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A song by a band/artist beginning with the letter A

Very nice gloves...shame about the jumpers!

I like this song. Again I haven't heard it for a while so it was nice to listen to it again. I think I had a poster of him on my bedroom wall (I think he's quite attractive here).

This reminds me of the period of time I was DJing at a youth club once a month on a Saturday night. They used to request Wham and 'kids from Fame' and at one point in the evening I would sneak in a few alternative tracks back to back like The Smiths, Bauhaus and the Cult. I've had quite a few young people from that period, who are now in their early 40's, tell me that they secretly loved that slot but didn't dare tell their friends.

Big In Japan by Alphaville

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A song you like that starts with the letter A

I was trying to rack my brain for a song beginning with 'A' because it was one of those questions that made me go blank and not able to come up with anything! Anyway this song came to mind and I was like 'Yeah that's a cool song!'

I bought Lenny's album 'Mama Said' when it came out and I played it many times but I haven't actually heard this song in ages!

I bet he'd be good to see in concert...yeah I'd go if I had the chance.

Are You Gonna Go My Way - Lenny Kravitz

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One of the top songs that was released the year you were born

I've always liked this song. It's a very happy and cheerful song. It was no.3 the week I was born and went to no.1 two weeks later where it stayed for 3 weeks.

I'm Into Something Good by Herman's Hermits

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A song you like that's an instrumental

There are quite a few instrumental and classical pieces of music that I like but this one is actually on my 'Favourite Songs' Playlist on my MP3 player. It is just SO bad that I think it's fantastic!

I first discovered this song in December 1990 when I was doing an afternoon show on a charity radio station. The charity license was for a month of broadcasting and I decided to raise money by making a list of all the Christmas No1's from the start of the UK charts in 1952 to that year and getting people to sponsored me to find the record within the month and play it on the Christmas Eve show. I had already over the years collected a few Christmas no1s (about a third of them) so I went in search of these songs. I managed to get hold of all but three of the songs. Then one night a few days before the show my friend in Edinburgh rang me and said that she had managed to pick up a 78rpm record of this song. I didn't have the facilities to play a 78rpm record but she had a friend that could so she recorded it for me and sent me the tape in the post. I'd never heard the song before but it made me smile. Many years later I managed to pick up a 45rpm version of this record.

I was taking a group of teenagers to Greenbelt one year and they were playing my Faves list on my MP3 in the back of the minibus on some speakers when this song came on! Everyone laughed and I suggested they changed the track. One of the lads (who was a goth) was a piano player then started to tell me about the style of piano playing and the history of it and asked me who it was. I told him and he said he had heard of her as he'd read an interview with Elton John a few weeks before in a music magazine and Elton John had said that this woman had been an influence on his music!

Actually I just found this article and she's mentioned in the first paragraph! http://eltonjohn.webs.com/biography.htm

So...this was Christmas No.1 in 1954 and I think its wonderful!

Let's Have Another Party by Winnifred Atwell

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The worst song you have ever seen performed live

I can't actually think of many bands that I have seen that were really bad live. Haircut 100 in 1981 were a bit ropey, I thought Osibisa were really rubbish but that's because I didn't really like the music, they did actually performed well. Shane MacGowan was very drunk the night I saw the Pogues but then that's what you expect and he sang like he normally does! I saw Climie Fisher as part of a line up at an outdoor concert and their whole set was mimed.

But this is the song that stands out in my memory as being the worst song I have seen performed live. I saw Tears For Fears in 1982. Curt's vocals were really bad and off key all evening and unfortunately he sang lead on most of the songs. The few songs that Roland sang showed what a fantastic singer he was and what a lovely voice he had. Mad world was still in the charts at the time of the concert, that's probably why it stands out as being really bad and out of tune on the night.

Mad World by Tears For Fears

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A song from a band or artists (member(s) deceased) you would have loved to have seen

Queen.

One of the few bands I never saw that I would've loved to have seen. As with ABBA they were still together when I wrote my lists of bands I wanted to see live in 1980 but they were so big the ticket prices were always way out of my budget!

