BS: I don't remember it being that good !!??

Subject: RE: BS: I don't remember it being that good !!??
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 21 Feb 16 - 08:56 AM

Robin apparently became rich by marrying a girl whose dad was called 'Alf Price. (That was his real name!) He had a fruit & veg barrow in a West London market. Robin expanded his father-in-law's business exponentially, until it comprised a multi-million pound fresh produce export/import concern. People in our neighbourhood used to laugh at Robin and 'Alf Price's daughter, but when he came to visit his parents in a gleaming new RR, they stopped laughing. I'd left home by then for Uni, so I missed out!

(Sorry about thread drift)

Subject: RE: BS: I don't remember it being that good !!??
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 21 Feb 16 - 06:51 AM

"Hahaha Steve!! Seven little girls and they all fancied you!!"

Well, I was rather beautiful when I was seven but it's been downhill all the way ever since my very first armpit hair sprouted :-( I had a record player like that. The only way I could make the needle stay on the record was to Sellotape three old pennies on top of the arm. I wonder whether Robin got rich by inventing plug-in record players!

(All together now, one, two, three)
Keep your mind on your driving
Keep your hands on the wheel
Keep your snoopy eyes on the road ahead
We're having fun sitting in the back seat
Kissing and a'hugging with Steve

:-)

Subject: RE: BS: I don't remember it being that good !!??
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 21 Feb 16 - 04:41 AM

Hahaha Steve!! Seven little girls and they all fancied you!!

The Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny etc etc was another song I liked (later than the fifties I think)

A nice little boy called Robin lived opposite us, and he had one of those wind-up record players where you swung the huge, heavy needle arm across and lowered it down manually. He only had one record, The Yellow Rose Of Texas. We played it over and over. As the wind-up wound down, the song got deeper and deeper and slower and slower. I should have stuck with Robin; I heard he later became a multi-millionaire!

Subject: RE: BS: I don't remember it being that good !!??
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 20 Feb 16 - 06:39 PM

Mrs Steve found Scarlet Ribbons, milked for all it was worth by the wonderful Harry Belafonte, on YouTube this afternoon, and we were both boo-hooing!! I found out that you can buy a 5CD set of Uncle Mac's favourites on Amazon for just over a fiver. My order is in!

"You may talk about your Clementine, And sing of Rosalee,
But the yellow rose of Texas is the only girl for me!"

The lowest point of my whole life came when I was seven, all the girls in my class putting on a little show based on seven little girls, sitting in the back seat, a-huggin' and a-kissin' with Fred. Guess who they picked for Fred! Scarred for life is what I am!

Subject: RE: BS: I don't remember it being that good !!??
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 20 Feb 16 - 01:01 PM

Oh Steve, I'm glad I'm not the only one!

When I was teaching in the eighties,I used to encourage my bottom maths set (a dozen naughty and disinterested 8yr old boys) by promising to play I'm A Pink Toothbrush if anyone got ten out of ten in the mental arithmetic quiz at the end of the lesson. You'd think they were getting a ten pound note, and nearly burst themselves trying to do their sums. If someone was successful, I'd put the tape on, and they sat there enchanted. I doubt if today's youngsters would be so delighted by Max Bygraves, but maybe I'm wrong?

I remember sobbing my heart out at Scarlet Ribbons when I was about six!

Subject: RE: BS: I don't remember it being that good !!??
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 20 Feb 16 - 12:47 PM

Not only do I remember it, I still have an LP with all those songs on it. I played it to my kids over thirty years ago! Scarlet Ribbons, I'm a Pink Toothbrush, Sparky's Magic Piano, Nelly The Elephant...keep 'em coming!

Subject: RE: BS: I don't remember it being that good !!??
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 20 Feb 16 - 12:27 PM

I recently bought a CD of Uncle Mac's Children's Favourites. These were played every Saturday morning in the fifties on our old 'steam' radio, which had to be warmed up before it worked. (it had valves) These songs were loved, and we knew every word. But hearing them now, They have an extra charm somehow. The Runaway Train is just magic; and all Danny Kaye's songs (The Ugly Duckling etc) plus The Three Billy Goats Gruff, How Much Is That Doggy In The Window? and The Laughing Policeman. What touches me now is the sheer innocence and naivety of them. As a child, I didn't realise this, but now I do. Times have changed,and we are more sophisticated, but I have a tear in my eye playing these old tracks.
Does anyone else remember Uncle Mac and Children's Favourites?

Subject: RE: BS: I don't remember it being that good !!??
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 19 Feb 16 - 04:43 PM

Back to " I don't remember it being that good ."

When I was a teenager, I hated Top 40 pop music -- singers whiny, nasal, hoarse, wimpy, you name it.

Now I've heard the same songs done by Fabulous Freddie and the
Doo-Wops (search them on YouTube) and I enjoy the music much more. The music was good fun all the time. It just needed singers with talent.

