Morning Simon, team, NYM and well-prepared bloggers



I could also update you on French reflexive verbs, Death of a Salesman, and the human eye!



Easy first one...



GO WEST - Pet Shop Boys

Morning Simon and everyone!



GO WEST ~ Pet Shop Boys



x

Good Morning Simon, Team and Blogpoppets



How about:



GO WEST by the Pet Shop Boys



WEST END GIRLS, also by the Pet Shop Boys



WILD WEST HERO by ELO



Deebee ~X~

I think that's all!

SNAP! John B Good... same song... same time! :o)

Or



CALIFORNIA DREAMIN' by the Mamas and Papas



ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST by Dire Straits



That's enough from me - give others a chance...



~X~

Good Morning again



THE GAP - Thompson Twins

Morning all



Have I missed a few days? Is it really Thursday, Simon, and if so, what is Nige cooking? : )



Off to search for thinking cap ....



Tortie x

Could we have the great Nanci and



ACROSS THE GREAT DIVIDE - Nanci Griffith



PLEASE??

#8 Haha, Tortie! Well spotted. It's clearly NOT as late as Simon thinks...



;o)

'go west' Village people

AMERICA - Razorlight



BREAKFAST in AMERICA - Supertramp (if the West is History, that means it's toast for breakfast in America, ha ha ha)



LIVING IN AMERICA - James Brown

ERNIE - Benny Hill



He drove the fastest milk cart in the west you know. Not the east, or the north....



EXCERPT FROM A TEENAGE OPERA - Keith West

Got one!



AMERICA from West Side Story (Bernstein & Sondheim)

Morning All,



WEST END BLUES - Louis Armstrong



GOIN' OUT WEST - Tom Waits



GOING BACK WEST - Boney M



WEST OF THEFIELDS - R.E.M.



LILY OF THE WEST - Joan Baez (or Dylan of course, but as usual I prefer anybody else's version)

'California girls' The Beach Boys

Morning all, DT team, bloggers and Lord Ammo,

There is an Annie Lennox song called INTO THE WEST - will that do?



I am personally glad that I slept through Tuesday and Wednesday, as Thursdays are the new Friday, non?

Have a nice day y'all

LETTER FROM AMERICA - The (Mighty) Proclaimers

ROUTE 66 - CHUCK BERRY or THE ROLLING STONES

HORSE WITH NO NAME - America ( A little tenuous, but I always associate this one with the Wild West)



WILD WEST HERO - ELO



WILD WEST END - Mark Knopfler



ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT - Elton John



HERE AT THE WESTERN WORLD - Steely Dan



WESTERN UNION - Elvis Presley

SAN FRANCISCO (wear some flowers in your hair) ~ Scott McKenzie



LAS VEGAS ~ Tony Christie





.... a bit obscure, but they're in a westerly direction! ;o)



xx

Let us be lovers, we'll marry our fortunes together

I've got some real estate here in my bag............



AMERICA - Simon and Garfunkel



"Pass me a cigarette, I think there's one in my raincoat."

"We smoked the last one an hour ago."

So I looked at the scenery, she read her magazine

And the moon rose over an open field...



(...sighs)

ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST - Ennio Morricone

IT'S THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT - R.E.M.





WE DIDN'T START THE FIRE - Billy Joel

'San Francisco' Scott McKenzie

VAGABOND OF THE WESTERN WORLD - Thin Lizzy



WESTERN PLAIN - Van Morrison

Morning All,



Sunset People - Donna Summer

Waterloo Sunset - The Kinks



Pop back laters maybes.



A.

'lets go to San Francisco' The Flowerpot Men

Only three jump to mind on this one ...



GHOST RIDERS IN THE SKY - Johnny Cash (or one of the many covers)

EAST MEETS WEST - Warlock/Doro

RUN TO THE HILLS - Iron Maiden (a song about the plight of the Native Americans) ;-)



"White man came across the sea

He brought us pain and misery

He killed our tribes, he killed our creed

He took our game for his own need

We fought him hard we fought him well

Out on the plains we gave him hell

But many came too much for Cree

Oh will we ever be set free?"

