Max Bygraves

Max Bygraves

Max Bygraves was a populer performer during the 1960's and 70's,he was a comediean,singer and writer throughout his career,he was the presenter of a lot of populer Television shows such as "Whack-O" and "Family Fortunes"whist appearing in films such as "Spare the Rod" and "A Cry From The Streets".

What he is most famous for however is his music career with one of his greatest selling songs being "Fings Aint Wot They Used T'Be",As of writing in my Collection I own the following records containing his music

1.  The Fings Aint Wot They Used T'Be  45rpm Single
2.  A Hallmark Record (Pictured above, Code HMA 206)
3.  Another Hallmark  Record with a black backround and Max Pictured on a Stage (Catalouge HMA 242)
4.  The Singlong with Max 6 Record Box Set released by Reader's Digest.

Now for the Singalong box this has a lot of music on it and luckily it has been re-released on Itunes albiet broken up to the different tracks on the records,Strollin and Mame are also on there as well which were the only two songs i didn't post from the Hallmark Record.

Here is a sample from Disk 1 Side A from the Singalong with Max Record Set,the medley

 "How Deep Is the Ocean/As Times Goes By"

Unfortunately at the moment this story is not a very happy one as last year Max's Wife (who he used to call Blossom) sadly passed away and earlier this year at their home in Queensland Australia his Daughter released a statement saying that Max was showing early signs of Alzheimer's disease much like Terry Pratchitt although he's reportedly been keeping himself busy and trying to keep himself active,if you have the time and you are a fan of his work Send a Postcard to him as support.

Captions

Captions

Youtube has a feature to give video's captions to make them enjoyable by deaf people so far my channel didn't have any but i recently made a few caption scripts for some videos as a test run,below are two complete captionised videos and one that has the end portion captioned.

Max Bygraves : Edelweiss

The Two Ronnies : This Is The News Side B

The George Mitchell Minstrels : The Good Old Summer Time (Partial Caption)

At this point im not sure if i'll do this to all my videos but if you think it's a good idea let me know in the comments section or send me a message on Youtube.

The Geoff Love Banjo's

The Geoff Love Banjo's

The Geoff love banjo's were a band that dealt with a number of classic american songs,Geoff love himself used to be in a Minstrel group and appeared as a memeber of the Music for Pleasure Minstrels most notably in the album "Music for Pleasure present their Minstrel Show",as a result of his past a number of the songs his band performed were the same style as the ones he sung back in his band,he also went under the name of "Manuel" and recorded a number of albums under that name with Manuel and the Music of the mountain being another album of his being a hit,afterwards he made appearances in a few movies and being responsable for the orchestration of a number of movie soundtracks and also appeared on Max Bygraves's TV Show SingalongaMax.

Two songs he perfomed while he was with his band I want to point out were "Oh You Beautifull Doll" and "The Band Played On",while they have appeared in a number of places and performed by a number of artists they both appeared in the last battle of the Alfred Hitchcock Movie "Strangers On A Train (1951)" with "The Band Played on" taking on a dark role for the movie as the theme of Bruno and appearing whenever the two characters fought each other.