Walney Island Disks

[monkey hanger]

On the back of the music memeries thread i thought i,d start our version of desert island disks where we list our 8 favourite gramaphone records. i,ll kick it off. 1 Drum Boogie Gene Krupa and his band. 2 My girls Pussy Harry Roy, 3 Cafe Mozart Waltz Anton Karros(out of the fil The Third Man. 4 Russian Rose Anne Shelton with geraldo, 5 Light Cavelry Von Suppe, 6 Money, Money Money Abba 7 Puppet on a String Sandy Shaw 8 Big Noise From Wannetka Gene Krupa again.

[Margaret Pilkington]

Oh Monkey Hanger...what a great idea.
Thank you for this lovely thread.
I am really going to struggle to pick just ten.....but I will have a go.
These are in no particular order of preference.
1) The Eagles... Take it to the Limit.
2) Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
3) Shirley Jones and Gordon MacRae - If I Loved you
4) Eva Cassidy - Somewhere over the Rainbow
5) Elgar - Enigma Variations (all of them...but especially Nimrod)
6) Andrea Bocelli - The Prayer...it has to be the solo version
7) Josh Groban - To be where you are.
8) Josh Krajcek - Just Let Me Hold you
9) Puccini - Madam Butterfly(please say I can have the full opera)
10) Luciano Pavarotti - E Lucevan le Stelle from Tosca.

As my luxury item can I please have a yoga mat......Book...The Thorn Birds

[Less]

Nothing new under the sun or on AccyWeb!
http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/f...box-33999.html

Not only titles but links to pages and pages of other peoples favourites.

[Margaret Pilkington]

Just a bit different Less....the choice of ten....and if you really want to listen to any of the songs mentioned....it is easy enough to do.
Another thread...current rather than 14 years old....stimulates more interest in the forum....that has to be a plus.
Yes I know the last post was 2018.....

[Less]

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

Just a bit different Less....the choice of ten....and if you really want to listen to any of the songs mentioned....it is easy enough to do.
Another thread...current rather than 14 years old....stimulates more interest in the forum....that has to be a plus.
Yes I know the last post was 2018.....

No difference whatsoever, I also wished to stimulate interest it's what dotti only last week started a post about, the history of AccyWeb, showing what was, may, inspire interest in something new.

Of course it's easy to find the songs if you are savvy, not all our members are, but if they see others found they could do it they might just try themselves.

So perhaps your criticism of my trying to keep another member informed of what was and also could be again, wasn't needed?

[Margaret Pilkington]

The concept of Walney Island Discs plays on the theme of choosing 10 discs (a bit on the style if the Desert Island Discs)to take with you.....so it is different.
The Video Jukebox thread only let you post one at a time...rather than a list.

And for those who are not savvy enough to locate these bits of music....there are a number of search engines that will show them how.
There are an equal number of members who find it difficult to locate old threads in the archive....and then there are those who don’t want to spend the time doing it
It was an observation Less, rather than a criticism.

[Less]

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

The concept of Walney Island Discs plays on the theme of choosing 10 discs (a bit on the style if the Desert Island Discs)to take with you.....so it is different.
The Video Jukebox thread only let you post one at a time...rather than a list.

And for those who are not savvy enough to locate these bits of music....there are a number of search engines that will show them how.

It was an observation Less, rather than a criticism.

As usual your observation was critical of an innocent post, please make your mind up, only topical threads to be tolerated OR the history of Accyweb to be put forward as examples of times gone by, (not posted to replace the new but to assist in their going forward).

Make your mind up time, tick, tick, tick, yawn.

[Margaret Pilkington]

Oh Less...give over.
All threads are welcome....if new threads are not posted then the forum dies....where did you get the idea that only topical threads are welcome?
I say again, it was not a criticism, just an observation.

[DaveinGermany]

Oy MH, I'd love to join in but ...... Gramophone?? Hang on Grandad, I'll see if I can find any of me Nans old 78s"

[DaveinGermany]

Nope, all gone, the Rag & bone fella must've had 'em. So you'll just have to settle for some modern stuff instead, there's heaps of them to choose from, but when I'm on the road late at night or the wee small hours, I tend to mellow out so here you go in no particular order. (be warned there are a couple of tissue scrunching tracks included)


1) Good ole boys like me. Don Williams
2) To say goodbye. Joey Feek
3) Forrest Gump suite. Alan Silvestri
4) Hero. Family of the year
5) Secret Garden. Bruce Springsteen
6) Rythem of the rain. The Cascades
7) Into the West. Annie Lennox
8) On the Radio. Bryan Ferry


Like I say there's so many more, but these 8 get regular air time.

[Margaret Pilkington]

Oh, I love your number 6 choice.
I haven’t listened to that for so long.

[DaveinGermany]

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

Oh, I love your number 6 choice.
I haven’t listened to that for so long.

It gets quite a bit of play on the German radio WDR 4.

[monkey hanger]

Originally Posted by DaveinGermany

It gets quite a bit of play on the German radio WDR 4.

doubt it will ever get played by local pennine based radio stations over here. the listeners will be thinking they are taking the mick.{i appologize to people named mick or michael as i do not want to be called a mickist**

[taddy]

[QUOTE=monkey hanger;1254375]doubt it will ever get played by local pennine based radio stations over here. the listeners will be thinking they are taking the mick.{i appologize to people named mick or michael as i do not want to be called a mickist**

I get enough stick with the name Taddy,nuf said!

[dotti34]

Just detracting a little, this thread brings back memories of the singers more so than the songs as I couldn’t just choose 8. In my much younger days I ‘cried’ with Johnny Ray (and yes, Dave, I did have a gramophone and I did have to wind it up, but I thought I was very fortunate as none of my friends had one). Great memories of the old 78’s. ‘I believed’ with Frankie Laine, got ‘misty’ dancing to Sarah Vaughan – she was there in person in the dance hall belting it out, and anything Billy Eckstine sang gave me the goose-bumps, tickled my spine – what a smoothie. Cleo Laine and Johnny Dankworth – superb.

So many great artists during those years, sadly many of them no longer with us, but their music remains to be enjoyed by those of us who appreciate the good stuff. I could go on and on, all so easy to listen to.