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Old 7th August 2018, 22:57
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Someone soon will make the preposterous claim that they enjoy The Beatles music.

Actually, I think Theresa May already has done.
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Old 8th August 2018, 06:28
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Why did I like Lonnie Donegan so much??
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Old 8th August 2018, 07:24
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On my Scandinavian ships it was all C & W. I think many in those crews let both the Beatles and Abba pass by without noticing.
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Old 10th August 2018, 17:15
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ok just to wind you all up .after leaving the merchant became a pro singer at the very start of merseybeat won awards with my country band played the cavern often and with the Beatles then a double act with my wife and toured the world .some of the shows with bob hope at wheelus air base Libya for his tv Christmas shows with Ann Margret.then J cash Jimi Hendrix the carpenters in Tokyo Jim reeves Chet atkins bobby bear don Gibson Duane eddy .I still have one of his signed guitars from 1962 jerry lee lewis.ferlin husky husky stonewall Jackson lonzo an oscar and so on now still don't like the Beatles . thought the beach boys were better .And all the black singers from the 50s/60 ect ,Donagan was the catalyst from the British reverlution.for guitar music .the first white man to sing at the famed Apollo New York ,also top the American charts with his unique version of "rock island line".just to let you all discuss what turned you on when you were at sea and arrived back to find new guys an the radio

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Old 10th August 2018, 17:28
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Tony, I had the pleasure of escorting Ann Margret when she was with Bob Hope, a fine looking woman.
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Old 10th August 2018, 18:59
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Why did I like Lonnie Donegan so much??
Was your old man a dustman too, Tom? Or did your chewing gum lose its flavour on the bedpost overnight?
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Old 10th August 2018, 22:59
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Tony, I had the pleasure of escorting Ann Margret when she was with Bob Hope, a fine looking woman.
she sure was john .sadly we did did not share a dressing room !!1.but. she did complimentary my wife on her stage costume that she made herself while the road. between shows she made three each had 20 thousand sequins sawn by hand .
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Old 11th August 2018, 09:40
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ok just to wind you all up .after leaving the merchant became a pro singer at the very start of merseybeat won awards with my country band played the cavern often and with the Beatles then a double act with my wife and toured the world .some of the shows with bob hope at wheelus air base Libya for his tv Christmas shows with Ann Margret.then J cash Jimi Hendrix the carpenters in Tokyo Jim reeves Chet atkins bobby bear don Gibson Duane eddy .I still have one of his signed guitars from 1962 jerry lee lewis.ferlin husky husky stonewall Jackson lonzo an oscar and so on now still don't like the Beatles . thought the beach boys were better .And all the black singers from the 50s/60 ect ,Donagan was the catalyst from the British reverlution.for guitar music .the first white man to sing at the famed Apollo New York ,also top the American charts with his unique version of "rock island line".just to let you all discuss what turned you on when you were at sea and arrived back to find new guys an the radio

Thanks for that Tony - the most fabulous times for those of our age and I'm thankful I grew up with the birth of Rock 'n Roll. Lonnie Donegan spawned many skiffle groups including the one I was in.
When I started working at Northfleet power station, in 1962, it was so noisy I could sing (badly) all the latest songs at the top-of-my-voice as no one else could hear me.
I liked some of the early Beatles' songs but not when they went 'all hippy'.


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Old 11th August 2018, 16:28
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The first time I heard 'Mull of Kintyre' was mid ocean via a very iffy BBC World Service transmission.
I thought it was Sidney Devine ( Scotland's answer to Elvis Presley according to Billy Conolly).
Everything in the ear of the listener.
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Old 11th August 2018, 17:20
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I spent ages thinking it was an advert for retread tyres sold by someone called Mulligan.
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Old 11th August 2018, 18:30
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I spent ages thinking it was an advert for retread tyres sold by someone called Mulligan.

You were, of course, thinking of the company called Mulligan's tyres, as regularly advertised and promoted by Terry Wogan on his wireless programme.
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Old 11th August 2018, 21:21
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I'm not sure I believe in Terry Wogan, I think he is a myth. Actually, I suppose that must be where I got it from.
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Old 11th August 2018, 23:24
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I've always been uneasy about calling a radio a 'wireless.' I know it derives from earlier comms that had to be connected directly, but even with modern radios … there's bloody wires everywhere …
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Old 12th August 2018, 06:44
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Was your old man a dustman too, Tom? Or did your chewing gum lose its flavour on the bedpost overnight?

