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1971, Cher, Daddy Cool, Dave Edmunds, Elton John, George Harrison, Isaac Hayes, Janis Joplin, John Lennon, Marvin Gaye, Matlock Police, Monty Python, music, playlist, The Doors, The Mixtures, The Rolling Stones, The Two Ronnies, The Who, Tom Jones, youtibe
If you'd had a few beers, imagine being arrested by dudes dressed like this..... uuurp !
Playlist by Algernon !
I heard this week that Waz will be away for a little while, so I thought I might put a little collection. Now I’m not trying to usurp the wonderful job that Waz does here most weeks, I just though a Summer edition might be the way to go. This lot is slightly different all the songs charted in 1971 and were top 100 for that year. Enjoy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQfAZVsz6KM
Eagle Rock – Daddy Cool
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wynYMJwEPH8
My Sweet Lord – George Harrison
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCWAGpChSRI
The Pushbike Song – The Mixtures
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYFhWV8–io
Me and Bobby McGee – Janis Joplin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ry2td7q5ZMc
I hear you knocking – Dave Edmunds
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIfxBthfFkg
She’s a Lady – Tom Jones
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqhlQfXUk7w
The ministry of silly walks – Monty Python
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8H49avae6gg
The Two Ronnies
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdsTTsZVORE&feature=results_video&playnext=1&list=PL54C0C7440842EAA7
The Two Ronnies – slightly later than 1971
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHl5hNgsjZ0
Matlock Police – Episode 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3B0Y3LUqr1Q
Brown Sugar – The Rolling Stones
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKbPUzhWeeI
Riders on the Storm – The Doors
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13GD78Bmo8s
Your Song – Elton John
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fETIjVvv1Ds
What’s going on – Marvin Gaye
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOSZwEwl_1Q
Gypsies Tramps & Thieves – Cher
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHhrZgojY1Q
Won’t get fooled again – The Who
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHbYLjWEEQA
The theme from shaft – Isaac Hayes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-b7qaSxuZUg
Imagine – John Lennon
Keywords: Daddy Cool, George Harrison, The Mixtures, Janis Joplin, Dave Edmunds, Tom Jones, Monty Python, The Two Ronnies, Matlock Police, The Rolling Stones, The Doors, Elton John, Marvin Gaye, Cher, The Who, Isaac Hayes, John Lennon
Window Dresser's Arms, Pig & Whistle 
Fashion Notes:
The Flares are back, and they are high waisted, we have ‘done’ the Leggings of the eighties, now the flares are here…no more ballet flats, the flares demand those heeled constructions called shoes, more like stilts, dangerous looking things…
As for beige and light blue tight fitting trousers, let’s hope they will never return…some old me are still wearing theirs from the seventies, you can’t wear them out…and you can’t get the stains out either…
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Now are we talking men or women here H?
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According to SMH Magazine this weekend it looks like it’s starting with the ladies…slim-waisted girls…
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Not those anorexic 13 year old models they’ve been talking about I hope.
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Maybe it’s the saltwater in my veins that I inherited from my matelot father, Helvi, but I’ve always quite liked flares… and ‘loons’ were even better!
🙂
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Mind you, they MUST be worn at the correct length! They should cover the top of the shoe and must NEVER, repeat, NEVER be worn at ‘half-mast’… ie. halfway up the leg with socks, or even legs showing… that really is the epitome of poor style!
😉
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Asty, you got the job, you can run the menswear fashion Police department at PA…
You got hidden talents!
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Good idea, Algie. Apart from anything else I feel this site has a very seventies aura, so formalising it makes sense. Recognised all the music, but the first time I’ve ver watched Matlock. It’s absolutely adorable. Establishing the mala fides of the “bikie gang” (complete with moll) by having one of them litter, is inspired.The background music is simplistic to put it mildly.
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Bring back Matlock! Bring back Matlock! I wonder if the ABC could buy it. Continuous reruns on ABC24 would be a step in the right directon.
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Loved the dirt road car chase.
Way back when, the boyfriend was a hobby rally driver. We were beetling down a State Forest dirt road and he was telling me about using the brake and accelerator to steer the car. He let me drive for a while and was stunned when I accelerated to turn into a corner. I was stunned that he was stunned. Really, what else would anyone do? Later I realised it was a male/female thing and I was supposed to be impressed, not inspired. I mean, I was impressed, but really.
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Yes I liked the “bikie gang” on what looked like Honda postie bikes and trowing ‘tins’ at old ladies. Oh and the old biddie talking in L.S.D. in 1971! I suppose Matlock ploice was channel 10’s answer to Homicide and Division 4, still if you look at it you could be watching Neighbours for the similarity. It wasn’t something I recall watching that often if ever but it did start in 1971 so it fits very well with the theme. I’m suprised that TVS hasn’t picked it up. Matlock on ABC24 could be an improvement.
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Matlock Police. I just watched that. Sooo, that’s Warrigal.
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Maybe a different Warrigal to our Waz.
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Imagine is such a great song.
Rider’s of the Storm bring back memories. It’s amazing how songs do that.
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There are many others I could have included. Maggie May for example or the odd Joan Baez tune.
I sat an listened to Riders on the storm as well as Won’t get fooled again and The theme from shaft this morning and they did much the same.
