Showing posts with label Popinjays. Show all posts
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Sunday, 9 July 2023

Snapshots #300: Songs About Elvis


To celebrate Saturday Snapshots turning 300, we had a big party at Top Ten Towers last night. I cracked open the Ocean Spray, necked a couple of Paracetamol, and stayed up till at least 10.31. Feeling a bit worse for wear today, but it was worth it.

Here are 30 songs about Elvis...


30. University head has a lot of bills to pay.

The Dean is owing a lot of people.

Dean Owens - Elvis Was My Brother

29. Why aren't they twisting?

Known for Twisting By The Pool, it has to be...

Dire Straits - Calling Elvis

28. Crockett, needs a Minder. 

Sonny Crockett was in Miami Vice, George Cole needed a Minder.

Sonny Cole - I Dreamed I Was Elvis

27. Collects Bibles, Journals and Postcards.

The Holy Bible, Journal For Plague Lovers and Postcards From A Young Man are three albums by the...

Manic Street Preachers - Elvis Impersonator: Blackpool Pier

26. When Rooney met Isaac.

Wayne Rooney meets Isaac Newton. 

Find me another blog that has the Manic Street Preachers followed by Wayne Newton.

What do you mean you don't want to?

A song based on a note Elvis wrote then threw away in 1976, during his last stay at the Las Vegas Hilton. Newton, who was friends with Elvis in his later years, bought the note in 1991 for $13,200 at a Sotheby's auction.

Wayne Newton - The Letter

25. Zuckerberg gets a softer finish while Leonard loses an E.

Marc with a C, Cohen without an E.

Marc Cohn - Walking In Memphis

24. World Champion, on the wall. 

Danny was the Champion of the World. 

Mirror, Mirror, On The Wall...

Danny Mirror - I Remember Elvis Presley

23. Vera E. Smacks Guys.

Anagram!

Kacey Musgraves - Velvet Elvis

22. Elton sounds like two cymbals on a pedal stand.

John + Hihat...

John Hiatt - Riding With The King

21. Wireless person.

Human Radio - Me And Elvis

20. It's a short month, directed by Scorsese.

"Jan" is a shortened month. Martin Scorsese directs.

Janis Martin - My Boy Elvis

They tried to market her as "the female Elvis".

19. Half vicious lion, half hissing eagle.

A griffin is half lion, half eagle.

Hissing Sid & Sid Vicious.

Sid Griffin - Cadillac Elvis

Or you could have had...

Sid Griffin - Elvis Presley Calls His Mother After The Ed Sullivan Show

18. Guides.

Scouting For Girls - Elvis Ain't Dead

17. Former miner.

He's been a miner for a Heart of Gold.

Neil Young - He Was The King

16. Almost Moonstruck, but won't propagate.

Nic Cage was in Moonstruck. Bad Seeds won't propagate.

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Tupelo

15. Purple bloke gets mixed up and refuses to pay his debts.

Ian Gillan was in Deep Purple. Mix his name up a bit and you almost get Gillian. If you won't pay your debts, you are welching.

Gillian Welch - Elvis Presley Blues

14. Bumpy Celine.

Anagram!

Public Enemy - Fight The Power

13. Compete at King's College, inside.

Compete at King's College, inside.

Pete Atkin - Apparition in Las Vegas

12. What you might say if you wanted to invite Kay and Z round for a casual chat.

Pop in, Jays!

The Popinjays - Vote Elvis

11. Self-confessed hobo, jogging from an early age.

"Tramps like us, baby we were born to run..."

Bruce Springsteen - Johnny Bye Bye

10. Let's talk LFC. Do they have the answers?

Let's talk LFC.

KLF - Elvis On The Radio, Steel Guitar In My Soul

9. Exonerating mix-up.

"Exonerating" was an anagram.

Generation X - King Rocker

8. Nobody cares for this Smith.

Patti Smith is loveless.

Patty Loveless - I Try To Think About Elvis

7. Children of Florence.

The Nightingales - Elvis, The Last Ten Days

6. His Battenberg was sopping.

That's what happens when you leave your cake out in the rain.

Jimmy Webb - Elvis And Me

5. Loved by her dad from the first time he ever saw her face.

Daughter of Ewan MacColl, who wrote The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face.

Kirsty MacColl - There's A Guy Works Down The Chip Shop Swears He's Elvis

4. West Side gang outcry.

The Jets were a gang in West Side Story.

The Screaming Jets - Elvis (I Remember...)

3. Do you like Alan?

Nah. My lessons would be much better without him in there.

Do you like Alan?

Nah. My lessons would be much better without him in there.

Alannah Myles - Black Velvet

2. Tina Needs Baseball.

Anagram!

Belle & Sebastian - A Century Of Elvis

Classic.

1. One Simple Little Dicky Bird.

One little dicky bird was named Peter, one was named Paul. The Simple (Simon) one.

Paul Simon - Graceland


Snapshots #301 will be here next week. Start getting excited now.


Sunday, 24 April 2022

Snapshots #237: A Top Ten Weather Songs

To keep all you football fans happy, I asked the owner of National League club Wrexham to introduce this week's answers. Mainly because I couldn't find any pictures of weather men or weather ladies holding cameras. No, not even John Kettley. 


10. Found in a citrus trifle.

Lemon Jelly - Nice Weather For Ducks

9. Twice as much bother for a Wonder, a sunbeam and a Williams.

Stevie Wonder, a Ray of sunshine and Vaughan Williams... lead to Double Trouble.

Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble - Couldn't Stand The Weather

8. Samantha.

Samantha was the witch in Bewitched. Of course.

B*witched - Blame It On The Weatherman

7. Scully catches Christian.

Gillian 'Scully' Anderson played a police detective tracking down Jamie 'Christian from Fifty Shades' Dornan in a TV series called The Fall.

The Fall - British People In Hot Weather

6. Conceited peacocks.

The Popinjays - Thinking About The Weather

5. Furcula & Wheeler's band.

A Furcula is a wishbone. Tim Wheeler's band is Ash.

Wishbone Ash - Bad Weather Blues 

4. Talk in tuts.

Anagram!

KT Tunstall - Under The Weather

3. Rowan & Vangelis.

Rowan & Martin, Jon & Vangelis.

John Martyn - Bless The Weather

2. Home for deceased Corvidae.

Crow-dead house?

Crowded House - Weather With You

1. Piper's vacation.


Billie Piper goes on Holiday.

My favourite version of this song...


Yes, in case you were wondering, that is Ryan 'Deadpool' Reynolds at the top of the page, and yes, he and one of his Hollywood mates did buy Wrexham. Who are doing very well this year, by all accounts. See how my football knowledge increases every day?

More Snapshots next week. Weather permitting...

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