Simon,



" History Repeating " by The Propellerheads or



"You're History " by Shakespeare's Sister, please.



Tickety, loving the show...

Hi Simon,



Given that the show opener has been chosen by DeeBee (good choice!), can you pls play "HISTORY REPEATING" by THE PROPELLORHEADS / SHIRLEY BASSEY?



Oh, and as a handover to Mike harding, how about anything by EDWARD II? Historical and folksy? Alternatively how about MATTY GROVES by FAIRPORT CONVENTION?



Cheers,



Kev

#1 nice choices Tickety!

BATLLE OF EVERMORE by LED ZEP pls!

"yester-me, yester-you, yester-day" Stevie Wonder.....to keep the soul flag flying :-)

TOWERS OF LONDON please Simon, by XTC



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If we are having Kings and Queens then it has to be:



"KILLER QUEEN" by QUEEN



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Rev's promotion in full swing then.....

And if Mick doesn't turn up again and you do get the Doddpoppet back on maybe you could play the whole of RICK WAKEMAN'S THE 6 WIVES OF HENRY VIII in the background?

Should last at least half of the interview.



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Hello Blesspopsters and Simon & team- very brief visit today ...



WATERLOO - ABBA







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Sam Cooke "wonderful world" ...don't know much about history..

#12 Poor old Sam, didn't know much about Biology either.



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#12 obviously it should have been #11 now its #13?



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ok - one more before I go ...



NEW YEARS DAY - U2



Q. Can we avoid political/protest songs when choosing 'history' tracks?

Discuss.

or a science book either...

Dear Simon - I'm with Kev - BATTLE OF EVERMORE by Led Zep please because it is such a spednid tune.......



and may thanks to blogpoppets for congrats...still a Rev....Saitnhood awaits I pray in the long distant furture!!!!

#15 was about #12 that should have been #11...ach, I'm off

Dudes!



What about:-



History - Mai Tai

Love Is A Battlefield - Pat Benatar



but love the suggestion of Civil War by Guns & Roses. There's just not enough GnR on R2 for my liking!



Deevs



x

Has anybody suggest "Holding back the years" given Mick 'MIGHT' be on?



Sympathy For The Devil - The Rolling Stones



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#16 - Saitnhood? Sounds a bit suspect Rev!

#12 #17 ....or the French he took... a pretty generic song S could play it every night ;-)

#20 Monday moaning Kev......

going for a drive to Cerne Abbas tonight (something to do, innit!) so pls Simno no surprises like last night's reading out of my Doddy joke - I don;t want to almost crash AGAIN!



Cheers,



Kev

#22 What's the ecclesiastical version of a Freudian slip Rev?

#11, #12, #13, #17 I know it's not a barn stormer of an opening and recently there has been a tendency towards Soft Metal but it would make sense after this week's topic that the opening song on ARF should be Sam Cooke's Wonderful World.



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anti war songs..

"what's going on" Marvin Gaye

"war" Edwin Starr

#24: see Life of Brian for details.



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# 24 Dunno....pass....now then...let's see ..funeral prep (done)..assembly talk? Awaiting attention...prep for 3 meetings...on hold....think I had better slink off and do some work....

See you guys later...now be good everybody!

Morning Each! Delicious blogginess by all since I last poked my nose around the corner.

Now then, poor history jokes that were delayed by Simon stopping history until tomorrow yesterday til today. (Punctuate as you see fit, and see if you can make sense out of it).



History? Pfft, there's just no future in it! (bum-tish)



History? Pfft, it's just one thing after another!



I thang yow!

#29 - have a good day Rev.



#30 - Morning Paul. Thanks (I think!) for the jokes!

Hows about "In The Year 2525" by Zager and Evans?

Or have I just confused myself?

Morning Simon,



Doddy was good!

Song choice - The Clash - English Civil War.



Thanks.



Nic

Seriously, some people wont thank me for requesting this, but there is a song that references a good many historical events from the 1940's up to about 1990. Yes, you know what's coming, and seeing as someone is bound to suggest it, then it may as well be me.



