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John W · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 3367 Location: Warwickshire, UK

The way Ringo talks it would be Yulla Submarine! Laughing

Soz, of course scouse is Yeller

Briant · Posted: Sat May 17, 2008 5:53 pm Post subject: SOTS......

Not much to comment on about today's edition (17th May) except the Sinatra 'Twist' tune, or the Leroy Van Dyke re-use of the 'Walk on by' tune in the manner of 'follow up records' during that era. As an aside, someone on another website claims that Burt Bacharach wrote both songs called 'Walk on by', as that he has the album to prove it. Unless Burt used an assumed name, this is crazy! Laughing

Fog on the Tyne · Joined: 09 Dec 2006 Posts: 1095

Anyone else think that the Leonard Cohen song featured today was Suzanne with different lyrics,certainly sounded like it to me.
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Helen May · Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 19382 Location: Cheshire

Missed the first hour today which from the playlist sounds like it was the better half, although the 3 in a row from the Walker Brothers was good.

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SantaFefan · Posted: Sat May 17, 2008 8:26 pm Post subject:

Great show this morning as usual.. me and Chef were both jiggling around to "Do You Love Me" by BP & the Trems and of course, "Fire Brigade" much to the amusement of our younger staff.. Embarassed

Great to hear Jethro Tull too! but I can't believe I've never heard that version of Purple Haze!! Shocked

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iwarburton · Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 2133 Location: Northumberland

As it happened there weren't any of my special favourites yesterday (Cliff Richard's Don't Talk to Him was a near miss) but the whole was still more than the sum of its parts.

They sounded a bit self-effacing over picking Sinatra's Everybody's Twistin' but it was a Top 20 hit in 62 that isn't often played today, so I say that it well deserved inclusion.

Always a treat to hear Alma Cogan, though as BM reminded us, she doesn't crop up a lot on SOTS as much of her output came from the 50s. I note that she never completed the projected whole album of Beatles' songs. Sadly, the onset of her final illness was probably the reason for this.

Ian.

RockitRon · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 7646

Briant · Posted: Sat May 24, 2008 9:46 am Post subject: SOTS 24th May....

I didn't know Herb Alpert did impersonations! If that was him and not Burl Ives then he could do other things besides blowing his own trumpet! Laughing

Another impersonation on the show was of RFK, namely Senator Bobby talking 'Wild Thing'. Brian mentioned that James Voight brother of John Voight was a possible candidate (sic) for the vocal. Yes indeed, because it was he in the persona of 'Chip Taylor' wrote the song. I have just bought a twenty three track 'Best of Chip Taylor' CD, mainly for the 'Last Chance' album tracks such as 'The Real Thing', 'I read it in Rolling Stone' and '101 in Cashbox.' He also wrote 'Angel of the morning.'

As an aside, it is Bob Dylan's birthday today. The old groaner (love you Bob!) is sixty seven today! I remember Alan Bleasdale doing a radio show and marvelling that Dylan was now fifty! Times passes quickly!

iwarburton · Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 2133 Location: Northumberland

Two queries from today's programme:

Was Distant Drums, the Jim Reeves no 1, also to be found on a Roy Orbison B side, perhaps of his Top 10 hit from 63, Falling?

Also, there was a British version of I've Been Everywhere, with a long list of names of UK locations. Can anyone remember who recorded this?

Thanks for any replies.

Ian.

Helen May · Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 19382 Location: Cheshire

Hi Ian,

There was, and it's been bugging me, so have googled and it was Rolf Harris.

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Briant · Posted: Sat May 24, 2008 10:11 pm Post subject: Distant Drums.....

Yes, the 'Falling' hit by the Big O had 'Distant Drums' as the 'B' side. London label HLU 9727 (from the 'Single File' by Terry Hounsome)

iwarburton · Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 2133 Location: Northumberland

Thanks for replies.

Ian.

pickle · Posted: Mon May 26, 2008 10:38 am Post subject: SOTS

Re: I've Been Everywhere Man - National Express used it on a TV ad in the 70's.

Whether 'National Express' by the Divine Comedy would suit them now I don't know - I have seen people with rear ends 'the size of a small country', and these were not necessarily the couriers!
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iwarburton · Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 2133 Location: Northumberland

Today's edition is drawing to a close as I type.

They've just played Lee Hazlewood's version of These Boots Are Made For Walkin'. A very good spoof, which I hadn't heard before.

A couple of matters arising re Frank Ifield.

Listening to I Remember You reminded me that this was the first of three consecutive no 1s for Mr I, the other two being Lovesick Blues and the Wayward Wind, and he was the first British artist to hit the top slot three times in a row. I Remember You was also a substantial hit in the US, bucking the trend in those pre-Beatle days. It and Bobby Darin's Things act too as a reminder of what super sounds were about in summer 62.

Also, am I right in recalling a publicity picture of Frank and our old mate BM dressed as milkmen, which they'd both been at one time? Does anyone else recall that?

Ian.

RockitRon · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 7646

Pressing matters elsewhere have meant that I've missed the last two SOTS completely, and I never get the time to catch up Crying or Very sad

Alas, I don't recall the photo of Frank and Brian, but it's just the sort of thing they would do. His third No 1, Wayward Wind, was notorious for having prevented the Beatles achieving their first with Please Please Me.
All three of them were covers of country & western songs which had been fairly recent hits in the US, which made his success over there with I Remember You all the more remarkable.

From the playlist I deduce that Matt's Eurovision entry I Love The Little Things was the Hard To Get feature. I have it on one of those Eurovision compilations that get issued from time to time.

