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Older readers, at least those whose formative years were spent watching BBC TV in the hope of catching a bit of cleavage, will remember Percy Thrower as TV's Mr Horticulture, dispensing avuncular and earthy advice that added to the gaiety of the Garden Nation. But did you know he's something of an authority on obscure post-psych vinyl long-playing 33rpm 12" record LP album disc elpees? Turns out his "potting shed" has the accent on "pot"!
PT Oh I say! Good gracious me, but the bottom on that filly is something to behold! Preferably by me ha ha ha! HA HA HA!
FT3 I really hadn't noticed. It's like most people born in Paris never go up the Eiffel Tower. But anyway, which you brung an album?
PT Beyond Your Head, the second album by internationally-celebrated beat combo The Boffalongos!
FT3 Produced by the same team at United Artists what brung us the antecedently FoamFeatured© The Music Asylum in the same year.
PT Yes indeed, 1970, and there is a mysterious rubric on the back cover claiming this album to be a Music Asylum Concept, whatever that is.
FT3 Dancing In The Moonlight was a hit, of sorts, reprised couple years later by King Harvest, which the band morphed into. Orleans was another offshoot. Still pops up occasionally on soundtracks and ads.
FT3 Why these albums in particular, TV's Mr. Horticulture?
PT Perennial favourites in the potting shed! Strong material, playing, singing, production. Thoughtful touches in the arrangements. Varied compositions, rhythm changes ... particularly good guitar by one Keith Ginsberg. Bit of a mystery why they weren't bigger. I wonder - would Kreemé be interested in bedding down a hardy perennial behind the potting shed?
This post made possible by frankly just being too darn hot to go outside.
What's your weather like?
ReplyDeleteFull onset of primavera. Low in the upper 40s, high in the upper 60s.Gorgeous.
ReplyDeleteIs this US-style temperature?
DeleteSi. In celsius, ranges from 5 to 20 presently.
DeleteMeltdown here...
ReplyDeleteCloudy, chilly perfect weather to climb the Wall of Huy
ReplyDeleteCycling?
DeleteGot it in one. Perfect, listening to good music, cycling on the telly, and this Fleche Wallonais only has the last 5 minutes to wait for. Good excuse to have some hours off, listen to some Claw Boys Claw and may the best show him and herself
DeleteBright, dry and with enough sun for the cat to be warm to the touch after lying out in it.
ReplyDeleteI always got Mr Thrower confused with the other Percy (Edwards, animal-sound impersonator) who does a lousy job as a lovable scruffy scamp of a dog in the 'UFO' episode 'The Sound Of Silence'. Maybe Mr Thrower's gardening expertise was similarly overrated as that era was prone to doing (e.g. Vesta curry)?
Amazingly easy to become a TV personality (as they were called) back then. All you had to do was turn up at Television Centre with a haircut, a suit worn with a pullover, and an idea for a show. F'rinstance Barry Bucknell, a witless dullard who showed how to modernise your home by nailing plywood sheets over those old-fashioned panel doors.
DeleteHere on the south of England it is a typical spring day, after overnight rain this morning was sunny 15° (59). I’ve just been following old Percys example and doing a little bit of light gardening at my allotment, having erected a runner bean support wigwam and planted out my first beans, more beans to follow next month. Oh and by beans I do mean beans, not the sort of plants Percy is cultivating.
ReplyDeleteHit 40 degrees at noon here. Turns the brain into meringue.
ReplyDeleteYow! that's too darn hot.
Deletehumid. Not South Louisiana humid or even Houston, but for Central Texas, 80sF & humid.
ReplyDeleteThe Weather? Well in our little micro climate in the South East of England we are suffering a bout of climate change. Our climate's changed overnight to that of Manchester. Cold wet and 'orrible today.
ReplyDeleteHappy St George's Day (not that our current rabid excuse for a Government would ever celebrate it).
I should point out to non-UK residents that Manchester, in addition to being the home of The Beatles and famed for its cuisine, is the capital of the British Isles, and its sunkissed beaches make it a popular vacation resort!
DeleteManchester! That is a disservice to Birmingham . . . a mighty slur. As for Percy - the only one I know is the one I point at the porcelain, and that ain’t what it used to be. Well, in me mid-80s, that’s to be expected doncha think?
DeleteFT3 said “I should point out to non-UK residents that Manchester, in addition to being the home of The Beatles and famed for its cuisine, is the capital of the British Isles, and its sunkissed beaches make it a popular vacation resort!”
DeleteI’d like to confirm the above comment is totally 110% accurate.
© Truth In Trumputinworld, fact checking for the USA. (Salford Branch).
Indeed tis true Manchester is famed for such cordon bleu cuisine as pairing fish and chips with both mushy peas and curry sauce not forgetting the supreme dish of chips n' gravy (fish optional)
DeleteIn Manchester in 1984 I had mushy peas in a samosa.
DeleteIIRC Sean Ryder insists on having gravy with his fish (shudder).
DeleteI was in Rangoon, ooh, a good few years back now (Old Bore writes) and, tempted by the handwritten sign in the window of a flyblown eatery, asked for the cheeseburger. It arrived in about thirty seconds, a plain bun with - you guessed it - a slice of processed cheese. That was it. They were so willing to please I tipped handsomely.
DeleteWill nobody adopt these swell elpees and give them a loving home? What kind of world do we live in where folks just walk by, look away? SHAME ON YOUSE BUMS!
ReplyDeleteTemps here are 60s evenings, 70s to 80 days.....perfect for me. Where's the dl's?
ReplyDeletewillm.
Where's yer manners?
DeleteOh that reminds me, in one of the very first "rock music books", called IIRC 15 minute fandangos and forever changes, by one Jonathan Eisen, he reprints a promotional flyer for Boffalongo which consists entirely of the band name about 90 times. With, perhaps, exclamation marks.
ReplyDeleteHere's the director's cut Twenty Minute Fandangos (a book), and the Boffalongo albums (for them what missed the StealthLink©) in one fun-packed deliverable:
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