1000000 songs from SPOTIFY about...

[johncorrigan]

Thanks Paul - she already has some serious interest.

http://www.cawdelldouglas.com/files/Frances%20Law_Inception.jpg

When we go to Iona I always think of this one of Mr Betjeman - maybe you can't get much further than St Pancras from the Hebrides but this is golf for me.

http://www.sanjeev.net/poetry/betjeman-john/seaside-golf-182200.html

[Paul Sherratt]

Reminds me of the day the boss sunk a hole in one at the eighteenth ... at the putting green on Porthminster Beach in St Ives ! Actually I do have that Betjeman on an LP which is quite well worn !

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2639/3757982435_5c2413fb4f.jpg

Hope the art interest grows ( like your grand moustache ? )

[Globaltruth]

Just had a tweet from Spottle apparently one of our playlists has entered the Spotify charts.
Try and control your excitement, more later...

[Paul Sherratt]

>>>Try and control your excitement

I had anticipated that the main thrill would be coming from the day ahead - managing the fixing of the broken public drains on
on my business premises ( United "they fail" Utilities performing to the usual expectations ) but THIS NEWS has topped that !
Virtual Spittle on the keyboard at the thought :smiley :

[Globaltruth]

Just had a tweet from Spottle apparently one of our playlists has entered the Spotify charts.
Try and control your excitement, more later...

.... it's on the
Spotichart. If anyone finds a way of locating it do let me know, there doesn't seem to be a search facility. We're not Number 1 (yet).

[johncorrigan]

.... it's on the
Spotichart. If anyone finds a way of locating it do let me know, there doesn't seem to be a search facility. We're not Number 1 (yet).

Can't wait till we go platinum....I'm fed up with this greying moptop!

[Lateralthinking1]

Excellent news about Spotty. Quality can be popular after all. Broadcasters please note.

Time for "Questions, Questions" - What was the connection between Tito Puente and the Carter Sisters? Who is the mystery person who put in Gene Kelly? Who was the first person to read out the football scores in a sing-songy voice (Forfar 5, voice raised to the skies, East Fife 4, voice down in the boots)?

Nice poems from JB. I'm still waiting for someone else to remember that early 1970s programme "Colour Me Cornwall" - "A beautiful evening in Cornwall, with fishermen out in their boats, hear only the oars in the rowlocks, and water against the floats". No prizes for guessing how the kids used to sing the third line.

[johncorrigan]

I just went from timbal to timber, Lat...I know, pretty feeble but I liked them both.

James Alexander Gordon started it and continues to this day on R5 footie results.

I've got Global on that excellent G Kelly track....and no I don't know anything about Cornwall but one day I will go there.

[Lateralthinking1]

Not feeble at all, John. Me being stupid. Was JAG really the originator? I assumed he was the latest in a long line. He deserves recognition for it seriously. The Gene Kelly is oddly unattributed on mine. Have you noted Dr Goon? No contribution yet so I was rather hoping.

You must go to Cornwall one day. I have walked a lot of the South West Coast Path in bits and pieces. Both the Lizard and Lands End peninsulas are really worth it - if rather different from each other. As for the rest, it is North Devon and Dorset over South Devon for me while the Somerset coast has an ordinary, bleak, sort of appeal.

[Globaltruth]

I just went from timbal to timber, Lat...I know, pretty feeble but I liked them both.

James Alexander Gordon started it and continues to this day on R5 footie results.

I've got Global on that excellent G Kelly track....and no I don't know anything about Cornwall but one day I will go there.

Cornwall? Make sure you get some travel advice before you visit this possibly mythical floating island....

The spotty charts thing - still haven't worked out which one but I will, but I feel we're now on a mission - public service broadcasting. Yay.

[Lateralthinking1]

.......The Fugs - v big in Galicia.

[Globaltruth]

.......The Fugs - v big in Galicia.

Glad you liked them. Tuli left the planet last year sadly.
Here he is doing another song off the album in his own inimitable style
Bum's song

[Lateralthinking1]

Will listen to that later. Must rush off again - a lot of toing and froing. Just to say that in the early nineties I asked a French teacher at work if she and I could have a lesson on song lyrics. She said "yes, great". Quite innocently, although I think I had my suspicions, I took in the Mlah album.

She took one look at it, coughed, turned several shades of bizarre colours, and rushed out to get a glass of water. When I said "what's up, are you alright?" she replied "ooh la la, ooh la la, ooh la la, I don't think I can do that". This was followed by a kind of glare for the rest of the hour. To this day, that is a key part of the album's intriguing appeal. And I'm still none the wiser.

[Globaltruth]

Will listen to that later. Must rush off again - a lot of toing and froing. Just to say that in the early nineties I asked a French teacher at work if she and I could have a lesson on song lyrics. She said "yes, great". Quite innocently, although I think I had my suspicions, I took in the Mlah album.

She took one look at it, coughed, turned several shades of bizarre colours, and rushed out to get a glass of water. When I said "what's up, are you alright?" she replied "ooh la la, ooh la la, ooh la la, I don't think I can do that". This was followed by a kind of glare for the rest of the hour. To this day, that is a key part of the album's intriguing appeal. And I'm still none the wiser.

the continuing wonders of the internet mean that this can be revealed if you want

Les negresses verte IN ENGLISH !

Perhaps this one may have cause a young French teacher to be concerned
Albert & his grandmother

[Lateralthinking1]

I will have a look at these later. Looking forward to it. Also noticed that I've got some goodies in my Spotty inbox. Thanks sender. Got quite an in-tray now - Nina Pt 2 too. All should help with the Job Centre Uncivil Service Blues. First proper time today. System shock. Will the Real Great Britain stand up please? It is currently gh-aaaaargh-stly.

http://open.spotify.com/track/1U9O1guCpJLoaGVJrjaZ3G