Tim and Jerry Show - The Pilot

Tim and Jerry are two podcast hosts who are reminiscing about their teenage years in the 1970s. They discuss their love for music and their regular activities, such as going to school and attending a youth group. They also talk about their trips to record shops in Bath and their fondness for vinyl and cassette tapes. They mention some news events from March 1979, including Voyager 1's approach to Jupiter and the Three Mile Island nuclear reactor meltdown. They also mention a no confidence vote against Prime Minister Jim Callaghan. Overall, they reflect on their carefree and music-filled teenage years. Hello and welcome to Tim and Jerry the podcast. So let's get some introductions out of the way first. My name is, so I'm the Tim of Tim and Jerry. My name is Tim Quick. And over to my colleague, Jerry. I'm Jer, and I'm the Jer of Jerry. And I guess we need to come and apologize first. This was, I pitched the idea of the name of Tim and Jerry. And it's a complete misnomer really, because at no point has anybody really ever called Jer, who actually goes by the name of Jeremy Hunt, not that one. But he's never really barring an old Sunday school, or not really a Sunday school, a kind of a youth group leader once called Jer, Jerry. And that was his kind of pen name for him. But he would be the only one that has really ever called Jer, Jerry. But I rather like the name of Tim and Jerry. So for the moment, that's the working title of this podcast. So Tim and Jerry it is, until one of you listeners come up with something different to suggest or pitch to us, if you like. We could make some ice cream, couldn't we? We could, absolutely. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, yeah. You work for Ben and Jerry, so why not Tim and Jerry? We can have a whole franchise of different products that we can come up and pitch to the listeners. So the format of this podcast is really very much a stroll down memory lane. Jer is very much, we've always laughed at him in a very respectful way. We've laughed at him about the fact that he constantly lives very much in the past, very much in the 70s and 80s. But for the purposes of this, I'm treating that very much as a superpower, because I'm hopefully harnessing that memory of his alongside a diary which he kept for many years. Because we're going to delve back into the past, and each of the podcasts we're going to be looking at a different month of a particular year. And in this first one, we're looking at March 1979. For no particular reason, it was very much almost throwing a dart at a board. But it was very much around 1979, I thought, was the year, so what, you and I would have been 14, 15? 15 going on 16. 15 going on 16. 15 going on 16. But it was certainly for me, and I think very much for you, 1979 musically was kind of like when our lives began, really. A little bit earlier for me, I think. But the 79 for me was the best year for music. It had so many different styles and different types of music that came together in the charts, and outside the charts as well. So the 79 for me was definitely my favourite year for music. Yeah, so we're going to have a little look at the music of that particular... So not that year, we're going to look specifically at March 1979 and so on and so forth. For the next one, we'll look at, surprisingly, April 1979. And things, I've looked at the chart for that, and whilst things are still hanging around in the chart, we'll be able to have a look at what's fresh to the chart and what's kind of like going up and going down. So as I say, we're going to have a little stroll down memory lane of the music of March 1979. We're also going to have a quick look at the news that was happening around then, what we were watching on the TV, what we were watching at the cinema. And perhaps most importantly, although it is massively self-indulgent on our part, we are going to delve into Jair's diary because, as I say, he kept details of exactly what we were doing. We won't bore you with all the detail, but let's perhaps start. What sort of generically were we doing? Let's not look at the diary quite at the moment. Talk us through, if you like, a regular week for a 15-year-old Jair and Tim. Well, school would play a huge part in that. Obviously, we didn't go to the same secondary school, but, yeah, school was playing a big part in that with all the homework and that involved. But the youth group that we were both a member of at the time met three times a week, so that was always something to look forward to, and that was a Tuesday, a Saturday and a Sunday, which, when we look back now, we think, wow, that was a big commitment from the leaders. That's three nights a week, you know, out of their week. So that took care of a lot of our time. We also used to go into town on a Saturday afternoon and we'd spend a little bit of money on vinyl. Yeah. And I'll definitely remember that Tim coming home and always pretending... Oh, we would, you know, thankfully. Things were cheaper than they were. Exactly, my late