The Last Song You Listened to Thread

"Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer"

American/English translation on request.

 

My contribution to the Specials love.
Keep skanking wherever you are, Terry.

Bonus song that he co wrote with Jane Wiedlin

 

Who ever done this mash up song is brilliant it works so well.

 

Well, that's an interesting combo!!

 

I like this band, but not impressed that they decided to drop their original name due to current fads!!

 

Been going through my 1980s music. Basically cassettes in the car:

 

Listening to this as I update my website with a few new bits and pieces. Can't believe it is over 35 years old!!!!

 

It is us VP, well, me for sure........I get the feeling I might be a little older than you though!!

 

I sort of retired last July and so time has started to become a feature of my thoughts. My wife says I have always been a glass half empty sort of chap, but now I am just plain morbid!!

 

And now for something completely different!

 

Good choice Dave,

I always wondered whether Bill Bartlett & Co took their band name from that one time coaching inn, the Ram Jam:

that stood beside the Great North Road in Rutland; alas no more - recently demolished.

The hostelry had possible association with Dick Turpin and was close to what was RAF Cottesmore, otherwise known in 1943 as USAAF Station 489, a base for troop transport aircraft, including gliders, in anticipation of the station's future use by airborne forces:


I expect it would have been popular with those guys.

I can't recall the last record I listened to there, but I remember listening to Black Betty - over a few beers - in 1977.

Also remember this gem from the same time: