Celebrity Jukebox #67: Brigitte Bardot (Part 2)

More songs about Bridgette... we'll start with a lovely one that was recommended by C.

Is it too late for Christmas songs? Not if they sound as gorgeous as that.

Here are a few more titular mentions...

Jorge Veiga - Brigitte Bardot

Mina - Brigitte Bardot

Relick - Brigitte Bardot

The Rave-Ups - Brigitte Bardot

Mike Campbell & [His Backing Band] - Brigitte Bardot 

And a selection of interesting lyrical nods...

Like Brigitte Bardot

In Godard's Les Mepris

I can't love you enough

To make you complete

You appear in my dreams

With some new courtier

You need me there to see

What you need to convey

The Who - It's Not Enough

Quiet on the set please

We'll take it one more time

Shoot her at close range

A little more flesh

I know she wouldn't mind

Cruise with his shirt off

And Bardot on her wall

No, you can't survive with a quiet hit

Sometimes you've gotta show it all

Sharon O'Neill - Poster Girl

I dreamt last night that Brigitte Bardot

Was drowning in the clutches of a big undertow

And guess who the lifeguard, her only salvation

That mouth to mouth resuscitation

John Hartford - Mouth to Mouth Resuscitation

I going talk to Brigitte Bardot

And tell her, "Miss Bardot take it slow"

All the men think they're Casanova

When they see that she's bare foot all over

Even old men out in Topeka

Find their hearts getting weaker and weaker

So we must ask her for your sake and mine

At least wear her earrings part a' the time

Harry Belafonte - Zombie Jamboree (Back to Back)

Where have you gone, Betty Crocker?

Come back, Brigitte Bardot, Eddie was in for a shocker

How was he supposed to know

About the secret life of Eddie's first wife?

Gretchen Peters - Eddie's First Wife

Pyjama party, pyjama party party

I asked Brigitte Bardot and Fred Astaire

But they didn't show, no no no

Can't say I'm surprised, given Sailor's reputation.

Sailor - Pyjama Party

End of the road

Remember singing along

To Bridgette Bardot

Je t'aime de toute mon âme

Dan Rico - Hit And Run

Elton, meanwhile, mentions her in two separate songs. I'm guessing Bernie must be a fan.

I'd make an exception

If you want to save my life

Brigitte Bardot gotta come

And see me every night

Elton John - I Think I'm Going To Kill Myself

Marlene Dietrich

Marilyn Monroe

Brigitte Bardot

Doris Day

Billie Jean

Samantha Fox

Joan Collins

Kiki Dee...

And that list goes on and on (on the album version, at least).

Elton John & George Michael - Wrap Her Up

Another list from Rick...

Sophia Loren, Bridgitte Bardot, Jean Harlowe

Marilyn Monroe and Marlene Deitrich

But Greta, you're better than any I've seen

Yes, you were a real beauty queen

Rick Springfield - Born Out Of Time

Whereas Rod's in two minds about Brigitte...

I had a crush on Bardot

Fell in love with Monroe

Read about 'em in the nationals

All the juicy little scandals

But I never saw 'em dancin' at the county hall

With the short fat guy's prematurely bald

Rod Stewart - Blondes (Have More Fun)

You can keep your Streisands

Bardots and Lorens

You're my everything

Rod Stewart - Fool For You

Let's get a bit more down to earth with Ian...

You're not Bridget Bardot, I'm not Jack Palance

I'm not Shirley Temple by any circumstance

Or Fred Astaire

Ian Dury & The Blockheads - Common as Muck

Let's finish today with Ms. Bardot herself, with Serge of course, on her Harley...

 

But that's not the end of our Bardot tribute. Come back tomorrow for even more!

Wait a minute, Rol, tomorrow's Tuesday! Yep...

Title Fight #8: Greg! The Stop Sign!!!

More eye-catching song titles and ear-catching tunes today, starting with the gentleman above, who certainly knew a thing or two about writing an intriguing title. Any of these would do...

David Bowie - The Man Who Sold The World

David Bowie - Unwashed and Somewhat Slightly Dazed

David Bowie - Chant of the Ever Circling Skeletal Family

David Bowie - Always Crashing in the Same Car

David Bowie - I'm Afraid of Americans

David Bowie - Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)

However, I'd argue that his best title is the one below... but maybe that's because I can't separate it in my head from the full album title.

Perhaps I've not got anything else that can compete with the Dame at full power... but I'm going to give it my best shot. Starting with this little beauty...

