Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

My favorite piece of music (and you will think this is really strange) is the last three minutes of the closing credits of Final Fantasy VIII, it is a lovely piece for a wedding.

Offspring are BIG anime fans and I caught this when they were watching one day.

With huge difficulty I have tuned into Spotify because there is a CH musical memory I want to visit!

(Current husband: What on earth is that rubbish you're playing? It sounds like something being played over the tannoy at Poundland.

Me: Don't you remember this?

Current husband: Yes. At a horrible time in my life. School in the Sixties.

Me: (soothingly) That's right... Have some cherry cake?

He is silenced. I am back up t'Imf.)

I have mumps. I have no neck. I am sitting in a green easy chair in one of the four Annexe rooms. It's time for morning Chapel and out of the window I'm watching the Houses walking to Chapel one by one. The Choir members fall out of line as they get to the Pav, and the Choir stomps off last. The School routine seems remote from my Infirmary incarceration - who would think that I'd been in contact with somebody with mumps a fortnight ago? It had been Christmas Day! And now I'm in Big Trouble with fierce old Sister Summers for trying to communicate via a screwed up note, chucked onto the flower bed outside, as a friend was passing on her way to the Music School. Sister said I was spreading infection via paper! Now I'm dreading her coming to take my temperature at ten. Still, it might be the nicer nurse. Oh well. It's Cat Stevens on the wireless and the song is "Matthew and Son". I don't understand what it's about, but at least Radio 1 is company when you're in isolation, lonely and fed up reading weird books with highly critical House Lists meticulously inscribed in the front and back covers. (Hey, glad I'm not in 3's anyway). And I don't feel very w-e-ll...

Matthew and Son...

Not been on Spotify yet, but another memory jogged, also when up tim'f. In my first year at Hertford, Spring 1968, I was stuck upstairs up tim'f . I had flu. I hated being up there on my own- other girls came and went, but there I was for 2 weeks in that depressing, old fashioned and haunted (or so I believed!) upstairs; I longed to be moved downstairs where the annexe was bright and airy, and if you were lucky you were in the ward with tv.. but as Angela remembers, apart from Reader's Digests and those old books with housenumber- lists with (often unfavourable!) people's opinions of every member of their house- at least there was Radio 1 for company, and the song that always takes me back to that time is Xanadu by Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Titch......but It's that upstairs of up tim'f that haunts me most.....!

If you suffer from Spotify - Why not try Clearasil ??

fra828 wrote:Not been on Spotify yet, but another memory jogged, also when up tim'f. In my first year at Hertford, Spring 1968, I was stuck upstairs up tim'f . I had flu. I hated being up there on my own- other girls came and went, but there I was for 2 weeks in that depressing, old fashioned and haunted (or so I believed!) upstairs; I longed to be moved downstairs where the annexe was bright and airy, and if you were lucky you were in the ward with tv.. but as Angela remembers, apart from Reader's Digests and those old books with housenumber- lists with (often unfavourable!) people's opinions of every member of their house- at least there was Radio 1 for company, and the song that always takes me back to that time is Xanadu by Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Titch......but It's that upstairs of up tim'f that haunts me most.....!

One of the first records I ever bought.

Dave Dee died a few months ago. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7820435.stm

Oooh, just reminded me "Silence is Golden" by the Tremeloes. That little falsetto bit "but my eyes still see" by Len 'Chip' Hawkes still brings the hairs up on the back of my neck. I was sooo in love with him, then he married a Pan's Person, traitor.

englishangel wrote:Oooh, just reminded me "Silence is Golden" by the Tremeloes. That little falsetto bit "but my eyes still see" by Len 'Chip' Hawkes still brings the hairs up on the back of my neck. I was sooo in love with him, then he married a Pan's Person, traitor.

Robert Powell married my all-time lust-bucket Pans Person !!

fra828 wrote: at least there was Radio 1 for company, and the song that always takes me back to that time is Xanadu by Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Titch......but It's that upstairs of up tim'f that haunts me most.....!

I remember all of that very well . Were we able to receive the pirate stations? I have memories of one of them (and it may have been Radio 1, rather than a pirate) playing about 20 songs on a loop, so after a few days up tim'f ............

One visit has been immortalised by the theme tune to The Good, The Bad and The Ugly.

Caroline (just Caroline, not Radio C)
who still hasn't seen The Boat That Rocks

englishangel wrote:Oooh, just reminded me "Silence is Golden" by the Tremeloes. That little falsetto bit "but my eyes still see" by Len 'Chip' Hawkes still brings the hairs up on the back of my neck. I was sooo in love with him, then he married a Pan's Person, traitor.

I did like that version until I heard The Band sing it (B side of The Weight, I think) - truly beautiful.

Off to Spotify it.

xx

icomefromalanddownunder wrote:
Off to Spotify it.

xx

Grrrrr, gumble, moan, whinge, grumble. Spotify access denied by work.

Grrrr. Still more grumbles, whinges, whines and moans.

Free and Day Pass to Spotify not yet available in The Great Southern Land.

Unwilling to cough up 9.99 Euros for a month's access incase my stupid dialup home connection is too slow to enable downloads.

Yet another reason to organise wireless broadband.

icomefromalanddownunder wrote:

fra828 wrote: at least there was Radio 1 for company, and the song that always takes me back to that time is Xanadu by Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Titch......but It's that upstairs of up tim'f that haunts me most.....!

I remember all of that very well . Were we able to receive the pirate stations? I have memories of one of them (and it may have been Radio 1, rather than a pirate) playing about 20 songs on a loop, so after a few days up tim'f ............

One visit has been immortalised by the theme tune to The Good, The Bad and The Ugly.

Caroline (just Caroline, not Radio C)
who still hasn't seen The Boat That Rocks

Radio Luxemburg , does that count as a pirate station?- under the bedcovers with my little transistor radio smuggled in from home circa 1969.