dustysevens

pop quiz

2012-02-10T20:23:00.001Z

february gawd help us how the what the where did january get to it's all running off laughing without me still this year this all of it... perhaps a quiz'll slow it down just the tinsiest so's i can at least catch up in time to make a tape for a prize. i think there'll be a tape for a prize. a proper tape not a pretend one. a c60 with a glue sticky cover and everything. these are really too easy but then so am i. get guessing sweethearts...

some introductions

this popped out of the shuffler the other day coincidently and i'm convinced i'd never heard it before. how it got wherever it was is a mystery but i'm awful glad it did

the four tops - a simple game

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answers to dusty7s at yahoo.co.uk

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torment tuesday

2012-01-31T16:22:00.001Z

oh gene...

this is hardcore

gene pitney - i'm gonna be strong

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double decker

2012-01-30T17:45:00.002Z

january seems to've gone and had the better of me again somehow sneakily gobbling up days that were supposed to be full of oooh all sorts and squishing them full of something vaguer wrigglier gloopier stodgier so to try and get the year hell another whole new year already pointing even a tiny bit the way it'd be nice if it would please let's stick with the trusty features worn and saggy kneed...

it was trying to get a grip on that laura nyro that sent me swooning back to these treasures her doing it so lovelely and all. you can swoon too

the royalettes - it's gonna take a miracle

ken boothe - gonna take a miracle

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ps
buy royalettes records from cherry red
buy ken boothe records from honest jon's

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high in the blue

2012-01-20T20:26:00.000Z

for poor twisted swollen fallen comrades... take my hand...

jackie paris - skylark

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happy dollyday

2012-01-19T18:04:00.009Z

happy birthday dolly old dear

dolly - my blue tears

the dolly parton scrapbook (pdf)

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pick of the week

2012-01-13T20:29:00.000Z

germs and bed and the radio the bbc's world of wonders

filling the kettle digging around the digestives and 11:30 in the morning there's mystic afro futeristers last poets strata east budu tones and oh how did i not hear part one...? hear part two my friends and pass it around

black is a country - bbc radio 4

dug out of the iplayer thanks to secondopinions kindly comment tips dear jones guides us about london with all that symphonical stuff or whatever they call it i dunno all this piano playing and messing about

london soundscape - bbc radio 2

and a wet and wild world to paddle about... a creative response to the prescence of a magical place in a hostile world a cultural standing up for wild nature

the waterboatman's song - nature - bbc radio 4

thankyou the bbc.

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unclean unclean

2012-01-09T17:13:00.000Z

poorly and pitiful

horace andy - fever

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buy horace's records at sounds of the universe

drab drab drab

2011-12-28T17:13:00.001Z

heavens all that shopping you poor poor shoppers all that shoving and stabbing and squashing and for this flat window gawper so little inspiration

vic godard and the subway sect - no style

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be bona

2011-12-23T19:47:00.001Z

the dolliest of festivenesses to you sweet dears

manfred mann - sing songs of love

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zhooshed

2011-12-16T20:20:00.000Z

record rummaging shoe polishing wardrobe rifling it's frankly chaos round here... one certainty...

sergio mendes and brasil 77 - love music

see you tomorrow 99ers

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dancing master

2011-12-15T21:10:00.000Z

a sneak peek into mister rob's big oh my huuuuuge box of delights

cue applause...

the ascots - she's indifferent to me now

elijah sterling - the girl i fell in love with

see you saturday cool steppers

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silly silly fools

2011-12-02T20:25:00.003Z

a brand new me - number 35 in the lp charts. silly people. even sillier americans only number 107. silly me too what with it being pitifully underplayed so much so i've only just been hit by the astounding wonder of never love again and let me get in your way. what have i been doing...

this'll be played loud and proud to the 99pers and no mistake

dusty - never love again

i just can't wait

2011-11-25T12:36:00.000Z

xmas jamboree time dear hearts and i'll be letting mr soul of jamaica fly... do pop along if you're that way it'd be a huge pleasure to see you

alton ellis and the flames - girl i've got a date (soul version)

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still craving inky fingers

2011-11-24T20:22:00.002Z

so the internet is a smashing place we know but i still can't fold over a corner keep my place slide it under a bee buzzing back into the sunshine whoosh a bad mood wasp colour in the os and ps and rs and ds and bs and qs forget just where i put it slice fingers blood jeans (that'll never come out) scrunch it fold it tear it cut it out stick it on chew into little disgusting balls spit till it sticks fan it flick it seal it with a kiss secret message packed in a locket so thankyou thankyou thankyou your heart out crying all the way to the chip shop and caught by the river for your glorious paper treats

yours to have and to hold

and their genorosity knows no bounds - a song each from the bold brave brains behind the pages in your grubby paws

Howsabout this then - it's Bev Kelly with the Pat Moran Trio and it makes me go all weak-kneed

bev kelly - this love of mine

I think this captures something of what I write about

the intruders - cowboys to girls

OK, a bit silly this but how about 'The Computer's First Christmas Carol' by Edwin Morgan. Maybe because it's a poem (the 'zine contains poetry), maybe because it's about a computer (you can read Caught by the River every day on one of those, and maybe because it's by a Scot called Edwin. OK, he spells his name wrong but when I think of fanzines I think of Scots called Edwyn.
Happy Christmas
Jeff x

