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Rock ‘n Roll in America

Rock 'n' roll was an American invention but it is still constantly progressing, adapting and experimenting allowing it to remain relevant to each succeeding generation, but it maintains the same urgency and perspective it had when it was founded more than a half-century ago.

So let us look at the first half of the 1960’s and note the high spots of the music in the USA at that time.


1960

Eddie Cochran dies at 21 in a car crash while on tour in England with Gene Vincent.
The twist was launched and it has adults taking part as well as kids and it becomes the most widespread dance craze since the Charleston ruled the 20's.

The Shirelles launch the girl group era with "Will You Love Me Tomorrow".
Motown Records makes its first splash with "Shop Around" a No 1 R&B hit by The Miracles.

Roy Orbison has his first major hit with "Only The Lonely".

The Ventures hit instrumental "Walk - Don't Run" brings the electric guitar back into prominence.

Elvis Presley is discharged from the Army and immediately scores a series of hit singles and albums upon his return with a slightly less menacing, more mature persona.

1961

Del Shannon's "Runaway" was the first unadorned and up-tempo rocker to hit No 1 on the Pop Charts in almost a year. The song also introduces the "musitron", an early form of the synthesizer.

The Marvelettes "Please Mr. Postman" becomes the first No 1 Pop hit released on a black owned and operated label - Motown.

A widespread revival of the mid-50's vocal group sound results in the re-appearance in the charts and airwaves of dozens of songs from 1954.

Gary "US" Bonds has a hit with "Quarter To Three" with its emphasis on a frenzied atmosphere rather than on intricate production.

Soul music starts gaining a foothold with hits by Sam Cooke, James Brown, Solomon Burke and former Drifters lead signer Ben E. King, who's "Stand By Me" is a No 1 R&B record.

Elvis Presley gives his last live performance for eight years.

1962

Motown continues to expand its power-base scoring No 1 R&B hits by both Mary Wells and the Contours and while attracting musical talent from all over Detroit that will soon result in the label becoming the biggest in the country.

Southern soul has its first major hit with the instrumental "Green Onions" by Booker T. & The MG's.

Ray Charles successfully melds country music with soul and crosses into the pop realm with the album "Modern Sounds In Country & Western Music".

The surf music craze, begun by instrumentalists in the previous few years, adds vocals when the Beach Boys score their first hit "Surfin' Safari".

Surf-rock guitarist Dick Dale debuts the new Fender Reverb amplifier.

The Four Seasons vocal harmonies explodes on the scene with three consecutive No 1 hits in the waning months of the year.

50's legends Fats Domino, Clyde McPhatter, The Everly Brothers, LaVern Baker and Bo Diddley score their final major hits after a decade in the spotlight.

1963

Surfing music lands dozens of guitar led instrumentals on the charts while the Beach Boys dominate the airwaves with a string of hit singles and three Top Ten albums in this year alone and are joined on the scene by Jan & Dean who notch the only surfing No1 hit with "Surf City".

The Girl Group sound explodes as Phil Spector becomes the dominant producer in rock churning out hits by the Ronettes, Crystals and Darlene Love, while others such as Lesley Gore and The Chiffons top the charts as well.

Motown leads a revitalization of R&B with huge successes by Martha & The Vandellas, The Miracles, Mary Wells, Marvin Gaye and the first hit by the 12 year genius "Little" Stevie Wonder.

James Brown's album "Live At The Apollo" becomes the first LP by a pure R&B artist to hit the Top Five on the album charts.

Early records by the Beatles fail to make an impact in America when they are released by various companies who note the limited interest and decline to pick up their distribution option.

1964

Rock 'n' roll has its first major shakeup in nearly a decade when in late January "I Want To Hold Your Hand" by The Beatles tops the US Pop charts.

In February The Beatles appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show receives record ratings as Beatlemania explodes worldwide.

Four of the six No 1 records between February and June are by the Beatles, a feat surpassed only by Elvis Presley in 1956.

English bands now flood American shores with the Merseybeat sound taking over the airwaves in June that year, resulting in the term "The British Invasion". By summer however American acts regained their footing with the two resident hit-makers The Beach Boys and The Four Seasons topping the charts in July.
The Beatles first film, "A Hard Day's Night" opens to rave reviews.

