Listing requests for "Solid Gold Hits" albums.
Dave Matoe
albums released in NZ from about 1971 to 1977. If memory serves me,
they went from "Solid Gold Hits volume 1" through to about 15 and then
changed to Platinum Gold hits. It's a nostalgia thing and I'm compiling
a CDR for my dad-in-law who loved the songs on these LP's.
I'm also looking for any sites that contain information/mp3's of past
New Zealand singers like John Hoare, Craig Scott, Buddy Walters, Mark
Williams etc. If anyone could assist me on this I would really
appreciate it.
Dave
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Ashley Campbell
"Dave Matoe" <Dave...@Hotmail.Com> wrote in message
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> I am looking for a complete set of listings for all the Solid Gold Hits
> albums released in NZ from about 1971 to 1977. If memory serves me,
> they went from "Solid Gold Hits volume 1" through to about 15 and then
> changed to Platinum Gold hits.
I think they went higher - 19 or 20 I reckon. Can't say as I remember a
change to Platinum Gold.
fiona Taylor
was also called Solid Gold Video Hits (which I also have)
My Solid Gold records start at volume 3. I would love to know what is on
volume 1 and 2. Ten Guitars, and Daddy dont you walk so fast would be worth
putting money on as being included I reckon.
I also have a couple of Studio One albums and some with mainly
kiwis...ie...Craig Scott, Angela Ayers, Bunny Walters etc etc...
Guess what I look for at Garage Sales...or what I would look for if I went
to them.
Anyway, exactly what information do you want and I would be happy to provide
it for you
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Fee
Hamilton
e-mail : fio...@ihug.co.nz.invalid
ICQ: 11485464
fiona Taylor
Hanlon, would have been early 70's, called 'Ban the Dam'...I have tried to
find it but with no luck. It is a protest song about the Clutha dam.
cheers
Ashley Campbell
"fiona Taylor" <Fio...@ihug.co.nz> wrote in message
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> I have a heap of the solid gold albums...I have got up to v.32. Volume 35
> was also called Solid Gold Video Hits (which I also have)
>
> My Solid Gold records start at volume 3. I would love to know what is on
> volume 1 and 2. Ten Guitars, and Daddy dont you walk so fast would be
worth
> putting money on as being included I reckon.
>
We had them at one stage, and I don't think I've ever forgiven my parents
for having a record clean out while I was away in Britain. As well as all
the Solid Gold records, my *Osmonds* records went. <Loud primal wail>
Yup, I'm pretty sure Daddy don't you walk so fast was on one of them, and
Softly whispering I love you. I'm not sure when exactly Tie a Yellow Ribbon
was, but it must have been somewhere in the first five.
Then, of course, there was Puppy love <deep adolescent sigh> :-)
I know it's a *big* ask, but would you mind, at your leisure, posting the
songs on, say, the first five or so you've got. I'm feeling nostalgic :-)
Cheers
Ashley
fiona Taylor
No Problem, will go and list them now and get them on once I have done
it...will do a couple of hte other records I mentioned too in case they are
of assistance.
Don't you just love nostalgia. My flatmate and I actually dragged all
those records out the other night and went right through them all, singing
away...ha ha...no doubt if we do it again the neighbours will be onto the
noise police asap!
Back soon
RachelM
(some on CD, some on tape). Not sure if they're correct, but might be worth
a look.
Dave Matoe <Dave...@Hotmail.Com> wrote in message
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Ashley Campbell
> OMG....Your "Osmonds" record was turfed...
Record? RECORD??? What do you think I was, some fly-by-night, fair weather
friend who switched to the Bay City Rollers at the first hint of a change in
fashion or something????
No, Fiona, it was true love. At the age of 16, I cried when Donny got
engaged (no kidding!).
We're talking plural here. The first record I ever bought was Donny and
Marie's "I'm leaving it all up to you" album. I got 50c pocket money a week.
I saved for eight weeks, thinking the album couldn't possibly cost any more.
So I took myself down to the local record store, only to find the album cost
$6. I had to save for another four weeks.
That was one of the many records that went.
what sacrilege.
>
That is a very mild word. It has caused a family rift of momentous
proportions <g>
> No Problem, will go and list them now and get them on once I have done
> it...will do a couple of hte other records I mentioned too in case they
are
> of assistance.
>
Cool!
