Monica Rose & Hughie Green - Clap Your Hands

 The 'B' side of Cuddle Up Baby, the credits list Monica Rose first.

I was in Torbay last week and visited number of Charity Shops, one shop was selling 45's at 4 for a pound they had about 40 singles, the next shop they were 50p each at the next shop they were  asking £2 they has loads of singles I did not bother to look, the sleeves said they were all late 70's and 80's releases.

For many years the most common Charity Shop  record used to be Ken Dodd - Tears, it still is one of the United Kingdoms 5 biggest selling records of all time, on my travels I found 8 copies of Miki & Griff - Rockin' Alone (In An Old Rocking Chair) making this the most common charity Shop record,there were no Kenn Dodd records in any of the shops.

Hughie Green & Monica Rose Clap Your Hands B Side

Hugie Green - Cuddle Up Baby

 Released 9th December 1966.

Hughie Green Cuddle Up Baby A Side

Peter Cowap - Crickets

The first of 3 singles by Peter Cowap release 31st July 1970, the last single had a re-issue 4 years later.

On the original blog I had a request for a record about Crickets the person did not know the title or artist but remembered how the chorus went, listening to some tracks on Thursday Morning this one came up, and I thought this is this that elusive track.

 Peter Cowap - Crickets

Little Lisa - Puppet On A String

 

Released on 20th August 1965 as a 'B' side in the USA and in September 1965 on the Tamala Motown label in Canada, it was not issued in any other countries. Lisa later released a number of records under the name of Lisa Miller.

I had an appointment at St Hellier's Hospital on Thursday for my  eye problem, I had the dreaded eye drops again more scans and photographs, the sight in the eye has almost returned to normal, I have a follow up appointment to be arranged for about a months time, the Doctor said my sight would return to normal on its own and I was discharged.

Little Lisa - Puppet On A String

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.

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