Earth Boys - Barbara Ann

 

Released in  the USA October 1958 and in the UK January 1959.

The 'B' side of  'Space Girl' apparently this was a rushed recording for the 'B' side asthey had only recorded 'Space Girl', whenI first saw this  record I wondered if if was an earlier version of the betterknown track by the Beach Boys, alas it is not, I have not managed to find a copy of the UK release.

  

When walking Biscuit I am used to seeing discarded bottles and cans in the road and parks, dring the week someone had lost a full bottle at first I thought it was olive oil, then I noticed it said 70% Proof I left it where it was, it had gone when we left the park. The next day was rubbish collection day, in this area we have a box for glass I notice that some houses have a full box every week this week someone had put their glass recycling box out it contained a number of full bottles of liqures and obscure spirits, the binmen did not take it it's still there nobody has taken any of the contents.

The stepping stones have reopend they have removed the shingle bank that was acting as a dam, though the autorities were trying to say that was not causing the problem, within hours of its removal the water level had dropped and the stepping stones emerged after almost 2 years of submersion, on the far side they have put in a new footpath the contactors building the new footpath also did tempory repairs to the steps on the farside where dogs had worn the bank away next to the steps. Biscuit almost always goes into the river at this point.

Fifties Kooky - THE EARTH BOYS - Barbara Ann - CAPITOL CL 14979 UK 1958 Jack Marshall Paul Frees

Hughie Green - Land Of Hope And Glory

The 'B' Side of 'Stand Up  And Be Counted'

I had to cancel a fishing trip due to the problem with my sight, my sight has now returned to normal.

On the one fishing trip I have managed to get out on there was one of the editors from Sea Angler magazine, they were doing an article on the Kingsmere Rocks Marine Conservation Zone, he said the article would be in the July issue of Sea Angler, I looked for a copy of Sea Angler in all the local New Agents but none of the stocked it, I was going to Devon in early July I wondered if I wold find a copy there, I was in luck as I always stop at Sainsbury's in Torquay to get the groceries for the week, in the newspaper/magazine section were a number of copies of Sea Angler, it's quite popular with visitors to  the area as it has the tide tables for the month (though it's cheaper to buy a tide table fort the area) the article had a photo of me in it.

The fishing in Goodrington was very poor this year on the Monday the sea was coming over the sea wall, I turned round and went back to the caravan, on Tuesday I went down to the promenade again the sea was very dirty with lots of suspended matter in it by Thursday the winds had dropped ant the sea was beginning to clear, I did not catch any fish and I did not see any any one else catch one.

During the week I managed to trip in the garden landing on my nose and glasses, I managed to scratch both lenses, on Friday I went to Specsavers in Epsom to see if I could get new lenses fitted and was in formed that 'that it was more expensive the re glaze glasses than it was to buy a replacement pair of glasses', this time the glasses were a lot cheaper then when I brought the last replacement pair in April, up to this year I have never had to replace my glasses between my 2 year checks.

 Hughie Green, Land of Hope & Glory

Hughie Green - Stand Up And Be Counted

Released 1977.

I have heard a number of stories about how this record came about, it was the last record by Hughie Green and his career went into decline after this record. it was almost 50 years ago that this record was released  21st January 1977, very few if any of the people involved with this record are around now, the television companies that Hughie Green worked for no longer exist, it is unlikely that any additional details about this record will surface. 

 Hughie Green, Stand Up & Be Counted, 1977

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.

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.

Bing Videos

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

Jackie Pallo - One Little Packet Of Cigarettes

When I was young almost everybody smoked you were the social outcast if you did not smoke, smoking was allowed almost everywhere many tobacconists had cigarette machines outside, by the late 1960's early 70's people were becoming aware of the health problems linked to smoking and were giving up smoking, today I only know a few people who smoke. When I was buying some Lottery Tickets at Christmas people were buying packets of cigarettes I was taken back when the cashier said the price £19.70 substantially more than the last packet I brought 2/11 (15p).

 Jackie Pallo - One Little Packet Of Cigarettes - YouTube 

Jackie Pallo - Everyone Should Get What I Got

 

Jackie Pallo real name Jack Ernest Gutteridge 12/01/1926 - 11/02/2006. A professional Wrestler, when ITV started broadcasting on 22/09/1955 the BBC had managed to get all the major sports under contract leaving very little for the new broadcaster, I recall motorbike scrambling, then the wrestling followed by the football results, Bonanza (thought this may be later) the Adventures Of  Robin Hood staring Richard Green, then over to BBC for Dr Who.

The Wrestling was narrated by Kent Walton other wrestlers that came to mind are Mick McManus & Les Kellett, the front rows were full of old ladies and if a wrestler got thrown out of the ring they would start hitting him with their handbags. As other sports came out of their BBC contract ITV managed to get rights to them the motorbike scrambling disappeared and wresting was moved to a late evening weekday slot.

Wednesday's fishing was cancelled due to wind, I got the message as I was leaving Wing Yips having just brought a number of boxes of squid for bait, they are now in the freezer for future trips, I have rebooked the trip for 6th May, I also got a phone call did I want to go fishing on Saturday from Gosport, unfortunately Saturday is the most difficult day, would have to take Biscuit for her walk at 03.00 I have done it before, my son does a Park Run and does not tend to get back till about 13.00, it was a good thing I declined as on Friday I developed a high temperature and it was still there Saturday.

Jackie Pallo - Everyone Should Get What I Got

Les Dawson - Send Her Roses

 

 

Les Dawson 2/2/1931 - 10/06/1993 came to fame after appearing on the TV show Opportunity Knocks, This is the first of 3 singes from Les Dawson, with a 4th in 1982 telling the story of Aladdin, I also came across singles by the Les Dawson Trio these are from a different a Les Dawson. From memory Les Dawson died of a heart attack that  came several days after he was pushing his vintage car.

Send Her Roses - YouTube

On Friday I got back from walking Biscuit at about 11.30, there was nothing amiss with the cars parked outside, about 10 minutes later I looked out of the window and one of the parked cars had been clamped for no Road Tax, the owner quickly removed the stickers the car is still clamped, a few years ago a number of cars in the road were clamped for similar reasons, the road I live in is fairly close to the station and a number of people park their cars in it rather than pay for parking at the station, two of the cars were there unclaimed for a couple of weeks and later were towed away, sometimes it is cheaper to buy an old car and not tax or insure it, and if it gets clamped abandon it and get a replacement, I have my road tax on a Direct Debit and is paid at the beginning of April.