> Don't you just love nostalgia. My flatmate and I actually dragged all
> those records out the other night and went right through them all, singing
> away...ha ha...no doubt if we do it again the neighbours will be onto the
> noise police asap!
>
You should've been at my 30th then ... the Osmonds, Kiss, Boney M, Abba,
right up to Def Leppard. Puppy Love followed by Pour some sugar on me was my
favourite little coupling ;-)
What's actually quite humorous is I have a sister who's 10 1/2 years younger
than me. As I was compiling the tapes for my birthday, she came into the
lounge and sang long to every Osmonds song, and knew some of the words I had
forgotten. They had imprinted on her!
fiona Taylor
Solid Gold Volume 3
Beg Steal or Borrow - New Seekers
Ooh-Wakka-Doo-Wakka-Day - Gilbert OSullivan
Breaking up is hard to do - Partridge Family
Conquistador - Procul Harum
Sister Jane - New World
Puppy Love - Donny Osmond
Baby Blue - Badfinger
Cant Let you Go - Suzanne
Taos New Mexico - R.Dean Taylor
The Slider - T Rex
You Wear it well - Rod Stewart
Carolina - Creation
Four & Twenty hours - nana Maskouri
Rock me Baby - David Cassidy
Long Cool Woman in a black dress - hollies
Oh Babe What would you Say - Hurricane Smith
Morning - Val Doonican
Dance around the world - Blerta
Hello-A - Mouth and Macneal
Nights in white satin - moody blues
Solid Gold volume 4
It never rains in Southern California - Albert Hammond
Pinball Wizard/ see me, feel me - The New Seekers
Also Sprach Zarathurstra (2001) - Deodato
Tie a Yellow Ribbon blah blah - Tony Orlando
Baby dont get hooked on me - mac Davis
Moma was right all along - Springfield Revival
Lady play your symphony - Kenny Rogers & the first edition
Too Young - Donny Osmond
Yellow River - Christie
Layla - ERic clapton
Sylvia's mother - Dr Hook and the medicine show
Top of the world - Steve Allen
Me and Mrs Jone - Billy Paul
Dont expect me to be your friend - Lobo
Brandy - Looking Glass
Hey Sandy - Harvey Andrews
Starting all over again - Mel and Tim
A thing called love - Johnny Cash
A whiter Shade of Pale - Procol Harum
Crazy Horses - The Osmonds
Solid Gold volume 5
Delta Dawn - Helen Reddy
Say has anybody seen my sweet gypsy rose - Tony Orlando
Playground in my mind - Clint Holmes
By the devil I was tempted - Blue Mink
You are the sunshine of my life - Stevie Wonder
Gonna make you an offer you cant refuse - Jimmy Helms
What about me - Anne Murray
Old dogs, children and watermelon wine - Tom T Hall
Ben - Micheal Jackson
The cover of the rolling stone - Dr Hook and the medicine show
See my baby jive - Wizzard
Piano Man - Thelma Houston
Daisy a Day - Jud Strunk
Rose Garden - Lynn Anderson
Young Love - Donny Osmond
Touch me in the morning - Diana ross
It sure took a long, long time - Lobo
Bad Bad Leroy Brown - Jim Croce
Last Song - Edward Bear
Hello Hello I'm back again - Gary Glitter
Solid Gold Volume 6
Mexico - The Les Humphries Singers
Big Norm - Ebony
Paper roses - Marie Osmond
Angel Fingers - Wizzard
Leave Me alone - Helen Reddy
Remember - Des Oconnor
Randy - Blue Mink
Albatross - fleetwood mac
My Coo Ca Choo - alvin Stardust
Join Together - Steve Allen
Welcome Home - Peters & lee
Miss September - Bulldogs all star good time band
Free Electric Band - Albert Hammond
Rock & Roll - Crag Scott
Heaven is my womans love - Val Doonican
Let me In - The Osmonds
Lena Lookie - Kenny rogers & the first edition
Alright, alright, alright - Mungo Jerry
Humpty Dumpty - Angela ayers
The day the curly billy shot down crazy sam magee - The Hollies
Solid Gold volume 7
The air that I breathe - Hollies
You wont find another fool like me - The new seekers
Seasons in the sun - Terry Jacks
I can see clearly now - Johnny Nash
Whos in the strawberry patch with sally - tony Orlando and Dawn
The Most beautiful girl - Charlie Rich
Im a Train - Albert Hammond
Everything I want to do - Suzanne
Everyone Knows- Bulldogs all star good time band
Hooked on a feeling - Blue swede
Take me HIgh - Cliff Richard
Spiders and snakes - Jim Stafford
The Laughing Gnome - David Bowie
I Love - Tom T Hall
Last time I saw him - Diana Ross
Ma Hes making eyes at me - Lena Zavaroni
Billy dont be a hero - Paper Lace
Living for the city - Stevie Wonder
Free Ride - The Edgar Winter Group
Showdown - Electric Light Orchestra
Hope that satisfies your thirst for nostalgia for now.
fiona Taylor
did too.