Otherwise, my mind has just been blown by the new Chris Watson album, El Tren Fantasma

edwin morgan - the computer's first christmas carol

hip hip

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i know a place

2011-11-22T19:03:00.000Z

with thanks to herb lester

birdbrain

2011-11-18T13:19:00.001Z

lazy brain still mush heart shredded by gone birds great auks mysterious starlings tahiti rails pink headed ducks stephens island wrens spectacled cormorants white gallinules passenger pigeons oh heavens reunion owls

aaron neville - let's live

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tears before bedtime

2011-11-13T20:12:00.003Z

another giant down... go easy dear you made some of my favourite music ever ever

this is from the moonscape lp the heroic johnny trunk put out a while back

michael garrick - sketches of israel

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buy more garrick

torment tuesday

2011-11-08T13:55:00.001Z

i'm afraid i''ve still not trolled back from the bungery dear hearts. it's that time of year...

reparata and the delrons - i'm nobody's baby now

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torment tuesday

2011-11-01T17:07:00.002Z

it's a newley kind of day. i'll be in the boozer...

anthony newley - who can i turn to

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her latest flame

2011-10-26T20:44:00.000+01:00

obssessed with this at the mo... can't quite tear myself away

deathly horace and all the serious youths of the netherlands

singing along to myself the jeri southern version

and the sweat dripping

and all those stupendous shots of big chords and rimshots and fat strings

oh boy

horace silver quintet - senor blues (live)

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smoochers

2011-10-22T20:26:00.002+01:00

oh heavens there were smoochers too that bit that was supposed to be the end of the evening but ended up calm before storms holding on tight being braver than you could ever be 'hands slowly and gingerly make their way down her back'* magic moments...

i know we've had them all before but they're such wonders...

sam cooke - that's where it's at

dusty - the look of love

sugar hill - that's love

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99p soul xmas jamboree saturday 17th december

* courtesy crying all the way to the chip shop
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clap hands

2011-10-21T20:20:00.000+01:00

boy where does the week go feet still throbbing knees still creaking hips hell hips still have a sort of roll that won't quit still feel gladys flowing right through and oh these palms can still feel all that clapping all that applause the glorious crowd rang with after every song and oh most especially all that perfect heart bursting joining in with edu lobo... you know you got soul

gladys knight and the pips - no one could love you more

edu lobo - upa neguinho

the very hugest thankyou's to capitaine carmel and and mick the merciless for oh... just everything

and so you know just how marvelous a marvel that clapping was here's how it sounded real live 99p soul style...

edu lobo - upa neguinho (99p soul live)

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it takes two

2011-10-20T21:17:00.002+01:00

two sides of me and the mrs's two heads better (specially when one is swimming in bourbon) mid evening half hour mine whatever nonesense getawaywithable her finale sure shot floor shakers... folks swinging to glen & bobbie sure was a sight to treasure too. ta ever so 99ers

glen campbell & bobbie gentry - mornin' glory

the flirtations - nothing but a heartache

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i haven't stopped dancing yet

2011-10-19T19:59:00.002+01:00

well alright so i have stopped dancing yet truth be told i haven't stopped resting my poor old worn out lallies hell my poor old worn out all the bloomin rest of me but my it was worth it yes indeed. my favourite of the 99ps so far and if you made it along thank you ever so. for all the poor folk stuck far far away or tucked up cosy indoors i thought it'd be nice to share some of the evenings most specialestest charms and mister rob's very kindly sent along a right little bunch of crackers to get us started bless his heart

exportations - i want you

montclairs - hey you don't fight it

jimmy rae - that'll get it

et white and the great potential - got to find a true love

there'll be more to come tomorrow so see then sweethearts
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countdown

2011-10-14T13:35:00.000+01:00

i do hope the zhooshing is going spectacularly sweet dears and that you'll all be perfect pictures of loveliness in time for tomorrow and all the wonderment in store. the 99pers wow the floor from 8 o'clock - i do hope we see you there

here's another record i can't afford but'll top of the shopping list when my ship comes in... a proper heart sweller

george wydell - from out of nowhere

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countdown

2011-10-07T12:26:00.002+01:00

a week and a day dear hearts till we're 99p souling again - it'd be wonderful if you could join us

if i can track a copy down in time i'll be playing this

jackie opel - tears from my eyes

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no. 9 excursion

2011-10-04T20:24:00.007+01:00

we present a dreadfully shockingly frankly embarrassingly overdue super lovely magnificent seven selection of sounds courtesy of everyones favourite seasider and bus rider the absolutely very mr glen (atlas) grainger

i'm most awful sorry these are in nowhere near the order they're supposed to be and that i've not got the little lovelies all stuck together hell that i don't even know who any of them cept the joe bataan one are by but i'm far away and out of touch and oh all sorts... first one to name the artistes gets a present...

love'll get you high

irma thomas - anyone who knows what love is

esther marrow - mama

lee williams and the cymbals - a girl from a country town

joe bataan - subway joe

you're gonna miss me

kenny lynch - half the day is gone

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free particulars

2011-09-30T18:00:00.001+01:00

sound nerves... youthful vigour... special guidance... sign me up now

dionne warwick - i think you need love

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let's get lavender

2011-09-27T21:47:00.001+01:00

lord help us but east london pride the first bit of homosexual freedom fighting worth trolling about for in an awful while what with the bashing and the stickering and the general rottenness all over the place getting way past out of hand managed 500 rebels 500 brave and strong souls 500 ah gee. not that i went obviously what with afternoon birthday boozing and time traveling record playing and all but oh heavens the shame of it.

and just when beautiful dirk had just wowed the living room again too. it's worn astoundingly well really it has. go watch sweet things

and go blimey to nancy

nancy wilson - where does that leave me?

and stand up for your love

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housewives rebel

2011-09-19T20:17:00.001+01:00

throw off the shackles dear hearts and come with us run with to where the air is good and the day is fine and a pretty girl has her hand in mine and the silver stream is a poor man's wine as saturday night tottenham high road transmogrifies wonderously into the young loves dream of laurel canyon. that's right children tottenham high road is the new hollywood hills right there just up from sunset left of seven sisters. it's a bloomin' miracle.

