Lexie's Chain: The Hundred and Twenty Seventh Chain

Hello pals! Welcome to week 127 of #lexieschain. Last week the winner was Tucker wiv Gordon Lightfoot's The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. Let's see wot we got dis week!

@diamondbertie
Last week Tucker @bvfeyj won with the sad memorial to The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald this tragedy occurred in 1975 on Lake Superior a tribute to the brave men who lost their lives . My choice is The Erie Canal, a song which is a tribute to a remarkable construction more than 360 miles from Albany to Buffalo creating a navigable route from the Great Lakes to the Atlantic. This was a bold piece of engineering.

@djladylexie
I'm choosin a Bob Dylan song wot is one of our favourites. It dus be Just Like A Woman. Why? Gordon Lightfoot dus be a world famous Canadian Folk Singer and considered to be a national treasure. I fort I'd take a look at who he has had the most influence in their music an after some research hve come up wiv da fact that he seems to have been a major influence on Bob Dylan, another folk singer of some note! Dylan himself said of Lightfoot "Lightfoot became a mentor for a long time. I think he probably still is to this day." 

@skye613
Great win Tucker. And one of my fav Gordon Lightfoot songs. In 1974 Clint Eastwood & Jeff Bridges starred in Thunderbolt & Lightfoot. A "road film" along the lines of Easy Rider The ultimate road film of the 60's. One of The Bands best tunes is on the soundtrack " The Weight" What is the linkie you ask? Canada! 

@wonderwinger
Supa dupa Tucker scores another win, well done my friend. Gordon Lightfoot was signed to Reprise Records which was a company originally set up & owned by Frank Sinatra to enable him & his pals to retain publishing rights for their songs. Moving on from boats another mode of transport could be an aeroplane so my linky is Frank Sinatra & "Come Fly With Me".

@claptonterrier
last week Mr Tucker chose the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald...According to the song, the Fitzgerald was bound "fully loaded for Cleveland". In fact she was heading for Detroit, there to discharge her cargo of taconite iron ore pellets before docking in Cleveland for the winter. So this week I have been thinking about songs about Detroit……ether are an awful lot of them…like 8 Mile by Eminem and Detroit Rock City by Kiss….but we have found one with a crafty nautical theme. Its Motown Music by Rod Stewart….Detroit was famously the home of Motown Records and of course Mr Stewart has a bit of a history of "Sailing" himself….

@freddie_bt
We adn't eard last week's winning song so it wuz a pleasure to discover it. Da only Gordon Lightfoot songs we ad eard of were "Cotton Jenny" n "Canadian Railroad Trilogy", da latter is a song dat wuz commisioned by da CBC to celebrate da centenary of Canada. Dis made us realise dere wuz a way dat we cud link to Africa fwom Canada. In Mali shortly after independence the Government decided to sponsor and support musicians largely through the Ministry of Railways n so the "Super Rail Band" was formed, although it has had various names. Over the decades it has launched the careers of many great musicians including internationally renowned singers like Mory Kante and Salif Keita. An almost constant figure in the band has been Djelimady Tounkara one of the greatest of the many great guitarists that Africa has produced, we should remember that the origins of Jazz, Blues n therefore Rock n Roll lie in Africa. Mali has a very rich cultural heritage that dates back many centuries n tho Dad generally doesn't support military intervenshun he wuz pleased dat France wuz prepared to help Mali resist religious fanatics who would seek to destroy and ban Mali's wonderful heritage n culture.

Anyway it is unfortunate dat dere is not a surfeit of good quality videos of the "Super Rail Band" so here is Djelimady Tounkara wiv a song he wrote for the Super Rail Band it is called Massa n he is performin it at a concert that wuz part of Mali's celebrations to mark 50 years of independence. Djelimady Tounkara - Massa - 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUM4iWCog6A&list=PLA410A89CEAED4944

(sorry pals I can't embed the video so you''ll have to follow the linky)

@bunnersandharvs

Well dun to dat Tucker fur da win last week! You all is just so cleva wot plays da Lexie's chainy. We did think about dese songs ova da last few weeks and dey has been rilly seerious so we goin wif a little less serrious take and goin wif a boaty songy by an old crooner Jimmy Buffet's, Boat Drinks.Why? Cause wen it all said an dun we dus need to selbrate life cause it dus be ruff frum time to time so why not haf a likkle pawty on da boat and haf sum drinks!!