I am afraid Donny never really did it for me...but David Cassidy, now that
is another story.
But it is amazing how many of the old songs are being re-recorded.
Ashley Campbell
Absolutely groovy. Thank you. Saved for reminiscing :-)
It looks as if it all fell apart after volume 5 - Marie somehow didn't have
quite the same effect on me ;-)
And interesting to note that Lobo, who's one of my old favourites, was also
in those early compilations. Ahh, I remember them well: "I'd love you to
want me" "Don't expect me to be your friend" and "It sure took a long, long
time".
Now *that* record survived, as did my Jim Croche one. I still have them. I
just don't have anything to play them on anymore!
Great Fee - I'll be humming all night now!
Ashley Campbell
> You cried when Donny got married...geez, you ought to meet my cousin...she
> did too.
>
Devastated, I was. Scarred me for life. Took years to trust another man
again. And that was a mistake!
> I am afraid Donny never really did it for me...but David Cassidy, now that
> is another story.
>
Well, that's OK. I mean, I always respected other true fans. It's the
fly-by-night, change-idols-with-the-fashion girls who I had contempt for. In
either form 3 or 4 the Bay City Rollers came to Christchurch. There was a
*true* Bay City Rollers fan in my form - Marijke someone. We understood one
another. We respected one another's beliefs, and she knew I understood her
excitement much more than did those other jump on a bandwagon floozies who
were Rollers fans for a year before they moved on.
I was also irrationally jealous that the Osmonds weren't in town!
> But it is amazing how many of the old songs are being re-recorded.
>
There's nothing quite like a good, soppy teen ballad to get the tills
ringing ;-). One of the boy bands a couple of years ago redid Love me for a
reason which, as I'm sure you know, Merrill wrote for Mary before they
married.
I'm still waiting for someone to remake Crazy Horses.
Bruce Hoult
<Fio...@ihug.co.nz> wrote:
> Just thought of something else also....Does anyone remember a song by John
> Hanlon, would have been early 70's, called 'Ban the Dam'...I have tried to
> find it but with no luck. It is a protest song about the Clutha dam.
Damn the dam cried the fantail, as he flew into, as he flew into the air?
-- Bruce
Frank van der Hulst
> Just thought of something else also....Does anyone remember a song by John
> Hanlon, would have been early 70's, called 'Ban the Dam'...I have tried to
> find it but with no luck. It is a protest song about the Clutha dam.
Damn the dam. And it was Manapouri, not Clutha.
Frank.
Dave Matoe
"fiona Taylor" <Fio...@ihug.co.nz> wrote:
> OK Here we go...
>
> Solid Gold Volume 3
>
> Beg Steal or Borrow - New Seekers
> Ooh-Wakka-Doo-Wakka-Day - Gilbert OSullivan
Fiona, you are a true gem. This is exactly what I was after. I have
been madly downloading stuff from napster over the last week and have
tried to recall many of the listings from memory. Your listings will
make things heaps easier and my father-in-law should get more than just
one CDR for his birthday. By way of thanks, if you send me a list of
your favourite tracks I'll pop a CDR in the post.
For refrence, these are some of the tracks I've managed to download:-
(they are in no particular order.)
