Conference marvin::uk_music

The Eagles did Eldorado.

+Mark+

     
     So did ELO with possibly a space ship on the cover?
    
    
    derek.

    And so did the BBC.

    re .1 are you sure the Eagles done Eldarado, sure you don't mean
    desperado.
    
    Garry 

    and a couple back.....the ELO cover with the spaceship was from the
    "Out of the Blue" double album.
    
    Dale.

    
>        	 i) Who did the Beatles write "Back in the USSR" for? It was a
>             female 'performer', who decided not to record it.
> 
>         ii) Brian Epstein had plans to make a British TV series similar to
>             "The Monkees". Which pop group was to star in it?
> 
    
    I heard the answers to both these, and I'm buggered if I can remember -
    they were both good ones though.
    
>        iii) Who made an album called "Eldorado", and what was on the
>             cover?
    
    This was from this morning, so I can remember back that far. It was
    ELO, but the cover isn't the spaceship (New World Record), but
    a reproduction of Judy Garland's red slipper from the Wizard or Oz.
    
    
    Trevor

    Listen out for good ol' Rick Wakeman! 
    
    He was on 2 weeks ago discussing the Mellotron and today he was
    recounting some stuff that happened when all didn't go to plan during a
    gig!!
    
    He told the story of when he was appearing in concert and the complete
    power supply disappeared. He then went on-stage and told jokes for an
    hour....only to be told by his manager that the power was restored
    after only 3 minutes!!!
    
    Wakeman and Baker are great in conversation and I eagerly await the
    "Topographic Oceans" story which is due shortly.
    
    
    Harv.
    
    PS...Just in case you missed this one.....
    
    Who was the only British actor to appear in a Beatles AND Elvis movie ?
    
    
    A: Norman Rossington

Re: .4 ME AND MY BIG MOUTH MY WIFE WILL KILL ME! (Slaps head)

    �        <<< Note 1047.6 by KRAKAR::WARWICK "Trevor Warwick" >>>
    � I heard the answers to both these, and I'm buggered if I can remember -
    � they were both good ones though.
    
	Thanks Trevor! Perhaps hypnotherepy might help :-)
    
    Re .7 - Rick Wakeman...
    
    	I heard the earlier conversation about the Mellotron - I agree, Rick
    	and Danny Baker are very entertaining together. BTW - which Elvis film
    	was Norman Rossington in?
    
    	After finally getting round to creating this topic, I've managed to
    	do it just as the Danny Baker Show finishes! Today was the last one
    	(at least for a while).
    
    	One last question:
    	What have Eric Clapton and Andrew Ridgely got in common?
    
    	Ian.

    re .9
    
    �	and Danny Baker are very entertaining together. BTW - which Elvis film
    �	was Norman Rossington in?
    
    Hmmm...it was something with "Hawaii" in the title
    
    I didn't hear that question about Clapton/Ridgley, but did anyone catch
    the answer as to who did that cover of "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" and
    the lyric question which went something like : 
    
    "a worn out toothbrush lying in a rack"
    
    H
    

    � 	One last question:
    �	What have Eric Clapton and Andrew Ridgely got in common?
    
	An easy one really:
    
       	Neither of them have played guitar on a Wham! record.
    
    	Ian.

    
    
>     the answer as to who did that cover of "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" and
    
    Steve Martin. It is from the Sergeant Pepper film, apparently.
    
    Although Danny is away for a couple of weeks, Chris Morris is sitting
    in for him. He used to do the Sunday morning show on GLR until DB took
    it over, and I used to enjoy that show a lot. His style is a bit like
    Victor Lewis-Smith, except toned down a little bit.
    
    Trevor

            <<< Note 1047.12 by KRAKAR::WARWICK "Trevor Warwick" >>>

    
    
    
>    Although Danny is away for a couple of weeks, Chris Morris is sitting
>    in for him. He used to do the Sunday morning show on GLR until DB took
>    it over, and I used to enjoy that show a lot. His style is a bit like
>    Victor Lewis-Smith, except toned down a little bit.
    
     I used to enjoy listening to Chris Morris , but apparently Victor
     Lewis-Smith feels that Chris Morris has ripped him off. They don't
     enjoy the best of friendships.

     Lewis-Smith said "Immitation is the sincerest form of someone being
     a talentless bastard".


    Stuart

    
    I rang up the show this morning because I knew the answer to one of the
    competitions (A quote from "The Producers", one of me all time
    favourite films of all time). They took my name and number, and I hung
    around for the next half an hour until...
    
    
    ...someone else came on with the right answer. Bummer.

    	Which quote was that?  Was it the guy rambling on about gold?
    	If so, who was the actor (it sounded like the fat guy from 
    	"Land of the Giants").
    
    	One I missed from last week:
    
    	What former number one song contained the word "Sheep" sung several
    	times, including once for three seconds?
    
    	Ian.
    

    Yesterdays show brought back many memories..especially when he played
    Rolf Harris 'singing' the "Court of King Caracticus"; magic!!!
    
    H

    
>     	Which quote was that?  Was it the guy rambling on about gold?
    
    Yes. The actor was Zero Mostel (Max Bialystock in the film).
    
    Trevor

    RE:.16
    
    Why did you mention "Court of King Caracticus". Ive only just got the
    stupid song out of my head from Monday - and now its back.
    
    Must admit that mondays show had me smiling. ESP the story from the guy
    who wired his brother up to the mains.
    
    Nigel

    � Yesterdays show brought back many memories..especially when he played
    � Rolf Harris 'singing' the "Court of King Caracticus"; magic!!!
    
    	That was nothing compared to the Rolf Harris version of "Stairway
        to Heaven" he played the week before last!
    
        Anyone got the answers to:
    
        The first group to use a Moog?
        What was unique about the 1915 film "Jim the Penman"?
    
    	Ian.

        The first group to use a Moog?

		The Nice ?