mother, god-lover. Yeah, she would fall for, you know, there was the price that it retailed at and the price that we told our parents that things were often much more of a bargain by the time we got them home. Yeah. Yeah, hide things in John Menzies' bags and Dukes' bags. Absolutely, and there was very much an order if we went down into... You're listening to us. We grew up in Bath and we're recording this in Corsham, not very far from Bath, but at the time we were both living in Bath and, yeah, Saturdays were very much spent wandering around Bath record shops almost in a specific order. Absolutely. Oh, you got the bottom? Yeah. So it was kind of like, let's say, Boots probably? Yeah, Boots first, then Menzies. Menzies was always upstairs. Yeah. You could see the records in the cupboards. As you go down the stairs, you could see the cupboards with the glass cabinets and the record sleeves were there. And then it was on to Woolworths, I think? Yeah, probably. And that was the next next one up. Yeah, yeah. And they always had pick and mix that, you know, we used to delve into now and again. Yeah. I think from there it would possibly be Records Unlimited, which would have been in... Quite a bonus cinema. If you're listening to this and you're familiar with Bath, it's what Comedia is now. But that was a cinema, that was the bonus. Yeah. So the Records Unlimited was just up from there. Westgate Street. And then up through the middle of town again. And depending on the time we're talking about, I mean, there was another record shop opposite Owen Owens, on the corner of the... Hard Price. Yeah, something like that. Hard Price, yeah. I do remember buying a squeeze single in there at some point. But then a really, really big one for us that we used to spend hours in was Wessex Records, wasn't it? Which became rival. Yeah. The iconic yellow bag. That was in the corridor. And then there was another Records Unlimited, I think up next to Bath Grammar Toyshop, which is the bottom of Milsom Street. I think that was Pasties. Pasties was something after that. And then the real, real specialist one was Cruisin' at the top of town. Yeah. And we would occasionally go into Milsom's on the way, which was more of a classical record shop. Yeah, there was Ducks and the Pinkers as well, wasn't there? Ducks and the Pinkers, yes. Similar sort of thing, yeah. But that was quite niche, wasn't it? Yeah, there wasn't much there if I remember right. It was usually a quick visit and then up to Cruisin'. Yeah. Because, of course, back then we were talking vinyl. Very much so. Which has remarkably come back in. Yeah. Having been out for years and we thought it was dead and buried. And cassettes. Yes. Lots of cassettes. Yeah. And cassettes. Because they would regularly get chewed up. They would. Yeah. But they were all part of creating a mixtape, which would have been very much kind of like off that era. So that was how we would regularly fill our days We'll have a look to see specifically later on what we were specifically doing in March 1979. I can't remember, you know, were we doing anything particularly interesting? How much are we going to need to kind of delve into? I don't think there was anything that stands out. I mean, it was kind of, you know, the way that we lived our lives at the time. Yeah, Youth Group was always a highlight. Lots of television that I certainly watched at the time. Things like Match of the Day and Doctor Who and another programme that I won't mention now these days, On a Saturday Night. Yeah. And yeah, it was all, you know, all the top stuff looking back on those days of having no cares in the world, no responsibilities. And yeah, just getting into music, finding our way, I guess, establishing ourselves in our lives and yeah. Absolutely, absolutely. Well, I can give you a few of the flavours of what was hitting the news. It wasn't, I'd say, it was a struggle to find any newsworthy news generally. March 1979 was... Go on then. But the things that were hitting the press back then were Voyager 1 makes humanity's closest approach to Jupiter. Why? I think for me, Voyager, the Voyager spacecraft probably has more significance. I am, for my sins, a Trekkie. Yeah, I like Star Trek as well. So Voyager gave its name to Star Trek Voyager, if you ever, but if you ever watched the original Star Trek, the motion picture, not the best film of all time, but it was ridiculously long, but Voyager is very significant as part of that plot. It came out in 1979 as well, I think. It came out in 1979, which I guess was possibly part of the reason of that one. So yeah, the Voyager kind of approaching Jupiter in an equally kind of slightly boring, but kind of slightly scary news, Three Mile Island nuclear reactor meltdown in Pennsylvania. Again, not the most cheery of news. So we're recording this on May the 8th, and British politics is not perhaps in the best state, and it equally wasn't back in 1979 in March. So Jim Callaghan, the then Prime Minister, lost a no confidence vote, although it was darn close. He lost it 311 to 310, so only one