Walney Island Disks
 

On the back of the music memeries thread i thought i,d start our version of desert island disks where we list our 8 favourite gramaphone records. i,ll kick it off. 1 Drum Boogie Gene Krupa and his band. 2 My girls Pussy Harry Roy, 3 Cafe Mozart Waltz Anton Karros(out of the fil The Third Man. 4 Russian Rose Anne Shelton with geraldo, 5 Light Cavelry Von Suppe, 6 Money, Money Money Abba 7 Puppet on a String Sandy Shaw 8 Big Noise From Wannetka Gene Krupa again.

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Oh Monkey Hanger...what a great idea.
Thank you for this lovely thread.
I am really going to struggle to pick just ten.....but I will have a go.
These are in no particular order of preference.
1) The Eagles... Take it to the Limit.
2) Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
3) Shirley Jones and Gordon MacRae - If I Loved you
4) Eva Cassidy - Somewhere over the Rainbow
5) Elgar - Enigma Variations (all of them...but especially Nimrod)
6) Andrea Bocelli - The Prayer...it has to be the solo version
7) Josh Groban - To be where you are.
8) Josh Krajcek - Just Let Me Hold you
9) Puccini - Madam Butterfly(please say I can have the full opera)
10) Luciano Pavarotti - E Lucevan le Stelle from Tosca.

As my luxury item can I please have a yoga mat......Book...The Thorn Birds

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Nothing new under the sun or on AccyWeb!
http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/f...box-33999.html

Not only titles but links to pages and pages of other peoples favourites.
:theband::theband::theband:

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Just a bit different Less....the choice of ten....and if you really want to listen to any of the songs mentioned....it is easy enough to do.
Another thread...current rather than 14 years old....stimulates more interest in the forum....that has to be a plus.
Yes I know the last post was 2018.....

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No difference whatsoever, I also wished to stimulate interest it's what dotti only last week started a post about, the history of AccyWeb, showing what was, may, inspire interest in something new.

Of course it's easy to find the songs if you are savvy, not all our members are, but if they see others found they could do it they might just try themselves.

So perhaps your criticism of my trying to keep another member informed of what was and also could be again, wasn't needed?

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The concept of Walney Island Discs plays on the theme of choosing 10 discs (a bit on the style if the Desert Island Discs)to take with you.....so it is different.
The Video Jukebox thread only let you post one at a time...rather than a list.

And for those who are not savvy enough to locate these bits of music....there are a number of search engines that will show them how.
There are an equal number of members who find it difficult to locate old threads in the archive....and then there are those who don’t want to spend the time doing it
It was an observation Less, rather than a criticism.

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As usual your observation was critical of an innocent post, please make your mind up, only topical threads to be tolerated OR the history of Accyweb to be put forward as examples of times gone by, (not posted to replace the new but to assist in their going forward).

Make your mind up time, tick, tick, tick, yawn.

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Oh Less...give over.
All threads are welcome....if new threads are not posted then the forum dies....where did you get the idea that only topical threads are welcome?
I say again, it was not a criticism, just an observation.

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Oy MH, I'd love to join in but ...... Gramophone?? Hang on Grandad, I'll see if I can find any of me Nans old 78s" :D

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Nope, all gone, the Rag & bone fella must've had 'em. ;) So you'll just have to settle for some modern stuff instead, there's heaps of them to choose from, but when I'm on the road late at night or the wee small hours, I tend to mellow out so here you go in no particular order. (be warned there are a couple of tissue scrunching tracks included)


1) Good ole boys like me. Don Williams
2) To say goodbye. Joey Feek
3) Forrest Gump suite. Alan Silvestri
4) Hero. Family of the year
5) Secret Garden. Bruce Springsteen
6) Rythem of the rain. The Cascades
7) Into the West. Annie Lennox
8) On the Radio. Bryan Ferry


Like I say there's so many more, but these 8 get regular air time. :)

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Oh, I love your number 6 choice.
I haven’t listened to that for so long.

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It gets quite a bit of play on the German radio WDR 4.

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doubt it will ever get played by local pennine based radio stations over here. the listeners will be thinking they are taking the mick.{i appologize to people named mick or michael as i do not want to be called a mickist**

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[QUOTE=monkey hanger;1254375]doubt it will ever get played by local pennine based radio stations over here. the listeners will be thinking they are taking the mick.{i appologize to people named mick or michael as i do not want to be called a mickist**

I get enough stick with the name Taddy,nuf said!

