Lexie's Chain: The Ninetieth Chain

Hello pals! Welcome to Week 90 of #lexieschain. Dis week was down to Marley to choose. Last time was Brass In Pocket by The Pretenders. Let's see wot happened this week!

@diamondbertie
Here is my entry for this week's link. Last weeks' winner was The Pretenders' Brass in Pocket which is about money or rather lack of money. My choice by keeping to the theme is Buddy Can You Spare A Dime? by Peter Paul and Mary.

@bunnersandharvs (Harvs an Lord Percy)
So den a high paw to Marley wot won Lexie's chain last week w da Pretender's song, Brass in Pocket! So we did start tapping our paws and we did thort of a songy by Jackson Browne called 'The Pretender'. Why, is obvious....dey has da samey namey! 

@djladylexie
In the video for Brass In Pocket, Chrissie Hynde plays a waitress who lookin for some to make her feel special, sadly it didn't appen for her. But it did appen for annuva waitress in a song.  In fact, she was working as a waitress in a cocktail bar. Yes, I does choose Human League wiv Don’t You Want Me .

@patchdacat
Clever Clogs Marley won last week with linky “ Brass in Pocket”. The brass in pockets is usually pennies so my chosen linky is *Pennies from Heaven” by Billie Holiday 

@terenceterrier

Marley’s very cleva winnin linky last week woz “Brass in Pocket” by the The Pretenders. So I choses for my linky “The Great Pretender” by Freddie Mercury.

@bvfeyj (Tucker)

Dis so hard cuz dere be so many eggsellent choices for linky to The Pretenders “Brass in Pocket”. But after much soul searching and listening, me does hab to say, me choice is "The Great Pretender" by Freddie Mercury. Originally recorded by The Platters in 1955 and the inspiration for da name ob Chrisse Hynde’s band The Pretenders, it hab been covered by many uvver artists, but me decided on Freddy Mercury’s version. (A bit “over the top” perhaps but bery much fun to watch.)

@borderpup
Whatsername from The Pretenders used to be married to Ray Davies of The Kinks, so to redress the balance from all the Scottishness last week, we fort it would be a good idea to choose somefing really English. Of corse, The Kinks recorded a song called Lola, but we dint fink we would stand a chance of that song winning wiv Marley choosing, so we have picked Sunny Afternoon, wot they do be singing in the snow, which must be a 1960s style joke or somefing.

@wonderwinger
Well done to Marley for his well-deserved win last week, testament that if you keep knocking your paw against the door it will eventually open...

Moving on from The Pretenders I shall give you The Kinks. Why? Well, The Pretenders first single was a cover of The Kinks "Stop your sobbing". The Kinks had so many good songs "Sunny Afternoon", "Waterloo Sunset", "Dedicated Follower of Fashion", "Well Respected Terrier oops I mean Man" it was hard to know which one would be appropriate. Then I remembered myself, of course it has to be "Lola" in honour of this week's judge's sisfur. She's so lucky to have a song written about her. 

@kelsoterrier

Last week's winner was The Pretenders with Brass In Pocket or, to give it is full name, Brass In Pocket (I'm Special). The song was used in the Special K cereal adverts in Australia. My link this week is therefore The Specials with a song that was released in the same year (1979) wot be called A Message To You Rudy.

An the winner dis week .... as chosen by @marleyterrier  ..... dus be  ........ @kelsoterrier wiv Da Specials and Message To You Rudy. Yay! Well done ma pal. 

Marley said:  My pal, we is choosin linky 9, the Speshuls. Is demonstratin the two impawtant qualitees for a good link - clever finkin am a good toon. Pawsome. And to whoever it was who selected Lola..... Duss you not kno me at all ? He he....

Now is time to get your finkin caps on an send me (find out how on da guidelines page fing) the next link in the chain. Da winner dis week dus be pickin da winner next week and dat means Kelso!

It's over to you! Email me: lexie at toxicpenguin dot com or DM me on twitter (@dogstoyevsky) wiv your link suggestion followin on from dis one! You has until noon (GMT) Sunday 7 October 2012. Oh smetimes I dus accidentally delete em! Heehee. So good idea to type DO NOT DELETE in the title!  

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 Eighty-Ninth Chain

Hello pals! Welcome to Week 89 of #lexieschain. Dis week was down to ma dad to choose coz I won last week. Last time was Skye Boat Song by The Corries. Let's see wot happened this week!

@terenceterrier
Lexie gave us “The Skye Boat Song” to follow wiv our next linky. Skye iz an island off Scotland. Annuver songy bowt a place by da sea in Scotland is “ Mull of Kintyre” which is bowt luvvly place in SW Scotland which is extreme tip of Kintyre peninsula (part of High Park Farm owned by Sir Paul McCartney) & woz ritted by Sir Paul n Denny Laine & performed by “Wings”. Da lyrics in bowf songs iz very similar in wot they say.