vote in it, which forced a general election, which we will talk about to a limited degree in later months. I don't think either of us are massively political, but we'll give a nod to that in weeks to come. So yes, Jim Callaghan lost a no confidence vote. Perhaps, and this one is mildly interesting, because it's very of its time. The name Stormy Daniels, if you're familiar with Stormy Daniels, again we won't go massively political at the moment, but Mr Trump has fallen foul of Stormy Daniels and finds himself in court at the moment. But Stormy Daniels was born in March 1979. There you go. That's possibly the most interesting bit of news so far. Stormy Daniels was born, but we had some sad deaths in March 1979. Richard Beckinsale died. He was brilliant, wasn't he, in Porridge? Porridge. A very young death. Absolutely. I think he was only in his late 30s, but he'd also been in rising damp as well. And his daughter, Kate Beckinsale, is obviously a fantastic actress these days. So we lost Richard Beckinsale and we also lost a gentleman called Airey Neve. Remember Airey Neve? He was a politician, wasn't he? He was a politician. He died in a car bomb at the House of Commons. In the car bomb at the House of Commons. It was an IRA bomb. So yes, we lost Richard Beckinsale and Airey Neve, but we did see Stormy Daniels was introduced to the world. So yes, there were births and deaths. So let's have a quick delve into, before we look further into the music, let's have a quick look at what we were doing in March 1979, barring the Saturday trips to the record shops, the round-robin of visiting all the record shops. Anything from the diary that we were doing? Well, I don't think quite so much of we, but me. At the time, I had a paper round, which I used to do twice a day, even on a Saturday and once on a Sunday. So that was definitely a daily thing for me. Used to get me up and out of bed early, but also to earn some money. Football was and still is very big in my life in 1979. I'm an Arsenal fan, and I know in 1979 we were going for a good run and we would eventually win the FA Cup, so a couple of months later. So definitely watching much of the day and the big match as it was on a Sunday afternoon in those days. Just flicking through, we were together in the choir. We had choir practices at a Suburbs Church on a Friday evening. Friday nights, yeah. Yeah, Tim and I were very active in that, and we were both Sopranos, I think, at the time. We were, and we'd quite often be roped in. So yeah, sometimes our trips to town on a Saturday would be... Interrupted. Would be interrupted, because we'd have to attend a wedding, and we'd get paid something like 50p each. They were nice little earners. They were nice little earners. The fewer the choir members, the more you got paid. Absolutely, because it was a set rate, and you kind of like, yeah, yeah, yeah, you're absolutely right. Yeah, you didn't normally want to encourage everybody. No, no, definitely not. But yeah, no, and if you got a double wedding, you know. Church weddings were a bigger thing back then, weren't they? Yeah. Choir practices on a Friday night, and it was about an hour, hour and a half, and then we would sing in the choir on a Sunday morning and evening, if I remember rightly. Mm-hmm. So yeah, morning service, family service, and evening service at 6.30, and that was followed by our youth group, which was held in various venues around Ogden, so it was spread around the leaders' houses and sometimes held in the church as well. And like you said earlier on, it was, you know, we often talk about what a massive commitment it was. Yeah. On the part of the various group leaders, because it wasn't just the one night. And they weren't a heck of a lot older than us. No. Five years. Five, six, seven years. But yeah, it was a heck of a commitment, and you know, again, there'll come a point in one of these podcasts where we'll talk about the Go Club Camp. So there was all these kind of trips that we would go on, and the Go Club Camp was always kind of like a big thing. Definitely. I seem to remember, and my diary confirms it, that the first few months of 1979 were very cold. Yeah. And sure enough, on the Saturday the 17th of March, a big snowfall, according to my diary, in Ogden and Bath, and also on the Sunday, the following day, Sunday the 18th. And I do seem to remember January, February, March were very, very cold. I think it was known as the Winter of Discontent. Oh, yes. Strikes and so forth. Which I think is probably what led to Jim Callaghan. Yeah. His downfall in the end. His downfall, yeah. Yeah. But yeah, I'd say standard TV programs, Morphum and Wise, Buster's Sport, Danger UXB, same match of the day. Top of the Pops was a regular, regular watch for me and for Tim, I think, as well. Yeah. And we didn't watch it together that often, but it was definitely something that we watched. Dick Emery. But I think you have to, I know people will often talk about the fact that it was a different world back then, of course, but you know, it would have been three channels