    Either The Nice or ELP. I'm pretty sure that Keith Emmerson was the
    first musician to use one commercially.
    
    B

My mum actually has a Rolf Harris LP that includes the "Court Of....", it
is absolutely brilliant! I am sure he also did "Jake The Peg"?

								- JIM CAD*

    
    re. 19 
    
    	I believe Todd Rundgren's group was the first to use the "moog".
    I think it was named after his keyboardist 'Moogie Klingman'.
    
    
    			fred deady
    			wbc::deady

    
    I always thought that the Moog was named after its inventor, a
    Professor (Doctor ?) Moog.
    
    Rick Wakeman's last phone call to the show was good. He described how
    he once ordered a curry while on stage with Yes, during a bit of the
    show that he didn't have much to do in. The rest of the band were not
    pleased...
    
    Also, the album "Tales from Topographic Oceans" was recorded just when
    the vogue for using recording studios based in country houses was
    starting. For some unexplained reason, Yes used a studio in London
    instead, but filled it up with agricultural items, so the keyboards
    were all sitting on straw bales, and they had cardboard cutout cows all
    over the place. Rock Stars, eh?
    
    R.W. also plays the keyboard part on Clive Dunn's "Grandad".
    
    Trevor
    
    

    Well folks....the first group to use the Moog was...(drum roll)....
    
    
    The Monkees !!!
    
    (If I had been near a phone I would have said the Moody Blues)
    
    I can't remember the LP in question, but it was something like
    "Pisces, Aquarius...."
    
    Anyway, another little gem of information that came to light...do you
    know which other well known rock person turned down the r�le that
    Peter Tork eventually took on...it was Steve Stills (T'was ever so, as
    DB might say..). Anyway, the reason for turning it down was becuase his
    teeth would have needed 'fixing' for the teen appeal.
    
    Oh yes...I don't think he started a competition for this one, but it
    was FZ and the Mothers of Invention who recorded "Call Any Vegetable".
    
    All in all a superb show today, especially the story about the snake
    charmer in Tunisia and then the narration of some tabloids story re
    Dianagate! 
    
    Harv
        

    Re -.1
    
�    Well folks....the first group to use the Moog was...(drum roll)....
�    The Monkees !!!
    
    Thanks Harv, I knew someone would have been listening to the show late
    enough to hear the answer.    :-)
    
    Anyone any idea on todays question:
    
    `` Which well known TV presenter has a Rock and Roll background? He
       called himself "Jet Bronx" and with his band "The Forbidden" had 
       a hit record called "Ain't Doin' Nothin'". ''
    
    ~Ian.

    
    
    Well I'd imagine the whole universe recognised the "Depth Charge"
    as the beginning of Pink Floyds "Echos"...
    
    Did anyone phone in with the correct answer ?
    
    Kevin.
    

    
    I obviously leave home a lot later than the rest of you.
    
    Someone did get "Echos". 
    
    A bloke rang in with the wrong answer to the celebrity punk question,
    saying it was Peter Purves ! He claimed that he was in a band at the
    time, and such trendy names as Pete and Rula Lenska often used to be
    found ligging around their gigs.
    
    The actual answer was...
    
    
    Loyd Grossman !
    
    Trevor

     Re -.1    
    
   � I obviously leave home a lot later than the rest of you.
    
     Maybe we should organise a rota? I can do 7:45 to 8:30 if you can
     cover after that. SAC::LANG_H can pick up anything we miss as he 
     obviously listens to the whole programme  :-)
    
   � The actual answer was...
   � Loyd Grossman !
    
     Good grief, I'd never have got that.  Did they play any of it?
    
     ~Ian.

    re -.1
    
    � cover after that. SAC::LANG_H can pick up anything we miss as he 
    � obviously listens to the whole programme  :-)
    
    And isn't the whole programme worth it??!!! It definitely brightens up
    the mornings, especially when you're stuck in the traffic! (I'm
    applying for a car-phone so I don't miss any chance of a phone-in!)
    
    I reckon that somebody should be recording these shows for posterity;
    some of the material is very funny and I can see it ending up on 
    LP (if its still here), CD, cassette, DCC or whatever is around at the
    time.
    
    I recorded the GLR Xmas show he did when he played all the kids stuff
    that used to be on the Junior Choice and the ilk; eg:
    ("Jake the Peg", "Hole in the Ground","Top Cat"......) Magic!!
    
    Harv
    
    PS Did you see him appear in a sit-com a few weeks ago ("You, Me & Him) when
       he was advertising soap powder!!
                                                           

  � I recorded the GLR Xmas show he did when he played all the kids stuff
  �  that used to be on the Junior Choice and the ilk; eg:
  �  ("Jake the Peg", "Hole in the Ground","Top Cat"......) Magic!!
    
    	"Top Cat" featured on Morning Edition a few weeks ago, he recited
    	all the lyrics (I think I can still remember them if anyone is
        interested!)
    
    	Ian.

    re -.1
    
    I am....lets have them!!

    Yeah, go for it...
    
    Balders

    Top Cat, the most effectual,
    Top Cat, whose intellectual
    close friends get to call him T.C.,
    Provided it's with dignity.
    Top Cat, the indisputable leader of the gang,
    He's the top, he's the vip,
    He's the championship,
    He's the most tip top,
    TOP CAT!
    
    (N.B. vip of course is V.I.P., but has to be pronounced vip to rhyme).
    
    I know the Flintsones lyrics as well, but I'm just of on holiday so
    you'll have to wait!
    
    ~Ian.

    re -.1
    
    Well done Ian....
    
    
    All I can say, is that I'm glad I'm not starting secondary school today
    after listening to this mornings show..brilliant stuff! 
    
    Did anybody catch the composer of "I Write the Songs" ?
    
    Harv

re .34

Excellent. Now here's the score (that's all them notes & bars & staves & 
treble clefs - for those who don't know) minus the bars, staves, clefs :-)

I think it's in the key of C

B B, B B F Bflat F E , B B
B B, B B F Bflat F E 
B B B B F Asharp B B, C C C C C B F E

etc..............

