Good morning once again ................. may I request:



I WANT YOUR LOVE by TRANSVISION VAMP



Please!

Good Morning Each! Exceptional ARF to follow...

Good Morning all



POS - We await your exceptional offering, with bated breath, hopefully blog problems not prevailing!



Can I suggest



KANSAS - CARRY ON MY WAYWARD SON.



which will complete my AOR fest for this work, having been to see Styx, Foreigner and Journey.



Cheers



A

Good Morning.



I purchased ELOs GREATEST hits (ok vol 2!) album on Wednesday.



On it was a track called TWILIGHT!! Now, as they consider it to be one of their greatest hits, it cant just be me can it?



Therefore, Simon, NYM, the Drivetime team, and anyone else connected with choon choosing....



As an ARF opener and also a first for ELO please could we hear..



***Twilight *** by ELO?



Thank you.



MTF.xx

Good morning Simon, Team, NYM and fellow blogpoppets!



Not sure about the gold lame Simon, but each to his own.



To usher in the mighty ARF, please play'



WHAT IS LIFE - George Harrison



The nation will be singing along, a-tapping on their steering wheels and everyone will be smiling. You know it makes sense.



Alex-Girl

Please can we start the weekend with



Red Hot Chili Peppers - Can't Stop



Ta very much



From



Dougal from Needingworth, Cambs xx

Good Morning Again All



Please may I request



THE BEAT by The Look



because it is a megatasticrhythmicalmasterpiece and if we didn't have THE BEAT there'd be no music at all.



Thank you.

Morning Lord Ammo,

It's nice to think of you in full regalia, for a change - maybe you can insist on that sort of get-up for all the Drivetime team every Friday!?

Meantime, morning to all the bloggers rattling relentlessly towards the weekend (yipee!)

As regards the ARFO:

Gotta be

'Matchstalk men and matchstalk cats and dogs' in honour of your location?



Too tame for ARFO?

In that case, play the bostin' BOSTON:

HITCH A RIDE or MORE THAN A FEELING

Hope you get back to Ammo towers before the pleasures of Friday night have vaporated!

Mr e flew to Amsterdam FOR THE DAY today at 4am, will be back in time for the evening, Friday traffic out of London Heathrow allowing - but will no doubt be a bit pooped.

Have a lovely weekend y'all, hope the sun shines on your activities

Hi again everyone.



Simon, since you're dressed like Rick Wakeman, who used to be a Strawb.....



"LAY DOWN" by The Strawbs



.....would be good to hear at 5:05 please!



x

In an attempt to stop folk bating their breath (just HOW do you do that), here I go... Drum roll, please....





Simon, for todays ARF opener, and to link in with your 5Live show, would you please give consideration to playing....(keep that drum roll, erm, rolling)....



'Summer Nights' by Olivia Newton John and John Travolta.





Oh, no, hang on, I seem to have gone somewhat awry somewhere. Bear with...

Morning all



Let's hope there will be a photo or two of the gold lame outfit! Wonder what Dr K will be wearing?



ARFO from me today, and mainly because I love the dramatic opening:



CRY ME A RIVER - Michael Buble



Back later



Tortie x

#4 Ahhhhhh, dear peripatetic, not to say toothsome, Fairy! It wouldn't be Friday without your request for Twilight. Perhaps that is why Lord Ammo resists the temptation to play it? Would you continue to ask for it once it had been payed?

'Jeans On' by David Dundas.



Nope, that's not it, either!



Err....

Hi Harry, no once is all I ask.



I have a belter lined up once my mission is complete. Looks like Paul may have scooped the opening slot though !!



MTF.xx

Morning Lord Ammo of Man..Salford, team, NYM and patient bloggers,



When you said above that you couldn't get the accent working, I thought you meant you needed to adopt the local vernacular of Manch.. Salford, so I read the rest of the blog in a voice akin to Jack Duckworth. Perhaps we will have a Drivetime conducted entirely in Manc accents. Will all BBC peeps moving up there need to adopt this new style? Can't wait to hear Fiona Bruce reading the news.



And so to the ARFO:



SHE'S NOT THERE - Santana.



Bit of a slow burner, but develops into a right belter. Which can be said of a lot of songs. Or people. But never never Ottawan.



Good day all.

Just as a brief aside, do you know what? Up until now, I had completely forgotten that I'm a Womble.

Just in case we need to say lamé on a regular basis on the blog (!): press Alt Gr and the e at the same time for an é - don't know how to make it a grave accent, will have to ask my resident IT expert...when he gets back from Amsterdam, that is...

Genuine ARF request, then, to purge Ottowan, for which I am eternally shamed and sorry.



