Theme 187 - 'Groovy Grocer!' Song titles with a fruit &/or veg in them - theDuke - VOTING (Closes 10pm Sun 29th July)

[theDuke]

Current R10 Themes nominations:

188. The last word: Final tracks from albums (original album final tracks, no bonus tracks from re-releases, please), however, 'hidden' tracks at the end of original albums are allowed along with the 'official' last track. - nominated by Fishy Jim
189. Songs with titles that feature a musical instrument - Helen
190. Songs with rhymes in either the title eg Floy Joy or band name eg Haysi Fantaysi, Milli Vanilli (oh dear, sounded better until I had to think of examples!), etc - nominated by Brass Neck
191. Bands/solo artists from Sheffield - nominated by Lez
192. Blow Yer Own Trumpety - the genre of music that the act is playing must be reflected in the title of the song/piece or in the name of the act - nominated by tech
193. Golden Oldies - 1960 to 1990 - nominated by Jemma
194. The Unexplained - songs about U.F.O.s, strange happenings, disappearances etc - nominated by TheFoe
195. "Turning Japanese, I think I'm turning Japanese, I really think so" - music created by Japanese born artists (there can be westerners or whoever in the mix, but the main man (or woman) must be from Japan - nominated by Tim

To add your new noms for R10, here's the nominations link (keep them coming please!):

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
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Evening all.

Rightyhoo then, looks like it my turn now...

'The Groovy Grocer - song titles featuring a fruit &/or veg in the title.'

Roll up...roll up! Let's have your luvaly fruit an' veg here folks. Choose your juiciest apples, the hottest peppers, the sweetest berries, ripest toms, suculent cucumbers, & the exotic Pineapples, Kiwis, Papayas, Lemons & Limes. Want to try something different ma'am? Try a Durian Durian or a Dragon Fruit. Or, maybe you like to stick to the familiar, like mouth watering melons, Avocados, Peaches, Nectarines, And there's always more 'nanas than you can shake a bent yellow fruit at madam! Get your vitamins with the orangest of oranges, Satsumas, Clementines & Tangerines. Sir....you look like a no nonsense down to earthly type..like ya meat & two veg d'ya? Try the best spuds, carrots, onions, swedes & turnips. Or maybe you wish to try something different; hows a 'bout an Oca, a Cassava perhaps? Maybe a Yuca or a Yam? Or try a Tiger Nut (no jokes please!) And of course, there always the gourds...oh my gawd, the gourds! Don't forget to eat your greens too, ya Peas, ya cabbages, ya Broccoli, Curly Cale, and Spinach (Popeye swears by it!) & ya 'erbs by the pound, let's have 'em all!

Oh and let's not forget also, 'shrooms can also be bought to this party too, cos they're always fun-guys! But expect to find a few nuts about too! :-D

Whatever tickles your taste buds folks, noms and links in the usual fashion, the more the merrier to this bountiful harvest, thank you!

Have a good un folks! :)

And don't forget to add your theme noms if you haven't already done so, ta!

[Craig White]

there we go! we've been to the butchers' and the bakers' as well as the grocers'!

Lamb's Bread Herb - King Tubby

https://youtu.be/BPCpdjJo9vk

[Tim]

Tech wrote: "there we go! we've been to the butchers' and the bakers' as well as the grocers'!

Lamb's Bread Herb - King Tubby

No, you haven't! 😉

[Craig White]

so, i guess i won't be taking my lamb's bread collie to crufts' then?

[Rob]

After Tech,

Lamb's Bread Herb - King Tubby
Pineapple Head - Crowded House

https://youtu.be/gbfeG1Kl9kg

[Derek]

After rob.

Since I'm not very keen on salad.

Lamb's Bread Herb - King Tubby
Pineapple Head - Crowded House
I Wish I Had a Rocket Launcher - Bruce Cockburn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7vCw...

[Derek]

….if you do like salad you could always nominate Cos I Love You:-)

[Craig White]

very poor! :)

[Derek]

Tech wrote: "very poor! :)"

..up to your standards then:-)

[theDuke]

Yeh..really poor..but at least it is a species of lettuce Tech..but ermm...herb? I know i said 'erbs could be included...but you coulda chosen a specific one Tech! Basil or Rosemary for eg...or how about Jasmin? ;-)

Anyhoo..there are loads of fruity and veggy songs out there folks...I'm still tryin' to choose between a couple of dozen of them!

