What Wine Are We Having Today Ray?

The Gentlemen deal with a listener complaint. They play more Stones and a brand new Deep Purple song. Go old blokes! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacArthur_Park_(song) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Man_Called_Horse_(film) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polk_Salad_Annie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phytolacca_americana (pokeweed) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_Tuesday_(song)#Melanie_version...

The Gentlemen explore ten lesser-known Stones songs. Even lifelong fans might find something new here. Excuses are made for our poor wine knowledge. THE WINE DETAILS: Bellewinter 2023 Cabernet Merlot,Margaret River. LINKS: Live Stones performance of ‘I Am Waiting’ on Ready SteadyGo 27th May 1966: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95t86ER1YIk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appalachian_dulcimer New Sto...

The Gentlemen enter the world of AI music generation with gusto! AI songs created and played during the podcast. Plus more examples of lyrics that stick in the mind. LINKS Deep Purple Mk1 performing ‘Hush’ live at Playboy After Dark October 1968: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiXcqxms3Bs James Reyne in plaster on Countdown May 1979: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rnat_lfs0CI

The Gentlemen explore some excellent song lyrics, as well as some poorer examples of the craft of song writing. Neil Diamond cops a bit of a hiding. Ray helps out again. THE WINE DETAILS: Oxford Landing 2023 Shiraz. LINKS: Billy Thorpe had just turned 18 years old - on Bandstand 1964: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCSY-m476Sc Doing a bit of a moonwalk!! Ted Mulray Falling In Love Again! https://...

The Gentlemen gather up songs that didn’t quite make the cut for the episode proper. Artificial Intelligence is introduced for the first time. More of that to come! Ray steps in.

After a short reading from the book of Brevities, the gentlemen explore the possibility of good songs that chime in at two minutes or less. Can it be done? Offcuts provided for the dedicated listener. The wine details: Ray-Lynne did it again with another Shiraz-adjacent Montepulciano d’ Abruzzo, this time by Illuminati Riparosso. LINKS: Bo Diddley on Ed Sullivan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dL...

Good songs running two minutes or less? Can it be done? Find out soon.

The Gentlemen make the case, for and against, songs that feature banjo, bagpipes, accordion and bongo drums. The John Denver Scale of Awfulness is introduced. ** May contain traces of Polka ** The wine details: Rosabrook Bramble Lane 2022 Cabernet Merlot  LINKS: Apocalypse cartoon: The Surreal McCoy home page: https://www.thesurrealmccoy.com/ The cartoon itself: https://www.thesurrealmccoy.com/wp-...

The Gentlemen explore novelty songs across the decades. And would you believe, Max and 99 have trouble in a phone booth. Offcuts supplied for the dedicated listener. The wine details: Montepulciano D’Abruzzo 2024. A popular dry, red Italian wine made from the Montepulciano grape in the Abruzzo region of east-central Italy. Known for its excellent value, it typically features robust dark fruit flav...

The Gentlemen explore novelty songs across the decades. And would you believe, Max and 99 have trouble in a phone booth. Offcuts supplied for the dedicated listener. The wine details: Montepulciano D’Abruzzo 2024. A popular dry, red Italian wine made from the Montepulciano grape in the Abruzzo region of east-central Italy. Known for its excellent value, it typically features robust dark fruit flav...

Robert sabotages proceedings with stinky cheese. A couple of well-known clogs are permanently popped. Robert is deeply cut. Zucchero and Tom get nasty. We hit the skins. Physics saves Julius Sumner Miller. We tend the Radio Garden. Is that you Hoo? And the conversation picked up again. It WAS a Shiraz. The wine was supplied by Ray-Lynne. The wine details: MR.MICK Shiraz, Clare Valley, 2020 by Tim...

The Gentlemen explore ten lesser known songs by The Kinks. Off-cuts supplied for the dedicated listener. The wine details: St Hallett Barossa Faith Shiraz 2024  LINKS: The Kinks Celluloid Heroes Live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSItDuo8Wss Jeannie Lewis on Norman Gunston celluloid heroes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqkJVtkV9gU Spotify Playlist: Available in this episode in the Spotify mo...

Bring your chair close to the radio while The Gentlemen present an alternative Australia Day playlist. Test your Aussie music knowledge and revisit some classic Aussie ads. Anyhow …… It’s a long one, so don’t be afraid to pause and listen in a couple of sittings. The wine details: 19 Crimes Shiraz non-vintage. LINKS: The story of the production techniques used on The Real Thing: https://en.wikiped...

Don’t miss this Australia Day episode. Not the music you expect!

Don’t miss this Australia Day episode. Not the music you expect!

Don’t miss this Australia Day episode. Not the music you expect!

Don’t miss this Australia Day episode. Not the music you expect!

"Our Man in Toyland" Max and 99 are trapped by KAOS in a department store. This is a visualisation of the condensed Get Smart episode from episode 12 of our podcast, where we played a game of'Snippets'. Not everything makes it because sight gags don’t always work in audio only. 😊 We try to include all the good dialogue and the catchphrases. And remember, It’s Craw, not Craw! If...

The Gentlemen explore ten lesser known songs by The Kinks. Off-cuts supplied for the dedicated listener. The wine details: St Hallett Barossa Faith Shiraz 2024  LINKS: The Kinks Celluloid Heroes Live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSItDuo8Wss Jeannie Lewis sings Celluloid Heroes on Norman Gunston : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqkJVtkV9gU Spotify Playlist : Search Spotify for ‘28 Kinky - Ten...

Robert thought this was appropriate for our Kinks special. Rod was not convinced. Ten Lesser Known Kinks will be released soon!

A bit of silliness from episode 27.

The Gentlemen dig deep into an Australian classic from 1966. And we get analytical about clapping patterns. And Robert has just one more song to play. Links https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Loved_Ones_(Australian_band) https://web.archive.org/web/20110725101538/http://brella.org/sandpebbles/LovedOnes.htm Link to Spotify Playlist: https://tinyurl.com/2fkv7b73 or Search for ‘27 Clapped Out WWAWHTR’...

The Gentlemen explore songs that feature clapping. An extraordinary range of music. And Would You Believe, Max comes out against Weight Watchers! Off-cuts supplied for the dedicated listener. The wine details: Debussy Reverie 2020 Grenache  LINKS: ‘Who Are You?’ promo video May 1978 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNbBDrceCy8 Link to Spotify Playlist: https://tinyurl.com/2fkv7b73 or Search for ‘27...

We struggled to identify songs with just the sax solo to go by. We finally scored with 'Who Can It Be Now?'

We kept Ralph back after the bell had gone. We still couldn’t hear the sax solo in Brown Sugar.