3.0.0 Hospital Radio: Blinded by the Light

Blinded by the light (with a boulder on my shoulder, feelin’ kinda older)
Revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night (I tripped the merry-go-round)
Blinded by the light (with this very unpleasin’ sneezin’ and wheezin’)
Revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night (the calliope crashed to the ground)

Welcome back listeners, that was Blinded by the Light by Manfred Mann’s Earth Band released on their 1976 album The Roaring Silence. It’s actually a cover of a song written and recorded by Bruce Springsteen in 1973.

We’ve received a couple of song requests and we’ll start with this one . . . oh, my word! Do I really have to play this? Apparently I do. Listeners, please forgive me for what you are about to hear.

Ah! We come in peace, shoot to kill, shoot to kill, shoot to kill
We come in peace, shoot to kill Scotty, beam me up!

It’s worse than that, he’s dead, Jim, dead, Jim, dead, Jim
It’s worse than that, he’s dead, Jim, dead, Jim, dead

Well, it’s life, Jim, but not as we know it, not as we know it, not as we know it
It’s life, Jim, but not as we know it, not as we know it, Captain

That was Star Trekkin by The Firm. I’m not sure I would categorise that as music, but unbelievably it spent two weeks at number one in the UK Singles Chart in 1987.

We’ve got a more sensible request next . . . oh, no. You’ve got to be joking! Surely you don’t expect me to play that version?!?

Is this the real life?
Is this just fantasy?
Caught in a landslide
No escape from reality
Open your eyes
Look up to the skies and see
I’m just a poor boy
I need no sympathy
Because I’m easy come, easy go
Little high, little low
Any way the wind blows
Doesn’t really matter to me, to me!!

That was Bohemian Rhapsody by the Muppets which was released in 2009. Less said, the better.

Moving swiftly on and getting back on track, if you’ve had eyesight issues, we hope you’ve been to a specialist and following their advice so that sooner or later, you’ll be shouting out this next song . . .

Suddenly I see (Suddenly I see)
This is what I wanna be
Suddenly I see (Suddenly I see)
Why the hell it means so much to me

That was Suddenly I See by K T Tunstall from her debut studio album, Eye to the Telescope in 2004. It was released as a single the following year.

I’m hoping our caller from earlier can see clearly now as it’s obvious his brain has gone. For all our other listeners, if you haven’t seen a doctor in a long time and got health concerns, register with your local surgery and ask for a health MoT and find out about the obstacles in your way to better health.

I can see clearly now, the rain is gone
I can see all obstacles in my way
Gone are the dark clouds that had me blind

That was I Can See Clearly Now by Jimmy Cliff, released in 1993 for the film Cool Runnings. It is one of many covers of the song written and recorded by Johnny Nash in 1972.

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