Plan B #82 Friday June 10th 2011: Toto- Africa & Erasure!

Despite being as sober as a judge I forget to scribble down the actual playlist from the eighty- second(!) Plan B on Friday. As the title gives away there was the usual stupid requests as well as a fit- inducing light show! The joint was packed and the floor rammed from 11pm onwards so the early more experimental stuff split the floor with the crazier folks busting moves like they were going out of fashion (so to speak...!). Grab the links to the old faves from Boo Boo & Bunky and Babe Ruth folks!
I'll try and remember how it went down...

Rick James- Superfreak
The Temptations- I can't next to you
Babe Ruth- The mexican
Kool & The Gang- Jungle boogie*

The Standells- Dirty water

Small Faces- Almost grown

The Marvelettes- Too many fish in the sea
Martha & The Vandellas- Heatwave
The Emperors- Karate
Chuck Berry- Too much monkey business*
Solomon Burke- Maggie's farm
Elvis Presley- Promised land
Julian Covey & The Machine- A little bit hurt
Adam & The Ants- Antmusic

Set two
R. Dean Taylor- There's a ghost in my house
Screamin' Jay Hawkins- I put a spell on you (alt. version)
Marv Johnson- Come on and stop

The Doors- Peace frog

Ram Jam- Black betty

Eric Burdon & The Animals- It's all meat

Motorhead- Ace of spades*

Boo Boo & Bunky- This old town

T Rex- Get it on

Spencer Davies Group- Gimme some loving

Paul Revere & The Raiders- The great airplane strike

The Rolling Stones- Miss you

The Clash- Rock the casbah

Elvis Presley- Viva Las Vegas

Not so wild in flaming star country: Elvisarama #6/#7, Flaming Star & Go wild in the country

So my first post for a week or two brings you a twofer on two strange films in the Elvis cannon. Yup, he goes on to make a few more westerns but 'Go wild in the country' is a strange pile of hokum akin to 'Serious charge' starring Cliff Richard. No vids to link this time and this one if for completist only...check my quick- fire follow up post of Plan B 10/6/11 for some choonage. You know the drill...

The songs (slim pickings folks!)


'Flaming star'- Not bad...
'A cane and a high starched collar'- hideous country dancing nightmare!

An 'actual' film from Elvis (directed by Don Siegel): Elvis plays a mixed- race dude, there's a scene where someone gets an axe in the head (I'm sure that never happens again); Elvis' mum almost get raped by hicks in the scene where he unleashes his vengence with the axe and to round it off he shivs a native- American. Despite all this I can remember next to nothing about this film which falls flat and lands somewhere in the column with 'Love me tender'. Brace yourself folks: were gonna go down hill fast from now on!

Elvis= Pacer Burton

Score= 6/10

Elvis Score= 2/3

Leading lady= N0ne

Songs= 2

Viewed= 14/12/07

I barely remember this one and I have since discovered that Elv was dating the greatly-monkired (wild gild, single- mother lush) Tuesday Weld. We have Elv killing his brother; he's on parole; strange relationship with his probation officer..This one is pretty dull, overlong but with surprisingly few songs. Elv goes good and gets to college in the end but the MILF parole officer attempts suicide and admits she has a heart defect?! It's like Murder she wrote!


Songs-


'Wild in the country'- forgettable ballad
'I tripped, I stumbled, I fell'- Pretty good serenade in his truck?!
'?'- Slow forgettable song to the 'lush' (Tuesday)


Good dialogue!

'He's got a cup full of anger ready to spill over'!

Elvis= Glen Tyler

Score= 5/10

Elvis Score= 2/3

Leading lady= Hope Lange

Songs= 3

Viewed= 18/12/07