I was just a twinkle in my daddy's eye when this song came out. It was one of my mother's favourites and still is. I have fond memories of being about 3 years old sitting on my mother's lap, we'd be singing along together with the cassette tape, sometimes she would let me take over the steering whilst she lit a ciggy. Halcyon days! Hasn't the weather been gorgeous? Just like the long hot summers of yore. The Retsina is chilling, so grab a face reflector and pull up a deck chair it's Soley-Soley time.
Good god! I haven't heard this for decades! They never play this on the wireless along with all the 'summer' songs. Reminds me of fairgrounds and chips by the sea and my mum coating herself with Bergasol to go the colour of a saveloy. Halcyon days indeed.x
ReplyDeleteI've got a good mind to fill out a form for the Steve Wrights non-stop oldies.
DeleteBergasol the smell of summer, you'd be hard pressed to find it nowadays those meddling bureaucrats from Brussels have banned it. They can piss off with their Piz Buin. Bring back Bergasol ! I miss the tandoori oven look.
I remember Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep because my Mum hated it. I vaguely remember this one, but not as well.
ReplyDeleteWe had rain this evening... still warm though.
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Sleep deprivation caused by this heat is making me do some very strange things like watching MOTR videos for the past 40 mins.
ReplyDeleteCome blessed rain. I'm sat here in my knickers dripping!
I don't know this particular song. Sorry. I do know what you mean about a song taking us back to a place in time.
ReplyDeleteI would have been amazed if you had known this song, it's one of those obscure little ditties from the 70s.
ReplyDeleteRings a bell, because it was one favorite of a radio presenter of Bayern 1 in the seventies. He played it in winter time when I had to go to school. Switching on the raio was part of the morning routine ; I left last and had to take care that all was shut off & closed. There was an hour program between six and seven, and while I gulped my coffee and inhaled mothers second hand Marlboro I listened to the bloke's music selection, Middle of the Road, Cat Stevens (GOd I hate Morning has broken still to this day !), Abba, tons of forgotten pop music. Now and then I find something on youtube that beams me right back to this kitchen table - it stands now on my balcony.
ReplyDeleteOne day I'll burn it.
We used to sing Morning Has Broken during school assemblies, Cat Stevens is an islamic nut job these days, so any songs of his played on the radio gets switched off immediately.
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