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First Record Bought?

Not to mention Charlie Drake and Bernard Bresslaw. Arghhh....My Boomerang Won't Come Back..
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Ahh! the days when even the bad songs were good!

[video=youtube;ZAYmk9Qb9Dc]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAYmk9Qb9Dc[/video]
 
Arrrghh....again. You swine Lloyd! I thought this had been expunged from my memory forever, now I can't stop singing it in my head!!! Nice ad for Nivea though.... Have you got We Were Making Mad Passionate Love by any chance, if so I'm emigrating tomorrow.
 
Ok, this is a bit of a twist to this thread I admit, inspired by my American idol Dave Barry. BAD records. For example who can top the following stonkingly crapola liddle bits of the following so called Hits? Bits of songs that are so Bad, they stick like earwigs in your brain and you CAN"T HELP SINGING THEM even though you would rather maybe chew on a Giant Roll of Tinfoil or put lighted matches to your hair...

Take a bow Richard Harris,viz.

Some one left the Cake out in the rain
I don't think that I can TAKE it
'cause it took so long to BAKE it
And I'll never have that recipe againnnn
Oh Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

or

Yummy Yummy yummy I've got love in my tummy
And I feel like luvving yuuu
(Ohio Express)

then for good measure, my all time favourite grammatical nightmare "A Horse with No Name" from America

In the desert, you can remember your name
'cause there ain't no one for to give you no pain


Of course, there may be others....?
 
  • Isn't the man singing in mourning of a relationship ending which he thinks he can never replace (I'll never have that recipe again.) MacArthur Park is melting in the dark thinking of his visit there with his lost love. I must admit i found the words rather silly,and some people say he made it to prove you make a number one out of rubbish,who knows rather catchy though
 
Elizabeth Redmond said:
  • Isn't the man singing in mourning of a relationship ending which he thinks he can never replace (I'll never have that recipe again.) MacArthur Park is melting in the dark thinking of his visit there with his lost love. I must admit i found the words rather silly,and some people say he made it to prove you make a number one out of rubbish,who knows rather catchy though
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I believe McArthur park was part of a ( Rock ? ) opera that never got finshed, If it had, and you knew the story, it might make sense. Same goes for 'Grocer Jack'.

Have to agree though, when it came out i thought it was rubbish, still do actually !
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Look guys, not withstanding trying to big it up as some unfinished McArthur Park Rock Opera, or some other cerebral 'King's New Clothes' mantra that might excuse it's awfulness; to try and equate unrequited love to baking a hot cross bun just doesn't do it for me. No way. It is pants and that's a fact. Glad you agree Fatfingers. Sorry Elizabeth. Could I tempt you to be rude about say some of the other folk I used to shout at the Telly at? Gilbert O'Sullivan? Rupert Holmes? Bobby (gulp) Goldsboro perhaps..?
 
Dennis Williams said:
Look guys, not withstanding trying to big it up as some unfinished McArthur Park Rock Opera, or some other cerebral 'King's New Clothes' mantra that might excuse it's awfulness; to try and equate unrequited love to baking a hot cross bun just doesn't do it for me. No way. It is pants and that's a fact. Glad you agree Fatfingers. Sorry Elizabeth. Could I tempt you to be rude about say some of the other folk I used to shout at the Telly at? Gilbert O'Sullivan? Rupert Holmes? Bobby (gulp) Goldsboro perhaps..?
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Gilbert O'Sullivan,a couple of the things he done were ok,had sort of forgot about him,Rupert no clue?Bobby Goldsboro,didn't he hug necks and plant trees in the snow( oill give it 1) i didn't say i liked him,just wondering what it was about
 
Hello Betty Dennis was telling me how awful MacArthurs Park was and agreeing that Raymond Froggatt was indeed is brilliant
 
Indeed I was Liz. You never heard Rupert Holmes' 'Pina Colada' song?, or even worse 'HIM' by same bloke, viz.

Him, him, him
What's she gonna do about him
She's gonna have to do without him
Or do without
Me, me, me
No one gets to get it for free
It's me or it's him

Sheesh. No contest Rupert after that slush...him it is.

But a better one for you emancipated girls - how about Jack Jones 'Wives And Lovers'? I bet you loved the lines

Hey, little girl, comb your hair, fix your make up
Soon he will open the door...

Yo Jack, fix this...
 
No really not my sort of thing, what can i say.Raymond Froggatt,The Drifters,Billy Fury,Rod Stewart, a wide variety of music
i enjoy,but none of the ones you mention
 
Dennis Williams said:
Ok, this is a bit of a twist to this thread I admit, inspired by my American idol Dave Barry. BAD records. For example who can top the following stonkingly crapola liddle bits of the following so called Hits? Bits of songs that are so Bad, they stick like earwigs in your brain and you CAN"T HELP SINGING THEM even though you would rather maybe chew on a Giant Roll of Tinfoil or put lighted matches to your hair...

Of course, there may be others....?
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Like these, once I hear either, theyre there for the day,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGFpVN2xwXU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzICl6YJYlQ

Joe Brown, was me first guitar hero by the way.
 
I love Joe too btw FF. Saw him only a couple of years ago in Leamington at the Spa Centre. He blew us away, and admitted his first hero was also mine - Eddie Cochran.
 
The first record i brought with my own money was take thats cover of "how deep is your love". I was 16 at the time
 
That was a good cover, I do like take that, first record I bought was now that we found love by Third world.
 
Rather embarrassing, The Wombles Album! Had a record voucher for Xmas pestered me Dad to take me into WHSmiths to spend it, he got a parking ticket I got me record! Was quickly followed by Band On The Run by Wings, can anyone name all the celebs on the cover?
 
dwilly said:
Rather embarrassing, The Wombles Album! Had a record voucher for Xmas pestered me Dad to take me into WHSmiths to spend it, he got a parking ticket I got me record! Was quickly followed by Band On The Run by Wings, can anyone name all the celebs on the cover?
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I think you'll find it was Great Uncle Bulgaria, Wellington, Orinoco, Madame Cholet, Tomsk, Bungo, and Tobermory....lol
 
1st record bought Diana by Paul Anka. Me and my 2 bruvvers used to put 2bob each every week and then whose ever choice it was put the extra 4d and bought it from the record shop on 'The Flat'. Did anyone hear Frank Ifield I remember you this morning on Radio 2 - what a great sing along song and surprised I still remember the words.
 
Carolynn said:
1st record bought Diana by Paul Anka. Me and my 2 bruvvers used to put 2bob each every week and then whose ever choice it was put the extra 4d and bought it from the record shop on 'The Flat'. Did anyone hear Frank Ifield I remember you this morning on Radio 2 - what a great sing along song and surprised I still remember the words.
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Oh Frank Ifield had forgot about him great voice,*your the one who made my dreams*loved it
 
I was 17 when I bought my first record and living in the Nurses home at East Birmingham Hospital. I hadn't got a record player so borrowed one from Sue who lived in the room opposite. It was Dionne Warwicks' Walk on By' I played it long and loud and drove everyone crazy. Loved it
Lynda:)
 
We had a Dansette and if you kept the arm off the player it kept playing the same record over and over again. I sat in our back yard with Cliff and Living Doll playing for ages, much to the delight (or not) of the neighbours. Did anyone ever turn their records into a ashtray - can you remember the fad for this? Or, remember the radio show 'Break the Record'
 
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