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Beatles songs (Help) in Japan...
by Silverbrain
Shells' supertankers were 12 stories high from keel to bridge. So soon I was trained up to be pumpman monitoring the gauges on the four huge crude oil pumps whilst discharging the oil. Anyway I had the beatles red, blue and white cassettes in my cabin so I was soon singing beatles songs with my ear defenders on at the bottom of the pumproom!
Two years later I was on a LNG gas carrier running between Brunei and Japan and we docked at Yokohama. So we went ashore and visited a Japanese nightcub. We soon noticed the DJ had a karioki machine which they claimed the 'Japs' had invented! So would you believe it I was soon promised free sake all night for singing 'English' pop songs including lots of Beatles songs. I recall the 'Japs' liked my version of Help! I cannot remember how I got back to the 'Gas Boat' that night!
Posted on Dec 22, 2009, 4:29 PM from IP address 81.98.174.136
Let it Be was number 1 or thereabouts in April 1970. On the radio on the way up the news came that The Beatles were splitting up. Top album at the time was Bridge Over Troubled Water.
I'd want Honky Tonk Women in the mix (1969, but memories of Jeff Pettitt doing the intro on mid-size billy can make it worth its place)
Terry Jacks' Season in the Sun was the song Steve and I were listening to on the Harry Moss as I drove him (from Ulverston station) towards Was Head as he caught his his first ever view of Wastwater one sunny evening in 1974
Posted on Dec 21, 2009, 3:45 AM from IP address 71.106.247.248
Ain't no mountain high enough. I recall playing this song on my Sharp Radio/Cassette Player (which I had purchased duty free in Singapore) in the back seat of one of my Fiat 127's! Remember I also played the Woolworths' K-Tel Dreaming tape Volume 1&2 and my favourite tracks would be Stay With Me 'Till Dawn/Judie Tzuke, Lost In France/Bonnie Tyler and finally I'm Not In Love/10cc who 'FF' and I saw live at the Worthing Assembly Hall!
Posted on Dec 19, 2009, 8:13 PM from IP address 81.98.174.136
California Dreamin'. It was a major hit with the Mamas and the Papas in the mid sixties and then the Beach Boys made the song a hit again in the eighties.
I am claiming the Beach Boys before Pete Mac. He realised the dream of living in Los Angeles by teaching out there!
I also realised the dream having been across the Pacific three times to Los Angeles from the Persian Gulf in the merchant navy!
Posted on Nov 22, 2009, 12:38 PM from IP address 81.98.174.136
Bros I suggest that we think of a defining track for each of the forty years we have been visiting. Obviously I shall claim something like the Free for the late seventies, but I hope younger Bros will surprise me with some more eclectic tracks.
Anyway rip your track onto your iphone, bring it to the Strands Hotel and we'll bluetooth it to the juke box and dance the night away.
Back to reality......
post your wish list and we'll bring a cassette player
Posted on Nov 22, 2009, 1:46 AM from IP address 83.132.16.45
WEVE BEEN TO THE LAKES NOW FOR MAY AYEAR
AND IVE SPENT ALL MY MONEY ON CARDBOARD AND BEER
WEVE CAMPED OUT AT KESWICK, LANGDALE AND RYDAL
BUT ITS WASDLE HEAD CAMPSITE THAT GIVES US A THRILL
AND ITS WAS - WAS - WASDALE
WHEN WERE HERE, WERE AT REST
OH YOU BEAUTIFUL WASDALE
YOU ARE REALLY THE BEST
WEVE BEEN UP ON SCAFELL, YEWBARROW, GREAT END
BU, THE PEOPLE IN WORTHING JUST DONT COMPREHEND
THEY THINKS SCOUT ARE WIMPS, AND WALKINGS UNCOOL
AND THAT CLIMBING UP MOUNTINS ALL BOREDOM AND GRUEL
AND ITS WAS WAS WASDALE ETC
WELL FROSTIES APPEARANCE IS CERTAIN EACH YEAR
HE COMES NOT FOR THE CLIMBING, BUT SLEEPOING AND BEER
BUT HE DOES HAVE HIS USES WHEN WERE ON THE BOOZE
WITH GANG SHOW RENDITIONS HE DOES US AMUSE
CHORUS
A CLIMB WITH THE VENTURES WE DO RECOMMEND
A MORE CULTURAL DAY YOU COULD NOT WISH TO SPEND
BUT ITS NOT WITH THE COMPASS THAT THIS GROUP EXCELS
ITS WITH STORIES AND JOKES ABOUT BROTHELS AND SMELLS
CHORUS
AT BASECAMP THERS NEVER A SHORTAGE OF SOUNDS
FROM BEATLES TO MOTOWN THE RHYTHM ABOUNDS
BUT AT OUR MORNING MEETINGS WE JUST HAVE TO SAY BOY!