Free Electric Band - Albert Hammond
I'm a train - ditto
It never rains in california - ditto
The way we were - Barbara Streisand
Evergreen - ditto
Strawberry Letter 23 - Brothers Johnson
Stomp - ditto
Break it to them gently - Burton Cummins
Gotta sink the Bismark - Johhny Horton
Snoopy's xmas - Royal guardsman
Galveston - Glenn Campbell
Wichita Linesman - ditto
Southern nights - ditto
Rhinestone cowboy - ditto
Sometimes when we touch - Dan Hill
Daddy don't you walk so fast - Daniel Boone
The Laughing Gnome - David Bowie
Tie a yellow ribbon - Tony Orlando and Dawn
Knock 3 times - ditto
Alone again - Gilbert Osullivan
Claire - ditto
Doot - Freur
How do you do - Mouth and Mcneil
Count on me - Jefferson starship
If I only had time - John Rowles
Ring of fire - Johnny Cash
16 Tons - ditto
I walk the line - ditto
King of the road - Roger Millar
Don't expect me to be your friend - Lobo
Me and you and a dog named boo - ditto
I'd love you to want me - ditto
The boat that I row - Lulu
Blue Bayou - Linda Rondstat
Durham Town - Roger Whittikar
Have you ever been mellow - Olivia Newton John
See my baby Jive - Wizard/Roy Wood
Walk Tall - Val Doonican
Is this the way to Amarillo - Tony Christie
I did what I did for maria - ditto
Green green grass of home - Englebert Humperdink
10 guitars - ditto
There goes my everything - ditto
After the loving - ditto
She's a lady - Tom Jones
Jack and Jill - Ray Parker jnr and Raydio
Wasted days wasted nights - Freddy Fender
Before the last teardrop falls - ditto
Stole my car - ??
Delta Dawn - Helen Reddy
Angie Baby - ditto
I am woman - ditto
Leave me alone - ditto
Snowbird - Anne Murry
Sukiyaki - Taste of Honey
Thanks again!
Dave
Brian M. Harmer
"Dave Matoe" <dave...@my-deja.com> wrote in message
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> For refrence, these are some of the tracks I've managed to download:-
> (they are in no particular order.)
>
> Free Electric Band - Albert Hammond
> I'm a train - ditto
Ummm ... did you spend a lot of your youth riding in elevators?
:-)
Ashley Campbell
>
> For refrence, these are some of the tracks I've managed to download:-
> (they are in no particular order.)
>
<snip>
What???? NO OSMONDS!!!!! <g>
Dave Matoe
Damn! caught out again. :-) Actually, when these LP's were on sale, I
lived in Porirua and *everybody* had copies of them. I remember playing
them on my mum's old record player that let you stack several records
at once. And then, on Sunday mornings, listening to the kids request
show on the radio; I used to sing along to Flick the fire engine every
time it was on - drove my brothers batty.
Now theres nostalgia for you - can anyone think of any other kids
stories that played? I recall one about a giant who use to let kids
play in one part of his garden and when he died (of natural causes - no
pesky knights in this story) he went to a playground in heaven or
something; always made me sad. I would love to get hold of these
stories for my own kids.
Dave
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Dave Matoe <Dave...@Hotmail.Com> wrote:
> at once. And then, on Sunday mornings, listening to the kids request
> show on the radio; I used to sing along to Flick the fire engine every
> time it was on - drove my brothers batty.
>
> Now theres nostalgia for you - can anyone think of any other kids
> stories that played? I recall one about a giant who use to let kids
> play in one part of his garden and when he died (of natural causes -
no
> pesky knights in this story) he went to a playground in heaven or
> something; always made me sad. I would love to get hold of these
> stories for my own kids.
Sounds like The Selfish Giant by Oscar Wilde - he wrote lots of stories
for his children. The Selfish Giant was about a giant who wouldn't let
any children play in his garden, and built a huge wall, until he saw
the error of his ways. This link
http://www.bibliomania.com/ShortStories/Wilde/Stories/oscar7.html
should take you to it.
I always remember Diana and the Golden Apples from Sunday morning
radio, and Flick too. What was the one where the little boy on the
train heard the train telling him there was a fault and the train would
crash? No-one would believe him, but finally he managed to avert
disaster.
I think some of those kids stories are still available from Radio
Replay from RNZ, but I'm not sure.
Good luck!
Tamsin
Dave Matoe
> I always remember Diana and the Golden Apples from Sunday morning
> radio, and Flick too. What was the one where the little boy on the
> train heard the train telling him there was a fault and the train
would
> crash? No-one would believe him, but finally he managed to avert
> disaster.
That was Sparky. The train would chant "right-front-wheel-right-front-
wheel" and only he (sparky) could hear it. When he told other kids that
the trains talked to him they teased with "sparky thinks the train
talks....etc". The tale ends with Sparky saving the day (huraah!) and
his Dad apologising for being a disbeliever.