i shall be doing my very best buttoned up square and playing some records inbetween tutting at the hep youths. this record most definitely

barbara and ernie - play with fire

return to the flower cult canyon
saturday 24th september
tchances
399 the high road n17 6qn
facebook for all the facts

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countdown

2011-09-16T09:01:00.001+01:00

so contrary to previous previousness the 99pers are back in action well i say action if by action you mean having a chat getting rather over familiar with a bourbon playing some records they like and having a go at some of that dancing and yes indeed that sounds like action to me so action it is on saturday the 15th of october back in the betsey's lovely basement. it'd be an absolute joy to see you there petals.

the all romance rob ryan has treated us to a super special sneak preview of the evenings treats gawd bless 'im so take it away mr rob...

'Ok, this is the current big one'

step by step - cool days are out of style

'I'm still blue about Nick Ashford's death, I always think that the lyrics are what always make a song for me, but I found this thing on youtube last year where some clever clogs had separated the strings from the rest of the song and the beauty and structure of it is breathtaking ! Ashford and Simpson !!!!'

ain't nothing like the real thing strings'

and here's rob's glorious shop window nick ashford tribute in case you missed it...

service

2011-09-14T17:17:00.001+01:00

treasures of the north part oooooohhh howevermany... out for my dear mother's seventyeth i ended up head in hands despairing yet again at the mass ignoring of modern beauties and everyone else ended up head in hands despairing yet again at me throwing down another huge one and going on and on and on and on and on and on about yet another stupid bit of concrete/knitting/rust/heavenonlyknowswhatnow. i was right again obviously. i mean just look at it. forton services we love you

the cafe's stupid offices now which is a desperate waste but still the tower is astounding

and it's on the way to morecambe

jackie opel - shelter in the storm

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more at http://www.fortonservices.webs.com/

call her a name that's lighter than air

2011-09-12T14:47:00.000+01:00

i just couldn't resist what with the bridges closed and all

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adjustments

2011-09-09T18:25:00.000+01:00

tweed. i'm thinking tweed. lots of it. and those brogues down the piccadilly arcade. cashmere twinset even. i'm that sort of age and it's that sort of light. low early all off a sudden. equinoxy as anything. libraries need visiting too. and empty seasides.

nancy pridy - you've come this way before

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countdown

2011-09-03T12:32:00.002+01:00

four weeks to go and we're back in the betsey's basement sweet things... i do hope you can pop along

if i could lay my greedy hands on three hundred and sixty five big ones the place would be bursting into clench fisted tears to stand up straight and tall but with a bit of luck scrimping svaing and birthdaying it'll be just as overjoyed with this this little beauty

people get ready

jackie shane - comin' down

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oh anthony

2011-09-01T11:52:00.001+01:00

dear astounding anthony you've gone and blown my heart apart all over again all dreadful d-darling novelty terrrible a side what were you thinking then this totally joyous wonder b side gee how many fools like me never turned it over distraught after that first play of the a? don't you hide your love away

anthony newley - i'll walk beside you

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bank holiday bossa

2011-08-29T10:32:00.004+01:00

my but it's been a while since i swung easy between good times and gaz's rocking blues via a red stripe or three an awful long time. crowds don't do it for me these days all that squashedness but i do hope the sun is shining down the grove right now

play nice carnivaliers

flora purim - samba do carioca

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torment tuesday

2011-08-23T17:21:00.000+01:00

bring back that sunny day

scott walker - stormy

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modal monday

2011-08-15T08:46:00.001+01:00

or day thirty one maybe... i enjoyed that thirty day challenge doohickey feel like i fumbled a chunk and that too many of the days had shoddy themes but enjoyed it still. anyone got any better questions/ideas/themes/whatevers? what with having to get on a train tomorrow egg sandwiches crisps and everything how about 'a song you listen to while travelling on trains' that'd do for starters and it's easy what with jazz being train music jazz and scott and frank and almost nothing else all quiet in the quiet coach headphones sneaked on snug not leaky hissing headphones neither different music to car music sing along music this is total immerrsion all the way to the toes music there and all the way back again

michael garrick septet - ursula

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retreat

2011-08-11T20:41:00.002+01:00

it's all got a bit much now hasn't it most especially since the foul reactionary spouters have started up churning my insides even more than the flames and greed and turning the radio into a no go zone. all got me dreaming of places far beyond deserts gardens feeding the birds quiet. perhaps some more folk funk lovliness will help

nanette natal - lavender thursday

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night and the city

2011-08-09T17:31:00.000+01:00

eerie quiet down my street half the shops closed up mid afternoon tourists confused and a strange strangeness all over the west end. at least the builders have left us huge pile of handy rubble. peace go with you brothers and sisters

helen merrill - quiet nights

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day tripper

2011-08-05T20:46:00.004+01:00

hot dog there's just no stopping us now intrepid explorers extreme strollers super seasiders... tomorrow's bexhill-on-sea to eastbourne all pavillions and notarianni's milk bar chips and sundaes brolly just in case tartex and tomato rolls for the train. marvelous.

come on feet start moving got to get me there

edwin starr - 25 miles

oh go on seeing as it's you...