@bvfeyj
Eben tho me be judging and so not hab to do a linky, me gib you one anyway. (Mostly cuz me lub dis one and not hab enuff Gordon Lightfoot yet.) Me actually gib you two videos ob it cuz it so fantastic. Gordon Lightfoot was commissioned by da CBC to write dis song for a special broadcast on January 1, 1967 to start Canada’s Centennial year celebrations. So here we hab “Canadian Railroad Trilogy” which one ob da best songs eber wif some ob da most evocative images for which Lightfoot is so well known. Dis song like da Wreck ob da Edmund Fitzgerald be based on real events and likewise a tribute to those that died.

Canadian Railroad Trilogy by Gordon Lightfoot

Gordon Lightfoot-Canadian Railroad Trilogy LIVE

An da winner ............... as chosen by Tucker .............. dus be ........... @freddie_bt! A great linky, well done Freddie! You on dat winnin streak now an there are 3 of you battling for da number one spot so it's all to play for! Oh an dat means you will be selectin the winner next week Freddie. 

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 June 2013 (gots to get it to me by 2pm UK time if poss). Oh sometimes 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 Hundred and Twenty Sixth Chain

Hello pals! Welcome to week 126 of #lexieschain. Last week the winner was Stella wiv Shipbuilding from Elvis Costello. Let's see wot we got dis week!

@claptonterrier

last week Miss Stella chose a song called Shipbuilding by Elvis Costello which was all about the folly of the Falklands War. I have looked in my history books and found that we went to war under a lady called Margaret Thatcher who was our Prime Minister. She was famously dubbed the IRON LADY by Captain Yuri Gavrilov in 1976 in the Soviet newspaper Red Star for he opposition to Russia during the Cold War. Her nickname makes me think of strong-willed ladies….but I couldn't find any songs about you Miss Lexie….so instead I have settled for a song about somebody like the Iron Lady: Robots. And this time the robots aren't winning….my chain this week is called Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots by the Flaming Lips…

@bvefyj
Last week we did hab first win for Stella wif “Shipbuilding” by Elvis Costello. Me fink me could do anuvver anti-war song link, but den me finked how about a ship link! Dere lots ob great songs about ships. Me did decide on one ob me faborite songs by one ob me faborite songwriters and performers. So we does go from shipbuilding to wreck wif Gordon Lightfoot in a luberly tribute to da crew ob da Edmund Fitzgerald.
The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald Gordon Lightfoot

@diamondbertie
Last weeks winner was Elvis Costello's Shipbuilding, a haunting song about the futility of war (Falklands War). My choice is River Lady sung by Roger Whittaker a song about a ship at the end of her use, another sad haunting song I have a picture in my mind of the painting by Turner The Fighting Temeraire.

@freddie_bt
We av found it vewy difficult dis week coz dere are so many possible links to make fwom someone dat has ad such a long n vawied caweer as Elvis Costello. Wiv my invaluable elp Dad compiled a long shortlist spannin all types of music n den we scwatched our eads, well he did I went to sleep. We decided in da end to go wiv Nick Lowe one of Elvis' earliest musical collaborators. Nick Lowe was da producer at Stiff Records n produced Elvis Costello's early LPs. Since den Elvis Costello has recorded Nick Lowe songs, dey have performed together n are gud fwends. Nick Lowe has ad a long career first wiv da band Brinsley Schwarz, den as producer n solo artist. He also ad Jonny Cash as a Father in Law which must av bin intwestin. He has bin writin gweat songs fer 40 years n has bin espeshully prolific in da last decade. Dad has ad da pleshur of seeing him perform on a number of occashuns n he's luvly, vewy modest n self deprecatin.

Ere he is wiv some of his fwends, includin da entertainin Geraint Watkins on keyboards n if you look closely you'll see dat Roy Hodgson is guestin on drums. Nick Lowe singin da nostalgic Long Limbed Girl, a luvly song dat makes Dad wonder where his youth went - 

@skye613
Great win Stella! When reading about Elvis Costello I noticed that he wrote & released " Pills & Soap " under the pseudonym The Imposter . That led me to wonder if others had also done this. Seems many bands have recorded using different names. My link today is " 25 O'Clock " by The Dukes of Stratosphear. Who be this band?