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Just detracting a little, this thread brings back memories of the singers more so than the songs as I couldn’t just choose 8. In my much younger days I ‘cried’ with Johnny Ray (and yes, Dave, I did have a gramophone and I did have to wind it up, but I thought I was very fortunate as none of my friends had one). Great memories of the old 78’s. ‘I believed’ with Frankie Laine, got ‘misty’ dancing to Sarah Vaughan – she was there in person in the dance hall belting it out, and anything Billy Eckstine sang gave me the goose-bumps, tickled my spine – what a smoothie. Cleo Laine and Johnny Dankworth – superb.

So many great artists during those years, sadly many of them no longer with us, but their music remains to be enjoyed by those of us who appreciate the good stuff. I could go on and on, all so easy to listen to.

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never forget either the length of careers these artists had. many had to do it the hard way via working mens clubs, being low down on theatre bills and not just arriving and departing the scene at a blink of an eyelid like what happens to many today. their music will go on and on well after we go to the big face mask in the sky.

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Personally i've always thought that this was a failing of this website (and when a certain pedantic moderator was active my original post that started this would have been moved.)

Here we have a post pretty much having a go at a poster because something similar was posted 14 years ago..lets think about this..

Someone who is now 21 is expected to read every single post on every single thread in every single sub-forum since 2002 in case something was posted when he was 2 years old..BEFORE he can post

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Guinness, your comments are an excellent reply to a posting that can be interpreted as being a tad sarcastic, whether this was the intention of that poster or not (sorry Less, but come on now – an ‘innocent’ post? – really!). People starting a thread can’t be expected to search old threads on this forum to ascertain whether or not the subject has already been discussed before, especially if they are newcomers to the site. Surely members should be encouraged to start threads and if it so happens that similar ones have already been aired previously then so be it. It merely shows that the subject matter is still an interesting topic.

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same with replies to current topics as well. if you said something 12 months ago it can actually be more relevant now even if you have repeated yourself. we do not want to get into a situation where people have to look up old dead topics before they put a new one up or check what they previously said on a current one.

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Isn't life strange?
I make a post showing there is something similar onsite, nowhere in that post did I say it should have been searched for or that it should be used instead of this thread.
This thread reminded me of the fact it was there with memories that might be worth a re-look.
I then get three posters berating me, their actions are far more detrimental to this thread than my (yes), innocent posting.
It seems they are keener to have a go at me than actually taking the thread forward.

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Oh, Less – my apologies for misreading your post and assuming you were being a trifle sarcastic, thus taking your innocent post to be other than what it was. However, I have to disagree with you that the follow-up comments made by other posters are far more detrimental to the thread than yours. They actually encourage people to post comments (and maybe start new threads) without worrying as to whether the subject has been discussed before or not. How can that be detrimental?

Perhaps now would be a good time to get back to Walney Island Disks, which is proving to be a most enjoyable thread.

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Indeed.

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Yup, I'll apologise too....I guess my post could be seen as a personal attack which it honestly wasn't.

Yup, it's also a thread derail.

Yup, you're still a grouch.

Back on thread..my ten -

Belfast Child - Simple Minds
Diamonds and Rust - Joan Baez
Have you ever seen the rain - CCR
Highwayman - Highwaymen
Nothing Compares 2 U - Sinead O'Connor
Sweet Caroline - Neil Diamond
Miss Sarajevo - U2 and Pavarotti
This girls in love - Dusty Springfield
We have all the time in the world - Louis Armstrong
Father and Son - Yusuf

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its a bit like some things that are written come over quite different than in face to face conversations. think we have all been guilty of this from time to time. once things are written they can be re read thousands of times where an off the cuff comment in conversation is gone for ever.

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Nimrod is so emotional every reme berance day. Rips my heart out.

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Another to give me goosebumps is flowers of the forest on bagpipes

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[QUOTE=Mark2009;1254448]Another to give me goosebumps is flowers of the forest on bagpipes.

A good friend of mine who sadly died earlier this year, born in Greenock and served in the Royal Navy; had the "Flowers of the Forest" played by a lone piper who led his coffin into Accrington Cremetorium.
My handkerchief was more than damp that day, the skirl of the pipes always seems to have that effect on me.

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afraid scottish music and bagpipes leave me cold. however i get your affect on hearing welsh music sang by their choirs especially land of my fathers. the rest of the countries anthams pale into insignificance at sports events after that one.

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[QUOTE=monkey hanger;1254471]afraid scottish music and bagpipes leave me cold. however i get your affect on hearing welsh music sang by their choirs especially land of my fathers. the rest of the countries anthams pale into insignificance at sports events after that one.

Aye, I too like listening to "Land of my Fathers", when the Taffies play England at rugby in the Millenium Stadium but the problem is they sing it in Welsh.

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Bloody foreigners, wandering around using their national language, have they no pride?