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  • BBMmk2
    Late Member
    • Nov 2010
    • 20908

    They played Gordon Langford's Rhapsody on Sea Shanties a couple of days ago for brass band. Very nice!
    Don’t cry for me
    I go where music was born

    J S Bach 1685-1750

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    • antongould
      Full Member
      • Nov 2010
      • 8782

      Originally posted by Brassbandmaestro View Post
      They played Gordon Langford's Rhapsody on Sea Shanties a couple of days ago for brass band. Very nice!
      One of your requests bbm ...... ?????

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      • Eine Alpensinfonie
        Host
        • Nov 2010
        • 20570

        Originally posted by antongould View Post
        The Squire played George Formby this morning and the lad from Wigan won ........
        Ye gods! So they did! Breakfast presenters desperate to be liked? Probably not, with the second worst singer of the 20th century along with the weakest string instrument. It's replaced the recorder in many schools, not because it sounds better, but because its feeble noise can be less damaging when played badly. Unfortunately, it isn't much better when it's played well.

        Glad I got that of my chest!


        If the Radio 2.4 (it's going down gradually) team want to play an interesting stringed instrument, why don't we hear more of this?


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        • antongould
          Full Member
          • Nov 2010
          • 8782

          Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View Post
          Ye gods! So they did! Breakfast presenters desperate to be liked? Probably not, with the second worst singer of the 20th century along with the weakest string instrument. It's replaced the recorder in many schools, not because it sounds better, but because its feeble noise can be less damaging when played badly. Unfortunately, it isn't much better when it's played well.

          Glad I got that of my chest!


          If the Radio 2.4 (it's going down gradually) team want to play an interesting stringed instrument, why don't we hear more of this?


          The day before, if I heard correctly, he was prattling on about GF being the Queen's favourite "turn" but they would of course never play him on R3 ........
          Last edited by antongould; 25-04-18, 07:21.

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          • cloughie
            Full Member
            • Dec 2011
            • 22119

            Originally posted by Stanfordian View Post
            Why not take up the ukulele? Oh, you already have! Well what about cleaning windows then!

            Formby's house Beryldene with its blue plaque is just a couple of miles from where I am sitting now. Ooh, mother!
            Has it got a wash house out the back?

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            • cloughie
              Full Member
              • Dec 2011
              • 22119

              Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View Post
              Ye gods! So they did! Breakfast presenters desperate to be liked? Probably not, with the second worst singer of the 20th century along with the weakest string instrument. It's replaced the recorder in many schools, not because it sounds better, but because its feeble noise can be less damaging when played badly. Unfortunately, it isn't much better when it's played well.

              Glad I got that of my chest!


              If the Radio 2.4 (it's going down gradually) team want to play an interesting stringed instrument, why don't we hear more of this?


              GF wanted to play that but his arms weren't long enough! But EA whose was the worst C20th voice?

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              • Stanfordian
                Full Member
                • Dec 2010
                • 9310

                Originally posted by cloughie View Post
                Has it got a wash house out the back?
                Didn't you know that Formby didn't live in a back to back terrace. Maybe it's just your vision of a northern stereotype from Formby's heyday or getting his film character mixed up with the real person. I can assure you that 'Beryldene' is dead posh with no outside bog! Overlooking the sea too!

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                • cloughie
                  Full Member
                  • Dec 2011
                  • 22119

                  Originally posted by Stanfordian View Post
                  Didn't you know that Formby didn't live in a back to back terrace. Beryldene is dead posh!
                  Bet he had a window cleaner then!

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                  • vinteuil
                    Full Member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 12815

                    Originally posted by Stanfordian View Post
                    Didn't you know that Formby didn't live in a back to back terrace. Maybe it's just your vison of a Lancashire stereotype from Formby's heyday. 'Beryldene' is dead posh with no outside bog!

                    .

                    The death of George Formby's wife freed him from a loveless marriage, but new-found bliss was brief, writes Roger Wilkes



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                    • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                      Gone fishin'
                      • Sep 2011
                      • 30163

                      Originally posted by cloughie View Post
                      Bet he had a window cleaner then!
                      Yes - Honest Bob, wasn't it?
                      [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                      • teamsaint
                        Full Member
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 25209

                        Georgia Mann has popped up on Ao3.

                        The trail she did today with KD for In Tune was just awful.

                        I was going to say childish, but that would be unfair on children.

                        I turned off.
                        I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.

                        I am not a number, I am a free man.

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                        • BBMmk2
                          Late Member
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 20908

                          Originally posted by antongould View Post
                          One of your requests bbm ...... ?????
                          No, just played as part of the programme!
                          Don’t cry for me
                          I go where music was born

                          J S Bach 1685-1750

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                          • Stanfordian
                            Full Member
                            • Dec 2010
                            • 9310

                            Originally posted by cloughie View Post
                            Bet he had a window cleaner then!
                            What! A needing a window cleaner with all that rain blowing in off the Irish Sea! Evidently George was extremely careful with money so he might have liked to clean them himself. My father might have even seen him up that ladder chamois leather in hand!
                            Last edited by Stanfordian; 26-04-18, 14:13.

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                            • Old Grumpy
                              Full Member
                              • Jan 2011
                              • 3611

                              Originally posted by Stanfordian View Post
                              What! A needing a window cleaner with all that rain blowing in off the Irish Sea! Evidently George was extremely careful with money so he might have liked to clean them himself. My father might have even seen him up that ladder chamois leather in hand!
                              Never mind the winders, twas his grandad's flannelette nightshirt 'e was singin' about on this occasion...

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                              • antongould
                                Full Member
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 8782

                                More banjo music this morning ..... hope E_A heard it .......

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