    Has anybody identified that country-style piece as performed by 
    somebody not normally associated with the music industry ?
    
    
    Harv
    

    
    I don't think the answer was given this morning.

    Did anybody answer:
    
    a) The Shakespearean word 
    
    b) The connection between Al Jolson and the Beatles
    
    Harv

    Well, todays answer was Robert Morley. Todays question is 
    'What was the question ?'.
    
    Andy_who_decided_to_check_out_MW_for_a_change.
    
    p.s. Is Janet Ellis always on it?

    
    The correct answer to the Marilyn Monroe question was Charles Laughton.
    
    RE: .-2 The piece of music was finally identified today as being by
    Steve Martin (yes, he crops up again).
    
    Janet Ellis is only on one day a week. Other days, you get Bob someone
    [comedian]; Danny Kelly [NME editor]; Mark Kermode [film reviewer];
    Laurie someone [Danny's american friend]; plus many more.
    
    Trevor

    Just seeing if you were awake.
    
    Andy
    (Just trying to cover up)

       Anyone got the answer to this one, there'll be tears before the 
       jelly if not (I'm going to say that a lot from now on).

       "What's the connection between Barbara Cartland, Eric Morcombe and
       Benito Mussolini?"

       I've changed my travelling time to get the later part of the show,
       and I missed 'one of the best calls we've had in a long time'! 
       Anyone hear the "Frank Ifield" discussion at 7:45?

       Ian.

       P.S. Don't get your Suicide Machine on a market stall, they are of
            inferior quality to the high street models.

    
>        "What's the connection between Barbara Cartland, Eric Morcombe and
>        Benito Mussolini?"
>
    
    I didn't hear the answer to this - not sure if it's been done yet.
    Someone suggested Birdwatching yesterday, and Danny did a good bit on
    the generally non-camouflaged appearance of Barbara Cartland.
    
>        I've changed my travelling time to get the later part of the show,
>        and I missed 'one of the best calls we've had in a long time'! 
>        Anyone hear the "Frank Ifield" discussion at 7:45?
    
    I didn't think it was *that* funny. Who is Frank Ifield anyway ? The
    second part of the call didn't get broadcast, as the remark it
    contained was deemed to be too rude, although it was obviously a good
    one - maybe that's what DB was referring to.
    
    Is there any one else out there apart from DB who burns a secret torch
    for Fergie ?
    
    Trevor

    >> Who is Frank Ifield anyway ?
    
    A bit of a crooner if my memory serves me right. 
    
    barry.                                           

    >    "What's the connection between Barbara Cartland, Eric Morcombe and
    >    Benito Mussolini?"
    
    Someone got the answer to this yesterday. By then Tommy Steele had also
    been added to the list, so I had convinced myself that the answer was
    tap dancing. However, it turned out to be that they are all published
    authors. Yawn.
    
    Trevor

    	Snore...
    
    	Proof positive that no-one can do the Danny Baker Show but the man
    	himself. Todays programme was emabarassing.
    
    	Anyway, did anyone hear why it is that seagulls are inedible? I
    	know this strictly speaking has nothing to do with music in the UK,
    	but I've wanted to know for years!
    
    	Ian.

    
    I heard a bloke from Newcastle on the phone at 7.55 talking about what
    seagulls and herons taste like (horrible and very oily, apparently).
    He recommended catching them with your dog, rather than shooting them.
    If DB had been on, it would have been a brilliant call, but John
    Inverdale just isn't cut out for doing that sort of thing.
    
    Later on, poor old Mark Kermode was having a really hard time doing his
    film review. He kept asking rhetorical questions, and leaving little
    gaps in order for Inverdale to say something, but he never did ! It
    went really flat.
    
    Trevor

    Minor rat-hole alert here....DB used to do the 6-0-6 football
    phone-in on R5 on Saturday evenings; they were super. I tuned in last
    week to hear some boring git called Duncan McKenzie...embarrassing
    doesn't come close to describing him! However, why did DB quit the show
    (probably shying away from over-exposure!!).
    
    Anyway..back to the show...yesterday's that is! What was the connection
    between Dad's Army, the Monkees (and a few other TV programmes too).
    
    Harv

    Duncan McKenzie? Not THE Duncan McKenzie? The Ex Leeds player who 
    could jump over minis (skirts) and throw a cricket ball the length
    of the Elland Road pitch?
    
    One of the reasons Baker left 606 was that he felt he was becoming 
    the football fans' champion and did'nt feel comfortable with it.
    Pity that because, aside from his wit, his irreverant treatment of
    players, clubs and chairmen, certainly livened up early Saturday
    evenings.
    
    Further down the rat-hole I will say that the only person who's
    taken over one of Baker's slots (GLR) with any degree of success
    is Jonathan Ross' brother, Paul(?). But then the fact that Ross
    broadcasts in a very similar style to Baker has a lot to do with
    it.  
    
    barry.
    
     
    
       
    

    re -1
    
    �Duncan McKenzie? Not THE Duncan McKenzie? The Ex Leeds player who 
    
    Er....don't know!
    
    �Pity that because, aside from his wit, his irreverant treatment of
    �players, clubs and chairmen, certainly livened up early Saturday
    
    Don't forget the referees!! One night he went to town after  hearing
    how a ref asked a policeman to caution a ball-boy - very funny !
    
    Getting back to the main topic....did anybody hear  the Dad's Army
    connection with the Monkees?
    
    H
    

    Akshully, I think Mr McKenzie played for Everton. Or was it both?
    
    barry.

    
    Just to be boring....
    
