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Mon

Schwinn 24 - Kinky Friedman

Tue

Searching For A Heart - Warren Zevon

Wed

Wild Thing - Jordan Christopher and the Wild Ones - Chip Taylor

Thur

Dancing Queen - The Yayhoos

Monday:

Ooh Las Vegas - Cowboy Junkies

San Diego Serenade - nanci Griffith

Tuesday:

Doctor My Eyes - Jackson Browne

My Big Nurse - David Byrne / Brian Eno (you would not be dissapointed, but sadly not for radio play due to a bad word)

Oh Sister - Bob and Emmylou

Wednesday:

Last Cigarette - Boo Hewerdine or kd Lang

Patience of Angels - Boo Hewerdine or Edi Reader

Thursday:

way more than a £ for either

Springsteen - Dream Baby Dream

Gene Clark - Lifes Greatest Fool

Justin Currie - If I Ever Loved You (or anything from one of the best ever albums)

Stevie Wonder - presenters choice

Thursday:

Lady in green:

"Hey gringo. With these two bags you'll make it to Antarctica."

Monday:

As I have previously posted, I workout listening to Get It On. My enjoyment of the show (apart from the brilliant tunes and the accompanying patter!) is keeping time to the tracks while keeping "Time" on my exercise bike. Whilst I am "On a road to nowhere", I do "Miles and miles" on "My white bicycle". I reckon I have cycled a fair distance as a result of the show, but without pink lycra...!!!!

My track of choice is "Route 66" by the Rolling Stones

£50 to Children in Need if this gets played.

Ach I'll donate it anyway

DC in Cellardyke

BTW As well as Children In Need I am having a charity lunch in the office tommorrow for my Dept and the funds are going to Frank In Denny's Tach Fund....



Get yer hands in your pockets! A quid makes a difference.

Caption
This is what you could have won...

#4
Wot no Bike / Pink Floyd

monday
Get out of Denver / Bob Seger
Hollywood Nights / Bob Seger
anchorage / michelle shocked
California / Manfred Mann's Earthbanf

tues
I remember playing doctors and nurses as a kid.....quite vividly!

Down at the doctors / Doctor Feelgood
Doctor Wu / Steely Dan
Like a surgeon / Weird Al Yankovic

wed
Loving you's a dirty job (but somebody's got to do it)/Bonnie Tyler & Todd Rundgren (Jim Steinman)
One of Steinmans Best songs

Thu
Superman / Five for Fighting (worth a tenner)
The Shivers / Hercules Mandarin (worth £50 quid)

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Monday really does have to be
* Pink Floyd - Bike

and if that fails, then I'll just have to request it for Thursday.

By the way, given that this year's CiN theme is 'Do Something Different', I'm pledging £100 to be a guest producer of the show... but need at least 5 of you to join me:

(the access PIN is 80295)

Also need the show to agree to this, but for a minimum £600, surely they will. Miss Babs..?

I'd rather have ReggaeRadio as producer.

#10

No - I'm Spartacus!

Monday's track of choice has got to be Sponsored Pedal Pusher's Blues by The Waterboys. Ace track and absolutely fits the theme like no other in the history of the show!

...ehm, or Puncture Repair by Elbow :-)

Bit of a wide theme for Monday is it no? You could do a week easy with cycling and the Americas.
Still, I'd better get a plug in for my toon.

I Go To Rio - Peter Allen
Rio de Janeiro - Barry White
Rio - Mike Nesmith
Atlantic Avenue - Average White Band.
(I was on Avenida Atlantica on my bike last Sunday afternoon, so there's a double whammy).


Oh and a great opportunity for Queen's Bicycle Race to take over the mantle of GIO's most played song from ........any ideas?

Mon.
From The Indies To The Andes In His Undies - The Hoosier Hotshots.
Veracruz - Warren Zevon.
Tijuana Brass - Herb Apert.
Free Mexican Airforce - Peter Rowan.
El Paso - Kinky Friedman.

Monday

Get On It - Re XT

Tuesday

Sister Driving - The Tom The Pool

Wednesday

Black and Blue Sky - Jack E Brownson

Thursday

Ma Roon, Ed - Dinky Flop

Mon. One of the finest Scottish bands ever. It surprises me they're not asked for more often on a Scottish request show. Their brilliant and superior cover of

MY WHITE BICYCLE - Nazareth

ENGLAND 2 COLOMBIA 0 - Kirsty MacColl

VOODOO CHILE - Jimi Hendrix ;-)

#10

If you pull it off play WOND'RING ALOUD - Jethro Tull and dedicate it to Rachael.