sergio mendes & brasil 66 - daytripper

i have no magic power to stop my love for you

2011-08-03T13:04:00.001+01:00

oh to be in clacton when the sunshines

jeanette baker - vacation

now is the time

2011-07-29T20:12:00.004+01:00

do you think it might be summer? just now right here now? nearly? i'm quite warm so i'm guessing it must be. we're off on an epic day out to norfolk tomorrow a proper get up early bus train bus packed lunch cardie if it's a bit chilly by the sea bus train bus home epic day out so it'd be nice if it did try to be at least a tiny bit summery. i hope it is for you too and that the peachy ms mellon weaves her magic

le grand mellon - summertime

that's it baby

2011-07-26T18:10:00.000+01:00

savoy claridges ritz dorchester hell no i won't go just take me back to the bun boy

and how in heaven's had i forgotten about eunice. glorious crackly eunice. it's a while since we've had some proper rareness and if i had a spare huge bundle this get a room filth would be top of the shopping list and no mistake

eunice collins - at the hotel

back to the world

2011-07-21T13:14:00.002+01:00

gawd awful sad don't you think the last shuttle earth bound the same day there were giant steps and a whole generation of i want to be an astronaut when i grow ups. desperate sad.

we really wasted all that didn't we. all that hope. stayed small and stupid even when we'd gone out into all that hugeness. rats.

bossa rio - old devil moon

folk funk friday

2011-07-15T17:40:00.000+01:00

seeing as it's accidentally turned into glorious genres week...

ellen mcilwaine - wings of a horse

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wordless wednesday

2011-07-13T12:53:00.000+01:00

john cameron - liquid sunshine

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bossa monday

2011-07-11T10:16:00.000+01:00

the sun is shining we're still full of the mad thrill of adam ant at soho village fete polaroid week kicks off in an hour or so and if i'm really really lucky i get to go to the library later too. hot damn. let's bossa

quarteto novo - zanzibar

another in the just as beautiful on the outside lps collection

day thirty

2011-07-05T18:18:00.000+01:00

"your favorite song at this time last year"

this time last year we were deep in black redstart enthralledness and oh my i do miss the beautiful blighters. they disappeared by the end of june and i looked for them scoured the rooftops night after night for weeks but they were gone and we were left to the pigeons and the odd seagull. a week or so ago a little tweety thing sang from our arial again then vanished and my little heart leapt but i think it was just a park tweety bird that'd got blown over and it's not been back. really it should be blossom singing try your wings but i really don't think i could bear it right now

wait a minute wait a tiny minute...

so just last night only just last night there's middle of the night singing three o'clock in the morning singing and a tiny blob at the very top of marshall street baths serenading soho. oh you beautifully well timed dears. tonight i'll be scouring the rooftops

oh balls a song. favourites again. i thought we'd dealt with favourites. well last summer was the one we discoverd kalima all over again wasn't it? all those smiling hours? let's do it again

kalima - land of dreams

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day twenty nine

2011-07-04T20:33:00.000+01:00

"a song from your childhood"

can't think... poorly... struck down in my prime etc etc

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day twenty eight

2011-07-03T22:36:00.000+01:00

"a song that makes you feel guilty"

that what? they've got stuck for questions now haven't they. guilty. i ask you. oh really. especially what with me being blameless and all. unbesmirshed. you ask anyone. well alright don't. really don't.

twenty eight in and i'm stumped. not just dismissive even if it is a stupid question but really at a loss.

day twentyseven

2011-07-02T13:59:00.000+01:00

"a song that you wish you could play"

opening your big cakehole and heaven flying out must be the most incredible thing don't you think. all that coming out of just you. gee i envy them the whole everyone i don't know richard hell to doris day all everyone that makes a noise just them oh boy... but alright if it's play you want then it's those big modal chords those bill evans's those horace silver's those those herbie hanckock's those michael garrick's oh my those mccoy tyner's... just imagine

i know you all know but making those noises those big modal chords...

john coltrane - my favourite things

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day twenty six

2011-07-01T09:21:00.000+01:00

"a song that you can play on an instrument"

does whistling count? or irritating tapping? clapping? i had a guitar once oh lord it was so pretty that big red hofner verithin bigsby arm and all and the strum it made the amazing rattling jangle it made well you would've just well you just would've... but a song come now a whole song. come now. castanets. i'm sure i could castanet along to something something phil spector or shangri-las or something desperate but there'd be tangling and bruising and a lot of it's harder than it looks you just know it so clapping i can do clapping. in the right places sometimes even. it could've been me...

kitty winter - new morning

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day twenty five

2011-06-30T11:56:00.000+01:00

"a song that makes you laugh"

what? do they mean in a you're having a bleedin' larf kind of a way surely not that'd be too too way too many they mean actual laughing don't they oh god not laughing not like something funny laughing. not a song that makes you laugh. oh please don't do this to me. i'm trying here really (very trying very goddam funny)

alright alright so jonathan richman and the modern lovers doing vincent van gogh got a mention oh jesus years back now and the first few times that the baddest painter since jan vermeer line giggled the place stupid still always raises at least a smirk and ol' jr he's good for a spot in this whole mess. he could've had now is better than before and i'm just beginning to live and important in your life on other days so hey surrender to jonathan...

jonathan richman and the modern lovers - vincent van gogh

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day twenty four

2011-06-29T13:10:00.001+01:00

"a song that you want to play at your funeral"

sadly i won't be playing anything at my funeral will i. that's kind of the point of the thing. it's nigh on impossible to think of ourselves uninvolved in the thing though isn't it. my dear old dad spends a ghastly amount of time on the script for his. songs jokes the lot. he does love an audience and it's heartbreaking to think he won't be at his own do. i keep trying to think of a way to have it while he's still here and i really should try harder to sort it. memorial services would be so much more fun if those we were celebrating were there with us.
so i don't care for funerals. all those people no one's seen for years all those regrets all those should've saids all those too bloody late nows

phil ochs - when i'm gone

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day twenty three

2011-06-28T19:40:00.002+01:00

"a song that you want to play at your wedding"

we don't need no paper from the city hall keeping us tied and true heck no. i'm all confetti delirious for the folks that do and i love the thought of those big public proclamations those gatherings and all just can't grasp what it's got to do with the man. man. specially when they give and take those rights willy nilly. nilly mainly. we get along without you very well.

