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becky sharp
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Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2012 1:10 pm Post subject: |
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I haven't heard a lot of radio today, too busy being out and about, but I do.love Groovin' With Mr Bloe that Tony played....(it was nice to hear Don't You Know by Butterscotch again, too, on his show ...
Good riposte to Tony about Sharapova's grunts from the traffic woman (?) just now... |
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ruddlescat
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Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2012 1:36 pm Post subject: |
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Both good tracks Becky from a good chart
I notice Tony admitted that he does make mistakes correcting himself on the fact the chart currently being played is from 22 years ago rather than 21 as he first said - but then he immediately blotted his copybook when announcing the track by the Charlatans as 'The Only One I Knew'
Not quite a Duran Duran moment but he really should know the correct title _________________ Are you ready for a Ruddles? |
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Lord Evan Elpuss
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Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2012 3:09 pm Post subject: |
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And a Tony Blackburn track was played on Sounds Of The 60s this morning. _________________ Lord Evan Elpuss, Your ideal job is a Lumberjack. |
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Lord Evan Elpuss
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Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2012 1:44 pm Post subject: |
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I've not heard any Radio 2 yet today, but I'm listening to yesterday's Pick Of The Pops and, for me, the track of yesterday might be 'Cottonfields' by The Beach Boys. One of their best, I think. _________________ Lord Evan Elpuss, Your ideal job is a Lumberjack. |
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Helen May
Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 19391 Location: Cheshire
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Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2012 1:53 pm Post subject: |
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So far it's Neil Diamond's 'Robert E Lee' on EP's 2nd hour which is devoted to all things American for 4th July.
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Helen May
Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 19391 Location: Cheshire
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Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2012 10:07 am Post subject: |
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Take These Chains From My Heart - Ray Charles played on this morning's Breakfast.
It took me right back to '63, when I was 11, and it was a hit. I really hated it at the time so just goes to show how tastes can change! I'd just started to listen to Radio Luxembourg and couldn't understand how anyone could buy that instead of the Beatles, Gerry and the Pacemakers et al!
H _________________ 88 - 91 FM this is Radio 2 from the BBC!
I said it live on air in the studio with Jeremy Vine on 10/3/2005 |
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ColinB Guest
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Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2012 10:11 am Post subject: |
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Helen May wrote: | Take These Chains From My Heart - Ray Charles played on this morning's Breakfast.
It took me right back to '63, when I was 11, and it was a hit. I really hated it at the time so just goes to show how tastes can change! I'd just started to listen to Radio Luxembourg and couldn't understand how anyone could buy that instead of the Beatles, Gerry and the Pacemakers et al! |
Wow, Helen. Like you, that lovely song (at least I came to love it - at the time it was "mums and dads music") evokes memories of mum listening to Two-way forces family favourites on the Light Programme while cooking Sunday dinner. Neither my brother and I were allowed to go out and play with the neighbours' kids because it was Sunday.............. no wonder I became a confirmed atheist at such an early age!
Another song that evokes similar memories in me is "Swinging on a Star" by................... who? (I've forgotten)
You're right, though. Who'd want to buy anything that wasn't by the Beatles, the Stones or any of the Mersey bands? |
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Helen May
Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 19391 Location: Cheshire
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Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2012 10:42 am Post subject: |
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It was Big Dee Irwin on Swinging On A Star Colin!
We must have had similar upbringings as well as I wasn't allowed to play out on a Sunday either! Family Favourites was always on in our house too, I can still hear Jean Metcalfe's (O/H of Cliff Michelmore) voice!
There was a definite split in adult and teen music then, which sort of merged in the following years as I know my Mum came to like the Beatles and a lot of their contemporaries.
H _________________ 88 - 91 FM this is Radio 2 from the BBC!
I said it live on air in the studio with Jeremy Vine on 10/3/2005 |
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Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2012 11:46 am Post subject: |
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Helen May wrote: | It was Big Dee Irwin on Swinging On A Star Colin! |
Yes!
