Lexie's Chain: The Hundred and Twelfth Chain

Hello pals! Welcome to week 112 of #lexieschain. Last week the winner wos Maggie aka @maggietkat wiv Shake Your Tail Feather by Ray Charles. So lets see wot we got dis week. 

@djladylexie
This song famously appeared in Blue Brothers. One half of blues brothers was John Belushi who was also in Animal House, another movie with a great soundtrack. So, I chooses a song from the movie, sung by John Belushi - Money (That's What I Want) in the movie.

@rettetkaninchen
What rhymes with "Shake a Tail Feather"? - "Hand me my leather!" So my suggestion for this week is Tori Amos with "Leather". 

@diamondbertie
I have an instant spontaneous idea for this weeks chain. Last weeks' winner chosen by @maggietkat was Shake a Tail Feather sung by Ray Charles in the great film Blues Brothers. I had to choose Minnie The Moocher sung by Cab Calloway also in the that film.

@skye613
Last weeks winning link from @maggietkat was " Shake Your Tail Feather " Great link and congrats but link left me shaking ma head. Where to go ... Ah to much shaking heads & tail feathers may lead to crying. My link suggestion this week is " When Doves Cry" Kris Allen.

@bvfeyj
Me hab a quandry dis week to picky mines linky cuz me gots two excellent choices and not knows which one to submit, but me at last decides on dis one. We knows @maggietkat (yay! welcome back!) did win wif "Shake a Tail Feather" as sung by Ray Charles and the Blues Brothers in da 1980 Blues Brothers moobie. Da original "Shake a Tail Feather" was sung by The Five Du-Tones in 1963 and dey was a Chicago blues band like da Blues Brothers. Me does choose da original version ob anuvver song featured in da Blues Brothers moobie. Dis group was formed in dat same year (1963), but far away from da Chicago blues scene. One ob my ancestors (well, dat is, he is Welsh) formed dis band and dey released dis song in 1966. Dis is da Spencer Davis Group wif “Gimme Some Lovin'”. (You got to hear Steve Winwood and dat Hammond organ wail! Woof-hoo!)

@claptonterrier
Hello Miss Lexie. Last week, we saw that @maggiekat won with Shake A Tail Feather….tail feathers are what birds have to help with display abut more importantly to help with flying….I am only a dog so I can't fly but i sure would love to learn. So this week I am choosing "Learning to Fly" by Tom Petty…

@bunnersandharvs
Well dun Maggie fur da linky last week. You so cleva *wynks* Now then Mum dus think dem Blues Brothers was veree silly so we going on wid dem cause dey was always getting a crowd mooving and a groovin so our linky dis week dus beThe Blues Brothers - Everybody Needs Somebody to Love. Why cause we dus need somebody to love and you dus need to shake dat paw. 

@smcheetham
Well done Maggiekat for last week. I am afraid I have been a bit rushed this week but still wanted to join in. Mine therefore is a very simple link. It uses the word Shake from last weeks winner. That takes me to Shake Rattle and Roll by Bill Hailey one of the first rock and roll hits that led to so much great music that we all love. Good luck everyone.

@rosieterrier
I just has a small chain dis week wiv only one linky. Congrats last week on 'Shake a tail feather'. I choose 'Hey Ya' by Outkast as one of the lyrics be "shake, it like a Polaroid picture... Hey Yaaaa" *dances off into the sunset-well, snow!*

@patchdacat
Last week winning linky was by Blues brothers so I choose to stay with the blue theme and choose a linky by The Moody Blues “Go Now”.

@millie_t_dog
Last week's winner" Shake a Tail Feather" sung by Ray Charles and the Blues Brothers in 1980, was a cracking song, humum is still boogieing around the house! Since then I've been applying my doggy brain to fink of my linky.

The song calls for peoples to do a variety of dances which were popular in the 1960s, the mashed potato, the bony morony and the boogaloo, but one dance caught my eye .... the frug.What the dog is that??? According to the boffins, the Frug was a dance craze from the 1960s that evolved from another dance of the era, the Chicken. In other words, it's a dance which doesn't involve much leg movement but lots of waving the arms about. Humans are truly weird!!!

