Top Ten Worst Hits - vote now!
Martin Clark
contenders for the title of Worst Hit Record of All Time. Now is the
time for you to vote on those nominations.
The list of nominations is shown below. You may vote for *ten* of them
as your worst hit records. There is no need to place them in rank order
- each song you vote for will receive one point.
You also have the opportunity to help "save" records on the list that
you happen to like. You may vote to save up to *three* songs. Each song
you vote to save will have one point deducted from its total.
If anyone votes more than once for the same song, it will still only
receive one point!
Voting will end at 6 pm on Sunday 8th December. The results will be
posted on Sunday evening.
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[figures in brackets show number of nominations, if more than one]
"3 Is Family" - Dana Dawson
"Absolutely Fabulous" - Pet Shop Boys
"Agadoo" - Black Lace
"A Girl Like You" - Edwin Collins
"A Windmill in Old Amsterdam" - Ronnie Hilton
"Achy-breaky heart" - Billy Ray Cyrus
"After The Goldrush"- Prelude
"All Around My Hat" - Steeleye Span
"Amazing grace" - Royal Scots Dragoon Guards
"American Pie" - Don McLean / Madonna (3)
"Annie's song" - John Denver
"A-Tisket, A-Tasket" - Ella Fitzgerald
"Baby I love your ways" / FreeBird Medley - Will to Power
"Band of Gold" - Freda Payne
"Barbie Girl" - Aqua
"Be The First To Believe" - A1
"Billy don't be a hero" - Paper Lace
"Blue is the colour" - Chelsea Football Club
"Bohemian Rhapsody" - Queen (2)
"Bridge over troubled water" - Simon and Garfunkel
"Brown Girl in the Ring" - Boney M
"Bye Bye Baby"- Bay City Rollers (3)
"Candle in the Wind" (original version) - Elton John (2)
"Candle in the Wind" (Diana version) - Elton John (3)
"Can't get you outta my head" - Kylie Minogue
"Chapel of Love" - The Dixie Cups
"Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep" - Middle of the Road (2)
"Clair" - Gilbert O'Sullivan
"Colours" - Donovan
"Come on Eileen" - Dexy`s Midnight Runners
"Coward Of The County" - Kenny Rogers (2)
"Crystal Waters" - Gypsy Woman
"D.I.V.O.R.C.E." - Billy Connolly
"Day Trip to Bangor" - Fidler's Dram (2)
"Deck of Cards" - Wink Martindale (3)
"Deeper Love" - Ruff Driverz
"Don't Look Back In Anger" - Oasis
"Dy-Na-Mi-Tee" - Miss Dynamite
"Easy Like Sunday Morning" - the Commodores
"Easy Lover" - Phil Collins and Philip Bailey
"Ebeneezer Goode" - The Shamen
"Ebony and Ivory" - Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder
"England swings" - Roger Miller
"Escape" (the Pina Colada Song) - Rupert Holmes
"Especially for you" - Jason Donovan & Kylie Minogue
"Eternal Flame" - The Bangles
"Everyone's gone to the moon" - Jonathan King (2)
"Everything I Do, I Do it For You" - Bryan Adams
"Eye of the Tiger" - Survivor
"Fernando" - Abba
"From a Distance" - Cliff Richard
"Gimme Shelter" - Samantha Fox / Hawkwind
"Go Now" - Moody Blues
"Grandad" - Clive Dunn (7)
"Green Green Grass of Home" - Tom Jones (2)
"Good Enough" - Dodgy
"Happy Talk" - Captain Sensible
"Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah" - Alan Sherman
"Hello this is Joannie (the telephone answering machine song)" - Paul
Evans
"Honey" - Bobby Goldsboro (2)
"Hotel California" - The Eagles
"How Am I Supposed to Live Without You?" - Michael Bolton
"How can we be lovers if we can't be friends?" - Michael Bolton
"I Believe" - Frankie Lane
"I Eat Cannibal" - Toto Coelo
"I talk to the trees" - Clint Eastwood
"If" - Telly Savalas
"If you leave me now" - Chicago
"I hear you knocking" - Dave Edmunds
"I just called to say I love you" - Stevie Wonder (2)
"Imagine" - John Lennon (2)
"I'm a Pink Toothbrush, you're a Blue Toothbrush" - Max Bygraves (2)
"I'm gonna dance the night away" - The Mavericks
"I'm Sticking With You" - Velvet Underground.
"I should be so lucky" - Kylie Minogue
"It Only Takes A Minute" - One Hundred Ton And A Feather / Take That
"It's oh so quiet" - Bjork
"I've never been to me" - Charlene
"I want it all" - Queen
"I will always love you" - Whitney Houston (2)
"Jingle Bells" - Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters
"Johnny Reggae" - The Piglets
"Karma Police" - Radiohead
"Killer Queen" - Queen
"King of the Road" - Roger Miller
"Knock Three Times" - Dawn (2)
"Lady In Red" - Chris de Burgh (4)
"Lady Jane" - Rolling Stones
"Lara's Theme (Somewhere My Love)" - Ray Conniff
"Let it be" - The Beatles
"Let's have a quiet night in" - David Soul
"Little Arrows" - Leapy Lee
"Little White Bull" - Tommy Steele
"Long haired Lover From Liverpool" - Jimmy Osmond.(3)
"Loving You" - Minnie Riperton
"MacArthur Park" - Richard Harris (2)
"Mambo Italiano" - Rosemary Clooney
"Mary's Boy Child" - Harry Belafonte
"Matchstalk Men" - Brian and Michael (2)
"Maxwell's Silver Hammer" - Beatles
"Millennium Prayer" - Cliff Richard (3)
"Mistletoe and Wine" - Cliff Richard (3)
"Mmm Bop" - Hanson
"Morningtown ride" - The Seekers
"Mother Of Mine" - Neil Reid
"Mouldy Old Dough" - Lieutenant Pigeon
"Mr Blobby" - Mr Blobby
"Mull of Kintyre" - Wings (2)
"Murder on the Dance Floor" - Sophie Ellis Bextor
"Muskrat Love" - Captain & Tennille
"Mustang Sally" - The Commitments
"My Ding-a-Ling" - Chuck Berry (3)
"My Heart will go on" - Celine Dion.
"My Way" - Frank Sinatra (7)
"No Charge" - J J Barrie (4)
"Nu Flow" - Big Brovaz
"Oh Superman" - Laurie Anderson (2)
"Oldest swinger in town" - Fred Wedlock
"Paper Roses" - Marie Osmond (2)
"Patches" - Clarence Carter
"Pipes of Peace" - Paul McCartney
"Please Release Me" by Englebert Humperdinck (2)
"Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini" - Timmy Mallet
/ Bombalurina
"Puppy Love" - Donny Osmond
"Raindrops keep falling on my head" - B J Thomas
"Relax" - Frankie goes to Hollywood
"Rose Garden" - Lynn Anderson
"S-A-T-U-R-D-A-Y" - Bay City Rollers
"Save your Kisses for me" - Brotherhood of Man
"Save your Love" - Rene & Renato (2)
"Seasons in the Sun" - Terry Jacks (3)
"Seven Tears" - Goombay Dance Band
"(Simply Having a) Wonderful Christmas Time" - Paul McCartney
"Shaddupa your face" - Joe Dolce (5)
"Shang-a-Lang" - Bay City Rollers (2)
"She wears my ring" - Solomon King
"Shifting, Whispering Sands" - Rusty Draper
"Something" - Shirley Bassey
"Sometimes when we touch" - Dan Hill
"Stairway To Heaven" - Rolf Harris
"Stand by your man" - Tammy Wynette
"Summer (The First Time)" - Bobby Goldsboro
"Sweet Child O' Mine" - Guns'n'Roses
"Sylvia's Mother" - Dr Hook & the Medicine Show
"Tammy" - Debbie Reynolds
"Tell Laura I love her" - Ray Peterson / Ricky Valance
"Teletubbies say Eh-Oh!" - Teletubblies
"Telstar" - The Tornadoes
"Terry" - Twinkle
"Tie a Yellow Ribbon" - Tony Orlando and Dawn (2)
"The Chicken Song" - Spitting Image
"The Birdie Song" - The Tweets (5)
"The Floral Dance" - Terry Wogan (2)
'The Girl Is Mine" - Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson
"The Logical Song" - Pinky and Perky
"The Smurf Song" - Father Abraham and the Smurfs
"The Sparrow Song" - The Seekers
"The Stonk" - Hale & Pace
"There's no-one quite like Grandma" - St Winefred's School Choir (4)
"Think Twice" - Celine Dion
"This Pullover" - Jess Conrad
"This One's For The Children" - New Kids On The Block
"To All The Girls I've Loved before" - Julio Inglesias
"Two Little Boys" by Rolf Harris (4)
"Una Paloma Blanca" - Jonathan King / George Baker
"Unchained Melody" - Righteous Brothers
"Wandering Star" - Lee Marvin
"We All Stand Together" - Paul McCartney and the Frog Chorus
"We Are The World" - USA for Africa
"We didn't start the fire" by Billy Joel
"Welcome Home" - Peters and Lee
"What a wonderful world" - Luois Armstrong
"Whispering Grass" - Windsor Davies & Don Estelle
"White Christmas"- Bing Crosby
"Who the **** is Alice" - Smokie featuring Roy Chubby Brown
"Winchester Cathedral" - New Vaudeville Band
"Wooden Heart " - Elvis Presley
"Xanadu" - Olivia Newton John and ELO
"Y Viva Espana" - Sylvia (2)
"Yellow Submarine" - Beatles (2)
"You Need Hands" - Max Bygraves
"(You're) Having My Baby," Paul Anka (2)
"Young Girl" - Gary Puckett and the Union Gap (2)
"Yummy, yummy, yummy, I've got love in my tummy" - Ohio Express
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Your voting post should be something like:
My worst records are:
(name up to 10 from the list)
I want to save:
(name up to 3 from the list)
--
Martin
Anne Coulon
<snip>
Good Evening, United Kingdom. The Votes from Geneva are as follows:
Nul Points:
> "Barbie Girl" - Aqua
> "Billy don't be a hero" - Paper Lace
> "Grandad" - Clive Dunn
> "Knock Three Times" - Dawn
> "My Heart will go on" - Celine Dion.
