philmayfield 6,273 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 5,261 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 6,273 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 2,879 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 6,273 Posted November 6, 2021 Report Share Posted November 6, 2021 Closer to B****burn Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 10,398 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 5,261 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 6,273 Posted November 6, 2021 Report Share Posted November 6, 2021 Maybe even B**** Balled Quote Link to post Share on other sites
benjamin1945 16,280 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 6,759 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 6,759 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 829 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 6,759 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 6,759 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 10,547 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 6,759 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 16,280 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 10,398 Posted November 14, 2021 Report Share Posted November 14, 2021 Thereby hangs a tale! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
benjamin1945 16,280 Posted November 14, 2021 Report Share Posted November 14, 2021 Can't mention Tamworth without thinking of my all time favourite song/singer..........saw em live about 1969 there......think i play this most days.........Polly a good Brummy girl........ 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DJ360 6,759 Posted November 14, 2021 Report Share Posted November 14, 2021 I Still Get That Same Old Feeling was originally an album track by the Foundations and was also done by The Fortunes and a few other bands... But that's not important right now.. Who remembers this classic? 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DJ360 6,759 Posted November 15, 2021 Report Share Posted November 15, 2021 Ben, I love all of those harmony singing bands from the 60s. I guess the fortunes were the best. And of course it is a little known fact that Fortunes singer Glen Dale left the band so that he could concentrate of solo work, like the gig he did at the Deerstalker on Southglade Rd. one Sunday lunchtime. Honest.. I saw him. More Fortunes, here obviously performing in the US on something like American Bandstand or whatever... You can tell by the obligatory loony girl dancers... Ivy League.. Sorry about the creep doing the intro.. David and Jonathan: (Cook and Greenaway) Marmalade: Merseys: ( Bit of Trivia. Mrs Col was at uni with Sandy Kinsley, wife of Billy Kinsley of the Merseybeats/Merseys.) I never tire of this stuff. 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,547 Posted November 15, 2021 Report Share Posted November 15, 2021 I always liked Marmalade's 'Rainbow' but it's probably their least-known recording. Much better than the awful 'Ob La Di' which got to number 1. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DJ360 6,759 Posted November 17, 2021 Report Share Posted November 17, 2021 Change of style now.. The Chairmen of the Board all had some individual pedigree on the US soul scene, but were brought together as a band by Holland/Dozier and Holland, after they left Motown in 1967. From 1969 onwards, the Chairmen of the Board had a string of hits in the UK charts and clubs, of which the following are probably best known. The band seem to be till around, although a couple of original members have left us. And 'Everything's Tuesday'..with a totally bizarre dance routine by Pan's People. Whatever.... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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