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Bryan Burnett | 20:04 UK time, Friday, 23 March 2012

I know the bloggers will want to start posting about how much they enjoyed Ooh Wakka Doo and Ne Ne Na Na Noo Noo, but please remember there is a such a thing as too much praise - and that's what will form the basis of Monday night's theme.

We will be featuring the songs that just lay it on a bit thick. All those Wonderful Tonights, Fantastic Days and Brilliant Minds - were they being accurate or a bit over the top. I'm sure we will get some really graaaaaaaayt lists...or in keeping with Monday's theme some totally, amazing, brilliant, fantastic graaaaaaaaayt lists.

Comments

  • Comment number 1.

    More - Bobby Darin

  • Comment number 2.

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    NEWSFLASH!

    Miss Babs redeems herself! Jake Thackray puts her back in the hunt for a
    CHOCOLATE EGG!


    A. Git explains - "I'm delighted to report that we can put Wednesday's unfortunate misunderstanding behind us. Lessons have been learned. It's time to draw a line under it, and move on. With five shows to go, Mandi and Miss Babs are joint favourites. (Miss Babs' deducted points having been reinstated). Kirsten is a long shot, but another fine performance could see Richard produce a shock result! (No pun intended). See Paolo for details."



    >8-D

  • Comment number 3.

    I'm A Wonderful Thing, Baby - Kid Creole & the Coconuts

    You Are My Joy - Reindeer Section

    You're Beautiful - Love & Money

    Mr Wonderful - Peggy Lee

    Joybringer - Manfred Mann's Earth Band

    My Love - Paul McCartney

    (If Paradise is) Half As Nice - Amen Corner
    ,


    #2 Agree, creditable performace with ulta difficult theme - 14, Miss B.

    regardez youse

    henri

  • Comment number 4.

    MONDAY


    As O.T.T. as it gets...


    You're Such a Good Looking Woman -

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    Choreography courtesy of Norrie MacLean.

    Clothes donated by Mrs. Miller.

  • Comment number 5.

    MONDAY

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    • She is my everything

      When she wakes up in the morning

      That's when the birdies

      Start to sing

      When I hear her voice

      I'll tell you boys

      I forget everything

      She is my everything




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    She is My Everything -


    Keep it Country!
  • Comment number 6.

    Here's an interesting one, perhaps dad spoke to his laddie

    Call Me Number One / The Tremeloes (lead singer and writer of the song one Mr Len (Chip) Hawkes)

    followed a couple of decades later by his big boy

    I am the One and Only / Chesney Hawkes

    Clearly two top men.

    Al

  • Comment number 7.

    Your Kiss Is On My List ~ Hall and Oates

    That pair made their careers on cheesy pop!


    Guess the jotter is still missing!

  • Comment number 8.

    Oh Lord it's hard to be humble - Mac Davis

    The ultimate superfluity, never bettered, the graaayyytest

  • Comment number 9.

    'More than Life' --- Whitley



    'You don't know how lucky you are' --- Keaton Henson



    and, of course ~

    'Anything You Can Do' --- Betty Hutton

  • Comment number 10.

    Wonderful (the Way I Feel) - My Morning Jacket

    yes indeed, noting better than getting up at 6.30 on a Saturday morning, knowing you're going to spend the day in Partick on a First Aid Course.

  • Comment number 11.

    nothing

  • Comment number 12.

    First thoughts:
    You'll never find another love like mine - Lou Rawls
    Close to you - the Carpenters

    Possibly also:
    Save the best for last - Vanessa Williams
    You're the best thing that ever happened to me - Gladys Knight and the Pips

    More to follow

    Joe
    Linlithgow

  • Comment number 13.

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

  • Comment number 14.

    #11

    Not even a CHOCOLATE EGG?


    #10

    Gaelic or English?

  • Comment number 15.