WILD WILD WEST SONG ~ Will Smith

Before we hit the rocky shores of the eastern seaboard of the United States, we pass the silken misty beaches of Ireland, from whence many made the further journey (I seem to have been inhabited by a bad poet!), so how about...



THOUSANDS ARE SAILING - The Pogues



THE BROAD MAJESTIC SHANNON - The Pogues



...or, to be honest, anything by The Pogues, whether related to the oldies theme or not! Let's have a Pogues song tonight Simon... they are a very good support for the revising teenager you know.

'do you know the wat to San Jose' Dionne Warwick

DON'T COME THE COWBOY WITH ME SONNY JIM - Kirsty McColl

Morning All,



Just the one from me:



LET THE RIVER RUN by CARLY SIMON



Busy day,



Madchick x

Morning all.



Sounds like its going to be a great show judging by the above suggestions.



Like you Madchick, busy busy.



Will poop back later. Thirsty Thursday already! :)



MTF.xx

TUMBLIN' TUMBLEWEEDS - Slim Whitman/Willie Nelson/Arlo Guthrie

Morning all



Belfast - Energy Orchard - it's on the west side of the Irish Sea

South Side of the Sky - Yes - it's only 90 degrees away from being West :-)

Hello and Hapy Tuesdays All Round.





Here are some I tweeted earlier:



KINGS OF THE WILD FRONTIER - ADAM AND THE ANTS



AMERICA - SIMON & GARFUNKEL



GO WEST - VILLAGE PEOPLE



LETTER FROM AMERICA - PROCLAIMERS



BREAKFAST IN AMERICA - SUPERTRAMP





:^)

I'm surprised nobody's suggested:



HOTEL CALIFORNIA by the Eagles



~X~

Simon, you say you have a weakness for historians.... I also have a weakness for one historian... Neil Oliver!! Perhaps you could invite him onto your programme one of these days! :o))

A WORLD OF OUR OWN - The Seekers



(Ok, not strictly about the West, but I think the idea is the same, that we have shut ourselves away from the rest of the world. And anyway, what could be more "positive and upbeat" than the Seekers??)

BORN UNDER A WANDERING STAR - LEE MARVIN



SOMEWHERE [from West Side Story] - P J PROBY



TAKE ME HOME COUNTRY ROADS - OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN

#38 KM, are you trying to be even more incognito than usual...? The blogging equivalent of wearing dark glasses and a hat pulled low down over your forehead?



;o)



Love the Supertramp suggestion, btw.



#40 LOL! I'm sure each of us have a list of people we'd like Lord Ammo to have on his show...



~X~

UNITED STATES OF WHATEVER - Liam Lynch

#43 Yes Deebeedeebs - changed it yesterday when I was mensh chasing. It worked!

:^)





WILD AS THE WESTERN WIND - REO SPEEDWAGON



GHOST RIDERS IN THE SKY - JOHNNY CASH

Did anyone see the Story of Ireland prog that started last night on BBBC2?

Great stuff, Vikings, Romans, scenery - it had it all, plus presentted by Fergal Keane - please can we have him on the show Simon? That man has some tales to tell from his Journalist days..

OVER THE RAINBOW - EVA CASSIDY



HIGHWAYMAN - THE HIGHWAYMEN



SHAPES OF THINGS TO COME - YARDBIRDS

WEST END GIRLS - PET SHOP BOYS

I wonder who is the furthest West blogger?



MTF.xx

Morning all

here we go,how about:



Adam And The Ants: The Human Beings



The human beings, oh

The human beings, oh



Blackfoot, Pawnee, Cheyenne, Crow

Apache, Arapaho

Good morning Simon, Team and fellow blogpoppets!



Apologoes for absence - I have a sick note. Have picked up some nasty bug and feel sorry for myself.



Toots - thank you for missing me!



Poppets were despatched safely. They were lovely as always. Elder Poppet is doing maths, sciences and art GCSE a year early and has biology mock exam today. She was very good about revising over the weekend so hope she does well. She got an A* for her maths mock - clever Poppet.



BF also despatched on Monday to her own home. BF's husband has gone to BF's parents. Hope they work it out - they are special people.



Can I second or third Wild West Hero - ELO please?



Laters



Alex-G

Good Morning Each!