Again I've spent ages trying to pick one song by this band, there are just so many great songs to choose from! I picked this song as it's the song that was no.1 the week I got my first tape recorder so I remember this first chart that I recorded. In 1977 I had 4 friends that I had been friends with from being in infant school and when Queen came on TV on 'Top of the pops' we were quite surprised that we each liked a member of Queen and we all liked a different one! I was the Freddie fan and I especially liked him in this lycra leotard period (I think that's what I liked about Bjorn too actually lol!)

This song also reminds me of my older brother and his taunting whenever he had an argument with me or my younger sister and he thought he had won the argument. He would follow us around the house singing snideyly "I am the winner again, and I'll keep on winning to the end, I am the winner, I am the winner, no time for losers like (mine or my sister's full name), In the end"

We Are The Champions by Queen

"Queen - We Are The Champions (Official Video)" (Watch on YouTube)

A song from a band or artist (member(s) alive) would love to see perform in person

ABBA.

One of the few bands I have never seen that I would like to see. They were still together when I wrote my lists of bands I wanted to see live in 1980 but they were so big the ticket prices were way out of my student budget! Last year there were rumours that they were going to reform as the interval act at the Eurovision Song Contest it turned out Bjorn, Benny and Aviicii wrote the opening music. Rumours are again doing the rounds this year that they will reform for this years Eurovision in Denmark to celebrate the anniversary of their 1974 win in Brighton. To be honest, I think that if they ever did reform, and do a tour, the tickets prices would be way, way out of my price range because people would pay high prices to see them together in concert again!

I've spent ages trying to pick one song by this band, there are just so many great songs to choose from! I picked this song as it's the only song Bjorn sings and I haven't played it for a while so it's nice to listen to it again.

This song reminds me of the first time I met my best friend L at a youth club when we were 15 (the same friend I danced to "Moving On" with) She came along with her school friend and she had a MASSIVE Bjorn badge pinned on her jumper. I said 'Oh I Love Bjorn' ...... and we have been best friends ever since lol!

Does Your Mother Know by ABBA

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The last song that you heard that you really liked that was new to you

I'm in a group on FB where we post and discuss songs that were in different countries Eurovision Song Contest national finals but didn't win so didn't get sent to the contest.

I came across this song at the beginning of January. It is from the Latvian National final in 2002 and it came third. 2002 was the year that Latvia won the Eurovision Song Contest with the song they sent called 'I Wanna' by Marie N (if you want to compare songs - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlKHYFxUC64)

This Is Not Paradise by Tumsa

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A song you like from an artist/band from Australia

Air Supply had a couple of hits in the UK both in 1980 but most people here if asked would probably only remember 'All Out Of Love'.

This song reminds me of the summer of 1980 as I sat on the windowsill of my attic bedroom listening to my 'Lost In Love' album. It was this summer while listening to this album for the umpteenth time that I wrote my 'bands I wanted to see before I die' list. Air Supply was on that list and having just had two hits in this country I didn't think it would be too long before I got a chance to see them. Up until I see the Seekers in May, Air Supply held the record for the band I had waited to see the longest. They finally did a UK tour for the first time in December 2007! I saw them a few days before Christmas and I was really, really ill on the night of the concert as I was due to have my Gall Bladder out the first week of the new year! I really was too ill to go but I was determined and knew I would kick myself forever if I didn't go. It was a really enjoyable concert and I'm glad I went...I just wish I'd been well enough to not be lolloped in my seat all night.

This song is off the 'Lost In Love' Album and also reminds me of a boy I liked at the time and the awkwardness I was feeling about talking to him.

Chances by Air Supply

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Your school song

My senior school motto was 'To Be A Pilgrim' so we sang this song at every Monday morning assembly through out my school life.

