Hello again everyone from much calmer Scotland... even the birds have come out of hiding now the wind has at last subsided!



How about LONG TALL WOMAN IN A BLACK DRESS ~ The Hollies



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Morning all,



Lets start with the obvious - LONG TALL SALLY - Little Richard

Good Morning again All



Suggest



EMPIRE STATE HUMAN - Human League

Morning again



I just knew if I commented on the old blog a new one would appear!



Heigh songs?



SHORT PEOPLE - Randy Newman



Back later



Tortie x

Morning All,



I have seen John Isner play and he makes poor Nadal look like a dwarf.



How about WALK TALL by VAL DOONICAN?



xx

'YOUR LOVE KEEPS LIFTING ME HIGHER' JACKIE WILSON

BIG BAD JOHN - Jimmy Dean



#4 - Tortie - That's funny!

.. and here's the missing 't' from #4!

Morning Simon, team, NYM and fellow bloggers



BIG BAD JOHN - Jimmy Dean



Not me, you understand.

WALK TALL - John Mellencamp



TALL COOL ONE - Robert Plant



TALL TREES IN GEORGIA - Eva Cassidy



TALL MAN - Dolly Parton



IDEAL HEIGHT Biffy Clyro

Good Morning Simon, team and blogsters



How about:



HIGH by the Lighthouse Family



HIGH by James Blunt



EMPIRE STATE HUMAN by the Human League



A THING CALLED LOVE by Johnny Cash



YOUR LOVE KEEPS LIFTING ME HIGHER by Jackie Wilson



*WAKE UP CALL by Maroon 5 (second line "Six foot tall, came without a warning..."



Deebee ~X~



*when I first heard this song, I thought the first line was "ten foot tall...." LOL!

BIG BAD JOHN by JIMMY DEAN



LONG LEGGED WOMAN DRESSED IN BLACK by MUNGO JERRY



LONG TALL GLASSES by LEO SAYER



BIG GIRLS DON'T CRY by FOUR SEASONS

ALONG CAME JONES - Ray Stevens/Coasters

TALLER THAN TREES - Johnny Cash



STATUESQUE - Sleeper



LONG TALL TEXAN - Lyle Lovett



BIG BOSS MAN - Tome Petty & The Heartbreakers (Or Elvis Presley)

'MR BIG STUFF' JEAN KNIGHT



https://youtu.be/8S46OE902tM

HARLEM GLOBETROTTERS THEME SONG (SWEET GEORGIA BROWN)



I don't think there were any members under about 6'4" !

The first one that came to me was The Hollies Long Tall Woman and I can't think of many height songs, so not sure if these qualify... I doubt it!





HIGH IN THE SKY ~ Amen Corner



HIGH TIME ~ Paul Jones



HI HI HI ~ Paul McCartney



BIG GIRLS DON'T CRY ~ Four Seasons

Morning All,



How's about



8 miles high - The Byrds



A.

? BIRD HOUSE IN YOUR SOUL - They might be Giants ?

#16 The tallest Globetrotter is Sun Ming Ming who is a neck-craning 7 foot 9 inches tall!

LONG, TALL TEXAN - Beach Boys



LONG TALL SALLY - The Beatles

THE GIRL FROM IPANEMA - Frank Sinatra



BEAUTIFUL CHILD - Fleetwood Mac



HIGHER LOVE - Steve Winwood

SIT DOWN - James

I'd already decided to have a Moody Blues day and so the one song that springs to mind for the theme is:



HIGHER AND HIGHER by THE MOODY BLUES



See you all once the mensh chasing has slowed down to a crawl

'hi hi hi' WINGS

Re #246 Alex Girl's message on the old blog about the irritating background music while Neil Diamond was talking to Chris, I also found it irritating and often find background music during radio interviews, irritating! Why is music played in the background while guests are being interviewed on Radio 2... or is it on all radio stations? You don't hear music on TV during interviews....

Greetings Simon, Drive eam and constructors. Excellent show yesterday. Thank you.