"We didn't Start The Fire" by Billy Joel, please Simon.

#34 CDF already requested it via Twitter Paul...

#34, sorry,tickster and deebs, just spotted that you've tweeted that one. So, I'm perfectly happy for you to take full responsibility then. (Prepare ye for the wrath of Spike)

#36 Oops, t'wasn't you was it Tricky. My humblest apologies. Can I make up for my gaffe by sending you a lovely photo I have in my possession? (Of Psycho Pearce kissing the Ram on his Derby shirt, having just scored for Derby against Rangers)

Morning All. Looks like the blog's steamin' today!



#2 Did you mean "We didn't start the fire" by Billy Joel, Kev?



An alternative suggestion is "American Pie" - either the Don Maclean or the Madge version will do.



Laters... (work to do)



Deebee X

#38 - I was referring to Simon's tweet to you, Deebee, where he said that "A lon long time ago" would be a good opener...so i assumed it was your request for American Pie which will start the show.



I think I may be confusing myself now!

#37 - Nah, you're all right Paul, I'll pass on that one....;-)

#38 Look at the lovely Deebee all sweet and innocent as if she didn't already have confirmation from SImon Mayo. Tell you what Deebee, if he doesn't give you a Mensh we will all walk out in protest!



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Right - talk later. Gotta get some work done!

Hello Simon and all,



Great to hear Ken Dodd on the radio, a lovely man who is passionate about what he does.



Simon, please, pretty please play JOAN OF ARC or MAID OF ORLEANS (THE WALTZ OF JOAN OF ARC) by ORCHESTRAL MANOEUVRES IN THE DARK.



Mcw x

#43 you forgot the cherry on top ;)



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Righto, here is my choice, for what it's worth...

"Endless Art" by A House.

Pretty perfect I think.

I third the call for Battle of Evermore.



Or for an equally quirky battle, how about "The Battle of Epping Forest" :-)

Morning all



I'll go with #1 - Shakespeare's Sister "You're History", mainly 'cos I'm a cat of very little brain today and can't think of something for myself!



Doddy was great yesterday, but I was surprised how old he sounded at first, and then I just forgot about that and enjoyed his interview. In a previous life I knew some people who had been Diddymen!



Tortie x

#44 and I forgot to say that I'll be your best friend, Simon!

#49?

What about a bit of Adam & The Ants .....



Stand And Deliver



or



Kings of The Wild Frontier



praps?



Deevs

x





(please please NOT Ra Ra Rasputin by Boney M)

#50 JKen just played Daddy Cool so I think we're safe!

#23 Nice village, was here 2 weeks ago. And do go to Sherborne if you haven't already been - beautiful town and splednid Abbey.



What's a slide ruler for?

#34 I never did like history.....

....however, apart from its slightly self-centred nature, Dimbleby's Seven Ages of Britain is an enlightening series for historophobes.

Good morning Cornish Darren Fewins and all bloggers. I was going to suggest Killer Queen but you beat me to it CDF! ;o)



How about an oldie by the much missed Gene Pitney - PRINCESS IN RAGS



Thanks Simon

#52 - don;t tell me you and Mrs. Spike went up to lie on the giant!



Do tell, what's a slide rule for?

#56/52 ask Sam, or maybe not. I get mine out every 10 years or so and wonder how on earth I actually used it for GCE Maths!



Didn't want to embarrass the giant, so stayed in car park. ;-0

#57 I thought the slide rule question was going to be a joke Spike!

#58 I leave those to the Bish ;-)

Oh Oh - Tweet from Simon - "...and I do believe we will start with a history lesson from Boney M" - Deevs, what have you done?!? ;-)

Deeevallahhhhhhhhhhh (robot dance), you're well in trubs if that gets played!