The next wave of the British Invasion featuring groups which were based in blues and R&B such as the Rolling Stones, Kinks and Animals follows by mid-summer.

The second musical explosion of the year happens when Motown strikes back with its biggest hits to date by the Temptations, Four Tops and its newest group The Supremes who score three No 1's in the final five months of the year.

Feminist stances are taken in Dionne Warwick's "Don't Make Me Over" and Lesley Gore's "You Don't Own Me", marking the first time in mainstream rock that hit records included these emerging viewpoints.

Sam Cooke, soul music's biggest star, is shot and killed by a woman at a hotel on December 10th. It is rock music's most publicized casualty since Buddy Holly's death in early 1959.

1965

Folk-rock is ushered in by The Byrds doing a cover of "Mr. Tambourine Man" which help introduce its author Bob Dylan to a wider audience.
Bob Dylan "plugs in" at the Newport Folk Festival marking the shift from acoustic folkie to rock 'n' roller.

Protest-rock follows focusing on such topics as the escalating war in Vietnam with "Eve Of Destruction" by Barry McGuire, to the civil rights battles in America by "People Get Ready" by the Impressions, to anti-authority songs such as the Rolling Stones No 1 hit "Satisfaction".

Martha & The Vandellas "Dancing In Streets" is used as a rallying cry when racial riots start during the summer.

Blues-rock hits its high point with The Yardbirds, The Who and The Pretty Things turning out acclaimed records in this aggressive style.
Southern soul scores its first major breakthroughs with Wilson Pickett, Otis Redding and Solomon Burke notching huge hits that cut across racial boundaries.
James Brown makes a startling and abrupt shift from pure soul to a rhythm-based new invention of his own making called "funk" with the hits "Papa's Got A Brand New Bag" and "I Got You".

The Beatles and Elvis Presley meet for the only time at Presley's Los Angeles home. While there John Lennon asks his idol why he doesn't record rock 'n' roll anymore.
Alan Freed, who coined the term "rock 'n' roll" and introduced it to white America a decade earlier, dies broke and forgotten at age 44 of alcoholism.

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I was with Barry Dunnaway when the "Homemade Bomb" was planted by us in the sewerage works behind Kinross Crescent area. The other person I remember being in attendance and hiding behind the large earth mound as the fuse was lit was Robert ( Bob) Webster,
The "bomb" fuse was model aircraft Jetex fuse wire which was slow 'ish burning and the bomb ingredients were the usual cocktail of sugar and weed killer etc. , The resultant explosion was enormous and all I can remember of the event was running away as fast as my legs would carry me as all the adjoining neighbours came out to see what the loud explosion was all about. The hole left was enormous! That was my last interest in making homemade bombs.



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He's not leaving the Rolling Stones, but Mick Jagger is recording with a "supergroup" (called Super Heavy) composed of Joss Stone, Damian Marley, Dave Stewart and movie music composer A.R. Rahman. An album is expected in September.



On this day 24th June 1960-1965.

On 26/06/1960

the number one single was Three Steps to Heaven - Eddie Cochran and the number one album was South Pacific Soundtrack. The top rated TV show was No Hiding Place (AR) and the box office smash was Psycho. A pound of today's money was worth £13.68 and Burnley were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions.

On 26/06/1961

the number one single was Surrender - Elvis Presley and the number one album was GI Blues - Elvis Presley. The top rated TV show was Harpers West One (ATV) and the box office smash was One Hundred and One Dalmations. A pound of today's money was worth £13.25 and Tottenham Hotspur were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions.

On 26/06/1962

the number one single was Good Luck Charm - Elvis Presley and the number one album was West Side Story Soundtrack. The top rated TV show was Coronation Street (Granada) and the box office smash was Lawrence of Arabia. A pound of today's money was worth £12.89 and Ipswich Town were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions.

On 26/06/1963

the number one single was I Like It - Gerry & the Pacemakers and the number one album was Please Please Me - The Beatles. The top rated TV show was Coronation Street (Granada) and the box office smash was The Great Escape. A pound of today's money was worth £12.64 and Everton were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions. The big news story of the day was Kennedy declares Ich bin ein Berliner

On 26/06/1964

the number one single was It's Over - Roy Orbison and the number one album was Rolling Stones - The Rolling Stones. The top rated TV show was Coronation Street (Granada) and the box office smash was Dr Strangelove. A pound of today's money was worth £12.24 and Liverpool were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions.

