Blast from the past - remind us of a thing

[DickyC]

Washing up liquid and scouring powder when car maintenance was essential and Swarfega was a luxury.

Or we hadn't yet discovered Swarfega. Washing up liquid and scouring powder were at least provided by unsuspecting mums and dads.

[LimmerickLad]

DickyC said:

Washing up liquid and scouring powder when car maintenance was essential and Swarfega was a luxury.

Or we hadn't yet discovered Swarfega. Washing up liquid and scouring powder were at least provided by unsuspecting mums and dads.

We used sugar instead of scouring powder......works well and I still do it today so perhaps not really a "blast from the past" after all.

[Yertis]

I never found Swarfega that good at getting oil etc off and used some petrol or white spirit

I wear gloves now

[Lotusgone]

Roofless Toothless said:

WrekinCrew said:

Comedy / novelty records by comedians and "non singers" eg
- Charlie Drake ("My Boomerang Won't Come Back")
- Terry Scott ("My Brother")
- Peter Sellers ("Goodness Gracious Me")
- Benny Hill ("Ernie")
- Alan Sherman ("Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh")

Also "kids' records" like "The Runaway Train", "The Ugly Duckling", "Sparky's Magic Piano".

Does anything like that still happen? (Weird Al parodies don't count!)

Round about 1968 popular music started taking itself far too seriously.

I do remember from the 1970s, Rochdale Cowboy (Mike Harding), Magic Roundabout (Jasper Carrott) and D.I.V.O.R.C.E (Billy Connolly) making it into the charts. There were probably several others...

[Steamer]

Lotusgone said:

Roofless Toothless said:

WrekinCrew said:

Comedy / novelty records by comedians and "non singers" eg
- Charlie Drake ("My Boomerang Won't Come Back")
- Terry Scott ("My Brother")
- Peter Sellers ("Goodness Gracious Me")
- Benny Hill ("Ernie")
- Alan Sherman ("Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh")

Also "kids' records" like "The Runaway Train", "The Ugly Duckling", "Sparky's Magic Piano".

Does anything like that still happen? (Weird Al parodies don't count!)

Round about 1968 popular music started taking itself far too seriously.

I do remember from the 1970s, Rochdale Cowboy (Mike Harding), Magic Roundabout (Jasper Carrott) and D.I.V.O.R.C.E (Billy Connolly) making it into the charts. There were probably several others...

'The Chicken Song'... Spitting Image (Spit in your ear) 1986. With a B-side that probably wouldn't be allowed 'these days'

[beagrizzly]

Steamer said:

Lotusgone said:

Roofless Toothless said:

WrekinCrew said:

Comedy / novelty records by comedians and "non singers" eg
- Charlie Drake ("My Boomerang Won't Come Back")
- Terry Scott ("My Brother")
- Peter Sellers ("Goodness Gracious Me")
- Benny Hill ("Ernie")
- Alan Sherman ("Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh")

Also "kids' records" like "The Runaway Train", "The Ugly Duckling", "Sparky's Magic Piano".

Does anything like that still happen? (Weird Al parodies don't count!)

Round about 1968 popular music started taking itself far too seriously.

I do remember from the 1970s, Rochdale Cowboy (Mike Harding), Magic Roundabout (Jasper Carrott) and D.I.V.O.R.C.E (Billy Connolly) making it into the charts. There were probably several others...

'The Chicken Song'... Spitting Image (Spit in your ear) 1986. With a B-side that probably wouldn't be allowed 'these days'

Shaddap You Face! - Joe Dolce in 1981. Classic.

There was something about Star Trek in the late 80s (I think). Always going forward 'cos we can't find reverse......

[p1doc]

beagrizzly said:

Shaddap You Face! - Joe Dolce in 1981. Classic.

There was something about Star Trek in the late 80s (I think). Always going forward 'cos we can't find reverse......

star trekking across the universe-quality song and video

[brownspeed]

1981 really was a classic year for musical bilge- "the birdie song" - the tweets. jeez!!