back then. Yeah. So they kind of like, you know, the TV shows of now could only dream of the kind of audience figures that these things would get. Yeah. But things like Top of the Pops were huge back then. Absolutely. And that's how you, you know, that was the one music program. I think, I might have this wrong, but I have this figure in my head, that in 1979, they were the biggest sales ever of vinyl singles in this country. Right, okay. I think that was the peak of vinyl singles, I think. And so, yeah. Well, even if it's not true, let's not let the truth get in the way of a good story. We'll claim that that's a fact. Yeah, and I think back then, one appearance on Top of the Pops could do huge things for a song, especially if a band were starting out and it was their first big break. So, yeah, even just one appearance, you know, could do good things for the song going up in the charts. Absolutely. Yeah. And we won't talk about some of the presenters from Top of the Pops, but yeah, let's... Yeah, we'll leave that one. We'll move on. But let's have a look, let's have a quick look at the chart, the chart, great mate, of... So, we'll have a look at... So, I found a chart, so rather than being a sort of like specific week within March 1979, what I found is a website that has, if you like, the top 40 of March 1979 and it's based on chart positions and popularity and whatever. So, if I do the 40 through to 21, how can we do this in a kind of like, you know, do you want to do that... Do you think you could carry on that music? No, no, no. OK. So, 40, so we'll, as I say, we'll go 40 back to 21. So, 40 was Sister Sledge, He's the Greatest Dancer. Yeah. Kate Bush was with Wow at 39. That was one of the more forgettable songs. I liked that, yeah, no, I did like that. But Babushka is my absolute favourite. Yeah, yeah. Number 38 was The Three Degrees, always with Woman in Love. OK. Yeah, they were always branded as being kind of like, what was Prince Charles, but King Charles now is his, you know, his favourite, favourite band. I don't know whether that did them any favours or not. At 37, it was The Buzzcocks with Everybody's Happy Nowadays. Yes, that was their last successful follow-up to Every Fallen in Love, I think. Every Fallen in Love with Someone, Every Fallen in Love. At 36, Lace Garrett, I Was Made for Dancing. Wow, whatever happened to Lace Garrett, I know. I don't know, whatever did happen to him. No. Yeah, he was the next big thing, I seem to remember. Yeah. I don't know, probably it, I think. You're right, he was the next big thing, but kind of became the last thing. At 35, we had Art Garfunkel of Simon and Garfunkel fame with Bright Eyes. Big song, big, big, big song. Was that on its way back down, or was it on its way back up? I think it was on its way up, I would think. Yeah. Yeah, I think the biggest selling single of 1979. Absolutely, from the film of Watership Down, which if you've seen it now, the graphics of it look very much of its time. Yeah. It doesn't, through the prism of time, it hasn't kind of... Weathered well. It hasn't weathered well, no. But a fantastic song all about mixed matrices, if I can remember. Yeah, that famous rabbit disease. 34 was Squeeze with Cool For Cats. Now, what colour vinyl did we both have that in? That was on... Oh, you had it in a myriad of different colours, I think. Yeah, I had that on pink. I had it on pink. Yeah, yeah. Still got it on pink for some. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. We both love Squeeze, yeah. Yes, no, kind of like, again, over the courses of these podcasts, there are certain bands that, much as we regularly see lots of bands together, but the ones that are still regularly touring and the ones that we still regularly go and see whenever they do are Squeeze and Level 42 is our other... And the Corgis, of course. And the Corgis. The Corgis, who we hope, possibly, to kind of like to... I'd like to say that we're, you know, whether the Corgis feel that we're good friends, but, yeah, we like to think that we're good friends with the Corgis, so we'll hopefully get the likes of James, John and Al possibly on to a future one of these. Yeah, who knows? And then say, well, he's dead. Yeah, he's made, died an absolute death. But, you know, we'll see. So, Squeeze, Call For Cats, 34. The Doobie Brothers, What A Fool Believes. I'm a massive fan of the Doobie Brothers. I think you are as well, actually. Yeah, no, yeah. It's one of my favourite, favourite singles. I think that would be in the All Time 20. Yeah. Michael McDonald. 