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Annette Hanshaw imitating Helen Kane in Betty Boop mode. Explanations available on receipt of a suitably handsome remuneration.

Sorry, Maurice, I don’t recognise that name. From looking into Reg Bassett, it seems that, unless a band got onto the Beeb, there wasn’t a lot of coverage to spread their fame outside the local area. RB was the resident band at Trentham Gardens ballroom, a place where you would have found me on...

Maurice, I finally got round to listening to “Temptation” and quite enjoyed it, agree with you on the vocalist though. Grofe did the orchestration of Rhapsody in Blue for Whiteman, amongst others, I think one of the attractions of this era is the trouble taken properly to present the music, even...

This is all getting very serious..... The words of this just crack me up, rhyming “sawmill proprietor” with “winked his glass eye at her” - priceless!

There is so much more, but at this time, just a memory of a big band, the output of which I have spent many hours listening and dancing to on Saturday nights at Trentham Gardens ballroom, but who seemed to make no records...

British female vocalists of the period, not much to say until Anne Shelton, but American women, Annette Hanshaw. Need I say more? Oh yes, sorry I forgot, “That’s all!”

An attempt to redeem poor old Bertini, with a little potted history of the band, but another vocalist who wasn’t much better. What we mustn’t lose sight of is that the Woolworths Eclipse records cost all of sixpence, that is, two and a half decimalised pence, so you can’t really expect much...

A possible excuse for the rather poor quality of the Eclipse recording, and to say that Bertini did record better sides. Not sure if Donald Peers did, though! http://www.woolworthsmuseum.co.uk/1930s-recording.htm

Give me a day or two! Finally this evening, if I may I shall break the rules about good music to listen to - this is really awful. Bertini and his Blackpool Tower orchestra, v. Donald Peers! Well, I did warn you!

T’aint a video, Maurice, steam radio at its best, BBC Radio 2 19.30 hrs each Monday, back in the 70s. Phillips seemed to have settled in Blighty, and worked until the 50s at least, doing incidental music for BBC Radio plays. That vocalist always seemed to sound like his dentures were loose!

Internet only, and they generally play pre 1935 music, and adverts. They are based in Fort Worth, Texas, so the time checks are a bit iffy. What really appals me is the number of times I know the words of the tunes they play!

And, there’s always Radio Dismuke.

One for Lynn!

Surely, but I do like the advantages of having lived through times of comparative prosperity and just missing WW2. My dad and his generation lived through the depression and the war, my lot all received the advantages gained by the passage of time, and very few of the downside consequences...

I don’t recall offering this band for your delight and delectation on a previous occasion, so, here we go: - 1930, I think and the stock market would have been in lots of folks’ minds. Two turns round the local drill hall floor doing the quickstep at that pace and I’d have been fit for...

60 Minivan 60 VW1200 65 Lancia Fulvia 66 Lancia Fulvia 69 Ford Capri 1600XL Then came the 70s, 4 new Hunter estates in a row. :zzz::zzz:

Thanks, one or two of the other sites I use could do with a bit of your knowledge!

Brummy-lad, I’ve done some changes! The images are very small. All of the vehicles in the picture could have been around in 1965, the small Fordson or Thames pickup was in production from 1938 to 1956, the Morris PV van from 1939 to about 1953, and the van on the right would have been fairly...

Brummy-lad, those vehicles in that picture.... Ansells pickup looks like it might be a Thames 10cwt from the shape of the front wing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fordson_E83W#/media/File:Ford_Thames_E83W_dropside_1957.jpg I am struggling with the drophead car, I’ll get back to you...

That’s probably me and a colleague or two walking to the Filibuster for a quick lunchtime snifter. We worked in the office above, the main problem with which was trying to find somewhere to park our collection of oldish motors. Our manager had a thing about us drinking halves, not pints, so a...