Max Bygaves has died, so long Max. His songs have been part of the featured soundtrack to my life and I mourn his passing. He was a wonderful entertainer and a great favourite with many folks.
I have a memory of him from my early life when, within our church Sunday School programme, a friend and I were encouraged to perform one of his songs for a school concert. And the song - You're a Pink Toothbrush I'm a Blue Toothbrush - which we sang dressed in our pyjamas while very firmly clutching our teddy bears. Of the performance, I have not one single recollection. My memory is of my Grandmother, waiting for me at our garden gate, with my nightwear neatly folded over one arm, and my teddy bear and slippers held tightly in her other arm. I think she probably had a slight frown on her forehead, for to take me to the church hall, after school, would have used up her precious home time, when she should have been finishing off chores and preparing supper for everyone.
And did we look cute, singing that song, and holding on to our teddy bears for comfort, well you bet we did!!
Max Bygraves gave a great deal of pleasure during the 1950's and during many of the following decades and his name should definitely reverberate throughout out collective memory.
Jenson Button has won the Belgium Grand Prix and Lewis Hamilton was shunted off into nowhere land, bad luck, Lewis, at least you won the previous GP. The dear SO was so elated that his boy had won: what a star turn he is.... Jenson Button, I mean, of course?
Alice is much better today and coping very well with her collar, which beastly as it is, is making sure she doesn't get at her wounds and irritate the stitchery so neatly done on Friday. We have medicine to last until next Thursday and then another hospital visit on the following Monday for the stitches to be removed. Hopefully, we'll then be able to get back to our daily two-walk schedule, for me as well as Alice and Poppy!
Oh gosh, I've just read that American lyricist, Hal David, who collaborated with Burt Bacharach on many absolutely brilliant songs, has died, aged 91. There are so many favourite songs of theirs to choose from, so here are just two, which for me remain top ten all-time best-ever popular songs - Magic Moments by Perry Como and Walk On Bye sung by Dionne Warwick.
Totally brilliant memories - ones own - and priceless!
I'm watching the Paralympic Games with Alice beside me, singing along to the short videos now playing on the news channels in celebration of both Max Bygraves and Hal David, deeply immersed in nostalgia.and....perhaps it's time for a cup of tea?
"And possibly a spot of family history when I've finished, or a page or two from one of the books on my present reading list?"
Enjoy your Sunday evening, wherever you are,
Daisy
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