Dame Agnes Guano

Newish purchase!
The Choice is Yours
A selection from the most requested hymns and religious songs from the BBC-1 TV series, sung by,
The London Emmanuel Choir and The Toad Choir, Greenock
REC 160, 1973
Time was, this was as mysterious as owt. Got an image of the sleeve in a catalogue little else

I had an album called Sooty Entertains (mid 60s)
Long gone but I loved it

Ah that's wonderful

I made it onto stage with Sooty at the Cliffs Pavilion, Southend. Not bulldozed and still standing precariously on top of a crumbling cliff.

John Sweet and Esma Cannon interviewed on the set of A Canterbury Tale by Kent Stevenson for BBC radio in 1943.

Sooty, Harry Corbett And Sweep – Around The World With Sooty
I loved this record when I was a kid. I think most of my knowledge of foreign languages and geography came from this!

Yes saw him play a gig in Glossop!

Dudley Moore as John Barrymore and Peter Cook as Greta Garbo

Bernard Wrigley – Songs, Stories & Elephants

Some classics on there

That is definitely him!

Yes makes Morrissey sound like Freddie Garrity

YouTube video by Dec Cart PROMO VIDEO Waiting At The Crossroads by Paul Henry 1980

Don't jump in the canal Benny!!!!!!!
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Paul 'Benny' Henry - Waiting At The Crossroads. Released in 1980 at the height of his fame as the simple minded handyman in Crossroads. A favourite of many an impressionist at the time. (See also Spencer, Frank)

Olden Days When I were a lickle lad We din’t have no cash, We din't have no telly And our clothes would give us rash. Dinner were a bowl of dust With a sprinkling of despair. No money to bury Granny So we left her in her chair. We’d pop round to the neighbours With a smile upon our face, And if the buggers were out We’d rob the frigging place. We’d scrump apples in the winter And never lose no sleep, But we’d never mention Uncle Charlie Cos he fiddled with a sheep. © Dame Agnes Guano 2025

Ooooh my turn, I love a good poem about olden days

YouTube video by Steve Chase Roland Rat - Love Me Tender

www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-S7...

Who doesn't love an electro synth pop version of a classic 1950s rock ballad, sung by a rodent? Roland Rat Superstar covers Elvis on his 1984 top 40 single – Love Me Tender

Judith Hann demonstrating what carrots and hamburgers will look like in the year 2025.

Scritti Politti are yet to comment.

Yes the "Jingle" bit of the title refers to the main character writing musical ditties for adverts. I wouldn't be surprised if the producers were bunged a few quid as well.

Surprised it managed eight performances.

In my search for this hitherto unknown (to me) piece by Wisdom, I stumbled upon Bryan Ferry* singing about Allied Carpets...

youtu.be/XyrAieCvwsg

Norman Wisdom – The soundtrack to his 1982 musical Jingle Jangle. It ran for a grand total of eight (8) performances before disappearing forever. Probably not Norman's finest moment.

Indeed! It's hard to find food these days that doesn't come with a twee backstory from some affable upper class twit.

He's basically a character from a Tim Nice But Dim sketch.

Steve Coogan - 60 today!

A Glasgow vegan cafe spotted on my travels, now sadly closed.

Happy National Dessert Day to all who celebrate!
Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass – Whipped Cream & Other Delights
Model Dolores Erickson covered in shaving foam, sculpted by the skilful hands of designer and photographer Peter Whorf.

Bud Flanagan – born this day 1896

Harry H. Corbett – The Table And The Chair, 1963
A-side by prolific songwriter Jack Fishman who had written the Steptoe themed Junk Shop for Harry a year earlier. B-side from the soundtrack of Alan Klein's film musical What A Crazy World.