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i remember looking out from our school concourse on the 1st of June and it was snowing. Light snow but snow nonetheless.
Three days later it was in the 80's and it hardly let up for three months.

The long hot summer of 76 and as someone else said previously on the blog (Adam I Think) it was a summer of fantastic music. Maybe the sun made it sound better but so many to choose from. However for me the highlight was

You don't have to go / The Chi Lites

Brilliant production and a real sunshine song!

FRIDAY


There is a song which evokes memories of when I was wee, on the annual family trip to the Emerald Isle, during the Glasgow Fair fortnight.

Oh, to be back in Gweedore, County Donegal, where my cousins were educated (in Irish) alongside the Brennans...


'Against the Wind' - Máire Brennan


To be sure.

P.S.

Monday's theme is "Great Basslines". Can anyone supply the tracklist for the previous "Great Basslines" show?


P.P.S.

'Bourée' won't be on it. But it should have been...

repeat from previous blog - slightly reworded - HAPPY BIRTHDAY JULIE!!

Honky Tonk Women - Stones

le disco in La Baule and being allowed to go out at 10.00pm. 10.00pm!! Normal curfew time. Zut alors!

#4 Thank you...I've had a lovely birthday...thanks for the birthday greetings over on Facebook too...much appreciated!

Yes..1976 was a great year...Dion's 'The Wanderer' was a hit for the second time around and always reminds me of that Summer.

Was there a heatwave that Summer?

It'll be JuliefromEdinburghvisitinghersisterinJohno'Groats tomorrow! Don't suppose it'll be too warm up there!

#1 @ ya paolo......i'm going to get the big picnic transferred onto disc so watch this space........

#3 @ ya SG................big 2nd for bouree..............i had the original with the pop_up sleeve. but the one i really wanted was 'this was'............my mate had a copy but fairly recently i saw a one in hmv @£5 but i took a mean streak because others were loading up with simpsons stuff.........so i said to myself that i'de go back and get it when i had a spare fiver (some hope)......however when it next appeared it was shiny packaged @ £17 (nae chance)...the most recent i've seen is £12 so i'll play it long and wait till it gets down to below £5.........but i bought a new 'stand-up' recently (£5) and of course it's brilliant, as ever, but no pop-up.

my last long summer holiday,the most piognant, for a few years .....

'safe in my garden'................mamas and papas

'dream a little dream of me'.......mamas and papas

'this guys in love'..........herb alpert

'mony mony'........tommy james

'lady willpower'........gary puckett

'mexico'..............long john baldry

cheers frae the dale

Banff '74 & Charles Aznavour ~ She

Recall my singing was better than Everett's subsequent "'Ello my leetle chickadees" Marcel Wave >8-)

#3 Mr Git:

here

#3 which one. I can remenber at least two bassline nights. Actually i heard something the other day and remember thinking thats my pick if ever we get another bass night. Coincidence or what?






Damned if i can remember what it was now.

#7 DK if you get that onto disc theres a pint with your name on it at the night out on the 6th. You are comin aren't you?

'74/'75 - great years, though don't remember (didn't care) what the weather was like.

Hues Corporation - Rock the boat
Cockney Rebel - Judy Teen
Jim Staffored - Spider's and Snakes
Ray Stevens - The Streak
R Dean Taylor - There's a ghost in my house

Van McCoy - The Hustle
Sensational Alex Harvey Band - Deliliah
Pete Wingfield - 18 with a bullet
Stylistics - I can't give you anyhting (but my love)
Billie Jo Spears - Blanket on the ground

#12 1975 was the first of the "long hot summer" double header ST.

Looking at the number ones that year doesn't realy tell the story, i remember the summer was dominated by two songs.....

Someone Saved My Life Tonight - Elton John

this persuaded me to buy the great "Captain Fantastic..." album

and


Sealed With a Kiss - Brian Hyland


re-release of the early sixties original, but for me it was like the first hearing


Paul from Ayr

My favourite summer song by a country mile is Isley Bros version of Summer Breeze. 1974 and I'm about to go on a cross country run. We were all gathered at the start in some car park, blazing hot and the song was coming from a parked car with it's windaes open. A moment in time but it always reminds me of that. Thing is, since I didn't do cross country unless my PE teacher made me, it must have been term time so it disnae coont.

