V8 Ford Willie Love

 Lovely song first encountered it by Sonny Bor.

Quadrophenia (1979)

 

I wasn't a mod - some of my friends were and has scooters and pork pie hats but I didn't really like it. Watched the film this afternoon and found it enjoyable. A who's who of U.K.s youth acting talent. It did kind of remind me of my youth a little not sure why maybe the casual violence. So worth a watch but it did not change my life in 1979. 

Quadrophenia album 1973

 Wiki. I had this album lovely bass on it. 

Quadrophenia movie 1979

Trailer Got this for 50p. When we saw this at the cinema in Frome there was a murder in a side road by the cinema so we all had to leave our names and addresses.Wiki

I hear voices Screamin' Jay Hawkins

. Just had this on the Wednesday  Night Rocking Party. One of my favourites.

Muddy Waters pumpkins

 Bob Corritore posted this. 

Muddy Waters - Rolling Stone 1960

 Muddy Waters (vocal, guitar) Pat Hare (guitar) Otis Spann (piano) James Cotton (harmonica) Andrew Stephenson (bass) Francis Clay (drums)

live at the Newport Jazz Festival. Full set here

Muddy Waters with his first record

 Muddy Waters wiki. Interesting to see Muddy when he was starting out.

Nancy Sinatra Bang Bang

 Just heard on Boss Radio 66. Written by Sonny Bono.

Sonny Boy Williamson I Polly Put the Kettle on 1947

 Just heard  on The Wednesday night 🌙 rockin' party. Lovely tune. The original Sonny Boy who I also like, to confuse you. This one was murdered in 1948 sadly. 

Sonny Boy and friends

 A short playlist to accompany the below piece

The Story of Sonny Boy and friends Mike Leadbitter

 

He's So Fine the Chiffons 1963

  Wiki on the song here

New York Dolls Biba 1973 November 26/27

 New York Dolls get their make up fixed at Biba's London 1973. Presumably the same time they went on OGWT. Nice posting on attending gig here

https://forestdweller18285.blogspot.com/2020/10/new-york-dolls_30.html

Sonny Boy and Robert Jr 1942 1952

 Silent footage. Max Moore, owner of Interstate Grocery in Helena, Arkansas, was the sponsor for radio station KFFA's "King Biscuit Time" program. We believe he shot this home movie circa 1942. In it, renowned blues musicians Robert 'Junior' Lockwood and Sonny Boy Williamson perform on the front porch of a small-town Arkansas grocery store. This is likely the earliest footage of these musicians performing together. The second portion of the clip is a 1952 tour featuring Williamson and his band. This film was preserved with a grant from the National Film Preservation Foundation. Max Moore Home Movie Collection.

Robert Lockwood Jr Little Boy Blue 1941

 

Sonny Boy Williamson II and Robert Lockwood Jr. 1941 By Max Moore ...

Here. So I am going to scan the booklet Delta Country Blues by Mike Leadbitter in particular the chapter Sonny Boy and friends which features Robert junior, Elmore James Willie Love and so on. It's only about 6 pages.  I may make a playlist. This would be on it.  

Summer of Soul on U.K.Tv

 Tonight 10 o'clock on Channel 4.

Delta Country Blues Mike Leadbitter

 Booklet Susan found. I had a good collection of magazine and booklets which I lent to someone who I lost touch with. Quite annoying. This is good though. I will endeavour to scan some pages.

André Williams Bacon Fat 1956

 Classic tune heard on Boss Radio 66. Here

Green Fuz Randy Alvey and the Green Fuz 1969

 Garage classic. Here

Wiki

Napoleon bust

 My Napoleon bust. Sue found a box of things we put away when we had kids so they wouldn't get broken. This I had when I was about 12.

I was into historical reenactment before you. In my Uncle Arthur's garden in Radstock.

 

Pere Ubu Crazy Horses

 Heard this on the Mickey Bradley show. From their recent lp. I like it.

Hobgoblin pub Bath

This pub was great back in the day. All 3 of our children enjoyed going there and my son used to do all sorts of activities such as Risk nights and all sorts of fun. He even pulled pints there. I took my Russian friend Boris there twice when he visited Bath. Also took him up the Tyning Inn Radstock also now gone. When our son put on a comedy play in Bath he had his after show party there. 

Picture from Midsomer Norton railway of Sue Mitchard.

 

The Things that i used to do. Guitar Slim 1953

 Blues song covered many times. Wiki. Big hit with Ray Charles on piano

Radstock suicide pact

Nicholas Church Radstock Copyright Nigel Shoosmith

 I picked up a copy of the early recollections of Moses Horler which covers Radstock before the railways. Lots of interesting stories but one in particular I have typed as I had heard of this story but had not seen in print. 

I must not forget to tell you of a romantic love affair which had a tragic ending, which happened in Radstock many years ago: it is the story of the beautiful Miss Smith, whose father once lived at the old Bell Inn and afterwards at Radstock House he being one of the owners of the Radstock and Writhlington pits.

Now a private soldier came to visit some of his friends in Radstock, and he, very naturally, of course, fell in love with the beautiful girl and she also fell in love with him; but I'm sorry to say her father was bitterly opposed to the match and would not hear of their union. 