'Motorhead' by Motorhead, please. (Long version?)

#4 It seems they consider Twilight to be one of their greatest hits, but not one of their "best of" judging by that new compilation that's out at the moment :-)



Best film music ever for me is from "Last of the Mohicans". I just love that reel that builds and builds and the stirring nature of the music. I missed the voting for that otherwise I'd have got my vote in. Whenever the film'#s on I get sucked in to watch it just one more time.

#16 Did you see that the Wombles are playing Glastonbury this year? Genius. I am not sure if they are the "heritage" act. Perhaps this could lead to a nationwide tour, new album deal and the Christmas No.1.



Just to test Suzie's training:



Lamé



Hurrah - it works!

In celebration of the new proposed stadium for the mighty Bristol Rovers I would suggest our theme tune , a song that was being sung by gasheads in Bristol more than 50 years , that is 10 years before Liverpool fans picked up on "You will never walk alone"!



The song is "GOODNIGHT IRENE" by Leadbelly and the version by TOM WAITS will be more than satisfactory!



If a blues song about despair and suicide is not suitable for ARF , what about :-



"COMMON PEOPLE - PULP ,



to herald back that national treasure and 6music broadcaster Jarvis Cooker to a stage in the UK , namely at this weekends Isle of Wight festival

On second thoughts....maybe we need to honour today's DT Roadshow, by having a Manchester feem to the ARFO:



DON'T LOOK BACK IN ANGER - Oasis



BLUE MONDAY - New Order

I think POS is getting that Friday feeling a little earlier than most of us...

#18 Suzie, can you ask you IT expert where we might find a cedilla on the keyboard, too? I've been wanting to request the Born Ruffians' 'Little Garcon' but inaccessible diacritics it incomprehensible.

Morning All,



Suggestion for ARF



'C'mon Everbody' Eddie Cochran



Have a good day one and all

# 24 Harry, I will!

You may need to download a French dictionary onto your PC - but after that, not sure...will keep you posted.

Might be not until next week tho, IT expert will be up to 'nought after a day flying to Amsterdam and back - but will attempt a brief revival armed solely with chilled Prosecco!

Good Morning lamé attired Lord Ammo, team and Blogpoppets... can't wait to see the live stream of you in all your Rick Wakeman finest!



I've already said this on Twitter, but can I wish Zoe's twins a very happy 9th birthday! Hopefully KatyMateyCakeMistress will be along later with some baked loveliness.



Paul, I SO hope that your choices at #10 or #13 get played... Failing that, I've not suggested this one for a while so can I respectfully ask for:



SOMETHING ABOUT YOU by Level 42. Pretty please :o)



Or as a second choice:



YOU'RE THE VOICE by John Farnham



#8 Suzie, Mr B used to regularly go to Brussels with his job - usually he'd stay there all week but he did go for just a day a couple of times. Crazy!



#16 Remember-member-member...



Deebee ~X~

Talking about Arthur in gold lamé is such a passé cliché



(See what I did there?)

#24 #26 If you have Word installed on your PC, you can find it under 'insert' 'symbol', then cut and paste into here. thus:



Garçon



Ét voilà!



~X~

#29 I suddenly feel all European!

#29 Show off!! :-)



(Only joking!)

#29 Very clever, Deebee!



If anyone is looking for the cedilla in "Symbols", it can be found in Latin-1.

Come on pop pickers!



Only 21 songs choices so far?



MTF.xx

#29 & #30, I've said before, I wish I was French ............. now I can be :-)

Inspired by the Franglais Blog today:

AFRO:



'Ça plane pour moi' By PLASTIC BERTRAND, naturellement.

Let's hope that we don't have to use the word 'lame' very often, or anying else with an accent - I just tried the Alt Gr + e and all that happens is the 'my computer' folder pops up! Is it me?

arg

'ça plane pour moi' !!

Copying from Wikidoobery does not work on t' blog, by the way (trying to save myself time and copying effort...)

#23. Caffeine overload, I think. We are having a free cuppa day in the shop today, and I've partaken of a tad too much coffee.



Fave movie music? Anything from Ennoi Morricone's western themes, but particularly ...



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNGe7iK1O-4

#35 Did they ever resolve who actually sang 'Ça plane pour moi'?

ok at this point I will give up and go home to open the chilling Prosecco á seul...

ciao tutti!

morning all...hailstones here in the Shire!



ARFO...to follow

#39 never knew there was any controversy!

Do tell...or dit moi, si vous preferez?

Morning all from soggy Surrey



ARFO



Eye of the Tiger - Survivor



Thank you



Pen xx

ARFO



'ALL ALONG THE WATCHTOWER' JIMI HENDRIX



thank you PSL :-)

#42 I believe that Plastic (I'm on first name terms with Monsieur Bertrand!) was just the 'face' for the song. It was sung on the record by the composer. I may be mistaken.