    McKenzie played for Nottm Forest, Leeds, Anderlecht, Everton, Chelsea
    and Blackburn Rovers - he was one of the most gifted players in his
    day, he also did strange things like throw a cricket ball from one end
    of a football pitch to the other and jump over minis (cars). He
    regulary reports about football on Radio 5 and has a column in the
    'Today' newspaper. Unfortunately he's dead boring to listen to -
    especially compared to Danny Baker.
    
    Paul
                                       

       Is the Elvis one still running?:
    
       "Elvis Presley only ever endorsed one product in his career. What
        did he make an advertisement for in 1956?"
    
       Ian    
    
       [ Back off - car bomb on board. ] 

    Well..its a food product (but not Hot (Hound) Dogs!)
    
    H

  Was it "Ovaltine"?
  
  pem

    	Danny Baker spent five minutes this morning clearing up the
    	answers from the last couple of weeks.  The Elvis product
    	was "Southern made doughnuts".
    
    	The connection between "Dad's Army", "The Monkees" and "Keeping
    	Up Appearances" was the leading actors had all been in "Coronation
    	Street".
    
    	Ian.

    re -1
    
    
    The highest price paid for an autographed single was for "I am the
    Walrus"
    
    "Hello Goodbye" was originally penned as "Hello Hello"
    
    

    �     "Hello Goodbye" was originally penned as "Hello Hello"
    
    	I was a bit puzzled by that one. I mean, it just doesn't work at
    	all does it?:
    
        You say hello,
    	But I say Hello; hello hello,
        I don't know why you say hello, I say hello. 
    
    	Ian.

    	Bad news: Danny has flu, so John Inverdale is standing in.
    
    	Worse news: The show is soon going to be taken over for six weeks;
    	the replacement presenter this time, David Mellor M.P. !!!
    
    
    	Ian.

    
>     	Worse news: The show is soon going to be taken over for six weeks;
>     	the replacement presenter this time, David Mellor M.P. !!!
    
    Are you sure ? The way I heard it, Mellor is going to do 6-0-6, the
    football phone in.

    � Are you sure ? The way I heard it, Mellor is going to do 6-0-6, the
    � football phone in.
    
    	What a relief!  David Mellor was on the Clive Anderson show on
    	Friday night, and he said he was taking over Danny Baker's Radio
    	5 show.  I jumped to the wrong conclusion.
    
    	Ian.

    �Are you sure ? The way I heard it, Mellor is going to do 6-0-6, the
    �football phone in.
    
    re .61
    
    Thats correct (thankfully!)....well, as reported in 2 issues past of
    Time Out.
    
    H

    
    Who is the odd one out:
    
    Roger Waters
    Dave Gilmour
    Syd Barratt
    Stephan Grapelli
    
    Did anyone get this?
    
    The answer is Syd Barratt. The other three all played on a song called
    "Wish you were here" (from an album of the same name). The song was
    about Syd, but by then he had left the band to eat endless
    quantities of pork chops.
    
    Stephan Grapelli plays his violin right at the very end, and you have
    to listen pretty damn closely to hear it !
    
    
    I tried calling in for an hour, couldn't get through!
    
    Kevin.
    
    

    re -1
    
    [Yes, someone got it.....!!]
    
    Top man, top man...you o-o-o-l-d head you!!!! Now how did you know
    that,.......There was me, thinking I'd caught you all out and then someone
    goes and answers correctly..Of coawse, tell us how.....
    
    "Well Danny ...."
    
    It appears that Stephane Grapelli was downstairs in the same recording
    studio; and after �300 changing hands, he played on "Wish You Were
    Here".
    
    

    
    
    Damn !!
    
    Oh well, what time did this person get it??  I gave up at 8:45.
    
    Kevin.
    

    re -1
    
    It can't have been long after 08:45!!
    
    I've managed to get through twice for some interesting 'challenges';
    but unfortunately didn't get a call back!
    
    H

    
    �     Oh well, what time did this person get it??  I gave up at 8:45.
    
    	At a rough guess (estimating by where I was driving at the time
    	I heard it) I'd say about 8:46!
    
    	Ian.

    re 9/11 show....
    
    
    What was the connection between Victor Borge, David Bowie and somebody
    else who I've forgotten!
    
    H

    re -1
    
    Okay the full question is...what is the connection between David Bowie,
    Neil Diamond, Victor Borge and Martin Scorcese.
    
    
    At 07:45 this morning the answer was still unknown; however, at least
    one phone-in entrant had the front to tell DB that he had never heard
    of Martin Scorcese.....cue screams of anguish!
    
    H
    
    

    	It was still going at 8:30.  Two people have now said "they
    	all have different coloured eyes", which is not the right answer.
    
    	David Bowie has different coloured eyes because while at school
    	he was hit so hard by the school bully that one of his eyes changed
    	colour from blue to brown.  Neil Diamond, Victor Borge and Martin
    	Scorcese weren't!
    
    	This has been going for three days now, and DB says that the answer
    	is staring you in the face (which probably means it will be something
        mundane).
    
    	Ian.

    Gold teeth?
    
    Piers

    2 legs?
    same number of eyes?

Aren't they all Jewish?

+Mark+

    They're all very rich?

    Martin Scorsese Jewish?  Mama mia!
    
    My guess: They've all taken Iggy Pop on their honeymoons.
    
    Ray

    ...well today....Michael Jackson joined the list.
    
    In fact, before I got out the car DB said that someone had answered
    correctly....I couldn't be bothered to hang about to hear what it
    was..so what was it !!!!
    
    
    

    have they all had plastic surgery?
    face lifts?

They've all appeared in Martin Scorcese (sp?) films.

After Danny said that someone had the right answer, they still let other people
through who had it wrong.  The correct answer was given just before 9am

nick

    Did anybody answer the connection between "The Elephant Man"/mystery
    voice and the TV theme?
    
    I think the TV theme was from the "Baron".
    
    H

    	The voice was Lenny Bruce ('twas ever thus).
    	Lenny was played by Dustin Hoffman in the film about him.
    	Dustin Hoffman was in the Graduate with Anne Bancroft.
    	Anne Bancroft is married to Mel Brookes.
    	Mel Brookes was responsible for the film "Elephant Man".
    