@djladylexie
My link does be Shine On Your Crazy Diamond by Pink Floyd. Why? Well, let me tell you! Shipbuilding was alledgedly written by Costello for Robert Wyatt. Wyatt was the founding member of Soft Machine a prog rock band from Canterbury. Wyatt fell from a fourth-floor window when he got drunk at a party and was paralysed from da waist down. Soft Machine were asked to play at a concert wiv Pink Floyd – also a prog rock band of some note ;). So dat my linky prog rock bands! Yay! 

@bunnersandharvs
Well dun to dat supa star Stella fur da winnin da chainy last week! We dus be thrilled fur you and we dus luv old Elvis Costello in dis household too. Saying dat we did thort about dat songy and it just make us think about travelling and dat made us think about dem peeples wot travel which made us think about a group of guys wot got together and formed da group daTraveling Wilburys. Now you may think we is odd wif dat choicy but we figure if a hooman has been through it dey need speshul caring & wot not so da linky fur us dis week is da Traveling Wilbury's - Handle With Care. Why cause 'Evabody, needs sum body - to leean on.... regardless of wot is going on... Hit it baby.... 

@wonderwinger
Well done Stella on your much deserved first win let it be the first of many. Ship-building by Elvis Costello being about the irony of a mini-boom for the ship-building industries of the north of England being caused by the loss of ships & lives during the Falklands war. Music can be a great way for people to come together to protest. There are many protest artists and i nearly went for a Billy Bragg link but who I've recently become aware of someone far more tuneful through the film "Searching for Sugar Man": Sixto Rodriguez. His lyrics struck a chord with those trapped and unable to speak out in South Africa during the Apartheid years, but could equally be applied to any race suffering oppression. My song choice shall be "This is not a song, it's an Outburst: Establishment Blues".

@rosieterrier
Big congratulations to Stella for last week. Dis week of course I have a Father's Day styli link. So Elvis Costello leads to Elvis Da Pelvis with 'Daddy's Home'. The DADDY himself, Mr Tom Jones covered the Elvis song 'I'm Left, You're Right, She's Gone'. So my linky dis week dus be Sir Tom "who's the Daddy?" Jones (OBE) with our favourite...'There's Something Bout You Baby I Like'

@smcheetham
Well very excited to win last week made my day. Not sure if I was supposed to do an entry when I was judging but done one anyway. Very simple link from Elvis to Elvis from Costello to Presley. One of my fave Elvis songs is Suspicious Minds so thats my link this week. Looking forward to deciding the winner.

@borderpup
Shipbuilding was also recorded by Robert Wyatt, who had a big hit wiv it, and he also had a hit with 'I'm a Believer', which was one of the biggest hits of all time by the Monkees. It was written by Neil Diamond, but we dussnt feel like going down that road. On Mr Wyatt's version, Andy Summer played guitar - he of corse later found fame wiv the Police - but we're not going down that road eiva! So, back to the Monkees, where Mike Nesmith played guitar (see what we did there) and he went on to have a successful solo career. Here is a lovely recording (but manky video) of one of his hits, Silver Moon.

An da winner ............... as chosen by Stella - @smcheetham .............. dus be ...........Tucker - @bvfeyj wiv The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald Gordon Lightfoot! A great linky, well done Tucker. So dat means you will be selectin the winner next week Tucker. Ere wot Stella said:

Well this winning comes with a price it seems how can I choose between all these fantastic entries. Do I chose because its a clever link, a great song, a great artist or that it has a link to a beautiful painting. The entires are all so great. The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald is one of my all time favourite songs But then again I love the Flaming Lips who are having their 30 year anniversary at the moment as well and Nick Lowe such a legend. Also Searching for Sugar Man was one of my favourite films of last year. You are all so clever this is Really hard. Anyway I am going to go with my heart and choose Linky number 2 - The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald so that this weeks' winner.  

