No Mr One Shed, I happened to just inherit my father's house with said double garage, along with my sister, so technically I would be "One Half of Double Garage With Lotsa Junk & No Car Either Nick", I was boasting above my station obviously! And no I am not from Yorkshire one upping you, or rather downupping you! Cheers, Nick the Bragger
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thanks to all who keep this daft thread alive it will reach 2000 or I will die trying most prob the latteTake care all and stay alert you dont know whats around the corner
The internet can be a wonderful place. I had a vague memory of hearing that Barry Ryan was burned in a telephone box - I was 4 years old (yes, I have a ridiculous memory) & recall being quite upset (big sister was a fan). Anyway, as years passed I assumed I must have just had a bunch of muddled memories so was quite amazed to discover that such a long thread existed confirming my freakish memories were in fact correct! Thank you all!
Tis sad news they gave us some great music..RIP Barry
Already this thread has lasted a long time and there is no intention to hijack it onto a slightly different subject. But nowhere can we find any information or story behind one of the hits that's never played, never acknowledged and rarely recalled. Other than 'Eloise' all the singles had relatively low placings in the national chart. They fared much better in the groundbreaking Radio London Fab Forty - a chart that set the pace for less than 3 years, but still airs weekly in its original time of 11am on Oldies Project.
The song that we thought their strongest was 'Claire' - a tremendous production that should have sold a million. Yet Barry, in an interview with Jason Barnard for Strange Brew, simply dismissed it as 'horrible.' The one we're currently hooked on again, and it's playing on repeat constantly, is the song he didn't mention at all, so probably hated it. The fabulous “Missy Missy” reached #12 in the Fab Forty in December 1966. It received also high placings on the Caroline Countdown and City Sixty. We'd love to hear the story of this Mike Leander/Charles Mills composition. Even in their repertoire, the song isn't always mentioned. The style would, at that time, have been better suited to the New Vaudeville Band. The Ryan Twins handled it well but there are no live performances of it to be found. The song made little impact on us until the 2015 re-run of the London Fab Forty when it was on permanent play for 20 days and remains a lasting earworm and one of the most played records of all time here. The Ryans and Mike Leander are no longer with us. We know not if Chas Mills or any artist contributing to it is still around, but any information would be greatly appreciated.