Cowboy Church Sunday School - Don't Send Those Kids To Sunday School

 

I first came across a Cowboy Church Sunday School record at the now long defunct Leg Of Mutton Boot Sale at Cobham where I came across two copies of It's No Secret both on Tri-Centres, I acquired the better of the two, none of their other records ever turned up at the Boot Sales, I was sent a record by someone that did not have enough postage paid so I had to go into Epsom to pay the excess postage, car parking was a minimum of one hour so after collecting the record I thought I've just got enough time to get to the first Charity Shop to see if they had any 45's, I get there and go to the box and literally the first three records were all by the Cowboy Church Sunday School, I brought all three not remembering the one I already had, getting home I checked and they were the three I did not have, the records are sung by adult women and then speeded up  Chipmunk style, to sound like children.

This promotional copy came from the Hook Road Arena Boot Sale one of the dealers put it to one side knowing it was the type of record I was interested in, at the time this record was released the Decca group for some reason issued their promotional records as two single sided records one with the "A" side the other with the "B" side, over the years they get split from each other and it's rare to find both records together. This scan is of my copy of the  record, I will assume the You Tube recording is also my recording, I have never posted on You Tube, proving which recordings originated from my blog is almost impossible unless it is from the short time I was using a water mark or it is a distinctive record label.

Cowboy Church Sunday School - Don't Send Those Kids To Sunday School (youtube.com)

Ran-Dells - Beyond The Stars

 

Beyond the Stars (youtube.com)

The third and final 45 from the Ran-Dells the space theme has been relegated to the "B" side on this December 1964 release, this was a USA only release.

Weekly Rant

 

I have just emptied the spam folder, I have noticed that 90% of the spam is for McAfee virus protection, I used McAfee once it came free with a new laptop I purchased, I had some problems with the laptop getting a virus, a quick trip to the local computer shop, and all the problems were solved they told me that they found over 3,000 items of malware and viruses on the laptop, McAfee said there were none, I was also told how the laptop had got infected, it was via an application that had been installed, that was deleted and I went back to using the original virus protection program that had always worked and vowing never to use McAfee again.

The engine in the picture is probably the most unusual locomotive to appear as a Ready To Run model an ex London & South Western Railway 0330 0-6-0ST, these were a standard design from Bayer Peacock, the LSWR had 20 of these and were all withdrawn from service by the mid 1930's, two of them saw further service, one on the East Kent Railway the other on the Kent & East Sussex Railway. The model was made as a limited edition by oo works in 2020 and was never offered in the maroon livery.

Ran-Dells - Sound Of The Sun

The second record from the Ran-Dells, this December 1964 record was only released in Australia & the USA.

 

18 The Ran-Dells - Sound Of The Sun (youtube.com)

Ran-Dells - Martian Hop

 

This was the first 45 I ever owned, Christmas 1963 we got a new record player, until then we only had an old electric 78 record player, we all got a 45 this was my choice, my younger sister's choice was Freddie & the Dreamers - You Were Made For Me, my elder sister had loads of records, there were also some EP's and LP's, my elder sister lent my copy of this record to someone and like many it was never seen again, I found a decent copy of this record at a Boot Sale some years ago. 

The Ran-Dells - Martian Hop (youtube.com)

A quiet week

 Thursdays fishing was cancelled due to high winds, there was a possibility that the next weather front with quiet winds could arrive early, but no we were not that lucky, but it saved having to get to Gosport for 06.00.

The Time is Now - Everybody's Children (1970)

I recall hearing this record on the radio, at the time I was working in Richmond, Surrey, I tried to purchase a copy of this record every time I went into the record shops and asked for the record, it was not in stock and they were waiting delivery, after six weeks I eventually gave up trying to get a copy, on my day off I would go into Kingston and got the same story in the record shops there, it was if they were making the record hard to get, many years later something reminded me of this record so I tried looking on eBay there I found a copy.

I left home in 1974, I could not carry all my records so they were left in my room, my younger sister helped herself to the pick of my record collection, she later sold them to fund her drug habit, if I had this record it would have been among the pilfered records, later my son started collecting 1970's records at the local Boot Sales, it was then I thought I could replace the missing records, it took some time but I managed to replace them all, the last missing record  was the Universal Soldier EP by Donovan when I found a copy I thought what about all the records I had wanted but could not afford at the time of issue, Boot Sales & eBay provided these over the next couple of years, it was when I started buying the obscure records, a number of them would appear on the blog.

The Time is Now - Everybody's Children (1970) - YouTube