WEB PAGE NO 848

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: Who remembers The Ship In in Cosham High Street? As far as I can remember this was not a pub I ever ventured into!!!

SECOND PICTURE

: Sorry about the size of the picture but it is the only one I have showing the Paulsgrove area before the estate was built.

The Electric Guitar

Have you thought where would Rock ‘n’ Roll have been without the electric guitar? And what is the history of this form of guitar any rate!

The amazing popularity of the guitar over the last 50+ years is really nothing new because guitars (the word deriving from the Greek instrument the kythara) and guitar-like instruments date as far back as 2500 BC. The guitar as we know it today has its roots in Spain, where by the 19th century it was respected as a proper classical instrument rather than the 'tavern instrument' as it became known as by the rest of Europe. After a time larger far more resonant guitars were developed to meet the demands of the concert hall, and after a time it was these type of instruments that became the favoured by the growing blues and folk movements.

In 1931 George Beauchamp together with the engineer Adolph Rickenbacker invented the electric guitar by attaching a magnetic pickup to the guitar's body. It made a new sound but there were still problems - this new electrified guitar produced literally mountains of noisy, unpleasant feedback due to its hollow body; so in the late 1940’s Les Paul, a Chicago jazz musician, who sadly passed away last year, and Leo Fender, a Californian inventor both independently developed their own solid-body guitars, and in so doing revolutionising and popularising the instrument.

Les Paul (whose first solid-body guitar, which he called the Log, was created from a 4x4 plank of wood) would go on to work with the Gibson guitar manufacturers, while Fender founded the Fender Electric Instrument Manufacturing Company to mass-produce his new guitar the Broadcaster which he renamed the Telecaster.

With the invention of the solid body, it no longer mattered how a guitar was shaped - the sound would remain the same, a fact that led to some very odd designs and creations over the years.

But five of the classic electric guitars have to be these I have listed below:-

The Fender Telecaster, 1950. The Telecaster was the first mass-produced electric guitar, with a simple design that made it light, cheap and easy to repair or modify it soon became very popular. Though superceded by Fender's Stratocaster a few years later, the Telecaster still has a massive fan base even today owing to its unique twangy, bright sound.

The Fender Precision Bass, 1951. This was the first mass-produced bass guitar, the Precision gradually replaced the cumbersome double bass from the classical or jazz worlds, whose sound was being drowned out by the amplified guitars that Fender had released a year earlier. The Precision, with its clean, focused tone, remains popular among professionals and amateurs, and has been used by almost every great bassist with two notable exceptions: Paul McCartney, who played a Rickenbacker, and John Entwistle, who played the harder Fender Jazz Bass.

The Gibson Les Paul, 1952. Ostensibly a collaboration between the Gibson Guitar Corporation of Nashville, Tennessee and legendary inventor Les Paul (although the Gibson company claim that Les Paul's only contribution was limited to choosing the gold colour for the first instruments), the ‘Les Paul’ was designed as a classier, more upmarket alternative to the popular Telecaster.

The Fender Stratocaster, 1954. This has to be the world's best selling and most copied guitar in the World. The Strat, as it is known, was created after complaints that Fender's Telecaster was uncomfortable to hold and play. It was on this model that the first vibrato arm and the new curvy, lightweight design were introduced, but the most important change was technical and this was the addition of an extra - third - pickup, which gave a new versatility to the guitar's sound.

The Rickenbacker 300 Series, 1958. Adolph Rickenbacker, inventor of the electric guitar in 1931, introduced the Capri series - later known as the 300 series - to compete with Fender and Gibson for the attentions of the new rock 'n' roll musicians. It worked: the guitars' distinctive sound became synonymous with the Sixties and I am sure you have seen hundreds of pictures of player holding one, even though you did not recognize it.

Well I tried but never mastered the guitar, how about you? Are there any closet Hank Marvin’s out there?