#16
About a Quarter to Nine.

#14

3 possibles.

'Fat-Bottomed Girls' - Queen

'Get It On' - Marc Bolan & T.Rex

'Video Killed The Radio Star' - The Buggles

I will not mention Morrissey as I have no wish to alienate our beloved presenter before Thursday's show, for which I intend to raid the piggy-bank.

>8-D

MONDAY

'North to Alaska' - Johnny Horton

'Kansas City Star' - Roger Miller

'Cowboy Hat in Dallas' - Charlie Daniels Band ~ mentions 11 States & 18 towns/cities

'That's Right, (You're Not From Texas)' - Lyle Lovett

Barstow - Jay Farrar.

#22

Hi All..

For Mon...

Scott Walker ...................... Lights of Cincinnati

For Tues..

Doobie Brothers.................. The Doctor

For Wed...

Johnny Mercer...

Ella ............... Somethings gotta give
Frank.............One For My Baby (And One More For the Road)



Thanks again to everyone for their donations : {)

#6 LOL

"Okay, one last time. This is small, but the ones out there are far away..."

Thoughts for the week ahead:

Monday: (Apologies, I lost control of my list (again))

Slave labour - Mariachi El Bronx
Road to Ensenada - Lyle Loveatt
On a bus to St Cloud - Trisha Yearwood
Alabama song - Allison Moorer
Portland Oregon - Loretta Lynn
Atlantic City - Springsteen
Do you know the way to to San Jose - Dionne Warwick
Boulder to Birmingham - Emmylou Harris
Midnight train to Georgia - Gladys Knight and the Pips
Blue Ridge Mountains - Fleet Foxes
8 Miles from Memphis - The Grid
Las Vegas Turnaround - Hall & Oates
Lake Charles - Lucinda williams
San Diego Serenade (good call Norrie) or Goodnight New York - Nanci Griffith
New York, New York - Ryan Adams
From Brighton Beach to Santa Monica - The Clientele

Tuesday:(Kept short as a penance)

Little sister - Ry Cooder
Rock'n'roll Doctor - Little Feat
Bad Case of Loving You (Doctor Doctor) - Rober Palmer
Sister Rosetta Goes Before Us - Plant/Krauss

Wednesday:

Holland–Dozier–Holland: Baby Love - The Supremes
Holland-Dozier-Holland & Moy: This Old Heart of Mine - Isley Brothers
Chinn-Chapman: Tiger Feet - Mud or Ballroom Blitz - Sweet
Burt Bacharach: I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself - Dusty Springfield
Diane Warren - How do I live - Trisha Yearwood
Jimmy Webb: Still Within the Sound of My Voice - Linda Ronstadt or Wichita Lineman - Maria McKee
Cole Porter: Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye - Ella Fitzgerald
Bert Kaempfert: Starngers in the Night - Sinatra
Harlan Howard: I Fall to Pieces - Trisha Yearwood/Aaron Neville

Thursday:

So Long St. Christopher - Goldheart Assembly
Low Rising - Swell Season
Heaven never seemed so close - Kill it Kid
Slave labour - Mariachi El Bronx
Relator - Yorn/Johansson
This life - Curtis Stigers
Seven Day Mile - The Frames
This old heart of mine - Isley Brothers

Have agood weekend all

Joe
Linlithgow

#26 usual outstanding suggestions from Joe K.

#26

Been working in your lovely town all week Joe...

#28

Frank,



>8-D

Howdi Bryan & team

MONDAY

The cycling journey started in Anchorage, so Michelle Shocked's "Anchorage" would be the obvious way to start the programme?

However since the cycling journey ends in South America, how about the beautiful "Third World Man" from Steely Dan's 'Gaucho' album - or even the bizarre lyric and musical brilliance of the track 'Gaucho' itself.

Lastly, for Monday,any programme about traveling in America is an excuse to play Marvin Gaye's "Inner City Blues".

Surely, my fellow blogger, Glen Miller, will suggest St Louis Blues March,Tuxedo Junction or that unpronounceable/unspellable Choo -Choo one for Monday's show? Sorry, I couldn't resist that.

