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Topic Originator: OzPar
Date: Sat 28 Oct 03:13
You know when you get something on your mind, but you can`t recall the exact details? And it refuses to go away?
I am driving myself mad trying to remember the name of the little old lady who used to sell tens of thousands of LPs of her playing the piano—nothing special, just plinky-plonk, tinky-tonk tunes everyone could sing along to.
In Scotland in the 1960s, you would have to go past rows of records by her and Semprini and Mantovani and the James Last Orchestra, then climb over a mountain of Alexander Brothers and Andy Stewart and Moira Anderson albums before a final obstacle course taking you through a valley full of Jim Reeves, Patsy Cline, and Tammy Wynette LPs. If you survived that, you were emotionally exhausted when you finally got to the pop and rock sections hidden at the back of the store.
So help me guys... who was the wee specie-eyed wumin who sat on the piano stool with a glaikit smile, always inviting me to join her party??? It`s driving me crazy!
:)
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Topic Originator: buffy
Date: Sat 28 Oct 04:14
Awake at this ungodly hour
After a Google search is it….
Gladys Mills?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mrs_Mills
”Buffy’s Buns are the finest in Fife”, J. Spence 2019”
Post Edited (Sat 28 Oct 04:19)
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Topic Originator: OzPar
Date: Sat 28 Oct 07:10
That`s her!
Mrs Mills...
In my mind`s eye, she wore glasses, but clearly she didn`t.
Thanks, Buffy!
:)
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Topic Originator: auldpar
Date: Sat 28 Oct 07:20
OMG, I remember her. She was always known as Mrs Mills. We also had Winifred Atwell. That was what passed for entertainment then!
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Topic Originator: Buspasspar
Date: Sat 28 Oct 08:28
I was going to answer Winifred Atwell
I had forgotten all about Mrs Mills :-)
We are forever shaped by the Children we once were
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Topic Originator: veteraneastender
Date: Sat 28 Oct 09:03
Quote:
Buspasspar, Sat 28 Oct 08:28
I was going to answer Winifred Atwell
I had forgotten all about Mrs Mills :-)
Not exactly classic honky tonk !!!
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Topic Originator: buffy
Date: Sat 28 Oct 09:26
I’ve made an auld man awfy happy.
That’s another notch on the ol CV 😊
”Buffy’s Buns are the finest in Fife”, J. Spence 2019”
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Topic Originator: JTH123
Date: Sat 28 Oct 13:01
Winifred Atwell`s black and white rag was the Pot Black snooker programme theme tune if my memory serves. My daughter is learning piano and was gobsmacked when I showed her it on YouTube.
Post Edited (Sat 28 Oct 14:04)
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Topic Originator: Buspasspar
Date: Sat 28 Oct 13:14
Well Done JTH .. Have just listened to it .. Ah the memories
We are forever shaped by the Children we once were
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Topic Originator: veteraneastender
Date: Wed 8 Nov 08:33
Not exactly Richard Clayderman !!!
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Topic Originator: Buspasspar
Date: Wed 8 Nov 09:24
Jings vee .. It will be Russ Conway next !!
We are forever shaped by the Children we once were
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Topic Originator: LochgellyAlbert
Date: Wed 8 Nov 09:54
Remember the guy playing piano for Thunderclap Newman, playing in the Kinema he blew the electrics and that was the end of their appearance!
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Topic Originator: wee eck
Date: Wed 8 Nov 10:22
I`ve often wondered how `popular` musicians compare with `classical` musicians in terms of virtuosity, technique, etc? Could Clayderman, say, perform a Mozart piano concerto as well as Ashkenazy or could Ashkenazy perform at a pub `knees-up` as well as Mrs Mills?
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Topic Originator: veteraneastender
Date: Wed 8 Nov 14:41
"Jings vee .. It will be Russ Conway next !!"
I`m more of a Jerry Lee Lewis honky tonkin` merchant.
Mind you - I`m still trying to figure out what made Milwaukee famous ?
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Topic Originator: veteraneastender
Date: Wed 8 Nov 15:05
"Could Clayderman, say, perform a Mozart piano concerto as well as Ashkenazy or could Ashkenazy perform at a pub `knees-up` as well as Mrs Mills?"
RC can play anything from popular to classical to the highest of standards.
I`m sure Ashkenazy likewise.
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Topic Originator: Buspasspar
Date: Wed 8 Nov 16:24
"Mind you - I`m still trying to figure out what made Milwaukee famous ?"
There ye go vee
The song`s title is a reference to beer, specifically Schlitz beer, which for many years was advertised with the slogan, "The beer that made Milwaukee famous."
We are forever shaped by the Children we once were
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Topic Originator: veteraneastender
Date: Wed 8 Nov 17:05
Ooops - apologies - I was being naughty there.
I heard of Milwaukee`s brewing fame years ago - Pabst Blue Ribbon, for example.
Strong German connections in that part of the world.
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Topic Originator: Buspasspar
Date: Wed 8 Nov 17:42
Thought that vee .. I googled it a few years ago but had to google it again as I could not remember .. ach weel
We are forever shaped by the Children we once were
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Topic Originator: veteraneastender
Date: Wed 8 Nov 19:10
Laverne and Shirley - but your way too young to mind of that sitcom !!!
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Topic Originator: Tad Allagash
Date: Wed 8 Nov 19:26
veteraneastender wrote:
> Laverne and Shirley - but your way too young to mind of that
> sitcom !!!
>
>
Great theme tune! A spin-off from Happy Days - also set in Milwaukee.
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Topic Originator: Buspasspar
Date: Wed 8 Nov 19:28
Happy Days .. loved it ..
We are forever shaped by the Children we once were
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Topic Originator: OzPar
Date: Wed 8 Nov 19:31
""Little old lady" Mrs Mills was only 59 when she died in 1978.
How old are some of the posters????"
Well, Stanza, I doubt any of us here were 59 in 1978...
:)
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Topic Originator: veteraneastender
Date: Thu 9 Nov 17:55
"Thought that vee .. I googled it a few years ago but had to google it again as I could not remember .. ach weel"
Imagine getting to work in a brewery like Laverne and Shirley !!!
Been there x 3 .......as far as I know, nobody else has been employed by Maclays (of blessed memory), Ind Coopes (as it was then named) and Williams Brothers.
It`s a dirty job................etc.
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Topic Originator: Buspasspar
Date: Thu 9 Nov 18:14
Ah vee Maclays heavy was a sublime beer .. The County in Clacks only sold Maclays .. No lager .. The Royal Oak across the road sold Inde coopes Skol lager .. diamond heavy and double diamond .. 10 pints of heavy for a £ .. 8 pints of lager for a £ .. a fish supper was 1/6d and a gallon of esso extra was around 4/3d .. Them were the days vee
We are forever shaped by the Children we once were
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Topic Originator: OzPar
Date: Thu 9 Nov 20:36
Aye, and every car you saw had a wee tiger`s tail hanging out of the petrol cap.
:)
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Topic Originator: veteraneastender
Date: Tue 14 Nov 11:54
Quote:
OzPar, Thu 9 Nov 20:36
Aye, and every car you saw had a wee tiger`s tail hanging out of the petrol cap.
:)
As a laddie I was more into the Regent petrol fake bullet holes transfer/slides that could be put on rear windscreens etc. Looked realistic until inspected close up - nearly got faither into a wee drama with a local Guardia Civil police officer on Costa Brava !!!
Post Edited (Tue 14 Nov 15:51)
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