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

Jimmy Clitheroe - They All Blame Jim

 

Jimmy Clitheroe 1921-1975, appeared on Radio from 1957 - 1972 as the Clitheroe Kid broadcast Sunday Lunchtime usually after the Navy Lark (a program I never found funny), the Clitheroe Kid ran for 290 episodes with audiences of up to 10 million. There were a couple of TV series staring Jimmy Clitheroe with Molly Sugden playing the roll of Jimmy's Mother from memory only one episode survives of the 52 made.

Jimmy Clitheroe died 6th June 1975 on the day of his mothers funeral of an accidental overdose of prescription medication.

Jimmy Clitheroe. They all blame Jim. 1965

Deryck Guyler - The Great Gnome Robbery

I was after this 1971 record for some time I had it on my eBay watch list, I finally got a notification that a copy had been listed been listed with a buy it now option within 3 minutes I had signed in to eBay the record had already sold, sometime later a second copy was listed, this time I brought the copy. 

Mondays Boot Sale was larger than the previous Bank Holiday one and twice the size of the one held the day before, again I came home with nothing, there were some records but nothing stood out, In the picture the hedge is the original boundry of St Ebba's Hospital.

On the right hand side is the course of the old railway that served the Hospital cluster, for some reason the siding to St Ebba's boiler house was never built and the coal was unloaded at the passing loop and taken by cart to the boiler house there was a plentiful supply of labour (the patents), recently houses have been built on the old trackbed, when the railway was removed in 1950 the home owners whose houses backed onto the track were given the opportunity to buy the plot at the end of the garden for £25. 

I managed to get out fishing on Wednesday from Brighton, it was the first long journey for my car since it was repaired last August, it got up the hills without slowing down and going into limp mode, I had thought it was water in the fuel tank it turned out to be a blocked fuel filter, the diagnostic computer came up with the same fault low fuel pressure from fuel filter and low fuel pressure at injectors. I got to Brighton with plenty of time to spare and had a breakfast at McDonalds, then back to the car get the fishing gear out and walk down to the boat, the journey to the Kingsmere Rocks was uneventful once the boat was anchored up the fish started coming in at a steady rate, one person had a Tope take his Bream bait and managed to get it to the boat, it's not uncommon for Tope to take the Bream baits they usually bite through the light nylon trace, I had a double hook up of a smoothound and a bream and after that had a steady flow of Bream. The area we were fishing has a bag limit of 4 fish per angler, everyone on board was told this at the start of the trip and a tally was being kept, however one angler was putting his fish into his personal box and was asked how many fish he had, he later admitted to having 9 these were moved to the communal fish box, their were 11 anglers so the max was 44 fish when that number was reached we moved to a different area where there were no bag limits, getting back to Brighton it was noticed that none of the other boats had gone out that day.

Walking along the pontoon I remembered back to a number of years ago when I had got back from a trip and walking along the same pontoon fighting for breath and thinking I'm going to have to give up sea fishing, a few weeks later I collapsed on the way home from work and was taken to Hospital, it was there that they discovered I had a Pulmonary Embolism, I spent almost a week in Hospital while they treated it.

Deryck Guyler - The Great Gnome Robbery - YouTube

 

Deryck Guyler - (You Can't Kill An Old) Desert Rat

 

Deryck Guyler in the guise of Potter the caretaker the character he played in the TV series Please Sir, the series and the spin off series The Fenn Street Gang produced 2 more records one by the Fenn Street Gang the other by Carol Hawkins which for some reason has always eluded me.

Deryck Guyler - (You Can't Kill An Old) Desert Rat / Ruby (1971) - YouTube