Elvis writes note for Dylan radio show compilation, Nov. '10

johnfoyle · Post by **johnfoyle** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 2:55 pm

I haven't heard it yet but this tracklisting tells it all -

http://www.notdarkyet.org/tt-fathers.html

Patsy Girl - Ross McManus

http://www.thejukejoint.com/decmcmanbanl.html

Ross McManus had this to say about the song in an interview:

"Joe (Loss) asked me to go into his room one night and he said, 'The latest thing is going to be this West Indian music, ska and I want to do a ska record. Can you write something for us?' I said, 'Well, play me a ska record and give me an idea.' When I heard it, I said, 'I used to play in bands like that in black clubs in Upper Parliament Street. I can easily write something.' We had a girl from St Lucia called Patti Provost, who brought us tea in the interval and I used to call her Patsy Girl, so I got this idea to write something for a West Indian band. Instead of using the whole band, we'd use just a few people and I came up with, (sings) 'Hey, Patsy Girl, / I love the way you're lovin' me / And if you leave me / How it will grieve me / So don't ya leave me.' I sang it in a West Indian accent but it came out the same week as 'A Hard Day's Night' and it didn't sell at all. Three years later, a German company came over and swapped tapes with EMI. One was 'Patsy Girl' and Joe said to me, 'I've got some news for you. Ring the office in the morning.' I rang the office and Joe said, 'You've got a number 3 record in Germany and they want you on television. You can mime to the record, but don't tell the men.' That's what he used to refer to them as, 'the men'. I went to Germany for three days and when I came back, everyone said, 'Are you feeling better now, Ross?' They all thought I'd been ill. Joe hadn't told them that I'd gone to Germany. He always used to say, 'Oh don't tell them. Don't tell them too much.' Somebody in Austria or Germany is still playing 'Patsy Girl', perhaps as a theme tune, as I still get royalties on it. Declan sometimes threatens to record it."

The "Declan" that he refers to, of course, is his son, Declan McManus A/K/A Elvis Costello.

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http://lirama.net/song/38824

Ross McManus - Patsy girl

Hey Patsy girl
I love the way you're loving me
And if you leave me
How it will beat me
So don't you leave me
With your kisses honey sweet sweet sweet
You're the sweetest girl I meet meet meet
Oh love my Patsy girl
My Patsy girl
I love my little Patsy girl

Hey Patsy girl
I love the way you're kissing me
I like a nice girl
She likes a bright pal
You made my head whirl
Gotta love you everyday day day
So don't you ever go away way way
Oh love my Patsy girl
Yeh yeh Patsy girl
Oh, oh, I love my little Patsy girl

kuanyin · Post by **kuanyin** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 4:12 pm

Aired at 10 a.m. this morning EST on XM 40.

It encores on XM 40 tonight at midnight, Friday 6 p.m., Sunday 8 a.m., Monday 8 p.m (all EST).

It encores on XM 15 tomorrow at noon, Saturday at midnight, Monday at 6 p.m. and Wednesday at 6 a.m.

Didn't hear it yet, as Bob has the XM radio in his car, but plan to catch one of the encores.

T

martinfoyle · Post by **martinfoyle** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 5:04 pm

A tracked FLAC version of the streamed version of the show is torrenting here. An untracked mp3 of the show should turn up here eventually.