Helen May wrote: | We must have had similar upbringings as well as I wasn't allowed to play out on a Sunday either! Family Favourites was always on in our house too, I can still hear Jean Metcalfe's (O/H of Cliff Michelmore) voice! |
Yes, I too remember Jean Metcalfe's voice coming through on the line all the way from Cologne! I remember an old engineer from the BBC who used to work on links at Broadcasting House, and he used to tell us what a job it was ensuring that the quality of the line remained of a high enough quality to carry the return feed. They even (gosh!) had a second line on standby in case the first went down for some reason. Wasn't the show's theme music "With a song in my heart....."? Or am I confusing it with something else?
Helen May wrote: | There was a definite split in adult and teen music then, which sort of merged in the following years as I know my Mum came to like the Beatles and a lot of their contemporaries. |
Very much so. Even then, there was something of a division between us young followers of the Beatles and our elder "teenagers" who preferred the music of the late 50s. My cousin Mike, who's now in his 60s, loved artists like Bobby Vee, Alma Cogan, Helen Shapiro, Guy Mitchell (I can remember looking through his record collection) and absolutely hated the Beatles invasion simply because they blew apart everything that he loved about the popular music scene in the late 50s and very early 60s. To this day, he really doesn't like the Beatles!
Ah, those happy and innocent days....
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Lord Evan Elpuss
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Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2012 12:03 pm Post subject: |
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Another one from this morning's breakfast show was Sweet's 'Fox On The Run', from their post 'Chinnichap' period. That has to be my 'track of the day' so far. Yes, I enjoyed hearing the Ray Charles track too and I thought exactly the same about it reminding me of Two-Way Family Favourites! Other's that remind me of that show are 'I Get the Sweetest Feeling' by Jackie Wilson & a favourite of my dear late mother's 'Rambling Rose' by Nat King Cole. I guess that my sister & I were fortunate in that we were allowed to play outside on a Sunday. I can't imagine what we'd have been like otherwise!
Wasn't the female featured on 'Swinging On A Star' Little Eva? _________________ Lord Evan Elpuss, Your ideal job is a Lumberjack. |
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ColinB Guest
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Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2012 12:16 pm Post subject: |
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Which reminds me -
Helen May wrote: | Take These Chains From My Heart - Ray Charles played on this morning's Breakfast. |
You were listening to Evans, Helen? I'm worried - is everything OK? |
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Lord Evan Elpuss
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Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2012 12:55 pm Post subject: |
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In my case, it was because Evans hasn't been on that I've been listening! Ryan Tubridy may not be perfect, but he's far more bearable than Evans.
Isn't it Ironic that it was because he had to work on Fridays when he didn't want to, that eventually got Evans the sack from Radio 1, yet he's supposed to have been on holiday these last two weeks but I still have to avoid Friday's One Show (with due apologies to the lovely Alex Jones) _________________ Lord Evan Elpuss, Your ideal job is a Lumberjack. |
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ColinB Guest
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Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2012 1:01 pm Post subject: |
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Lord Evan Elpuss wrote: | In my case, it was because Evans hasn't been on that I've been listening! Ryan Tubridy may not be perfect, but he's far more bearable than Evans. |
Ah, that's the reason!
Lord Evan Elpuss wrote: | Isn't it Ironic that it was because he had to work on Fridays when he didn't want to, that eventually got Evans the sack from Radio 1, yet he's supposed to have been on holiday these last two weeks but I still have to avoid Friday's One Show (with due apologies to the lovely Alex Jones) |
I'm out of the habit of watching The One Show on Fridays, too. In my opinion his presence on the show adds absolutely nothing at all, and I think Alex Jones must have the patience of a saint to put up with his inbuilt need to dominate everything that goes on during the show. |
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Helen May
Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 19391 Location: Cheshire
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Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2012 1:57 pm Post subject: |
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ColinB wrote: | Which reminds me -
Helen May wrote: | Take These Chains From My Heart - Ray Charles played on this morning's Breakfast. |
You were listening to Evans, Helen? I'm worried - is everything OK? |
No need to worry Colin, I wouldn't dream of listening otherwise! As LEE said Ryan Tubridy has been on instead. He's not fantastic but is listenable and has played a few decent tracks. It's been good to have Deadly back doing the news as well.