> "Long haired Lover From Liverpool" - Jimmy Osmond.
> "Save your Kisses for me" - Brotherhood of Man
> "Seasons in the Sun" - Terry Jacks
> "The Birdie Song" - The Tweets
> "Tie a Yellow Ribbon" - Tony Orlando and Dawn
Save:
> "American Pie" - Don McLean (*not* Madge's version)
> "Go Now" - Moody Blues
> "MacArthur Park" - Richard Harris
Thank-you, Martin, for an inspired idea. Hours of harmless not keeping
up at the back:-))
May I vote first for Slade (you know the one) for the Top Ten Worst
Christmas Songs? Thank-you.
All the best,
Anne, Gumrat.
Serena Blanchflower
My votes for the Ten Worst Hits Ever are:-
> "Blue is the colour" - Chelsea Football Club
> "Day Trip to Bangor" - Fidler's Dram (2)
> "Deck of Cards" - Wink Martindale (3)
> "I'm a Pink Toothbrush, you're a Blue Toothbrush" - Max Bygraves (2)
> "Long haired Lover From Liverpool" - Jimmy Osmond.(3)
> "Millennium Prayer" - Cliff Richard (3)
> "Mr Blobby" - Mr Blobby
> "Seasons in the Sun" - Terry Jacks (3)
> "There's no-one quite like Grandma" - St Winefred's School Choir (4)
> "We All Stand Together" - Paul McCartney and the Frog Chorus
The ones I would like to save from the flames are:-
> "American Pie" - Don McLean / Madonna (3)
> "Bohemian Rhapsody" - Queen (2)
> "Hotel California" - The Eagles
--
Cheers, Serena
Where nothing is sure, everything is possible (Margaret Drabble)
Tony Gardner
<mar...@spl.at> say
>Over the last few days 183 songs have been nominated by umrats as
>contenders for the title of Worst Hit Record of All Time. Now is the
>time for you to vote on those nominations.
My selections - Worst Hits
>
"Amazing grace" - Royal Scots Dragoon Guards
"Blue is the colour" - Chelsea Football Club
"Grandad" - Clive Dunn (7)
"Green Green Grass of Home" - Tom Jones (2)
"I'm a Pink Toothbrush, you're a Blue Toothbrush" - Max Bygraves (2)
"I'm gonna dance the night away" - The Mavericks
"Little White Bull" - Tommy Steele
"Long haired Lover From Liverpool" - Jimmy Osmond.(3)
"The Birdie Song" - The Tweets (5)
"You Need Hands" - Max Bygraves
>
I want to save:
"American Pie" - Don McLean / Madonna (3)
"Annie's song" - John Denver
"Bohemian Rhapsody" - Queen (2)
Tony Gardner
N.B. Return E-mail address is spamtrapped
Martin Clark
about...
>Thank-you, Martin, for an inspired idea. Hours of harmless not keeping
>up at the back:-))
>
Toodles who needed a break to sort out their new ISP, as they killed the
whole thread!
The other threads on umra have been thinner than usual over the last few
days, possibly because we were Toodleless.
.
>May I vote first for Slade (you know the one) for the Top Ten Worst
>Christmas Songs? Thank-you.
Does anybody really want that? Could you stand it after this, or would
it be pushing things a bit too far?
--
Martin
Martin Clark
must say that after sifting through so many awful songs and checking out
details on Google, I found it hard to whittle my final 15 down to 10. I
notice that these are not quite the same as the ones I nominated myself
which goes to show how I am flexible and open to persuasion. That's my
story, anyway.
My ten worst are:
>"Billy don't be a hero" - Paper Lace
>"Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep" - Middle of the Road
>"Grandad" - Clive Dunn
>"Green Green Grass of Home" - Tom Jones
>"Long haired Lover From Liverpool" - Jimmy Osmond
>"My Ding-a-Ling" - Chuck Berry
>"No Charge" - J J Barrie
>"Puppy Love" - Donny Osmond
>"Tie a Yellow Ribbon" - Tony Orlando and Dawn
>"Two Little Boys" by Rolf Harris
I want to save:
>"Bohemian Rhapsody" - Queen
>"Bridge over troubled water" - Simon and Garfunkel
>"Don't Look Back In Anger" - Oasis
--
Martin
Jenny M Benson
>"Candle in the Wind" (original version) - Elton John (2)
>"Candle in the Wind" (Diana version) - Elton John (3)
>"Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep" - Middle of the Road (2)
>"Grandad" - Clive Dunn (7)
>"The Birdie Song" - The Tweets (5)
>"The Floral Dance" - Terry Wogan (2)
>"There's no-one quite like Grandma" - St Winefred's School Choir (4)
>"Wandering Star" - Lee Marvin
>"Winchester Cathedral" - New Vaudeville Band
>"Y Viva Espana" - Sylvia (2)
My 3 to Save:
"Tell Laura I love her" - Ray Peterson / Ricky Valance
"This Pullover" - Jess Conrad
"Two Little Boys" by Rolf Harris (4)
--
Jenny
Neil Hopkins
"Agadoo" - Black Lace
"Annie's song" - John Denver
"Long haired Lover From Liverpool" - Jimmy Osmond.(3)
"Millennium Prayer" - Cliff Richard (3)
"Mistletoe and Wine" - Cliff Richard (3)
"Mr Blobby" - Mr Blobby
"Mull of Kintyre" - Wings (2)
"Murder on the Dance Floor" - Sophie Ellis Bextor
"My Heart will go on" - Celine Dion.
"Save your Love" - Rene & Renato (2)
I want to save:
"Ebeneezer Goode" - The Shamen
"Oh Superman" - Laurie Anderson (2)
"It's oh so quiet" - Bjork
--
neil h.
Spike : Sodding, blimey, shagging, knickers, bollocks, Oh God - I'm English!
Kirsten Procter
Martin Clark <mar...@spl.at> wrote:
>Over the last few days 183 songs have been nominated by umrats as
>contenders for the title of Worst Hit Record of All Time. Now is the
>time for you to vote on those nominations.
10 bad songs:
>"Candle in the Wind" (Diana version) - Elton John (3)
>"From a Distance" - Cliff Richard
>"It Only Takes A Minute" - One Hundred Ton And A Feather / Take That
>"Let it be" - The Beatles
>"Millennium Prayer" - Cliff Richard (3)
>"Mistletoe and Wine" - Cliff Richard (3)
>"My Heart will go on" - Celine Dion.
>"Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini" - Timmy Mallet
> / Bombalurina
>"The Birdie Song" - The Tweets (5)
>"We Are The World" - USA for Africa
and I want to save:
>"Bridge over troubled water" - Simon and Garfunkel
>"Green Green Grass of Home" - Tom Jones (2)
>"I'm a Pink Toothbrush,you're a Blue Toothbrush" - Max Bygraves (2)
I'm very very surprised this made it into the list, even.
--
Kirsten Procter ghoti
UNCEMPT(BAG) UBBBA
Stephen
I want to consign the following to the eternal flames of damnation:
>"Candle in the Wind" (Diana version) - Elton John (3)
>"Escape" (the Pina Colada Song) - Rupert Holmes
>"I will always love you" - Whitney Houston (2)
>"Lady In Red" - Chris de Burgh (4)
>"Long haired Lover From Liverpool" - Jimmy Osmond.(3)
>"No Charge" - J J Barrie (4)
>"Sometimes when we touch" - Dan Hill
>"Shaddupa your face" - Joe Dolce (5)
>"To All The Girls I've Loved before" - Julio Inglesias
>"The Birdie Song" - The Tweets (5)
I wish to extend the hand of salvation to:
>"Bye Bye Baby"- Bay City Rollers (3)
>"Don't Look Back In Anger" - Oasis
>"Stand by your man" - Tammy Wynette
--
Stephen
It's amazing how much kids can learn about chemistry the old-fashioned way.
As soon as you get home from work, demand that they mix you an Old-Fashioned.
Andrew John Wineberg
> "Barbie Girl" - Aqua
> "Bohemian Rhapsody" - Queen (2)
> "Candle in the Wind" (original version) - Elton John (2)
> "Candle in the Wind" (Diana version) - Elton John (3)
> "Mr Blobby" - Mr Blobby
> "Teletubbies say Eh-Oh!" - Teletubblies
> "Yellow Submarine" - Beatles (2)
He wishes to acquit without a stain on their jewel case:
> "Everything I Do, I Do it For You" - Bryan Adams
> "Can't get you outta my head" - Kylie Minogue
> "American Pie" - Don McLean / Madonna (3)
Incidentally, AJW is most distressed to discover that, for voting
porpoises, the McLean original and the abridged Madonna cover are
considered as one. For the record, he wishes it to be known that it is
quite specifically McLean's version that he admires. As for his other
acquitals, he declines to declare admiration; but as to the reasons for
their inclusion, no correspondence shall be entered into. Oh, and he
doubtless would have dispatched more the way of oblivion if only he had
heard (of) more of them.
