United! a Go! Go! R is for RRRRRRRRRRRocket From The Crypt!

Quit staring at my Rs.

Space Alphabet – Radiation
The Reigning Sound – Timebomb Highschool
Radio Birdman – Do The Pop
Lou Reed – Satellite of Love
REM - Shaking Through
Jonathan Richman - That Summer Feeling
The Rain Parade - This Can't Be Today
Roscoe Shelton - Running For My Life
The Rocklands - Peppermint Twist
Lee Dorsey - Ride Your Pony
Frankie Laine – Rawhide Theme
Clint Eastwood – I Talk To The Trees
The Dead Kennedys – Rawhide Theme
Rocket From The Crypt - Chariots On Fire
Paul Revere and The Raiders - SS 396
Otis Redding - Stay In School
Joey Ramone - Wonderful World
The Rip-Offs - Heat Seeker
The Ramonetures – Cretin Hop
Impala - Squad Car
Dick et Les Espions - Rawhide

Merrie Xmas from all at United! a Go! Go!

Xmas Playlist
The Fall - No Xmas for John Quays
The Shitbirds - Christmas Is a Comin'
Thelma Cooper - I Need A Man (For Christmas)
The Crystals – Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
Mae West - Santa Come Up To See Me
John Denver & The Muppets - We Wish You A Merry Christmas
Billy Idol - O' Christmas Tree
Steeleye Span - Gaudete
The Reigning Sound – If Christmas Can’t Bring You Home
The Dirtbombs - My Last Christmas
Rocket From The Crypt – Cancel Christmas
William Bell - Every Day Will Be Like A Holiday
Merle Haggard - Grandma's Homemade Christmas Card
John Denver - Please Daddy Don't Get Drunk This Christmas
George Jones & Tammy Wynette - Mr & Mrs Santa Claus
Dean Martin - Rudolph, The Red-Nosed Reindeer
REM - Christmas Time Is Here
The Barry Gray Orchestra - Christmas Music from Stingray
Man... Or Astro-Man? – Frosty The Snowman
Booker T and The MGs – Jingle Bells Special thanks to Maxine, @p@ce, @intheareashow and @ginger_michael

United! a Go! Go! Q is for Quando Quando Quando!

Space Alphabet - Quasar
Question Mark and The Mysterions – 96 Tears
Queen - Seven Seas Of Rhye
The Queers – Didn’t Puke
Dave Bartholomew - Who Drank My Beer While I Was In The Rear?
Soft Cell - What?
Miaow - When It All Comes Down
Spizz Energi - Where's Captain Kirk?
The Byrds – Why?
Suzi Quatro - Devil Gate Drive
Paul Quinn & The Independent Group - Will I Ever Be Inside Of You?
The Quests – Ding Dong Twist
Los Reno – Que Pasara?
Quintron - Meet me at the Clubhouse (The Champs)
The Quakers – (Theme From) What Will They Think Of Next ?
Eddie and The Showmen - Squad Car
The Ramones - Questioningly

United! a Go! Go! - P is for Pet Shop Boys

Everything begins with P.

Space Alphabet – Pluto
Pere Ubu - Nonalignment Pact
Pussy Galore - Dick Johnson
Gram Parsons – Hearts On Fire
Pure Hell - No Rules

Pointed Sticks - Somebody's Mum
Anne Peebles - How Strong Is A Woman?
The Petticoats - The Normal

Dorothy Parker – Shindig City
The Page Boys - Twist Enos Twist
Otis Redding – Fat Gal

The Pooh Sticks – Indie Pop Ain’t Noise Pollution
The Pastels – Automatically Yours
Primal Scream – It Happens

The Turtles – Grim Reaper of Love
Tony Burrello There's A New Sound (The Sound Of Worms)
The Beach Boys – Pet Sounds

Pixies – Cecilia Ann
The Phantom Surfers - Sin In The Suburbs
Dick et Les Espions – Squad Car
Pigbag - Papa's Got A Brand New Pigbag
The Primate 5 - Primate 5 Theme
Painkiller – Handjob

United! a Go! Go! - O is for The O' Jays.