WE MUST HAVE SOME SILENCE, CAN WE LOSE THAT NOISE?
CHORUS
THE FIRST EXPENDISH WAS BACK IN 69
IT STARTED WITH 4 BUT THE NUMBERS SOON CLIMBED
NEXT YEAR A NEW VENU FOR US WILL BE FIXED
BUT THERELL BE NO DISCUSSION ABOUT WHERE IN EIGHTY-SIX
WE GOT BACK TO WASDALE HEAD
OUR STOMACHS FELT UNDERFED
BUT DINNER WAS SOMETHING WED
ALWAYS LEARNT TO DREAD .
NOT VESTA AGAIN
NOT VESTA AGAIN
WELL THE FOODS SO LOUSY
I WANNA GO HOME
NOT VESTA, NOT VESTA, NOT VESTA
THE DAY WE WALKED ON THE SCREES
WITH BOG RIGHT UP TO THE KNEES
THE CARDBOARD WAS WET, THE GREASE
WAS COVERED IN FLEAS
AND VESTA AGAIN
YES VESTA AGAIN
WELL THE FOODS SO LOUSY
I WANNA GO HOME
NOT VESTA, NOT VESTA, NOT VESTA
FROM BRADFORD, NEV BROUGHTA BUNCH
AND WHEN WE SAW THEIR LUNCH
NO CARDBOARD, JUST TEACAKES
AND NOT SO MUCH AS A CRUNCH
NO VESTA FOR THEM
WERE THE SUCKERS AGAIN
WELL THE FOODS SO LOUSY
I WANNA GO HOME
NOT VESTA, NOT VESTA, NOT VESTA
WAY BACK IN 79
THE GIRLS CAME FOR THE FIRST TIME
THEY THOUGHT THEYD KEEP TO
THE DIET FOR THE WAISTLINE
BUT VESTA FOR THEM
AND VESTA AGAIN
WELL THE FOODS SO LOUSY
I WANNA GO HOME
NOT VESTA, NOT VESTA, NOT VESTA
THIS YEAR I HOPED IT WOULD CHANGE
ANOTHER CULINARY RANGE
BUT AS THE VAN WAS UNPACKED,
IT WAS JUST THE SAME
ITS VESTA AGAIN
ITS ALWAYS THE SAME
WELL THE FOODS SO LOUSY
I WANNA GO HOME
NOT VESTA, NOT VESTA, NOT VESTA
STROLLING ALONG IN THE WASHEAD VALLEY
LOOKING FOR SOMEWHERE TO GO
WE JUST COULDNT FIND OUT
A SUITABLE HIDE OUT
CANT YOU TURN AROUND BRO
CHORUS
WE LOOK SO PRETTY AS WE GO SCROLLING ALONG
WE LOOK SO PRETTY AS WE GO SINGING THIS SONG
DOWN UP SCAFELL DOWN UP DOWN
DOWN UP GABEL DOWN UP DOWN
GOTTA GETACROSS BEFORE THE DRINK RUNS OUT
AND THE PUB SHUTS DOWNS
WHILE WE WEREALL WALKING
THEY WERE ALL TALKING OF CONQUESTS, WOMEN AND SIN
WE WERE ALL THINKING OF BOOZING AND DRINKING
LETS HEAD FOR THE INN
CHORUS
THEN IN THE EVENING AFTER THE BOOZING
THERE ALL CROWD DOWN THE BOG
WE CANT DECIDE WHY THEY WANT TO HIDE THERE
THE BRADFORD GIRLS WERE AGOG
CHORUS
Posted on Nov 29, 2009, 8:48 PM from IP address 82.12.226.140
The original songs to the first two will be well known to all but 3 big Dr Pop points for anyone who can remember the donor song for 'STROLLING ALONG IN THE WASHEAD VALLEY'
(god only knows why I remember this cr*p..)
