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iwarburton · Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 2133 Location: Northumberland

Oh, please! The Drummer and the Cook reminds me of compulsory singing at school when I was about 10. I don't recall Harry Belafonte's version.

Elvis' In the Ghetto was a Stuck on 2 on Saturday's show but in the NME chart it snatched a week at no 1.

Ian.

RockitRon · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 7646

We were spared the Drummer and the Cook at our school. Bobby Shafto I remember, and Rule Britannia, and if we were good we were allowed an unofficial version of the latter based on the old £.s.d

Rule Britannia, two tanners make a bob
Three make one and six and four two bob
And five make half a crown and forty make a quid.

The things that get dredged from the memory, eh Rolling Eyes

Two 60th birthdays mentioned today, neither of them yours, Ian, unless you've had a name and sex change Laughing

I didn't know that P J Proby had recorded Delilah before it was given to Tom Jones. Doesn't the over-precise enunciation of the children's chorus on Tommy Steele's Little White Bull sound funny these days?

The Music Played list on the webpage is down to its usual standard. He didn't play the Stones' 19th Nervous Breakdown (saving it for another week) and that recording of Please Mr Postman certainly didn't come from the With The Beatles LP.

Good to hear Lance Percival's Shame and Scandal as well; it is genuinely Hard To Get at the moment. Madness did it a few years ago on the Dangermen Sessions.
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SantaFefan · Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2008 4:35 pm Post subject:

I really enjoyed the show today, he played several of my favourites. Razz

Although PJ Proby is one of my old time favourites, I didn't rate his version of Delilah at all.. very weak I thought.. but who can compete with Tom's version!!.

But curiously, I noticed the enhanced accent on Tommy's Little White Bull whereas I hadn't before. Maybe it was another version or is it this digital caper?
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iwarburton · Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 2133 Location: Northumberland

Good to hear this all today.

An occasional foray into US Stuck on 2 items sounds like a good idea.

Shame and Scandal must have been thought a bit risque in its day. Wonder if they might play Lance's Riviera Cafe sometime.

No doubt somebody somewhere will say that Little White Bull is racist! My only complaint is that I've had the wretched thing in my head ever since.

I'm sure that Tommy Steele woud have had a spell on EastEnders if he'd been in his 20s or 30s today.

Might they be due to have the Beatles' Please Please Me next week? I hope so.

Ian.

RockitRon · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 7646

I think that's as good a guarantee as you'll find in this world, Ian.

Little White Bull racist? Don't give them ideas - Niece (4) was reciting "Baa Baa Woolly Sheep, Have you any Wool?" the other day. Have you ever heard anything so daft?

That was the original, Santa (I dug out my old vinyl). We just didn't notice it at the time. I think the line was drawn just before "We don't need no Education... Hey, teacher, leave them kids alone".
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iwarburton · Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 2133 Location: Northumberland

A good sprinking of my favourites this morning, even if the Jimmy Justice track made rather a downbeat ending.

Gerry and the Pacemakers, the Searchers and Harpers Bizarre would have made a good Three in a Row for me personally. I might look about and see if Harpers have an album available.

The Beatles' In My Life is one of my Desert Island Discs. I hadn't heard the Judy Collins account but what a lovely version.

We were just speculating last weekend that A Windmill in Old Amsterdam must be due for a play in the Junior Choice feature and today there it was.

Ian.

RockitRon · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 7646

Didn't get to hear Saturday's show, as we had a problem with our car which needed a trip to the garage. May get to go on i-player sometime.

Ian, you've no doubt cast about for Harpers Bizarre - Amazon have the Platinum Collection at a snip. I agree with what you say about Judy Collins - her version of In My Life was lovely, as was nearly everything she did. It doesn't appear on her currently available Best of... It is, however, on the double set Forever - An Anthology, which is at present only available from the US through their third-party suppliers. I have used the one that sounds like a crocodile or tax haven without any hitches, and the collection is well worth it, if you're tempted.
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iwarburton · Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 2133 Location: Northumberland

Many thanks. Haven't yet had a spare moment to look for the Harpers Bizarre album referred to but shall investigate.

Ian.

iwarburton · Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 2133 Location: Northumberland

Usual complimentary remarks re today's show.

Would the requester who is visiting the UK from Australia and bemoans the lack of 60s music in Oz be able to hear SOTS on the Internet?