He said this morning that he's back in August so at least another week of Breakfast listening to look forward to!
H _________________ 88 - 91 FM this is Radio 2 from the BBC!
I said it live on air in the studio with Jeremy Vine on 10/3/2005 |
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ruddlescat
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Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2012 7:22 pm Post subject: |
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Lord Evan Elpuss wrote: | Another one from this morning's breakfast show was Sweet's 'Fox On The Run', from their post 'Chinnichap' period. That has to be my 'track of the day' so far. Yes, I enjoyed hearing the Ray Charles track too and I thought exactly the same about it reminding me of Two-Way Family Favourites! Other's that remind me of that show are 'I Get the Sweetest Feeling' by Jackie Wilson & a favourite of my dear late mother's 'Rambling Rose' by Nat King Cole. I guess that my sister & I were fortunate in that we were allowed to play outside on a Sunday. I can't imagine what we'd have been like otherwise!
Wasn't the female featured on 'Swinging On A Star' Little Eva? |
When I used to play keyboards in a covers band back in the mid seventies in Leicester my favourite track we used to play was 'Fox On The Run' (the Sweet version) but it was pretty scary at first as I didn't know the first thing about electronic synthesisers but it worked really well - we had a female vocalist who used to wear a Brian Connolly blonde wig and we also used to play quite a lot of stuff by Sparks as well as things like 'Son Of My Father' by Chicory Tip - with yet another lengthy synthesiser solo - happy days _________________ Are you ready for a Ruddles?
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preraphaeliteangel
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Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2012 7:37 pm Post subject: |
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Sweet have some memories for me too - back in the Seventies we had a German exchange at school and the German boys all seemed to love The Sweet. My mum used to work with The Sweet's drummer's mother, so I was very popular as I was able to get the band's autographs for them. |
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ColinB Guest
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Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2012 9:43 pm Post subject: |
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preraphaeliteangel wrote: | Sweet have some memories for me too - back in the Seventies we had a German exchange at school and the German boys all seemed to love The Sweet. My mum used to work with The Sweet's drummer's mother, so I was very popular as I was able to get the band's autographs for them. |
Compared to the "proper" bands I used to see in the early/mid 70s, Sweet was generally perceived as being utterly naff and "pop". A bunch of us got some free tickets to see a gig by The Sweet. I didn't dare tell anybody else for fear of ridicule. What surprised me was that were not only bloody loud but appeared to be technically competent as musicians.
It still took a few years for me to fess up about seeing them, though. They always looked naff on TOTP though - and still do! |
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ruddlescat
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Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2012 10:03 pm Post subject: |
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Listen to most of the 'B' sides of Sweet singles from the early 70s and actually you might easily make the mistake of thinking you were listening to Led Zeppelin
Only the 'A'sides were considered 'naff' by some people - they were really just typical pop singles of the day
Oh yes - and when I was running the record label with my business partner in the mid 90s I found out that he was the person who actually taught Steve Priest to first play the guitar _________________ Are you ready for a Ruddles? |
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Helen May
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Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2012 11:29 am Post subject: |
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Following on from the mention of Beatles and Gerry and the Pacemakers yesterday. It's got to be How Do You Do It and if I'm allowed a second one, Can't Buy Me Love from the Beatles which were both played on Breakfast this morning.
H _________________ 88 - 91 FM this is Radio 2 from the BBC!