This is quite jolly:



HIGH TIME - PAUL JONES







:^)

LOFTY SKIES - T Rex

yesyesyes!





HIGH AND DRY - RADIOHEAD

#26 And there I was, thinking I was talking to myself!



Can I second Tortie's SHORT PEOPLE - Randy Newman please?

Hello all, a sunny fab morning here in Oxford - Michelle Obama is visiting us today, so curtsies being practised as we speak, or shall I just put my arm around her??!



RE the Blog - is it me, or is it strange that the time of the blog says 6.15am, yet it does not appear until after 10am...anywho, back to the songs for the TALL theme.

Being vertically challenged myself, it's not something I have ever thought about much however - howsabout



'ABOVE THE CLOUDS' PAUL WELLER, (aka The Modfather)

or even 'BIG BOY' BY SPARKS or

'HIGHER GROUND' STEVIE WONDER.

They're all thanks to the wonders of my ipod...the music filing cabinets in my brain being locked and I can't remember where I put the key..*sigh* but I was at a good party last night - prosecco and brownies, what more can one ask?

Have a nice day y'all

I didn't hear Chris's show this morning, why was Neil Diamond being interviewed?

Morning all



I read the original Bond books when I was about eleven I think so a long time ago. Wasn't the Bond of the original books light years away from the pre-Daniel Craig portrayal in the movies? I can't really think of an apt description, but I have an image closer to heavy drinking, low-end private-eye sort of character rather than the "sophisticated" character in the pre-Craig movies.

Good Morning All :)



I think that description of James Bond (30s, Dark hair, scar) is as he has always been described in the books. But I also tend to picture him as whoever the incumbent actor is, so Daniel Craig is Bond to me.



I'm all for a nice tall fella! My current TV crush is Alexander Skarsgard, and he is around 6ft 4, very nice!!



Struggling for oldies today, but how about...



BIG TIME - PETER GABRIEL

JOHN WAYNE IS BIG LEGGY - Haysi Fantayzee

Sorry, lack of manners.....



Good morning Simon, Team, NYM and fellow blogpoppets!



Tall people could be said to have their:



EYE IN THE SKY - Alan Parsons Project



A-G

I CAN SEE FOR MILES - The Who

We could bust some moves to :



TALL N HANDSOME - OUTRAGE

#32 Tortie-Cat... I've no idea why Neil Diamond was on Chris's show today but Chris did keep on saying every few minutes that there was to be a big surprise guest later in his show and Johnnie and the others knew who it was but seemingly Chris didn't! Neil seemed to be promoting his new album and an extra 02 gig so maybe because Chris has zillions of listeners Neil would get maximum coverage!

Hi, also pmlmao at "Short People" suggestion, very funny!

From one who is 5 foot 4 although a policeman described me as 5 foot 5 and the law knows best, here are my tall offerings!

1. That toon by the CROWN HEIGHTS AFFAIR

2.WUTHERING HEIGHTS - Kate Bush

3. Birdhouse in your soul - THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS

More later...got a tax return query to solve .....zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!

Morning folks. A bright day here on the estate. Hope all are well. This theme has me stumped a bit today... apart from good choices above already made. I'm six foot four, and about ten or twelve years ago I met the then tallest man in the world, who was an American, via a Guinness Book of Records "do". HE WAS MASSIVE!!!! His feet were bigger than me, and his hands were like dining tables. Big news today - Jeff Stelling is leaving Countdown! How will they choose a replacement? "One from the top...?"



So...



AIN'T NO MOUNTAIN HIGH ENOUGH - Diana Ross



ps - thought The Pierces were fantastic last night. Well done them!

#26: I stopped listening to R1 when the news started to be read out against a backdrop of inane music - they even had a tearful mother of a missing child talking whilst a banal MTV sound was on behind her...That was IT! I was off to R2 - now it's come here too! Eeeek.

It's for the MTV gerneration, which I am not, so don't need to have 2 things going on at the same time - give these interveiwees the respect they deserve R2 with some what I call 'dead air' behind them.