With reference to a passing mention of the group Calendar Girls, I assume that this phrase didn't have the same overtones in the 60s (and I write as a one-time-only calendar man!).

Listening to the wonderful freshness of the Four Seasons' very first hit, Sherry, it struck me that the course of pop history would have been quite different if the single had gone down the pan, rather than scoring in both the US and UK.

Ian.

RockitRon · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 7646

As I recall Sherry was one of those hits that definitely owed its British success to the pirate radio stations - it seemed to get played every hour! (Len Barry's as well, come to that).

I remember Jimmie Rodgers' English Country Garden - it was, I think, one of those that parents and Uncle Mac thought should be a Children's Favourite; I detested it.
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iwarburton · Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 2133 Location: Northumberland

Thanks, Ron.

I think your analysis of why Jimmie Rodgers was played on Children's Favourites is correct but don't share your dislike of the record!

Ian.

iwarburton · Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 2133 Location: Northumberland

Good idea for Three in a Row today--successive Number Ones for Cliff, the Shadows and Jet and Tony.

Was Bangers and Mash one of the items also recorded for the Woolworths Embassy label by Maureen Evans and 'Matt Bryant'?

Ian.

iwarburton · Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 2133 Location: Northumberland

Never knew that there had been a version of Rivers of Babylon before Boney M did it. Quite a theological description of it by BM, too.

A lot of political incorrectness about today, with Jake the Peg and Happy Being Fat!

The Searchers' Till I Met You was one of my favourite B sides of the era. It was on the reverse of Goodbye My Love.

Nice idea to play 4 Cliff Richard tracks to celebrate his five decades as a recording star.

Glad they're going to mark the 50th anniversary of Saturday Club next week. I remember the first show! Should be a real treat.

Ian.

RockitRon · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 7646

A higher proportion of the familiar this week, largely because of the Cliff Richard selelctions. The Three In A Row were all alternative takes, and come from an 8CD (plus a 78!) box set to mark his 50th year in the business, costing just 2p shy of £100, at Amazon anyway. It appears to concentrate on the rarer, live and out-take material - one for diehard fans only, I think.

Nat's "Ramblin' Rose" was also not the version which was released as a single or appears on the many mainstream collections today.

Loved hearing Alan Haven's "Image" again. It is hard to get - I keep looking.
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iwarburton · Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 2133 Location: Northumberland

Isn't it great to see this Saturday's show getting some pre-publicity--a note in the Radio Times, a trailer on R2.

You can take it as read that my alarm will be set for 8am or earlier on Saturday!

Ian.

iwarburton · Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 2133 Location: Northumberland

A lovely two hours of unbridled nostalgia on the 50th anniversary of Saturday Club!

BM clearly enjoyed reminiscing about what must have been a busy but happy professional time. But it's noticeable that, no doubt on instruction from on high, he adopted a rather more formal style on Saturday Club than he employs today. He must have carried quite a workload in those days, with SC, Thank Your Lucky Stars on ITV and Sunday morning's Easy Beat. I gather that he also produced Easy Beat, no doubt involving him in bookings, budgets etc.

Goodness, I'd forgotten about the jokey introductions. Senior target John Snagge doesn't seem to have shown much sense of humour over being sent up.

Midnight in Moscow must have been one of the most whistleable tunes of its era.

Good that we had another helping of Cliff. Was Lucky Lips also recorded by Alma Cogan--perhaps on a B side?

Carter-Lewis and the Southerners clearly deserved inclusion but I'd love to hear again their smallish 1963 hit Your Mother's Out of Town, which keeps eluding me.

Congrats to all.

Ian.

Helen May · Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 19382 Location: Cheshire

I only heard the last 45 mins Ian.

I've just checked the playlist and there were no Beatles tracks included, despite having just read the radio highlights in the paper which said they were doing a live version of I Saw Her Standing There......

Someone must have given the wrong listings to the press.

Maybe they should do another Saturday Club Special.

H
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RockitRon · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 7646

Hello, H and Ian

The playlist doesn't include items taken from the live excerpts from the show, of which I Saw Her Standing There was one.

Lucky Lips was indeed an Alma Cogan B-side, to Whatever Lola Wants, from 1957.

Don't know how much more archive material there is left, other than Beatles, but, yes, another Saturday Club Special would go down a treat.
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Helen May · Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 19382 Location: Cheshire

Thanks for that Ron.

I must admit the playlist looked a bit short! I'll listen again a bit later on.