Or you could just download a mp3 splice I made of the before and after links

http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?a ... A449C127E4

johnfoyle · Post by **johnfoyle** » Wed Jan 10, 2007 6:29 pm

http://www.expectingrain.com/

Today's Bob Dylan Theme Time Radio Hour 36

Hair

Bill Carlisle - Sally Let Your Bangs Hang Down
They Might Be Giants - Bangs
Eddie Noack - Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Piano Red - Baldheaded Lena
(Matt Groening - The secret of designing characters)
Sonny Burgess - Red Headed Woman
JB Lenoir - Don't Touch My Head
Ray Price - Bright Lights And Blonde Haired Women
Prof. Longhair - Bald Head
Hank Ballard - How You Gonna Get Respect
Joe Clay - Don't Mess With My Ducktail
Louis Jordan - Chartreuse
Elvis Costello & The Attractions - Baby's Got A Brand New Hairdo
Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson - Cleanhead Blues
(Bob Dylan - Rapunzel)
Johnny Cash - You're My Baby (demo)

migdd · Post by **migdd** » Wed Jan 10, 2007 7:32 pm

It's sorta sad to think that Baby's Got A Brand New Hairdo is the only EC song Bob could find that referenced hair!

Time for EC to get back to work and write a few more weighty tunes on this hot topic!!

And No Coffee Table · Post by **And No Coffee Table** » Wed Jan 10, 2007 7:35 pm

"Episode of Blonde"?

migdd · Post by **migdd** » Wed Jan 10, 2007 7:43 pm

Episode of Blonde - YES!!!

Somebody call up Bob and ask him to schedule a follow-up on the hair topic!! How could he (and I) have missed that one!!!

Neil. · Post by **Neil.** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 6:09 am

Hey, don't diss Baby's Got A Brand New Hairdo! It's a great rocker with a great vocal, fun pop lyrics and great backing

oldhamer · Post by **oldhamer** » Sat Jan 13, 2007 7:05 pm

How about Blue Hair?

Or does my Blood and Chocolate disc have a misprint......?

martinfoyle · Post by **martinfoyle** » Sat Jan 13, 2007 7:13 pm

For the record, Bob intros the song by saying it's one of those songs that could have got lost on a b-side, and outros it by highligthing the Billy Boy Arnold namecheck. He obviously likes the track, he really is getting good at the dj routine.

RinghioStarr · Post by **RinghioStarr** » Sun Jan 14, 2007 8:35 am

hair...

what an interesting topic, Bob...

johnfoyle · Post by **johnfoyle** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 3:40 pm

It'll be interesting to hear how Zimmy relates Red Shoes to Spring cleaning -

http://www.expectingrain.com/

Bob Dylan Theme Time Radio Hour 50

Spring Cleaning

including -

Elvis Costello - Red Shoes

Post by **BlueChair** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 3:41 pm

In other Theme Time news:

Bob Dylan has signed on for a second season of his show on XM Satellite Radio, "Theme Time Radio Hour," premiering in September. The first season of the show concludes today with a program devoted to the theme of "spring cleaning." XM will then air the complete first season beginning May 26 on its channel the Village.

Dylan is winding down a European tour that plays in Dusseldorf, Germany tomorrow (April 19).

-- Jonathan Cohen, N.Y

johnfoyle · Post by **johnfoyle** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 12:28 pm

http://www.notdarkyet.org/tt-daysoftheweek.html

Oct.3 '07

Theme Time Radio Hour with Bob Dylan: "Days of the week" was today's theme.

Bob includes Wednesday Week by The Undertones. This 1980 recording by Derry's finest was produced by Roger Bechirian , a year after he engineered the track of the same name by E.C. on Armed Forces. I wonder if Bob mentions Elvis' song?

MOJO · Post by **MOJO** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 1:42 pm

I wonder if he included a sound bite from SCTV's Days of Week mocu-drama.. that would be a nice interlude..

johnfoyle · Post by **johnfoyle** » Fri Oct 05, 2007 4:11 pm

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... 00712.html

Washington Post
Sunday, October 7, 2007

(extract)

Keen listener Elvis Costello says Dylan's shows "are a bit like those films of Picasso painting on glass. They don't pretend to explain anything about the host but they offer just a little glimpse of the musical -- and literary -- taste of a great singer and songwriter without obliging him to confess every dark secret."