dear pat and sally exited their's to bring me sunshine which brought the whole place to it's knees and i blubbed to as around the sun the earth knows she's revolving and the rosebuds know to bloom in early may just as hate knows love's the cure you can rest your mind assure that I'll be loving you always and the whole rest was read to tim and deb but hell i don't know what i'd have. nothing maybe just cos songs are so loaded already full of too much other stuff other folks stuff too. i think i'd like quiet and tweety birds just soak everything in.

mind you if there was dancing after i'd demand this

tavares - heaven must be missing an angel

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day twenty two

2011-06-27T21:35:00.003+01:00

"a song that you listen to when you’re sad"

sometimes i think we've been ruined by our records. all those unrequiteds all those losts those betrayals cheatings schemings dreamings. how we ever going to love when our soundtrack hurts so bad. how we going to win when our songs are for losers. but then they lift you up too those records soar your soul (like i said weeks ago now weeks hell) open up your big glorious heart swell you. you know.

frank sinatra - only the lonely

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day twenty one

2011-06-26T19:53:00.001+01:00

"a song that you listen to when you’re happy"

one for my beloved cos when she's happy i'm happy

the monochrome set - cast a long shadow

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day twenty

2011-06-25T15:39:00.000+01:00

"a song that you listen to when you’re angry"

much more likely to go for a nice sit down somewhere lovely like phoenix gardens watch the sparrows on the feeders and splashing about in the fish pond deep breaths and calm calm calm these days but i guess there've been times when records were reached for vodka spilled and all screeching along to public image or liar's beware or adult-ery or some just as rowdy rawkusness those shouty releases and some scratchy ones

dr octagon - bear witness

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day nineteen

2011-06-24T20:06:00.000+01:00

"a song from your favorite album"

it's lp round here heartface. your favourite lp. album is despicably rockist don't you think. anway you know what we've already said about favourites. we don't hold with them shake our weedy fists at them apart from when they're glen campbell singing witchita lineman which is so heavenly it defies just about everything

soooooo shall we just pull something out of the lp pile and stick with that. i think that'd be best

oh that worked rather well... it's the soul jazz love strata east compilation so lets wake up the neighbourhood with some jazz yodelling. you heard me right brave souls jazz yodelling. hold tight

pharoah sanders - prince of peace

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ad break

2011-06-23T14:42:00.000+01:00

last call for 99p soul my dolly old dears up and at 'em once again on saturday. do come and say hello if you make it down it'd be lovely to see you.

now this might sound like some square advice but it pays to be kinda nice

the impressions - first impressions

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day eighteen

2011-06-23T08:32:00.000+01:00

"a song that you wish you heard on the radio"

the night time was for truckers sad songs for truckers. all you found on the dial after midnight was sad songs for truckers. sometimes i think i must've dreamt all that a long long dream for all those years all those country hits i can't believe i could've heard anywhere else all those crooners. so i beg for more. beg to reclaim the night for tears for the lonely for the road oh for the crooners for newley more newley

when a soft caress demands a yes

anthony newley - who can say

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day seventeen

2011-06-22T22:00:00.003+01:00

"a song that you hear often on the radio"

a what ? a song ? no really there are songs ? on the radio ? desert island discs apart obviously. there's the archers theme which is the cue to flip to football but hell that's torturous enough even when it's just the teensiest hint. radio four all the way here darlings then football tittle tattle and matches that mean nothing of an evening and weekend. records pop up when you're least expecting them still. it's cos we're old and the folk making radio are old too. the bastards keep rubbing it when i'm least expecting it. like half past one in the sodding afternoon. john cooper clarke shouldn't be able to play me james brown records while i'm making a sandwich to radio four. it's unnatural.

you can hear him doing it to you here but i suggest you fit in your day better than the bbc do

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day sixteen

2011-06-21T16:33:00.001+01:00

"a song that you used to love but now hate"

oh come now. i mean i know i'm fickle and shallow and prone to the odd exageration but really...

another lover for torment tuesday

dusty springfield - all cried out

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day fifteen

2011-06-20T17:25:00.001+01:00

half way there...

"a song that describes you"

well i'm not a dustman or vincent van gogh or an iceream man or hell any of those things i can think of there being songs about for starters. if there was one about good fer nothing bleeding heart do gooders who never really get around to anything eat a lot of fruit drink a bit more than they ought to wander off of the point and like ducks then we'd be away but...

someone i didn't know very well once said this was just my sort of record and it is it is it just is so this'll have to do

we've had it before and we'll have it again (at 99p soul on saturday for starters)

jon lucien - would you believe in me

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day fourteen

2011-06-19T14:40:00.000+01:00

oh come on...

