What are you listening to now ??

[IAN FINN 571]

Was it the Spanish Flea ben?

[philmayfield 5,364]

More like Spanish Fly!

[radfordred 6,278]

Masterpiece 

 

 

[Oztalgian 2,859]

On 9/22/2022 at 12:21 AM, David sheridan said:

 

On 9/22/2022 at 12:21 AM, David sheridan said:

@benjamin1945 always sitting in the park waiting for a lass to pass !

 

 

[benjamin1945 15,496]

The one and only Rod....great voice great clothes..magic mover.......''Some guys have

all the luck''

 

Now same as myself 77.......and still doing the business.......

[philmayfield 5,364]

What Rod or you?

[Cliff Ton 9,955]

1 hour ago, benjamin1945 said:

Now same as myself 77.......and still doing the business.......

 

How often do you walk through Bulwell and people come up and ask 'Are you Rod Stewart ?'

[philmayfield 5,364]

....and is the policewoman he’s handcuffed to Penny Lancaster?

[benjamin1945 15,496]

I like to think both @phil....

Not often Cliff Ton......i like to go incognito...

although believe it or not...a lady stepped in front of me this morning in Bulwell market asking for a dance of  course i obliged........as it was a cousin i'd not seen for quite a time...

[radfordred 6,278]

Banger 

 

 

[Dark Angel 112]

   

 

 

[radfordred 6,278]

Kate Bass Bush

 

 

[benjamin1945 15,496]

One for @carnie.....thought Billy might cheer you up.......if you still not well gel..........

[carni 10,046]

You always know how to make a Gel smile benj.

[Cliff Ton 9,955]

First post for a while carni....nice to have you back 

[carni 10,046]

Soz for not posting lately. It has been a long couple of years but I have been watching silently in the wings............Just making sure you all behave.  Hubbs birthday is on the 13th Oct and i'm not sure what we will be doing so we will have to linger  longer deciding about the coming meetup, as usual it will be a late decision.

[IAN FINN 571]

Glad you are keeping your beady eyes on us all hope alls well take care.

[mary1947 1,880]

5 hours ago, carni said:

Soz for not posting lately. It has been a long couple of years but I have been watching silently in the wings............Just making sure you all behave.  Hubbs birthday is on the 13th Oct and i'm not sure what we will be doing so we will have to linger  longer deciding about the coming meetup, as usual it will be a late decision.

I do hope we will see you at the meetup carni but if you don't make it look after your selves and him indoors.

[MargieH 7,394]

Carni, I really hope we‘ll see you both at the meet up but will

understand if you can’t come.x

[Willow wilson 856]

 

58 years ago. Packed a change of clothes, "transistor" and some money, week at Butlins with 3 mates.

 

 

I had my 1st car, pal had a Ford 5cwt van. We went everywhere man. We camped in the van on Liverpool seafront and went to the old cavern next day but dint go in. Skint. 

 

A black 1946 knackered english car ain't really that cool. 

Then in a few short years we got a bit older and all settled down, waiting for the Internet and Nottstalgia to come along.

[Willow wilson 856]

Elizabethan Serenade was mentioned in a  thread somewhere recently. That piece along with others were part of the soundtrack of my childhood, thanks to the 'always-on' radio at home.

The following was another memory, a perfect example of a 'sound picture' which captured my imagination. 

Others were-

Sleepy Lagoon,

Knightsbridge March,

Roses from the South.

All accompanied by their own various vivid 'picture show' in my mind. Marvelous things radios.

And this one, workdays in the mornings. Calling all workers.

 

[Beekay 4,275]

W.W., another one to add to your collection list is.....'Westminster March'.

[Oztalgian 2,859]

9 hours ago, Willow wilson said:

That piece along with others were part of the soundtrack of my childhood, thanks to the 'always-on' radio at home.

Willow, they, along with many others, can be accessed via this link on YT. Dip yer bread in

I remember the name Ronald Binge, no disrespect to his family but it sounds like someone from The Goon Show, he wrote many classic light entertainment pieces including Elizabethan Serenade and Sailing By (the Shipping Forecast)

Hucknall's own Eric Coates was famous for By The Sleepy Lagoon and The Dambusters March among many others.

Not forgetting the late Chulla's favourite The Devil's Gallop by Charles Williams.

 

[Cliff Ton 9,955]

All of the tracks mentioned in the last few posts are available on this CD.

 

http://shorturl.at/mrW06

 

And crucially, they are the original recordings, not recent re-recordings with different musicians - which is what you often get on many other CDs.

[Oztalgian 2,859]

Listening to the Coronation Scot reminded me of the poem The Night Mail by W H Auden. Very much to the rhythm of a train.

 

This is the night mail crossing the Border,
Bringing the cheque and the postal order,

Letters for the rich, letters for the poor,
The shop at the corner, the girl next door.

Pulling up Beattock, a steady climb:
The gradient's against her, but she's on time.

Past cotton-grass and moorland boulder
Shovelling white steam over her shoulder,

Snorting noisily as she passes
Silent miles of wind-bent grasses.

Birds turn their heads as she approaches,
Stare from bushes at her blank-faced coaches.

Sheep-dogs cannot turn her course;
They slumber on with paws across.

In the farm she passes no one wakes,
But a jug in a bedroom gently shakes.


Dawn freshens, Her climb is done.
Down towards Glasgow she descends,
Towards the steam tugs yelping down a glade of cranes
Towards the fields of apparatus, the furnaces
Set on the dark plain like gigantic chessmen.
All Scotland waits for her:
In dark glens, beside pale-green lochs
Men long for news.


Letters of thanks, letters from banks,
Letters of joy from girl and boy,
Receipted bills and invitations
To inspect new stock or to visit relations,
And applications for situations,
And timid lovers' declarations,
And gossip, gossip from all the nations,
News circumstantial, news financial,
Letters with holiday snaps to enlarge in,
Letters with faces scrawled on the margin,
Letters from uncles, cousins, and aunts,
Letters to Scotland from the South of France,
Letters of condolence to Highlands and Lowlands
Written on paper of every hue,
The pink, the violet, the white and the blue,
The chatty, the catty, the boring, the adoring,
The cold and official and the heart's outpouring,
Clever, stupid, short and long,
The typed and the printed and the spelt all wrong.

Thousands are still asleep,
Dreaming of terrifying monsters
Or of friendly tea beside the band in Cranston's or Crawford's:

Asleep in working Glasgow, asleep in well-set Edinburgh,
Asleep in granite Aberdeen,
They continue their dreams,
But shall wake soon and hope for letters,
And none will hear the postman's knock
Without a quickening of the heart,
For who can bear to feel himself forgotten?