[Craig White]

"you coulda chosen a specific one Tech!"

but i did, duke! :)

if you're saying it's invalid, i will gladly change it.

[theDuke]

I'd never heard of Lamb's Bread Herb...but just googled it and Ahhhh! I see, we're in the narco world of wacky backy! I guess it can stay....but I doubt one will ever see it being sold in one's local branch of Tesco!

[theDuke]

The song's spelling is actually Coz, and the lettuce is spelt Cos..so, no go on that one....unfortunately.

[Craig White]

are we going to crack that joke till someone laughs? or are we going to move on to the proclaimers' 'lettuce from america'?

...or burning spear's 'do you remember the days of celery?'

[theDuke]

After Mr B -

Lamb's Bread Herb - King Tubby
Pineapple Head - Crowded House
I Wish I Had a Rocket Launcher - Bruce Cockburn
Guava Jelly - Johnny Nash
Orange - The Dandy Warhols

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDfa_...

[Brass Neck]

theDuke wrote: "The song's spelling is actually Coz, and the lettuce is spelt Cos..so, no go on that one....unfortunately."

Ouch, been taking pedantry lessons form Lez?

[theDuke]

Brass Neck wrote: "theDuke wrote: "The song's spelling is actually Coz, and the lettuce is spelt Cos..so, no go on that one....unfortunately."

Ouch, been taking pedantry lessons form Lez?"

Nah..just 15 years working in a produce department!

[Collette]

After Duke

Lamb's Bread Herb - King Tubby
Pineapple Head - Crowded House
I Wish I Had a Rocket Launcher - Bruce Cockburn
Guava Jelly - Johnny Nash
Orange - The Dandy Warhols
Cherry Pie - Warrant

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjyZK...

[Val]

After Collette

So many to choose from! I had to make a hard choice - if John Prine had managed to work the word "peaches" into the title of "Spanish Pipedream" it'd have been no contest. If this isn't okay, I can change it.

Lamb's Bread Herb - King Tubby
Pineapple Head - Crowded House
I Wish I Had a Rocket Launcher - Bruce Cockburn
Guava Jelly - Johnny Nash
Orange - The Dandy Warhols
Cherry Pie - Warrant
Old Dogs, Children And Watermelon Wine - Tom T Hall

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqV9N...

[SussexWelsh]

After Val

Lamb's Bread Herb - King Tubby
Pineapple Head - Crowded House
I Wish I Had a Rocket Launcher - Bruce Cockburn
Guava Jelly - Johnny Nash
Orange - The Dandy Warhols
Cherry Pie - Warrant
Old Dogs, Children And Watermelon Wine - Tom T Hall
The Aubergine That Ate Rangoon - Hawkwind

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTLhq...

[Helen The Melon]

After SW

Lamb's Bread Herb - King Tubby
Pineapple Head - Crowded House
I Wish I Had a Rocket Launcher - Bruce Cockburn
Guava Jelly - Johnny Nash
Orange - The Dandy Warhols
Cherry Pie - Warrant
Old Dogs, Children And Watermelon Wine - Tom T Hall
The Aubergine That Ate Rangoon - Hawkwind
Giant Peach - Wolf Alice

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6vEE...

[Sj]

Lamb's Bread Herb - King Tubby
Pineapple Head - Crowded House
I Wish I Had a Rocket Launcher - Bruce Cockburn
Guava Jelly - Johnny Nash
Orange - The Dandy Warhols
Cherry Pie - Warrant
Old Dogs, Children And Watermelon Wine - Tom T Hall
The Aubergine That Ate Rangoon - Hawkwind
Giant Peach - Wolf Alice
Cherry Came Too - Jesus and Mary Chain

https://youtu.be/J0vPkQnoWG8

[Fishy_Jim]

After Sj:

Lamb's Bread Herb - King Tubby
Pineapple Head - Crowded House
I Wish I Had a Rocket Launcher - Bruce Cockburn
Guava Jelly - Johnny Nash
Orange - The Dandy Warhols
Cherry Pie - Warrant
Old Dogs, Children And Watermelon Wine - Tom T Hall
The Aubergine That Ate Rangoon - Hawkwind
Giant Peach - Wolf Alice
Cherry Came Too - Jesus and Mary Chain
The Funky Avocado - Michael Hedges

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWNlB...

