Rodney Bewes - Meter Maid

 

Often the 'B' sides of records are never featured on Compilations or Greatest Hits records/CD's, this is one of the exceptions where it is the 'B' side is on the compilations and not the 'A' the only other record I can think of where the 'B' side is on the Compilations and not the 'A' side is A New Generation where the 'B' side 'She's A Soldier Boy' is on a number of compilations, while the 'A' side Smokey Blues Away has only recently appeared on CD.

This is the second single by Rodney Bewes so far the first one has eluded me.

Meter Maid

Muddy Paws

Yesterday I had to pick up an emergency prescription for my wife, the chemist had sent me a message that the item was ready, as they allow dogs into the chemist I took  Biscuit with me and took her for her morning walk on the way back, the Hogsmill Country Park starts close to the chemists, for some reason she went into the mill pond and came out with four black legs, the mud was cleaned off when she went into the river later in the walk. 

I also saw one of the Water Voles they introduced recently into the river recently, I only found out when the reintroduced them that the Water Vole was extinct in England.

One of the first tasks I do when I turn on my Laptop in the morning is clear the spam mail, I get a few but not that many on 'lordofthebootsale' almost always about payment for my non existent McAfee account or equally non existent iCloud account, I also have an AOL account I find this one is worse for spam, I only keep it going as one organisation I belong to despite repeated requests to change my email address still sends all the correspondence to my old email account.

 

The Gibsons - The Magic Book

This 1967 record got quite a bit of radio play when it was released, though the record failed to chart, this was also a record I could not afford to buy at the time, when I was buying EP's often on the back cover would be written in pencil a name followed by 7/6d paid 5/3d to pay, people had far less disposable income in those days, though most of the annotated EP's were from earlier in the decade.

When this record was released I was in the Sea Scouts and one of the stranger thing we did was man a water point for the Devizes to Westminster canoe race at Shepperton Lock, this meant being up all night, the lock was noted as it had an electric hand dryer in the toilet, one of the of tactical objects was to get to Teddington just before High Tide so you would have the tide assist you between Teddington and Westminster, this record was played twice on the radio on the short journey between Hampton and Shepperton on both the outward journey and the return journey.  

 The Gibsons – The Magic Book - YouTube

Fishing Cancelled

 Todays Fishing Trip from Brighton has been cancelled due to the weather, it's a bit windy, a replacement trip has been booked for the 21st of this month.

The picture was taken a couple of months ago in Epsom, I had caught the bus into Epsom as Lidl had advertised some fishing equipment, I was walking along Upper High Street to Lidl when I saw this doll abandoned outside one of the shops, on my way out of Lidl I was asked by someone where's Biscuit.

A short time later Aldi advertised a similar Item at a similar price so I checked it out, it turned out the Lidl item was larger and of better quality than the Aldi item.

Rodney Bewes - Dear Mother Love Albert

 

 

Title music from the TV series Dear Mother Love Albert, the program ran for four series between 1969 - 1972, the first series has been lost, I was watching the introduction titles where the locations were all street signs beginning Albert, the first one being Albert Square (the home of East Enders), unusual it is the 'B' side of this record 'Meter Maid' that appears on CD compilations. My copy of this record came from Hook Road Boot Sale for the grand sum of 20p, I don't think I got round to posting this on the original blog.

Dear Mother, Love Albert - Rodney Bewes

Highly Likely - Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads

 

The Original Likely Lads TV series ran between 1964-1966 and featured James Bolham as Terry Collier and Rodney Bewes as Bob Ferris, in the final episode Bob enlists in the Army, at the end of the episode Terry says that he has also enlisted and been accepted, it then comes out that Bob has been rejected by the Army, the series was revived in 1973 as 'Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads', with Terry having been discharged from the Army and Bob engaged to be married.

(1) Highly Likely - Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads (Theme) - YouTube

Mad Hatters - The Humphrey Song

A spin off from the 1976 advertising campaign for Unigate milk, watch out there's a Humphrey about, you never saw a Humphrey only a line of red & white drinking straws.

In the afternoon on the commercial TV channel, there would be an announcement the the following commercials were part of the new advertising campaign for xxxxx, they would then show all the campaign commercials back to back, the Humphrey adverts were first shown as one of these.  

At the time of this campaign my girlfriend (later Wife) and me had just moved into our first house, money was very tight. that year the company I worked for made a massive loss, and as a consequence the stopped all overtime, at the time I was relying on some overtime to make ends meet, as I worked nights I decided to get a pert time job during the day, I ended up working as a lunchtime barman in a Truman's pub, at this time Truman's and Unigate were both owned by Grand Metropolitan Hotels, advertisements for the Humphry campaign were put up in the pub but they kept disappearing, the assistant manager, one of the barmaids was supposed to go out with the trainee manager, for some reason he did not turn up (he may have had to work if there was a staff shortage)  she went out with one of the patrons who was a milkman, after the one night stand she found out she was pregnant, for her the "I've been Humphried" had to totally different meaning, she took Umbridge at the posters and quietly removed them when no one was watching. 

 (1) The Mad Hatters The Humphrey Song 1976 - YouTube