--
ajw in STANMORE HA7
Monica Strawson
"Deck of Cards" - Wink Martindale (3)
"Honey"- Bobby Goldsboro (2)
"Grandad" - Clive Dunn (7)
"Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah" - Alan Sherman
"Millennium Prayer" - Cliff Richard (3)
"My Way" - Frank Sinatra (7)
"Tell Laura I love her" - Ray Peterson / Ricky Valance
"Terry" - Twinkle
"Tie a Yellow Ribbon" - Tony Orlando and Dawn (2)
"The Birdie Song" - The Tweets (5)
Ones to save
"American Pie" - Don McLean (not by Madonna)
"Bohemian Rhapsody" - Queen (2)
"Hotel California" - The Eagles
Monica Strawson
Fenny
I heard Martin Clark say...
My votes for Room 101 are
"Candle in the Wind" (Diana version) - Elton John (3)
"Especially for you" - Jason Donovan & Kylie Minogue
"Mistletoe and Wine" - Cliff Richard (3)
"Mr Blobby" - Mr Blobby
"Oh Superman" - Laurie Anderson (2)
"Oldest swinger in town" - Fred Wedlock
"Save your Love" - Rene & Renato (2)
"Shaddupa your face" - Joe Dolce (5)
"There's no-one quite like Grandma" - St Winefred's School Choir (4)
"We Are The World" - USA for Africa
Housemates to be saved:-
"Blue is the colour" - Chelsea Football Club
"The Chicken Song" - Spitting Image
"Two Little Boys" by Rolf Harris (4)
--
Fenny
It's better to be alone than in the wrong company
Richard Webb
"Agadoo" - Black Lace
"Candle in the Wind" (Diana version) - Elton John (3)
"Ebony and Ivory" - Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder
"Long haired Lover From Liverpool" - Jimmy Osmond.(3)
"Millennium Prayer" - Cliff Richard (3)
Seasons in the Sun" - Terry Jacks (3)
"Shifting, Whispering Sands" - Rusty Draper
"The Birdie Song" - The Tweets (5)
"Una Paloma Blanca" - Jonathan King / George Baker
"Yummy, yummy, yummy, I've got love in my tummy" - Ohio Express
Fweedom:
"Oh Superman" - Laurie Anderson (2)
"Telstar" - The Tornadoes
"A Girl Like You" - Edwin Collins
Wichard Webb
http://www.crux.u-net.com
Iain Archer
>>"I'm a Pink Toothbrush,you're a Blue Toothbrush" - Max Bygraves (2)
>
> I'm very very surprised this made it into the list, even.
So am I. Max Bygraves' song was "You're a pink toothbrush". There
seems to have been a lot of cross-brushing.
There are too many awful ones. As it's so difficult to choose, and
as none of their engrams really provokes nausea any longer, I'm going to
make just one vote, a write-in, for the one recent enough still to evoke
revulsion:
Barcelona Mercury/Caballe
And I'd like to save:
American Pie - Don McLean
Lady Jane - Stones
Tell Laura I love her
--
Iain Archer
Kirsten Procter
Andrew John Wineberg <AJWin...@Yahoo.co.UK> wrote:
>He wishes to acquit without a stain on their jewel case:
>
>> "Everything I Do, I Do it For You" - Bryan Adams
>> "Can't get you outta my head" - Kylie Minogue
>> "American Pie" - Don McLean / Madonna (3)
>
>Incidentally, AJW is most distressed to discover that, for voting
>porpoises, the McLean original and the abridged Madonna cover are
>considered as one. For the record, he wishes it to be known that it is
>quite specifically McLean's version that he admires. As for his other
>acquitals, he declines to declare admiration
Inner City Unit do a fantastic version of 'Can't get you outta my head'
for which the song should be saved if nothing else. Miss Minogue, otoh,
could do better. (IMHO, YMMV, etc)
>their inclusion, no correspondence shall be entered into. Oh, and he
>doubtless would have dispatched more the way of oblivion if only he had
>heard (of) more of them.
YANAOU
Robin Parkinson
Well done that man. I had much fun whittling the list down and agonising
over whether I hated 'Seasons in the Sun' more than I hated 'Honey'.
votes:
> "Candle in the Wind" (Diana version) - Elton John
> "Crystal Waters" - Gypsy Woman
> "Escape" (the Pina Colada Song) - Rupert Holmes
> "I've never been to me" - Charlene
> "Millennium Prayer" - Cliff Richard
> "Mother Of Mine" - Neil Reid
> "No Charge" - J J Barrie
> "Save your Love" - Rene & Renato
> "Seasons in the Sun" - Terry Jacks
> "There's no-one quite like Grandma" - St Winefred's School Choir
Antivotes:
> "Oh Superman" - Laurie Anderson
> "Stairway To Heaven" - Rolf Harris
> "Whispering Grass" - Windsor Davies & Don Estelle
(I'm doing a bit of tactical voting here as I have a sneaking suspicion
that most people will antivote for a similar set of songs, leading to
several having scores of minus twenty or so....)
- Robin.
--
Trout: slightly fishy, but never coarse. http://www.troutmag.org
Nick Odell
>
>My worst records of all time until the next time are:
>"All Around My Hat" - Steeleye Span
>"Candle in the Wind" (Diana version) - Elton John (3)
>"Good Enough" - Dodgy
>"Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah" - Alan Sherman
>"Millennium Prayer" - Cliff Richard (3)
>"Mistletoe and Wine" - Cliff Richard (3)
>"Mr Blobby" - Mr Blobby
>"Shaddupa your face" - Joe Dolce (5)
>"Teletubbies say Eh-Oh!" - Teletubblies
>"The Floral Dance" - Terry Wogan (2)
>I think it's haunting/classic/one of my favourite guitar instrumental breaks so I want to save:
>"After The Goldrush"- Prelude
>"Deck of Cards" - Wink Martindale (3)
>"Hotel California" - The Eagles
Nick
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Barbara W
> "Achy-breaky heart" - Billy Ray Cyrus
> "Billy don't be a hero" - Paper Lace
> "Brown Girl in the Ring" - Boney M
> "Bye Bye Baby"- Bay City Rollers (3)
"Come on Eileen" - Dexy`s Midnight Runners
> "Everything I Do, I Do it For You" - Bryan Adams
> "Hello this is Joannie (the telephone answering machine song)" - Paul
> Evans
> "I'm gonna dance the night away" - The Mavericks
>"Lady In Red" - Chris de Burgh (4)
> Shaddappa your face - Joe Dolce
please save:
> "Can't get you outta my head" - Kylie Minogue
> "Easy Lover" - Phil Collins and Philip Bailey
> "Go Now" - Moody Blues
Barbara
Siderius Nuncius
>"Billy don't be a hero" - Paper Lace
>"Ebony and Ivory" - Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder
>"Escape" (the Pina Colada Song) - Rupert Holmes
>"Grandad" - Clive Dunn (7)
>"Honey" - Bobby Goldsboro (2)
>"Mother Of Mine" - Neil Reid
>"Summer (The First Time)" - Bobby Goldsboro
>"The Smurf Song" - Father Abraham and the Smurfs
>"There's no-one quite like Grandma" - St Winefred's School Choir (4)
>"Y Viva Espana" - Sylvia (2)
Saved:
>"I hear you knocking" - Dave Edmunds
>"Tell Laura I love her" - Ray Peterson / Ricky Valance
>"Terry" - Twinkle
--
Sid
Shepherds Bush, West London
Kirsten Procter
Iain Archer <ia_...@montaigne.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>Kirsten Procter wrote on Thu, 5 Dec 2002:
>>>"I'm a Pink Toothbrush,you're a Blue Toothbrush" - Max Bygraves (2)
>>
>> I'm very very surprised this made it into the list, even.
>
>So am I. Max Bygraves' song was "You're a pink toothbrush". There
>seems to have been a lot of cross-brushing.
I didn;t even notice.
Alex
"Martin Clark" <mar...@spl.at> wrote in message
news:b$EXqiOhC...@auluk.freeserve.co.uk...
<snip>
Worst
"Agadoo" - Black Lace
Day Trip to Bangor" - Fidler's Dram (2)
"The Birdie Song" - The Tweets (5)
Save
"American Pie" - Don McLean-not the donkey poo version by Ms Slapper
Bridge over troubled water" - Simon and Garfunkel (you were 'aving a larf
shirley)
gill spaul
"Martin Clark" <mar...@spl.at> wrote in message
news:b$EXqiOhC...@auluk.freeserve.co.uk...
> Over the last few days 183 songs have been nominated by umrats as
> contenders for the title of Worst Hit Record of All Time. Now is the
> time for you to vote on those nominations.
>
My worst records are:
Oh Superman
Xanadu
Coward of the County
I've never been to me
Imagine
Blue is the colour
Baby I love your ways
Brown Girl in the Ring
Candle in the Wind" (Diana version)
"I Eat Cannibal"
I would like to save:
2 Little Boys
"Escape" (the Pina Colada Song) - Rupert Holmes
"Easy Lover" - Phil Collins and Philip Bailey
--
Gill
It's the basically that makes it art.......
