It was like listening to a contest to see which writers could come up with the worst lyrics ever.

Now I'm listening to Trevor nelson. He's just played Earth, Wind and Fire.

Now he's playing someone else, who isn't as catchy.

Butterfield wrote:

a station called Greatest Hits Radio, and that the presenter is an Andy Crane.

Today the presenter was a Pat Sharp!

I was listening to Radio 2 last night and they had a documentary on about Bobbie Gentry, which was very informative.

However, they played bits of several tracks from her first album and they all sounded exactly the same as that song.

No one commenting in the documentary mentioned this. For some reason, it bothered me that they didn't mention this, especially when they kept going on about her not having the commercial success she deserved. I kept thinking, "All her songs sounded the same. Is it a mystery that she struggled to have a follow-up hit?"

Anyrodeup, they later played some of her later material and it sound nothing like that song, so I forgave her.

Her follow-up single to that single.

Wikipedia wrote:

The album's second single, "I Saw an Angel Die", was released in September 1967, and failed to chart.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ode_to_Billie_Joe_(album)#Critical_reception

Tina Turner should have covered this one.

Wikipedia wrote:

"Mississippi Delta" was issued as a single in Japan in October 1967, but did not chart.

That one sounds like the theme tune to Phoenix 5, therefore, I approve.

Anyhow, I have decided she was very good but not initially blessed with the largest musical palette with which to paint her musical pictures.

I too heard a bit of that documentary, only it was a repeat in the early hours of the morning. They played a song she sang about bugs. It was quite strange.

This is it.

Needless to say, it sounds like that song.

Gr8 stereo on that.

Is that the only song ever to mention boll weevils?

Oh, she also mentions DDT - before or after Joni's Big Yella Taxi?

I've got that album.

I was reading about her in the FT arts section a couple of weeks ago.

The travel guy on Radio 2 just called it Char-ing Cross. As in burnt wood-Ing Cross. not Charin-g cross.


Which I'd never mentioned it now.

Simon 'Personality' Mayo hasn't listened to BBC Radio 2 since he's left



In other news I was listening to Popmaster,

Q: What the full name of Frankie Goes to Hollywood's last single, "Watching the…"
A: Girls?

Radio 2 just played HoW fav Jade Bird! (of the blurred album fame)