I agree,Bryan,it would be a help to get some further photographic material on the blog, featuring a woman who has promised to kiss me, complete with pink leotard,(way above my expectations, but hell, why not?) and play 'Blackmail' by 10CC (if it can be found) in exchange for £100 towards CIN, on Thursday.

There are lots of other tracks I'd shell out lots of quids to hear played for a good cause - among them,

Tickets to Waterfalls - Jack Bruce
I Believe In You - Talk Talk
The Mess/Somedays - Paul McCartney

I expect many of my fellow bloggers feel the same way - it would be a way of getting the less obvious, but superb, played - maybe the show should be extended to raise lots of quids?

I'd also be up for that guest producer for charity idea, it could be called 'the lunatics have made a contribution to the asylum' - but I doubt they'd do it - too nervy of the invasion of the annoraks, perhaps.

It does show, though that there is a pent up demand to hear less obvious, more eclectic music as suggested by the audience.

regardez - vous

Henri

#29

Heyyyy!!!

#29





no wayyy wayyyy

Uh-huh.

Just don't request for a while...

>8-D

#14 A proclaimers track I would guess?

#34

The Eurythmics, Annie Lennox and T Rex are played a lot. Bowie and Springsteen too.

Bowie and Springsten are not played enough!

Especially Bowie.

And Tull.

Monday - Cycling Across The Americas:
Sponsored Pedal Pusher's Blues - The Waterboys
Puncture Repair - Elbow
Delaware - Perry Como
Clear Across America Tonight - Alabama
Viva Las Vegas - ZZ Top
Calling America - ELO
New York, New York - Gerard Kenny
City Of New Orleans - John Denver
My White Bicycle - Nazareth
Pennsylvania 6-5000 - Glenn Miller
Manhattan Skyline - A-ha
Sacramento - Middle Of The Road
Mexico - James Taylor
Nicaragua Libre - The Pogues
Highway Chile - The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Rio - Duran Duran
Copacabana (At The Copa) - Barry Manilow
Miss Argentina - Iggy Pop
Caribbean Moon - Kevin Ayers

#30

henri hannah,

If you live in or around Glasgow and have a copy of 'The Original Soundtrack' on CD I would suggest popping in to ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ HQ at PQ and letting the team borrow it. If you have any Jake Thackray or Jethro Tull albums on CD, take them in as well.

As for eclecticism, we are only an exiguous component of the GIO audience. Just like everyone else, I am convinced that even the best of the shows would benefit from the playing of my requests!

Aside from a wee aberration here and there the songs we bloggers urge Bryan to play are pure quality, man! Alas, Bryan must keep everyone happy, no' jist us.

TUESDAY

'Doctor to My Disease' - Jethro Tull

'Goodness Gracious Me' - Peter Sellers & Sophia Loren

'To the Blood Bank, Cabbie! I Wish to Make a Withdrawal!' - Dr. Acula

Monday
Les Bicyclettes de Belsize / Mireille Matthieu

Nothing too american about it but I like the way she rolls her Rs :-)


#14 good shout for Peter allen but best Rio songs are
Blame it on Rio / James taylor
Rio de Janeiro blue / Randy crawford

#14, #20, #34 & #35

Hanging on the Telephone - Blondie
Jimmy Jimmy \ My Perfect Cousin - Undertones
Angel of Harlem - U2 (Once played three nights on the trot. Most likely played again on Tuesday).

Plus a song from the Proclaimers and one from Johnny Cash, just not sure which ones.

Captain R, Stato of the Blog, probably knows best.

#42 - Dont know that Randy Crawford song, Pablito. I`ll check it out.

#14 etc. I don't keep any stats myself but the answer has to be.....

Dignity - Deacon Blue

Must be due for retiral I'd say!

Should that be retial?

Or even retrial?

Perhaps the Get It On format has run its course. We know what we're going to get and what we're not going to get. Themes are being repeated (composers for one)and the music is predictable. Is it time for a change?

#47

Glen - The argument, by extension, dooms all radio, television, and popular music in general unless it's weird and experimental. For many people their is a certain comfort and enjoyment in the experience of the familiar which is why stories have a beginning a middle and an end, for example. Yes, I'd like to hear some different artists on the show, but that doesn't mean that by definition it is 'finished'.

A sizable chunk of radio and television is trying to be weird and experimental and is failing dismally, Vive la différence.

