Ruby’s Chicky Boil-Ups: Monkeys

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Love Ain’t Nothing but a Monkey on Your Back – Johnny Nash
I Don’t Want to Live With MOnkeys – The Higsons
Hommes Singes – VVAA
One Monkey Don’t Stop No Show – The Marvels
Monkey Talk – Hubert Porter & George Moxey and his Calypso Quintet
Another Postcard – Barenaked Ladies
Don’t Monkey with Another Monkey’s Monkey – Johnny Paycheck
Monkey Magic – Godiego
King Kong – Jimmy Castor Bunch
The Ape Walk – Monkey Business
La Petit Singe Rouge – Fred Gardoni and his Orchestra
These Little Monkeys – Jonathan Fire Eater
One Monkey Don’t Stop No Show – Joe Tex
Apeman – The Kinks
I Am Gorilla – Jonny Trunk & Duncan Wisbey
Monos – Yma Sumac
The Higher the Monkey Climbs – Justin Hinds & The Dominoes
Can Your Monkey Do The Dog – Rufus Thomas
Le Gorille – Georges Brassens
Welcome to the Monkey House – Animal Magnet
One Monkey Don’t Stop No Show – Sonny Terry

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Ruby’s Chicky Boil-Ups: Shopping

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Shopping-Eek A Mouse
Buying a Book – Joe Tex
How Much is that Doggie in the Window – Annie Jackson, Barbara Jones, Matz Ztefrens, Joe Livoti and Rolf Harris
Lost in the Supermarket – The Clash
Billy Broke my Heart at Walgreens (I cried all the Way to Sears) – Ruby Wright
Ayres the Bakers – Boycott Coca Cola Experience
Warrior in Woolworths – X-Ray Spex
Duo – Carlos D’Allessio
Fairytale in the Supermarket – The Raincoats
Can’t Buy Me Love – The Beatles
Shopping Mall – R. Crumb and his Cheap Suit Serenaders
Bargain Store – Dolly Parton
The Lonely Little Thrift Store – Jonathan Richman
Window Shopping – The Beach Bullies
La Petite Boutique – Edith Piaf
Luxury Mood – Superthriller
La Fille de Checkout – Men in Grey Suits
Ballad of a Teenage Queen – Johnny Cash
Manager in Love – Kissogram
Drugstore Woman – John Lee Hooker

Ruby’s Chicky Boil-Ups: Miniscule

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Amoeba – John Hegley & The Popticians
The Protons and the Neutrons – Darren Hayman
Petit Bambino – Dalida
Reet Petite – Jackie Wilson
Little by Little – Rita Pavone
Little by Little – Dusty Springfield
Tiptoe Through the Tulips – Tiny Tim
Me and My Chauffer Blues – Memphis Minnie
Oompa Loompa – Cast of the Original Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Devil in a Blue Dress – Shorty Long
Mini Mini – Jacques Dutronc
Little Wing – Mr McFalls Chamber
Your Love is the Smallest Doll – Agent Ribbons
Piccolo Rag – Blind Boy Fuller
Shetland Molecule – John McCusker
Little Man (Piccolo Rigazzo) – Milva
Get Down Tonight – Stereo Total
Wee Wee Hours – Chuck Berry
Zoldablakos kicsi haz: Jaj, de nagy regen vold – Kalandos Ensemble, Karel Boeschoten
Petit Fleur – De Arabier Street Organ

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30 October – 1 November: Infidelity
Cheating, cheaters and the cheated. James Braly with a story about temptation, Dani Shapiro on being the mistress, and Ruby Wright with an unusually candid story from three perspectives.

