What's In Your CD Player/iPod/MP3/Computer/Hi Fi, Right Now?

Miss Brown to You · Post by **Miss Brown to You** » Sun Oct 19, 2008 5:34 pm

Don't know if this has been mentioned before, but Tesco have a nice range of CDs for Â£1 or Â£3 . I bought "The essential John Barrowman" yesterday for Â£3.

mariana44 · Post by **mariana44** » Sun Oct 19, 2008 6:13 pm

That sounds excellent value--I rarely go into a Tesco's---quite difficult to get to one from where I live--but I may check out their online site.

Miss Brown to You · Post by **Miss Brown to You** » Sun Oct 19, 2008 9:09 pm

I just had a look and the Essential Collection are all Â£1 dearer online than they are in the store. I was at the Tesco Extra on the outskirts of Inverness.
Here is an example of the Nat King Cole CD. Just search "The Essential" at the Tesco Entertainment web site.
http://www.tesco.com/entertainment/prod ... 1156&bci=7

john · Post by **john** » Sun Oct 19, 2008 11:06 pm

Listening to "Make Believe It's Your First Time" from the Carpenters "Voice of the Heart" album now.

john · Post by **john** » Mon Oct 20, 2008 10:35 pm

Listening to Matt now singing "Without You".

john · Post by **john** » Tue Oct 21, 2008 10:53 pm

Listening to D***ie Valentine now singing "Climb Every Mountain". This has got to be one of the best versions of the song I have heard, it is fantastic.

Lena & Harry Smith · Post by **Lena & Harry Smith** » Tue Oct 21, 2008 11:16 pm

John, we agree. We have many versions of thid song but this is by far the very best.
Thanks for the Cd John.

john · Post by **john** » Tue Oct 21, 2008 11:22 pm

I always used to love the film version as sung by Peggy Wood, then I read somewhere it wasn't actually her singing it, I don't know how true it is. Another great version is by Patricia Routledge, probably best known for her portrayal of Hyacinth Bucket in the comedy "Keeping Up Appearances", she was in a stage production of the show in the eighties and I have the album somewhere. But Mr Valentine's is the best.

Miss Brown to You · Post by **Miss Brown to You** » Tue Oct 21, 2008 11:43 pm

Currently listening to the Miss Marple Theme from the album, That Magnificent Man and His Music Machine - The Two Sides of Ron Goodwin.

john · Post by **john** » Wed Oct 22, 2008 10:36 am

Was that the original Miss Marple theme with Margaret Rutherford, Sheila? We watched one of hers the other night, my favourite, "Murder She Said".

Miss Brown to You · Post by **Miss Brown to You** » Wed Oct 22, 2008 1:18 pm

Yes, that's the one I mean. I had forgotten all about it until the other day. What happened was this. We had gone out in my friend Gary's car for a shopping trip and a visit to an historical site. After he dropped me and my daughter at the retail park, he took my son Richard who is 11 and his daughter Muriel, who is 13 to the Culloden Battle field visitor centre. My son is very much into battles and history of war, etc. Well at the centre they got talking to a couple of ladies from Germany. It was decided during the conversation, that he would give them a lift Clava Cairns a local Bronze Age burial ground nearby. After their visit he dropped them back in Inverness. After collecting Anna and I we headed back to Grantown on Spey. Whilst on the way back, a mobile phone started ringing. Well only Gary and I have phones and it wasn't our ring-tones so we wondered what on Earth was happening! I thought hey, I know that tune but why is it playing in the car?

We suddenly realised that one of the ladies must have dropped her phone. I knew straight away that the tune was the Miss Marple theme from the films. Later that day, I found the tune on ITunes and downloaded it. HA! I had to do that as it was going round and round in my head.

What puzzles me is why the Miss Marple films with Margaret Rutherford are so popular in Garmany! I found a number of examples of these films dubbed into German and a very ponderous version of the tune being played by a band in Germany on You Tube. I also was surprised to learn that Ron Goodwin wrote the tune. I thought he only did stuff for war films, like The Battle of Britain.

So the lost phone story has a happy ending, the lady is still in Aberdeen, so we popped her phone in the post to her.

Shame I didn't get that lucky when I lost my phone in a taxi in Guangzhou

Ok that's enough from me for now...have a good day!

mariana44 · Post by **mariana44** » Wed Oct 22, 2008 4:55 pm

That's a good story, with a happy ending for some lucky person !

And I guess it is not many people who can claim that they lost their phone in a taxi in Guangzhou!!! [wherever that is ]

I think that beats having it pinched in McDonalds, which happened to mine.

Miss Brown to You · Post by **Miss Brown to You** » Wed Oct 22, 2008 5:19 pm

Sorry to hear you lost your phone. It's a real pity when that happens especially all the data we have on our phones these days. It can be a real pain!

Guangzhou is in the south China in Guangdong Province. It used to be called Canton. It's about 2 hours as the crow flies north of Hong Kong and sits at the mouth of the Pearl River.

Currently I'm listening to some Dusty Springfield.

mariana44 · Post by **mariana44** » Wed Oct 22, 2008 5:41 pm

Ah yes, Canton sounds more familiar.Thanks for that info.
Geography was never one of my strong subjects!

john · Post by **john** » Thu Oct 23, 2008 11:15 am

Listening to "A Time For Love" by Matt at the moment.