Notice last week he played Pigmeat Markham's Here Comes The Judge, which was a favourite at the time, having been used on Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In.
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Helen May · Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 19382 Location: Cheshire

Hi Ron,

I heard Matt Monro's song but not what preceded. I don't think it was the hard to get feature but more of a Eurovision spot recalling how Matt had sung 6 songs before 'I Love The Little Things' was chosen and came 2nd, being beaten by 17 votes. He went on to play the winner right after it. My Mum still has the 45 of it and I remember watching the contest that year, probably the first I saw.

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iwarburton · Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 2133 Location: Northumberland

His third No 1, Wayward Wind, was notorious for having prevented the Beatles achieving their first with Please Please Me.
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It depends which chart you go by. Record Mirror did indeed show the Beatles as stuck on 2 but the NME Chart gave the two records a joint no 1 placing--which certainly didn't detract from Frank's achievement. But the RM placing means that Please Please Me isn't on the Beatles' 27 x no 1s album.

Thanks, anyway, Ron, for all the interesting info.

Ian.

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Funny, didn't Scott once call for Mo Dutta to replace Brian Matthew with a breakfast show? Now he's also calling for Dutta's axing! Rolling Eyes

RobbieM · Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2008 11:51 pm Post subject:

Miss Understood · Guest

Oh, don't forget he heavily criticised Lesley Douglas for axing Ed Stewart - baring in mind Scott had been demanding Stewpot's axing for about 3 years! Rolling Eyes

RobbieM · Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2008 11:56 pm Post subject:

Miss Understood · Guest

Enough Already? What is that? Another forum?

RobbieM · Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2008 11:59 pm Post subject:

Miss Understood · Guest

I was on Jezza's but didn't post much. I enjoyed reading the arguments on the current affairs threads, though!

RobbieM · Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2008 12:05 am Post subject:

It's much the same now, except with less of a R2 bias. More general - life, love, philosophy, all that jazz. Still all the usual small handful of names all whingeing about the same old stuff, though, despite the fact that nobody else in the world is taking a blind bit of notice. That includes "Hasty the Buckethead" - but I think he's been banned.
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Briant · Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2008 8:51 am Post subject: Where are they now.....

Is FirewireFred back on this or another forum? Rolling Eyes

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iwarburton · Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 2133 Location: Northumberland

Great to hear Pete Seeger's Little Boxes on today's SOTS. But I was amused by the song's claim that the BOYS go into business and marry and raise a family. No doubt in 1963 it was assumed that the girls simply got married asap and then were based in the home for ever and ever.

Donovan's Sunshine Superman is an example of a very simple and repetitive tune stiil being catchy enough to get into your blood.

Re 3 in a row, I hope they play Helen Shapiro's Tell Me What He Said again as soon as it's thought OK to do so. It's a brilliant track in its own right but was also a stuck on 2 to the Shadows' superb Wonderful Land.

The not-often-heard Cliff Richard track the Time In Between was unlucky to reach only the 20s in the 1965 charts. It really has worn well.

Glad that they managed to insert an update on Bo Diddley's death into the recording.

Ian.

RobbieM · Posted: Sat Jun 07, 2008 4:25 pm Post subject:

RockitRon · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 7646

Val Doonican may well have sung Little Boxes on his TV show, but he never recorded it. Little Arrows, Little Green Apples, Little Bridget Flynn, but no Little Boxes. Surprisingly, perhaps.

The song was written by Malvina Reynolds - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malvina_Reynolds - though Pete Seeger certainly made it his own.

Brian made my wife's morning by playing The Monkees' Mary Mary. She was a fan, and can still remember all the words to all their songs. I had to cover my ears! At least I now know where they got that infuriating jingle for Mary Queen of Shops.

Was The Attack's an improvement on Jeff Beck's "hit-he-would-rather-forget"?
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SantaFefan · Posted: Sat Jun 14, 2008 7:56 am Post subject:

Tiny Tim .. I'd forgot all about him! Laughing

Tip Toe through the Tulips wasn't it?
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iwarburton · Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 2133 Location: Northumberland

So had I forgottem Tiny Tim--why did they have to remind us!

Mention of harmonica player Tommy Reilly brought back happy memories of watching the film Genevieve. It was his playing on the memorable theme tune.

I was dimly aware that BM was a producer at one time. In fact I knew that he both produced and presented Easy Beat in the first half of the sixties. Did he work on any programmes that he didn't present?

The Applejacks' Like Dreamers Do is a good example of a fine song not doing as well as it might have done because its arrangement is too similar to that of an earlier hit, in this case Tell Me When.

Nowhere Man is one of my favourite Beatles tracks and all the more poignant when you learn of its background.

A Three in a Row based on milk shows just how many more permutations are there for the taking for this slot. As it was playing, I wondered why Herman's Hermits' No Milk Today had been overlooked but they then covered that.

By coincidence I have today taken delivery of the ebay-purchased album the Very Best of the Merseybeats, which of course includes the Milkman track. It was originally the other side of Wishin' and Hopin', I think. I'm really looking forward to hearing the CD, the more so as I believe it features the original recordings.

Away next weekend, so shall probably hear SOTS in bits and employ Listen Again when I return.

Ian.

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Briant · Posted: Sat Jun 14, 2008 2:00 pm Post subject: Some like it SOTS....

Brian Matthew's voice is still wonderful to listen to, but I still think the quality of SOTS has diminished since Roger the Vocalist Bowman left the programme. The last three weeks have been of little interest to my ears. Rolling Eyes

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RobbieM · Posted: Sat Jun 14, 2008 3:28 pm Post subject: