Tongs ya bas
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staff recruitment drive required in holby city
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10 hours ago, Futtocks said:
Unless MacKenzie Crook changes his mind, next week will see the last ever episode of 'Detectorists'.
It was a great piece of programming last night, straight after digging for Britain.
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I thought I'd turn it on its head. The most famous version is a cover by jimi hendrix.
But very few people are familiar with what is supposed to be the original,(it's probably derived from another song). which I came across whilst learning the song.
I really like it.
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The A word has been superb.
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great song. love how it builds, and great use of vibrato.
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10 hours ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:
Great film. The song has got me plenty of points in quiz's , most people think it's Frankie Laine.
i like telling people it was Tex Ritter. Tex was one of my favourite cowboys when i was a kid, along with the range rider and the cisco kid.
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I sing this to our Angus to get him to sleep. One of my favourite films. The bit where he sings' for I must face a man who hates me, or die a coward' is spine tingling.
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incredibly evocative words. Bing Crosby does a superb job of interpreting them. One of my top twenty songs.
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12 hours ago, ckn said:
The judges on Strictly Come Dancing certainly have their favourites. Alexandra and Debbie make obvious mistakes and get gushing praise while the other contestants are judged more harshly than a dusky skinned family at a BNP rally.
I thought that Scots lad and her from embeddable got a rough deal.
I think the judges have got Debbie lined up to win it. I watch it at my mother's, watch with mother eh, so strictly has at least a captive audience of one.
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26 minutes ago, Robin Evans said:
Tomorrow I'm off to Firhill for the Hibs game.
I really am the champion of the lost cause
Is the match factory still there? Probably not
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37 minutes ago, Old Frightful said:
Would be wonderful if Hull Tigers managed to be the first.
It would be a testimony to the power of prayer.
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8 hours ago, Futtocks said:
One for the iPlayer, because it has just finished - Naples '44 on BBC4 is excerpts from the book by Norman Lewis, read by Benedict Cumberbatch. A very fine piece of work all round.
Lewis is one of the great travel writers of the 20th century, whose travelling life started in the Fifties. As a younger man, however, he worked in Military Intelligence during WWII, but nothing really prepared him for post-occupation Naples and the resourceful inhabitants of that notorious city.
Sounds I goer.
Definitely one to download.
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8 minutes ago, Robin Evans said:
You might want to check that
I did. Maybe a I checked an unreliable source.
I'm pretty certain it hasn't happened in English soccer.
Remember it has to be in successive seasons.
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21 hours ago, Old Frightful said:
Has any team been relegated from the top tier all the way to the fourth in successive seasons?
I was just wondering....
Gretna in Scottish soccer
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2 minutes ago, Ullman said:
In the meantime...
Oh yes
I saw them yet again a couple of weeks back at the wardrobe in Leeds
I don't care what incarnation they are in they still get to me
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1 hour ago, Ullman said:
Would have been even quicker if I'd googled it but where's the fun in that?
Actually I was right the first time. It's another song. Ill post the video later. It's a beautiful song that reminds me of stuff
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12 minutes ago, Ullman said:
It's "Where do we go from here?".
Aye, thanks mate.
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2 hours ago, Futtocks said:
Believe it or not, children, there was a time before the numbingly dull MOR ballads, and while they still had a killer horn section, that Chicago were actually a pretty damn good band.
A staple of our student union disco. When they were called Chicago Transit Authority they were red hot. They did a great number called ' Does anybody know what time it is'. Which I think was on the b side of this.
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the band ELO could have been.
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6 hours ago, John Drake said:
Ron Grainer composed the theme tune, but the most famous arrangement of it was by Delia Derbyshire.
They both passed away quite some time ago, but Derbyshire was very recently in the news again after being awarded a posthumous PhD for her contribution to the world of electronic music.
Just had a read of her Wikipedia page, seems like she had quite a tragic life, and died when she was only 64.
Thanks for the clarification John. The last interview with her was played on the radio the other day. It was really interesting.
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47 minutes ago, John Drake said:
54 years ago today, 23rd Nov 1963, the BBC broadcast this for the first time, and a TV legend was born.
Doctor Who - An Unearthly Child
The lady who composed the music recently died. I'm not sure whether it's on the obituary thread.
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been listening to this on repeat whilst out with the dogs. Going to learn it today.
Ha one two, a one two three.
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10 hours ago, Ullman said:
My grandad was lost in the Barents Sea on Arctic convoy PQ-13.
First time I saw Das Boot was in the cinema with my mam. The scene where they attack the British convoy was poignant to say the least, especially when they have no option but to leave for dead the British sailors in the water. I wondered how she'd react but she thought it was a superb film. It's one of my favourites to this day.
That kind of thing happened countless times. Awful.
I've just read a book about the battle of the Atlantic as seen from the point of view of the merchant navy called ' The Real Cruel Sea'. Merchant seamen were treated like dirt by their employers with one or two exceptions.
Best cover versions
in Any Other Business / Any Other Sports
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A raw punk anthem to the nation's alienated youth, performed by disaffected kids.