The Summer of '76

[GAjon]

9mm said:

Corona was rubbish. R Whites was the stuff to have.

As an aside,

The jingle for the TV add, "I'm a secret lemonade drinker" was written and performed by Elvis Costellos dad, with Elvis Costello on backing vocal.

[GetCarter]

soad said:

'76? I wasn't born yet. The joys of being young.

My neighbour, who was 31 in 1976, just popped out for a pint of milk. Took a pic as he passed. Us old folk eh? Bless.

Edited by GetCarter on Tuesday 15th July 14:32

[irocfan]

GAjon said:

As an aside,

The jingle for the TV add, "I'm a secret lemonade drinker" was written and performed by Elvis Costellos dad, with Elvis Costello on backing vocal.

I always thought it was ripped off from a current pop-song...

[Jinx]

ali_kat said:

R Whites only do/did lemonade

Corona did EVERYTHING and "Every bubble's passed its FIZZical!".

Evil Ali Evil. I now have the advert going through my head.

[LordGrover]

^^ Apropos nothing, I used to have a cat called Jinx back then.

[mickk]

LordGrover said:

^^ Apropos nothing, I used to have a cat called Jinx back then.

Our family cat was called Smudge.

[GetCarter]

Apropos nothing, I shared the same accountant as Elvis Costello for 20 years. He was useless.

[LordGrover]

Elvis or his accountant?

[Mr GrimNasty]

Ah coming in from the garden with heat exhaustion to glug down a bottle of ice cold milk, only to find the beedin' Humphrey got there first.

[GetCarter]

LordGrover said:

Elvis or his accountant?

Both.

[BHC]

Cleaning out my parents' garage a few years ago, I found a lunchbox with some of those bouncy balls. I should have saved them, but I was more occupied with trying to bounce them off the wall into my brother's head.

[XJ Flyer]

ali_kat said:

9mm said:

Corona was rubbish. R Whites was the stuff to have.

R Whites only do/did lemonade

Corona did EVERYTHING and "Every bubble's passed its FIZZical!".

R Whites did other soft drinks too.Their cream soda beat any type of lemonade then or since.

[motco]

XJ Flyer said:

ali_kat said:

9mm said:

Corona was rubbish. R Whites was the stuff to have.

R Whites only do/did lemonade

Corona did EVERYTHING and "Every bubble's passed its FIZZical!".

R Whites did other soft drinks too.Their cream soda beat any type of lemonade then or since.

You only need to add a few drops (to taste, as they say) of vanilla essence to good lemonade to make a very passable cream soda.

Edited by motco on Wednesday 16th July 08:51

[Biker's Nemesis]

I was 10 in 1976 and living in a village called Gartnhorpe in Yorkshire, in fact it was right on the bo7undry of Fockerby.

It was red hot, the ice cream woman used to peddle her 3 wheel bicycle and ring a bell to grab your attention

I have a picture of myself and my sister standing outside the house with the parents and the dog, we went back a couple of years ago and took another picture this time it was only myself and my sister being the only two left from the original picture.

[9mm]

ali_kat said:

9mm said:

Corona was rubbish. R Whites was the stuff to have.

R Whites only do/did lemonade

Corona did EVERYTHING and "Every bubble's passed its FIZZical!".

Not so. They also did cream soda, which with the aforementioned scoop of ice cream, was pure heaven.

[Bill]

GetCarter said:

Apropos nothing, I shared the same accountant as Elvis Costello for 20 years. He was useless.

We had a dog called Ulysses who answered to Useless.

[can't remember]

Another memory popped into my head today. The whole family was on holiday together with loads of relatives I didn't recognise. I was feeling left out when my Grandad suggested taking some of us youngsters to the beach. Well about 5 of us jumped into the back of his Purple Vauxhall Victor. Seconds later we were all screaming as our thighs and backs met with the molten vinyl seats. I know it's wrong to trivialise the suffering of others, but in later life I really felt for that poor vietnamese girl.

Anyway, those of you complaining about the Wurzels should consider my 76 song, Save All Your Kisses For Me. Even now I can still remember all the words, and remember doing the thumbs in braces dance at a wedding, much to the amusement of the adults.

[Biker's Nemesis]

I had a Wurzels \lp and one of the songs "School Days" has a few poignant lines.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuAxQucUAG8

[Biker's Nemesis]

3 short years later the Wurzels didn't get a look in..


Gary Numan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=102NNwdI9i0

[ClaphamGT3]

I too remember the thigh searing properties of vinyl seats; in my case the 3rd (rear facing) row of seats in my mother's Volvo estate. This was exacerbated by the full-on greenhouse effect of the huge side and rear windows and the fact that the crude, push-button 'single zone' air con threw up a stark choice between the front seat occupants becoming hypothermic or the 3rd row passengers succumbing to heat exhaustion. The front seat occupants always won out and somehow a tepid bottle of barley's lemon water and a 4 litre ice cream tub to vom in when it all got too much was supposed to equate to 'responsible parenting'