The poor lovers were very miserable at the idea of parting, and the sad result was, they agreed to die together. So one night they walked to the land near the church and he shot her in the face with a pistol, and then after asking her if she was dying, and her having answered 'yes', he then shot himself and he fell back in the bank of the hedge dead. Strange to say however, the young lady was not killed but was only wounded and so she returned but the poor soldier was beyond all earthly and hope and he was buried in a suicide's grave taken up again and laid to rest in the churchyard by night, by the desire of the young lady and at her expense and a strange superstition arose which was to the effect that nothing would afterwards grow upon the spot where the poor soldier's head underneath the hedge in the lane.

This is the end of the story of this girl, and I remember that she bore the marks of the tragedy to the day of her death.

Tex Avery boxset

Purchased this 2nd hand. 4 discs. All classics. Tex Avery wiki
 

Bristol Museum archives annual open day

 This looks a fine event. Information here

Recent playlist

 2 hours.

Slow Down (alternate take) Larry Williams (1958)

 Just heard this on the Wednesday Night Rocking Party. 

Morrison's cider box

 If you have a Morrison's nearby this still cider is very respectable. Susan kindly picked it up today.

Set me Free the Kinks 1965

 Just heard this on Boss Radio 66. Great song. Watch them do it 

Drak Pack 1980

 Cartoon. Of course I don't remember this Hanna-Barbera cartoon from 1980. Looks good. Wiki

Peaky Blinders series 1

 Ten years after it was first shown Susan and myself have enjoyed this series. Wiki Didn't watch it when it came out. We don't watch much telly. We picked up a copy in the charity shop as Susan had expressed an interest in seeing it. We have one last episode to watch. Good music. Good period detail I enjoyed it and not just because the main character Tommy Shelby (Cillian Murphy) is an ex tunneler from the Great War. My Grandfather was a tunneler as you probably know. He had vicious hand to hand combat underground too. I don't have any need to see the subsequent series (people said they weren't so good) but I am glad to have seen this. Season 1 trailer

The Hives The Bomb video

 Just out from the champagne of bands. 

Love and happiness Al Green

  Susan is a big Al Green fan. I like him a bit.

Treat or Treat Chuck Berry

 Here. I really like this I like the harmonies and the overall feel. Put it on your Halloween playlist.

Living for the City Stevie Wonder

 This came out 50 years ago. Wiki. I bought it. Here he is doing it in74

Supermarket Shoot-out | Hot Fuzz 2007

 The building that is sought by MacDonalds in Midsomer Norton High Street was used in a scene in Hot Fuzz. Some of the exteriors and interiors when it was a deserted supermarket. Most of the film is filmed in Wells which is about 10 miles away.

Midsomer Norton High Street News

 There has been a good deal of excitement in the High street. McDonald's have submitted a plan to turn the old Argos store into a restaurant. 

Also Poundland are coming to the old M&Co building a little further up the street. I will be glad if it all goes well. 

Little Richard Ready Teddy 1956

Ladybird books October

An idyllic allotment scene. Susan has an allotment. 

‘October’

Calendar, 1958

Artist: Ronald Lampitt

Joseph Henry Ricketts Mitchard and Martha (née Lockyer) 1916

 This was found by my sister Anne. She is a tireless researcher of family history. This blew me away.  It is a photo of my Great Grandfather. A hewer of coal. As were his sons and his father and their fathers.  At the time of the 1901 census he was living at 46 Lower Whitelands. This photo is dated 1916 on the reverse. 

Biography details

Lower Whitelands c1900. 

Thirteenth Floor Elevators Levitation (1967)

Fantastic record. Here. I have this book. Present from my brother.

Chambers Brothers Uptown to Harlem 1967

 This is good. Just heard on Boss Radio 66. I believe this song is in the movie Summer of Soul. Chambers Brothers

The Rattles The Witch 1970

 One for your Halloween playlist.

The Rattles are a German rock band, formed in Hamburg in 1960, most prominently known for their 1970 psychedelic hit single, "The Witch".

Fights in Radstock

 . Moses Horler''s recollections are an insight into early Radstock before the coming of the railways. Extracts are printed in the book Radstock reminisces available from the Museum. 

'However, I am sorry to be obliged to tell you, that when I was quite a boy, there was a great deal of fighting amongst the colliers here at Radstock and neighbourhood, and remember it as quite a common thing for these fights to last nearly an hour, and sometimes if the battle was not finished on Saturday nights, it would actually begin again on Monday, and they would even lose a day's work to finish it, and some of the gentry would go and see those fights, and I am afraid they sometimes helped to keep the battle going, by backing up one side or the other.'

Killed in a Coalpit II

buy a copy here
 The coal industry in Somerset has a rich and ancient legacy. Due to the county having a pleasant and mainly rural aspect, the contribution of its collieries to its economic and social history is not widely appreciated. There are insightful economic and technical accounts of the coal mining industry and the operation of the mines of Somerset, but these provide few details of the lives of the men who toiled underground. If one, or several of these, are identified at all, it is usually because of an accident when they have been killed or badly injured in the pit. 

