Christmas Day tunes...

SUNDAY


Like Bryan and his team I'll be working, so no doubt I'll tune in.



"You're missing the point I'm sure does not need making;

That Christmas spirit is not what you drink."

Christmas Song - Jethro Tull


Too real? On Wednesday past Mike Harding played a nice version of the Slade classic


Merry Xmas Everybody - Karine Polwart


Wishing Bryan and his team, my fellow bloggers, and all the listeners a very Merry Christmas to y'all and your loved ones.


:o)

Julia Sutherland (Jonathan's missus) shared with me a taxi driver's description of the then new BBC HQ at PQ.

"It looks like the box the Armadillo came in!"


;o)

Wishing everyone a very merry Christmas, and a special thought for anyone who is on their own at this time or missing loved ones.

A wee chance to hear Clarence Clemons on a festive cracker

Darlene Love & The E Street Band - All Alone On Christmas

The Daughter and I will be at my sister's for Christmas Day. During the show Frances and I will no doubt be attempting to co-ordinate the lunch we've been planning for ages, which will end up being absolutely wonderful and everyone else will think we just rustled it up from thin air as if by magic!

I'm very grateful she and her family invite me there. My niece Holly was in China last Christmas, as part of her University studies, and she's been away at Leeds Uni all year too so it'll be lovely to share Christmas Day with her again this year.

Frances loves 'Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas' by Aimee Mann...or anything Christmassy by her reallly. That would help cheer us up when we realise there's not enough oven space for all the food...we've not put the tatties on early enough!...and if it's like last year...where the hell's the goose fat gone?

I wish all the GIO-ers a very Happy Christmas...even that old misery guts Christmas Party Pooper Scotch...who I note @ #1 seems to be mellowing... ;o) Love & kisses etc.

...and spare a thought for The Daughter who will be going off later in the day to have a second Christmas Dinner with her Dad and Grandma...real Vicar of Dibley stuff! lol

Communards tribute act given thumbs down.

Christmas Day we'll be having pizza.. "deep-pan, crisp and even".


Shimmy Down The Chimney (fill up my stocking) - Alison Krauss. Who am I to refuse >;-)



Keep it country!

Merry Christmas everybody. I'm on hols for a fortnight so well done to all who keep the country going at this time o year



DC

Two festive suggestions: Away in a manger - Trisha Yearwood; Christmas dream - perry Como.
One for everyone who will be busy in the kitchen: You can do magic - Limmie and the Family Cookin'
And one for the loved ones we cannot be with: Somewhere out there - Linda Ronstadt/James Ingram

Best wishes to all

Joe
Linlithgow

#7

Further details in Burglars' News

All the best to Bryan and the team and to all the bloggers for the festive season.

Highlights for me will be the old man's 80th birthday ceilidh and the get together with my kids and their partners at some point through the week.

Even though the kids are all growed up they still insist every present gets wrapped daddy style with frayed edges , ends that don't meet with the white bits showin and hunners of seloptape hawdin it all the gither. All growed up but always weans at Christmas.

Christmas through your eyes / Gloria Estefan

#9 I'm just glad others seem to be benefiting from their C.B.T. sessions!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JESUS - Mike Douglas


{:-{)}

A couple of crackers:


"Must Be Santa" - Bob Dylan

"Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) - Joey Ramone

Sentiment-overload, but keeping it topical, eh? Please play:
George Michael Jesus To A Child

Season's greetings all round! Big mwah's. xxxx

I've had two good shouts this week so all I'm saying is I wish all the bloggers and the GIO team everything you want for Christmas and 2012

♫ slaintè ♫

There are very few records about Xmas that make much impression - but this one really does do it for me... Getting Ready For Xmas Day - Paul Simon ( good show opener)

I'd like to thank Bryan, Babs and the team for another year of great entertainment and endless discoveries. I even got The Leisure Society played before the year was out.

A year of great musical highlights: one of these was the k d lang gig at the Armadillo - for me the highlight was Perfect Word - k d lang. Technically not a Xmas record, but a record longing for reconcilliation, peace and harmony (of which there is a great deal, between that etherial voice and the rising steel guitars) and therefore, it qualifies.Amazing.Treat yourself, Babs, and stick this on.

Breakfast at Chateau Hannah will see our united families - my kids coming from all over the place, Smiffy, the twins and her Dad - before my lot go off later to their Mum's for dinner.

A mixed family champagne breakfast might not seem like much, but we really are a family now - it may be our greatest achievement and an absolute joy on Xmas morning. I knew we were a couple when Julia's ex started referring to us as 'youse' and that we'd become a family when my ex and her family sent us congratulations cards for our recent enagagement.

