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Hello there

Odd weather this week - rain then strangely hot. Not sure what's going on, but luckily Marvin was so we're all fine.

So what were we up to this week on NOTP? Well, I decided the odd weather was due to the big full moon which gave me three moon songs in a row - we had a bad one rising (Creedence Clearwater Revival), a ticket to it (ELO) and, appropriately, the whole of it (The Waterboys).

Nice to have another record of the week; this time 'XX' by The XX. Not too creative on the titles front I think you'll agree, but an interesting record nonetheless. It's quite chilled and I always expect it to go somewhere but it doesn't seem to. However it does visit some dark places - think of Chris Isaak and Bowie's 'Heroes' with a touch of Berlin thrown in and you'll be getting the idea.

Keeping in the chilled summery sort of mood we featured Air's 'La Femme d'Argent' as the Long Song from their debut albu, of 1998, 'Moon Safari'.

Bernard Butler's a Spector fan and his productions bear this out. This week as the Kitsch'n'Sink contender we had 'Stay' from the imaginatively titled 'Bernard Butler'. He looks nothing like a Bernard ought to look, I always think. Or a Butler, come to that.

Gorky's Zygotic Mynci turned up as they have a tendency to do, this time in the corner of the Charity Shop with their one single on Polydor - 'Patio Song' which was well worth another outing, even if the Welsh lyrics make little sense.

Sprawled out on the back seat of the NOTP coach were Hard-Fi, The Duckworth Lewis Method, The Boo Radleys, Pulp, Seasick Steve, Ben Folds, Simon and Garfunkel, Patti Smith, The National, Marc Almond, Stornoway, The Idle Race, Peter Thorogood, Hurricane Smith, John Otway, The Youngbloods, Randy Newman and Nick Drake

Have a good week!

Glyn

JACK JONES....THE TOP TEN SINGLES.....

1....WIVES AND LOVERS.

2....LOLLIPOPS AND ROSES.

3....THE RACE IS ON.

4....THE IMPOSSIBLE DREAM.

5....DEAR HEART.

6....I CAN'T BELIEVE I'M LOSING YOU.

7....A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A FOOL.

8....LADY.

9....WHERE LOVE HAS GONE.

10..CALL ME IRRESPONSIBLE.

Jack Jones has no million selling singles therefore most of these top ten entries  were small hits in the American charts and some in the Canadian charts.....but his album sales are a different story, especially his RCA albums singling out  his recorded album of Bread songs. For several years he was more popular in Britain than America and his albums sold well here in the easy listening catagory.

TRACKS PLAYED FOM ALBUM " PETER GRANT".....

WALK AWAY.

GIRL FROM IPANEMA.

YOU'RE THE FIRST, YOU'RE THE LAST,YOU'RE MY EVERYTHING.

OTHER TRACKS PLAYED ON SHOW........

Pack up.....Eliza Doolittle....album.....ELIZA DOOLITTLE.

Freedom come,freedom go....Fortunes.......VARIOUS.

Looking for Linda......Hue and Cry.......album.....THE BEST OF.....

She's not you.....Elvis Presley.....VARIOUS.

Everybody loves a lover.....Doris Day......album.....VARIOUS.

The way you look tonight.....Micheal Buble......album...MICHEAL BUBLE.

Tell Him.....Dionne Bromfield......album.....INTRODUCING......

Heartaches.....Patsy Cline.......album...THE BEST OF......

Softly as I leave you....Matt Munro......album...THIS IS.......

How many tears......Bobby Vee.......album.....THE SINGLES COLLECTION.

A hard day's night....Peggy Lee....album...PASS ME BY.

Lonely teenager.....Dion......album...HEARTBEAT..LOVE SONGS.

Feel so fine......Ventures.....album...THE VENTURES.

Let's do it.....Ella Fitzgerald....album.......SINGS COLE PORTER.

Down Argentine way / What a difference a day makes.....Bing Crosby.....album..EL SENOR BING.

Passing strangers....Billy Eckstine,Sarah Vaughn......album....MEMORIES ARE MADE OF THIS.

All alone am I...Brenda Lee....album....THE BEST OF.....

New World in the morning......Roger Whittaker......album.....THE GOLDEN AGE OF......

The closest thing to crazy....Katie Melua......album.....CALL OFF THE SEARCH.

Big Spender(live)...Shirley Bassey......album...CLASSIC TRACKS OLD AND NEW.

Papa can you ,hear me......Barbara Striesand....album...THE ESSENTIAL......

