Snapshots #461: Dance Records

Shall we dance?

15. Pretty Woman Ltd.

Julia (Roberts) and company.

Julia & Company - Breakin' Down (Sugar Samba)

14. I'm guessing it's a Time Out.

Chocolate Watchband - Uncle Morris

13. Cursed by their own trendiness.

The Tragically Hip - Flamenco

12. Carbon Copies.

CCs.

CCS - Tap Turns On The Water

11. Redding hates jazz - what a performance!

Otis Redding, Johnny Hates Jazz.

The Johnny Otis Show - Willie & The Hand Jive

10. Lead, Pot, Under...

Leadbelly, pot belly, underbelly...

Belly - White Belly

9. Building made out of trumpets.

Brass Construction - Ha Cha Cha (Funktion)

8. Mostly conducted via Tinder.

Modern Romance - Everybody Salsa

7. Gone for a Burton over his miniature mountain.

Richard Burton, his small mountain is a hill.

Richard Myhill - It Takes Two To Tango

6. Mark E. Smith wrote most of them, Man.

The Fall sang How I Wrote Elastic Man.

Elastica - Line Up

5. Athletic gear used by fish when working out.

Jim Gilstrap - Swing Your Daddy

4. Signing on.

UB40 - Don't Break My Heart

3. Devours golden skin... then puts a bloodsucker on a male sheep. 

Tan-eater. Ti(c)k - a ram.

Tanita Tikaram - Twist In My Sobriety

2. High, Hay, Hot...

Highwire, haywire, hotwire...

Wire - Three Girl Rhumba

1. Keeping up with the Coroner.

Keeping up with the Jones's... meets Quincy ME.

Quincy Jones - Soul Bossa Nova

Shall we dance again next Saturday?

Snapshots #431: Songs About The Person In Charge

Here’s the man in charge… erm…

The man with the answers… erm…

Still, preferable to his inevitable replacement. Is that really the best we can say about him?

Here are some songs about the person at the top…

15. Born in 1986?

UB40 - King

14. Don’t worry, they’re harmanless.

Dave Harman, aka Dave Dee, had left at this point.

Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Titch – Mr. President

13. Princess Grace only wants to help you… NOT ME!

Princess Grace Kelly only wants to help you, Roland.

Kelly Rowland - Commander

12. See you, Underground Lou.

See you, Jimmy… and Lou Reed.

Jimmy Reed - Big Boss Man

11. The Ashes.

After The Fire - Der Kommissar

10. Her omelettes are really well scrambled.

“Her omelettes” was an anagram.

The Tremeloes - (Call Me) Number One

9. A pretty regular bunch.

Regular as clockwork.

The Clockworks - Can I Speak To A Manager?

8. Billion year old carbon.

“We are stardust…”

Joni Mitchell – Edith & The Kingpin

7. Scholarly hippy.

Professor Longhair - Big Chief

6. X2.

Double - The Captain Of Her Heart

5. Torturous firework.

Catherine Wheel - Here Comes the Fat Controller

4. 3.14, at the beginning of the afternoon.

3.14, as any Maths teacher will tell you, is π represented as three digits. The beginning of the afternoon is af. So Pi+af=

Edith Piaf - Milord

3. Older now, and with fewer brothers in rhythm. 

There’s only two of them left to pass the dutchie these days…

Musical Youth - Generals

2. Good for halting rashes, if properly blended.

“Halting rashes” was an anagram of…

The Shangri-Las - Leader Of The Pack

I love that video. The Leader of the Pack looks like a middle-aged bus-driver.

1. What Not To Wear.

Depeche Mode, as I’m sure you all know, means Fashion News or Fashion Despatch. Hence…

Depeche Mode – Master & Servant

I’ll be back in charge of this twaddle next Saturday morning.

Snapshots #274: A Top Ten Law Songs

Two TV lawyers have opened proceedings this weekend. Raymond Burr's Perry Mason yesterday and Harry Hamlin from LA Law today. I would have preferred a photo of his colleague, Susan Dey, but I couldn't find a shot of her with a camera. And I spent a long time looking...

Here's ten songs about the law.

10. Close range.

Point Blank - That's The Law

9. The Blair Wife Project.

Tony "War Criminal" Blair was called Cherie.

Cheri - Murphy's Law

8. The Bump... and grind.

Kenny sang about The Bump. Work out the rest yourself.

Kenny Rogers - Long Arm Of The Law

7. Mouse + Lemon Drops.

Mighty Mouse + The Mighty Lemon Drops...

Mighty Mighty - Law

6. Band you don't want to receive in the mail.

Remember when people were sending anthrax in the mail? I'm expecting some myself if I don't cut down my hedge.

Anthrax - I Am The Law

5. English captain's team.

Harry Kane is the England Captain. Look at me with the football!

The Kane Gang - Gun Law

4. Under Boris, life began.

Life begins at 40, not UB.

UB40 - The Day I Broke The Law

3. Belly fur / Boob fur.

Anagram!

The Bobby Fuller Four - I Fought The Law 

2. Filly of fish.

A filly is a horse. Fish live in the sea. Seahorses are fish.

The Seahorses - Love Is The Law

1. Leave no trace. Hide your face.

Lyrics. From Temptation by Heaven 17.

The law decrees more Snapshots next Saturday.