A question for the real oldies 65 plus

I remember them well Kenny. Eurovision entry back in the day for UK.

I found some old sheet music of theirs when having a clear out. Showed t'old lass next door (she's 90) and she said this is marvellous, can you get them on that contraption of yours? (my iphone)So I got loads of stuff up and she absolutely loved it. She said are they still alive. I said you're joking, they must have been in their 50s when I was a kid in the 50s.

I was wrong. Both still living!

Pearl Carr, now 95, and Teddy Johnson, now 97, both live in Brinsworth House, a home for retired entertainers.

Richard O'Sullivan is also there.

lol

We didn't get a telly until 1961, so most of my early memories are from the radio.

Clitheroe Kid
Journey Into Space
Have A Go
Ray's A Laugh
Top Of The Form
Paul Temple


Great stuff

Gery, Nearly all JIS episodes are on youtube. Listened to a few of the about a year ago. Somehow didn't seem quite as thrilling as I remember them.

2017

In a subsequent Eurovision shoot-out Johnson's brother beat them with 'Looking ,high, high, high.'  Christ - I'd hoped I'd forgotten that - Vel will remember - it's sort of Andy Stewart kitsch. Now it's hollowing out my brain ...  Also finished 2nd.

Journey Into Space is a BBC Radio science fiction programme written by BBC producer Charles Chilton. It was the last UK radio programme to attract a bigger evening audience than television.[1] Originally, four series were produced (the fourth was a remake of the first), which was translated into 17 languages[2] (including Hindustani, Turkish and Dutch[3]) and broadcast in countries worldwide (including the United States, New Zealand, Australia and the Netherlands).[3] Chilton later wrote three best-selling novels and several comic strip stories based upon the radio series.

The first series was created in 1953, soon after Riders of the Range (a popular Western, also written by Chilton) ended its six seasons on the BBC Light Programme. Michael Standing, then Head of the BBC Variety Department, asked Chilton if he could write a sci-fi programme, and Journey to the Moon (later known as Operation Luna) was the result.[1] Each half-hour episode would usually end with a dramatic cliffhanger, to increase the audience's incentive to tune into the next episode.

The original magnetic recordings of the show were erased shortly after broadcast, and for several decades it was believed that no recordings of the show had survived. In 1986, a set of misfiled Transcription Service discs (produced for sale to overseas radio stations) was discovered, containing complete copies of the three original series (more accurately, the surviving version of the first season is a cut-down remake of the original, produced for the Transcription Service during the 1950s). This discovery enabled the BBC to begin re-broadcasting the show in the late 1980s, and release copies of the show, first on audio cassette, and more recently on CD and internet download.

Fans of Journey Into Space include Colin Pillinger,[4] Kenny Everett,[5] John Major,[5] Stephen Hawking,[5] Miriam Margolyes[5] and former Doctor Who producer Philip Hinchcliffe.[6]

Jet, Doc and Lemmy discover the same house, and find Mitch inside it. But Mitch is now 'conditioned' to believe he's in Australia, and doesn't recognise the others. He refuses to rejoin them, and attacks Jet.

Used to listen to it in the dark - and then we'd sing the Ovalteenies song - with the Ovalteenies, who probably were molested or grew up to be molesters. Cancel that last bit - some of them probably survived show business.

Radio Luxembourg in the dark ... the only station that played new music. All the knob twiddling to get rid of the whistling and shrieking - that's the old Bakelite valve radio, you pervs.

No chance of that, we're all LBGTQ-certified on here now kenny.

Don't die in your sleep, Kenny!

Although they were divorced in 1976, Nina flew out to the Philippines to bring Frederick’s body back to Europe after he became the victim of a ‘mysterious professional killing’, along with his girlfriend Susannah, in 1994.

Good start.  Sorry end.

fred would of durn well in da bristol drug dens like a foil to portishead n tricky n sh1tt

googled them... glad i don't remember them.

I used tae know a guy called WEE HARRY who sang their songs...

Jimmy Clitheroe was class. "Our Alfie".

They were our entry in the first Eurovision Contest I remember. Amazed they are still alive tbh. Did Pearl Carr have a sister who was also a singer ?