Old Friends is a superb song. Bookends is a great album. I'll need to add it to the iPod for weekend walking. I certainly can't listen to bl**dy Michael Ball on a Sunday. Hearing him attempt to 'sing' to Richard Carpenter a while ago made me want to slit my wrists. Embarrassing doesn't even begin to address it...
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Sunday radio is crap here too @Fairygirl and I can only get Radio 2 or 4 if I think to take my PC to my sewing room which also has a functioning CD player. Downstairs' CD player is dead so my music is ear worms or the background music to whatever sport OH is watching. Women's rugby today cos it's raining - at last!
Grand that it's raining but I had planned to plant apple trees this pm. Never mind, they can wait a few days.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
I only listen to Johnnie Walker in the afternoon on Sundays @Obelixx. I shudder to think what was going through R. Carpenter's head when he was subjected to that boak inducing noise. Poor man. I take it you haven't had much recent rain? Think I'll venture out now, as it seems to have cleared a bit.... Singin' in the Rain was [appropriately] on yesterday on the telly. Certainly not a curmudgeon - just a delight, as always, especially the wonderful Jean "People? I ain't people" Hagen.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Is Johnny Walker still about? I used to listen to him on Radio Caroline. I have fond memories of Frinton Flashers , Smartie cannons and Dock of the Bay followed by Nights in White Satin every night at 10 o'clock.
@B3 and @Fairygirl I used to love Johnny Walker. Radio Caroline North switched off at night so I'd listen to JW when they boosted the signal for us northeners.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
He does the rock show on R2 on a Sat night, and Sunday aftn is Sounds of the 70s @B3. I've been listening to him for decades too. He had [easily] the best show on R1 when he was there. Proper music knowledge. The pirate stations were fabulous. There was so little available for real music fans back then. Simpler times My daughters still don't really believe me about the grief he got over the infamous "Bay City Rollers incident" back then. I don't blame them - when you look at what gets broadcast unnoticed now! It's a pity the powers that be didn't take more notice of the other stuff that was happening....
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Is Johnny Walker still about? I used to listen to him on Radio Caroline. I have fond memories of Frinton Flashers , Smartie cannons and Dock of the Bay followed by Nights in White Satin every night at 10 o'clock.
Those were the days indeed @B3. I lived not that far from the Suffolk coast, and reception of R. London and Caroline was really good, even from the very early days. I went to bed with my little red transistor radio under my pillow … I’ll never forget JW telling me Otis Redding had died … I was pole-axed 😭 He’s had a health problem or two, but JW is still playing our music for us https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00jlwqd
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I remember him smashing all the awful records that they had to constantly play because the groups were managed by the station's owner. A couple of weeks of mostly good music until they managed to deliver replacements.
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I'll need to add it to the iPod for weekend walking. I certainly can't listen to bl**dy Michael Ball on a Sunday. Hearing him attempt to 'sing' to Richard Carpenter a while ago made me want to slit my wrists. Embarrassing doesn't even begin to address it...
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Grand that it's raining but I had planned to plant apple trees this pm. Never mind, they can wait a few days.
I shudder to think what was going through R. Carpenter's head when he was subjected to that boak inducing noise. Poor man.
I take it you haven't had much recent rain? Think I'll venture out now, as it seems to have cleared a bit....
Singin' in the Rain was [appropriately] on yesterday on the telly.
Certainly not a curmudgeon - just a delight, as always, especially the wonderful Jean "People? I ain't people" Hagen.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I used to listen to him on Radio Caroline. I have fond memories of Frinton Flashers , Smartie cannons and Dock of the Bay followed by Nights in White Satin every night at 10 o'clock.
I've been listening to him for decades too. He had [easily] the best show on R1 when he was there. Proper music knowledge. The pirate stations were fabulous. There was so little available for real music fans back then. Simpler times
My daughters still don't really believe me about the grief he got over the infamous "Bay City Rollers incident" back then. I don't blame them - when you look at what gets broadcast unnoticed now!
It's a pity the powers that be didn't take more notice of the other stuff that was happening....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
He’s had a health problem or two, but JW is still playing our music for us
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00jlwqd
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
#Ahahah - does anyone know the way.....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...