Hi all
just listening to a Limited Edition CD (erm made up by ahem me and quite possibly THE Greatest TV themes etc ever)
1. White Horses - the best by far........
2. Top Cat - ok TC, Benny, Benny, Benny.........
3. Jim'll Fix It
4. Black Beauty - a close 2nd......
5. Lone Ranger
6. The Young Ones
7. Hair Bear Bunch - help, help here come the bears......
8. Rentaghost
9. Brush Strokes - "Because Of You" - Dexys Midnight Runners....
10. Champion The Wonder Horse
11. Morecambe and Wise - Bring Me Sunshine
12. Fawlty Towers - let me explain - this Basil
13. The Wombles
14. Trumpton
15. Supergran - sung by the Big Yin - Billy Connolly.......
16. Theme from Arthur - Christopher Cross - "The Best That You Can Do"
17. Do You Love Me - Dirty Dancing - those of you who missed Mr_W shaking his groove thang to this one onboard HMS FEARLESS (L10) Channel Night Dec 1999 - 4F1 Mess - at sea somewhere in the Bay Of Biscay - you missed a treat......
18. Bare Necessities and I Wanna Be Like You - Jungle Book
19. Clangers
20. Drink Feck etc - Father Ted
21. Generation Game - Brucie singing!!!
22. Theme from Love Story
23. Welcome Back Kotter - the great John Sebastian singing from the Lovin' Spoonful - great show
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welcome_Back,_Kotter
24. Keith Harris and Orville - oh dear
25. Doddys Diddy Party - double oh dear
26. Christmas is All Around - from Love Actually
27. Coke Commercial 1970 - Melanie Safka - still superb after all these years.......
www.melaniesmusic.com/ 28. 2001 - A Space Odyssey
29. Pipkins (Pigs always hungry - in comedy Brummie accent)
30. Rock Follies Theme - everybody wants to sing in the Rock Follies....
31. Pink Panther
32. Follyfoot - Settlers - Lightning Tree.........
33. It Aint Half Hot Mum - lovely boy, Gunner La De Da Graham........
34. Its A Knockout - oh, and the Belgians have fallen over - Halifax Brewery Dipstick....
35. The 6 Million Dollar Man
36. Tiswas
37. Catweazle (whose familiar was a toad called Touchwood as any fule kno)
......heres' to long hot summers, school holidays, Lord Toffingham lolly-lces and White Horses on telly.........
......mines a Watneys Starlight Tops, or possibly a Top Deck Cider Shandy......
.........copies of this CD being despatched tonight to home addys of my learned friends Dave Roach (the Boss on here) and also the Duke of Double Diamond, master of the 59 min drum solo, quadruple gatefold sleeve-admiring, dungeon and dragon-dodging, wizard worrying, misty mountain hop marauding, treble-neck guitar fiddling, exploding purple loon pants swinging and big bad boss man of bongo-bothering himself the Lord of Prog, THE Progmeister Lord Phil_Chelstongull of The_Haywain (Keeper of the Patchouli Flame)..........
- like erm anyone else for starting a "Reopen Flox Records Campaign Group"?
rgds all
as they say, rock n roll (like footy) never forgets............
Chris Donovan
Gosport
Hampshire
I thought of you when I drove a judge into work the other morning and he was telling me all about the Tull concert he had been to at The Union Chapel in Islington, just a five minute walk from his milion plus pound home!
