The Correct Pronunciation of Bowie

 

Welcome to Day 5 of the badly titled Everyone Has Got one Good Song blog thing.

I was thinking of building the ultimate playlist with one simple rule. One artist. One song. Each day will feature a song by an artist whose birthday is that day and then nine other songs by nine different artists just because people like things to be in tens.

So, the idea was that you might want to follow and share and either have the playlist yourself or do your own or chat about it with me, you could use the hashtag #EHGOGS.

I’m on Twitter X thing as @fourfoot

Today’s selection.

Our featured birthday artist is DAVID BOWIE (pronounced Bo-WEE). My dad was at school with old Dave. And my Mum knew his Mum. So that made me and DAVID (pronounced DAVID) practically related. Even though I never met him, I was gutted when Bowie shuffled off this mortal, delighted he’d timed the release of his album with grim perfection though. Star quality dying that is. Not as good as Tommy Cooper mind.

Anyway, I’ve got a different favourite Bowie song nearly every time I think about it. But more often than not it’s Drive-in Saturday. It makes me cry nearly every time and I don't know why, I suspect I have some deeply buried trauma associated with it somehow. 

The other songs today….

Sunglasses – Black Country, New Road. Possibly the most interesting British band to have emerged this century. This is the original single version which is better than the album one because I said so.

Born in the UK – Badly Drawn Boy. If we’re going to have national anthems let’s have one like this.

Many Shades of Black – Adele Though typically I find Adele’s stuff quite dull, this is what the blokes who used to make belts, down the now gone belt-factory, would call a fucking belter.

Sleepwalk – Santo and Johnny. A tune that you knew but didn’t know was a tune. At least that’s what this was when someone played it to me.

Roll Back My Life –  The Delines. Oh god I do love a country-tinged song, usually anything with a bit of melancholy in the air, but especially stuff like this where even half the instruments seem to be trying not to make a scene.

Let Your Yeah Be Yeah – The Pioneers. Well, it's as good a lifecode as there is.

Don’t Stop Movin – S Club 7 had a good tune. This one.

Wade In The Water – Fisk Jubilee Singers – because I do love a bit of gospel, just a little, not too much otherwise you look like one of those weird Pentecostal dudes on Songs of Praise.

Rebel Yell – Billy Idol. Just to bookend with Bowie, I’ll give you another South London lad. I went to school with this one. Same school. Just twenty years later…

Tomorrow, we have ten more….including one from birthday girl Joan Baez.