To Be A Pilgrim

"MONKS GATE-HE WHO WOULD VALIANT BE" (Watch on YouTube)

A song you remember dancing in public to

I had two best friends, one male (T) and one female (L). In 1992 both of their serious relationships ended in the autumn within a few weeks of each other and they were quite upset about it. On New Years Eve, T had a get together with the three of us in his flat on the 12th floor of a tower block in the city centre with a balcony that over looked two other blocks with balconies and the main street where students celebrated New Year.

We drank, we talked, and we put the world and relationships to rights. T suggested that him and L needed to mark the end of the old year and the new fun start of the new one. We laughed about what we could do to make this into a celebration to remember and make 1993 a happier year. I suggested we sang this song as I knew it was a favourite of both of them and the words described what they had both been through. T and L thought it was a great idea, T wanted to do the dance routine and pretend to be Bananarama and dance the arm dance like we were in the tight dresses. We drank more drink as we put the video on the TV and learned the dance routine in his living room.

Then when the bells of the city chimed midnight he turned the lights off in his flat and turned the balcony light on, put his record on the record player, turned it up to full blast and we went out on the balcony and the three of us danced. Part way through the song we started to notice that people in lots of different flats in the two blocks opposite started flashing their balcony lights in time with the music. When we finished loads of people cheered and clapped and flashed their lights very fast and shouted happy new year to us!

It's a new year I remember, I wonder if anyone else says 'Do you remember that New Year when those two girls and that bloke in the flat opposite danced on the balcony at midnight!'

Moving On by Bananarama (

"Bananarama - Movin' on (Count down) 1992" (Watch on YouTube)

You know I'll miss you, when you're gone
And I can't pretend that I know when
Our love started to go wrong

I know we planned to stay together
We just ran into stormy weather
We couldn't see the dark clouds in the sky

But I had no way of knowing
And I don't know where I'm going
But I'm movin' on

We talked it over, we've said it all
But who could say it would be this way
But the writing's on the wall

And now the sun has finally set and
This is where the story ends
We didn't count upon a rainy day

But I had no way of knowing
And I don't know where I'm going
But I'm movin' on

I'm movin' on, I'm movin' on

I know we planned to stay together
We just ran into stormy weather
We couldn't see the dark clouds in the sky

But I had no way of knowing
And I don't know where I'm going
But I'm movin' on

I'm movin' on

But I had no way of knowing
And I don't know where I'm going
But I'm movin' on

A song from a band/artist that you are planning to see in the next 6 months

The first LP that was ever bought for me was 'The Four And Only Seekers' by The Seekers. It was a pressie from my Grandma for my 4th birthday. I really loved that album and used to play it all the time.

in 1980 when I was compiled my list of bands that I would love to see in concert, The Seekers were on the 'If ever they reformed' list (they split up in 1969). Last year I discovered a week too late that they had reformed and had played at a city near me for the 50th anniversary farewell tour! I was quite disappointed that I had missed them and went to look up the reviews. It was then that I read that the UK part of the tour had been cancelled as Judith Durham had been ill in hospital with a brain haemorrhage. A few months ago I saw that the new dates had been set for May and an extra date had been added for Manchester so I bought tickets and I'm excited about going!

I often sing songs by The Seekers at karaoke and have won a couple of karaoke contests. My mom says it's because it was the first album I had when I was so very young and I'd learned every inflection and tone of Judith Durham off by heart! LOL!

Also quite funny that I was a New Romantic/Goth at the time of writing my list of bands I wanted to see. My friends would have laughed at me had they have known, but I've never cared what people think about my taste in music!

This is my favourite song from that first LP -

This Little Light Of Mine by The Seekers

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Your favorite song featured in a musical.

My mom bought the LP of the original London cast production of 'Oliver' a number of years before we went to see the film in 1970ish (when I was about 6) so I knew the songs before I saw the film version, plus the theatre production LP has several additional songs that were cut out of the film. I really enjoyed going to the pictures to see this and I loved this song. I have always had a secret desire to play Nancy in a production of Oliver but seeing as she was supposed to be about 16 I can see my chances becoming less and less....plus the fact that I'm not involved in any theatre groups or anything lol!

