The odd odyssey continues…

Prince Buster – “Madness” (LP – “FABulous Greatest Hits”) (Trojan)
Sol Hoopii and His Hawiians – “My Hawiian Queen” (LP – “Master of The Hawiian Guitar Volume 2”) (Rounder)
Hughie Green – “Stand Up and Be Counted” (7″) (Phillips)
Victor Borge – “Inflationary Language” (LP – “Unstarted Symphony 1942-1953) (Naxos)
Earl Bostic – “Special Delivery Stomp (LP -“Earl Blows A Fuse”) (Charly)
Noel Edmonds – Track 1 (LP – “Noel’s Funny Phone Calls Volume 1”) (BBC)
Protex – “Don’t Ring Me Up” (7″)(Good Vibrations)
Smokey Smothers – “I Ain’t Gonna Be No Monkey Man No More” (LP – ” …Sings The Back Porch Blues”) (Ace)
Gerrand Hoffnung with Charles Richardson – “The Moon” (LP – “A Last Encore”) (BBC Radio Collection)
The Miracles – “The Monkey Time”- (LP – “The Miracles Doin’ Mickey’s Monkey”) (Tamla)
Tony Capstick and Hedgehog Pie- “To Ramona” (LP – “His Round”) (Rubber)
Duane Eddy – “It Ain’t Me Babe” (LP – “Duane Does Dylan”) (Colpix)
Del Close and John Brent – “Basic Hip” (LP – ‘How To Speak Hip”) (Mercury)
The Vernon Elliot Basoon Ensemble – “Cruising Theme” (LP – “Ivor The Engine: Orginal Televison Music”) (Trunk)
Arthur Askey – “The Bee Song” (LP – ‘Hello Playmates – 25 Orginal Mono Recordings 1938-1949″) (Living Era)
Reverend J.M Gates -“Women Spend Too Much Money” (download from http://oldweirdamerica.wordpress.com)
Bobby Shannon – “Women’s Liberation’s For The Birds” ( http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2010/12/heres-to-the-womens-liberation-mp3s.html)
Loretta Lynn – “The Pill” (LP – ‘The Very Best Of Lorretta Lynn”) (Spectrum Audio)
Phil Ochs – ‘Draft Dodger Rag” (LP -“I Ain’t Marching Anymore”) (Elektra)
Victor Luneburg – “An Open Letter To My Teenage Son” (v/a LP – “I Feel Like I’m Fixin’ To Die”) (NME)
Ry Cooder – “Goodnight Irene” (LP – “Chicken Skin Music”) (Reprise)

As any of us broadcasting legends knows, the twin DJ disciplines of talking shite and pressing buttons (sometimes at the same time ) can be a draining experience. I mean you know I just give and I give. I guess I’m just one of life’s givers.

However , there has to be a limit to my even my  boundless generosity to you the listener and so I’ve decided to take three weeks off to go to the country and you know , get my head together, man.

But how to replace “When Big Joan Sets Up” the programe that has for years now delighted up to four listeners with the popular hip shaking tunes by the nice young people with the funny hair?

Rejected ideas included:

“Who The Bloody Hell Are You?” –  Popular disc jockey and legend Phil “The Giver” Cope traces his family tree back to the 1700’s and uncovers exciting tales of piracy on the high seas , bravery on the fields of Ypres, and sheep rustling.

Uncle Phil Gargles The Great American Songbook

A three- part drama for radio entitled “Jack’s Adventures in the Public Lavatories of  Newton Le Willows”

Albert Freeman’s History of Parsnips (abridged version)

The Wit and Wisdom of Dave Lee Travis (rejected for being 59 minutes and 47 seconds too short for broadcast)

The BBC Radio Leeds Story – The inspiring story of how a disparate band of individuals united only by a hatred of entertainment, managed against the odds, to create a radio station using only moronic phone in’s, travel updates and Leo Sayer records and realise their dream of portaying West Yorkshire as a land fit only for tone deaf dullards and Alan Titchmarsh

‘Outside Now” – a live debate on the pressing questions of the day – including episodes entiled “Should it Really Be That Shape?”  “Has anyone actually seen Katie Price and Colonel Gadaffi together at the same time? - Is there something we should be told?”  and “Internment Camps for anyone found in possesion of a book by Jereemy Clarkson  – Discuss”

Sadly, these ideas were all reluctantly discarded in the interest of work avoidance and instead over the next three weeks we’ll be plunging into the dark and terrifying recesses of my record collection.

Hey, you’re welcome.

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In anticipation of our increased listenership, due to the fact that everyone’s telly’s is screwed now When Big Joan Sets Up made like Nigel Ogsen this week and pulled out all the stops to bring you four tracks from Shonen Knife’s Ramones tribute LP “Osaka Ramones” (is this the first tribute LP made by a band who’ve had a tribute LP of their own ? – I don’t know , what are you asking me for? I can’t even work out how to get BBC2.) and also a16 track 7″ EP from Beartrap and a tribute to W.C Fields from Superfools which contains the immortal quote “I heard you buried your wife” to which he responds ” I had to, she died”

AGF and Ellen Alien - “Champagner 1-3” (LP – “Gedichterbe”) (AGF Produktions)
Divorce – “Wet Bandit” (7″) (Gravy)
Ruffstuff and Jayline – “Raduim Rays” (EP – “Radium Rays”) (Chronic)
Richard and Linda Thompson – “Dragging The River” (Box Set – “Live at The BBC”) (Universal)
Funghi Girls – “Doldrums” (LP -“Some Easy Magic”) (Hozac)
Beartrap – “Lack of Effort” (7″ EP – “Nailed Shut”) (To Live A Lie)
The Superfools – “All Kinds Of Gibberish Sounds” (download LP – “Aristophonics 1 – Sentimental Fields”) (from freemusicarchive.org)
Tuff Scout All-Stars – “A Battling Dub” (7″) (Tuff Scout)
Horrordactyl – “Dock Of The Bay” (download – “Horrordactyl Plays Everybody’s Songs”) (Sluggisha.blogspot.com)
Otis Redding – “That’s How Strong My Love Is ” (LP – ‘The Great Otis Redding Sings Soul Ballads”) (Stax)
Shonen Knife – “Blitzkreig Bop” (LP – “Osaka Ramones”) (Tomatohead)
Shonen Knife – “Rockaway Beach” (LP “Osaka Ramones”) (Tomatohead)
Shonen Knife – “Sheena Is A Punk Rocker” (LP – ‘Osaka Ramones”) (Tomatohead)
Shonen Knife – “We’re A Happy Family” (LP – ‘Osaka Ramones”) (Tomatohead)
Joy O – ‘Knock Knock” (12″) (Swamp)
The Fruit Tree Foundation – “I Forgot The Fall” (LP – “The Fruit Tree Foundation”) (Chemikal Underground)
The Fall – “Lie Dream Of A Casino Soul” (7″) (Kamera)
Mogwai – “Drunk and Crazy” (EP – “Earth Division”) (Rock Action)