18 and 10. Yes, yeah. Doobie Brothers, of course, were two kind of very different bands in as much as when Michael McDonald joined, the style changed and they became more souly and funky than before and it was kind of a bit more rocky. Yeah, a bit more trend running. But, yeah, brilliant, brilliant song from the album. Minute By Minute. Minute By Minute, which also contained their other hit, Minute By Minute. Not unsurprisingly. Yeah. What A Fool Believes. What a fantastic song. And 32, David Essex, Imperial Wizard. Instantly forgettable. Yeah. I can't remember that. I can't remember that song at all. Yeah, no, that was not one of his big hits, I don't think. He was sort of on his way down, I think, as regards to popularity and hits and stuff. Yeah. He's got a couple of big hits to go with Silver Generation. Yeah. He might go with iClubbing, but, I mean, Tahiti's possible as well. But that, yeah, it was, yeah. I think he still had an audience of, I think it was, yeah, the ladies rather liked him. Definitely. I can see that. I can see why. He's not touring now. Yeah, absolutely. Not as much hair, much like the pair of us. Yeah. Plays in Bath still, regularly, when he tours. Yeah. Yeah. The Theatre of Oil, I think. And am I right in saying, was he on EastEnders for a bit as well? May have been, I don't know. Yeah. Okay, maybe. One of the soaps I got free, it might have been EastEnders. And one of the guilty pleasures of both you and I, Honey I'm Lost by The Doolies was in at 30. You had kind of like quite a few, they were never massive. No. I think the word The Doolies is funny anyway. They were a family band. They were a family band, I think. Something like that. And it was very easy listening, catchy pop-up. Oh, absolutely. By the end of the song, like I said, I can't picture Honey I'm Lost, but I'm sure if you played it now that... Honey I'm Lost. Without you. I'm tapping foot already. I thought you were tapping foot already. Yeah. Rose has to die. Wanted, yeah. Wanted, perhaps. Loved Wanted. Half a dozen hit singles, I guess. Yeah. Loved Wanted. So into the 30s now, so we've got Neil Diamond, Forever in Blue Jeans. Obviously Neil Diamond's still around, and Sweet Caroline kind of obviously has become a cult football song in the last couple of years, but Forever in Blue Jeans, a big hit for him. Yeah, and I love that song, I've got to say. 28, The Jam, Strange Town. Yeah, I think that was their first kind of big-ish hit. I mean, they'd had Tube Station and stuff before that, but we're moving towards eating rifles and going underground now. This is early jam. Yeah, they've become more kind of commercially acceptable where they're writing songs that are more listenable to, if you like them. And yeah, brilliant. Strange Town, I think, cracked Top 20, and yeah, it's a really good song. Yeah, it's the start of what turned out to be a massive career for Willow. So 27, The Clash, English Civil War. Again, can't pick that up. From their second album, I think. Right, okay. But yeah, it wasn't a big hit for The Clash. A bigger hit to come in a month's time or so was I Fought The Law. Yeah, I've got to say. But yeah, The Clash was a huge band, and I do like The Clash. Very different styles on their album, and then the album London Calling. Amazing album, and it's got so many different musical genres on there, from reggae to funk to punk. It's, yeah, very talented band. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then at 26, we've got Dire Straits with Sultans of Swing. Wow. Yeah, I think we can kind of claim... Well, the drummer, there's a mild Bath connection. The drummer, Pip Withers, went to my school in Bath. I think, can we claim any other kind of Bath connection? But Sultans of Swing, I think that was their first big hit. That was their first big hit, yeah. And look what they went on to from there. From the first album, I think it was re-released. I think it was released in 78, but it wasn't a hit the first time around. A bit like Police with Roxanne, and come 79, it was re-released and became a really big hit, top ten hit. Yeah, the start of Dire Straits. 25, The Members, Sound of the Suburbs. Wow, yeah. I'm wanting to say that was a one-hit wonder, but I don't know, was it? Offshore Banking Business was their follow-up, which charted as well, but yeah, it wasn't as big a hit as that. Yeah. Yeah, New Wave, punky sort of type band, a lot of energy. But they might even still be going now, I'm not entirely sure. Yeah, they may well be. Yeah, it's a good track, but they didn't, from my memory, release too many others that were that good. It was kind of sort of like, in 1979, as we get to the top of the chart, it was sort of the burgeoning of kind of punk. Yeah, well, punk has really kind of hit the scene in 76, 77, so to me that was more or less the embers of punk. Yeah. But New Wave was coming in, which maybe I would call that New Wave. Yeah, because it's kind of like, this is very much the transition, obviously, you know, I have to say, myself and Jay are massive fans of the 80s, musically, and this 1979 was almost, I suppose, obviously, it's touching on kind of like the 80s. Yeah. But it's very much the, you know, this chart is very much kind of a lot of the bands that would suddenly make it big, really, in the 80s, you know, like The Jam, like Dire Straits and whatever, which we're seeing the birth of those sort of bands. 