Lexie's Chain: The Four Hundred and Sixth Chain

Hello pals. Welcome to week 406 of Lexie's Chain. Last week da winner wos Maggie wiph Jungle Book I wanna be like you ooooo oooo. Let's see what we got dis week and who is da winner!

@cloonfourmegan
Last week Maggie did win wiv Louis Rimer and I want to be like you. This song be from the Jungle Book animated film and sings about a monkey who wants to be a man. So we give you The Specials singing about the Monkey Man.

@claptonterrier
Hello Lady Lexie…this week I am registering a protest about last week’s chain….your dad claimed he chose the clip because of the Orangutan…but I am told that King Luie was not an orang-utan because Organutans are not native to India where the Jungle Book was set….I can hear him now shouting ‘Hey! I’m a monkey!”…so this week our link is, ahem,,,”Hey Hey we're the Monkees!”

@terenceterrier
Larst week pal Maggie did win wiv da songy "I want to be like you" wot be from da film Jungle Book. Dis week a new series of " I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here" started wot be filmed in da Australian Jungle. One of da peeps in it be John Barrowman who be best known in dis house as Capt Jack Harkness in Torchwood. Da moosic in dat series be pretty naff so I give yoo his song "What About Us" instead.

@diamondbertie
Well done Maggie. I love Jungle Book and I want to be like you is so funny. I thought immeditely of Cab Calloway singing Minnie the Moocher, the video is equally brilliant.

@djladylexie
Oh ooo be doo I wanna be like youuuuu ooo ooo. Love dat song. So many great songs in Jungle Book. Another great one was Bare Necessities, sung by the great Satchmo, Louis Armstrong. I wanna be like you was sung by Louis Prima, Louise and Louis New Orleans were both well kn own for their New Orleans jazz style. New Orleans jazz has a swinging, stomping, syncopated beat that you just can't help but dance to. So, get those paws tappin and dance along to dis great number, probably the most well know of them all, from the greatest man out of New Orleans, Satchmo. Oh when those saints go marchin in!

An da winner as decided by Maggie ...... dus ............. be ........... Clapton! You choosin next time me pal.

Ere is wot Maggie said: Well done everyone! So many great links, you all know my faves! One link had a very logical argument leading to the song. I chose “Hey Hey we're the monkees”  

So now is over to you. Email me: lex[dot]dogstovesky @ gmail.com or DM me by 29th November 2018 (get it to me by 10am UK time if poss). Oh sometimes I dus accidentally delete em! Heehee. So good idea to type DO NOT DELETE in the title and dussnt forget to send a linky to da video from You Tube!

Lexie's Chain dus be inspired by da pawsome Radcliffe & Maconie Show wot you can has a listen to on dere website. Follow me @dogstoyevsky or #lexieschain on Twitter to join da fun. Remember anyfink goes! Rock, classical, opera, ballads, punk, reggae - is up to you! Fanx for playin!

Lexie's Chain: The Four Hundred and Fifth Chain

Hello pals. Welcome to week 405 of Lexie's Chain. Last week da winner wos Terence wiph Hallelujah. Let's see what we got dis week and who is da winner!

@limeoscar
Well, Ella Fitzgerald … only one way to go from the Queen of Jazz and that’s to The King.  I give you Mr Elvis Presley, The King of Rock and Roll, who has such a plethora of music we could choose from but we picked this very early recording of Blue Moon, a song which Ella herself was known for.  This version by Elvis was recorded in 1954 at Sun Studios and released on his debut album in 1956.  Thanyooo, Thanyooo ver much "Elvis has left the building".

@terenceterrier
Larst week Dame Lexie did win wiv Ella Fitzgerald singing " Ev'ry time we say goodbye".  * Finks* there duss seem to be a lotta "goodbyes" going on but on da uvver paw wen he come back there be a lotta "hellos". So for my linky I gonna give yoo "Hello Goodbye" wot woz writted by Paul McCartney. But to be diffrent I gonna use da vershun by The Cure. Paul's son James is da happy chappy yoo can see playing the keyboard so it duss link to da original . Sorta.

@cloonfourmegan
Last week you gone and won it wiv Ella and Every Time We Say Goodbye. We stick with the goodbye theme and give you the Tartan Legends that were the Bay City Rollers and Bye Bye Baby.

@maggietkat
Well done Lexie with “every time we say good bye”.  Lexie said that Ella Fitzgerald also recorded this song. Ella was famous for her “scat singing” vocalizing along with the band. Louis Prima was also a famous scat artist and probably best known in Disney's Jungle Book with “ I Wanna Be Like You”.

