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Post by ARENA on Jun 26, 2013 15:50:00 GMT
What price Don Lang? ;D
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Post by scorp on Jun 26, 2013 17:07:18 GMT
He wouldn't be in mint condition, if you dug him up...
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tina
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Post by tina on Jun 27, 2013 9:26:50 GMT
Wasn't he on 6-5 special?
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Post by scorp on Jun 28, 2013 18:30:53 GMT
Certainly was - he sang the sig tune - 'Over the points, Over the points...' If you remember 'The Creep', which was very popular at one time, Don co-wrote that with Ken Mackintosh.
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Post by goldielox on Jun 29, 2013 10:41:56 GMT
And I believe a modest ,young Scorps played in his band!
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Post by scorp on Jun 30, 2013 15:17:38 GMT
Yes - I worked for Don for several years - initially at the Empire Leicester Square, and then we opened the Cat's Whiskers in Streatham - that had been where I had my first pro job, when it was the Streatham Locarno.
Some years ago now, Don had retired, and moved to Cobham (from Wimbledon). One Sunday morning I was over that way, so I thought I'd look him up. We sat and yarned in his conservatory and saw off a bottle of red... and he told me he was dying. He said they were keeping him comfortable, and he was able to play jazz sessions at a local pub - sitting down. It was some kind of blood cancer. Not long after, I opened my paper and there was an obituary. I was so glad I'd taken the trouble to pop in that day...
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Post by ARENA on Jul 1, 2013 8:30:32 GMT
I nearly became related to John Bluthal. We took my widowed Dad to a celebrity thrash, where he met John's sister. The two took to each other and by the end of the evening were swapping phone numbers and holding hands. Unfortunately he had to go back to Aberdeen the following day and passions waned.
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Post by goldielox on Jul 7, 2013 8:03:06 GMT
Who's John Bluthal. I can't place him.
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Post by scorp on Jul 7, 2013 8:48:14 GMT
Frank Pickle in The Vicar of Dibley? Funny man - worked a lot with Spike Milligan - born in Poland, brought up in Oz.
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Post by ARENA on Jul 8, 2013 8:23:20 GMT
Got my eldest his first bike. (He was working on a Woolies ad. and it was one of the props!)
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Post by goldielox on Jul 8, 2013 8:32:53 GMT
Got my eldest his first bike. (He was working on a Woolies ad. and it was one of the props!) I often wondered what happened to the stuff used in ads.
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Post by scorp on Jul 8, 2013 15:40:34 GMT
On a similar note, the outfitter who dressed the Are You Being Served set every week said that every item of clothing displayed had a sleeve removed, or something similar, to render it useless - otherwise (as happened after the recording of the pilot) everything would disappear before the next episode.
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Post by ARENA on Jul 11, 2013 9:33:38 GMT
The kitchen floor in my flat had a lovely tiled floor. It was a hand painted piece of flooring from Henry The Eigth TV prog. ;D The curtains were made by a gay set designer at the studios, too
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Post by goldielox on Aug 15, 2013 9:14:00 GMT
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Post by scorp on Aug 15, 2013 9:42:03 GMT
Ah, Woodies! Five and a match would have been of a less well-known brand usually, sold loose... Masters Navy Cut or similar. I regularly spent my school dinner money on them, daft sod.
1956 saw me plucked from the bosom of me fambly, and sent away to play Airmen. When I reported, I learned that if I could get into the RAF Music Service I could do three years as a regular instead of the two years National Service, Since I didn't want spend two years as a clerk on some soggy Northern airfield, and since the regular was paid at least twice as much as a NS man, I figured I would have a go - flannelled my way through an audition and was passed Musician II. Spent two and a half of the three years in the Middle East and Africa, playing jazz whenever the opportunity arose, and everything from Beethoven 5 to the Bum-Dusters March when it didn't.
Consequently, home affairs in the latter half of the 50s is terra incognita to me. I know that when I got home again, that damned Rock'n'Roll still hadn't gone away...
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