Playlist O

Space Alphabet – Orion
The Orchids - (What) If Boys Got Pregnant?
Roy Orbison - In Dreams
The Open Mind - Magic Potion
Orange Juice - Lovesick
Memphis - You Supply The Roses
Collins and Quinn – Pale Blue Eyes
Orange Juice – Holiday Hymn (Peel Session)
Rufus Shoffner -  Orbit Twist
The Primitives  -The Ostrich (1964)
The Saturn V featuring Orbit – Twistin’ USA
The Leather Boy - On the Go
Jack Oblivian -Milkshake Baby
The Oblivians – Live The Life
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Electricity
Russ Olsen - Sorry About That
The Out - Who Is Innocent?
Buck Owens_ Greensleeves
The Phantom Surfers - Squad Car

United! a Go! Go! - N is for New Fast Automatic Daffodils.

Google Translate reckons 'New Fast Automatic Daffodils' in German is 'New Fast Automatic Daffodils'. Really?

Playlist

The Space Alphabet - Neptune
The New York Dolls - Personality Crisis
Nervous Eaters – Just Head
Nation of Ulysses - Spectra Sonic Sound
New Fast Automatic Daffodils - Beam Me Up
Art Neville - What's Going On
Naked City - Igneous Ejaculation
Fred Neil - The Dolphins
Allen Greene - Neck Bones
The Neat-beats – Global Twist
Husker Du - Turn On The News
The Triffids - Bad News Always Reminds Me Of You
The Jam - News of the World
Paul Gascoigne 'Gazza' - Fog on the
Lindisfarne - Meet Me On The Corner
Eric Burdon and The Animals, When I Was Young
Hurrah! – Gloria
Man... Or Astro-Man? – Nitrous Burn Out
Jackie and The Cedrics – Squad Car
Scott Engel – Devil Surfer

United! a Go! Go! - M is for Mashed Monkeys.

Space Alphabet – Mars and Mercury
The Undertones - Mars Bars
Butch Paulson - Man From Mars
The Misfits - Teenagers From Mars

Baby Huey and the Babysitters - Monkey Man
The Feelies - Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey

The Higsons - I Don't Want To Live With Monkeys
Guitar Crusher - The Monkey
Turbonegro - Monkey On Your Back
James Kolchaka - Hockey Monkey

Andre Williams - The Monkey Speaks His Mind

The Jesus Lizard - Monkey Trick (Peel session)
The Go-Nuts - Monkey on My Back
The Orangu-Tones - Dance Monkey, Dance
The Hollies - Mickey´s  Monkey
Major Lance - The Monkey Time
The Monkees  - When Love Comes Knocking (At Your Door)

The Minutemen -  Viet Nam
The Man From Del Monte - My Love Is Like a Gift

Ennio Morricone - Diabolik Spytime
Ennio Morricone - Jill's America
Man... Or Astro-Man? - Squad Car [live in space!]

United! a Go! Go! - L is for The Liverbirds

The Space Alphabet – Light Years
Lancelot Link and the Evolution Revolution – Blind Date
Lawson Square Infirmary – Not The Marrying Kind
The Louvin Brothers – Katy Dear
The Gibson Bros – Louis Collins
David Bowie - Louie, Louie Go Home
The Cramps – Papa Satan Sang Louie
The Sherrys – Oh-La-La-Limbo
The Lone Twister – The Lone Twister
Freddie Cannon – Pallisades Park
The Liver Birds theme
Laugh – Paul McCartney
The Liver Birds – He’s Something Else
The Shop Assistants – The Ace of Spades
Loose Lips – Two Time Loser
Dead Kennedys – Viva Las Vegas
Jerry Lee Lewis – Lewis Boogie (Live)
Little Richard – Long Tall Sally
Link Wray – Hidden Charms
Cloquet High School Pep Band – Louie Louie
The Langhorns – Squad Car
The Phantom Surfers – Lancelot Link Wray
The Space Alphabet – The Planet Song

United! a Go! Go! - K is for The K-Tels

Space Alphabet – Kepler
The Fall – Victoria
Cud – Lola
Thee Mighty Caesars – You’re Looking Fine
Killdozer – Nasty
King of the Slums – Bombs Away On Harpurhey
The Kittens –Ain’t No More Room
The Emperors - Karate
Johnny Keaton – Twistin’ USA
Abba – Conociéndome, Conociéndote
The Mock Turtles – Can You Dig It?
Gina Langland – Abba Medley
Sonic Youth -  Kissability
Morrissey – Let Me Kiss You (Live)
The Del Monas – Kiss Me Honey Honey Kiss Me
Man… Or Astro-Man? – King of the Monsters
The Impacts – Kon-Tiki
The Killer Bananaz – Squad Car
The Makers - Kushticaw

Do Not Adjust Your Set. Normal service will shortly be resumed. In the meantime...

