Lexie's Chain: The Hundred and Thirty Second Chain

Hello pals! Welcome to week 132 of #lexieschain. Last week the winner was Rosie wiv Your Feets Too Big from Fats Waller. Brillant linky ma lovely pal! So wot dus we dus av this week? (ps I fink I lost one - sorry @claptonterrier I cuddn't see your entry!)


@djladylexie
I loved da winnin song! Your feets too big is funny! I fink I go wiv da feet connection. I am goin wiv feet. What does we wear on out feet (well we dussnt but hoomans do). Well boots, shoes, slippers, trainers, fings like that. So is there any songs about shoes? Hmm yes many I fink. I noticed when mum has a new pair of shoes on she wanders round in em for ages all admirin herself an all that like she goin hey I got new shoes on!! Reminds me of dat Paulo Nutini song – New Shoes! Dat ma linky.





@maggietkat
i couldn't decide how to make my chain this week! I love piano 'strikers', and could have gone that way. However, I found sheet music for Fats Waller's version of "Muscle Shoals Blues". My human grannie grew up in the Muscle Shores area of the Tennessee River, specifically Florence, Alabama. Her daddy was employed by the Army Corp of Engineers to work on the Wilson Dam. Muscle Shoals has become a stop on the music trail for a lot of recording artists which include Aretha Franklin, Rolling Stones, and Lynryd Skynyrd. So, my pick is "Sweet Home Alabama" by Lynyrd Synyrd because the lyrics specifically mention Muscle Shoals. FYI, Muscle was the spelling at that time for the shellfish mussels which collected in shallow waters, called the shoals.

@diamondbertie
Last weeks winner was brilliant (wish I'd thought of it). Fats Waller singing Your Feets Too Big. The theme of feet I spontaneously thought of Nancy Sinatra singing These Boots Were Made For Walking.

@freddie_bt
Last week da winner wuz Fats Waller a towering figure in Jazz, great composer n pianist. Anuva great n influential Jazz musician who, like Fats, also demonstrated his prowess in Classical music wuz Benny Goodman da King of Swing. In his legendary Carnegie Hall concert in 1938 Goodman featured a sequence of tunes chartin da history of Jazz, one of dese wuz Fats Waller's Honeysuckle Rose. Dis pwovides our linky to one of da gweat moments in Jazz, "Sing Sing Sing". Swing? Dis sounds like rock n roll as Gene Krupa drives it along at breakneck speed wiv his thunderous drumming, only relenting wen da frontmen including Harry James n Goodman take deir solos. Towards da end Jess Stacey is given a rare piano solo, you can hear da audience applaud wen Goodman sensing it'll be magical says "Yeah Jess" as he moves da microphone to da piano. Phew, eres da Fletcher Henderson arrangement of "Sing Sing Sing" impeccably performed by da full Benny Goodman big band at deir peak:

@skye613
Congrats to Briar ! Am still chuckling. @rosieterrier did win the Lexieschain with "Your Feets To Big" by Fats Waller. Long after Fats was wallering about big feets in New York City, way down in Atlanta , Little Feats were singing about a " Fat Man in the Bathtub ".

@bvfeyj
Last week Rosie winned wif Your Feets Too Big by Fats Waller. Good choice too. We gonna go from dat (fat man and big feet) to woman wif skinny legs! Dis is Joe Tex wif Skinny Legs and All.

@terenceterrier
I am so pleased dat my pal Rosie won wiv her linky “Your feets too big”. If dat be the case then da person will have a big foot at the end of each leg. Dere woz an Indybum Chief from the Sioux nation called Big Foot. Annuver Sioux Chief woz Crazy Horse. So for my linky I choose “I don’t want to talk about it” by Crazy Horse & sung by Danny Whitten who writted da songy.

 @smcheetham
Morning last week was Rosie with the Fats Waller song Your Feets too Big so congratulations. I have gone with a link based on things being too big. Showing my age I was a big fan of The Police when their first album came out (I went off them quite quickly though) however on that first album is a song called The Beds Too Big Without you so that's my suggestion another things that's too big. Good luck everyone.

