http//www.duchessathome.com/music/alittlehelpfrommyfriends.html
http//www.duchessathome.com/music/imagine.html
http//www.duchessathome.com/music/walkalone.html
the first and second songs are two of my favourites you,llnever walk alone is a football classic .
i have a "celebration of life " in my will and all three of those songs are in my request to be sung at my funeral ..
no flowers just donations to favourite charity
WOW im taking this thread in another direction ..sorry must be the medication .
The fact that it was on the Little & Large show compounded the awfulness.. http//www.youtube.com/watch?v=0w7HztJJZL4 thankfully the first band I ever saw at a gig was not the previous one but these guys.. http//www.youtube.com/watch?v=L93qsyJYNxk made my ears ring for a week, me and my mate Neil missed the train home so we slept in a shop doorway and missed school the next morning. Talk about staying in bed, still love Motorhead but I started grooving to Musische Kosmische and this kind of thing http//www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKlZjKVmDiQ and this http//www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kx5rNw0rq4 , from the Late Review, before it got cancelled. One guy that influenced me to pick up the guitar and tell stories tho, with the exception of Rolf Harris, was this fella http//www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_IWNO-U_YE , as he says, "People wait for the joke in this song..but there isn't one" and of course, where would we be without http//www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wj9WOMKK2ck or http//www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmmzZv7Th-w or especially http//www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHPX6yEZ368 and the band he was talking about http//www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRWVH9c3OaA
(Thats quite enough...) roll
This might have been my fave
http//www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kJD2N2gvqw
Memories from, not necessarily favourites.
http://www.jilldaniels.com/Seigfried.mp3
http://www.jilldaniels.com/bless.mp3
http://www.jilldaniels.com/Jill%20Daniel...arlene.mp3
And this is for anyone else who did their time:
http://www.jilldaniels.com/kissmegoodnight.mp3
When I was sixteen, my mate and I went to Southend to stay with his relatives for a couple of weeks. I spent a fortune playing
this, on the jukebox.
This is Frankie Laine, three years later. Dig the double breasted, full drape jacket and the slightly pegged trousers, almost a zoot suit. High style then, I would have had one like it in brown gaberdine, if, only, I could have afforded it.
Gandy dancer's Ball
I'll add this.
Bleedin' Lady Astor, wanted to relieve the troops in France after D Day, with the Eighth Army. The eighth was in Italy, except for those wounded and in hospital, like my Dad, or in the ground. They had their own version of Lili Marlene
D-Day Dodgers Aimed, of course, at the last two verses.
You really have got me going now - thanks for the putting the smile on my face! I've jsut spent a happy half hour watching a Marc Bolan special on TOTP2. So this epitomizes my teenage years.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zJRa34Jy8M
Please notice the form of dancing and the clothing back then. Then look at this photo of me sitting on our car in 1971 just after my 14th birthday. It's faded a bit but I was wearing purple and my mum and sister were wearing orange! Oh, and my mum was only 43. :shock:
http://forums.british-expats.com/album_p...pic_id=483
From my teens,
Wynonie Harris and some early R&B, with "Don't roll those bloodshot eyes at me"
Clip here
I don't really like Richard Thompson, but he has a full length version
here
Here is one i always liked to play . Ive always been a greast elvis fan firat place visited when i came here was graceland .
http//www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_wB8-j1jMQ
Here a little old drinking song ...
http//www.youtube.com/watch?v=nF3qJ8lQN-I
and of course this .
http//www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdeicjnbdDQ
This lady was britains greatest exported female singer and even after her untimely death her music lives on .
http//www.youtube.com/watch?v=MczZzJ-jy5c
You got me going here. I went into the army in the middle of 1956. Two records were near the top and played often.
I loved this one
But as we were being chased from [strike]asshole to breakfasttim[/strike]e reveille to lights out, Pat Boone's "I'll be home" was much hated.
A police car and a screaming siren -
A pneumatic drill and ripped up concrete -
A baby wailing and stray dog howling -
The screech of brakes and lamp light blinking -
That's Entertainment.
A smash of glass and a rumble of boots -
An electric train and a ripped up 'phone booth -
Paint splattered walls and the cry of a tomcat -
Lights going out and a kick in the balls -
That's Entertainment.
Days of speed and slow time Mondays -
Pissing down with rain on a boring Wednesday -
Watching the news and not eating your tea -
A freezing cold flat and damp on the walls -
That's Entertainment.
Waking up at 6 a.m. on a cool warm morning -
Opening the windows and breathing in petrol -
An amateur band rehearsing in a nearby yard -
Watching the tele and thinking about your holidays -
That's Entertainment.
Waking up from bad dreams and smoking cigarettes -
Cuddling a warm girl and smelling stale perfume -
A hot summer's day and sticky black tarmac -
Fedding ducks in the park and wishing you were far away -
That's Entertainment.
Two lovers kissing amongst the scream of midnight -
Two lovers missing the tranquility of solitude -
Getting a cab and travelling on buses -
Reading the graffiti about slashed seat affairs -
That's Entertainment.
Even though this was released when I was eight, I still think it summed up a lot of UK youth. I mean, who of us didn't at some time live in a freezing cold flat with damp on the walls? grin - and if you didn't yer a namby pamby big girls blouse.
JohnA, that Roy Orbison -Pretty Woman piece is from the "Black and White Night" show. The musicians include; Jackson Brown, T Bone Burnnett, Elvis Costello, K D Lang, Bonnie Raite, J D Souther, Bruce Springsteen, Tom Waits, Jennifer Warnes. It's a great guitar jam.
I think the 2 earliest songs I can remember would be "hit me with your rhythm stick" and "mull of kintyre"
I must have been bloody young.