Posted on Nov 30, 2009, 1:41 PM from IP address 87.252.46.76
well of course it was the Pushbike Song by the Mixtures. I seem to remember it being around for ever in about 71 I would think. It had a promo film with them on bycycles (surprisingly). I bet you can find it on Youtube. I won't be bothering though.
I expect Mr S. Tripcony BSc will be able to tell us more, perhaps the make of bike that the Mixtures were eulogising over.
Posted on Dec 1, 2009, 5:40 PM from IP address 62.254.10.141
...a crummy cassette player in the back of the van, all chipping in for new batteries Lou Reed, Mott the Hoople and of course the Edgar Broughton Band (I haven't a clue what it was like but was it an Andy Kemmish choice?) That would have been 1975. In 1980 of course it was the year of Rude Boys with Stu Ashfield and Ant. Morris. So How about A Message to you, Rudy.
Later on Dave Silverwood and I liked to start the journey up o the lakes in the van with a Malboro cigarette (Dave's of course) and Cocaine by EC.
Posted on Nov 27, 2009, 4:33 PM from IP address 62.254.10.141
As I recall in 1982 on the journey up to the Lakes I joined the Ford Escort Mk 2 owners club, not the hoy poloy one for the proletariat full of boy racers but the more exclusive bourgeoisie club for the more upmarket Ghias with vinyl roofs. On board with me I think it was Mr T Neale and Mr D Silverwood plus we picked someone up in Birmingham, Roger Allen (?). Incidentally no hippy music was played especially by that music worrier Ernie Claptrap.
The previous year I believe that the minibus I was in joined the Blue Circle Cement Lorry owners club, admittitly this was one for the proletariats, rather suprisingly the lorries were yellow not blue. I had earned credibility with the workers in the late 1970's on the Whitbread delivery lorries out of Shoreham and had taken part in a number of exercises in the redistribution of wealth. As you are aware dear reader capitalism is a system based on the exploitation of the proletariat by the bourgeoisie, so to fight the noble fight I ensured some of the Worthing workers, including those employed by Manpower,apprentice plumbers, plus a smattering of radical students with various perks.
Posted on Nov 28, 2009, 11:32 AM from IP address 86.16.242.79
for a brief moment when I opened you message I thought you said you started the journey with a cigarette and a line of coke! Snort snort what would BP have said... then I realised I wasn't wearing my specs... what have things come to?
Any way, you obviously get the idea. What I was thinkinking (and as a long absent bro , it is a bit cheeky, but....) a song a year for the forty visits. My original idea was to make the year of the song match the year of the lakes... but I'm rapidly realising this is not the point.
We could have our very own top forty count down.
Posted on Nov 30, 2009, 1:14 AM from IP address 83.132.16.45
As I remember the Bic Biro was most useful but somebody once brought along a little plastic gizmo with a handle turned mutiplier gear set to speed up the action!
With the near death of cassettes I wondered, (a bit), if they were still available so bothered the bay of e.
found this!
Anyone remember Intro/Sweet Jane by Lou Reed being played over and over one year? Perhaps it was last year? Bloomin' fantastic!
