BBC Fifties Radio Themes - (pt.2 of 2) - plus the "Ovaltineys Song" 

We listen to it Sunday lunch time Billy cotton band show after then educating Archie or the clitherow kid and in the afternoon sing something simple and Movie-go-round and last of all Radio Luxembourg with the Jack Jackson show

I'm English - in Canada since 1975 - but I hear English people speaking "English" now and I cringe. Am I a snob? Hope not. That English chef is one of the worst!

Kevin Drennan Used to call 'em clothes horses. Washed in the galvanised "tin" bath, shivered while the guarded fire seared the skin off one arm. Whitewashed walls. And all watched over by The Clock (I worked out Roman numerals from that thing). Cossor radio, with its valves. Woman's hour, I understood little of. Then the '57 'flu epedemic nearly claimed me. But sixty years on, I'M STILL HERE!! Here it all is - in just 4 minutes... ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-bxPKKcpyg6c.html

Making a simple maiden/clothes horse (two frames with a hinge) was common school woodwork project. Mine had hinges made from leather fixed with tacks. I still have it and the joinery is actually good! Mortise & tenon and bridle joints.

I remember Two Way Family Favourites. Loved it!

Yes it was good wasn't it.

My Darling Smoochy, Of course I love this.....I love the song and I can just imagine a little Smoochy sitting listening to "With a Song in My Heart" in front of the radio drinking Ovaltine..:-) Thank you for sharing. Smooches g

***** So pleased you liked it. It's very nostalgic for me and of course annie482000. Love and kisses David xxx

Phil Binstead I do too - happy, happy days!

I agree!!

I am an ovalteeny

How wonderful that you've reached your 90s, brilliant, but time has spoilt your memory. The Ovalteenies were NEVER on the BBC, and were pre war, on Radio Normandie. Which Broadcast from Fecamp, on the Normandy Coast, until the outbreak of the War. This was 1930s music

"Puffing Billy" was also the theme for the American children's television show "Captain Kangaroo," which ran from 1955 to 1984 on the CBS network.

The OVALTEENIES Club goes back over 80 years I was an OVALTEENEE and my Brother and Sister age now 90 and Me age 93 fond memories every SUNDAY

Happy Times!!

Wasn't that the theme tune to Family Favourites?

It wasn’t BBC but208 Luxembourg

Oh God! Sing Something Simple. What a dreary, depressing programme and theme tune. It sums up all that was stifling, grey and repressed in post war dreary Britain. And the temerity in giving their musical treatment to Beatles number.

Kathleen Ferrier singing Blow the wind southerly is my over riding memory of Sunday afternoons in the 50s, my wife and I used to go for long walks instead; anything rather than sitting in the house all afternoon! Mind you, as awful as I thought it was at the time, I'd take it any day now rather than the bloody xfactor or whatever such nonce you get on Sundays now!

Oh dear me--Kathleen Ferrier---and yet, a few years ago, I watched a BBC documentary about her, and it turns out, that she was a jolly Lancashire lass, from an ordinary background, who had an extraordinary voice, and with a great sense of humour. WE can blame the snobs at the BBC for not playing some of her really nice lighter recordings. Sadly she died young, of cancer.

I think it came on after Pick Of The Pops with Alan Freeman. It reminds me of the car journey back home from the Welsh coast with my sister and parents. Happy days.

As a kid, I dreaded my parents switching on the radio for "proper" music. I used to sing "Sing Something Sinful" and got sent to my bedroom. There I listened to 208 on the medium wave band.

+Paul Kersey The Sunday roast cooking nicely, followed by?---WAKEY WAKEEEY ! Billy Cotton Band Show--Alan Breeze etc etc --Oh dear---so long ago--

Thanks, I forgot about Bill. Of course, before him, was Cliff Mitchelmore, who married Jean Metcalf.

Wilfred Pickles and Mable---I have to laugh when I think of the amounts of money gifted to member's of the audience.. How much is on the table Mabel'? ''2 bob ' and we thought it great.

Jewell and Warris

*_Lucky you!_*

Same here miss the music and times roll back the years how I wish

We always tend to look back with rose-tinted glasses...It was a different time, not necessarily safer. I grew up in the 60s, there was abuse, violence & paedophilia - those things weren't openly talked about so it may seem as though they didn't exist... Nuclear weapons were as much a problem then as now (bay of pigs anyone?)...The environment was an issue then but it was 'invisible' - in fact, the problems we have now are an accumulation of things not dealt with then: growing up, I saw more birds than we do now: their massive decline took decades to make according to an article in the 'New Scientist'...In short: the past has laid the foundations for what we have today.

...we had a Morris Minor...

I had a second-hand bike!

J Burden LOL!

J Burden I had a second-hand everything! Money was scarce in those days and barter was the order of the day!! Amazing how contended we were with our lot!

chet atkins ... and even more awful synthetic music!

Agreed, and I have an home-made recording of the original programme too! It was repeated some time later, didn't have a tape recorder when it was first broadcast!

Johnny Norfolk Hi Johnny Norfolk....I am Tony Suffolk. Great names eh! I greatly enjoyed the warm nostalgia of hearing these sounds from our childhood. We are a lucky generation. We have lived through great times.

Today They do not know what they have mised as they walk about with their brain in the phone.

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