Slowing down
Great start to the day with Chris hearing firstly Bob Geldof and then Stan Ridgway's Camouflage. Interviewing Sir Bob is always fun as you're never quite sure which way it's going to go-we should get him on Drivetime asap. One afternoon at 5 Live he turned up without being booked. He didn't know why he was on and neither did I, so he just joined in every conversation going. It was, as I recall, terrific fun.
And that Camouflage tune is a great ghost song, always get's me (in the privacy of my vehicle) bellowing out the chorus. The kids were lucky they'd been dropped off.
Favourite musical accompaniment for blog writing at the moment are Sugarland's "Love On The Inside" (new Country breakout from Nashville) and a singer called Abigail Washburn who has an album called "City of Refuge". One of those head turning cd's that provoked a lot of 'what's that then' style comments when it was on the office. We are in Bob Harris Saturday/Sunday show territory here. Worth your attention I think...
Today we celebrate SLOWNESS in all its guises. After 6 guest Anthony Worrall Thompson's new book is all about slow cooking. Flavours, aromas, textures. Another long journey home for the hungry! But SLOW can be rewarding in life anyway (which is just as well if the traffic/your computer/kids in the bathroom wont let you do anything else) so let's do SLOW and SLOWNESS on the songs today.
Have a measured and rational Tuesday, see you after 5.
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At 09:37 25th Jan 2011, Kev Williams wrote:Morning all! Choices to follow;
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At 09:39 25th Jan 2011, Kev Williams wrote:First choice of mine today;
SLOTH - FAIRPORT CONVENTION
Cheers,
Kev
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At 09:39 25th Jan 2011, Billie on the Blog wrote:Good Morning again -
59TH.STREET BRIDGE SING (Feeling Groovy) - Harpers Bizarre
..........Slow down you move too fast....
SLOWHAND - Pointer Sisters
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At 09:40 25th Jan 2011, Kev Williams wrote:Then there's the obvious
SLOW - RUMER
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At 09:40 25th Jan 2011, Kev Williams wrote:And
SLOW HAND - POINTER SISTERS
Cheers,
Kev
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At 09:40 25th Jan 2011, Katy Mac wrote:Hello Simon and Team
A very brief visit to request
SLOW HAND - POINTER SISTERS
One of my Mum's favourite choons and I'm typing this from my Mum's PC
Thank you
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At 09:40 25th Jan 2011, Billie on the Blog wrote:WE HAVE ALL THE TIME IN THE WORLD - Louis Armstrong
TIME IS ON MY SIDE - Rolling Stones
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At 09:41 25th Jan 2011, Kev Williams wrote:I really should refresh before posting! Great minds, BTGBP!
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At 09:42 25th Jan 2011, Katy Mac wrote:9.40 - a great time to ask for Slow Hand - clearly a blog favourite!
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At 09:42 25th Jan 2011, John B Good wrote:Morning Simon, team, NYM, and super speedy blog chums,
TAKE IT EASY = THE EAGLES
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At 09:43 25th Jan 2011, Kev Williams wrote:How about;
THE CATERPILLAR - THE CURE
caterpillars are slow, ain't they? ;-)
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At 09:43 25th Jan 2011, Kev Williams wrote:How about
EASY (LIKE A SUNDAY MORNING) - COMMODORES
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At 09:44 25th Jan 2011, Kev Williams wrote:That's it from me. Will try to poop in later. Have a good one!
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At 09:45 25th Jan 2011, Billie on the Blog wrote:THE LONGEST TIME - Billy Joel
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At 09:46 25th Jan 2011, Billie on the Blog wrote:ALL DAY AND ALL OF THE NIGHT - Kinks
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At 09:46 25th Jan 2011, Posh Soul Lady wrote:'all night long' Lionel Richie
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At 09:46 25th Jan 2011, John B Good wrote:RELAX = FRANKIE GOES TO HOLLYWOOD (Does the BBC allow this yet??)