Take care

Yours

Peter

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Tina Writes: I was just catching up on your blog when the picture of Drayton Institute hall reminded me that my mother and father used to run old time dance evenings there. Every Tuesday evening I used to go with them, up until I was about 16, then going out with friends took over. I wonder if anyone remembers if their mum and dad used to go. I don't remember for sure but I think they had to give it up in 1966/67.

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Paul McCartney tour bus was reportedly threatened by gangs after his Mexico City concert in May 28. Security called police and the thugs scattered when they heard the sirens.
On this day 24th June 1960-1965
On 24/06/1960 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 24/06/1961 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 24/06/1962 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 24/06/1963 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.

On 24/06/1964 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 24/06/1965 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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Top Picture:

Demolished over forty years ago Widley Street on the north side of the Havant Road at Coham stands abandoned ready for the bulldozers.

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Did your front room look like this at home? I know that there are some elements of the picture I recognise.

Fields, Circus’ and Chimneys.

I was passing the King George V playing fields the other evening and I started to remember firstly the estate of prefabs that sprung up there during the war (I don’t remember them being built!!!) and then I remembered standing by the playing fields in June 1953 as the Queen drove by on her Coronation tour. I vaguely remember that when the prefabs were flattened the area was turned into a rubbish tip for a while as some of the bomb holes etc were filled in; this resulted in the whole area being flattened by tractors with its attendant flock of seagulls. Of course after this the area was flattened to provide the playing fields and later, in the southwest corner, the building for the use of the Income Tax Offices, Lynx House. At least once the circus came to town and set up the Big Top on the field. Billy Smarts Circus actually paraded through Cosham High street all the way to the field and the lasting memory of this was the line of elephants all holding the one in fronts tail and ‘the Gov’ner’ riding along in a flash, white, open topped American car. The following day I was taken to see the Menagerie tent where one of the elephants trumpeted and scared me to death.

One of the things from the days of coal and coke fires that are almost a distant memory are those dreaded Chimney fires. One could smell the distinctive smell of burning soot streets away and it was a well known phrase to see someone sniff and then hear them say “someone’s got a chimney fire”. A chimney fire is definitely something that a householder did not want, not only because of the mess it made in the grate, on the hearth rug and the carpet BUT if the fire brigade were called and they attended, they doused the flames with a hose pipe up the chimney making even more mess. On top of all this they then would send the home owner a bill for attending. I can only ever remember us having one chimney fire at home which was promptly dealt with by my father who quickly marshalled us all out of the room and then stuffed wet sacks (where did they come from?) up the chimney to cut off the air supply and successfully putting out the fire and reducing the amount of mess that followed. These days of open fires certainly made sure that our parents either swept the chimney regularly themselves or, as they put it, ‘get the sweep in’.

My folks never attempted to sweep the chimney themselves as some parents did, they always relied on a man in a sooty black van and a large vacuum cleaner type machine and a set of brushes. We always knew when the sweep was coming as mother always pushed all the movable furniture as far away from the grate as possible and then covered everything she could with, dust sheets, old curtains, old sheets and the like. I remember it was a fascination for us kids to see the way he sealed the hearth and then started pushing rods up the chimney and asking us to go outside and let him know when the brush came out of the chimney pot. It never dawned on us that this was a ploy just to keep us out of the way, he must have known when the brush was clear through the change in resistance he felt in the chimney, but as I said, it kept us out of the way. But we were pleased to do it because, especially in December, because this meant that Father Christmas had a nice clean chimney to come down. When the chimney sweep had finished I often wondered, as he made his way back to his van with his bag of soot, what did he do with all the soot he collected?

I also remember something called a Chimney Imp which was a very volatile product that was supposed to burn off the soot within the chimney, but I know my father never trusted this and so never used it.

This talk of open fires opens up a completely new area of memory. The coalman, cutting fire wood to light the fire, making spills out of newspaper etc but I have dealt with all of these subjects on earlier in earlier postings.