I shall be raising my glass to my blogging peers and everyone on the GIO team on Xmas morning. Youse are a terrific bunch and i'm privileged to be a member fo this blogotariat.

All the best, Merry Xmas!

regardez youse

henri

Aloha

Mele Kalikimaka - Jimmy Buffet

Happy Christmas to all and to all a good night ☺

I'm not a Christmas song type at all really (there are some worth listening to but most are of the "I'm glad it's New Year now" variety).

I've downloaded a couple of albums to get a bit of variety into the repetoire this year and have been impressed by some

Wintersong - Sarah McLachlan

is worth a listen

DC

Happy Christmas awbody!!

Hope Sawndy Claw is good to ye aw

DC

Get thee behind me, Santa!



{:-{)}

#4

Julie,

Mellow, shmellow! Just trying to get some Tull played...





















increasingly desperate git

BTW,

At the main entrance of BBC HQ at PQ therr's a big poster featuring Oor Bryan and Janice Forsyth, both of whom are wielding flutes!





















Hope they enjoyed their champagne...

Welding flutes???

Welding flues???

Wielding flutes!!!



Indeed, I salute their wieldability!

#21

Did you no even get thon Solstice Bells played today?

Wedding (whistle and) flutes??

#25

Haven't we had enough sectarianism?

Is yon a Green Grassy Flute of the Boyne?

#26

Adam,

Ah'm haudin' that yin back tae next week...

Adam, I've just seen Shalky on Strictly. And more importantly his back singers. I forgive Shaky. I forgive Dave Edmunds. Frankly I even forgive some of Henri's suggestions! Merry hipmas.....

Merry Christmas to bloggers one and all.

Another working day - still waiting on Christmas lunch to arrive.

Looking forward to the New Year celebrations - not working - yahooo.

Pre-recorded?

Boxing Day

Kronenbourg 1664 feat. acoustic Motörhead & Ace Of Spades.

A nice ad for Grecian 2000 also!

Is the theme, music from ads, then?

Aye! Dunno if we'll get a new thread. Yesterday's playlist is not yet up, but the Dark Side has been active for over an hour.

I'll give it another wee while, rather than have to do it twice times.

;o)

MONDAY


A wee while's up...

Guess what flautist has been advertising a Hyundai car?


Thick as a Brick - Jethro Tull


By a remarkable coincidence, Jethro Tull will be performing the entire album live on stage for the first time since the Thick as a Brick tour of 1972

(Concert Hall, Perth, April 14th. - Theatre Royal, Glasgow, April 15th.)

Santa has delivered my tickets! Have you got yours?


Bryan, it would be unreasonable of me to ask you to play the entire 43:46

A short (or long) excerpt will suffice. Thank you!


:o)

ah weel, I'm hedging bets and posting here and there. If there were more of youse around you'd no doubt be tutting at me suggesting

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - AKA - What a Life!! (from a Vauxhall ad)

but I've heard it a few times on Tom Morton and I really like it.

Reason Is Treason ~ Kasabian Renault
English Rose ~ T. Jam Yorkshire Tourist Board
Baby I Love You ~ T. Ramones Yellow Pages
Pumping On Your Stereo ~ Supergrass Toyota

I've Got a Rock & Roll Heart - Eric Clapton - T-mobile

#36

Nae tuts from me Gaie. A big second!! (Though I am a wee bit surprised that he's sold out to a TV ad).

Ah the adverts! I love the ones where they spend absolute fortunes on a TV ad campaign, everyone remembers the ADS and not many remember what is actually being advertised.

So a couple of quiz questions and nae cheatin...
1) A series of 'There may be trouble ahead' TV ads were once shown featuring people about to encounter difficult situations to the accompaniment of 'Let's face the music and dance'. Which company were they advertising.

2) which make and model of car did Claudia Schiffer throw off her clothes and drive naked

and for a brucie bonus
Which 80's ad supposedly advertising one product actually sent sales of a different product through the roof?

Answers on the back of a tenner to my home address.

When we did ads a couple of years ago I told the tale of a national DIY store that used 60s pop stars singing covers of their songs. So we had Freddie Garrity singing "You Were Made By Me" to a fitted wardobe and Lulu in a semi-tiled bathroom screaming "You Make Me Wanna Grout!".

The Velvet Underground - Venus In Furs (michelin I think)

#40


1) A bank? Or maybe an insurance company. Who cares?

2)Who?

brucie bonus - Leonard Rossiter & Joan Collins were not advertising yon thingmy you can have any time, any place, anywhere.

i.e. A Krankie.

Anybody remember the Naked Video commercial break featuring a group of people pushing a Lada over a humpback bridge?

It must be on youchoob somewhere

Mean will be pleased!

