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Bryan Burnett | 20:00 UK time, Monday, 23 January 2012

There should be a load of dusting done tonight and thanks to your musical suggestions, household tasks need never be a chore again. Lots of good ones tonight and also some brilliant puns. 'Save All Your Dishes For Me' is still my favourite. Tomorrow I'll be looking for your suggestions of the artists who have been lucky enough to have more than one go at fame. It might be people who have been part of a band then gone solo but I'm really interested in those who have adopted different personas to make it big. Although, saying that, the only one I can think of at this point is Alvin Stardust. Let's see if you can improve on that.

Comments

  • Comment number 1.

    - Chris Spedding - Wombling on

  • Comment number 2.

    TUESDAY



    Willie Nelson. If you harbour doubts, compare to


    Just Dropped In (to see what condition my condition was in) -


    N.B. Willie recorded more than one version of this song. The track from the album

    The Great Divide would be my choice.

    :o)

  • Comment number 3.

    My usual answer:

    Davie Jones with the King Bees - Liza Jane
    The Mannish Boys -I pIty The Fool
    Davie Jones and the Lowe Third - You've Got A Habit Of Leaving
    David Bowie and The Lower Third - I Can't Help Thinking About Me
    Arnold Corns - Moonage Daydream
    David Bowie - Prettiest Star
    Tin Machine -You Belong In Rock n Roll
    Tao Jones Index - Pallas Athena

    I'd go for Prettiest Star or Can't Help Thinking About Me

  • Comment number 4.

    My usual answer:

    - Sagittarius - Beach Boy Bruce Johnston, Byrds producer (and son of Doris Day) Terry Melcher and sometime Sinatra session guitarist Glen Campbell on this psychedelic classic from Tony Usher

  • Comment number 5.

    Abigail Washburn - 'City of Refuge'...fantastic track

    she's a member of...

    The Sparrow Quartet - 'Fall On My Knees'

    and...

    Uncle Earl - 'The Birds Were Singing Of You'

  • Comment number 6.

    Looked that up Julie - great tracks as always.

  • Comment number 7.

    Garth Brooks & his 鈥渁lternative rock star鈥 alter ego Chris Gaines ~ Lost In You

  • Comment number 8.

    D.P. Costello
    The Imposter
    Little Hands of Concrete
    Napoleon Dynamite
    D.P.A. MacManus
    Declan Patrick Aloysius MacManus
    The Right Reverend Jimmy Quickly

    All of course Elvis Costello

    Elvise Costello aka The Impostor - Pills ansd Soap

  • Comment number 9.

    - Freddie Starr & The Midnighters - Once Beatles rivals, their leader has now adopted the persona of a comedian

  • Comment number 10.

    Hello ALL

    The one prominent group that springs to mind.....immediately are :

    Johnny and the self abusers.........who became Simple Minds...

    anything early from them will highlight a flavour of the original when I saw them in The Mars Bar in Glasgow....

    I travel, The American, Chelsa Girl....

    DRT

  • Comment number 11.

    Traveling Wilburys - Where Were You Last Night?

    don't suppose it really fits the bill since they were all famous before anyway. I'm not quite sure of the guidelines for this one.

    Maybe

    Bellbottom Blues - Derek & the Dominos - Eric Clapton

    Scandinavia - Runrig - Bruce Guthro, who replaced Donnie Munro and who's a singer in his own right

    The Outsider - Black Country Communion - Joe Bonamassa, Glenn Hughes, Jason Bonham

    Wheels - Foo Fighters - David Grohl

  • Comment number 12.

    and I'm not sure he gained much fame from this, but he and Lou Hickey (whoever she is) made one good album

    Vanity Kills - Codeine Velvet Club - Jon Fratelli

  • Comment number 13.

    Jefferson Airplane 鈻 Hot Tuna - Jack Cassady & Jorma Kaukonen

    Children of Zion - Hot Tuna

  • Comment number 14.

    #6 Thankyoverymuch Mr MacLean!

  • Comment number 15.