@patchdacat
The winning linky last week was “The Skye Boat Song” by The Corries. For my linky this week *presses repeat button* I choose “Sailing” by Rod Stewart. This is another song about travelling over water to get back to person he loves & Rod Stewart is very proud of his Scottish heritage.

@bunnersandharvs

So den we is clapping paws at DJ Lexie's big win last week, The Skye Boat Songy by them Corries! It got dese paws a thinking about love and boats so we is making it 'Simples' and going wif da them songy Love Boat. BOL! It is a boaty full of loving!

@bvfeyj

Excellent choice by Briar ob da brilliant linky from our bery talented @djladylexie! Me does luff The Corries & folk music & dat was a good one. Another ob dere songs is Parcel ob Rogues which was also recorded by one ob me faborite bands, Steeleye Span. Another song recorded by boaf Steeleye Span & The Corries is my linky “Cam Ye Or’e Fra France”. All dese songs does hab a common feme in dat dey is political “Jacobite” songs... it does bring to mind a great line from anuvver song ...dey may hab won all da battles, but we habbed all da great songs... or is somefing like dat. Anyway dis is a catchy little tune (dat pokes a bit ob rood fun if you can figgur out & translate what dey is saying).

@kelsoterrier
Ok, time for a history lesson. Last week's winner was The Corries with the Skye Boat Song. This song recounts the story of Bonnie Prince Charlie's escape to Skye on a boat following the defeat of his Jackobite army at the Battle of Culloden. The Jackobites were trying to reinstate a Scottish King to the throne and Bonnie Prince Charlie was the grandson of the last King of Scotland. Most of the Jackobites were from the Highlands of Scotland and, accepting defeat, many Highlanders moved on and recommenced farming. Landowners soon realised their land was more profitable without pesky people living on it so started evicting tenants. During what became known as The Highland Clearances a number of Highlanders emigrated to America. On the Isle of Skye this story of emigration was turned into a dance called America. During the dance each of the couples successively whirls round in a circle, till all are in motion; and the dance seems intended to show how emigration catches, till a whole neighbourhood is set afloat. All of that is a very long winded way of saying that my link this week is Runrig (who are from the Isle of Skye) with "Dance Called America" play it loud and I defy you not to dance or at least tap your feet.

@wonderwinger
Well done to Lexie on her wonderful win last week giving us The Skye Boat Song from The Corries. Roy Williamson from The Corries wrote the unofficial Scottish anthem Flower of Scotland. This song has been sung by the Scottish national rugby team ever since 1974 when Billy Steele got the fans to sing it after their victorious Lions Tour.
My chosen linky, Swing Low, Sweet Chariot is also associated with rugby and has been adopted by the English fans as their song since 1989. Many artists have recorded the song before Rugby World cups, my preference is for China Black and Ladysmith Black Mambazo.

However, neither song was written with rugby in mind, Flower of Scotland was a folk song and Swing Low, Sweet Chariot was originally a gospel hymn.

  

@marleyterrier
We see you did choose da Skye boat song last week and that song do ave wedrs in it wot go…..Burned are their homes, exile and death, Scatter the loyal men; Yet ere the sword cool in the sheath Charlie will come again. Charlie duss be Prince Charles Edward Louis John Casimir Sylvester Severino Maria Stuart commonly known as Bonnie Prince Charlie or The Young Pretender who was the second Jacobite pretender to the thrones of England, Scotland, and Ireland. He probbly best known as the instigator of the unsuccessful Jacobite uprising of 1745, in which he led an insurrection to restore an absolute monarchy. This make us fink of The Pretenders,,,,,and their big hit Brass in Pocket….

@diamondbertie
Hello. Here is my entry, last weeks was the beautiful Skye Boat Song, by the Corries, this lovely song is a lament for Scotland the words are so moving. My choice is La Mer by Charles Trenet, this is also a lament for the fall of France early in second World War. Both nations lost something irreplaceable.

@borderpup
Rite, we has to link to The Skye Boat Song. Well, one pure and simple linky is the best band to come out of Skye. Who? Runrig of course! Here they is wiv original lead singer, Donnie Munro (who has a fabulous voice, mum says). We have chosen their song 'The Greatest Flame'.

An the winner dis week .... as chosen by the dad ..... dus be  ........ @marleyterrier wiv Brass In Pocket - The Pretenders. Yay! Well done ma pal. So you dus be choosin next week. Rod Stewart was a close second! 

Now is time to get your finkin caps on an send me (find out how on da guidelines page fing) the next link in the chain. Da winner dis week dus be pickin da winner next week and dat means me!