Oh and also it was sometime near Christmas when I saw this film and when mom and I came out of the city centre cinema, in the Peace Gardens, there was a display of dancing fountains with music and coloured lights and I remember it was quite a special evening.

(This is the best version I could find on youtube and the music is out of sync with the picture which is annoying!)

Oom Pah Pah from 'Oliver by Shani Wallis as Nancy

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A song you like from a movie soundtrack

I was really in the mood for this song tonight. I listened to some of my other favourite songs from soundtracks and decided that I had to pick this one.

It brings back great memories of mad funky 80's dancing that we are supposed to think is right brill when it's really not and Kevin Bacon!

Footloose by Kenny Loggins

"Footloose - Kenny Loggins" (Watch on YouTube)

Your favourite cover song

Up until about four years ago my favourite cover song was always 'I Only Want To Be You'. I liked just about every cover version and the original was great too. Then I saw Beth Rowley in concert at Greenbelt Festival and I just fell in love with this song. I didn't know until I looked the song up on the internet that it was an old country song from 1966 and the most famous version was done by Tammy Wynette in 1967 and in 1969 Etta James did a blues version. This song is on Beth's 2008 album Little Dreamer and the whole album contains really great songs.

Almost Persuaded by Beth Rowley

"Etta James - Almost Persuaded performed by Bad Ass Brass and Beth Rowley at Hideaway SW16" (Watch on YouTube)

A song you play when your getting ready to go out, to get you in the mood.

It's a great song to get me in the mood for going out especially when I'm going out to a Eurovision disco as this song is one of the favourite songs amongst Eurovision fans. I also like to try to do the dance moves (very unsuccessfull I must add!!)

Euphoria by Loreen

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A song that reminds you of summer:

I'm not old enough, and I'm from the wrong country, so I definitely can't say that I was involved in the summer of love in San Fransisco in 1967 but this is a song that I have played for many years on my way to summer festivals and a friend of mine used to sing this song on the acoustic guitar around the festival sites. So it is a song I usually hear it on warm, sunny, lazy, festival days.

San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair) by Scott MacKenzie

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A song that reminds you of winter.

I have heard this song being sung, or have sung it myself every Christmas time since I was very young. It always makes me suddenly feel absolutely freezing cold!

Actually I have just remembered something that I had completely forgotten about! - In the infant school nativity play I played a shepherd because I owned a huge cuddly sheep that I really loved and when the school sing 'if I were a shepherd I would bring a lamb' I walked forward and gave my lamb to Jesus. I was happy to give it to him but I do remember having a tiny niggling worry that the baby Jesus doll wouldn't give it back to me at the end of the play!

Edit - I've just spoken to my mom on the phone and she reminded me that the following year I never did get the lamb back from the school! He obviously became a Christmas lamb, giving his life to be a gift for Jesus every year!

In The Bleak Midwinter sung by Gloucester Cathedral Choir

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A song that you try to get stuck in your head to replace the one that's currently stuck there.

Well... I had yesterday's song endlessly on a loop in my head for hours! And this is what I listened to to take it away. The only trouble is that this one gets stuck in my head too! but at least its a much better song to have as an earworm than that stupid song from yesterday!

ac/dc by Joan Jett

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A song that you can't even think of without it getting stuck in your head:

That question says it all really! It has to be the theme song to the children's show 'Balamory'
Now I've thought of the word let alone posted this stupid song it'll be my earworm for days!! I don't even allow people to say this word to me EVER! Just someone mentioning it to me makes keep singing 'What's the story in Balamory? Wouldn't you like to know' OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN!!! It's a stupid creepy kids show (it's not meant to be creepy but it is!) that suddenly turned Tobermory in the Hebrides from my secret quiet holiday place into a family tourist destination full of noisy kids looking for all their favourite (creepy) characters!!!

Preschool children's show Balamory's opening song.

"Balamory: Opening Theme / Credits / Song" (Watch on YouTube)

If the prompt reminds you of a song then please feel free to post it in the comments. You can post the song with or without an explanation - it's up to you.

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