Appawrently a perfect example of a Frug is found in the movie Sweet Charity, but this is a song linky chain, not a movie one. So instead I gives you "Rain on Your Parade" by Duffy as the video also features this dance.

@wonderwinger
Hurrah for Maggie giving us the superb Blues Brothers with Shake a Tail Feather. The Blues Brothers first single was the Sam & Dave 1967 song: Soul Man. This song was also covered by Lou Reed with Sam Moore for the comedy film: Soul Man.
Lou Reed was best known as the frontman for The Velvet Underground. Their first single & my linky was All Tomorrow's Parties.

@kelsoterrier
ohhh, I liked the dancy link last week and what a great video. Dancing and shaking (a tail feather) immediately brought to mind the dance craze sweeping the globe just now wot be The Harlem Shake. Some very funny videos on YouTube with people jumping about crazy doing the Harlem Shake like they're on fire & trying to put it out. So how about a very famous and talented singer from Harlem for my link? What about Alicia Keys singing Girl On Fire wot is what some of them Harlem Shakers looked like they were? Ok then, go on, that's my link.

And ............. da winner dis week .... as chosen by @maggietkat  due be ................

@bvfeyj (Tucker) wiv Gimme Some Lovin'! Yay!! Well done ma pal. It has been a while since we seen you ad a win!

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 Tucker!!

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 17 March 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 Eleventh Chain

Hello pals! Welcome to week 111 of #lexieschain. Last week the winner wos me aka @djladylexie wiv Dr Beat, Gloria Estefan and Miami Sound Machine. So lets see wot we got dis week. 

@rettetkaninchen
Back to the 80ies! Wooohhooo! Another not soooo good dancer is Sandra. She did a cover of Dr. Beat where she, well, erm, moves a bit funny. But Sandra is a great singer and one of her biggest hits and a fantastic song is "Maria Magdalena". 

@maggietkat
Last week's winner was Dr. Beat by Gloria Estefan and the Miami Sound Machine. As I watched the video, I was struck by the crowd dancing scenes. There were many great dancing scenes in the 1980's like Thriller, Wang Chung, the Kinks, and who could forget Men without Hats. However, Sweet Home Chicago blues are always on my mind. My choice this week, featuring my favorite of all crowd dancing scenes, is "Shake a Tail Feather" as sung by Ray Charles and the Blues Brothers in 1980.

@skye613
Woo Hoo! Well done Lexie! So the winning link was " Dr. Beat" by Miami Sound Machine. This was the 1st international single released in English by the band in 1984. Roger Fisher , founding member of Heart, played on this song & the album Eyes of Innocence. Heart , which was started as The Army in 1967, was formed by Roger Fisher, his brother & Steve Fossen. Ann Wilson joined in 1970 & Nancy in 1974. Roger, Ann & Nancy were heavily influenced by Led Zeppelin founded by Jimmy Page from The New Yardbirds. Both Fisher & Page utilized a theremin, an early electronic instrument, controlled by antennas. 

In 1980 Led Zeppelin broke up & Roger Fisher was voted out of Heart.My link suggestion for this week is Heart performing " Stairway To Heaven" at the Kennedy Center Honors to honor Led Zeppelin.

@bvfeyj
Lexie did gib us Gloria Estefan and da Miami Sound Machine wif Dr. Beat. Turns out dat Gloria Estefan did also record a Spanish language album which got me finking who else did Spanish language albums (Linda Ronstadt, Julio Iglesias, Christina Aguilera, etc.) Roundabout way me did work back to a pioneer in Latin and Chicano rock music who is considered by many to be da first Latino to enter mainstream rock music. Eben though his career lasted less than a year he hab influenced many artists who followed. Ironically, although he was Mexican/American and his biggest hit was sung in Spanish, he did not speak the language, learning the lyrics phonetically for the recording ob “La Bamba”. 

@diamondbertie
Thinking of Gloria Estafan, So I googled her and I see she was cast to play Connie Francis who was famous for Whose Sorry Now. That is my choice.

