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Don Woods
Don is a great singer/songwriter who always has an ingenious take on a situation.Don has been a correspondent with Vince for many years. He is a member of the .Merseycats and on Wirral 'The Cheshirecats' bringing the musicians from the Merseybeat era together each week to get money for childrens' charities. Visit the Cheshire Cats website5th September Don tells us about the Police farce, Tony's Book and remembers Gerry Marsden Don Woods 2012Click picture to get Don's WebsiteDon has some wonderful items on his website and is a past master at creating unusual songs and making videos and DVDs. Please drop by and enjoy his work
Episodes
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Bradley Walsh for Prime Minister
I find it very strange referring to our new king as King Charles ....and to hear the National anthem as God Save The King......we haven't seen a lot of him up to now but I'm sure he will find his feet.....but it's a tough act to follow. Liverpool has been chosen to host the 2023 Eurovision Song...
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The Power of the Media
On the political front I'm afraid I have totally lost my way so you have the opportunity to voice your opinion so over to you........ We haven't heard much more about the rocket which is to take off for the moon....has it gone yet? Not forgetting the other thing the boffins have sent up which...
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Farewell Queen Elizabeth 11
There has been endless coverage of the Queen lying in state with thousands and thousands of her loyal subjects queuing fo up to 24 hours to pass the coffin and show their respects showing how respected she was.....a wonderful lady .......and David Beckham has been praised for joining the line…
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Straight Down the Middle
1.Our loyal postmen have gone on strike....this being an example of those actually doing the work to feather the nests of those "in charge" who don't.....some of the pay rises of the so called "bosses" are obscene. 2.I watched a programme featuring American stand up Bill Maher....who says it as…
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Hello Mary Lou with Don Woods and James Burton
The heatwave has struck again....so the hosepipe bans are back....not to mention the empty reservoirs....the news is having a field day scaring everyone. Then we have the rising cost of our energy bills with the news telling us we could not only starve because we wont be able to afford food....we...
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Shaddap You Face
1.The heatwave and the media's attempts to scrape news from it 2.Vaping in schools is a major problem which needs to be solved according to the "desperate for news" media 3.Mo Farrah reveals the truth about himself
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Imagine What I could do to you!
I've attached an Adrian Street classic to discuss as record of the week....we'll have a laugh.Subjects for the chat 1.Boris is out but we had to wait to find out because of Wimbledon...which was far more interesting. 2.Wonderful Wimbledon....however perhaps a bit of gaffer tape in the commentary...
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Don's Skiffle Trip to Finland
Hi Vince....I have attached the song for the end chat about the Finland gig......it is "The Story of Skiffle" by "Skiffle" John Lomax..which I wrote and produced for him.....this is the version which got us the gig...... 1.The train strikes and the one sided biassed reporting 2.In parts of Spain…
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The Wirral Peninsula
Heatwave Alert for The Wirral Peninsula with Don's Song The two day heatwave has put us all on full alert with instructions as to how to handle it and the fear of draughts or floods....not forgetting how to apply suncream.....yep our few days of Summer has arrived......... all carried out from…
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Who tauught Don to Yodel?
I watched the FA Cup final which is a couple of hours I wont get back....I've seen better games in the local park .I had one too many pints during the Cup Final (to ease the boredom) and fell asleep during the Eurovision Song Contest....I woke up at the start of the results with Graham Norton...
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Walk Don't Run
The news is still going on about Boris Johnson's Xmas party.....all this is doing now is giving no mark M.P.s the opportunity to get their faces on TV all saying the same thing with none of them coming up with any alternative solutions.....definitely time to MOVE ON. The easiest job in the world…
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Was Yoko Ono's Music Really That Bad?
Hi Vince....here's some topics for Monday....I've included some of the stuff lost in the clouds last week Items for discussion The P & O sackings with one days notice have been headline news Gareth Bale being heavily criticised for making more effort playing for his country than he did playing…
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Don, Llanberis, David Bowie and The Laughing Gnome
Don joins Vince to discuss the dangerous political scenario #BBC #ITV #television #news #weather #TheChase #TippingPoint #EuropeanSongContest #Antiques #DavidBowie #TheLaughingGnome
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Don with Lipstick on his Collar
Storm Dudley and Storm Eunice filled 20 minutes of the news with their usual scaremongering. Then we have Prince Andrews "settlement" with the girl he has never met....I hope they check whether all those millions go to charity and not into the poor "abused" young lady's purse Then we have Charles...
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Don's Too Sexy
Don's favourite record of all time ......I feel there's more to this than meets the eye!