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The United! a Go! Go! 3D Glow In The Dark Special. In Stereo (where available).

The Zeros - Wild Weekend

The Louvin Brothers - A Tiny Broken Heart

Jerry Lee Lewis - High School Confidential

The Mekons - Ghosts Of American Astronauts

Anne Peebles - How Strong Is A Woman?

Mary Weiss with The Reigning Sound - Break It One More Time

Magazine - A Song From Under The Floorboards (Peel Session)

The La's - Son of a Gun [Liz Kershaw Session 31-05-88]

The Flying Burrito Brothers - Cody Cody (Live 1970)

Sam Cooke - Touch The Hem Of His Garment

The Notsensibles - I'm In Love With Margaret Thatcher

The Reigning Sound - Since When?

The Untamed Youth - Come On Down To My Boat

The Undertones - Soul Seven

The Velvet Underground - Sunday Morning

Kim Tolliver -  Come And Get Me, I'm Ready

The Tiki Men - Swinging Creeper

TheTornadoes - Malaguena

Los Shains - Bird Bath

Gillian Welch - Silver Dagger

Space Alphabet - The Planet Song

The Nutley Brass - Chicken Impossible

We'll be back in the saddle next week with a show that's Special. Kay?

United! a Go! Go! - J is for JB.

The J List

Space Alphabet – J is for Jupiter
Jack O'Fire - No Love Lost
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Son Of Sam
The June Brides - In The Rain

The Jam – English Rose

George Jones – A Good Year For The Roses
Johnny Hash – Rat Petal

Johnny Keaton - Twistin' Usa

Little Genie Brooks - The James Brown Boogaloo

Jackanory theme

The Castaways - Liar, Liar
New Fast Automatic Daffodils - You Were Lying When You Said You Loved Me
The Sex Pistols - Liar

Teengenerate - This Is Rock N Roll

Gasoline – Let’s Go Harley
Guitar Wolf – Invader Ace
The Jesus Lizard - Wheelchair Epidemic

Jackie and the Cedrics - Banzai Diamond Head

Paul Johnson and The Packards - Squad Car
Josef K - Second Angle

United! a Go! Go! - I is for Ichiban!

The I List.

Space Alphabet - Ionosphere
Bassholes - Interzone
Joy Division - Insight
Warsaw - Interzone
Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers - Hey There Little Insect
Tony Burrello - There's A New Sound (The Sound of Worms)
Bobbie Gentry - Bugs
Los Iracundos - Gallinita Twist
The Flatmates - I Could Be In Heaven
Frank Wilson - Do I Love You?
The Radiators From Space - Enemies
Stiff Little Fingers - Suspect Device
Microdisney - A Friend With A Big Mouth
Esquivel - Something Something Something I
The Gories - Ichiban
Big Ray and The Futuras - Squad Car
The Phantom Surfers - Play Bass With The Phantom Surfers
The Phantom Surfers - Pleasure Point.

The WFMU Ichiban Rock and Soul blog is here: http://wfmuichiban.blogspot.co.uk/

United! a Go! Go! - H is for Hell Is A City!

Playlist Eight

Space Alphabet – Hydrogen and Helium
The Hollies – Suspicious Look
Husker Du – Celebrated Summer
Mike Hart – Almost Liverpool 8
The Ramones – Happy Birthday (Simpsons)
Hurrah! – Funny Day
Happy Mondays – Tart Tart
Hondells - 04 - The Wild One
Jack Hammer - Choo-Choo Twist
Johnny Otis - Willie and the Hand Jive
Kate Bush - Hammer Horror
Denis King - Holiday on the Buses
Peter Cushing - No White Peaks
The Human League - Being Boiled
Fire Engines – We Don’t Need This Fascist Groove Thing
Heaven17 – Something’s Wrong
Huevos Rancheros - Secret Recipe
The Hypnotic IV - Squad Car
Lee Hazlewood - Muchacho



United! a Go! Go! G is for Gitchi! Gitchi! GOO! Playlist Seven.

I love this song. You better love it too, or we're going to fall out.

