The tunes played this week, in case you couldn't work out what they were supposed to be when played on a Fisher Price record player.

#ThePlaylist

This week's playtime buddies, all of whom are It. But I'm not, because I made up the rules and they say I'm immune.

@arakin
@astronomerritt
Papa @astronomerritt 🎉
Ben Gray c/o @RealAleRocks
Dr Caitlin @swisslet
@ccferrie
Teen @ccferrie 🎉
@daveybot
@dddz 🎉
@giflian
@imalcolm
@KaraLG84
@LuluHelle
@missmelanieh
@MrAndrewD
Master @MrAndrewD 🎉
@Nickiquote
@RealAleRocks
@Rhevian
@RolloTreadway
Mrs @roytoo
@roytoo
@sheepnik
@sodslawyer
@steve199nwep
@swisslet
@theplaguedoc
@Vibracobra23
@WiteWulf

The bell's just rung, so everyone line up and go back back in.

#ThePlaylist

As ever, we've collected all the tracks from this week's show into streaming playlists, so you can add your favourites to your own libraries:

Apple Music - https://music.apple.com/gb/playlist/theplaylist-toys-games/pl.u-GgA5YEzHxxYZqGr
Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6m4hT96vVePxuJIQf9IQxI

And #ThePlaylistExtras; all the other tunes that we didn't have time for:

Apple Music - https://music.apple.com/gb/playlist/theplaylist-toys-games-extras/pl.u-NpXmYAmFLLVmMr0
Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/354sjb0x8kj6NZ2apJ6EWk

#ThePlaylist

NEXT WEEK ON #ThePlaylist the theme will be:

Accents

This one has been bubbling about in my branes for a few months, so I'm interested to see if people come at it from the same direction as me.

Fling your suggestions this way with #ThePlaylistSuggestion, and together we'll be build a radio show the direction of which I have no way of predicting.

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@DJDarren #ThePlaylistSuggestion A few thoughts, none of which are taking the orthographical route, but perhaps I'll think more on that.


Lord Kitchener - London is the Place for Me
(because it is very much a song of immigration - Kitch performed it aboard the Windrush at Tilbury dock, there's a video of it on youtube - and because accent is important in the story of Caribbean migration to Britain)

Charlotte Agigéry & Bolis Pupul - Blenda
(a song which discusses accents, again in the context of migration)


And three songs in which, rather more straightforwardly, English regional accents are very much to the fore and I find it difficult to imagine these songs performed by people without strong accents:

Stick in the Wheel - A Thousand Pokes

Alex Glasgow - Keep Your Feet Still, Geordie Hinny

The Unthanks - Blue Bleezin' Blind Drunk
(particularly the version from the album The Unthanks with Brighouse and Rastrick Brass Band)