David Jacobs

feetlebaum I'm with you - Karen Carpenter had the most gloriously rich and effortlessly smooth voice. And what else has Bob Geldorf done that is memorable, other than "I don't like Mondays"?

I wouldn't call that tuneless warble, 'I Don't Like Mondays' memorable.

Ahem.....! I love 'I Don't Like Mondays' and think it has a great melody.

Deedah I had a pair of bottle green leather low-heeled loafers designed by Cathy McGowan. I loved them! They cost £7.19s.11d, which was practically all my week's wages at the time, and were the envy of my friends. I went dancing in them, with my maxi leather coat, black polo sweater and pin-striped mini-skirt. How cool was I?

j08 I still get a regular fix of David McCallum by watching NCIS !!

Wow! Is that on Sky? (haven't got it )

Channel 5 jings, lots of eye candy in it!

Thanks!

@zengran - I remember David McCallum senior - a leading orchestral violinist, and a thrifty Scot - he would turn up for a recording session on a push-bike, with exactly the right change for a cup of tea in the break in his pocket...

DM is amazing on NCIS isn't he j08 - it must be such hard work filming 26 episodes like they do. ANd then they start again. Great role for him.

Deedaa I would have been so jealous of your Cathy McGowan hair. Like you I did manage the clothes though. My hair has always been dreadful. I can remember going with my friend for the 'Mary Quant' style. My friend had lovely thick hair and the style looked wonderful on her. When it was my turn the stylist said 'well I can try'.

KatyK you should have seen me when when the Afro came in! I used to spend hours turning it into a massive frizz with the curling tongs. They were the ones you heated up on the gas so there was always a lovely smell of singed hair I would complete the look with scarlet lipstick and rust coloured eyeshadow from Biba. Wish I had the nerve today! (Or the figure!)

Deedaa I bet you looked fabulous! I can remember going to bed with the sides of my hair sellotaped to my face to try to get kiss-curls (think Lulu in
To Sir With love) and sellotaping my unruly curled up fringe to my forehead.
We used to get hair spray which was liquid and came in tubes which we then
poured into a squeezy bottle to spray. It made your hair feel like a brillo pad.
Happy days !

KatyK did that too and ironed my hair (covered it with brown paper!!)

The things we did

What about rinsing your hair with beer to give it volume. When the blood transfusion service came to collect blood from students, there was a contest between halls of residence to see which could provide the highest percentage of donors. We won - with much arm twisting - and the prize was a case of McEwan's Export. And yes, some of us enjoyed drinking it but quite a lot of it was wasted on hair washing.

Re David Jacobs, I just discovered (from Radio 4 in the car) that he did ALL the voices for 'Journey into Space'!............

A lot but not all! For example Alfie Bass and David Kossoff both played Lemmy at one time or another. Andrew Faulds was Jet Moprgan, and Guy Kingsley Poynter was Doc.

I had a relative who worked for David Jacobs and she said he was a perfect gentleman. We used to get signed photographs and I found one just recently, he was posing with a cigarette in his hand

Wonder what Pete Murray's doing these days.

Is he still alive?

I was thinking about Pete Murray too - he was another one who always seemed rather awkward and old-fashioned in the 60s.

feetle you better tell Radio 4 they didn't know everything....

Pete(r) Murray is still with us, and is 87!

David Jacobs was featured in 'Last Word' this afternoon on Radio 4.
I didn't realise his last programme had been transmitted as recently as last month. They played the last part of the recording - he sounded dreadfully frail and he signed off saying , "Well, I'll be here next week... or whenever." - very poignant, listening to it now.