Toadcast #85 – The Ruthcast
Hello, welcome to the Ruthcast. Why the Ruthcast? Because my friend Ruth who runs the Bowery with Jane came round to the house last week to thoroughly upstage me on my own podcast.
Last year Ruth was a guest on my Fresh Air radio show and completely and utterly upstaged me, and in this podcast we agreed that she would come on every week this year. And that, frankly, sounds like a bloody good idea to me.
I mentioned on the Friday Five a couple of weeks ago that Ellie Greenwich had died, and as this is something which upset Ruth rather a lot, so the podcast is absolutely chock-full of Ellie Greenwich songs
Toadcast #85 – The Ruthcast
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01. The Ronettes – Baby I Love You (05.51)
02. Golden Ghost – If You Are in Love Then Why Are You Asleep? (13.36)
03. The Crystals – Then He Kissed Me (16.07)
04. Parenthetical Girls – A Song for Ellie Greenwich (23.25)
05. The Shangri-Las – Leader of the Pack (34.25)
06. Jeremy Jay – Beautiful Rebel (37.10)
07. The Blank Tapes – Listen to the One (41.41)
08. Dusty Springfield – What Good is I Love You (43.59)
09. Julie Doiron – Last Night (56.52)
10. Mount Eerie – Between Two Mysteries (69.06)
Arrgg, it’s all different!!
Surprisingly Christmassy.
This is now my favourite toadcast. Ruth is brilliant! More Ruth please.
See people keep saying that whenever she gets involved. I may have to take out a hit on the old bag before this bloody place gets over-run.
Yeah – but the person you deliberately stood in from of at the Broken Records gig at the Bowery was a pregnant lady who had brought a stool through the bar!
You cruel bastard.
She wasn’t the only person I stood in front of. It was a packed gig and she was a good three or four metres back from the front. What did she expect, a cone of emptiness in between her and the stage?
this is one of my favo(u)rite toadcasts – love the final songs
+1 to Matthew (both – incl. the commenter!)
Cheers. All these +1s add up eventually, I’m sure.
Just thought I’d try out being Matthew#2… Not sure.
Wait. What happened to my other comment? That doesn’t make any sense now. Argh, my head hurts.
You signed in as a different user, and I have to approve ever new commenter, so it took a little bit. It just helps stop spam comments.
Still counts as a TPM though.
And a rather stylish one at that!
As far as I was aware Girls Aloud manage themselves & I think they have for quite some time, so the song choices have moreorless all been their own. No idea why they appeal across the boundaries, though. maybe its a universal sympathy for the alabaster ginger one?
In the latest edition of <Privaye Eye:
POETRY CORNER
In Memoriam Ellie Greenwich, US Songwriter
So, Farewell
Then Ellie Greenwich,
Famous Songwriter of
The 60s.
Yes, we remember
Your many unforgettable
Hits.
“There she was
Just a-walkin’ down
The street.”
All together now —
“Singing Doo-
Wah diddy-diddy
Dum diddy-doo.”
And now you are
Dum diddly-dead.
Sadly.
E.J. Thribb (17½)
Apologies for hijacking this comment thread a little, but given the chat on the Ruthcast about venues etc. & the SbT general interest in live gigging, I thought this is of some interest to everyone.
All those who are interested in gig-going in the UK it might be a good idea to read this: http://tinyurl.com/lvyt5g.
Clearly that’s going to affect a LOT of independent artists & those in the overseas musician world on a very tight budget generally.
If you think it’s a bad, bad idea (one suspects this is a tie-in to current the under the table tightening of immigration laws) please sign the petition: http://tinyurl.com/an5m9n.
Cheers. Back to normal service, now.
Three.
Post.
Mentalism.
Pfft. ALL cast related.
That they were. But mentalism is mentalism, DC, and there’s no escaping it.
hurray for every week times…hurray! thanks for having me on, can you tell i’m getting drunker as the podcast progresses?
Drinking? There was drinking? Suuuurely not!
it could be like withnail and i, hve a drink for every time you hear the botle being poured…
oh oh!
for the record…it was michael who made the spastic clap at the end!
Does this whole website consist of stupid rich ugly fucks going on about how great edinburgh is for music? Just have a listen to meursault and withered hand – now tell me if thats the best edinburgh can do? white, rich, bald (would help), tuneless and totally uninteresting – you’ll go along way on these pages. and matthew looks like a rapist!!! laughing stocks!!!
You’re quite right, the people in both bands are well know for their enormous wealth. And they’re white. Imagine! White people making music!
I hate it when ugly people have opinions too, so I can understand your annoyance and I do apologise.
And I am, in fact, a rapist. Sorry. No-one told me it was wrong.