Monica Rose - Down At Our Battersea Boozer

The 'B' Side of Monica Rose's 1972 release.

 A number of people try to make Battersea sound more up market by referring to it as South Chelsea or by changing the pronunciation of Battersea (Bat-Ter-Se-A).

I attended to my appointment at St Georges Hospital Tooting, not knowing how long the journey would take I left in plenty of time to get there, I ended up getting there very early, it took me almost as long to find the part of the Hospital I needed as the journey there, the clinic opened at 09.00 I was second in the queue, they were seeing the people in the order they arrived they carried out various tests and I was informed that a blood vessel behind the eye had burst, I was discharged at about 10.30 and referred back to Epsom Hospital, During the week I had a call they had an appointment for me at St Hellier Hospital on Thursday, my sight is gradually returning to the eye.

Monica Rose - Down At Our Battersea Boozer 

Hermione Gingold & Gilbert Harding - 'Oh Grandma'

 

Released 1953 at this time the Phillips Label were only prouducing 78's, it would be a few years before they started producing 45's, most of the other record companies were producing 45's though often in small numbers.

Gilbert Harding was well known in the 50's for his appearances on radio, at one time he was described in the tabloid press as 'The Rudest Man in the World', he died in 1960 of an Asthma attack, he was 53.

During the week I picked up some more records 136 singles, 2 LPs and a CD one of the LPs was Hughie Greens Christmas Party, a record that had eluded me for some time I thought I had found a copy some time back when I took the record out of the sleeve the first thing I noticed was the Tamla Motown label and thought Hughie Green was never on Tamla Motown, the cover had a Marvin Gaye record in it, I sometimes wonder did the records get swapped and did someone think they found a Marvin Gaye LP only to find Hughie Greens Christmas Record.

I spent yesterday afternoon at Epsom Hospital as on Friday evening as I virtually lost sight in my right eye Friday evening, I was referred to St Georges Hospital, Tooting, while I was on the bus returning home St Georges Hospital phoned me with an appointment at 09.30 today Sunday. Yesterday they were running a number of vintage buses on part of the 293 route, it was free to travel on these buses, I still had to get the regular 293 as the free buses terminated at Epsom Clock Tower, the regular 293 bus terminates at Epsom Hospital.

Gilbert Harding 'Oh, Grandma' 1953 78 rpm

Monica Rose - Number 900 Perpendicular Street

 

For some reason every time this record is posted it is quickly taken down, Monica Rose appeared as a contestant on Double Your Money hosted by Hughie Green,  she won £18 her questions were on famous women, she was so popular that there were requests for her to appear again, she became one of the hosts.

When I started the original Blog I was after a title like Worlds Worst Records that title had already been taken, the person who ran that Blog Darryl Bullock, had a massive collection of records that put my collection into the also ran category, I did have a link to his blog, I noticed that nothing new had been posted for sometime then the dreaded words appeared that the Blog had been removed, at that point I removed the link, earlier this week I found out the sad news that Darryl had passed away he was 60 years old.

WFMU: The World's Worst Records Radio Show with Darryl W. Bullock: Playlists and Archives

Arthur Haynes - Not To Worry/ Looking Aound

 

Released February 1962, I found a stock copy of this record, then a short time later a job lot of comedy singles was listed on a certain auction site, the listing had all the titles listed, quite a few were on my wants list, I won the auction at the listing start price, the Arthur Haynes record was amongst the listing, it was not mentioned that it was a promo, when the records arrived there was one more that was not on the listing, so matching up the titles to the list, the extra record was Hughie Green - The Puppet Song, I already had a copy of that record however the new copy was in much better condition than my original copy, there were 21 records in the job lot, only one was in poor condition.

Arthur Haynes 19th May 1914 - 19th November 1966, I remember watching the Arthur Haynes Show on TV, his catch phrase "Up to my neck  in muck and bullitts for the like of you" and his tramp character, his co stars Dermot Kelly, Patricia Hayes, Rita Webb and Nicolas Parsons.

While running the original blog I had the BBC contact me, they wanted to use my recordings in a documentary about Arthur Haynes as their copy was in poor condition, the documentary was produced and shown on BBC but did not in the end include the records. 

I was going to post this record before Hughie Green record.

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Hughie Green - The Puppet Song/ Valley Of Peppermint Springs

 

Released 1961, the second single from Hughie Green, it gained fame when it featured in Kenny Everitts 30 worst records of all time.

Hughie Green hosted the TV show Double Your Money and later Opportunity Knocks, one of the winners of the show was Lena Zaberoni, I was looking at some record curio's among them was a copy of one of Lena's LPs nothing unusual it was however on the Stax label, there was also a Bing Crosby LP also on Stax, I was tempted to buy them but resisted, they were issued in an Asian country where the record company they were with did not have a presence and were issued on a label that did have a presence.

Note there are a number of other tracks that follow the Hughie Green ones.

 HUGHIE GREEN - 'The Puppet Song' + 'Valley Of Peppermint Springs' - 1961 45rpm

Mondays Boot Sale

Today's Boot Sale was about the same size as the last Bank Holiday one again not many records, I brought five at the Boot Sale and a CD, in the past I have brought over a hundred but that was in the days of 10 for a pound, I got there at about 07.30 and left at 08.45, the heat was beginning to get unbearable.

Jimmy Clithero - Jim Plays Hookie

The 'B' side of Jimmy Clitheroe's 1965 release.

I do not recall ever playing truant from school, my Mother insisted that all my appointments for the Dentist's etc. were out of school hours, I would make the follow up appointments during school time specifically to miss certain lessons and to make sure I would miss the lesson I would  dawdle and use the longest route back to school.

One of my early girlfriends and 2 of her friends decided to play truant and were seen by the School Attendance Officer and duly reported and parents informed, for a long time she was annoyed that only 2 of them were caught, the 3rd girl got off Scott free.

Jimmy Clitheroe. Jim plays hookie. 1965