Firmament & The Elements - The Festival of Frothy Muggament

The driving force behind Firmament & The Elements was Bruce Woolley, one of the three men responsible for Video Killed The Radio Star (another great title). Trevor Horn and Geoff Downes released that song as The Buggles, while Bruce released his own version (with Thomas Dolby in keyboards). History is written by the victors.

Bruce Woolley & The Camera Club - Video Killed The Radio Star

The 1970s were a terribly sexist time, weren't they? I mean, this was the decade that brought us such enlightened thinking as...

The Monks - Nice Legs, Shame About the Face

Neil Young - A Man Needs a Maid

Joe Tex - Ain't Gonna Bump No More (With No Big Fat Woman)

Sailor - Girls, Girls, Girls

Thank heavens then for Andy Arthurs of bands like La Bouche, Tonight and The Rock Along Combo. He's clearly what they used to call a "new man". Although I'm not sure what he's doing in that raincoat...

A Raincoat - I Love You For Your Mind (Not Your Body) 

I used to work with a guy called Duncan Brown. He was an amateur weather man. As soon as he saw one snowflake in the sky, he'd start packing his bag and heading for the door. "I don't want to get stuck in that!" 

His namesake, with an added E, was a prominent figure in the English folk rock scene in the 70s. Sadly this Duncan died from cancer at only 46, but he left behind some great tunes, and one song title in particular that sticks in my mind...

Duncan Browne - Send Me The Bill For Your Friendship

I've had a few "friends" like that over the years...

This week's big discovery is from 1995, and the closest thing I can compare it to is Chumbawamba at their best. Although Chumbawamba take themselves seriously from time to time.

TISM (short for This Is Serious Mum) are a bunch of Australian alt-rock lunatics who wear balaclavas and a variety of outrageous costumes on stage and generally take the piss, with added nihilism. Band members include Humphrey B. Flaubert, Jock Cheese and Eugene de la Hot Croix Bun. TISM played their first gig in 1983 and broke up immediately afterwards. Every live performance since has been a reunion gig.  

All this will enrage those people of you believe there's no place for fun in popular music, but you're generally unhappy about everything anyway. Perhaps you'd be interested to learn that some pretentious goon in the Grauniad called Greg! The Stop Sign!! "a metaphor for our collective mortality". Or perhaps not...

Saturday Snapshots #53 - The Answers

The screen door slams... and the answers to Saturday Snapshots arrive. Were these Tougher Than The Rest? Not for you lot...

This week's Early Bird was Lynchie... I'm stopping calling it "winner" as first up gets the pick of the crop. Congrats, anyway, Lynchie. And welcome along to first-time player, Walter. About time you guys got a bit of competition.


10. If you think this is The Man In Black, you probably need new spectacles.

The Man In Black was Johnny Cash. You can work out the rest yourself.

Johnny Nash - I Can See Clearly Now

9. Evergreen girl loses 50 Romans on a very short visit. (I'll be impressed if anyone gets this.)

Pine is an evergreen.

50 in Roman numerals is L. Take that away from girl and you get gir.

A very short visit would be...

Piney Gir - Greetings, Salutations, Goodbye

(Well done, Martin. Bonus point for that - especially as you'd never heard of her.)

8. Bubbly seaman.

Sailor - Glass of Champagne

7. How other people see us, for a very short time, on the up.

How other people see us is our public image.

Short time = limited.

Public Image Ltd. - Rise

(John Lydon videos are always good value, even if you don't like the song.)

6. Juvenile offenders up before the judge... arrive late.

Teenagers in court?

The Courteeners - What Took You So Long?

5. Spicy C needs a locksmith.

Mel C was the best Spice Girl.

Melanie - Brand New Key

4. Abraham & Stewart get warm with missing astronauts and their fishy boss.

Abraham Lincoln & Rod Stewart get hot.

Missing astronauts would be Lost Planet Airmen.

Their fishy boss would be Commander Cody.

Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen - Hot Rod Lincoln

3. Aggressive women burn on hot days.

Violent Femmes - Blister In The Sun

2. A 2 cm wok fights passionately.

A cm wok is an anagram for Womack. The 2's in there because there are two of them.

Womack & Womack - Love Wars

1. Aussie adolescent waits for summer and won't give up.

Bruce.

Spring's - teen.

Will never surrender.

Can you believe it's taken me 53 weeks to get to him?

Alyson worked out the who, but it took non-Boss-fan C to work out the song, even though the lyrics are in the header of this very blog...

It's a town full of losers, but you're all pulling out of here to win.

More Saturday Snapshots For You next week...