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But odd that that one is not on the 1939 Register either, or at least in Worcestershire, and probably too old for the services. Maurice :cool:

Hi Lynn, Yes, anyone suffering from travel sickness would do well to avoid the rider's shots! More later. Maurice :cool:

Yes, John, Bertini sounds of like the worse of the Serbian brass bands, and some are quite listenable & entertaining, and the vocalist sounds as though someone is strangling a certain part of his anatomy. Whereas Ambrose is, as always, smooth and polished. Maurice :cool:

Nice arrangement Lynn. Maurice :cool:

THIS IS YOUR LIFE - I knew that because it is almost as old as me! :) Maurice :cool:

Earlier I posted On the Trail by Ferde Grofé on the classical music thread. This is probably one for John from Staffs if he sees this thread because it is Ferde Grofé and his Orchestra playing Temptation recorded in 1933, two years after he wrote the more serious Grand Canyon Suite. The...

Here's a piece that rarely gets played these days along with some beautiful scenary. Its American composer, Ferde Grofé, got tempted away by the film studios for much of his life, and this is the one piece that seems to get recognised today - On the Trail from the Grand Canyon Suite, written in...

A whole work tonight and probably one of the most popular. Here's Georgian-French pianist Khatia Buniatishvili playing Grieg's Piano Concerto, and the second movement just oozes fjords! She's the better known of two sisters, both concert pianists. Maurice :cool:

Let's see if this registers with anyone. He's probably the greatest Hammond organ jazz player alive today. With Dan Wilson on guitar (no mean slouch, as they say) and Jason Brown on drums, here's the Joey De Francesco Trio with the tune One Hundred Ways. Joey D is also a very competent trumpet...

HOLLYOAKS - never watched it and never seen Holly, but they plaster her all over the newpaper sites, so that was another easy one. Maurice :cool:

I'll stick my oar in with RAINBOW. Maurice :cool:

Pedro, Penny has finally dropped, but I'm not much good at this sort of stuff and hate crosswords with crptic clues. Maurice :cool:

Just to finally exclude the James Drinkwater mentioned by Lyn in post #24, all the James Drinkwaters travelling to North America from 1890 onwards travelled AFTER the date of this guy's death. In fact the only James Drinkwater travelling before that date was going to Freemantle, Australia in...

Lyn, I mentioned that in Post #14 - James Peter - but unless he emigrated it seems most unlikely due to a year residence in Canada. I'll search the passenger records later, but up to my eyes in other stuff at the moment. Maurice :cool:

The only saving grace was that there was only one vocal chorus! :scream: Maurice :cool:

John, Words I rarely listen to and never remember. If I can't, due to old age, remember the title of a piece of music, if I've ever played it, I can always remember the key and write down the melody line. I can just about remember the first verse of the national anthem, but not Land of Hope &...

Thanks, Lynn, but watching TV was something I did occasionally while doing something else! And I just don't have a clue about that car. It may be a series I have never watched and some certainly didn't appeal. Maurice :cool:

John, Not much on the internet about Van Phillips and I must admit that he is a new name to me. I'll have a look at the Alan Dell video tomorrow. Like you, I don't go much on the vocalist, but the band is OK for the time. Cheers. Maurice :cool:

Not a war death as the only one is a James Peter Drinkwater who was killed in 1917 aged 43 and was a Canadian. Maurice :cool:

Although I did give music lessons occasionally, Lynn, I was for many years a modern jazz pianist, who undertook ordinary commercial gigs as and when financially necessary, though I did have a classical background. I played professionally for about five & half years, but when children arrived I...