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I have a reel to reel recording of a 1969 Top Gear show with a live session of the Bonzo Dog Band doing Mr Apollo in which Viv Stanshall threatens to "Give Bernie Andrews a knuckle sandwich"!
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| Sounds a lot better than a mouse sandwich mentioned elsewhere! |
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Talking of cartoons..
I was surprised to hear Brian say on last Saturday's show that (whatever the year was) saw America's first adult cartoon series - "The Flintstones" 
I wouldn't say the show was aimed at adults? not in the least! unless I missed something.... 
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That guy off the Eggheads is obsessed with the series and he must be at least 40
I just don't understand the appeal |
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SantaFefan
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Oh I loved cartoons and still do as long as they are pre 1970!
I can watch Tom & Jerry, Top Cat, Sylvester & Tweety, Road Runner, Bugs etc.. every day. Those cartoonists got it just right, particularly Tom & Jerry..
simply amazing expressions and actions.
I must admit to being obsessed with "Family Guy"... and American Dad.. 
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Santa I quite surprised at what you say but I have to admit to a sneaking admiration for Deputy Dawg in the 60s
I have frequently been known to utter his catchphrase
Ouch my toe bone!
Especially when I been using a lump hammer to try to free up a seised fuel pump on an old car and always seem to end up dropping it on various parts of my body |
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Actually I seem to remember that the Flintstones were originally intended for adults but the kids soon latched on.
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The Great Gildersleeve
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| Yep the Flintstones was aimed at adults in the States certainly and based on the TV series The Honeymooners...and if you can find them it was sponsored by a cigarette company and there are ads where Fred and Barney are smoking... |
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becky sharp
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| SantaFefan wrote: | Talking of cartoons..
I was surprised to hear Brian say on last Saturday's show that (whatever the year was) saw America's first adult cartoon series - "The Flintstones"
I wouldn't say the show was aimed at adults? not in the least! unless I missed something.... |
It's their 50th Anniversary today.... Yabba-Dabba Do!..  |
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iwarburton
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Looks like Brian was right all the time!
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John W
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| SantaFefan wrote: | Talking of cartoons..
I was surprised to hear Brian say on last Saturday's show that (whatever the year was) saw America's first adult cartoon series - "The Flintstones"
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I would say the first American cartoon series aimed at adults was Betty Boop (the Boop-Boop-A-Doop girl, singing songs with the bouncing ball). That was cinema though, not TV.
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A more contemporary example of a cartoon series that was most definitely designed with a "grown-up" audience in mind is The Simpsons, which first aired as a slot in the Tracy Ullman show.
It's always been very clever in that it contains lots of "in jokes" that require a knowledge of current issues in order to appreciate it, but it's also able to connect with children who take the characters (eg: Bart and his mates) and their situations at face value. |
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SantaFefan
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Yes, the same is certainly true in the case of Family Guy, American Dad and... South Park.
But I just don't see the Flintstones content was at an adult level..
I always wondered what Betty saw in Barney though... 
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John W
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| SantaFefan wrote: | But I just don't see the Flintstones content was at an adult level..
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Well, I would say many of the story lines were at an adult level. Fred worked at the quarry, argued with the boss, he was always bawling at Wilma, but really very much dependant on her, and always he was always having to creep back to Wilma. Fred and Barney were always up to no good behind the backs of Wilma and Betty, betting lots of money at the dinosaur races etc etc. There was a kid interest for sure with Pebbles, Bam Bam, Dino and ...... well of course I never watched it
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NilbertZilbert
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I had a request played on SOTS about 2 years ago. It was a track called "Black Pearl" by Sonny Charles and the Checkmates released in mid 1969. Luckily I was working that Saturday morning and managed to hear it.
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Helen May
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Was that the same track that was done by Horace Faith in 1970?
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NilbertZilbert
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Yes Helen. Same song but Horace Faith's was a reggae version.
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Great song, think I've heard the version you had played.
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Track of the day so far for me has to be "Driving Song" by Jethro Tull.. great to hear this again!
Also, Brian mentioned that all the Monkee's LPs are available on one CD..
I think I'll keep an eye out for that.. I used to like the Monkees but as Soulsister said about older artists, it would be nice to hear other stuff they did which I haven't heard as yet..
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ooops spoke too soon.. Eleanor by the Turtles... I love it.
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| Santa, the one he played by The Monkees sounded like one by The Stones.... |
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iwarburton
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Great show, as it always is, but a real surprise that there were no Beatles tracks on the 70th anniversary of John Lennon's birth.
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| SantaFefan wrote: | Track of the day so far for me has to be "Driving Song" by Jethro Tull.. great to hear this again!
Also, Brian mentioned that all the Monkee's LPs are available on one CD..
I think I'll keep an eye out for that.. I used to like the Monkees but as Soulsister said about older artists, it would be nice to hear other stuff they did which I haven't heard as yet.. |
My wife has always loved The Monkees; knows all the words to all the songs  . I "inherited" all five LPs on this new box set when we got together **!!** years ago - they were all scratchy through overplaying even then, and I transferred them, first to tape, then CD and latest of all ipod for her.
