Lexie's Chain: The Three Hundred and Seventeenth Chain

Hello pals. Welcome to week 317 of Lexie's Chain. Last week the winner was Megan wiv Marry Me from Bruno Mars. Let's see what we gots this week:

@maggietkat
Well done with "Marry Me". That song was recorded with the Doo-Wops and the Hooligans. I am picking a doo-wop love song (2 links!) "Why do fools fall in love" by Frankie Lyman and the Teenagers.

@claptonterrier
last week Miss Megan chose our winner…a song about getting wanting to get married…..so this week we wondered what might follow “popping the question”…well, I think the first thing that happens is taking vows in a church…so this week our linky is the song “I Do” by Jewel.

@skye613
So we gots a great vid and a great song! Bruno sings so pretty. Makes me want to dance & fall in love. Hey Mr DJ!

@daisy_dor
Congrats to Me-gan for the victory last week with Bruno Mars and Marry Me. Short n sweet this week for my linky so I keeps on da theme of marriage dis week with Don't Marry Her by the super wondrous Beautiful South. PS for those of a nervous disposition dis is the original version with da expletives innit.

@diamondbertie
@cloonfourmegan 's choice of Marry You by Bruno Mars was lovely and it's opened a huge choice of weddings and marriage. My choice is Radetzky March by Johann Strauss Sn, this stirring music was used at the wedding of Princess Anne to Captain Mark Phillips, also heard at the News Years Day Concert from Vienna.

@terenceterrier
Larst week Dame Megan winned da chainy wiv "Marry Me" by Bruno Mars. But wot if da marriage dussnt werk owt n it end in tears n divorce ?  Tammy Wynette had a hit in 1967 wiv D.I.V.O.R.C.E. but for my linky I gonna use da Billy Connolly vershun cos it be a gud laff.

@sonikebt
Well done @cloonfourmegan winning the link with "Marry You" by Bruno Mars. Let's hope the girl said yes coz we always luvs a "Wedding Party" by Paul Buchanan.

@djladylexie
Bruno Mars was born in Hawaii (who knew!).  He was raised in Waikiki neighbourhood of Honolulu. When you marry someone you have a wedding. What better place to have a wedding than Waikiki! Well ere be a song from an old movie called Waikiki Wedding from Bing Crosby called Sweet Leilani.

An da winner as chosen by .................  Megan dus be ........... Daisy wiv Don't Marry Her from Bootiful Sarf. Woop well done Daisy you broke your duck! You choosin next week.

Ere wot Megan said: Well what great linkys this week and we enjoyed howling along to lots of these. But we did decide on the Linky number 4 wiv the norty words! We love the Beautiful South

So now is over to you. Email me: lex[dot]dogstovesky @ gmail.com or DM me on 5h March 2017 (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 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 Three Hundred and Sixteenth Chain

Hello pals. Welcome to week 316 of Lexie's Chain. Last week the winner was El Tel wiv The Bike Song, Mark Ronson . Let's see what we gots this week:

@diamondbertie
Last week @TerenceTerrier won with The Bike Song by Mark Ronson, this got me thinking of a hilarious animated film called Belleville Rendez-vous and song The Triplets of Belleville even if I don't win I want to share this YouTube clip it too funny to keep to myself.

@cloonfourmegan
Terence won last week with Mark Ronson's Bicycle Song. Mark Ronson's biggest hit was Uptown Funk with vocals by Bruno Mars. This is our favourite Bruno Mars song and we love the joyous video too

@skye613
" What a long strange trip it's been, "  Think I should have ridden my bike. Nothing was coming to this paw for a link this week. Decided to take a look at Mark Ronson. Sure there's " Uptown Funk " but what else. On March 17, 2014,  Mark gave a TED Talk, basically defining sampling. To simplify, sampling is taking a small piece of recorded music and using it. Mostly these pieces are used in a loop and in Hip Hop. But the most sampled recording artist of all time is James Brown! My linky this week " I Feel Good " Thanks, James!