Anne Burgess
> (name up to 10 from the list)
Blue is the Colour
Brown Girl in the Ring
Mary's Boy Child
Millennium Prayer
Mr Blobby
My Way
Shaddupa Your Face
Something
>
> I want to save:
> (name up to 3 from the list)
Wooden Heart
Anne
Paradise Island Barchap
> Incidentally, AJW is most distressed to discover that, for voting
> porpoises, the McLean original and the abridged Madonna cover are
> considered as one. For the record, he wishes it to be known that it is
> quite specifically McLean's version that he admires.
Sorry to follow up a voting post, but it might be worth noting that
there is in existence a remade Don McClean version. I have it on
a compilation that included the original. Personally I hate it,
and would sling it out, but adore the original. I don't want
to know anything about Madonna's version. She has talents, and
(chance would be a fine thing) I am sure I could enjoy them in
the right circumstances :-) but remaking classic rock isn't one
of them. (Mind you, rock 'n' roll was originally, like jazz,
a euphemism for "percy filth").
Andy Judge
>Over the last few days 183 songs have been nominated by umrats as
>contenders for the title of Worst Hit Record of All Time. Now is the
>time for you to vote on those nominations.
Phew, that was hard work, but here are my nominations...
The ten that must go:
"Deck of Cards" - Wink Martindale (3)
"Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah" - Alan Sherman
"Long haired Lover From Liverpool" - Jimmy Osmond.(3)
"No Charge" - J J Barrie (4)
"Shaddupa your face" - Joe Dolce (5)
"Shang-a-Lang" - Bay City Rollers (2)
"Stand by your man" - Tammy Wynette
"The Birdie Song" - The Tweets (5)
"Una Paloma Blanca" - Jonathan King / George Baker
"Y Viva Espana" - Sylvia (2)
The three to save:
"A Windmill in Old Amsterdam" - Ronnie Hilton
"Mary's Boy Child" - Harry Belafonte
"Two Little Boys" by Rolf Harris (4)
Tactical voting here, as there were a number that I'd like to save, but as
others have already voted for them, I felt that these three were most in need
of support.
AJ
--
Andy Judge, Loughborough
Visit the WWW site of The Church of St James the Greater, Leicester
http://www.adlibitum.co.uk/jimmys
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> "3 Is Family" - Dana Dawson
Having just read a thread, and replied to, about Denis Lawson,
of course, that's how I read the above, thinking "is there no
end to this man's talents?" Well, the ladies would probably
agree, except that they probably would find that the end
justifies the means, IYSWIM :-) .
HeyHeyVk
<< Now is the
time for you to vote on those nominations >>
Condemned:
Hotel California : The Eagles
Candle in the Wind (Diana version): Elton John
Everything I Do, I Do It For You: Bryan Adams
My Heart Will Go On: Celine Dion
Mistletoe & Wine: Cliff Richard
Lady in Red: Chris de Burgh
Everyone's Gone To The Moon: Jonathan King
Welcome Home: Peters and Lee
Unchained Melody: Righteous Brothers
Sometimes When We Touch: Dan Hill
Reprieved:
Don't Look Back in Anger: Oasis
Dance The Night Away: The Mavericks
We All Stand Together: Paul McCartney & The Frog Chorus
Paradise Island Barchap
> Over the last few days 183 songs have been nominated by umrats as
> contenders for the title of Worst Hit Record of All Time. Now is the
> time for you to vote on those nominations.
ooh goody goody :)
> If anyone votes more than once for the same song, it will still only
> receive one point!
Who do you think we are, politicians? :-)
> [figures in brackets show number of nominations, if more than one]
Destroy! | Room 101
> "Blue is the colour" - Chelsea Football Club
> "Especially for you" - Jason Donovan & Kylie Minogue
> "Grandad" - Clive Dunn
> "Green Green Grass of Home" - Tom Jones
> "My Ding-a-Ling" - Chuck Berry
> "My Way" - Frank Sinatra
> "Paper Roses" - Marie Osmond
> "Please Release Me" by Englebert Humperdinck
> "Tie a Yellow Ribbon" - Tony Orlando and Dawn
> "Long haired Lover From Liverpool" - Jimmy Osmond.
Save | hide in The Bunker
> "American Pie" - Don McLean / Madonna
Don McClean's original only, not his terrible remake,
and not Madonna's!
> "Bridge over troubled water" - Simon and Garfunkel
> "Winchester Cathedral" - New Vaudeville Band
> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
phew! Most difficult was whittling down the number to save.
I'd love to have saved loads more! :-)
I originally had both versions of "Candle" in the 10, but eliminated
the original, as I realised I didn't dislike it that much, it had
something to say, and EJ is talented and original, whatever else
one can say about him. Left the "Diana" version in on principle,
then realised this was a bit of an insult to Elton's talent, so
took it out to get down to my 10.
A.C.P.Crawshaw
"Bohemian Rhapsody" - Queen
"Grandad" - Clive Dunn (7)
"Little Arrows" - Leapy Lee
"Little White Bull" - Tommy Steele
"My Way" - Frank Sinatra
"Two Little Boys" by Rolf Harris
Retain
"It's oh so quiet" - Bjork
"MacArthur Park" - Richard Harris
"Unchained Melody" - Righteous Brothers
Alan
Penny
wrote...
[...]
>Alan
Coo - this thread is bringing out the lurkers now, Martin!
Welcome to umra, Alan.
--
Penny
Laughter is the dance of the spirit and the music of the soul.
umra Nicknames & Abbreviations http://www.bigwig.net/umra/nicks.html
Linda Fox
My ten WORST singles are:
>"Barbie Girl" - Aqua
>"Chapel of Love" - The Dixie Cups
>"Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep" - Middle of the Road (2)
>"Everything I Do, I Do it For You" - Bryan Adams
>"Johnny Reggae" - The Piglets
> "Mr Blobby" - Mr Blobby
>"Save your Love" - Rene & Renato (2)
>"Something" - Shirley Bassey
>"There's no-one quite like Grandma" - St Winefred's School Choir (4)
>"This Pullover" - Jess Conrad
And I want to SAVE:
>"Pipes of Peace" - Paul McCartney
>"Bridge over troubled water" - Simon and Garfunkel
>"King of the Road" - Roger Miller
Kim Andrews
Feed to Neil's pigs:
>"Annie's song" - John Denver
>"Blue is the colour" - Chelsea Football Club
>"Clair" - Gilbert O'Sullivan
>"Grandad" - Clive Dunn (7)
>"I've never been to me" - Charlene
>"No Charge" - J J Barrie (4)
>"Paper Roses" - Marie Osmond (2)
>"Save your Kisses for me" - Brotherhood of Man
>"Tell Laura I love her" - Ray Peterson / Ricky Valance
>"Two Little Boys" by Rolf Harris (4)
Play Upstairs at the Bull:
"Happy Talk" - Captain Sensible
"I'm Sticking With You" - Velvet Underground.
"White Christmas"- Bing Crosby
--
Cheers, Kimbo
Best of umra archive www.totternhoe.demon.co.uk/umra/
"May 6,000 strabismic telephone operators prance in your genitals.
oo-er, wrong newsgroup." Charles F Hankel -- Hapless FAQer on the Wirral peninsula. RIP.
Jenny M Benson
<li...@fox.freedombird.net> writes
>And I want to SAVE:
>
>>"Pipes of Peace" - Paul McCartney
>>"Bridge over troubled water" - Simon and Garfunkel
>>"King of the Road" - Roger Miller
>>"Go Now" - Moody Blues
Oooh ooh Sir, please, Sir! Linda ff's cheating, Sir, she's said three,
Sir, that's not FAIR!
--
Jenny
Serena Blanchflower
wrote:
> Play Upstairs at the Bull:
>
> "Happy Talk" - Captain Sensible
> "I'm Sticking With You" - Velvet Underground.
> "White Christmas"- Bing Crosby
<grin> I see you decided not to save Little White Bull then!
--
Cheers, Serena
Where nothing is sure, everything is possible (Margaret Drabble)
Ron Fowler
"Bye Bye Baby"- Bay City Rollers (3)
"Candle in the Wind" (Diana version) - Elton John (3)
"Grandad" - Clive Dunn (7)
"Happy Talk" - Captain Sensible
"It's oh so quiet" - Bjork
"Loving You" - Minnie Riperton
"Maxwell's Silver Hammer" - Beatles
"(Simply Having a) Wonderful Christmas Time" - Paul McCartney
"There's no-one quite like Grandma" - St Winefred's School Choir (4)
"Two Little Boys" by Rolf Harris (4)
I want to save:
"Bridge over troubled water" - Simon and Garfunkel
"Don't Look Back In Anger" - Oasis
"Oh Superman" - Laurie Anderson (2)
Ron
I should have added:
"Two pints of larger and a packet of cr*sps", but it is too late and
anyway, matron said it was a recipe for disaster.