I remember when Bad Jelly the Witch first came on the radio - I was
totally spellbound. The thing that got me was the concept of fork
lightening and spoon lightening. :-)
Dave
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Ashley Campbell
"Dave Matoe" <Dave...@Hotmail.Com> wrote in message
> Thanks for the link Tamsin, worked a treat.
>
> > I always remember Diana and the Golden Apples from Sunday morning
> > radio, and Flick too. What was the one where the little boy on the
> > train heard the train telling him there was a fault and the train
> would
> > crash? No-one would believe him, but finally he managed to avert
> > disaster.
>
> That was Sparky. The train would chant "right-front-wheel-right-front-
> wheel" and only he (sparky) could hear it. When he told other kids that
> the trains talked to him they teased with "sparky thinks the train
> talks....etc". The tale ends with Sparky saving the day (huraah!) and
> his Dad apologising for being a disbeliever.
So was Sparky also the one who while taking on a hill, chugged "I think I
can do it, I think I can do it, I think I can do it, I know I can do it, I
know I can do it, I know I can do it"?
Ahhh, Sunday morning inspiration :-)
dru
> can do it, I think I can do it, I think I can do it, I know I can do it, I
> know I can do it, I know I can do it"?
>
> Ahhh, Sunday morning inspiration :-)
Was that the one with the creepy electronic voice -"s-p-a-r-k-y-"?
[shudder]
Ashley Campbell
Miche
<ashl...@xxxtra.co.nz> wrote:
Naw, that was Sparky and the Talking Train. :) The one with "I think I
can, I think I can" etc didn't have Sparky in it. There was another
Sparky one, but I forget what offhand.
Miche
Ashley Campbell
"Miche" <mi...@technologist.com> wrote in message
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> In article <5EtL5.109$Gd0e.1...@news.xtra.co.nz>, "Ashley Campbell"
> <ashl...@xxxtra.co.nz> wrote:
>
> > "dru" <d...@surf4nix.com> wrote in message
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> > > Was that the one with the creepy electronic voice -"s-p-a-r-k-y-"?
> > > [shudder]
> >
> > Probably :-)
>
> Naw, that was Sparky and the Talking Train. :) The one with "I think I
> can, I think I can" etc didn't have Sparky in it. There was another
> Sparky one, but I forget what offhand.
So what was the name of the inspirational train who overcame the odds of his
puny size and the load he was carrying to climb a massive mountain, thus
proving attitude - not size - is what matters?
I shan't sleep tonight until I know.
John Cawston
There was this little train in the station yard who stood
in awe of all the big trains. One day there was an
emergency and he was the only train left to do the
important job. So that's where the "I think I can... I
know I can" came from.
But did he in fact have a name? I rather doubt that he
did, as the other trains were described by their jobs,
IIRC.
JC
Miche
<ashl...@xxxtra.co.nz> wrote:
> "Miche" <mi...@technologist.com> wrote in message
> news:miche-31100...@dialup074.albatross.co.nz...
> > In article <5EtL5.109$Gd0e.1...@news.xtra.co.nz>, "Ashley Campbell"
> > <ashl...@xxxtra.co.nz> wrote:
> >
> > > "dru" <d...@surf4nix.com> wrote in message
> news:39FDDC...@surf4nix.com...
>
>
> > > > Was that the one with the creepy electronic voice -"s-p-a-r-k-y-"?
> > > > [shudder]
> > >
> > > Probably :-)
> >
> > Naw, that was Sparky and the Talking Train. :) The one with "I think I
> > can, I think I can" etc didn't have Sparky in it. There was another
> > Sparky one, but I forget what offhand.
>
> So what was the name of the inspirational train who overcame the odds of his
> puny size and the load he was carrying to climb a massive mountain, thus
> proving attitude - not size - is what matters?
>
> I shan't sleep tonight until I know.
I didn't think it had a name. At least I don't remember it having had
one. Give the train a name you like and sleep well. :)
Miche
Ashley Campbell
"John Cawston" <rewa...@ihug.co.nz> wrote in message
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> But did he in fact have a name? I rather doubt that he
> did, as the other trains were described by their jobs,
> IIRC.
Oh, how impersonal! He obviously deserved a name, given the inspiration he
gave to thousands of children.
I think I shall call him George, for no particular reason!
