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

 

Weather Report 2 · The Fall 2010

 Saw them do this in Frome. Just after my mother died. 

Norbert Goeneutte 1854–1894. The Boulevard de Clichy under Snow. 1876

 My parents had a print of this back in the day

Roky Erickson - The Wind and More

 We had a red alert for wind. Was quite strong, So my Saturday night selection.

Old Playlist

 

The Clash - Should I Stay or Should I Go (Official Video) 1982

 wiki.One of their best singles I think. Saw them three times. 

The Yardbirds - I Wish You Would (1965)

 Cover of the Billy Boy Arnold hit. 

A COMPLETE UNKNOWN | Official Trailer

 Timothée Chalamet as Bob Dylan in A COMPLETE UNKNOWN, the ballad of a true original. A Film by James Mangold. Co-starring Edward Norton, Elle Fanning, and Monica Barbaro. Only in theaters Christmas Day.

Midsomer Norton by Susan

 

New Kogar

 Alright you dirty FINKS, it’s time for show #86 of Kogar’s Jungle Juice! All the usual fun and frolic and our last set is filled with BIRD songs! You’ll dance your way right out of the go go aviary! This show features artists like; The Vibrants, Link Wray, The 4 after 5’s, The Rivingtons, Tiny Topsy, Johnny Otis, Gene Maltais, Benny Joy, Memphis Slim, Stick Mcghee, Baby Ray and the Ferns and the 5.6.7.8’s with Tony Andreason! Full playlist over at the Boss Radio 66 Blogspot!

https://www.bossradio66.com/.../kogars-jungle-juice-show...

or

https://www.mixcloud.com/Kogar/kogars-jungle-juice-show-86/

New novel from Dave Barbarossa

 Get it from Amazon/ Read about it here

Ladybird Artists ‘The village’ Artist: SR Badmin

 

Mel Torme - Right Now (1966)

 Steve Stack played this on the Wednesday Night Rocking Party. Banshees covered this I think

Children's Games. 1560. Pieter Bruegel the Elder.

 Time for children's toys and games

Radstock by Sam Chivers

 

King Biscuit Time (1942, 1952)

 I thought I would choose the best Sonny Boy clip on Youtube and this is my choice. 

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.

Happy birthday Sonny Boy Williamson

 My favourite bluesman. The reason I took up the harmonica.

King Biscuit Time bus!

 Photo 1940s. King Biscuit Time was a radio broadcast from Helena, Arkansas featuring the great Sonny Boy Williamson II. From Bob Corritore

The Yardbirds - Five Live Yardbirds1964 Marquee Club

 The ultimate 60s club recording is 60 years old today wiki. 

A1 Too Much Monkey Business

A2 I Got Love If You Want It A3 Smokestack Lightnin' A4 Good Morning Little Schoolgirl A5 Respectable B1 Five Long Years--------------------19:07 B2 Pretty Girl B3 Louise B4 I'm A Man

B5 Here Tis

Peter Jackman photographer: "Sonny Boy Williamson II , 1964, Farmborough, U.K. with the Yardbirds.

Mister Rock'n'roll (1957) full movie

 

New Playlist Well You Know

 

William Tell Official Trailer in cinemas January 10

Ladybird Artists ‘Winter Pastoral’ Artist: SR Badmin

 

The Snowman (1982)

 Here. Christmas tv is all about animation. This year is all about Wallace and Gromit. But once it was all about this adaptation. Our eldest loved this and with good reason. It's lovely. Wiki

Mickey Mouse the Haunted House (1929)

 

Here

60 years ago

 Me and my sister would watch this every Christmas. Do you remember it? 1964. Wiki

My festive picture

 By CCP Lawson a 20th century historian/artist who painted this depiction of Turenne's Winter campaign of 1674 350 years ago this season. 

The Company of Wolves (1984) Official trailer

 Around here people who have strong accents say woofs instead of wolves so this is the Company of Woofs. 

Here. This British movie got a lot of press coverage 40 years ago. They are showing it on Talking Pictures December 3 11.25. We saw it at the pictures but I can't remember being blown away by it. But interesting. Wiki