Nigel Whittington
> "All Around My Hat" - Steeleye Span ::SAVE::
> "Johnny Reggae" - The Piglets :SAVE:
> "Telstar" - The Tornadoes ::SAVE::
> "Grandad" - Clive Dunn (7)AARGH
> "Hello this is Joannie (the telephone answering machine song)" - Paul
> Evans AAARGH
> "Honey" - Bobby Goldsboro (2)AARGH
> "Long haired Lover From Liverpool" - Jimmy Osmond.(3)AAARGH
> "No Charge" - J J Barrie (4)AARGH
> "Agadoo" - Black Lace AAARGH
> "Candle in the Wind" (Diana version) - Elton John (3)UNSPEAKABLE
> "Clair" - Gilbert O'Sullivan AAARGH
> "Mother Of Mine" - Neil Reid URGHH
> "There's no-one quite like Grandma" - St Winefred's School Choir (4) VOORP
TTFN
Nigel
Penny
>"Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep" - Middle of the Road (2)
>"Knock Three Times" - Dawn (2)
>"MacArthur Park" - Richard Harris (2)
>"Raindrops keep falling on my head" - B J Thomas
>"Rose Garden" - Lynn Anderson
>"Shaddupa your face" - Joe Dolce (5)
>"The Birdie Song" - The Tweets (5)
>"There's no-one quite like Grandma" - St Winefred's School Choir (4)
>"Two Little Boys" by Rolf Harris (4)
>"Yummy, yummy, yummy, I've got love in my tummy" - Ohio Express
Save
>"Bohemian Rhapsody" - Queen (2)
>"King of the Road" - Roger Miller
>"Unchained Melody" - Righteous Brothers
Gosh, that was hard - I ended up with around 30 on the burn list and 8
"saves".
Marjorie Clarke
umra, so here goes with my Worst Ten:
> "Candle in the Wind" (Diana version) - Elton John (3)
>> "Grandad" - Clive Dunn (7)
> "Honey" - Bobby Goldsboro (2)
> "I will always love you" - Whitney Houston (2)
> "Long haired Lover From Liverpool" - Jimmy Osmond.(3)
> "Millennium Prayer" - Cliff Richard (3)
> "Tie a Yellow Ribbon" - Tony Orlando and Dawn (2)
> "The Birdie Song" - The Tweets (5)
> "Y Viva Espana" - Sylvia (2)
> "Yummy, yummy, yummy, I've got love in my tummy" - Ohio Express
I want to save
"American Pie" - Don McLean / Madonna (3)
"Bridge over troubled water" - Simon and Garfunkel
"Bohemian Rhapsody" - Queen (2)
--
Marjorie Clarke
badriya
>My worst records are:
s
>"Grandad" - Clive Dunn (7)
>"Green Green Grass of Home" - Tom Jones (2
>"Mr Blobby" - Mr Blobby
>"My Way" - Frank Sinatra (7)
>"Oldest swinger in town" - Fred Wedlock
>"Please Release Me" by Englebert Humperdinck (2)>
>"The Birdie Song" - The Tweets (5)
>"To All The Girls I've Loved before" - Julio Inglesias
>"Y Viva Espana" - Sylvia (2)
>"Yummy, yummy, yummy, I've got love in my tummy" - Ohio Express
>
>I want to save:
>"Annie's song" - John Denver
>"Achy-breaky heart" - Billy Ray Cyrus
"Wandering Star" - Lee Marvin
Vicky
--
Cybergypsy
badriya
>I suppose I had better set a good example and make my own choices. I
>must say that after sifting through so many awful songs and checking out
>details on Google, I found it hard to whittle my final 15 down to 10.
UANAOU
Vicky
--
Cybergypsy
Robin Somes
Sack 'em...
>"Bohemian Rhapsody" - Queen (2)
>"Brown Girl in the Ring" - Boney M
>"Candle in the Wind" (Diana version) - Elton John (3)
>"Go Now" - Moody Blues
>"How can we be lovers if we can't be friends?" - Michael Bolton
>"Lady In Red" - Chris de Burgh (4)
>"Loving You" - Minnie Riperton
>"Seasons in the Sun" - Terry Jacks (3)
>"(Simply Having a) Wonderful Christmas Time" - Paul McCartney
>'The Girl Is Mine" - Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson
Save 'em...
"Eternal Flame" - The Bangles
"Karma Police" - Radiohead
"Sweet Child O' Mine" - Guns'n'Roses
'Karma police
Arrest this man
He buzzes like a fridge
He's like a detuned radio'
Stirring stuff.
Phew for a minute there, I lost myself...
--
cheers,
robin
Jamie Armstrong
(name up to 10 from the list)
"American Pie" - Madonna (The Don MacLean version is a *classic*, and
brings back many happy (if soggy) memories of my first student dig :)
But Madonna...)
"Unchained Melody" - Righteous Brothers
"The Birdie Song" - The Tweets (5)
"(Simply Having a) Wonderful Christmas Time" - Paul McCartney
"Amazing grace" - Royal Scots Dragoon Guards
"My Heart will go on" - Celine Dion. (because I hate soppy,
sentilmentalism (unless it's Tchaikovsky...)
"Mull of Kintyre" - Wings (cringe)
"Mary's Boy Child" - Harry Belafonte (mixing Christmas and religion: I
mean, you think they'd give it a rest over the holiday period...)
"We All Stand Together" - Paul McCartney and the Frog Chorus
"Candle in the Wind" (Diana version) - Elton John (Bleurgh))
I want to save:
(name up to 3 from the list)
"Bridge over troubled water" - Simon and Garfunkel (huh??? How can
this *psssibly* be nominated??! Ok, if you'd chosen their version of
"The Time's they are a-changin" [featuring a banjo], then yeah, maybe,
but Bridge?? No-no-no-no-no!!!)
"Sweet Child O' Mine" - Guns'n'Roses (memories of a German exchange
when I was 15! I love GnFnR!))
"Let it be" - The Beatles (some mistake, Shirely? Ok, anything by Paul
*after* he left the Beatles, but not this!)
Honourable mentions to keep (kay, not in the rules, but who cares!:
> "Hotel California" - The Eagles (Hmmmm.... Trev's bar juke box!)
> "Come on Eileen" - Dexy`s Midnight Runners (Yay!)
> "Bohemian Rhapsody" - Queen (2) (One of the best songs ever (after
U2s "ONE"
> "What a wonderful world" - Luois Armstrong ( :) )
All classics, and I just wish I could have nimonated* them all in the
"to keep" pile!
jAMIW
* - yeah, ok, so I've been in the bar since 4:00 - wadjagonnadoaboudit??! ;)
M...@mygaff0.demon.co.uk
<mar...@spl.at> writes
>Over the last few days 183 songs have been nominated by umrats as
>contenders for the title of Worst Hit Record of All Time. Now is the
>time for you to vote on those nominations.
--
Min
But you're really a mackerel in the moonlight
M...@mygaff0.demon.co.uk
>"Millennium Prayer" - Cliff Richard (3)
>"Muskrat Love" - Captain & Tennille
>"Mustang Sally" - The Commitments
>"Oh Superman" - Laurie Anderson (2)
>"Who the **** is Alice" - Smokie featuring Roy Chubby Brown
>"Y Viva Espana" - Sylvia (2)
>"After The Goldrush"- Prelude
>"Mull of Kintyre" - Wings (2)
>"Whispering Grass" - Windsor Davies & Don Estelle
--
Chris McMillan
<heyh...@aol.com.no.junk> writes
>Martin wrote:
>
>Unchained Melody: Righteous Brothers
>
Thread rescued.
Martin got it slightly wrong. Toodles killfiled it because he doesn't
know much about pop music - but he didn't know that if he kill filed
something it would be killed in my box as well. Which goes to show how
little we've ever kill filed in umra's history.
Shortly (aka when Toodles has time to do it) we shall sign over to
nutscrap's news as we've already done with the mail. Then we shall
leave Turnpike to harvest spam for the remaining six months of its demon
contract.
Sincerely, Chris
--
Chris McMillan
Chris McMillan
<heyh...@aol.com.no.junk> writes
>Martin wrote:
>
>Unchained Melody: Righteous Brothers
>
then I'm probably the only umrat who owns another version played on erhu
by one David Li. And that is *excruciating*. David Li's music is often
played as muzak in Chinese restaurants (which makes him very acceptable
to staff and customers alike) as he plays a lot of well known western
pieces on Chinese instruments. We first saw him busking in Chinatown
some years ago and it was the thought of something like Unchained Melody
that made me buy the CD in a moment of madness. He also does
unmentionable things with some of the well known musical pieces from
Evita and Cats etc.
Chris McMillan
>
With the recording quality that they produced? Shame on you Mrs. FF.
One of the few pieces that makes Toodles cringe from the very first
note.
Chris McMillan
<r...@herodium.cse.rl.ac.uk> writes
>My worst records are:
> "There's no-one quite like Grandma" - St Winefred's School Choir (4)
>
older and wiser (I can't remember when it was recorded anyway) would
also wish it hung.
Chris McMillan
<mar...@spl.at> writes
>I may be imagining things, but I thought Anne Coulon muttered something
>about...
>The other threads on umra have been thinner than usual over the last
>few days, possibly because we were Toodleless.
Blushes very deeply.
Sincerely, Chris
(reply to : chris.m...@ntlworld.com)
--
Chris McMillan
Fenny
I heard Chris McMillan say...
> > "There's no-one quite like Grandma" - St Winefred's School Choir (4)
> >
> No doubt all the children who sang on this and who presumably are a lot
> older and wiser (I can't remember when it was recorded anyway) would
> also wish it hung.
>
it for one of our coach drivers on the Pathfinder Houseparty. I still
have flashes of a busful of kids belting out "There's no-one quite like
Hwfa [1]"
[1] Pronounced "Hoofa", and definitley pronounced success.
--
Fenny
It's better to be alone than in the wrong company
Al Menzies
dashed across the keyboard to create this message:
The nays:
"Grandad" - Clive Dunn
"Long haired Lover From Liverpool" - Jimmy Osmond.