Subject: RE: BS: I don't remember it being that good !!??
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 19 Feb 16 - 12:23 PM

But knowing where every pop and click was going to come on my favourite records, especially the repeating ones, not to speak of the wow and/or rumble caused by my sloppy belt or a warped disc or a hole not in the middle (I once had an LP of music conducted by Beecham that swayed crazily from side to side as well as up and down) didn't exactly enhance my listening pleasure. I get all the talk of the warm sound of analogue, etc., but was it really that much better than a CD? He ducks...

Subject: RE: BS: I don't remember it being that good !!??
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 19 Feb 16 - 01:11 AM

My daughter called to tell me that a friend of the family was going to be on 'American Idol'
Our friend did two songs that, before, I wasn't to fond of....till she did This one.... And that one!!
She is a national treasure!!

GfS

Subject: RE: BS: I don't remember it being that good !!??
From: Splott Man
Date: 18 Feb 16 - 05:39 AM

I think when we revisit old songs/albums/films etc we're doing so without all the accompanying noise that was around them at the time, so we can appreciate them with uncluttered ears.

Distance (including time) adds enchantment to the view.

Splott Man

Subject: RE: BS: I don't remember it being that good !!??
From: Gurney
Date: 17 Feb 16 - 03:50 PM

Not a performance, but... I finally got around to repairing my turntable. Possibly because I was listening hard, but I do see what the purists are saying when they prefer LPs to CDs.
LPs really do have a fuller, less flat sound. More real.

Very tedious to have to sweep them every time, though, and get up to turn them every 20mins.

Subject: RE: BS: I don't remember it being that good !!??
From: GUEST,Ellen Vannin
Date: 16 Feb 16 - 03:45 PM

Dr. Evadne Hinge and Dame Hilda Bracket. Even better than I remembered.

Subject: RE: BS: I don't remember it being that good !!??
From: GUEST,sandra from nyc
Date: 16 Feb 16 - 01:19 PM

2001 was so graceful -

Johnny Carson is back on my late night tv channel- and I do remember him being that good, but he's even better than I remember. What a class act. Funny, humble, kind to guests, with brilliant timing - there was no one better- he influenced generations not only of comics, but novelists, screenwriters, playwrights-he just set the tone - his comedy was effortless, and probably at his best when a joke ran flat.

Glad to have him 'back' to make me laugh entertain and inform me, and tuck me into sleep, now that Dave, only one that came close jmho, has retired.

Subject: RE: BS: I don't remember it being that good !!??
From: GUEST,HiLo
Date: 15 Feb 16 - 02:46 PM

I never liked Jeff Buckley album " Grace" when I first bought it. but I love it now. Time changes us I guess.

Subject: RE: BS: I don't remember it being that good !!??
From: GUEST,achmelvich
Date: 15 Feb 16 - 02:37 PM

i came across an old cassette of the white album a few days back - i hadn't liked it much when i got the vinyl 40 plus years ago . i was quite pleased, i must have had good taste back then. it's still mostly rubbish

Subject: RE: BS: I don't remember it being that good !!??
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 15 Feb 16 - 01:25 PM

Yes, I saw 2001: A Space Odyssey when it first came out. I watched it on TV recently too, and thought like you G-Force, that it has stood the test of time remarkably well. I think being older (much older!) I got much more from it this time round. The significance of that sinister monolith has always puzzled me however, and still does. The special effects were superb, and I can appreciate the technical achievements a lot more now.
I've also been watching the re-runs of To The Manner Born, and like it much better than I ever used to. Penelope Keith I now realise, was excellent in the role.

Subject: RE: BS: I don't remember it being that good !!??
From: akenaton
Date: 15 Feb 16 - 12:21 PM

When I was a wee boy in the fifties we had weekly concerts in our little school.....everybody came to them and everyone who could sing, play an instrument or recite took their turn to entertain.
I remember that it was magic, tears and laughter, and all who performed did their very best....sometimes the poorest singers got the loudest applause, because they put their heart and soul into it.

I went to a concert lately where some groups were playing in another village and it was dire.....no connection, people talking and making a noise.....The emotion seems to have gone from the music, nobody was asked to join in choruses of the very few songs on the programme, sometimes it all works in reverse.

Subject: RE: BS: I don't remember it being that good !!??
From: G-Force
Date: 15 Feb 16 - 04:38 AM

Recently watched '2001: A Space Odyssey', which I hadn't seen for decades because I didn't think that much of it. This time I thought it was great.

Subject: BS: I don't remember it being that good !!??
From: GUEST
Date: 15 Feb 16 - 01:30 AM

Your thread - whatever you like - pleasant surprises from the past

Me, I just watched a movie from years ago - bloody excellent - I don't remember it being that good !!??