Rant over, back to polishing knees for Michelle Obama...

#39 Thanks LuciesMum



#34 Zoe, I liked Steven Moyer, but swayed much more towards Alexander Skarsgard during the last series!

Oh - meant to say, in the books James Bond is regularly described as looking like Hoagy Carmichael, and that was obviously Ian Fleming's intention. Here's a page of Hoagy pix - I reckon Daniel Craig is the most like Fleming's model, but for the wrong colour hair:



https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=%22hoagy+Carmichael%22&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&client=firefox-a&channel=np&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi&biw=1024&bih=639



Apart from Bond, what is Ian Fleming's other best-known work? And who was his sister-in-law?

#42 'generation' I meant, of course. Not that garbled approximation.

As I said - prosecco and brownies party last night is to blame...

One of my favourite pieces of cheese of all time...



REACH FOR THE STARS - S Club 7

#31

Suzie - yes, it does seem odd that 6.15am appears as the time on the blog - especially Neil

Diamond wasn't 'surprise surprise' interviewed until 8.30 or so.



I managed to listen to most of Chris this morning - I very nearly flipped to Moylesey because Chris kept banging on and on and on and on .. about getting a surprise on the show.

As far as I was concerned, they wheeled in Neil Diamond in the nick of time.



All good after that that, though - Chris is really rather adept at the no notes prepared beforehand, off-the-cuff type of gig.



Enjoyed it, despite the backgound music, AlexG.

'Eye In The Sky' - inspired!



:^)

Re the news story about the NZ man who was blown up like a balloon, the news story includes the following line:



"Mr McCormack confided that the air was gradually escaping his body in the way that air usually does."



Just genius.

Is it sacrilege to say that I really don't like anything about Neil Diamond except for the fact that he penned "I'm A Believer"? And Robert Wyatt's version was the best?

#47 KatyMac... I heard Chris say he'd been handed a crib-sheet (?) so perhaps he had a bit of help at the start of the interview, but as you said, he's adept at off-the-cuff stuff!

FROM THE CLOUDS - Jack Johnson

#44 ............. no one likes a smart arse so I'm not going to say :-)



#49 Not even "Beautiful Noise"?

LEAN LANKY DADDY - Little Ann



Good solid happy Northern Soul. Where's PSL?

A song sung BY a tall person:



LET THE HEARTACHES BEGIN - LONG JOHN BALDRY

'standing tall' Billie Jo Spears...yeeehaaaa!

This comment was removed because the moderators found it broke the house rules. Explain.

TALLER THAN YOU ARE - Madness





Off now. Laters.

Back for a coffee break and a catch up!



BTW, I'll explain later why I always let you know that I'm having my coffee break...



I've thunk of another one, which I don't think has been suggested (so apologoes if I missed it)



EIGHT MILES HIGH by the Byrds



Must admit I thought it was by Roxy Music - maybe they did the cover.



~X~

#44, I knew that Chitty Chitty Bang Bang was his other famous work, but I didn't know who his sister in law was until I looked it up (Since I looked it up, I won't answer)

'LET THE HEARTACHES BEGIN' LONG JOHN BALDRY



he was 6'7" hence the name I guess!

Having a Blue Nile morning again this morning, and some wise Youtuber has put together a lovely vide for their song Saturday Night, illustrating it with Edward Hopper paintings. Absolutely beautiful, if you're that way inclined:



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hUKwBeJe78&feature=autoplay&list=PL0A2A18EB6B86674F&index=20&playnext=2

#50

LuciesMum - judging by the pic that's been posted, I'm not surprised Chris was told a couple of times - very quick and loud! - just who was walking into the studio ....

;^)





#52

Harry - go on. Say. You know you want to.



:^)

Good morning Simon, Team, NYM and blogpoppets.



I watched the tennis yesterday. On the pc at work (shh).



Bit late to the party today



High Fidelity - Elvis Costello (or Fame if I wanted to go for the HOIB)

Big County - Big Country

Vertigo - U2

Long Tall Sally - Little Richard



Bit busy today but shall return later.



X

Re Neil Diamond on Chris' show this morning - I'll repeat what I tweeted to Simon earlier, which was that the circumstances of the interviews were entirely different. Chris had far longer to speak to Neil Diamond (if I remember rightly, Simon only had about 3 minutes!) plus Neil was a lot more relaxed because he wasn't psyching himself up for a gig. Simon is still, in my book, a far better interviewer.



And yes, the background music was rather annoying. Something our esteemed leader would never do...



~X~

OK, here goes....



Vertigo - U2

Living on the ceiling - Blancmange

Reach out I'll be there - The Four Tops

Big Bad Leroy Brown - ?

Top of the world - The Carpenters

Perfect 10 - Beautiful South

If Jeff Stelling is leaving Countdown I wonder if that means Sky have persuaded him to present the live matches on Sunday afternoon's?



Perhaps a carrot of appropriate size has been dangled.

I seem to have been moderated for repeating a Snapperism!

#54 I must refresh KM great song hope it gets a play :-)

#34 - Lady after my own. Aaah, Alexander Skarsgard is rather loverlee Zoe UU. First saw him in Generation Kill. I think it was the whole man in uniform thang and then True Blood, mean and broody as you like, um yes please!



A.

#66 - I saw somewhere that Jeff Stelling was fronting Sky's Champions League coverage next year and wanted to prioritise his time to concentrate on that. Either that or he is doing a series on mushrooms and other fungi, focusing on the Champignons League.

Urgh, another apostrophe fail from me.

#53 JBG back at you.....



'TEN MILES HIGH' DAVID AND THE GIANTS



https://youtu.be/NljxjXplSEs

#56 This blog clearly proves the interconnectedness of all things! Brief Encounter to James Bond with all popular culture in between.



Why do I feel embarrassed by knowing stuff? I had a friend (female but not a 'girlfriend', you'll all be delighted to hear) who went to work for the Open University. She told me she felt really at home because she could tell a joke in Latin and no one thought her pretentious. Perhaps I should trust you bloggers more.

#63 Mo and #65 Nadine - Vertigo is inspired. And hello Nadine, welcome back to the blog.

Morning,





I wish - Skee-lo



King of Spain - Tallest man on Earth



Some girls are bigger than others - The Smiths



High ideals - Elbow



Birdhouse in your soul - They might be giants



I can see for miles - The Who



My Body - Young the giant

#74 Thanks JBG - was going to suggest The Who but you pipped me to the post - d'oh!

#43 Tortie, I've been Team Eric ever since I clapped eyes on ASkars, even with the dodgy wig in series 1!! :D



#69 *Attempts an Obama/Cameron High Five!* I loves me a broody vampire! I haven't seen Generation Kill yet, but it's on my 'to watch' list :D



I watched a video of AS's recent GQ magazine shoot this morning, even though it came with a warning that it might make certain parts of a woman's anatomy explode! LOL I thought what the heck, I don't need them anymore!!



#44 I knew Ian Fleming also wrote 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang' but I didn't know who his sister-in-law was (until I googled that is!) I take it is wasn't a brief encounter? ;)

Indeed - "fides nos" Harry! For those still wondering, Ian Fleming's other well known work is indeed Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, and his brother, the travel writer Peter Fleming, was married to Celia Johnson. Their daughter (one of their daughters) Lucy Fleming, is married to Simon Williams, of Upstairs Downstairs fame, and was in loads of telly stuff in her day.

#78 B&B, I can't for the life of me see why you were modded @ #56! How on earth did it break any rules?

Morning all



Late to the party as still v busy.



Alex I know what you mean about the music bedded under the interview, does seem unnecessary.



Can I suggest, as all the good songs have been taken, a candidiate for the HOIB



WHISPERING GRASS - DON ESTELLE & WINDSOR DAVIES (Sing Up Lofty!)