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At 09:47 25th Jan 2011, Posh Soul Lady wrote:'we have all the time in the world' Louis Armstrong
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At 09:48 25th Jan 2011, Billie on the Blog wrote:ALL OF MY LIFE - Diana Ross
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At 09:49 25th Jan 2011, Posh Soul Lady wrote:'give me time' Dusty Springfield
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At 09:50 25th Jan 2011, CrimboDeevs wrote:FIFTY NINTH STREET BRIDGE SONG (FEELIN' GROOVY) - SIMON & GARFUNKEL
Slow down, you move too fast ....
Deevs
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At 09:50 25th Jan 2011, Molly Coddle wrote:Morning Simon, team (inc NYM) and fellow blogsters,
Sorry that I haven't been around lately,I have been a bit poorly. Feeling a bit better today and hoping that the penicillin does its thing! Thank you for all the kind get well wishes, and I would like to extend some to any fellow chums that are feeling under the weather!
I do hope that Deebee and Alex and Mr Bee have a lovely evening, I am so cross that I cant make it!
Simon, just an observation, the confessions about royals and the Great Unwashed...The first one was funny, the second was mildly amusing but last nights was just silly!
Will go and see if this poor fuzzy head can think of a slow tune!
Mcw x
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At 09:51 25th Jan 2011, Kev Williams wrote:Ah, Abigail Washburn - first artist in alphabetical order on my generic mp3 player. Her album "Song Of The Travelling Daughter" is truly amazing - well worth a listen or three.
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At 09:51 25th Jan 2011, John B Good wrote:Give me just a little more time - Chairmen of the Board
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At 09:53 25th Jan 2011, nwbrfc wrote:As time passes - Paul Weller
By the way, a question for "Wozzer". We bought a slow cooker a year ago and the basis of "just chuck everything in and leave it to cook" - which suited our busy work lives. But we found that you need to brown food before putting it in (grrr!) and the gravy always comes out really thin and watery. So it now occupies a (large) space in our cupboard gathering dust. Can AWS adviswe on how to make the gravy thicker and do you really need to brown it beforehand? Thanks!!
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At 09:54 25th Jan 2011, Bear Texted Brian wrote:Morning everybody...
I'M ONLY SLEEPING - The Beatles
I STARTED SOMETHING I COULDN'T FINISH - The Smiths
HURRY UP HARRY - Sham 69.
Thanks to all who congratsed me on my first play yesterday! Here's hoping...
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At 09:54 25th Jan 2011, Billie on the Blog wrote:Simon - As it's Burns Night -
You could play something by JIMMY SHAND & HIS BAND - The Bluebell Polka? - instead of the Morris Music!
He comes from Auchtermuchty, did you know!
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At 09:57 25th Jan 2011, John B Good wrote:Tortoise and the Hare = Moody Blues
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At 09:58 25th Jan 2011, Posh Soul Lady wrote:'I'm still waiting' Diana Ross
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At 09:58 25th Jan 2011, AmericaMo wrote:LAYLA - ERIC "SLOW HAND" CLAPTON
Off to meetings. Will poop by when I can.
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At 10:00 25th Jan 2011, AmericaMo wrote:Have started to write down music & book recommendations as they appear so I don't forget x
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At 10:01 25th Jan 2011, Posh Soul Lady wrote:#24 hope that gets a play :-)
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At 10:01 25th Jan 2011, AmericaMo wrote:SLOW TRAIN COMING - BOB DYLAN
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At 10:02 25th Jan 2011, Alison from Eastleigh wrote:Lazy by David Byrne
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At 10:02 25th Jan 2011, Posh Soul Lady wrote:' I knew you were waiting' Aretha Franklin and George Michael
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At 10:03 25th Jan 2011, AmericaMo wrote:#32 LOL had to check you weren't referring to the Juimmy Shand suggestion PSL. I grew up with my Dad playing Jimmy Shand and the like all the time x
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At 10:04 25th Jan 2011, Molly Coddle wrote:TIME DRAGS BY by CLIFF RICHARD
FADE TO GREY by VISAGE
TIME IS ON MY SIDE by THE ROLLING STONES
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At 10:06 25th Jan 2011, Posh Soul Lady wrote:not one that'll be chosen but a top tune on the Northern Soul Scene...and if you have ever wondered what that was......