On 26/06/1965

the number one single was I'm Alive - Hollies and the number one album was The Sound of Music Soundtrack. The top rated TV show was Coronation Street (Granada) and the box office smash was The Sound of Music. A pound of today's money was worth £11.69 and Manchester United were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions.

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Things that go bang

What is it about young boys that make them fascinated by things that go bang? When I was in my early teens I was given a chemistry set for my birthday as was a neighbour, John Marsalsea who lived just down the road. We spent hours in one of his fathers’ garden sheds putting both sets together and creating weird and wonderful smells, plastics and other strange concoctions. We soon learnt that we could make basic explosives with some of the ingredients we had to hand. But that was not enough. We needed to make something that would produce a bigger bang and so with a little research and prompting from older boys we reckoned we could make a weedkiller and sugar bomb. But where were we to get the ingredients? Sugar was easy, it came from Mums’ larder and the weedkiller was obtained from the local ironmongers in Drayton, I cannot remember if it was Nappers or Lights, but I think it was from Lights. The final ingredient, saltpetre was to be a problem until we discovered there was a chemist in on the corner of Queens Road and Kingston Road, Glanvilles, who sold all sorts of chemistry things such as glass tubing, distillation coils, rubber bungs, Bunsen burners and chemicals. So off we set off on our bikes down to Glanvilles and nervously asked for an ounce of saltpetre which, much to our surprise, was sold to us with no trouble at all.

Back at home we were now ready to experiment so having gathered the other apparatus which was needed, an empty Golden Syrup tin with a hole in the lid, a home made wick and cotton packing as wadding for the tin we set to in John’s shed and made our first bomb. We took it down to the bottom of his large garden, well out of the way of adults eyes and buried the device. It most certainly worked making a very loud bang but actually causing very little damage.

After a bit of research and culling information from other lads, we discovered that there was one essential element missing from this explosive cocktail to make it more destructive. We, along with many other boys in the area had long ago discovered the old armaments dump to do with the wartime Starfish Project, which was on Farlington Marshes and was abandoned and never properly decommissioned after the war. This was to provide the final ingredient we needed. After a little digging, in what must have been, a very unstable mass we managed to extract some of the buried Cordite from the armaments. (it turns me cold now thinking about what we did then).

Now we had all that was needed and putting all the ingredients together we prepared our device put it in our saddlebags and cycled down to the Marshes. Here we buried it in the mud at low tide and set the fuse burning. We only ever did this once because the resulting enormous bang and the pounds of sloppy mud that was thrown feet into the air from this terrific explosion scared us to death. We mounted our bikes and peddled furiously away and vowed never to play with explosives again. And we didn’t!

Even though we had not caused any damage to anyone or anything apart from the mud and a few crabs, it scared us so much that our chemistry sets were soon forgotten.

The whole story was resurrected from the dark recesses of my mind recently when I was talking to Barry and he was telling me of his adventures with these weed killer and sugar bombs. He thinks, although he is not sure, that it was one of his groups’ bombs, which had been placed in the coke filter beds at the Sewage Works that caused the bed to ignite, so much so that the fire brigade had to be called to put it out!!!!!

I am sure that if our parents knew what we were up to dire consequences would have followed but they never knew and now after my conversation with Barry whenever I drive past Farlington Marshes I remember that afternoon when we blew an enormous hole in the mud. But as they say on the telly, “Don’t try this at home children”.

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That Sporting Life

Sport at school was never one of my major priorities and apart from remembering that I was a member of Masefield House whose house colour was green, not a lot immediately comes to my mind on this subject. The only sport I pursued for a time was swimming. I, along with many others, was taught to swim in the Hilsea Lido outdoor pool by Mr Young. My, that place was certainly cold even in the height of summer. Then in the winter we were taken by bus down to the old Victoria baths in Park Road that had the distinction of being situated right next door to the City Mortuary (very handy). Does anyone else remember those beach hut type changing rooms that were built along the side of the pool? Rooms with half saloon type doors, giving very little privacy and very little elbow room, it was here we had to change and then dry ourselves off as quickly as possible so we could get back on the bus to return to school. This pool was the home of the Northsea Swimming Club, which I joined and trained with for a few years and eventually became fairly proficient in middle distance swimming almost reaching County standard but not quite. The funny thing is that I now hate anything to do with swimming and would not go willingly to a swimming pool if you paid me.