I said it live on air in the studio with Jeremy Vine on 10/3/2005 |
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ColinB Guest
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Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2012 12:30 pm Post subject: |
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I love (and much prefer) the original Beatles version of "How do you do"!
ruddlescat wrote: | Listen to most of the 'B' sides of Sweet singles from the early 70s and actually you might easily make the mistake of thinking you were listening to Led Zeppelin |
Although as soon as you saw them you knew for sure that you weren't listening to Zepp!! |
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Helen May
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Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2012 12:46 pm Post subject: |
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ColinB wrote: | I love (and much prefer) the original Beatles version of "How do you do"! |
Yes it's good but rarely heard. Ryan is a big fan of the Beatles, he's played a few over the last fortnight, and when he sat in for Graham Norton last year he played a track a week from each of the Beatles' first 6 albums. From memory they were all superb tracks.
H _________________ 88 - 91 FM this is Radio 2 from the BBC!
I said it live on air in the studio with Jeremy Vine on 10/3/2005 |
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Ian Robinson Site Admin
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Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2012 12:52 pm Post subject: |
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Helen May wrote: | Ryan is a big fan of the Beatles, he's played a few over the last fortnight, and when he sat in for Graham Norton last year he played a track a week from each of the Beatles' first 6 albums. |
Chris Evans plays a Beatles track on Breakfast almost every day |
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Helen May
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Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2012 1:13 pm Post subject: |
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I bet he talks over them though Ian.
H _________________ 88 - 91 FM this is Radio 2 from the BBC!
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Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2012 1:54 pm Post subject: |
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Ian Robinson wrote: | Chris Evans plays a Beatles track on Breakfast almost every day |
Pity each song is flanked by the idiot who loves the sound of his own voice though! |
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Helen May
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Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2012 9:26 am Post subject: |
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Bring Me Sunshine - Morecambe and Wise to close the Breakfast show this morning.
Apart from it being topical weatherwise, it always raises a smile when I hear Eric and Ernie!
Got to say I've enjoyed Ryan's music over the fortnight, maybe because he said thanks to Alan Boyd who was of course Wogan's producer.
H _________________ 88 - 91 FM this is Radio 2 from the BBC!
I said it live on air in the studio with Jeremy Vine on 10/3/2005 |
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Lord Evan Elpuss
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Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2012 1:42 pm Post subject: |
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Yes, indeed, as they say in bonnie Scotland, 'Haste ye back' Ryan! _________________ Lord Evan Elpuss, Your ideal job is a Lumberjack. |
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Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2012 2:25 pm Post subject: |
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Helen May wrote: | Bring Me Sunshine - Morecambe and Wise to close the Breakfast show this morning.
Apart from it being topical weatherwise, it always raises a smile when I hear Eric and Ernie! |
How very true. Morecambe & Wise were always there to bring a smile to our faces even in times of adversity.
When I was young, one of my guinea pigs died. My dad consoled me by saying "Never mind, come and watch Morecambe & Wise on the telly. They'll take your mind off it."
And they did!