#48

So Get It On is the new Archers?

#48

No - but perhaps reality is the new black.

I dialled 6-5000 and got this:

I ws trying to think of some Americas songs which related more to the indigenous peoples of the Americas and could only come up with these but I am sure some of the regular bloggers would have better ideas:

Indigo Girls - Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee
Little Steven - Native American
Ry Cooder - Onda Callejera

#40 - thanks for that. I'll do that before Thursday.

'Eclectic' was the wrong word, upon reflection - 'less obvious' would do.

I agree.

Bryan and the team do a fantastic job in what must be quite frantic circumstances on the night, because of the vox - pop/inter active aspect of the show - it has to bend to demand,as texts, emails and blogs come in - therefore, de facto, the more obscure requests will be mostly overlooked, - but that some get played is great.

Curiously enough, although I agree with you about each of us imagining that our requests would improve a good show, it's the less obvious requests of other listeners that do it for me. For example, recently, requests were played for The Robert Cray Band and Paloma Faith - I've since bought music by both (and other artists requested) which, even if I was aware of, wasn't really familiar with.

I suppose what I'm driving at is that there is another show or format still to be explored which 'democratises' the D.J. John Peel was crucially aware that his influencial position was ludicrous - he was no better judge of what was 'good', than anyone else.

Reading this blog, it is quite plain that there is great diversity in what people really listen to, as opposed to what is requested to fit with the theme for the evening.

In that regard, Thursday's show, in which people merely pay for what they want to hear, will be really interesting.

There are surprisingly few good cycling songs - I think that Luka Bloom with The Acoustic Motorbike captures the hard work and joy of cycling well.

A theme on Latin America might work well in the future - and I'd love to hear Boat to Bolivia by Martin Stephenson and the Daintees tonight.

#47, #48: Interesting discussion Glen/Jim. I think on the whole, we could have more unplayed or seldom played artists on... I would still like to get some Mark Erelli, or Richard Shindell played (who I know I am always going on about!!), but having said that we have had 'The Wailin' Jennys' and 'Seth Lakeman' recently, and you can't have it all.

And while we're on the subject of unplayed artists, what IS the score with Jethro Tull?

Anyhow: MONDAY:

Baltimore: Mark Erelli
Sparrows Point: Richard Shindell
Why Georgia: John Mayer
Arlington: The Wailin' Jennys
Mainline Florida: Eric Clapton

MONDAY

Anyone remember a quirky drama series set in Cicely, Alaska? One of the few programmes worth watching on TV.
A possible alternative to Michelle Shocked;

'Theme from Northern Exposure' - David Schwartz

The main character was Dr. Joel Fleischman, so it might work for Tuesday also.

Mary Margaret O'Connell was played by Janine Turner, the sexiest woman on this or any other planet.

Northern Exposure?

hi, brian saw you this morning in a coffee shop ,the scones were unbelievable, but anyway,some thoughts for Monday's show,
Boston - more than a feeling
chicago - hard habit to break or hard to say I'm sorry
or anything from kansas.

David in renfrewshire

MONDAY:
'Talk to me of MENDOCINO' - a journey song by Kate and Anna McGarrigle.
'El Paso'-Marty Robbins
I'll second the request for 'Get Out Of DENVER'(I also like the Dave Edmunds version).

MONDAY - AMERICAS
Boat To Bolivia - The Daintees

TUESDAY - MEDICAL
Emergency Case - The Undertones

WEDNESDAY - SONG WRITERS
I Write The Songs - performed by Big Daddy

THURSDAY - CHILDREN IN NEED
Be charitable and play the stuff you'd normally reject like Your Honour or Nice Legs Shame About The Face.

Tues. I cannot improve on joe-k-brown's suggestion on #26

ROCK 'N' ROLL DOCTOR - Little Feat

Use for old LP covers anyone?

Since I didn't get my song request #4 tonight, my £50 pledge for Thursday now depends upon David Gilmour's "Fat Old Sun" from Live in Gdansk.

DC

#65

"It's a nice business you've got here, Bryan. It would be a shame if anything happened to it."

oh come on 3 Rio songs

But not Dial Rio by Lew's Tools.

TUESDAY

Last time we had this theme my Kenny Rogers request was played.


'Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)' - Willie Nelson









Keep it Country!

BRING ME THE HEADSHRINKER OF ALFREDO GARCIA!

