Tuesday, November 24, 2020

Self Help Radio 112420: Glam & Glamour

(Hair & stripe from the album cover for Aladdin Sane of course.)

Yes, last night's Self Help Radio featured little - if any - actual glam music.  A listener - who asked me to play David Bowie & I didn't - said he did hear some glam influence.  Which I guess is possible if one is writing a song about glam.

But the show was also about glamour!  Which comes from glam.  Which reminds me, why is it glamour with a u but glamorous without a u?  & isn't it weird to write "a u."  Since the letter u is a vowel, you feel visually it would be more correct to write "an u."  But since the letter u is pronounced "you" (or sometimes "yew") (& often "yoo" as in "yoo hoo!") & there's a consonant in the pronounced world, we have what I call the "hard article" a rather than the "soft article" an.  Which is also why we say "give me an m, Pat" on Wheel Of Fortune when clearly it sound be a m, because m is a consonant.  & by the way, I don't mean a m like "ante meridiem" & don't even get me started as to where it's even possible for noon to be 12 pm - which is to say "post meridiem" since "meridiem" means "noon."  12 am could be either noon or midnight in this scenario & what a headache that would be.

Was I supposed to be talking about something else?  Oh yeah, my new etymologically-based stand-up is coming to a YouTube near me sometime never.  Also, this week's show can be listened to if you want.

The glam & glamour show is at the Self Help Radio website now or whenever you're ready.  Please remember that you'll need a username - which is "SHR" - & a password - which is "selfhelp" - without the quotation marks - to listen.  It's nearly three hours long!  It gets kinda tedious.  Sorry.  What happens on the show is detailed below.

Self Help Radio Glam & Glamour Show
"Glam" Icehouse _Primitive Man_
"This Is The Glam" New Wet Kojak _This Is The Glamorous_
"Glam!" Leila K _Carousel_

introduction & definitions

"Glamour Girl" T-Bone Walker _The Original Source_
"Glamour Girl" Tony Lake _Teen Town U.S.A. Volume 9_
"Glamour Girl" Harvey Scales & The Seven Sounds _Back Then One More Time_
"Glamour Girl" Harold Hopkins _Big City Soul 4: 60 Northern Soul Classics_
"Glamour Girl" Chicks On Speed _Chicks On Speed Will Save Us All!_

interview with the Rev Dr Howard Gently

"Glamorous" Gary Myrick _Language_
"The Glamorous Life" Sheila E _In The Glamorous Life_
"The Glamorous Life" Cool C _I Gotta Habit_
"Glamorous Life" Lolly Pop _Lolly Pop_
"Glamorous Nights" Stevans _Rupture_

interview with "appalachian glam" designer Rock Hart

"Glam Saved The Day" Pocket Rockets _Love Or Perish_
"Glam Racket" The Fall _The Infotainment Scan_
"Glam Rock Cops" Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine _Straw Donkey... The Singles_
"Trash Glam Baby" The Boomtown Rats _Citizens Of Boomtown_
"Glam Slam" Prince _Lovesexy_

interview with glam expert Madeline Bowie

"Glamour Gap" Marine Research _Sounds From The Gulf Stream_
"Glamour & Glitz" A Tribe Called Quest _The Show (Original Soundtrack)_
"Ice (As If She Could Steal A Piece Of My Glamour)" Alec Empire _The Golden Foretaste Of Heaven_
"Glamour Job" Bulldogs _Top Tiers_
"French Man Glam Gang" Luke Haines & Peter Buck _Beat Poetry For Survivalists_

interview with Glamorous Magazine editor & publisher Dame Edwina Boogles-Smyth
Ned Dry presents Portland recording artists Lieutenant Corporal McCheese

"You (Chunka, Chunka) Were Glamorous" The Legend _Creation Soup Volume One_
"Glamourous" Jetlag _9:15 To Nowhere_
"Glamour Girl" Louie Austen _Iguana_
"The Glamour Chase" The Associates _Wild & Lonely_
"Shamrock Glamrock" The Bundles _The Bundles_

the penultimate airbreak (nothing special happens)

"My Glamorous Mother" The Gonks _Five Things You Didn't Know About The Gonks_
"Astral Glamour" Homosexuals _Astral Glamour_
"Glamour" Low Life _Downer Edn_
"Be Glamorous" Charlie Boyer & The Voyeurs _Clarietta_
"Money Fame Glitz Glamour" Joy & Revolution _Love Is Kind_

conclusion & goodbye

"Glamour & Glory Blues" Curtis Jones _Complete Recorded Works In Chronological Order Volume 4_
"So Glamorous" Sam Cooke _The Complete Singles 1956-1962_
"Chip Pan Glam" The Understudies _Indietracks 2009: An Indiepop Compilation_
"Hand Glams" Ty Segall _$Ingle$ 2_
"The Glam Dicenn" Julian Cope _Floored Genius 4: Brain Donor_

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