24, Violinsky, Clog Dance. Yes, what a song. Absolutely. Yeah, we're both massive ELO fans. Yes, and this was a gentleman called Mick Kaminsky, who was your main violin player from ELO, and I think we've probably both got to kind of like do a nod to ELO this week. Absolutely. We've lost Richard Tandy from ELO. Yeah. As Jay says, we've kind of, we had the pleasure of seeing ELO, well, we've seen ELO a couple of times. A lot of times. A few times, yeah. We saw them, what, five years ago, didn't we? Yeah. Jeff Lindsay, ELO, that is, rather than ELI. Yeah. But, well, yeah, that was brilliant. But, no, I mean, Violinsky was an offshoot. It's Mick Kaminsky, the violin player who recorded that, and he recorded two or three solo albums. I've got a best of Violinsky, I know, but that was, it hit the top 20 again. Yeah, it was quite a sort of a tap-along tune. Yeah. Instrumental. Yeah. But, yeah, released on Jet Records on White Vinyl, possibly. Maybe. This is why we've got Jay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's got my encyclopedic knowledge of these kinds of things. Cars, Just What I Needed at 23, is that the, is that the Cars Off Drive? Yeah, that is the Cars Off Drive. I can't picture Just What I Needed. I remember Just What I Needed. I'm thinking of, I think in my head, I'm thinking Just When I Needed You Most, which is a completely different song. Yeah, they had two minor hits over here in 79, which was My Best Friend's Girl and Just What I Needed. Oh, right, My Best Friend's Girl. And they were, I can't say minor hits, they were in the 20s, but they didn't hit anything big until Drive was released at the back of Live Aid in 85. Yeah, no, absolutely, yeah, yeah, yeah. 22, ABBA. Whatever became of them? With Chiquitita. Eurovision Week, whatever became of them? Whatever, absolutely. So, yes, no, they kind of like, they disappeared with that trope, didn't they, ABBA? 21, Players Association, Turn The Music Up. One of my favourites. One of your favourites. Yeah, there we go. Yeah, that was, I think, probably their two or three shot hits. That was the big one. Music was similar, very disco-orientated. But so catchy. And I still have, as well, I've only got a single one on vinyl. But, yeah, wow. Absolutely love that. Catchy song, catchy song. So, we'll return to, so that takes us through to, so that was 20, 21, and we'll return to the top 20 in a moment. Potpickers. Potpickers, yeah. But, yeah, let's have a little canter into what we'll be watching on TV. So, Jay mentioned a few of the programmes that we were watching. Well, you've always been a bit more of a footballer, so you were watching Match of the Day and Top of the Pops and things like that. But there was a few programmes that started in March 1979. The Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew Mysteries, which I remember being a Saturday afternoony, Saturday tea time sort of thing. I kind of loosely watched it. I can remember watching a programme called Ellery Queen around that time, which was a whodunit kind of thing. But I wasn't a big fan of the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew Mysteries. They were just a kind of, it was like an hour-long kind of mystery type show. But one show that I know would have interested you, Mr Hunt, and certainly I know still very much interests, and let's do a name check for our friend Dave Bransman here, Dukes of Hazzard. Dukes of Hazzard started in March 1979. Yeah. So Beau and Luke, what was the name of the uncle? Jesse. Jesse and the cousin, the sister cousin, who you wore extremely short denim shorts. Can you remember? You've lost it. You're entirely distracted. Distracted by, you know, that. It was Daisy. It was Daisy. And obviously Boss Hogg was kind of like the, I don't know what. Was he police chief? He was police chief, yeah. And who was the sheriff? Roscoe Coltrane. Roscoe Coltrane, yeah. Yeah, and they were always after, chasing after those Duke boys. Yee-haw! Yeah. So yeah, Dukes of Hazzard, that was launched in March 1979, as was Mork & Mindy, launching the career of Robin Williams, sadly no longer with us. Yeah, Mork & Mindy, launched in March 1979, along with Tales of the Unexpected, which was, do you remember Tales of the Unexpected? Yeah, very much so. The theme music was quite memorable. Yeah, well it was almost like a Bond thing. There was a kind of right or sultry, I don't know whether it was, it was silhouetted, wasn't it? Yeah. I can't remember that, only being half an hour, or really short kind of. Yeah. One of those things that made you think? Well, it was written by Roald Dahl. Yeah. So yeah, Roald Dahl's Tales of the Unexpected. And I've also got written down that Sesame Street was launched on STV. I don't know, is it STV? Is that Scottish TV or Southern TV? I can't remember. STV. Yeah. But Sesame Street was launched. Favourite past and present. Absolutely. And the first network showing of The Wicker Man. It's a horror film starring Edward Woodward, which has made way too many woods. Yeah. But yeah, Edward Woodward, Woodward, Woodward, was in the first network showing of The Wicker Man. Let's look at other things. What were we watching at the cinema? I have to say, I didn't watch virtually, and I can't even remember most of