I was also never very keen on football but somehow I was picked three times for the School team and played outside left and, as far as I remember, and made very little contribution to any of the games I played in. Some of the names I remember from the team are Steve Carter in goal, Alan Clarkson, David Harris, Phil Ward, Morrell and Frankie Howells. But as I said I only every played three times and that was all in one season. For some reason I also seem to remember playing in an all boys netball team whilst still at Solent Road Junior School.

Sports lessons now come to mind. Hoards of us climbing into a Corporation bus outside Court Lane School and being driven, whilst changing into sports kit, to and from East Lodge to spend the afternoon at our sporting pursuits. Most of this is just a blur, and I have very vague memories of cricket and field sports. However I do remember one particular day when we had an ambulance roared onto the playing fields because one lad had thrown a javelin at another and it lodged in his foot.

I also remember a sports day or maybe it was two that were held on the running track in Alexandra Park at Tipner, why it was there and if I took part in anything I just cannot remember. But I do remember it was a windy and cold spot which seemed miles from anywhere and we were glad to go home.

However I do remember that I enjoyed, and was reasonably good, at cross country running and came in third on two separate occasions in the School cross country championships no medals, no prizes but just very surprised looks from several teachers. No I did not take a short cut or get the bus!

Then there were the sessions in the hall on the various instruments of torture that were produced from the equipment cupboard, the vaulting horse and the box to name just two. I could never get on with either of these items, likewise the wall bars, and I could not climb a rope to save my life. After an hour of strenuous activity came the march back to the changing room and in the boys section at least those ghastly walk through communal showers. As you can read from above I was never a very sports minded person, I was more interested in the social life after school. People such as Larraine was well into the Sporting Life of the School.

One cannot mention sport at school without mentioning Jim Fox, the Olympic Pentathlon Champion, who won a gold medal at the Montreal Olympics. Jim was a couple of years younger than us but I dimly remember him in my role as Deputy Head Boy taking late duties and minding classes when the teacher was absent, and also as a Patrol Second at Scouts. But neither I, nor our old Scout leader at the time Skipper Bill Mustoe, remembers Jim ever showing any leaning to sporting activities whatsoever. It just goes to show how wrong you can be.

I am sure that a perspective of the Sports Scene from the female point of view would be interesting to us lads, so come on girls, put pen to paper.

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I was a Army cadet at Tudor Crescent in the mid 60s, are cap badge was the Wessex Wyvern, this was taken from the 43rd Wessex Brigade which was a South coast Brigade it is famous as the British Army Brigade that went to the support of the Paratroopers at the ill fated Bridge to Far in Arnham. The Bridge over the creek at Peronne road was known as the Peronne Road Military Bridge.

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James Arness, who died on June 3 aged 88, played Matt Dillon, the square-jawed, heroic marshal of Dodge City in Gunsmoke, which became one of America’s most durable television series. Critics hailed the show — which ran from 1955 to 1975 and was known in Britain as Gun Law — as “the grimy, gritty version of the reality of frontier life” and as “television’s first adult Western”. A strong supporting cast included Milburn Stone as Doc, Amanda Blake as the saloon keeper and Dennis Weaver as Dillon’s gullible deputy Chester Goode and from 1962 to 1965 a youthful Burt Reynolds was recruited to play Quint, the lusty, honest Dodge City blacksmith.

On this day 19th June 1960-1965.

On 19/06/1960

the number one single was Cathy's Clown - Everly Brothers and the number one album was South Pacific Soundtrack. The top rated TV show was Sunday Night at the London Palladium (ATV) and the box office smash was Psycho. A pound of today's money was worth £13.68 and Burnley were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions.