"Millennium Prayer" - Cliff Richard
"My Ding-a-Ling" - Chuck Berry
"Save your Love" - Rene & Renato
"Shaddupa your face" - Joe Dolce
"The Birdie Song" - The Tweets (5)
"The Smurf Song" - Father Abraham and the Smurfs
"There's no-one quite like Grandma" - St Winefred's School Choir (4)
"Whispering Grass" - Windsor Davies & Don Estelle
The ayes:
"Achy-breaky heart" - Billy Ray Cyrus
"Go Now" - Moody Blues
"Lady In Red" - Chris de Burgh
although there were a dozen more I'd have liked to save!
--
al
LSM
Licensed to flame
Ray
>My worst records are:
>"American Pie" - Don McLean / Madonna (3)
>"Band of Gold" - Freda Payne
>"Lady In Red" - Chris de Burgh (4)
>"Lara's Theme (Somewhere My Love)" - Ray Conniff
>"Long haired Lover From Liverpool" - Jimmy Osmond.(3)
>"No Charge" - J J Barrie (4)
>"Oldest swinger in town" - Fred Wedlock
>"Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini" - Timmy Mallet
/ Bombalurina
>"Rose Garden" - Lynn Anderson
>"Tell Laura I love her" - Ray Peterson / Ricky Valance
I want to save:
>"A Windmill in Old Amsterdam" - Ronnie Hilton
>"After The Goldrush"- Prelude
>"Winchester Cathedral" - New Vaudeville Band
--
Ray
Cognito ergo sum - I think I think, therefore I may be. (R Robinson)
Jane Vernon
"Mother Of Mine" - Neil Reid
"Paper Roses" - Marie Osmond (2)
"There's no-one quite like Grandma" - St Winefred's School Choir (4)
"Clair" - Gilbert O'Sullivan
"Shaddupa your face" - Joe Dolce (5)
"No Charge" - J J Barrie (4)
"The Smurf Song" - Father Abraham and the Smurfs
"Grandad" - Clive Dunn (7)
"Deck of Cards" - Wink Martindale (3)
"Y Viva Espana" - Sylvia (2)
My nominations for the Tom's Organic Sausages Award
"Imagine" - John Lennon (2)
"Let it be" - The Beatles
"Bohemian Rhapsody" - Queen (2)
--
Jane
The potter in the purple socks
http://www.clothandclay.co.uk
http://www.clothandclay.co.uk/umra/cookbook/contents.htm
Stephen GC Tilley
>
>Your voting post should be something like:
>
My worst records are:
(name up to 10 from the list)
"Band of Gold" - Freda Payne
"Come on Eileen" - Dexy`s Midnight Runners
"How Am I Supposed to Live Without You?" - Michael Bolton
"How can we be lovers if we can't be friends?" - Michael Bolton
"Tammy" - Debbie Reynolds
"Teletubbies say Eh-Oh!" - Teletubblies
"We Are The World" - USA for Africa
"Welcome Home" - Peters and Lee
I want to save:
(name up to 3 from the list)
"Yellow Submarine" - Beatles
"Winchester Cathedral" - New Vaudeville Band
"Bridge over troubled water" - Simon and Garfunkel
--
Stephen Tilley - Ste...@Tilley.net
The glass is falling hour by hour, the glass will fall for ever,
But if you break the bloody glass you won't hold up the weather.
Louis MacNeice, 1938, Bagpipe Music.
Stephen GC Tilley
>
>On my way home from the over-50s club, I recalled Martin saying ...
>>
>>Your voting post should be something like:
>>
>My worst records are:
> (name up to 10 from the list)
>
>"Band of Gold" - Freda Payne
>"Come on Eileen" - Dexy`s Midnight Runners
>"How Am I Supposed to Live Without You?" - Michael Bolton
>"How can we be lovers if we can't be friends?" - Michael Bolton
>"Tammy" - Debbie Reynolds
>"Teletubbies say Eh-Oh!" - Teletubblies
>"We Are The World" - USA for Africa
>"Welcome Home" - Peters and Lee
... and I missed out "No Charge" by whoeveritwas (was it really a hit?)
Martin Clark
something about...
>... and I missed out "No Charge" by whoeveritwas (was it really a hit?)
J J Barrie (not the author of Peter Pan).
Yes - it was number one in the UK for one week in June 1976 - five
weeks after "Save your kisses for me" and the week before "Combine
Harvester" were number one!
--
Martin
Jo Lonergan
Only 10, it's agonising! And I don't even know anything issued after
about 1979.
Bin:
>"Amazing grace" - Royal Scots Dragoon Guards
>"Deck of Cards" - Wink Martindale (3)
>"England swings" - Roger Miller
>"Lara's Theme (Somewhere My Love)" - Ray Conniff
>"MacArthur Park" - Richard Harris (2)
>"Millennium Prayer" - Cliff Richard (3)
>"My Way" - Frank Sinatra (7) [1]
>"Shaddupa your face" - Joe Dolce (5)
>"Tie a Yellow Ribbon" - Tony Orlando and Dawn (2)
>"What a wonderful world" - Luois Armstrong
Save:
>"Bridge over troubled water" - Simon and Garfunkel
>"I'm a Pink Toothbrush, you're a Blue Toothbrush" - Max Bygraves (2) [2]
>"Go Now" - Moody Blues
--
Jo
[1] The only record I'll get up and cross the room to turn off.
[2] That was my party piece when I was 7 - we had to make our own
entertainment in those days.
Pauline Young
My worst records are:
"Amazing grace" - Royal Scots Dragoon Guards
"Day Trip to Bangor" - Fidler's Dram
"England swings" - Roger Miller
"Green Green Grass of Home" - Tom Jones
"Mouldy Old Dough" - Lieutenant Pigeon
"Mr Blobby" - Mr Blobby
"The Birdie Song" - The Tweets
"The Smurf Song" - Father Abraham and the Smurfs
"The Stonk" - Hale & Pace
"Whispering Grass" - Windsor Davies & Don Estelle
I want to save:
"How Am I Supposed to Live Without You?" - Michael Bolton
"If you leave me now" - Chicago
"Killer Queen" - Queen
(Please substitute Barcelona to be saved in exchange for Chicago, if
Iain Archer's late submission is added to the list!! I always thought he
was such a pleasant man too! I've gone off quite a lot of people since
this thread started :-) I think Bo Rap should be safe enough to allow a
vote for the long haired version of Michael Bolton.)
Rem. It's only a game!
Pauline
---------
Blowing in from the East with nothing worth saying
Iain Archer
>I may be imagining things, but I thought Stephen GC Tilley muttered
>something about...
>
>>... and I missed out "No Charge" by whoeveritwas (was it really a hit?)
>
>J J Barrie (not the author of Peter Pan).
Speaking of which,
"In my childhood the dining-room ceiling was scattered with George V
postage stamps which had been fixed there by James Barrie, author
of Peter Pan, who put them, licked, face down on a penny which he
then threw at the ceiling." Auberon Waugh - Will this do?
--
Iain Archer
Robin Somes
<ch...@mikesounds.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>but
>then I'm probably the only umrat who owns another version played on erhu
>by one David Li. And that is *excruciating*. David Li's music is often
>played as muzak in Chinese restaurants
<snip>
> He also does
>unmentionable things with some of the well known musical pieces from
>Evita and Cats etc.
Bearing in mind that the erhu is *made* out of pieces of Cats, isn't
there some species of irony at work here?
;)
--
cheers,
robin
Carole Appleyard
<mar...@spl.at> writes
>My worst records are:
"Millennium Prayer" - Cliff Richard
"You Need Hands" - Max Bygraves
"There's no-one quite like Grandma" - St Winefred's School Choir
"Seasons in the Sun" - Terry Jacks
"The Birdie Song" - The Tweets
"Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep" - Middle of the Road
"Muskrat Love" - Captain & Tennille
"No Charge" - J J Barrie
"Shaddupa your face" - Joe Dolce
I would like to save:
Stairway to Heaven - Rolf Harris
Sylvia's Mother" - Dr Hook & the Medicine Show
"MacArthur Park" - Richard Harris
--
Carole Appleyard
BrritSki
Nix
"Agadoo" - Black Lace
"Blue is the colour" - Chelsea Football Club
"Deck of Cards" - Wink Martindale (3)
"Grandad" - Clive Dunn (7)
"If" - Telly Savalas
"Long haired Lover From Liverpool" - Jimmy Osmond.(3)
"Millennium Prayer" - Cliff Richard (3)
"Mr Blobby" - Mr Blobby
"Stairway To Heaven" - Rolf Harris
"There's no-one quite like Grandma" - St Winefred's School Choir (4)
Phoenix
"American Pie" - Don McLean
David Medcalf
>I own 37 of these and have performed 7 at Karaoke!
<surprise>
Really?
<\surprise>
David
Barbara W
> I own 37 of these and have performed 7 at Karaoke! :-(
> Min
...and will be bringing them to the 2003 BBQ??
cue for ceremonial countdown at the event, a la Fluff Freeman!
Barbara
Kate Brown
unmissable....
To consign to the everlasting bonfire:
>"Agadoo" - Black Lace
>"Candle in the Wind" (Diana version) - Elton John (3)
>"Chapel of Love" - The Dixie Cups
>"Deck of Cards" - Wink Martindale (3)
>"England swings" - Roger Miller
>"Everyone's gone to the moon" - Jonathan King (2)
>"I Believe" - Frankie Lane
>"I will always love you" - Whitney Houston (2)
>"Jingle Bells" - Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters
and if I could have had ten votes for the same one they would all have
been for
>"My Way" - Frank Sinatra (7)
To lead gently up the primrose path
>"Bohemian Rhapsody" - Queen (2)
>"Bridge over troubled water" - Simon and Garfunkel
>"Let it be" - The Beatles
--
Kate B
PS 'elvira' is spamtrapped - please reply to 'umra' at cockaigne if you want
to reply personally
Fenny
volume in the Toodles' back garden be enough to lower the local house
prices?
