Snapshots Spillover - More Songs About Girls With The First Initial P

Paloma Faith introduces our final selection of songs about ladies whose name begins with P, giving me an excuse to play another tune we used to perform in my brass band days...

George Baker Selection - Paloma Blanca

No, we weren't going with the Jonathan King version.

Before we go any further, I will admit that I couldn't find any songs addressed to Prunella... but I did find a band named after everyone's favourite Sybil...

Prunella Scales - When

These guys were obvious contenders for the weekend's countdown, but I struggled to come up with another clue for them, beyond ones I've used before...

Scritti Politti - Oh Patti (Don't Feel Sorry For Loverboy)

Meanwhile, here's an old Namesakes favourite...

The Cortinas - Phoebe's Flower Shop

There are some girls named after the capital of France... which led me to think of this...

Style Council -  Paris Match

Although this might have been more appropriate...

Morrissey - I'm Throwing My Arms Around Paris

Here are some more I didn't have room for...

Paul & Paula - Hey Paula

I fear that would have given away the link too obviously.

Miranda Lambert - Priscilla

Miranda was bumped at the last second for Annie Lennox.

Terry Noland - Patty Baby

Guns N' Roses - Patience

...or I might even have gone with this...

Take That - Patience

Don't judge me. That's one of their better offerings. If The Verve had recorded that song (and I can hear Richard Ashcroft singing it), we'd be calling it a classic. Much as I dislike Gary Barlow, he can write the odd decent pop tune.

The Peppers - Pepper Box

Classics IV - Pollyanna

The Flaming Groovies - Blues From Phyllis

And a couple of favourites to finish with...

Snapshots #293: A Top Ten Boyband Songs (sort of)

This I Promise You: I'll Never Stop Snapshots as long as you keep playing along. And if you're struggling for the answers, It's Gonna Be Me who reveals them, along with the Music Of My Heart.

Yeah, I had to look up the song titles of good old Justin Trousersnake's band too... I guess I'm just not NSYNC with a lot of these boy bands...

10. He Felt different in new material...

That's Lawrence. He was in Felt. Then he changed to...

Denim - The Osmonds

And if you're going to get picky and tell me that Marie wasn't a boy, well, I did my research, and Marie wasn't really in The Osmonds. She had a solo career and duetted with Donny, but "the group had its best-known configurations as a quartet (billed as the Osmond Brothers) and a quintet (as the Osmonds)." 

The Osmonds - Crazy Horses

To be fair, it feels like cheating, including Crazy Horses.  

9. A Stewart is a Scott.

Patrick Stewart + F. Scott Fitzgerald gives us...

Patrik Fitzgerald - The Backstreet Boys

Backstreet Boys - Everybody (Backstreet's Back)

8. The People's Fiend.

Public Enemy - 911 Is A Joke

911 - Bodyshakin' 

Obviously Chuck and Flavor were not fans.

7. Crowd of kilts.

This was a band put together by Nick Lowe and Rat Scabies as a way of helping Nick get out of his record contract. 

The Tartan Horde - Bay City Rollers, We Love You

Bay City Rollers - Bye Bye Baby

6. This sounds like Rachel's.

Rachel's sounds like Ray Charles, to these aging ears...

Ray Charles - Busted

Busted - Year 3000

My favourite of the boy bands featured today.

5. Living next door to a howler.

Living Next Door To Alice, who's a real Wolf...

Wolf Alice - Bros

Bros - When Will I Be Famous?

4. How you might greet Bruce, John and Jeff.

Hey, Waynes!

The Haywains - New Kids On The Block

New Kids On The Block - You Got It (The Right Stuff)

3. Enoch, Jill, Tim: Amalgamated.

Amalgamate the letters from Enoch, Jill, Tim and you can spell out...

Joni Mitchell - Blue

Blue - If You Come Back

2. Mind them.

Mind the gap!

The Gap Band - Big Fun

Big Fun - Blame It On The Boogie

1. In demand. Sort of.

One anagram of demand is... Damned!

The Damned - Take That

Take That - Shine

Bye Bye Bye... till next Saturday.

Saturday Snapshots #179: A Top Ten Million Songs

Who better to illustrate our TOP TEN MILLION SONGS than the Six Million Dollar Man himself? You know if they remade that today, he'd probably have to be a Six Billion Dollar Man? Six Million probably wouldn't even buy him a bionic leg.

Lee Majors, ladies and gentleman... the American Dennis Waterman.

Now onto the answers. Blame Lynchie if they were too hard this week. He said last week's were too easy!

10. Pow!

Take THAT!

I make no apologies for featuring Take That here. As boy bands go, they have at least three decent songs. Yes, Gary Barlow is a twonk, but Robbie makes up for that.

Take That - A Million Love Songs

9. Too much steak can clog the arteries - not sensible!

It's not Captain Sensible who's risking his heart over beef!

Captain Beefheart - Her Eyes Are a Blue Million Miles

8. Mixed up male tit.

Mix up "male tit" and you get...

Mattiel - Millionaire

7. Gym shoes.

The Plimsouls - A Million Miles Away

6. Pull any string to unravel.

"Pull any" twisted up leaves you with...

Lyn Paul - It Ought To Sell A Million

See - Take That wasn't the worst song this week! They both share a groovy saxophone though.

5. Story time in the oasis.

Rory, Rory, tell a story to the Gallaghers...

Rory Gallagher - A Million Miles Away

4. How Tony put out his candles.

With a (Tony) Curtis blow...

Kurtis Blow - 8 Million Stories

3. Crocodile hating physician.

Dr. Hook - The Millionaire

2. Drabber artisans are not on for this ape!

"Drabber artisans" was an anagram. 

A gibbon is an ape... but this gibbon is not on, so it's just a Gibb.

Barbra Streisand & Barry Gibb - Guilty (One In A Million)

The version in my music library has brackets. I don't know why, because most of the time the title is just Guilty, no brackets. The Human Nature cover has brackets though, if you're interested. You shouldn't be, because it's awful.

1. He's pretty good at this quiz.

The gentleman above is Ken Sweeney. He was the lead singer of a band called... Brian!

(I did want this clue to involve Mrs. Brian, but that would have been too obvious.)

Join me again next week for more of the unknown snapshots that make Saturday such a star...