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24-03-2007, 08:49
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Re: Can you name the songs you danced too?
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...Jimmy Radcliffe - Long After Tonight Is All Over, R. Dean Taylor - There's A Ghost In My House, Sandra Philips - World Without Sunshine, Mike Post - Afternoon Of The Rhino, Bobby Paris - Night Owl, Larry Williams & Johnny Watson - Too Late, The Checkerboard Squares - Double Cookin' etc etc etc...I've done spins and backdrops to 'em all on that hallowed dancefloor!
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24-03-2007, 11:29
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Re: Can you name the songs you danced too?
I recall jiving/bopping in the aisles at The Palladium when Billy Haley and the Comets film Rock Around The clock was showing.
The 'sign off' tune for dance nights at the nearby Empire was 'Someday I'm Gonna Write The Story Of My Life' sung by Michael Holliday. When that played we knew the evening was over. The dances started there before they had even removed the cinema seats.
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24-03-2007, 14:21
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Re: Can you name the songs you danced too?
Michael Holliday, what a waste of such a lovely man 'served his time' on the cruise liners, born to soon, as the newspapers were going to 'out' him, a great loss to our generation.
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17-05-2007, 18:07
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Re: Can you name the songs you danced too?
We wont get fooled again `the who` at Mercer Hall Disco at Great Harwood 1971
Third Finger left hand at `The Disco` over top of Catlows fruit and veg shop in Accy 1969
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17-05-2007, 20:49
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Re: Can you name the songs you danced too?
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I recall jiving/bopping in the aisles at The Palladium when Billy Haley and the Comets film Rock Around The clock was showing.
The 'sign off' tune for dance nights at the nearby Empire was 'Someday I'm Gonna Write The Story Of My Life' sung by Michael Holliday. When that played we knew the evening was over. The dances started there before they had even removed the cinema seats.
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great song,by Holliday theres an even better version which i posess by Dave King, who turned actor after his singing career. saw rock around the clock at princes or empire when i was a sprog they were bopping in the aisles, had never seen the like- was amazed.
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21-05-2007, 03:36
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Re: Can you name the songs you danced too?
Michael Holiday, Mr C ? I am I reading this correctly or what.
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21-05-2007, 09:26
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Re: Can you name the songs you danced too?
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Michael Holiday, Mr C ? I am I reading this correctly or what.
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said great song Al, the other version by Dave King i got.
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15-04-2008, 20:03
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Re: Can you name the songs you danced too?
Must have been skiffle at Spring Hill and Christ Church around 1956, anyone remember the bands there with their tea-chest basses and washboards? 'Twas an eye opening world after Perry Como, Doris Day and the big bands - all of which were very nice but... Both were Saturday night events with lights on and discreet? adult "supervision." Happy memories even so, and seemingly such a long time ago...
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16-04-2008, 09:56
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Re: Can you name the songs you danced too?
Once remember doing a fast bop to a St Bernards Waltz at our leaving do at the Holy Family, that was a hoot
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17-04-2008, 11:14
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Re: Can you name the songs you danced too?
I remember dancing to all the oldies,at the Empress Ballroom at Burnley ,,Monday,s and Thursdays,,Elvis,Roy Orbison, Everly brothers,(Neil Sedaka when he had a squeaky voice,ie Oh Carol.and One way ticket.)
Saturday it was big band stuff,,Glen Miller etc,,,
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17-04-2008, 17:53
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Re: Can you name the songs you danced too?
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I remember dancing to all the oldies,at the Empress Ballroom at Burnley ,,Monday,s and Thursdays,,Elvis,Roy Orbison, Everly brothers,(Neil Sedaka when he had a squeaky voice,ie Oh Carol.and One way ticket.)
Saturday it was big band stuff,,Glen Miller etc,,,
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You're almost making me wish I'd grown up in Burnley.
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17-05-2008, 22:08
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Re: Can you name the songs you danced too?
""Spring Hill and Christ Church around 1956, anyone remember the bands there with their tea-chest basses and washboards?" Yes Spring Hill was the first dance I went to as a teenager, then we progressed to Knowlmere Street and Accy Con Club. Danced to the Lionel Morton Four who later became the Four Pennies. Remember Eddie Cockram and Twenty Fight Rock, Summertime Blues and Three Steps to Heaven also Gene Vincent, be Bop a Lula. Now we are talking serious bopping!!!
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17-05-2008, 22:25
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Re: Can you name the songs you danced too?
Blancmange-Living on the Ceiling..............no more room down there!
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18-05-2008, 07:13
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Re: Can you name the songs you danced too?
missed the washboards john,was about 61 when i started at spring hill.
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18-05-2008, 08:24
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Re: Can you name the songs you danced too?
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""Spring Hill and Christ Church around 1956, anyone remember the bands there with their tea-chest basses and washboards?"
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I remember the Rockets - an Ossy group - lead singer Jack Groves, washboard Melvin Mann, tea chest Frank Isherwood, guitar Stuart Holmes.
There was an Accy group named the Blue Diamonds with a lead singer called Ken who was an Elvis lookalike.
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