Playlist

Space Alphabet – G is for Galaxy
Joe Gibbs – Africa Dub Almighty
Gene and The Esquires – Space Race
Grow-Up – ABBCDDGG etc
The Undertones – Let’s Talk About Girls
Era of Sound – Girl In The Mini-Skirt
Girls At Our Best – Fashion
The Rocklands con Nicky Jones – Geronimo Twist

The Ideals - Go-Go Gorilla [Satellite Version]
Fortune and Maltese & The Phabulous Pallbearers – Girls Ruin Everything
Phineas and the Ferbettes – Gitchi Gitchi Goo

Devo - Go Monkey Go
The Dickies – Gigantor

The Delmonas – That Boy Of Mine
She Trinity - Climb That Tree
Shonen Knife – Top of the World
The Whyte Boots – Nightmare
PJ and Artie – Squad Car

The Go-Betweens – Unkind and Unwise (Instrumental)
The Ghouls - Voo Doo Juice

United! a Go! Go! F is for ******** ***** you, you ***** ******. Playlist Six.

F Playlist:
The Space Alphabet – Falling Star
Annette Funicello – The Monkey’s Uncle
The Fall – Fantastic Life
The Fingers – You Get On My Nerves
Fire Engines – Get Up And Use Me
Fairport Convention – Farewell Farewell
Fabio – LSD
The Friggs – Bad Word For A Good Thing
Tony & Joe - The Freeze
Gary Lewis and The Playboys – The Flake
Barry Gray Orchestra - This Is The Twist (Fireball XL5)
The Freshies – I’m In Love With A Girl On The Manchester Virgin Megastore Checkout Desk
Buzzcocks – Why She’s A Girl From The Chain Store
Buba and The Shop Assistants – Something To Do
Mystery F - Shake Stomp
The Phantom Surfers – Flutterfoot
The Finks – Squad Car
The Fender Four – Margaya
Four Below Zero – My Baby’s Got ESP

United! a Go! Go! E is for Edam. Playlist Five.

Space Alphabet - E is for Earth
The Electras – Little Girl Of Mine
The Electras – Action Woman
The Elektras – It Ain’t Me
Echo & The Bunnymen – Pictures On My Wall
Easterhouse – Whistling In The Dark
The Evaporators – Woof Woof I’m A Goof
Maurice Dollison – The Earthworm part one.
Big John – Everybody’s Twistin
Walter Murphy – Themes from E.T.
The E.T. Storybook. (Excerpt)
The Byrds – Mr. Spaceman
Edwin Astley – Theme from Department S
Edwin Starr – Secret Agent Double O Soul
Edwyn Collins – Ding A Dong
Dick et les Espions – Squad Car
The Emeralds – Earthquake
East-West Pipeline – Angels Die Hard
Electric Six – Gay Bar

FREE STUFF!! Dick et Les Espions.

From the Frozen North of Canada, come the World's only Inuit Indian, Native Canadian, Surf Band, Dick et les Espions. They're on United! a Go! Go! this Friday, but you can hear them first by downloading their full-length Surf Smash from Bandcamp. Get it now for free!!    http://dicketlesespions.bandcamp.com/
(Yes, I know it's five years old, but this is music that's already fifty years past it's sell by date so stop moaning).

United! a Go! Go! D is for Debbie Does Dallas. Playlist Four.

Playlist

Space Alphabet - D is for Double Star
Dub Sex – Tripwire

Dumb – Dizzy
Dwarves - Drugstore

The Damned – Neat Neat Neat

The Donnas – Drive In
The Detroit Cobras –Only To Other People
The Dirtbombs  - Ode To A Black Man

Jackie Lee – The Duck

The Saturn V featuring Orbit – Do The Twist
Theme from Dallas

Gary Burbank – Who Shot JR
God only knows – Theme from Debbie Does Dallas

The Gories – Detroit Breakdown
David Bowie – Panic In Detroit
Andre Williams – Detroit, Michigan

Don Caballero – AndAndAndAndAndAndAnd

Los Derrumbes – Squad Car
Deke Dickerson – This Is Eccofonic

Bunker Hill - The Girl Can't Dance

United! a Go! Go! C is for Collie Weed 'n' ting. Playlist Three.

Here are The Challengers, who featured on tonight's show performing their version of The Tornado's Telstar, living it up in the United! a Go! Go! studios. It's a swinging hangout every Friday and Sunday. Don't touch that dial!

Playlist.

