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Friday, March 27, 2026
Abergavenny · Marty Wilde
Released on: 1968-01-01. I have memories of singing this with my sis in thee back of the car.
Nine days in May The General Strike 1926
I picked this book up a couple of years ago. Mostly a pictorial study Pick a copy up on ebay. The armoured car depicted is a Peerless. They used them in Ireland too. The book was printed at Butler & Tanner Frome in 75 which was before my time.
The Fall - Touch Sensitive music video
Fall Friday. The Marshall Suite - Wikipedia
You said: What about the meek? I said: They've got a bloody cheek
Orgreave Inquiry
Battle of Orgreave - Wikipedia
Miners and campaigners will finally get the answers they deserve as the government launches an inquiry into the violent events at Orgreave in 1984.Truth for victims and families as Orgreave Inquiry launches - GOV.UK
We will see.
Former president of miners' union Arthur Scargill warns Orgreave Inquiry may be a 'travesty'
Arthur Scargill warns Orgreave Inquiry may be a 'travesty'
The Fall - Touch Sensitive (Channel 5, UKTV, 1999)
Lineup: Mark E Smith - Vocals Julia Nagle - Guitar Karen Leatham - Bass Tom Head - Drums
The Fall - Vauxhall Corsa ad
I think it is 2006. The Fall got a nice wad but it was followed by litigation and so forth into the origins of the song. Filmed in Budapest.
Explaining Biba: The rise and fall of the greatest 60s & 70s department store
I visited Biba on a school trip to London.
The Kinks Dedicated Follower of Fashion A Whole Scene Going 16 March 1966 (dir John Crome)
I remember this one from my childhood.
Thursday, March 26, 2026
1st RECORDING OF: Georgia On My Mind - Hoagy Carmichael (1930)
I noticed next week's Tom Hanks show on Boss Radio 66 is on the theme of Georgia. I wonder if they will play this or more likely the Ray Charles version. Apparently the lyricist was referring to Hoagy's sister Georgia.
This original version of Hoagy’s ode to the Peach State was recorded at the final session to feature jazz legend Bix Beiderbecke, who died less than a year later. Joe Venuti, Eddie Lang, Jimmy Dorsey, Jack Teagarden, and Bud Freeman were among the other players that day at Victor’s 24th St. studio. Most familiar to later generations was the song’s best-selling 1960 treatment by Ray Charles (listen here: 
• 1960 HITS ARCHIVE: Georgia On My Mind - Ra... )
Visit to the White Hart
Lovely, friendly pub in the up and coming area of Midsomer Norton, the Island. They do good cider and there is plenty of space. We like going when its quiet. If you like your pub to have character then this is for you. They have a shove ha'penny slate (not pictured). \here is their Facebook
Wednesday, March 25, 2026
Man's best friend for 15,000 years!
Man's best friend for 15,000 years!
The bone found in Cheddar belonged to one of the earliest known domesticated dogs 
https://bbc.in/4dISdmE
https://bbc.in/4dISdmEThe discovery pushes back the time that the first dogs evolved from their wolf ancestors by around 5,000 years.
The Pretty Things - Honey I Need (T.V. appearance) on Shindig from 1965
This is my favourite of theirs. I just like the way it goes.
Tuesday, March 24, 2026
They Drive by Night - Original Theatrical Trailer
When we were teens they used to show Bogart and George Raft films on tv so you used to be quite up on films by people like Cagney and so on.
George Raft and Humphrey Bogart share a driving ambition in They Drive by Night, a feisty tale of brothers trying to make a go of their independent trucking enterprise. Ann Sheridan plays a truck-stop waitress who can dish both the daily special and the patter. And Ida Lupino is the headstrong executive who mixes business and romance with murder.
With Bogart again riding shotgun en route to leading-man stardom (a stature he would achieve the following year) and Raft handling the wheel in one of his best roles of the decade, this fine example of Warner Bros. social-conscience filmmaking (directed by Raoul Walsh) proved a sturdy vehicle for both actors. The movie proved even more fortuitous for Lupino. Her courtoom scene of babbling derangement made her a celebrated overnight sensation that resulted in a seven-year studio contract for her. 1940
Barry & The Remains - Diddy Wah Diddy 1966
This is an exciting performance of the Bo tune. Love the dancers too.
