Mister Murray - Down Came The Rain

 

Released 1965, the first of two records by Mister Murray, this record was much played on Children's Favourites later Junior Choice, when I first heard this record I thought it was Harry H Corbett singing it, I have this on Hello Children Everywhere Vol 4 both on vinyl and on CD,

Down Came The Rain (Mister Murray)

Spam & One Drive

 

As my e-mail connected to this site is in the Public Domain I get a lot of Spam mail, I generally get more on my AOL account, I only keep that account going as one organisation I am a member of has never updated my e-mail to the one I replaced the AOL one with, I delete the spam mail first thing in the morning, one thing I notice is that many claim to be from McAfee, judging by the number of e-mails I get I must have almost 2,000 McAfee accounts, many years ago I brought a new Laptop, it came with McAfee Virus protection and you could load it onto all your computers, well the laptop got a virus, I ran the McAfee and it came back as no viruses found, I took it into the local computer shop, they found over 2,000 viruses and other malware, even they commented that the McAfee found none, I know which site the problems came from it was Zippy Share I did not like using the site but sometimes it was the only place I could get something I wanted, it's no longer available it closed down in March 2023 though I seemed to blocked to the UK some time before, I removed McAfee from all my PC's and installed a virus protector that worked.  

My other pet hate is One Drive, one of the first things I do with a new PC is delete One Drive, this time I did not delete it until the next day and defiantly did not use One Drive, the next day there were spam emails your One Drive is almost full if you do not pay £xx to increase the One Drive memory you will lose all you're pictures, I also check after every upgrade to see if One Drive has been reinstalled and if it has I delete it again.

New Laptop

 On Wednesday I finally gave up with my Dell laptop, there was some corruption of the Windows 10 and several of the programs I use were also affected, I reloaded Windows and the affected programs, within 24 hours the programs were playing up again, it also stopped charging the battery, I got out my standby PC a HP I brought when I started the blog in 2010, I had it upgraded a couple of years ago with a SSD drive and Windows 10 installed. I have had 2 Dell PC's and a number of HP machines, I have had more problems with the 2 Dells than all the HP machines put together, the new PC is a Asus I had a 2TB SSD drive installed, one of the things I hate about Windows is the One Drive feature I always delete it.

A recent visit to Epsom I found some of the Charity Shops had some 45's here are a few.

The First Christmas, A HMV Junior record club EP, in 1962 we got our first modern record player, there were a number of records that were brought with it, this was one of them our copy was on red vinyl this one is on black, my youngest sister played this record all the time and the original copy was worn out, I was going to put this and the other records she played constantly on a CD ang give copies to her children with instructions to play the records all the time to annoy her like she annoyed us, this record eluded me until last week, one of the other records was Cinderella, the carols used on this record a taken from a series of 4 EP's, I will have to track down a set.

Released 1990 to raise funds for a Swimming Pool.

This is on you tube 

The Children Of Frank Wise School with Dave Pegg & Ric Sanders : We Wish You All A Merry Christmas

Some more Christmas Carols.

A Juke Box only record from the USA, I do not recall Juke Box only records in the UK.

I am always intrigued by Leon Rossington records, the silver colour is a trick of the light.

Sheila Handcock - Landlord & Tennant

The 'B' side of My Last Cigarette, one of the tracks from the 'Putting Out The Dustbin'  LP.

 Sheila Hancock - Landlord and Tenant

Sheila Hancock - My Last Cigarette

 

Records are a bit like buses you wait ages for a one to turn up then two come almost together, I found a decent copy of this 1963 record at the last Bank Holiday Boot Sale and a couple of weeks later my record dealer offered me a second copy, judging by the number of label variations this record may have been in the Decca catalogue for some time, Sheila Hancock recorded a hard hitting satirical/political LP 'Putting Out The Dustbin' when they finished the LP there was some studio time left over, this record was knocked up during the left over studio time, the LP was ignored and all the talk was about this record, it was a regular on children's favourites. 1963 was still in the era when lots of people smoked and often you were a social pariah if you didn't smoke.

Sheila Hancock : My Last Cigarette

Fishing Gosport Sunday 27th July

 Last Sunday (27th July) I had a fishing trip booked from Gosport (and the reason I posted late Saturday Night), it was booked as a Bass & Turbot trip, we drifted for Bass first thing, I had the first Bass of the day but unfortunately it was undersize so it went back, I must have a knack for catching undersize Bass as all the ones I caught were undersize, later we went for Turbot, no Turbot were forthcoming, on one drift my rod tip went over on bringing up the fish it was a Blond Ray, the person fishing next to me also caught a Blond Ray on the same drift, for most it was Conger Eels, Pouting and some decent Black Bream. I ended up skinning both ray as the other person who caught one it was his first ray and did not know how to skin them. Skate is one of my wife's favourite fish, so she won't moan about be going fishing for the next couple of trips.

Dawn Silver - Mommy I Like To Be

Released 1966, this copy was issued in Rhodesia now Zimbabwe, the reason I brought this record is it's a Tri-Centre, Decca had discontinued Tri-Centres in the UK by 1960, in South Africa & Rhodesia Decca was the predominant record manufacturer and produced Tri-Centres until the late 1960's, Decca also produced records under licence for other record companies such as EMI, Pye, Philips etc all as Tri-Centres.

 Dawn Silver (Lindberg) - Mommy I Like To Be....