OTT tracks...

More - Bobby Darin

NEWSFLASH!

Miss Babs redeems herself! Jake Thackray puts her back in the hunt for a
CHOCOLATE EGG!


A. Git explains - "I'm delighted to report that we can put Wednesday's unfortunate misunderstanding behind us. Lessons have been learned. It's time to draw a line under it, and move on. With five shows to go, Mandi and Miss Babs are joint favourites. (Miss Babs' deducted points having been reinstated). Kirsten is a long shot, but another fine performance could see Richard produce a shock result! (No pun intended). See Paolo for details."


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I'm A Wonderful Thing, Baby - Kid Creole & the Coconuts

You Are My Joy - Reindeer Section

You're Beautiful - Love & Money

Mr Wonderful - Peggy Lee

Joybringer - Manfred Mann's Earth Band

My Love - Paul McCartney

(If Paradise is) Half As Nice - Amen Corner,


#2 Agree, creditable performace with ulta difficult theme - 14, Miss B.

regardez youse

henri

MONDAY


As O.T.T. as it gets...


You're Such a Good Looking Woman - Joe Dolan


Choreography courtesy of Norrie MacLean.

Clothes donated by Mrs. Miller.

MONDAY

• 
  
  She is my everything
  
  When she wakes up in the morning
  
  That's when the birdies
  
  Start to sing
  
  When I hear her voice
  
  I'll tell you boys
  
  I forget everything
  
  She is my everything
  
  

Here's an interesting one, perhaps dad spoke to his laddie

Call Me Number One / The Tremeloes (lead singer and writer of the song one Mr Len (Chip) Hawkes)

followed a couple of decades later by his big boy

I am the One and Only / Chesney Hawkes

Clearly two top men.

Al

Your Kiss Is On My List ~ Hall and Oates

That pair made their careers on cheesy pop!


Guess the jotter is still missing!

Oh Lord it's hard to be humble - Mac Davis

The ultimate superfluity, never bettered, the graaayyytest

'More than Life' --- Whitley
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dk8XrTbCPYs


'You don't know how lucky you are' --- Keaton Henson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNCv87La0Jg


and, of course ~

'Anything You Can Do' --- Betty Hutton

Wonderful (the Way I Feel) - My Morning Jacket

yes indeed, noting better than getting up at 6.30 on a Saturday morning, knowing you're going to spend the day in Partick on a First Aid Course.

nothing

First thoughts:
You'll never find another love like mine - Lou Rawls
Close to you - the Carpenters

Possibly also:
Save the best for last - Vanessa Williams
You're the best thing that ever happened to me - Gladys Knight and the Pips

More to follow

Joe
Linlithgow

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#11

Not even a CHOCOLATE EGG?


#10

Gaelic or English?

From the soundtrack of Sister Act


I WILL FOLLOW HIM - Deloris & The Sisters (Brides of Christ)


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bryan...you've managed to mention my two most loathed songs in the one header. If Lady in red and wonderful tonight are played in the same programme I will personaly get a big wooden chalk duster and remove every point that's ever been earned on Henris great big points board.

Superman (It's not easy) / Five for fighting
Superfly / Curtis mayfield
Wonderful / Colin Bluntstone
Supermassive black hole / Muse
Piu bella cosa / Eros Ramazotti
So amazing / Luther Van Dross

#15
What, no amazing grace?

or Too much heaven?

#16 you're so last week. Chalk & boards went out of fashion in the 90s to be replaced with interactive whiteboards

(are you allowed to call them whiteboards?)

#4 Scotch so you were in One Up that night, I wondered who else was there. I'll never drink abisinthe again.

Exagerrated lyrics:

Morrissey - Last Of The Famous International Playboys.

Hardly Mozz - you forgot about Adam From Rio.

#16

These are nothing in comparison with the abomination that is Bohemian Rhapsody, easily the worst record ever made.Worse,they nicked it from 10CC's 'One Night In Paris' - which has suffered the indignity of becoming a parody of a record that was not yet recorded at the time of its own release.

Not even Dignity comes close, which is at least is a good tune with a truly dismal lyric.

Theme idea - a night of 'utter sh**e' - a catharsis when these are played all in the one show and then they never darken our listening on GIO again.

regardez youse

henri

#22 I don't think I could listen to more than one Mozz "tune".

Actually, come to think of it, is there more than one?

