Tich - Santa Bring Me Ringo

This 1964 record was one of the last releases on the Oriol label, CBS had aquired the independant Oriol label the year before for its production facilities, in Dcember 1964 the Oriol label was discontinued (and also Woolworths Embassy Label), this record was avalible to order for 2 weeks.

Tich & Quackers had a TV series about a boy Tich and his pet duck Quackers, though I do not recall ever watching it, Ray Allen of Lord Charles fame was the ventrloquist behind Tich, Tony Hart who would later host the art shows for deaf children Take Hart & Vison On, was the operator of Quackers, the guests on the show included the Beatles, despite there being 141 shows over 8 series between 1963 -1968 little apart from some stills exists.

(3) Santa, Bring Me Ringo ~ Tich and The Ted Taylor Four with The Corona Kids (1964) (Beatles spoof) - YouTube

Wendy Richard & Diana Berry - We Had A Dream

 

Released 1963, Diana Berry was Wendy Richards Hairdresser, I do not know the full story behind ths record.

Wendy Richard And Diana Berry - We Had A Dream - YouTube

Return of the Pilchards

It has been about 10 months since any of the shops and supermarkets have had any Pilchards in stock, on Friday I was in Epsom and straying into a shop I do not normally visit they had tins of Pilchards, I noemally buy the small tins they only had the large tins, in my younger days I was sent to a Childrens Camp, many of the days activities were for a whoke day so you would need to make yourself a packed lunch, the ingrediants were  set out and you made your own sandwiches, the items put out were Cheese, Lunchion Meat, Pilchards in Tomato sauce, most salad items, dates, peanuts, I became partial to Pilcard and Peanut sandwiches, though I havent had one in years, some childrens sandwiches contained every item others were more creative.

Beti Webb - Tick Tock

Released 1967, I first came across this record on Marc Birds - Phil Spector Sound Alike's Vol 3, after hearing the track, I went on to find a copy of the single, Beti Webb issued 2 singles, I'm not sure if I have the other one, this did not have a UK released

Only Vol.3.of this series was released, Marc Bird was diagnosed with Leukaemia, Vol 3 was the most complete of the series so it was issued, Vols 1,2 & 4 were never released as he passed away shortly after Vol. 3's release, 

 Tic Toc

Computer Mishap

 

Friday morning I had a mishap with my laptop, it ended up with a broken screen, I droped it round to the local computer shop, the shop was going to be closed most of the next week, I was given a provisional collection date of a week Monday, I also asked mentioned that the internet connection randomly drops out, thay are going to check that as well.

I fired up the spare PC, this one was replaced as it was starting to play up as there is a battery problem, true to form it had changed all the settings, it changed the pages from being white with black text to black with white text, I spent some time getting it back to normal, certain things were still not working properly, it's a Dell laptop over the years I have had 2 Dell laptops, between them I have had more problems than all the other laptops, put together, I then got out the laptop I brought when I first started the blog, some time back I had it upgtaded to Windows 10 and a SSD drive installed.

I was searching my photo's for a picture of the portable setup I used to take on holiday, I could not find the pictures, I never took any records with me, I would buy them in the Charity shops clean them and post them, one of the first visits would be to Brixham, there is a rcord shop called the Cavern, there were lots of intresting records there, another record shop opened in Paignton I also brought a few records there, I think they fell victim of the Covid lockdown as when I went back after the lockdown it had closed.

The cover picture is of a pair of OO Works ex LSWR 700 class 0-6-0's, I had just fitted DCC chips to them, the red loco is a Hattons Andrew Barclay 0-4-0ST Katey being run in on the rolling road.

Tivvy And The Clubmates - World Of Colour

The 'B' side of this audio atrocity, it is not the worst record, for me the worst record is 'Bill Withers - Lovely Day' in the early 1990's the office I worked in had the radio on, every time 'Bill Withers - Lovely Day' was played five people jumped up the change the radio to another station, this happened every time the record was played,

 Tivvy And The Clubmates - World Of Colour

Someone's Spoilt Weekend

 

For quite a time now I have been doing the weekly shop at 07.00 on a Saturday, being a person of habit I always park the car in the same area, this week I had to go to the other side of the carpark to post some mail, this meant passing the other 2 stores on the site, between them I was looking down and saw a baggie on the ground, not uncommon to see empty baggies on the ground, this one had some white powder in it (probably Meth Amphetamine/Cocaine), I was not going to investigate it further and left it alone, the loss possibly spoilt someone's weekend.