    	Obvious!
    
    	Ian.
    
    	By the way, Danny got one of his own wrong. He claimed that the
    	actor who played Carrot in the first series of Catweazle was the
    	boy from "The Railway Children" (and hence the connection with
    	nudity - Jenny Agatter in Walkabout). I have some Catweazle on video,
    	and Carrot is definately not that kid.
    	

    Todays Ques.
    
    Which Rock Magastars dad used to run the "Lennie the Lion"
    fanclub??
    
    Apparantly another famous TV lion is a clue. Clarence??
    
    Nigel

    Clarence Clemmens (sp?), from the E-street band. Erm, perhaps not.
    
    barry.

    
>     Which Rock Magastars dad used to run the "Lennie the Lion"
>     fanclub??
    
    His son is the famous rockstar "whose eye changed colour after being
    hit on the side of the head in a playground fight".
    
    "who has the same initials as Danny Baker"
    
    and someone still answered Gary Numan.
    
    Trevor
    
    
    p.s., it was David Bowie

    	Which famous rock star did not get drafted to Vietnam because 
    	he had served a jail sentence for pornography offences?
    
    	Ian.

    re .86
    
    
    This is Frank Zappa.
    
    
    Did anybody answer this....but I'm 100% sure its FZ.
    
    Harv

    
�    This is Frank Zappa.
�    
�    Did anybody answer this....but I'm 100% sure its FZ.
    
    	You're 100% right. I heard the answer at 8:45, but I thought I'd
    	put the question in here anyway just to see who would respond.  :-)
    
    	Ian.

    re -1...
    
    and what did our Dan play over the weather & travel yesterday
    morning?.. "Dinah-Moe Humm" - off the Mothers of Invention "Over-nite
    Sensation" LP!!!! This is the first time I've heard this get any
    airplay EVER (if you know the song you'll know why!), and on a
    breakfast show too!!! (He's bound to go the same way as Kenny Everett)
                      
    Harv

�    						... and on a
�    breakfast show too!!! (He's bound to go the same way as Kenny Everett)
    
     Danny regularly says things these days that are far worse than
     what KE got the boot for. 
    
     Yesterday he was talking about the picture inside the album "Beatles
     For Sale". On the later release, the cigarette in Paul McCartney's hand
     is air brushed out - "Look no fag. Oh hang on, there's Wilfred
     Bramble".
    
     Ian.

        Just when you've put it all behind you, and when you're expecting
        it least, from out of the blues comes:
        

        The fascinating witches who put the scintillating stitches
        in the breaches of the men who put the powder on the noses 
        on the faces of the ladies of the harem of the court of 
        King Caracticus - were just passing by....

        I'm pleased to have shared that with you.

        Ian.

Britches, surely, not breaches.

According to a "friend" who once owned that record...

Piers

    Funniest thing today......
    
    Having the weather and travel being read over "Mr Slater's Parrot" by
    the Bonzos. Between all the "Hellos", poor Alice was struggling to keep
    a straight face...
    
    
    H

    
    Another top show this morning. I don't think he likes Angie Bowie very
    much.
    
    Trevor

    Check out her book - great captions.

    This one is for our southern listeners...
    
    
    Has anybody else noticed that DB has started running
    competitions/anecdotes that were first run on his Sunday morning show
    on GLR ?
    
    eg: "Bang on the head stories" and "things you pinch on your way back
         home from thepub"
    
    
    H

    
    A lot of the stuff that he's done on the morning show had also been
    done on GLR. I think what happens is that he has a little reminisce
    about some good topic from the past, not necessarily with the intention
    of re-awakening it, and suddenly everyone starts calling about that
    topic again. That seems to be what happened with bangs on the head this
    time around.
    
    Anyway, it's the test match for the next five days, so it'll be
    Aggers and co. instead.
    
    Trevor

  Baker and Evans have been repeating stuff that they do on GLR to
  a "wider" audience for some time. Enjoy it whilst you can because
  reports suggest that GLR is moving to a mostly talk station with a 
  few "specialist music".  Farewell anarchy and tolerable music.

  Stuart

    re GLR, Stuart.
    
    It's already blummen done it, plus they've given the rank Diana Luke an
    extra 30 minutes, got rid of Richard 'I may be a git , but I play some
    OK music and converse with guests relatively intelligently' Skinner,
    reduced the playlist to about four records in rotation, etc etc. Moan
    whinge gripe grumble.
    
    Now, what I want to know is, where is this 'XFM' station I've heard
    about?
    
    Bob

>    extra 30 minutes, got rid of Richard 'I may be a git , but I play some
>    OK music and converse with guests relatively intelligently' Skinner,

Talking of said man, didn't I hear that he was the co-controller of the 
about-to-happen Virgin national radio station? Sounds as if he went of his own 
accord . . . Good luck to him - one of the few who seems to have a brain.

g

    Possibly.
    
    Also gone is Emma 'Challenge Ed/Miles/Peter' Freud, ousted from her
    Friday afternoon slot by yet more Diana s*dding Luke.
    
    Bob

    In this weeks Time Out, there is a letter from some GLR bod stating that 
    they wouldn't be getting rid of Evans.
    
    H

         <<< Note 1047.102 by SAC::LANG_H "Button up your overcoat" >>>

>    In this weeks Time Out, there is a letter from some GLR bod stating that 
>    they wouldn't be getting rid of Evans.
    
     But Sid Smith replied that he stood by his earlier story.

    Stuart

        I enjoyed the track from the new acoustic album by Sting 
        (real name Stuart Goddard) that Danny played this morning.
        
        Did anyone hear the bit about 'Flambards'?  Alice was supposed
        to be giving the full account of the Flambards theme, but it
        didn't come on before I had to leave the car.
        
