Month: January 2020

Nicholas Parsons R.I.P.

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more information… https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-51278023

Eric Harmer… I remember him as the straight man with Arthur Haines

David Edwards… Who always called him Nicolarse Parsons

Kevin White… I met him once, years ago at a show he was comparing, he was a really friendly man and had a great senseof humour.RIP Nicholarse Parsons.

Matt Thomas… Live from Norwich, it’s the quiz of the week

Dave Weeks… Legend and was still going strong on just a minute.

Andy Qunta… RIP! Thanks for the memories!

Peter Thomson… Also (and apparently not widely known) a sixty year association through voice overs with Gerry Anderson productions.

Alan Esdaile… Seen him on hundred of shows over the years. Sad news.

Yvonne Cleland… Total legend.

John Harper… Sad goodbye to a showbiz legend. R.I.P

Jack Apps… A DUDE INDEED SEE YOU UP THERE FOR A GAME OF UNSCRABBLE.

Dave Nattress… Sad news, we all saw and heard him on so many shows.  Sale of the century, for sure, of it’s time, was one of the best.  Just a minute – fabulous radio 4 stuff. An all round good fella, and Yes, appearances on the Arthur Haynes show all those years ago, my parents always had it on.  Another human being we all grew up with gone, and that’s a little tiny bit of us gone also.

Wendy Weaver… I usually get tired of seeing the same faces on TV but never tired of Nicholas Parsons. We saw him when they recorded Just a Minute at the White Rock years ago and he still looked the same as he had for years. RIP

 

What is the most irritating song?

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Caroline Jones… Lovely day, love the song but that bit where he holds Dayyyyyyyyyyyy goes on forever grrr

Mike Guy… It’s the chord change under that held note that makes it musically interesting for me.

Jacqueline Marsh… And it’s also hard to sing that note

Paul Huggett… Yummy Yummy Yummy I’ve got Love in my Tummy….

David Broome… Float On by the Floaters

Jack Apps… Deeply Deeply Me. The Bee Gees

Sandie Carlyon… Come on Eileen. Hate it.

Judy Atkinson… Longhaired Lover from Liverpool, little Jimmy Osmond and the theme song from Banana Splits

Nadia Compagnone… Lily The Pink.

Matt Thomas… Lady In Red – Chris De Burgh

David R Howard… Johnny Reggae …

Karen Sweatman… Not sure if it’s Starship’s Nothings Gonna Stop Us Now or Starship’s We Built This City. Both make my ears bleed

Martin Curcher… Mainly “My heart will go on”, but generally any song by Celine Dion.

Paul Crimin… The Birdy Song. Aggghhhh….

John Warner… Agree!

Alan Esdaile… Mull Of Kintyre Wings but I enjoyed the Mark & Lard version!

David Kent… Many involving Phil Collins, Sting, Paul Weller, Oasis etc. Bohemian Rhapsody.

Jim Hobbs… David, This man officially music dead.

Mike Guy… Perhaps that should be an added question “& what is your reason?” – just to make it a bit more interesting than a list?

Jim Hobbs… Good point, music is very subjective thing to criticise.

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Anyone remember the free festival at Cow Gap Beachy Head asks Mick Gilfrin?

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Mick Gilfrin asks… I have been trying to find out about a free fest @ cow gap Beachy Head -Skin Alley played before they became a bit well known. I think the art school were probably involved, around 1967 ish?

Jim Breeds…did Cliff perform?

Lesley Bowles… backed by his Seven Sisters?

Phil Gill… Or Dave Edmunds with Rock Pile?

Jane Hartley… Lighthouse family!

Tony Court-holmes… I remember one at three oaks in the 70s

Mike Waghorne… I remember one at Nutley in the early 70’s also one in Pett around the same time

Colin Bell… Yes were going to play …but they got too Close To The Edge……

What’s your favourite James Bond Theme.

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What’s your favourite James Bond theme and what do you think of the new Sam Smith one? Bits of it remind me of Earth Song Michael Jackson! Here’s a list of James Bond themes.

http://www.listal.com/list/james-bond-official-theme-songs

Jim Breeds… The new one is dire. Don’t really have a favourite – many of them are really good.

John Wide… Matt Monro From Russia with Love.

Alan Esdaile… Yes Matt Monro for me and also rather like Nancy Sinatra You Only Live Twice.