Ah well back to today,

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Peter

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Nothing this week!

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Engelbert Humperdinck was inducted into the Walk of Fame in Leicester, on Sunday April 25th.

On this day 18th June 1960-1965.

On 18/06/1960 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. The big news story of the day was Arnold Palmer wins US Golf Open.

On 18/06/1961 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 18/06/1962 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 18/06/1963 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 Cassius Clay defeats Henry Cooper in London.

On 18/06/1964 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 18/06/1965 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. The big news story of the day was UK drink-drive alcohol limit to be introduced.

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First Picture: NME front cover

Second Picture: Bill Haley and the Comets

STOP PRESS. After trying on and off for the last 8+ years at long last I have been asked to assist some of the support staff at the old school in writing the history of the school !!!!!!! I will keep you all informed.

I came across this report of a concert in 1957 by Bill Haley and the Comets. The article first appeared in The Observer over 53 years ago. It really shows how different life was in the 1950’s.

Bill Haley and His Comets, 1957

'This way for the elite,' shouted the teddy-boy, clutching his guinea tickets in the foyer of the Dominion, Tottenham Court Road, for the first night of Bill Haley and his Comets. The front stalls, all at a guinea, were an odd mix-up of people. There were rows of teddy-boys and teddy-girls, usually segregated - the boys, nearly all short with hairbrush hair; the girls in tight black skirts or tartan trousers, with their thick thatches of hair over-hanging their foreheads like lettuces, making their intent, small faces look oddly the same.

Bang next to them were sedate elderly people, expense-account businessmen or bored-looking middle-aged couples, drawn to Bill Haley by some mysterious motive - seeking their youth perhaps, or a cure for boredom, or just watching how the other half lived. The other half didn't like being watched; the 'cats' looked at the 'squares' as if they were snooping schoolmarms. ...
Would there be any trouble? 'There's a couple here needs watching,' he [the cinema commissionaire] said, looking down at a lively couple by the exit who had been jiving, deftly and elegantly, without actually leaving their seats. (The management said that if they started jiving in the aisles, the show would have to stop.)

The curtain went up and there was the famous chubby-faced man with a kiss-curl, wearing a red tartan coat, smiling like a shy schoolboy, strumming at his guitar, pointing it dramatically towards the audience like a cheerful machine-gunner. He had an innocent greedy look, slipping his tongue round his mouth and looking upwards with boyish eyes, like a Fat Boy eyeing a huge ice cream. His band, all red, thumped and wailed round him, doing circus tricks with their instruments. 'Hullo Bill,' yelled the Circle.

The audience began to get worked up, but they watched one another carefully. The girl next to me nodded and stared at Bill Haley intently, mouthing every word of the jargon lyrics... 'K from the "kick" of a "rim-shot beater".'

The pair by the exit jived, still in their seats, swaying lower and lower. The boy next to the aisle bent right back onto the floor. A cinema official hurried up, bending down at the bent body to make sure it hadn't left the seat, and smiling with admiration....

At last came the oldest and greatest favourite:
One, two, three o'clock four o'clock rock...

It was too much. The couple by the exit rose in a trance from their seats. Others followed. In the back stalls a phalanx of teenagers rose solemnly, like a protest meeting, and shouted 'ROCK ROCK.' Tall, steely-eyed men appeared from nowhere, and looked menacing. The jivers by the exit sat down quickly. Then suddenly the curtain went down, without a goodbye or a thank you, after only 30 minutes of Bill Haley.

The Phalanx started clapping rock rhythm, and shouting 'We Want Bill.' More people stood up. More tall men appeared, looking more anxious. But there was still a weapon left. Over the loudspeakers at full strength blared out 'God Save the Queen'. There was a brief, anxious battle between 'God Save the Queen' and 'We Want Bill'. The Queen won. Never had the monarchy seemed so impressive. The teddy-boys slouched out, defeated.

