Saturday, October 31, 2009

NATHAN BACK IN HOSPITAL!

Our one room Accomodation!

Within a couple of weeks of Moving into our One Room Accomodation, Nathan was ill again, he was taken to the Local General Hospital on the Baby Unit.

He was not keeping his Bottle down and being Sick all the time and he was badly Dehydrated!

Within a couple of days, Nathan was sent back to the Hospital where he had his Stomach Operation a couple of weeks previously!

Now at this time, we never had a Telephone, because of the type of place we lived in, I cant even remember there being any type of Communial phone in the house either! So we gave my Hotel Telephone number and my Mother's phone number in case of Emergencies, this has it turned out was a mistake, given them my mother's number!

My Mother most of the time found out things before us this way, so when the Hospital tried to contact Me and Susan, they phoned both my Mother house and my work to tell us about Nathan, saying "Nathan was sent back to the original Hospital, for further Tests etc" she was at the Hospital before us, all gowned up and holding Nathan, so when we got there, she had already been told all about Nathan's condition and knew everything that was going on etc!

Now this was not right, but very Typical of my Mother! to this day She is still like that or should I say the last time we saw her she was, but that several years ago now!

In fact I now have Grandchildren, with the oldest being 11 years old and my Mother has never ever seen Her! So that will explain to you what she is like!

Anyway because of my Mother's actions it caused a row between Me & Susan and my Mother and Father, I put this down to us being young and Naive, because if it happened now, my Mother would have firmly been put in her place by Me and Susan!

Back to Nathan, he was all wired up again with tubes for feeding and Montoring tests etc
So we for next couple of weeks were backward and forwards to the Hospital, all the time, plus I was still at Work and College!

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

10th SELECTION FOR F.S.V.B /// STARPOINT RADIO


This week I'm featuring a Radio Show Mix from Starpoint Radio there are 4 different Shows, all lasting 2 hours per show and featuring Soul Jazz Gospel etc, all shows are Hosted my Paul Goldsmith!
You can just listen or as usual go to page for full track listing and under listings press download button to download to your PC.


Sunday, October 25, 2009

THE GREATEST SOUL SINGER OF ALL TIME......... AL GREEN........ part 3




Between 1982 and 1989 Al Green released 6 more Albums, if you count the Christmas offering's in 1983 & 1986 that's 8! I will be doing a seperate feature on the Christmas Album in about a month's time, with a Download!

The Album titles were as follows:
1982 Precious Lord (4)
1983 I'll Rise Again (4)
1985 Trust In God (10)
1986 Going Away (11)
1987 Soul Survivor (1)
1989 I Get Joy (13)

All these Albums charted in the Gospel Charts (positions in brackets) but only Soul Survivor made it in the US Pop Charts and only a lowly 131!

The first 3 Albums were on the Myrrh Label and the last 3 were on the A&M Record Label.
Al Green was re-united with Producer Willie Mitchell for his Debut A&M Album "Going Away"

A feature of these 6 Gospel Albums were a few Cover Versions of Big Hits for other Recording Artists!

Up the Ladder to the Roof...The Supremes
Aint no Moutain High Enough...Diana Ross
Lean on me...Bill Withers
Your'e got a Friend...James Taylor
He Aint Heavy...The Hollies

My two favorite Tracks from the 6 Albums were:
"Going Away" from the "Going Away Album" &
"Dont it make you want to go Home" from the "Trust in God Album".

The "I Get Joy" Album was Al Green's last for A&M before moving to several different Record Labels before finally settling at Blue Note Records in 2003!

Thursday, October 22, 2009

9th SELECTION FUNK/SOUL/DISCO/JAZZ MIX


Here's the 9th Mix for F.S.V.B, Its been Mixed by DixMix, its called Autumn Mix there's some classic Funk Jazz and Soul Tracks on here, including Fat Larrys Band, Staples Singers,Dayton, Larry Graham and Unique!

Either press play to listen or press link to go to DixMix's Podomatic Page and download to your pc.

see the podcast page for full
track listing!



Sunday, October 18, 2009

NEW ACCOMODATION and the LAUNDERETTE

The old Launderette we used to use and it's still going strong!

We finally moved into our new place around last week in September 1978, things at that time were fairly hectic as I recall, I was also back at College, one day per week and still working at the same Hotel, It was hard for us with a Baby living in just one room most of the time!

But we did have one particular friend in the House we shared with about 9 other families, her name was Shirley (she was the person who seemed to keep things going along in the house), she I remember helped me and Susan out several times during our stay!

One thing I do remember was having some sort of bother with the Washing of Clothes, I remember there was only one machine for all the families, so being a bit particular where we washed our clothes! it was my job to go to the local Launderette, which was about 5 minutes away, so every couple of Days we were over the Launderette, washing ans drying our clothes.

We used to use Nathan's pushchair to take to laundry backwards and forwards, it was a bright Orange colour! ................. Married life was Bliss!

Another thing I remember about this period in time, I didn't have my Music Center with us, because of space etc, it was left at my Mother's House, but I still brought the odd Vinyl Record to play at a later date!

One Record I remember buying was the Rose Royce Single, "Love dont live here anymore"
this was a Number 2 in U.K in September of 1978! I still have the Single to this day in our loft!

Things were about to change again for us, with Nathan still not right after his operation!
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