Songs about WEST?



'S(c)illy Love' by 10CC (Westernmost part of ENGLAND)



'Lands End' by Siouxsie And The Banshees (Westernmost part of ENGLISH MAINLAND)

DON ARMANDO - I'M AN INDIAN TO



JOHNNY PRESTON - RUNNING BEAR

@BaxterandBertie Well pointed out about Ireland ...



How about combining the two with ...



THE IRISH ROVER - The Dubliners and The Pogues, a tale of a trip from Ireland to New York ...

We've done West before I think. So I wonder if we're heading towards another week of instrument-based suggestions. Mandolin Monday next week?

#52 - PoS - Paul, you subtly introduce the potential for pun-ishment...



DEVON IS A PLACE ON EARTH - Belinda Carlisle



ST IVES TOLD YOU LATELY THAT I LOVE YOU? - Van Morrison



HEY BUDE - The Beatles

#49. I think that might be you, MTF!

#40 LuciesMum - I am sure Neil Oliver has been on, and fairly recently.

Hi Alex, nice to see you back.



Been trying to work it out. It might be Biilie?



MTF.xx

#56. Now look what you've started:



Westeryou, westerme, westerday - Stevie Wonder

And finally ...



MAGIC AMERICA - BLUR



CALLING AMERICA - ELO



MISS AMERICA - DAVID BYRNE



IN GODS COUNTRY - U2



AMERICA - NEIL DIAMOND





AlexG - hope you get weller soon xx

We have a bugpoppet here - am trying to be compassionate Mum whilst steering well clear of her ...

It would have been Glen from Devon, but he was last heard of in Cheshire!!



MTF.xx

#54 - indeedy, Paul and I agree - though on the same subject "Thousands Are Sailing" is my favoured track though much less likely to be played!

B&B - way back up there ^^^



.. the lyrics you C&P'd from S & G's America - quite possibly my favourite moment from all my favourite songs of theirs. Altho Ken is currently playing 'The Only Living Boy in New York' which runs it close.

How about Wig Wam Bam by The Sweet?



Ambulancechaser

OK - if we're talking emigrants -



THE LEAVING OF LIVERPOOL - POGUES/DUBLINERS

TAVISTOCK! IN THE NAME OF LOVE - The Supremes



CHESTNUT-SUPER-MARE - Roger McGuinn

or 'Blame it on the Pony Express', 'Cotton Eye Joe, 'Don't Cry for me, Argentina'?

I WISH I WAS A WILD WEST HERO - ELO

#64 - WildBill (do you have a sister called FuriousKaty, or am I confusing you with someone else...?) - "America" is one of the most beautiful songs of all by anyone I think - so romantic, so lost in the loneliness, so much to go and find - in the world, in life, in love etc, so much to sit and look at through the window of a Greyhound bus travelling across America, so many little things about other people to look at and laugh about ("she said the man in the gaberdine suit was a spy")... it's just hauntingly beautiful I think. Because (and I fear an undergraduate thesis on this coming on...) it mixes the great big things in life with the little details, it mixes love and loneliness (these two are together, but each is running through their own set of thoughts alone), of escaping but being with someone you don;t want to escape from...shucks. It's about looking, but being so lost in someone you don't want to look at anything else in the world, and like a movie, at the end, it's just about walking off into the sunset of something new that you know nothing of (DESPITE the references to particular places...so America is unknown, but the details of America are known!). Blimey. I need to listen to this song now! There's a recording of Bowie doing an unusual but nice version on a Casio keyboard at the 9/11 memorial concert in New York - probably on YouTube (other keyboards are available etc). AND - it's such a beautiful tune - could be played, like an old folk song, by a three year old on a toy piano but is a hauntingly beautiful melody.



Ahhhh....



On another front:



EXMOOR, MORE, MORE - Andrea True Connection

#59



MTF - am looking at lines of longitude and latitude



You are 51.180581,-3.402627



Even the most eastern point of Anglesey is 53.310047,-4.041938 so I guess Billie is further west than you.





Just call me WildBill MapGeek



:^)

#70 B&B



Beautiful. Just beautiful.

And being a 'Kathy' - all the songs she figures in have an added resonance for me. Well - they did back then.