@claptonterrier
Sir Terence chose a song by Mark Ronson as the winning linky…we see that he was born on 4 February 1975….so we used the clever internet to see what other things happened in music history on 4 February…and we saw that the Beatles recorded Across the Universe on 4 Feb 1968…and so this week our linky is a version of that song sung by Rufus Wainwright…(because all the Beatles videos on Youtube seem to be blocked!!)…pffft.

@maggietkat
Well done with "The Bike Song". I figure there are 2 things in the song, transportation and a city. I thought we would transport ourselves to New Orleans and take in some sights. To do this, Paul Simon is going to "Take me to the Mardi Gras". After all, Mardi Gras this week!

@daisy_dor
Congrats Terence on you victory last week wiv "The Bike Song" by Mark Ronson. Not a song dat I knew and it always good to broaden your horizons. My linky this week sticks to the bicycling theme .... and wiv a simple substitution of the word "pushbike" for "bike" we move from Mark Ronson to The Mixtures (not them Mungo Jerry lot wot covered it 20 years later). So der we go, I gives you The Pushbike Song by The Mixtures.

@sonikebt
Last week's winner was @terenceterrier with "The Bike Song" by Mark Ronson and The Business intl. Mark Ronson has an impressive list of collaborations however we are going with a song he produced in the same year as "The Bike Song" - 2010. Mark was a fan of this band and wanted to produce the album he thought they should have after the success of Rio. The song is "All you need is Now" by Duran Duran.

@djladylexie
The singer on The Bike Song features the rapper Spank Rock. Dat dus be a very strange name me finks. Using the power of google we decided to look up the worse rapper name sof all time. Well I certainly ain't gonna tell you the no 1 wurst name, cos is very rude! So we goin wiv da number 1 most famus rapper instead that dus be Snoop Dog, must be good as he's got dog in the name!). So here be a song from Snoop Dog (what was snoop doggy dog). Drop it like it's hot. Hope that's not rude!

An da winner as chosen by .................  Tel dus be ........... Megan wiph  Marry You, Bruno Mars . Well done me pal! You choosin next week.

Ere wot Tel said: Fanks my pals for da 8 linkies. Yoo all werked very hard dis week ! I went back n forth between dem finding it so hard to decide cos da linkies were very clever n I liked lots of da songs. Finally wiv a bit of help from da other furs here I choose linky numba 2 wot be Bruno Mars n "Marry You" We luvved da mob dance video n it be a cheerful bop along songy. 

So now is over to you. Email me: lex[dot]dogstovesky @ gmail.com or DM me on twitter (@dogstoyevsky) wiv your link suggestion followin on from dis one! You has until 26th February 2017 (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 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 Three Hundred and Fifteenth Chain

Hello pals. Welcome to week 315 of Lexie's Chain. Last week the winner was Clapton wiv Rocket 88 by Ike Turner. Let's see what we gots this week:

@maggietkat
Well done Clapton with "Rocket 88". This was one of the first time the fuzz or distortion song was used. The story is that someone dropped a speaker on Highway 61. It worked but only by stuffing stuff to hold the woofer and with the buzz.  My link is Bob Dylan's tune Highway 61 revisited.

@skye613
So Sir Clapton won last week with a song about the 1951 Oldsmobile Rocket 88. There are about bizillion songs about cars, all types, shapes, and sizes. But what does each and every one of these cars need? Why A " Car Wash " of course. Here's an animated version from the movie Shark Tank! Enjoy pals!

@terenceterrier
Larst week little pal Clapton winned da chainy wiv da songy "Rocket 88" wot be a car. Da car be a mode of transport n annuva wot be favoured by Clapton n TT be da bicycle. So my linky be "The Bike Song" by Mark Ronson, The Business Intl.

@cloonfourmegan
Last week Clapton won with Ike Turner and his rocket song. Well Ike was famously married to Tina. Tina Turner appeared in the Mad Max series in Beyond the Thunderdome. There are various songs by people called Max and we pick this one by Max Bygraves Gilly Gilly Ossenfetter Katzenellenbogen by the Sea!

