..and getting way off topic, my old brain has gone into overdrive:
Bobby Vee..'Poetry in Motion'
The Honeycombes..'Have I the right'
Tornadoes..'Telstar'
Frank Ifield..I'll remember you'
Jees, I'm getting old.....
Derek
'My Auntie Mabel told me I'd make a great soldier, though I don't know how 30 years working in a biscuit factory had qualified her to make that judgement.....' Eddie Nugent
Your in good company - My first rock and roll memory was riding
down the road in Hucclecote on the handlebars of my older brothers
bike singing "Summertime Blues" - The Eddie Cochran version
so that would have been 1959-60ish - Having two older brothers
who belonged to a band that played at the Eascote Youth Club in
61-62 - I was well introduced - seemed my Oldest brother had a
thing for American rock - Buddy Holly, Chuck Berry, BB King, Duane
Eddy....In fact I believe the first thing that James learnt to play
on his Strat was "Forty Miles of Bad Road" followed by "Who do you
Love"........Oh we are getting old
nigelb wrote:Derek, better put that brain back into regular drive. It was Johnny Tillotsen that had the hit with 'Poetry in Motion
Brain ? :shock: ..you mean that old sludge that has retired to the back of my skull?...
Ok, I'm staying out of this..for fear of making an even bigger fool of myself :redface:
Now then.....where did I leave my Zimmer frame... :think:
Derek
'My Auntie Mabel told me I'd make a great soldier, though I don't know how 30 years working in a biscuit factory had qualified her to make that judgement.....' Eddie Nugent
Your in good company - My first rock and roll memory was riding
down the road in Hucclecote on the handlebars of my older brothers
bike singing "Summertime Blues"
Leif
Leif
"Summertime Blues" would have been 1958, but I have you beat by one year. My first memory of Rock was sitting in the Granada, Bedford and singing "Singing the Blues" Saturday mornings they had films for kids, always ending in a serial so you would return the next week. Anyway before the films, they would project song lyrics on the screen while someone played the Wurlitzer and the kids sang along. I loved that song so much I had to go and buy the 78 rpm since I had an old clockwork gramophone that would not play 45's. Does that age me a little?
Sorry for being so way off topic, but I did "fly" to the record store.
Yes, it was sixpence to get in! I supose they had those Saturday Morning clubs all over the UK. I also remember having my first Coca-Cola one Saturday morning and being amazed at the taste of it. My parents never brought Coke since they did not like it. Very un-American that.
I don't recall the Rapide serial, the one I remember had two boys and a girl rowing to some island and finding lots of adventures there. They should have used a seaplane (also to return to the thread.) They would have got to the island a lot faster than the several Saturday mornings it took them.
It was Johnny Tillotsen that had the hit with 'Poetry in Motion