@bunnersandharvs
A veree big well dun to dat Rosie paw wot won last week wid her choice of Feets Too Big by Fats Waller....so where dus a paw go frum here? Well frum fat to slim to feet bein too big, we is going wid dem foots. We dus say if you always had happy feet den lyfe would be gooder dan good! So our linky is Happy Feet by Cab Calloway. Is an old songy but wot da heck put your happy paws on and get tappin.

 

An da winner ............... as chosen by Rosie.............. dus be ........... @bvfeyj (Tucker) wiv Skinny Legs! BOL BOL! Well dun ma pal. Oh an dat means you will be selectin the winner next week.

Ere wot Rosie said bowt it: Oooo, it was sooo hard to choose a winner. I did luv all of the songs, even Tessa Butterball ™ was swaying her hips! I have chosen a winner that just edged it but it is like on 'Come Dine Wiv Me' and every other fur is equal second, so brilliant were the linkies. My winner dis week dus be Joe Tex and 'Skinny Legs' cos it had us all laughin and it is about acceptance, inclusion and love. Xxxxxx

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 4th August 2013 (gets 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 Thirty First Chain

Hello pals! Welcome to week 131 of #lexieschain. Last week the winner, after a bit of upset caused by dad, was Briar wiv Praise You. Hope we didn't upset anyone too much! Let's see wot we got dis week!

@freddie_bt
Last week's winner wuz Praise You which has a distinctly religious ring to it n dat made n easy linky fer us. Dad has always luved The Church wot av da added benefit of bein Australian he says. Anyways one of his favwite songs of deirs is "Tear it All Away". Ere dey are on da excellent KEXP Seattle wiv a luvly re-workin of dis song, mandolin n harmonica weplacin 12 stwing guitar.

@skye613
Congrats to Briar, who won with " Praise You" by Fatboy Slim last week. This video was conceived and orchestrated by Spike Jonze for the tune. Jonze hired the dancers & also danced. Fatboy Slim liked it so much it became the official video for the song. Fatboy Slim was also a member of Pizzaman along with John Reid who co-founded the record label , Loaded Records ,which produced the group. Another group with Loaded Records was/is Freemasons. I think the dancers should be singing this tune! 

@diamondbertie
Another week has flown by, last weeks winner was Briar with Praise You by Fat Boy Slim
I saw it was a break dance sort of music, so I looked up Break dancing and settled for
When I Hear Music by Debbie Deb






@bvfeyj
Me does hab to say dat me not getted da hoopla wif Praise You by dis Fat Boy Slim... me is more used to “old people’s music” dat mom listens to. So we didz fink da best part ob dis song was when at da end dey did “The Joker” by Steve Miller Band. Me say dey did gib us da link right dere. So we does choose da original.





@bunnersandharvs
So den last week we did see a contruvurshul win wif da chainy fur Briar but is all cause der is a terrific group of competiturs fur da #lexieschain! So we says a big well dun to you Briar *wynks*.

Now den, our linky is going wif da singer wot called FATBOY SLIM! How can you be dis fat and slim? So we says we choosing songy songs dat is oxy morons...hee hee so we going wif an old singer called George Jones and his songy dus be called Accidentally on purpose. Kind of lyke when I says to Mum dat I ate dat pooh accidentally on purpose. BOL! 

@terenceterrier (welcome back Terence!)
Last week da winning linky was FatBoySlim and Praise You. If somewun is praising you they be saying Well Done. So my linky be “Well Done” by Moriah Peters.

@rosieterrier

Congratulations to Briar with her Fatboy Slim win.. Well I thought and thought, I considered Eminem-Slim Shady, Slim Whitman and then I thought 'Pffffft, slim.... No way, I loves my foody' so I went for Fats Domino, Heavy D but finally decided upon Fats Waller with Your Feet's Too Big. Enjoy :-D

@maggietkat
I had never hear of Fat Boy Slim, so I watched the vid with interest. The lyrical message combined with the struggles reminded me of the rebuilding of The Pretenders. the chart "Back on the Chain Gang" describes the love/respect for the former band members, the difficulties to rebuild while knowing that the love and respect would help carry the new band. So, my choice is "Back on the Chain Gang" by the Pretenders. 