TUESDAY:

well, I suppose I would say this:

The Hospital Song - 10CC -

BUT - easily the best for the theme:

Bad Case of Lovin You ( Doctor Doctor) - Robert Palmer

also

The Doctor - Louden Wainwright III.

Penny Lane - The Beatles (the pretty nurse is selling poppies form a tray)

Dr Wu - Steely Dan (though I don't really care for it)

regardez vous

Henri

As usual, listening on iplayer. Good theme tonight, I'll post a quiz sheet on USA which I used as a fund-raiser when I took my football team on tour to America.

As for the medical theme;
I don't want to die (in a hospital) - Conor Oberst
The British Disease - Gene
What's The Matter Here? - 10000 Maniacs
Pain Killer - Turin Brakes
Milk & Alcohol - Dr Feelgood
In The Hospital - Friendly Fires
Bulimic - The Used
Hospital Food - Eels
What The Doctor Ordered - Terrorvision

re Jethro Tull:

Anyone familiar with Blodwyn Pig, the band Mick Abrahams set up after leaving Jethro Tull?

I once again stumbled across the 'Ahead Rings Out' album that i owned when I was 14. It's beautifully played, though I always thought the vocals were occasionally weak.

I'd be tempted to pleadge a few quid for Thursday to hear some of this.

regardez vous

Henri

WEDNESDAY: - SONGWRITERS:

I shall leave it to the majority to pick the best from Holland Dozier Holland but would request any of their classic Motown compositions.

Leiber & Stoller

Among many that they wrote for Elvis etc, I think 'On Broadway' for The Drifters is their finest - George Benson does a tremendous version of this, which is much better than the original.

I'm not sure how pure you're being about this, but there are some singer/ songwriters whose work is famously covered by others: I'm thinking of:

Laura Nyro

whose work was covered by Barbara Streisand (Stoney End), Three Dog Night and others, however, if you check her song 'Blowin Away' you will discover she accidentally wrote 'Hot Love' for T Rex. ( It's true, listen)

John Stewart

Who wrote 'Daydream believer' for the Monkees. Among his own work is the classic 'Gold' - you will find Steve Nicks and Lindsay Buckingham on this - probably the greatest 'Fleetwood Mac production' not on a Fleetwood Mac album.

And although it seems ludicrous, Paul McCartney, who wrote stuff for others - a forgotten gem is 'Step Inside Love' - Cilla Black.

regardez vous

Henri

2nd Gold by John Stewart - brilliant record. So good Ms Nicks put it on her own anthology Enchanted (disc 3)

#73

BRING ME THE (A)HEAD (RINGS OUT) OF ALFREDO GARCIA!

#66

......correct....

#73

Why not play the whole of the Island sampler Nice Enough To Eat?
Every one (except perhaps Quintessence) a cracker.

"Cajun Woman" (Thompson) – Fairport Convention
"At the Crossroads" (Sahm) – Mott the Hoople
"Better By You, Better Than Me" (Wright) – Spooky Tooth
"We Used To Know" (Anderson) - Jethro Tull
"Woman" (Fraser/Rodgers) – Free
"I Keep Singing That Same Old Song" (Gibson) – Heavy Jelly
"Sing Me A Song That I Know" (Abrahams) – Blodwyn Pig
"(Roamin' Thro' The Gloamin' With) Forty Thousand Headmen" (Winwood/Capaldi) – Traffic
Time Has Told Me" (Drake) – Nick Drake
"21st Century Schizoid Man" (Fripp/McDonald/Lake/Giles/Sinfield)– King Crimson
"Gungamai" (Rothfield/Shankar/Bhava) – Quintessence
"Strangely Strange But Oddly Normal" (Pawle) – Dr. Strangely Strange

Tuesday - Doctors & Nurses:
Doctor My Eyes - Jackson 5
Bush Doctor - Peter Tosh
Doctor, Doctor - The Who
Timewarp - Doctor & The Medics

A Letter To The Patron Saint Of Nurses - Richmond Fontaine
dedicated to my Dad who's back in hospital today

A Nurse's Life Is Full Of Woe - Billy BRagg
Devil's Nurse - J.J. Cale
Florence Nightingale - The Possum Trot Orchestra

Time Heals - Todd Rundgren
Medicine Jack - The Waterboys
Valentine's Treatment - The Undertones
Emergency - The Motors
How We Operate - Gomez (from Grey's Anatomy)
Injection - Westworld

#79 Nothing too serious Jim, I hope, all best wishes.

