Dancin' to the Surfin' Band

 Been listening to the best of 2024 playlist of mine Spotify unwrapped. This is on it. I love it. Lyrics here

2025 - 1985

 

On a personal note 1985 was the 300th anniversary of the Monmouth Rebellion which took place in the West. It was what got me into reenactment. I did my first event in Glastonbury with Susan and Bea. There was a shop front in Frome where they did a recruiting display and I was already interested since a kid and I joined up. We were lent kit. Belwo is the credit sequence to a 1972 children's adventure series the Pretenders. Frome gets mentioned. . 

Elvis Presley 1954 (First Ever Colour Shots).

 

Elvis Presley - Good Rockin Tonight (1954)

 Just heard on Bernie Keith. Lovely record. 

The Frog Princess 1954

 Russian animation

Vassilisa the Beauty was kidnapped by Koshey the undead and turned into an ugly frog. Prins Ivan finds her and marries her. He suffers because of the boyars joking him. She daily has to turn back into a frog. When he finds her frogskin, he thinks he can brek the spell by burning it... One of the great Soyuzmultfilm fairytale classics

Directed by Michael Tsekhanovsky written by Michael Volpin

Don't The Peaches Look Mellow - Othar Broadnax

 Ignore the photo. It is miimalistic fife and vocals. Very good though. Field recording s from 69-74. 

Christmas Steps Bristol

 If you ever visit Bristol then visit Christmas Steps. A fine remnant of old Bristol. Sir Thomas Lunsford was shot there in the English Civil War. In the punk era we used to get devil bangers at a joke shop there and would then go about letting them off. Well we were punks. There are responsibilities that went with the clobber. We used to get clobber at Paradise Garage by the bus station. 

By Rosalind Mitchell,

Amphibian gift

 Susan got this curious resin model. What do you think?

The Titfield Thunderbolt - Ealing Documentary

 We watched this film for the umpteenth time today. Lots of local as extras imcluding Susan's Uncle Jim in the cricket scene. Filmed around here though not Radstock but you do see colliery batches (spoilheaps). 

The Legend Of Xanadu (Ruby Trax) the Fall 1992

 There was a cassette and cd of past number ones done by modern bands  for the NME. We had the cassette. 

EDDIE & THE HOT RODS ON SKYDOG TV

 Get Out of Denver

Eddie and the Hot Rods with Lew Lewis playlist

 I like this short playlist. So good. 

Bo Diddley playlist

 

Bo Diddley Ed Sullivan 1955

 Probably the best clip on Youtube. Bo Diddley's birthday, 

A New Leaf by Jimmy Reed from 'Mr. Luck'

 A good song for New Years Day. 

Hard Day's Night Trailer 1964

 I intended to watch this this morning but my cold forced me to bed. Did you know Paul and George stayed in Radstock in about 1959?  They mention it in a postcard they sent. On holiday hitching around the West. Asked a lady if there was any bed and breakfasts but she said you can stay at ours. Radstock hospitality. 

Elvis Costello & The Attractions - Good Year For The Roses 1981

 

Bath Festival of Jazz - June 1961 Source - Bath in Time

 Thanks to Penni Wallace.

Pensford

 A village between here and Bristol. Another coal mining town. The home of Jazz legend Acker Bilk. 

Groundhog Day 2 (2025) - First Trailer | Bill Murray, Margaret Qualley

 

Entering The Vampire Castle Scene | NOSFERATU (2024) Movie CLIP HD

 

Whitelands 14 years ago

 

Santa Claus Go Straight To The Ghetto James Brown

 Lovely bass riff

inherited this from my folks. I think it was a giveaway with custard tokens.

 

A Christmas Gift for You 1963

 

Christmas Eve Blues

 

Oblivians - Call the police Taken from "Desperation" (LP - In The Red Records 2013)

 Let's get this party started

BECOMING LED ZEPPELIN Trailer (2025)

 Official Becoming Led Zeppelin Movie Trailer 2025 | Subscribe ➤ https://abo.yt/ki | Cinema: 14 Feb 2025 | More https://KinoCheck.com/movie/c6p/becom...

The individual journeys of the four members of the band, as they move through the music scene of the 1960s, playing small clubs throughout Britain and performing some of the biggest hits of the era, until their meeting in the summer of 1968 for a rehearsal that changes their lives forever.