        Ian.

    I thought Sting's real name was Gordon Sumner.  Stuart Goddard is Adam
    Ant's real name.

    This is true.
    
    Is this Sting Acoustic stuff one of these MTV unplugged things?  Is it
    a seperate release to his new lp which is due soon (not an acoustic one
    from the trax I've heard)?  Does it have any saxophone playing on it? 
    (If Branford Marsalis is on it, I'll get it).
    
    Mikef
    

    
>     I thought Sting's real name was Gordon Sumner.  Stuart Goddard is Adam
>     Ant's real name.
    
    Yes, that was the whole point of the remark, to see how long it took
    for someone to ring up with the correction.
    
    They went into some detail about the strange musical instrument used in
    "Flambards". I can't remember the name of the thing, but the pitch and
    the volume are controlled by how far away your hands are from two
    antennae. I don't know what happens if you have to scratch yourself
    while playing it...
    
    Trevor

    Isn't it called a theremone, or something - as used by Arthur Brown's
    Kingdom Come, and the Bonzo Dog Band (rigged up in a dummy's leg, and
    called, logically enough, the Theremone Leg).
    
    Bob

        Well done .105, someone send her a piece of cheese.
        
        Danny did a similar thing last week, but not deliberately. He
        commented that he could say on air that John Lennon should have
        tried to hang on for a couple more days so that he could die
        on the 9th, and nobody rang in.  But say that the George
        Mitchell singers did "Sing Something Simple", and the
        switchboard goes beserk with people screaming "Mike Sammes"!
        
        Kegger!

    I don't listen to Danny Baker.  But I sometimes know the answers!

        This has sparked off a bit of nostalgia. I've just dug out my
        oldest video (1979) which includes, amongst a lot of other
        things, the themes to "Hazell" (Maggie Bell) and "Turtle's
        Progress" (Alan Price).

        I've just watched the "Flambards" openening credits, and I
        have to say that it is every bit as good as I remember, but
        there doesn't seem to be anything that couldn't be done by a
        piano, a set of bongos and a singer going "Ohmmmmmmm!"

        Ian.

    I am led to believe that Flambards is being reshown?
    
    When?!?
    
    Debs.
    

        Does anyone know who Danny's guest was this morning?  I think
        it was "Rob" someone, but I didn't catch the surname. He
        mentioned that he published a book on pirate radio last year.
        
        Ian.

    Is this the show on Radio 5 in the mornings?
    
    Mikef

    
    RE: .-1 . Yes.
    
    I can't remember his surname, but he did say that he was involved with
    the new Radio 1 arts programmes that start soon (next week?), so
    he'll probably turn up on those.
    
    Top marks to the man who answered the question "What '70s band were
    Chas and Dave originally in" with Led Zeppelin !
    
    Trevor

 >   Top marks to the man who answered the question "What '70s band were
 >   Chas and Dave originally in" with Led Zeppelin !

    ... and ten seconds silence!  
  
     Wasn't the guest "Rob" a magazine editor.  He mentioned he had a complete
     set of old NME's.  The Pirate Radio book is one of the Guardian's 10
     best books of the year.

     "We'll take calls on 'gigs you've spent in the bar', if you've ever
     been to a concert and spent the whole time in the bar, ring in. 
     (pause) 
     Rob's now trying to remember one where he sat in the audience!"

    ~sam

   �  The Pirate Radio book is one of the Guardian's 10
   �  best books of the year.
        
        Yes, I heard him say that.  It's the book I'm interested in,
        has anybody got it/ seen it?
        
        Ian.

    
    Trivia question for *NON-DB* listeners, from the "songs that contain
    odd words" strand.
    
    What is the only known song that mentions the word "onomatopoeia".
    
    Trevor

    
    There's a Todd Rundgren song called "Onomatopoeia",but I doubt if
    that's the one your looking for.It's from the album "Hermit of Mink 
    Hollow".
    
    Derek.

    
    Oh, well, there's at least two then !

    Seems likely that it would be from that song from Mary Poppins.
    
    Piers

Wasn't it Kid Creole and The Coconuts??

"Annie I'm not your daddy" or something like that

Al

    .123 gets my vote
    
    Andy

> "Annie I'm not your daddy" or something like that
    
    Yes, that was it. KC&theCs, certainly

        Wow --  a firery show today then!!
        "See this grist, it's for this mill. Grist here, mill here."
        "Compared to me, a grudge is what other people park their cars in".

        Has anyone seen a paper today? From what I gather, someone called 
        Richard Park from Capital Radio has said that the Danny Baker show 
        is just a copy of what Chris Tarrant does (nitwit).

        Fax to 071 387 2345 ``MR. PARK,  
                              YOU MAKE THINGS UP.
                                             KEGGER''

Does anyone know what that's all about?


Rod

    re -1
> Does anyone know what that's all about?
    
    You mean you're a Chris Tarrant listener?  
    Them Dolphins, thems is bright.
    
    re -2
    
    No I haven't seen a paper yet, but I suppose it's something that's been
    reported in one of the tabloids, and I expect its a result of the Radio
    Audience Ratings (I don't know what they are, but the suggestion is
    that Danny Baker's show is well above anything else)
    
    About a year ago there was similar friction between DB and Simon Mayo.  
    
    Send that fax.
    
    Kegger,  
    
    ~sam.
    

  It was in Saturday's Guardian. They had a big piece about Chris Tarrant,
  and this guy from Capital was going on about how Tarrant was better than
  Baker, that Baker's show was basically a copy of Tarrant's, that he'd been
  offered Baker for Capital but had turned him down etc.

  �Paul�

    I went to school with Chris Tarrant. He was a git then, too. (Mind you,
    so was I; I guess 15 is a difficult age.)
    
    Used to work with Danny Baker. Always thought he was funniest in
    writing, but we were all thinner then.
    
    Piers

        Re .129
	�  It was in Saturday's Guardian...
        