Good morning Simon, Team, NYM and blogpoppets.



I do hope the 5Live show is going to be streamed live ;-)



Late ARFO entry from me



Genesis - Turn It on Again



I fear I may be too late, but pesky work (pesky colleagues grr!) are getting in the way of blogging.



POS, would appreciate some if that caffeine came my way. Will swap for sun or rain as required. We have both!



Will catch up on the chat later.



X

#45

Well that explains the terrible TOTP performance (mimed, as per usual in those days, but very badly!)

Wikiwotsit .............



"In 1977, Plastic Bertrand started his solo career as the credited artist of the international hit single Ça plane pour moi, though in fact the song had been sung and produced by its composer Lou Deprijck with the engineer Phil delire for RKM/Vogue at Studio Morgan in Brussels. Plastic Bertrand received only 0.5% of the song's royalties."

First song on the show



Breadfan by Budgie

#38. I'd like to point out that Ennio has done nothing to ennoi me.

#44 your choice would be a BLINDER if he played it...air guitar heaven; no budgies would be left asleep.

#49 C-L-P, trying to slip that one in unnoticed? Budgie smuggling?



Is Burke Shelley still alive? Last I heard he'd had major heart surgery

#34:

Harry-le-Vivaneau?

Rough translation

#49. Bloomin' excellent! Both your choice there, and my link at #38 have been covered by, well, I guess you will know who. They should have left each well alone, as the originals are superb, as Matt would say.

#53 Spot on, Suzie! I did use that as a sobriquet at the time of the royal wedding when I was pretending to be French. It was the closest I could find, too. As I'm a bit of a leftie, I think it was quite apt. :-)

#48 Harry. The composer was called THAT? No wonder they couldn't put the record out under his name!



Surprised it made it past the womblemods...

#45 You are quite correct Harry.



Update on the London weather - there are no longer cloud formations, just cloud. Very grey clouds. And lightning. And thunder. And I am not too happy being on the 24th floor!

#11 Tortie and #27 Deebee



Looks like Simon's tweeted a pic of himself on the train, having breakfast!!! :o))



https://farm6.static.flickr.com/5185/5817473549_03a7f7be05_z.jpg

First time poster, long time listener.



NRBQ - It's A Wild Weekend for the first song please!!!



It's probably the best song used on The Simpsons and most fitting for All Request Friday.

hello all



did anyone see my poems over the last few nights



i here the wombles are at glasto this year so my arf song is



remember your a womble-the wombles

#58 LOL - very good LuciesMum!

#60 I saw them Gazza, did you make those up yourself?

Afternoon all! Could we have "Don't Stop Me Now" by Queen for my youngest son's birthday. Ta.



ps U2 tune to follow



GB

U2 tune for the day. "Vertigo".



Enjoy your weekends everyone.



GB

#62 no i didnt make them up i heard them when i was younger some of the words might be differant on them trying 2 remember how thay went,there are some ruder ones which i heard on a judge dread album

#62 harry if you youtube judge dread you see some of his songs big six is a good one would post the vid but it has topless ladys in the background so might not get through on here

#66 Maybe not right now, Gazza. It might offend the customers!

Hope it isn't raining in Manchester Simon, it usually does!! Even the most famous Canadian made a joke about the Manchester in 1992 when he was peforming at Maine Road!



My ARF is:



LIVE IT UP - Mental As Anything ( From Croc Dundee film!)



Pretty pleasies



Good weekendies to u all folks!



Mandy

#67 he was very funny but might upset people with out a sense of humor



i think pos would like judge dread he seems he likes a laugh (he suports derby)lol

#58 I sense some judicious photo shop work there!



Ah, the City has returned - it was completely obscured by cloud and rain a few minutes ago.



Just to keep Andy the Nice Young Man busy, another ARF suggestion:



TWIST & SHOUT - Chaka Demus and Pliers



Just because.



3 word Friday: Busy Process Mapping

another choice 4 arf



big six-judge dread

Ah, there you are. You all disappeared for a bit.



Blog broken again?

Third time lucky - I thought I was going to have to send Peta an email, but here I am and here you all are!



Welcome to PennyForem and Footballistically! And any other newbies I may have missed. And Happy Birthday to Simonward1964's son.



#58 Tea on screen moment - where DID you get that picture?! LOL!!



~X~

a boy was standing on a ships deck

playing a game of cricket

the ball rolled up his trouser leg

and stumped his middle wicket







mary had a little lamb

she also had a bear

i never saw her little lamb

but often had her bare

Gazza you are heading for the norty step!!