The Space Alphabet – C is for Comets
Culture – Lion Rock
The Congos – Open Up The Gates
John Cooper Clarke – Kung Fu International
Tony Clarke – Landslide
The Kittens – Ain’t No More Room
The Clouds – Get Out Of My Dream
Chicory Tip – Son Of My Father
The Cramps - Faster Pussycat
The Clash - 48 Hours
The Capitols – Cool Jerk
Rod McKuen – The Celebrity Twist
Century 21 sting
Captain Scarlet theme (Pilot)
Frank Sidebottom – Sci-Fi Medley
The Spectrum - Captain Scarlet
The Specials – Stereotype
Lieutenant Pigeon – Mouldy Old Dough
Al Casey  - Caravan
The Brimstones – Squad Car
The Challengers – Telstar
The Four Wheels – Central High Playmate

STOP PRESS.... Please note, this week's episode is repeated on Saturday rather than Sunday as there's some football match going on on Sunday.

United! a Go! Go! B is for Belligerent Blurting. Playlist Two.

Here's the video for the Batman advert featured on the show. It's political correctness GONE BAT MAD!

Playlist B

The Space Alphabet – Big Dipper
Big Flame – Sargasso
Big In Japan – Society for Cutting Up Men
Big Star – September Gurls
Bourgie Bourgie – Breaking Point
Belle and Sebastian – Is It Wicked Not To Care?
Solomon Burke – He’ll Have To Go
Bob Willis and his Texas Playboys – Buffalo Twist
Kenny - The Bump
Los Vincent Price – Batman
The Shapes – Batman In The Launderette
Frank Gorshin – The Riddler
Whirl – In A Dream
14 Iced Bears – Cut
Blow-Up – When You Smile
Count Basie – The Kid From Red Banks
The Belairs – Squad Car
Booker T and The MGs – Mo’ Onions
Frank Black – Dirty Old Town.

Hope you all enjoyed it. C you next week.

The Londonairs - Dearest Emma.

For those of you who asked, here's a video of The Londonairs performing Dearest Emma (as featured on United! A Go! Go! episode one) on Thank Your Lucky Stars in the 60s.

There's a new show ready to go at 11am tomorrow, repeated at 15.00; then same times on Sunday. A perfect post-lunch listen. The first band you will hear is bIG fLAME.

United! a Go! Go! A is for Arriviste. Playlist One.

Before I get any grief from Surf Nerds. Here's a clip of the original US-based Astronauts band playing their tune 'Firewater' (later covered by The Sid Presley Experience) for a swinging crowd in the motion picture Surf Party. It's like Course You Can Malcolm on an Earley Estate Cider kind of day.

Playlist - A

The Space Alphabet – Introduction and A is for Astronomy and Astronomer
Roy Acuff – The Great Speckled Bird
Davie Allan and The Arrows – Blue’s Theme
Angry Samoans – Stupid Jerk
Angry Samoans – Stupid Jerk

Armitage Shanks with Wild Billy Childish – Bernard Manning

The A-Lines – More
Alice Cooper – School’s Out
AC/DC – Dirty Deeds

The Kaisers – Alligator Twist

The US Four – The Alligator
The Untamed Youth – KAPO
Johnny Dankworth – Avengers Theme (Series Three)

The Londonairs – Dearest Emma
Honor Blackman – Men Will Decieve You

The Triffids – Red Pony (Live)

The Go-Betweens – Quiet Heart (Live)
The Dirty Lovers – All I Want

The Astronauts – Rocking Goose

The Apemen – Squad Car
The Avengers VI – Timebomb

Once in a lifetime.

This is not my beautiful house and this is not my beautiful wife.

Not sure what's happened here, but the first show has not appeared on FCUM Radio. Watch this space.

The Old Seekers

You're going to laugh. I can smell it. But, bad comedy aside, I love this. Judith Durham has a fine set of lungs and 'the lads' use the chops of a well-disciplined travelling band to offset their alt*comedy-mocked specky four eyes, pre-Fab Four demeanour.

Where fun is our speciality.

 

I'm doing a show for FCUM Radio called United! a Go! Go! and I thought I know, I'll start a blog so that I can post up setlists and links to videos and teasers and that sort of stuff. So here's a picture of Frankies Night Club, Raphoe where all the 'action' happens and you can 'disco' the night away.

The show will be broadcast on Fridays and Sundays for twenty six weeks from Friday the 17th of August. It will be available to listen to twice each day, initially at 11am, with a repeat at 3pm.

After each show has been broadcast I'll post up the setlists. Just in case, you never know, somebody wants to find out more about a particular tune.

See side bar for links to FCUM Radio, which broadcasts 24 hours a day on internet radio through appropriately enabled devices (Internet Radios, Mobile Phones, Laptops, Tablets, PCs, Smart TVs, Space Clogs etc etc). Give it a listen; you may just like it.