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UfQyxzbIzE
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At 10:09 25th Jan 2011, Molly Coddle wrote:ENJOY THE SILENCE by DEPECHE MODE
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At 10:12 25th Jan 2011, John B Good wrote:THESE THINGS TAKE TIME - THE SMITHS
TAKE YOUR TIME - BUDDY HOLLY
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At 10:12 25th Jan 2011, Molly Coddle wrote:#7 and #37 Sorry Billie didn't see that you had already suggested that one, so I'll swap it for
STAY by JACKSON BROWNE
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At 10:13 25th Jan 2011, John B Good wrote:Billie - isn't there a certain TT comeback song you want to suggest??
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At 10:13 25th Jan 2011, Billie on the Blog wrote:Good Suggestions Everyone.
I'm off now. Have Nicetimes.
Love
BP
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At 10:13 25th Jan 2011, Kev Williams wrote:#32 it didn;t when I chose it for the herbs and spices theme, PSL! :-)
Great tune though - I played it on my hospital radio show last Tuesday, in fact!
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At 10:14 25th Jan 2011, Simonward1964 wrote:Morning all and special mention to posh soul lady for #38! Great clip!
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At 10:15 25th Jan 2011, John B Good wrote:#32 and 44. That was a fun and silly day!
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At 10:16 25th Jan 2011, Posh Soul Lady wrote:'chariots of fire' Vangelis....visulize the slow running on the beach...
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At 10:17 25th Jan 2011, Billie on the Blog wrote:#42 - Go on then John -
PATIENCE - Take That!
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At 10:17 25th Jan 2011, Posh Soul Lady wrote:Donovan 'hey Gyp(dig the slowness)'
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At 10:18 25th Jan 2011, Molly Coddle wrote:Jambalaya (On The Bayou) by The Carpenters - as Jambalaya is good tempered food !
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At 10:18 25th Jan 2011, John B Good wrote:#48 Nicely done
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At 10:19 25th Jan 2011, Billie on the Blog wrote:I really am going now!
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At 10:20 25th Jan 2011, TwistyBass wrote:WALKING ON THE SPOT - CROWDED HOUSE
I WALK AWAY - CROWDED HOUSE
UNCHAINED MELODY - THE RIGHTEOUS BROS
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At 10:22 25th Jan 2011, Posh Soul Lady wrote:'make it easy on yourself' jackie Trent
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At 10:25 25th Jan 2011, Kev Williams wrote:So nothing by RUSH today, then?
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At 10:27 25th Jan 2011, Posh Soul Lady wrote:'hold back the night' The Trammps
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At 10:28 25th Jan 2011, Brandon wrote:Morning All,
'A Little Time' Beautiful South
Hope everybody has a good day
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At 10:30 25th Jan 2011, Brandon wrote:'Lazy Sunday' Small Faces
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At 10:30 25th Jan 2011, Posh Soul Lady wrote:#45 thanks Simon :-)
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At 10:31 25th Jan 2011, Molly Coddle wrote:Breakfast In Bed by UB40 (following on from #58!)
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At 10:32 25th Jan 2011, Suzieeeeeee the intermittent blogger wrote:Simon, if you like Abigail Washburn (like a female Nick Drake, non?) you will also like Gillian Welch - a discovery from the Bob Harris late night Saturday evening show (thank goodness for listen again, it cheers my Monday mornings at work).