these films, but the top four at the cinema, Norma Rae was number one. Don't know it. Number two was Voices. Again, entirely passed me by, as did number three, something called The Passage. Number four is the first film that I've actually heard of, called The Champ. Do you remember The Champ? It was one of those, there was a whole kind of period of films that were kind of almost shamelessly designed to make you cry. Okay. And I was always a bit of a Nazi boy for that sort of thing, so it was kind of like... You were. Absolutely. So it was, well, it's not a spoiler, it's a film from 1979. If you haven't watched it yet, you're 45 years behind the curve. So it's a chap who, it's a boy who really persuades his dad to get back into the ring. He's a former boxer, but he goes back into the ring and takes a fatal blow and dies. And it's all very sad, and it's all deathbed scene. It's a proper tearjerker. And you don't need to watch it now, because I've entirely destroyed the plot. But The Champ is at least the only film that I've heard of in the top four. And Buck Rogers in the 25th Century was the first sci-fi film that kind of like got launched that then became a TV show. Okay. I believe. Again, can't really remember. And Sport, what I've got written down, Knott's Forest beat Southampton 3-2 to win the Football League. That's right, Football League. Are we talking Cluffy? Yeah, we're talking Cluffy. Forrest at that time were brilliant. Cluffy took Forrest from the, well, at least the second division, played maybe even lower than that, up to the first division. Won the first division, won the European Cup, which is what was the old Champions League in 1979, 1980. And yeah, brilliant. Sort of thing you perhaps wouldn't see these days so much. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. But yeah, that was Brian Cliff, definitely. Yeah. Viggor Taylor. Who I met once. Yeah, you said. At a, what was it, Lord's Caverns event. Yeah. Yeah. Got his autograph. Got his autograph. Anything else that we want to pick up from the diary? Have we covered the, kind of like the diary of everything that we were doing? It was, were we doing anything like ice skating or anything? Nothing mentioned in March of 79. In that sort of ilk. And I was still watching Elvis films. Oh yeah. So was Elvis still alive at that point? No, he died in 77. Right. Okay. But yeah, the BBC was still showing Elvis films, which was fine by me. Yeah. So yeah. But no, it was, it was an extraordinary month. A landmark. Yeah. So like I say, we had to start somewhere, but kind of March. And the diary will be, Make a reappearance? It will make a reappearance in later months where we perhaps do slightly more exciting kind of things. But yeah, March. March 1979. As you say, well if there was a bit of snow around, we probably did a bit of tobogganing and all that sort of stuff. Down the field probably. One thing we did do that I found is on the 29th of March, Oh right, just when it breaks in. Thursday. Yeah. Thursday, we played Skittles, which is Odd Down Choir against the Coombe Down Choir and we won 8-1. Oh. I don't know where it was. That's not playing a slaughter. Well, slaughter, yes. You know, that would have been. Yeah, Coombe Down Choir really didn't turn up, I don't think they did. I'm sure we would have been terribly respectful. I'm sure we would. They were so well played. Yeah, well played, and yeah, absolutely just lorded it over them. Yeah. I don't particularly remember that as to where it was. No. But obviously, presumably at the pub with the Skittles. Presumably, yeah. But Skittles was big back in those days. Oh, it still is? Yeah. You and I played Skittles a couple of weeks ago, didn't we? We did. Well, we tried to, yeah. Well, we did alright. Yeah. We held our own, didn't we? Yeah. We didn't entirely humiliate ourselves. No. Right. Let us return to the chart from 20 up to number one. So, number 20, Herbie Hancock, you bet you love. Wow, another one. Another one. Another great, great song. I'm trying to think, what was Herbie Hancock's big one? His biggest hit was Rocket. Rocket. Which was 1983. Yeah. But his two hits really were that one and I Thought He Was You, which I think was... I love I Thought He Was You. Was that 78? I've always liked that kind of wah-wah noise that kind of, right, so in that way, yes, I can't remember what it's called, but I know there was quite a few bits of music around. Peter Frampion. Yeah, Peter Frampion and ELO, I think. Yeah. Like we say, even used that kind of, it's the, that, I suppose, the bit at the end of the side one of that, that wah-wah, wah-wah, wah-wah. That bit. Yeah. That's the one, yeah. That's the noise, what it makes. Number, number 19, a favourite of yours, darts. Oh, yes. But, I have to say, don't particularly know the song, Get It. Yes. Yeah, darts definitely were and still are favourites of mine. I didn't see them back in the day, but I have seen them in recent years. I saw them in Cardiff a couple of years ago and I saw them, bizarrely, in a pub car park somewhere in Oxfordshire, a