Simon McLean

Poor old Frank Windsor used to be sick with nerves before every live Z Cars episode - I think his colleagues have just found out where

Post a banger not in English

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Yes, that's basically it, sadly. Shot and originally broadcast on colour videotape, which would have looked amazing, but only a lesser quality b/w film recording survives

Probably during the Public Eye episode Transatlantic Cousins, then

Ha, I quite enjoyed that - also they moved the address out of the way so you could see him squirm properly!

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I can only ever hear it in the voice of my old primary school headmaster Mr Walker, specifically him doing the high note on the line 'His compassion has no end'. No idea why that's stuck with me!

Currently in the big easy chair on www.serenade-radio.com playing the instrumental sounds of Syd Dale, Ronnie Aldrich, Keith Mansfield and many more - join me if you dare....

It's a prototype for the stuff Rob Davis would be writing thirty odd years later which would sell millions - I reckon Kylie would have gone top ten with it in 2001

Same, frankly!

I know lots of people found it creepy, but I always liked it!

Oh no, that's a shame, I used to love The Organist Entertains, I even had a request played on it when I was 14.

There's a great episode of Granada's This England where three chaps have a disused theatre organ installed at their house in Manchester, and one of them is a young Nigel Ogden.

I'm pretty sure it's Barry Morgan, he certainly plays on some of the incidental music, and was working a lot with Laurie Johnson in the 70s

Hot Hits volume 21 on MFP

Good god! Actually, I scrub up quite well, to be fair

Ooh, interesting! Thank you!

Where's that version of This Man Alone from? I've never seen it with that cover. I will defend Ewar Woowar's albums to the death, especially the first three which are ace.

Shot in portrait mode, for people watching on their phones

Still never found either of those! Vinyl Vulture was such an important forum for me, finding out other people were into this stuff, and that people were interested in what I knew about it. And I got to exchange messages with some of the musicians, and help with a couple of reissues too.

I think it's in Mark Lewisohn's book, I must re-read it!

Great article! I seem to recall that Benny was desperate to include a Paraguayan harp instrumental on one of his albums because he'd been having lessons with the guy from Los 3 Paraguyaos, but Tony Hatch talked him out of it - I think it would have been interesting!

Emma was best solo Spice Girl - exhibit B, no further questions, m'lud

Well that explains everything!

Flashbacks to my first radio job where this was one of the highlights of the playlist - today was the first time I'd heard it in about twenty years.

With hindsight, there is a case to be made for Emma being the best solo Spice, but then I probably secretly thought that at the time as well

Doing this again right now!

The director of this also did the video for Running Up That Hill by Kate Bush

I genuinely believe the version of Power To All Our Friends is better than Cliff's original

A thing I genuinely didn't realise - Roger Whittaker used to do a radio show where he invited listeners to send poems in and he'd make songs out of them. Silversmith Ron Arthur Webster from Birmingham sent one in, which became "The Last Farewell". Blimey!

Haven't found anything more specific than that, but I'll see if there's any more out there!

Hmm, they apparently played the Basingstoke Carnival once, could be that? I know the 1986 Basingstoke Carnival Queen, she was crowned by Keith Chegwin. She never mentioned C&D though.