Words of songs

Music can be very soothing, or annoying - as in the Christmas songs that the supermarkets blare out from the end of October. You go in to buy some carrots and a cabbage and come out singing Jingle Bells under your breath all the way home despite being really really annoyed by it.

Hildegard - please just sing them out at the top of your voice, you will feel great and will make everyone else smile. I remember having a picture of Paul Jones stuck on the inside of my school desk lid.

Well it hadn't until I read your thread '!!!!!!?

Yes, I often randomly pick up "ear worms" usually a song I don't really like

wildswan16 he is still a hunk x

Yes, Paul Jones ?

I've always been one for bursting into song, pity my poor family and colleagues. My dear Mum used to do the same. HER Mum was born in Leeds after HER Mum escaped the famine in Ireland (are you keeping up?). A few years ago I went on holiday to Ireland with DH and saw a tea cloth with the words of songs printed on them eg "by Killarney's lakes and hills" and others and I realised I knew them all. . . . Must have been passed down in song. Very moving moment.

Saw the Manfreds with DH a while ago. DH bought a CD at the end to replace an LP he had worn out as an art student and said as much to Paul who was selling them. He was very offhand as he was all through the concert too.

5...4..3..2..1 ! Now, either sing it, or have it in your head all day.

Pretty Flamingo was one of the first records I bought for my Dansette!

I had a Dansette ( I bet we all did) mine was red and cream coloured.

Mine was blue and cream.

Mine was green and cream ??

Just checked Wikipedia - Paul is 75. Maybe he was feeling a bit worn out with being a star, Newquay.

Wow Newquay he must have come down a wee bit in status if he has to sell his own CDs mustn't he ? they did a show at a theatre near us a while ago and he just certainly did not want to be there he was so stand offish with people.

Paul was performing at a theatre I worked at about 20 years ago and he was lovely. Probably feels he's had enough now.

We saw the Manfreds and bought a cd at the end and Paul was lovely. Very patient while my tech.phobic husband took a picture on my phone. He was very chatty through the show too and I was very impressed to see him standing quite steadily on one leg for Pretty Flamingo. Saw him again when he came to our local town with The Blues Band on my birthday. I thought that was very thoughtful of him! That was a good show too, a little less slick, and they admitted that it was the first show after a break and they were a bit rusty.

Saw Manfred Mann at Portsmouth Guildhall in the sixties.

Paul Jones was the second biggest poster on my wall.....after Paul McCartney.

There she was just a-walkin' down the street ....

My bil played trumpet with Manfred Mann - unfortunately before they became famous.

I loved Paul Jones and a policeman once had to haul me off a drainpipe at the Gaumont in Derby when I was trying to get at to him.

I'd have been up there with you, kitty!

We've seen the Manfreds 3 times over the past 10 years. Love them. My absolute faves, still going strong are the Searchers (always preferred them to the Beatles). I tend to only listen to Gold stations, music means so much for memories. Had a grey and dark grey Dansette in the 60s. DH bought me the identical model in pale blue a few years ago.

Damn you all! can't get Doo Wah Diddy Diddy out of my head now!!

You ain't seen nuthin' like the mighty Quin!.......what's all that about then?