part of a little festival. Oh, right, okay. About 10 years ago. But, no, back in the day, yeah, I bought all the singles. Got them all on vinyl and, yeah, Get It was, yeah, wasn't a massive hit, but, And what was a big hit, the big darts? The big darts. Come Back My Love. Come Back My Love, Daddy Cool, It's Raining, Boy For New York City, Duke of Earl, Let's Hang On. Yeah. So, yeah, I mean, yeah, they had quite a string of hits, hadn't they? No, but, literally, it's two, three gigs a year. Yeah. Because they've got jobs, I guess, proper jobs. They don't pay the bills, unfortunately. No, no. I have, in the meantime, in intervening years, picked up their albums on CD. So I've got all the darts stuff on disc now as well. But, yeah, I love darts and all the singles as they came out at the time. Yeah. No? Yeah. Good stuff. And a favourite of mine definitely had the single of this, which is a great, great song. It's both kind of Toto, really, I suppose, most people think of Africa as probably kind of like the big Toto hit. Strange, I was talking to my lad last night, I was in the car with him and he was playing Toto and it was Africa and I said it's the only song people really ever play on the radio. Although this was his music on his phone, I think. But, yeah, I said there's so much more to Toto than Africa and, you know, hold the line was the sort of the marker they put down with their first album. Yeah. Yeah. And released over here in March 79. I thought, what's the, is it Can't Hold You Back, Won't Hold You Back? Yeah. Something like that. Won't Hold You Back. But you would also remember, I think, Georgie Porgie. Oh, I love Georgie Porgie. From the first album as well, which is 79. Yeah. And that's been covered by various kind of people. So, yeah. Yeah. And I'll Supply The Love was another single from that album as well. Right. I can't picture that, but yeah, it's been covered by a dozen of musicians. But that first album was brilliant. It begins with Child's Album. Fantastic song. Cool. Yeah. And number 17, Dennis Brown, Money In My Pocket. That reeks of one hit wonder. Yeah. It was a kind of reggae. It was a reggae one hit wonder. Yeah. I think he's released quite a bit of stuff, but that was the only hit he had. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We have got at number 16, Edwin Starr, He'd had a couple of hits. I don't know whether they were before this one, but it was kind of right. It was a big disco song, this one. Yeah. Eye to eye contact. I think he had some hits in the 70s, earlier part of the 70s. Things like War. War. Yeah. Then later in 79, the big hit, Happy Radio. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. But yeah, it's all Edwin Starr in a, well, he was in Chippenham bizarrely on these summer festivals, and I think he's passed on now, but yeah, he did a good show. Yeah. 36. Yeah. And then Queen, again, whatever, whatever came next. Yeah. So Queen at 15 with Don't Stop Me Now, what an iconic song that was. It is. Definitely. Not one of my favourite Queen songs, I have to say, but yeah, it's definitely an iconic one. Yeah. Gene Chandler, Get Down, 14. He was probably Gene Chandler, and yeah, that was, he's kind of, he's coming back in the end of the 70s, and I think the follower, which you may or may not remember, was called Does She Have A Friend, which was 1980. I can remember. I probably recognise it. I can remember. I used to get down more than I can remember. Sad knowledge to have, I know. But that's why you're here. Yeah, yeah. I think it was for your good look and musical knowledge. Absolutely. I think it was the 60s, he was kind of more famous, and he had more hits in the 60s. I'm trying to think of one name, but I can't at the moment, so. No, that's fine. 13, Thin Lizzy, I think we can claim a slight dark connection. He's all tenuous, because I think Phil Lynott was married to Leslie Crowder's daughter, and Leslie Crowder was kind of very much lived in Causton, lived in Causton. Well, lived in Causton, but Leslie Crowder was kind of big at the time on TV with Play Your Cards Right and various other kind of like TV shows. Crackerjack. Yeah, of course Crackerjack, but yeah, but Thin Lizzy was waiting for an alibi. I'm a massive Thin Lizzy fan, and that is my favourite album Black Rose, that song came from. Yeah. And it's probably, I have this, not argument, but I have this discussion with a friend of mine, a friend of ours called Dave, whose favourite Thin Lizzy song is Whiskey in a Jar and mine is Waiting for an Alibi. It's actually Irish. It is, yeah. I love a bit of Irish. Yeah. But it's, yeah, for me it's brilliant, it's got Scott Gordon on it and Gary Moore on it. Yeah. That's for me is Thin Lizzy at their best in 1979. Yeah. And obviously you're still kind of like there's any excuse to roll out kind of The Boys Are Back in Town, you know, probably, there's probably not a week goes by that you don't hear The Boys Are Back in Town on some show or some radio, some TV show or whatever it is. Yeah. Yeah. 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