It's a long way from the bad old days last September, when Rock 'n' Roll was causing juvenile delinquency in South London. Then it was regarded as something nasty, sexy, suggestive and un-English. Local councils banned the film. Bishops disapproved of it.

Now, it seems, it is all very different. Mr. Haley turns out to be a nice kid, just like us, who drinks milk and wants to make young people happy. Rock 'n' Roll is a recognised cure for frustrations, repressions and boredom. Even Prince Charles's dancing teacher gives lessons in Rock 'n' Roll. It shows that Britain is still virile and robust. Like Marilyn Monroe, Rock 'n' Roll has become respectable.

Written by Anthony Sampson, 10 February 1957

Out of interest Bill Haley's landmark 1954 track 'Rock Around the Clock' is considered the first popular rock 'n' roll record.

How things have changed! I, along with most of us, was not even a teenager when Rock ‘n’ Roll first began but I think it did not stop me appreciating the music and I do remember all the fuss associated with Rock ‘n’ Roll concerts.

Boy, I must be getting old!!!!

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Peter

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Had this sent to me-----
The BBC has hired Lulu to serve as host for ten programs entitled, "Rewind The 60s," which will explore the music, culture and television of each year in the decade. The shows will use archive footage and first-hand accounts.

Ray Writes:-

It is a long time since I last contacted you on any of your myriad subjects, but have long been meaning to ask you a question about one of your previous teachers.

As you may remember from when I have written before I attended, not Court Lane Schools but, Copnor Infants and then Copnor Junior Mixed Schools before moving to Northern Grammar School. It was whilst I was in the Junior School in my penultimate year, 1954/55 , age 9/10 years, class 3A we had a teacher in charge of this class called Mr. Greer, never knew a christian name as they were always Mr. Mrs or Miss. in those days. Having seen your photos. of your "Bill Greer" I have wondered, often, if it would be the same gentleman. There is certainly a strong resemblance, as I remember him and "Greer" is not what I would recall as being a particularly common name.

I remember he used to arrive at Copnor riding a push-bike which had one of those small petrol engines connected to, and driving the rear wheel, a real advance in technology at the time, altho' the name of this particular contraption evades me for the time being (Oh! what time does to the memory).
I also seem to remember that he lived either in Gosport or the Isle of Wight from where he commuted each day.
I do remember him with a great deal of affection and respect and wonder if you can confirm that it is the same person.

Trust that you are keeping well, and that you will continue to allow me to share your pictures and photographs of an age long since departed, stirring as they do such long held, wonderful memories.

Of course it was the same Bill Greer!

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Francis Rossi of Status Quo has made a substantial investment in the 196 year-old Glen Rossie whiskey brand and the spirit will switch to a label featuring what looks like a guitar pick in his honour. Francis has been drinking the whisky for ten years after a waiter noted the similarities in their names.

On this day 11th June 1960-1965.

On 11/06/1960 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 11/06/1961 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 11/06/1962 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 11/06/1963 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 11/06/1964 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 11/06/1965 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. The big news story of the day was Beatles in Queen's Birthday Honours

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The end of the Highbury Estate in the 1960’s

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News magazine of the 1950’s




Another new school mate this week, welcome to

Chris Ashby

who says:- I was only there for one year, what was then the 'first year' at secondary school. Out of the three secondary schools I attended I always thought Manor Court was one of the friendliest and was the one I liked the most.

Venues

I have been thinking about bands and pop venues in the 60’s, so I have put together some memories that you might find interesting. It takes in venues and some of the local bands who played around the clubs and ballrooms in the sixties, which, after all was a golden era for Pompey venues and bands.

Now lets see who remembers any or all of the following:- The Classics basically a Gosport band who matured into Simon Dupree (nee Simon Clifford from Lee on Solent) and the Big Sound, Manfred Mann which again leaned heavily on an input from Gosport's Mike Hugg and Paul Jones (nee Pond) as its leading members. These bands became well know but how about Sons of Man, St Louis Checks, Rory Storm and Harlem Speakeasy (previously Harlem Soul Band). I know the members of Manfred Mann are still performing but I think all of the Big Sound have retired but I understand that Rory Storm is still going in the north of England.