Picasso painting on glass

http://www.poetv.com/video.php?vid=11209

johnfoyle · Post by **johnfoyle** » Thu Nov 08, 2007 7:32 am

I wonder does Bob mention Elvis before this selection in his latest show?

http://www.notdarkyet.org/tt-headtotoe.html

* H E A D * T O * T O E *

NOVEMBER 2007

* From Head To Toe - Smokey Robinson & The Miracles - (1965)

johnfoyle · Post by **johnfoyle** » Thu Nov 29, 2007 3:47 pm

http://www.notdarkyet.org/tt-dreams.html

Elvis featured in the latest of Dylan's radio shows. 'Dreams' was the theme and Bob spoke to Elvis on the 'phone. Elvis urges Bob to include "Beautiful Dreamer" (1864) by Stephen Foster . Elvis insists on singing a line or two of the lyric. Bob responds that after hearing that there was no need to play another version of the song , concluding the conversation by asking Elvis to pass on regards to Diana and the twins.

Bob , apparently , records a lot of his link pieces for his radio shows while on the road. I get the feeling that his exchange with Elvis plays heavily on this. The 'telephone line' that Elvis is heard through is atrocious, distorting all over the place. Other 'phone calls on the shows have been much clearer. I wouldn't put it past these two jokers to have recorded this backstage, face to face , using a P.A. system.

Martin , the brudder, may, if he feels like it , post a sound file of this .

martinfoyle · Post by **martinfoyle** » Fri Nov 30, 2007 5:46 am

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?e2w3cmfxjud

charliestumpy · Post by **charliestumpy** » Sat Dec 01, 2007 4:26 am

Ta muchly.

johnfoyle · Post by **johnfoyle** » Thu Dec 06, 2007 1:53 am

The Bob/Elvis love-in continues ; Party Party would , of course, have been a more provocative choice.

http://www.notdarkyet.org/tt-party.html

* P A R T Y *
DECEMBER
2007

Party Girl - Elvis Costello & The Attractions

johnfoyle · Post by **johnfoyle** » Fri Dec 07, 2007 2:33 pm

In the intro Bob comments about how some people are only famous for going to parties , mentioning Paris Hilton. He continues to say that there seems to be a sadness behind some of them , something he sees reflected in Elvis song. Which seems an excuse enough to re-examine this song-

They say you're nothing but a party girl
Just like a million more all over the world
I know I shouldn't be raising my hopes so high
But I have seen the hungry look in their eyes
They'd settle for anything in disguise of love
Seen the party girls look me over
Seen 'em leaving when the party's over

They can't touch me now
You say you don't mind
We're so hard to find
I could give you anything but time
Give it just one more try
Give it a chance
Starts like fascination
Ends up like a trance

Oh you'll never be the guilty party girl
Maybe someday we can go hiding from this world
Maybe I'll never get over the change in style
But I don't want to lock you up and say you're mine
Don't want to lose you or say goodbye
I'm the guilty party and I want my slice
But I know you've got me and I'm in a grip-like vise.

They can't touch me now
You say you don't mind
We're so hard to find
I could give you anything
I would give you anything
I can give you anything but time

Give you anything but time (repeats)

In the Elvis' sleevenote for GIRLS +â‚¤ GIRLS =$& GIRLS

he comments -

Man Called Uncle: An amused look at true love and romance as offered (at a discount) in the nightclubs of America.

Party Girl: Then again you might start to believe it all. Somebody is calling 'Time'. Somebody else clearly isn't listening.

For Armed Forces he notes -

Party Girl. This last song was written for an art student that I barely knew. I found our meeting reported in the tatty gossip of a Mid-Western newspaper. I was handed the improbable role of 'rock star' and certain assumptions were made about the character of the girl in the title. Some small kindness and tenderness passed between us, I could do no more than resent the portrayal and offer this apology. The song is not so much 'hopelessly romantic' as simultaneously romantic and without hope.