The Remains "Let Me Through" on The Ed Sullivan Show
The Remains "Let Me Through" on The Ed Sullivan Show, December 26, 1965.
The Remains had a hit with Don't Look Back. The Remains (band) - Wikipedia
Me and my bro at Claverton (American Museum) mid 80s.
The Museum was later on to become quite a place of importance for me as I organized lots of events there.
On Broadway (Mono) · The Drifters 1963
On Broadway (song) - Wikipedia
This is another song I used to slip in every now and again. It is jaw droppingly brilliant in my opinion.
Miners Leaving Pendlebury Colliery (1901)
A black miner makes an intriguing addition to an already captivating film of coal workers up from their pit.
Showman Albert Sedgwick, conspicuously raffish in homburg and moustache, bestrides and controls this film. Sedgwick has 'planted' the poster board advertising the show in which it's to be screened - as well as, probably, the Afro-Caribbean man whose presence in Edwardian Lancashire so surprises us. And he is choreographing, right before our eyes, the procession of colliers for the camera.
Paul Robeson sings to Scottish miners (1949)
Our Dad was a Paul Robeson fan.
Extract from Mining Review 2nd Year No. 11 (1949)
The highlight of this 1949 issue is the visit of American actor and singer Paul Robeson to Woolmet Colliery near Edinburgh. Robeson was also a renowned (and often persecuted) left-wing political activist and he made several visits to British mining communities. On this occasion he sings "I Dreamed I Saw Joe Hill Last Night" for miners in the canteen, a song about an American trade unionist who was allegedly framed on a murder charge and executed in 1915. Robeson had long been something of a hero to the British mining community, ever since he starred in the film Proud Valley (d. Pen Tennyson, 1940) as an American sailor stranded in Cardiff who finds work in a Welsh colliery (the newsreel opens with a short clip from the film).
Je m’appelle Agneta | Official Trailer | Netflix
Agneta is colorful and funny - but you wouldn’t guess it at first. At 49, with her children gone and a stagnant job at the traffic office, she feels like she’s fading into the background of her own life. While her husband finds purpose in ice baths and expensive cycling gear, Agneta longs for change. She leaves Sweden to work as an au pair in France, dreaming of a fresh start - only to discover her charge, Einar, isn’t a young Swedish boy but an eccentric elderly man. What follows is a chaotic and heartwarming adventure that pushes Agneta to ask: how do you truly live your one precious life?
“Je m’appelle Agneta” is based on the best-selling novel by Emma Hamberg of the same name and is coming to Netflix on April 29, 2026.
Lazybones - Hoagy Carmichael, 1941
This video was captured from a 16mm film reel from the 1940's known as a "Soundie". Soundies were the precursor to today's music videos, and were produced between 1940 and 1947. The films were shown in a coin operated Panoram, a sort of movie jukebox.
Soundies were designed for rear projection, so you may see other versions of this video with the images reversed. This version shows the images in their proper orientation.
THE DRIFTERS - ''I'LL TAKE YOU HOME'' (1963)
They played this on Boss and both Susan and myself enjoyed it.
Monday, March 23, 2026
Fairport Convention: Matty Groves 1969
Marc Riley played this. I didn't know it. I thought it might be Steeleye Span but I was wrong.
Blur - Song 2 (Official Music Video) 1997
We didn't buy any of their records but I quite liked Blur - certainly more than Oasis anyway.
Bob Dylan - Nervous Breakdown (Live Debut - Eddie Cochran Cover) - Omaha, Nebraska - 21st March 2026
Bob Dylan performing Eddie Cochran's 'Nervous Breakdown'' for the 1st time ever during his opening show of the 2026 'Rough and Rowdy Ways' tour at the Orpheum Theatre in Omaha, Nebraska on Saturday March 21st
Hoagy Carmichael - "Hong Kong Blues" 1944
This is an old favourite that I used to spin in the 80s. Big Hoagy fan. Well I like his music.
From the 1942 RCM Productions Soundie.