An da winner as decided by me dad dus be .......................................  Maggie! You choosin next time me pal.

Ere is wot Me dad said: I choose Jungle Book because ... Iceland ... Orangutans ... go Orangutans!

So now is over to you. Email me: lex[dot]dogstovesky @ gmail.com or DM me by 22nd November 2018 (get it to me by 10am UK time if poss). Oh sometimes I dus accidentally delete em! Heehee. So good idea to type DO NOT DELETE in the title and dussnt forget to send a linky to da video from You Tube!

Lexie's Chain dus be inspired by da pawsome Radcliffe & Maconie Show wot you can has a listen to on dere website. Follow me @dogstoyevsky or #lexieschain on Twitter to join da fun. Remember anyfink goes! Rock, classical, opera, ballads, punk, reggae - is up to you! Fanx for playin!

Lexie's Chain: The Four Hundred and Fourth Chain

Hello pals. Welcome to week 404 of Lexie's Chain. Last week da winner wos Terence wiph Hallelujah. Let's see what we got dis week and who is da winner!

@cloonfourmegan
Last week Tel did win wiv Hathaway and Hallelujah. Now this be a song by Leonard Cohen. He also famously sang about Suzanne. A great singing Suzanne is Suzanne Vegas and here she is with great song Toms Diner.

@claptonterrier
last week terence selected a song by a  singing actor…..which leads us immediately to the very finest of singing actors and our linky this week…..Bohemian Rhapsody by the one and only William Shatner!

@limeoscar
So last week was Hallelujah, which according to YouTube this year is the 4th most covered song, but before the internet came along in the top five was Somewhere over the rainbow & What a wonderful world.  These were put together in what is known as a 'mashup' by a Hawaiian chap called Israel 'Iz' Kamakawiwo’ole, so this does be our linky this week.  It is also a double linky as Hallelujah was used in the film Shrek and Iz’s version of the mashup was used for the closing credits of the film Meet Joe Black.

@maggietkat
Wel. Done Sir T with Hallelujah by Hawthorne. I figured that since that is a famous song sung by a tv character I would look for nother. Here is Megan Draper from “Mad Men” vamping a French standard “Zou Bisou Bisou”.

@djladylexie
Well done Sir Terence wiv da Hallelujah. Originally written and sung by Leonard Cohen. My favourite line in the the song is "The fourth, the fifth, the minor fall and the major lift". This represents F G and F. The major chord. Ella also sang about the change from major to minor in her song Every Time We Say Goodbye. That me linky.

An da winner as decided by Oscie dus be .......................................  oh poops is me again! Me dad choosin again pfftttt.

Ere is wot Tel said: After much study n considerayshun I chooses linky numba 5 wot be Ella Fitzgerald n "Every Time We Say Goodbye" . 

So now is over to you. Email me: lex[dot]dogstovesky @ gmail.com or DM me by 15th November 2018 (get it to me by 10am UK time if poss). Oh sometimes I dus accidentally delete em! Heehee. So good idea to type DO NOT DELETE in the title and dussnt forget to send a linky to da video from You Tube!

Lexie's Chain dus be inspired by da pawsome Radcliffe & Maconie Show wot you can has a listen to on dere website. Follow me @dogstoyevsky or #lexieschain on Twitter to join da fun. Remember anyfink goes! Rock, classical, opera, ballads, punk, reggae - is up to you! Fanx for playin!

Lexie's Chain: The Four Hundred and Third Chain

Hello pals. Welcome to week 403 of Lexie's Chain. Last week da winner wos Oscie wiph Inspector Morse feem. Let's see what we got dis week and who is da winner!

@cloonfourmegan
Last week Oscar won wiv very clever Inspector Morse theme tune. That show started the late very great John Thaw. He was also in The Sweeny with Denis Waterman who was famous for singing the theme tune for  the shows he acted in so here he is singing the theme tune for Minder.

@maggietkat
Well done with Inspector Morse Theme. Oscar chosed it because it had Morse code. My tune also a memorable number. “Jenny 867-5309” by Tommy Tutone.

@terenceterrier
Larst week pal  Oscar aka da Drone King did wiv da feem toon from "Inspector Morse" . When Morse woz bumped off in da TV series annuva series started called "Lewis" wiv his Sgt Lewis getting pawmoted to Inspector. His second in command be Sgt Hathaway who nearly became a priest before deciding to join da pawleece. He in turn gets pawmoted when Lewis retired ( tho da series still called Lewis just to confuzzle fings). Anyhows Hathaway woz played by Laurence Fox. Not only woz he an actor but he also writted songs n sing dem. For my linky I looks down da YooToob playlist for him  n finds one called "Hallelujah Hathaway" wot he sings n it be pawticularly appawriate cos of da religious connekshun in da character. Nuffin to do wiv da fact it be one of our favrit songies - honest guv !

