All I Want For Christmas is a ..............Lounge Lizard?

Sunday Breakfast 14th December 2008

This week was a tale of cough lozenges ,spluttering and an itchy right index finger. There was also the jet lag ,I'd been to Cork airport again!!. I started with the Kings of Leon and one of the tracks we featured on Sunday Breakfast some weeks ago Use Somebody which is now in our A List.

Adele                                                                     Chasing Pavements (When I first heard this        song I                                                                               thought it was Bjork)
Phil Spector Christmas Album                         The Bells of St Marys
Killers                                                                    Human (My Single of the year)
Verve                                                                      Rather Be

7.30 Saw a very Christmassy? Lounge Lizards

Santa Baby                                                           Eartha Kitt
The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year           Andy Williams

Charlatans                                                           Oh Vanity
Bee Gees                                                             Words
Alesha Dixon                                                        The Boy Does Nothing
Eric Clapton                                                           Lay Down Sally

Headlines from the local papers were.....

Teenage Girls Abducted and Robbed                                   Brentwood Weekly News
Brentwood Rated Top For Shoppers                                     Yellow Advertiser
800 Wanted Crooks on the loose                                           Essex Enquirer
Gun Terror at Travellers Site                                                    Billericay & Wickford Gazette
Teens Kidnap Horror                                                                 Brentwood Gazette

Coldplay                                             Lovers In Japan
Beach Boys                                        Darlin

Just after the Sports Roundup at 8.30 was Essential Coldplay/Satriani which looked at the story from the news during the week which saw Joe Satriani allege that Coldplay had taken bits of his track 'If I Colud Fly' in writing 'Viva La Vida'. I played both. What did you think?

Everly Brothers                                Dream
Stereophonics                                 Mr Writer

Just After 9 was the Golden Year. Songs Were

Jimmy Jones                                  Handyman
Everly Brothers                               Cathys Clown
Nina & Frederik                              Little Donkey
Johnny Kidd and the Pirates        Shakin All Over

Random Clues Were

March 3 - Elvis Presley returns home from Germany, after being away on duty for 2 years.

April 12 - Eric Peugeot, youngest son of the founder of Peugeot, is kidnapped in Paris (he is released April 15 in exchange for $300,000 ransom).

July 11 - Harper Lee releases her critically acclaimed novel To Kill a Mockingbird.

October 26 - Robert F. Kennedy calls Coretta Scott King, wife of Dr. Martin Luther King, and secures his release from jail on a traffic violation in Atlanta, Georgia.

And the Year Was

1     9   6    0

Congrats to Ron who guessed correctly.........alas there isn't a prize!

Ordinary Boys                                                  Boys Will be Boys
Boyzone                                                            Better
George Harrison                                            I've got my mind set on you
Bing Crosby & David Bowie                         Little drummer Boy
The Saturdays                                                UP
Girls Aloud                                                      The Promise
The Strangeloves                                          I want candy
East 17                                                            Stay
ELO                                                                  Mr Blue Sky

Then it was time for Andrew so I'll see you for the last Sunday Breakfast before Christmas this Sunday 7 to 10 am.

James