Trojan
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Cindy Incidentally - Faces
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Corina Corina Bob Dylan
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Chick Webb Orchestra Stompin' at the Savoy
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Don't Explain, Billie Holiday - wonderful
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Carolina in my mind, Melanie Safka, real seventies soft folk rock.
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Just finished listening to I Am Pilgrim. Must say it was an incredible read even if a little far-fetched at times.
Is that the series about William Palmer?
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I was listening to Melanie's version of Ruby Tuesday last night, better than the original IMO. Also the Beatles version of "Words of Love" is IMO superior to the Buddy Holly original. Worst cover version I've ever heard is the Carpenters' version of Please Mr Postman. Sung pat, and totally without the passion both the Beatles and the Marvelettes put into it.
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In June 1975 snow stopped play in a county match at Buxton. The long hot summer of 1975 and the 1975/76 drought followed. Here's hoping!
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Whilst I have been given copies of Sgt pepper, the white album and abbey rd, in all my years I've never been sufficiently enthused to buy anything by the popular beat combo from Liverpool.
Ok I don't knock em and I appreciate their massive world wide appeal... and I do like some of their stuff.... but they were never really my scene....
Odd really. ... cos the rest of the world still goes loopy over them....
Think I may give norwegian wood a blast... It might prompt me to play the album
I reckon I'm a bit older than you. I remember the first time I heard the Beatles. In those days in Yorkshire we got Granada TV from Manchester, and the local news programme was called People and Places, introduced by Bill Grundy. There was an item about this band from Liverpool. They played Love Me Do! I've been a fan ever since. At the time the charts were full of stuff by Frank Ifield, Craig Douglas, Jimmy Rogers and Pat Boone, they were like a breath of fresh air. There is something about the blend of Lennon and McCartney's voices that is somehow magic. The whole was much better than the sum of the parts. Neither of them singly was a patch on them together.
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Having listened to Tom Jones play it on Jools Holland, St James Infirmary Blues Louis Armstrong
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So, the original intention was for this to be a rugby history thread - so here is a tester. I've spent the Xmas period researching RL in Bury/North Manchester. Below - are the members due to play in the Manchester and District RL in summer 1914 (i.e. the structure for that winter - just as WW1 began) as reported in the Manchester Evening news at the time.
Prestwich
Mandlebergs
Rylands Recreational
Broughton Central
Wardley
Winton
Cadishead
Bradford Hornets
Pendleton
Deans Rovers
Anchor Cable
Reddish
Swinton St Marys
Flixton Hornets
Swinton Park
Cadishead A
Flixton
Bradford & Clayton
Clifton
Weaste
Seedley Rangers
The question...what happened to RL in this part of the world as i cannot find reference to many, if any, of these after this one!? Can it all be blamed on WW1?
The vast majority of sides are in what is now Salford, but a few are squarely in East Manchester (Bradford is an area of East Manchester - not just Yorkshire). And how different could it have been in this part of the world given Swinton, Broughton, and Salford were top teams and this lot sat below?
As an aside - for the real historians - does this say something about coal-mining and RL? Most of the Salford side clubs are pit areas - even Prestwich is adjacent to Agecroft while few know that Bradford in East Manchester was also a pit area...
Bradford may be East Manchester (end of Mancunian way?) But Bradford and Clayton are in Yorkshire.
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http://www.britishpathe.com/video/army-rugby-final-2
the player who scored the first try is Billy Boston
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I haven't got that version but I've got versions by guitarists: Jim Hall, Wes Montgomery, Tal Farlow, Kenny Burrell and Charlie Christian.
It's available on Spotify and You Tube. Benny Goodman also did a version. Same arranger, Fletcher Henderson, but Chick's is far superior IMO.
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Stompin' at the Savoy, Chick Webb Orchestra. I'm a sucker for thirties swing!
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Still Life Kirsty McColl
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We had a goldfinch in our garden this morning, I've never seen one before and didn't know what it was. Described it to a friend and he said it sounds like a goldfinch. And it is.
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I saw my first swallows of this year at Wigglesworth (near Settle) they were nesting in a workshop I was visiting. I remarked on it to the guy I was talking to and he said there had been 4 or 5 in the warm spell at the end of March, but they'd been about tor a week and then disappeared, he reckoned they died because the weather turned cold, and there was no food for them.
Which reminds me of a story:
There was a swallow who decided one autumn not to fly south with its mates. As September wore on into October there were still plenty of flies, but then the weather turned cold, and there was no food. The swallow fell out of the sky into a farmyard, where a cow crapped on it, the warmth of the ###### revived the swallow and it began to flutter its wings. A passing cat saw the fluttering and investigated, found the swallow and ate it up. Which goes to prove that it's not always a bad thing to be in the ######, and if you are you should keep quiet about it!
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Good books, I do enjoy Bernard Cornwell's work.
I've read most of the Sharpe books, not keen on the Vikings ones, really miss the Starbuck US Civil War stories, I thought they were excellent.
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Gordon Brown "Beyond the Crash"
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There was a good programme about Billie Holiday on Radio 4 the other day: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05pn3t6
That's what jogged my memory to listen to Pres and Teddy again
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Haven't heard that but I always thought Billie Holiday's best work was with Pres & Teddy backing.
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Pres & Teddy - Lester Young and Teddy Wilson
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Voi che sapete, Marriage of Figaro
What Are You Listening To - The Reckoning
in Any Other Business / Any Other Sports
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Guitar riff on this is priceless. I saw them shortly after they recorded Cindy at the Queens Hall in Leeds, acoustics were terrible, couldn't hear a thing. What can you expect from a former tram shed!