How one man made an acoustic guitar sound like two or three of them is beyond me. Sadly missed technical genius.

[Jemma]

After Jim

Lamb's Bread Herb - King Tubby
Pineapple Head - Crowded House
I Wish I Had a Rocket Launcher - Bruce Cockburn
Guava Jelly - Johnny Nash
Orange - The Dandy Warhols
Cherry Pie - Warrant
Old Dogs, Children And Watermelon Wine - Tom T Hall
The Aubergine That Ate Rangoon - Hawkwind
Giant Peach - Wolf Alice
Cherry Came Too - Jesus and Mary Chain
The Funky Avocado - Michael Hedges
Oranges On Appletrees - A-Ha

https://youtu.be/Hf1lFS3g2Ko

[TheFoe]

After Jemma

Lamb's Bread Herb - King Tubby
Pineapple Head - Crowded House
I Wish I Had a Rocket Launcher - Bruce Cockburn
Guava Jelly - Johnny Nash
Orange - The Dandy Warhols
Cherry Pie - Warrant
Old Dogs, Children And Watermelon Wine - Tom T Hall
The Aubergine That Ate Rangoon - Hawkwind
Giant Peach - Wolf Alice
Cherry Came Too - Jesus and Mary Chain
The Funky Avocado - Michael Hedges
Oranges On Appletrees - A-Ha
Blueberry - Late Of The Pier

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMEkC...

[Gordon]

After TheFoe

Lamb's Bread Herb - King Tubby
Pineapple Head - Crowded House
I Wish I Had a Rocket Launcher - Bruce Cockburn
Guava Jelly - Johnny Nash
Orange - The Dandy Warhols
Cherry Pie - Warrant
Old Dogs, Children And Watermelon Wine - Tom T Hall
The Aubergine That Ate Rangoon - Hawkwind
Giant Peach - Wolf Alice
Cherry Came Too - Jesus and Mary Chain
The Funky Avocado - Michael Hedges
Oranges On Appletrees - A-Ha
Blueberry - Late Of The Pier
Swamp Cabbage - Weather Report

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MF7_h...

[KJS]

After Gordon

Lamb's Bread Herb - King Tubby
Pineapple Head - Crowded House
I Wish I Had a Rocket Launcher - Bruce Cockburn
Guava Jelly - Johnny Nash
Orange - The Dandy Warhols
Cherry Pie - Warrant
Old Dogs, Children And Watermelon Wine - Tom T Hall
The Aubergine That Ate Rangoon - Hawkwind
Giant Peach - Wolf Alice
Cherry Came Too - Jesus and Mary Chain
The Funky Avocado - Michael Hedges
Oranges On Appletrees - A-Ha
Blueberry - Late Of The Pier
Swamp Cabbage - Weather Report
Watermelon Man - Mongo Santamaria

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozsVh...

[Brass Neck]

Changing mine

Lamb's Bread Herb - King Tubby
Pineapple Head - Crowded House
I Wish I Had a Rocket Launcher - Bruce Cockburn
Orange - The Dandy Warhols
Cherry Pie - Warrant
Old Dogs, Children And Watermelon Wine - Tom T Hall
The Aubergine That Ate Rangoon - Hawkwind
Giant Peach - Wolf Alice
Cherry Came Too - Jesus and Mary Chain
The Funky Avocado - Michael Hedges
Oranges On Appletrees - A-Ha
Blueberry - Late Of The Pier
Swamp Cabbage - Weather Report
Watermelon Man - Mongo Santamaria
Polk Salad Annie - Tony Joe White

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCSsV...

[Craig White]

aw! double d'oh! there go the points! :) and i think you'll find mr elvis presley's version to be superior, mmmm, yes!?