Mark Gilham… It’s got to be Goldfinger surely? The one and only Dame Bass. 🙂

Alan Pepper… Mine is Live and Let Die by Wings . Great music although the actual film didn’t live up to the soundtrack . That’s only my opinion…..

Tony Davis… I quite like Nobody Does It Better by Carly Simon but agree Dame Shirley is a real belter.

John Wilde… Love Carlys Nobody does it better. Not a fan of Bassey.

Matt Thomas… Definitely Carly Simon ‘Nobody Does It Better’ the first bond song that didnt have a same title as the film

Pete Fisher… Goldfinger was the first Bond film I ever saw, in the cinema in Hastings (with my Mum as it was “A” certificate), and the instrumental theme was the first thing I ever tried to play on the guitar…it was actually a session guy called Vic Flick on the recording, with the John Barry

Mark Rodrigues… Live and Let Die. Followed by Tomorrow Never Dies. Then A View to a Kill. Then Goldfinger. Diamonds are Forever. ACTUALLY OHMSS top.

Jeff Belton… 1) Skyfall 2) The Man With The Golden Gun 3) The Living Daylights 4) Goldeneye 5) Live And Let Die Could say them all, it was hard to pick my top 5.

Clive Garrard… Maccas live and let die, nobody does it better and from russia with love

Eric Harmer… I liked MATT mungos of mungo and Jerry fame doing from Russia with love

Will Cornell… I’m going to get ripped for this but Herb Albert’s take of the Bacharach “Casino Royale”. Probably the only thing good about the movie.

Pete Brazier… Thunderball

Dave Valentine… Nobody Does It Better. Not just my favourite Bond theme, but one of my all time favourite songs.

Roland Clarke… You only live twice, from Russia with love, casino royal, all the time in the world, nobody does it better, Live and let die, Goldfinger, nor in any particular order. Worst? Skyfall, awful dirge.

Jan Warren… “View to a Kill” by Duran Duran!!

Eco Jane… never watched a bond movie but fav song has to be Skyfall

The Playground – The Cobweb 24th January 1970

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Anyone remember seeing this pop harmony group. They played in Hastings a number of times.

Robert Searle… Remember the name Alan

Alan Esdaile… I remember the name as well Robert and got an idea they also played in Battle? The other thing I just noticed is the name of the dj on the Tamla Motown Sunday Club – Crashendo Needle.

Tony Court-holmes… remember the sunday nights

Three Mods: We Will Fight On The Beaches paperback book by Tony Barrett

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This is the book that Colin Bell was talking about on the recent radio show. It uses real places in Hastings and the Colin in the book is loosely based on him. Work out what you think is real or fiction! Available from Amazon £5.99

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Three-Mods-Will-Fight-Beaches/dp/1977059317

 

Colin Bell in conversation with Johnny Mason on CHR

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Listen again or listen for the first time…

Colin talking about his memories of Hastings Pier, Jimi Hendrix, The Who, John Peel, Track Records and lots more. With his favourite tracks from Del Shannon, Denny Laine, Felice Taylor, Dave Dee Dozy Beaky Mick & Tich, Steppenwolf, Glen Campbell, The Walker Brothers, Peter Sarstedt, Sonny Charles & The Checkmates, The Guess Who, The Righteous Brothers, Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gorme as well as tracks from Booker T & The Mgs, The Animals, Love, Cass Elliot, Ruperts People, The Sweet, The Who, Gary Puckett & The Union Gap, P.P.Arnold, The Electric Prunes and Richard Harris.

Radio/Stereograms – did you ever have one of these?

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Thanks to Richard J Porter for finding this…

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Andy Qunta… Yes, we had something like that! Spent untold hours with it!

Janine Anne Hemsley… Still use mine .

Dave Luck… Had one very similar, but with twin sliding door’s on the front, good old fashioned Radiogram.

Jim Breeds… Gosh, almost the identical model to the one Dad bought from Bryants! It was a Bush stereogram with a Garrard deck.

Kevin Burchett… I  think Madeline Joyce Morton still has one of these she did last year anyway.

Madeline Joyce Morton… Still have one it is a Bush and still works

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supplied by Madeline Joyce Morton

Lucy Pappas… We had one. I wonder what happened to it?

Steve Thorpe… Had one the same, could plug a cassette recorder into the back. Then we had an ITT Music Centre with meters for recording levels! Happy days 🙂

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