76: Let’s Eat – Breakfast
Something close to all our hearts (well, just below in fact), food, and being the first of several, this one’s about breakfast. In the preshow we had Alan’s Psychedelic Breakfast (I wanted to get that out of the way early) followed by some stuff from the H section of the stash, Hayseed Dixie and Huey Lewis.
The breakfast theme included Cyril Tawney’s Chicken on a Raft, a made-up sea shanty – Cyril served on diesel submarines – and includes some Royal Navy slang – a short glossary is included below
Chicken on a Raft = Fried Egg on fried bread
Jimmy = Jimmy-the-One = 1st lieutenant
Comic Cuts = A sailor’s personal file, record of service, misdemeanors etc.
Dabtoes = seamen (not specialist ratings), used the Foreward Mess
Dustmen = Engine Room specialist ratings (originally stokers), used the Aft Mess
middle, forenoon = watches
Whalin’ crew = Whaler’s Crew / Whaler = Ship’s boat
pusser = purser
DonnyB: Donnybristle in Fifeshire, not far from Rosyth dockyard
The postshow included some alternate takes (my, we are getting good at this) on songs from the show, plus a couple of ones that didn’t quite make it.
Preshow
| Title | Artists | Album | Year |
| Alan’s Psychedelic Breakfast | Pink Floyd | Atom Heart Mother | 1970 |
| Centerfold | Hayseed Dixie | Let There Be Rockgrass | 2004 |
| Don’t Fear the Reaper | Hayseed Dixie | Hair Down To My Grass | 2014 |
| The Heart Of Rock & Roll | Huey Lewis & The News | Sports | 1983 |
| Hip To Be Square | Huey Lewis & The News | Fore! | 1986 |
The Show
| Let’s Eat (Real Soon) | Hatfield And The North | Hatfield & The North | 1973 |
| Breakfast In America | Supertramp | Breakfast In America | 1979 |
| Breakfast in Mayfair | Fairport Convention | Babbacombe Lee | 1971 |
| Breakfast With Werner von Braun | Stackridge | Mr Mick | 1976 |
| Danielle’s Breakfast | Chris Rea | Dancing With Strangers | 1987 |
| Chicken On A Raft | Cyril Tawney | In Port | 1972 |
| The Unauthorised Breakfast Item | Caravan | The Unauthorised Breakfast Item | 2003 |
| Hart Wie Marmelade | Extrabreit | Flieger, Grüss Mir Die Sonne | 1980 |
| Spoonful | Cream | Wheels of Fire – Live At the Fillmore (CD2) | 1968 |
| Barkbrödslåten | Kebnekajse | Kebnekajse | 1990 |
| Candy | The Manhattan Transfer | The Manhattan Transfer | 1975 |
| Candy | Iggy Pop | Nude & Rude: The Best Of Iggy Pop | 1990 |
| Cartoons & Candy | Bruce Hornsby | Big Swing Face | 2002 |
| Sweet Candy | AC/DC | Rock or Bust | 2014 |
| Pineapple Heart | Béla Fleck and The Flecktones | Little Worlds | 2003 |
| Pineapple Rag – Gladiolus Rag | Marvin Hamlisch | The Sting | 1973 |
| Lemon Pie | Dave Cousins | A Taste of Strawbs CD2 – Changing Places | 1974 |
| Green Onions | Booker T & The MGs | Green Onions | 1962 |
| Chocolate Cake | Crowded House | Woodface | 1991 |
| Cut The Cake | Average White Band | Volume 8 | 1980 |
| Breakfast | Alan Hull | Pipedream | 1973 |
| Breakfast at Igor’s | Spyro Gyra | Road Scholars | 1998 |
| Welcome To Breakfast Television | Godley & Creme | Random Brainwaves 2 | 2003 |
| TV Dinners | ZZ Top | Eliminator | 1983 |
Postshow
| Candy | Nat King Cole | The Very Best of Nat King Cole | 2006 |
| An Hour in the Shower | Chicago | Chicago III | 1971 |
| Pine Apple Rag | Joshua Rifkin | Scott Joplin: Piano Rags | 1994 |
| Spoonful | Cream | Fresh Cream | 1966 |
| Mudslingers Of The Milky Way | Béla Fleck and The Flecktones | Little Worlds | 2003 |
| Lemon Pie | Strawbs | Ghosts | 1975 |