A history lesson from Boney M?(Incredulous tone)

I thought that we were supposed to learn from history, in order not to make the same mistakes again. Surely, Boney M are history, and the lesson to be learned, and therefore not to be repeated , concerned the playing of their music. ;0)

#62 - Actually Paul, they are still playing. Well, one of them anyway. They go down a storm in germany and the rest of the continent...

#50 Surely PRINCE CHARMING would be more appropriate? I remeber Diana Dors doing her 'X-Factor' dance.



That said,



LOVE & PRIDE by KING

1999 by PRINCE

or

THE PRINCE by MADNESS



(this is getting a bit too Royal)



Think I will stick with SWORDS OF A THOUSAND MEN by TENPOLE TUDOR.

(its a 3 minute lock in)







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Quick, whilst Simon is in the Gym, someone nip into the studio, and snaffle anything vaguely bone related you can find. There's still time, we can do this, people.

#63, yes, and so did... we'll leave that there

#39 OMGOMGOMG!!!!!



*thud*

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!



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#66 Deebee.....Deebee? (administers smelling salts)....Deebee? (slap)...Wake UP!

I can just see Simon doing the Cossack Dance in the Gym right now. Arms folded everybody!





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#41 #66 Okay recovered a bit now. Explanation: I tweeted this am before leaving for work. Slipped onto blog briefly to post #38 but tweeting at work (except at lunchtime) is a definite no-no if I want to keep my job. So I really was acting in innocence..



Am now grinning like a loon!



Deebee X

wake up Number 9....

Gotta go again, and rot some childrens teeth, and blacken some Yorkshire lungs.(You have to abandon your morals, if you're a newsagent)

I will be listening out, hoping that some of us get a mensh, and still holding out a little hope for "ENDLESS ART" by A HOUSE. I don't see anything finer.

#70 - that explains it! Sounds like you may have been usurped by Boney M! How does that make you feel? My, I sound like a psychotherapist!

#73 Kev, I got a tweet - I don't care if he plays the *bleep bleep* song or not!

Simon, how could you?? Standards falling and all that!



Sorry, but I won't be tuning in until 5.10. Thanks for the warning folks!

#73, no, you sound like you need a psychotherapist. You can find me on twitter.



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#62 Having lived in Germany for a couple of years in the 70s, and seen their general light entertainment programmes (this was before BFBS had a TV channel) I don't think "going down a storm in Germany" to is necessarily a positive indicator :-).

It may not be Rasputin, it could be that other horror, Rivers of Babylon!

#78 Tra-la-la-la-la





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Blimey we've opened Pandora's Box with Boney M - all I can say is that it can;t be one of us that requested it!

It could even be Mary's Boy Child!

What the heckydeeheck is a 'sugar in a plum' anyway?



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They'll be requesting Milli Vanilli next.



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Well I guess on the basis that history has already happened you could play anything! Still, if it's Rasputin, carp choice IMHO!



Nic

#84 - ended on a fishy note there, Nic....

#84 carp? Nic, you are the meanest cat in old Chicago town!!!



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That Nic, he's crazy like a fool.....

CDF- don't go putting any more daft ideas into Simon's head!!

By the Rivers of Drivetime,

There we sat down,

Ye-eah we wept,

When he played Boney M!

Carp lyrics, I know, but the sentiment is there!

#90. agreed



why do insist on only keeping mad chickens by the way ?

You might have to shout the lyrics, as I;m a bit hard of herring. Not too loud though or else I'll get a haddock...

Got the iPod on shuffle - 7 O'Clock by The Quireboys, haven't heard it for years - a fitting handover song to Bob tomorrow?

#90 "sentiment" I meant.....

#94 that's what you said!

don't want to run the risk of calling someone's lyrical efforts carp ...

Right, off to a meeting - speak later, probably after the show. Cheers!

#91 Tickety, I've only got 3 chickens left, at this rate I may have to change my name!!

off myself; to see if the car passed the MOT..fingers crossed





bye all...



If it is Boney M, you'll probably hear me from where you are..and no, I won't be singing along.

For cod's sake, stop all the fishy stuff ;O)



Nic