        Thanks, I wish I'd read that before spending my lunchtime
        looking through all the tabloids in Sainsbury's bookstall.
        
        Re .127
        � Does anyone know what that's all about?
        
        Well it's a way of sending a letter electronically, you can
        just send it down the phone line and it comes out on their 
        machine. But you have to have a fax at your end too, that's
        the deal.
        
        Kegger.
        
        Ian.

    
>         machine. But you have to have a fax at your end too, that's
>         the deal.
    
    Yeah, it won't come out if you just shout loudly down the phone.
    
    If you can't wait until tomorrow morning for your next encounter with
    the Dan-meister, he's on TV at 8.50 tonight doing a 10 minute
    appreciation of Rolf Harris.
    
    Trevor

    
    
    Okay,I can't take it any longer!....
    
    I'll shamelessly admit to being an Infrequent  D.B. listener .Given 
    that  my colleague  who sits to my righthand side is a devotee  and 
    even he doesnt know what Kegger Is/Means , Can anyone enlighten me?
    
    Might I add that he is too  embarrassed and  shy to ask for himself 
    so this is genuinely for a 'friend'[who I'll name if provoked  ;-)]
    
    Wee McSandie .../   

	Re .132>
�    If you can't wait until tomorrow morning for your next encounter with
�    the Dan-meister, he's on TV at 8.50 tonight doing a 10 minute
�    appreciation of Rolf Harris.
    
        Actually, it's your last chance this week -- Danny Baker's
        not on the next two mornings.  I read about "Heros" in the
        Radio Times, I'm sure they didn't use the word 'appreciation'.

        Re .133>

        Corr - talk about harbouring grudges. Just 'cos I once let slip 
        your somewhat warped taste for ancient Scotch rock bands... 

        Merry Kegger & a Happy New Year.

        McWegg-meister�/

        P.S. 071 387 2345: Fax the hell out of him -- if you can get through.

    
    A kegger is a party at which the host provides a keg of beer, which the
    guests proceed to drink. I think it's an Australian or American
    phenomenon. Clearly, in the UK it would be called a "Polypinner".
    
    Trevor

    Well....if this is the same Richard Park.....and I think it is...
    
    RP was at one time a DJ on Radio Clyde in Glasgow. He must have been
    the only person to come from Kirkcaldy to speak with an American
    accent! He had a daily lunchtime show and every Tuesday evening around
    midnight ran an oldies show called Dr Dicks Midnight Surgery.
    
    Sounds as if he hasn't changed much!
    
    
    McHarv-deisel-Meister

 >   I went to school with Chris Tarrant. He was a git then, too. (Mind you,
 >   so was I; I guess 15 is a difficult age.)
    
    Do you mean King's School, Worcester? I went there as well, but a bit
    later (66-73). Rik Mayall was there at the same time as me (2 years below
    me). Funny how the most famous people from that school are doing
    unconventional things ...
    
    Mike.

    Good grief.
    
    (Yeah, it was King's. The only other person I ever heard of who made it
     from King's was the writer Jonathon Raban)
    
    Piers

        Anyone know the rock star whose the subject of the current
        quiz?  He's had a string of number one singles and albums;
        has a brother 13 months younger than him, but they look like
        twins. He was arrested at 16 for stealling Cadillacs, and
        later for attempted murder. His brother has a string of
        convictions for armed robbery and blowing up his girlfriends
        house.  

        Think of the person it's most likely to be, then go the other 
        way.   It's not Bruce Springstein.

        Ian.

    
    The answer was...
    
    
    
    Barry White

    re -1
    
    Yes, I thought that it was him but I couldn't get through..
    
    :-)
    
    
    DB does know how to start arguments tho'....
    
    "No rock track ever made it with a flute in it...", then proceeded to
    rubbish Focus!
    
    
    H

    > DB does know how to start arguments tho'....
    > "No rock track ever made it with a flute in it...", then proceeded to
    > rubbish Focus!
    
    Quite right too. Focus were cr*p.
    
    Joe.

    re -1
    
    Joe,
    
         I think you missed out an  "IMHO" there :-) !!!
    
    
    Admittedy "Hocus Pocus" isn't exactly a classic, however, the LPs
    "FOCUS 3", "MOVING WAVES" and "LIVE AT THE RAINBOW", are, IMHO very
    good!
    
    H
    

 >   DB does know how to start arguments tho'....
 >   
 >   "No rock track ever made it with a flute in it...", then proceeded to
 >   rubbish Focus!
 

Obviously, DB has never heard of Jethro Tull...

Balders

    ...or King Crimson...
    
    

    
    
    Or James Galway 8-)

Or 'Camel', but I don't think they ever 'made it' in the sense of 'had a hit'

... did King Crimson?

+Mark+ 

King Crimson had a hit, (and made some jolly good records, esp the 80's ones), 
but I don't think flutes featured that heavily in it.

Rob

	..or Genesis...

        Well it seems that show is going to appear on BBC 1 later 
        in the year.  Does anyone have any more details?

        BTW, I thought the programme with Loyd Grossman was definately
        a magic morning; I reckon Loyd ought to do the show for the
        next three weeks while DB is away.

        Ian.

    
    >Well it seems that show is going to appear on BBC 1 later
    
    I wasn't sure whether to believe this or not. 

    Anyone catch this mornings show when someone claimed that Bruce
    Springsteen was in their local pub and sat down and chatted with the
    regulars. Quite funny listening to DB and Mark Kermode trying their
    hardest not to be sceptical.
    
    DB:     "Oh, you've got photographs of him then"
    
    Caller: "No, Springsteen's wife took the photographs; and I was
             wondering if you could give me his address so that they can 
             send me a copy.
            
    
    
    H

        This is true, actually.  The pub is in Kensington High Street
        and I was actually there that night.  I tried to get through
        to Danny Baker this morning, but all the lines were busy.
        
        Anyone want the new U2 album?
        