@daisy_dor
Congrast to Mr Clapton last week, a tricky place to linky from but here goes. Rocket 88 was covered by Bill Hailey and the Saddlemen only a few months after the Brenston / Turner version. Bill Hailey is probably best known for da song Rock Around Da Clock was was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1982. Also inducted in da same year is my song choice - Crazy by Patsy Cline.

@diamondbertie
Last winner was Rocket88 by Ike Turner and Jackie Brenston, I noted the superlative piano playing, my choice this time is Winifred Atwell playing The Poor People of Paris she was an entertainer who exuded joy to her playing, it was the American Servicemen in WWII who introduced her to rag time.

@djladylexie
Well done me pal for da win! Well let me see. Ike Turner was of course married to Tina Turner in what turned out to be a very unpleasant and aboosive relationship. Once she managed to escape from him her solo career overtook anything he could have ever imagined! So this is me tribute to a very great singer. Her first single after Ike, from the same named album. What's love got to do wiv it!

An da winner as chosen by .................  Clapton dus be ........... Terence! Well done Tel me pal wiph The Bike Song from Mark Ronson.

Ere wot CT said:  Well Miss Lexie this is a most difficult choice this week. A very fine collection of links. So, we have narrowed it down to two....linky 3 because it is all about the bike and so very close to our heart...and linky 7 because ancient pawson TT went to see Miss Turner playing live on the tour of the album which that song came from....so we have put it to a vote here at BT HQ as we have our familiy musician at home for the night and so the winner this week is linky 3 The Bike Song!

So now is over to you. Email me: lex[dot]dogstovesky @ gmail.com or DM me on twitter (@dogstoyevsky) wiv your link suggestion followin on from dis one! You has until 19th February 2017 (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 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 Three Hundred and Fourteenth Chain

Hello pals. Welcome to week 314 of Lexie's Chain. Last week the winner was me wiph Sting and Moon Over Bourbon Street. Let's see what we gots this week:

@daisy_dor
Concats to @maggietkat on winning last week. This week I is going for a simple linky ... Bob Seger did co-write a song with Don Henley, Glenn Frey & JD Souther wot was performed by Frey and Henley's band The Eagles. Dat song was Heartache Tonight and is brilliant ... so dat's it The Eagles, Heartache Tonight is my linky this week.

@terenceterrier
Larst week pal Maggie struck a blow for da kittehs n put a win on da board. Da winning linky wos Bob Seeger n "Old Time Rock and Roll" . Da video come from da film Risky Business. Annuva song used in dat film  be "In The Air Tonight " singed by Phil Collins. Dat gonna be my linky but I gonna use da vershun wiv da Cadbury Gorilla (extended mix so we gets da whole song) n because I likes to drum along on my own kit made wiv saucepans n wooden spoons.

@claptonterrier
Last week our winner was “Old Time Rock n Roll”…so what better link this week than to go allllll the way back to what is often cited as the first rock & roll record: “Rocket 88” by Ike Turner and Jackie Brenston…!

@cloonfourmegan
Last week Maggie won with Old Time Rock and Roll performed by Bob Segar. It was written by George Jackson who also wrote this performed by the Osmonds. *screams* love you Donny!

@sonikebt
Last week's winner was @maggiekat with "Old Time Rock and Roll" by Bob Seger. Bob did not take a songwriting credit for this song despite claiming to rewrite the lyrics. Songwriting credits is a bit of a murky world with lots of artists claiming credit for not very much input. However there are bands who choose to share songwriting credits equally. This includes Radiohead, Supergrass, Coldplay & Duran Duran. So this week we are going to celebrate the bands who believe in fairness with the 1994 Ivor Novello Award winning song "Ordinary World" by Duran Duran.