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I’m seeing Rod in Feb, or is it Jan? I’ve forgotten. I’m gonna request a backstage pass for old memories. he probably won’ even get the message.
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Is he still sing well though VL, still at 60 whatever he is to be still strutting around on stage isn’t bad.
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yo
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yo bro, any mo.
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No mo, bro 🙂
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Mo, I’ve gone for the ’70’s handlebars this year. Nine of us at work.
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The brown/orange dress code would be more scary than being caught by the cops….so sixties and seventies…the horrid colour sceme for interior decorating.
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It struck a cord with me Helvi. The colours from the decade that style forgot.
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We recently found a photo of Mrs M from the late seventies, in a lovely brown coat, very fetching!
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Ah, but the lovely Mrs M would look good in any colour….
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I’d have thought that was the eighties, Algae… remember? The beige decade!
😉
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Funnily enough I had a pair of orange flaired cords the colour of the shirt. Thought they were great in the eary ’70s.
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My flared cords were green, I hate that murky green…
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What then or now, H? I had a darkish brown cord jacket with a lambs wool (fake I ssuspect) collar as well. Wore it for years.
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I too had a brown jacket, it was kind of imitation Afgan coat…my Canadian friends kitchen cupboard’s were brown with orange trimmings…I think it was called mission brown…
I liked the murky green then, now it makes me depressed 🙂 I had long hair and Nana Mouscari(?) glasses, nothing wrong with my eyesight, platform shoes…or dear…
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My sister recently bought out a picture of us on our grand European tour, there was me with hair as long as the Algernonina’s to show them. They couldn’t believe it. I had long hair for the half the ’70s. About a year later It mostly came off. Bought a pair of platform shoes in England, paid about 15 quid for them. One inch soles three inch heals, they still exist somewhere, I’d probably fall over wearing them now.
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T2, N.B. http://www.mbgnet.net/fresh/lakes/algae.htm
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Your point being, Vectis Lad? Do you really suppose I don’t know what algae are? Don’t you like my little play on words? Algae doesn’t seem to mind… I’ve always called him ‘Algae’… it’s my pet name for him, and homonymous with ‘Algie’…
😉
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I know that. I was just picking on you; needling you 😉
And testing your email response. To see if’n you’re in tune.
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No fair testing my response time on this one Vectis Lad… I’ve been chatting with my Mum on the phone for the last hour and a half or so… and I DO have other blogs to check too, you know!
😉
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A wonderful selection, Algernon! Some great songs there, as well as some very funny comedy sketches…
But I hope Wazza’s alright, and that he’ll be back on the job soon… even though you’re quite evidently filling his shoes very nicely pro-tem…
🙂
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The eighties were beige compared to the seventies Asty. Tended to think music lost its way around 1983.
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I’d agree with your assessment, Algae… but at least the seventies were colorful! That’s why I think it is the eighties which is really the ‘decade that style forgot’!
🙂
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I think you are spot on. Few exceptions but the truth is in my record collection. More of the 70s and less of the 80s. But may be that is just part of growing up.
Good song collection overall. Thanks for the hard work putting this together.
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Given that Waz was away for a couple of month, I thought a Summer version might be the go. Waz does this much better than I. And I’m certainly not trying to take over from him.
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Thanks Algy. I still crack up with the”Silly Walk.” Mind you T.Abbott’s swaggering about is worthy of a grant or some consideration as well.
Hope all is well with Waz.
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I find the silly walk timelss humour ROFL every time I see it, All the Algys love it as well. As for Waz I gather he’s incognito until the end of January.
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Waz told me that he’s on holidays, Gez – so I’m guessing he’s absent and having a good time !
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That’s a relief to hear Emmjay… I was a bit worried ’til I scrolled down and saw your post. I hope he has a really good time…
PS: Thanks for turning your ‘reply’ button on!
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What reply button ?
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Errrrr… the one you’ve just apparently turned off!
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John Cleese is amazing,that silly walk is something else…it was funny then and it’s funny now…
The two Ronnies are good too, their humour is more good-natured, lovely blokes all three of them.
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Seconded!
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Asty, you English do humour better than anyone else…ah, well, I like the Jewish humour as well….
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You’re too kind, Helvi… I like Jewish humor too… and Irish humor; and the combination of Jewish and Irish humor is hysterical! I wonder if you remember a program called ‘Never Mind the Quality, Feel the Width?” It was about a Jewish bloke and an Irish bloke who were tailors; one made the jackets and the other one made the trousers…
Here’s a sample:
http://youtu.be/VkOSDp_W1ns
🙂
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Very good asty.
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It’s just a pity that’s all I could find, Algae… I’d have liked to post more… at least on whole episode… but this tiny little two-minute snippet is all there was!
😐
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Crafty bugger 🙂 🙂 I’ll have a listen later. Still trying to get paving grouted before oncoming rain and humidity.
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Crikey Vectis Lad! Are you suicidal or what? Get some bloody help to do stuff like that!
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VL, you must have acres of paving to do, Gez and I could not get a ‘paver’ when we needed him so we did a small area around the pool in one hot afternoon, I even managed to plant some nicely perfumed Alyssum between paving.
Don’t over-do it, there’s always tomorrow. That’s my motto these days, and if there’s no tomorrow, that’s not my worry…: )
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Yes I’ve just mowed the front lawn after a month, just about killed me about 3 times more than normal. The back can wait till tomorrow.
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