Long hot summers... let me see

'85
Away with mates on a camping holiday in Cornwall. We had a mix tape that seriously mellowed out towards the end, including
* Kate Bush - (hence my really, really strong support for whoever suggested it last night)
* Peter Gabriel - We Do What We're Told
* Pink Floyd - Jugband Blues

'87 - last one where I had the whole summer doing only what the hell I wanted. Spent most of it listening to the best 'chill out all day' music:
* Pink Floyd - Echoes
* Pink Floyd - Shine On Your Crazy Diamond
(obviously the entire albums)

'88 - spent working, testing & repacking reconditioned stereos at a Korean manufacturer's service centre in Shropshire (Hi Mike!). As previously mentioned, the whole summer consisted of the first 16 seconds of
* Fleetwood Mac - Everywhere
over, and over again

'90 - spent in the US working on a kids' camp, where one of my co-workers introduced me to
* They Might Be Giants - Istanbul

'91 - Midsummer at Loch Lomond, so
* Runrig - Pride of the Summer
but also
* Ugly Kid Joe - Everything About You
* Right Said Fred - Deeply Dippy
* REM - Shiny Happy People
* James - Sit Down
* Wonderstuff - Size of a Cow
from being in the team running a certain Edinburgh Student Union and various parties held there.

and since then, long hot summers have happened to other people :-(

Cap'n your school holidays were from 85 to 91? No offence but you are not wearing very well...

#16 - Norrie - Have you seen this?




I was very young when this was top of the charts and I don't know why makes me think of holidays but it does -

Billy Don't Be A Hero - Paper Lace

;o)

Just been havin a look at Everyhit.com where you can search by month eg june to aug 75 or whatever and found a few golden oldie rave from the grave blast from the past type songs I'd forgotten about.

7654321 Blow your whistle / RimShots
Sending out an SOs / Retta Young
Summer of 42 / Biddu orchestra
Ride a Wild Horse / Dee Clark

probably didn't expect any sales today but there ye go. Another 10% in each of their coffers.

#16

91 was the year I graduated. Will let you do the maths back from there.

Will forgive the slur if y'all go listen to that Kate Bush track. Has had me in bits every time I listen to it for over 25 years now.

One to add to the 'songs to play at my funeral' list (no, no imminent prospect)

#17

As the 1987 Smiths track put it:
Yeh, you've got a point about factory farming
but belittling a massacre just makes you look like an attention-seeking div.

Folk keep raving on about the summer of '76 but the high pressure over the UK meant we had fog on the east coast for a lot of that summer. I left school in 1975, which was a better year in the East Neuk.

My summer job before heading off to Uni was at Cellardyke open air swimming pool, where hundreds of locals & visitors would spend the entire day sunbathing and cooling off in the sea. (I bet many Get It On listeners remember the pool!)

The song done to death on the old tannoy system that summer was:

Going to Barbados - Typically Tropical

DC

#21

Don't remember the Cellardyke one, but remember the North Berwick one with much fondness.

Did anyone else know that there's an even earlier outdoor pool in N Berwick, hacked out of the sandstone that gets revealed at the lowest spring tides? I've only seen it once.

the Gourock outdoor pool is being hacked about by builders this summer with the result that it's not been open :0(

More tragic news from the music world.
Jedward have been found alive in their apartment.

June 1974:

Maria Muldaur - Midnight At The Oasis

The summer of 1965 was my last summer at school and as I think back to that summer there were some amazingly diverse songs around but one that sticks in my mind is the crazy "Wooly Bully"from Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs.I never quite figured out what "Mattie told Hattie" as the lyrics were so weird but it was great to dance to unlike my other choice ,Barry McGuire's "Eve of Destruction" surely the epitome of the "Protest song"written by the mysterious P.F. Sloane who himself was immortalised in a song by that very name written by Jim Webb!Cheers Willie Bartke

Pete in Scourie here..

Bryan, you must be a similar age to me, wrong side of 50.
You must remember that serial on ´óÏó´«Ã½ TV, Robinson Crusoe. I don't think the theme music was ever a single, but "The Art Of Noise" did a version of it called suprisingly "Robinson Crusoe". I have it on an album "The Ambient Collection"..

Just got back from the Durness Highland Games. Good fun, but very cold..

Pete in Scourie again..

1st time I came to scotland on hols with my parents, seem to remember the mike adams singers and Up, Up and away (in my beautiful balloon), She flies like a bird, but me and my brother prefered Suzi Quattro's Can the Can..

The Ballachulish and Kylesku ferries were still operating on the west coast. Enjoyed it so much, I moved here..

ok, I'm worried....Bryan is going on holiday....is it for a week or 2? Who is standing in?

#14 Paolo, that would be very high on my list too......and I don't mean the exercise!

#29

Annas_Auntie,

1 week. Vic Galloway. Did you ever find that

#9

Gaie,

Thank you!

#31 Scotch Git - do you work for News International?

#33

Annas_Auntie,

Nay, lass! I had a wee peek at your previous comments. (Click on username).

I thought you were Glen Miller. (The paranoia here is rampant). Welcome aboard!

>8-D

#34 - Scotch Git.....I don't know if I am more disturbed by the data trail or by the fact that you read through so much of my rantings to get to that request about Fern's top ;0)

But....that doesn't mean that I'm not Glenn Miller ;oD

I thought that everyone was doing a Spartacus and everyone was GM?

Thanks for the welcome. I normally read the blog but submit suggestions by FB/email. Have been thinking for a while that the blog is the best discussion in terms of music - so decided to get on board!

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