H
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Lord Evan Elpuss · Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 3417 Location: Cloud Cuckoo Land

I used my last available C120 tape on today's show. And it's also nice that it wasn't interrupted by annoying trailers for shows I'll more often than not want to avoid!
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iwarburton · Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 2133 Location: Northumberland

Meant to add--did BM really present every one of the first 468 shows, as implied in Radio Times and on the website? All live? No holidays? 52 weeks per year for the 9 years that he was on? Surely not. Could some of them have been recorded?

Ian.

RockitRon · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 7646

That will have to remain one of the world's great unanswered questions, Ian. I certainly don't know.

Back to normal today and what more could one wish for than Beatles, Stones, Elvis, Monkees, Beach Boys, Cliff, Adam and The Kinks all in the one show?

You can understand why John might have been miffed at Paul pinching the A-side with Hello Goodbye. His Revolution on the B-side was a cracker; the album version has improved with time, but the waste of space that was Revoluton 9 never will.

No Dave Clark Five this week, but the CD is out on Monday, and a little hole in my collection will be filled at last!
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iwarburton · Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 2133 Location: Northumberland

Yes, the usual treat, even though it started with a big fat error! Billy Fury's Last Night Was Made for Love was a hit in 62, not 64.

None of my special favourites this week, as it happened, but I like pretty well any version of Ob La Di Ob La Da, so this was very welcome.

Ian.

iwarburton · Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 2133 Location: Northumberland

Back to normal today and what more could one wish for than Beatles, Stones, Elvis, Monkees, Beach Boys, Cliff, Adam and The Kinks all in the one show?
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And don't forget Bob Dylan!

Ian.

iwarburton · Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 2133 Location: Northumberland

Couldn't really get away with Revolution 9, though I accept that they had to include it in its place.

Hope you enjoyed hearing the DC5's 1967 Everybody Knows, Ron. Odd that it had the same title as one of their earlier songs--perhaps this should be played sometime.

Good 3 in a Row--Telstar must be one of the best instrumentals of its time.

Mrs W reckons that the phrase Where's Me Shairt was originated by Wilfrid Brambell in his Albert Steptoe persona and then pinched by Ken Dodd. I say that Doddy introduced it himself. Does anyone known which of us is right.

Ian.

Lord Evan Elpuss · Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 3417 Location: Cloud Cuckoo Land

I don't know who originated it, but I haven't heard 'Where's Me Shairt' in many a long year. Probably not since Junior Choice was axed.
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SantaFefan · Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2008 5:39 pm Post subject:

wasn't it from The Larkins?
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iwarburton · Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 2133 Location: Northumberland

Not sure if this originated with the Larkins but mention of them sure brings back memories of Peggy Mount and David Kossoff.

Ian.

iwarburton · Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 2133 Location: Northumberland

One of the great strengths of SOTS is its faculty for remiding you of totally forgotten favourites. I used to love playing the Nice track on continual replay but had clean forgotten its existence.

Does anyone know if Jersey Boys is likely to do a provincial tour, as we both fancy going to see it.

Ian.

RockitRon · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 7646

Nothing in the wind about a Jersey Boys tour. There is a US tour, and the Motown show Dancing In The Streets recently toured here after its run in the West End finished. I would imagine that the Four Seasons story would do well around the provinces, so keep your fingers crossed...

The Diamond Hard Apples Of The Moon was the B-side to the notorious (brilliant) lash-up of Bernstein's "America". I used to play both pretty much continuously as well.

How many more times is he going to play Yes I Will?

Cassius Clay wasn't the greatest singer, but it wasn't a bad stab at Stand By Me. Hugh Paddick's Ricky Livid and the Tone Deafs' joke recording was proof that comedians should by and large stick to what they know best. And the more tracks from The Beatles' Anthology albums I hear the more I agree with John Lennon's sentiment that there wasn't anything worthwhile left in the vaults, under the carpet or behind the bookshelves.
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iwarburton · Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 2133 Location: Northumberland

I like Yes I Will but it's been on about 5 times over the last year or two. The Hollies' A sides get a pretty good play on SOTS so why not feature some of their B sides or album tracks?

Ian.

Tom Dors · Joined: 11 Aug 2008 Posts: 64

Great to Hear Diamond Hard Blue Apples on the radio. Those who associate Keith Emerson with over-complicated, unmelodic ELP should investigate more of The Nice. And they were the best live act I've ever seen.