Sminky shorts
I need to find some 50p coins for the electricity meter in my flat. Otherwise everything will be in darkness tonight.
July 1998
Haha, brilliant. I remember my first mobile came "free" from the AA. No idea what model it was, but looked like if a brick and a wasp had a baby together.
The Old Fella had one that exact colour, he drove it for years and sold it to a neighbour who drove it until it stopped many years later.
Top of the Pops albums, Songs from the Top 20 but done by a cover band, released by KTel or someone like that.
Buying a new car in Nov/Dec and driving it without plates til January to register it. Wide spread until new reg system started in ‘86.
Plates said
FOR REG
on Pickwick Hallmark Records, sold in Woolworths.
Plates saidFOR REG
Usually made with cardboard, string and crayon.
Least it was reliable 🙂
And here’s a Datsun! They were notorious for rust as they aged!
He had a Datsun/Nissan Bluebird as well, after the Carina I think, a silver grey colour that lasted a good few years. Probably an early/mid 90’s one.
Released by Hallmark Records. Their main rival was Hot Hits released by Music For Pleasure. Both had very attractive ladies on the sleeves. Top Of The Pops kept going until 1985 but the later volumes sold poorly and are very rare now.
From the late 1970s, K-Tel and Ronco put out a lot of compilations of original artists but crammed 10 tracks per side so a number would be edited. It wasn't until December 1982 that they decided to include full single versions - Ronco's Raiders Of The Pop Charts was the first. But 11 months later (November 1983), the first Now That's What I Call Music album was released and totally changed the compilation landscape.
I remember the first NTWICM album, I never thought it would sell as too many different types of music on it. Shows what I know.
They're perfect snapshots of the last three or four months of the charts (subject to licensing). Great time capsules. That first one plays like a Best of 1983. Now 3 is my favourite followed by Now 2 and then Now 11.
Up the villa.
The Top of The Pops cover albums were produced by music publisher Alan Crawford. He was an Australian born businessman who launched the offshore pirate radio station Radio Atlanta in 1964 from the MV Mi Amigo which had been fitted out in Greenore harbour, Dundalk, at the same time that Ronan O'Rahilly was fitting out the MV Fredericia to be Radio Caroline. After a few weeks of broadcasting Crawford sold out to O'Rahilly and The Mi Amigo stayed off the english south east coast as Radio Caroline South, while the Fredericia sailed to the Isle of Man as Radio Caroline North.
Crawford returned to music publishing and production and realised that the BBC had not trademarked the 'Top of The Pops' name. He then used it for his knock off albums, employing session singers to cover the hits and so cutting the costs of royalty payments.
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One time Gay Byrne made a joke about a dick spring being a sex aid. Went down like a lead balloon. I think it was on the Rose of Tralee rather than the Late Late Show. Tralee was his home patch ffs.
Gaybo would never say that - unless he had a condom and a banana at the time.
Texan bar.
If you went to a CBS school in the 70/s80s …
AltaVista
Myspace
Filofax laserdisc whole earth catalog
Panky Wafer Bars
Telex
Flashbacks to primary school and "The Brothers"
Telex the biscuit bar
Smooth on the outside
Crunchy biscuit inside
Telex from Jacobs
Get the message? Yeahhhh…
There was a vote to return Choco Krispies back to their original name of Coco Pops! Most important vote in my lifetime anyway!
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Seen every morning outside farms or at the top of boreens…
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