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 June 2013 (gots to get it to me by 2pm UK time if poss). Oh sometimes 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 Hundred and Twenty Fifth Chain

Hello pals! Welcome to week 125 of #lexieschain. Last week the winner was Freddie wiv Curtis Mayfield an  Back To The World. Let's see wot we got dis week!

@skye613

Congrats to @freddie_bt with a great song from Curtis Mayfield that told us of the hardships soldiers returning home from Vietnam faced. Today June 6,2013 is the 70th anniversary of D Day. The Andrew Sisters sing of a different war in a different world. Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy.

@freddie_bt

Dad n I will obviously not be votin fer ourselves dis week but we's submittin an entwy coz Dad finks it is a song well worth listenin to by a singer dat neva got da recognition she deserved possibly because her music couldn't easily be pigeon holed as Soul, though her voice wuzfull of warmth n soul. Last week's winner was a pro Civil Rights song n our linky is a song called "Edge of a Dream" which wuz a twibute to Martin Luther King by Minnie Riperton fwom her LP "Perfect Angel", it was pwoduced by her gweat fwiend n admirer Stevie Wonder who also played da luvly piano on dis song. Stevie Wonder descwibed Minnie da person as a perfect angel n she had da most spine tinglingly beautiful voice with an extraodinary range, click on da links for "Seeing You This Way" or "Loving You" her most successful single to hear her astonishing high notes.

@bvfeyj 

Congrats to Freddie! In Back to da World Curtis Mayfield does sing about hard times in da US for da vets returning from the Viet Nam War and dem looking fur jobs and got no jobs and life is hard in dese hard times. But lest we fink dis is an American fing, a Viet Nam war fing, or eben a modern fing we hab Steeleye Span to sing about Hard Times of Old England! And dey duz say

“Our soldiers and sailors have just come from war

Been fighting for Queen and country this year

Come home to be starved, better stayed where they were

And sing O the hard times of Old England

In Old England very hard times”

@bunnersandharvs

Well dun to dat Freddie & Dad who dus be doing rilly well on da Chainy. So we did read da lyrics of Back to da Wurld and thorted about war and how peeples dus come bak feeling lost and wundering where da luv is so we thort why not go wif da songy by da The Black Eyed Peas - Where Is The Love?

 

@diamondbertie

Last weeks winner was Back to the World by Curtis Mayfield this is a song of the futility of war and the "survivors" return to a land that is changed forever. My choice is Where have All the Flowers Gone sung by Joan Baez she make it all the more haunting with her clear as a bell voice. why? because it is a hauntingly sad song also of the futility of war.

@claptonterrier

Last week we had a song by Curtis Mayfield as the winning choice. Mr MAyfield was very well known for all worst of wonderful music and we have quite a lot of it here in our house. Very sadly, we know that he was badly injured in his later life and left paralysed after his lighting rig fell on him whilst he was on stage and left him unable to play his guitar….and he later lost a leg to diabetes. He had a very hard life. In his honour we are selecting this song - The HArd Way by Phantom Limb…

@smcheetham

Well last week Freddie chose an anti war song by Curtis Mayfield about the Vietnam War. So my link this week is another anti war song but this time an English War. A very powerful song written about the Falklands War is Shipbuilding by Elvis Costello. So that's my link from anti war song to anti war song Ship building by Elvis Costello

@djladylexie

Super Fly is a movie well known for its soundtrack written and produced by Curtis Mayfield. The filum is bowty a cocaine dealer in New York wot lives a very dangerous life of dealing drugs an dat. Well, anyway, the movie also stars a 1971 Cadillac Eldorado driven by the film lead character – Priest. The car was heavily cutomised and was the start of a trend to customise cadillacs and the advent of the phrase a pimpmobile wot many drug dealers, ganster and pimps (as in da prostitute pimpy person) droved around.

One movie wot as a orrible pimp in it dus be True Romance wiv one of our favourite actors playin da pimp – Gary Oldman. Gary Oldman also starred in da movie Dracula, as surprisingly, Dracula – who also liked to have a harem of women doin his dirty work – bit like a pimp! So we dus chose a song from Dracula soundtrack wot we likes dat be Annie Lennox and Love Song For A Vampire

An da winner ............... as chosen by @freddie_bt .............. dus be ........... woohoo!!! At last, Stella you as broken your duck! Quack quack! Is @smcheetham wiv Elvis Costello an Shipbuilding! A great linky and a well-deserved win. So dat means you will be selectin the winner next week Stella.

