Forty Eight Years Later...
I always had a holiday in Bournemouth at least twice a year.
Some 48 years ago I'd guess, Boscombe pier used to have roller skating on the pier an(I don't remember actually doing any skating myself)
Later the skating was later replaced by gambling machines but mainly of a bygone age and the amount you could win meant they were more just for the fun of it...
I do remember one piece of music being played when everyone skated and we asked what it was.
We never ever heard it again.
I suspect that we tried to order it but again it seemed to be unavailable.
Many years later I did find a 78 of it in a jumble sale but with no record player etc...it has sat in a drawer doing nothing.
A few years ago I found it on a foreign mp3 site but it was not available for download here. Also, you could only hear perhaps a small excerpt of it to preview it before buying.
But for some reason tonight I put the title into Amazon's site in the UK and...I have it at last. It is called Rainbow's End by Lou Busch and his orchestra. And was the "B" side of one his biggest hits Zambesi.
It may be a bit cheesy but it brings back quite a few memories and connects me to a happy time and to my Dad in particular so again I have downloaded another rarity.
Some 48 years ago I'd guess, Boscombe pier used to have roller skating on the pier an(I don't remember actually doing any skating myself)
Later the skating was later replaced by gambling machines but mainly of a bygone age and the amount you could win meant they were more just for the fun of it...
I do remember one piece of music being played when everyone skated and we asked what it was.
We never ever heard it again.
I suspect that we tried to order it but again it seemed to be unavailable.
Many years later I did find a 78 of it in a jumble sale but with no record player etc...it has sat in a drawer doing nothing.
A few years ago I found it on a foreign mp3 site but it was not available for download here. Also, you could only hear perhaps a small excerpt of it to preview it before buying.
But for some reason tonight I put the title into Amazon's site in the UK and...I have it at last. It is called Rainbow's End by Lou Busch and his orchestra. And was the "B" side of one his biggest hits Zambesi.
It may be a bit cheesy but it brings back quite a few memories and connects me to a happy time and to my Dad in particular so again I have downloaded another rarity.
posted by The Great Gildersleeve | 9:18 pm
2 Comments:
Now you just need candy floss aroma air-freshener and you'll be drooling down Memory Lane.
It doesn't take much for me to do that Span.
I suspect music does it more than anything else. It's good to see so much of the back catelogue of music becoming available online.
Even music no longer sold because of problems with the artist being blacklisted by the public and radio stations. Whether you like someone it's silly trying to pretend someone's work never happened.
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