Earliest Recordings - Pre Shads era.

[suboA21]

5 O'clock club on ITV (Channel 3 on the clicker dial in London- we didn't change channel, you "turned the telly over!") with..................

Muriel Young, Wally Whiton, Pussy Cat Willum, Ollie owl and ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................BERT WEEDON

Such innocence - no suggestion that they were gay al la Tellie Tubbies................Crazy!!!!!

[Martin Page]

5 O'clock club on ITV (Channel 3 on the clicker dial in London- we didn't change channel, you "turned the telly over!") with..................

Muriel Young, Wally Whiton, Pussy Cat Willum, Ollie owl and ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................BERT WEEDON

Such innocence - no suggestion that they were gay al la Tellie Tubbies................Crazy!!!!!

I have the HMV single of the theme tune: China Doll.

Martin.

[ecca]

I remember marching round the back yard to Anne Shelton's Lay down your arms whilst wearing my Davy Crockett hat.

[roger bayliss]

Seems Lonnie Donegan did it for me ... My Old Mans a Dustman

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Sparky and the talking train on 3 x 78 LP's (six sides) and Oh Mein Papa Trumpet Instrumental by Eddie Calvert produced by none other than Norrie Paramour.

Apparently at my Uncles wedding all I would sing (age 18mnths) was the latest hit....... Wock Awound the Cwock
Steve

[Moderne]

One of my favourite 78s is Johnny Standley "It's in the book" - an hilarious 'revivalist' style sermon on Little Bo Peep. I've also got a 78 of Teenage Love by The Five Chesternuts which I bought on eBay for £30 about 5 years ago. Does anyone own any other Cliff/Drifters 78s?

Clive

[BrianD]

When I was small my Dad had what seemed to me to be a vast collection of 78s. In reallity the tracks would probably all fit on a modern CD compilation! Two songs stood out to me back then, both recorded during the War - Run Rabit, Run and Red Sails In The Sunset. I played these endlessly until Rock & Roll and the Shads appeared on my radar.
Two other fifties records stick in my mind - Charlie Drake's My Boomerang Won't Come Back and The Kingston Trio's Tom Dooley. The latter was my first true pop record, and I still have it although it is so worn out I downloaded a fresh copy from iTunes quite recently.

Reading all the entries in this thread brought back lots of memories, but it also struck me that there was a lovely simplicity to the songs and recordings that have been mentioned. I wonder what today's five year olds will look back on in fifty to sixty years time?

Brian

[Tab]

'My Boomerang Won't Come Back' with its "nasty bushwacking hanimal" - brilliant! and what about the Ruby Murray and doris Day classics?

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'My Boomerang Won't Come Back' with its "nasty bushwacking hanimal" - brilliant! and what about the Ruby Murray and doris Day classics?

My Ruby Murray classic would probably be a Chicken Biryani............................ Reminds me I am absolutely Hank Marvin, so it's time for breakfast!!!!

[RayL]

Also worth a mention are the records that you never heard in the 1950s because they were effectively censored - not for religious or 'it'll scare the public' reasons but simply because they sounded too subversive.

So we never heard, for example, 'Black Denim Trousers and Motorcycle Boots' by The Cheers (a 1955 gem written by Leiber and Stoller that made it to No.6 in the US charts) while that wretched 'Beep Beep' song about the bubblecar was played all the time.

Ray L