tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6075393268513251879.post4625252499494784476..comments2024-03-27T11:18:59.924+00:00Comments on Sun Dried Sparrows: The youth of innocenceChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02423624920558505937noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6075393268513251879.post-13559255999302697212012-04-07T16:36:15.955+01:002012-04-07T16:36:15.955+01:00All you say sounds good to me! Thanks.All you say sounds good to me! Thanks.Chttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02423624920558505937noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6075393268513251879.post-19778616056452237042012-04-07T12:20:43.806+01:002012-04-07T12:20:43.806+01:00Those were my parents records so...
The real trea...Those were my parents records so...<br /><br />The real treat was Saturday Night Downtown by Candle Light Records...Clarence Carter, Archie Veil and Drells, etc. Once I dug that one out it was over.<br /><br />"Old Fashioned!". I say classic. So, while whatever it is they want today...they'll trash tomorrow and you'll still be lookin good. <br /><br />Lookin' good never goes out of style.e.f. bartlamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05940814285264472785noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6075393268513251879.post-63387613728705496412012-04-07T11:01:27.398+01:002012-04-07T11:01:27.398+01:00Ah, your early record choices sound pretty hip, an...Ah, your early record choices sound pretty hip, and from what you've said about your Boy liking Bo Diddley it's obviously rubbed off on him!<br /><br />The standard of children's illustration today is a huge subject - there's some fantastic stuff as you say and then some really shoddy work too. Thanks for the nice words. I've had it levelled at me that some of my work is 'old-fashioned' - and that can be a problem in such a commercial field, it's not what they want. But when I look at the lovely work I see from my own childhood books I try and convince myself that maybe 'old-fashioned' is not really such a bad thing..?Chttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02423624920558505937noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6075393268513251879.post-29757908920829218722012-04-06T21:36:44.735+01:002012-04-06T21:36:44.735+01:00Beach Boys-Concert and Curtis Mayfield-Back to the...Beach Boys-Concert and Curtis Mayfield-Back to the World are the first records I remember putting on myself and playing.<br /><br />What strikes me about these old illustrations...that didn't occur to me then...is how good they are. I see it now in some of my Boy's books. Some of it's garbage but in others the drawings are really sharp like these...and you're own work.e.f. bartlamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05940814285264472785noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6075393268513251879.post-26820307993937374662012-04-06T20:13:38.965+01:002012-04-06T20:13:38.965+01:00I think you can be forgiven the song choice... and...I think you can be forgiven the song choice... and who could resist a piece psychedelically multi-coloured of vinyl, it looks so good when it spins around! Coloured vinyl was very in, it seems - I think my 'Pinky & Perky' may have been pink, come to think of it.Chttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02423624920558505937noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6075393268513251879.post-19030113924904534282012-04-06T19:27:33.556+01:002012-04-06T19:27:33.556+01:00Thanks A. Yes 'Fire Brigade' is a great an...Thanks A. Yes 'Fire Brigade' is a great anthemic, perky song, isn't it, I can imagine little boys all over the land loving it (and singing along) just for the words too. So you never tried having a Roy Wood style barnet yourself, then? Not even in the '70s...? ;-)Chttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02423624920558505937noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6075393268513251879.post-40282205576638632982012-04-06T00:28:04.031+01:002012-04-06T00:28:04.031+01:00So... maybe there were people warning us sublimina...So... maybe there were people warning us subliminaly about the Man even then...as for first records, mine was a rather psychedelically multi coloured vinyl copy of...The Yellow Rose of Texas/Big Rock Candy Mountain, nothing so classy as The Kinks - I blame my father for the cowboy songs, but only myself for loving the disgusting plastic disc more than the songs !Bel Mondohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06614801876100974056noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6075393268513251879.post-31040983102529752862012-04-05T23:31:38.446+01:002012-04-05T23:31:38.446+01:00Oooh - nice selection of nostalgic images. Yes, I ...Oooh - nice selection of nostalgic images. Yes, I agree, you can tell they were from different times - a different world really.<br /><br />The first song I remember really loving and looking forward to hearing over and over on Radio 1 was The Moves's 'Fire Brigrade' - Roy Wood fascinated me - I thought his hair was fantastic and one of the most outrageous things I'd ever seen at that point!A.https://www.blogger.com/profile/13142931714121592395noreply@blogger.com