Rob Linham
Death Row
=========
(just about managed to find 10 I dislike...)
> "A Girl Like You" - Edwin Collins
> "Blue is the colour" - Chelsea Football Club
> "Candle in the Wind" (Diana version) - Elton John (3)
> "Come on Eileen" - Dexy`s Midnight Runners
> "Easy Like Sunday Morning" - the Commodores
> "Lady In Red" - Chris de Burgh (4)
> "Teletubbies say Eh-Oh!" - Teletubblies
> "The Birdie Song" - The Tweets (5)
> "There's no-one quite like Grandma" - St Winefred's School Choir (4)
> "Yellow Submarine" - Beatles (2)
Please Reprieve Me...
=====================
> "Fernando" - Abba
> "MacArthur Park" - Richard Harris (2)
> "The Floral Dance" - Terry Wogan (2)
For the record, of 183 songs, I can recognise at least 56 that I possess
and would vote to reprieve, so I guess there's no hope for me... :)
r.
--
Rob Linham:
E-mail: rob_l...@yahoo.co.uk
Web: http://www.geocities.com/rob_linham
Martin Clark
about...
>For the record, of 183 songs, I can recognise at least 56 that I possess
>and would vote to reprieve, so I guess there's no hope for me... :)
I have around 20 of them, and like probably the same number again. It
all goes to show how diverse the views of umrats can be. Some of the
nominations have been vehemently defended with votes to save.
Anyone who has not voted yet - half an hour left (at time of posting, of
course), so hurry up!
Every vote counts - the scores are extremely close at the top!
--
Martin
Anne Burgess
at this stage? In return I would have to take "Brown Girl in the Ring" out
of the ten voted for, but that would be no sacrifice. My loathing for "White
Christmas" is almost boundless ...
Anne
Jenny M Benson
<p...@compuserve.com> writes
>Pauline
>---------
>Blowing in from the East with nothing worth saying
Hi Pauline - how nice to hear from you! I was just thinking the other
day that it was a long while since you'd passed this way.
--
Jenny
Andrew John Wineberg
<anne.b...@NOSPAMbtinternet.com> wrote:
> My loathing for "White
> Christmas" is almost boundless ...
Do you wanna guess what I'm dreaming of?
(No, Brritski, you may not reply to this :-)
--
ajw in STANMORE HA7
Martin Clark
about...
It won't affect the top placings, but what may surprise you is that you
seem to be AOU in voting for that!
I'm waiting a while before doing the results as posts from some servers
take longer to reach here than from others.
--
Martin
David Medcalf
Here are the late votes from the People's [slow] Republic of Garstang
Out...Out....Out!!!
"Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep" - Middle of the Road (2)
"Coward Of The County" - Kenny Rogers (2)
"I'm a Pink Toothbrush, you're a Blue Toothbrush" - Max Bygraves (2)
"Lady In Red" - Chris de Burgh (4)
"Little White Bull" - Tommy Steele
"Mistletoe and Wine" - Cliff Richard (3)
"Shaddupa your face" - Joe Dolce (5)
"The Birdie Song" - The Tweets (5)
"The Smurf Song" - Father Abraham and the Smurfs
"Two Little Boys" by Rolf Harris (4)
Rescue candidates:
"Annie's song" - John Denver
"Bridge over troubled water" - Simon and Garfunkel
"Hotel California" - The Eagles
David.
Message timed at 17:59 GMT [1]
[1] Garstang Mean Time
Anne Burgess
> Your wish is my command.
> It won't affect the top placings, but what may surprise you is that you
> seem to be AOU in voting for that!
I am deeply indebted. I would not be able to face myself in future if I had
failed to vote against that most ghastly of dirges.
Never mind, I look forward to walking out of shops halfway through a
transaction when THAT DIRGE comes on the muzak.
Anne
Stephen GC Tilley
>
>Hi Pauline - how nice to hear from you! I was just thinking the other
>day that it was a long while since you'd passed this way.
IRTA passed away.
M...@mygaff0.demon.co.uk
<david_...@hotmail.com> writes
--
Min
But you're really a mackerel in the moonlight
Robin Parkinson
helping the lighting guys rig some particulary complicated and tedious
stuff for Progress Christmas show (which promises to be a hoot, by the
way, Readirats.)
To keep us chipper and alert, the chief lighting guy gave us the benefit
of his record collection over the PA. I gave up counting how many of hos
records were on the list posted in this thread.
I suppose it spurred us one to get the rigging done as rapidly as
possible....
- Robin.
--
Trout: slightly fishy, but never coarse. http://www.troutmag.org
Iain Archer
>To keep us chipper and alert, the chief lighting guy gave us the benefit
>of his record collection over the PA. I gave up counting how many of hos
>records were on the list posted in this thread.
>
>I suppose it spurred us one to get the rigging done as rapidly as
>possible....
That reminds me of the only time I've walked out of a blood donor
session before the bleeding. Last Christmas eve, their admin was
appalling[1] - after forty minutes I hadn't even got to stage two - and
the hall was far too hot, but the straw that really broke the camel's
back was the loud radio tuned to one of the easy listening channels.
After a steady barrage of pap, and a reprise of chirpy cheepy, una
paloma, or one of that lot, I just put my cycle clips back on and left.
[1] This was just one small centre, and the service have generally
been revising their proocedures, so don't let this put you off.
--
Iain Archer
BrritSki
>
> On Sun, 8 Dec 2002 18:37:43 +0000 (UTC), "Anne Burgess"
> <anne.b...@NOSPAMbtinternet.com> wrote:
>
> > My loathing for "White
> > Christmas" is almost boundless ...
>
> Do you wanna guess what I'm dreaming of?
>
> (No, Brritski, you may not reply to this :-)
>
Ooops.
Chris McMillan
<Barbara...@yahoo.com> writes
OK: for those who are new, what on earth are they rabbiting about?
Well, 17th May 2003 sees our annual BBQ held at our house. Toodles is
getting rather clever at burning various bits of burgers and sausages
and the like. Al's getting very good at wheedling money out of people
via an auction (money to a different charity each year), Kimbo's very
good at organising secondhand books. And most people are very good at
leaving *something* behind afterwards. And we always pray for rain and
have gloriously sunny weather. *Sometimes* we even have to hide indoors
its so hot.
So put the date in your diaries *now* (oh, and AJW's back with us - Min,
is the foot piano still available?)
Sincerely, Chris
--
Chris McMillan
Chris McMillan
<elv...@cockaigne.demon.co.uk> writes
>Have been restricting myself to occasional lurking - but this is
>unmissable....
>
Chris McMillan
<ro...@badminston.demon.co.uk> writes
Hang about. (Fishes around a zip disk full of useless Chinese info and
returns with)
The late-eleventh-century traveller and chronicler Shen Kuo wrote a poem
describing the plaintive sounds of the mawei (horsetail) huqin
(barbarian string instrument) played by prisoners-of-war captured on a
Chinese military expedition into Central Asia. Horsehair bows appear to
have gradually replaced the bamboo slip used on instruments like the
xiqin. Many distinct forms of fiddle have since arisen, of which the
most commonly encountered today is the erhu. During the twentieth
century, the erhu has been redesigned and standardised. For example,
steel strings have replaced the traditional ones of silk, altering the
tone quality of the instrument and allowing new performance techniques.
The erhu has a long round neck of hardwood with two tuning-pegs dorsally
mounted at the upper end, while the lower end is inserted into a
hardwood resonator. The resonator may be either hexagonal, octagonal or
tubular in shape, and one end is covered with the skin of a python (or
other snake), glued around the outer edges. Two steel strings run from
the pegs through an adjustable sliding upper nut (of silk or nylon cord)
and over a lower bridge mounted on the surface of the snakeskin; they
are attached to the stub of the neck where it emerges on the underside
of the resonator. The strings are of differing diameters and most
commonly tuned a 5th apart to d'-a' (but in Abing's case to
approximately g-d'). The bow is of horsehair, supported by a bamboo
stem. The bowhair of the erhu is inserted between the two strings and
rosined on both sides; this characteristic is shared with most other
forms of huqin. The erhu, which is about 80cm in length, is rested on
the left thigh in performance. The player's right hand pushes the
bowhair inward to sound the lower string or outward to sound the higher
- the two are not normally sounded together. The strings are lightly
stopped with the left hand fingers, but are not pushed back to touch the
neck.
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Sincerely, Chris
(reply to: chris.m...@ntlworld.com)
--
Chris McMillan
Chris McMillan
Parkinson <ro...@troutmag.org> writes
>I was in the theatre until 2am on Saturday (conceptually, actually Sunday)
>helping the lighting guys rig some particulary complicated and tedious
>stuff for Progress Christmas show (which promises to be a hoot, by the
>way, Readirats.)
>
>
>I suppose it spurred us one to get the rigging done as rapidly as
>possible....
>
hours, thank you!!
Neil Hopkins
<ch...@mikesounds.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>In message <pan.2002.12.08.23...@troutmag.org>, Robin
>Parkinson <ro...@troutmag.org> writes
>>I was in the theatre until 2am on Saturday (conceptually, actually Sunday)
>>helping the lighting guys rig some particulary complicated and tedious
>>stuff for Progress Christmas show (which promises to be a hoot, by the
>>way, Readirats.)
