When the kids were about ten and five. We would have a get together for a birthday or Christmas Day. We would all watch the kids rip open their presents wrapping paper and terrorize their grandparents crashing a remote control car or truck into their feet. Then we would eat and my dad would always insist we helped him drink his bottle of Grouse whisky that we always bought him.
Some time later I would put one of my Pogues CDs and play some tracks that we all loved. My mum in particular use to pretend to pull her face when the lyrics contained some expletives or more. This would give much merriment to the kids and certain tracks would be played over and over again.
Then in 2012 it came to an end and my mum and dad went to live with baby Jesus and I stopped playing those tracks. Then the other day I was writing a blog about Whiskies and the mental jukebox started playing. So much so that I played them all again on good old You Tube.
Here's one of the family favourite tunes that we use to singalong and tap our feet to:
Have you got an old tune you haven't played for a while? Go on put it on the turntable and give it a spin. I find it very cathartic!
Some time later I would put one of my Pogues CDs and play some tracks that we all loved. My mum in particular use to pretend to pull her face when the lyrics contained some expletives or more. This would give much merriment to the kids and certain tracks would be played over and over again.
Then in 2012 it came to an end and my mum and dad went to live with baby Jesus and I stopped playing those tracks. Then the other day I was writing a blog about Whiskies and the mental jukebox started playing. So much so that I played them all again on good old You Tube.
Here's one of the family favourite tunes that we use to singalong and tap our feet to:
Have you got an old tune you haven't played for a while? Go on put it on the turntable and give it a spin. I find it very cathartic!
I wish I could. Well, I could but I wouldn't be abe to hear it very well, even with my hearing aids in! Enjoy!!
ReplyDeleteThanks Jaycee. Nearest and dearest tell me l need an hearing aid. I guess it's all part of the ageing processing and all those Rock concerts and listening to records at number 10. Not Downing Street, the volume control on the record player. My mum use to Bang on the ceiling with her sweeping brush and scream:
ReplyDelete"Turn it down. It's like a bloody fairground!"
Happy days. Thanks Jaycee for comment. Hope Elfie is behaving?
Well, he's back home again today!
DeleteSo I see. He will be singing Jamming by Bob Marley. Pop over to Jaycee's blog to see the naughty elf, readers!
DeleteI never play music because I haven't got anything to play it on! I listen to the radio for some and if I am in the mood I will listen to stuff on You Tube. Thanks Dave for sharing your memories.
ReplyDeleteHi Rachel. A lot of our favourite bands are touring again because they can no longer rely on records, CDS.., sales. Which is great for punters who love live music. I am hoping to see Clannad and Steve Hackett next year. Who knows Styx and Kansas may come to West Cork? We live in hope. Its amazing how records, whisky, music.., bring back the memories. Thanks for commenting!
ReplyDeleteYou Tube does allow us the ability to resurrect old songs and remember past times. I always associate "Come Up And See Me" by Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel with my university days up in Scotland and I played it just the other day. It made me smile like the song says.
ReplyDeleteHi Yorkshire Pudding. Great track. I listen to bands like Blondie from forty years ago and they still blows the socks off anything today. Thanks for your comment. Much appreciated.
ReplyDeleteHello Dave. Music is a fine way to turn your mind around. I must find mine on You Tube these days, but that's OK. A good Makem and Clancey concert session, that's the best.
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ReplyDeleteI love music and wish I still had a record player. I don't even have a tape recorder now but thank goodness I do still have a radio.
ReplyDeleteHi Valerie. You can get any radio station via the internet and You Tube is there too. I find song from years and years ago. They have even started selling vinyl records again. The only CDs we buy are for when we go somewhere in the car. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteIn my late teens I made a male friend, not a boyfriend, with whom I was friends for the rest of his life. A superb pianist, he loved to play The Entertainer. He would start off correctly, then deliberately make mistake after mistake, consistently (and very difficult) so by the end you could barely make out the tune, and people would be crying with laughter.
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately, he followed the bottle and died way too young. I can't hear The Entertainer without thinking of him - a friend I loved, without being in love with.
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ReplyDeleteI like the Pogues‘ and the Boys of the NYPD and Christmas in New York. One time someone took me to see a Christmas Tree on Rockefeller Plaza (I think it was called). Christmas is a time for looking back and looking forward. And hoping for some love and peace in the world.
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