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    From the soundtrack of Sister Act

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    I WILL FOLLOW HIM - Deloris & The Sisters (Brides of Christ)


    {:-{)}

  • Comment number 16.

    bryan...you've managed to mention my two most loathed songs in the one header. If Lady in red and wonderful tonight are played in the same programme I will personaly get a big wooden chalk duster and remove every point that's ever been earned on Henris great big points board.

  • Comment number 17.

    Superman (It's not easy) / Five for fighting
    Superfly / Curtis mayfield
    Wonderful / Colin Bluntstone
    Supermassive black hole / Muse
    Piu bella cosa / Eros Ramazotti
    So amazing / Luther Van Dross

  • Comment number 18.

    #15
    What, no amazing grace?

    or Too much heaven?

  • Comment number 19.

    #16 you're so last week. Chalk & boards went out of fashion in the 90s to be replaced with interactive whiteboards

    (are you allowed to call them whiteboards?)

  • Comment number 20.

    #4 Scotch so you were in One Up that night, I wondered who else was there. I'll never drink abisinthe again.

  • Comment number 21.

    Exagerrated lyrics:

    Morrissey - Last Of The Famous International Playboys.

    Hardly Mozz - you forgot about Adam From Rio.

  • Comment number 22.

    #16

    These are nothing in comparison with the abomination that is Bohemian Rhapsody, easily the worst record ever made.Worse,they nicked it from 10CC's 'One Night In Paris' - which has suffered the indignity of becoming a parody of a record that was not yet recorded at the time of its own release.

    Not even Dignity comes close, which is at least is a good tune with a truly dismal lyric.

    Theme idea - a night of 'utter sh**e' - a catharsis when these are played all in the one show and then they never darken our listening on GIO again.

    regardez youse

    henri

  • Comment number 23.

    #22 I don't think I could listen to more than one Mozz "tune".

    Actually, come to think of it, is there more than one?

  • Comment number 24.

    'THE PERFECTIONIST' by SAGA

    Ellery Sneed had one great need
    To do everything just right
    If things were not planned and all done by hand
    He would ready himself for a fight
    One afternoon while sitting alone
    He came to a great realization
    When it's his turn to die, will there be enough time
    For plenty of planned preparations
    With a few minutes thought his decision was clear
    A fate most perfectly neat
    Not a friend could remain to witness his death
    So a terminal wine he would treat
    The plan was to hold a very large feast
    Serving the wine at the end
    Joining the fun would be everyone
    He'd been calling his friend
    Invitations went out, all guests did arrive
    The meal looked a great success
    Deciding the time he brought out the wine
    Up stood a familiar guest
    "Here's a toast to our gracious host"
    Said Ell's friend Billingford Bluffer
    "Never in my life will I taste but a bite
    Of a more perfectly planned out supper"

  • Comment number 25.

    Number 1 Song in Heaven / Sparks




    Double Heart Trouble / Frankie Miller

    If you like Free and haven't heard this have a listen, absolutely brilliant Frankie.
    We don't hear him often enough.....

    Al.

  • Comment number 26.

    Three Hundred Pounds Of Joy - Howlin Wolf

    Do That To Me One More Time - Captain and Tenille which brings back glorious summer memories.

    This is interesting though :

    "Toni Tennille would later recall that she, Captain, and Karen Carpenter from The Carpenters once had a conversation in the parking lot of their label A&M Records after A&M had signed the Sex Pistols. They were not pleased with the direction the top label brass were going; in their views, ignoring the label's established acts in favor of recent signings. They even commented on how the newly-signed and unproven Sex Pistol members were all given their own parking spaces, and nobody from their respective acts had ever been given parking spaces, even after all their success."

    Eh? I'm amazed - it just goes to show you that no one is immune from the office car park heirarchy. Imagine that - the anarchy of car parking spaces, how life changing was it then? I always thought punk was a con.

    Everything changes, everything stays the same.

    regardez youse

    henri

  • Comment number 27.

    I thought it was a catalyst.

  • Comment number 28.

    Is Paddy a Caffalist?

  • Comment number 29.

    #14 the casualty would be safer taking up his bed and walking if my first aid course had been in gaelic.

