Anyone Remember These?
Posted by: George Fredrik on 18 February 2013
First one: Old Fashioned Millionaire! I'll post a few long since never mentioned songs, which have tunes and lyrics of genuine wit!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeRSqekHh1g
ATB from George
This is getting some lovely replies, and even some I could not recall without a prompt are immediately heard in my minds ear, just from the titles!
Please keep posting. I have some more to put up over the next few days!
ATB from George
Remember this one?
Telstar, the Tornadoes, and a production by Joe Meek.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuA-fqKCiAE
ATB from George
Hi George,
My parents loved Nancy & Lee, a love they passed on to me. The albums included such things as 'These Boots ...', but lots of other standards, such as Lilac Wine & Jackson - many of which featured in Walk The Line, the Johnny Cash Biopic.
I remember listening to Downtown on the radio in the kitchen when I was very young.
In unguarded moments I can still be caught singing both Lilly the Pink and Earnie, got the 45's in the loft somewhere!
M
Remember this one?
Telstar, the Tornadoes, and a production by Joe Meek.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuA-fqKCiAE
ATB from George
I remember hearing it at the time and it was the most amazing thing anybody had ever heard.
Many years later my son was a Muse fan and I used to laugh when I heard their Knights of Sydonia, telling him it was just a ripoff of Telstar. A while after I found out Matt Bellamy was the son of George Bellamy, guitarist with the Tornadoes.
The same writing team that gave us Windmills in Old Amsterdam were also responsible for Right Said Fred.
One of my favourite songs as a child. A little Scottish boy listening to an American singing about an English country garden. It really made an impression on me.
Little Red Monkey
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qv0cy0843U
another regular from Uncle Mac's Children's Favourites.
steve
Alley-Oop - Hollywood Argyles. 'Look at that caveman go. He sure is hip, ain't he?'
Ballad of Bethnal Green - Paddy Roberts
Life gets teejus, don't it? - can't remember who by
I hopelessly loved Downtown since I first heard it in 1964, and have loved it ever since.
Today, I still can feel a glimpse of the same emotions at the very first piano bars.
I am a bit ashamed to post a link to this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOjvbzOUCMo
which also stills makes me feel happy like it did 40-odd years ago.