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Don and the Cheeky Girls
@donwoods and @vincw tracy discussed #boris #cycling #awimming #petrol #bbc #cheekygirls
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The Classic Jailhouse Rock
The record I would like to discuss this week is the Elvis classic...Jailhouse Rock......the record still holds up today.and considering there are only 4 musicians backing Elvis it makes this a masterpiece......the temptation to write this song in a country style must have been hard to resist but...
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Don Waxing Lyrical Over La Mer
On the continuing Djocovic saga....I believe old Novak intends to sue the Australian government.....you couldn't make it up....good luck with that one.......and even worse ..because some people are deeply offended (mainly those under 5 feet) by the sweet we have always known as "Midget Gems" the...
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Arise Sir Don and do it My Way!
First off...happy new year....I thought I might have to call you "Sir" Vince but I noticed you never made the Queen's honours list.....so you can't join Knights of the Realm like Sir Cliff...Sir Ringo...Sir Van Morrison....or Sir Tony Blair and even more hard to believe Sir Ashley Banjo ....maybe...
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ImagineWhat I could do to You!
I enjoyed the link you sent me with the Jet Harris interview.....I didn't know he was the first to use a Fender electric bass guitar....good stuff...I met Jet when I was working on Radio Merseyside....and we had a few pints in the local ....before he went tee total....and chatted about his...
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Don's Weekly News Rant then off to Bergen
Don's news rant followed by .....This week I would like to tell you about another day trip I did as Monty Lister's sound man for another of his travelogues on Radio Merseyside....this week we feature Bergen in Norway....there and back in a day....again we started out from Speke Airport at around…
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Don and Monty meet Patrick Moore in Norway
This week the subject of my Radio Merseyside day trips as soundman for Monty Lister takes us to Tromso in Norway for one of his many travelogues......Tromso (pronounced Trumsa) is the most northerly town on the planet so needless to say it was a bit nippy....around minus 30 degrees.....the object...
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Travelling with Monty Lister
When I worked on Radio Merseyside with Monty Lister there was a local travel company who organised DAY trips to various destinations abroad....where the plane would take off from Speke Airport in Liverpool at about 6 or 7 in the morning and get back about 10 at night.....Monty would arrange a…
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Doowap Days and Bobby Vee
The song this week is from one of my albums entitled "DooWop Days" which can be obtained from my website and can be streamed from the internet.....the song is a tribute to a pop star who is sadly no longer with us....Bobby Vee........I had the pleasure of opening his show on two occasions and he...
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On Behalf of the Lads
Forget the success of the vaccine rollout which has put this country ahead of everywhere else...there is obviously a far worse crisis....Boris is being accused of decorating his flat and NOT PAYING FOR IT...and he is being accused of making a hurtful statement about the economy....which nobody...
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The Magic of Wales
The BBC are still getting slated over the blanket coverage of the royal funeral....and Nicholas Witchell is taking a lot of stick with his reading of the "body language" between William and Harry in an attempt to invent news... I always watch a bit of TV before I go to sleep as I find it helps me...
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Urban Cowboys and Lockdown Lager
The song this week has a story to it....I was asked to write it for a bloke in Birmingham who was going to put a huge country and western show show on and bring stars over from the States and have rodeos etc etc.....his name was Brian "Sundance" Brooks and he had a shop which sold cowboy gear...
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The Inspirational Boat Race!
On the subject of TV sports coverage ... I am still recovering from the excitement of the Oxford and Cambridge boat race....I don't think...I'm afraid I fail to see the point of this so called sporting event which is broadcast for a whole afternoon ....who cares?....it has to be the most boring...
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How Bad Can UK TV get?
The standard of TV is becoming a joke......there are some decent programmes but you behave to search for them by skilfully trying to dodge the cookery programmes or Ant and Dec.....and the talentless Jonathan Ross and Graham Norton with their selection of stars of stage screen and…
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Tankers, Coins, Acronyms and Googie the Duck!
As Don and his English buddies prepare to knock out a few divots on their favourite fairways Welsh beauty spots were rammed with visitors this weekend as the country lead the UK out of lockdown in Wales when the 'stay local' requirement was dropped on Saturday. Unrestricted travel within Welsh...
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Riots against non-violent Protests!
This week we had a few technological problems so we worked differently. We discussed the violent protest in Britain against the right to protest non-violently. You couldn't write the script. We developed ideas of what's really behind such nonsense before moving to mums waitingoutside schools in…
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The Pandemic and LLanfair PG
The pandemic has revealed a lot about the human race....it has illustrated how kind and caring some people can be and how stupid and selfish others can be.......it is assumed we are all intellectually the same but as I have always said we are still evolving...some a lot slower than...
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Still Praying for Peace!
.....and still they pull down statues and meet up for rave parties and charge around with their stupid pointless protests....which does make you wonder about university education....seems to me it makes these students THINK they are clever....the only purpose these idiots are achieving is to…
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Moonlighting or Gaslighting?