    #11

    Gaie, Apologies I took the idea from Billy Shears (Ringo Starr) & Sgt. Pepper鈥檚 Lonely Heart鈥檚 Club Band.
    ~ With a Little Help From My Friends ;-)

  • Comment number 16.

    OK, Madmac, no need for apologies. I think Black Country Communion fits since it's Joe Bonamassa giving rein to his heavy metal leanings. And Derek & the Dominos?

  • Comment number 17.

    Klark Kent ~ Don't Care

  • Comment number 18.

    Darlene Love's band The Blossoms provided the vocals (as The Rebelettes) on Duane Eddy - 'Dance with The Guitar Man' as well as a load of Phil Spector-produced records released under different names.

    They did get to record using their own name...
    The Blossoms - 'Good Good Lovin''

    In a previous guise as The Dreamers...they'd been Etta James's backing singers on...
    Etta James - 'Good Rockin' Daddy'

  • Comment number 19.

    Hello, long time no blog. Attended the Gerry Rafferty tribute concert. It was FANTASTIC. Met some folk. JFE tells me his 主播大秀 contacts say the concert will be broadcast in February. Looking forward to that.

  • Comment number 20.

    The early line-up of the girl group The Cookies were also Ray Charles's Raelettes

    The Cookies - 'Chains'

  • Comment number 21.

    #19 I never said any such thing ;o)

  • Comment number 22.

    My sources say 1st Feb 主播大秀 2 1 hour long special - nice to see you back on the blog JFR

  • Comment number 23.

    #19 It was the original JFE not the Reekie one :-)

  • Comment number 24.

    from the rough and tumble of sorting out the new york underworld, whoever would have thought he could sing as well.................

    'dont give up on us'...................david soul

    cheers frae the dale

  • Comment number 25.

    #23...I beg your pardon Jan but I'm neither unoriginal nor reekie!

  • Comment number 26.

    It is true.....

  • Comment number 27.

    - Blue - Shades of The Poets and Marmalade, but who is mystery pianist Redget Buntavan?

  • Comment number 28.

    Well, we know Garry Glitter is on the banned list... but what about Paul Raven and his now admittedly rather ironic title "All Grown Up"?

    No... okay... I thought so.... someone raised this subject on air the other week, I can't remember the context but it did set me off thinking.... are our musical memories only valid and accessible to us dependant upon the later behaviour of the performer.

    And, if it is... is that not the theft of our history,our memory.

    Indiscriminate revisionism? I don't think James Brown is banned and I'm sure I heard a Phil Spector produced record the other week.Should anyone who's been busted be banned too? Public Indecency? Drunk Driving?

    Same debate as the Shred's knighthood, I suppose?

    regardez youse

    henri

  • Comment number 29.

    - lyme & cybelle - Stephen lyme had more success as Warren Zevon. He would have been 65 today.

  • Comment number 30.

    Hello Again....

    Fame x2........potentials....

    Belinda Carlisle as a GO Go.........Heaven is a Place on Earth.....the video for it was directed by Diane Keaton...who had fame as an acclaimed actress......

    Or even Jane Weidlen...guitarist with the Go Go's......then as a solo artist with.....
    Rush Hour...

    Or

    Boxcar Racer....Travis Barker & Thomas de Longe...from Blink 182.......with
    THERE IS

    DRT

  • Comment number 31.

    #28

    Sounds like a theme. I've got Charlie Manson's album somewhere....

  • Comment number 32.

    THOUGHTS HAVE TURNED by THE PHLORESCENT LEECH AND EDDIE

    Mark Volman and Howard Kaylan were also members of The Turtles and The Mothers of Invention as well as backing vocalists to (amongst others) T.Rex, Steely Dan, Ray Manzarek, Roger McGuinn, David Cassidy, Keith Moon, Stephen Stills, Alice Cooper, Bruce Springsteen, Blondie, Jefferson Airplane, Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes, Ramones and Duran Duran.

  • Comment number 33.

    Stuart Adamson
    Skids (Circus Gmes),
    Big Country (Fragile),
    Raphaels (Shattered Cross)

  • Comment number 34.