Re Slow songs, working on that, all the best seem to have gone already, your other bloggers are more with it in the morning that me,
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At 10:32 25th Jan 2011, Posh Soul Lady wrote:#44 was it a request or one you picked?
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At 10:33 25th Jan 2011, Just Plain Alice wrote:Morning All,
Carrying on the TT theme:-
Lazy Days - Robbie Williams
Wait - Take That (from their latest album Progress which is GREAT!)
Ta ta for now
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At 10:34 25th Jan 2011, Brandon wrote:'A Slow Song' Joe Jackson
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At 10:36 25th Jan 2011, Kev Williams wrote:#62 a request, which was great!
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At 10:46 25th Jan 2011, Alex Heney wrote:Morning all,
Starting a little late today - lots of good suggestions already.
My first suggestion
VIENNSA - Billy Joel
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At 10:46 25th Jan 2011, Helen May wrote:Morning all!
Slow Down - Beatles
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At 10:47 25th Jan 2011, Toots wrote:Good Morning Everyone and, of course, Simon, The Team and The Nice Young Man,
I'd like to suggest "I Am Sailing" by Rod Stewart - the first slow dance I had at an under 18s disco with a very attractive boy in the year above. Sailing being a slower than most travel option and it being a choon of the "slowy" variety :)
I have a mini confession - it wasn't 'til much later in the day yesterday that I realised the Assistant Referee was female - despite SM mentioning her name is Sian - so a huge D'OH! from me. Perhaps I'm a bit of a sexist dinosaur myself as I didn't realise there were girl referees :( Anyhoo, I'm all for girl power and the next time I'll do a bit of background reading before I post.
I loved the Bob Geldof interview this morning too. It'd be great to hear him on the drivetime show SM - good luck with that booking.
Back to the grindstone - hope to poop by later :)
T~D x
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At 10:49 25th Jan 2011, Alex Heney wrote:DOORS CLOSING SLOWLY - Manic Street Preachers
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At 10:49 25th Jan 2011, deliasmiff wrote:Three 'slow' songs from me please Simon!
TAKE YOUR TIME - Buddy Holly
NICE AND SLOW - Usher
SLOW - Kylie Minogue
SylviaB x
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At 10:50 25th Jan 2011, Alex Heney wrote:#66 should have been VIENNA of course.
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At 10:50 25th Jan 2011, Posh Soul Lady wrote:'Memphis soul stew' Solomon Burke
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At 10:52 25th Jan 2011, deliasmiff wrote:TAKE YOUR TIME - The Hollies
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At 10:52 25th Jan 2011, Alex Heney wrote:SLOW DANCE - The Carpenters
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At 10:54 25th Jan 2011, Alex Heney wrote:SLOW DOWN - Tom Jones
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At 10:55 25th Jan 2011, Alex Heney wrote:SLOW MOTION - Blondie
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At 10:57 25th Jan 2011, Deebee wrote:Good Morning Simon, Team and Blogpoppets
Every day I tweet my song suggestions, as I can't get to the blog till about now. Some days I'm really pleased with myself - then I find 3 other people have the same idea! Just shows we're on similar wavelengths I guess.
Anyway, my twopennyworth for today has been:
FEELIN' GROOVY by Simon and Garfunkel
SLOW TRAIN by Bob Dylan
I won't hear the show today anyway, but I'll be around on and off till mid afternoon to join in the banter.
#22 Mcw - so sorry you can't come with us - we will miss you! Fingets crossed I get the tickets for that other date I've applied for.
Deebee X
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At 10:58 25th Jan 2011, Alex Heney wrote:MELLOW - Elton John
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At 11:00 25th Jan 2011, Posh Soul Lady wrote:'you can do magic' Limmie and the Family COOKING...
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At 11:00 25th Jan 2011, Deebee wrote:#78 That's given me an idea.
