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AW pet - put a visit to Blackpool on your list for Father Christmas!!!

Chris, I am now totally green with envy. Miffed I am, real miffed.LOLOL
Julia in Derbyshire

OH loves Strictly but is always complaining - where did they find that music? I have bettered you Julia re Blackpool ballroom. My first memory of it (apparetnly I was 3 - can remember the Zoo and the tiled walls and then in the ballroom were big girls dancing with their daddies (they wore short white frocks) I wanted to dance with mine but took fright at the end of the floor and ran off!

However roll forward some 60 years close friends and us went to Blackpool on a coachtrip, see the lights , friend's OH wanted to hear the organ in ballroom, OH was in RAF up there and wanted to see his old hunting ground! The wives werent fussed. However off we all went to the Tower Ballroom - I was last to pass through the door and stopped _OH noticed I was missing and came back for me I had been hit with a bolt from way back - we had come in the same entrance to where I was sitting with my parents all those years ago. Tears pouring down my face, when eventually I could speak demanded a neat brandy - me whose annual consumption is a glass of wine on Chritmas Day!

Eventually I did dance on that magic floor to the organ playing and then swing bands records in the interval! It was lovely.

Chris, it has always been my ambition to dance in the Tower Ballroom, Blackpool to a live Big Band. Well, a gal can dream. At least when we were doing our dancing it was to proper records. I practically cringe when watching Strictly, and they play a modern tune, slowed down to a foxtrot or waltz. If they were meant to be played that way, they would have been written that way. At least with the old stuff you glided around the floor, in a proper frock. Just being nostalgic.
Julia in Derbyshire

Edit, I have heard of the Overtones.

I always regret I was not old enough to dance to his band! Have a boxed set of his music and out it comes now and then. Only wartime song I really liked - I suppose I heard my paretns sing it and I taught to g.children was Run Rabbit Run!!!! Google The Overtones - there is a video - surprised if you don't like them

Merlin, you'll end up with indigestion if you keep wanting my pickled shallots.LOL

Chris, I was not even born when WW2 was on, but I like a good sing a long. Now Glenn Millar and the swing bands - now your talking. Best music ever.

Julia in Derbyshire

Julia I am one of the oldies but as I was a toddler when WW2 began I do not really appreciate Dame Vera. However I do like Glenn Miller and all swing bands.

Bearing this in mind heard a group the other day on tv - The Overtones, they sing swing etc etc. so much so have ordered CD for OH.

There was a complaint in paper other day that it is always assumed by pianists/visitors to Care Homes they all want to sing It's a long way to Tipperary etc!!!!!

Much prefer the Pickled Shallots.**M**.:o))>

Whilst driving around with the OH yesterday, he put on his latest CD. It was brilliant. Some old war-time songs, Dame Vera with her Bluebirds over Dover, a couple of hymns, a couple of foxtrot tunes, as dance band music used to be, move over Brendan and Anton of the Chin, lovely bit of trumpeting and some nice piano music.
It is by, The Chelsea Pensioners, Men in Scarlet. The monies raised from the sale of this CD are to go to their appeal, to improve their living quarters.
This is a lovely sing a long CD, also available on tape, and would really appeal to the oldies for Christmas
Well, I enjoyed it.
Julia in Derbyshire