24 Hours from Radstock the Tripes

 My mate Big Rich and his band of the time the Tripes at the Tyning Inn Radstock seven years ago. 'Dark side of the Batch, that's where I'm from'. Filmed by Susan.  

‘Winter Sunrise’ Artist: SR Badmin

 

 

Susan in Bristol's Wallace and Gromit experience

 

Fenton Robinson - You Don't Know What Love Is (1974)

 This is great/ 

Floyd Jones - Stockyard Blues 1970

 Another truly great clip

Russian reenactment event in 2010

 

Howlin' Wolf Don't Laugh at Me 1964

One of my favourite blues clips on Youtube. 

3 years ago Susan persuaded me to go on the Merrys at Bath

 

You Don't Have To Go - Jimmy Reed and his trio ( Oct. 1954 )

 Song of the year 1954. This song broke Jimmy Reed into the big time

Link Wray - Beautiful Brown Eyes - 1990

 I requested this on Bernie Keith and he played it. His show is on New Years Eve. Rock'n'roll heaven  BBC Sounds. 

Nico | I'm Not Sayin' | New Video From Original Uncut Raw Footage | 1965

 A new previously unreleased video of Nico performing her first single, I’m Not Saying, cut from recently surfaced raw 16mm footage, shot in the UK in 1965.

In 1965 The Rolling Stones' manager Andrew Loog Oldham and his business manager Tony Calder, set up Immediate Records. The label signed artists such as Rod Stewart, Small Faces, The Nice and Fleetwood Mac. One of the first releases on the label, IM003 in fact, was I'm Not Sayin', the debut record by German model and actress Nico.

I'm Not Sayin' was a song written and recorded by Gordon Lightfoot, that was released in early 1965. Nico’s version was recorded in May of that year, at Regent Sounds, in Denmark Street, London. It is disputed who produced and played on the track. Andrew Loog Oldham has been credited as producer. But Oldham himself is quoted as saying it was Jimmy Page (later of the Yardbirds and Led Zeppelin) who produced, and played guitar. Page was then a 21-year-old session guitarist who had been recruited by Oldham as Immediate’s house producer. Other sources say that it was Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones playing guitar on the track. At that time, Jones and Nico were dating, which lends some credibility to that. Another source states that the track features a combination of Jones and Page on guitar. David Whitaker is credited as conductor of the orchestra, elsewhere also as arranger. David Whitaker’s sound is widely known for his instantly recognisable strings, on the Andrew Oldham Orchestra’s 1965 track The Last Time, which 30 years later, became the basis of the Verve’s Bittersweet Symphony.

Magic Sam ~ All Your Love and Lookin' Good

 One of my favourites. 

Standing around Crying Muddy Waters 1952

 This is peak Muddy. It doesn't get any better than this. 

Human League Marianne 1980

 Susan likes this. 

James Brown - A Future Shock Christmas (Dec. 1976)

 Newly uploaded. Thanks to Debbie Daughtry

Get into the groove with James Brown and friends as they light up the stage in the Future Shock Christmas Special!

Celebrate the holidays the funky way with this timeless special that’s sure to bring joy and soul to your Christmas holidays.

Glastonbury by Mike Jefferies photography

 Happy Solstice from Somerset. 

Astrud Gilberto With Stan Getz - Girl From Ipanema (1964)

 Get Yourself a College Girl is a 1964 Metrocolor film comedy in the style of a beach party movie. The plot involves a college co-ed who tries to balance her time writing songs and dealing with her publisher who tries to pursue her.

Sugar Pie Desanto Soulful Dress 1964

RIP

Top album of 1964

 My first record,  

Best album of 1984

 

Best album of 1974

 

A Christmas Carol 1971 ~ Animated ~ Alastair Sim ~ Full Length

 Probably my favourite Christmas animation

Animated in the style of 1800s engravings by the great Richard Williams Studio. Featuring the voices of Alistair Sim Michael Redgrave and Michael Hordern reprising his 1951 performance as Marley's Ghost . Animation by Ken Harris, Abe Levitow, among others. Produced by Chuck Jones. This film won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film for 1972

"Les trois moulins de Montmartre sous la neige", (1936) Maurice Utrillo

 Maurice Utrillo - Wikipedia

Don't Knock The Twist | Full Movie 1962

 Following the preparations for a TV special on the twist, this rock n roll musical features performances by Chubby Checker, Gene Chandler, Vic Dana, The Carroll Brothers and the Dovells. Musical numbers include "Duke of Earl," "Do the New Continental" and "Mash Potato Time".