Sunday, March 22, 2026
DeFord Bailey - Pan American Blues (From "National Life Grand Ole Opry" 1967)
Some harmonica for you. DeFord Bailey - Wikipedia
DeFord Bailey Pan American Blues 1927 REMASTERED
Mike Jefferies Photography
''Between the Mendips and the Tor.
For people asking about the stones i found this....The Deer Leap Standing Stones near Ebbor Gorge are said to commemorate an amazing leap by a deer, and the names comes from the Saxon custom of low points in a boundary where deer could pass through.
The antiquity of the stones is uncertain but the location is absolutely stunning, with views to Glastonbury Tor, the Bristol Channel, the Quantocks, and even Exmoor can also be seen in the distance on a clear day.''
Grid reference ST518486
The Yardbirds - Over, Under, Sideways, Down (A Whole Scene Going On, 08/06/1966)
Classic performance of 'Over, Under, Sideways, Down', by 'The Yardbirds', restored to HD as part of the 60th anniversary of their album "Roger The Engineer", available now in a new 7" coloured vinyl box set: https://yardbirds.lnk.to/roger60
Taken from the BBC show, 'A Whole Scene Going On'.
Wild Billy Childish And The Buff Medways 'Medway Wheelers' 2005
Song about a cycling club I believe.
Doreen - have bike will travel
A belated Mother's Day post. My Mum Doreen Newman before she got married in 1955 was a keen cyclist in a local cycling club which were all the rage then. She lived Station Road Norton. She met my Dad cycling home from Purnell's. When she visited my Dad's house at Tyning Hill my Dad's sisters were fascinated by her cycling shorts. Thanks to Anne for the photos.
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Saturday, March 21, 2026
Wild Thing - Oliver Reed / The Troggs with Alex 'Hurricane' Higgins (music video)
Daturdday Night Selection. 1992. Actor Oliver Reed teams up with The Troggs to record a version of their ever-popular 1960s track 'Wild Thing', accompanied by Northern Irish snooker player (and fellow hellraiser) Alex Higgins.
Supernatural (British TV series) 1977
They have been broadcasting this series on TPTV and Susan has been really enjoying it. About an hour. They generally have a twist at the end and it is generally with the cream of acting talent in them. I am telling you this as they are on Youtube if it is the sort of thing you like.
Supernatural is a British Gothic horror anthology television series that was produced by the BBC in 1977. The series consisted of eight episodes and was broadcast on BBC1. In each episode, a prospective member of the "Club of the Damned" was required to tell a horror story, and their application for membership would be judged on how frightening the story was. Applicants who failed to tell a sufficiently frightening story would be killed.
LOULOU - de Maurice Pialat (bande-annonce) 1980
There used to be a French joke roughly 'I went to the cinema saw a film and it didn't have either Gerard Depardieu or Isabelle Huppert in it'. This film has both in. Loulou (film) - Wikipedia
Manikin Advert 1970 Caroline Munro
We watched an interview with Caroline Munro on telly and someone asked her where she gets her clothing style from and she said Charity shops. This makes me like her even more now.
Tommy - Pinball Wizard - The Who/Elton John
Pinball Wizard - Wikipedia This version was in the charts 50 years ago.
A Boy, A Girl and a Bike 1949 John McCallum, Honor Blackman, Patrick Holt, Diana Dors
I like this film. My Mum was in a cycling club around this time.
This amiable comedy romance is notable for its strong supporting cast including Diana Dors, Anthony Newley, Leslie Dwyer and Thora Hird.
Young couple Sue (Honor Blackman) and Sam (Patrick Holt) are members of a Yorkshire cycling club, the ‘Wakeford Wheelers’. Romantic complications ensue when wealthy David (John McCallum) becomes smitten with Sue, and joins the club to pursue her, much to Sam's dismay.
Priddy Fire
Huge grass fire in Somerset village devastates woodland
A huge grass fire devastated over 400m of woodland in a Somerset village on Friday night.
Devon and Somerset Police were called to Stock Hill Woods in Priddy at 5.30pm where three to four-hundred metres of grassland was set ablaze.
Crews from Castle Cary Fire Station attended the incident using beaters and water jets from a local source to put out the fire.
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