[Lez]

After BN

Lamb's Bread Herb - King Tubby
Pineapple Head - Crowded House
I Wish I Had a Rocket Launcher - Bruce Cockburn
Orange - The Dandy Warhols
Cherry Pie - Warrant
Old Dogs, Children And Watermelon Wine - Tom T Hall
The Aubergine That Ate Rangoon - Hawkwind
Giant Peach - Wolf Alice
Cherry Came Too - Jesus and Mary Chain
The Funky Avocado - Michael Hedges
Oranges On Appletrees - A-Ha
Blueberry - Late Of The Pier
Swamp Cabbage - Weather Report
Watermelon Man - Mongo Santamaria
Polk Salad Annie - Tony Joe White
Digging My Potatoes - Lonnie Donegan

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IMQQ7DC...

(Pending finding something better)

[Lez]

Brass Neck wrote: "Changing mine

Lamb's Bread Herb - King Tubby
Pineapple Head - Crowded House
I Wish I Had a Rocket Launcher - Bruce Cockburn
Orange - The Dandy Warhols
Cherry Pie - Warrant
Old Dogs, Children And ..."

Challenge!
Poke isn’t a veg or fruit

Wiki:
Poke began with fishermen seasoning the cut-offs from their catch to serve as a snack.Traditional poke seasonings have been heavily influenced by Japanese and other Asian cuisines. These include soy sauce, green onions, and sesame oil. Others include furikake (mix of dried fish, sesame seeds, and dried seaweed), chopped dried or fresh chili pepper, limu (seaweed), sea salt, inamona (roasted crushed candlenut), fish eggs, wasabi, and Maui onions. Other variations of poke may include cured heʻe (octopus), other types of raw tuna, raw salmon and various kinds of shellfish.

Traditional Hawaiian poke may consist of cubed raw fish, maui onions, Inamona (a condiment made of roasted, salted candlenut), Limu (algae), soy sauce, green onions, or sesame oil.Some of the more contemporary variations can also include seaweed, Roe (fish eggs), wasabi, dried or fresh chilli, toasted macadamia nut, Furikake and can be served alone or on top of a bed of white rice, pineapple, Sushi-meshi (seasoned rice) or red cabbage. The possibilities for variation are endless.

[Brass Neck]

'Traditionally, the term to describe the type of food highlighted in the song is polk or poke sallet, a cooked greens dish made from pokeweed.' 'Sallet is an old English word that means "cooked greens,"] not to be mistaken for "salad"; in fact, a great many cases of pokeweed poisoning result from this linguistic mistake. While it may be that record companies labeled the song "salad," the dish in question was a "sallet" made of pokeweed'

[Lez]

Brass Neck wrote: "'Traditionally, the term to describe the type of food highlighted in the song is polk or poke sallet, a cooked greens dish made from pokeweed.'"

OK I’ll let you off. It’s somewhat dodgy though:

“Children are most frequently poisoned... [and] Infants are especially sensitive and have died from eating only a few raw berries. Although boiled young shoots have been eaten as greens and berries cooked in pie, ingestion of any part of the plant cannot be recommended. Adults have been poisoned, sometimes fatally, by eating improperly prepared leaves and shoots, especially if part of the root is harvested with the shoot, and by mistaking the root for an edible tuber."

[Brass Neck]

Lez wrote: "Brass Neck wrote: "'Traditionally, the term to describe the type of food highlighted in the song is polk or poke sallet, a cooked greens dish made from pokeweed.'"

OK I’ll let you off. It’s somewh..."

Dodgy's my middle name. I just like the song and his performance.

[Lez]

Perhaps you could recommend it to the dinnerladies. Tee hee 💀

[Brass Neck]

Do you have a sewing kit handy Lez .....my sides've split.

[suzysunshine7]

I'm so tempted to share my Migraine and nominate 'The Banana Song' by The Minions but I would surely be banned from the Group Forum forever ;o>

[Derek]

suzysunshine7 wrote: "I'm so tempted to share my Migraine and nominate 'The Banana Song' by The Minions but I would surely be banned from the Group Forum forever ;o>"

It's got to be better than the abysmal Polk Salad Annie surely suzy?