Don't Knock the Twist - Wikipedia

Gene Chandler “The Duke Of Earl” 1962 film / Don’t Knock The Twist

 Love this song

Dion - The Majestic c1961

 

Can live on The Old Grey Whistle Test, 27/1/1974

 Newly uploaded

The Nips - All the time in the world 1978

 Early Shane MacGowan. This is good. 

Eartha Kitt Santa Baby 1953

 

The Pogues - Streams of Whiskey 1984

 Couldn't pass this opportunity to play them. 

Pogues book

 Today's charity shop purchase. Susan also managed to catch up on the gossip too. 

ESG Dance 1982

 This is really great. Not the video but the song. 

Sonny & Cher ~ Baby Don't Go (1964)

 This song by Sonny & Cher was first released in 1964 when it did not do so good, but it was re - released in 1965 and it then turned out to be a big hit for them, and this was after their massive hit "I Got You Babe"

Short Christmas Playlist

 

Merry Christmas Fritz The Buff Medways 2003

 I bought this. Inspired by the Christmas truce. 

Houston Stackhouse lp recorded 1967

Wiki

 

The Chess Story 1957-1964

 This is a great selection, all six hours of it. Sonny Boy Chuck, Bo. The Wolf plus Dale Hawkins and doo wop output. Ideal for a party I would think. 

Bridges of Radstock by Susan

 

Sonny Boy Williamson II Santa Claus

 Lovely riffing on this. 

Whitelands 2010. Pic by Susan.

 

Right Now a Playlist

 

Dovells Bristol Stomp 1961

 From the movie Don't Knock the Twist

Ladybird Artists ‘Winter Lane’ Artist: SR Badmin

 

Snowman

 Two of our kids at Whitelands Radstock in the 2000s. 

The Runaway Knock ~ Stanhope Forbes. 1888.

 

Art Jack Kirby

 

Cider with a whiskey top

 

The old boys drink this in the Seymour Arms.Witham Friary

 

Sonny Boy Williamson " V-8 Ford + Stormy Monday +Right Now + Come Go with Me "( KFFA Radio)

 This is really good. Recording of a radio broadcast. Magical. 

 1898 photograph of Camerton carting boys wearing the guss and crook harness, with a group of adult miners. They are also wearing caps with candles in them. My Grandfather started at 14.

BETTY JAMES - I'm a little mixed up 1961

 This is great. Guitar very good. 

William MacDuff (English, 1824–1881) Christmas morning in an English cottage, 1860

 Wi

lliam MacDuff (English, 1824–1881)

Christmas morning in an English cottage, 1860

Anna Karina - Sous le soleil exactement (1967)

 Serge Gainsbourg composition. 

Wide Boy Awake 'Chicken Outlaw' 1982 - YouTube

 Who remembers this band? Ex Ants bassist it's kind of electro cajun. We bought their singles. Here they are on telly. Oxford Road Show. I don't remember this I must have been out.

Ralph Mitchard in Frome 2 years ago by Anne

 Church steps

Radstock railway

From the bok Syeam in Somerset Derek Huntriss. My Grandfather Henry Newman was an engine driver here. He eventually moved to the houses on the left. 
 

Today 80 years ago Glenn Miller went missing

 Over the English channel. Here he is in 1941 doing the Chattanooga Choo Choo

The Beatles - Number 1 60 Years Ago Today: December 14, 1964

 Great riff inspired by Watch Your Step Bobby Parker I believe. Saturday night selection. Me and my sister were in the height of our Beatlemania - my sister sent a drawing of them to the tv and they showed it.

Edinburgh Man - The Fall 1991

 

A train arrives at the Perrache station, Lyon, France in 1896

 

Junior Wells Cryin' Shame 1970

 This is good. 

Paul McCartney's Aston Martin

 

Lulu and her mini

 

Bow Wow Wow in 1983

 

The Legendary Modern Recordings John Lee Hooker 1948-1954

 Buy here

LITTLE EDDIE KIRKLAND - IT'S TIME FOR LOVIN' TO BE DONE

 With John Lee Hooker. Wiki

Glenn Miller - In the Mood - Sun Valley Serenade (1941)

 

The Glenn Miller Story (1954)

 Susan got the tv guide yesterday so I was browsing the movies and this one stood out. Wiki. The daddy of musical biopics. Boxing Day. My Dad had the soundtrack on 10 inch. Trailer

Jamaica Inn (1983) FULL

 My daughter-in-law is a Daphne du Maurier fan. Wiki

Jamaica Inn is a 1983 British television miniseries adapted from the 1936 novel Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier. It is a gothic period piece of piracy, smuggling and murder set in northeastern Cornwall, England in the early 19th century.

