Guest Posted October 23, 2016 Report Share Posted October 23, 2016 Cheers Lizzie! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,479 Posted October 23, 2016 Report Share Posted October 23, 2016 I think it was Ken Dodd and the Diddymen. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted October 23, 2016 Report Share Posted October 23, 2016 It's the "Dirty bit" that is confusing me Cliff...seem to recall it was a catchphrase on the wireless.. not spoken in a song? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 10,310 Posted October 23, 2016 Report Share Posted October 23, 2016 That's what I remember too, Ian. Don't remember a song at all and it certainly wasn't Freddie Parrot Face Davies. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted October 23, 2016 Report Share Posted October 23, 2016 It would have been on a Sunday afternoon Jill,we had a roast..followed by huge wash-up and the wireless was on/ the station would be switched to Fluff Freeman around teatime..where a huge salad ( half the contents of BPS) would be eaten to songs like 3 Little Fishes by Frankie Howerd! Clitheroe shows went on until 1972 I think? Could be wrong Jill- i was allowed a sip of Hirondelle! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
catfan 14,793 Posted October 23, 2016 Report Share Posted October 23, 2016 Don't forget the top 20 on the wireless at 7pm ! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 10,310 Posted October 23, 2016 Report Share Posted October 23, 2016 #30 Sounds about right, Ian. Remember Two Way Family Favourites while mum was getting Sunday lunch ready or while my sister and I were at great aunt Lily's house on Reydon Drive being piled up with rhubarb...yet again! Alan Freeman used to drive my father up the wall. He couldn't abide the sound of Freeman's voice. When he started advertising OMO on tv...and also Brentford Nylons, dad would get up and switch him off! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted October 23, 2016 Report Share Posted October 23, 2016 Had to smile!! Brentford Nylons..static personified! We still get besieged with fruit Jill...bags of cooking apples- i sneak them to a Community Centre and an OAP home two villages away. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 10,310 Posted October 23, 2016 Report Share Posted October 23, 2016 Can't look a stick of rhubarb in the face to this day. It was all that grew in great aunt Lily's garden. It meant rhubarb pie, crumble, turnovers...for days on end! Sis ate it raw, dipped in sugar. Another friend liked eating raw potatoes! Her mum gave one to me once as if it was a rare treat. I thought she was potty. Like mine mashed with butter and cheese or roasted...anything but raw! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FLY2 10,109 Posted October 23, 2016 Report Share Posted October 23, 2016 Where's my shirt was definitely Freddie 'parrot face ' Davis, but never a mention of it being dirty as far as I can recall. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,479 Posted October 23, 2016 Report Share Posted October 23, 2016 1 hour ago, iandawson said: It's the "Dirty bit" that is confusing me Cliff...seem to recall it was a catchphrase on the wireless.. not spoken in a song? I remember hearing him use the phrase in the radio show in the early 60s; I think the song with the Diddymen came quite a bit later. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted October 23, 2016 Report Share Posted October 23, 2016 Dirty Shirt Gate..has begun!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FLY2 10,109 Posted October 23, 2016 Report Share Posted October 23, 2016 Ian, I recall that most groups in the 60's used the Commer van, as it was wider than the Bedford Dormabiles I believe. However, I used a Thames when I did a bit of driving / roadying for my mates in the late 60's. Anyway, where did you purchase your anoraks from ? Milletts or Wakefields ? Mine was Milletts. LOL Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted October 23, 2016 Report Share Posted October 23, 2016 The side doors on a Thames..great idea....I think Catfan said they were dreadful? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Merthyr Imp 729 Posted October 23, 2016 Report Share Posted October 23, 2016 The following is a quote from this website: http://andywalmsley.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/lost-comedy-gems.html 'It’s Great to Be Young was Ken Dodd’s first starring programme and ran between October 1958 and January 1961. It’s the one that gave rise to Doddy’s catchphrase “Where’s me shirt?” and co-starred impressionist Peter Goodwright. ' This website : http://www.catchphrases.info/kendodd.php lists 'Where's me shirt? I'm a shirt short....' as by Ken Dodd. As with Cliff Ton, I remember 'The Ken Dodd Show' on the Light Programme in the mid-1960s, and I would have said he used the catch phrase in that, with the song coming later. Also appearing regularly in that show were John Laurie (pre-'Dad's Army') and Judith Chalmers. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
LizzieM 9,514 Posted October 23, 2016 Report Share Posted October 23, 2016 Ok, it wasn't Parrot Face then! He did used to have some daft catch phrases though. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
denshaw 2,874 Posted October 23, 2016 Report Share Posted October 23, 2016 Freddie parrot face said he was sick sick sick, he made a record called sentimental songs. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,479 Posted October 23, 2016 Report Share Posted October 23, 2016 I always found Freddy Davies irritating rather than funny, and I unfortunately remember this as well. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FLY2 10,109 Posted October 23, 2016 Report Share Posted October 23, 2016 Oh, I'm wrong. My memory is on the decline. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 10,310 Posted October 23, 2016 Report Share Posted October 23, 2016 #43 Freddie Davies, I thought, was better as a serious actor. I saw him in one or two tv appearances when he was older. I didn't find him funny as a comedian, nor Mike and Bernie Winters either. I have a strange sense of humour and the obvious doesn't appeal to me. I can roar with laughter at the likes of Mike Harding and Ronnie Barker but most so called comedians leave me cold. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FLY2 10,109 Posted October 23, 2016 Report Share Posted October 23, 2016 M & B Winters were an utter joke. The bleddy dog, Snorbitz was funniest...... Just. Most current 'comedians' leave me cold. They just aren't remotely clever. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 10,310 Posted October 23, 2016 Report Share Posted October 23, 2016 #46 Too right, FLY. There has to be some intelligence behind the humour. A wordsmith like Barker, for instance, had more talent in his little finger than most so called comedians but it was never obvious. Also loved Dave Allen who could make me laugh before he even spoke. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FLY2 10,109 Posted October 23, 2016 Report Share Posted October 23, 2016 Loved Barker, but not Allen, his whole persona grated on me . I thought he was creepy. Each to their own though. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Merthyr Imp 729 Posted October 23, 2016 Report Share Posted October 23, 2016 I used to think Mike & Bernie Winters were really funny - when I was 8 years old. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted October 23, 2016 Report Share Posted October 23, 2016 Eric Chappell had me laughing.. his writing was excellent.. Squirrels was very funny! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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