Golly***s - Teddy Bears Picnic

 

The 'B' side of 'Parade Of The Jelly Babies', both sides were played quite often on the BBC's Light Programs Children's Favourites hosted by Uncle Mac.

  

The Gollywogs - The Teddy Bears Picnic

Boot Sale Oddities

 

At each Boot Sale there are often odd/strange items, I thought that at the last Boot Sale there were no strange/unusual items, the rules of the Boot Sales say you can not sell animals, firearms, food & drink, there are always some small amounts of food & drink on some stalls, there are some food vendors there these are arranged by the event organisers, however as I was going past one stall there were some tins glancing at the label, it said Mackerel and Potatoes, I thought that is a strange combination and I had never seen the tins on sale, I should have brought one or examined/photographed the tin. I can find no reference for tinned Mackerel & Potatoes so have no information on where or when they were produced.

The Fut - Have You Heard The Word

A 1969 release, the Fut were  Maurice Gibb, Steve Groves, Steve Kipner and Billy Lawrie (the brother of singer Lulu and Gibb's brother-in-law), Steve Groves and Steve Kipner were members of the group Tin Tin.

One of the cars I go past every day as I take Biscuit for her walk has Fut as part of its number plate, I always think of this record when I see that car. 

The Fut - Have You Heard The Word (1970)

First Bank Holiday Boot Sale Of The Year

 

I left home just after 07.00 getting to the Boot Sale at about 07.15, it is literally at the end of the road I live in, looking through the fence I could see it was not a very large Boot Sale, a bit disappointing, there had been a light rain shower just before I left for the Boot Sale, this may have put some people off, there were about 7 rows of cars about 4 or 5 had some records, but they were all out of my timeframe or were chart records, there was talk as one person had sold all the 45's he had for £40 to the first person who saw them, the dealers knew who he was and were trying to find him to try and buy buy some of the records from him, I spent very little there was one person selling some fishing equipment from him I brought 2 battery lamps and head lamp, another stall I got a beach fishing rod for £2 another stall I found a suitable reel for £3, another stall a bulk pack of 500 assorted size hooks for £3, in all I spent £20 probably the least I have spent at a Boot Sale in a long time, next Sunday I have a fishing trip booked from Brighton Marina, I will have to get up early as my son is away and I will have to walk Biscuit before I leave for fishing, the week after will be the May Bank Holiday and another Boot Sale.

Golly***s - Parade Of The Jelly Babies

Releases in 1960, the group name has fallen foul pf the politicly correct brigade, this record though not a hit remained in the catalogue for some time and turns up on both the red Parlophone label and the later black Parlorhone label, when I first posted this record I had a number of comments saying they thought it was/would be an early Creedence Clearwater Revival record, as pre 1968 the used the name Gollixxxs, spelling the name with of a 'i' instead of 'Y'.

 The Gollywogs - Parade of the Jelly Babies

Boot Sale Memories Joy & Jennifer

 

This record was in a large batch of obscure records I brought, I always posted an EP on Sundays and this was an ideal entry, I normally chose four track EPs as these were quicker to remaster, it depended on the condition of the record, lucky the record was in good condition and needed minimal cleaning/restoration, a few weeks after posting I had an email from a carer at an Old Peoples Home saying that Jennifer was one of the residents of the home, she mentioned that she had made a record, but did not have a copy of it, this seems to be a common occurrence, I have posted records and had emails saying that x was one of their relations and he does not have copies of his records and demand that I send them my copy, in this case I was asked for a cassette tape of the EP, unfortunately I could produce CD's but not cassette tapes, not too long after in a batch of records my dealer offered me, as I was going through them taking out the ones I already had copies of, there was another copy of this record I brought the copy, the next day I contacted the carer and said I have a copy of the Joy & Jennifer record  and I will send it to her, she said send it to me as she may get concerned getting things from unknown men, I said I can do a CD of the tracks she said yes to that, she also asked is that the record of Joy & Jennifer on their own or the one with a man, I said it's on their own, the comment intrigued me was the EP issued as one side of a LP with a male artist of the other side, I could find nothing, but a later search turned up an LP on the Sounds News Studio lable, this also gave their full names Joy Hyman & Jennifer Rice.

Mandy Rice Davis - Introducing Mandy

Last weeks post was a take off of Christine Keller and her role in the Profumo Affair.

  Mandy  Rice-Davies was not involved in the Profumo  Affair,  Mandy Rice-Davies and Christine Keller were shortly after the Profumo Affair were involved in the Court Case of Stephen Ward who was on trail for living off of Immoral Earnings. 

I managed to find a coverless copy of this record at the Hook Road Arena Boot Sale, It was not in the best of condition, I was able to get a good recording of the record using an early version of the Magix record cleaning program.

Mandy Rice-Davies : A Good Man Is Hard To Find