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Thread #118396   Message #2559062
Posted By: Will Fly
06-Feb-09 - 11:01 AM
Thread Name: Earliest music memory
Subject: RE: Earliest music memory
My earliest musical memories were from the "wireless" (no records or TV in our house in those days). We were living in Glasgow and, thinking back, it was all a mixture of stuff from the BBC Scottish Home Service and the BBC Light Programme. So...

Harry Lauder singing "Keep Right On To The end Of The Road"
Kenneth Horne & Richard Murdoch singing "It's Much-Binding-In-The-Marsh" (theme to a comedy half-hour)
Theme music to "Listen With Mother", "Worker's Playtime", "Housewives Choice", "Five To Ten" - and stuff like that.

The first song I heard my mum sing was (to the tune of "There is a happy land"):

There is a happy land, far far away
Where little piggies run, three times a day.
You should see those piggies run, when they see the butcher come.
He cuts slices off their bum, three times a day.