On 19/06/1961

the number one single was Surrender - Elvis Presley and the number one album was GI Blues - Elvis Presley. The top rated TV show was No Hiding Place (AR) and the box office smash was One Hundred and One Dalmations. A pound of today's money was worth £13.25 and Tottenham Hotspur were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions.

On 19/06/1962

the number one single was Good Luck Charm - Elvis Presley and the number one album was Blue Hawaii - Elvis Presley. The top rated TV show was Coronation Street (Granada) and the box office smash was Lawrence of Arabia. A pound of today's money was worth £12.89 and Ipswich Town were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions

On 19/06/1963

the number one single was From Me To You - The Beatles and the number one album was Please Please Me - The Beatles. The top rated TV show was Conservative Party Political Broadcast (all channels) and the box office smash was The Great Escape. A pound of today's money was worth £12.64 and Everton were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions. The big news story of the day was USSR puts first woman in space.

On 19/06/1964

the number one single was You're My World - Cilla Black and the number one album was Rolling Stones - The Rolling Stones. The top rated TV show was Coronation Street (Granada) and the box office smash was Dr Strangelove. A pound of today's money was worth £12.24 and Liverpool were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions.

On 19/06/1965

the number one single was Crying in the Chapel - Elvis Presley and the number one album was The Sound of Music Soundtrack. The top rated TV show was Coronation Street (Granada) and the box office smash was The Sound of Music. A pound of today's money was worth £11.69 and Manchester United were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions.

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Top Picture: Anthony Newley




Second Picture: The Kings Theatre Southsea in the 1960’s

Anthony Newley

Anthony George Newley, who died at age 67, was an actor, singer, songwriter and director of unusual versatility; his career spanned more than 50 years and embraced film, repertory theatre, comedy revues, music hall, television and had to be one of the most unlikely rock ‘n roll stars of the 1960’s.

He was the original East End boy made good, born illegitimately in Hackney and leaving school at 14. He then found success as a child actor, most notably as the Artful Dodger in David Lean's 1948 film OLIVER TWIST at the age of 17 He made his U.S. debut in 1956, appearing in six films that year. In the 1950s and 1960s, he seemd to be everywhere on television and, seven times, in the top ten.

He made his theatre debut in 1946 in WINDS OF HEAVEN at Colchester and his West End debut in 1955 in the revue CRANKS, which dispensed with sets and relied on John Addison's music, clever lyrics and surprise tactics to hold the attention. CRANKS fired his imagination, and in 1960, after his success in IDLE ON PARADE, he began his career as a director with his own television show, THE STRANGE WORLD OF GURNEY SLADE, a comedy about a social misfit. A programme which had a cult following the theme music being written by Max Harris.

His singing career came about almost by accident. In 1959, he took the part of rock and roll star Jeep Jackson - a spoof on Elvis Presley - in the film IDLE ON PARADE. A ballad from the film, I've Waited So Long, took him to the top of the British charts and started a three year run of hits which included Personality, If She Should Come to You, And The Heavens Cried and the novelty numbers Pop Goes the Weasel and Strawberry Fair. He also had two No 1s, with Why and Lionel Bart's Do You Mind? To say nothing of ‘Right said Fred’ and ‘Hole in the Ground’. "So overnight I had this incredible power," he said years later. "I was a rock and roll singer and it lasted for ten wonderful years."

His film appearances included DOCTOR DOLITTLE and THE COCKLESHELL HEROES. But he is likely to be best known for co-writing and starring in the hit musicals STOP THE WORLD - I WANT TO GET OFF and THE ROAR OF THE GREASEPAINT - THE SMELL OF THE CROWD, as well as a number of best-selling hit singles, including What Kind Of Fool Am I?, The Candy Man and Goldfinger. In 1987 he was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.


In the United States he became one of the very few British crooners to make it big on the US cabaret circuit (In Las Vegas he commanded the same attention as Tony Bennett, Dean Martin or Frank Sinatra) and his Cockney rags-to-riches story made him a chat show favourite. In 1977 he was voted the Male Musical Star of the Year in Las Vegas. Even the Mafia gave him a special welcome. "They said to me, 'We'd like to buy you a gift', so I asked for a Jaguar and they drove a Jaguar onto the stage," he recalled. He was also an influence on David Bowie among later performers.

