Heath Hampstead - I Started A Joke

 

This 1968 release filled the gap left by not issuing the original Bee Gees version of this song, there is some mystery who Heath Hampstead was/is, one suggestion was that it was the Bee Gees themselves with a different brother on the vocals, this has been dismissed, the only information I gleaned from another site was the singers first name was Tony and he was a Hairdresser in Acton, the info came from one of his clients she was told his family name but had forgotten it, this was the second of 4 releases for Heath Hampstead.

 Heath Hampstead - I Started A Joke

Fishing Cancelled

 Fridays fishing trip was cancelled, the trip had been confirmed I spent the early afternoon making rigs for Spurdogs, it's easier to make them at home as  200lb nylon is not the easiest  to knots in with cold hands, some time ago I was prescribed a Statin substitute within a very short time of starting using it, I started to lose the use of my fingers and my hands would cramp up, I stopped taking the drug but the damage was done, every time I have a blood test they try to prescribe me Statins but I refuse, I got a call the fishing has been cancelled, the skipper to save time in the morning went to the fuel pontoon on his way back to the mooring a rope got tangled around one of the props, he eventually managed to find a diver who could investigate and remove the rope, on informing the marina they said before any work could commence they needed a full Health and Safety assessment, we are looking for an alternate date.

They held a Toy Fair at Bourne Hall Ewell on Saturday starting at 10.00 they had a slight problem as they could not gain access until 09.00, so when I arrived at the opening time there was little set up, it was not a very large Toy Fair with only 3 or 4 traders, they have held Toy Fairs there before but they were always in the evenings. for some reason they stopped well over 20 years ago.

Bee Gees - I Started A Joke

For some reason this song did not have a UK release as a single despite it reaching being a hit in a number of country's, I did acquire this track as a single, there was no country of origin shown on the single, it was later found out it was a German pressing.

The first time I heard this song was on a TV program ' Frankie Howard meets the Bee Gees', prior to this I had seen the Bee Gees LP Idea in a shop window and had decided that I wanted that LP for Christmas, at that time knowing little about the Bee Gees, just after Christmas I made my way into Kingston and brought the LP, getting it home and putting the LP on the record player there was no sound, the cartridge had failed, it was a week later after the record player had ben repaired that I finally got to play the LP.   

I Started A Joke

 

Victory Class 0-6-0T

 In a recent post I mentioned that I had started a 'Future Engine Fund' to help pay for the models of the Kerr Stewart 'Victory' class when they were produced, when the models were ready there was only about £80 in the fund, so I left it and paid for the engines,  in reality during the First Word War it was acknowledged that the 'Inland Docks &Waterways' needed some more powerful locomotives, that also had to work over the National Rail Network, ten were built and suppled the 'Inland Docks and Waterways' however the Government commandeered the locomotives some time after delivery to shunt military traffic in various ports, after the war ended the locomotives were sold off six went to collieries, the other four were brought by railway companies three to South Wales concerns and the fourth to the East Kent Railway, none of the class survived into preservation, a group was trying to acquire the last survivor of the class, the engine shed it was stored in collapsed and the engine was a write off.

Earlier in the month I brought some more records, about a hundred UK issue singles and EP's and a further fifty or so American issues, I will have to put the trains away and start downloading the records.

It has been a busy week as they decided to change out our smart electricity meter for a new one.

Jan & Kelly - I Could Have Died.

 

For some reason the 'A' side of their second single, Make ME A Doormat, is not on you tube but the 'B' side is.

Jan & Kelly : I Could Have Died

Jan And Kelly - Ooh! 'E Didn't

Released in 1963 the first offering from Jan & Kelly.

 Jan and Kelly - Ooh! 'e Didn't (1963)

Dawn Patrol - Ging Gang Goo!

 

I think I acquired this record as part of a Job Lot as 1989 is generally outside the era I collect, the foster child was a member of the Girl Guides for a time and went to one camp, she loved it and was looking forward to going again but left the Guides before the next camp, she was also a member of the local Church Choir, part of the requirement for the award she was aiming for required her to attend a residential choir course, she was dead against this, she was eventually persuaded to go on return she changed her mind and wanted to go again, she went to at least another five.

My elder sister was a member of the Guides and they organised a weekend camp at the local camping site where we lived in Hampton (The Beveree long gone and built on, it rained all weekend, she came back Sunday evening soaking wet, hating both the Guides and Camping, my younger sister was also in the Guides but being at Boarding School they never went camping. I was in the Scouts and don't remember any problems camping. Later someone I met through helping at a Children's Camp said "as an organisation the Guides were responsible for putting more girls/women off camping than all the other organisations put together".

Dawn Patrol - Ging Gang Goo!