Ashley Campbell
> I didn't think it had a name. At least I don't remember it having had
> one. Give the train a name you like and sleep well. :)
:-)
The child in me says he *must* have had a name - but maybe the moral lesson
was simply more important!
John Cawston
>
> "John Cawston" <rewa...@ihug.co.nz> wrote in message
> news:39FE8A93...@ihug.co.nz...
>
> > But did he in fact have a name? I rather doubt that he
> > did, as the other trains were described by their jobs,
> > IIRC.
>
> Oh, how impersonal! He obviously deserved a name, given the inspiration he
> gave to thousands of children.
Provided I'm right (and Miche seems to think the same),
then part of the magic came from describing trains in
terms of their perceived importance and size, not names.
>
> I think I shall call him George, for no particular reason!
Subliminal, I think!
Wasn't there a latter British TV kids program with train
models and one called George? IIRC, toy trains were simply
shot (still) in a scene, and the narrator filled the gaps
from one scene to the other.
JC
Ashley Campbell
> Ashley Campbell wrote:
> >
> > I think I shall call him George, for no particular reason!
>
> Subliminal, I think!
>
> Wasn't there a latter British TV kids program with train
> models and one called George? IIRC, toy trains were simply
> shot (still) in a scene, and the narrator filled the gaps
> from one scene to the other.
Can't remember that one. I was probably listening to the Osmonds at the time
:-)
Bruce Hoult
<ashl...@xxxtra.co.nz> wrote:
> "Miche" <mi...@technologist.com> wrote in message
> news:miche-31100...@dialup074.albatross.co.nz...
> > In article <5EtL5.109$Gd0e.1...@news.xtra.co.nz>, "Ashley Campbell"
> > <ashl...@xxxtra.co.nz> wrote:
> >
> > > "dru" <d...@surf4nix.com> wrote in message
> news:39FDDC...@surf4nix.com...
>
>
> > > > Was that the one with the creepy electronic voice -"s-p-a-r-k-y-"?
> > > > [shudder]
> > >
> > > Probably :-)
> >
> > Naw, that was Sparky and the Talking Train. :) The one with "I think
> > I
> > can, I think I can" etc didn't have Sparky in it. There was another
> > Sparky one, but I forget what offhand.
>
> So what was the name of the inspirational train who overcame the odds of
> his
> puny size and the load he was carrying to climb a massive mountain, thus
> proving attitude - not size - is what matters?
>
> I shan't sleep tonight until I know.
Wait for it ...
§
Flick
Bruce Hoult
<rewa...@ihug.co.nz> wrote:
> > I think I shall call him George, for no particular reason!
>
> Subliminal, I think!
>
> Wasn't there a latter British TV kids program with train
> models and one called George? IIRC, toy trains were simply
> shot (still) in a scene, and the narrator filled the gaps
> from one scene to the other.
Ringo Starr's "Thomas the tank engine".
I nearly fell off my chair trying not to laugh a a cafe today. There
was a table of hip, with-it, slim, nicely-dressed (and bejewelled) women
who looked to be in their mid to late 50's drinking their lattes. There
was money in the air ("just got back from London" ... "off to Vanu-atu
next week"). For a while they were discussing how to entertain their
grandchildren when they got saddled with them and one of them said the
others really *must* get this fab-u-lous game that she had ... if only
she could think of it. It's coming to me ... just a minute ... oh, yes:
Twister
Draws a blank look from the others.
"it's this large board with different coloured circles, and you've got
to keep your hands and feet on them"
"oh, how in-ter-esting!"
Geez.
This is the point at which I can hardly contain myself. Whatever the
accuracy of my judgement of their ages, they were all *definitely* in
their teens or early 20's in 1966 when Milton Bradley's new game was
demonstrated on live TV by Johnny Carson and Eva Gabor. How could they
have missed that and the world-wise craze that followed? How could they
*not* have been asked to play in their youth?
Where *were* they?
-- Bruce
Miche
There is Thomas the Tank Engine, the new version of which has the trains
actually moving. I don't recall an engine named George (maybe I should
ask my daughter!) but that doesn't mean there isn't one.
Miche
Geoff Rait
>"Ashley Campbell" wrote:
>> So what was the name of the inspirational train who overcame the odds of
>> his
>> puny size and the load he was carrying to climb a massive mountain, thus
>> proving attitude - not size - is what matters?
>>
>> I shan't sleep tonight until I know.