He was married and divorced three times. His first marriage in 1956, to Elizabeth Ann Lynn, was dissolved in 1963, the same year he married Joan Collins; they divorced in 1971. His third wife was an air hostess, Dareth Dunn, whom he divorced in 1989. He was survived by his mother, Grace, 96 (with whom he lived in Surrey since 1992 after 22 years living in the U.S.), and four children, a boy (Sacha) and girl (Tara) with Joan Collins and another boy (Christopher) and girl (Shelby) with Dareth Dunn.

He was a lifelong home movie enthusiast and even filmed his first date with John Collins. Twenty years later they teamed up again in London to appear in two of Noel Coward's one-act plays for BBC Television. He also appeared on BBC television in cameo appearances in the drama series THE LAKES and as an amorous used car salesman in the soap EASTENDERS.

Ill health had plagued him for many years. He was first diagnosed with renal cell cancer in 1985, and had one kidney removed. The cancer returned in 1997, this time attacking his lungs, then spreading to his liver.

He died in April 1999.


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I hope we are not that old

Penicillin = Alexander Fleming in 1928
Split atoms =The discovery of nuclear fission occurred in 1938
Ball-point pens =The first patent on a ballpoint pen was issued on 30 October 1888
Air conditioners =In 1906, Stuart W. Cramer

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The name of the news Agents at the top of the High Street was Dodd & Reads. I also used to be a paper boy there mornings and evenings from about 1955 to 1959

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Just another of them long distance thoughts, and maybe someone may have some local knowledge.
I was a member of the Army Cadet Force (ACF) at the Drill Hall on Tudor Crescent, There are two questions I would like if possible the answers to.

1. Can anyone remember the name of the bridge that run from Tudor Crescent towards Perrone road before the M27 was build, I believe that this bridge was build during the 2nd World War as a way of moving heavy armour towards the harbour prior to D Day.

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Kathy Kirby died on May 19th in London after a short illness. "The Golden Girl Of Pop," as she was dubbed, was 72. Kathy amassed two top ten hits (her biggest a version of "Secret Love" that she sang representing England in the Eurovision song competition in 1965) and three more top 40 records. She did have her own television program in Britain. Her last public appearance was in the early '80s and in recent years she had become somewhat reclusive.

On this day 12th June 1960-1965.

On 12/06/1960 the number one single was Cathy's Clown - Everly Brothers and the number one album was South Pacific Soundtrack. The top rated TV show was Sunday Night at the London Palladium (ATV) and the box office smash was Psycho. A pound of today's money was worth £13.68 and Burnley were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions.

On 12/06/1961 the number one single was Surrender - Elvis Presley and the number one album was GI Blues - Elvis Presley. The top rated TV show was Probation Officer (ATV) and the box office smash was One Hundred and One Dalmations. A pound of today's money was worth £13.25 and Tottenham Hotspur were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions.

On 12/06/1962 the number one single was Good Luck Charm - Elvis Presley and the number one album was Blue Hawaii - Elvis Presley. The top rated TV show was Coronation Street (Granada) and the box office smash was Lawrence of Arabia. A pound of today's money was worth £12.89 and Ipswich Town were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions. The big news story of the day was 3 convicts dig out of Alcatraz with spoons.

On 12/06/1963 the number one single was From Me To You - The Beatles and the number one album was Please Please Me - The Beatles. The top rated TV show was Coronation Street (Granada) and the box office smash was The Great Escape. A pound of today's money was worth £12.64 and Everton were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions.

On 12/06/1964 the number one single was You're My World - Cilla Black and the number one album was Rolling Stones - The Rolling Stones. The top rated TV show was Coronation Street (Granada) and the box office smash was Dr Strangelove. A pound of today's money was worth £12.24 and Liverpool were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions.

On 12/06/1965 the number one single was Long Live Love - Sandie Shaw and the number one album was The Sound of Music Soundtrack. The top rated TV show was Coronation Street (Granada) and the box office smash was The Sound of Music. A pound of today's money was worth £11.69 and Manchester United were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions.

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The end of term

I heard a discussion the other day between two people of our age who were discussing what the routine was at the end of term at their our junior schools and I came to realise that we did the same sort of things at our Junior school.