"a song that no one would expect you to love"

oh to be less obvious. deeper. mysterious even. never going to happen is it.

no great leap but it's the best i can do... right on for the darkness

spidernet - awake

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day thirteen

2011-06-18T14:47:00.000+01:00

"a song that's a guilty pleasure"

never no no no there ain't no such thing. a pleasure's a pleasure and let's celebrate. in the spirit of the thing mind you i have been known to giggle behind my guardian at a train load of northern manilow supporters taking in all three nights and kept zipped about my keenness for a whole bunch of barry. i feel the change coming i feel the wind blow i feel brave and daring i feel my blood flow... oh i do i do...

barry manilow - weekend in new england

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a word from our sponsors

2011-06-17T14:26:00.000+01:00

99p soulers rejoice! another night of fun and frolics to gobble up next saturday and a delight of a gift from mister rob right now now now to get everyone in the mood

we don't know where in heavens he digs 'em up from but we're awful glad he does

e.t.white and the great potential - got to find a true love

do come and say hello now won't you dears

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day twelve

2011-06-17T11:36:00.001+01:00

oh no you don't

"a song from a band you hate"

why would i?

have another from a lover

the techniques - queen majesty

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day eleven

2011-06-16T19:43:00.000+01:00

gee they love a favourite this lot they surely do

"a song from your favourite band"

they're funny things groups aren't they. they're groups not bands round here. i mean proper ones ones where they're actually groups. not a singer and some blokes but that thing when a bunch of people make a noise that's all of them like when topper left and it wasn't the clash any more and that drummer you know the jazzy one off of those hurrah records and him in the june brides that wasn't brian that kinda spoilt it all. like the go-betweens aren't the go-betweens without lindy morrison. those late lps aren't go-betweens records they're robert and grant records. they're still astounding just not go-betweens records. and that wasn't a specials reunion without jerry dammers. that was some of the specials. it's not the same thing it's just not. and do the impressions count? or little anthony and the imperials? they don't do they. or brasil '66? what about the heptones? i wish it could be little anthony and the imperials. i love little anthony and the imperials.

but ah sod it i'm feeling decidedly bossa right here right now so bossa is it. i know bugger all 'bout them but the only lp i've got is beautiful so today it's this lovely lot

quarteto novo - misturada

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ad break

2011-06-15T14:27:00.000+01:00

ludicrously tardy as ever a litle behind and all and i just know you good good people have been and thumbed your copy to crumpled already but just in case you've not why not go grab yourself some lovely lovely internet you can spill stuff on tear bits out off stick to your wall some actual magazine with real pages and everything imagine that pages paper pages. it's an utterly fabe undertaking you really should have and hold. go buy now

norma jean - i'm a walking advertisement (for the blues)

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day ten

2011-06-15T10:43:00.000+01:00

what? day ten? ten? you mean twenty more to go? oh for heaven's sake...

"a song that makes you fall asleep"

i think they mean a song that you can go to sleep to. a bedtime sort of song. they do don't they. there was a time when my head was so full of clattering and rattling and hell it just needed distracting of a bedtime drowning out shutting up. the thing is records just filled it with other stuff lovelorn stuff as a rule what with your quiet songs almost always being murderous your franks and your tonys and your jonis and your peace peaces that never fail to wake you up ears pricked for the tiniest tinkles that'll leave you wide eyed all night and leave your heart battered forever indoctrinated

so no i don't think there is one. not a song. stories though. when i got my complete radio 4 sherlock holmes on cassette pile off of ebay i was gone to the world. missed the end of almost all of them. but here's one that'll slay you to the end that'll get the lips quivering

sherlock holmes - the casebook of sherlock holmes - the retired colourman

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day nine

2011-06-14T12:42:00.000+01:00

"a song that you can dance to"

truth be known i'm a shuffler. a wiggler. not a stepper. hips not feet. i wish i could do feet but they get a bit too random half way through as a rule. wander. it don't quite get to that natural thing that gliding. cor i wish i could glide. to jazz most of all. glide and twirl. nothing fancy and all not showing off just the odd glide and twirl. still i'm a happy wiggler.

let's stick with the hits

bill withers - kissing my love

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day eight

2011-06-13T11:40:00.000+01:00

"a song you know all the words to"

my dear old pal patrick had a leaving london do years ago oh hell years ago now upstairs in some boozer in fitzrovia i think assorted rocknrollers singing songs and showing off and making us miss him hugely already already and pat knew bruce words and paul knew mott and alex knew bob and all the slurry rest off us thought we knew stay free we met when we were at school never took no shit from no one we were weren't fools something something something something something something you know we piss on everyone in the classroom something something something something weekends we'd go dancing down streatham on the bus choas falling over spillages i love you love you smoking menthol i practiced daily in my room diddle didle diddle do do diddle do you were down the crown planning your next move go on a nicking spree hit the wrong guy each of you gets threeeeee years in brixton i did my very best to write how was butlins were the screws to tiiiiiight when you lot get out we're gonna hit the town we'll burn it fucking down to a cinder cos years have passed and things have changed i move anyway i'm wanna go and i'll never forget the feeling i had when i heard that you got home and i'll never forget the smile on face cos i knew where you would be and if you're in the crown tonight have a drink on me go easy bum bum bum bum step light ly buuuuum stay free

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day seven

2011-06-12T17:02:00.000+01:00

they're struggling already...

"a song that reminds you of a certain event"

hell i'm struggling already. we've already had places people now event. event for gawds sake...

okay okay a quick one ... last sunday afternoon at dingwalls last record of years of delights and huge inspirations and daytime booze ups...

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day six

2011-06-11T21:33:00.000+01:00

i can't take the pace really i can't...

