Dick Dasterdly

Ha ha, I knew what was coming there.
A great old favourite.

Dick Dasterdly

Here's a classic from way back when mini skirts, better known as f@nny pelmets, were at their height.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BmEGm-mraE

I so nearly had a bad mishap this morning.
Normally I never ever allow myself to be distracted from the road when driving, other than a very swift glance.
However a certain lovely mini skirted young lady caught my eye to such an extent this morning that I just couldn't resist a second look.
Phew, very close shave with a vehicle coming towards me.

jimenato

You must have had more than just a glance if you could see that...

HBG

I was driving down Homerton Road in Hackney one hot summer day, with my wife's words ringing in my ear. I was on my last warning. As I was driving along the place seemed to be full of young ladies in impossibly tight mini skirts.

This lot was playing at the Tottenham Royal at the time.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoRLIJJSG4o

Dick Dasterdly

Yet another great band from the same era.

I recall thinking at the time, it was all too good to last.

HBG

Peace to the world:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuhKE1XkGK8

Dick Dasterdly

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6dx8AfTmQk

HBG

The 60s, when I grew up. Or did I? Listening to the short extracts from the 30 songs it now seems that most of the singers were spaced out when they sang their songs. Was everyone spaced out in the sixties?

I can't remember. I did swallow some purple pills, shaped like hearts, that only kept me awake when I wanted to sleep, and rolled some cigarettes with bird seed that made all women look like Marilyn Monroe.

There was no harm done as far as I know, it was a decade of peace and people sticking flowers in their hair. The flowers seemed to go along with halitosis, I still keep away from ladies with long skirts and bad breath.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfzjGSRaBE4

HBG

I sometimes sit back and wonder why I never got into this music. I listen to it very occasionally but it doesn't do much for me, however hard I try.

I've reached the conclusion that I'm just a pleb, an ununderstanding thicko. I'm not even sad about it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjWpSfkLyQc

Lionda

My granddaughter is 15 months and loves music, she taps on the bongos and dances and watches my husband playing guitar and plucks at the strings. When he played the sax she was spellbound and shouted "more" I really hope she keeps up the interest and become a musician

HBG

In view of some misunderstanding elsewhere, I feel justified in posting this one. The guy is practically a neighbour of mine. He wasn't 40 years ago when we were both a lot younger.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6whQ5otGo8o

HBG

In my growing years up north, the girls would be on one side and the drunken suitors on the other. The girls danced among themselves while the heroes sipped from their hidden drinks to work up their courage.

When the last dance was played there would be a mad rush across the dance hall to grab a lady. The ladies would judge the suitor's drunkenness and refuse if it was over the top.

The drunken refusee would say, 'What do you expect for half-a-crown, Tony Curtis?'

This was always the finishing song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-XQ26KePUQ

HBG

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gDlYKrkQK8

jimenato

I look in here once a week to see if any music has been posted.

Dick Dasterdly

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlE8CDPjFSA