:^)

#70 - lordy - I just watched the Bowie video on YouTube...and read the comments notes beneath. Truly wonderful stuff. S&G in the car on the way home I think!

Q: when does West become East (ie Samoa?) before or after they paddled their way to the future?

In which case - 'BEEN AROUND THE WORLD' Lisa Stansfield will cover all bases me thinks...

Quick poop back before I go off for a swim.



Alex, sorry to hear you're poorly. Mo is not well either today. Hope all sick blogpoppets get better soon. XX



Re most Western blogpoppets - if we include occasional bloggers I think it should be Mistletoe and Wine, who is in New York!



~X~

#72 - WBH - absolutely! "Kathy" was an English girl I think, and... talk about a writer having a muse! He wrote the most beautiful songs about her. I can't remember when it came out, but Harry will (!), but he even name checks her in "The Late Great Johnny Ace" (it's about the death of John Lennon, so I'm guessing it's 1981), when he wrote "It was 1964... I was living in London, with the girl from the summer before." I wonder what she is doing now?



"Kathy, I'm lost" I said,

Though I knew she was sleeping.....



(I don't need to C&P these words - they are pasted up inside of my skull in the area marked "Aged 17 - Do Not Disturb"!!)

LOL. Thanks WildBill MapGeek.



I swear there are no ends to your talents.



MTF.xx

hi all



wild west hero-elo



go west-village people



go west-pet shop boys



west end girls-pet shop boys



america-from west side story

Good afternoon everyone. Been a busy morning for me. Just off to catch up.

#77 LOL at MTF



Oh - there are. There are.





;^)

#76 B&B, Hearts & Bones (IMHO PS's finest solo album) was released in 1983.



Should be a great show tonight if we get to hear only a few of the great suggestions above.

#77



... although, although ... chanelling a poker-playing gunslinger whilst calculating complex cartography [topography?] may require a soupçon of talent ...





I'm now flying all around the States courtesy of Google Earth 3D [other thingies also available ....] - thanks a bunch Toothsome Fairy - that's me pinned to the PC for the rest of the day ....

Afternoon Everyone and, of course, Simon the Dude, The Team and the NYM,



Have had the morning from hell. IT issues and no-one on 'Helpless Desk' available to take the call. Left a call back at 9.15, not a peep since! Anyhoo, went in the back door, contacted our dedicated IT chap who got someone on the case for me but it's been a matter of playing catch up since.



Sorry to hear of the poorly Blogpoppets - get well soon Lovely Ladies.



WBH - ha ha - love the name change - took a min for the penny to drop - was attributing it to HtS. Well done on the menshes last night. Fingets crossed you get some menshes today - would love to hear SM read out WildBillHicock on the blog!



Posting in tranches, as I've rambled on again.



:)



~ xx

#70 Thanks for the heads-up RE David Bowie's version of America - SUPERB - hopefully Simon can get the rights to play that tonight, as a change from S&G.

I've seem Mr Bowie and he has the most amazing stage presence, the first time I thought it was just as I was cold that the hairs on the back of my neck were standing up - but the second and third time? too much of a coincidence.

They (the hairs) had a damn good go at the same thing for George Michael though - but Mr Bowie wins the day.

This is what I like most about the blog - the sharing of like-minded people's musical discoveries.

The mensh chasing is subsidiary in my opinion (no offence, Lord Ammo - *tugs forelock reverentially*)

i posted this last night i thought you might like 2 know whats on



hi all have you seen whats on next month looked at the schedule and the 22nd of next month is highlighted,its called 2day and simon is on at 7am with jamie cullam no one is on there own shows its full of duets check the page out 2 find out what and whos on,go 2 the schedule box at the top of the page then when you see the calender click 4 next month,and you see wednesday 22 of june is highlighted,it tells you all the shows on that day



gazza x

#84 Suzie, I'm with you on this. Mensh chasing a poor second to the continuing musical adventure :-)

Deebs, hope you enjoyed your swim m' Lovely. I went running with a friend last night. Blimmin' soul destroying - she's much faster than me and despite putting in a lot of effort (I know I did as I had a face like a tomato) I still couldn't catch her :( Running club tonight tho' so I'll be back in my comfort zone.