@patchdacat
“Dr Beat” and Miami Sound Machine was the winning linky last week put up by Lexie. The second single by them was “Bad Boy”. A video was made of this featuring Gloria Estefan with the cast of the musical “Cats”. So my linky this week comes from that show & I choose the beautiful song “Memory” sung by Elaine Paige as Grizabella in which she appeals to the Jellicle Tribe of cats to be the one to be allowed to travel to the Heaviside Layer and be reborn to a new Jellicle Life.

@smcheetham

Hi Lexie chain time again. Last week you won (hurrah) with Dr Beat I think it was. That led me to one of my fave bands from the old two tone era back in the late seventies early eighties. One of my fave two tone bands were The Beat. One of their best songs was Mirror in the Bathroom. So my link based on the word Beat is Mirror in the Bathroom by The Beat.

@wonderwinger
Congrats to Lexie on winning with Dr Beat and the Miami Sound Machine. Miami Sound Machine were fronted by Gloria Estefan. Our Gloria was born in Havana, Cuba so I thought I'd find a Cuban linky. The Buena Vista Social Club was a member's club in Havana where Cuban musicians & artists would play, dance and gamble together. It was closed after the Cuban Revolution but a young Cuban musician: Juan de Marcos González discovered many of the musicians that played there were still alive and formed a musical collective with them named after the club. My choice & their most famous song is entitled "Chan Chan".

@claptonterrier
we saw that last week you chose Dr Beat by Miami Sound Machine…well, in these times of great austerity we think that Dr Beat would be very glad to see a patient or two….so I am here for a consultation….Doctor..its my eyes!

@rosieterrier
Well done to Lexie n her eighties beats last week (removes ghetto blaster from shoulder). My chain is short this week. I choose Toots and the Maytails(;-) 'Funky Kingston'. This is because it is the theme tune for Miami Ink which links to Miami Sound Machine, see! Also I dus be looking into getting a tattoo of my mum in my right ear and maybe Ami James will do it for me! Bol! *snaps paws*.

@bunnersandharvs
Well dun to dat grooyvy paw wot be Lexie who won da chainy wid Gloria Estefan & Miam Sound Machine's Dr Beat! We has decided to continue on wif da Doctor linky cawse hoomans seems ta always needs a doctor...so hows about Dr. Dre - I Need a Doctor. By da way, he sings da songy wif Eminem, Skylar Grey so der dus be norty words in it. 

@millie_t_dog
My song is Doctor! Doctor! by Thompson Twins. Why? Because it also features the word doctor in the title; it was a hit from 1984 the same year as Dr Beat and it's a song from humum's youth. Simples!

And ............. da winner dis week .... as chosen by dad ......................... dus be ................ @maggietkat wiv Shake A Tail Feva! Yay!! Well done ma pal. It has been a while since we seen you!

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 Maggie!!

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 10 March 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: Annual Awards 2012

Well pals, a bit late but better late than neva as they dus say. We are in year 3 of Lexie's Chain and is all to play for so far. I realised I hadn't posted about the winners of 2012 so fort I best correct that!

It was annuva great year #lexieschain. I can't fank you all enuff for playin and makin it so much fun!

As usualy, we had a few mishaps along the way, mainly, deletin entries coz I dus be stoopid  accidentally. 

It was a sad time for us on the chain too as we lost very dear pals - Bunners, Marley an Lennox. They will always live on in our hearts.

So who was da champs of 2012! Well, let me tell ya:

Third Place 

@patchdacat - #wlf member and almost solely representin the felines. Patch entered the chain an amazin 41 times and winnin 7 chains! Well done ma pal for your third place.

Second Place 

@kelsoterrier - enterin 30 times and winning 8 chains, kelso shows great 'agility' (do you see what I did there?) at the chain game! Well done K, second year running!

Da Winner!!! 