        I.

	Re .150>
        
  >      BTW, I thought the programme with Loyd Grossman was definately
  >     a magic morning; I reckon Loyd ought to do the show while DB is away.

	Well, maybe I was wrong!

	I.

    
    Well, he's not as bad as John Inverdale.

	Did anyone catch the Dave Lee-Travis story this morning?  Or does 
        anyone know the details anyway? Apparently he resigned on air
        in floods of tears. 

        Unfortunately as DB started telling the story, I pushed my wonderful 
        new remote control joystick in the wrong direction and re-tuned
        the radio instead of turning the volume up.  I came back at the 
        point "you work out who he couldn't work with!".

        Ian.

    I didn't hear the actual speech but saw it on the news.  Didn't sound to
    be in floods of tears.  The reason he gave was the "changes are happening
    at the BBC which go against his principles" therefore he feels no option
    but to resign.

    He always struck me as a bit of an old codger anyway - perhaps he's
    just too set in his ways for these changes?  I heard it on the radio
    this morning and he seemed to be talking in veiled sentences.  I was 
    trying to read between the lines, but unfortunately I couldn't. Does
    anyone know the inside story?
    
    julia

    
>     trying to read between the lines, but unfortunately I couldn't. Does
>     anyone know the inside story?
    
    Radio 1 gets a new Controller in November, and the general supposition
    is that he will get rid of some of the older faces (voices). The new
    guy was responsible for sacking Tony Blackburn at a previous station,
    perhaps DLT saw the writing on the wall. However, this new guy was also
    responsible for getting Danny Baker on GLR, so there might be some
    chance of DB going to Radio 1... He's got a new late night TV series
    coming up too.
    
    Trevor

>> ... He's got a new late night TV series coming up too.
    
        The series starts Saturday September 18th. There are two seperate
        chances of seeing DB as a chatshow host tonight. If you can't
        make it Television Centre for the second pilot show, you can see 
        him in "Frank Stubbs Presents" on ITV.

        He goes to Radio 1 on December 19th when Radio 5 closes.

        Ian. 

    
>         He goes to Radio 1 on December 19th when Radio 5 closes.
    
    Is this really true ? I've been assuming this was a wind-up. We all now
    that Radio 4 needs Lebensraum, but I didn't think anything had yet been
    decided about the future of R5.
    
    Trevor

    I'm sure I was reading recently that R5 is being kept on? I can't see
    it being got rid of, ought to be transferred to FM methinks, especially
    so I can tape the Julian Cope live stuff tomorrow night.
    
    Mikef

    As has been asked before, is this show leaving the airwaves, or is it
    another wind-up ?
    
    This mornings call regarding the hold-up in the building society was
    superb.
    
    Minor rat-hole alert....(Based on just the one TV show at present)...I
    think having the phone-ins is what makes the radio show more appealing
    than the TV version.
    
    Harv

>    As has been asked before, is this show leaving the airwaves, or is it
>    another wind-up ?

	It's true. December 19th Danny Baker moves to Radio 1. Radio 5
        is all washed up.
            
>    This mornings call regarding the hold-up in the building society was
>    superb.

	Missed it - give us the details.  Was it as good as the banana
        spider story on Tuesday?

        Ian.

    re -1
    
    
    No, not as funny as the spider story, but still good....
    
    H

    
    
    
    re .164
    
    �	 It's true. December 19th Danny Baker moves to Radio 1. Radio 5
    �    is all washed up.
    
    
    Ian....what can I say.....and there was me thinking you were winding me
    up !!
    
    Harv

        No problem.  Anything you want to know, just ask me!
        
        I'm bitterly disappointed, though. "Morning Edish (your soup
        and fish)" is now widely acknowledged as "the funniest and most
        intelligent show on the radio" [Radio Times].
        
        How the hell is a Radio 1 audience is going to cope with it?
        
        Ian.
        
        P.S. Is Radio 5 on reduced power or is there something wrong
        with my car radio?

    Heard on the Radio this morning that Radio 5 will be a news and sports
    channel from next April.  Major bummer.
    
    Mikef

    
    Whats the differance ? it's a major sports channel now surly no one
    listens to it between Danny Baker and 7:30 which is when the football
    starts.   Do They ?...... If they were to cut the sports coverage then
    that would be a major bummer....
    
    Neil...

    re-1.
    
    Err...I do.  There are some very good music shows in the evenings, ans
    some very good drama type stuff, especially for Children.
    
    What we actually need is R5 transferred to FM, and some other channel
    given over to b****y sport.  
    
    Mikef

        Re .170
    >> surly no one
    >> listens to it between Danny Baker and 7:30 which is when the football
    >> starts.   Do They ?...... 
        
        According to the Torygraph this morning, Radio 5 is the only
        one of the BBC's five radio networks that is gaining listeners. 
        I wonder if they'll be another major campaign like the one that 
        has saved Radio 4 longwave.
        
        Ian.

        "Radio Beach Boy. Radio Beatle. My Mom, my flag, my Radio 5"
        
        "Hits you round the side of the head like a can of tuna thrown
        by the paperboy".
        
        Well that's the end of this topic.  :-(

Radio 1 FM, Saturday:

"This programme is brought to you by the letters D,L and T,
and the number 150,000" 

    Talking about "over egging the pudding"
    
    On Sunday we had the guess the Flintstones/Top Cat lyrics game. He's
    done it on GLR, Radio 5 and now...Radio 1.
    
    

        Reported this morning: the audience for Radio 1 has fallen by
        2� million over the last year. The audiences of Radio's 2 and 4
        have also fallen, but the Radio 5 audience went up.
        
        Now which radio station is it sensible to get rid of?!!
        
        Ian.

Re: -1

Gone back to Radio One again.

A.R.S.E!

+Mark+

    We tried listening to the new Breakfast Show on R1 this morning. After
    25 mins we turned it off.
    
    Goldy.