LNL Midnight Mixtape: Adverts

Midnight Mixtape: Adverts

On the midnight mixtape, Tony Livesey was joined by Paul McNamee to look at listener selections (05/02/2026) with Songs that have featured in a TV Advert!

Songs in contention

• Jenny Logan - Shake n Vac
• New Seeker - I like to teach the world to sing
• David Dundas - Jeans on
• Hollies - He ain't heavy he's my brother
• Clash - Should I stay or should I go
• Jesse Glynne - Hold my hand
• Alan Price - Changes
• Tribe called Quest - Can I kick it?
• Free - All right now
• Leftfield - Phat Planet
• Phil Collins - In the air tonight
• Leo Delibes - Flower Duet
• Berlin - Take my breath away
• Bach - Air on a G string
• Honeybus - Can't let Maggie go
• Stevie Vann - Remember my name
• Robin Beck - First time
• Etta James - I just want to make love to you
• Iron Maiden - Phantom of the Opera
• Desmond Dekker - Israelites
• Ronnie Bond - It's written on your body
• Rolling Stones - It's all over now
• Demi Lovato - Confident
• Soft Focus - Original Don
• Madness - Baggy trousers
• Carpenters - We've only just begun
• Echo & Bunnymen - Killing moon
• Fleetwood Mac - Everywhere
• Cult - She sells sancutary
• Spandau Ballet - Gold
• Gregory Isaacs - Night Nurse
• Jimmie Rogers - English Country Garden
• Trio - Da da da
• Brian May - Driving by you
• Andy Williams - Music to watch girls by
• Velvet Undeground - Venus in furs
• Skids - Into the valleys
• Beach Boys - Good Vibrations
• Stiltskin - Inside
• Steve Miller Band - The Joker
• Marvin Gaye - Heard it through the grapevine
• Bluebells - Young at heart
• R Whites - Secret lemonade drinker
• Carl Orff - O Fortuna

Final Mixtape

Here's the final mixtape!

[Side 1]
1. Marvin Gaye - Heard it through the grapevine
2. Hollies - He ain't heavy he's my brother
3. Jesse Glynne - Hold my hand
4. Tribe called Quest - Can I kick it?
5. Gregory Isaacs - Night Nurse
6. Bach - Air on a G string
[Side 2]
7. Velvet Undeground - Venus in furs
8. Etta James - I just want to make love to you
9. Leftfield - Phat Planet
10. Iron Maiden - Phantom of the Opera
11. Desmond Dekker - Israelites
12. Carl Orff - O Fortuna
Hidden: Carpenters - We've only just begun

Previous Appearances

From the Livesey midnight mixtapes, 6 acts had never been on before, Carl Orf, Desmond Dekker, Etta James (1), Jess Glynne, Leftfield (1), Tribe called Quest (2) Appearances of those that have been on before:

• 3: Carpenters (5), Velvet Underground (4)
• 2: Hollies (5), Marvin Gaye (11)
• 1: Bach (2), Gregory Isaacs (1), Iron Maiden (6)

Random Musings - Day #218

Candy
The Cameo song, Candy seems to have a dance for it...

Two steps right, two steps left, two steps back, one step forward, one step back, turn left... repeat

In sad news, Renato who had a Christmas #1 in 1982 with Renee on "Save your love" and of course song on the old just one cornetto advert, died from a brain tumour

A side note check out some of the best remembered 80s adverts

Random Musings - Day #11

London. Here's a few interesting things there. A place that I've been to for a laugh is School Disco, which usually on a Sautrday and plays 80s and 90s music where surprise surprise you have to dress as a schoolkid. A place that I would like to visit is Swaparama Razzamatazz. A rather novel concept of swapping an item of clothing why a klaxon sounds. But before you go there with your crappiest clothes, I believe you initally take some clothes from the club wardrobe. Another place, I'd like to visit is the very tacky Venue in New Cross. I have heard mixed reviews about the place. They usually have some form of tribute act playing there, but for a one-off I am sure it would be a laugh. Another venue, I'd love to go is the Jazz Cafe in London (not to be confused with the one in Reading). They usually have good acts there, usually acts from days from way back when.
Turning away from clubs, there are a number of bowling alleys in London but none may be as classy as allstarlanes. If you like ice skating, now is the right time for it, this gives a good guide but there is only one indoor ice rink, Queen's ice, which oddly enough doubles as a bowling alley too.

Well you know what? I haven't even done any notes about computers, so far. Let's put that right. Now DNS resolves your hostnames into IP addresses. Now sometimes, it may be useful to IP addresses of some DNS services, just in case you lose contact with your chosen DNS. I used to use DNS stuff as a tool for finding information. But that's pretty restrictive so have a look at network tools (67.222.132.196),
perhaps 4dnstools (8.7.26.2), mydnstools (212.241.216.156) and ipchecking. The similarly named ipchicken tells you your own IP address!

Back to music. America's Lady Gaga is the new number 1 in the UK charts with 'Just dance'. James Morrison & Nelly Furtado are #2 with Broken Strings and last week #1 Alexandra Burke's Hallelujah. Lady Gaga happens to also be the current #1 in the states.
You can get a fairly comprehensive but not always accurate history of chart songs at everyhit. I've not seen a USA equivalent as yet. Though you can find a list of US #1's and US Dance #1'son wikipedia.

Also been seeing some weird adverts for Churchill Insurance guest starring Rolf Harris and Roy Walker.