The Chain Champ of 2012 (which I know you already know wot wiv it bein March!)  .. wiv a fantastic 38 entries and 9 wins! Please pals, put your paws (an hands and err wings and uvva limbs) togeva for our pal:

Briar (@wonderwinger)

Two final awards from Lexie:

This posthumous award was given to a dear dear pal in recognition of how awesome they was at playin the chainy and how dear they were to all our hearts. We gived this to our dearest pal Marley - @marleyterrier - we miss you more than you will ever know!

This award goes to the sweetest terrier I as ad the pleasure of knowin an who has come up wiv some awesome chainies and plays the game wiv such a great spirit, mainly coz she has a big lovely heart - @rosieterrier - DJ's favourite player of 2012!

Well that's it! Sorry it is late. At least I finally got round to it eh? So, who wil be the Chain Champ of 2013? Will it be YOU! Follow #lexieschain on twitter to play along or follow me @dogstoyevsky! Bye for now.

Lexie's Chain: The Hundred and Tenth Chain

Hello pals! Welcome to week 110 of #lexieschain. Last week the winner wos @kelsoterrier wiv Live and Let Die from Guns 'n' Roses. So lets see wot we got dis week. 

@skye613

Well done @Kelsoterrier! " Live & Let Die" immediately brings to mind Mr. Bond, James Bond who celebrated a 50th anniversary in 2012. As did The Beach Boys, The Dubliners, El Gran Combo, The Chieftains & The Rolling Stones. My linky suggestion for this week is "Rocky Road To Dublin" The Chieftains & The Rolling Stones.

@rettetkaninchen
Skyfall from Adele. "Live and let die" got covered by Guns n Roses. Originally it was written and performed by Paul MaCartney and the Wings for a James Bond movie. It is one of the successful themes. Another very successful Bond theme is Adele's "Skyfall". That's my suggestion for this week.

@chillibrambles
Last week @kelsoterrier got him brain in a fuzz wiv Guns & Roses, Live an Let Die, an finkin wevver fings is good or bad. We been readin some bad newses dis week, an want a linky bowt good fings for cheerin up. Gun & Roses was from California which we fink be good cos it has lots of beaches. Every fur loves da beach. Da Beach Boys came from California too an dey got beach in der name, which be good too. Here dey sing bowt Good Vibrations so dat does be our linky for dis week.

@smcheetham

Morning Lexie the chain goes from strength to strength every week. last weeks winner was Guns and Roses. I have taken the Roses part of this as the start for my thoughts this week. So thinking about Roses I have gone to one of my favourite songs which is Good Year for the Roses by Elvis Costello which is a very sad song but with fantastic lyrics. Good luck all fellow chainees.

@diamondbertie
Here is my entry for the Chain. Last weeks winner was Guns N Roses - Live and Let Die.
This got me thinking of the James Bond movie of the same name it had Roger Moore playing James Bond, he also was the original Saint. So here is my choice for this week

Louis Armstrong singing When The Saints Go Marching In.

@djladylexie
Live and Let Die – James Bond meets Solitaire. Solitaire was the love intrest for Jimbo in the movie, played by Jane Seymour. She was also know for bein Dr Quinn, Medicine Woman wot is abowt a woman wot is a physician in da wild wild west days.

Wot you probly didn't know wos that she was in dancing with the stars reality tv show wot as famous people dancing to moosic for the entertainment of the viewers. Well, she came sixth which ain't too bad but she obviously didn't av a good rhythm wot wiv bein a doctor. Maybe she should hav got Gloria Estefan and the Miami Sound Machine to page Dr Beat for her! Hahaaaa so how about that for linky! Dr Beat, Miami Sound Machine.

@terenceterrier

The winning linky woz “Live and Let Die” by Guns and Roses. Dis songy woz the title track from the James Bond film of the same name. In this film Roger Moore woz 007. Roger Moore woz also the voice of a cat called Lazenby in da film “Cats and Dogs:The Revenge of Kitty Galore” which parodies many of the James Bond films & characters. The first song on the film soundtrack is “Get the Party Started” by Dame Shirley Bassey which I choose as my linky this week. Big Shirl also sang the title song from the Bond movie “ Goldfinger” so she links to da Bond theme of last week’s linky.

