Messages between AmbercatGB and Lungdoc
Thanks for sharing part of your life with us, Ambercat. {{{{{Ambercat's family and friends}}}}}
Ohai! I've been sending out some random spare collectiblols today; if you get a nuisance e-mail from ICHC suggesting you send something back, plz ignore it, k? Thnx!
Ohai Amber! I've been sending out more or less random spare collectiblols... if you get a nuisance Email from ICHC about sending something back, ignore it, kthnx! Have a happi dai!
Ohai Ambercat! How does a virtual bike race work??
Ohai Ambercat!! Ohappi Birfdayz tu yu!!!
Ohai Ambercat! How are you? Any change in your work situation since the elections? Surely they need lots more bicyclists to keep the economy nice and reduce the carbon and stuff. Yes? Keep smiling!!
Ohai Ambercat! I hope you got thawed out okay after all that snow! The satellite pictures made TTI look like Greenland aifinkso. Brr! Say warm, my friend!
Ohai Ambercat! You were on a roll todai with the references to Goon Show and the "baby has gone down the plug-hole" song! I wish I could recall the name of the folk duo whose recording of "plug-hole" introduced me to it--a little different from the Cream version, and the same album had a version of "Lion and Albert." This was back in 1979 or so and it probably wasn't new then.-- And I've been carrying about a hundred Goon Shows on my MP3 player for most of the past year. The "What Time Is It, Eccles?" bit from "The Punch-Up-The-Conker" still makes me giggle, even though I can just about recite it verbatim.... Have a good week!
Ohai again! I think I solved the email address problem. You should have an email message from me in your Yahoo mailbox.
Ohai Ambercat! I'm afraid I've forgotten what your IRL name is and the Web page where I found you before (I think it was part of the Swindon borough council site) seems to be borked at the moment. So Ai'm not able to email you at your yahoo mailbox. You can email me at LungDoc123@gmail.com (this is an extra email spot I've set up just for this purpose, so no big deal if the spammers pick it up). I'll be busy (on call) the next few hours but I'll check the mail later today (it's 6 PM here).
Even without using your name in the Google search, your page pops up pretty high in the Google results (just after a list of bike-shops), from here annywai! Sounds like a fun job! Have a nice week!
*gasp* Ai is faymuss! Actually, during an idle moment, I discovered googling my real name and "swindon" or "bikes" gives my work webpage as the top result! I was rather pleased about that!
Ohai Ambercat! Inntersting fing! When you posted the puzzle of the 10cc lyrics earlier today, Ai knew Ai had heard 'em someplacez but couldn't recall where, so Ai strung a handful of the words together (along with the word "lyrics") as a Google search, and came up with the 10cc reference. But the innersting thing was that your post was included in the Google results! And this was less than an hour after you had posted it! I was a little surprised just how fast our little ephemera become a part of the (semi-) Permanent Record of teh Interwebs!
Ohai again! Ai was just nosing around on YouTube and it appears that someone named Joshua12345 has posted a large number (20+) of Holloway songs and/or monologues there; I think most of those on the CD's are included. Also a surprising amount of other material in the "music hall" (what we would call vaudeville over here) tradition. Fun to listen! How was your day 2dai?
I didn't know they were any Holloway monologues on CD! I think I'd prefer the poor sound quality one - it just doesn't sound right to me if it doesn't crackle like an old 78"!
Have you heard the CD collections of Holloway's performances? I've acquired two sometime in the last decade; "Stanley Holloway--'Pick Oop Tha Musket'--The Great Monologues", on the Flapper label from Pavilion Records Ltd. in Wadhurst (E. Sussex), and "Stanley Holloway; His Greatest Performances" on the Prism Leisure label, from Enfield (EN3 7SX, whatever that means?). Their contents overlap a bit and the sound quality, especially on the Pavilion disc, is pretty much what you'd expect from recordings made in 1930-1937; but you might find them enjoyable. (The sound on the Prism collection has been cleaned up quite a bit.) On listening to them this evening I find that there are _four_ "Albert" tracks: "Lion," "Albert Comes Back," "Albert and the 'Eadsman," and "Albert Evacuated." For all I know there may be more, but those are all I have in my bizarre collection of novelty records, anyway! Maybe your book has a more definitive list. --Have a good day!
My dad had a 78" with The Return of Albert and Sam Small on - I first heard them aged about 10 and enjoyed them so was given a book of Stanley Holloway monologues, including Albert and the Lion, and learnt a few of them. I can still remember big chunks of the 2 Albert poems, but I checked to avoid making too big a fool of myself too! Mind you, I think we were maybe the only peeps on last night that knew them!
I could remember about a third of it--but not wishing to misquote in front of all these people, I quickly cut-and-pasted the text off Google and did the Lolspeak translation on the fly. (My source was www.monologues.co.uk) There was a time, when records were vinyl, when I could have done it all from memory... I didn't hear the great Holloway version until recent years, but back around 1975 there was an album over here by two singers whose names I've forgotten, which included both Lion/Albert and a version of "A Mother's Lament" (Your baby has gone down the plug 'ole...) that got a bit of airplay on public radio stations, and I learned it from that. ;-)
It was fun! Truthfully now; how much could you do from memory and how much did you have to look up?!
Ohai Ambercat! Thnx for accepting the friend request. That was fun this morning doing the transatlantic recitation! I wish I could have been a witness at that wedding you mentioned--that recital must have been memorable indeed! And I'd almost forgotten that the "Return of Albert" sequel existed. Too bad I had to bail out and do IRL stuff right after we finished the first story. --Have a happy day!