NEXT WEEK THE TOP TEN WORLDWIDE HITS OF JAMES DARREN. NEXT TUESDAY EVENING 8-10PM ON TUDNOFM 107.8 OR ONLINE AT TUDNOFM.CO.UK AND CLICK ON LISTEN LIVE.

FROM THE CD UNSUNG MUSICALS..THE ULTIMATE COLECTION......

1....SMILE....HARRY GROENER,JULIE ANN AHO,LISA MAYER.......SMILE.

2....HERO....DEBBIE GRAVITTE.....BABE.

3....STARFISH.....JUDY KUHN.....LA STRADA.

4....SHERRY.....CHRISTINE BARANSKI,JONATHON FREEMAN...SHERRY.

5....SMASHING NEW YORK TIMES.....JASON GRAAE...APPLAUSE & A BROADWAY MUSICAL.

6....SILVERWARE.....LEE WILKOFF,TIMOTHY JEROME...WE TAKE THE TOWN.

7....HUNDREDS OF HATS....JASON WORKMAN....DIAMONDS.

8....AT THE SAME TIME....TAMMY MINOFF,PATRICK LEWIS....FREAKY FRIDAY.

9.....LAWYERS.....LEE WILKOFF,GREGORY JBARA....A BROADWAY MUSICAL.

10..AT MY SIDE....SALLY MAYES,MICHEAL RUPERT.....WELCOME TO THE CLUB.

11..IN A STATE....BRENT BARRET.....A WONDERFUL LIFE.

12..THE MEMORY OF TONIGHT....CAROLEE CARMELLO,GREGG EDELMEN...ARTHUR, THE MUSICAL.

13..NEW WORDS.....LIZ CALLAWAY....ONE TWO THREE FOUR FIVE.

Notice the names that performers come up with....ridiculous!....even if you are called John Smith you should find a name that agents can pronounce. Trying to get noticed with a stupid name seems to be the name of this game!

OTHER TRACKS PLAYED ON SHOW.....

Who can I turn to.....Harry Connick Jnr....album...YOUR SONGS.

Rawhide.....Elwood and Jake......THE BLUES BROTHERS.

Guido's Song...Daniel Day Lewis....NINE.

Far from the home I love.....LINDA GARDENER........FIDDLER ON THE ROOF.

Theme from Jurassic Park.....L'orchestra Cinamatique.....MOVIE MASTERPIECES 2.

Showtime......Doris Day.....album.....SHOWTIME.

'Til I hear you sing......LOVE NEVER DIES.

Hello Young Lovers.......Ray Conniff....album.....BROADWAY IN RHYTHM.

Believe......Josh Groban.....THE POLAR EXPRESS.

A shine on your shoes......Fred Astaire......album...THE ESSENTIAL COLLECTION.

Dreamboats and Petticoats....Scott Barton,Daisy Wood-Davis......DREAMBOATS AND PETTICOATS.

Don't rain on my parade...Micheal Ball......album.....THE MUSICALS.

My heart belongs to daddy...Chistine Andreas....album...HERE'S TO THE LADIES.

NEXT SUNDAY 1ST AUGUST 2-4PM ON TUNDOFM107.8 OR ONLINE AT TUDNOFM.CO.UK AND CLICK ON LISTEN LIVE.

"BANG Goes the Knighthood" by The Divine Comedy

I've always liked the Divine Comedy which is basically Neil Hannon and friends. Fresh from the hymn to cricket that was the Duckworth Lewis Method, Mr Hannon has produces a curate's (or should that be bishop's?) egg of an album. At his best his songs bear comparison with Brecht and Weill, his delivery with Scott Walker. At other times he delivers light-as-air tragi-comic songs in the tradition of Coward.

The opening track, the complex ‘Down In the Street Below' is as good as any he's ever written following two threads, lyrically and musically, before they intertwine in a glorious climax. This leads into an angry tirade on bankers - very funny, but we are still reeling from the opening track. And it carries on alternating like this - the title track is a clever ditty about sexual dalliance, and the most moving track, the sublime  ‘When a Man Cries' is sandwiched between two jaunty music-hall style numbers. So there are two sides as always to The Divine Comedy, as exemplified by the hommages to Magritte and Norman Jewison in the sleeve. Strange bedfellows, but in an odd way they work.

Glyn James

Greetings all!

Back to NOTP this week after Mr Horton took care of business last week, so now we can get away from Mr Smooth and back to the jagged edges we are used to.

At last I remembered to bring my Record of the Week - 'BANG goes the Knighthood' by the Divine Comedy. Three tracks from Neil Hannon's latest offering - to save you scrolling past it I've reviewed it in my previous blog.