# 47 #48 #55 and #most played song

I think the show rather than dying is getting more and more popular which is why we're getting so many repeat themes 'for the benefit of those that missed them first (or second) time around'. The medical one tonight for example was done earlier this year which is maybe a wee bit too recent for a repeat.


Yes there are songs that are played regularly but every song is requested by someone. However I would hope that thursday's show is seen as a chance to make a few quid for a deserving cause and also for a chance to hear the less obvious. Two songs alone on this blog which have never been played have already been pledged for £50 quid each, and whilst I'm not suggesting the requests go to the highest bidders, it's clear that there may be folk willing to fork out in a one off show to hear stuff that's never made the playlist before.

There's a theme

Songs that have never been played on GIO

#78

Yes! I used to have this - superb, that's how I came to buy Ahead Rings Out. Over the years, I'd forgotten about it - must be in my mum's attic with my old hippie albums.

Rather than request Dr. Robert by The Beatles, I'll plump instead for Digging Your Scene by The Blow Monkeys. Fronted by...Dr Robert.

This single also had a great b-side called I Backed A Winner. If it went to a vote, I'd say this was my favourite a-side/b-side combination of the 80's.

Anyone remember The Blow Monkeys album Limping For A Generation?

LLIM.

LLIM - was that their first album? Weird coer? The Dr. album with pp arniold is excellent- title track from that lp would be great Five In The Afternoon.

#82

Pretty much the theme I'm pushing for if GiO accepts my :
(PIN is 80295)
My actual suggested theme being "The Ones that Got Away" - tracks that should have been played but never made it (maybe would have if the show were 4h long!)

And, fact fans, we're now up to £200 as Norrie has joined in. Can they resist it if it got to £300? £500? £600? More? Anyone else coming in on it? The idea is that pledgers would be the production team that night...

86#

count me in, though it might be chaos

regardez vous

henri

#87

Cool - go sign .

Years ago Mick Abrahams played Glasgow's Pavilion Theatre under the name 'Jethro Tull' while Ian Anderson's Jethro Tull were on tour in North America, which was a wee bit naughty. The audience didn't riot, but a lot of people failed to return after the interval. As a Blues guitarist Mr. Abrahams is pretty good, but conning folk out of hard-earned cash is despicable.

# 88 pleadge now signed.

You know, henri hannah, I think I preferred you as "EC in the North Sea".

89# I know, I hate it when that stuff happens.

On a lighter note, a few years ago i watched an hilarious documentary about a legal battle about the use of the name 'Bucks Fizz' - between that cute blond bloke from Dollar and the original members. Even the judge concluded that any fizz that was in it had long gone..... at least Jethro Tull is a name worth blagging, I suppose, though like you, I disapprove.

' Ahead Rings Out' isnt dimminished though - still a great album.

#91, no shair about that AfR, have a look at #92. EC doesn't seem the type who would say "an hilarious". Mair like "richt funny"

DC

Tuesday
Has anyone asked for

Doctor Doctor - UFO

or

Dr Kiss Kiss - 5000 Volts

???

#91 'EC in the North Sea'? non comprende?

I've never been or even heard of 'EC in the North Sea'

regardez vous

Henri

Hospital Food - David Gray

Medicine - Del samitri

Doctor My Eyes - Jackson Browne

Also known as Del Amitri

#90

Cheers! We're now up to £300... anyone else want to join the fun? Remember, you only have to cough up if the GiO team let us do it.

TUESDAY:

Dr John singing 'Such A Night'

WEDNESDAY (SONGWRITERS):

I'm not that much of an Elvis Costello fan (being a bit resentful that he got some of the recognition that should've gone to Graham Parker),some think he's given too mkuch airtime on GIO and I know he really fits more into the singer/songwriter category but...I'd like to make a case for one of the following to be played on Wednesday:

'Almost Blue' - Chet Baker. Written by Elvis Costello...and recorded by him but it was always Elvis's plan that it would be sung by Chet Baker (who played trumpet on 'Shipbuilding').

Elvis Costello and Burt Bacharach co-wrote 'God Give Me Strength' for the film 'Grace Of My Heart' which was about a Carol King-type character in the songwriting industry over a few decades. It's a beatiful, beautiful song.