World of Sport for all..

 

Sport of all/any sort is the theme we'll be kicking around on Radio Podrophenia tonight. Joining us in the commentary box straight from the sportsdesk is our resident expert @marmite boy 

We're playing 4 a-side (tunes that is) from Piley, Marmite and myself - pitching in a couple pop quizzes with chatabouts that may include..sport in unlikely places, have you won a medal in any event and how does Hadleigh in Essex, one of the UK's flattest counties - become the arena for the Olympic mountain biking event

Kick off is at 9 tonight - join us for a ringside seat at Chance Radio

You can lend an ear to last weeks fixture here (or on iTunes), fitted around the theme of Food

Radio Podrophenia - Food



In a last minute switcheroo - we've had to play a substitute with Jack Gestures is now filling in for Marmite...





   

Down at the Doctors

The full set of Muppet band (Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem) concert posters are viewable here 

Take a seat and wait to be called - is the tone of tonight's tunes. Bo Diddley-Itis, Fever, Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In) are all on this evenings sick-list.

Natter-wise we may be compiling a list of acts and artists that sound like medical conditions, or perhaps a list of fictional Doctors. And rolling out a few fruity new DIY jingles from Drakey Girl and Phil Hubbard

If you're fit as fiddle drop by from 9 tonight, if you're fit to drop - take two aspirin, tuck up in bed and tune in to Chance Radio  for tonight's Radio Podrophonia doings

Tom Jones - Dr Love



Lee Perry's Doctor on the Go. The bizarrest refit of a TV theme.

We have lift off: set the Controls for the Heart of the Song

As Radio Podrophenia goes into Skylab mode, getting on the intergalactic good foot and jaunting about on the theme of Space...

Tom Jones. Air, Devo and Spizz are beamed onto my playlist. Along with a children's show cast from Star Wars characters, and inevitably, Star Wars cast from a Saturday morning kids show.....

Dock with us at Mission Control on Chance Radio tonight at 9 for the full fat breakdown of interstellar overdrivers.  A nearly but not quite recruit was Star Trek's Nicholle Nicols...

 

Funky Friday - A Guy Named Sue

Not 14/6 - but £7 from Ebay! (What is 14/6 - I make it £2.06?)

He's had mentions in a couple of recent bloggings - so it seems only fair that Guy Stevens gets a post of his own...

A legendary DJ working out of Soho's Scene club, during the first steps of London's mod movement. Guy Stevens record collection was, famously, the UK's largest library of imported soul singles and R 'n' B rarities. A vinyl archive that landed him with a double whammy of soul consultancy - cover versions advisor to The Beatles, Stones, Small Faces and The Who. And, recuited by Chris Blackwell to oversee the soul sister label to Island - Sue Records.

The This Is Sue comp was a budget release compiled by Guy to showcase Sue tunes. I've not seen it documented anywhere, but would guess the title is a response to Atlantic's This Is Soul comp. All today's tracks have been ripped from my very own copy of This Is Sue (14/6)

Roy Head - Treat Her Right



Barbra Lynn - Oh! Baby



Jimmy McGriff - The Last Minute



After serving a drug-related prison sentance (and having his record collection nicked while in nick) he went on to work with (and name) Mott The Hoople, Procul Harum and produce The Clash's London Calling



Dig those crazy leg-actions

Or the Tom Jones versh is here..

Freaky Friday - Lift Up Your Skirt And Fly

It's a Pop Quiz - 'lift up your skirt and fly' is the last line of single, banned by the BBC for this saucy sounding statement (although in reality, it was actually reference to witches). But who were the band that recorded it, and the soon-to-be glammer wot wrote it?

We've had Wolfmen doing dark duets, tales of terror, spiders, snakes (and a Halloween podcast Podroscreamia is on it's way), but today as move nearer to All Hallows' Eve, and those final witching hours it's time to bubble and boil a couple of numbers in the cauldron for today's Freak Friday..

The master blaster himself Tom Jones lung-busting, head-shrinking and doing the voodoo and gumbo a-go-go with...

The Witch Queen Of New Orleans



Sharon Tandy goes Snow White's Wicked Queen meets Hammer Glamour - backed by last week's Tick Tockers Les Fleur De Lys on..

Daughter Of The Sun



Guitar geek alert - watch out for the axe at 1:18 Tele body/Strat neck?

Funky Friday - The Prince Of Wails

As it’s a public holiday here in the UK – I’ll keep the jabber and blab to a bare minimum and let Tom’s volume do the talking. If you caught last week’s FF, 'Lonely One' is the Tom tune Eddie Pillar recommended to me as, (and he told Tom himself this) it ‘gets them dancing on the tables’

The Lonely One



I’m afraid I can’t stretch to Hot Cross Buns, but, would a couple of Welsh rare beats do?

Dr Love



Fly Me To The Moon



Tom's new tunes are quiet tasty too...


PS if you happen to be around and about this way on Sunday - why not pop by - I may have a seasonal something for you…

Funky Friday - Cocktail Shakers

As I may have mentioned before I'm a bugger for a cover version, and one area rich with glittering goodies and buried treasure is that period when traditional, torch or show style singers decided to get 'with it' and shake a well-tailored trouser leg or cocktail dress to the way out sounds of the In Crowd.

The finest selections are typically found around the tail-end of the sixties/early seventies, when, for the first time, themes of social awareness, cultural tolerance and polite political pop started to appear in the rock songbook and provided a platform for Vegas style cabaret and cocktail acts to appear hip, happening and doing old school cool with a twist of contemporary conscience ...

Mel Torme - 'Games People Play'



Peggy Lee 'Everyday People'



Brenda Lee - Walk A Mile In My Shoes




Tom Jones & Engelbert Humperdinck (and Billy Preston)'Games People Play' - you have to wait one full minute for the tune to kick in, but it's well worth it

Funky Friday - The Ayatolla of Holler*

* see also Lord Of The Lungbusters, The Prince Of Wails, The Sultan of Boomei

I remember seeing someone (can't remember who) that had once duetted with Tom saying how they'd been blown away by the pure blockbusting bellow of his voice and although it projects well on TV ( and it does), not in any way can it capture the raw ear-quaking experience of having 'the Jones' belting out his full pelt decibel yell just a few feet away. Which is possibly why in duets like these with CSNY and with EMF - Tom seems to be sharing a stage with giddy gurners and grinners as he lets rip.

So, ladies and gentleman 'This Is Tom Jones....'

Treat Her Right - with some spectacular frugging and a'flailing


Show Me


See Saw


And some early seventies shakedowns including the tricky to track down 'Sugar Sugar'

'Venus'



'Sugar Sugar'



Proud Mary




There's two more Tom Team Ups here with Aretha Franklin and Janis Joplin if your ears can take it.