Term always finished on a Thursday afternoon, I don’t know why it was not Friday maybe it was something to do with giving the teachers a long weekend! But that last day of term we could take books and games into school for the afternoon session; but we had to work for it in the mornings.

We were all expected to take along a small tin of furniture polish and a rag so that we could polish our desks ready for the new class after the holidays. I think that either the Bettaware or the Kleeneze company, I cannot remember which, had this all sewn up as they used to give out very small sample tins of polish. These tins were about a third of the size of a tin of shoe polish and so were idea for putting into your shoe bag and taking to school.

Desk cleaning could be fun but the job we all hated was cleaning the inkwells. If you remember when we were at Junior school we had to use powdered ink which had to be made up each morning. This was bad enough but come the end of term the inkwells and the long spouted pouring jug had to be cleaned. All through the term kids had been filling the inkwells with little pieces of blotting paper, now came the time to clean it out and so with a short stick some of us had to hook the pieces out whilst others had to wash the inkwells in a big bowl of cold water. Lucky that ink was soluble as it went everywhere in hair, on noses and onto clothes! When the well washers were finished they had fore arms that looked as though they had fallen into a blackberry patch but this necessitated at trip to the boys toilets where amongst much laughing and giggling the arms were cleaned.

Come the afternoon the mood totally changed as we were allowed to play, under supervision and without making too much noise with the games we had brought into school with us that morning


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I love reading the Manor Court updates, every time you put an article on to the page it brings back more memory's, The mention of St Coleman's Church on the Havant Road brought back some memories when I was paperboy for a Newsagent at the top of Cosham High Street unfortunately the name of the shop escapes me.
I can clearly remember when I had to deliver the Sunday Newspapers to the area around the Church and because of all the Sunday supplement's my bag would weigh a ton!

The only answer to preventing a long lasting back problem was to go into the front foyer of the Church and divide my load into the streets/roads that I had to deliver to, I then stored them their until I had finished each road. I made sure that all the newspapers were delivered before the Church was opened up for the Sunday morning service's and getting caught by the Vicar,
Thanks for the memorys and keep reminding us of the good old days


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Peggy Sue Gehron, for whom Buddy Holly named his song, "Peggy Sue," is selling the first car Buddy ever bought, a 1958 Chevrolet Impala, on Ebay. With 3 1/2 days to go, the current bid is over $111,000. However, the reserve price has not been met.


On this day 5th June 1960-1965.

On 05/06/1960 the number one single was Cathy's Clown - Everly Brothers and the number one album was South Pacific Soundtrack. The top rated TV show was Wagon Train (ITV) and the box office smash was Psycho. A pound of today's money was worth £13.68 and Burnley were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions.

On 05/06/1961 the number one single was Surrender - Elvis Presley and the number one album was GI Blues - Elvis Presley. The top rated TV show was No Hiding Place (AR) and the box office smash was One Hundred and One Dalmations. A pound of today's money was worth £13.25 and Tottenham Hotspur were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions.

On 05/06/1962 the number one single was Good Luck Charm - Elvis Presley and the number one album was Blue Hawaii - Elvis Presley. The top rated TV show was Coronation Street (Granada) and the box office smash was Lawrence of Arabia. A pound of today's money was worth £12.89 and Ipswich Town were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions.

On 05/06/1963 the number one single was From Me To You - The Beatles and the number one album was Please Please Me - The Beatles. The top rated TV show was Coronation Street (Granada) and the box office smash was The Great Escape. A pound of today's money was worth £12.64 and Everton were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions. The big news story of the day was Profumo resigns.

On 05/06/1964 the number one single was You're My World - Cilla Black and the number one album was Rolling Stones - The Rolling Stones. The top rated TV show was Coronation Street (Granada) and the box office smash was Dr Strangelove. A pound of today's money was worth £12.24 and Liverpool were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions.

On 05/06/1965 the number one single was Long Live Love - Sandie Shaw and the number one album was The Sound of Music Soundtrack. The top rated TV show was Coronation Street (Granada) and the box office smash was The Sound of Music. A pound of today's money was worth £11.69 and Manchester United were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions.