It was even funnier when my Dad would try and rectify the situation by saying in a stage whisper ... "sorry I'll come back, do you want a cup of tea?"

I was just thinking exactly the same!

I recorded a song at Charing Cross with two of my friends. we were probably eleven or twelve - one of our favourite teachers at school was leaving 'the music teacher'  - we recorded a made up song called 'Why are you leaving' - to the tune of 'Why are we waiting'

I bet he treasures it to this day  

KaffyBaffy
Just had a quick look in the cupboard and found the Dickies (Banana Splits) on yellow vinyl,Undertones on green and Wayne County and the Electric Chairs on..proper gold !

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Ultravox's "We Came To Dance" on clear vinyl is my most exotic single.

Oh, and New Order's "Blue Monday", which was packaged in a sleeve similar to a very early floppy disc!

Like one of these that Noah may have used

It was the same group week in week out... but my parents loved it.

have we covered picture discs yet??.......that was proper exciting.......

Oh blimey - thanks..
We have all got carried away with the reminiscing...

Smarting Buttocks said she gave all hers away
But we haven't covered them in detail yet..

At least my bruv's wouldn't barge in on me.They were (and still are)  nine and ten years older than me.  I used to go for hay fever injections every Tuesday then would go and get the messages (shopping) in for mam and dad for that day, and then listen/tape the top twenty before I went back to school that afternoon 

I've just finished reading through the thread and see others have posted the same things I have earlier.....it's great how we all have the same memories eh?       We were clearing out old stuff at Dads's a while back and everyone thought it hilariousl that I had my name and address on every album sleeve.  Well.. you never knew what rogue was gonna try and claim your records at a party, did you?    I also have the names of all of the celebrities written beside them on the cover of Band on the Run.     I was always a bit anal it would appear. 

Sing Something Simple with the Mike samms Singers used to totally do my brain in!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I hated it bwith a passion - found it so depressing!

Give me the Billy cotton Band Show anytime 'WAKEY,WAAAAAAAAAAAKEY'!

 

I'm sure I've got one! I need to delve!

OOOhhh yeh, I got the Cars .. Just What I Needed I think it was.. and Fischer Z.

At one point I think I must have tried to have all my singles in order of popularity cos I found a load that I had numbered for some reason.
I used to put my name and address on albums as well cos of the party situation

School discos in the assembly hall?

I remember having (yikes) an Ultravox clear vinyl... but cannot remember whether it was All Stood Still or Sleep Walk!

On Mother Kelly's Doorstep - My gt Aunt Rose's party piece.
I used to stare opened mouthed (It was waaaaaaaaaay old fashioned song even then!), now I'd love a chance to sing it and often threaten to do so.

I quite like getting revenge on my kids under the guise of reminiscing.

I must go google the lyrics...

Can't believe I'm doing this in the name of nostalgia ...................I really and truly can't bear to listen to it but .............here you go

LOVE IT!!!!!!!

A must at all the family parties in times gone by!

I loved On Mother Kelly's doorstep and sadly  I remember all the lyrics..

Me too

That was my nana's partypiece too  That and are you lonesome tonight

Soozy...
That took ,me right back to my Mum and Dad's house. Mum doing her weekly housekeeping accounts on the dining room table and Dad getting tea..

Oh lovely xxx Thank you...

This!

And Alan Drew, if you're reading this, did you have to scrawl 'Beryl The Peril' over ALL my singles before we went to Susan White's party

I wouldn't mind but name's not even Beryl..! 

Cold Sweat
I remember having (yikes) an Ultravox clear vinyl... but cannot remember whether it was All Stood Still or Sleep Walk!

All stood still was great

My Dad was incapable of singing the correct lyrics to any song.
So the words to are you lonesome were changed to...

"Do the chairs in your parlour seem empty and bare..
Do you gaze at your bald head and wish you had hair?"

Yay..!  At a push I could probably sing along but I want to be word perfect when I make my debut. My kids deserve no less........
Slinki, rest assured, your nana's party piece will live on even if it is off key and sounds more like your cat's being strangled.

Yeah, I've got some stuff that isn't my name too  That said.......who took the New Seekers (I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing) to a party for gawd sake! 

ROFL!!

Actually, we knew a guy who was tragically orphaned in high school.    Don't ask me how, but he lived, to all intents and purposes, alone in his parents house.      aka Party City....

At our family parties it always ended in a song  (don't klow the name can't you tube it) bujt it went like this

down our street one day there came a toff
A nice old geezer with a hacking cough
He said to the Mrs
As he took his cadey off
In a very gentlemanly way


can anyone help me with that? my mums eighty in a couple of weeks and I'd like to play that for he at her party..

That was the one! It went .. are you lonesome tonight..is your  girdle too tight .. etc

OHHH we had a bloke like that - not orphaned but parents went away an awful lot and he had the greatest parties ever..
I can still remember being 16 and sitting with a load of 16-18 year olds at  3 in the morning putting the world to rights and listening to Supertramp

and ended it's no wonder you're lonesome toooooniyyyeeeettttt!

I am sure that there were all sorts of versions... but really funny

hahaha..  Priceless stuff.

*Goes to Google some of the lyrics*

The internet is a bit of a blessing and curse.  If anyone's anything like me, they've known songs for years and have always assumed the lyrics were as they interpreted them.  Then going on a lyrics website only to find out that they've got those lyrics so very, very wrong for many years but actually preferred the understanding of those lyrics over the actual lyrics. 

I converted everything to MP3 and through various means converted 'em onto my iPod! The rare ones I sold on eBay. The rest I took to the heart shop. I am left with what turned out to be bootlegs. I don't care about the items as long as I have the music.