Mr Magoo Opening Theme

 Quincy Magoo, better known as Mr. Magoo, is a fictional cartoon character and protagonist created at the UPA animation studio in 1949. 

Nat Couty & The Braves - Woodpecker Rock 1958

 I like woodpeckers and I like this song, 

Bizarre battle of Bossenden wood 1838

 The last battle on English soil. Article here

Electric Prunes complete Reprise singles

 This has some scorchers on it. 

Electric Prunes Get Me To The World On Time (1966)

I like the Prunes. A bit bubblegummy but there were some good moments. Like this. Written by Annette Tucker. Wiki on the song here

The centenary encyclopedia of automobiles 1984

I picked this book up from the chazza (charity shop). 

This pic is a Renault Type M from 1898. We don't own a car but I am interested in the history of them. . 
 

Adam Ant Vince Taylor Jools Holland Hootenanny 2012

 This song we liked. We saw Adam Ant about this time in Frome. He played this song. It was a really nice night. Bea our eldest came with her partner. Funnily enough when she was born Adam sent us a telegram of congratulations saying see her on the 2015 tour and here we were. Read a review of that gig in 2011 here

The Fall - Bury! (Live at Frome Cheese & Grain May 2010)

 I actually nearly got into a fight that night - someone barged into me violently and recklessly during Funnel of Love and intoxicated by the Fall I went to hit him but he made submissive gestures so I didn't. 

Ralph Mitchard in Frome 2010

I had been going to Frome a lot then as my folks were still alive but this changed. I saw the Fall in Frome (had to be done) it was the last time I saw them. Geoff organised it to cheer me up after Mum died. After the gig the Fall crew announced they were going to the Wheatsheaf. Much as I would like to have asked Mark E Smith about his wargaming activities, wild horses wouldn't have dragged us there. We played there once. Terrible. New identity now. Happily go there now. 
 

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New gates in Radstock

 Pic by Susan

Lee Cooper Advert 1978

 Gary Numan is playing a pre Glastonbury warm up in Frome. I remember quite a few Frome young uns liking him back in the day - younger than us but not that much. We bought a few singles. This commercial was by Numan but he declined to release it as a single so John DuCann did it and had the hit. 

DEVIL ON WHEELS. 1947 Street Racing / Hot Rod Film

 Kogar on his show was raving about this film so I thought I would post it. 

The Standells - Dirty Water 1965

 November 65. Wiki

The Missing Links Wild About You (1965)

 The Saints covered this and I thought they wrote it. Very good. Band wiki

The Bittersweets - Hurtin' Kind (1965)

 

The Warts (The Seeds) - Pushin' Too Hard (T.V. cameo)

 The Seeds infamous T.V. appearance from 1968.

The History of The Seeds | 60s Punk Pioneers [Mini-documentary]

 Nice doc with subtitles here

LaVern Baker Bumble Bee 1960

 Heard on the Wednesday Night Rocking Party last night. 

The Liver Birds tv series Intro (Series 2)

 The Liver Birds is a British sitcom, set in Liverpool, North West England, which aired on BBC1 from April 1969 to December 1978, and again in 1996. The show was created by Carla Lane and Myra Taylor. The two Liverpudlian housewives had met at a local writers club and decided to pool their talents. Having been invited to London by Michael Mills, the BBC's then Head of Comedy, and asked to write about two women sharing a flat, Mills brought in sitcom expert Sydney Lotterby to work with the writing team.

The series charted the ups and downs of two "dolly birds" sharing a flat on Liverpool's Huskisson Street, concentrating on the two young single women's dealings with boyfriends, work, parents and each other. Dressed in the best 1970s fashions, they looked for romance in a loose female equivalent of The Likely Lads.

The Liverbirds - Diddley Daddy (Beat Club, 1965)

Our own girls from the Garage. Usually mispronounced by American deejays - Liver in this context rhymes with Diver. 

 

Girls in the Garage Vol 1-12

 60s all girl Garage Rock. 

Karen Verros Little Boy Hollywood-a -go go 1966

 

Karen Verros You Just Gotta Know My Mind 1965

 A Boss Radio 66 favourite. About the enigma of Karen Verros

Ralph's Seeds Playlist

 Just about an hour of the good stuff. 