Ruby’s Chicky Boil-Ups: Ghosts

Botton Brothers’ Ghost Train, photographed by Jack Leeson, 14 June 1965
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Dead – The Poets
My Wife and My Dead Wife – Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians
El Contrabajo Fantasma – Generoso Jiminez
Haunted – Dusty Springfield
Ghost Riders in the Sky – Roy Rogers and the Sons of the Pioneers
Ghosts – Ladytron
The Lover’s Ghost – US Navy Sea Chanters
24 Hour Store – The Handsome Family
Laurie – Dickey Lee
Of Lillies and Remains – Bauhaus
Long Black Veil – Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard
There’s a Ghost in My House – R Dean Taylor
The Spook – Emil & The Ecstatics
Ghostfaced Killer – The Dead 60s
Haunting Me – The Tiger Lillies
Ghost Dance – Prince Buster
The Haunted Ocean 2 – Max Richter
Wuthering Heights – The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain
Bach’s Cello Sonata in G Minor – Tom Koopman

Ruby’s Chicky Boil-Ups: Time Passing

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What Time is Love – Williams Fairey Brass Band and Jeremy Deller
I Remember Yesterday – Donna Summer
I Saw Daddy Today – Yann Tiersen
It’s a Lovely Day Tomorrow – Jack Payne and his Orchestra
A Week From Tuesday – The Pastel Six
Summer is Over – Dusty Springfield
Teenage Winter – St Etienne
When the Springtime Comes Again – The Carter Family
No Time for Sorrows – Fabienne Delsol
Toot Toot – The Prints of Whales
The Fairest of the Seasons – Nico
Only Time Will Tell – Etta James
Time – The Rumble Strips
When I Go – Slow Club
Who Knows where the Time Goes – Fairport Convention
Last Orders – Richard Hawley

Ruby’s Chicky Boil-Ups: The love that dare not speak its name

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I Think We’re Alone Now – Lene Lovich
Green Door – The Cramps
I Was Dancing in the Lesbian Bar – Jonathan Richman
Prove It on Me – Ma Rainey
Young Guns – Wham
Theme for Alan Mathison Turing – White Town
Girls and Boys – Blur
Lola – The Kinks
Michael – Franz Ferdinand
Mad About the Boy – Dinah Washington
Jailhouse Rock – Elvis
This Charming Man – The Smiths
It’s My Party – Bryan Ferry
Gloria – Patti Smith
Judy and the Dream of Horses – Belle and Sebastien
A Postcard to nina – Jens Lekman
Homosapien – Pete Shelley

Ruby’s Chicky Boil-Ups: Watery Deaths

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I Will Never Marry – The Carter Family
Underwater Moonlight – The Soft Boys
Drowned Lovers – Kate Rusby
Underwater Love – Smoke City
Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? – Jimmy Smith
Aegean Waters – Tommy Sanderson Day and Hunter
Ma Laska Je Ze Velkou Louzi – Waldemar Matuska
Watery Grave – Heavenly Gospel Singers
Sie hiess Mary Ann – Ralf Bendix
Drowning In The Sea Of Love – Joe Simon
My Darling Clementine – Sadie Mae Carousel Band Organ
Where the Wild Roses Grow – Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and Kylie Minogue
Pouring Water on a Drowning Man – Elvis Costello
Wedding Tango – Michael Nyman
Ode to Billie Joe – Bobbie Gentry
Not Raving but Drowning – Julian Cope
Song to the Siren – Tim Buckley
House Carpenter – The Mammals

Ruby’s Chicky Boil-Ups: 1-20

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Just One Look – Doris Troy
Les Deux Guitares – Charles Aznavour
The Magic Number – De La Soul
Green Grow My Nadgers Oh! – Kenneth Williams
5 Years Time – Noah And The Whale
Six Feet Under – Bob Fryfogle
Magnificent Seven – The Clash
Eight Ball – The Hustlers
Naughty Number Nine – Grady Tate
One Two Three Four Five Six Seven Eight Nine Ten Barbie Dolls – Pizzicato Five
11:59 – Blondie
12 Red Roses – Betty Harris
No. 13 Baby – The Pixies
Fourteen Carat Mind – Half And Half
Fifteen Minutes – Kirsty MacColl
Lonely Sixteen – Janie Black
Seventeen ‘05 – Ladytron
Jailbait – Andre Williams
Nineteen in Naples – Jonathan Richman
Top Twenty – The Delicates