I feel its time for another walk but am too unwell at the moment for the real thing. So I thought one or two of you may enjoy a Saturday morning walk in the early fifties down memory lane.
So switch the Radio on...that's the one that does not have a screen..wait for it to warm up and then retune it from Radio Luxemburg (That's Keynsham K E Y N S H A M Bristol, Horace Bachelor) to the BBC Light Program.
The first tune that comes to my mind is probably a Freudian slip. Tick tock tick tock and the clock stopped never to go again when the old man died, quickly followed by the Old Windmill of Amsterdam..theres a mouse where..there on the stair, where on the stair just there..how could you not sing a long to it. Now onto the tear jerker..danny Kay and the ugly duckling,,all the winter long he hid away until he had changed into a beautiful swan...we then quickly gallop off with a silly old ram who's doing his best to knock a hole in a dam,,why was that? talking of galloping we cannot have a program without dear Doris Day can we..The Black hills of Dakota and calamity Jane,,what a pure voice...and again if we are galloping, have a look around the wagon..are there only three wheels and the Cherokees are after me.... remember those days friends..when you could go over the woods or fields to play and the only worry was getting home in time for tea...and if there was a problem then there was always the Laughing Policeman....and I vaguely have a recollection of Two Knights..I think Terry Wogan mad a thing of it years ago perhaps one of you TOGS can remember it....and what about Charlie Drake and his boomerang...did it ever come back,,,I made one as a kid from a diagram in a book and it broke my wrist when I tried to catch it!!
The only risqué song I can recall was She wore Red Feathers and a hooly hooly skirt
Finally could you ever have a program without the runaway train..the last I heard it is going still..
They were days that seemed so much more innocent than now..
So I hope I have brought some good memories back for one or two of you..I seem to enjoy looking backwards more and more now..perhaps because there is not a lot of forwards left I don't know..but focus on god times..innocent times of sunshine and long school holidays without all the worries and anxieties of the adult world we grew up into.
Tread Softly friends.
Stefon