The Rolling Stones - Child Of The Moon (Official Music Video) [Color]

 Music video by The Rolling Stones performing Child Of The Moon (Color).

Director: Michael Lindsay-Hogg Cinematographer: Anthony B Richmond Filmed in 1968, this surrealist promotional film features all five original band members and Emmy Award-winning actress Dame Eileen June Atkins. Shot on a farm near Enfield, outside north London, the eerie music video for “Child of the Moon” is an early example of the narrative approach, when the format was in its infancy, over a decade before the advent of MTV.

Ladybird Artists ‘Ponies in the Snow’ Artist: CF Tunnicliffe

 

28 YEARS LATER – Official Trailer (HD)

 Academy Award®-winning director Danny Boyle and Academy Award®-nominated writer Alex Garland reunite for 28 Years Later, a terrifying new story set in the world created by 28 Days Later. It’s been almost three decades since the rage virus escaped a biological weapons laboratory, and now, still in a ruthlessly enforced quarantine, some have found ways to exist amidst the infected. One such group of survivors lives on a small island connected to the mainland by a single, heavily-defended causeway. When one of the group leaves the island on a mission into the dark heart of the mainland, he discovers secrets, wonders, and horrors that have mutated not only the infected but other survivors as well.

 The Oaks Colliery On the 12th December 1866 at least 361 men and boys (research says 383) including 27 rescue workers, lost their lives in a dreadful sequence of explosions.

Oaks explosion - Wikipedia

Pieter Bruegel (c. 1525 - 1569) The Hunters in the Snow, 1565

 

Bob Dylan, The Band - Apple Suckling Tree 1967

 No idea what apple suckling is. 

Love Shack B52s 1989

 Our son and his wife did a karaoke of this as their wedding feast so we will always remember that, excellent song. 

Radstock in the Snow Martin Forster

Local artist. You can get a 2025 calendar with 12 of his paintings from Somer Printing. 
 

Freddie & the Dreamers - Sally Ann

 What a Crazy World (1963)

This is bloody great

NOSFERATU "Held Hands With Death" Scene (2024)

 Our son is looking forward to this, in cinemas soon. 

Goin' Down South R L Burnside

 This is good. 

Harry Rutherford (British, 1903-1985) - Winter Landscape, Mossley

 

The Fall We wish You a protein Christmas 2003

 

Here. We bought this. I remember buying it in Replay records Bath. I had ordered it and Bea and I went in and asked if was in and they said 'no' and then I noticed it in the new release rack and so I said 'what's this then?'. No hard feelings. Spotify album.

Cheese and onion roll Buckland Dinham style

First had this at the Fountain Inn a cider house now gone. Rings of raw onion with mature cheddar and butter. 
 

The Supremes "Nathan Jones" 1971

 

Animals & Men 'Dragonfly' 2010

 Film made by Susan of Whitelands, Radstock and Waterloo Rd the day after the snowfall in the winter of 2010.

NB We realise there are no Dragonflies around at this time of year but the song is chosen because of Boltonites radstockensis - a huge Dragonfly fossil found in 1912 in the coal tip at Tyning, Radstock. Radstock stills yields fossils dug up by miners decades ago. Incidentally a lot of this is the site of the old Somerset and Dorset railway line, now a cycle path.

The Gare Saint Lazare: Arrival of a Train, 1877. Painting by Claude Monet.

 For Susan who likes 19thc locos and Monet. 

Some of my favourite Hound Dog Taylor songs

 

Ladybird Artists Artist: Ronald Lampitt

 

Part of Your Plan · Oblivians 1996

 Was really into the Oblivians. So good. Nothing to touch them at that time. 

Gloria Van Morrison and John Lee Hooker 1989

 Great team up. I bought this on cassette single. Remember driving around blasting this out. 

Ladybird Artists ‘Snowstorm in a Pennine Valley’ Artist: SR Badmin

 

Animals and Men posters