Jukebox Friday Night on 12 December 12th is running the theme "Travellers" – anybody going from A to B. You start travelling, and then you might want to go back home, where everything is familiar. Chuck Berry, "Back In The U.S.A." (1959) #JukeboxFridayNight #Travellers #ChuckBerry
Fortnight Friday Music this week is the owner of a lonely heart with the theme "Breakups". Let's hear how it's going: "She gave birth to a daughter Within a year a walker She looked just like her mother If there could be another And now she's two years older Her mother's with a soldier She left me when my drinking Became a proper stinging …" Hosts: @npub1rph4...y4nw @bborn Theme: Breakups Song: "Up the Junction" (1979) Performed by: Squeeze Link: #FortnightFridayMusic #Breakups #Squeeze
Fortnight Friday Music this week is the owner of a lonely heart with the theme "Breakups". Let's hear what they said: "You like potato and I like potahto You like tomato and I like tomahto Potato, potahto, tomato, tomahto Let's call the whole thing off But oh, if we call the whole thing off Then we must part And oh, if we ever part Then that might break my heart …" Hosts: @npub1rph4...y4nw @bborn Theme: Breakups Song: "Let's Call The Whole Thing Off" (1957) Performed by: Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong Written by: George and Ira Gershwin, 1937 Link: #FortnightFridayMusic #Breakups #EllaFitzgerald #LouisArmstrong
Fortnight Friday Music this week is the owner of a lonely heart with the theme "Breakups". Let's hear what he said: "If you need me Why don't you come home? If you want me Then don't stay alone Time is the remedy Not the telephone I'm not alone, I'm not alone …" Hosts: @npub1rph4...y4nw @bborn Theme: Breakups Song: "I'd Give Anything To See You" (1976; released 1999) Performed by: Mick Ronson Link: #FortnightFridayMusic #Breakups #MickRonson
Fortnight Friday Music this week is the owner of a lonely heart with the theme "Breakups". Let's hear what she said: "I’ve been waitin’ up at Clermont Park since half past ten How could you leave me out here in the dark all alone again Well this time, it’s too bad, don’t complain Cause it’s me that’s been had, whoa-oh Let’s call it a day, if you don’t go, I’ll be away, hey Miles away Before you even feel it I’ll be miles away …" Hosts: @npub1rph4...y4nw @bborn Theme: Yank Song: "Miles Away" (1981 single version) Performed by: Holly and the Italians Link: #FortnightFridayMusic #Breakups #HollyAndTheItalians
From the Brain DJ this morning, something closer to this century (but not quite from the last 25 years). Eternal, though – Massive Attack, "Inertia Creeps" (1998) #Music #ElectronicMusic #MassiveAttack
Useless quote for 12 December: "Different motives inevitably require different methods of expression. This does not imply either evolution or progress, but an adaptation of the idea one wants to express and the means to express that idea." ~ Pablo Picasso, in a 2023 interview with Marius de Zayas, "The Arts" May 1923 #UselessQuote #PabloPicasso