'THE PERFECTIONIST' by SAGA

Ellery Sneed had one great need
To do everything just right
If things were not planned and all done by hand
He would ready himself for a fight
One afternoon while sitting alone
He came to a great realization
When it's his turn to die, will there be enough time
For plenty of planned preparations
With a few minutes thought his decision was clear
A fate most perfectly neat
Not a friend could remain to witness his death
So a terminal wine he would treat
The plan was to hold a very large feast
Serving the wine at the end
Joining the fun would be everyone
He'd been calling his friend
Invitations went out, all guests did arrive
The meal looked a great success
Deciding the time he brought out the wine
Up stood a familiar guest
"Here's a toast to our gracious host"
Said Ell's friend Billingford Bluffer
"Never in my life will I taste but a bite
Of a more perfectly planned out supper"

Number 1 Song in Heaven / Sparks




Double Heart Trouble / Frankie Miller

If you like Free and haven't heard this have a listen, absolutely brilliant Frankie.
We don't hear him often enough.....

Al.

Three Hundred Pounds Of Joy - Howlin Wolf

Do That To Me One More Time - Captain and Tenille which brings back glorious summer memories.

This is interesting though :

"Toni Tennille would later recall that she, Captain, and Karen Carpenter from The Carpenters once had a conversation in the parking lot of their label A&M Records after A&M had signed the Sex Pistols. They were not pleased with the direction the top label brass were going; in their views, ignoring the label's established acts in favor of recent signings. They even commented on how the newly-signed and unproven Sex Pistol members were all given their own parking spaces, and nobody from their respective acts had ever been given parking spaces, even after all their success."

Eh? I'm amazed - it just goes to show you that no one is immune from the office car park heirarchy. Imagine that - the anarchy of car parking spaces, how life changing was it then? I always thought punk was a con.

Everything changes, everything stays the same.

regardez youse

henri

I thought it was a catalyst.

Is Paddy a Caffalist?

#14 the casualty would be safer taking up his bed and walking if my first aid course had been in gaelic.

#25 so right, Al. One of Scotland's finest, but sadly not a GIO favourite.

MONDAY

My Stunning Mystery Companion - Jackson Browne

Theme idea - Play his whole list one night for a Caffarsis

Enough to put me in my Caffin

Alice Cupar - Billion Dollar babies

A billion??? Fred Badyin pension fund dont even have a billion dollars

'Too Nice To Talk To' - The Beat

'Closest Thing To Heaven' - Kane Gang

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iY6bKOqicLc

The wonders of the blogotariat, GIO and technology. I've now purchased The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, a Fugees album, Tom Waits 'Closing Time' and went to check out the Drifters 'Such A Night' but found the Elvis version much better - on Spotify I also stumbled across Aaron Neville's version on 'Aaron Neville's Soulful Christmas' album - which is a revelation in itself. The first Xmas album I can claim to like! I also downloaded a few Turin Brakes tracks (Sea Change is epic) - all based, I think, on blog listings.Thank you.

I had a couple of goes at listening to Emma Pollock, but didn't really tune into it.

Well, it was happy couple of hours listening on an unremarkable Saturday night.

regardez youse

hneri

Gary Go - 'Wonderful'

Johnnie Walker is always worth a listen. Especially today.


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Hello again. Two more OTT tracks have just sprung to my mind:
'Just you wait Henry Higgins' (from the musical 'My Fair Lady')
and 'Baby turns blue' by Virgin Prunes. Not exactly songs of praise, but I believe they are (slightly) over the top.

:)

For someone who's been mountaineering the past 35 years I've still to find this utopia... Big Rock Candy Mountain ~ Burl Ives

B.T.W. Friday saw 3 plays & not a single name check L.O.L!
Somebody's either very touchy or in the huff. Maybe "they" only welcome gushy O.T.T. feedback?

... or the promise of points or an Easter egg!

#37 one of the best shows and one of the best presenters on radio.

Heard on a DAB 70s station yesterday Casey Kasem's american top 40 from 1973. Great show and great factoids about all the acts.

Well, that's Jocky Wilson away - famous for his contribution to Dexy's appearance on TOTP - which means that 'Jocky Wilson Says' can be added to the Megrahi playlist..

A family friend commented:

"whilst we appreciate that Mr Megrahi was a keen darts player and enthusiast, we are unable to confirm that Jocky visited him in Greenock prison along with the Justice Secretary for a quick game of darts, being the wish of a dying man, just before his release in 2009."