And now the venues:-

The infamous Birdcage Club moved around the town and ended up in Milton Road next door to the pub near Bransbury Park on the corner of Henderson Road, the Birdcage was certainly infamous for the music it hosted and pills that could be bought, to say nothing of the regular Police raids!!!. However The Birdcage was the only place that I have seen The Who appear live. I understand that the Birdcage re-invented itself and turned into the Brave New World at the beginning of '68.

The Savoy Ballroom had its dance floor on the first floor dance floor and was opposite the South Parade Pier where concerts were held in the theatre and on the odd occasion’s pop cruises which would leave from the Pier head for a float around the Solent for the evening. The Savoy hosted many varying bands both from the pop world and the Trad Jazz world, I remember seeing the Clyde Valley Stompers there along with the Graham Bond Organisation and Georgie Fame amongst many others.

The South Parade Pier theatre, when there was no Summer Show on, saw the likes of Julie Felix, Acker Bilk and Kenny Ball but the concerts here were always very formal affairs and this is before Ken Russell got his hands on the place.

I, along with what seemed to be hundreds of others (probably on 150), crammed into the Railway Hotel in Fratton on a Saturday evening to see Manfred Mann and other R&B bands; in fact the Railway also turned into a jazz club on Friday evenings and amongst the bands I remember seeing there are the Back o’ Town Syncopators, the Down Town Syncopators with Alexander Murray-Smith, the Bourbon Street Six with Jo Collinson (who, every performance dressed in a different costume) and Gerry Brown and his Jazzmen. I understand that on one of the folk evenings, a young American carrying a guitar came in off the train from Fratton station to try to get a gig. The promoter gave him an impromptu audition but the music was not to his taste and told the young man to try somewhere else !!! The name of the young man Paul Simon ! Later to find fame with his singing and song writing partner Art Garfunkel, I wish I had been there!! One other thing that I do remember about The Railway is that it was one of the first pubs in Portsmouth to have a video juke box which was turned off on live music nights.

The Locarno in Arundel Street ran pop shows but I never remember going there also the St Marys Institute in Fratton Road (where in later years radio Victory was to find a home) hosted gigs in the Sixties as did Kimbells in Southsea.

The Guildhall was a good venue for 60’s pop featuring the best in the music world. I regret that I did not see The Beatles there (I could not afford to go that week) but I did see the live broadcast of Juke Box Jury. Over the other weeks I remember seeing Helen Shapiro, Del Shannon, Billy Fury, Gene Vincent, Louise Cordet and many other bands who were touring at that time.

Other local bands and groups I remember from this period are; Dave Dee and the Bostons who became Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Titch - from Salisbury, The Troggs from Andover. Jimmy James and the Vagabonds where regular visitors to the area and who would believe that Lulu and the Lovers appeared at the Thorngate Hall in Gosport as did Johnny Kidd and the Pirates.

The Odd Fellows Hall in Kingston Road ran R&B nights on Saturdays, the Animals played here and Kimbells as did Chris Farlow and Long John Bawldry.

Ahh the days of my youth!!!!!!

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Peter

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Sue Writes:

I remember the excitement when Fine Fare opened in Cosham High Street. It was advertised that the first 100 customers would receive a free chicken. My mother sent me, with £1 to queue up but I was too late.

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After 50 years Bobby Rydell’s entire album collection with Cameo Records are being re-released in digital stereo remasters.

On this day 4th June 1960-1965.

On 04/06/1960 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 04/06/1961 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 04/06/1962 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 04/06/1963 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 04/06/1964 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 04/06/1965 the number one single was Long Live Love - Sandie Shaw and the number one album was Bringing It All Back Home - Bob Dylan. 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.