Charlie

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  1. 'favourite Motown tracks of the day'

    in Keep the Faith - Soul and Motown

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    Chill boys! I tend to dig out cd's that I havent heard in a while, and chnage my mind about my current favourite........nowt wrong with that!

    So today its Cryin in the night by The Monitors, and im not just digging up obscure no one has heard this before tracks, but, if you havent, have a listen, its PURE Motown!

    Back with the old beef Beefy hey? Tell you what, take it up with Craig - it's his post.

    As it happens I have loads and loads of motown CDs and 45s and, Like Craig, as I dig em out a new favourite emerges.

  2. The Bench & bar

    in 70's Nottingham

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    hi charlie,, the chap was Andy Clifford who was a rower at the Brit like me and Stu Morris.. last time I saw him he had a pub in Awsworth near Giltbrook,going back about four years. Cheers..had a word with STu about Scampi's photo's. he's going to dig them up... cheers Jan

    I thought it was Andy Clifford! Brill! Don't suppose anyone knows any pubs in Awsworth? Do we know if he stayed with his Missis?

  11. Soul without motown

    in Keep the Faith - Soul and Motown

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    I didnt realise it but I had it on a vinyl compilation that Kev Roberts gave me back in 1980 when he was a regular guest on my show on Trent, and more recently was reminded how good it was when I was looking at a You tube vid of a comp northern soul in Alfreton, and then found I had it on cd as well.

    Aha - but which CD? and did you take a look at the website?

  13. Soul without motown

    in Keep the Faith - Soul and Motown

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    Okay..........................6345-789 and Funky Broadway and one of the best Atlantic tracks ever - Otis and Carla - Lovey Dovey - which is on King and Queen......Sam and Dave - Said I wasn't gonna tell nobody and then back to the Hippo and the amazing records that I used to hear there - Love is after me - Charlie Rich and sixty minutes of your love - Homer banks !englandflag!

  18. Your first school

    in Owt' Abaaht Nowt !

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    I think the milk and orange juice were in third pints weren't they? That orange was available from your milkman(full of iron they said) and was the only time I ever used a farthing (Which was demonetarized in 1956...in other words you couldn't spend them)

    Now a farthing was a quarter of an old penny,and there were 240 pennies to the pound...So,for a modern pound you could buy 960 bottles of orange juice...Not bad for a quid eh? :biggrin:

    I know on frosty winter days when the free milk was left outside the classrooms it sometimes froze some bottles...we used to fight over those...Instant icy slush drink...magic!

    Then there was the compulsory spoonful of cod liver oil...yuk...The spoonful of malt used to be nice though.They worried about our health in those days with the shortages just after the war..Not many fat kids in our school then.

    Paul.

    PS...I got stuck with the triangle too...

    Funnily enough I heard Eamon Holmes talking about LSD (no - not that LSD) on the radio - he was trying to work out what an old-time paper round would be in 'proper' money! He thought there were 12 shillings to the pound, so it was interesting to hear him trying to work it out.

    Bet some of the folks on here had paper rounds - I wanted one but being Tom-Thumb-sized they wouldn't take me on, so I had to look at the boys in the shop and dream.................. I used to be there to buy my beloved copies of the Beezer and the New Hotspur.

  23. Your first school

    in Owt' Abaaht Nowt !

    Posted

    Also, I didn't wear specs then - so I couldn't learn to read becasue I couldn't see the words - everyone thought I was stupid till someone asked me about it. So, they tested my eyes and got me some glasses - turned out I was still stupid - but luckily - too young to care. :smile:

  25. Your first school

    in Owt' Abaaht Nowt !

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    I do remember the sleep - on little camp beds - and the tiny toilets - and the (half?) pint of milk or orange juice - the milk was always warm and yukky so I went for the orange juice! Because of my total lack of musical talent I got to play the triangle in the school band!