.....and we have gained some new expressions each day....the latest is Priti Patel has been accused on "gas lighting"...whatever that means but it fits in nicely with "pandemic"...."Spike"...."Social distancing"...."2 metre rule"....I wonder who has the job of thinking these words up "Hey...
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Bewildering....Sheeple at it again!
Needless to say the news is swamped with the police brutal killing of George Floyd in America....which has created an excuse for protesters around the world to rise up and scream racism.....as an ordinary bloke who is not racist in any way and who has respected the law all my life,I watch the...
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Sheeple! Sheeple! and more Sheeple!
Piers Morgan is back in the morning after a welcome break...welcome for us that is.......and just when we have had enough of Dominic Cummings off goes Piers ranting on about him which serves no purpose except to get everyone's back up again...MOVE ON PLEASE!!....we heard all this last week and we...
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What's Cumming Next?
The media plus the general public have reached a new low....Dominic Cummings who is our P.M.s right hand man has disgraced himself...at least he has according to the papers and the TV news who have created an uproar in our population of sheep....he travelled 250 miles from London to Durham…
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Virtual Concerts and Protests!
There were protests planned around the country by The Freedom Party who are a bunch of boneheads who regard the lockdown as "illegal"....fortunately common sense prevailed and the police sorted it....one of the venues was supposed to be at Birkenhead Park which is local to me....it didn't happen...
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Boris' Address to the UK
Boris Johnson's wonderful speech to the country has not gone down too well....personally it made no sense to me at all....it is total confusion....I fail to see the difference between going into a supermarket and keeping away from other people or going for a walk in a park and keeping away from...
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Welcome to the Scrapheasp
Still wondering what's going on regarding our lockdown situation.....they talk about the over 70s as if we were a bunch of old doderies....welcome to the scrapheap.....we have been fortunate in as much as we can go out for daily exercise which does make a difference and the delivery firms do a...
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Pandemic Confusion
The virus situation is getting pretty desperate....and we have politicians prattling on about what might "possibly" happen....I know it's a new situation we are in but they don't seem to have a clue.....we can only go out to exercise or get food or medicine yet planes are landing at airports with...
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Pamdemic Rampage
We are still in lockdown and most people seem to have got the message....but there's always the odd one....you know the type....shaved head,tattoos and T-shirt plus the real tough guy walk....they don't seem to grasp that no matter how hard you think you are this virus doesn't really…
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Will Lockdown Succeed?
The lockdown continues and the virus continues to seriously affect the nation.....at least the majority of people obeyed the rules over the Easter holiday...with of course the usual morons who don't think it applies to them....but it's hard to see where this will end...the number of casualties...
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The Ballad of John Wayne
We are still in self isolation which should make a lot of people realise not to take so much for granted when this is all over....it's strange situation to be in as you well know....but at least we can go out for a bit of exercise and the television programmes are so bad I don't bother buying the...
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Lockdown Continues
The virus is still filling the news and now the government are being criticised for not acting sooner....which doesn't help the situation....as usual those who sit back and look for someone to blame should perhaps get off their arses and actually DO something constructive....it's supporters we…
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CommonSense in Lockdown
Ttousands decided to walk up Snowdon in Wales at the weekend while others piled into the parks....which just about sums up the mentality of our nation...not to mention the panic buying in supermarkets.....so now we are in some sort of "lockdown"......and with the great variety of intellects this...
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CoronaVirus Lockdown
With the coronavirus flooding the news every day we have a new word which is utilised by every news presenter..."Lockdown"...which I always thought applied to prisons and American movies.....what is wrong with "quarantine" or is that too English?....we are being infiltrated with Americanisms such...
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Media Induced Corona Panic?
The media are still trying to scare everyone announcing more numbers each day of those contacting the corona virus...what we are not told is how many have actually recovered....and this has caused our nation of sheep to panic buy toilet rolls and hand sanitisers ... in case we all have to lock...
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LlanfairPG in Wales and Wirral
The corona virus has dominated the news.....we now have 40 cases in this country and we are being told to "self isolate" if we don't feel well....especially if we have just come back from Italy or China.....so the media have done their job by creating a panic....so supplies of anti bacteria hand...
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Don is a great singer/songwriter who always has an ingenious take on a situation.Don has been a correspondent with Vince for many years. He is a member of the .Merseycats and on Wirral 'The Cheshirecats' bringing the musicians from the Merseybeat era together each week to get money for childrens' charities. Visit the Cheshire Cats website5th September Don tells us about the Police farce, Tony's Book and remembers Gerry Marsden Don Woods 2012Click picture to get Don's WebsiteDon has some wonderful items on his website and is a past master at creating unusual songs and making videos and DVDs. Please drop by and enjoy his work
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