Stallard12 Posted October 18, 2011 Report Share Posted October 18, 2011 An alternative to Algy's quiz, which I stink at !! In the summer of 1959, I was lying on a Warrington Infirmary bed, covered with crisp white sheets, encased in plaster, recovering from a motorcycle escapade and listening to the crappy hospital radio on ear phones. Sorry, it was the reception that was bad, not the people running it. Two American tunes were the most popular at the time, what were they? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cleopatra Posted October 18, 2011 Report Share Posted October 18, 2011 Bobby Darin Dream Lover Elvis Presley A Fool Such As I Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stallard12 Posted October 18, 2011 Author Report Share Posted October 18, 2011 You're the man Cleo, Dream lover, that's one of them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cleopatra Posted October 19, 2011 Report Share Posted October 19, 2011 man? man? Johnny Horton Battle of New Orleans Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stallard12 Posted October 19, 2011 Author Report Share Posted October 19, 2011 Figure of speech, Cleo !!! No, 'fraid not. I think all the other contestants are already in bed - time for me too, 7;36pm, Yawn.... It was very apt : Teenager in love, Dion and the Belmonts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harry hayes Posted October 19, 2011 Report Share Posted October 19, 2011 Wedding march in my case. Glorious summer other, I mean weatherwise. Frank Sinatra was all the go in that year so "all the way" Happy days Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evil Sid Posted October 19, 2011 Report Share Posted October 19, 2011 mac the knife bobby darin? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazj Posted October 19, 2011 Report Share Posted October 19, 2011 Peter should come up with some interesting ones as he is always saying how good the 50's were!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stallard12 Posted October 19, 2011 Author Report Share Posted October 19, 2011 Lots of great songs in those years. I just have Dream Lover and Teenager in Love burned into my brain cos I think they were the only two records the infirmary radio had and I couldn't go anywhere, so I just lay there and listened, and listened..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mary Posted October 25, 2011 Report Share Posted October 25, 2011 I was barely two - can't remember much! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
algy Posted October 25, 2011 Report Share Posted October 25, 2011 I was 19 an indentured apprentice earning £7 a week had a Tony Curtis hair cut, drain pipe trousers, finger tip length jacket and suede shoes and thought I was the "real thing" even typing this the memory embarrasses me . I was courting the girl who became my wife and still is, "courting" there's a word you don't hear any more!. I didn't earn enough money to own a car and never thought I ever would, I remember trying to save enough to buy a banger from a scrapyard that was behind the Kingsway Hotel but soon gave up as I never seemed to accumulate any money not like some of my mates who were earning good brass at firms such as Electro Hydraulics, Rubery Owens and Hanson & Edwards, into any music and artist on the Rock scene of the day, As Harry always signs off "Happy Days" (credit & respect to Harry). Anyone remember the name of the scrapyard, seem to think it began with Mac- or Mac-. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cleopatra Posted October 25, 2011 Report Share Posted October 25, 2011 McDermott? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
algy Posted October 25, 2011 Report Share Posted October 25, 2011 McDermott? That's the one! thanks Cleo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cleopatra Posted October 25, 2011 Report Share Posted October 25, 2011 you're welcome algy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agamemnon1 Posted October 28, 2011 Report Share Posted October 28, 2011 Tery McDermot, Him and his wife Jean was excellent sequence dancers. Also ran Macs Taxis near Bridge Foot. Great couple. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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