benjamin1945 15,034 Posted October 31, 2021 Report Share Posted October 31, 2021 Part of the pleasure in spending your later years near where you grew up....is bumping into friends from 60 years and more ago.......\i constantly do this in Bulwell.....old school pals from the 50s and football mates from the 60s and 70s........ The only downside to this is when in conversation names of those 'no longer with us always crop us......making me sad........ Even the odd times i drive past or thru Old Bestwood i cant dwell on my memories ...this makes me really down.....some roads i new nearly everyone and they are all gone..... In the last few weeks ive had coffee and a chat with several old friends....and its been a delight to reminise (sp) with them....remembering days of laughter....football....Youth club dancing.......schooldays.......to say nowt of trips to Skeggy...Locarno and the Palais.......eeh here i go again.......l\ol 8 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
benjamin1945 15,034 Posted October 31, 2021 Report Share Posted October 31, 2021 On the same subject............like the corners of my mind'' It was all so simple then'''' so painful to remember''' Quote Link to post Share on other sites
philmayfield 5,046 Posted October 31, 2021 Report Share Posted October 31, 2021 I still meet up on a Monday night with a couple of flying club friends I first knew in the 70's and I'm still in touch with three friends from Mellish but they're too far away to regularly visit - Ayrshire, the Wirral and Hampshire. I seem to be the only one who's remained in Notts. Sixty years in this village and I'm still not the oldest inhabitant! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DJ360 6,183 Posted November 1, 2021 Report Share Posted November 1, 2021 15 hours ago, benjamin1945 said: Part of the pleasure in spending your later years near where you grew up....is bumping into friends That's what I miss Ben. It didn't bother me so much when I was younger.... but as we age.. we seem to need to return to our roots, and the friendships that gave them meaning. I haven't been to Nottm since Covid started...close on two years ago. Today, around lunchtime, I almost decided to set off down to Nottm to see my brother and his wife, have an evening losing money at the Gala Bingo, and come back the next morning. The only thing which stopped me was that there woould be no cars on the drive..and almost all neighbours are away too. Maybe next weekend. Eitherway.. on the subject of lost friends/youth: "Bob Dylan's Dream" While riding on a train goin' west I fell asleep for to take my rest I dreamed a dream that made me sad Concerning myself and the first few friends I had With half-damp eyes I stared to the room Where my friends and I spent many an afternoon Where we together weathered many a storm Laughin' and singin' till the early hours of the morn By the old wooden stove where our hats was hung Our words were told, our songs were sung Where we longed for nothin' and were quite satisfied Talkin' and a-jokin' about the world outside With haunted hearts through the heat and cold We never thought we could ever get very old We thought we could sit forever in fun But our chances really was a million to one As easy it was to tell black from white It was all that easy to tell wrong from right And our choices they were few and the thought never hit That the one road we traveled would ever shatter and split How many a year has passed and gone And many a gamble has been lost and won And many a road taken by many a first friend And each one I've never seen again I wish, I wish, I wish in vain That we could sit simply in that room again Ten thousand dollars at the drop of a hat I'd give it all gladly if our lives could be like that. 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
benjamin1945 15,034 Posted November 6, 2021 Report Share Posted November 6, 2021 Marmalade 1960s Robertsons golden shred 1/6 Robertsons Silver Shred 1/6 But my favourite was Roses Lime 1/11 Only at Marsdens Quality stores...... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
philmayfield 5,046 Posted November 6, 2021 Report Share Posted November 6, 2021 Couldn’t put the golly on the jar now though. How times have changed! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beekay 3,772 Posted November 6, 2021 Report Share Posted November 6, 2021 When I worked at school, you could get paint for..... A greenboard A whiteboard Or a chalkboard ( not allowed to say B....board). Quote Link to post Share on other sites
philmayfield 5,046 Posted November 6, 2021 Report Share Posted November 6, 2021 What do they call that seaside place in Lancashire with the annual illuminations now? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
denshaw 2,777 Posted November 6, 2021 Report Share Posted November 6, 2021 Is it near that place called non binary chester? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
philmayfield 5,046 Posted November 6, 2021 Report Share Posted November 6, 2021 Closer to B****burn Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 9,310 Posted November 6, 2021 Report Share Posted November 6, 2021 Apparently, @denshaw there are 76 different genders! The mind boggleth! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beekay 3,772 Posted November 6, 2021 Report Share Posted November 6, 2021 Will we get B....listed for these remarks? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