    #33 all also suggested for Burns Night especially Shattered Cross

  • Comment number 35.

    The Guardian are running Laughing Lenny's new album as a stream - superb.

    Bryan takes The Guardian, so he'll be up for shouts form this album.

    Thing is, Laughing Lenny has only ever been Laughing Lenny, a bonus for Babs on the night but Going 主播大秀 - Leonard Cohen from the new album would be good for Burns Night.

    rergardez youse

    henri

  • Comment number 36.

    Strangely enough, as he gets (even) older, Lenny gets more like Tom Waits.

  • Comment number 37.

    #35 yes agreed

    #36 no not agreed

  • Comment number 38.

    Erase edgy

    Gene donator

  • Comment number 39.

    Fair fa' yer honest sonsie face,
    Great Chieftans o' the Blogging Race,
    Abune them aw ye tak yer place,
    Mail, Text or Facebook,
    Aw your music is good taste,
    Fae Gong tae Dr Hook

    Springsteen, Bowie, Floyd and PIL
    Kassidy, Lulu, Jansch and Tull
    We mak' oor lists, we mak' them still
    Tho' themes repeat
    Of space and colours we've had oor fill
    Lost jotter indeed!

    Folk tell o whit they're aboot tae eat
    Risotto or quiche, langoustine or meat
    A glass o' wine seems the norm no' a treat
    Nae common ale!
    In kitchens a' ower they jig tae the beat
    Or text wi' a tale

    No' a' folks are eagerly clearing their plate
    Some drivin' hame or stuck on the M8
    Or rushin' wi' weans tryin' no' tae be late
    To karate class
    It helps when the songs and tunes are a' greaaayyyt
    Then we're no sae fasht

    We tune in efter six wi' oor lugs pinned back
    We're hopin' tae hear that favourite track
    We've ploughed our collection, looked through the stack
    Spotified or Googled
    We want sangs and mair sangs, nae yakety yak
    Keep the gigglin' frugal!

    The groaning producer鈥檚 here again
    Her hurdies? Dinnae mention them,
    She tries her best, but it鈥檚 aye the same
    Playlist debate
    Blog sangs ignored again an again
    Fae six til eight

    Bryan鈥檚 knife see rustic labour dight,
    Cuts playlist up wi' ready sleight,
    鈥漌e鈥檙e no playin that the nicht!鈥
    Babs, take a look!
    Switch on the Mac an hae a sicht,
    What鈥檚 on Facebook 鈥

    Then, sang for sang, they stretch an' strive:
    Deil tak the bloggers! On they drive,
    Till a' the weel-kaint sangs revive
    In themes like 鈥淒rums鈥;
    Then auld Burnett, maist like to rive,
    Bethankit! Hums.

    鈥漌e鈥檒l hae tae pit on Blondie noo
    An鈥 sangs that widnae flee a coo!鈥
    Proclaimers? Thon wad make ye spew
    An thump yer fist,
    Wha鈥 takes a sneering, scornfu' view
    O鈥 sic a playlist?

    Poor devils! Listenin tae sic trash,
    As feckless as wither'd rash,
    What they鈥檙e needin鈥檚 a guid whip-lash,
    Tae bring them roond!
    Nae mair tracks like 鈥淢onster Mash鈥 :
    Play Bloggers soonds!

    For mark the Blog, they urnae dull,
    Their trembling earth resounds tae Tull,
    Bragg an Floyd, turn them up full
    An shake the trees
    Liked fae Fife Ness tae Soond o Mull,
    Wick tae Dumfries .

    Ye Pow'rs, wha鈥檚 playlist taks the air,
    And dishes oot this bill o' fare,
    Beeb Scotland has tae take mair care;
    They鈥檝e waited long
    Hear the Bloggers gratefu' prayer
    An鈥 Get It On!


    DC & Gaie

  • Comment number 40.

    I think that is a brilliant effort from both of you - just superb (for the 3rd year? in a row).

  • Comment number 41.

