Missheard Titles

[Lakesailor]

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in our area we can only hear that by tuning our wirelesses into the BBC Home Service.

[/ QUOTE ] That would be a pre-1971 area then?

Worker's Playtime anyone?

 

[Sgeir]

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Worker's Playtime anyone?

[/ QUOTE ]Dah, di-dah, di-dah di-da-dah
Dah, di-dah, di-dah di-da-dah
Da-di-da-di-dah, Di-da-di-da.....

(in A

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EDIT: Eric Coates?

EDIT EDIT: Well, I'll be dipped.... Just Googled. It is Eric Coates, and it's "Calling All Workers" which, errmm, rather rules out a lot of us here.... /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

 

[Cornishman]

Hey, that's the Music While You Work toon. Used to be twice a day, morning and afternoon

Workers Playtime was a musichall type show, wasn't it? Used to visit different factory canteens at lunchtime during WW2

 

[suse]

Damn - I thought it was funnier before the barge picture was displayed - now, THAT was ironic....

S x

 

[fisherman]

Let's face it, the BBC has gone down the pan since the days of announcers like Valentine Dyall, when they wore evening dress at the microphone, spoke the queen's English, and cars had running boards.

 

[Thaumaturge]

It seems I have deluded myself into thinking that I am one of the 'youngsters' on here! Either that or you were all rich kids and had tellies.

On a pedantic point Workers Playtime continued well into the fifties.

I suppose nobody remembers "in Town Tonight"? The stirring music of the Knightsbridge March and the cry of "Carry on London!" (Also BBC Light Programme - Friday evening)

But I lose the thread, (age I s'pose).

Not a title, but public conveniences graffiti:

I luv grils

(Written underneath) Don't you mean girls?

(Written underneath that) Wot about us grils? <span style="color:blue"> </span>

 

[Sgeir]

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Hey, that's the Music While You Work toon. Used to be twice a day, morning and afternoon

[/ QUOTE ]Dead right - I stand corrected. And yes, the other one, Workers' Playtime, was a lunchtime prog. Must have continued well after WW2, as I remember it. Did Bill Maynard have something to do with it?

 

[Cornishman]

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I suppose nobody remembers "in Town Tonight"? The stirring music of the Knightsbridge March and the cry of "Carry on London!" (Also BBC Light Programme - Friday evening)

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I apologise for trying to upstage you, but I googled In Town Tonight because I was almost certain that it was a Home Service programme on Saturdays, and this is what I found:

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In Town Tonight was a national institution which started on the Home Service on 18 November 1933 and lasted right through until 1960 on Saturday nights at about 7:30pm.

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I was most surprised to see that it went on TV for a short while, too.
You will find that as you approach real old age (70+) your memories of events long ago become clearer, but things more recent are forgotten. Now, what do I do next to post this? /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif

 

[peterb]

And what about Monday Night at Seven (later Monday Night at Eight)? Always one of my favourites.

 

[Thaumaturge]

The delay in responding is a result of being unable to remember my log-in name, and then, when I did, I forgot what I was going to say!

 

[Adrian]

After moving into her new house my sister was very proudly telling everyone she was going to fit a dildo rail /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif

 

[Lakesailor]

Sensible to keep them organised.