In truth, one reason they were able to issue so many LPs so quickly (four in one year) was that there was a lot of filler, which is remarkable considering they're only 25-30 mins long.
Rhino has not digitally remastered the recordings for this reissue, which has kept the price down. It is an import set, £14.99 at Nipper's online store, and I've ordered one for someone's Christmas stocking.
There are about forty other box sets in the series, from artists such as Little Feat (I've ordered that one for myself), Dr John, Linda Ronstadt, Otis Redding etc etc.
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| iwarburton wrote: | Great show, as it always is, but a real surprise that there were no Beatles tracks on the 70th anniversary of John Lennon's birth.
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Two weeks in a row no Beatles!
Yoko Ono featured in the news bulletins during Zoe Ball's show (don't ask me why I had to have that on ) and she kept saying Peace this and Peace that. I was reminded of Ringo Starr's comment, echoed by one of our number here. Oddly, Listen Again for her show isn't available.
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Good show today with plenty of late 60s stuff and much less of the pre Beatles period
Personally I did not even notice the lack of Beatles tracks
The other music was just so good
Definitely agree with you about The Turtles and Eleanor Santa
Did you hear the story behind it
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| Posted: Sat Oct 09, 2010 1:00 pm Post subject: Sounds of the 60s |
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I listened on I-player and it seemed to stop after the first song in the 3 in a Row and go back to the last bit of James Carr's 'Dark End Of The Street' and the rest of the first half.
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| Posted: Sun Oct 24, 2010 10:39 am Post subject: Sounds Of The 60s |
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I Know A Man (Rolf Harris) was quite a good song.
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| Hadn't heard that one before,aviddiva......what a lovely,lovely song (Amy) Brian played by Bobby Darin..another one I hadn't heard before.... |
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I can date my interest in Sixties Pop back to the transfer of Pick of the Pops from Saturday night to Sunday afternoon in January 1962 and Eden Kane's Forget Me Not always reminds me of the very early days.
Had forgotten that Peggy Lee had recorded Ray Davies' I Go to Sleep and it was great to hear it again. Did the Applejacks do a version of it too?
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jimmy mac
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Ian
The Applejacks and a few others did it at the time..the other one i remember is Cher
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aviddiva
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Elvis Presley's Suspicious Minds now makes me think of the Mock the Week episode where Dara O'Braian says he can't see the David Cameron 'We can't go on like this' poster without wanting to add 'with suspicious minds'!
More recently, Russell Howard's Good News mentioned that one of the Chilean miners would sing Elvis songs while waiting to be rescued - Howard said 'I hope he didn't sing 'Suspicious Minds'!'
Big Dee Irwin's Swinging On A Star has been an earworm all week thanks to Shaun Keaveney's jingle to the same tune ending 'the weirdest e-mailer in town'!
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| Don't think we'll be seeing Dion any time soon on Strictly ....his irritation level would reach boiling point with the dancers on that... |
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Re: Dion. I understand his irritation with the dancers and Stars In Their Eyes would be just as annoying in that respect!
'Donna The Prima Donna' ought to have been Catherine Tate's theme song in Doctor Who!
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An in-and-out morning meant I only heard today's show in snatches, and the playlist hasn't been put up yet.
Caught Bernard Cribbins' "Gossip Calypso", written by Trevor Peacock, who was also responsible for Herman's Hermits' "Mrs Brown You've Got A Lovely Daughter" and Joe Brown's "That's What Love Will Do", amongst others.
(Everyone eulogises about how full of information the www is, but if you google Trevor Peacock what comes up, despite the success of Vicar of Dibley? - Captain Peacock, Trevor Bannister and Are You Being Served. No, no, no, he's in there somewhere but you have to look some way down.)
Anyway, about the only time I have ever sung to any sort of audience, was when I was ten and performed Gossip Calypso as an end-of-term party piece at junior school. The largely female teaching staff, and dinner ladies, middle-aged and ignorant of records in the hit parade, thought I was being personal and impudent - they were not amused.
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Gossip Calypso is so true even though it's over 40 years old now! There is a bunch of women near our house who congregate at the bus shelter spreading gossip just like that.
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lol at Gossip Calypso. Had forgotten how funny it is.
Gerry's account of You'll Never Walk Alone still gives me goose pimples 47 years on!
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Listening to Sounds of the Sixtees for a change & quite enjoying it. I suppose it depends on what mood I'm in. Enjoyed "Little Arrows"  I just had this picture of me getting ready for school listening to Tony Blackburn on the Breakfast Show on Radio 1!  Must have been 68 or 69. |
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| Donovan's "Mellow Yellow" The show is better than usual today |
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Little Arrows was 68 Clive, but I've got to disagree about SOTS being better this week. It's the first one I've listened to all the way through in many weeks and sorry to say I found it rather boring with so many obscure tracks.
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| Clive55 wrote: | | Listening to Sounds of the Sixtees for a change & quite enjoying it. I suppose it depends on what mood I'm in. Enjoyed "Little Arrows" I just had this picture of me getting ready for school listening to Tony Blackburn on the Breakfast Show on Radio 1! Must have been 68 or 69. |
You and me both! That's exactly the image that it conjures up for me, too. |
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