    #39/40

    Absolutely Brilliant. Once again - well done - 3rd year.

    Productiion Team - Youse have to do this on Burns night, surely?

    regardez youse

    henri

  • Comment number 42.

    DC, I deserve little credit for that, you've done an absolutely superb job again.
    Weel done, Cutty Sark!

  • Comment number 43.

    Googled/frugal - near genius

  • Comment number 44.

    Tae summarise wad be ma wish
    The blog's the gowd
    The programme's pish!

  • Comment number 45.

    #1

    Chris Spedding also played some of his finest in the Jack Bruce band of 1972 -

    Jack Bruce - Post War from Harmony Row, featuring Chris Spedding -it's better than Motorbikin'!

    regardez youse

    henri

  • Comment number 46.

    #43 aye, could've got it right if I'd spent a couple more minutes - how often, how often!

    here's tonight's revised guidelines:

    ' artists who have had more than one go at fame. It might be artists who have been part of a band then gone solo such as Annie Lennox and Beyonce, or lead singers who found fame in two different bands such as Paul Heaton who fronted The Housmartins then The Beautiful South.'

    AKA - What a Life - Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds

    c'm,on, Get it On, Tom Morton's got it.

  • Comment number 47.

    on the subject of which - there's almost no one our jack hasn't played with...

    The White Heather Club..John Mayall, Alexis Korner, Graham Bond Organisation, Manfred Mann, Cream, Lifetime,West Bruce & Laing, BBM, and zillions of variants of the Jack Bruce Band... played with everyone from Jimi Hendrix to Carla Blay to the 主播大秀 Big Band, to John Cage..culminating in tomorrow night's collaboration with Lau for Celtic Connections.... let's make it easy....

    I Feel Free - Cream makes a change from 'sunshine'.

    Progress - Jack Bruce Jack and a piano.

    regardez youse

    henri

  • Comment number 48.

    Recently the themes have been revised, stretched, twisted, squeezed and contorted until they toe the party line.

  • Comment number 49.

    I like Jack Bruce. He was great in Cream and I even went to see him with Carla Bley and Mick Taylor on 3rd June 1975 at the Apollo. But I think if I read his name here again I'm going to scream.

  • Comment number 50.

    Gary Clark:

    Danny Wilson - Second Summer of Love

    King L - First Man On The Sun

    Or as a solo artist We Sail On The Stormy Waters

  • Comment number 51.

    #49

    Whose name?

  • Comment number 52.

    Here's a group of talented lads:

    Eric Stewart: The Mindbenders

    Graham Gouldman: Songwriter for Yardbirds, Hollies, Herman's Hermits, Wayne Fontana among others

    Lol Creme: Hotlegs:Art Of Noise: Kate Bush etc Godley & Creme

    Kevin Godley: Hotlegs: Godley & Creme

    but most vibrantly as 10CC an embarrassment of riches where do we start.......

    The Sacro Illiac - 10CC or

    Blackmail - 10CC

    Hotel -10CC

    all brilliant.

    rergardez youse

    henri

    PS Eric Stewart is married to Lol Creme's wife's sister.

  • Comment number 53.

    Fame x 3 - Johnny McElhone

    Hipsway - Ask The Lord

    Altered Images - Don't Talk To Me About Love

    Texas - Everyday Now

  • Comment number 54.

    Henri's Reason's to love Paul McCartney:

    the Beatles - Wings - The Fireman - Percy Thrillinton - Paul Ramon etc etc

    To be fair, McCartney did do it all twice. The Beatles ended with all the money frozen... Hence ballad's like My Love, which generated a few quid - check the B sides - McCartney got a transit van and did little university gigs to establish Wings in the only way he knew how. Lennon hugely admired that ' back to the beginning' mentality " I couldn't have done it" said John.

    MoJo's reasons to love Paul McCartney No 1: Maybe I'm Amazed

    on the subject of John:

    Plastic Ono Band - Instant Karma.

    both brilliant.

    regardez youse

    henri

  • Comment number 55.

    #39 Well done

  • Comment number 56.