>
>Wait for it ...
>
>§
>Flick
No, that was a fire engine: "I'm a little fire-engine, Flick is my name"
etc.
Geoff
Geoff Rait
>"Miche" <mi...@technologist.com> wrote in message
>
>> one. Give the train a name you like and sleep well. :)
>
>was simply more important!
I think it was just "the little engine that could."
Geoff
Geoff Rait
> Twister
>
>Draws a blank look from the others.
>
>"it's this large board with different coloured circles, and you've got
>to keep your hands and feet on them"
>
>"oh, how in-ter-esting!"
>
>Geez.
>
>This is the point at which I can hardly contain myself. Whatever the
>accuracy of my judgement of their ages, they were all *definitely* in
>their teens or early 20's in 1966 when Milton Bradley's new game was
>demonstrated on live TV by Johnny Carson and Eva Gabor. How could they
>have missed that and the world-wise craze that followed? How could they
>*not* have been asked to play in their youth?
>
>Where *were* they?
Having illicit parties playing it nude while on drugs - and now too
ashamed to admit it to each other!
Geoff
d'r d'ugh
bridge of the single hair.
MW was my fave story on 1ZB c. 1975
d'ugh
Brian M. Harmer
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> Probably you watched Noggin the Nog on TV as well ?
Oh yes. You just reminded me ... Nogbad the bad, and all that...
d'r d'ugh
Col wrote:
> Probably you watched Noggin the Nog on TV as well ?
>
> --
> *Col*
Nope. Never heard of it. Didn't watch a lot of TV then (apart from
sesame st). You know, 1/2 acre in balmy Auckland - I spent most of my
time outside playing or reading (yes even at the tender age of not very
much I was a nerd). Didn't become a TV addict till early teens and then
grew out of it by early 20's when i got rid of my TV and have been TV
free ever since.
I do recall Wooly Valley with fondness (c. 1982 ??).
It was a sunny day in Wooly Valey. "It is a sunny day in Wooly Valley",
said Wally Wooly.
d'ugh
Fiona Taylor
week...that is how long it has taken me to sort out error messages and
actually be able to get back into the ng's.
Anyway, you will have to excuse my ignorance...but what is CDR. I do have
napster and have downloaded a lot of songs that I dont have on CD or record
(and I have a lot...almost all the ones you listed)...great for NZ stuff
too...got Narcs Heart and Soul...and some really old stuff.
Anyway, 'taint nostalgia grand'...ha ha...Love it !
Fiona
--
Fee
Hamilton
e-mail : fio...@ihug.co.nz.invalid
ICQ: 11485464
David Matoe
CDR is just a CD cut by a CD writer: Could be a made-up term, though
its used widely to indicate that the material on the CD is a copy and
not, umm...., well, authorised by its publishing/recording company.
I could be wrong, but thats certainly my interpretation.
MP3's should play on most modern CD players so its easier to dump them
to CD than mess about with MP3 players. Just lemme know what tracks
you'd like.
As an incentive to anyone else out there who has listings for Vol1,2
and 11 upwards - the offer is open to you all.
Cheers
Dave
Deane Craw
you see the poor wee chap didn't have a name ...
Fiona Taylor
go through your list and let you know what songs I'd like.
Also, I have a stack of other solid gold volumes (all in chronological order
of course!), so can type out a whole lot more lists if you like - when time
allows I will do them in lots of five. I do have some missing, but will
hopefully continue to add to the collection.
I know it's showing my age...but too bad...anyway, I guess I could say I
listened to my parents playing those 'old' songs..
Chrissy
list you mention is not on the server - any chance that
someone could e-mail it to me or repost it.
Thanks
Chrissy.
Fiona wrote
rachel
so....
I've finally achieved a lifelong ambition of putting together the collection
from number one to number thirty four... if we are talking about the same
LPs (oh, how that expression dates me!) can anyone enlighten me as to
whether 34 is the last in the set?
Thanks.
Fiona Taylor <fio...@ihug.co.nz> wrote in message
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rachel
Great story.
funny14u...@gmail.com
> 'I think I can, I think I can.....' was 'The Little Engine That Could"
>
> Great story.
>
Enkidu
record after each section ended.
78 rpm records were pre-vinyl and brittle (hence the recurring and
eduring meme of "broken records"). They were played back using a heavy
pickup which was death to vinyl.
Cheers,
Cliff