    #25 so right, Al. One of Scotland's finest, but sadly not a GIO favourite.

    MONDAY

    My Stunning Mystery Companion - Jackson Browne

  • Comment number 30.

    Theme idea - Play his whole list one night for a Caffarsis

  • Comment number 31.

    Enough to put me in my Caffin

  • Comment number 32.

    Alice Cupar - Billion Dollar babies

    A billion??? Fred Badyin pension fund dont even have a billion dollars

  • Comment number 33.

    'Too Nice To Talk To' - The Beat

  • Comment number 34.

    'Closest Thing To Heaven' - Kane Gang

  • Comment number 35.

    The wonders of the blogotariat, GIO and technology. I've now purchased The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, a Fugees album, Tom Waits 'Closing Time' and went to check out the Drifters 'Such A Night' but found the Elvis version much better - on Spotify I also stumbled across Aaron Neville's version on 'Aaron Neville's Soulful Christmas' album - which is a revelation in itself. The first Xmas album I can claim to like! I also downloaded a few Turin Brakes tracks (Sea Change is epic) - all based, I think, on blog listings.Thank you.

    I had a couple of goes at listening to Emma Pollock, but didn't really tune into it.

    Well, it was happy couple of hours listening on an unremarkable Saturday night.

    regardez youse

    hneri

  • Comment number 36.

    Gary Go - 'Wonderful'

  • Comment number 37.

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    Johnnie Walker is always worth a listen. Especially today.


    >8-D

  • Comment number 38.

    Hello again. Two more OTT tracks have just sprung to my mind:
    'Just you wait Henry Higgins' (from the musical 'My Fair Lady')
    and 'Baby turns blue' by Virgin Prunes. Not exactly songs of praise, but I believe they are (slightly) over the top.

    :)

  • Comment number 39.

    For someone who's been mountaineering the past 35 years I've still to find this utopia... Big Rock Candy Mountain ~ Burl Ives

    B.T.W. Friday saw 3 plays & not a single name check L.O.L!
    Somebody's either very touchy or in the huff. Maybe "they" only welcome gushy O.T.T. feedback?

  • Comment number 40.

    ... or the promise of points or an Easter egg!

  • Comment number 41.

    #37 one of the best shows and one of the best presenters on radio.

    Heard on a DAB 70s station yesterday Casey Kasem's american top 40 from 1973. Great show and great factoids about all the acts.

  • Comment number 42.

    Well, that's Jocky Wilson away - famous for his contribution to Dexy's appearance on TOTP - which means that 'Jocky Wilson Says' can be added to the Megrahi playlist..

    A family friend commented:

    "whilst we appreciate that Mr Megrahi was a keen darts player and enthusiast, we are unable to confirm that Jocky visited him in Greenock prison along with the Justice Secretary for a quick game of darts, being the wish of a dying man, just before his release in 2009."

  • Comment number 43.

    I don't think these comments about a dying man have any place in this blog.

  • Comment number 44.

    hear hear

  • Comment number 45.

    #43

    100% agree, faither - this blog is not a forum for sarcastic comment.

    i sincerely apologise.

    regardez youse

    henri

  • Comment number 46.

    Does "Werewolves of London" fit this theme?

  • Comment number 47.

    A House - I Am The Greatest

    R.E.M. - Superman

    Echo & The Bunnymen - King of Kings

    Seconds for Kid Creole

  • Comment number 48.

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    #18 - What are you insinuating? You think I do not know what I want to hear?


    Mishegas!

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    {:-{)}

  • Comment number 49.

    Everything About You - Solomon Burke from the album 'Nothing's Impossible' - hopefully in the library - worth checking out, Burke on imperious form.

    regardez youse

    henri

  • Comment number 50.

    - Bad Company

    I'd Rather Go Blind - Chicken Shack

  • Comment number 51.