What was the blogotariats take on tonights show?

Bach is a step in the right direction. That reminds me; Jethro Tull did a nice variation of Bach's Bourrée in E minor, (the fifth movement of Suite in E minor for Lute).

I wonder if we'll ever get to hear it?

#46
Well no qualms about it being prerecorded given time of year and folk wanting time off. Thought it was not bad in the circumstances. And the out and about interviews added something a bit different. However it also proved that the interaction with its audience is what makes it the show it is.

I'm a bit confused here (not had a chance to go on Alison again yet).
Are you saying that last night's show was pre-recorded and no requests were required?
Why was the Blog not told beforehand?
And what about tonight? Is there no theme? No show? Pre-recorded again?

A bit in the dark here.

The little I heard of last night's show reminded me of the channel you'd listen to on a long-haul flight as a last resort after you'd read the duty-free catalogue from cover to cover six times.

#49 I didnae tune in last night because I thought there was no show on Boxing Day! I mean, surely they would have updated the blog to encourage contributions to the programme where "You choose the music"?

Has anyone checked the f***book page to see what their reaction is to being kept in the dark?

this is what it says: tonight on the show Bryan has picked some of the interesting, surprising and quirky tunes you've suggested over the year for our themes. It's a really great mix - so sit back, relax and enjoy. Tomorrow night the footy is taking over but Thursday it's business as usual.

In other words, another pre-recorded. All the f*bers are discussing is the fitba' ra morra.

So f***boook was updated?

yep, yesterday and today

Disgraceful. Come on Miss Babs, explain yourself

#48

Very well put.

Hello Bloggers and Happy Christmas to you all! Yes you've worked it out, we're having a couple of days off and have recorded a couple of special programmes for you. Tonight Bryan has gone thro the playlists from this year and found some of the surprising, interesting and new discoveries we've made this year from our listeners.
And tomorrow, there's football on so we're making way for the important footy chat and commentary.
Back on Thursday and Friday live - with themes for you to contribute to so don't worry we've not forgotten about you or the important part you play in picking our playlists each night.
Hope you are all enjoying a bit of a break too, and we'll be back with you live on Thursday.
Miss Babs

Agree with the sentiment of Paolo's post. Thought Bryan's delivery seemed to be lacking fluency i.e. unnaturally stilted, posh even!

As for the current matter re other social medias, I reckon the team has more technical issues with their blog than we are lead to believe ;-)

#57

Miss Babs,

Only folk who know nothing of footy call it footy.


;o)
















...or so Ah've been telt...

#59
Oh come now, SG. I remember a complete stranger coming up to you in an Edinburgh pub and asking you to settle a football argument.
Something about the former manager of an English club if I'm not mistaken.

#60

What's the punchline?

For folk who know nothing of footy...


Recommended listening for Wednesday:

BBC Radio4 16:00 - 19:00

BBC Radio2 19:00 - 22:00


:o)

No its not like the story of the Colin Bell stand at Man City...

Do you not remember? In Deacon Brodies?

Vaguely. I was distracted by your rugged profile.

#57 thanks for that miss B, I hope that wasn't a pre recorded post!

Certainly not DC! Spontaneous and live as is this one. Did we get the answers to Paolo's pub quiz questions? And Scotch - I know little of football I live in a house full of Partick Thistle supporters.

Is that an acknowledgement that the entire household knows little of football.....?

Good Show tonight! I really enjoyed it.

It could have designated 'The GIO blog recommends.....'

No wonder our hero says the blog is 'the backbone of the show'.

regardez youse

henri

#64 - you must have been awfy drunk that night Scotch.

Adam - rugged profile!! - you must have been looking at the castle rock.

#66
1 allied dunbar
2 citroen xsara
Brucie bonus ... Levi ad that sent sales of boxer shorts soaring.

Anyway is it an old firm theme tomorrow night
Two tribes / Frankie goes to Hollywood
Stevie Davies eyes / Kim Carnes
You can call me Kayal / Paul Simon
Edu edu edu edu edu / Abba
Brand new Ki / Melanie
Matthews and son / Cat Stevens
Born to be Wylde / Steppenwolf
Loovens my religion / REM

If Sportsound has commandeered FM for this evening why can't GIO go out on Medium Wave?

Whur's JZ when you need him!

#69

If Paradise was half as nice.....

#68 Adam was real nice to Scotch, helping him across the road and carrying his white stick for him. He should be allowed to pay compliments

Off the ball, the old firm themes in fool..

Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers – T. Mother Goose Singers A kids T.V. favourite
I Ran – T. Ska Rangers A lad’s film favourite
Chip N’ Dale’s Rescue Rangers – DJ Alf A chipmunk’s favourite
I Will Follow (Follow) – U2 A confused favourite
Rangers Command – Red Dirt Rangers A country favourite

Cry Of The Celts – Paddy O’Connor A blubbers favourite
Rumba Escocia – Salsa Celtica A dancehall favourite
Celts & Cobras – Shakin’ Pyramids A reptiles favourite
Celtic Rain – Mike Oldfield A preciptative favourite
Welcome To Paradise –Green Day A cloud nine favourite

Scottish fitbaw theme:

Anything by Dire Straits.

As Cheetah has passed away can we have a Tarzan and/or primate related theme tomorrow?

...nae googlin mind, we don't want any cheetahs......




DC (read too many cracker 'jokes' over the past fortnight)

No Surrender - Justin Currie

No Surrender - Bruce Springsteen

Am I in trouble under this new law now?

Gaie I was in Greenock - could you start making a wee move to higher ground that water level is pretty high!

Not sure if that'll help, Norrie - sounds at present as if the roof's about to come off!

O Hooperman

Scoring or non--scoring?

#76

A truly idiotic piece of legislation but with one major advantage: the racist dirge that is known as our 'national anthem' about a battle with our neighbours (which we ultimately lost) must fall foul of it. Little wonder our sporting folks struggle so much to achieve the top flight.It's incredible we expect them to sing about losing before they get started.

Still, it'll be banned soon - thus leaving the door open for the Stephanie de Sykes classic " I Was Born With A Smile On My Face" to take it's rightful position as the nation's sing along anthem.

Have we done alternative national anthems yet?

regardez youse

henri

Re #74

Right, I'll get the ball rolling then shall I?

Hey, Hey ! We’re The Monkees – The Monkees
Ape Man – The Kinks
Every Which Way But Loose (orangutan) – Eddie Rabbit
Tarzan Boy – Baltimora
Save The Gorillas – Adam and the Ants (charity recording to the tune of Stand and Deliver)
You’ll Be In My Heart - Phil Collins (Tarzan soundtrack)
Shock The Monkey – Peter Gabriel (as I said before - not what you think, Captain)
Tarzan and Jane – Aqua
Plastic Beach – Gorillaz
Theme from BJ and the Bear (chimpanzee)

Travelling Wilburyd - Skooter and the Monkey Man

Brooce - Part Man, Part Monkey

Robbie Williams - Me and my Minkey.

Elvis - Too Mich Minkey Business

Simian Smith and his amazing dancing bear!

Bears?

Back tae the fitbaw....

Van Morrison - Crazy Jane on God

#84 ha ha she will be along to correctly you shortly!

#86 lol...I did realise it would get a comment

There's the Simian Mobile Disco right enough.

Does anyone remember the Tarzan joke where the punchline is Slade's "Gudbye T' Jane"?

Here it is at the bottom of this Slade newsletter from 1973 (note SAHB was their support band)

https://www.greywolf.plus.com/papers/21to30/papers027.htm





yup, quiet day in the office.......

...and so it has proved to be.....

#89

The Apollo site's up and running again. It's a useful archive.

Well, this is exciting....

Oh no it's not......

Morning Bloggers - business as usual tonight. We're on the search for your favourite crooners, big bands and swing bands. Who does it well today...is Michael Buble in with a shout, or what about the Amy Winehouse tracks which show her jazz credentials....and of course I doubt the programme will be complete without some Darin, Bennett and Deano.
Looking forward to your ideas to help us make the show go with a swing (sorry had to be done!!)
Miss B

Well, lots of obvious ones I suppose - but these are the finest, imho...

It Might As Well Be Spring - Dick Haymes

On Days Like These - Matt Munro the finest of them all

La Mer - Charles Trenet I now prefer this original to Bobby Darin..

...and some of those Rodgers & Hammerstein classics that my Dad played all the time...I can never remember the singers...Howard Keel,( Miss Ellie's 2nd Husband)?

Oh What A Beautiful Mornin/People Will Say We're In Love/They Say It's Wonderful/I Have Dreamed etc

regardez youse

henri

Buster Poindexer -& The Banshees Of Blue - Hit The Road Jack ( this is tremendous)

Southside Johnny & Tom Waits with La Bamba's Big Band - Walk Away (also tremendous)

Tonight:

Richard Hawley - Born Under A Bad Sign

Jo Stafford - Begin the Beguine

THURSDAY



It's not big, it's LARGE!


That's Right (You're not from Texas) - Lyle Lovett and his Large Band


Country Croonin' & Western Swing, just like Miss Babs ast foh!


:o)

I'm trying not to mis-read that last post on the way to an open

GOAL!!!!!!!!!!