It's over to you! Email me: lexie at toxicpenguin dot com or DM me on twitter (@dogstoyevsky) wiv your link suggestion followin on from dis one! You has until noon (GMT) Sunday 30 September 2012. Oh smetimes I dus accidentally delete em! Heehee. So good idea to type DO NOT DELETE in the title!  

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 Eighty-Eighth Chain

Hello pals! Welcome to Week 88 of #lexieschain. Dis week was down to Briar (@wonderwinger) to choose. Last time was Wherever My Trail May Lead by Tim McGraw . Let's see wot happened this week!

@kelsoterrier
Ok, a link to Wherever The Trail May Lead by Tim McGraw required this week. I have to admit to not knowing much about Mr McGraw before today. I now know that he is married to Faith Hill and they did some very very successful tours together. The first of these tours was in 2000 and was called the Soul 2 Soul Tour. The stage for this tour was quite unique in that it was a 360 degree stage surrounded on all sides by the audience. Other artists have also used this concept in their tours such as U2 and Def Leppard. Tim McGraw has featured on Def Leppard tracks and collaborated with them in the past. McGraw also joined Def Leppard onstage for the song "Pour Some Sugar On Me" during their 2006 tour. So the stage layout and collaboration links mean my choice this week is Pour Some Sugar On Me by Def Leppard.

@borderpup

I do be late wiv ma entry dis week, but we fort there mite still be time if you dus still be on yore way back from BFN. If so, here we go: Hmm, we dussnt know much about Tim McGraw, so we did look him up on t'interweb. He dus be married to annuver famous singer, Faith Hill. They both has made lots of music and dun lots for charity, but Faith has also released 2 perfumes! And her newest one is called 'True', so guess what we has chosen? Yep, da famous 80s tune 'True' by a very young looking Spandau Ballet!

@bvfeyj

Bery creative, Briar! We likes da original Incredible Journey better dan da remake too, but like boaf ob dem. Bery impressed dat Briar found dat video, speshully since Tim McGraw wasn't eben borned yet when da mobie was made. We needs da linky for Tim McGraw "Wherever the Trail May Lead" anyway and da first fing to pop in ma head was Roy Rogers "Happy Trails" but Tim McGraw was da son ob Tug McGraw who was a baseball player and Tim is minority owner ob da Nashville Kats football team which was named after da song "Nashville Cats" by da Lovin' Spoonful so dat is my linky! Dat was also before Tim was borned but it a great song!

So here is da Lubbin Spoonful wif "Nashville Cats"! 

@bunnersandharvs
Well dun Briar on her eggcellunt choicy in last week's chain! So den because da songy was abowt going home and good journeys, we says we hope da journeys be happy so da songy we is going wid is 'Happy Trails by Roy Rogers & Dale Evans.Happy trails to yoooooooooo until we meet again....

@djladylexie
I love that filum wiv da cat and the doggies on their incredible journey. Ok so this filum was akchewlly made based on the book by a woman called Sheila Burnford from Scotland. Scotland is also home to annuva tale of a legendary doggie – Greyfriars Bobby also made into a great filum. Greyfriars Bobby was a Skye Terrier coz of well, being from Skye! A famus song of Skye dus be the Skye Boat Song so I goes for Skye Boat Song performed by The Corries.

@marleyterrier
We see that Briar did choose Wherever My Trail Will Lead…and that made us fink of bein on a journey but we decides that we dussnt not like known where we is goin and so we fink of The Beatles and The Long & Windin Road cos that did lead them back to your door my pal…..and that makes us fink about doors and how sum times they open and sum times they be closed….and the last door we duss see will be eaven's door and so we ave chosen Knockin on Heaven's Door….by Eric Clapton (cos we do prefer his version to Mr Dylan's and Mr Rose's)…

@rosieterrier
Oooo well, congrats to Briar-good choicy. Well that song was about a man attempting to win the heart of a lady, my choice dis week is about the opposite-*sings* all the single ladies..... Anyways you guessed it 'Independent Woman' by Destinys Child is my lovely linky.

@terenceterrier
Last week Briar won wiv “Where Ever The Trial May Lead”. So I started finking about trails & what sorta folk are found on dem. Cowboys of corse are well known for riding on trail drives so I chooses my fave cowboy songy “Ragtime Cowboy Joe” by Alvin and The Chipmunks.

@patchdacat

Last week we had “Where ever the trail may lead” as the winning linky from the Disney film “The Incredible Journey”. One of the animals was a Siamese cat. So I looks for another Disney film with Siamese in it & finds “Lady & The Tramp”. So I choose for my linky this week “The Siamese Cat Song” performed by Hilary Duff from that Walt Disney movie.