"a song that reminds you of somewhere"

the entire john denver repertoire on the radio cassettte all the way to cornwall i don't know how many years in row. too many. i wouldn't torture you. quite why we didn't have more tapes is a mystery still. and it was a day and half drive. at least. more probably. almost every bowie record is my sister's bedroom with me banging on the wall. you just can't like the same records as your little sister. unless she pinched them off of you then you just like them a little less. and walmer bridge village hall is all manner of joy and pain. something for everyone. the rockers in a circle banging heads too school haired but dreaming of leathers and unimaginary guitars the farmer's boys and girls lined up for quo and the big bagged soulers tank topped and taking up the whole room same steps same songs every fortnight... clap your hands now...

the velvelettes - needle in a haystack

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oh my soul

2011-06-10T20:01:00.000+01:00

quite marvelously another 99p soul has popped out of nowhere just when even i wasn't ready and you know how super prepared and with it we always are round here. i do hope you can join us sweetiepies just don't forget your castanets - you'll be needing them and all your sha la la la loo skills for this...

timi yuro - insult to injury

it'd be really lovely to see you if you're about

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day five

2011-06-10T12:29:00.000+01:00

"a song that reminds you of someone"

my oh my... old friends way long ago back when we all had our thing all desperate for a bit of originality all echo and the bunnymen or section 25 or wire or soft cell or judy street or the fall or gang of four oh you think they're the same but they're not the same your favourite shirt is on the bed do a somersault on your head gee they take you right there don't they those songs but i bet all those folks i think of think of different songs better less cornball ones. mine then would've been an orange juice one i guess. the songs that stuck. oh heck i don't know. places i can do people are hard. whenever heart of gold pops up i think of simon out of bob singing i've been to romford i've been to ilford so i guess that counts but we're clutching at straws here so lets stick with those old days school days and unifying factors

a certain ratio - lucinda

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day four

2011-06-09T18:30:00.000+01:00

oh where do i start...

"a song that makes you sad"

today maybe this will do cos i've just got off of the phone to my dear old dad and these days i'm full to bursting with the terror of him not being about with the terror of how terrifying it must be to be counting down the time the oh my... sorry and all but you know you know... we're that age is all. this is one of his songs one that i can never hear without him stamped right through it. cue floods...

nina simone - mr bojangles

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day three

2011-06-08T08:52:00.002+01:00

ah crap...

"a song that makes you feel happy"

can a song do that? really? these days? those opening thinking of you chords maybe or i want you back but then i want you back is desperate sad like when the bottle used to blow up a dance floor hell when it blew up 99p soul a while back and you can't wipe off a smile no matter how hard you try. like how it's always atrocious when some faker sings a heartbreaker with a stupid camera smirk. oh johnnie ray johnnie ray. and i believe in miracles all of i believe in miracles every blast. then joyce's ba dada bada ba da ayyy oh la can't not never nudge me to brightness not never not ever. but then the majesty of the saddest records in the world make you all privileged to be alive to hear them they raise you up watertown and in the wee small hours and a man alone and all those vast mostly chunks of our record piles but still that ba dada bada ba da ayyy oh la...

joyce - aldeia de ogum

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day two

2011-06-07T11:29:00.001+01:00

oh what am i doing...

"your least favourite song"

imagine has gotta be close. or any of those moptop squeelers. i want to hold your hand or something. hey jude. but really it's got to be something by queen or somebody. something the foul scum from school liked. something that i despise by association that probably isn't even fair or true but stings still. they were crumbs queen too. fakers. i threw a vol au vont at brian may once. in the planetarium. missed by miles obviously studid no sport skills but still. i know that's too easy. that it should be something by some betrayer some let downerer and all but nothing makes me wish i was a fully armed 15 year old like queen. still it was almost worth it for the seconds the classroom scortched with this...

fire engines - get up and use me

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day one

2011-06-06T17:39:00.000+01:00

who's silly idea idea was this...? a thirty day song song challenge. just the thing for kicking the old old girl into action time and vision. pitiful i know. no really i do. aw shucks what the hey...

day one...

"your favourite song"

it's impossible to have a favourite song. we know that. we just do. everyone does. my head's still full of johnny rivers singing it's my own fault what happens to my heart you see i've always known you'd go so that's my favourite today and family affair is pretty much the most perfect bit of 45rpmness there could ever be and all the huge spaces that float your heart in never too much and the big modal chords in mccoy tyner's big fingers and oh you just can't have a favourite. s'impossible. ah rats we all know everyone's is witchita lineman. it can't not be witchita lineman. glen singing it. oh you just know.

and for a special treat how's about sergio's glorious go

sergio mendes & brasil 66 - witchita lineman

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daydreamers

2011-05-30T09:00:00.000+01:00

the schedule's getting stretched squeezed and ever so close to snapping up and at 'em all over the goddamn place this week desperate to get lost in the divinest of crooning... go romantics

ruby and the romantics - daydreaming

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go easy

2011-05-28T13:01:00.000+01:00

aw gil sweetheart... just when we had you back

gil scott heron - pieces of a man

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beatified

2011-05-26T17:00:00.001+01:00

presenting the new patron saint of dustysevens the most fantabulosa ever so bold swinging spectacular little jackie shane... oh my giddy aunt...

jackie shane - any other way

oh just look at the sweetheart go

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with the most hugely grateful thankyous to mr kenneth and the radio shirley contingent for introducing me to such a heavenly soul. you're a star mr k.

to the forever fabe queer music heritagers for so much more

the cbc radio for a whole hours worth of celebration i got mine : the story of jackie shane (go listen dearies)

to derek's daily for stand up straight and tall on 45

leftovers

2011-05-20T16:29:00.001+01:00

this beautiful treasure somehow ended up stuck in a bag at last saturday's super soul soiree so didn't get its big moment its exploding the crowd its whoops and roars. instead it got a shoddy boozy fumble and dribbled with lager so with the crispest of salutes to the fine folks what made it such a lovely do and an oh milton how could i we'll have another go now...

milton nascimento - tudo que voce podia ser

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oooooooohh johnny johnny johnny

