-----Original Message----- De: andrew dean <koogydelbbog@yahoo.com> Para: sinister@majordomo.net <sinister@majordomo.net> Fecha: martes 17 de febrero de 1998 11:51 Asunto: Sinister: re: white horses The lovely Andy Dean didn't know what he was starting when he wrote:
no, the song on the end of that tape is 'white horses' by Jacky (and i know, i put it there!). it was a hit in the late 60s and is a theme tune to a kids' tv show about, duh!, white horses that aired in the early 70s on bbc tv, saturday mornings before whatever 'live and kicking' was called in those days.
As I recall, there wasn't anything like Live and Kicking on BBC until Multi.Coloured Swap Shop opened its doors for business (which bloody well reminds me, Trousers, where the dickens has the Monday poem got to? That didn't last very long did it?), it was just a collection of kid's programmes such as Zorro, The Flashing Blade and the Banana Splits (which was in itself a forerunner of the Swap Shop format) with the odd cartoon (have you ever noticed that whenever you put a group of people in a room together they always end up talking about Northy?), followed by an Abbot and Costello film. Over on ATV they were way ahead of the pack with Tiswas, which always used to finish with an episode of Tarzan. Featuring Jai, who later, as Kurtis Blow, played a major role in the development of hip hop. My brother's wife has got the original "White Horses" single. A couple of years ago I underwent lengthy negotiations with her to get it. All went well, and eventually she bequeathed me her entire vinyl collection except....White Horses. So I was left with a pile of Imagination and Police LPs that none of the secondhand shops in Nottingham were willing to take off my hands. There is a moral to this story somewhere. The Flashing Blade had an even better theme tune. Occasionally they showed that Jerry Lewis film where he plays the part of an alien who can't kiss anybody without his nose bending. No wonder the French consider him a genius . My lamp has broken. Is that a good enough excuse to sit here spouting shite instead of working? Peter ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister@majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? -----------------------------------------------------------------------