Cheers



A

Simon thanks for the mention yesterday



Short people - randy newman

long tall sally - The Beatles

i can see for miles - The Who

Love on a mountain top - Robert Knight

#61 thanks for the Blue Nile recommendation; lovely Youtube vid. Everytime I come on the blog I hear of someone new...that used to be the job of teenagers - but now they have ipods and earplugs, I don't get to hear nuffin' new!

#79 - I think it might have been the word **** following "smart". But why I should have been and you not, who knows? If one was to say "smart backside" would that be okay?

#58 Roxy version of "Eight Miles High". Manifesto or Avalon period I think? Have it on vinyl somewhere.

#83 B&B, but Radio2 broadcasts to the world The Divine Comedy's "National Express" which is both blatant advertising and contains the wonderful line "When your arse is the size of a small country" so it can't possibly be that. :-)

#63, #65 and #74



Mo and Nadine, I agree with John, what a very clever song choice! I bet it gets played as Simon and the team like a suggestions where a bit of thought has gone into it.



x

1. HIGH IN THE SKY - Amen corner ( I think???? much too young!! "sniggers")

2. Anything by INXS

3. BIG Log - Robert Plant

4. HIGHER LOVE - Steve Winwood

Good Morning all (well if I type fast enough)



All this talk of Long Tall Sally, is making me feel very inadequate!



Thanks John for reply on last blog re light difference.



Been puzzling for ages while reading the blog, who Rented may be. I am hopeless at anagrams. I only sussed it, by working out who wasn't around and came up with the answer.



Maybe I should get some earlier nights!!



Lovely day here. Cant see much getting done though. Ah well, there is a nice long weekend to look forward to.



And post.....



MTF.xx

Good Morning Each! Just ba quick in 'n' out for a bit.



Hows about...



'Get Off My Cloud' by The Rolling Stones



'Whispering Grass' by Don Estelle & Windsor Davies (Sing, lofty, sing)



'High And Dry' by Radiohead



'Sold To The Highest Buddha' by Gong



'Someone Up There' by Joe Jackson



Laters...

#85 I don't think that 'they' expect us to listen to the words of songs..or even to know their true meaning...hence the R2 regular play of 'Golden Brown' by the Stranglers....

#74/86 our resident U2 man hasnt been around for a while so figured it was ok to suggest it ;-). Fingets crossed Simon and/or NYM think the same



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#84 Ken, the Roxy version was on the album Flesh and Blood.

#82 - cheers Suzie. It is lovely isn't it? Such atmospheric pictures and such atmospheric music combined.



#88 - sorry MTF! Yes - it is me, Gazmondo!



#85 - Harry, yes, indeed they do. And they keep inviting George Michael back as an interviewee, and he always swears in a much worse way! I love that Divine Comedy song - very drole.

#64 Deebee... I agree with you, Simon is a much better interviewer than Chris and Simon's voice is much better too... I think Simon's very relaxed way with people puts them more at ease than Chris does as he gets too hyper for my liking... even more so at an outside broadcast, when he's far too shouty.. a la Phillip Schofield!

hi



long tall sally-little richard



long tall woman in a black dress-hollies



little by little-dusty springfield



walk tall-val doonican



long tall glasses-leo sayer



smalltown boy-bronski beat



tiny dancer-elton john



birdhouse in your soul-they might be giants

Tada!!



MTF.xx

im gazmondo mtf x

#83 & 85, Rabit & harry - Remember that moderating is NOT consistent, because it is "reactive". So posts will only rarely get spotted and moderated unless somebody complains about the specific post.



Why any of the regulars here might complain about that word, I don't know, but of course it needn't have been one of the regulars.



#90 Suzie - I'm not sure about that. While it has been said that the words relate to heroin, there are no explicit words to that effect, and it can certainly be listened to as a song about a woman.



And they are certainly careful about *some* words - hence never playing the "proper" version of the Beautiful South song Don't Marry Her. (two different words have in fact been bowdlerised in the version that does get played).

Ooh ooh ooh



FIVE FOOT TWO, EYES OF BLUE - Shane Fenton and the Fentones (aka Alvin!)

100? Seems rude not to...