>>
>Ah, that's where you are. What's the show? Dates?
> >
>>I suppose it spurred us one to get the rigging done as rapidly as
>>possible....
>>
>Haze is doing Aladdin in Fleet
Crikey! I feel sorry for the poor lad that she's doing in ... ;-)
--
neil h.
Spike : Sodding, blimey, shagging, knickers, bollocks, Oh God - I'm English!
Chris McMillan
<neil_h...@hotmail.com> writes
>On Mon, 9 Dec 2002 16:30:26 +0000, Chris McMillan
><ch...@mikesounds.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>In message <pan.2002.12.08.23...@troutmag.org>, Robin
>>Parkinson <ro...@troutmag.org> writes
>>>I was in the theatre until 2am on Saturday (conceptually, actually Sunday)
>>>helping the lighting guys rig some particulary complicated and tedious
>>>stuff for Progress Christmas show (which promises to be a hoot, by the
>>>way, Readirats.)
>>>
>>Ah, that's where you are. What's the show? Dates?
>> >
>>>I suppose it spurred us one to get the rigging done as rapidly as
>>>possible....
>>>
>>Haze is doing Aladdin in Fleet
>
>Crikey! I feel sorry for the poor lad that she's doing in ... ;-)
Grin. I'm not sure what back stage work she's doing this time, now she
can turn her hands to lighting and sound: I *think* she's acting as back
up for whoever does these jobs and is a general dogsbody otherwise. We
don't *do* pantos so we won't go to that one.
Sincerely, Chris (who did go to the two concerts Haze performed in
yesterday and one that Toodles recorded on Sat)
--
Chris McMillan
M...@mygaff0.demon.co.uk
<ch...@mikesounds.demon.co.uk> writes
>So put the date in your diaries *now* (oh, and AJW's back with us - Min,
>is the foot piano still available?)
Jo Lonergan
<elv...@cockaigne.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>and if I could have had ten votes for the same one they would all have
>been for
>>"My Way" - Frank Sinatra (7)
>
YANA. I can't believe it didn't make the top ten.
--
Jo
K Richard W
>Will the playing of the "Umra Worst 10 hit songs ever" at a suitable
>volume in the Toodles' back garden be enough to lower the local house
>prices?
As wofe and d#2 have seemingly decided that a house will be acquired
somewhere in the Woodley area in the next few months can the prices
please start plummeting like a stone in the very near future? I have
strong financial reasons for prices to fall rapidly please.
--
Kosmo Richard W
SNELLSS
Martin Clark
about...
Why not move to Woodley near Stockport. I'm sure it's a lot cheaper.
--
Martin
Robin Parkinson
> In message <pan.2002.12.08.23...@troutmag.org>, Robin
> Parkinson <ro...@troutmag.org> writes
>>I was in the theatre until 2am on Saturday (conceptually, actually
>>Sunday) helping the lighting guys rig some particulary complicated and
>>tedious stuff for Progress Christmas show (which promises to be a hoot,
>>by the way, Readirats.)
>>
> Ah, that's where you are. What's the show? Dates?
Alan Ayckbourne. 'My Very Own Story'. It is, as I said, a hoot. Suitable
for ages from 9 to 'young-at-heart' (it says here.) Opens this Thursday
(12th December) and runs through to Saturday 21st. No performance Sunday
but matinees on both Saturdays. Evening performances 7:45pm, matinees
2:30pm. Tickets through Reading Arts as usual, 0118 9 606060.
I'm not operating this time except in dire emergency, but I intend to
wander along as a punter at least once.
Stephen GC Tilley
>
>In message <3df4c865...@news.cis.dfn.de>, Neil Hopkins
><neil_h...@hotmail.com> writes
>>On Mon, 9 Dec 2002 16:30:26 +0000, Chris McMillan
>><ch...@mikesounds.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>>>>
>>>Haze is doing Aladdin in Fleet
>>
>>Crikey! I feel sorry for the poor lad that she's doing in ... ;-)
>
>Grin. I'm not sure what back stage work she's doing this time, now she
>can turn her hands to lighting and sound: I *think* she's acting as back
>up for whoever does these jobs and is a general dogsbody otherwise. We
>don't *do* pantos so we won't go to that one.
If she's doing lighting will we hear the Fleet's lit up, smarvellous sight?
Anne Burgess
> >and if I could have had ten votes for the same one they would all have
> >been for
> >>"My Way" - Frank Sinatra (7)
> >
> YANA. I can't believe it didn't make the top ten.
Me neither.
Anne
Martin Clark
about...
>
>
collective opinion of the umrats who voted, there were at least ten
songs that were worse!
--
Martin
Penny
wrote...
>On my way home from the over-50s club on Mon, 9 Dec 2002, I heard Chris say ...
>>
>>In message <3df4c865...@news.cis.dfn.de>, Neil Hopkins
>><neil_h...@hotmail.com> writes
>>>On Mon, 9 Dec 2002 16:30:26 +0000, Chris McMillan
>>><ch...@mikesounds.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>Haze is doing Aladdin in Fleet
>>>
>>>Crikey! I feel sorry for the poor lad that she's doing in ... ;-)
>>
>>Grin. I'm not sure what back stage work she's doing this time, now she
>>can turn her hands to lighting and sound: I *think* she's acting as back
>>up for whoever does these jobs and is a general dogsbody otherwise. We
>>don't *do* pantos so we won't go to that one.
>
>If she's doing lighting will we hear the Fleet's lit up, smarvellous sight?
d#2 has been helping out with her old school's production of Annie. She has
borrowed a set of somewhat elderly radio communication devices from our
friendly neighbourhood security chap so that she (backstage) may talk to
sound and lighting at the back of the auditorium. During yesterday's
dress/tech run she was awaiting her cue from sound to set off the
pyrotechnic device. She heard him tell her to put in the key so expected
his next instruction to be "fire" - it wasn't. Consequently the bang went
off about 2 minutes early and "surprised" everyone.
This afternoon they gave a performance for year 7. During this morning's
briefing everyone was told that no pyros would be used because it had
suddenly occurred to the director that the real live dogs in the show would
probably not like them. However, when the dog lady arrived with her pooches
she assured him they would not mind at all so it was pyros as usual (on cue
this time) - but nobody told the cast...
--
Penny
Laughter is the dance of the spirit and the music of the soul.
umra Nicknames & Abbreviations http://www.bigwig.net/umra/nicks.html
Chris McMillan
<richard....@whitbread.freeuk.com> writes
>Whilst milking with Chaba on Sun, 8 Dec 2002, Fenny opined that
>>Will the playing of the "Umra Worst 10 hit songs ever" at a suitable
>>volume in the Toodles' back garden be enough to lower the local house
>>prices?
>
>As wofe and d#2 have seemingly decided that a house will be acquired
>somewhere in the Woodley area
Nah chance.
Not even if you wish to live next to the A329 boundary fence.
Sincerely Chris
--
Chris McMillan
Chris McMillan
<Ste...@Tilley.Net> writes
>On my way home from the over-50s club on Mon, 9 Dec 2002, I heard Chris say ...
>>
>>In message <3df4c865...@news.cis.dfn.de>, Neil Hopkins
>><neil_h...@hotmail.com> writes
>>>On Mon, 9 Dec 2002 16:30:26 +0000, Chris McMillan
>>><ch...@mikesounds.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>Haze is doing Aladdin in Fleet
>>>
>>>Crikey! I feel sorry for the poor lad that she's doing in ... ;-)
>>
>>Grin. I'm not sure what back stage work she's doing this time, now she
>>can turn her hands to lighting and sound: I *think* she's acting as back
>>up for whoever does these jobs and is a general dogsbody otherwise. We
>>don't *do* pantos so we won't go to that one.
>
>If she's doing lighting will we hear the Fleet's lit up, smarvellous sight?
>
Chris McMillan
<sp...@labyrinth.freeuk.com> writes
>On 9 Dec 2002 16:32:02 -0800, Stephen GC Tilley <Ste...@Tilley.Net>
>wrote...
>
>>On my way home from the over-50s club on Mon, 9 Dec 2002, I heard
>>Chris say ...
>>>
>>>In message <3df4c865...@news.cis.dfn.de>, Neil Hopkins
>>><neil_h...@hotmail.com> writes
>>>>On Mon, 9 Dec 2002 16:30:26 +0000, Chris McMillan
>>>><ch...@mikesounds.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>Haze is doing Aladdin in Fleet
>>>>
>>>>Crikey! I feel sorry for the poor lad that she's doing in ... ;-)
>>>
>>>Grin. I'm not sure what back stage work she's doing this time, now she
>>>can turn her hands to lighting and sound: I *think* she's acting as back
>>>up for whoever does these jobs and is a general dogsbody otherwise. We
>>>don't *do* pantos so we won't go to that one.
>>
>>If she's doing lighting will we hear the Fleet's lit up, smarvellous sight?
>
>d#2 has been helping out with her old school's production of Annie.
>suddenly occurred to the director that the real live dogs in the show
>
There's brave.
K Richard W
that
>>
>>If she's doing lighting will we hear the Fleet's lit up, smarvellous sight?
>>
>Umra!!!!!!!
>
K Richard W
I am not moving. I am having the bathroom replaced (apparently - it is
a married thing Kimbo before you ask). D#2 is at Bulmershe and needs
somewhere to live next year and apparently it is close to Woodley in
Reading.