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 June 2013 (gots to get it to me by 2pm UK time if poss). Oh sometimes 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 Hundred and Twenty Fourth Chain

Hello pals! Welcome to week 124 of #lexieschain. Last week the winner was Skye wiv Almost Cut My Hair by CSNY . Let's see wot we got dis week!

And pals, please note that we has no broadband coz BT is rubbidge and won't climb a telegraph pole to do the cable til the 11th June! So you gonna get disrupted service from da Lexie for a bit! We gots a 3g mobile dongle (that is not rude) so I can be online a bit so you dussnt forget me!

@diamondbertie
Here I am bright and early this week, last week's winner was CSNY with Almost Cut My Hair, I looked and listened to the lyrics and my mind went to a barber. Sweeney Todd the Demon Barber, with Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter, one of the tracks was Pretty Women, on that note I choose for my link Roy Orbison singing Pretty Woman.

@freddie_bt
Ere's mine n Dad's entwy. Finkin of da hair cut aspect of last week's winner Dad fawt of da followin song lines: "Let me tell you Son, the war was never won, in this city's streets you gotta be careful where you move your feet, how you part your hair". Dey cum fwom da gweat Curtis Mayfield's powerful anti-war pro Civil Rights song "Back to the World" which is da phrase US soldiers in Vietnam used to describe leaving it n weturnin to ds world, sadly for many life at home wuz not ideal. "Back to the World" by Curtis Mayfield.

@djladylexie
To me dis be a celebrashun of long hair and bein a bit of a hippy from da 60's. Long hair dus still be a sign of wantin to be bit different an bit of a freak/outsider maybe. Course, when you be a teenager you just wanna be you an not care abowty anyfink anyone else finks about you, your music, your beliefs wot be formin when you young. So dat got me finkin bout all the people wot get pushed and bullied for bein bit different maybe so I dun chosed a great song wot dun by, of all people, Christina Aguilera and Beautiful wot be about acceptin yourself as you are.

@bvfeyj
Excellent win by @Skye613 wif “Almost Cut My Hair” by CSNY. CSNY dus be Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young. Dis band formed after da breakup ob Buffalo Springfield. Neil Young and Stephen Stills did join CSNY and hab solo careers as well. Dey also rerecorded some Buffalo Springfield songs. Another member ob Buffalo Springfield was Richie Furay who did join da band Poco and hab solo career too and likewise did Buffalo Springfield songs. So me choice dis week is Richie Furay wif Poco and “Heart of the Night”.




@smcheetham
Hello all chain time again. Now last weeks winner was Crosby Stills Nash and Young with Almost Cut My Hair. So I have focused on Graham Nash who is of course a Lancastrian just like me and his early career was in the Hollies that well known Manchester Band . That takes me to another very special to me Manchester Band The Smiths. So which Smiths song to choose there are so very many but let's go for where it all began with This Charming Man so that's my link This Charming Man by The Smiths. Good luck everyone.





@claptonterrier
Hello Miss Lexi. I was being very lazy this week and started my search for a chain link by putting "Cut My Hair" into Wikipedia (forgetting it was called Almost Cut My Hair) and being very puzzled that it kept taking me to a page about Quadrophenia by the Who. Eventually, after several tries, i realised it was doing this because there is a song called "Cut My Hair" on Quadrophenia too! How funny. I thought a little about the members of the Who and I remembered that Roger Daltrey used to own a salmon farm and that got me to thinking about bands named after fish….we had a very nervous moment when we almost selected a song by Marillion whose singer was called Fish, but eventually we settled on this nice song by Noah and the Whale …..er not technically a fish I know but whose counting eh?….life goes on…so my link this week is Life Goes On by Noah and the Whale…

An da winner ... as chosen by @skye613 ........... dus be ................ @freddie_bt wiv Back To The World from Curtis Mayfield. Yay!! Oooo you is really in da runnin now ma pal! 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 Skye.

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 9 June 2013 (gots to get it to me by 2pm UK time if poss). Oh sometimes 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!