No, my old man wasn't a dustman, he was a commissionaire for Tate & Lyle in Silvertown, East London. The photo at the beginning of Call the Midwife was taken from the end of Saville Road, just across the railway tracks from the front gate of Tate & Lyle where my Dad was stationed most of his working time.
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Old 23rd September 2018, 18:28
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Just so the thread doesn't die ('Kiss of Death' - geddit?), I thought I'd post this little note before I nip off for another cultural visit to Mestre. I actually only go to stop the missus spending the last of the fast dwindling funds.
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Old 23rd September 2018, 18:45
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I decided to attend the Leith Nautical College reunion weekend at the end of this week. I took this decision some months back, and now am faced with a 500 mile drive up to Edinburgh from Cornwall for a couple of days, then another 500 mile drive back.

Fortunately I'm able to break the journey in Stourbridge, very roughly half way there, and spend a night with family !! The old college I attended is now abandoned but I understand the building is still there. A new college was built in Portobello years after I left, although the nautical side of that is only a small part of the business. Ah well … we're not really much of a seafaring nation anymore, other than in re-unions for old men and memories.

Still, I used to hitchhike up and down from the Midlands to Leith back then, or ride old Brit bikes which I think if it had been from Cornwall would have damn near killed me even then .. especially in winter.

I'll have to travel down to Leith from Portobello and look at the old college building. Henry Robb's shipyard used to be at the back of it, students used to donate blood there, all that's long gone.

That is the 'kiss of death' don't you think.
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Old 23rd September 2018, 18:57
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The building is still there and recognizable. However the 'Steamboat Tavern' is long gone (as is Fairleys). Also the bonded warehouses that were along the road now seem to be the chi-chi type of coffeshop.
Hope you enjoy the reunion.
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Old 23rd September 2018, 22:45
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I've never been to any reunion, I remember what a prat I was back then and don't want to meet anyone else who remembers.
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Old 24th September 2018, 08:35
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I've never been to any reunion, I remember what a prat I was back then and don't want to meet anyone else who remembers.

That sounds familiar (cringes with embarrasment of remembered incidents)
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Old 24th September 2018, 08:38
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They took away Fairley's !! …. (on a Friday night you often saw 'kisses of death' being administered in there.)
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Old 24th September 2018, 21:31
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I've never been to any reunion, I remember what a prat I was back then and don't want to meet anyone else who remembers.
The worrying thing about reunions, I find, is that all the attendees still think they are the same age as they were when they first met. The first one is the best, because that's the one where all the stories are fresh. After hearing them for the third time, I stop going.
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Old 25th September 2018, 07:01
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The worrying thing about reunions, I find, is that all the attendees still think they are the same age as they were when they first met. The first one is the best, because that's the one where all the stories are fresh. After hearing them for the third time, I stop going.
You must be very young to remember the stories from the last reunion!!
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Old 25th September 2018, 07:42
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You must be very young to remember the stories from the last reunion!!
Young at heart, Tom. Young at heart!
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Old 25th September 2018, 08:08
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Yes I doubt I will be doing any more Leith re-unions after this one. 1000 mile round trips are definitely not my idea of a bucket list item. But, it'll be nice to have a look at Edinburgh and some old haunts.

I'll be surprised if there's anybody I know there. It's over 50 years since I first started up there. Tutors like Fred Boettcher and Ted White will be long gone.

As for stories !!! … well I fractured my femur a few yards from the old college and spent three months in traction !!! … not a story I particularly want to remiss about. Then there's the pub crawls in Rose Street up in the city. Man I could puke for England after one of those. Another story that might be sickening (arf arf.)
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Yes I doubt I will be doing any more Leith re-unions after this one. 1000 mile round trips are definitely not my idea of a bucket list item. But, it'll be nice to have a look at Edinburgh and some old haunts.

I'll be surprised if there's anybody I know there. It's over 50 years since I first started up there. Tutors like Fred Boettcher and Ted White will be long gone.

As for stories !!! … well I fractured my femur a few yards from the old college and spent three months in traction !!! … not a story I particularly want to remiss about. Then there's the pub crawls in Rose Street up in the city. Man I could puke for England after one of those. Another story that might be sickening (arf arf.)

Not forgetting old Harry Watson, Bob. To quote from one of his lectures on electrostatics. “. Imagine my balls suspended from the ceiling”.
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