I just loved the Monkees when I was about 12. My older sister was a Stones fan and always sneered when I played their songs (taped from the radio as you did in those days). I also loved the Archies 'Sugar Sugar' .... she might have had a point there.
And then I grew up a bit and found Joni and Cat Stevens .... now there was a good looking man
Bee x
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Talking about old groups, singers and records, I was with a friend yesterday afternoon who had to call to collect something from another friend. I waited in the car but then was called in to have a look around the house that he and his partner were renovating. He put a record on his 1950's gramophone and it took me straight back to my teenage years. It cheered me immensely. Can anyone remember her?
Talking about old groups, singers and records, I was with a friend yesterday afternoon who had to call to collect something from another friend. I waited in the car but then was called in to have a look around the house that he and his partner were renovating. He put a record on his 1950's gramophone and it took me straight back to my teenage years. It cheered me immensely. Can anyone remember her?
The most important part of your post Because of that, I'll even forgive you for The Archies...but your sister was right ....
I was lucky that me and my sister had similar taste, so we could share albums. I don't think she ever liked The Stones though, unfortunately, and she certainly didn't share my fondness for Queen - the early stuff. When other girls had Donny or David Cassidy on their bedroom walls, I had Cat Stevens and Neil Young I do remember my sis buying Teaser and the Firecat, and the first lot of albums were in beautiful cartridge paper.
Helen Shapiro was a very well known artist @Uff. Not my thing really though. I must be younger than you.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I remember Helen Shapiro having her first hit, wasn’t she only 15? Loved the Monkees! Saturday nights at the youth club were generally deserted until after that week’s episode had aired, then we would all head out for the evening. Then I and the other convent school girls, would dance the night away with the boys from the Jesuit college, to the theme tune from the Guns of Navarone!
I remember Helen Shapiro having hits while I was still in primary school. I loved the Beatles and most of what was called merseyside music from Liverpool and Manchester and points between as well as the Stones and the Beach Boys and the Monkees and Sugar Sugar and almost all Motown and a lot of Atlantic Soul. Disco night at the Cricket Club was mostly the latter two and brilliant.
Never could get on with Neil Young cos of his whiny voice. Still don't like the whiny ones.
These days I like all sorts of music but for dancing it has to have a good rhythm for ballroom or Latin and occasionally salsa or bachata.
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Does anyone else find that in your more mature years that you appreciate some of the music that wasn't 'cool' at the time? However, there will some music you will hate until death.
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I just loved the Monkees when I was about 12. My older sister was a Stones fan and always sneered when I played their songs (taped from the radio as you did in those days).
I also loved the Archies 'Sugar Sugar' .... she might have had a point there.
And then I grew up a bit and found Joni and Cat Stevens .... now there was a good looking man
Bee x
A single bee creates just one twelfth of a teaspoon of honey in her lifetime
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Because of that, I'll even forgive you for The Archies...but your sister was right ....
I was lucky that me and my sister had similar taste, so we could share albums. I don't think she ever liked The Stones though, unfortunately, and she certainly didn't share my fondness for Queen - the early stuff.
When other girls had Donny or David Cassidy on their bedroom walls, I had Cat Stevens and Neil Young
I do remember my sis buying Teaser and the Firecat, and the first lot of albums were in beautiful cartridge paper.
Helen Shapiro was a very well known artist @Uff. Not my thing really though. I must be younger than you.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Loved the Monkees! Saturday nights at the youth club were generally deserted until after that week’s episode had aired, then we would all head out for the evening. Then I and the other convent school girls, would dance the night away with the boys from the Jesuit college, to the theme tune from the Guns of Navarone!
Never could get on with Neil Young cos of his whiny voice. Still don't like the whiny ones.
These days I like all sorts of music but for dancing it has to have a good rhythm for ballroom or Latin and occasionally salsa or bachata.