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Thread #12570   Message #100400
Posted By: Roger the zimmer
29-Jul-99 - 04:11 AM
Thread Name: Lyr/Tune Req: Laughing Policeman
Subject: RE: Laughing Policeman
I agree with Steve (well, someone has to!), I hated a lot of it, wasn't MY childhood favourites, I wanted Louis Armstrong and Sidney Bechet, but the repetition got us learning stuff: introduced us to Burl Ives and Elton Hayes and from there to other things, especially when "Skiffle Club" was the next programme: Lonnie Donegan, Nancy Whisky, Miki & Griff, Wally Whyton and the Vipers, Ken Colyer, Beryl Bryden.....[Nurse, the screens, he's off again, it's the thread creeps, bring the syringe]