PS: I remember watching the show on which The Beatles appeared. I was shocked by Eric's reference to Ringo as "Bongo" as he was marooned up there at the back of the set on his drum riser as the others came forward for a chat. |
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ruddlescat
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Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2012 9:22 pm Post subject: |
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Track of the day for me on Friday 13th has to be the original version of 'I Think We're Alone Now' by Tommy James and the Shondelles played on the SW Show this afternoon
Whilst I also like the Tiffany cover it's rare that the original ever gets played these days to the point where many people seem to think that the 80's version by Tiffany was the original - sad really _________________ Are you ready for a Ruddles? |
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Lord Evan Elpuss
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Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2012 11:07 pm Post subject: |
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A few possibilities on today's Drivetime, believe it or not! One I heard was 'Back In Black' by AC / DC, which reminds me of when Stuart Maconie featured that album as his 'must have' on the original and much missed Critrical List Saturday evening show. One that might have been, had I heard it, was 'Rain' by Status Quo. Very appropriate at the moment!! I might have gone for 'I Love Rock 'n' roll' had it been this version by Arrows from my mis-spent youth in the 1970s! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AT_Pbtyid0 But the well known version by Joan Jett that I heard will do I suppose! I did enjoy the not very often heard 'Kid Charlemagne' by Steely Dan on Jeremy Vine's show, bringing back memories of the great two week documentary about them that Richard Allinson narrated around the time of the release of their album Two Against Nature. Nice to see Asia getting some exposure on Ken Bruce's show. _________________ Lord Evan Elpuss, Your ideal job is a Lumberjack. |
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Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2012 10:21 am Post subject: |
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Lord Evan Elpuss wrote: | I did enjoy the not very often heard 'Kid Charlemagne' by Steely Dan on Jeremy Vine's show, bringing back memories of the great two week documentary about them that Richard Allinson narrated around the time of the release of their album Two Against Nature. |
Yes, I love the work of Becker & Fagen, and it's nice to hear songs other than "Ricky Don't Lose That Number" (from Pretzel Logic) being played. It's an all-too-rare occurrence, unfortunately. |
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Schizoidman
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Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2012 8:26 pm Post subject: |
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I always liked Steely Dan but feel that Becker and Fagan's best work was their production of China Crisis' 'Flaunt The Imperfection' album in the mid 80s. It's a superb album. |
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SantaFefan
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Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2012 6:28 pm Post subject: |
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Working outside today, I heard one of my favourite oldies on the radio and just had to stop and listen to the last note..
" Johnny Ace - Pledging My Love " later known as "Forever my Love" I believe... anyway, it's a great oldie from 1955.
This would be on my top 40 for sure.
Of course it wasn't on bland old Radio 2 but on KYA San Francisco..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QxfLnfN7BA&feature=player_detailpage _________________ Johnnie Walker read out my message on Pirate Radio! 13/8/07
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Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2012 8:45 pm Post subject: |
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SantaFefan wrote: | Of course it wasn't on bland old Radio 2 but on KYA San Francisco.. |
Are you referring to K-SAN? If so, what a great station. |
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Helen May
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Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2012 9:45 pm Post subject: |
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Wasn't KSAN the station Johnnie Walker went to in the summer of 76 Colin?
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Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2012 11:22 pm Post subject: |
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Helen May wrote: | Wasn't KSAN the station Johnnie Walker went to in the summer of 76 Colin? |
Yes, that's right. It was an AOR station, but soon after he arrived its music policy changed to punk! |
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Helen May
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Today's track or tracks as I'll be greedy and make it 2, they followed each other, are from Pete Waterman's Tracks of My Years today.
First was Deadward Stage from Doris Day, his first record and always brings back childhood memories and the westerns on TV.
Second track was She Loves You, my first favourite track from the Beatles.
H _________________ 88 - 91 FM this is Radio 2 from the BBC!
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Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2012 11:51 am Post subject: |
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Helen May wrote: |
Second track was She Loves You, my first favourite track from the Beatles. |
And the first single I ever bought. It still sounds good now, despite the surface noise. When I remove it from its green Parlophone sleeve and place it on the turntable, it feels like I'm handling pop music history!
Pete Waterman's choices have been pretty good. |
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He's a top geezer is Mr Waterman with good musical tastes - and even better he's a big railway enthusiast _________________ Are you ready for a Ruddles? |
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Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2012 9:03 pm Post subject: |
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ruddlescat wrote: | He's a top geezer is Mr Waterman with good musical tastes - and even better he's a big railway enthusiast |
Indeed. Several years back, a friend of mine who's a freelance video cameraman shot one of a series of BBC documentaries about "stars and their hobbies" which featured Pete Waterman and his love of model railways. He said that Waterman's collection was superb. The crew ended up all playing with trains when they should have been working! He was, apparently, a most congenial host as well. |
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becky sharp
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Posted: Sat Aug 11, 2012 10:23 pm Post subject: |
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In a little break from the goings on in the capital I'm Confessin' by Frank Ifield on TOTP was my track of the day ...one of those songs that makes me smile as soon as it starts....lovely song! |
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