What tune have we had on our minds today??
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I mentioned the Empire Road song by Matumbi, which I had on one of these K-Tel compilations from Woolworths, the Baccara song was on the same compilation I think.
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The Beckley TV transmitter, which can be seen from parts of the M40 used to radiate ATV from Birmingham. It was one of the largest ITV regions in the country. Surprisedly enough I noticed all TV antennas in Marlow are directed towards Crystal Palace in south London, for Thames/LWT that was. (I would have thought Hannington, for Meridian/South Today would be the correct region?)
In the olden days of HTV, Welsh houses used to spend a fortune on high gain television reception equipment to receive West of England regional programmes rather than Welsh ones, even from quite a way up the valleys. I guess it's because of the ambivolence in that part of Wales towards Welsh language and culture (though this is changing). It's the same in the North. I stayed in a guest house in Llandudno, expected S4C on the fourth button and got Channel 4. S4C was nowhere and the BBC regional news gave me Gordon Burns (ex-Krypton) rather than Sara Edwards. The next day I noticed nearly all antennas were high gain and pointing into Liverpool Bay rather than at the local transmitter or at Llanddona on Anglesey.But I noticed this was the case all along the North Wales coast. In Bangor, only a few homes have metal jungles on their roofs aimed at Lancashire. Don't expect any commentary on Welsh football or rugger from BBC North West!
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We get better reception from Crystal Palace on the whole, although Rank Xerox built a hulking great office block which blocked tv signals for a lot of homes that end of town.
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The hilly terrain in Powys prevents households using high gain antennas to pull signals in from 'Welsh' transmitters such as Llandrindod Wells.
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I'm being haunted by 'Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini' today. It came on after a Russian lesson - one of the words must have sounded like bikini or something.
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See, I am the Mike Read of the Left....and I don't need Wikipedia or Google to help me! Though I might call upon the services of Youtube for a spot of W.O.L.D later.
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I used to like Benny Green's show, he was so deadpan and he knew everything about what he was talking about, he wasn't reading it from a script. He was on Derek Jameson's show one morning and he wittily and with great honour took Jameson apart.
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That would be a weekly dose of 'Della and the Dealer' by Hoyt Axton (dog/Jake, cat/Kalamazoo) would it? along with New York New York by Gerard Kenny and almost everything Randy Edelman has ever recorded along with a soupcon of WOLD and 'Harry' by Catherine Howe from Halifax??? Talk about a listenership that's set in their ways, I am suprised the BBC haven't offered Jimmy Young a substantial sum of money to come out of retirement and follow him, or got Alistair McGowan on to authentically impersonate 'JY'.Gill the Piano wrote:Wogan is on (with his ego) Sunday lunchtime
Fanny Fossie has R2 on in her car, and one of her Farcebook 'likes' is The Chris Evans Breakfast Show. Glad I listen to R3 - which I know Mabel does in her green runabout.
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and I've still got W.O.L.D on my mind, singing snatches from it at regular intervals....
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Mmmm.
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Gill the Piano wrote:...a song resurrected when Gordon Brown became PM. Along with 'Gordon Brown' by the Stranglers.
Yes, the mnemonic I always use for the lines and spaces on the bass clef: Gordon Brown Did F*** All - And Couldn't Even Govern!!! Actually, the character whom Jilted John became, low-flying pop star John Shuttleworth also mentions 'Gordon Is A Moron' in the Brown context in his Nick Clegg song (it may not be called that but Clegg represents a part of Sheffield in Parliament which is where John Shuttleworth supposedly hails from).
In real life, both of these 'people' are actor Graham Fellows.
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The Emerson Lake and Palmer version of Hoedown was the first time I heard the tune but it goes into 'Orange Blossom Special' and another familiar tune but one that I cannot name:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPGNjHSL5lA
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The Emerson Lake and Palmer version of Hoedown was the first time I heard the tune but it goes into 'Orange Blossom Special' and another familiar tune but one that I cannot name:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPGNjHSL5lA
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOJp_oJgMTM
I particularly like the bit where she does the little demi-plié on the word "Smith"
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