[dickymint]

p1doc said:

beagrizzly said:

Shaddap You Face! - Joe Dolce in 1981. Classic.

There was something about Star Trek in the late 80s (I think). Always going forward 'cos we can't find reverse......

star trekking across the universe-quality song and video

Not as good as my favourite from 1979................





I saw them live singing this before it was released

[hidetheelephants]

Steamer said:

'The Chicken Song'... Spitting Image (Spit in your ear) 1986. With a B-side that probably wouldn't be allowed 'these days'

Presumably "I've never met a nice south african"? Quite a few of the politicians in office now are as racist as the boers were.

[StescoG66]

LimmerickLad said:

DickyC said:

Washing up liquid and scouring powder when car maintenance was essential and Swarfega was a luxury.

Or we hadn't yet discovered Swarfega. Washing up liquid and scouring powder were at least provided by unsuspecting mums and dads.

We used sugar instead of scouring powder......works well and I still do it today so perhaps not really a "blast from the past" after all.

Olive oil and salt. Works a charm and leaves you with soft hands.

[otolith]

beagrizzly said:

Shaddap You Face! - Joe Dolce in 1981. Classic.

Kept Ultravox's Vienna off the top spot!

[Riley Blue]

Sticks. said:

blueg33 said:

I think Spike Milligan was brilliant in an unconventional way. His kids stuff is fantastic eg "The Bald Twit Lion", and "In the land of the Jumbly Joo"

Also of course his headstone which has on it the words he wanted. "I told you I was ill"

It's written in Latin, a condition set by (I suspect) the church.

Gaelic I think, not Latin.

[Sticks.]

Riley Blue said:

Sticks. said:

blueg33 said:

I think Spike Milligan was brilliant in an unconventional way. His kids stuff is fantastic eg "The Bald Twit Lion", and "In the land of the Jumbly Joo"

Also of course his headstone which has on it the words he wanted. "I told you I was ill"

It's written in Latin, a condition set by (I suspect) the church.

Gaelic I think, not Latin.

You're quite right, thanks. It's an interesting church, and town. I must visit it again soon.

[Yertis]

brownspeed said:

1981 really was a classic year for musical bilge- "the birdie song" - the tweets. jeez!!

Also 'Marvin the Paranoid Android' from that Hitchhikers Guide book that all the nerdy kids kept banging on about.

[FiF]

For some odd reason this morning The Army Game surfaced in my memory. Had forgotten how many familiar names were in the cast. From the days of conscription and National Service

Alfie Bass, Pvt Excused Boots Bisley
Bill Fraser, Comp Sgt Major Snudge
Frank Williams (vicar from Dad's Army), The Captain
Dick Emery
William Hartnell
Bernard Bresslaw
Geoffrey Palmer
Charles Hawtrey

[Strangely Brown]

FiF said:

For some odd reason this morning The Army Game surfaced in my memory. Had forgotten how many familiar names were in the cast. From the days of conscription and National Service

Alfie Bass, Pvt Excused Boots Bisley
Bill Fraser, Comp Sgt Major Snudge
Frank Williams (vicar from Dad's Army), The Captain
Dick Emery
William Hartnell
Bernard Bresslaw
Geoffrey Palmer
Charles Hawtrey

Which reminds me of Get Some In. IIRC, also about National Service but with crabs RAF erks.

"Fag for the Corporal".
"Light for the Corporal".

Tony Selby, Robert Lindsay are the only ones I remember.

[username_checksout]

King-Size Cornettos and the Sorbetto; a Cornetto but made with orange sorbet and ice-cream. Must have been late 80s.

Slightly earlier, Walls St Clements ice-cream: a block of neon orange around a lemon centre. Had it once as a child and never found it for sale again.

[LimmerickLad]

Have we had proper mansize wagonwheels yet?

[Error_404_Username_not_found]

The girls with the icecream and Kia-Ora trays during the intermission at the flicks. I was just reminiscing with Dave the Geezer about how you could cop a sneaky booby squeeze in the dark.
My mate got nabbed and chucked out because he was the only blond haired kid in the row.