Today astronomers have found a thumping great star, so I decided Three in a Row should feature star songs. So avoiding Simply Red, Starbuck and Stars on 45, I chose 'She's a Star' by James, 'The Prettiest Star' by Bowie and the heartbreaking  'Stars' by Janis Ian. All together now - "The stars on 45 keep on turning in your mind..."

The charity shop's stocked up again, so this week I decided to give a listen to a Daily Mirror complilation. I chose Bob and Earl's 'Harlem Shuffle'.

The Long Song was one I've been meaning to play for a while - from the album 'Crime of the Century' by Supertramp I chose 'Rudy'. That's two Long Songs I've chosen from that album!

That leaves Kitsch'n'Sink. I think I've overlooked Arcade fire for long enough, so from 'Neon Bible' we had the thunderous 'Intervention'. Alarming.

Also helping batten down the hatches were The Good, The Bad and the Queen, Efterklang, The Monochrome Set, The Doors, Teenage Fanclub, Pulp, Alphaville, Hard-Fi, Bob Dylan, Scritti Politti, Abba, Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazelwood and eels.

So that's it for another week.

Have fun

Glyn

Film reviews, 20^th July 2010

Films that have been worth looking at, let alone reviewing, have been few and far between in the past few weeks. So I was happy to devour this latest offering.

INCEPTION

Anyone familiar with Christopher Nolan's work (Memento) will know this will not be an undemanding film. However, and untypically, it is packed so full of action scenes that it doesn't really matter if you've lost track of the plot half an hour in. Taking his cues from both Kubrik's 2001 and Lewis Gilbert's ‘The Spy Who Loved Me', Nolan as writer and director spins us a story that the great Phillip K Dick would have been proud of. Wisely setting it in the present time, he introduces us to the ‘extractors' - people who are paid by large companies to infiltrate someone's dreams in order to extract sensitive information while their brain is at rest. However the best extractor in the business, Cobb, played by Leonardo DiCaprio, is approached by a businessman to go one step further and actually plant the seeds of doubt in a rival's brain while he is asleep. This means going in deep, into a dream within a dream within a dream. Trouble is, the victim has been trained to resist and this makes life very dangerous for the team. And of course Cobb has a secret that could jeapordise the whole mission.... With nice cameos from Michael Caine and Pete Postlethwaite and stunning state-of-the-art special effects, this is far more overblown than any of Nolan's earler work, but manages to make us leave the cinema satisfied but also questioning the whole story.

Also showing:-

TOY STORY 3 (3-D)

Buzz Lightyear, Woody and the crew get taken to a daycare centre. More adult than child-oriented - do the toys represent the parents and the centre the old peoples' home?

PREDATORS

Reboot of the Schwarzenegger action franchise (without Arnie) that sees a group of elite warriors hunted by members of an alien race. Violent and dull.

TWILIGHT SAGA - ECLIPSE

Bella is forced to choose between her love for Edward Vampire and Jacob Werewolf. A teenage romance with added supernature.

SHREK FOREVER AFTER

The now-domesticated green ogre is duped into signing a contract which results in him being transported to an alternate version of Far Far Away. Mike Myers, John Cleese

NANCY SINATRA .THE TOP TEN.....

1....THESE BOOTS ARE MADE FOR WALKING.

2....SOMETHING STUPID ( WITH FRANK SINATRA)

3....SUGAR TOWN.

4....HOW DOES THAT GRAB YOU DARLIN'.

5....JACKSON(WITH LEE HAZELWOOD)

6....BANG BANG.

7....DID YOU EVER(WITH LEE HAZELWOOD)

8....SOME VELVET MORNING(WITH LEE HAZELWOOD)

9....YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE.

10..LADYBIRD.

Nancy Sinatra's recording career started on her father's record label Reprise and for ten years her records were enourmously successful in America,Canada and to a lesser extent in Britain. With over seven million sellers, some with producer Lee Hazelwood's deep voice in counterpoint to her own singing style she caught the mood of the times. She more or less retired at the beginning of the eighties only promoting occasionally her albums of greatest hits.

THE COMPLETE SINGLES COLLECTION..MATT MUNRO...5CDS.(CAPITOL RECORDS)

1....WHY NOT NOW.

2....I LOVE THE LITTLE THINGS.

3....LILY M'LADY

4....WITHOUT YOU.

5....WHERE IN THE WORLD.

Other tracks played on show....

Maybe I know...Lesley Gore......album...THE ESSENTIAL COLLECTION.

