Help: Shirley Abicaire

Subject: RE: Help: Shirley Abicaire
From: Michael in Swansea
Date: 28 Nov 00 - 08:41 AM

I've got a 45 of the Singing Sheep doing "Baa Baa Black Sheep"

Subject: RE: Help: Shirley Abicaire
From: Patrish(inactive)
Date: 28 Nov 00 - 09:33 AM

My mum and dad used to have the 78 of "I taught I taw a putty tat" and "The laughing policeman"
I have a copy of "hello Children everywhere" which has tons of the old Uncle Mac favourites
Patrish

Subject: RE: Help: Shirley Abicaire
From: GUEST,Nev
Date: 24 Jul 04 - 03:04 PM

Have you actually made progress? Where IS Shirley Abicaire? I have a tape ofhumorous songs of the time---my grandchildren love them.Good to see a link to the best,SIR Norman Wisdom. Ah well,back to today!

Subject: RE: Help: Shirley Abicaire
From: Amos
Date: 24 Jul 04 - 04:47 PM

See Home Page here, or this Google report

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Subject: RE: Help: Shirley Abicaire
From: Little Robyn
Date: 24 Jul 04 - 05:29 PM

If anyone is still interested, Sparky was spoken by a kid named Henry Blair, at least, on the magic piano record, and the whole thing was written and produced by Alan Livingston. The original music and arrangements were by Billy May, who, with Livingston, also did Rusty in Orchestraville and Bozo at the circus. The talking piano was by Sonovox but the playing was done by Ray Turner.
The story was copyright 1947, I bought the record around 1960, but it was redone as a video cartoon and my daughter was given a copy about 15 years ago. The line-up is quite different - Josh Rodine is Sparky, Tony Curtis is his father and the others are Mel Blanc, Coral Browne, Cloris Leachman, Nancy Olson and Vincent Price. William Schallert is the narrator and pianist Leonard Pennario plays on this one.
Nobody really needed to know that, did they?
Robyn

Subject: RE: Help: Shirley Abicaire
From: GUEST,Billy
Date: 24 Jul 04 - 07:20 PM

Doctor John - The Laughing policeman is on a compilation CD called "Radio Fun" CDHD208 by Happy Days. It says you can get it
here

Subject: RE: Help: Shirley Abicaire
From: Margret RoadKnight
Date: 25 Jul 04 - 12:26 AM

She was sometimes billed as "the girl with the come zither look".

Pity there's still no info on her life after the early '60s (those Us hints are tantalizing) and that her name wasn't spelled correctly!

Subject: RE: Help: Shirley Abicaire
From: GUEST,Dilwyn Price
Date: 29 Sep 08 - 10:43 AM

Listening to BBC radio 2 today 29/9/08 it was mentioned about first popstar crushes, mine was Shirley, as I was born in 1951 I must have been very young at the time, but I often wondered what happened to her, apparently she spends time in London according to Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley_Abicair

Subject: RE: Help: Shirley Abicaire
From: GUEST
Date: 29 Sep 08 - 10:49 AM

PS she's also on the electoral roll from 2002-2007 on 192.com, search for Shirley Abicair - London

Subject: RE: Help: Shirley Abicaire
From: GUEST
Date: 29 Sep 08 - 11:05 AM

I remember that movie with Shirley Abicair - she played the part of a teacher and was taking her class somewhere by train. That's all I can remember but she sang the folksong 'Bound for South Australia,' to her class; a curious choice of song for such a nice suburban girl.

Subject: RE: Help: Shirley Abicaire
From: GUEST,Suffolk Miracle
Date: 30 Sep 08 - 08:34 AM

The programme in which she was best known in UK was The Five O'clock Club (in those days children's programmes occurred only between 5 and 6 o'clock!) where she appeared with an ex skiffle player and occasional folksinger called Wally Whyton, a guitarist called Bert Weedon who sold millions of books all with titles like Learn To Play The Guitar In Two And A Half Hours, and two glove puppets called Pussycat Willum and Olly Beak. It constituted one of the few children's programmes with any kind of folk content, though much inferior to the wonderful Dance and Skylark which had the Spinners and Stan Hugill.

Subject: RE: Help: Shirley Abicaire
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 30 Sep 08 - 08:40 AM

I haveseen a couple of different spellings for Shirleys surname on here... and yet I remembered it as ABACAIR......    Not sure which one is right but I fed my version into google and came up with quite a bit of info. Best wishes, Mike.

Subject: RE: Help: Shirley Abicaire
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 30 Sep 08 - 08:45 AM

Picture of Shirley Abcacir/Abicair/Abicaire... on here.

Subject: RE: Help: Shirley Abicaire
From: fat B****rd
Date: 30 Sep 08 - 10:05 AM

I read somewhere that Davy Graham accompanied Miss Abicaire at some time. Sorry can't remember any more details.

Subject: RE: Help: Shirley Abicaire
From: Rog Peek
Date: 30 Sep 08 - 05:52 PM

I remember Shirly Abicair, she was very nice, but my big crush at the tender age of twelve (1958) was on Petula Clarke.

Rog

Subject: RE: Help: Shirley Abicaire
From: fat B****rd
Date: 01 Oct 08 - 07:31 AM

Oh Alright. I was in love with Ruby Murray whem I was about 8.

Subject: RE: Help: Shirley Abicaire
From: GUEST,wardrobe dave
Date: 17 Dec 18 - 01:20 PM

Think it was 1962 the BBC broadcast a Shirley Abicaire show on the radio with her backed by Alexis Korner   I had this on reel to reel for many years
The version of Willy The Weeper sticks in my memory
Wonder if anyone in Bournemouth has my old tape   Must have lost it in about 1980

Subject: RE: Help: Shirley Abicaire
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 19 Dec 18 - 06:33 AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4eTRU9YfJM&index=4&list=RDTPbHC4fiKzg

Subject: RE: Help: Shirley Abicaire
From: GUEST
Date: 19 Dec 18 - 08:51 AM

Little Boy Fishing Off A Wooden Pier - Shirley Abicair