Tuesday at the Black Country Living Museum was lovely. We again concentrated on the 'new' 1960's town, this time Stantons music shop. Oh golly, I remember these LP's well. I watched South Pacific, and The King and I, with my mum and younger brother at the cinema in Dudley Town. Dad would pay for us to go to the pictures on a Saturday afternoon so that he could have fish and chips and a quiet nap after his morning's work in the metal & plate fabrication industry !
I was mesmerised by the colour, the music and the storylines and would have loved to own the LP's. No such luck. Anyone remember Howard Keele? He had such a lovely, deep, rich voice.......
Once I started work at the age of 16, I would visit Stantons in Dudley after my monthly payday to mooch through the records. Sometimes I could actually buy a single. Perhaps a Cliff Richard or a Motown single......
I think I bought my school recorder from their instrument section, but I'm possibly mis-remembering that bit....
What I do remember is asking to listen to a track in the booth before purchasing. If I felt bold enough, I would ask to listen to two records before choosing 😂 I also remember that there were glass doors on the booths, not like these open ones here....
Lunch was again eaten sitting in the fresh air. Tinned salmon and homegrown cucumber on sourdough bread for me, white bread for Gray. All washed down with Holden's Golden Glow ale from the Elephant and Castle pub 😋 My glass looks like a pint but I promise it was only a half pint 😎 (£7.50 for a pint and a half)
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On Wednesday afternoon:
We had the Wednesday Club in the next village. This time we enjoyed Sue Stevens on guitar, playing contemporary and folk music. She was really entertaining.
The cost? £4 each including a coffee and biscuit.
For the rest of the week I think we will be staying put. It will be getting hotter once more and we will need to concentrate on watering the allotment and garden. We do have some rainwater in the butts at the moment which we will ration out on the hydrangeas and acers, otherwise it will be recycled water from the kitchen and the run off from the shower. The allotment has a dip tank.
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Thanks for popping in. Stay safe and well wherever you happen to be,
Angie 💗
It's scary when our childhood and teenage years are considered for museum pieces.
ReplyDeleteIsn't it just :0/
DeleteThe only records I used to buy as a teenager were ex-juke box singles from a stall on the market, you had to buy some plastic centres to pop into the hole in the middle! This of course always meant that I was a couple of months out of date with my record collection. So I recorded the top twenty off the radio every Sunday on my Dad's reel-to-reel tape recorder to make up for it. My only album was Jesus Christ Superstar, which my Dad bought me when we got our first record player.
ReplyDeleteThose were the days! I do remember the plastic thingies to pop into the big holes in juke box records. I had forgotten until you mentioned it! I never owned a tape recorder but did listen to the top twenty on the radio regularly :)
DeleteListening to The top twenty on Sundays, and writing everything down was a must - so we could talk about on Monday at school.
ReplyDeleteWhen I had money - at age 16,I used to buy those albums that sounded like the real thing but weren't - can't remember what they were called now. Other than that it was singles- and they were under £1 each
Oh yes...the cover versions of top albums were cheaper, weren't they. I was in seventh heaven when I went to visit my older cousin every now and again because she actually had a really lovely record player and lots of the top singles to dance to :)
DeleteI enjoy listening to Howard Keel on YouTube
ReplyDeleteI remember Howard Keele, didn't he end up in Dallas. I was lucky and had my own record player, the first single I bought was Little Donkey by Nina and Frederick. We have no room for a water butt, but I'm throwing saved up water on the pots and raised bed. In Derbyshire we might be getting a hosepipe ban from Friday. Xx
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