The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #8896   Message #451733
Posted By: Peter K (Fionn)
29-Apr-01 - 06:37 PM
Thread Name: Lonnie Donegan
Subject: RE: Lonnie Donegan
Thanks Fiolar. Grantham's just a few miles down the A1 (or A52) so I'll definitely catch that one - along with my nine-year-old daughter, who will be able to tell me whether he's cool or not. (I think she'll give him the thumb's up, though she' heavily into Elvis at the moment.)

Mary/giac, I was brought up by parents who were heavily into classical, and believed that "pop" led only to the depravity of the Teddy Boys. My first awareness of wht I had been missing was when a couple of kids jived to "Putting on the style" at our primary-school concert. I was addicted at first hearing, and on to a slippery slope that ended in tuning a crackling valve radio to 308 (Luxembourg) under the bedclothes in the small hours. God knows how many times I had to listen through Doris Day, Perry Como and ads for Sunsilk shampoo just to catch the occasional LD track.