MTF.xx



Opps another one liner!!

Afternoon funksters!



Can I be really contrived and predictable for ARF this week .....



FRIDAY I'M IN LOVE - THE CURE



..... because it is, and I am!



Ta muchy.



Deevs

x

#74 HappyHornet! :o))



Simon was simple and heading up north

Hungry, but happy to travel henceforth

Suddenly something assaulted his brain

Someone was selling some pies on the train!



Smelling aromas of pastry and meat

Pasties so tasty, strawberries so sweet

Pork pies, apples and blackberry fool

Simon stood staring, and started to drool.



Bending the vendor a bow from the waist

Simon requested a pastry to taste

Hoping the seller would treat him a pie

Crushed by the callousness of his reply!



"Charity, schmarity - Be on your way,

samples are ample to he who can pay!"

Good Afternoon All :)



#27 Thank you Deebee xx



Yes, 9 years ago today my twins decided they had done enough cooking, and made a shock appearance 10 weeks early!!



For the ARFO I would like to request the song that became No 1 the week they were born...



A LITTLE LESS CONVERSATION - ELVIS PRESLEY v JXL



Now, did someone say cake? :D

Good afternoon each.Up north it is drought spiteingly wet, wet, wet! The opener for tonight should be NERVOUS WRECK by the RADIO STARS. Why? Well, just listen and smile at some of THE most endearingly daft backing vocals ever wrapped up in a fantastic 3 minuite pop ditty (E-lec-tro enceph-al-a-graph indeed!) I guarantee it will set you up for the weekend.

#77 LOL! Was that directed to our pasty-loving leader who is also heading North on a train?



Meetings now till end of the day so I will make my farewells. Withing you a lovely evening, good luck with the ARF and hope you all have puddle-wonderful weekends.



A-G

x

Greetings...............



My ARF............Carole King "It's Too Late"



For someone that was once very special to me

Enjoy your weekend.... :-)

Apologoes - work has kept me away from blogging once again. Not good enough, on a Friday afternoon...



#77 Love the poem, LuciesMum. Maybe Lord Ammo will read it out on the show...



Welcome Driza! We've got one of them there machines here at my place of work...



I've been having a sneaky look at the video stream of the 5Live show, and I'm very disappointed that there's not a scrap of lamé to be seen. More Men in Black than Rick Wakeman.



~X~

#82 Deebee... it's not mine... I just modified it a wee bit for a laugh!!!



Should have included croissants in the poem, methinks!!! :o))



https://farm6.static.flickr.com/5185/5817473549_03a7f7be05_z.jpg

#76 Deevs...........hold on tight to it..!



it is after all " the sweetest feeling"...



:-) BLTD

ARFO suggestion:



FOO FIGHTERS - Learn to fly / Breakout



Pppplllleeaassseee!!!

#77 nice poem lucies mum im trying 2 remember some more



mtf its your fault you wonted me back here i dissapear again if you wont

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Simple Simon went a-fishing for to catch a whale

All the water he had got was in his mother's pail

Simple Simon went to look if plums grew on a thistle

He pricked his fingers very much which made poor Simon whistle

He went for water in a sieve but soon it all fell through

And now poor Simple Simon bids you all 'Adieu'

ARF , request please ..



The theme music from ...Once Upon a time in America.....



Robert De Nero,ganster film ,fantastic music.



Thanl you ..Bids.xxx.

good poem luciesmum



humpty dumpty sat on the wall

humpty dumpty had a great fall

scrabbled egg anyone

Packing up time for me. I hope you all have a great weekend.



Best of luck with the ARFO; fingers crossed it's a blogger's choice!

if looks can kill thay probley will

well done alex-girl on the arfo

Alex Girl... IT'S YOU!!!! :o))



xx

"Alex-Girl it's you!!!"

Just shows that being persistent, pays off... eventually!



I'm handing over the ARF crown to you Alex-Girl... wear it with pride!



★.★.★.★.★.★

!/\/\/\ARFO/\/\/\!

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

.......◒ . ◒.......

.......╰--╯



x

simon says alex girls been waiting weeks 4 her song, mtf has been waiting years lol

#97 HH, why don't we all ask Simon for MTF's song next week then? :o))

who didnt like my poem someone must have complained it is funny some people dont have a sence of humour

i wont come back if i cant have a laugh

Well that was bizarre - I just posted a comment, pressed F5 and it appeared on last Friday's blog...



Anyway, what I meant to say on THIS blog was: Whoop whoop for Alex Girl!! The new ARFO queen!!!



#LuciesMum, that's been tried before. Simon doesn't give in to that kind of pressure.



~X~