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Date Posted: 11:39:37 07/23/11 Sat
Author: Gilly
Subject: Re: Music - it lifts you up, throws you down, and starts all over again
In reply to: Ani 's message, "Re: Music - it lifts you up, throws you down, and starts all over again" on 11:05:34 07/23/11 Sat

Freddie & The Dreamers, the Swinging Blue Jeans, Dave Clark, the list is endless. We went to a Silver 60s in Norwich, where Reg Presley (but no Troggs), Peter Noon (without the Hermits), Manfred Mann and Freddie & The Dreamers were playing, it was fabulous, not quite dancing in the aisles, but not far off.

Music can certainl bring back memories though, but I'm not that keen on Jimmy Shand (I haven't listened to the link yet that BB suggested), too many Hogmanies having to listen to Jimmy Shand and Jimmy Stewart (that was his name wasn't it? and a whole host of people in the house, some of whom were still arriving at 4.00 in the morning, used to wear me out and I would sneak off to bed and try to sleep, not too easy with all the noise, but at least my bedroom was over the kitchen rather than the liing room. I like the pipes, and at a regimental dinner in Northern Ireland, probably in 74 or 75, we had a piper playing whilst we ate. I sent a message via one of the waitresses to the mess manager askin if he would ask the piper to play Black Bear, which he duly did and it was lovely sitting there listening as the piper was marching up and down, kilt swirling as he played just for me. I turned to mouth "thank you" to him and got a wink in return. He then went on to play some of the traditional Scottish melodies such as Mairie's Wedding, Flower of Scotland, and even managed the one the words of which go "When you and I were young Maggie" or similar, which I love but Dad couldn't easily listn to as it was his parents' favourite piece, and his mother's name was Margaret, but then I find it difficult listening to Silent Night, as Dad used to sing it to me in German when I was small, and every time I hear it I can well up.

I missed most of the music of the 70s as I went to Germany early in 69 and it was 1980 before we really came back to the UK apart from 74/75 when we were in NI.

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