[suzysunshine7]

Okay? - well, you asked for it, Derek! ... Hee, Hee, Hee!!! ;o>

Lamb's Bread Herb - King Tubby
Pineapple Head - Crowded House
I Wish I Had a Rocket Launcher - Bruce Cockburn
Orange - The Dandy Warhols
Cherry Pie - Warrant
Old Dogs, Children And Watermelon Wine - Tom T Hall
The Aubergine That Ate Rangoon - Hawkwind
Giant Peach - Wolf Alice
Cherry Came Too - Jesus and Mary Chain
The Funky Avocado - Michael Hedges
Oranges On Appletrees - A-Ha
Blueberry - Late Of The Pier
Swamp Cabbage - Weather Report
Watermelon Man - Mongo Santamaria
Polk Salad Annie - Tony Joe White
Digging My Potatoes - Lonnie Donegan
The Banana Song - The Minions

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJ_AZ...

[theDuke]

Personally I'm wonderin' if Harry Belafonte's classic is gonna show up!

[suzysunshine7]

Yeah, I might actually get Points for that one - but this one makes me laugh ;o>

[Brass Neck]

Or Harry Nilsson's?

[theDuke]

Brass Neck wrote: "Or Harry Nilsson's?"

I was hoping that one wouldn't show up Mr B! lol! I think that was nom'd for a previous round, not long ago wasn't it, if memory serves.

[theDuke]

suzysunshine7 wrote: "Yeah, I might actually get Points for that one - but this one makes me laugh ;o>"

Gotta love those little yellow bean people! :)

'bout time they made a sequel to their stand alone movie..the first was so funny! And the deranged purple versions of them too, from DM2.... Bah! :)

[Spacepig]

After suzy

Lamb's Bread Herb - King Tubby
Pineapple Head - Crowded House
I Wish I Had a Rocket Launcher - Bruce Cockburn
Orange - The Dandy Warhols
Cherry Pie - Warrant
Old Dogs, Children And Watermelon Wine - Tom T Hall
The Aubergine That Ate Rangoon - Hawkwind
Giant Peach - Wolf Alice
Cherry Came Too - Jesus and Mary Chain
The Funky Avocado - Michael Hedges
Oranges On Appletrees - A-Ha
Blueberry - Late Of The Pier
Swamp Cabbage - Weather Report
Watermelon Man - Mongo Santamaria
Polk Salad Annie - Tony Joe White
Digging My Potatoes - Lonnie Donegan
The Banana Song - The Minions
The Great Banana Hoax - The Electric Prunes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNjnj...

[suzysunshine7]

There you are! - my little Minions are now the Warm Up Act for The Electric Prunes ;o>

[Tim]

After Space. Could'a picked the obvious one, but thought I'd give this almost guaranteed nul-pointer a run out cos it deserves it! A tale of a man returning home from the sea with only a dollar to his name, told as only the great Don Van Vliet could.

Lamb's Bread Herb - King Tubby
Pineapple Head - Crowded House
I Wish I Had a Rocket Launcher - Bruce Cockburn
Orange - The Dandy Warhols
Cherry Pie - Warrant
Old Dogs, Children And Watermelon Wine - Tom T Hall
The Aubergine That Ate Rangoon - Hawkwind
Giant Peach - Wolf Alice
Cherry Came Too - Jesus and Mary Chain
The Funky Avocado - Michael Hedges
Oranges On Appletrees - A-Ha
Blueberry - Late Of The Pier
Swamp Cabbage - Weather Report
Watermelon Man - Mongo Santamaria
Polk Salad Annie - Tony Joe White
Digging My Potatoes - Lonnie Donegan
The Banana Song - The Minions
The Great Banana Hoax - The Electric Prunes
Orange Claw Hammer - Captain Beefheart

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wp4zQ...

[theDuke]

That's 19 noms so far, a rare number for goodreads, but will it reach the magical & super rare dizzy high of 20?!

It's a far cry from our Zon days when 30+ wasn't uncommon, though! :)

C'mon let's get to 20...there's gotta be one more nominator out there, anybody?! :)

[Craig White]

way i see it, suzy, minions are in the top quarter there!

[theDuke]

Johnny wrote: "After Tim

Lamb's Bread Herb - King Tubby
Pineapple Head - Crowded House
I Wish I Had a Rocket Launcher - Bruce Cockburn
Orange - The Dandy Warhols
Cherry Pie - Warrant
Old Dogs, Children And Water..."

Johnny, your link doesn't seem to be working, so I've used an alternative link instead.

40 mins left folks, anymore to come?