2011-05-19T11:52:00.003+01:00

sun shining in the suburban north squirrels dangling off of the tattered bird feeder ducks in the shade washing hung and find that dappled dream of yours rattling round my noggin twanging strings and dire attempts at accents and the only johnny rivers song i know and love. what else is there? where do i start? or is it just that this is jimmy webb? do tell dear pals. and sing along.

johnny rivers - do what you gotta do

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until tomorrow

2011-05-13T18:03:00.000+01:00

see you under the glitterball heartface

stephanie mills - never knew love like this before

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torment tuesday

2011-05-10T20:58:00.002+01:00

little girl it's only you...

cam cameron - they say

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from the always heavenly rob ryan record box... dancing with tears in our eyes

the view from her room

2011-05-09T08:45:00.002+01:00

gee but i do adore the post office tower. well i say do adore and i know i do still deep in at the right angle the awe and wonder and well wonder just whirls me around and i know i'm being precious and snooty and spoilt but...

oh heavens where does the time go eighteen months ago the scaffolding came off and fireworks and awful and dreadful outside my window and i cried my little heart out wept stupid and nights and nights after with the curtains tight

and now still it counts us down wishes us happy and i shake a fist at the cheapness the smallness the bloody nerve

terry callier - look at me now

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seven days is too long

2011-05-06T10:00:00.001+01:00

...oh alright eight days eight days eight days till 99p soul day comes around again. it's crept right up sneaky so now i'm underprepared and overexcited all of a tizz and all over the place and that's before i haven't got a stitch to wear chaos breaks out

some holland dozier holland meet dionne warwick glorious gloriousness should steady the nerves

do pop along if you're that way inclined honeybunches

dionne warwicke - you're gonna need me

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ps

i thought that warwick was spelled warwick but on my lp of this it's warwicke so that's why it's warwicke up there too even if we all know it's wrong

bank holiday bossa

2011-05-02T09:13:00.002+01:00

here we go again... cheer along children

elis regina e zimbo trio - zambi

and what a sleeve huh? there's a lovely book full of them the soul jazzers have just put out ( well i say just put out it was flipping months ago but i'm a little behind) with a couple of companion compilations that'll bossa you up good and proper. i can feel a little series coming on...

i do hope it's sunny where you are - we're off to see a windmill

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suddenly

2011-04-27T21:10:00.001+01:00

oh the thrill of post... the card from bridlington my dad's photos of bluebells from the easter day out with the grandparents of my youth a reminder of the £13.72 that's lived in my building society for years and this glorious treat that brightened the week no end...

"Wow! I am flabbergasted! I wrote and sang lead on "Suddenly You're My Life" when we (Teakwood) recorded it in 1976 near Atlanta, GA (USA)! I would love to find out how this record got into distribution. We were very young then!! We recorded an album in 1977, but it did not include "Suddenly" or "Can You Dig It". It, also, was NEVER released! It's called A DISTANT STAR! I hope to hear from someone VERY soon!!!"

and then even more

"Thanks, Ally! My good friend, Berry Wilson, fellow member of Teakwood who wrote the flip side, "Can You Dig It?", also happened upon this website around the same time I did! It's incredible that 35 years after recording it and with, what we were told, a very limited number of copies printed, that our record seems to, finally, be a hit!! LOL!"

and then the lovely rob ryan who gifted us the tune popped round too

"Hi Fred and Berry,
Hope things are good. I bought your INCREDIBLY FANTASTIC record from a friend around a year ago in London (England) I think he bought it on ebay from the states, I wont tell you how much I paid for it cos my wife might read this and beat me with a pool cue, it's given me many hours of happiness tho - Thank you!
It was on a mix cd we took on holiday last year and as we drove around the hills in Cyprus the kids in the back loved singing along with the 'ooh ooh ' bit, as I did too !
Best Wishes and thanks for your great music guys !"

so if you missed it the first time here's another go with the blinding flipside to boot

thankyou ever so fred and berry

teakwood - suddenly you're my life

teakwood - can you dig it

i wonder what tomorrow's might bring

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torment tuesday

2011-04-26T19:50:00.005+01:00

stupid football. now what am i going to do on saturday afternoons tuesday nights and the occasional monday. it really is just too awful. oh north end...

pass the gin someone

frank sinatra - i'll be around

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bank holiday bossa

2011-04-22T16:40:00.007+01:00

cheer along my sweets

nara edu lobo tamba trio - carcara

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tiny steps

2011-04-14T15:33:00.003+01:00

gently does it

june christy - softly as in a morning sunrise

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away

2011-03-01T12:48:00.002Z

in & out

2011-02-25T19:32:00.002Z

i do hope you'll forgive me dear hearts for rattling on about our 99p soul whatsit so but i do like a bit of dance and it's most awful nice having a little chunk of these here doings living in the great outdoors too really sort of real like. it's just a bit of a worry that you might feel like you're getting bothered into coming or that you'll be in trouble if you don't or there'll be tutting or even worse sighing but that's really not what i meant to happen at all. i just like the idea that there's a do there and a do here too (and over the facebook thing) so that everyone can sort of join in wherever they are. is that alright? i do hope so. have a ball whererver you are duckies

arnold blair - trying to get next to you

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zhooshed

2011-02-22T20:55:00.005Z

...well i say zhooshed what i mean is completely and utterly flapped frazzled unprepared unready un oh everything... four days to go and i'm a disgrace. oh for raymond of mayfair

save me

almost all i know fer sure is this is my first record of the once it's got going a bit bit of the night but i would warn against your actual lying down or candles. health and safety and all. you know.

melanie - lay down

with huge thanks to dane over at all eyes and ears for reminding me what a folk funk anthem of a record this is. thankyou dearie

now take it away raymond...

TWO TONE HAIRSTYLES (aka RAYMOND)

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