@patchdacat
I pride meself on being an observant anipal & I could not help noticing that several members of Gun N Roses seemed to be missing various items of their clothing in this video. Missing kecks no less at the start *puts paws over eyes* Not a pretty sight. I can only assume they were hoping to get talent spotted for the new stage version of “The Full Monty”. I therefore chooses the song “You Can Keep Your Hat On” by Tom Jones as my linky this week as the song comes from that show.

@bvfeyj
Me fink we hab enough ob dese guns n deaf n stuff fur now. All dis killing me softly wif guns n roses living & letting die and all da confusion an stuff. Enough ob dat! Well, Guns N’ Roses was inducted into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2012, but annuver band was inducted dat same year and dey most famuss song gib us da roses wifout da guns! Dis be da Small Faces wif Itchycoo Park. 

@millie_t_dog
Last week's winner was Kelso with Live & Let Die by Guns n' Roses. For my linky this week I give you I Have Nothing by Whitney Houston. So how do we all get there I hear you cry?

Well, as we all know this was a cover of the Paul McCartney and Wings song which written for the James Bond film of the same name. The B-side of that 1973 single was a song called I Live Around, featuring the vocals not of Paul McCartney but Denny Laine.

Some years earlier, Denny Laine was an original member of The Moody Blues and was similarly lead vocalist on their first hit Go Now. This song reached number 1 in the UK charts in January 1965 and was itself a cover of a song written by Larry Banks (and others) and sung by his ex-wife Bessie Banks. The backing singers on the Banks' version included one Cissy Houston, the mother of Whitney Houston. Before going the way of so many others through drink and drugs, Whitney had a fantastic voice and whilst her acting skills were a bit more ropey she did star in the film The Bodyguard and was responsible for most of the soundtrack, including the song I Have Nothing

So there we have it via films and cover versions from Live & Let Die to I Have Nothing.

As a final factoid, both songs were nominated but did not win Grammy Awards - Best Hard Rock Performance for Live & Let Die in 1993 and Best Song Written Specifically for a Motion Picture or for Television for I Have Nothing in 1994.

@rosieterrier
Well done Kelso on last week's winning linky. My choice this week continues the rock theme with Michael Jacksons' 'Give In To Me'. Slash the guitarist from Guns n' Roses did feature on this......and.... His real name is Saul. Saul Bass was the graphic designer who designed many of the James Bond posters and title sequences. Also Saul is my mum's favourite boys name although what that has to do with the chainy, I don't know!

@bunnersandharvs
So well dun to dat Kelso fur winning da linky Live and Let Die by dem Guns & Roses. He is a cleva paw and his seleckshun gots dese paws thinking. So dis wot we came up wif.... We know dat Paul McCartney did write da song Live & Let Die so we said hrmm, wot else did he write and who else did he write songs fur and wid, and guess wot? He wrote songs wif Elvis Costello. And der is an album called 'All This Useless Beauty'. Now furst of all, Paul McCartney did write sum songys on dat album but we also thort we would say how can beauty eva be useless much like how can you kill softly or how culd you eve put a gun wid rose sooooo we is going with da songy by Elvis Costello - All This Useless Beauty. Hit it Elvis.....

@wonderwinger

The handsome Kelso gained an excellent win last week with Guns n Roses. I shall be sticking with the rose theme and selecting The Stone Roses. My song choice shall be Waterfall as the original lead guitarist for Guns n Roses was called Slash & waterfalls come from slashes in mountains. And finally both bands were signed to Geffen Records.
Waterfall.

So............. da winner dis week .... as chosen by @kelsoterrier  ......................... dus be ................ oh dear ............. guess who?! Yep ... moi! So that means only one fing .. dad has the job of choosin again. Oh dear, he dussnt like dussin it. Guess you will have to come up wiv some incentives heehee.

Ere wot Kelso said:

I choose number 6. Was gonna choose 11 but I googled Saul Bass & not convinced he had anything to do with James Bond, so apologies if he did, but tuff ;-)

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 the dad!!

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 3 March 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!