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As a listener to Children's Favourites with Uncle Mac (on steam radio),

can I suggest any of the following songs from my childhood:

The Runaway Train
Nellie the Elephant
I know an old lady (who swallowed a fly)
The Laughing Policeman

I had a great time thinking about these and many others!
Best wishes

My childhood from 7 years+ was spent travelling back and forth between Scotland and Norway.
The most memorable songs from the Norwegian summer holidays spent with my dad are:
Rod Stewart I Am Sailing and
The Eagles Hotel California
Frank Sinatra High Hopes
From my dad's tapes that were a couple of years old before I even heard them. Have never grown tired of hearing them.

And the earliest ones that stand out from my first year in Scotland, where popular music was much more widely played on TV and radio, are:
Stevie Wonder Sir Duke
Showaddywaddy Under The Moon Of Love
La Belle Epoque Black Is Black

It was far from a belle epoque personally, but the music was better than that of any other era in my life. Even if this selection is completely naff.

Downtown - Petula Clark.

I was only three when this came out but this song takes me right back to the 60s and sums up that whole period for me.

Heartbreaker - Led Zeppelin

My older cousin got me started on Led Zeppelin in 1971 when I was just a kid.

Walking My Baby Back Home - Johnny Ray

First musical memories were of Glam, and experimenting with sister's eye-liner et al. Would be good to reflect on 'Teenage Rampage' by Sweet ... from the days when the fashonistas were slightly bewildered ...

There are two lp's which were omnipresent in my childhood, one my Parents and the other my elder brothgers:

The first album is Phil Spector Echoes of the 60's, here is the tracklisting:

River Deep Mountain High - Ike & Tina Turner
Then He Kissed Me - The Crystals
Be My Baby - The Ronettes
Why Do Lovers Break Each Other's Hearts - Bob B. Soxx & The Blue Jeans
Proud Mary - Checkmates Ltd.
(Today I Met) The Boy I'm Gonna Marry - Darlene Love
Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah - Bob B. Soxx & The Blue Jeans
(The Best Part Of) Breaking Up - The Ronettes
You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' - Righteous Brothers
Da Doo Ron Ron - The Crystals
He's A Rebel - The Crystals
Not Too Young To Get Married - Bob B. Soxx & The Blues Jeans
Uptown - The Crystals
Unchained Melody - Righteous Brothers
Walking In The Rain - The Ronettes
There's No Other (Like My Baby) - The Crystals
He's Sure The Boy I Love - The Crystals
Ebb Tide - Righteous Brothers
Wait Till My Bobby Gets Home - Darlene Love
Baby I Love You - The Ronettes

Any track would be great.

And from my brothers classic ktel compilation 25 Rockin Rolling Gretas:

'Rock Around The Clock': Bill Haley (1955)
'Shakin' All Over': Johnny Kidd and the Pirates (1960)
'Be-Bop-A-Lula': Gene Vincent (1970)
'Wake Up Little Susie': Everly Brothers (1970)
'Long Tall Sally': Little Richard (1971)
'The Great Pretender': The Platters (1956)
'Surfin' USA': The Beach Boys (1963)
'Staggerlee': Lloyd Price (1959)
'Blue Suede Shoes': Carl Perkins (1969)
'Let's Have A Party': Wanda Jackson (1959)
'It Hurts To Be In Love': Gene Pitney (1964)
'Rockin' Robin': Bobby Day (1958)
'Glad All Over': The Dave Clark Five (1963)
'Lucille': Little Richard (1971)
'Shake Rattle and Roll': Bill Haley (1954)
'Sheila': Tommy Roe (1961)
'Wipe Out': Surfaris (1966)
'Lawdy Miss Clawdy': Lloyd Price (1959)
'Bird Dog': Everly Brothers (1970)
'Cumberland Gap': Lonnie Donegan (1957)
'Remember (Walkin' in the Sand)': Shangrila's (1964)
'Rip It Up': Carl Perkins (1956)
'Oh Pretty Woman': Roy Orbison (1964)
'Bony Moronie': Ronnie Hawkins (1972)
'Please Don't Touch': Johnny Kidd and the Pirates (1959)


Please don't touch by Johnny Kidd and the Pirates please.

ps hope the Capn's wife was not listening to Tom Morton today......

First & foremost, seasons greetings to the blogotariat!

Sorry but I refuse to be pinned down to one specific tune tonight...

Help or You've Got To Hide Your Love Away ~ T. Beatles. Mum's sister worked as an Au Pair in New York State for a few years in the 60's, once on a visit home she brought presents... I got a G.I. Joe but Big Bro received the latest Beatles release Help by the Fab 4 & on Capitol Records and was I guess his first import LP.

Others are

The Blackboard of my Heart ~ Hank Thompson, one of Dad's party pieces!
or
The Windmills of Your Mind ~ Noel Harrison because his dad Rex was Dr Dolittle, I loved that film!

Evening all,

I'm the youngest of four by some distance, so everyone's musical taste was inculcated in me from a very young age. As a small child, the family record player and the bundle of 45s and albums was a complete fascination to me. My mother would be doing endless housework and I'd work the record player as an aural accompaniment.

Emile Ford & The Checkmates - What Do You Wanna Make Those Eyes Me For

On The Street Where You Live - Vic Damone?

Spanish Harlem - Ben E King

This Nearly Was Mine - from South Pacific

Rock Around The Clock - Bill Haley & The Comets

Come Outside - Mike Sarne

Travellin Light - Cliff Richard

Secret Love - Kathy Kirby

I, Who Have Nothing - Shirley Bassey

and then,aged 8, everything changed. Sister Margaret discovered The Beatles and the above were kind of disregarded - no longer in the family top ten, so to speak, we did run the family bundle of 45's as a chart and would vote them chart positions corresponding with their position in the rack at side of the record player.. happy days

Twist & Shout - The Beatles

It Won't Be Long - The Beatles

Don't Throw your Love Away - The Searchers

I'm Alive - The Hollies

Tired Of Waiting - The Kinks

That'll Do,

regardez youse

henri

from previous thread: #31 Three Wheels on my Wagon - yep! on my list too.

also

Living Doll - Cliff Richard

Seven little Girls Sitting in the Back Seat - The Avons

and there's a song I loved called

Grandma's Feather Bed - no idea who sang it, but John Denver does good version

and then there was my Mum's small stack of 78s, which we loved to play on the old wind-up gramophone (still got it, still in working order)

She Wears Red Feathers - Guy Mitchell

My wife Alison reckons it should be Day Dream beleiver by the Monkeys.

Bryan you want The Flashing Blade

You've got to fight for what you want

For all that you believe

It's right to fight for what we want

To live the way we please

#12

Nice try, Norrie.

Alison Craig is a merrit wumman, BTW!

>8-D

Carry forward from 'Junior Choice'...

Faither could sing, no really he was not too bad much to the dismay of his Mother In Law! Family occasions were always competitive affairs with Gran making it her business with regards to what my Dad was singing as opposed to concentrating on her own choice... Mum would just look on and leave them to sort it out.
Dad had a couple of 'standards' namely

The Blackboard of my Heart ~ Hank Thompson
or
Trees ~ Paul Robeson

Yip 'Trees' the Alfred Joyce Kilmer poem!