My Seeds t-shirt

 Over 20 years old so faded but I am too old for t-shirts really. 

Quick Joey Small-Kasenetz-Katz Singing Orchestral Circus 1968

 My fave bubblegum record by far. 

Bad Detectives - B Movie Scientist - (Official Video 2007)

 Impressive self-made promo. 

Quick Joey Small The Mud dogs 2006

 This was done spontaneously one day when Susan had a new camera, and Rich turned up, This sort of stuff was usually played in the kitchen. 

Mud Dogs 'Dog with the No-Bone Blues'/'Sun and the Moon' 2001

 Turn it Up! Somerset's blueswailing Mud Dogs (Ralph Mitchard guitar and Big Rich Vocals harp) from 2001 when the music (self-penned) was a hit on the Tyning Inn jukebox. Bass is by Oz and drums Johnny Rench. Recorded in our front room by Phil Cass.

The former Bell Hotel Radstock © Copyright Nigel Shoosmith

 Opposite the Waldie used to be the Bell Hotel now flats. Once again built on the site of a previous pub of the same name.  I only went there once. They had a folk club there upstairs back in the 80s. It was a brewery too at one time and the Miner's used to get paid there on Saturdays. They used to own the Market building that now houses the Museum. 

Radstock on a Saturday morning about 1911

Waldegrave Arms Radstock c1900 photo Alan Shearn

 A grand building built on the site of an earlier pub. The Waldegraves were a mine owning family that had pits and housing in Radstock. Known as 'the Waldie' by locals it is now called the Radstock Hotel. Extensive outbuildings are out the back where they used to play Quoits. The Mud Dogs under the name of the Phantoms played there on a stage in the beer garden during the Radstock festival. I was the organiser and booked the bands. We played under a false name as the singer/harmonica player Rich was banned (for a trifle) and so we disguised him in one of my reenactment wigs and shades. It worked - nobody recognised him until midway through the set when took it off and then he was recognised. Of course they couldn't do anything then. The event was a success and there were no repercussions. They have a restaurant there now called the Miner's Rest which is apparently good.  

Stevie Wonder - Living For The City (1974) | LIVE

 Yesterday was Stevie Wonder's 75th birthday. I bought this 45 when I were a nipper. 

Electric Banana (The Pretty Things) - It'll Never Be Me

 The Pretty Things performing as Electric Banana in the 1969 film 'What's Good For The Goose', directed by Menahem Golan.

Chicago Breakdown Mike Rowe

A great book which I have had for a long time. I am thinking of doing a Playlist of 100 Chicago Blues songs. Based on this book maybe. 
 

Billy "The Kid" Emerson - When It Rains It Pours 1955

 Finally it has rained. Thunder too. 

JUDE THE OBSCURE · Episode 1 · 1971 · Thomas Hardy

 I remember watching this on the telly with my Mother. She was a Robert Powell fan like all the women at that time. Great story. In 6 parts. Wiki with the plot etc. 

The Crown Hotel Frome 1900

 Frome Museum published this. Now a clothes shop. We used to drink there. They had a pinball. Played there too. Yerbury is a Frome surname too. 

The Troggs - Her Emotion 1967

 The lovely Troggs. 

David McWilliams - Days Of Pearly Spencer 1968

 

The 23rd Turnoff - Michael Angelo (1967)

 

100 British Psychedelia 1965-70

 Interesting playlist. 

1938: Flanagan & Allen - "The Umbrella Man"

 Gideon Coe played this on the radio last night. Brought back a few memories. 

King Alfred -The Battle of Edington (1969 film)

 

 I saw this at the cinema and loved it. I was about 9. The Vikings scared me. I used to get dropped off at the cinema on my own.

It was filmed in Ireland but set in the West. 