    Of course, nothing lays it on quite as thick as a gospel choir in full flow:

    Andrae Crouch & The Disciples - Praise Him

    I'm not being sarcastic here, I heard this on the Alexis Korner show back in about 78/79 and the power and passion in the choir really does move the spirit -I'm not religious at all,but it's totally uplifting - and much less harmfull than Prozac.

    Andrae Crouch is one of the great producers of gospel music and is also famous for co-writing Michael Jackson's 'Man In The Mirror'.

    regardez youse

    henri

  • Comment number 52.

    #50

    If You Can't Live Without Me, Why Aren't You Dead Yet? - Mayday Parade


    >8-D

  • Comment number 53.

    #45 #51

    Its prevalence probably means that I am not alone among your readership in having lost someone to prostate cancer and finding your alleged running gag becoming a little tiresome.

  • Comment number 54.

    Prince - The Most Beautiful Girl In The World

  • Comment number 55.

    Babyburd - You're Georgoeus

  • Comment number 56.

    a think you're Great = peter nardini
    you're the Top = ella fitzgerald OR sutton foster
    love's Great adventure = ultravox
    i could be So Good for you = dennis waterman
    Marvellous = lightning seeds
    Magic moments = perry como
    Pleasant valley sunday = the monkees
    Wonderful life = black
    Wonderful world = sam cooke
    Wonderful world = louis armstrong
    Lovely day = bill withers
    i'm sitting on top of the world = al jolson
    you can do magic = america
    just like paradise = david lee roth
    you are the sunshine of my life = stevie wonder
    wind beneath my wings = lee greenwood

  • Comment number 57.

    Denis Waterman is not good for everyone!

    I might as well suggest this, as it will come up, it is a great song, now overplayed and the subject of Van The Mans affection is not his partner, but hey ho:

    Van Morrison - Have I Told You Lately

    And of course:

    "Don't you know you're life itself":

    David Bowie - Wild Is The Wind

  • Comment number 58.

    #53 FRANK ZAPPA lives on however, and new albums come out every year.

  • Comment number 59.

    Lot's of hyperbole I'm sure you'll agree;

    Everything is Great / Inner Circle
    Saw Inner Circle at the Apollo, think late 70s, could have been supporting AWB and they were great......best known for the Bad Boys 'Cops' theme but this is funk-tastic.

    Here, There & Everywhere / Emmylou Harris
    Just thought a wee change from the fab four, Emmylou certainly does it justice.

    Last Dollar (Fly Away) / Tim McGraw
    'I'm down to my last dollar'
    Aye, right Tim

    Al.

  • Comment number 60.

    How about 'I love Paul' by Nina HAGEN?

    Lyrics to I Love Paul :
    I love Paul, let me be your baby doll
    I love Paul, I want to be your baby doll

    In front of your grace, I feel like Pigs in Space (oink-oink)
    Turn me on and on and on
    And on and on and on and on and on...
    Life after life after life after life
    The news so far, because you are a superstar
    I'm lost in space because I always see your super face
    I can see God's vibes coming out of your heavenly eyes
    By day and by night, my fantasy, oh hold you tight
    And then we'll explode like dynamite and I can see the Light
    Liebster Paul, beep beep beep beep

    Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare
    Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare

    Wow! Paul, let me be your baby doll
    Wow! Paul, I wanna be your baby doll

    In front of your grace, I feel like Pigs in Space (oink-oink)
    You turn me on and on and on
    And on and on and on and on and on...
    Life after life after life after life
    Well I make the news it's so fun, because you are a superstar
    I got lost in space because I always see your super face
    I can see God's vibes coming out of your heavenly eyes
    By day and by night, my fantasy, oh hold you tight
    And then we'll explode like dynamite and I can see the Light
    Liebster Paul, beep beep beep beep

    Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare
    Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare

  • Comment number 61.

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    I loathe The Greatest Love of All. It's on my list of songs from which I derive no enjoyment whatsoever. Along with From a Distance.

    While I'm here, that's not the first time we've had to hear The Way You Look Tonight being murdered by The Jaguars.

    Dis Aberdonians get preferential treatment roon here?

    We should be telt!

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