Screaming Lord Sutch

[Limehouse]

Hi Caz,

Glad someone else likes the original Fleetwood Mac. There is no comparing the Peter Green days with what came after. They are just two different groups in my opinion.

Hubbie and I saw Peter Green in concert a few years back here is Peterborough and it was a superb performance.

[caz]

These are great stories! I'm loving this thread.

Limehouse - I would be surprised if the film WAS 'Live It Up', as there's no small kids in it from what I remember. Maybe you were going to be written in?!

My dad saw the film at the cinema in London when it came out. I think it was supporting the Norman Wisdom film 'A Stitch In Time'.

Hi Philip,

Ah, this is where I come in. I was at primary school with the little girl who played the patient in 'A Stitch In Time', who was made to laugh (God knows how - she must have been a gifted actress!) by Nutty Norman. Her name was Lucy Appleby and she was a real sweetie. I have no idea what happened to her.

Another schoolmate (at Godolphin & Latymer, circa 1966, when we were 12) played one of Frankie Howerd's daughters in The Great St.Trinian's Train Robbery. If I recall correctly her name was Susan Jones and she was later expelled. So they cast her well. Can't find her on any cast list though, so I don't know what that's all about. She was definitely in the film.

Matron from the Carry Ons - Hattie Jaques - also went to my school but just a wee bit before my time.

I groan when I hear about 78s, as my dad used to play them all the time (anything from Ain't it Grand to be Bloomin' Well Dead to the White Horse Inn or Poet & Peasant) and I have a loft packed high with boxes and boxes of them. One day I will try to go through them and let you know what I've got if you are interested. We have at least two 'contraptions' to play the things on, including an old wind-up gramophone.

I'm a Beatles child, me.

And the Kinks.

And Dusty.

And Cream.

Oh and the original Fleetwood Mac.

And....too many other goodies to mention.

Love,

Caz
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[anna]

Jimarilyn,
Thanks for the pointers,sounds like you appreciate all types of music,as I do...cool!!

[anna]

There I was,tugging and pushing!!!

Hi all,
No, I don't have Ella Fitzgerald in a box...
I have an amount of the small 78's in a card box of stronger card but similar to the covers the 78's come in..it has writing on it, music company or shop.
Philip,
Have PM'd you with the details,so that the thread isn't thrown off topic.
BTW, I should have put David Jones with Bowie in brackets,I didn't think.This would be pre 1964,'cause Gerry was only a young teenager still at school.Will ask him over the weekend.

[Robert]

Hopefully with no Jagger vocals in the second movement.

[jimarilyn]

Another sublime piece of music is Max Bruch's "Violin Concerto No.1", powerful, beautiful, poignant.

[jimarilyn]

Recently came across an excellent song (featured on the the end credits of a movie I was watching) by a guy I'd never heard of before, Peter Wolf. The title of the song is "Nothing but the wheel". Brilliant, he sounds uncannily like a young Bob Dylan (a certain Michael Jagger joins in on vocals in the second part of the song). Check it out if you like good music.

[jimarilyn]

Anna - You've got Ella Fitzgerald in a cardboard box?

Ella, what a voice !! Arguably the finest female singer of the 20th Century. Her version of "I love Paris" is sublime

[Limehouse]

My brother and sister were twleve and eight years older than me respectively. Most of my cousins were in that age bracket also. Therefore, I grew up listening to stacks of 60s music. When I hit my teens in the 1970s I still preferred 60s music. Once day I heard 'Starman' on a friend's radio and became hooked on Bowie. I am still hooked. Through the different phases of his music, you can hear so many influences, and yet he made it seem so original. It is impossible for me to pick a favourite track and everytime I listen to his music, I pick up something new.

[George Hutchinson]

Well, I have no trouble selling 78s; I'm one of the biggest sellers of that format on eBay in the UK. I have a modern professional studio deck that only plays 78s myself - the needles alone cost £100+.

Anna - You've got Ella Fitzgerald in a cardboard box?

What's this about Queen Mary's Coronation? Do you mean the one in the 16th Century? The only disc I know with Queen Mary is the George V Empire Day Speech 78 from 1932 (I think). Purple label, HMV, with small cartouches of the King and Queen at the top. Is that the one you have? Last time I had a copy of that one I sold it for over £50 and it cost me a fiver. I'd be interested to know what Music Hall ones you have (I have NEVER found a copy of ONLY A VIOLET - hope springs eternal). Music Hall, of course, gave us the first recorded mentions of JTR from both Bransby Williams' THE CARETAKER (Columbia, 1912) and shortly afterwards one I discovered a couple of years back, COHEN IS ARRESTED FOR EXCEEDING THE SPEED LIMIT by Michael Hayman (Regal, 1915).

BTW, being pedantic - the guy in the record shop was probably called David Jones at the time. He only became David Bowie in 1967 when he found out that Davy Jones was in The Monkees. I've seen him being interviewed on TV in 1964 as David Jones but by the time he was recording his fine early stuff on the Deram label, it was David Bowie.

And all this before I was born. Ha ha.

PHILIP

[anna]

Hi Robert,
Thanks for the reply,trust me to get it wrong!
Yes they are a lovely reminder of times gone by...

[Robert]

Hi Anna

I think you mean ten inch and twelve inch. Old 78 records are lovely things. The problem is finding something to play them on.

Robert

[anna]

Hi all,
Oh goodness me,I have my mums collection of 78's...both 7 & 12 inch...hope that's right...anyway,small and big records,the small one's are in an original music cardboard box.
She was a Jazz and Blues fan,I know Ella Fitzgerald is in there.
It's such a shame that they have just sat in a cupboard since she died,I just couldn't throw them away when I cleared the house out.
I have been looking for a way to get them back into circulation,as mum would have loved them to have been passed on to other fans of the music she loved.
When we were at the Jazz Cafe I said to Gerry I'd ask people who were coming in after we were finished if any of them would like them, but I have compiled a list,and didn't have it on me.
Will list them a bit later on,as the list is in my bedroom.
I have some Music Hall ones and a couple of Coronation ones of Queen Mary(I think,without looking)which I want to keep.

[anna]

Hi Philip,
Just got back onto this thread,and saw your reply.
Have to ask him the story again, but if I recall correctly Meek was returning from the studio when he saw the boys hanging around....being the 60's according to Gerry he hung around quite a few places..coffee houses,record shops etc!(He had a winklepicker and Brylcream addiction also)..he still wears winklepickers today!!!!!! I think it is almost certain that he has the tape.
His mum recalls the day when she got the phone call,and how worried she was that her little Gerry would be corrupted by the world of music!!!! Ahhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!! Previous to this.......
He has tons of stories from the time, including when his poor old mum packed little Gerry off to get himself a "Saturday job"...he came back with a smile on his face because he'd wandered into a record shop which evidently had a bit of card in the window with "Saturday boy wanted" on it!(Shangri-la for him).The young man behind the counter "took him on" instantly and on his frist Saturday showed him the ropes and looked after the new recruit..as they did in the those days...his name was David Bowie..they discovered they lived around the corner from each other and used to listen to music and "jam" together...Gerry had this really really useless,ready for firewood,guitar that a neighbour gave him.Gerry's mum recalled how she'd run around to David's mum when either his tea was ready,or to find out where they'd got to.
You'd love Gerry.......he's a real relic of the 60's.....

[George Hutchinson]

Hi Billy.

The 1963 recording - the original Decca record - isn't a scream. It's a kind of laughing mumble. He's definitely not saying the words 'Mary Kelly'. I discussed this matter with his biographer a couple of years back and he felt the same.

PHILIP