Beatles VI - my favourite all time beatles album

Beatles VI

This is my favourite Beatles album of all time and I am so pleased it is being issued on CD next week in ‘The Capitol albums Vol: 2’.

It was issued in June 1965 in North America and other territories outside of the UK.
It features the US Number 1 hit single ‘Eight Day’s A Week’ coupled with it’s ‘b’ side ‘I Don’t Want To Spoil The Party’.

It has two tracks especially recorded for this album in England by Larry Williams ‘Dizzy Miss Lizzie’ and ‘Bad Boy’.

This also is the home of the excellent Lennon and McCartney composition ‘Yes It Is’ which was not issued on a studio album in the UK.

A notable cover version on this album is the Buddy Holly number ‘Words Of Love’.
The Catalogue number is Capitol ST2358 and was also issued on Eight Track (8xt 2358) and Cassette (4xt 2358).

My copy is the Canadian capitol ‘rainbow rim’ from the early 1980’s.

The Luckiest Girl In The School & The Girls of St. Cyprian's

Hello there. It's me again and today I'm going to talk about something that's a part of being my age regressed self and a part of my actual childhood, reading and the girls stories we had at school.

Stories about the fictional lives of school children were very much what we read of not least for being having the kind of situations in them that although they are about girls and although these were set in the early Twentieth century, there was less difference between our lives and theirs as perhaps is the case today.

The Girls of St, Cyprians story is centred around a local inter school annual competition called the "Alliance" and is about Mildred Lancaster an orphaned Fifth former who has an inherited talent for the violin but is disappointed to find  she isn't chosen to represent the school in the Music section of the competition due to her day dreaming.

In order to fulfill her dreams for her future she needs to make a decision and to learn a lesson

The luck the Luckiest Girl in the School refers to is the luck one Winona has following feeling out of her depth, getting low marks with her teachers accusing of her of laziness. 

This would be odd as the mysteries of Geometry and Latin keep her glued to her books well into the night.

She realizes the dreadful truth-that she's an impostor in the School-and her days at Seaton High School, won on a scholarship are over. She becomes indeed the Luckiest Girl in the School.

These copies are my original Armada paperback editions from Nineteen Sixty-nine so there is a little wear as you'd expect being read as a child and surviving the big wooden toy box when we moved.

Remake remodel

This week I received an invite to blog on the social media site Friends Reunited which I joined late last year but to be honest compared to this, it isn't as good when it comes putting images up or the choice of fonts so I may just duo post for a bit.

This week I've been giving a bit of thought to appearances as a adut little gurl as really I've been a bit neglectful of late looking at that beyond the whole schoolgurl thing and this is something that would work.

A motif t shirt, baseball hat, back short mini skirt with a pocket, it's more "for girls" but can be worn in way that works for sissies like me. 

I like music, always loved ac/dc so a band t shirt. a summery mini skirt with ankle sock look would be just fine.

A little more sophisticated  in some ways this camel based look with baseball jacket, top, cargo mini skirt with pockets would work with either ankle socks or tights.

Space 1999

The weekend back in the mid to late 1970's was a different thing from what it is today not least with most shops being shut on Sunday's and football normally only on Saturday or Sunday.

One show I loved to watch with my younger brother was Space 1999, a Sci-Fi adventure series which was set on Moonbase Alpha and starred Martin Landau and Barbara Bain.
It was the last of Sylvia and Gerry Anderson's productions from the legendary stable that included Fireball XL5 and Thunderbirds but this human cast one went out on a bang to great acclaim.

As with anything big and in Britain, there was the annual with pictures, quizzes and new fiction stories that came out for Christmas and ended in most boys and girls presents sacks.

Of the many tie products this model of the Eagle with the cargo pod was really good and are highly collectible today.

You could get figurines to collect too such as Commander Koening.

Many of us did, playing out our own adventures with "the cast" with friends having fun.

The show remains a strong memory with me.

Birthday edition

It was recently my birthday so apart from having a number of cards I had some money to put toward the upcoming 1965 Beatles Capitol Albums box set as ever since I was a teen, they've been my favourite group and this set has the albums I had back then that I can get from the local HMV branch and for some more blank minidiscs for my recorder.

I bought my last one, a Sharp MDT 270H two years ago from Richer Sounds here in Stoke on Trent because it was a portable recorder that did MDLP (MiniDisc Long Play) which a few of my discs were recorded with on my second home deck I bought in July of 1999 and unlike a Sony HiMD portable I have, this at least has manual record level settings for both digital and analogue line level sources.

Birthdays with me are more like children's birthdays with little really adult in them with the same sorts of presents I had back then but could this return...

Long term issues from my boyhood

I can remember it well, in fact typing this is sending shivers down my spine but this kind of scene was not uncommon  when I was growing up in the 1970's .

It happened in North Wales in August 1978 while on my hols with family the day after the repeat screening of All You Need Is Cash a mockumentary by The Rutles, a kind of parody of the career of The Beatles.

We'd gone one evening with Daddy and Mummy, to a local park that included swings of the sort of construction these had, chains on aa plastic seat without any back.

Somehow I came off mid air and hit the asphalt and had to be taken back to where we stayed drifting in and out of consciousness for the best of ten hours, having to kept an eye on rota, mainly with Mummy.

When I did come out of it I was all in a daze and the first signs of what was to become apparent started to show being very much out of things and not remembering every day routines.

In time it was obvious to all I had been brain damaged by this accident and I have to say with no ill feeling, really I should been sent to paediatric section of the local hospital but perhaps there was more concern about how that would of ended my brothers own hols so they didn't.