On the eve of recording this album a girl * arrived on my doorstep from America. At best we were strangers with a coy and theoretical entanglement. I thought that she might be coming for a short visit and that I might at least satisfy my curiosity about her. However, she turned up with eight pieces of luggage like a mail-order bride and moved in. I was too stupid and vain to resist. She'd later claim to have inspired most of the songs on this record all of which were already written when we met. This was also said about the previous release a chronological impossibility and many other of my compositions to this day. It is a tragic delusion about which I wish I could say: I shall not dignify that with a response but 'dignity' doesn't come into this story.

* Bebe Buell, one presumes. So , she's not the 'party girl'. But , considering their relationship was ensuing as the recording session progressed , she may have served to re-enforced Elvis' feelings behind the lyric.

Incidentally Bob refers , earlier in the programme to the 'late' Porter Wagoner so , considering the country legend died the weekend of Bob 'n Elvis' Chicago shows, this show was recorded very recently.

johnfoyle · Post by **johnfoyle** » Sat Dec 08, 2007 5:58 am

From listerv -

I've been informed, by more than one person, that "Party Girl" was
written about Leslie Ball, a Minneapolis resident.
I've also heard that she wrote an opera based on her brief relationship
with EC.
I don't remember the name of it though.

http://www.mattpeiken.com/Journalism/Ar ... ieball.htm

(extract)

St. Paul Pioneer Press , September 19, 2004

Ball sang and performed in theater while growing up in Duluth, moved to Minneapolis in her first stab at college, dated Elvis Costello and hit the road as part of a musical duo. New York University invited her into its master's program to write for musical theater. She continued making music around Manhattan and returned to Minneapolis to start a cabaret at the Jungle Theater. Jeff Bartlett of the Southern Theater asked Ball to throw her cabarets every week, dissolving any ideas she entertained of returning to New York.

http://www.leslieball.com/

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.h ... nted=print

( extract)

Growing up, Ms. Ball fantasized about one day singing at Carnegie Hall. She hit the road right after high school, recorded a couple of albums with her band, Rue Nouveau, and settled in Manhattan's East Village. Then, in 1991, she returned to Minneapolis for six weeks to serve as the host of an Ed Sullivan-style variety show for the avant-garde. Soon afterward, she moved home to start "Balls," a weekly revue that has spurred the careers of several cutting-edge Midwestern performance artists. Her latest album, "Loring Park," is named for the Minneapolis park where Mary Tyler Moore fed the ducks in the opening sequence of her old television show.

http://www.garyrue.com/

Primarily a composer, Gary Rue has over 1000 songs in his personal catalogue. Recording credits include Lost In The Shuffle recorded by Helen Reddy on the European release of her greatest hits compilation, and Everyone, recorded by Nick Lowe on the Rose Of England Columbia Records release (the song found its way to Nick via pop idol Elvis Costello, a fan of Rue's band, Rue Nouveau, a critic's choice combo of the 1980â€™s)

martinfoyle · Post by **martinfoyle** » Thu Dec 13, 2007 5:46 am

....and on this weeks show our Dec rabbits on about Less Than Zero

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?dkbr1kbe8sf

johnfoyle · Post by **johnfoyle** » Thu Dec 13, 2007 5:45 pm

The 'Dallas' version from the El Mocambo show is used, to emphasis Elvis' story about U.S. audiences thinking the Oswald reference was to Lee Harvey Oswald as opposed to the Oswald Mosley. Or Sir Oswald Ernald Mosley, 6th Baronet if you want to use his full title. Or maybe not.

Elvis refers, again, to seeing Mosley being interviewed on tv in the 'summer of 1976'. However , a collection of the Oswald Mosley Papers at University of Birmingham includes a ' video cassette of Mosley on Panorama, 21 October, 1968' . A biography , by Robert Skidelsky, had appeared in 1975. Perhaps that prompted a repeat of the show in '76.

http://www.archiveshub.ac.uk/news/02121801.html

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