Twizzle

 

This was the inspiration for todays post, a visit to Epsom today while waiting for the bus home I looked up and saw a toy impaled on the anti Pidgeon spikes, in the television series Twizzle escapes from the toy shop, unfortunately the peace was interrupted by a 'nutter' mouthing off very loudly about everything and nothing, luckily another person of similar ilk turned up and they were putting the world to right, thankfully my bus came, some of the other people at the bus stop were finding it quite amusing.

 

My copy of this 1958 record has lost its cover and has been dinked it is also not in the best of condition, it came from a Hook Road Arena Boot Sale a number of years ago, the stall owner said any thing left at the end of the Boot Sale would be going in the skip, I brought the record for 10p, when I got it home I cleaned the record, on playing the record, it played better than it looked, these late 50's early 60's records can take a lot of abuse and still play well.

A few days before I found this record I had put a bid on a copy of this record on eBay and had been out bid, from memory the record sold in the region of £35. Today the record and TV Series would banned from broadcast for being Politically Incorrect, one track springs to mind:- Frank Duncan Chawky The White-Faced Golly.

 Nancy Nevinson * The Twizzle Song * Barry Gray * Roberta Leigh

Chawky the White Faced Golly

Link to the only surviving episode.

The Adventures of Twizzle in colour. Only surviving episode, now HD! Gerry Anderson & Roberta Leigh

PC Up & Running

 I managed to sort out the problems with my laptop, there was some corruption in the operating program, it mostly affected sound playback and downloading, I  reloaded it from the back up, then spent several hours reinstalling a number of programs I use, such as Magix, the battery charging was not working, as I rarely use the Laptop in battery mode, I wasn't bothered about the lack of charging, then out of the blue a day later it started charging again, but is still temperamental.

Glencoves - Hootenanny

I had selected this record before I acquired a UK copy of the record. This was the only single they released in the UK, it was the first of four released in the USA.

(1) 1963 HITS ARCHIVE: Hootenanny - Glencoves - YouTube

Computer Problems

 

I am having problems with my Laptop PC, it is a Dell Latitude, for some reason it does not want to charge the internal battery, it has been a bit temperamental about charging the battery often waiting until there was about 7% charge left in the battery, there has been a bit of noise when listening to things on the plug in headphones, I have had Dell computers before and they seem prone to playback errors when there are problems with the power supply, I will take it into the local computer shop on Monday. When I got the Laptop I didn't really want a Dell but it was the only i5 they had in stock and my last Laptop was dead and beyond repair. 

Glencoves - It's Sister Ginny's Turn To Throw The Bomb

 

I first  came across this 1963 track on one of the late Mark Bird CD's 'Whacky Classics You May Have Missed', I managed to track down a US copy thinking I'll never find a UK issue, l met my record dealer recently and brought just over a hundred 45's when he came to this one he started to say It's Sister, at that point I completed  the title and asked me who the artist was and was surprised when I answered The Glencoves, I told him that I had been after this record for some time, it is unlikely that this type of record would get a release now. 

The Glencoves - It's Sister Ginny's Turn To Throw The Bomb

Egbert Douwe - Kom Uit Mijn Bedstee, M'n Liefste (Come To My Bedside, My Darling

 Released 1968, this record sold over 100,000 copies in Holland and was awarded a God Disc, it had a second release on 1978 as the 'B' side of Bloody Mary.

Egbert Douwe - kom uit de bedstee, m'n liefste • TopPop

Gaspar Netscher Ensemble - Get out Of Bed My Darling

 

Released 12 July 1968, the second of two records by The Gaspar Netscher Ensemble, I do not recall ever hearing either of their records ever being played on the radio, the first time I heard this mildly amusing novelty song was when I played it as part of its conversion the a digital format for the original blog, This record has not been uploaded to YouTube.