THE SEEDS Feat. Sky Saxon : Live at Espionage, The Thekla, Bristol : 21st June 2003

 I was at this gig. It was fantastic. The Thekla is an old ship that once was owned by Viv Stanshall. I got so excited. I remember thinking I hope they do The Wind Blows Your Hair and they did it first song. I was stunned. The backing band had it all sussed. Went with Dave Mackay who had fairly recently passed his test so slightly scary. Funny thing his wife to-be was there but he didn't know her then. She had a CD of the gig which she leant me. Sky Saxon wiki

The Doors - "People Are Strange" 1967

 Heard a good version of this today. 

Freddie King - The Things That I Used To Do - Live In London. 1975

 . Recorded in London in 1975 on the BBC's Old Grey Whistle Test.

The television series and Hornby Railways based Thomas on this prototype belonging to the LB&SCR E2 class.

 For Thomas the Tank Engine's 80th

By Ben Brooksbank, 

New Playlist How Can You Tell Me

 

Jessie Mae Hemphill- My Daddy's Blues 1987

 This is good. 

Jessie Mae Hemphill (October 18, 1923 – July 22, 2006)^[1] was an American electric guitarist, songwriter, and vocalist specializing in the North Mississippi hill country blues traditions of her family and regional heritage.^[2]

The Zombies - Summertime Shindig! 1965.

 Time for this vibe? We still need rain here. 

Jinty tanks (47557) at Radstock Somerset May 1960 by John Wiltshire

 My Grandfather Henry Newman known as Tom was an engine driver. In Radstock till early retirement. On the Somerset and Dorset railway.

The Zombies - She's Not There - 1965.

 Susan is a fan of the Zombies. This came out late 64. 

Interesting bus

  1936 London Transport Leyland Cub. The bus was one of eight SKPZ2 Cubs built in 1936 for a night service connecting Waterloo, Victoria, Paddington, Euston, St Pancras and Kings Cross railway stations. They had a raised rear seating area over a large luggage compartment and they were painted in a special Inter-Station livery.

The Byrds "Mr. Tambourine Man" on The Ed Sullivan Show 1965

 

Heart Full Of Soul - The Yardbirds {Stereo} 1965

 Released June 65. Wiki First with Jeff Beck on guitar, Was a big hit. 

Blood on the Tracks 1975

 Albun wiki Is it his best album? Possibly. 

PURNELL & SONS Postcard POSTED 1911 MARKET DAY RADSTOCK SOMERSET

 From Ebay

Frome Road Radstock

 From here

Pentangle - Light Flight (Songs From The Two Brewers, 8th May 1970)

 This song was everywhere at this time. 

Garbage Man - The Cramps 1980

 Dave Mackay had a VHS tape with this on it which we used to watch. 

Mark E Smith and Link Wray NYC 1993. Pic Derek Ridgers.

 

Mad World by Tears For Fears Original HQ 1983

 For Somerset Day local (Bath) band Tears for Fears. We didn't like them, we probably were jealous. We did actually see them about this time supporting the Thompson Twins in Bristol. They were boring. 

The Shakin' Pyramids - Tennessee Rock'n'Roll (1981)

 They were my favourite of the 80s Rockabilly bands, 

Nico I'm Not Sayin' 1965

 Love this. Not a hit but a good record. On the Immediate label. Started in 1965 by The Rolling Stones' manager Andrew Loog Oldham and Tony Calder,^[1] and concentrating on the London-based blues and R&B scene.

"I'm Not Sayin'" is a song written by Gordon Lightfoot.^[1][2][3] It was recorded in December 1964 and released as a single A-side in 1965^[4] and on his 1966 debut album Lightfoot!^[5] The lyrics detail the singer's promise: not that he can necessarily love the subject, or be true to the subject, but only that he can try to do so. The single peaked at #12 in Canada in June 1965.^[6][7] Cash Box described it as "a rhythmic, folkish ode about a guy who refuses to make any romantic promises to his girlfriend."^[8]

In late May 1965, Nico recorded a version of the song released on Immediate Records. The single had limited success. This version of the song features Jimmy Page, then a studio musician, on the 12-string guitar. Nico's version was produced by Page as well, and the promo film was shot at West India Docks in London.

Somerset Day

 

Somerset Levels from Glastonbury Tor

A good excuse to play some Adge. Somerset.