Hello I'm new here!

[Lena & Harry Smith]

Yes, £7 to order from Amazon. 10 tracks on there that we instantly associate with certain singers, but fresh versions of them can sometimes work.
Many singers have no doubt made songs their own, but for instance the likes of Michael Buble, Peter Grant and Rod Stewart have recorded those popular classics and been successful.

[Marian]

Ronan Keating is a guest on Alan Titchmarsh's show on Tuesday as well as Alfie Boe, so I'm quite pleased we didn't get tickets now Lena. Wouldn't want to be mown down by a mass of Boyzone fans!!
Also on the show Nick Knowles and Ainsley Harriot I believe.

[Lena & Harry Smith]

No, stay safer in your own comfort Marian, We've seen a lot of Ronan Keating and Ainsley Harriot on our screens lately, but their dead conversation leaves us none the wiser about anything and then like a flash and making Paul Daniels look like a novice, their CD appears from nowhere. CD.

[Rob H]

Welcome-Eman, Les Mckeown of The Bay City Rollers was interviewed on my local radio station Nr Glasgow on the same night as our lovely ,Michele. He has't aged very well. I was on the same station two weeks ago being interviewed to; A Tribute to John Barry ( 5 times Oscar winning Film Composer), who died in New York in late January. I love Matt's vocal versions to Barry's films; Mary Queen of Scots and Alices Adventures in Wonderland.

[Eman]

Thanks Royal Navy (are you a sailor?)
Anyway Les McKeown was my favourite Roller back then next to Woody Wood. You are right they haven't aged well.

I'm enjoying being here on the forum and all the warm and wonderful welcomes I've gotten from you and everyone else. Most of all I am being educated in the music of Mr. Matt Monro and not being judged like in other forums for the music I love.

[Michele Monro]

Welcome Eman, how nice to have you aboard. We talk everything from Matt Monro to Vanilla Ice here, there is no right or wrong music. It is what makes you passionate that counts. I hope you see many more posts from you in the future and in the meantime relax, enjoy and make new friends, that is what we are all about.
Best
Michele

[Rob H]

Hi Eman, Sorry for the delay in answering your question! I was a Merchant Seaman and worked on' The Azure Seas' out of LA (San Pedro) to San Diego, Catalina Island and Mexico ( Ensenada) in the late 80's ,also on other cruiseships that took me all over the world,too many countries to mention. However, both of my parents were in the Royal Navy. Their combined service was 50 yrs so, I was truely a forces child. The best education the world can give!!

[Eman]

Hey Royal Navy, I live in San Diego and my Dad was in the US Navy, so I am a forces child myself or as we say a "Navy Brat". We may have a lot in common besides the music!

[mariana44]

Hi Eman and Rob--this is fascinating stuff--I want to hear the next instalment--sounds just like a film !!

[Rob H]

Hi Mariana, We could have The Village People's In the Navy as our soundtrack. I used to live in a courtyard apartmentof the Old Royal Naval hospital in Gibraltar. The sailors and marines were brought back there from the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. The hospital was opened in 1730 and closed in 1919. I coould tell you stories about strange ghostly figures lying on beds in our spare room. Officers that previously stayed in our apartment spoke about them.

[mariana44]

Wow !!! I am not sure I believe in ghosts, but my husband firmly believed in ghosts--and always assured me that he could see a ghost in our spare room---but when he tried to talk to her, she just walked through the wardrobe. He was really deadly serioua about it.

[Eman]

Hey Royal Navy and Mariana, I work for the Marines and used to for the Navy and the buliding that I work in now is so old, it was from around World War II. Sometimes the office can get really cold on a hot day without air conditioning and then it will just become really hot even when the A/C is full blast. People have also claimed to see faces looking at them when they use the vending machine, and when they turn around there is no one there. Thank God I haven't seen that or I'd freak major!!!

In another building where I used to work previously before my current job was the Commisary and prior to it being that it used to be the Morgue where they'd bring the dead military during World War II...so people use to hear moaning or crying from what I heard. Again I've never expreienced it, except once the power went out in the building and we were the only ones. No fuses were burnt out or anything!! Creepy huh!!

[mariana44]

That does sound REALLY creepy !!

[Marian]

Hospitals have similar stories Marian. One place I worked used to be a maternity home where there ws a fire many years ago and tragically several babies were lost. There was a story that at night you could still hear the babies crying. I never did, but another girl I worked with swore she did and got very freaked!