@djladylexie
Well all I can say is dit dit dah or summat. I fink The Police wanted to sing about Morse code but they got confussled and sung de do do do de da da da instead! BOL.

An da winner as decided by Oscie dus be .......................................  Tel!

Ere is wot Oscie said:It’s gotta be Linky 3 as that linky was brilliantly written and we luffs Lewis as much as Morse!

So now is over to you. Email me: lex[dot]dogstovesky @ gmail.com or DM me by 7th November 2018 (get it to me by 10am UK time if poss). Oh sometimes I dus accidentally delete em! Heehee. So good idea to type DO NOT DELETE in the title and dussnt forget to send a linky to da video from You Tube!

Lexie's Chain dus be inspired by da pawsome Radcliffe & Maconie Show wot you can has a listen to on dere website. Follow me @dogstoyevsky or #lexieschain on Twitter to join da fun. Remember anyfink goes! Rock, classical, opera, ballads, punk, reggae - is up to you! Fanx for playin!

Lexie's Chain: The Four Hundred and Second Chain

Hello pals. Welcome to week 402 of Lexie's Chain. Last week da winner wos me wivs da David Bowie an Star Man. Let's see what we got dis week and who is da winner!

@terenceterrier
Larst week Dame Lexie did win wiv da 1972 track "Starman" by David Bowie. Later dat decade he starred in a sumwot strange cult movie called " The Man that Fell to Earth" wot be abowt an alien wot err falls to our planet earth. Da most faymuss n luvved alien wot came to earth woz E.T. So for my linky I going wiv a songy called dat n it be by Katy Perry.

@maggietkat
Well done Dame Lexie with David Bowie's “Starman”. When Bowie was the commencement speaker at Berkeley he listed his musical influences. One of those was Julie London, a very talented actor and singer. This is “Blue Moon” which is not quite the stars but a lovely very of a classic.

@cloonfourmegan
Last week you did win wiv David Bowie and Starman. What does a Starman need? Well a starship and then nothing will stop him!

@limeoscar
So last week the winner was Bowie’s Starman, so we could do the obvious linky, but that would be borin snorin! Instead me linky be about morse code, no bear with me pals. The Starman single originally featured a "loud mix" of the "morse code" section between the verse and the chorus. That puts us in mind of other music with morse code, an probably the most famous is the theme from Morse by Barrington Pheloung, in which the opening bars in morse code spelled the word Morse!

An da winner as decided by me dad dus be .......................................  Oscar! Me dad picked dis one because funny enough he be learning morse code on his course to become officer of the watch!

Ere is wot dad said: --. --- --- -.. / .--- --- -...   if you can say what that is you get a bonus point!

So now is over to you. Email me: lex[dot]dogstovesky @ gmail.com or DM me by 24th October 2018 (get it to me by 10am UK time if poss). Oh sometimes I dus accidentally delete em! Heehee. So good idea to type DO NOT DELETE in the title and dussnt forget to send a linky to da video from You Tube!

Lexie's Chain dus be inspired by da pawsome Radcliffe & Maconie Show wot you can has a listen to on dere website. Follow me @dogstoyevsky or #lexieschain on Twitter to join da fun. Remember anyfink goes! Rock, classical, opera, ballads, punk, reggae - is up to you! Fanx for playin!

Lexies Chain: The Four Hundred and First Chain

Hello pals. Welcome to week 401 of Lexie's Chain. Last week da winner wos Oscar wiv Money from Da Floyd. Let's see what we got dis week and who is da winner!

@claptonterrier
Hello Lady Lexie...last week our winner was the song Money! ...well, money money money must be funny as they say....so this week our mind has been turned to funny songs....and our linky this week from amongst the many funny songs you might hear is "It would never have worked out" by Victoria Wood.

@cloonfourmegan
Last week Oscar did win wiv Money by Pink Floyd. This song is from the album Dark Side of the Moon. Alan Parsons was the audio engineer who worked on this album. He also worked on two Beatles albums including Let it Be and we pick this track from that album - The Long and Winding Road.

@maggietkat
Well done Oscar with Pink Floyd's Money. I decided to look for songs about money. My search didn’t take long. I decided to try Sir T’s method, choose the first song that pops into his head. My pick has a similar theme, “Money for Nothing” by the Dire Straits.