How.....Helen Reddy.....albumTHE VERY BEST OF......

Falling....Roy Orbison.....album..THE ORIGINAL SINGLES COLLECTION.

Never on a Sunday....Julie London.......album LOVE LETTERS.

Close your eyes...Doris Day......album.....DAY BY DAY.

Poor little fool....Ricky Nelson......album....GREATEST HITS.

Bonanza.....Al Caiola......album.....HARD TO FIND INSTREMENTALS 2.

Runaway 67......Del Shannon....album   THE VERY BEST OF......

I get ideas....Jane Morgan......album....JANE IN SPAIN.

Corrina Corrina.....Dean Martin......album.....EVERYBODY LOVES SOMEBODY.

Pack up.........Eliza Dolittle.....album....ELIZA DOOLITTLE.

At long last love....Frank Sinatra,,,,album...A SWINGIN' AFFAIR.

She said....Plan B.....SINGLE.

We no speak Americano.....Yolanda be cool....SINGLE.

Theme from Shaft....Isacc Hayes.....SINGLE.

The Alley cat song....Peggy Lee....album....I'M A WOMAN.

Some kind of wonderful.....Micheal Buble.....album...CRAZY LOVE.

What's new pussycat.....Sharleen Spiteri....album...THE MOVIE SONGBOOK.

That aint' all....Perry Como....album....THE SCENE CHANGES.

She's always a woman....Fyfe Dangerfield...album...NOW 76.

Let's face the music and dance.....Nat King Cole....album..LET'S FACE THE MUSIC AND DANCE.

NEXT WEEK THE TOP TEN WORLDWIDE HIT SINGLES OF JACK JONES. TUNE IN TO TUDNOFM 107.8 OR ONLINE AT TUDNOFM.CO.UK AND CLICK ON LISTEN LIVE.

THE FOLLOWING SONGS WERE CUT FROM MUSICALS WHILE PREVIEWING IN AMERICAN STATES OR ON BROADWAY....

Smashing N.Y. Times....Charles Strouse......album....APPLAUSE. NEW VERSION.

Waiting.....Judy Kaye,Ron Raines,Lee Wilkof..KING AND I.....LOST IN BOSTON.

Ten Percent....Harry Groaner....CHICAGO.....LOST IN BOSTON.

Tick Tock goes the clock...Lisa Mayer,Judy Malloy,Debbie Pavelka....PROMISES PROMISES...LOST IN BOSTON.

Take it in your stride....Liz Larsen...ANNIE GET YOUR GUN..LOST IN BOSTON.

You wanna bet.......SWEET CHARITY.(NEW VERSION)

Parents....Martin Charnin,Charles Strouse... ANNIE. (NEW VERSION)

Mamma's talkin soft....Lindsey Ridgeway,Sarah Chapman....GYPSY.LOST IN BOSTON3.

Travelling light.....Malcolm Gets....GUYS AND DOLLS...LOST IN BOSTON3.

Older and wiser.....michelle York, TammyMinoff...BYE BYE BIRDIE.LOST IN BOS3

When I go out walkin' with my baby....Liz Larsen, Harry Groaner..OKLAHOMA.LIB3

Nice She ain't....GYPSY.(NEW VERSION)

When Messiah Comes.....Lee Wilkoff..FIDDLER ON THE ROOF...LOST IN BOSTON2.

The World around us.....Harry Connick Jnr...THE PYJAMA GAME.(NEW VERSION)

OTHER TRACKS PLAYED ON SHOW.....

I could have danced all night....Nat King Cole......album...MY FAIR LADY.

The Chase.......Cast....BRIGADOON.

Wheels of a dream.....RAGTIME.

Fish and chips ....Paul Nicholas....CHARLIE GIRL.

Maria.....Placido Domingo.....album...A LOVE UNTIL THE END OF TIME.

42nd Street.......Cast.   42ND STREET.

Here within these calls....Sheila Hancock...SISTER ACT.

Emporers and kings......Chorus....KRISTINA.

You can't stop the beat.....Cast ...HAIRSPRAY(FILM)

Morticia....Nathan Lane.....THE ADDAMS FAMILY.

The surrey with the frings on top...Ray Conniff......album..BROADWAY IN RHYTHYM.

NEXT WEEK....GREAT EXPENSIVE SHOWS THAT NEVER MADE BROADWAY......WHY?

TUNE IN TUDNOFM 107.8 OR ONLINE AT TUDNOFM.CO.UK AND CLICK ON LISTEN LIVE.