The music of The Housemartins and The Beautiful South, connected by a gentleman who celebrated his 50th birthday this week, Mr. Paul Heaton! (50 minutes)
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Featuring:
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| 1 | Happy Hour | Griswalds | Who Framed The Griswalds | Housemartins | |
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| 2 | Sheep | Boy Division | Pet Sounds | Housemartins | |
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| 3 | Me and the Farmer | The Bradleys | H. Caulfield | Housemartins | |
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| 4 | Caravan Of Love | The Housemartins | Now That’s What I Call Quite Good | Isley Brothers | |
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| 5 | Blitzkrieg Bop | The Beautiful South | Golddiggas Headnodders & Pholk Songs | Ramones | |
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| 6 | A Little Time | Michael Eagleson | Don’t Wait Up | Beautiful South | |
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| 7 | Girlfriend | The Beautiful South | Welcome To The Beautiful South | Babyface/L.A. Reid | |
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| 8 | Dream A Little Dream | The Beautiful South | Best of The Beautiful South | Mamas and Papas | |
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| 9 | Everybody’s Talkin’ | The Beautiful South | Miaow | Fred Neil/Harry Nilsson | |
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| 10 | I’ll Sail This Ship Alone | Georgette Dee & Terry Truck | Schon Schön | Beautiful South | |
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| 11 | Livin’ Thing | The Beautiful South | Golddiggas Headnodders & Pholk Songs | Electric Light Orchestra | |
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| 12 | Loving Arms | The Beautiful South | Perfect 10 | Dobie Gray/Elvis Presley | |
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Brilliant show for a great couple of bands. Happy Hour will always be remembered for that great video.
http://youtu.be/7_TMUJIWwyI
The back cover of that Hull 4 London 0 album said “Take Jesus – Take Marx – Take Hope”, which pretty much reflected PH’s politics and views at that time. Like The Smiths, their lryics were often biting attacks draped in an upbeat style.
I’d particularly recommend their second album “The People Who Grinned Thelselves To Death”. One of the few albums that is a complete 10/10 – not one even remotely weak track.
Thanks Brian!
I’m still dismayed that there aren’t more covers of Beautiful South songs. The Paul Heaton/Dave Rotheray songwriting produced some real gems, and I can’t understand why everyone in the world isn’t singing those songs.
I completely agree. I was going to ask Brian to find a good cover of “36D” or “Song for Whoever”. But I searched high and low and came to conclusion…there are none! Very disappointed that more bands aren’t covering TBS songs.
Great show again Brian but…
…3 errors in one track (Caravan of Love).
You got the album “London 0 Hull 4” the wrong way round and called it “London 4 Hull 0” (it was Paul Heaton’s view that they were the fourth best band in Hull and that London had no good bands). You added to by saying “zero” instead on “nil” (it’s also a play on an English football score and the “0” is referred to as “nil”, for example “four-nil to Hull”).
And finally, Paul Heaton is lead vocalist on Caravan of Love, not Norman Cook. How could you mistake Paul’s voice? Shame on you!
Hi Pete,
I’ll concede to the first two points, but defend my last. Of course I know LEAD vocals were by Paul Heaton, but I believe I said that “you can hear Norman Cook on that track too”, since it was an a cappella track! I’m sure he’s in the background of that one.
I know there’s some overdubbing of Paul’s vocals, especially near the end, but I’m sure there’s some Norman in there too. 🙂