I was listening to Garnett Mimms and the Enchanters this morning, as you do, and I had a sudden I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue moment, You know…
‘Please welcome Mr and Mrs Garnett Mimms and their delightful daughter South.’
Any others? Don’t have to be soul singers…
Just for shits and giggles.
Down in the Berkshie/Hampshire borders are a number of villages which should be the names of Jazz and Blues musicians
Farley Hill
Monk Sherborne
Sherborne St John
Stratfield Mortimer
Stratfield Turgis
Wooton St Lawrence
Preston Candover
There’s also the great Berkshire (or is it Oxfordshire) folk-singer Crowmarsh Gifford.
There was some radio presenter who used to invite listeners to suggest such placenames as treasured thesps, as in ‘ah yes, I remember dear Sir Charnock Richard’s Hamlet very well’….
….” and I remember well when I was in rep with old Sutton Scotney…*waits for Parky audience to applaud*”
A night out on the sauce with ollie Reid and kirby lonsdale
The A303 corridor through Wiltshire and Somerset provides both West Indian cricketers – Charlton Musgrove – and long-forgotten actors from the days of rep – Bretton Seymour.
Up here it’s jazz musicians. Put your hand together for the Bishop Monkton Quartet:
Bishop Monkton (piano)
Burton Leonard (tenor)
Norton Conyers (bass)
Hutton Conyers (drums)
With a special guest appearance from Carlton Miniott (vibes).
Further north there’s the villages of Low Ellington and High Ellington – a pair of the Duke’s less than successful concept albums from 1965.
From the depths of Gloucestershire, please welcome “power” folk trio Ashton Keynes (son of Milton), Easton Grey and Meysey Hampton.
And further north, welcome Yealand Conyers, weather forecaster on Maine FM.
There’s a Little Milton in Oxfordshire. Whether the ‘We’re Gonna Make It’ hitmaker ever visited the place isn’t known.
There’s quite a few good ‘names’ south and east of Oxford.
Toot Baldon – poor old ‘Toot’. Jazz legend, in his own lunchtime. Dead at 35, due to a surfeit of Hook Norton ales. Label mate of Sutton Courtenay.
Berrick Salome and Britwell Salome. Bright young things, occupying huge swathes of ‘Chips’ Channon’s diaries, and famous for nothing other than fascism, marrying well, and spending copiously.
And here’s band leader Ted Heath with his trombonist kid brother Turville Heath….
Not to mention his black sheep son Egdon.
Please welcome East Anglia’s finest! It’s the Houghton St. Giles Quintet, featuring:
Houghton St. Giles – piano
Melton Constable – vibes
Bergh Apton – bass
Saham Toney – guitar
Wood Norton – drums
How did the drummer get that nickname?
Appearing at Teesside’s finest working mans club, it’s Whinny Hill and her band!
Whinny Hill – vocals
Dalton Piercy – keys
Elemore Vale – guitars
Bill Quay – bass
Seaton Carew – drums & percussion
London Underground Productions proudly present tap dancing sensations Chalfont & Latimer.
Topping the bill tonight are the sensational Seven Sisters, featuring Abbey Wood, Alexandra & Crystal Palace, Angel Road, Gidea Park and the tapdancing twins Dollis & Gipsy Hill. They will be accompanied as usual by their pianist Bruce Grove and his orchestra, under the baton of Dalston Kingsland.
I’d heard that she was going solo.
They’re currently auditioning replacements and Victoria Coachstation seems the most promising so far.
The choreographer, Edmonton Green, is one of the best in the biz
“Ladies and Gentlemen, please welcome, all the way from the Channel Islands Mr and Mrs La Motown and their daughter Tammy”
“Ladies and Gentlemen, please welcome, all the way from London Mr. and Mrs. al Zonophone and their son Reg.”
Swinging in from Hertfordshire, please welcome Mr and Mrs Finger, with their son Sol – and also their good friend Mr James Brown, who also happens to be the Godfather of Sol…
From the banks River Great Ouse, in deepest darkest Bedfordshire we present the Leighton Buzzard Seven featuring :
Leighton Buzzard
Marston Moretaine
Milton Ernest
Kempston Hardwick
Higham Gobion
Husbourne Crawley
Houghton Conquest
Higham Gobion? And what does he play?
The ukulele, obviously.
Ystrad Mynach. A small town in South Wales or a guitar hero from the valleys?
On the metal front, aussie rock band, Cock Fosters and the Penistones.