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The Ronettes - BE MY BABY

I love the Ronettes, and as a young teen saw them many times in person. Thanks for the memory Orion.

AnneBoleyn;1518193 wrote: I love the Ronettes, and as a young teen saw them many times in person. Thanks for the memory Orion.


Yeah, they're from your stompin' grounds, aren't they, Anne?

Here is one,

Thought I posted this yesterday, don't know why this popped into my mind immediately on seeing the Ronettes.

"Freight Train" was a coffee bar we used to frequent in the 60's in swinging London.

The two earliest songs I remember I played on a small 45 rpm player.

Yakety Yaks

The Yellow Rose of Texas

When I was really young, My parents were music lovers. They had a marvelous collection of recordings from the 40s and mom had the record player going most of the day as she did chores and such.

my early years were filled with Glenn Miller Benny Goodman, Arty Shaw, Tommy Dorsey, and the like.

LarsMac;1518194 wrote: Yeah, they're from your stompin' grounds, aren't they, Anne?


Yes, and that reminds me of another song:

The Angels & the MAGNIFICENT Shirelles:

Is this thread anything to do with Da Do Ron Ron? Or was that not what The Ronettes came from.

For Lars' parents and mine: Glenn Miller covers Cole Porter:

I remember when this first came out one of the most evocative anti-war songs ever written IMO.



Eric bogle also wrote the band played waltzing matilda.



I'm one of the lost generation, post hippy and pre punk.

I love this one;

Beautiful memories.....

Thank you all for posting.

Let's remember this one:

The Platters - The Great Pretender

spot;1518213 wrote: Is this thread anything to do with Da Do Ron Ron? Or was that not what The Ronettes came from.


Da Do Ron Ron was by the Crystals. While I loved that song, here is my favorite one from them, a song all girls can relate to:

Oops, I meant my second favorite. Here is my ultimate favorite by the Crystals:



I always liked the bad boys!

Orion79;1518218 wrote: Beautiful memories.....

Thank you all for posting.

Let's remember this one:

The Platters - The Great Pretender




Hey Orion79! If you remove the litttle "s" after the "https" when you are entering your video link, the video will play in the browser! (No one tells you these things...)

OK, so we're going all the way back, eh? Everyone's OK with dating themselves? Well, I'll play!

I ordered to 45s from Scholastic Book Services when I was in 6th grade:

The Carpenters - Goodbye to Love



And The Byrds - So You Want to be a Rock and Roll Star

Saint_;1518258 wrote: Hey Orion79! If you remove the litttle "s" after the "https" when you are entering your video link, the video will play in the browser! (No one tells you these things...)


Thank you for your kind piece of advice, dear Saint_ .

On other forums you can simply embed youtube videos into your posts, without any change.

Thank you .

Peter,Sue and Marc - Birds of Paradise

When I was in our harmony dance trio (back in the day LOL), we played a gig at a place called The Coalville Miners Welfare, and we were the back-up band to the Ray McVay Orchestra. I can remember saying to the orchestra's drummer as he unloaded all his kit and put it on the massive stage - "How many are in the band ?" to which he replied "Oh, 4 musicians and 25 vocalists !" and gave me a big grin. He wasn't joking either, because towards the end of the evening when everybody was up and dancing and really giving it 'charlie big potatoes', the instrumentalists downed their instruments except for the basic four and did a James Last with all but the four basic musicians, standing at the front of the stage singing. They were a very good band. But they were not James Last although they came a fairly good second !

I got an email last week to tell me I'd just earned more Royalties on one of my arrangements - Swansea Town. Actually bought by someone in Swansea.

The Platters - ONE IN A MILLION

Just looking at all the music peeps are putting up here . it's reminded me of my mum and her telling me as a teenager (in reference to my taste in music) that I was born twenty years too late and in the wrong country. lol I was born in the dawn of Aquarius so missed all the good stuff.