I don't think these comments about a dying man have any place in this blog.

hear hear

#43

100% agree, faither - this blog is not a forum for sarcastic comment.

i sincerely apologise.

regardez youse

henri

Does "Werewolves of London" fit this theme?

A House - I Am The Greatest

R.E.M. - Superman

Echo & The Bunnymen - King of Kings

Seconds for Kid Creole

#18 - What are you insinuating? You think I do not know what I want to hear?


Mishegas!


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Everything About You - Solomon Burke from the album 'Nothing's Impossible' - hopefully in the library - worth checking out, Burke on imperious form.

regardez youse

henri

I Can't Live Without You - Bad Company

I'd Rather Go Blind - Chicken Shack

Of course, nothing lays it on quite as thick as a gospel choir in full flow:

Andrae Crouch & The Disciples - Praise Him

I'm not being sarcastic here, I heard this on the Alexis Korner show back in about 78/79 and the power and passion in the choir really does move the spirit -I'm not religious at all,but it's totally uplifting - and much less harmfull than Prozac.

Andrae Crouch is one of the great producers of gospel music and is also famous for co-writing Michael Jackson's 'Man In The Mirror'.

regardez youse

henri

#50

If You Can't Live Without Me, Why Aren't You Dead Yet? - Mayday Parade


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#45 #51

Its prevalence probably means that I am not alone among your readership in having lost someone to prostate cancer and finding your alleged running gag becoming a little tiresome.

Prince - The Most Beautiful Girl In The World

Babyburd - You're Georgoeus

a think you're Great = peter nardini
you're the Top = ella fitzgerald OR sutton foster
love's Great adventure = ultravox
i could be So Good for you = dennis waterman
Marvellous = lightning seeds
Magic moments = perry como
Pleasant valley sunday = the monkees
Wonderful life = black
Wonderful world = sam cooke
Wonderful world = louis armstrong
Lovely day = bill withers
i'm sitting on top of the world = al jolson
you can do magic = america
just like paradise = david lee roth
you are the sunshine of my life = stevie wonder
wind beneath my wings = lee greenwood

Denis Waterman is not good for everyone!

I might as well suggest this, as it will come up, it is a great song, now overplayed and the subject of Van The Mans affection is not his partner, but hey ho:

Van Morrison - Have I Told You Lately

And of course:

"Don't you know you're life itself":

David Bowie - Wild Is The Wind

#53 FRANK ZAPPA lives on however, and new albums come out every year.

Lot's of hyperbole I'm sure you'll agree;

Everything is Great / Inner Circle
Saw Inner Circle at the Apollo, think late 70s, could have been supporting AWB and they were great......best known for the Bad Boys 'Cops' theme but this is funk-tastic.

Here, There & Everywhere / Emmylou Harris
Just thought a wee change from the fab four, Emmylou certainly does it justice.

Last Dollar (Fly Away) / Tim McGraw
'I'm down to my last dollar'
Aye, right Tim

Al.

How about 'I love Paul' by Nina HAGEN?

Lyrics to I Love Paul :
I love Paul, let me be your baby doll
I love Paul, I want to be your baby doll

In front of your grace, I feel like Pigs in Space (oink-oink)
Turn me on and on and on
And on and on and on and on and on...
Life after life after life after life
The news so far, because you are a superstar
I'm lost in space because I always see your super face
I can see God's vibes coming out of your heavenly eyes
By day and by night, my fantasy, oh hold you tight
And then we'll explode like dynamite and I can see the Light
Liebster Paul, beep beep beep beep

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare
Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare

Wow! Paul, let me be your baby doll
Wow! Paul, I wanna be your baby doll

In front of your grace, I feel like Pigs in Space (oink-oink)
You turn me on and on and on
And on and on and on and on and on...
Life after life after life after life
Well I make the news it's so fun, because you are a superstar
I got lost in space because I always see your super face
I can see God's vibes coming out of your heavenly eyes
By day and by night, my fantasy, oh hold you tight
And then we'll explode like dynamite and I can see the Light
Liebster Paul, beep beep beep beep

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare
Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare

I loathe The Greatest Love of All. It's on my list of songs from which I derive no enjoyment whatsoever. Along with From a Distance.

While I'm here, that's not the first time we've had to hear The Way You Look Tonight being murdered by The Jaguars.

Dis Aberdonians get preferential treatment roon here?

We should be telt!