MTF / MCW as the resident bird experts, can you tell me when the Blackbird family currently nesting in my hedge will be ready to leave their nest? I desperately need to get the hedge cut but don't want to harm the new arrivals or, indeed, Mum or Dad. The GBs' father once decapitated a baby blackbird whilst trimming the hedge -it was just awful - it still upsets me just to think about it.



Back to the grindstone.



Laters Sweet Pataters



~ xx

Toots, ours have been out of their nests for a couple of weeks now but like everything else, we may just be a bit ahead, so I would say any day now.



MTF.xx

Good afternoon,



Apologies for my absinthe yesterday. Friend in need following death of her father.



Haven't got long to play today but have just had a speed read of what's been happening today.



Wish all poorly poppets better.x

Loving the puns

Interesting to see how the subject "west" made so many think of the USA. Does that country epitomise the west? And on that subject how's about:



AMERICANO by Holly Johnson



#85 Hi Gazza, sounds like a fun day!



Have a good day.x

#82. LOL Katymaty.



I know what you mean though. This puter takes me to some far off and wonderful places at times.



Hoping to get to the heronry today, the youngsters are about to have their first flying lessons. I think a wide brimmed hat may be required!!



Will poop back later ;)



MTF.xx

#87 Toots, I'm not a bird expert, and it's your hedge, but it might be best to leave the trimming until the end of June (at least). Your blackbirds might decide to have a second brood. Some migratory birds might not even have started nesting yet. Enjoy the greenery and relax, there'll be plenty of time for tidying :-)

If there are any blogpoppets from Ireland who are West of a line through Lough Neagh, they are surely further West than anybody on mainland Britain.





Outer Hebrides might be further West again.

Howzabout...



LOVE IS LIKE OCCIDENT - Sweet

MTF and Harry - thank you. I'll leave it 'til I'm sure they've gone. MTF, enjoy the Heronry today - you'll look fab in your wide brimmed hat. Harry, that was just the advice I needed - any excuse to leave it for another day ;)



~ xx

Brains totally racked Mr M...but a light bulb moment has arrived:



FROM EAST TO WEST - Voyage

Excerpt from a Teenage Opera - Keith WEST ( Grocer Jack etc......)

FROM NEW YORK TO LA - Patsy Gallant ( In a Westerly direction!!!)

#94 Toots, good to hear that. Don't forget, as a habitat for a wide range of insects, a hedge will be a food source as well as a nesting site.

#84 - Suzie...you're so right. As a 12 year old I saw Dave on Top of the Pops, doing Starman, and I swear it set a beacon in the distance for me and changed my life. Well - as a 12 year old there wasn't much to change, but it began to unravel a world of music, art, literature and painting that I have explored ever since. And as a performer there is nobody - and I genuinely mean nobody - who compares I don't think. He has more charisma than Mr Charisma, at the annual Charisma Festival in Charisma, Illinois. I've mentioned this before on this blog, but in my (honest, I do have one) working life I have met and worked with a lot of famous people, and they all have different qualities (some good, some bad), but I finally met Bowie in about 1998, and he is the only person who - when he walked into the room - genuinely changed the make-up of the room and everyone in it. Stunning. I've seen him many times over the years, and he is the best, bar none. At the turn of the millennium The Guardian polled their readers to find the most influential artist of the C20th, and given that they could have voted for Picasso, Stravinsky, TS Eliot, Francis Bacon etc, it was Bowie who came streets ahead of the rest. And, finally, with the embarrassment of toadying aristocrats in rock music - Sir Mick, Sir Elton, Sir Bob, Sir Cliff etc, I am very proud that my mate Dave politely turned down the offer of a knighthood several years ago. Here's the clip on YouTube for those with time on their hands!....



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IS4ZW6f89QI

#96 - Oh no Harry, does that mean I should never cut my hedge for fear of decimating the birds' pantry?!? Could just be the news I've been awaiting ;)



~ xx

#98 Toots, as far as the birds are concerned, you can be TOO tidy!

Hi Simon,

WILD WILD WEST - Will Smith (using that sweet sample from Stevie Wonder)

Sonic Boom Boy - WESTWORLD

Thanks