Diamond (PhD)
I Won't Let You Down - Jim Diamond (PhD)

#85, #86

I'd back all of those suggestions! Good shouts.

thanks for playing One-man band last night. Mys suggestions for tonight's theme are:

it happens - Sugarland
steve earle - Sugarland
mercy - Duffy
I found a letter - Allison Moorer
she's not there - Santana
since you've been gone - Rainbow
god blessed the broken road - Rascal Flats
goodbye - Steve Earle or Emmylou Harris
home to houston - steve earle
bring 'em home - springsteen
(although the last two may be too political/controversial)

For tomorrow's best place theme, I suggest:

best city - new york new york by ryan adams or manhattan by ella fitzgerald
best beach - antigua - and the song I associate with it is Bob marley's "No woman no cry" which was played constantly.

Nothing yet for Thursday.

Have a good day

Joe
Linlithgow

Could I add one more to my choons at #59 for tonight
Baby Come Back / Player

Bryan, Mike #83 really wants his Robert cray selection played :-)

Looking forward to a few interesting tales for tomorrow night even though I'm sure we did holiday songs quite recently. (Captain?) So many places, so many songs. Will need to have a wee think but on a similar vein I was in the pub last night when UB40's King came on. There I was back in 1980 in the Burns Tavern in Ayr sinking the black and white ball simultaneously to blow the pool tournament I'd organised with my fellow racecourse campers as King was played on virtual repeat on the jukebox.
Funny how songs can give you flashbacks to a specific moment in time.

#89

Absolutely true! There are loads of 70's and 80's tracks that remind me of playing pool and jukeboxes blasting... Many an evening was spent playing in bands in hotel lounges - when we took a break the jukebox would be switched on again! More power to our drinking elbows!

#89 #90

I have a great memory of a long December evening in Pollock Halls Refectory Bar (aka The Moon - nae atmosphere you see) where we just put Fairytale of New York on the jukie again and again the whole night.

And sang along, drunkenly (well, you have to, really).

Nobel Peace Prize Winner Aung San Suu Kyi has been given another 18 months of House Arrest in Burma.

https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/8194596.stm

On 'Wrong' night, perhaps a reason to play Damien Rice's 'Unplayed Piano' which was written about her.

Tonight has to be a night to play a track from Luther Wright and the Wrongs' cover of The Wall. I'm thinking in particular of In The Flesh Part II where they take the original sexist/racist/homophobe lyrics and definitely improve them:

...
so they sent on the Wrongs as a surrogate band
...
Are there any deer in the theater tonight?
Get 'em up against the wall.
There's one in my headlights, he don't look right to me
Get 'em up against the wall.
And that one looks squeamish, and there's a racoon
Who let all this wildlife into the room?

...it's bluegrass btw, I forgot to mention.

Tuesday regrets -

I wish it was over, Teddy Thompson
The wrong man was convicted, Barenaked Ladies
River, Joni Mitchell
Learning to do without me, Gary Clarke
I've never been to me, Charlene

And I second Norrie's suggestion for Del Amitri.

Howsabout
* Bobbie Gentry - Ode to Billie Joe

#78 And don't forget Webb's Credo...
"Work hard, rock hard, eat hard, sleep hard,
grow big, wear glasses if you need 'em."

MISTAKES IN SONGS

'Louie Louie' - The Kingsmen

1:56 in, just after the wee instrumental, middle-eight thingmy, the singer resumes too early.










Alternatively, you could argue that every song by Simply Red was a mistake.

>8-D

Hearing Elvis Costello reminds me that I forgot about "Accidents Will Happen". Oops, stoopid mistake!

There is a great Bowie track which was released on his Sound and Vision Box Set called After Today, it is brilliant but the band falls apart at the end and they never went back and did a full take which is a real shame.

David Sanborn on Sax and Luther Vandross on backing vocals.