MELLOW YELLOW by Donovan
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At 11:01 25th Jan 2011, Alex Heney wrote:BLUE BAYOU - Roy Orbison
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At 11:03 25th Jan 2011, Julia43 wrote:Good morning (again)
My laptop took the blog title literally.
Wasn't going to suggest anything today until I reached Toots' talk about first slow dances at #68. Mine was:
LET'S WAIT A WHILE by Janet Jackson.
Deebee, Have a fab time tonight. Look forward to hearing all about it tomorrow.x
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At 11:05 25th Jan 2011, Alex Heney wrote:SLOWLY BUT SURELY - Elvis Presley
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At 11:07 25th Jan 2011, Julia43 wrote:Oh and I really enjoyed Camoflauge too. And what did Chris play before it? Under Your Thumb. Apologies I can't remember who but hasn't someone been asking for that on ARF?
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At 11:07 25th Jan 2011, Alex Heney wrote:TEQUILA SUNRISE - The Eagles
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At 11:08 25th Jan 2011, Toots wrote:#82 - That's a first - me giving inspiratino ;) (it's in the blogpoppets' dictionary).
T~D x
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At 11:09 25th Jan 2011, Julia43 wrote:Just one more:
BREAK MY STRIDE by Matthew Wilder.
For some reason hearing Camouflage made me think of this.
Going to dash now before someone notices my typo at #82!
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At 11:09 25th Jan 2011, Alex Heney wrote:CHELSEA MORNING - Joni Mitchell or Judy Collins
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At 11:10 25th Jan 2011, Julia43 wrote:#86 Where are my manners? Thank you Toots for the inspiratino!x
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At 11:12 25th Jan 2011, Alex Heney wrote:FOLLOW YOU FOLLOW ME - Genesis
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At 11:13 25th Jan 2011, Alex Heney wrote:FATHER AND SON - Cat Stevens
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At 11:16 25th Jan 2011, Alex Heney wrote:TWO SLEEPY PEOPLE - Carly Simon
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At 11:18 25th Jan 2011, Gill withagee wrote:Morning ! I have my PC back and aint i happy ! Only thing is its not 'saving' anything now - so more work may need doing soon.
Not read through yet but here are my suggestions...
SLOW by RUMER, and A LITTLE TIME by THE BEAUTIFUL SOUTH
Simon, hubs n i used to have out own little show on hospital radio. We subjected the paitients to 'CAMOUFLAGE' every week - that 'DECK OF CARDS' and 'WEREWOLVES OF LONDON'. Oh my its a wonder anyone recovered!
A cheary day to all xx
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At 11:18 25th Jan 2011, Ken wrote:Morning all
Keys and Gray doomed I think. Their own news channel was briefing against them last night with new material -I think that's an untenable position. Ben Shepherd apparently being groomed as the next Richard Keys?! THat's ?! as in chess notation :-)
Today's suggestions:
Slim Slow Slider - Van Morrison
I'm Gonna Crawl - the mighy Led Zeppelin
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At 11:19 25th Jan 2011, Toots wrote:#89 - No worries Julia - I hadn't even noticed, I was in shock at being inspiratino-al :) x
~ x
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At 11:33 25th Jan 2011, Irregular Blogger Andrew in Northumberland wrote:Morning kindly blog people
Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd
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At 11:37 25th Jan 2011, John B Good wrote:Did anyone auggest..
YOU CAN'T HURRY LOVE - THE SUPREMES or PHIL COLLINS
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At 11:38 25th Jan 2011, Irregular Blogger Andrew in Northumberland wrote:Sit Down - James
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At 11:39 25th Jan 2011, loveoneanother wrote:Does Mr (Worrall) Thompson mind jokes made about him? When Humphrey Lyttleton chaired I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue, he referred to a packet of Mr (Worrall) Thompson's own-brand sausages, upon which there was a picture of AWJ and the words "prick with a fork".
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At 11:41 25th Jan 2011, Julia43 wrote:#98 good call JBG. Unusually I prefer the cover to the original.
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