The author saw this as a wrong which needed to be righted and it was her starting point. In the event the book uncovers many colourful additions in the doings above ground, and includes the lives and roles of women in the coal mining districts who were, as a general rule, even more forgotten than the men. 

The central core of the book is an alphabetical list of those men who died in accidents in the pits, often illustrated by contemporary (often gruesome) newspaper accounts or reports of coroners enquiries - starting with  Carter Atkins ('Killed at Britton cole-pit' and buried at Paulton on 26th October 1778), and ending with William Young, aged 55, who 'was killed at Vobster Quarry whilst breaking stone when a large rock smashed his skull.  He was the sexton of Vobster Church and greatly respected'

Other chapters talk of the men seriously injured in the pits and who escaped death by a hair's breadth,  the plight of the Dunkerton Carting Boys,  the perils of the hauliers who carted coal by road to Bath,  the lives and roles of women of all social classes whose lives were largely dictated by the coal mines and the colliers,   the tragic consequences of silicosis,  the 'Heros, Outrages and Disorderly Proceeding' of the coal mining district, and much more besides.  

Hopefully this book will provide a useful tool for researchers, and for others, act as a reminder of times past, both good and bad.

Lover Please Clyde McPhatter 1962

 Had it before but I do love this. 

Somewhere Down the Line Little Johnny Taylor

 . Some nice harmonica. Heard on the Wednesday Night Rocking Party. 

Twin Schwinns

 Susan Mitchard and Celia on twin Schwinns on the cycle track that runs along the old Somerset and Dorset railway in Radstock.

Susan deejaying in Paris

 

In 2011 we played Paris and Sue got asked to do a dj set while we were there at the Cannibal cafe on Saturday night. Sue roped Bos in to help out and it seemed to go pretty well. People danced! Here's what she played. All vinyl.

thanks Constance for the photo - 

Young Parisians - Adam and the Ants

Cortinas - Defiant Pose

X-Ray Spex - Identity

Kleenex - You

Social Security - Cider

Slaughter and the Dogs - Where have all the boot boys gone

Bauhaus - Dark Entries

Subway Sect - Nobody's Scared

Only Ones - Lovers of Today

Cramps - Bikini Girls

Fall - Everything Hurtz

Banshees - Staircase

Gardez Darkx - Freeze in the UL Zone

Wire - 12XU

Mouth - Ooh Ah Yeah!

Cortinas - Fascist Dictator

Bow wow wow - C30C60C90 Go

Ants - Whip in My Valise

Snatch - When I'm Bored

Scars - Adultery

Johnny Moped - Darling let's have another baby

Colortapes - Cold Anger

Adverts - No time to be 21

Birthday Party - Release the Bats

Doctor Mix - No fun

Psychedelic Furs - We Love You

Buzzcocks - Friends of Mine

Lurkers - Shadow

P Murray and the Invisible Girls - Dream Sequence

Pop Group - Beyond Good and Evil

Doll - Trash

Models - Freeze

Higsons - I dont want to live with Monkeys

Richard Hell - Kid with the replaceable head

Wire - I am the Fly

Doctors of Madness - Bulletin

Cabaret Voltaire - Nag Nag Nag

Snatch - Stanley

Lurkers - Freak Show

Adverts - One Chord Wonders

Monochrome Set - Surfing SW12

Yobs - Worm Song

Ride on Josephine Bo Diddley 1960

 Great riff great song - listen here

All Around the World Little Richard 1958

 

Here. This used to be on the Pack Horse jukebox (as a b-side) and Susan used to play.it a lot. I requested it one birthday on Bernie Keith's much missed rock n roll heaven show. 

Some bus porn by Susan

 Location Midsomer Norton. 

Link Wray Rawhide 1959

 Saw Link Wray once. London Dingwalls. Susan shook his hand. 

Weston-Super-Mare

 We were talking about these carts the other day. Operated on the sand at Weston. An alternative to donkey riding. They had Fire Engines and space ships as shown.

Ralph Mitchard in Paris

 From about 50 odd years ago. I was already into military history. I went round the Musée de l'Armée on my own.

Pickled onions

 Regular readers will know I am partial to pickled onions making my own and so on. This is a new favourite. M&S pickled onions in balsamic vinegar. They go great with cheddar. I have heard they have stopped doing which is worrying. Might have to make my own.

New business on Midsomer Norton The Island

 Ideal for dog lovers.

CHEROKEE DANCE - Bob Landers with Willie Joe & His Unitar [Specialty 576] 1956

 Here. Pretty unique sound this.

Detroit Cobras Slipping Around 2004

 Lovely version here

Jimmy Robins I can't please you

 Here. Just heard on Boss Radio 66.

Elastica Waking Up 1995

 'Make a cup of tea. Put a record on.' Remember them? On Peel quite a bit. I suppose they were our Britpop band. We certainly didn't like Oasis. This is their best song I think. My daughter had on an old Top of the Pops episode on today and they were in our opinion the best of the bunch. The Glam Metal Detectives were good too. 😆