@djladylexie
Bob Seger's musical career kicked off wiv Bob Seger & The Last Heard. He quickly changed the band name to Bob Seger System who released a single and album of the same name in 1969 - Ramblin Gamblin Man.  Is amazin how many songs have ramblin in te title! One of our favourites dust be Ramblin Man by Lemon Jelly. So dat is our linky.

An da winner as chosen by ................. Maggie dus be ........... Clapton wiv Rockett 88 by Ike Turner. Yay well done CT. You dus be choosin next week.

Ere wot Maggie said: My choice for the winning song "Rocket 88". All wonderful links this week so it was hard to choose. Rocket 88 struck home 2x. Mom's grandpa drove an Oldsmobile Delta 88 (not the muscle car but the make and model # close). Next you all know Mom lived in Chicago and we live in St. Louis. Ike grew up in East St. Louis and We all love the Chess catalog. 

So now is over to you. Email me: lex[dot]dogstovesky @ gmail.com or DM me on twitter (@dogstoyevsky) wiv your link suggestion followin on from dis one! You has until 13th February 2017 (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 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 Three Hundred and Thirteen Chain

Hello pals. Welcome to week 313 of Lexie's Chain. Last week the winner was me wiph Sting and Moon Over Bourbon Street. Let's see what we gots this week:

@maggietkat
Well done Lexie! When I think of Interview of a Vampire, I try not to remember the absolutely horribly played Lestat by Tom Cruise. There is an adorable Tom in a very early film Risky Business. This is Tom dancing to Bob Seeger's Old Time Rock and Roll.

@terenceterrier
Larst week our favrit DJ Lexie winned wiv "Moon Over Bourbon Street" by Sting. Sting started off in a group called Police. One of their hits woz " Message In A Bottle". Wot sorta message duss yoo fink mite be innit? Well if it wos frown in da sea by a fur marooned on a desert island probs it would say "Rescue Me" . So for my linky dis week I gives yoo Madonna n "Rescue Me".

@claptonterrier
ast week your song was “moon Over Bourbon Street”…and of course Bourbon is a drink…and to be classed as bourbon that drink has to be made in Kentucky….so this week our link Is “Blue Moon of Kentucky”…sung here by Patsy Cline…

@cloonfourmegan
Last week Lexie won with Moon Over Bourbon Street by Sting. Sting was originally in The Police. We like jolly policemen so we pick this laughing one.

@skye613
So hmmm Lexie's Dad be choosing. Well, Bourbon Street is in New Orleans as we all know. In August of 2005, New Orleans was devastated by hurricane Katrina. To this day the recovery is not complete. In Oct-Nov 2005, many musicians contributed to an album to benefit The American Red Cross, Habitat for Humanity and MusiCares to aid the citizens of New Orleans & the Gulf Coast.  As Elton sings " I'm Still Standing " which is included in  the album- New Orleans is still standing! Laissez les bon temps roulez !

@daisy_dor
Congrats Lexie on da winnings last week. Me link this week be a tad tenuous but me not care cos it get me to me favourites. As well as being a solo artist, Sting was a member of The Police so he was a Policeman (well sort of). In da song Suburbia by Pet Shop Boys der are da lyrics "where's a policeman when you need one ...". So der we has it, my link dis week is Suburbia by Pet Shop Boys.

@sonikebt
Well done @djladylexie winning with "Moon over Bourdon St" by Sting. This week we have picked a song about the moon which was also in a movie. We mainly chose it because it reminded us of our boy practising for his Grade 2 violin exam. We would like to say they were happy memories but put us off violins for life !!! Our link is "Moon River" sung by Audrey Hepburn from Breakfast at Tiffany's.

An da winner as chosen by ................. me dad dus be ........... Maggie! Yay well done me pal.

Ere wot me dad said: Nice links. Got to agree with number 1 Tom Cruise was AWFUL in that movie. So I'm going with No 1. Well done everyone. Love .... the Dad.

So now is over to you. Email me: lex[dot]dogstovesky @ gmail.com or DM me on twitter (@dogstoyevsky) wiv your link suggestion followin on from dis one! You has until 6th February 2017 (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 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!