@djladylexie
I'm goin wiv the praise feme. Priase to adore, adulate, glorify, honour. Obviously there's a religious feme connrected wiv god an that. I fink the ones I like are da choirs wot dus sing abowt they feelins. Dis made me fink bowt movies wot dussin av awesome choirs in em an I went for one of ma favourite movies featurin one of the best soul singers of all time - the one, the only James Brown in Blues Brothers. Wiv The Old Landmark. Do you see the light! heehee.

An da winner ............... as chosen by Briar  .............. dus be ........... @rosieterrier wiv  Fats Waller and Your Feets Too Big . Yay! Well done RosiePosie! Oh an dat means you will be selectin the winner next week.  

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 28th July 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 Thirtieth Chain

Hello pals! Welcome to week 130 of #lexieschain. Last week the winner was me wiv Letter from America by The Proclaimers. Let's see wot we got dis week!

@freddie_bt
The Proclaimers are noted fer drawin on traditional music, singin wiv deir own accent rather dan pwetendin to be American like Mick Jagger etc n dey also highlight social n political issues fwom today n also fwom history, like last week's winner Letter from America. Anuvva band dat Dad has enjoyed fer a long time n which do da same are "Ojos de Brujo", (Eyes of the Devil), fwom da Catalan region of Spain. Dey draw heavily on Flamenco music but blend it wiv a variety of contempowawy music to pwoduce a heady mix of rap, hip hop and flamenco guitars an rhythms. They also deal wiv social n political issues n started deir own record label to ensure dey had artistic contwol of deir music.

So our linky dis week is da wonderful Ojos de Brujo wiiv one of Dad's favwite songs of deirs "Ventilator R-80".

@skye613

So last week the great DJ Lexie did win with The Proclaimers & " Letter From America." A tune about long journeys & immigration. One thing I love about da #Lexieschain is learning about new music. Off to the G place cause I did not know the Proclaimers. Okay, a Scottish band composed of identical twins. Hmm wonder how many other bands have identical twins? .2% of the worlds population are identical twins. In the early 1980's identical twins Jay & Michael Aston formed Gene Loves Jezebel. In 1985 an Ep and an album were released containing " Desire" . The album was titled Immigrant.

@bunnersandharvs
Well dun to dat Lexie fur hur winny last week! It was a supa win cause der was many supa linkies! Now den we going simples here. Why? Cause da opening scene of da song by da Proclaimers wif dat girl on da bed made us think about a songy we dus luv called Her Morning Elegance by Oren Lavie. Is simples but no techno sorry Lexie's Dad :-) ....

@bvfeyj
Congrats, Lexie! Because da Scots is a brave proud people and because dey hab wonderful musics and because da song was Letter from America about writing letters to folks far away back home, me does chose as me link ”Message in a Bottle” by The Police. 

@claptonterrier
last week you chose Letter From America by the Proclaimers…I have heard Letter From America on the radio…the one done by Alistair Cooke of course….his namesake Norman Cook is a DJ known as Fat Boy Slim…which leads me on to Slim Shady and Eminem…so this week my chain is The Real Slim Shady by Eminem…

@diamondbertie
Last weeks' winner was Letter from America by the Proclaimers, about the Highland clearances, the theme of the songs seems to be movement and change. Hope and optimism coloured by despair. My choice this week is The California Gold Rush from Paint Your Wagon. This was an amazing time where fortunes were made and lost.

@wonderwinger
This week I thought my link would be Praise You by FatBoy Slim. How have we got there I hear you cry. Well, The Proclaimers big break came when a fan from Inverness sent their demo tape to The Housemartins. The Housemartins liked what they heard & invited the twins to support them on their 1986 tour. Who should be the bassist in The Housemartins at the time but none other than one Norman Cook. When the Housemartins split in 1988 Mr Zoe Ball went through various incarnations: Beats International, Pizzaman, Freak Power to name but a few before arriving at the most successful FatBoy Slim. 

AND

@smcheetham
Well done Lexie with your win. I know I should be choosing Techno but I didn't know where to start so not going down that road. Letter from America was a long running Radio programme written by Alistair Cooke. That led me to another famous Cook- Norman Cook AKA Fat Boy Slim. I have therefore chosen Praise You by Fatboy Slim so that's may suggestion. 

