When I was a kid we had an old fashioned radio. It wasn’t old-fashioned then though, it was the height of elegance.
It stood taller than me at the time, and was a solid hardwood box, stained a rich burgundy color with interesting art deco curves. It was brought alive by a mysterious array of vacuum tubes that had to warm up before any radio magic happened. Reception was iffy and dependant on equally mysterious ‘signals’ that emanated from somewhere ‘in town’. Being way out in the boonies this was our source of information about the world beyond our valley, and our main source of ‘live entertainment’.
I didn’t understand much of the information side of things, apart from getting out of the adults way if they heard anything that might’ve upset them, but I did enjoy the music. Both the classical music and the ‘top of the pops’ stations were heard throughout the day, interspersed with current affairs and general chat shows.
One of which was the Bob Rodgers Show, which I remember nothing of, except the theme music.
It was a boppy little piece composed by one Horst Jankowski, as performed by Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass.
For your listening pleasure, and may it brighten up your day as it did mine today as I listened to it for the first time in many decades, I present …
A Walk in the Black Forest … take it away Herb!
Widdershins Worlds 
That took me back a bit 🙂
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Likewise, but not too far, I hope. 😀
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Almost exactly as far as you 😉
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😀
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Oh my…memory lane, indeed. 🙂 I don’t think we received that show you mentioned, Australia was always a long way behind the times, but I LOVED Herb Alpert as a teenager. In fact, I may still have an ancient LP lurking under the house somewhere….
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He was on 2UE … then 2SM, then 2CH
There’s noting like a good brass section, eh? 😀
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-giggles- absolutely!
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😀
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This really swings!
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A classic! 😀
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I reckon that tune has been used as a theme for quite a few programmes.
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It makes me smile every time I listen to it. 😀
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Great music.
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Glad you enjoyed it … I might see what else Herb has up on Youtube. 😀
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What fun zippy music. Thanks for the listen. 🙂
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You’re welcome … it just bops right along … it kind of reminds me of having a picnic on a late Spring afternoon, just before Summer arrives. 😀
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Dear Widdershins,
I love it when you take us to part of your past! Thank you.
Never Give Up!
Joan
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Hi, Joan 🙂 … you’re welcome. 😀 … I think I’m going to have a bit of a Youtube Herb Alpert binge! 😀
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Herb! I’ve missed you. Where have you been? That takes me back to a parallel universe of school shorts and cucumber sandwiches and unfeasibly large grandma’s bloomers
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Been on the Youtubes, dude … missing you too! 😀
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Reblogged this on anita dawes and jaye marie.
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Memories, where would we be without them?
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Adrift in the present moment with neither past nor future to anchor or guide us. Not a pleasant thought.
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Could anyone ever not have any?
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Hmm … perhaps … but you wouldn’t be able to function very well, if at all, you’d be in a constant state of learning.
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Sometimes it feels as if that is all I do…
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Just to let you know, we posted our review for Prelude yesterday. I couldn’t think how else to let you know, as don’t have a twitter handle or email address for you…
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Thank you so much! 😀 … will pop over momentarily and take a peek. 😀
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Why don’t you have a twitter handle?
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I am one of those poor unfortunate souls afflicted with don’t-have-a-twitter-account-itis! 😀
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I am fast developing the same for FB!
Anita says, good for you!
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I occasionally have an, ‘oh maybe I should’ moment, the same with facebook, but it doesn’t last long … and the more I read about the wheels coming off just about all the major social media platforms at the moment, the less I want to even get anywhere near ’em.
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Quite…
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My mother used to listen to the radio in the kitchen after our lights out. It was only years later that she informed us that when we turned our lights back on the reason she knew was because she heard the click on the radio 🙂
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The sneaky bag of Mother-tricks! 😀 … edited for clarification … not that I was calling your mother a bag! 🙂 … just that mothers, in general have a bag of sneaky tricks to keep tabs on their unruly offspring! 😀
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Out of order, I thought 🙂
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So charming!
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A happy memory from my childhood. 🙂
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A lot of Herb Alpert was played in our household – my parents liked to dance to it. Such a clean sound. Thanks for the trip down memory lane!
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You’re very welcome. 😀 … ours too. 🙂
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Now there’s a tune that takes you back!
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Waaaay back! 😀
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Reblogged this on LIVING THE DREAM.
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We had 2 or 3 Herb Alpert albums and I played them often on the stereo console that the parents bought a year or so after we moved in our new house. Radio reception was bad so I’m very grateful they thought music was important to bring into the house.
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I remember listening to them as a youngling as well. 😀
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Oh, my gosh golly, that certainly brings back memories! My mom had that record.
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Heh, mine too! 😀
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