A more obvious contribution might be Dire Straits' Sultans of Swing - whilst a less obvious one might be Mocking Bird by Barclay James Harvest. 'Appy days...
Posted on Dec 21, 2009, 10:58 PM from IP address 84.45.174.193
from the Thursday pm to Tuesday am for the 5 nights. I am a bit concerned about sharing my P.P. with Richard in my tent. Should we have one each? Anyway as I mentioned before we are travelling in my Skoda from Worthing and sharing the driving. I am looking forward to the holiday already and Glyn and I have started Lakes training on the South Downs and along the sea front. My new boots seem very comfortable so I think the big toes problem is solved.
Posted on Nov 16, 2009, 2:02 PM from IP address 81.98.174.136
Jem and I are all booked, didn't think I should miss this expendition. I am sure I will be corrected but Jem has been every year since Keswick 79 (less foot and mouth year)
I have missed three since 79. Two of which I have been in the lakes but wrong camp site!
Posted on Nov 29, 2009, 9:28 PM from IP address 82.12.226.140
Not that anyone needs reminding but we'll be back in Wasdale next year. I guess we are all happy with Nether Wasdale and Church Stile Farm. One thing to remember is that the site does not have a great capacity and they are very careful about the rules. This means that we need to book early to gurantee our places. Sharing tents helps as they have a unit limit rather than a person limit.
Good Friday 2010 is 2nd April so most of us will be going up on the 1st or 2nd, quite an early Easter.
If you are going then post a message hear as it helps to encourage people. If you know anyone else who might be keen. Get in touch with them as soon as possible.
Cheers
Tim
Posted on Nov 7, 2009, 4:00 PM from IP address 62.254.10.141
This Website also gives details of other campsites, B&Bs, Hotels, etc, in the area, as well as lots of other interesting local information such as the latest rockfalls in The Lord's Rake.
We might have a higher than usual number attending to celebrate the fact that 40 years will have elapsed since our very first Easter visit to Wasdale. Should be good. Incidentally we arrived there on 2nd April 1970, so the precise anniversary will be on Good Friday - Can't be bad!
Posted on Nov 8, 2009, 12:26 AM from IP address 81.151.14.188
I've just had a phone call from Roy advising me that his mother, Jean, passed away on 1st November. She had a long and active life bringing up Roy, Rosemary and Nick on her own own and also running a very successful playgroup for many years. I once fulfilled the role of Father Christmas for her playgroup - I had to wear a false beard, as mine hadn't turned white at that stage!
I last visited Jean just before last Christmas accompanied by a good friend of hers, Ann Hunt, mother of Martin. We spent a couple of hours together discussing many things, including remembering old friends in the 8th Worthing from the days when Roy was a Scout and then a Leader.
The funeral will take place at St. John's Church, Elm Grove, Worthing, at 10:30 on Thursday, 12th November.
As many will know, Roy has been suffering from a serious liver condition (not caused by alcohol), which restricted his lifestyle a great deal. He is now able to get out and about a bit due to improved medication.
If you wish to contact Roy and don't have his details please click on my name above to send me an e-mail, which I'll readily respond to.
Our thoughts are with Roy and Nick at this sad time.
Posted on Nov 4, 2009, 3:47 PM from IP address 81.151.14.188
Silverwood 'boy' you spelt coming with two ms'. Write the word out 20 times and put it in you spelling book!
ps We still have the grey squirrel at '76'. He comes and collects stale bread off the patio. Sometimes the squirrel buries the bread in the garden and then he runs through the hole in the hedge to '74'. He also goes in the Cordens' garden through a hole in the trellis!
Do I purchase some nuts? (remember Judy's mum trained a squirrel to eat and collect nuts off her windowsill!)
Posted on Nov 4, 2009, 2:03 PM from IP address 81.98.174.136
Snort snort what would BP have said... then I realised I wasn't wearing my specs... what have things come to?