 


An da winner ............... as chosen by ma dad  .............. dus be ........... @wonderwinger wiv Praise You by Fat Boy Slim! Yay! Well done Briar! Oh an dat means you will be selectin the winner next week.  

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 21st July 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 Ninth Chain

Hello pals! Welcome to week 129 of #lexieschain. Last week the winner was Bertie wiv Canadian Pacific from George Hamilton. Let's see wot we got dis week!

@claptonterrier
I am doing my Chain early this week so I don't get caught out. Last week Uncle Bertie chose Canadian Pacific…that made me think about songs about oceans and the sea….there are lots of those of course. Its very difficult to choose between them ….and even more difficult to decide which of the seas is our favourite….then we remembered that we don't have to choose and we can have all of them. So this week we have chose Seven Seas by Echo and the Bunnymen.

@freddie_bt
We av looked at da maps n used geography fer our linky dis week. George Hamilton IV wuz born in North Carolina n later moved to Tennessee dese two states border da north of Georgia. Athens Georgia is famous fer bein da hometown of R.E.M n also the B-52's. Our linky dis week is da B-52's wiv Planet Claire fwom deir bwilliant debut LP. Geographically dis is close to Tennessee but musically dis is is light years away fwom da Nashville sound. If you're goin to bowwow a tune den make it a gud one n dis bowwows heavily fwom Henry Mancini's excellent Peter Gunn Theme. Featurin da exotic lukin Kate n Cindy tho not showcasin deir gawjuss singin ere's The B-52's "Planet Claire":

@skye613

Last week Bertie did win with " Canadian Pacific ". Congrats on a great linky. Had never heard this song but when I listened it was to me a traveling love song. This is my favorite traveling love song. " Boulder to Birmingham".

@smcheetham
Another week on Lexieschain congratulations to Bertie a great choice and a song I didn't know. The lyrics are about an epic journey to the arms of a beloved. I have been listening to a lot of Bruce Springsteen this week as I was lucky enough to see him live last weekend. My favourite Bruce album is Nebraska his LoFi album from 1982. There is a song on that about a long road journey back into the arms of the lovely Wanda. This song contains descriptions of a North American industrial landscape and is very atmospheric. So the link is journeys to the arms of a loved one and my song is Open All Night by Bruce Springsteen from the Nebrasaka album. Good luck everyone.

@bvfeyj
Congrats, Bertie! So we come back to Canada and train songs. But nah me fink me finds some different linky... Me finking dat George Hamilton is American country singer and he did appear in da musical “Patsy” about Patsy Cline. Two ob Patsy Cline’s biggest hits I Fall To Pieces and Crazy did be written by Willie Nelson. Many famous songs dat was big hits fur some country artists did be written by Willie Nelson but me gib you a song by Toby Keith dat was written ABOUT Willie Nelson. It called “I’ll Never Smoke Weed With Willie Again”!

@wonderwinger
Well done Bertie on your win last week much deserved. Thinking about George Hamilton with Canadian Pacific I started to link country music with long journeys in big countries. Canada is a big country which takes me with a hop skip and a jump to the Scottish band Big Country. My link shall be their hit "In a Big Country" which scored it's highest chart position in Canada.

@bunnersandharvs
Well dun to dat sweet Bertie fur da win last week. We han't neva hurd of dat songy by George Hamilton but we dus undastand train journeys and dus luv dem - well Mum dus - so we going on wif da train theme because dat jurney in Canada wuld have been a long one. So dat is part of why we id going wif da songy by da Doobie Brothers called Long Train Running we also chose dat songy cause it about love and George's songy was about long journeys and trains and love too so is a simiple linky but is da one we going wif and also because rilly with out love, where would we be now... 

@djladylexie
Well done Bertie wiv Canadian Paific. I as chosen Letter from America by The Proclaimers, a song about long journeys and the Scots history of emigration to America and Canada to start new lives following the highland clearances.

An da winner ............... as chosen by Bertie  .............. dus be ........... oh ...... me again! Yay! Well done me haha! Oh an dat means ma dad will be selectin the winner next week. 

Ere wot Bertie said: they were all great links deserving of time and consideration and it was tough, because I did not know any of them I wanted to hear them twice. I finally settled on number 8, Letter from America as being my favourite both for the song and for the reasoning behind the choice.  Well done everyone for introducing me to new (to me) songs.