@terenceterrier
Larst week pal Oscar did win wiv "Money" by Pink Floyd. Dis song woz on da album " The Dark Side of the Moon". On da dark side it is well umm just dark wivout shadows. You only get a moon shadow when there be a total lunar eclipse *astonomer ears* . Yoo can also get total solar eclipse AND * dramatic pause leading up to linky*  a total eclipse of the heart . Da vershun I going wiv though be by Westlife n it be a YooToob moosic video.

@djladylexie
Money from the Floyd was from their album dark side of the moon. The moon is in outer space. Outer space is the physical universe beyond earth. Earth is the plant wot we lives on. The best movie ever about space and earth must be The Man Who Fell to Earth wiph David Bowie. Continuing me space feem I gives you Starman from Bowie.

An da winner as decided by Oscy dus be .......................................  oh noes is me! So me dad turn to pick next time.

Ere is wot Oscar said: Wot a pawsome list ov entries this week . . . many furbulus artists wot over OTRB now *bows head*.  We dus choose Linky 5 coz how can yous not pick the genius of Mr Bowie

So now is over to you. Email me: lex[dot]dogstovesky @ gmail.com or DM me by 24th October 2018 (get it to me by 10am UK time if poss). Oh sometimes I dus accidentally delete em! Heehee. So good idea to type DO NOT DELETE in the title and dussnt forget to send a linky to da video from You Tube!

Lexie's Chain dus be inspired by da pawsome Radcliffe & Maconie Show wot you can has a listen to on dere website. Follow me @dogstoyevsky or #lexieschain on Twitter to join da fun. Remember anyfink goes! Rock, classical, opera, ballads, punk, reggae - is up to you! Fanx for playin!

Lexie's Chain: The Four Hundredth Chain

Hello pals. Welcome to week 400 of Lexie's Chain. Last week da winner wos Terence wiph Like A Rolling Stone by The Rolling Stones. Let's see what we got dis week and who is da winner!

@claptonterrier
Last week our winner was Like a Rolling Stone….its not often you get songs being written about other bands (albeit indirectly)…so tis week our linky will be one of the few others….we give you Sir Duke by Stevie Wonder…a song about the great Duke Ellington.

@cloonfourmegan
Last week Tel won wiv the doubler Like A Rolling Stone sung by would you believe it The Rolling Stones. This Bob Dylan song was also covered by Green Day and our favourite song of theirs is usually known as Time of Your Life but the full title be Good Riddance (Time of Your Life).

@limeoscar
So last week’s winning song was Like a Rolling Stone, but did you know this was demo’d without success in 3/4 time and only became a hit after it was changed to the rockier sound of 4/4 time known today?  So that does be our linky this week... timing.  Arguably one of the most famous pop songs with weird . . . timing is Pink Floyd’s Money, which is in 7/8 timing, apart from Gilmour’s guitar solo which is in 4/4.  It’s all about . . . timing!

@maggietkat
Well done Sir T with Like a Rolling Stone. Thought about Coventry *shibers*. Here is my favorite super *shibers* song, “Thriller” by Michael Jackson.

@djladylexie
Me linky is the name Marianne. How comes you asks? Well, let me tell you. They say a rolling stone gathers no moss. Moss is a plant wot don't have roots and grows like a carpet spreading as it goes. A carpet is a floor covering that makes it nice to walk on. A small carpet is called a rug. Some artists have rugs on stage when they perform. One such artist was the late great Leonard Cohen. Leonard Cohen wrote a song called So Long Marianne which was about his girlfriend and muse Marianne Ihlen. Mick Jagger also had a relationship with a Marianne, Marianne Faithfull. So here's to Mariannes.

An da winner as decided by El Tel dus be ....................................... Oscar! Yay you wins me pal. Your turn to pick next time.

Ere is wot Tel said: Wowsa there be some supa linkies n songies dis week. Half of my marks always goes to da writted linky n half to da song. Linky numba 5 wos brill - it haz  to be awarded da title of a linky extraordinaire. Full marks for effort. ( noms on Mars bar trying to decide). However in da end I goes for linky numba 3 as my winner cos it be a clever linky n I luvs da song "Money" by "Pink Floyd"

So now is over to you. Email me: lex[dot]dogstovesky @ gmail.com or DM me by 17th October 2018 (get it to me by 10am UK time if poss). Oh sometimes I dus accidentally delete em! Heehee. So good idea to type DO NOT DELETE in the title and dussnt forget to send a linky to da video from You Tube!

Lexie's Chain dus be inspired by da pawsome Radcliffe & Maconie Show wot you can has a listen to on dere website. Follow me @dogstoyevsky or #lexieschain on Twitter to join da fun. Remember anyfink goes! Rock, classical, opera, ballads, punk, reggae - is up to you! Fanx for playin!