    #49

    I was at that gig. I'll come up with an alias in future. Sorry faither.All that is required is for our hero to play something form the solo career, and then I'll shut up.

    Make Love - John Symon Asher Bruce :-))

    regarrdez youse

    henri

  • Comment number 57.

    Maybe GlenEric should do "To A Bruce" tomorrow?

  • Comment number 58.

    Graham Gouldman + Andrew Gold = Wax...'Bridge To Your Heart'

  • Comment number 59.

    Have tae say that the show so far has been very good indeed, even though the blog has hardly got a mention..........

  • Comment number 60.

    #5

    Julie, Abigail Washburn was the track of the night for me. I've downloaded the album!

  • Comment number 61.

    Pay for it next time. Piracy is killing music.

  • Comment number 62.

    Yi, crap

  • Comment number 63.

    #60...I'm so glad DC...I loved hearing it.

  • Comment number 64.

    Naw, Gail - a' rubbish

  • Comment number 65.


    Friday's theme reminds me of my honeymoon...


    >8-D

  • Comment number 66.

    #39


    DC & Gaie, whit can Ah say? Pure dead brilliant, by the way!

    :o)

  • Comment number 67.

    Bryan never mentioned it. Maybe we've offended him.



    Again.....

  • Comment number 68.

    I doubt the blog got much reading - planning for Burns night will be dominating... and our hero has more of a sence of humour than that - he was tickled by last year's Blog O'Shanter.

    Mind you I don't think he was best pleased by 'blog bingo', which I thought was hilarious - I thought he'd have played along by dropping the key phrases into the dialogue.

    I think that's why Wogan became the doyen of Radio, he played along with his audience, creating a clubby, family 'in- joke' feel to his time on air - it was inclusive and he was relaxed with his audience to the point of absurdity.

    Certainly, if he'd been presented with this level of originality and committment from the listeners, he'd have not only acknowledged it, he'd have promoted it and joined in.

    The poem is really good - it deserves to be heard and I can't think of a better night for it than Burns night.

    I shall miss the show.... Smiffy and will be off to see J*** B****

    regardez youse

    henri



    regardez youse

    henri

  • Comment number 69.

    Coincidentally I will be attending a Burns Supper in J*** B****'s home town. I'll search for the plaque.

    The poem is excellent but the readership of this blog must be in single figures.

  • Comment number 70.

    #67 maybe you should cut & paste it back to the Burns thread, DC?

  • Comment number 71.

    And could we please not have anyone saying Happy Burns Day. Pure does ma' nut in.

    Eric, you're right. Madmac's solved his identity crisis and even Adam's been AWOL for a couple of days now. Now we are around 8 I think. :0(

  • Comment number 72.

    Last one left alive keeps the money

  • Comment number 73.

    Well done DC / Gaie. Very clever. I've always found it too difficult to write poetry in a language i dont understand. See Burns and Shakespeare. For a couple of national bards they have never stirred my soul or given me any kind pf pleasure. They just do nothing for me. Hope that doesnt make me a bad person.

    I have been to two burns suppers in my life and I have another on saturday. Thoroughly enjoyed them but that was down to the company and the drink rather than the burns and the supper. i have never enjoyed eating the entrails bit.

    Will be listening tonight on my way home to see what new music Burns would have approved of.

    Personally I think he would have enjoyed a pint with an adopted scot and sharing stories of their conquests over the years

    Tonights the night / Rod Stewart

  • Comment number 74.

    You're right - that Shakespeare's just a lot of quotations strung together to make a story.

  • Comment number 75.

    #47 Not to mention Frank Zappa

    #49 Not to mention Jack Bruce

  • Comment number 76.

    Another Burns descendant, Hugh played with JB (and Jacko and the sainted Macca) but is famed for the Baker Steet guitar solo.

  • Comment number 77.

    #72 hope he or she outlives Megrahi

    DC

  • Comment number 78.

    nothing can outlive Megrahi

  • Comment number 79.

    Wur doooooooooooomed Mister Mainwaring

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