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 14 July 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 Eighth Chain

Hello pals! Welcome to week 128 of #lexieschain. Last week the winner was Freddie wiv Djelimady Tounkara - Massa. Let's see wot we got dis week!

@freddie_bt
Obviously Dad not in da competition dis week but opes you all likes da song he's chosen. Fer our linky we's makin da journey from sub Saharan Africa down to the tropical heart in DR Congo. Kinshasa wuz da first place Dad lived in Africa when he was 6 n years later when he played his Mum some Soukous she said dat sounds like da music we heard playin evwywhere in Kinshasa. Dad wondered if da sound had stayed wiv him until he heard it again.
Anyway ere's Viva La Musica featurin da luvly high pitched singin of Papa Wemba n da gawjuss Soukous guitar of Rigo Starr. Towards da end you can hear Papa Wemba exhortin Rigo Starr to delight da listeners with more dizzyin playin.

@diamondbertie
Here I am again trying again. Last week @freddie_bt chose Djelimady Tounkara - Massa about the railway in Mali, I was thinking of other heroic journey s and the famous trains.
So many tributes and songs in the end I settled for Canadian Pacific sung by George Hamilton. I was in West Africa 20+ years ago the music touched me, later 10 years ago I did part of the Canadian rail journey from Jasper to Vancouver.

@skye613
Last week that clever @freddie_bt won the Lexieschain with " Mansa " by the Rail Band founded in 1970 and supported by the Ministry of Information and the railway administration in Mali. In Canada the festival Express also took place in 1970. This was a series of concerts across Canada and the bands preforming were transported by train. Among those on board were the Grateful Dead, Joplin, The Band and Buddy Guy. It's said the music on the train was better than on stage. Jazz and the blues as Freddie said come to us from Africa. My linky this week is the great blues artist Buddy Guy. 

@bjfeyj
Me linky dis week is simple one. Mali is in Africa so me fink “Africa” by Toto fits da bill. 

@smcheetham
Hello all missed last week due to holiday and no wifi but glad to be back joining in this week. I see that clever Freddie won again last week with a great link and information about the song was great as well. I have gone with using Mali as the link. One of our great artists of recent years is Damon Albarn who has been very prolific as a Musician across many genres. He has also spent a lot of time in Mali playing with musicians over there and making music. Damon of course began his career with Blur and I have chosen one of my favourite Blur songs Tender. Good luck everyone good to be back on the chain.

@bunnersandharvs
So den a big old well dun to da win last week. It was a cleva linky and made us paws think abowt independence which made us think about da USA wot is having der own Independence Day next week on da 4th of July. So we going wif an old songy by Neil Diamond called 'Coming to America'. It was in from da soundtrack da Jazz Singer and dus be abowt peebles wot immigrate to America seeking der independence. Is a good songy fur tapping da paws to too!

@djladylexie
So we dus be choosin 7 Seconds by Neneh Cherry and Youssou N'Dour. What!! How on earf is dat I hear you cry. Well let me tell you. First linky is railways second linky is african singers. Neneh Cherry sang on a song by TheThe called Slow Train To Dawn an in the video she get tied to a railway line! Neneh Cherry also has her roots in Sierra Leone wot is a country in West Africa – the African linky! Well funny enough Youssou N'Dour is also from a West African country called Senegal. So Neneh Cherry and Youssou N'Dour is ma linky wiv 7 seconds a beautiful song.

An da winner ............... as chosen by Freddie .............. dus be ........... @diamondbertie! Yay! Well done Bertie! Oh an dat means you will be selectin the winner next week Bertie. 

Ere wot Freddie said:

I luvs Seven Seconds n is a long time fan of Youssou N'Dour n also Neneh Cherry, also really enjoyed Linky 3 wiv its story about da Festival Express but although I's not as a rule a gweat fan of Country music, I did really enjoy Canadian Pacific a luvly tune n vewy evocative wiv its reference to far flung places, much like "Wanted Man" dat Johnny Cash sang. So da choice of Dad n I is "Canadian Pacific" by George Hamilton.

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 July 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!