@diamondbertie
I hope you get this. Last week's winner was Wherever My Trail May Lead by Tim McGraw
I choose Take Me Home Country Road by John Denver. Why, keeping the theme of journeys and Country music.

An the winner dis week .... as chosen by @wonderwinger  ..... dus be  ........ @djladylexie! Dat be me! Oh blimey I fort I'd lost ma touch! Well I has but anyway is me! So I dus be choosin next week.

Now is time to get your finkin caps on an send me (find out how on da guidelines page fing) the next link in the chain. Da winner dis week dus be pickin da winner next week and dat means me!

It's over to you! Email me: lexie at toxicpenguin dot com or DM me on twitter (@dogstoyevsky) wiv your link suggestion followin on from dis one! You has until noon (GMT) Sunday 23 September 2012. Oh smetimes I dus accidentally delete em! Heehee. So good idea to type DO NOT DELETE in the title!  

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 Eighty-Seventh Chain

Hello pals! Welcome to Week 87 of #lexieschain. Dis week was down to Harvs and Lord Percy to choose. Last time was Homeward Bound by Simon and Garfunkins. Let's see wot happened this week!

@terenceterrier
Well done Harvs for givin da winnin linky “Homeward Bound” which is a fave songy of ours. Dis puts us in mind of the fillum “Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey” all about some pets trying to find their ownas. The sequel woz “Homeward Bound II : Lost in San Francisco”. So for my linky dis week I chooses da songy “San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Flowers In Your Hair” sung by Scott McKenzie which woz one of da anthems of the Swinging Sixties wiv da Flower Power people & Happy Hippies.

@patchdacat

Last week @BunnersAndHarvs did give us “Homeward Bound” By Simon & Garfunkel. It was ritten by Paul Simon at Widnes Railway station while waiting for train & was bowt how he wanted to return home to his girlfriend. So for my linky I choose “Sailing” by Rod Stewart which is annuvva song bowt someone making his way back to his loved one!

@bvfeyj
We does luff Simon & Garfunkel & luff dat song, but me did fink ob movie "Homeward Bound- The Incredible Journey". Now dis movie did feature Sally Field as da voice ob Sassy da cat, Sally Field did also star in da TV series "Gidget" which was based on da movie "Gidget" which did star Sandra Dee and James Darren & dat does finally bring us to me linky for dis week which does be da feme song from dis movie as sung by James Darren! Phew, dat was all around da woodshed to get here but dis is "Gidget" by James Darren.

@borderpup

To link from Homeward Bound, we did find out that Paul Simon wrote da song when he was feeling homesick while he was waiting at a station when he was on tour. So we fort - what might he be waiting for? The last train, of corse! So, our choice is 'Last Train to Clarksville' by The Monkees.

@kelsoterrier
My link this week is Going Home by Runrig. Simple reason being that it's the song dad always listened to when he was "homeward bound" from holidays as a kid. It reminded him that while he was leaving the sunshine behind he was going back to a great place and it gave him something to look forward to on the plane.

@wonderwinger

Well done to Harv and Lord Percy, a super win for the new pairing *applaws*. My entry this week is Wherever The Trail May Lead by Tim McGraw. The song is taken from the 1963 Disney Movie: The Incredible Journey. When this film was remade in 1993 it was retitled Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey. I'll always prefer the original...love that English Bull Terrier. (I hope this link works as it's a lovely film).

@djladylexie
Well done to the Harvs an Da Lordy Percy! Well now, the song Homeward Bound is a lovely song an is got lines in it bowt a train journey. I am sittin in a railway station got a ticket for ma destinashuns ooooo an all the singer finks bowty is getting ome and wishin they was homeward bound. May be he was unhappy wiv da places he went but I bet he wod of bin appy if he went to Marrakesh. If he did, he wod of got the Marrakesh Express, so dat ma linky. Marakkesh Express by Crosby, Stills & Nash.

An the winner dis week .... as chosen by @bunnersandharvs (Harvs and Lord Percy)  ..... dus be  ........ @wonderwinger wiv  Wherever My Trail May Lead by Tim McGraw. Yay!! Well done Briar!! 

Now is time to get your finkin caps on an send me (find out how on da guidelines page fing) the next link in the chain. Da winner dis week dus be pickin da winner next week and dat means you Briar.

It's over to you! Email me: lexie at toxicpenguin dot com or DM me on twitter (@dogstoyevsky) wiv your link suggestion followin on from dis one! You has until noon (GMT) Sunday 16 September 2012. Impawtant note: I dus be at Borderfest til Sunday pm so it might be bit delayed - okies?!! Good ;). Oh an smetimes I dus accidentally delete em! Heehee. So good idea to type DO NOT DELETE in the title!  

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!