philmayfield 5,046 Posted November 6, 2021 Report Share Posted November 6, 2021 Maybe even B**** Balled Quote Link to post Share on other sites
benjamin1945 15,034 Posted November 8, 2021 Report Share Posted November 8, 2021 The one and only Rod.......unique voice....great dresser....and mover..... Mind you he'll have somebodys ''Eye out'' with that 'Mic-stand'' 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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DJ360 6,183 Posted November 11, 2021 Report Share Posted November 11, 2021 I've just spent a good bit of my evening 'digitising' a Lovin' Spoonful LP so that I can make a CD of it for Mrs Col's new(er) car..which doesn't have a tape player. She loves her tapes.... Anyway, I had almost forgotten a couple of the old Lovin' Spoonful hits..so here goes. Different age... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DJ360 6,183 Posted November 12, 2021 Report Share Posted November 12, 2021 Another band came into my thoughts today. The Troggs. We always saw them as a bit of a joke. While Lovin' Spoonful were super cool and more than a bit fond of 'certain substances'.. the Troggs were more about getting legless and having very sweary recording sessions. But.. looking back they were innovators and old Reg Presley wrote some great songs, most notably of course, 'Love Is All Around', which was in the charts for about ten years when Wet Wet Wet covered it. 'With A Girl Like You' ..with a few laydees for our Ben... 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
IAN FINN 488 Posted November 12, 2021 Report Share Posted November 12, 2021 DJWhat are your views on Manfred Mann liked that group in the 60s i saw them somewhere in Nottm. may be the dungeon. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DJ360 6,183 Posted November 12, 2021 Report Share Posted November 12, 2021 I liked most of their stuff. Paul Jones was an excellent singer. Of course I wasn't aware at the time that many of their songs were covers of US hits. ( Doo Wah Diddy -The Exciters, Oh No Not My Baby-Maxine Brown, Come Tomorrow-Marie Knight..etc) It became rather more obvious when they covered a string of Dylan songs which had been hits here...and it all got a bit tedious. Still.. they deserve credit, like many other UK bands for 'breaking' R&B/Soul etc.. over here, to audiences stultified by low grade UK 'pop'. When Mike D'Abo replaced Paul Jones.. I liked him too. and D'Abo wrote Handbags and Gladrags.. possibly one of the best songs of the 60s. Judge for yourself.. I like the origiinals and the covers, but since I learned about the originals, which would almost certainly have never got played on BBC Radio.. , or even Luxembourg, I always try to pay respect to those pioneering and mostly black Americans. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DJ360 6,183 Posted November 12, 2021 Report Share Posted November 12, 2021 Just to complete this session... Mike D'abo wrote this and this is his version. The first released version was this..by Chris Farlowe: Next up was our Rod. And then the Stereophonics. It's a fascinating progression for a song. And I think that it is such an inherently listenable and beautiful song, many people end up missing the point of it. My personal fave is the Rod version.. but they are all stunning. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Will2017 34 Posted November 12, 2021 Report Share Posted November 12, 2021 3 hours ago, DJ360 said: Just to complete this session... Mike D'abo wrote this and this is his version. The first released version was this..by Chris Farlowe: Next up was our Rod. And then the Stereophonics. It's a fascinating progression for a song. And I think that it is such an inherently listenable and beautiful song, many people end up missing the point of it. My personal fave is the Rod version.. but they are all stunning. Paul Jones using the pseudonym Sheila McLeod wrote "I Want To know" that was recorded by Ten Years After. Regards,Will2017 ' 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 9,583 Posted November 12, 2021 Report Share Posted November 12, 2021 The first record (45 rpm single) I ever bought was Lovin' Spoonful's Summer in the City. Second-hand from the record stall in the old Central Market. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DJ360 6,183 Posted November 12, 2021 Report Share Posted November 12, 2021 Another nice bit of trivia Will. Thank you. Kev, I didn't include Summer in the City because it's possibly one of their best remembered songs now. It always reminds me of the Penguin Cafe in Boowul Market. Maybe they had it on the juke box. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
benjamin1945 15,034 Posted November 14, 2021 Report Share Posted November 14, 2021 Nice song......forgot about the ''Fortunes ''..........must get a double breasted jacket......1964 last one i had....went stiff when i spilt Whisky on it........in a bath in Tamworth........ 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 9,310 Posted November 14, 2021 Report Share Posted November 14, 2021 Thereby hangs a tale! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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